(Rochester, NY): Rochester Printing Company, n.d. (c. 1901. 4to. paper wrappers. (8) leaves. Advertisting pamphlet for the Rochester Printing Company. Light wear around edges, else near fine. READ MORE about ENGRAVING. PRINTING
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 136771
Book Number 200. An Anecdotal Bibliography.
New York: Keith Smith Books, 2000. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 335+(1) pages. Book Number 200. An Anecdotal Bibliography. 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..... READ MORE about TWO HUNDRED BOOKS BY KEITH SMITH
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 59655
Baltimore, MD: Hill Press, 2019. 8vo. leather. (iv), vi, 44, (2) pages. First edition limited to 60 numbered copies, of which this copy is one of 9 copies bound in full leather by the Don Rash of Boss Dog Press. Also accompanying this book are eleven leaves in facsimile providing examples of the use of Dutch typefaces. This book seeks to establish the relationship between Dutch-inspired type faces and English prayer books. Essays included are..... READ MORE about DUTCH TYPES USED IN THE ENGLISH BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER: 1911 - 1930
Price: $850.00 Order nr. 134707
Baltimore, MD: Hill Press, 2019. 8vo. cloth, paper label on cover and spine. (iv), vi, 44, (2) pages. First edition limited to 60 numbered copies, of which this copy is one of 47 copies bound in cloth by the Campbell-Logan Bindery. Also accompanying this book are eleven leaves in facsimile providing examples of the use of Dutch typefaces. This book seeks to establish the relationship between Dutch-inspired type faces and English prayer books. Essays included..... READ MORE about DUTCH TYPES USED IN THE ENGLISH BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER: 1911 - 1930
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 134706
Volume I. Book No. 128
New York: Keith Smith Books, (2012). thick 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 351+(1) pages. Volume I. Book No. 128. Revised and expanded edition. A practical manual which demonstrates basic as well as very elaborate bindings constructed without adhesives and requiring no presses or other heavy equipment. Smith approaches binding as an integral part of the overall statement of the book so that the physical design becomes an extension of the content. This edition contains 264 drawn..... READ MORE about NON-ADHESIVE BINDING, BOOKS WITHOUT PASTE OR GLUE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 32473
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2021. 7 x 10 inches. cloth with dust jacket. xii, 540 pages. Please note: This is a Pre-Order listing for the Second Printing, with Corrections. Expected to ship mid-February 2022. "Excavating deeply into design history, and the ways the past is continuously reinterpreted, can suggest paths to fresh ideas . . . writer and bibliophile Reid Byers has pored through centuries of evolving concepts. . . ." -Eve Kahn..... READ MORE about THE PRIVATE LIBRARY: THE HISTORY OF THE ARCHITECTURE AND FURNISHING OF THE DOMESTIC BOOKROOM
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 134228
Volume I, no.1 to Volume XVI, no.3, a complete set,
San Francisco: Fine Print, 1975-1990. small 4to. and 4to. self paper wrappers. Volume I, no.1 to Volume XVI, no.3, a complete set, Complete run of this periodical. Volume I, 1 (1975) to Volume 16, 3 (1990) for a total of 63 issues. Filled with information on the private press, printing, and bookbinding. Early issues were designed and printed by Andrew Hoyem. Later issues were printed by letterpress and offset by the Meriden-Stinehour Press. Many issues..... READ MORE about FINE PRINT, A NEWSLETTER FOR THE ARTS OF THE BOOK (Title changed to FINE PRINT, THE REVIEW FOR...
Price: $750.00 Order nr. 17887
New York: The Kulchur Foundation, (1971). large 8vo. paper wrappers. 151 pages. First edition. A near fine copy. READ MORE about NO HASSLES: AN UNHINGED BOOK IN PARTS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 136741
London: Sam Fogg Rare Books, 2005. 4to. paper wrappers. 43 pages. First edition. Rear cover repaired with tape, else a fine copy. This book is devoted to a monumental and superbly illuminated very large early fourteenth-century Mamluk Qur'an in muhaqqaq script. It constitutes the final part (Juz' 30) of a superb two-volume Qur'an of which the first volume is preserved in the National Museum in Damascus while the second volume, from which the present section..... READ MORE about Geometry in Gold: An Illuminated Mamluk Qur'an Section
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 136731
Avant-Propos de Claude Roger-Marx. "Comment j'ai fait mes Livres" par Henri Matisse. Catalogue établi par Albert Skira.
