A LAST WILL, WILLISTON FISH.
Boston: Alfred Bartlett, (1908). small 8vo. boards. 18 pages. Printed by the Merrymount Press. A near fine copy. READ MORE about A LAST WILL, WILLISTON FISH
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 63663
Boston: Alfred Bartlett, (1908). small 8vo. boards. 18 pages. Printed by the Merrymount Press. A near fine copy. 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, spine faded. READ MORE about NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC INDEX, 1947-1969
Price: $20.00 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: $20.00 Order nr. 62976
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
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
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
London: Faber and Faber, (1960). square 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 122 pages. First edition. With 16 pages of half-tone plates and numerous diagrams in the text. A practical guide to lithography. Jacket shows wear. READ MORE about AUTOLITHOGRAPHY, THE TECHNIQUE
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 43670
Pasadena: The Untide Press, (1950). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (40) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 500 copies. Designed with linoleum cut decorations by Kemper Nomland,Jr., hand-set in Bembo and Futura type on Kilmory Text paper. Poetry. READ MORE about ARMA VIRUMQUE CANO
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 63733
New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1954. 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt, dust jacket. xix, 547, (3) pages. First edition. Illustrated throughout including a full color frontispiece portrait of John Pintard, the founder. Minor jacket soiling, else fine. READ MORE about KNICKERBOCKER BIRTHDAY, A SESQUI-CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 39790
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1907. small 8vo. cloth. v, 148 pages. Reprint of the first edition. Includes sections on sizes of types, names and sizes of paper, illustrations and a glossary of technical terms. Name in ink on free endpaper. READ MORE about PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS FOR THE PRINTER
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 62343
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, (1950). 8vo. paper-covered boards. (ii), 44, (4) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 100 copies, handset in Bembo on Strathmore Pastelle paper. Designed by Ward Ritchie, with typesetting by the author, and the presswork by Joseph Simon. Thirty additional copies were printed for presentation to members of the Rounce & Coffin Club. Selected as one of the Western Books for 1950 (Ritchie, 101). READ MORE about NIDUS, A DRAMATIC POEM IN THREE VOICES
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 63245
Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, (1970). 8vo. cloth. (xvi), 330 pages. From the Essay Index Reprint Series, this collection was first published in 1902 with an introduction by Hamilton Wright Mabie. Spine lightly rubbed, else a near fine copy. Well known and widely respected as an essayist, Warner made a witty and perceptive contribution to the world of nineteenth century American literature. READ MORE about FASHIONS IN LITERATURE AND OTHER LITERARY AND SOCIAL ESSAYS & ADDRESSES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 62375
(New Haven: Andrew Kner, 1958). small 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 85+(1) pages. Printed, designed and bound at the Department of Graphic Arts at Yale. First edition. Limited to 350 numbered copies. A translation of a fourteenth-century prompt book for a passion play. With an essay on the development of modern theatre by the translator. Set in Bembo types on Mohawk Superfine paper. Black and white illustrations by James Higa and Harry..... READ MORE about PHILLIPPE DE MEZIERES' DESCRIPTION OF THE FESTUM PRAESENTATIONIS BEATAE MARIAE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 78022
Los Angeles: n.p., 1956. 4to. cloth-backed boards. (ii), 57, (3) pages. First edition. Designed and printed by Richard Hoffman in an unmentioned limited edition. Presentation from Wentz on free endpaper. READ MORE about ELEVEN WESTERN PRESSES, AN ACCOUNT OF HOW THE FIRST PRINTING PRESS CAME TO EACH OF THE ELEVEN...
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 19986
Pasadena, CA: Ampersand Press, 1952. small 8vo. folded sheet. (4) pages. Advance sample, printed February, 1952, by Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press. Folded sheet with title page and a poem. READ MORE about MORE WHISPERS & CHANTS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 63863