West Chester, PA: Aralia Press, 2000. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages. Limited to 160 copies. A poetic work. Tipped-in photograph frontispiece by Gaylen Morgan. Romanée type on Johannot paper. Bound by Lawrence Yerkes. READ MORE about WASHINGTON SQUARE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 129592
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1997. elephant folio. 10 page introductory booklet, 27 poster/broadsides (each 19 x 25 inches) in 21 folders, gathered in a cloth clamshell box with paper cover label. Printed in an edition limited to only 145 numbered copies by Henry Morris (Berger A60). Broadside Vignettes joins the typographic aspect of the poster/broadside format with the contentual character of the book, creating a hybrid with some of the best qualities of..... READ MORE about BROADSIDE VIGNETTES
Price: $950.00 Order nr. 131086
Edited by Willam S. Peterson.
New York: The Grolier Club, 1996. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover. 78 pages. Edited by Willam S. Peterson. To celebrate the Morris centenary year, the Grolier Club and the William Morris Society in the United States published this enlarged and corrected version of the very last book published by the Kelmscott Press. This autobiographical history of Morris and his Kelmscott Press includes passages related to Morris's approaches to paper, type design, ink, page design and..... READ MORE about A NOTE BY WILLIAM MORRIS ON HIS AIMS IN FOUNDING THE KELMSCOTT PRESS
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Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1891. small 8vo. original publisher's stiff vellum with silk ties. (iv), 198 pages, some unopened. Printed in an edition limited to 313 copies, this being one of 300 copies printed on paper (Cockerell 2, Peterson A2, Walsdorf 2). A near-fine copy with the slightest hint of soiling to the covers and spine. All four silk ties present. Some foxing to rear pastedown. This was the first book which was printed at the..... READ MORE about POEMS BY THE WAY
Price: $4,500.00 Order nr. 58072
2 volumes.
London, England: Eugrammia Press, 1965. oblong 4to. cloth, paper wrappers, both volumes enclosed in a slipcase. Facsimile of the 1742 manual accompanied by the 20 page introduction. 2 volumes. Printed in an edition limited to 600 copies. Reproduced from the copy in the Printing Library of the St. Bride Institute. Thirty-three plates depict samples of the types cut by Fournier c. 1742, which then appeared in his Manuel Typographique. A consummate artist and craftsman, Fournier..... READ MORE about MODELES DES CARACTERES DE L'IMPRIMERIE ET DES AUTRES CHOSES NECESSAIRES AUDIT ART. NOUVELLEMENT...
Price: $850.00 Order nr. 4119
New York: Center for Book Arts, 2013. 6.75 x 6.75 inches closed, folds out to 13.5 x 6.75 inches. paperback. 8 pages. Broken Glish by Harryette Mullen, judge of The Center for Book Arts 2013 Poetry Chapbook Competition, was designed and letterpress printed by Delphi Basilicato in the summer of 2013 at The Center for Book Arts. The type is Garamond, the cover paper is Plike, and the text block is printed on Magnani Velata..... READ MORE about BROKEN GLISH
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 122529
West Chester, PA: Aralia Press, 2001. 16mo. stiff paper wrappers, paper front cover label, top edge cut, other edges uncut, cord-tied. unpaginated (16) pages. Limited to 130 copies. Spectrum type on Rives Heavy paper. A collection of poetry. Some of the poems previously published in Rattapallax. READ MORE about SHE-DEVIL CIRCUS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 129603
West Chester, PA: Aralia Press, 2001. 16mo. stiff paper wrappers, paper front cover label, top edge cut, other edges uncut, cord-tied. unpaginated (16) pages. Limited to 130 copies, of which this copy is signed by the author. Spectrum type on Rives Heavy paper. A collection of poetry. Some of the poems previously published in Rattapallax. READ MORE about SHE-DEVIL CIRCUS
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 129702
New York: William E. Rudge's Sons, (1934). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. not paginated, but 16 pages. Extracts from Nevin's book, issued as a promotional booklet for Rudge, who call the reader's attention to The Illustrations, The Baskerville type page, and The privately-watermarked, permanent paper. READ MORE about JOB OF THE MONTH, A SIGNATURE FROM "THE HISTORY OF THE BANK OF NEW YORK & TRUST...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 63876
