(Charlottesville, VA: Rare Book School of the University of Virginia, 2005). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 29, (3) pages. Foreword by Terry Belanger, professor at the University of Virginia. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of Greer's work. Color illustrations. READ MORE about ALL I KNOW ABOUT BOOK DESIGN I LEARNED AT THE RACE TRACK
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134510
London: Cassell & Co., & Francis Walterson, 1929. tall 8vo. polished cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut. x, 324, (2) pages. First edition. (Gill no.18). With a Gill woodcut on the title page and 24 essays by Gill on art. The first use of "Pertetua," a type fount designed by Gill. The Italic had not been developed for this fount so typeset underlining is used in the text. Spine faded. READ MORE about ART-NONSENSE AND OTHER ESSAYS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 102629
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1997). small 8vo. quarter cloth with papered covered boards, dust jacket. (vi), 216 pages. First edition. A journey into the world of book collecting with the Goldstones. READ MORE about USED AND RARE, TRAVELS IN THE BOOK WORLD
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 60684
Instructional Manuals and Ephemera 1749-1925.
University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Libraries, 2006. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 34, (2) pages. Instructional Manuals and Ephemera 1749-1925. Limited to 2000 copies. An exhibition catalogue for exhibition at the Grolier's Club 17 May to 29 July, 2006, and the Special Collections Library, the Pennsylvania State University Libraries, 29 September, 2006 to 7 January, 2007, principally from the collection of Albert A. Anderson, Jr., and Evelynn M. Ellis. Contains unnumbered entries. With..... READ MORE about TEACHING AMERICA TO DRAW
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 101855
(Princeton, NJ): The Exhibition Gallery, The Princeton University Library, 1981. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 28 pages. Introduction by the author and select bibliography. Exhibition setting forth the author's thesis that order, variety, and measure governed the creation of medieval manuscripts. Some pages folded at upper fore-edge corner. READ MORE about ORDER, VARIETY, AND MEASURE: THE CREATION OF THE MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 121747
Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, (1921). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, top edge gilt. xxii, 267 pages. First edition, third impression. Identical to the second impression with the following exceptions: three impressions are noted on the copyright page; an additional plate has been added to the book, a portrait of John Burns opposite page 252, now making a total of 73 illustrations of which 52 are separate plates; the errors have been corrected; the type damage on..... READ MORE about A MAGNIFICENT FARCE AND OTHER DIVERSIONS OF A BOOK-COLLECTOR
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 14775
(New Haven): Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Yale University, (2003). large 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 237, (3) pages. Published on the fortieth anniversary of the library, this is both a photoessay on the building and a series of essays on the collection itself by the various curators. Erratum slip laid in. READ MORE about THE BEINECKE LIBRARY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 103783
Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, (1991). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (xii), 179+(1) pages. Table of contents, acknowledgments, endnotes, bibliography, biographical sketches of the author and illustrator. Illustrations by Craig McFarland Brown. A humorous look at bibliophilia. READ MORE about BIBLIOHOLISM, THE LITERARY ADDICTION
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 130662
New York: Nicholas T. Smith, (1981). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 117 pages. S-K 8032. First edition. Comprehensive listing of hand workers in the book arts in the United States and Canada. Cross-indexed. With lists of binders. READ MORE about DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN BOOK WORKERS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 4671
Cleveland: The World Publishing Co., (1957). thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 503, (4) pages. First edition. Twenty-three essays by book-people such as Winterich, Currie, Darton, Starrett, Blanck, Queen, etc. Some soiling of jacket. READ MORE about BIBLIOPHILE IN THE NURSERY, A BOOKMAN'S TREASURY OF COLLECTORS' LORE ON OLD AND RARE CHILDREN'S...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 122734
New York: Weathervane Books, (1970). thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxi, 650 pages. Edited reprint of the second edition. (S-K 3602 for binding references). READ MORE about A HISTORY OF PRINTING IN AMERICA; WITH A BIOGRAPHY OF PRINTERS & AN ACCOUNT OF NEWSPAPERS
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 5224
(Québec, QC, Canada): Éditions du Silence, 1982. 8vo. full limp vellum with three vellum strips. 36, (4) pages. Text in French. Limited to 100 copies numbered in Roman numerals, on paper handmade by the Papeterie St.-Armand of Montreal. Signed on colophon by the author and photographer Stéphan Kovacs. Uguay (1955-1981), a poet, died of cancer at the age of twenty-six. Text based on interviews in September 1981 for a film produced by Jean-Claude Labrecque. Bound..... READ MORE about MARIE UGUAY: LA VIE LA POÉSIE
Price: $750.00 Order nr. 134413
Greenbrae, CA: The Allen Press, 1987. 4to. decorated cloth, top edge cut, other edges uncut, clamshell box. 98 pages. Limited to 145 copies. Includes "The Squire's Daughter," "The Queen of Spades," "The Blizzard," and "The Shot." Wood engravings by John DePol. Binding cloth an 18th century design printed by the silk-screen process in Switzerland. Prospectus laid in. Introductory biographical sketch of Pushkin. READ MORE about FOUR STORIES
Price: $500.00 Order nr. 134450
Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1998. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 143-407; xxviii pages. Volume 98, Part 2. Table of contents, proceedings of the annual meeting, reports, index, historical information. Includes "American History in Image and Text," by John Bidwell. READ MORE about PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134663
Aberdeen, SD: Alexander Mitchell Library, 1997. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 56 pages. Edited by Nancy Tystad Koupal. Table of contents, list of illustrations, introduction. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about OZ IN ABERDEEN: A CATALOGUE OF THE L. FRANK BAUM COLLECTION OF THE ALEXANDER MITCHELL LIBRARY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 134614
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1977. 4to. leather spine, paste paper-covered boards. 86, (4) pages. Limited to "approximately 250 copies." Being the second commonplace book issued by the press. (Taylor A19). Printed by hand by Morris on Green's handmade Bird & Bull paper. Seven articles including an autobiographical sketch and the first English translation of sections of Jacob Christian Schaeffer's famous 18th-century text on papermaking. The latter contains four tinted plates showing raw material..... READ MORE about BIRD & BULL PEPPER POT: INGREDIENTS, CHOICE BITS OF UNCOMMON PAPERMAKING PUBLISHING AND...
