Boston, MA: The National Economic League, 1931. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 45+(1) pages. Volume XVI, No. 2. Includes articles "The Causes of the Present Economic Depression" and "The Desirability of an International Economic Conference." Table of contents, and membership list of a committee studying the matter. Wrappers tanned and chipped at edges. READ MORE about THE CONSENSUS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 129338
(San Francisco, CA: Fine Print), 1982. 4to. self paper wrappers. 41-79+(1) pages. Volume 8, Number 2. Includes bibliographies, reviews of recent fine press publications, feature article, and exhibition notices. Black and white illustrations. Classified advertisements loosely inserted. READ MORE about FINE PRINT: A REVIEW FOR THE ARTS OF THE BOOK
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 129341
(San Francisco, CA: Fine Print), 1982. 4to. self paper wrappers. 81-119+(1) pages. Volume 8, Number 3. Includes bibliographies, reviews of recent fine press publications, feature article, and exhibition notices. Special Eric Gill centennary issue. Black and white illustrations. Classified advertisements loosely inserted. READ MORE about FINE PRINT: A REVIEW FOR THE ARTS OF THE BOOK
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 129342
(San Francisco, CA: Fine Print), 1982. 4to. self paper wrappers. 121-159+(1) pages. Volume 8, Number 4. Includes bibliographies, reviews of recent fine press publications, feature article, and exhibition notices. "Focus on Calligraphy" issue. Black and white illustrations. Classified advertisements loosely inserted. READ MORE about FINE PRINT: A REVIEW FOR THE ARTS OF THE BOOK
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 129343
(San Francisco, CA: Fine Print), 1983. 4to. self paper wrappers. 1-39+(1) pages. Volume 9, Number 1. Includes bibliographies, reviews of recent fine press publications, feature article, and exhibition notices. Feature article on bookbinding. Black and white illustrations. Classified advertisements loosely inserted. READ MORE about FINE PRINT: A REVIEW FOR THE ARTS OF THE BOOK
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 129344
Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1968. 8vo. paper wrappers. (iv), 44 pages. Contains "The Private Press: Its Essence and Recrudescence" by Archer and "Tradition and the Printers of Southern California" by Ritche. Covers faded. READ MORE about MODERN FINE PRINTING
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 108091
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 471-1062 pages. Volume IX in the Index to The Index to British Literary Bibliography series, providing a comprehensive record of writings on the history of the printed book in Britain and of bibliography and textual criticism of British literature. READ MORE about BRITISH LITERARY BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1980-1989, A BIBLIOGRAPHY. AUTHORS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 75993
New York: Delacorte, (1989). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 320 pages. First U.S. edition. This collection focuses on fifteen contemporary illustrators of children's books, including Raymond Briggs, Quentin Blake, Charles Keeping, Michael Foreman, Shirley Hughes and John Lawrence. Well-illustrated throughout, many in color, and with a number of previously unpublished illustrations from the artists' private collections. Included is a complete chronological bibliography of each artist. READ MORE about THE TELLING LINE, ESSAYS ON FIFTEEN CONTEMPORARY BOOK ILLUSTATORS
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 33111
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, (1971). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 144 pages. First U.S. edition. Profusely illustrated with pictures of the author's book collection. Sections on points and pitfalls, collecting novels, travel, science, medicine, early children's books, etc. With a glossary of terms. READ MORE about THE COLLECTOR'S BOOK OF BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 10074
New York: Battery Park Books, 1978. 8vo. cloth. (ii), 37 pages. Reprint of the 1899 Ballantyne Press edition. With comments on the English private press revival. READ MORE about A DEFENCE OF THE REVIVAL OF PRINTING
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 11923
Bentveld, The Netherlands: Harry N. Abrams, (1967). 4to. cloth. 244 pages. History of different types of printmaking followed by 100 plates showing important prints each with accompanying text. READ MORE about GREAT PRINTS & PRINTMAKERS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 11835
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1986. 8vo. paper wrappers. 28, (2) pages. A lecture given at the Library of Congress. Set by Pickering Press and Folio Typographers and printed by Cypher Press from a format planned by John Anderson. READ MORE about POETS AND ANTHOLOGISTS
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 49100
New York: The Angelica Press, 1979. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. (iv), 9+(1) pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies. Designed by Dennis J. Grastorf with printing by Gary R. Wightman at the Amity Press. READ MORE about FORM & CONTENT, THE BOOKS OF THE AMERICAN PRIVATE PRESSES TODAY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 32655
In Fine Print, Vol. 9, No.1, January 1983. pp.27-29. Illustrated.
