West Chester, PA: Aralia Press, 2003. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied, paper front cover label. unpaginated (16) pages. Limited to 125 copies. Spectrum type on Frankfurt Cream paper. A collection of poetry, previously appeared in various publications. READ MORE about AFTERSHOCKS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 129719
West Chester, PA: Aralia Press, 2005. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label, top edge cut, other edges uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 180 copies. Bembo type on Zerkall paper. A collection of poetry, some of which appeared in a number of publications. READ MORE about STARR FARM BEACH
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 129588
WITH SYNOPSIS OF THE GUTENBERG DOCUMENTS
New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1972. 7 x 9.5 inches. hardcover. 140 pages. WITH SYNOPSIS OF THE GUTENBERG DOCUMENTS. According to the Preface, for a hundred years or more, the bibliographical scholars of the world have sought to identify the man of genius who, in the mid-fifteenth century, changed the course of civilization by introducing the art of printing into the Western World. Our knowledge of Gutenberg and his claim rests upon two..... READ MORE about THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD OF BOOKS, 1450 TO 1470: A CHRONOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TEXTS CHOSEN...
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 34594
London: B. Crosby and Co., 1808. thick 8vo. contemporary half calf stamped in gilt. xviii, 530, (48) pages. Enlarged edition of the sixth English printer's grammar which was first published in 1755. (Appleton p.67; St. Bride Cat. p.870; Bigmore & Wyman III,403). Containing a Concise History of the Art, with the Improvements in the Practice of Printing, for the last Fifty Years. With a history of printing mostly taken from Moxon and Luckcombe with the..... READ MORE about THE PRINTER'S GRAMMAR; OR, INTRODUCTION TO THE ART OF PRINTING
Price: $1,000.00 Order nr. 30686
West Chester, PA: Aralia Press, 2005. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper front cover label, top edge cut, other edges uncut, cord-tied. unpaginated (16) pages. Limited to 100 copies. Spectrum type on Frankfurt paper. A collection of poetry, some previously published in various works. READ MORE about EXTRAVAGANT CAPTIVITIES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 129615
West Chester, PA: Aralia Press, 2005. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper front cover label, top edge cut, other edges uncut, cord-tied. unpaginated (16) pages. Limited to 100 copies. Signed by the author on colophon. Spectrum type on Frankfurt paper. A collection of poetry, some previously published. READ MORE about EXTRAVAGANT CAPTIVITIES
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 129616
New York: The Marble Hill Press, (1967). large 8vo. cord-tied stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limited to an edition of 100. Printed for private distribution in black, red, and purple Goudy Thirty with Goudy Text Shaded display type on variegated papers by George Sas at the Marble Hill Press. Includes an illustration on the upper wrapper and one at the end of Part Three reproduced from 15th century woodcuts. Edges slightly sunned. READ MORE about THE LADY OF SHALOTT
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 95412
Santa Cruz, CA: Thomas, Peter & Donna, 2011. 4to. loose sheets, folder, clamshell box. 14 pages. One of 50 copies of which 35 are for sale. This copy is in fine condition. In April through October of 2010 Peter and Donna Thomas traveled around the country in their homebuilt gypsy wagon visiting libraries, book arts centers and other book artists. This book is the collection of the broadsides made on that trip. Twelve broadsides were..... READ MORE about THE. WANDERING BOOK ARTISTS' COLLABORATIVE BROADSIDES
Price: $1,400.00 Order nr. 107374
Boston: David R. Godine, 1969. 8vo. cloth-backed, paper-covered boards, paper spine label, paper-covered slipcase. (iv), 30, (8) pages. Limited to 650 numbered copies. The essay "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau was originally published in 1849. The present copy was printed at The Gehenna Press in Northampton, Massacusetts. Printed on Medway paper, an all rag sheet made by hand at The Hayle Mill in England, using Bell type. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 98435
West Chester, PA: Aralia Press, 2001. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label, top edge cut, other edges uncut. (20) pages. Limited to 125 copies. Romanée type on dampened Johannot paper. Corrigendum. A collection of poetry. READ MORE about ANNUNCIATIONS
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 129604
West Chester, PA: Aralia Press, 2001. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label, top edge cut, other edges uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 125 copies. Signed by author on colophon. Corrigendum. Romanée type on dampened Johannot paper. A collection of poetry. READ MORE about ANNUNCIATIONS
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 129612
DELUXE EDITION
