Geneva, Ohio: Saturdays' Book Arts Gallery, 1988. oblong 8vo. half-cloth over marbled paper covered boards, with the original paper wrappers loosely inserted. (28) pages. A catalogue for the exhibition which featured British book arts of today. This copy is one of 40 numbered copies signed by Jan Sobota, who also executed the binding. Signed by Philip Smith. Furthermore, Bookbinders, Trevor Jones, Sarah Firmin, Angela James, and David Sellars were among the exhibitors. Illustrated. READ MORE about ASPECTS OF BRITISH BOOK ARTS TODAY

Price: $100.00  other currencies  Order nr. 138042

First edition, third printing with corrections
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2021. 7 x 10 inches. cloth with dust jacket. xii, 540 pages. First edition, third printing with corrections. Books About Books Book of the Year Award winner, 2023 "From the get-go, two things are obvious: one, Reid Byers has done his research, and two, Reid Byers loves books and having books in the home... the book is never a dry read. Its contents are sliced and chunked so nicely..... READ MORE about THE PRIVATE LIBRARY: THE HISTORY OF THE ARCHITECTURE AND FURNISHING OF THE DOMESTIC BOOKROOM

Price: $85.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134228

Berkeley, CA: CODEX Foundation, The, 2021. 6.75 x 8.5 inches. Smythe sewn, Letterpress printed wrapper. 120 pages. This issue features: - An Interview With In Cahoots Director Macy Chadwick. - Mastery and Making: craft in support of concept the third stream, with essays by Veronika Schäpers, Russell Maret, Tobias Lange, and Didier Mutel [Transcripts from the talks at the CODEX Effect Symposium panel] - Excavation, Metamorphosis, and Eternity: Artists as Global Ambassadors of the Book..... READ MORE about THE CODEX PAPERS: VOLUME 3

Price: $30.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136782

Five volumes.
N.P. Public Archives Commission of Delaware, 1911, 1912, 1919, 1916, 1916. thick 4to. cloth. (vi),628; (vi),629-1044; (ii),1045-1484,(2),lxxix; (vi),522; (ii),523-970,xcviii pages. Five volumes. B1-3183. The first three volumes contain reprints of known information concerning Delaware's members of the military and naval services starting in 1744 and continuing through the Revolution. Contains reprints of important letters, rosters of troops and indices to the whole. The first two volumes were printed by the Mercantile Printing Co. of Wilmington..... READ MORE about DELAWARE ARCHIVES, MILITARY AND NAVAL RECORDS

Price: $360.00  other currencies  Order nr. 66073

Baltimore, MD: s.p., 1960-1985. 4to. 3-ring binder, small box. A three-ring binder which holds over a hundred samples of typography job printing by Francis X. Harrigan as well as a small box of many printing samples from Xavier Press. Francis X. Harrigan (d. 2015) worked at the Printing Museum in Baltimore, Maryland for a number of years before founding in 1984 his publishing business, Xavier Press, where he specialized in printing miniature books. An avid..... READ MORE about Small archive of typographical job printing by Francis Xavier Harrigan

Price: $200.00  other currencies  Order nr. 137691

Vol. I: 1909-1910.
Boston: The De Vinne Press, 1910. large 8vo. cord-tied paper wrappers. 46 pages. Vol. I: 1909-1910. First edition, first printing of Volume One of this important periodical. Signed by Robert Underwood Johnson on the front cover in ink. A near fine copy. Robert Underwood Johnson was the editor of the Century magazine. Contents include the Opening Address of the President of the American Academy, William Dean Howells, The Evolution of Style in Modern Architecture, by..... READ MORE about PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY AND THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND LETTERS

Price: $150.00  other currencies  Order nr. 141024

Montréal, QC, Canada: Librairie Beauchemin, 1934. 4to. suede with front cover inlay, clear plastic slipcase. unpaginated. Text in French. Preface by Charles Maillard, then General Director of Fine Arts for the province of Québec, dedication, table of contents. 122 black and white plates, with brief descriptive text. Signed binding by Monique Lallier, suede with inlaid metal plate, with rural landscape design, on front cover. Five raised bands on spine with title and publisher gilt-stamped on..... READ MORE about LEGENDES COUTUMES METIERS DE LA NOUVELLE FRANCE

Price: $400.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134453

An Unpublished Poem by Robinson Jeffers.
San Mateo: The Quercus Press, (1937). small 4to. cord-tied wrappers. (6) pages. An Unpublished Poem by Robinson Jeffers. Privately printed in an edition of only 24 numbered copies intended for distribution by the author (Broomfield A25a). Creased and lightly stained, else a very good copy. One of twenty-four numbered copies [#22] of this previously unpublished poem, privately printed for Una and Robinson Jeffers. Laid into this copy is a printed slip which states: Sent at..... READ MORE about HOPE IS NOT FOR THE WISE

Price: $1,875.00  other currencies  Order nr. 143170

East Aurora, NY: Roycroft Shop, 1904. small 4to. green leather over decorative boards, five raised bands, spine stamped in gold, top edge gilt, marbled endsheets. 122, (1) pages. Privately printed by Elbert Hubbard of The Roycrofters in an edition of 100 numbered copies on Imperial Japan Vellum and signed by Hubbard on the limitation page. A tight, bright, and unmarred copy, and extremely scarce in this condition. Borders and headbands by Samuel Warner, presswork by..... READ MORE about THE COMEDY OF AS YOU LIKE IT

Price: $700.00  other currencies  Order nr. 142793

Images by Mary Heebner, Poems by Clayton Eshleman.
Santa Barbara, CA: Simplemente Maria Press, 2007. 13 x 17 inch sheets of grey cotton paper. loose sheets housed in a custom heavy cardstock folding case, paper cover label. Images by Mary Heebner, Poems by Clayton Eshleman. Limited to only 26 numbered copies signed by the author and the artist, Mary Heebner. A fine copy. A portfolio featuring six archival pigment prints and six poems printed letterpress. "I am interested in what I see in..... READ MORE about DEEP THERMAL

Price: $1,200.00  other currencies  Order nr. 141811

Boston: Faust's Statue, (1870). 8vo. plain softcover wrappers. (24) pages. Facsimile edition. Sabin 70917. Wrappers with small dampstain, spine worn. Contents in fine condition. Originally printed by Isaiah Thomas and E.T. Andrews in 1793. Printed on blue paper. READ MORE about THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE A POEM

Price: $150.00  other currencies  Order nr. 139249

London: Hacon and Ricketts, 1901. 8vo. original blind-tooled green cloth. (iv), vxiii, (xv), xcii, (xcvi) pages. First Vale Press edition, first impression. From the Vale Press edition of Shakespeare's Plays. (Watry, B44/18). Private bookplate of J.G.F. Lund on the front pastedown. Very small amounts of rubbing to the extremities, very small bumps to corners. There is a moderate amount of foxing to the bottom edge of the textblock throughout, else a fine copy of this..... READ MORE about A WITTY AND PLEASANT COMEDY CALLED THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

Price: $175.00  other currencies  Order nr. 137993

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2022. 7 x 10 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 360 pages. "The book is thoroughly researched, making available a wealth of new information, and is well produced and illustrated... both Yale Libraries and the author are to be congratulated on the provision within a single volume of a history extending over 366 years of one of America's finest libraries." - Stephen Clarke, The Book Collector, Volume 72 No. 4 "The..... READ MORE about I GIVE THESE BOOKS: THE HISTORY OF YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, 1656-2022

Price: $85.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134767