N.P. n.p., n.d. (circa 1955). 8vo. heavy paper folder with (4) page offprint loosely inserted. An offprint from Antiquarian Bookman (September 24, 1955). Presentation on front cover "E. Carpenter, Esq fr. J.B." and further inscribed in the back "40 copies. JB." READ MORE about MERLE DEVORE JOHNSON 1874-1935, A CHECKLIST
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 95328
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943. large 12mo. quarter cloth with marbled paper-covered boards. (iv), 45+(1) pages. Originally presented as The Thirtieth Annual Faculty Research Lecture, March 24, 1943. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Brief survey and analysis from Kerenskii's fall from power in 1917 to the Soviet Russia of the early 1940's. Author's signature on front free endpaper. READ MORE about THE RUSSIAN ADVENTURE, PERSPECTIVES AND REALITIES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 62708
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. (12) pages. Demonstration of a new method of reproducing illustrations recently imported from Germany. Covers soiled and chipped around edges. READ MORE about NEW TECHNIQUE IN FINE HALFTONE PRINTING AT THE LAKESIDE PRESS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 31758
(München): Rudolf Schneider Verlag, (1988). 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 208 pages. First edition. Johannes Lebek, a distinguished printmaker, is honored through several essays that touch on his importance as an independant artist and book illustrator. The artist's life work is pictured and described here. His subjects range from social commentary, images of war and work to images of the German landscape. A chronological Catalogue of his woodcuts follows. Thoroughly illustrated in black-and-white. In German..... READ MORE about DER HOLZSCHNEIDER JOHANNES LEBEK. LEBEN UND WERK
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 62575
Premio Internazionale Felice Feliciano, Atti del Simposio 1989
Verona: Valdonega, (1990). 4to. stiff paper. (viii), 13-139 pages. Premio Internazionale Felice Feliciano, Atti del Simposio 1989. Papers by Hermann Zapf (calligraphy to computer type), Ernesto Musumeci (quality of color reproduction in large editions), Libero Casagrande (books and new word processing technologies), Alberto Vigevani (quality in editions), and Carolyn Morrow (durability of materials and methods). In memoriam Felice Feliciano. English translations provided for all the papers. READ MORE about LA QUALITA NELLA PRODUZIONE DEL LIBRO
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 73946
Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Co., (1959). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 297 pages. Second edition. With many plates and illustrations in the text. Jacket rubbed with bottom of spine tape-repaired. READ MORE about EXPLORING THE GRAPHIC ARTS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 42375
Boston: Alfred Bartlett, (1908). small 8vo. boards. 18 pages. Printed by the Merrymount Press. READ MORE about A LAST WILL, WILLISTON FISH
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 63663
Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1988. small 4to. dark brown cloth spine with lighter woven cloth-covered boards on which is printed a reproduction of the Ramage Press. 23, (3) pages. Limited to 300 copies. A history of the first medical book printed in California, the Botica General De Los Remedios Esperimentados. This book was printed by California's first printer, Agustín Vicente Zamorano on a Ramage wooden press imported from Boston in 1834. With a woodcut..... READ MORE about THE ZAMORANO PRESS AND THE BOTICA, CALIFORNIA'S FIRST MEDICAL BOOK
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 62379
Washington: National Geographic Society, (1970). tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 618, (2) pages. With lists of expeditions, researches, and awards and foreword by Melville Bell Grosvenor. Jacket chipped with tears along edges. READ MORE about NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC INDEX, 1947-1969
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 62973
Washington: National Geographic Society, (1977). tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 451+(1) pages. With lists of expeditions, researches, and awards and foreword by Robert E. Doyle and introduction by Gilbert M. Grosvenor. Jacket chipped with tears along edges. READ MORE about NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC INDEX, 1947-1976
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 62976
With an Adress by Heinrich Gomperz on the part of the Gomerz Collection commonly called by that name.
Los Angeles: University of Southern California Press, 1976. 8vo. cloth. 203, (3) pages. With an Adress by Heinrich Gomperz on the part of the Gomerz Collection commonly called by that name. First edition, limited to 500 copies and printed at the Plantin Press. History of a collector and the development of his library. READ MORE about DR. FLEWELLING & THE HOOSE LIBRARY, LIFE AND LETTERS OF A MAN AND AN INSTITUTION
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 13474
Pomona, CA: Potlatch Forests Inc., 1962. 4to. plastic spiral bound stiff paper wrappers. 4 pages of text followed by 33 specimens. Demonstrations of different colors on different colored paper stock. Plastic spiral binding is broken and partially detached. READ MORE about POTLATCH FORESTS PAPER WORK BOOK, ILLUSTRATING THE COMPARATIVE PRESS PERFORMANCE OF VARYING...
