N.P. (West Chester, PA): Aralia Press, 1998. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut, cord-tied. unpaginated (14) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 180 copies, of which this is the first state with the misprint "Shakesperean." This copy is signed by Cope on the colophon. A collection of 5 poems. Romanée type on dampened Rives Heavy Paper. Fine condition. READ MORE about BEING BORING
Price: $100.00 other currencies Order nr. 129610
Torino: Tipografia torinese editrice, 1961. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 549+(1) pages. First edition, printed in an edition limited to 990 numbered copies. Includes bibliographies, with copious facsimile reproductions of 16th century book illustrations, woodcuts and engravings. One volume of a three volume set, this volume being dedicated to books printed in the city of Torino, Italy. READ MORE about LE CINQUECENTINE PIEMONTESI
Price: $225.00 other currencies Order nr. 115410
New York: Hudson Hill Press, (1986). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 239 pages. First edition. Essay by Klaus Kertess. Catalogue Raisonne of the most important sculptor of the Abstract Expressionist generation. With 313 color plates and 371 black-and-white illustrations, exhibition history, bibliography and an index. Dust wrapper is rubbed. Ex-private-library book with a small stamp in ink on the title page and another on an interior page, card holder on the rear pastedown. Top edge of... READ MORE about JOHN CHAMBERLAIN: A CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ OF THE SCULPTURE 1954-1985
Price: $400.00 other currencies Order nr. 104732
2 Volumes.
Hong Kong, China: Hong Kong Museum of Art, (1987). small folio. cloth, decorated endpapers, slipcase. 29+(1) with plates; 237, (3) pages. 2 Volumes. Text in Chinese and English. Presented by the Urban Council of Hong Kong. A catalogue of the Ko collection exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of Art. 163 pieces exhibited in color. Volume I with table of contents, preface, and an essay by noted scholar John Ayers. Volume I also includes color... READ MORE about CHINESE PORCELAIN: THE S.C. KO TIANMINLOU COLLECTION
Price: $950.00 other currencies Order nr. 120547
2 Volumes.
London, England: John Major, 1836. 8vo. contemporarty half leather, marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers. xxxvi, 556; (ii), 557-982 pages. 2 Volumes. First and only edition (Windle and Pippin A62; Jackson no. 86). Windle and Pippin note that this edition limited to 1250 copies. Dedication, preface, list of subscribers, corrigenda. An autobiography with information on bookselling and book collecting in the early 19th century, but with very little information on Dibdin himself. Frontispiece portrait of Dibdin... READ MORE about REMINISCENCES OF A LITERARY LIFE
Price: $125.00 other currencies Order nr. 126909
New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and V&A Publishing, 2018. 8.75 x 12 inches. cloth, dust jacket. xx, 396 pages, with folding floor plan of the Crystal Palace in pocket at rear. "Any student of early photography -- or of the international exposition housed in the famous Crystal Palace in London -- will covet this magisterial work of careful scholarship and beautiful bookmaking." - Michael Dirda, "best books list," The Washington Post "Ever... READ MORE about PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE 1851 GREAT EXHIBITION
Price: $95.00 other currencies Order nr. 129325
2 volumes
Berlin: W.H. Kühl, 1892. folio. contemporary quarter leather, marbled paper-covered boards. xxiii, 471 pages; (xiv), 40 plates. 2 volumes. Text in German, with half title dedication to Kaiser Wilhelm II. Volume one is text and covers early knowledge and exploration of America, with index. The atlas volume has 40 color lithograph maps. One of the early facsimile atlases. Volume one has scratching on the spine with loss of leather to head and tail of spine... READ MORE about DIE ENTDECKUNG AMERIKA'S IN IHRER BEDEUTUNG FUR DIE GESCHICHTE DES WELTBILDES
Price: $1,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 104203
N.P. n.p., n.d., but 1913. broadside (14 1/4 by 11 inches). Signed etching "La Porte Guillaume," in Chartres France. Born in the United States, Lewis was one of many Americans, including James Whistler and Joseph Pennell, to emigrate to France. READ MORE about LA PORTE GUILLAUME
Price: $125.00 other currencies Order nr. 132823
