MONADNOCK'S ABCS.
(Bennington, NH: Monadnock Paper Mills), n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. A collection of specimens produced by Monadnock. Color illustrations. READ MORE about MONADNOCK'S ABCS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134246
(Bennington, NH: Monadnock Paper Mills), n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. A collection of specimens produced by Monadnock. Color illustrations. READ MORE about MONADNOCK'S ABCS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134246
Minneapolis: Pentagram Press, 1987. large 8vo. cord-tied stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limited to an edition of 193. Printed on fold-out marbled paper. Inscribed "For Donn [Sanford] -M[ichael Tarachow] 12.15.99." Corners bumped, spine split at head and tail up to cords. READ MORE about THE MORE WE DREAM THE MORE WE KNOW
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 95417
New York: Harrison of Paris, n.d. (circa 1933). folio. Single sheet. With descriptions of four books available from the press including Katherine Anne Porter's French Song-Book. Printed on gray paper with red ink and containing two illustrations. READ MORE about OFFERINGS FOR THE PERSON OF TASTE WHO HAS EVERYTHING (ELSE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 41192
(Overland Park, KS): Scott Free Press & Papermill, 1987. miniature book (6.0 x 4.9 cm). stiff paper wrappers. 30, (6) pages. Limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by publisher Duane C. Scott (Bradbury, Scott Free Press 5). Samples of type faces used by Scott. Covers are printed on paper handmade by the press. READ MORE about ORIENTAL SAYINGS: AN EXERCISE IN USING SMALL TYPES
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 118159
(Overland Park, KS): Scott Free Press & Papermill, 1987. miniature book (6.0 x 4.9 cm). stiff paper wrappers. 30, (6) pages. Limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by publisher Duane C. Scott (Bradbury, Scott Free Press 5). Samples of type faces used by Scott. Covers are printed on paper handmade by the press. Small label of private collector in corner of back free endpaper. READ MORE about ORIENTAL SAYINGS: AN EXERCISE IN USING SMALL TYPES
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 118456
(Mount Horeb, WI): The Perishable Press, nd (ca 1980). large 8vo. broadside, folded once. A single broadside, folded once, used for marketing some of the Perishable Press upcoming titles. A fine copy. Printed by hand on handmade paper by Walter Hamady. READ MORE about OUR USUAL TERMS & SOME ATTRACTIONS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 139562
N.P. University of Iowa, (1983). 4to. Siff paper wrapper. 104 pages. Contains a collection of prints by noted collector Owen Elliott. Decorative tissue paper over title page. Pen inscription by his wife Leone on table of contents. Some shelfwear and markings on covers. READ MORE about THE OWEN N. ELLIOTT COLLECTION OF PRINTS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 97218
New York: Oxford Paper Company, n.d. 4to. 12 plates loosely inserted in mailing envelope (which is worn). Reproductions of 12 old advertising posters in full color. READ MORE about OXFORD PAPERS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 14391
Iowa City: Windhover Press, The, 1976. small 4to. paper wrappers. (10) pages. First edition, limited to 300 copies, of which this is one of 100 copies reserved for the Windhover Press to give out as gifts. K.K. Merker presents a few pages from Homer's Iliadas translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Merker explains in his preface that these pages served as a keepsake for the 1976 biennial joint meeting of the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles and..... READ MORE about PAGES FROM THE ILIAD
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 61763
Bath: Old School Press, 2009. 4to. cloth & paper covered boards, cloth chemise with paper spine label. unpaginated. One of 170 copies. Fine copy is cloth chemise. From the printer: "We have had a keenness for the domestic architecture of Andrea Palladio for some time - if one can refer to the villas he built for, say, the Venetian nobility as just 'domestic'. Anyway, we can say that he designed houses for people to live..... READ MORE about PALLADIO'S HOMES
Price: $400.00 Order nr. 102514
Cheltenham: FPBA, 2001. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 56 pages. Volume 6. Collections of essays about fine printing with articles by Gaylord Shanilec, Dennis Hall, Crispin Elsted, and others. Articles included are: Not Christmas Again - Dennis Hall Progressive Proofs for a Colour Wood-Engraving - Gaylord Schanilec Ode: Still Life with Vase of Flowers - Crispin Elsted Illustration: Across the Millennial Divide - Leo John de Freitas Book reviews include: Masks and Other Poems, A...... READ MORE about PARENTHESIS: THE NEWSLETTER OF THE FINE PRESS BOOK ASSOCIATION
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 99762
Montreal, QC, Canada: L'Arbre, 1943. 8vo. quarter leather, paper-covered boards. 36 pages, plates. Text in French. A volume in the Collection Art Vivant series. Inscribed by Maurice Gagnon and Pierre Dansereau. Preface by Gagnon. List of illustrations. Biographical note about the author. Black and white frontispiece portrait. Twenty black and white plates follow text. Appendix. A study of the works of artist Alfred Pellan. Unsigned binding by Monique Lallier with gilt-stamped leather spine, and decorated..... READ MORE about PELLAN
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 134398
Wilmington: John Dickinson High School, 1964. small 4to. cloth. 204 pages. Yearbook of John Dickinson High School. Loosely inserted is Vol. 4, No.7 of "Patriot" which was the high school paper. Covers soiled. READ MORE about THE PENMAN, VOLUME IV
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135089
Richmond: W.J. Barrow Research Laboratory, 1964. 8vo. paper wrappers. 79 pages. With many charts showing strengths of paper that had been produced over the period 1425 to 1900. READ MORE about PERMANENCE - DURABILITY OF THE BOOK - II. TEST DATA OF NATURALLY AGED PAPERS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 5365
Endgrain Editions Three.
