(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
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
Paris, France and Montreal, QC Canada: Rendez-vous des Maïtres-Artisans, 1986. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 67+(1) pages. Text in French. Introductory comments, jury statement, acknowledgments, table of contents. Illustrations of the works of participating artists with descriptive text. READ MORE about GRAND PRIX DES MÉTIERS D'ART BANQUE D'ÉPARGNE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134936
Ottawa, ON, Canada: National Library of Canada, 1981. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (24) pages. Text in English and French. Ten prominent Canadian book artists, with bibliographic and descriptive information. Color illustrations. Previous owner's name on front wrapper. READ MORE about ARTISTS IN BOOKS, MADE IN CANADA LIVRES D'ARTISTES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134870
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg: Galerie d'Art Municipale, (1980). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 71+(1) pages. Text in French. French works at the Municipal Art Gallery in Luxembourg. Prefatory comments by the mayor, Presiden Valéry Giscard-d'Estaing of France, and the French ambassador to Luxembourg. Includes a sizable section of book arts. Black and white illustrations, color plates. READ MORE about METIERS D'ART EN FRANCE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134873
Toronto, ON, Canada: The Canadian Bookbinders and Artists Guild, 1993. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 128 pages. Text in English and French. Commemorates the guild's tenth anniversary. Table of contents, foreword by Alan Horne, essay by Diana Patterson, artists' statements. Color illustrations and descriptive text about each entry. READ MORE about THE ART OF THE BOOK '93
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135050
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
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
San Francisco, CA: Book Club of California, The, 2012. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. 60 pages. Limited to 1000 copies. Includes lists of officers and publications from 1987 to 2012. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Published as the annual keepsake of the club to its members to commemorate the 100th anniversary. READ MORE about THE BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA AT ONE HUNDRED
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 128360
Hamilton, ON, Canada: Art Galler of Hamilton, 1982. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. vi, 40 pages. Preface by John Holmes, Preservation Specialist, McMaster University Library, introduction by David Kotin, bibliography, list of lenders. Color and black and white illustrations. A fine copy. READ MORE about 20TH CENTURY BOOKBINDING, AN EXHIBITION AT THE ART GALLERY OF HAMILTON
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134963
Dallas: Bridwell Library, 1993. square 8vo. paper wrappers. Unpaginated. Illustrated exhibition catalogue of the work of twenty-five binders, using texts by the author Ladislav Hanka, for the Rarach Press. READ MORE about 50 X 25
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 51778
Aberystwyth, Wales: The University of Wales, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 245 pages. A master's thesis. Table of contents, preface, acknowledgments, eight appendices. Discusses the development of publishers' bindings in Britain between 1820 and 1880. Endnotes, bibliography. Printed on recto only. READ MORE about VICTORIAN PUBLISHERS' BINDINGS
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 134493
With an Introduction by Edgar Mansfield.
Bloomington: Lilly Library, 1976. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 67 pages and 39 full color plates of modern bindings. With an Introduction by Edgar Mansfield. Duval and Hamilton in England commissioned 23 members of Britain's Designer Bookbinders to produce the bindings in a period of two years. This collection was then sold to the Lilly Library. Not in Brenni. READ MORE about BRITISH BOOKBINDING TODAY
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 2450
(Syracuse, NY: Book Arts Different by Design, 2010). 8vo. paste-paper wrappers. vi, 39, (3) pages. One of 25 signed and numbered copies. Translated from the German by Peter D. Verheyen. Dedication, introduction. Originally published as Der Pressbengel (Berlin, 1922). READ MORE about THE BONE FOLDER: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN AN AESTHETICALLY INCLINED BIBLIOPHILE AND A...
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 126393
Plzni, Czech Republic: n.p., 2000. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 32 pages. Text in Czech. The 2nd member exhibition of the Association of Czech booksellers, and the 4th Bookbinding Seminar in Plzni. Color illustrations of exhibited works. READ MORE about DRUHA CLENSKA VYSTAVA SPOLECENSTVA CESKYCH KNIHURU
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135010
Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America, 1989. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Introduction. A catalogue of gold-tooled bindings and gilt papers in the collections of the Clementine Library, acquired from the Bibliotheca Albana in Urbino, Italy. One color plate. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about FESTINA LENTE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134615
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
N.P. n.p., 2002. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. Text in Czeck. Exhibition of works of members of the Association of Czech Booksellers. Introductory comments. Color illustrations and descriptive text about exhibited items. READ MORE about III CLENSKA VYSTAVA SPOLECENSVA CESKYCH KNIHARII
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135048
N.P. n.p., 1961-2. small 4to. cloth. unpaginated. An index of seventeen science experiments. Handwritten notes about terms, diagrams, and results. Bound in cloth, front cover gilt-stamped. READ MORE about INDEX OF EXPERIMENTS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 134479
Bellinzona, Switzerland: Centro de Bel Libro Ascona, 2009. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 76 pages. Text in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Catalogue of the International Bookbinding Competition, 2009. Foreword, report of the jury. Color illustrations throughout. READ MORE about INTERNATIONAL BOOKBINDING COMPETITION BEL LIBRO '09
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134612
New York: Watson Library, 1982. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (48) pages. S-K 7043. One of five hundred numbered and signed copies. With an introduction by T. Peter Kraus. Illustrated. READ MORE about JOHN FRANKLIN MOWERY BOOKBINDINGS, AN EXHIBITION IN THE WATSON LIBRARY OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 38612
New York: Dover Publications, (1990). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. ix, 261 pages. Reprint of the 1973 corrected edition with additional information added to the supply sources section for this 1990 printing. Contains a history of book-making and simple binding techniques for the amateur, including related crafts such as making folders, files, note pads, cards, boxes, etc. Includes a large section on various techniques for making decorated papers to use in binding. Illustrated with many drawings..... READ MORE about CREATIVE BOOKBINDING
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 29692
(Oxford, England): Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, (2013). 4to. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. xvi, 96 pages. Table of contents, foreword by Mark Getty, preface by Sarah E. Thomas, introduction by Stephen Conway. Color illustrations of competition entries. Contact list of entrants follows text. READ MORE about PRIZE VOLUMES: DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2013
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134485
Urbino: Edizioni I.S.A, 1997. 4to. full decorated leather, clamshell box. 578, (14) pages. First edition. This book was the focus of an international exhibition of the bindings of a single work, L'infinito, by Giacomo Leopardi, held at Chiesa di San Paolo, Macerata, Italy, Sept. 12-Oct. 30, 1998. Competitors were asked to design bindings for the poem L'Infinito by Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837). This particular copy is bound in full morocco by Monique Lallier. The..... READ MORE about L'INFINITO IN TUTTE LE LINGUE CHE L'HANNO SAPUTO PRONUNCIARE
Price: $3,000.00 Order nr. 134374
Catalogue 489.
London: Maggs Bros. 1927. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. iv, 208 pages. Catalogue 489. S-K 1482. With a colored frontispiece showing a binding by Samuel Mearne and many other plates. There are 311 items described in detail. Light cover wear, otherwise near fine. READ MORE about BOOK BINDINGS: HISTORICAL AND DECORATIVE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 3031