Price: $14.00 Order nr. 62680
N.P. n.p., 1968. small 4to. self paper wrappes. (4) pages. Reprinted from Publishers' Weekly, May 6, 1968. Text and reproductions of some of the items in the display cases. READ MORE about PAPER AND PAPERMAKING: EXHIBIT AT PHILADELPHIA LIBRARY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 95071
Los Angeles: The Plantin Press, 1971. large 12mo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, gold-stamped label. (ii), 42 pages. Printed in an edition of 350 copies. An account of Charles Lamb's transatlantic reputation and publishing history, from the pirates' earliest raids, to the appearance of Final Memorials with its revelation, fourteen years after his death. Indexed. READ MORE about ELIANA AMERICANA
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 57297
Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles, 1970. 8vo. stiff wrappers. viii (ii), (30) pages. Printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press, Los Angeles. A catalogue of 161 prints, with introduction describing the principal graphic processes and a few of the practices of printmaking. Cover by Roy Lichtenstein, with frontispiece and two illustrations in text. READ MORE about GRAPHIC ARTS RENTAL PROGRAM
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 63179
Kraków: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1970. 4to. cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. 275, (3) pages. Printed in an edition of 1,000 copies. Translated from German into Polish by Tadeusz Zapiór. Expanded from the original Stanislaus Polonus ein polnischer Frühdrucker in Spanien., produced by Anatoly Girs and published in 1946 by Oficyna Warszawska. Beautifully produced and printed in red and black with wide margins on heavy paper, the book reproduces text, woodcuts, initials, headpieces, tailpieces, fleurons and other..... READ MORE about STANISLAUS POLONUS, POLSKI DRUKARZ I WYDAWCA WCZESNEJ DOBY W HISZPANII
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 64089
No. 5.
Paris: Rombaldi, 1947. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 175, (5) pages. No. 5. This issue contains articles on the works of Paul Valery, on Bonnard, Max Jacob, encyclopedies, 17th century French book illustrations. etc. Many illustrations, some tipped-in. Wear at spine ends. READ MORE about LE PORTIQUE
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 55452
No. 4.
Paris: Rombaldi, 1946. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 179, (11) pages. No. 4. This issue contains articles on the works of L'Atelier de Dufy, "Maurice Denis et l'Art du Livre" by Jacques Guignard, Sir Osbert Sitwell on Thomas Rowlandson and others. Many illustrations, some tipped-in. Wear at top of spine. READ MORE about LE PORTIQUE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 55455
No. 6.
Paris: Rombaldi, 1947. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 150, (8) pages. No. 6. This issue contains articles on the works of L'Atelier Gus Bofa, the works of P.-J. Toulet, Bernard Naudin, the illustrator, Choffard, Verlaine and others. Many illustrations, some tipped-in. READ MORE about LE PORTIQUE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 55456
Los Angeles: Primavera Press, 1934. 8vo. cloth with paper label. xxii, (ii), 85, (3) pages. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. (Hart 13, Ritchie 71). A translation of this important work on the germ theory of infection by Fracastoro. This poem, originally printed in Rome 1531, gave Syphillis its name and recognized its venereal cause. The introduction is a translation of an article by Dr. Albert Garrigues that appeared in Æsculapein 1925. Illustrated in black-and-white..... READ MORE about THE SINISTER SHEPARD. A TRANSLATION OF GIROLAMO FRACASTORO'S SYPHILIDIS SIVE DE MORBO GALLICO...
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 62853
1979. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 48 pages. Volume I, No.2. Madeleine Stern on Isaac M. Singer's type machine, Rollo Silver on violent assaults in American printing shops, E. Richard McKinstry on David Cree, and information on lost type faces of Goudy. READ MORE about PRINTING HISTORY, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOC IATION. Number Two
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 32450
Een overzicht van de ontwikkeling van het typografisch letterbeeld.
Gent, Belgium: Stedelijke Jongensberoepsschool, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 31 pages. Een overzicht van de ontwikkeling van het typografisch letterbeeld. Written in Dutch. A book on typography throughout time. With several black-and-white illustrations throughout. Covers rubbed with wear along edges. READ MORE about DE DRUKLETTER
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 100970
Boston: n.p., 1938. 8vo. cloth. First edition. Introduction by D.B. Updike, with articles on printing history by Lawrence C. Wroth and others. Well printed. Spine faded. Bookplate on free endpaper. A few annotations in pencil. READ MORE about NEW ENGLAND KEEPSAKE PRESENTED TO ALL CRAFTSMEN REGISTERED
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 4727
Oakland: The Rather Press, 1977. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 17, (3) pages. A gathering of sayings from important printers concerning various aspects of private press printing. Inscribed by Cliff Rather on front cover. READ MORE about FINE POINTS: A PRINTERS' MISCELLANY
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 28416
Oakland, CA: Rather Press, (1970). small 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. (vi), 128 pages. Printed in an edition limited to 72 copies. Printed in 14-point Cloister Bold in roman and italic, with " titles and inserts from various fonts on hand, all hand set and printed on the faithful ancient muscle-powered Sigwalt." The authors printed their first book in 1965 by building a flat-bed wooden press using a hard maple rolling pin. List of..... READ MORE about HERE'S HOW, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, PART II
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 63478