In Fine Print, Vol. 9, No.1, January 1983. pp.27-29. Illustrated. With color reproductions of some of his illustrations on the front cover. READ MORE about FINE PRINT, A REVIEW FOR THE ARTS OF THE BOOK. VOLUME 9, NUMBER 1
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 22193
North Hills: W. Thomas Taylor and Bird & Bull Press, 1980. large 8vo. leather spine, paper-covered boards. 108+(1) pages. Limited to 350 numbered copies and oversubscribed on publication (Heaney 27). A well produced guide to the printing of one of the finest of private presses in operation today. Some soiling and shelf wear. READ MORE about TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF BIRD & BULL A BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1958-1979
Price: $115.00 Order nr. 468
Introductions by Carey S. Bliss.
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1982. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. 141 pages. Introductions by Carey S. Bliss. One of 500 copies (Heaney A33). This is the first reprinting in facsimile of two important first books on printing in English. The first is Atkyns' The Original and Growth of Printing(1664) which is the first book devoted to the subject of printing; the second is William Caslon's first type specimen book, also the first English..... READ MORE about A PAIR ON PRINTING
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 1353
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, (1984). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 151 pagees. First edition. With 33 plates in color and 82 in black and white. Jacket age yellowed along edges. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about FINE BOOKBINDING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 79999
4 1/4" x 3 3/4" Single sheet. Finely printed bookplate for the Wormser Collection of Graphic Satire at Fairleigh Dickinson University Library, with comic engraving. Printed by John Anderson at his Pickering Press. READ MORE about RICHARD S. WORMSER COLLECTION OF GRAPHIC SATIRE BOOKPLATE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 48621
4" x 2 7/8" Single sheet. Finely printed bookplate for the William W. Weinstone Collection at the Fairleigh Dickinson University Library. Interesting engraving depicts hammer-and-sickle device above an anvil. Printed by John Anderson at his Pickering Press. READ MORE about WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE COLLECTION BOOKPLATE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 48617
Accompanied by an original copy of BRADLEY HIS BOOK.
New Castle, Delaware and Boston, Massachusetts: Oak Knoll Press and Thomas G. Boss Fine Books, 1995. 8vo. quarter leather with paste paper over boards, leather spine label. Booklet is stiff paper wrappers held in porfolio. Both inserted in a cloth-covered clamshell box. xxiii, 216 pages. Accompanied by an original copy of BRADLEY HIS BOOK. First edition. One of 44 special signed and numbered copies. Will H. Bradley (1868-1962) is widely regarded as one of the..... READ MORE about WILL H. BRADLEY: HIS WORK, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 129307
London: Dawsons, (1974). 8vo. cloth. viii, 198, 12 pages and 15 plates. Reprint of the 1921-1922 Oxford University Press edition. Part of the addenda is a complete descriptive bibliography of the press. READ MORE about THE DANIEL PRESS, MEMORIALS OF C.H.O. DANIEL WITH ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 15176
N.P. Privately printed (by Lester Douglas), 1934. 8vo. paper-covered boards, paper cover label. (30) pages. Printed by hand on fine paper with decorative ornaments in blue ink. READ MORE about AFTER THE PASSAGE OF WINTER, IN COMMEMORATION OF THE LIFE AND PASSING OF JENNIE THERESA DOUGLAS,...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 42675
Montgomery: David Esslemont, n.d. (circa 2000). large 8vo. paper-covered boards, with a paper spine label. 12, (3) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 300 numbered copies. This story was originally published in The Hive of Ancient and Modern Literature, (Solomon Hodgson, Newcastle, 1799). This amusing eighteenth-century tale recounts the disasters and misfortunes that befall a modest man when he dines with his neighbor. The illustrations are adaptations and enlargements of four contemporary wood engravings..... READ MORE about THE FALL OF XENOPHON
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 58969
N.P. Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1965. 8vo. cloth. xiii, 119 pages. First edition. Printed by Alfred and Lawton Kennedy. Various articles about this librarian including one by Howell on Hammond as a bibliophile. READ MORE about GPH, AN INFORMAL RECORD OF GEORGE P. HAMMOND AND HIS ERA IN THE BANCROFT LIBRARY
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 17344
Paris: Harrison of Paris, n.d. (circa 1930). small 8vo. self paper wrappers. 8 pages printed French fold. The first publisher's catalogue issued by this private press. Four pages on the philosophy of the press and four pages describing the four upcoming publications of the press. READ MORE about PUBLICATIONS OF HARRISON OF PARIS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 41191