Hopewell, NJ: Pied Oxen Printers, 2017. folio. cloth covered boards, silk tie and cloth cover, cloth-over-boards clamshell box, special patinated copper-clad covers with two cold-cast bronze figures. 15 leaves, ff. [3], pp. 9 verse printed recto only, ff. [3]. DELUXE EDITION. The text seemed to emanate from a vibrating larynx and dance in the air...The image and insistent repetition of "ink"...came from a dream that inflected the power of ink as a kind of lifeblood..... READ MORE about EXTINCTION ARIA
Price: $6,000.00 Order nr. 134529
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
Blue Ridge Summit: Tab Books, (1981). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 308 pages. A how to book on the fascinating art of hand printing and binding. It has a thorough introduction to the basics of printing including a brief history of the art, and then covers planning, designing, choosing papers and inks, selecting type faces, the actual printing process, and binding your completed work. Illustrated and indexed. READ MORE about GETTING STARTED IN HAND PRINTING & BINDING
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 60124
N.P. Associates of the Stanford University Libraries, 1991. large 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 4, (2) pages. Limited to an edition of 1,000. This keepsake was issued on the occasion of a program honoring David C. Weber, Director of the University Libraries, April 20, 1991. It contains text originally published in the 1987 book On Reading-In the Year of the Reader. Printed in Joanna type on Mohawk Superfine paper by Patrick Reagh. READ MORE about THE VALUE OF LIFELONG READING
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 95423
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1980. 4to. leather spine, marbled paper over boards. 79 pages and 14 tipped-in specimen sheets. Limited to 300 numbered copies (Heaney A23). Translated from the German with an Introduction and Fourteen Original Marbled Specimens by Richard J. Wolfe. This manual by Weisse, one of the great German marblers and teachers, was originally published in 1940. It is an excellent overall study of the craft. The most detailed and comprehensive..... READ MORE about THE ART OF MARBLING
Price: $600.00 Order nr. 11330
Marlborough-on-Hudson, NY: Dard Hunter for the Chicago Society of Etchers, 1916. 4to. original quarter vellum, paper-covered boards, paper front cover label, top edge cut, other edges uncut. (14) pages. Limited to 250 copies, although 270 copies of an original etching by Ernest D. Roth were produced (Hunter Jr., 82). Foreword. The fifth publication issued by the Chicago Society of Etchers. Paper and type made by Hunter, with the seal of the Chicago Society as water-mark..... READ MORE about THE ETCHING OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE
Price: $1,250.00 Order nr. 131030
Nantes: Pré Nian Editions, (1988). folio (15 1/8 x 11 inches). loose signatures gathered in a paper wrapper, grey linen clamshell box. (28) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 60 copies, on Johannot paper, each copy signed by the poet and the artist. A sequence of five haiku by the Scottish poet Kenneth White who lives in France and has written verses in English and in French. Each page has the English verse, followed..... READ MORE about METHODOS
Price: $2,450.00 Order nr. 61609
Hopewell, NJ: Pied Oxen Printers, 2014. large 4to. Japanese book cloth-covered boards, letterpress printed paste-paper cover and spine labels. 8 5/8 inches x 10 5/8 inches, 22 leaves, pp. [11] verse printed recto only. First edition of these 10 prose poems. The hand-set type is Monotype Garamont 248, printed on a Vandercook Universal I press. The paper is Zerkall Book. The artwork, letterpress-printed from type-high magnesium photo-engravings, was created by the printer from a detail..... READ MORE about SIXTY
Price: $850.00 Order nr. 134524
3 volumes.
Washington, DC: David Bruce Smith, 2004 (2012). folio. cloth, hand bound and loosely inserted in custom made leather clamshell case. variously paginated. 3 volumes. First edition and one of 750 numbered copies. The original run was for 1,500 numbered copies, however in 2012 the decision was made to only bind 750 copies with the new and improved leather clamshell box as opposed to the previous faux-suede clamshell box and faux-suede cloth chamise. Three-volume collection containing..... READ MORE about TENNESSEE
Price: $3,000.00 Order nr. 110148
West Chester, PA: Aralia Press, 2003. 8vo. decorated cloth, paper spine label, top edge cut, other edges uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 140 copies. Spectrum type on Zerkall paper. Frontispiece etching by Fulvio Testa. A collection of poetry. READ MORE about SAD IS EROS
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 129562
Sherman Oaks, CA: Ninja Press, 2017. oblong small 4to. Japanese paper sewn binding, acrylic slipcase. (36) pages. First edition printed in an edition of 75 signed and numbered copies. These previously unpublished prose poems resonate with unerring clarity and a streamlined diction honed over years spent enveloped in the misty redwood forest and streams of his home in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. The type is hand set Meridien with Neuland for the display..... READ MORE about IN JAPAN
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 134715
