Revised and Edited by Russell K. Alspach.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1951. 8vo. cloth. 390 pages. Revised and Edited by Russell K. Alspach. First edition. Near fine in very good dust jacket. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF W.B. YEATS
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 52398
Dallas: The Bridwell Library, 1991. oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (33) pages. The Bridwell Fine Binding Series catalogue of an exhibition held for Jan Sobota, designer bookbinder in 1991. He is well known for his three-dimensional and box bindings. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs of his bindings. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about SOBOTA, DESIGN BINDER
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 58798
New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 1996. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 318 pages with 113 illustrations. Paperback edition. Reprint of the first edition with additional illustrations and new introduction. With his Kelmscott Press and associations with the Arts & Crafts Movement, William Morris helped raise the public's awareness of fine books to new heights. Morris inspired and influenced a generation of other designers and those working in American typography..... READ MORE about AMERICAN BOOK DESIGN AND WILLIAM MORRIS With a new Foreword by Jean-Francois Vilain
Price: $12.49 Order nr. 44931
N.P. Nakladem I Drukiem, Oficyny Stanislawa Gliwy, 1962. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 121, (3) pages. One of a limited number of copies. With a summary in English. Filled with illustrations, including some tip-ins, showing the work of this typographer - artist. Prospectus loosely inserted. A fine copy. READ MORE about SAMUEL TYSZKIEWICZ, ARTYSTA-TYPOGRAF
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 31187
Ann Arbor, MI: Legacy Press, The, 2021. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 532 pages, 370 illustrations. Edited by Francisco H. Trujillo. Theodore C. Petersen wrote Coptic Bookbindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library between 1929 and 1950, but it remained unpublished until now. The seminal work describes the binding techniques and materials of a collection of early manuscripts at the Morgan Library & Museum (MLM). The collection consists of ninth- and tenth-century bindings of over fifty manuscripts..... READ MORE about COPTIC BOOKBINDINGS IN THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 136290
London: Crafts Council and Colin Banks, 1994. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (38) pages of text. Meant to accompany an exhibition devoted to the private press. Bumped corner. Lacking the photographs. Includes histories of the press and listings of the works exhibited. Introduction by Colin Banks. READ MORE about TRUE TO TYPE, INTRODUCING LETTERPRESS PRINTING & THE WORKS OF SMALL PRESSES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 41167
2 volumes.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, paper spine labels, slipcase. xvi,401; 409-790,(2) pages. 2 volumes. Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by Cleland (LEC 70). With a four page introduction by Morley. Thirty illustrations, plus one full-page solid black print and one marbled paper specimen in volume one; twenty-seven illustrations in volume two. Bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. READ MORE about LIFE & OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN With an Introduction by Christopher Morley and...
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 17275
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1923). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, paper spine and cover labels, dust jacket. 116 pages. First edition. Jacket chipped with pieces missing. Bookplate. READ MORE about POETRY OF EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON, AN ESSAY IN APPRECIATION. WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHY BY W. VAN R....
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 136415
Edited and with commentary by Joyce Lancester Wilson.
Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor, 1990. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. xii, 198, (2) pages. Edited and with commentary by Joyce Lancester Wilson. Limited to 850 copies and printed from Monotype Ehrhardt at the press of W. Thomas Taylor. A fine copy. Adrian Wilson (1923-1988) was internationally known as a designer and printer of fine books. During his career, he produced over 200 titles, authored a standard text, The Design of Books for his field..... READ MORE about TWO AGAINST THE TIDE A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR IN WORLD WAR II, SELECTED LETTERS, 1941-1948
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 135879
Hamburg: Maximilian-Gesellschaft, 1988. tall 4to. grey cloth stamped in blind and in gilt, cardboard slipcase. 355, (3) pages. First edition, limited to 1400 copies. Fine in lightly toned slipcase. An excellently produced new book devoted to the work of the Swiss designer and type historian, Max Caflisch. Text in German. Contributions by Berlincourt, Bertheau, Bosshard, Blum, Gschwend, Darrell Hyder (in English), Jager, Ramseger, Romano, Schmid, Stresow, Unger, Willberg and Hermann Zapf. Filled with illustrations of..... READ MORE about MAX CAFLISCH, TYPOGRAPHIA PRACTICA
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 25210
Hamden: Archon Books, 1966. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 328 pages. First U.S. edition. Very fine condition. READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF ROBERT GRAVES
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 18216
Chicago: American College of Surgeons, 1960. large 8vo. cloth. xxi+ (i), 198, (2) pages. Printed by the Lakeside Press. Spine lightly faded. Else a fine copy. A descriptive bibliography of more than 2600 titles, collected by Dr. Orr (1877-1956) a former President of the American Orthopedic Association and editor of its journal. Includes rare books and classics on the history of medicine, general and orthopedic surgery, many books by and about Joseph Lister, and an..... READ MORE about A CATALOGUE OF THE H. WINNETT ORR HISTORICAL COLLECTION AND OTHER RARE BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY OF...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 70325
