Bellinzona, Switzerland: Centro de Bel Libro Ascona, 2009. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 76 pages. Text in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Catalogue of the International Bookbinding Competition, 2009. Foreword, report of the jury. Color illustrations throughout. READ MORE about INTERNATIONAL BOOKBINDING COMPETITION BEL LIBRO '09
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134612
New York: Watson Library, 1982. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (48) pages. S-K 7043. One of five hundred numbered and signed copies. With an introduction by T. Peter Kraus. Illustrated. READ MORE about JOHN FRANKLIN MOWERY BOOKBINDINGS, AN EXHIBITION IN THE WATSON LIBRARY OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 38612
New York: Dover Publications, (1990). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. ix, 261 pages. Reprint of the 1973 corrected edition with additional information added to the supply sources section for this 1990 printing. Contains a history of book-making and simple binding techniques for the amateur, including related crafts such as making folders, files, note pads, cards, boxes, etc. Includes a large section on various techniques for making decorated papers to use in binding. Illustrated with many drawings..... READ MORE about CREATIVE BOOKBINDING
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 29692
(Oxford, England): Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, (2013). 4to. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. xvi, 96 pages. Table of contents, foreword by Mark Getty, preface by Sarah E. Thomas, introduction by Stephen Conway. Color illustrations of competition entries. Contact list of entrants follows text. READ MORE about PRIZE VOLUMES: DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2013
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134485
(London: Designer Bookbinders, 2008). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 63+(1) pages. Illustrated exhibition catalogue. READ MORE about A KYFFIN - A CELEBRATION BY THE FELLOWS AND LICENTIATES OF DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS. AN EXHIBTIION OF...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 103867
Urbino: Edizioni I.S.A, 1997. 4to. full decorated leather, clamshell box. 578, (14) pages. First edition. This book was the focus of an international exhibition of the bindings of a single work, L'infinito, by Giacomo Leopardi, held at Chiesa di San Paolo, Macerata, Italy, Sept. 12-Oct. 30, 1998. Competitors were asked to design bindings for the poem L'Infinito by Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837). This particular copy is bound in full morocco by Monique Lallier. The..... READ MORE about L'INFINITO IN TUTTE LE LINGUE CHE L'HANNO SAPUTO PRONUNCIARE
Price: $3,000.00 Order nr. 134374
Catalogue 489.
London: Maggs Bros. 1927. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. iv, 208 pages. Catalogue 489. S-K 1482. With a colored frontispiece showing a binding by Samuel Mearne and many other plates. There are 311 items described in detail. Light cover wear, otherwise near fine. READ MORE about BOOK BINDINGS: HISTORICAL AND DECORATIVE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 3031
VOLUME 1
Ann Arbor: The Legacy Press, 2013. large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 534 pages. VOLUME 1. Nine authors writing on nine topics. This collection of essays, published as the first volume of a series of studies on the history of bookbinding, sets a high standard for interesting and groundbreaking scholarship in the history of the book. Fully illustrated in color, with additional images on accompanying DVD. The essays included are: Evyn Kropf - Historical Repair, Recycling..... READ MORE about SUAVE MECHANICALS: ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING, VOLUME 1
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 116163
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2010. 8vo. full leather, clamshell box. 528 pages, 374 illustrations. Books Will Speak Plain is published at a time when the historical book is at risk of being ignored, put away, and forgotten. This handbook combines an overview of the history of the codex with basic information about many of the materials and structures found on historical bindings. The book also includes description-survey guidelines and is supported by a...... READ MORE about BOOKS WILL SPEAK PLAIN: A HANDBOOK FOR IDENTIFYING AND DESCRIBING HISTORICAL BINDINGS
Price: $1,450.00 Order nr. 135130
London: Maggs Bros. Ltd., 1982. 8vo. cloth. 159 pages. S-K 3527. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. With three colored plates and sixty-eight half-tone illustrations of bindings. All seventy-one bindings are described in detail and are accompanied by an illustration. Includes the work of Harding, Mearne, Bartlett, Edwards of Halifax, Guild of Women-Binders, and others including McLeish and Cockerell. Fine condition. READ MORE about BRITISH BOOKBINDINGS PRESENTED BY KENNETH H. OLDAKER TO THE CHAPTER LIBRARY OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 2456
London: The Scolar Press, (1978). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 232, (9) pages. S-K 136. First edition. (Brenni no.759). One hundred articles on bookbinding that originally appeared in The Book Collectorhave been combined into one volume. Contains 100 plates of important bindings and a page of descriptive text about each. READ MORE about FIVE CENTURIES OF ENGLISH BOOKBINDING
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 2457
(New York, NY): The Guild of Book Workers, 1996. oblong 32mo. stiff paper wrappers, metal spiral bound. unpaginated. Opening comments, list of sponsors. An exhibition of bookbindings with descriptive text and color illustration of the work of each exhibitor. READ MORE about PAPER BOUND, A SHOWCASE OF CONTEMPORARY PAPERMAKERS & BOOKBINDERS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 126417
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1987. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 250 pages. Reprint of the first edition of 1954. (S-K 3515). With 16 plates of bookbindings. Gives biographical information including addresses and references. READ MORE about BOOKBINDERS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (OUTSIDE LONDON) 1780-1840
