(Berkeley, CA): Oyez, 1975. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. unpaginated. Oyez checklist 19. Pieces from Asaph, then a "work in process" according to the author's note. Frontispiece and illustrations in text. Designed by Graham Mackintosh. READ MORE about HARPS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 124876
Berkely: Oyez Press, 1976. 4to. quarter leather with decorated paper-covered boards. 50, (3) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 250 numbered and signed copies. A collection of poems by William Everson. Illustrations are by Patrick Kennedy and the design is by Thomas Whitridge. Includes an afterword by the author. Minor rubbing along hinges. READ MORE about RIVER-ROOT, A SYZGY FOR THE BICENTENNIAL OF THESE STATES
Price: $120.00 Order nr. 57921
Syracuse, NY: The Syracuse University Bookstore, (1927). small 8vo. cloth. xii, 77 pages. First edition. A non-technical presentation on the manufacture of pulp and paper, it's many uses, and a brief history of the industry. Photographs of various products made from paper. Bookplate. READ MORE about A BOOK ON "PAPER"
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 19837
N.P. Parallel Editions, 1989. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 80 numbered copies, signed by the author on colophon. Produced at the University of Alabama's Book Arts Program. Title page calligraphy by Frances Dunham. Title page shapes derived from a lithograph by Sharon Long. A collection of poetry. With biographical sketch of the author. Erratum sheet laid in. READ MORE about STARS ON A WIRE
Price: $110.00 Order nr. 123611
Lincoln, MA: The Penmaen Press, 1978. 8vo. cloth. ix, (iii), 34, (2), xiii [sic], (4) pages, with 16 additional pages of plates. Edition limited to 500 unnumbered copies. Descriptive bibliography of the productions of the Penmaen Press. With an introduction by Peich, an afterword by the wood engraver and owner of the Press, Michael McCurdy, and four chapters: Books (12 entries), Broadsides (8 entries), Ephemera (14), and Plates (16 pages with 25 illustrations, including 4..... READ MORE about THE FIRST TEN: A PENMAEN BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 114841
Lake Macbride, IA: The Penny Whistle Press, (1979). square 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. (22) pages. Numbered copy. Introduction. Illustration. READ MORE about VERSES INTENDED TO INDUCE THE UTMOST DEPRESSION & NOT MUCH ELSE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 124915
(Lisbon, IA): The Penumbra Press, n.d., but 1982. 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginaged. Limited to 175 numbered copies. Collection of poems. Drawings by Lee Schwartzman. READ MORE about A UTOPIA
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 123708
Lisbon, IA: The Penumbra Press, 1980. 8vo. cloth with decoration, plain paper dust jacket. 35, (3) pages. Limited edition of 225 numbered copies signed by the author and the designer. Six color title page print. Printed with Spectrum types on handmade Charter Oak paper. READ MORE about CARTOGRAPHY
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 107265
Lisbon, IA: The Penumbra Press, (1976). 8vo. cloth. 28, (2) pages. Limited to 200 copies, 100 numbered, bound in cloth boards and signed by author on colophon. This copy is thus. Collection of poems. Table of contents. Illustration from a snapshot of the author's father precedes title. Prospectus loosely inserted. READ MORE about DEAR ANYONE
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 123696
(Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: The Perishable Press, 1984). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 128 pages and 32 illustrations. With a preface by Hamady. Foxed along edge of back cover. READ MORE about TWO DECADES OF HAMADY AND THE PERISHABLE PRESS LIMITED AN ANECDOTALLY ANNOTATED CHECK LIST FOR AN...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 75024
Philadelphia: The Philobiblon Club, 1993. large 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 53, (3) pages. A catalogue for the exhibit which celebrated the centennial of the Philobiblon Club. It featured books printed in only a few copies and handsomely bound by the best binders. Included are 234 entries with an introduction by George A. Allen, President. Some notes in pencil. READ MORE about THE CENTENNIAL OF THE PHILOBIBLON CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA 1893-1993
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 59411
N.P. Pickering Press, 1983. various loose sheets, booklets, and brochures loosely inserted in a portfolio with a label pasted on front cover. Issued in an unknown but obviously small number. A portfolio of more than 50 examples of commercial letterpress work from John Anderson (1915-1997), who began the Pickering Press in 1946, operating it until 1995 from Philadelphia or his Maple Shade, NJ home, except for two years in California and Arizona. For years he..... READ MORE about A PICKERING POTPOURRI
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 72555
Philadelphia, PA: Pickering Press, 1956. oblong 16mo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Reprint from Specimens, designed and printed by John Anderson. With listing of paper manufacturers. READ MORE about PRIVATELY PRINTED BOOKS AS GIFTS FOR CHRISTMAS A SUGGESTION FOR 1956
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 125502