Geneve: Albert Skira, (1946). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xxiv, 120 pages. Avant-Propos de Claude Roger-Marx. "Comment j'ai fait mes Livres" par Henri Matisse. Catalogue établi par Albert Skira. Illustrations in the text and ninety-one full-page plates. Bibliographical descriptions of the work of many 20th century French artists of the book. Covers age darkened. READ MORE about ANTHOLOGIE DU LIVRE ILLUSTRÉ PAR LES PEINTRES ET SCULPTEURS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 6984
With Decorations & Remarks on Johnston's Work by Ray Dilley.
Savannah: The Pigeonhole Press, 1956. 8vo. paper covered boards, dust jacket. (vi), 54, (2) pages. With Decorations & Remarks on Johnston's Work by Ray Dilley. First edition. No limitation given. Nicely printed and illustrated. ( Fine Printing in Georgia, page 45, PB1). Jacket has foxed covers of book. READ MORE about JAMES JOHNSTON, GEORGIA'S FIRST PRINTER
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 4414
Lisbon, IA: The Penumbra Press, (1976). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 28, (2) pages. Limited to 200 numbered copies. Table of contents. Frontispiece. A collection of poetry. Unopened. READ MORE about DEAR ANYONE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 125088
Athens: AdVenture SA and the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation and the Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece, 2021. 34 x 25 cm. Hardcover. 384 pages. Available for Pre-Order! Expected to ship mid-January. A special edition for the 200 years after the Greek War of Independence The publication History Has a Face - Figures of 1821 in Othonian Greece by the Belgian Diplomat Benjamin Mary presents 125 unpublished drawings of 320 exceptional individuals from the album of..... READ MORE about HISTORY HAS A FACE: FIGURES OF 1821 IN OTHONIAN GREECE BY THE BELGIAN DIPLOMAT BENJAMIN MARY
Price: $140.00 Order nr. 136675
London: Bertram Rota, 1986. 14 x 10 1/2" gilt-stamped blue silk after a design by the artist, blue morocco spine, mylar jacket, publisher's slipcase. One of 95 copies only on R.W.S. hand-made paper. Each copy signed by the rtist/author. Bound by George Percival. Illustrated with four triple fold-out copperplates worked by etching and aquatint. The colors are printed in intaglio and relief, and additional color is applied to some pages by hand. The typography and..... READ MORE about FROM THE SNOWS TO THE SEAS
Price: $650.00 Order nr. 136692
London: The Library Association, 1963. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 240 pages. First edition. Near fine. Edwards was the very controversial founder of the British Public Library system. READ MORE about EDWARD EDWARDS, 1812-1886, PORTRAIT OF A LIBRARIAN
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 9772
Kent, United Kingdom: Florin Press, The, 2021. 4to. cloth clamshell box, marbled fore-edges, paper cover label, leather spine label, leaves and notes loosely inserted. First edition limited to 75 numbered and signed copies, of which this is one of 10 copies numbered 6-15 to feature 78 examples on 36 papers. Also included is Notes to a Collection of Printing from Woodblocks on a Diversity of Papers explaining the paper, printing ink, typefaces, and woodblocks used..... READ MORE about A COLLECTION OF PRINTING FROM WOODBLOCKS
Price: $2,000.00 Order nr. 136678
(Saint Paul, MN): Midnight Paper Sales, 2021. oblong 4to. loose signatures inserted into a cloth 4-sided chemise with a paper cover label. unpaginated. First edition of 88 numbered and signed copies. Bound by Studio Alcyon. A poem by Gaylord Schanilec in what is a somewhat spontaneous reporting of events from March 2020 until Inauguration Day 2021. Features three wood engravings by Schanilec, one smaller wood-engraving, one single-fold small folio and one large double-fold folio on..... READ MORE about AMERICAN CROW: REPORT FROM QUARANTINE
Price: $1,800.00 Order nr. 136670
Plains, PA: Boss Dog Press, 2014. 8vo. paper-covered boards, labels on spine and front cover, top edge cut, other edges uncut. iv, 39+(1) pages. Limited to 100 numbered copies, 70 numbered and signed by Don Rash, writer of the introduction and designer of this work. Moku hanga woodblock print color frontispiece after a photograph by A. Pierce Bounds. Three lectures on bookbinding by a noted artist, bookbinder, and calligrapher. READ MORE about THREE LECTURES
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 122981
Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, (1990). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 126, (2) pages. First edition. On manual on how to present illustrated material on a page of text. Chapters on "Escaping Flatland," "Color and Information" and others. Well illustrated including a number in color. With promotional material and lengthy magazine article on Tufte loosely inserted. READ MORE about ENVISIONING INFORMATION
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 98360
Nineteen wood engravers, one collector and the artists who inspired them. Edited by Peter Lawrence.
