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
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
(Montreal, QC, Canada): Galerie Orange, 2007. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 35+(1) pages. Text in French and English. Presentation by Bougie. A catalogue of Bougie's works exhibited at the Galerie Orange, Montreal. Color illustrations. READ MORE about LOUIS-PIERRE BOUGIE: DÉSERT VERT
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134613
(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
(Québec, QC, Canada: Galerie Orange, 2005). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 35+(1) pages. Text in French. Catalogue of an exhibition of the works of Louis-Pierre Bougie. Color illustrations. READ MORE about LOUIS-PIERRE BOUGIE: ABSENCE DE BRUIT
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135003
London, England: Frederick Etchells and Hugh Macdonald, 1924. folio. paper-covered boards, paper front cove label. (iv), 12 pages. Limited to 425 numbered copies. Haslewood Reprints No. 1. Reprint of a letter written by Browne, a physician of Norwich, in 1690. Note precedes text and side notes in text. Front cover separating at spine. READ MORE about A. LETTER TO A FRIEND, UPON OCCASION OF TH EDEATH OF HIS INTIMATE FRIEND
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 135056
Vinegia, Italy: Appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1548. 16mo. later leather. variously paginated. Brunet I, 398. Text in Italian. Translated from Latin to Italian by Lodovico Petroni. An account of history in Italy from the fall of Rome to 1268 Also includes an account of the life of Ezzellino III da Romano (1194-1259), an Italian noble and soldier who was chief governing officer of Verona, Vicenza, and Padua. A table of contents follows Guerra de..... READ MORE about LA GUERRA DE GHOTI and VITA DI EZZELLINO TERZO DA ROMANO
Price: $500.00 Order nr. 134933
Oxford: University Press, 1959. thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 588, (2) pages. First edition. Tracing ofthe various unions associated with bookmaking from the end of the 18th century until their combination in 1957 into one large trade union. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about THE STORY OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF PRINTING, BOOKBINDING AND PAPER WORKERS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 951
(Tokyo, Japan): Japan Letter Arts Forum, 2009. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 39+(1) pages. Text in English and Japanese. Acknowledgments, table of contents, foreword, jurors' comments. Color illustrations. READ MORE about LIFE AND SPIRIT: JAPAN-BELGIUM LETTER ARTS EXHIBITION
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135065
Paris, France: Berger-Levrault, 1926. 8vo. gilt-stamped leather, marbled endpapers. xiv, 494, (2) pages. Text in French. Author's note to Chinese readers, foreword, appendix, table of contents. Signed binding by Oficina de Encadeinaçao, A. Carmelita. gilt-stamped leather on both covers and spine, with marbled endpapers. Binding slightly rubbed and scuffed at edges. Tanning at edges of text. READ MORE about CHINE ET CHINOIS D'AUJOURD'HUI: LE NOUVEAU PÉRIL JAUNE
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 134435
New York: Center for Book Arts, 1984. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 56 pages. An exhibition held at the New York Public Library from September 7 to November 29, 1994 celebrated the first ten years of the Center's existence. Including 132 works by 112 artists, it was not intended as a retrospective, but rather as an overview of traditional book forms, paper arts, bookbinding and art works based on, or alluding to, book forms. Introduction by..... READ MORE about THE FIRST DECADE, CENTER FOR THE BOOK ARTS, AN EXHIBITION AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 36530
N.P. by the author, 2008. 8vo. decorated cloth wraparound cover, paper front cover label. unpaginated. Limited to 200 numbered copies, with wraparound cover. Signed by the author on colophon. A lament of the loss of historic grain elevators from the Saskatchewan landscape. Text with accordion folded illustrations. Illustrations by the author. READ MORE about POWER OF PLACE: A FABRIC ARTIST'S RESPONSE TO THE LOSS OF THE PRAIRIE ELEVATOR FROM OUR LANDSCAPE
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 134429
Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Information Press, 2006. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 15-30, (3) pages. Volume 31, Numbers 1/2. Feature article "Historical Background of Book Conservation: The Past Forty Years" by Don Etherington, with extensive bibliography. READ MORE about COLLECTION MANAGEMENT
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135009
London, England: "The Studio" Limited, 1927. 4to. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper front cover label. (ii), 6 pages, plates. Introduction by Malcolm C. Salaman. A collection of eight reproductions of tipped-in color plates by Verpilleux. The reproductions were produced by the "Blackmore Tintex" method, a new method "unique in the history of colour printing" at the time. Each plate with brief descriptive information. READ MORE about MASTERS OF THE COLOUR PRINT III-E.A. VERPILLEUX
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 134590
2 volumes.