Copenhaven: Forening for Boghandvaerk [Association for Book Craft], 1960. small 8vo. paper-covered boards. 112, (4) pages. Basic information on many things: paper, type, title pages, text pages, citations, margins, colophons, types of text (poetry, etc.), illustrations, etc. With bibliography. Backing lightly browned. READ MORE about TYPOGRAFISK ABC FOR BOGVENNER
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 51403
West Chester, PA: Aralia Press, 1999. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, bottom edge uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 150 copies. Spectrum type on Zerkall paper. A collection of poetry. READ MORE about EVENING
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 129559
Lower Marston Farm, England: The Whittington Press, 1999. small 8vo. quarter cloth with decorated paper-covered boards. (16) pages followed by 36 leaves of plates. Printed in an edition limited to 375 numbered copies set in Van Dijck type and printed at Whittington on Zerkall Rosa paper. A beautiful collection of 36 wood-cut engravings from John O'Conner's sixth decade of engraving. The engravings in this volume have been appearing in the magazine "Oldie" since 1992. They..... READ MORE about PEOPLE & PLACES
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 55423
(New York, NY: Center for Edition Works, 1985). 8vo. paper wrappers. (13) pages. Limited to 120 copies, signed by the author, translator and illustrator (Peich, 63). Antonio Frasconi's illustration is a fold out wood cut. Out of Sorts Letter Foundry Bembo type is printed on Goru paper and wrapped in Gampi Torinoco. Japanese stitch binding. This is a polyglot edition with the Spanish in red and the line by line English in black on the..... READ MORE about THE FOUR POPLARS, CUATRO CHOPOS
Price: $800.00 Order nr. 135244
Berkeley / Santa Cruz, CA: Foolscap Press, 1993. large 4to. full leather, clamshell box. 138 pages. Limited to 175 numbered copies. Here is a book that fairly crackles with wit and wisdom, for six hundred years have not dimmed its ability to speak to our minds through the clarity of its perspective, the power of its language, and the vivid pertinence of its thought. Because of the genius shown in his lyrical works, Francesco Petrarca..... READ MORE about PHISICKE AGAINST FORTUNE AS WELL PROSPEROUS AS ADVERSE, FORTY-SIX DIALOGUES
Price: $2,950.00 Order nr. 135131
(Sherman Oaks, CA): Ninja Press, 2015. slim 4to. quarter goatskin over decorative english reflective paper. (36) pages. First edition of 75 numbered and signed copies by the poet and the photographer. This set of splendidly rich poems records the minutiae of the moment, moving from micro to macro throughout. The poems are both the residue of privacy and an accounting of terrain, the poets territory; a collision of megalopolis, mountain, and desert meeting in fire..... READ MORE about ON ROOKS
Price: $1,250.00 Order nr. 134716
Herefordshire, UK: Whittington Press, 2003. small 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (vi), 206 pages. Printed in an edition limited to 800 copies, this being one of 715 trade copies. Matrix is the longest surviving and probably the last typographical journal to be printed by letterpress. It is an eclectic mix of fine printing, type design, and small press lore, forming a record of events and personalities whose memory would otherwise have died with their recorders..... READ MORE about MATRIX 23, WINTER 2003, A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS & BIBLIOPHILES
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 76358
Herefordshire, UK: Whittington Press, 2004. small 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (vi), 169, (3) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 800 copies, this being one of 720 trade copies. Matrix is the longest surviving and probably the last typographical journal to be printed by letterpress. It is an eclectic mix of fine printing, type design, and small press lore, forming a record of events and personalities whose memory would otherwise have died with their..... READ MORE about MATRIX 24, WINTER 2004, A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS & BIBLIPHILES
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 79769