Mission, BC: Barbarian Press, 2003. folio. quarter sienna leather with patterned paper-covered boards, gold-stamped leather label on spine, slipcase. 132 pages. Endgrain Editions Three. Privately printed in an edition of 190 copies, of which this book is one of 60 copies handbound by Simone Mynen and containing a signed and numbered proof of the frontispiece in a handmade paper folder. Prospectus loosely inserted. Fine in fine slipcase. With an introduction by Lazarov, a Publisher's Foreword..... READ MORE about PETER LAZAROV, A SELECTION OF ENGRAVINGS WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE ARTIST
Price: $2,900.00 Order nr. 74609
Endgrain Editions Three.
Mission, BC: Barbarian Press, 2003. folio. quarter sienna leather with patterned paper-covered boards, gold-stamped leather label on spine, slipcase. 132 pages. Endgrain Editions Three. Privately printed in an edition of 190 copies, of which this book is one of 60 copies handbound by Simone Mynen and containing a signed and numbered proof of the frontispiece in a handmade paper folder. Fine in fine slipcase. With an introduction by Lazarov, a Publisher's Foreword by Crispin Elsted..... READ MORE about PETER LAZAROV, A SELECTION OF ENGRAVINGS WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE ARTIST
Price: $2,150.00 Order nr. 140343
Brooklyn: Mergenthaler Linotype Co., (1936). small 8vo. cloth-backed paper-covered boards. 99 pages. The softbound variant of this interesting book with the title-page and the ampersand page designed by Bruce Rogers (The Work of Bruce Rogers, p69, no. 393). This copy has been rebound in later red cloth with the original paper spine laid down, as well as the original covers. A fine copy. Forty-one prominent book designers created designs for each letter in the alphabet..... READ MORE about PETER PIPER'S PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES OF PLAIN & PERFECT PRONUNCIATION
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 139931
Philadelphia: Art Directors Club of Philadelphia, various. 4to. various bindings. Have the following volumes of this annual: 2nd 1964, 3rd 1965, 4th 1966 (dust jacket), 7th 1969, 35th paper wrappers for all the following issues, 39th 1974, 40th, 44th 1980, 46th 1982, 47th, 48th 1984, 50th 1986, 52nd 1988, 53rd 1989. Price per issue. READ MORE about PHILADELPHIA ART DIRECTORS CLUB ANNUAL OF ADVERTISING & EDITORIAL ART & DESIGN (THE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 105685
N.P. n.p., n.d., but 2003. 8vo. paper-covered boards. unpaginated. An artist book produced by binder and artist Monique Lallier. With decorated paper-covered boards, mother of pearl onlay on front cover. Mother of pearl onlay also on back endpaper. READ MORE about PLAISIRS
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 135058
Paris: Les Editions G. Van Oest, 1929. square 8vo. paper wrappers. xii, 84, (16) pages, 16 plates. A major exhibition catalogue featuring bindings through the nineteenth century. (Brenni no.532). The emphasis is on French 16th century bindings with a great deal of bibliographical and narrative details. New paper spine. READ MORE about LES PLUS BELLES RELIURES DE LA REUNION DES BIBLIOTHEQUES NATIONALES CATALOGUE DE L'EXPOSITION
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 5923
New York, NY: New York Public Library by the Aralia Press, 1996. 8vo. folded sheets in a clamshell box, paper cover label. unpaginated. Printed in an edition limited to 210 copies. This copy is signed by all of the contributors (Rodney Phillips, Cooper Esteban, Nick Flynn, Caroline Fraser, Deborah Garrison, H. L. Hix, Timothy Liu, Gabriella Mirollo, Greg Williams, David Woo, and Cynthia Zarin). Printed from Lutetia and Romulus Open types on dampened Zerkall paper..... READ MORE about POEMS FOR THE NEW CENTURY
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 46337
New York, NY: New York Public Library by the Aralia Press, 1996. 8vo. folded sheets in a clamshell box, paper cover label. unpaginated. Printed in an edition limited to 210 copies. Printed from Lutetia and Romulus Open types on dampened Zerkall paper. Text printed in black, with individual titles in various colors. Enclosed in a clamshell box covered in black cloth with gold threads made by Judy Conant. Commissioned to celebrate the NYPL's centenary and..... READ MORE about POEMS FOR THE NEW CENTURY
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 129579
New York: Pandick Press, 1977. 4to. wood-engraving loosely inserted in paper portfolio. Text by Don Wesely. A fine copy of the broadside in a near fine portfolio paper housing. READ MORE about THE PORTLAND HEAD LIGHTHOUSE, A WOOD-ENGRAVING
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 24871
n.p. n.p. small 4to. single photograph. A lovely photograph showing Zevin, Beals, and Bruce Rogers holding one volume of the Bible to its title page to celebrate a set going to the New York Public Library. The book was placed on display which was displayed in New York and printed by the Oxford University Press on hand made silk paper. READ MORE about PRESS PHOTO B. ZEVIN, RALPH BEALS & BRUCE ROGERS WITH BRUCE ROGERS WORLD BIBLE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 140175
Meriden, CT: The Kelsey Company, n.d. (circa 1979). 8vo. stapled paper wrappers. Unpaginated. A catalog of presses, type, cuts, paper, cards, machinery, supplies, furniture, inks and other equipment, aimed at the small print-shop or amateur printer. New prices inserted in an envelope. Light wear to edges, with a small tear along front cover. Exlibris stamp on front cover, else very good. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about PRINTERS' SUPPLY BOOK
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 105189