London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 411 pages. First edition. Inscribed by Dan Laurence to W. Thomas Taylor on the front free endpaper. A near fine copy. READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HENRY JAMES
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 30186
Evanston, IL: Hesterberg Press, 2008. large 8vo. cloth. (i), 69 pages, ii, (iii). The Blocks Revisited & Rediscovered documents the fascinating story of Thomas Bewick's personal blocks and their historic journey to Chicago in 1942. Many of these blocks found new homes quickly in the Midwest and across America, while others became well-travelled, eventually making their way back to England. The whereabouts of these blocks and their movements over the years have raised questions and..... READ MORE about THOMAS BEWICK: THE BLOCKS REVISITED & REDISCOVERED
Price: $300.00 Order nr. 101433
With a new introduction by Donald Farren.
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. small 4to. paperback. 576 pages. With a new introduction by Donald Farren. Paperback edition. Reprint of the 2nd edition of 1979. The breadth of this work is remarkable. Encyclopedia contains almost 4,000 terms and definitions used in bookbinding, printing, papermaking and the book trade. Biographical details of printers, authors, bookbinders and bibliophiles are included as well as precise notes on machinery and equipment, famous books, printing societies, book-related organizations..... READ MORE about THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BOOK
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 135981
New York, NY: Russell Maret, 2021. folio. individual signatures. four leaves, folded in an envelope. Limited to 1,000 copies. From the artist's website: "Its a bird! Its a plane! Its a...zine?! Yep, thats right. The United States Constitution and Amendments, Redacted contains the text of the redacted volume from Three Constitutions printed on four newsprint broadsides. Each broadside measures 22.75 x 28 inches when unfolded, roughly the size of the parchments on which the original..... READ MORE about CONSTITUTION, REDACTED
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135964
New York, NY: Russell Maret, 2021. folio. two volumes are bound in cloth covered boards, with the third volume bound in stiff paper with an exposed sewn spine. The clamshell houses the two simular volumes under a magnetic cover that holds the books in place while the third volume is housed under an acrylic see-through cover. unpaginated. Limited to 90 copies of which 87 copies are numbered. This copy is thus. Prospectus loosely inserted. All..... READ MORE about THREE CONSTITUTIONS
Price: $4,250.00 Order nr. 135963
Wilson, WY: R & R Fine Arts (Riddell Fine Arts), 2013. oblong 4to. Japanese fold binding, with gold-foil-stamped covers on boards hand-wrapped with imported Italian linen, and hand-marbled paper endsheets imported from Italy. unpaginated. Limited to 50 numbered copies signed by the photographer and author. Letterpress typography added by hand feeding trimmed photo pages sheet-by-sheet through an antique letterpress. A limited edition hand-made book featuring original photographs of the landscapes and people of Tuscany by..... READ MORE about PEACE IS, OLIVE TREES ARE
Price: $1,500.00 Order nr. 135962
Salt Lake City, UT: Book Arts Program; J. Willard Marriott Library; University of Utah, 2000. large 8vo. wooden boards, accordion fold, decorated cloth bag, in original cardboard shipping box. unpaginated. Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered copies, of which this copy is not numbered. A Japanese fold book bound in baltic plywood boards, designed by the artist and printed with the assistance of Celestia Carson and Tiffin West, involving mixed media (painting, screenprinting, and..... READ MORE about LABYRINTHS OF THE MIND, BOOK I: AN EVOLVING STUDY
Price: $1,000.00 Order nr. 135961
A talk at the Grolier Club of New York, 25 January 2012.
New York: The Grolier Club, 2013. 6 x 9 inches. paperback. 62 pages. A talk at the Grolier Club of New York, 25 January 2012. Isabelle de Conihout, Curator of Rare Books at the Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris, shares some important recent discoveries about Jean Grolier (1489 or 90-1565) and his famous library. In this transcript of a talk given in connection with the Grolier Club exhibition "Printing for Kingdom, Empire & Republic: Treasure of the..... READ MORE about ON TEN NEW GROLIERS: JEAN GROLIER'S FIRST LIBRARY AND HIS OWNERSHIP MARKS BEFORE 1540
Price: $25.00 save 20% $20.00 Order nr. 118561
New York: Editions Medicina Rara, (1970). small 4to. cloth, paper cover and spine labels, slipcase. (iv), 178 pages. First edition in English, translated from the German. Filled with illustrations, some of which are in color. Slipcase lightly faded along edges, else a fine copy. READ MORE about HISTORY OF MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1600
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 28434
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, (1956). thick tall 8vo. cloth. viii, 397 pages. A continuation of the original set. Ex library copy with markings. READ MORE about DICTIONARY OF ANONYMOUS AND PSEUDONYMOUS ENGLISH LITERATURE, VOLUME 8, 1900-1950
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 119746
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 Oasis leather & printed 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 30 'B' copies bound thus with an additional portfolio containing both sets of engravings. Printed on..... READ MORE about 2020 VISION
Price: $1,100.00 Order nr. 135933
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
n.p: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1939. 8vo. paper wrappers. 236-248 pages. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. VII, No. 2, February 1939. A fine copy. READ MORE about THE GENUINE WORKS OF HIPPOCRATES
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135930