Herefordshire, UK: Whittington Press, 2005. small 4to. quarter leather with marbled paper covers, separate portfolio, slipcase. (vi), 196+(2) Pages. Printed in an edition limited to 760 copies, this being one of 80 special copies quarter-bound in Oasis leather and paper marbled by Christopher Rowlatt, and contains an additional portfolio that contains two whole sheets of Gangolf Ulbricht's paper (his article pp. 75-81) with each having a different wood-engraving by Hellmuth Weissenborn. Matrix is the longest..... READ MORE about MATRIX 25, WINTER 2005, A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS & BIBLIPHILES
Price: $500.00 Order nr. 90777
West Chester, PA: Aralia Press, 2004. 12mo. cloth, paper front cover label, top edge cut, other edges uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 100 copies. Bembo type on Frankfurt paper. A collection of poetry, some of which was previously published in The Formalist and The New Criterion. READ MORE about UNUSED LINES
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 129589
West Chester, PA: Aralia Press, 2004. 12mo. cloth, paper front cover label, top edge cut, other edges uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 100 copies. Signed by author on colophon. Bembo type on Frankfurt paper. A collection of poetry, some of which previously appeared in The Formalist and The New Criterion. READ MORE about UNUSED LINES
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 129590
Oakland: Rather Press, (1982). large 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. 75 (3) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 100 numbered copies. Researched, written, designed, hand-set in Bembo type printed on Tweedweave paper, hand-sewn, and cased by Clif and Lois Rather. Illustrated with wood engravings by Stanley H. Cohen. Continues the author's series of books dealing with California history. Dunsmuir House is a thirty-seven room mansion built in the San Leandro section of Oakland..... READ MORE about DUMSMUIR HOUSE
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 96339
Sylvan Lake, MI: Privately printed, n.d. tall narrow 8vo. cloth, paper title label. Unpaginated. Limited to 100 copies. Twelve flowers indigenous to Hawaii, described and illustrated with line drawings. Type hand-set by Jack Rau, papers used are Curtis Colophon for the text and a hand-made Shiji from Japan for the illustrations, which are folded over, and bound in, at the head and foot of the leaves. Bound in the Japanese style, boards covered in slubbed..... READ MORE about A HAWAIIAN ALPHABET OF FLOWERS
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 48346
Stamford, CT: Glad Hand Press, 1981. 8vo. stiff paper wrapper. (12) Pages. Collection of humours quotations that parody Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack.Attributed to Herman Raucher, "a reformed advertising executive, novelist, playright and screen-writer, also a fine raconteur." The type is hand-set Monotype and SB Times Roman on Torino Cover / 80 paper. READ MORE about FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS FROM POOR HERMAN'S ALMANAC
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 76044
(TDR)
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Hardcover. 368 pages. (TDR). "A functional, comprehensive, postmodern approach... This reference source places clearly written, succinct explanations at the reader's fingertips." - Miriam, Kahn, SHARP News The Typographic Desk Reference (aka TDR) is an encyclopedic reference guide of typographic terms and classification with definitions of form and usage for Latin based writing systems. The second edition, in the works since 2010, has more than..... READ MORE about THE TYPOGRAPHIC DESK REFERENCE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 108705
(TDR)
With a Foreword by Erik Spiekermann
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Paperback. 368 pages. (TDR) With a Foreword by Erik Spiekermann. "A functional, comprehensive, postmodern approach... This reference source places clearly written, succinct explanations at the reader's fingertips." - Miriam, Kahn, SHARP News The Typographic Desk Reference (aka TDR) is an encyclopedic reference guide of typographic terms and classification with definitions of form and usage for Latin based writing systems. The second edition, in the..... READ MORE about THE TYPOGRAPHIC DESK REFERENCE
Price: $24.95 Order nr. 108706