Madison: Florham-Madison Campus Library, 1982-1983. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 15+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 400 copies. (Pickering Press 70) An exhibition catalogue of the paintings by George Linen that was held The Florham-Madison Campus in 1982. Includes brief biography of Linen by Dale Johnson, and is illustrated with a color, tipped-in frontispiece which is a self portrait. The introduction was written by Emma Linen Dana. READ MORE about GEORGE LINEN 1802-1888, AN EXHIBITION OF PORTRAITS
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 57861
New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1983. 8vo. cloth-backed boards. 21+(1) pages. First edition, one of 50 signed copies, and hand printed by John Anderson at his Pickering Press on mouldmade Arches Text and containing a previously unpublished wood-engraving by John DePol. Introduction followed by a reprint of the "original" manuscript describing a curious and amusing meeting between T.J. Wise and Mr. Sherlock Holmes. The fourth Oak Knoll Christmas Book. READ MORE about THE AFFAIR OF THE UNPRINCIPLED PUBLISHER
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 12681
N.P. (The Pickering Press), 1987. 8vo. stiff paper wrapper. 22 pages. Printed in an edition limited to 100 copies. In honor of Norman Gates's wife, Gertrude, on her eightieth birthday. Poems are dated from February 1958 through June 1983. Touching, intimately personal poems reveal a lifetime of love and experience. Title page printed in blue and black. READ MORE about GERTRUDE POEMS
Price: $22.50 Order nr. 79250
N.P.: The Pickering Press, n.d. small 8vo. (2) french fold leaves.
N.P.: The Pickering Press, n.d. small 8vo. (2) french fold leaves. A brief history of the printer/typographer accompanied by a wood engraving by John DePol. Printed by John Anderson at The Pickering Press for Lanston Monotype Company. READ MORE about A PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM BULMER PRINTED FROM AN ENGRAVING BY JOHN DEPOL
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 48175
(Maple Shade, NJ: The Pickering Press, 1981). thin 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. (10) pages. First edition. Two page introduction followed by a list of types. Printed in two colors. READ MORE about TYPES, MAGNIFICENT EMBELLSHERS OF THE PRINTED WORD
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 4610
Verona, Italy: Plain Wrapper Press, 1980. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 29, (3) pages. Printed in Italy at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona (Smyth, p.12). With a note on the Press by Kenneth I. Pettitt. The second checklist issued since its founding in 1966, containing twenty-nine items. With photo of the printers and facsimiles of bindings and title-pages. READ MORE about A CHECKLIST OF BOOKS PRINTED BY RICHARD-GABRIEL RUMMONDS & ALESSANDRO ZANELLA AT THE PLAIN...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 63864
Bloomington: The Lilly Library, 1980. 4to. paper wrappers. 31 pages. An illustrated catalogue of 124 items from the Lilly Library's vast holdings in this area. READ MORE about AMERICAN POETRY 1950-1980; AN EXHIBITION
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 7347
Colorado Springs, CO: The Press at Colorado College, (1980). 4to. stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut, three metal binding pins. unpaginated. Limited to 150 numbered copies, signed by author on colophon. Color illustrations. Hand printed and bound. A collection of poetic works. READ MORE about FIRE IN THE WAX MUSEUM
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 124099
Lewisburg, PA: (The Press of Appletree Alley), n.d., but 1992. 8vo. marbled stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages. Limited to 170 numbered copies. Commemorates the Press's 10th anniversary. Includes list of the press's publications. Black and white illustrations. Marbled cover by Dan Rash. A.L.s. by proprietor Barnard Taylor to collector Michael Peich laid in. READ MORE about THE PRESS OF APPLETREE ALLEY
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 124922
Stoughton, MA: Press of Nightowl, 1969. small 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. (vi), 19, (5) pages. Limited to 200 copies. Text of a speech by Nobel Laureate Wald, the topic being the disenchantment of the youth of the time, and a plea for nuclear disarmament. Printed and published by Dwight E Agner; handset in DeRoos Roman and Post Roman on white Curtis rag. ( Fine Printing in Georgia, page104, NB4). Four page prospectus for..... READ MORE about A GENERATION IN SEARCH OF THE FUTURE
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 123385
New York, NY: The New York Public Library, 1987. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (12) pages. Introductory comments by Miriam Mandelbaum, Rare Book Librarian. Acknowledgments. Catalogue of an exhibition, March-June 1987. Bibliography, illustrations. READ MORE about THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS OF PRINTING
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 123830
London: Printed for Friends of the John Roberts Press ... 1972. small 8vo. paper wrappers. (16) pages. Limited to 100 copies. Extracts from numerous periodicals giving comments on printing. With reproductions of illustrations of a number of different printing presses. READ MORE about PRINTING IN 1871, TRADE NEWS EXTRACTED MAINLY FROM THE PRINTERS' REGISTER
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 4302