N.P. n.p., n.d., but circa 1966. framed painting (34 by 28 inches). A framed painting depicting a guard at the fortress and monastic community at Qumran. Shraga Weil (1918-2009) was an Israeli artist. Born in Prague in 1918, he studied at the National School of Arts there. He served in the Hungarian resistance to the Nazis during World War II. After the war, he joined the exodus to Israel. He received training in monumental and... READ MORE about THE GUARDIAN OF QUMRAN
Price: $10,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 129888
Skokie, IL: Black Cat Press, (1980). miniature book (2.0 x 1.8 cm). cloth, title gilt-stamped on spine, decoration gilt-stamped on front cover. unpaginated. Limited to 240 copies. (Bradbury, Black Cat Press 63). Frontispiece. Illustrated by Barbara J. Raheb. READ MORE about HE IS NOTHING BUT A LITTLE BOY
Price: $225.00 other currencies Order nr. 116916
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The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1873-1933. small 8vo. original stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. Over forty catalogues from the Dutch subscription agent and book dealer Martinus Nijhoff, produced over a fifty year period. Martinus Nijhoff was founded in The Hague in 1853. It began as a small shop specializing in rare books and broadened in the ensuing years to include supplying and procuring books for academic libraries. Catalogues are printed in either Dutch, English, German or... READ MORE about COLLECTION OF CATALOGUES
Price: $450.00 other currencies Order nr. 76233
N.P. Palaemon Press Limited, (1981). 8vo. marble paper covered boards, paper cover and spine labels. (iv), 31+(1) pages. Limited to 200 numbered and signed copies; this is one of the 50 lettered copies reserved for the author and publisher. First appearance of "The Enthusiast." Some wear to the boards, small chip to the paper at the head of the spine on the rear board. Minor wear to the corners. READ MORE about THE ENTHUSIAST
Price: $450.00 other currencies Order nr. 105804
A Representative Display from the Publishing and Advertising Fields, Indicative of the Standards and Resources for Similar Work, and as a Demonstration of Results upon Cameo and Lustro--Two of the Warren Standard Printing papers
Boston: The Graphic Arts Company, n.d. 4tp. quarter cloth, paper covered boards, gold stamping to cover, paper label on spine. Unpaginated. A Representative Display from the Publishing and Advertising Fields, Indicative of the Standards and Resources for Similar Work, and as a Demonstration of Results upon Cameo and Lustro--Two of the Warren Standard Printing papers. Catalogue of printing and illustrating techniques on cameo and lustro printing papers. Compiled for S.D. Warren & Co., Boston, to..... READ MORE about CAMEO AND LUSTRO RESULTS
Price: $225.00 other currencies Order nr. 106507
New Castle, DE and Oxford, England: Oak Knoll Press and The Bodleian Library, 2019. 234 x 156 mm. Hardcover, dust jacket. 448 pages. Co-published with The Bodleian Library, this thoroughly revised edition includes a new introductory section containing additional references to update the original text. Since this handbook was first published in 1994, interest in the book as a material object, and in the ways in which books have been owned, read and used, has... READ MORE about PROVENANCE RESEARCH IN BOOK HISTORY: A HANDBOOK
Price: $86.00 other currencies Order nr. 130824
4 volumes.
Raleigh, NC: Sharpe Publishing Company, (1954)-(1965). 8vo. cloth, dust jackets. vi,(ii),532; (vi),535-1114; (viii),1115-1680; (viii),1681-2277 pages. 4 volumes. A county by county description filled with illustrations. Some chipping of dust jackets. READ MORE about A NEW GEOGRAPHY OF NORTH CAROLINA
Price: $125.00 other currencies Order nr. 105901
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 8.125 x 10.75 inches. Hardback with dust jacket. 160 pages. This bibliography traces the history of Charles Dickens's Christmas books and other works published in America during his lifetime. Meticulously researched and presented, it includes data never before published. Original editions are identified and fully described, and each entry contains photographs of bindings and title pages, notes, related quotes or contemporary commentary, and dates of publication. This study... READ MORE about CHARLES DICKENS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS, THE CHRISTMAS BOOKS AND SELECTED...
