New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1967). square 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 95+(1) pages. First edition. With the private bookplate of the H.P. Kraus Reference Library on the front pastedown. Fine in near fine jacket. Reproductions of various artist's interpretations of the Fables of Aesop. READ MORE about AESOP, FIVE CENTURIES OF ILLUSTRATED FABLES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 27023
With Reminiscences by his Friends. Introduction and illustrations by Valenti Angelo Plasmati. Edited by James Linden.
San Francisco: Linden Editions, 1992. oblong small 8vo. quarter red leather, with handmade Fabriano Roma endpapers, gilt on spine, slipcase with paper spine label. 131 pages. With Reminiscences by his Friends. Introduction and illustrations by Valenti Angelo Plasmati. Edited by James Linden. Limited to 100 copies of which 85 were for sale. This copy is one of XII roman numeral copies bound thus and contains two additional printing specimens by Angelo loosely inserted into their..... READ MORE about CON AMORE: VALENTI ANGELO. A BIBLIOGRAPHY 1971-1982
Price: $2,000.00 Order nr. 141880
Jamaica, NY: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1901. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. xx, 106 pages. First edition, limited to 145 copies, of which this is one of 115 numbered copies and signed by Frank Hopkins of the Marion Press and printed on American hand-made paper (Webber p.25). Evidence of a bookplate removed from the front pastedown. Minor uneven fading, else a near fine copy with a soiled spine label. Arnold was a bookseller and collector..... READ MORE about A RECORD OF BOOKS & LETTERS COLLECTED BY WILLIAM HARRIS ARNOLD. WITH AN ESSAY ON THE...
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 118
Twenty-four Issues.
Paris: Henry Babou, (1928) 1933. 4to. (page size 26 x 20 cm). original publisher's colored wrappers for each monograph enfolding sheets in loose signatures. Twenty-four Issues. A complete series of 24 monographs, one of 700 copies, on artists and illustrators such as Paul Jouve, Pierre Bonnard, Sylvain Sauvage, Georges Barbier, A.E. Marty, Charles Martin, J.E. Laboureur, et al. Near fine in original wrappers. Each volume is devoted to a different French book artist. Many contain..... READ MORE about LES ARTISTES DU LIVRE
Price: $4,000.00 Order nr. 44950
(New Haven): Yale University Press, 2004. 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 159+(1) pages. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Explores the influence of the Bauhaus and modernism on typography and book design. The author studies the work of key figures associated with the Bauhaus to support his thesis that a revolution took place in graphic design. Frontispiece. table of contents, preface, introductory essays. Black and white illustrations throughout. Select bibliography, index of designers and..... READ MORE about BAUHAUS, MODERNISM AND THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 109003
(New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 384 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page to Duke Collier. A fine copy in fine jacket. Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Library in 1963 (Printing and the Mind of Man) of 440 books that "made things happen" in the world, Basbanes examines the specific aspects of book culture, considers various works that have shaped our culture, nudged..... READ MORE about EVERY BOOK ITS READER: THE POWER OF THE PRINTED WORD TO STIR THE WORLD
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 89237
UNOPENED COPY
New Castle, DE and Durham, NC: Oak Knoll Press and Fine Books & Collections, 2005. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. 380 pages. UNOPENED COPY. First edition, one of 250 numbered copies signed by the author and in slipcase. A fine copy in fine slipcase / dust jacket. This is the first time that one of Nick Basbanes' titles has appeared in a limited edition. Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Library in..... READ MORE about EVERY BOOK ITS READER: THE POWER OF THE PRINTED WORD TO STIR THE WORLD
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 89154
New York: Henry Holt, (1996). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 584 pages. Reprint of the first edition. Fine condition in fine jacket. A must read for everyone interested in bookselling and bookcollecting, the passion of the chase, the thrill of the formation of a library, the nastiness of the forger, etc. READ MORE about A GENTLE MADNESS: BIBLIOPHILES, BIBLIOMANES, AND THE ETERNAL PASSION FOR BOOKS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 42140
(New York: Harper Collins, 2001). thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, (ii), 636 pages. First edition. Fine condition in fine dust jacket. In this sequel to A Gentle Madness Basbanes continues his conversations with a wide variety of kindred spirits, each one a testament to the never-ending relevance of books in our lives. By exploring the transmission and preservation of knowledge, including the changes in the way information is amassed and stored, he reveals a...... READ MORE about PATIENCE & FORTITUDE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 64474
Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College, 1962. 8vo. softcover. (112) pages. A near fine copy. With essays on Baskin by Winslow Ames, Julius S. Held, Harold Joachim, Rico Lebrun and Ray Nash. Profusely illustrated. With a woodcut printed at the Gehenna Press bound in. READ MORE about LEONARD BASKIN, BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 3850
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, (2003). small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 417 pages. First U.S. edition. Fine in fine jacket. The confessions of an Australian book collector. Even has a small appendix called "eBay gems" READ MORE about A POUND OF PAPER, CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK ADDICT
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 114978
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, (2000). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 323+(1) pages. First edition. A fine copy in fine jacket. In post-World War I America, a world teeming with magazines, newspapers, radio broadcasts, and movies, many feared that the survival of traditional, serious books was in peril. This concern led to a publishing boom in fine editions--books valued primarily for their beauty, craftsmanship, extravagance, or scarcity. Beauty and the Book is a lively..... READ MORE about BEAUTY AND THE BOOK, FINE EDITIONS AND CULTURAL DISTINCTION IN AMERICA
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 72967
Collegeville, MN: The Saint John's Bible, (2005). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 216, (2) pages. First edition. Fine in fine jacket. Table of contents, preface by Christopher de Hamel, appendices and credits. Color illustrations throughout. An account of what one reviewer called "America's Book of Kells." READ MORE about ILLUMINATING THE WORD: THE MAKING OF THE ST. JOHN'S BIBLE
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 130582
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1974. small 4to. quarter natural goatskin over red paste paper over boards. (iv), 130 pages. NOTE: SOLD AS IS - Limited to only 175 numbered copies and printed by hand on handmade paper manufactured by Morris. Prospectus loosely inserted. Spine lightly browned, large dampstain throughout. Bound by Fritz and Trudi Eberhardt. (Taylor A15). The first part of this book consists of a survey made by Morris of the lesser..... READ MORE about THE PAPER MAKER, A SURVEY OF LESSER-KNOWN HAND PAPER MILLS IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA AND AN...