Ann Arbor, MI: Legacy Press, 2018. 8vo. softcover. 352 pages. In this important and long-awaited book, Timothy Barrett, internationally known authority in hand papermaking and Director of the University of Iowa Center for the Book, offers the first comprehensive how-to book about traditional European hand papermaking since Dard Hunters renowned reference, Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft. This book, which includes an appendix on mould and deckle construction by Timothy Moore, is..... READ MORE about EUROPEAN HAND PAPERMAKING: TRADITIONS, TOOLS, AND TECHNIQUES
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 133737
Ann Arbor, MI: Legacy Press, The, 2021. 10 x 7 inches. softcover. 144 pages. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw a great flowering of typographic activity, resulting in a corpus of typographic literature that continues to hold sway over contemporary type design and practices. But are the precepts and motivations of late-Industrial typography still relevant in the digital era, or are they the product of the time and technological landscape in which they..... READ MORE about VISIONARIES & FANATICS: AND OTHER ESSAYS ON TYPE DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY, & THE PRIVATE PRESS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 135915
(Buren, The Netherlands: Antiquariaat Frits Knuf, 1985). oblong 8vo. calf leather spine, harness leather covers with laced leather straps, paper slipcase. unpaginated. Text in English and Dutch. Limited to 100 numbered copies. English text translated from the Dutch by Roger Andrews, and Tanya and Hans Schmoller. Introductory comments, entitled "The Story," with tipped-in black and white illustrations. With thirty-four tipped-in specimens, produced during the summers of 1983 and 1984, of Frigge's work. Bound with a...... READ MORE about MARBLED PAPER
Price: $2,500.00 Order nr. 129280
Ann Arbor, MI: Legacy Press, The, 2021. 10 x 7 inches. cloth, sewn, dust jacket. 144 pages. Hardback edition with an additional specimen of type and ornaments, privately printed by Russell Maret loosely inserted. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw a great flowering of typographic activity, resulting in a corpus of typographic literature that continues to hold sway over contemporary type design and practices. But are the precepts and motivations of late-Industrial typography..... READ MORE about VISIONARIES & FANATICS: AND OTHER ESSAYS ON TYPE DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY, & THE PRIVATE PRESS
Price: $70.00 Order nr. 135912
2 volumes
Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 2003. small 4to. cloth. cxvi, (ii), 497+(1); vi, (ii), 499-1136 pages. 2 volumes. A comprehensive successor to earlier bibliographies of Masonic books printed in the United States, such as Richard Barthelmess's Bibliographie der Freimaurerei in Amerika (1856) and Enoch T. Carson's Bibliotheca Masonica Carsoniana (1874). Volume 1 contains Introductory Essays and Entries from 1734 to 1827; Volume 2, entries from 1827-1850 and Indexes. The author has compiled 5,560 annotated entries..... READ MORE about FREEMASONRY, ANTI-MASONRY AND ILLUMINISM IN THE UNITED STATES, 1734-1850, A BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $195.00 Order nr. 73563
(Pasadena, CA: The Castle Press, 1992). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 14, (2) pages. Limited to 200 copies. A study of the Gable collection of books and autographs. Prologue and acknowledgments. A fine copy. READ MORE about COLLECTING BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPHS: WILLIAM F. GABLE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 119058
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
New York: Rinehart & Co., (1956). 8vo. cloth. 253 pages. First U.S. edition. Nicholas Flowere was at the Bodleian Library to read PARADISE LOST from the first edition when he found that blank papers had been stuffed between the leather boards. More discoveries of this kind are found and there appears to be a cultural conspiracy against English heritage. Much on libraries in this book. Very light dampstaining to spine, else a near fine copy..... READ MORE about LANDSCAPE WITH DEAD DONS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 41179
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 298, 14 plates and 2 maps. The San Jacinto Edition. Near fine. READ MORE about THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SAM HOUSTON
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 135873
2 volumes.
New York: Swedish Colonial Society, 1911. thick tall 8vo. blue cloth stamped in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. xx,466; xii,467-879+(1) pages. 2 volumes. B1-1568. Howes J-124. Well illustrated including maps. Previous ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Shaken and a hint of soiling, else fine. READ MORE about THE SWEDISH SETTLEMENTS ON THE DELAWARE, THEIR HISTORY AND RELATION TO THE INDIANS, DUTCH AND...
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 29207
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Legacy Press, 2009. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 217 pages. The invention of paper in China more than 2,000 years ago was a wondrous discovery. Worn out fishnets, hemp rags, and rope were soaked, beaten to a pulp, and then the watery mass was poured onto a cloth stretched over a wooden frame. On its surface, a web of fibers coalesced. After drying in the sun, the sheet of paper was gently pulled..... READ MORE about KILLING GREEN: AN ACCOUNT OF HAND PAPERMAKING IN CHINA
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 104641
Minneapolis, MN: Indulgence Press, 2011. 13 x 12 x 7 inches. wooden box with lifting lid, sliding drawer with two brass knobs, brass latch, leather handle, glass. Fine. One of 20 copies. Arthur & Barbara is a portrait of art critic/philosopher Arthur Danto and artist Barbara Westman as seen reflected in the space of their New York City apartment on Riverside Drive. This book embodies their life and work in symbolic forms of thoughtful play..... READ MORE about ARTHUR & BARBARA
Price: $1,500.00 Order nr. 135844