Price: $64.00 other currencies Order nr. 133475
Philadelphiae: Academia Novae Eccleslae, 1896. thin folio. original vellum. (ii) pages followed by the 25 page facsimile. Printed by Impressum Holmiae. Vellum soiled and bumped at bottom of spine. Split along hinges. READ MORE about SUMMARIA SENSUS INTERNI LIBRORUM PROPHETICORUM ET PSALMORUM DAVIDIS
Price: $100.00 other currencies Order nr. 44547
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 other currencies Order nr. 107374
London: Gresham Press, n.d. (ca. 1890’s). oblong 4to. original front cover present but worn; back cover lacking. (24) pages. Comprises priced specimens of labels, both blank and filled, and reversed for transfer, along with vignette specimens of pianos, piano stools, organs, musical cases, etc. Specimens printed in orange or black. No other copy traced. Front cover detached and heavily chipped around edges, contents very good. Back cover lacking. An incredible survival. READ MORE about UNWIN BROTHERS WILL BE PLEASED TO FORWARD ESTIMATES FOR PRICE LISTS, CATALOGUES AND PRINTING OF...
Price: $325.00 other currencies Order nr. 80255
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2018. 7.5 x 10 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 200 pages. This book, by typographic scholar Hendrik Vervliet, is a survey of the life and work of the sixteenth-century letter-cutter Robert Granjon (1513-1590). With his contemporary Claude Garamont, he is considered one of the best and most influential figures in the history of type design. Vervliet begins with a biography, recounting Granjon's career as a punchcutter and publisher during periods... READ MORE about ROBERT GRANJON, LETTER-CUTTER, 1513-1590: AN OEUVRE-CATALOGUE
Price: $75.00 other currencies Order nr. 131957
Katoomba: Wayzgoose Press, 2007. small folio. cloth, illustrated endpapers, black and red dust jacket. 177 pages. Limited to 500 copies. Presentation from the author to noted American booksellers on half-title. Carolynne Skinner, an Australian-based publisher and arts promoter, in writing about this book states: In compiling The Wayzgoose Affair, Jadwiga Jarvis has used excerpts from her correspondence with friends, colleagues, supporters and, occasionally, detractors, to weave a story both instructive and amusing. She records the... READ MORE about THE WAYZGOOSE AFFAIR
Price: $350.00 other currencies Order nr. 124282
Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 1999. 4to. paper-covered limp boards, dust jacket. (vi), 246 pages, with many additional pages of plates and other materials. Printed in an edition limited to 800 copies, this being one of 720 copies which are bound in stiff wrappers. This issue of Matrix contains 24 articles including David Chambers on the Circle Press, Theo Rehak on the Kelmscott Press, John Dreyfus on American proprietary typefaces, John DePol on John Fass, John Dodson... READ MORE about MATRIX 19
Price: $200.00 other currencies Order nr. 58263
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2018. 5.75 x 8 inches. cloth spine over paper-covered boards. 144 pages, 17 tipped-in marbling swatches. Josef Halfer practiced and taught marbling roughly three centuries after the craft had appeared in Europe, at a time when paper marbling was in decline and being replaced by mechanically-produced substitutes. However, his innovations coincided with recent advances in chemistry, biochemistry and bacteriology, and he was able to apply those recent advances to... READ MORE about JOSEF HALFER AND THE REVIVAL OF THE ART OF MARBLING PAPER
Price: $75.00 other currencies Order nr. 123422
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2018. 9 x 12 inches. stiff paper covers with French flaps. xx, 245 p., 37 color plates. "With a new foreword by Sidney Berger, this second edition meticulously tracks the rise and fall of paper marbling." - Printmaking Today, Fall 2018 Subtitle: with special reference to the relationship of marbling to bookbinding in Europe and the Western world. Second edition with corrections, from the original edition published in 1990... READ MORE about MARBLED PAPER: ITS HISTORY, TECHNIQUES, AND PATTERNS
Price: $95.00 other currencies Order nr. 128896
New York: Museum Books, 1964. 4to. parchment-backed boards with vellum tips, dust jacket. not paginated. Limited to 500 numbered copies for the American market signed by Zapf. Set in 16 languages with the types of D. Stempel "taken from the foundry's archives" and printed by Heinrich Egenolf. A magnificent display of typography and type specimens printed in black with some part printed in an alternative color. Jacket has a faint stain along top of front cover. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIC VARIATIONS DESIGNED BY HERMANN ZAPF ON THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY BOOK DESIGN AND...
Price: $375.00 other currencies Order nr. 121252