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 28091
Washington: Library of Congress, 1982. 4to. leather, clamshell box. x, 297 pages. S-K 353. With foreword by Frederick R. Goff. Contains thousands of terms and definitions which deal with the binding, care and repair of books. With a bibliography listing 373 related sources. Illustrated. This copy is beautifully bound by Mary Baughman of the conservation department at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas: Austin, with Don Etherington being the designer. Full green..... READ MORE about BOOKBINDING AND THE CONSERVATION OF BOOKS, A DICTIONARY OF DESCRIPTIVE TERMINOLOGY
Price: $650.00 Order nr. 126271
Chicago, IL: Chicago Public Library, 2002. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 40 pages. Exhibition at the Chicago Public Lrbrary to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Chicago's 'One Book, One Chicago theme. Comments by the mayor and the Commissioner of Libraries, curator's introduction, index of binders. Color illustrations and descriptive text. READ MORE about SECOND EDITION
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135049
London, England: Shepherds Sangorski & Sutcliffe and Zaehnsdorf, 2001. 4to. leather, cloth clamshell box, leather spine label with title and author in gilt. x, 60, (2) pages. Limited to 750 numbered copies, of which this was one of the unnumbered copies set aside in sheets for bookbinders. This particular copy is bound in full goatskin, with marbled leather onlays spelling out the title on the front cover on top of 'ribbed' textured leather grids, in..... READ MORE about LOST ON THE TITANIC
Price: $2,500.00 Order nr. 134363
(London, England: Designer Bookbinders), 2008. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 39+(1) pages. Introduction by Sawyer, foreword by Tristam Hunt. Color illustrations and descriptive text about specially bound books about socialism. Exhibited at the House of Lords in Westminster. READ MORE about SOCIALISM: AN EXHIBITION OF DESIGNER BINDINGS IN THE COLLECTION OF LORD TOM SAWYER OF DARLINGTON
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135046
N.P. by the author, 2016. 4to. cloth, leather design on front cover. unpaginated. Second printing. Introduction, acknowledgments. Originally published for the author's family on the occastion of her 90th birthday. Color illustrations with descriptive text of works produced by Stein over her many years as an amateur bookbinder. Frontispiece and color illustrations throughout text. READ MORE about BINDINGS
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 134876
Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 1979. 4to. printed paper-covered boards. 130 pages. S-K 5771. Introductory essays by Jean Gunner, Bernard Middleton and Marianne Tidcombe. (Brenni no. 429). Contains 48 pages of black-and-white illustrations and 16 pages of color illustrations. READ MORE about THE TRADITION OF FINE BOOKBINDING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 2512
With Introductions by Marianne Tidcombe and an Essay by Bernard C. Middleton.
London: Designer Bookbinders, 1994. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. Not paginated. With Introductions by Marianne Tidcombe and an Essay by Bernard C. Middleton. Limited to 1000 copies. With many illustrations in color. READ MORE about TREGASKIS CENTENARY EXHIBITION, A CATALOGUE OF THE TREGASKIS CENTENARY EXHIBITION 1994, TOGETHER...
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 44689
(Veenendaal): Gaade Uitgevers, (1987). small 8vo. later cloth. xii, 170, (4) pages. First edition, one of 300 numbered copies containing two bound-in samples in the back. A study of Dutch bookbinding from 1840-1940. Chapters address such topics as binding in the early part of the 19th century, the different functions of bindings and the various forms of binding at the fin de siècle. A Catalogue of 284 bindings follows. Many are illustrated here in color..... READ MORE about IN LINNEN GEBONDEN. NEDERLANDSE UITGEVERSBANDEN VAN 1840 TOT 1940
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 71281
(New York, NY: Guild of Book Workers, 2005). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xiv, 44 pages. Introduction by Amy LeePard, curator's statement, jurors' remarks. Color illustrations throughout. Catalogue of a travelling exhibition. READ MORE about VESSEL: GUILD OF BOOK WORKERS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134659
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1985. tall 4to. full leather, clamshell box. (42) pages. First edition, limited to 225 numbered copies. This copy is bound in a full artist-binding by Don Etherington, bookbinder and former director of Conservation at both the Library of Congress and the Harry Ransom Center (Austin, TX). The binding is a full crushed red moracco with black goat leather and blue crushed moracco onlaid leather strips. Gilt dotted tooling. Duel moracco and..... READ MORE about TWELVE BINDINGS. WITH REMARKS ON THE BINDINGS BY MICHAEL WILCOX & ON THE BOOKS BY ELAINE...
Price: $2,950.00 Order nr. 135133
Plains, PA: Boss Dog Press, 2014. 8vo. paper-covered boards, labels on spine and front cover, top edge cut, other edges uncut. iv, 39+(1) pages. Limited to 100 numbered copies, 70 numbered and signed by Don Rash, writer of the introduction and designer of this work. Moku hanga woodblock print color frontispiece after a photograph by A. Pierce Bounds. Three lectures on bookbinding by a noted artist, bookbinder, and calligrapher. READ MORE about THREE LECTURES
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 122981
(Québec, QC, Canada): Les Éditions de Mevius, (2005). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 227+(1) pages. Text in French. Preface by Isabelle de Mevius, essay by Georges Leroux. Under the direction of Michael Lachance. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Erratum sheet laid in. READ MORE about LOUIS-PIERRE BOUGIE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 135019
