Maple Shade: Pickering Press, 1985. 8vo. limp paper covers, paper cover label. (28) pages, printed French fold. Less than 100 copies printed. A magnificent production from the Pickering Press of John Anderson. Twenty five separate type founts are demonstrated in perfect harmony with the wood engravings of John DePol. With two Christopher Morley quotes and one from William Morris. An exquisitely produced book. Fine condition housed in a later clamshell box. READ MORE about A COMMONPLACE BOOK, PROFOUND & PROFANE THOUGHTS & OBSERVATIONS GATHERED, SET IN TYPE AND...

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Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society for the Committee for a New England Bibliography, 2005. 4to. cloth. xxxiv+(1), 391 pages. In the beinning there was the perception of a problem and a need. Scholars, teachers, librarians, amateur historians, collectors, and others interested in the history of New England have long been aware of the lack of any adequate bibliographical key or access to the vast historical resorces of the region. This reprint of the first edition of..... READ MORE about VERMONT, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ITS HISTORY

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(Charleston, SC): Arcadia Publishing, (2007). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 127+(1) pages. First edition. Part of Arcadia's Images of America series. Some text but mostly reproductions of images. READ MORE about DELAWARE FARMING

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Wymondham: Brewhouse Press, 1970. 4to. half leather over marbled paper-covered boards. 64 pages. First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies (Not in Leaf Book - Chalmers). With three actual specimens inserted. With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. Boards bowed, especially the front. Leather backstrip detached and loosely inserted in book. An important history of the first commercially successful means of reproducing the printed page. With three mounted specimens demonstrating this method of reproduction. Well-printed by..... READ MORE about ASPECTS OF VICTORIAN LITHOGRAPHY, ANASTATIC PRINTING AND PHOTOZINCOGRAPHY

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Illustration and Calligraphy by David Esslemont.
Decorah, IA: Solmentes Press, 2022. 4to. illustrated paper covered boards, cloth clamshell box. unpaginated. Illustration and Calligraphy by David Esslemont. Limited to 30 numbered copies signed by the artist / printer. The typefaces used were created by designers with a connection to Ukraine. The front cover, title: Bifur - Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, digitized by Richard Kegler; the front cover, author: Arsenal - Andrij Shevchenko, Berdyansk; poem and colophon: Genau - Aleksey Popovtsev, Kyiv; and production..... READ MORE about RESISTANCE

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Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Library, 1981. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Catalogue prepared for exhibition "Typography and the Private Press," prepared by Russell Maylone, Special Collections Department at Northwestern. Foreword and essay by Adrian Frutiger. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about EXHIBIT OF 84 BOOKS THAT INFLUENCE TYPOGRAPHY

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New York: Doubleday, 1994. 8vo. publisher's pictorial glossy boards, slipcase. 105 pages. Prepublication, "Special Booksellers' Preview" edition, and marked "first edition" on verso of titlepage. Fine in fine slipcase. Containing the author's revised proposal for his book about his brother, the executed murderer Gary Gilmore. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about SHOT IN THE HEART

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Philadelphia, PA: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2007. oblong 4to. paper wrappers. unpaginated. First edition. A fine copy. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about THE WHOLE OF NATURE AND THE MIRROR OF ART : IMAGES OF ALCHEMY FROM THE ROY G. NEVILLE HISTORICAL...

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London: Oxford University Press, (1980). tall 8vo. paperback. 255 pages. Reprint of the 1974 first edition. Many illustrations in color and in black-and-white. A fine copy. READ MORE about THE CLASSIC FAIRY TALES

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Newcastle upon Tyne: Frank Graham, n.d. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 144 pages. First edition. Near fine in near fine jacket. With a list of books illustrated by Crawhall. Loosely inserted commemorative booklabel indicates that this copy came from the reference library of Deval and Muir. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about JOSEPH CRAWHALL, THE NEWCASTLE WOOD ENGRAVER (1821-1896

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London: Nonesuch Press (printed by R. & R. Clark in Edinburgh), 1931. 8vo. publisher's quarter blue-grey paper with taupe paper-covered sides, spine with printed paper label, in original dust wrapper with black-stamped spine label. xx, 136 pages. First edition, limited to 750 numbered copies. (Dreyfus, History of the Nonesuch Press, 75) Binding very slightly cocked with corners rubbed; wrapper sunned with edge chips and short tears, and interior tape reinforcements to two tears at spine..... READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM HAZLITT

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Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1896. small 12mo. original paper boards, dust jacket, original glassine wrapper. 41, (2) pages. First edition. Lacking the slipcase, else a fine copy. Printed on watermarked handmade paper. READ MORE about THE CHILD IN THE HOUSE

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(New York: Center for Book Arts, 1995). 18 3/8" x 18 1/4" hardcover with clamshell. n.p. First edition limited to 100 signed and numbered copies. Alfonso A. Ossorio (1916-1990) was an abstract expressionist artist who was born in Manila and produced a body of work that remained consistently international in scope. His early fascination with Surrealism gave way to Abstract Expressionism although he continued to be influenced by his native Philippine Catholic folk art as..... READ MORE about RECOVERY: THE HOSPITAL DRAWINGS OF ALFONSO OSSORIO

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