(nr Cheltenham, Glos, United Kingdom): Nomad Letterpress & The Society of Wood Engravers, 2020. small folio. quarter cloth, decorated paper covered boards, cloth and paper covered boards slipcase. (100) pages. Nineteen wood engravers, one collector and the artists who inspired them. Edited by Peter Lawrence. Limited to 340 numbered copies, of which this is one of 290 'C' copies bound thus. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper using Monotype Perpetua (Series 239) cast by Neil Winter..... READ MORE about 2020 VISION
Price: $325.00 Order nr. 135584
Aurora-on-Cayuga, (NY): (Press of Robert LoMascolo), 2019. 8vo. decorative cloth, paper spine label. (viii), 27, (1) pages. Hardcover edition, bound in decorative cloth. Beautifully designed in Italic type and digitally printed on acid free papers. Introduction by Dr. Linda Schwab. The book is in honor of the Smithsonian's Aurora Water/Ways Exhibition and was produced through financial support from the Museum Association of New York. "Back in 1850, "The Knickerbocker" magazine started a short series on..... READ MORE about THE WINTER RACE ON LAKE CAYUGA: A TALE OF OLD AURORA
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 136483
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
n.p. (Press of Robert LoMascolo, 2013). square 12mo. decorated paste-paper covered boards. (26) pages. New and revised edition in an unknown limitation. This charming childrens story was the first book both written and letterpress printed by Rob. This new edition contains the same beautiful photo-manipulated images of Squirrel and Chipmunk along with a new cover, title page, and a few subtle improvements. The text is letterpress printed from hand-set metal type and accompanied by digitally..... READ MORE about SQUIRREL’S SUNFLOWER
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 136302
Aurora-on-Cayuga, (NY): (Press of Robert LoMascolo), 2019. 8vo. letterpress paper wrappers, cord tied. (viii), 27, (1) pages. Softcover edition. Beautifully designed in Italic type and digitally printed on acid free papers. Introduction by Dr. Linda Schwab. The book is in honor of the Smithsonian's Aurora Water/Ways Exhibition and was produced through financial support from the Museum Association of New York. "Back in 1850, "The Knickerbocker" magazine started a short series on "The Lakes of New..... READ MORE about THE WINTER RACE ON LAKE CAYUGA: A TALE OF OLD AURORA
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 136301
n.p. (but Union Springs, NY: Press of Robert LoMascolo, 2010). 7.25in by 3.5 inches. letterpress printed stab binding, with real "Whistling Rock." (10) pages, printed verso only. A new and slightly revised edition. Limited to 50 unnumbered copies signed by the author / printer, Robert Lomascolo. These books are completely letterpress printed in two colors, with hand-made seaweed paper covers, and a real "lucky stone" is attached to each book. Even though rocks do not..... READ MORE about WHISTLING ROCK
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 136299