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 123188
North Hills, Pennsylvania: Bird & Bull Press, 1981. 8vo. leather spine, decorative paper-covered boards. 120, (3) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 300 numbered copies (Taylor 30). A reprint of a book by John Murray in 1829 on the state of papermaking at that time. It discusses the impact on the usefulness and longevity of paper of some of the practices used by the industry. The book is prophetic in tone in light of..... READ MORE about PRACTICAL REMARKS ON MODERN PAPER. WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY LEONARD B. SCHLOSSER
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 464
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1984. 8vo. quarter morocco with sides based on a fine decorated paper in the Parks Collection. 134 pages plus 3 fold-out illustrations and a separate suite of color prints in a portfolio, all enclosed in a slipcase. Limited to 450 copies (Heaney A38). Sir Harry Parks was sent to Japan by W.E. Gladstone, the English Prime Minister, to gather information on Japanese papermaking. His report, along with a large..... READ MORE about MR. GLADSTONE'S WASHI, A SURVEY OF REPORTS ON THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER IN JAPAN, THE PARKES...
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 460
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2004. 8vo. full cloth imported from Japan, leather spine label with the appendix volume containing the cloth samples bound in a different fine cloth, both enclosed in a cloth-covered slipcase. 81,(3) pages; five heavy board leaves with mounted samples. Limited to only 170 numbered copies printed on Frankfurt Mouldmade paper in Bell types composed by Michael and Winifred Bixler, bound by the Campbell-Logan Bindery and printed by hand by..... READ MORE about SON OF THE BOOKBINDER, WITH AN APPENDIX SHOWING SAMPLES OF SOME OF THE FINEST BOOKCLOTHS...
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 75980
New York, NY: Center for Book Arts, 1991. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, metal spiral bound. (viii), 53, (8) pages. Table of contents, introduction. Journal of the proceedings of a conference held 1991. Includes transcripts of a number of presentations on various aspects of the book arts. With a list of participants and exhibitors. READ MORE about CONFERENCE SUMMARY: BOOK ARTS IN THE USA. 11ST NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 124670
Chicago, IL: Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, 2000. 32mo. postcards in box. unpaginated. A collection of post cards commemorating the Book and Paper Arts Festival, September-October 2000. With a pamphlet, "Millenial Biennial," by Michael Durgin. READ MORE about 2ND NATIONAL BOOK AND PAPER ARTS FESTIVAL
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134442
Chicago, IL: Chicago Public Library, 2006. 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. 38, (2) pages. Letter from Commissioner Mary A. Dempsey, curator's introduction, index of binders. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Chicago Public Library. Color illustrations. A.L.s. from special collections director Lesa Dowd to Monique Lallier. READ MORE about ONE BOOK MANY INTERPRETATIONS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134651
Treadwell, NY: Bright Hill Press, 2010. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 136 pages. Table of contents, notes from the curators, pictures from the exhibition, ordering instructions. One page of color illustrations, black and white illustrations throughout text. READ MORE about BOOK ARTS 2010: THE WORD & IMAGE GALLERY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134660
N.P. (Designer Bookbinders), n.d. oblong 32mo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Examples of binding by this society. Black-and-white illustrations through out.. Bumping to bottom corner. Previous owners name on front free endpaper. Some sticker residue on inside front wrapper and front free endpaper. READ MORE about DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 106815
N.P. Guild of Book Workers, 1992. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (120) pages. Introductions by Peter D. Verheyen, J. Franklin Mowery, etc. Illustrated in color. Spine faded. READ MORE about FINE PRINTERS FINELY BOUND TOO, THE 86TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION OF THE GUILD OF BOOKWORKERS
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 79882