(Novara, Italy: Instituto Geografico De Agostini, 1984). folio. cloth, illustrated endpapers, dust jacket, illustrated slipcase. 274; 275-518, (6) pages. 2 volumes. Foreword, bibliography, table of contents, list of plates, index, acknowledgments. Illustrated throughout. Essays on Da Vinci's life and contributions to art and technology. READ MORE about LEONARDO DA VINCI
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 134603
New York, NY: Marquardt & Company, n.d. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages. Features an article discussing trade marks by Clarence P. Hornung, with illustrations. Text detached from wrappers. READ MORE about DESIGN & PAPER NUMBER EIGHT
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134869
(Québec, QC, Canada): Galerie Saint Dizier, (2008). square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Text in English and French. Introductory comments by Robert Bernier, poem by Jeanine Laskar. Color illustrations of Desmarais' paintings. READ MORE about LA LÉGENDE DE L'ENDURANCE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135059
New York: Doubleday, (2003). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 454 pages. Printed in the United States of America April 2003 "40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33". The novel has helped perpetuate popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail legend and the role of Mary Magdalene in the history of Christianity. According to the premise of the novel, the Vatican knows it is living a lie, but continues to do so to keep..... READ MORE about THE DA VINCI CODE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134387
(London, England: Millbank Publications, 1986. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers in cloth clamshell box. (iv), 77, (3) pages. Acknowledgments. Catalogue of an exhibition to commemorate the 900th anniversary of the compilation of the Domesday Book. Includes historical commentary and discussion of the artifacts on exhibition. Catalogue of publication of facsimiles laid in. READ MORE about DOMESDAY EXHIBITION GUIDE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 135061
A Bibliophilic Tour of Paris & Alsace & Geneva
New York: The Grolier Club, 2013. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. hardcover. 210 pages. A Bibliophilic Tour of Paris & Alsace & Geneva. This book contains thirty essays, about two hundred color photographs, and two poems, all by the travelers on the Grolier Club's Iter Gallico-Helveticum, a seven-day journey through France and Switzerland in 2012. This "Iter" was the latest in a long line of European excursions by the Grolier Club, the first of which occurred..... READ MORE about THE GROLIER CLUB ITER GALLICO-HELVETICUM
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 134572
Paris, France: Les Amis de Reliure Originale, 2011. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (8) pages. Text in French. Exhibition of ephemera held in 2011. Includes a catalogue of items on exhibit and a historical sketch of the organization. READ MORE about XVIIIE EXPOSITION ÉPHÉMÈRE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135064
N.P. n.p., n.d., but circa 1991. 8vo. stitched decorated paper-covered boards. unpaginated. A collection of watermarked paper designed by Erni, bound by Swiss bookbinder Hugo Peller (1917-2003). Hans Erni (1909-2015) was a Swiss graphic designer, painter, illustrator, and sculptor. He is noted for designing postage stamps, illustrating books, and designing posters. Stitched, decorated paper binding in the form of a paper mold with onlaid cotton in the form of Erni's signature. Additionally, the pastedowns and..... READ MORE about Untitled book of watermarks
Price: $400.00 Order nr. 134611