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 1564
London: Faber and Faber, (1958). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 448 pages. First edition. Fine in near fine jacket. With over 400 illustrations of which twenty are in color. Besides the historical development of the art of book illustration, Bland discusses the impact of modern methods. READ MORE about HISTORY OF BOOK ILLUSTRATION, THE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT AND THE PRINTED BOOK
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 64691
London: A & C Black, (2005). 8vo. paperback. 128 pages. First edition. Small bump to bottom of the spine, else a fine copy. Part of the 'Printmaking Handbook' series. Filled with color illustrations and diagrams. READ MORE about CREATING ARTISTS' BOOKS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 141860
Three volumes.
Parma: Presso la Vedova, 1964, 1964, 1965. folio. original full leather, two raised bands, paper spine labels, slipcase. (xiv), lxxvi, 267, (4); (vi), 279, (4); (vi), 209, followed by many pages of facsimiles. Three volumes. Facsimile reprint of Bodoni's famous manual, limited to 900 numbered copies on fine paper. Fine in fine slipcase. Edited by Franco Maria Ricci. The third volume was done in 1965 and contains much additional information about Bodoni and his work..... READ MORE about MANUALE TIPOGRAFICO
Price: $2,250.00 Order nr. 701
San Francisco: Simpson Paper Co., 1989. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 29 pages. Issued by this paper company as a gift booklet. Printed on different kinds of paper in different colors. Fine condition. READ MORE about THE LIFE AND TYPE OF GIAMBATTISTA BODONI
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 33506
(San Francisco, CA): Book Club of California, The, 2015. 4to. portfolio. unpaginated. Limited to 1000 copies. A fine copy. The club's 2015 keepsake. Table of contents, foreword by Bringhurst. READ MORE about THE CALIFORNIA TRADITION OF TYPE DESIGN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 132410
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2002. 4to. quarter cloth over paper-covered boards, paper spine label, slipcase. 255, (2) pages. First edition printed in an edition of 350 copies by Peter Rutledge Koch with the assistance of Richard Seibert and Max Koch. The typefaces are Minion for the text and Greco Adornado for display. The photographs and the Gelette Burgess map of Bohemia reproduced on the end-sheets are provided courtesy of The Bancroft Library. The..... READ MORE about DEAR MASTER. LETTERS OF GEORGE STERLING TO AMBROSE BIERCE 1900 - 1912
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 132349
in the Life of the Felon, Grovenor Layton...A Tale of the California Gold Rush
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1998. small 4to. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards,slip case. (iv), 71+(1) pages. in the Life of the Felon, Grovenor Layton...A Tale of the California Gold Rush. Limited to an edition of 350, printed by Peter Koch using Minon for the text with Scala & Quadrant italic for display. Fine condition in fine slipcase. Artful Deeds is a hoax, a bogus biography. READ MORE about ARTFUL DEEDS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 93469
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1990. 4to. cloth. xiv, 105+(1) pages. Limited to only 450 copies, A Typographical Masterpiece was printed by Meriden-Stenhour Press with duotone photography by Michael Arsenault. A fine copy. It was designed by Dreyfus and includes over 40 illustrations. This work would be of great interest to the Gill and Gibbings enthusiasts. READ MORE about A TYPOGRAPHICAL MASTERPIECE, AN ACCOUNT BY JOHN DREYFUS OF ERIC GILL'S COLLABORATION WITH...
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 33753
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2018. 4to. cloth, plain white dust jacket. 170, (1) pages. First edition limited to 376 copies, of which this is one of 350 numbered copies signed by John T. Hawk. A fine copy in fine publisher's dust jacket. The typeface is FF Quadraat designed by the Dutch designer Fred Smeijers. The display typefaces are Greco Adornado, an ornamental typeface originally of Spanish origin, and Copperplate Gothic by Frederic..... READ MORE about MALLETTE DEAN: A PRINTMAKER AND HIS ART
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 141912
San Francisco, CA: Book Club of California, 2016. small 4to. paper-covered boards, paper spine label, paper covered slipcase. 138 pages. Limited to 300 signed and numbered copies. Includes the prospectus loosely inserted. Very minor uneven fading to the slipcase, minor bump to the top corner of the slipcase, else a fine copy in fine slipcase. Roughly fifteen years after Gutenberg printed the first substantial book in Mainz in 1455, Nicolas Jenson of Venice produced what..... READ MORE about THE NOBLEST ROMAN: A HISTORY OF THE CENTAUR TYPES OF BRUCE ROGERS
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 129681
Featuring Fourteen Designers and Eighteen Typefaces with Quotations from Classic California Literature and Memoir.; The Book Club of California 2020 Keepsake
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2020. small 4to. Mustard colored portfolio, with green & black printing. (12) individual folded cardstock inserts. Featuring Fourteen Designers and Eighteen Typefaces with Quotations from Classic California Literature and Memoir.; The Book Club of California 2020 Keepsake. The keepsake for 2020. In fine condition. READ MORE about CALIFORNIA TYPE DESIGNERS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 141892