Nieuwkoop: B. De Graaf, 1964. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper label on cover. 16, (62) pages, with one additional leaf. In 1599, the collection of the Dutch writer and diplomat, P. van Marnix van Sint Aldegonde (1540-1598), was sold at auction in Leiden, with a catalogue probably printed by Elsevier. This catalogue still exists in one copy and is probably the oldest printed book auction catalogue known. This 60-page facsimile of that catalogue is preceded..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF PHILIPS VAN MARNIX VAN SINT-ALDEGONDE. Sold by auction (July 6th),...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 53662
WITH SYNOPSIS OF THE GUTENBERG DOCUMENTS
New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1972. tall 8vo. cloth. xxviii, 112 pages. WITH SYNOPSIS OF THE GUTENBERG DOCUMENTS. According to the Preface, for a hundred years or more, the bibliographical scholars of the world have sought to identify the man of genius who, in the mid-fifteenth century, changed the course of civilization by introducing the art of printing into the Western World. Our knowledge of Gutenberg and his claim rests upon two factors..... READ MORE about THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD OF BOOKS, 1450 TO 1470 A CHRONOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TEXTS CHOSEN FOR...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 33896
Number seventeen of the CODE(X)+1 Monograph Series
Berkeley: CODEX Foundation, 2021. 5.5 x 7.75 inches. wrappers. 24 pages. Number seventeen of the CODE(X)+1 Monograph Series. Number seventeen of the CODE(X)+1 Monograph Series. Following Marshall McLuhans famous quote the medium is the message this article presents the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach/Main as a unique institution representing the genre of the artists book. The Klingspor Museum is more than simply a collection of book related arts because of its foundational idea of type- and..... READ MORE about THE ARTIST'S BOOK: A MESSAGE FROM THE KLINGSPOR MUSEUM
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 136319
(Sherman Oaks, CA): Ninja Press, 2019. 4to. paper wrappers. (24) pages. The edition is comprised of 70 signed and numbered copies with an additional 8 lettered hors commerce. Ninja Press is exceedingly proud to announce the publication of its most recent book for 2019, Departures by Gaylord Schanilec. Well known as a master of the wood engraving and fine press printer publishing under the imprint of Midnight Paper Sales, with Departures Schanilec brings his particular..... READ MORE about DEPARTURES
Price: $575.00 Order nr. 134749
New York: Greenberg Publishers, (1930). 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt, paper spine label. xii, 171 pages. Limited to 1050 numbered copies. Bibliographies of forty authors including Beerbohm, Carroll, Conrad, Doyle, Gissing, Hardy, Huxley, Kipling, Lawrence, Milne, Wells, and others. Covers soiled. Endpapers foxed. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about MODERN BRITISH AUTHORS, THEIR FIRST EDITIONS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 26972
N.P. n.p., n.d. 8vo. paper-covered boards, string bound. (v), 83 pages. A catalogue of type specimens, most likely by an unidentified German firm. Printed on recto only. Covers sunned, mainly along spine. Staining on covers and endpapers. Some pencil notations in text. READ MORE about Catalogue of Type Specimens
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 132270
New York: Keith Smith Books, 2000. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 335+(1) pages. First edition. Printed in an edition limited to 1000 copies. An annotated bibliography of all of the books made by Smith, which range from artist books to poetry and textbooks to dictionaries. Most of his 150 one of a kind books are in his own collection. He has published over two dozen small edition artist books and book-length poems, and has compiled ten..... READ MORE about TWO HUNDRED BOOKS BY KEITH SMITH
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 59655
New York: Christie, Manson, Woods, 1982. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xv page introduction followed by auction catalogue. Detailed descriptions of Audubon plates with illustrations throughout including a number in color. Prices realized stapled to first leaf. READ MORE about JOHN JAMES AUDUBON, THE BIRDS OF AMERICA, THE PROPERTY OF THE DELAWARE ART MUSEUM, GIFT OF...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 41686
Philadelphia: Edward Stern and Company, (1947). 8vo. cloth spine, printed boards. 70 pages. Illustrated manual designed for the author to allow him to make decisions about the printing of his book. Lightly soiled, else near fine. READ MORE about PRINTING TECHNIQUES With a Foreword by C.B. Larrabee
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 4504
New York: Crown Publishers, (1963). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 834 pages. Enlarged and revised edition (by Irving Weiss), second printing. Lengthy annotations accompany each of the 8000 authors listed. Very useful reference. READ MORE about AMERICAN AUTHORS AND BOOKS 1640 TO THE PRESENT DAY
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 2949
Ann Arbor, MI: Legacy Press, 2021. large 8vo. paperback. 208 pages. Paperback edition. With a history of well over 1,500 years, Korean handmade paper, known as hanji, is familiar to Koreans but a mystery outside its home country. This lustrous paper that comes in a wide array of thickness, color, dimension, and translucency was once a coveted item inside and beyond Korean borders. Made by farmers and artisans during bitter cold winters,hanji was a noble..... READ MORE about HANJI UNFURLED: ONE JOURNEY INTO KOREAN PAPERMAKING
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 135613
Ann Arbor, MI: Legacy Press, 2010. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 528 pages, 374 illustrations. Books Will Speak Plain is published at a time when the historical book is at risk of being ignored, put away, and forgotten. This handbook combines an overview of the history of the codex with basic information about many of the materials and structures found on historical bindings. The book also includes description-survey guidelines and is supported by a variety of..... READ MORE about BOOKS WILL SPEAK PLAIN: A HANDBOOK FOR IDENTIFYING AND DESCRIBING HISTORICAL BINDINGS
Price: $80.00 Order nr. 106900
Stockholm, MN: Midnight Paper Sales, n.d. (but 2006). 228 mm. single sheet printed on one side folded twice to make four French-fold pages. (6) leaves. Printed in an edition "of a possible 325 copies". Rulon-Miller A.250. A fine copy of this scarce broadside. Wood engraving by Schanilec. The text is from McGrath's "Death Song." See below why Schanilec used the text from "Death Song" in the broadside. Quarter to Midnight A.43: "I was sixteen when..... READ MORE about THOMAS MCGRATH A TRIBUTE
Price: $140.00 Order nr. 136274
