Berkeley, California: The CODEX Foundation and Stanford University Libraries, 2022. 12.4 x 9.6 x 1.38 inches. hardcover. 392 pages. First edition. A very small bump to the bottom edge, else a fine copy. Published by the Stanford Libraries and the CODEX Foundation in conjunction with the traveling exhibition Materialia Lumina - Contemporary Artists' Books from the CODEX International Book Fair . Materialia Lumina has extensive full color images and essays by Martin Antonetti, Betty Bright..... READ MORE about MATERIALIA LUMINA: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS' BOOKS FROM THE CODEX INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR

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New Castle, DE: The British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 1998. 6 x 9 inches. stiff paper wrappers. xiv, 326 pages. Reprint of the first edition with a new introductory section containing additional references to update the original text. Covers with uneven fading, else a fine copy. This book has quickly established itself as a standard work in a field of rapidly growing interest. At a time when more and more people are studying private..... READ MORE about PROVENANCE RESEARCH IN BOOK HISTORY

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Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1974. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 165 pages with 5 illustrations. Second printing of first edition; with a supplemental annotated bibliographical introduction. A fine copy of this very scarce title. An excellent one volume guide to the literature of the book. Broken down into eight sections including sections on printers and printing, cost of production, selling of books, etc. READ MORE about PRINTING, SELLING AND READING, 1450-1550

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London: George G. Harrop & Co., (1928). 4to. vellum-backed boards, top edge gilt. 222 pages. First English edition, one of 750 numbered copies printed for England. A beautifully produced book showing some of the highlights of Italian book production. Has 128 plates including a number in color. Dust jacket lightly soiled and chipped at edges, corners lightly bumped. READ MORE about THE BOOK IN ITALY DURING THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES SHOWN IN FACSIMILE REPRODUCTIONS...

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Translated by Antje Lemke. Introduction by Donald P. Bean.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, (1958). 12mo. cloth, paper cover label, printed clear plastic dust jacket. (32) pages. Translated by Antje Lemke. Introduction by Donald P. Bean. First edition thus, with the first appearance in English of the Prologue in which Aldus announces his plan to publish printed editions of Aristotle. A fine copy. READ MORE about ALDUS MANUTIUS AND HIS THESAURUS CORNUCOPIAE OF 1496

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København: Grafisk Cirkel, 1948. 8vo. pictorial paper-covered boards. 27, (3) pages. Grafisk Cirkel publication nr. 65. Edition limited to 150 signed and numbered copies. Danish illustrator Ernst Hansen describes his introduction to woodcuts. Illustrated with fifteen black-and-white reproductions of his early work. READ MORE about MINE FØRSTE TRÆSNIT

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Madison, NJ: The Golden Hind Press, 1936. large 8vo. cloth over thin boards. (x), 9, (3) pages. First edition. Nine beautiful poems of spring, illustrated with four black and white drawings by Clinton Balmer, including one frontispiece. Title page printed in two colors. Hand-set in Weiss Antiqua and printed on Glenbourne paper from Quincy P. Emery. Minor warping to limp boards, with minor soiling. Minor foxing to preliminary pages. Else very good. READ MORE about VAGABOND APRIL

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Menasha: Gilbert Paper, n.d. (c.1988). 4to. stiff paper wrappers with a stiff paper slipcase. not paginated. (28) pages with 31 paper samples and 7 envelopes loosely inserted. A guide for printers and designers with several paper samples. A near fine copy in near fine slipcase. Topics covered are thermography, color, halftone and line plates, diecutting and more. READ MORE about LETTERHEAD PRODUCTION GUIDE TO HELP PRINTERS & DESIGNERS WORK HAND

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San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2012. small square 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 112 pages. Later printing of this trade book. Fine in fine jacket. This book honors the lecture by Larry Kreisman at The Sidney D. Gamble Lecture Series on October 6, 2012. READ MORE about DARD HUNTER: THE GRAPHIC WORK

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Brooklyn, NY: mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1927 (but cover stated 1926). small thick 4to. original quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, three metal pegs. unpaginated. An exceptionally wide range of faces are shown in this thick specimen book. Spine ends worn, covers lightly rubbed, shaken textblock, else a near fine copy. The whole of the material, both type and decoration, for printing this booklet was composed on the Linotype Composing Machine and printed direct from the slugs..... READ MORE about LINOTYPE FACES

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London: George Allen and Unwin, (1960). thick small 4to. rebound by 'Linari Roma' (binder's ticket on rear pastedown) in quarter-brown leather over marbled paper-covered boards, top edge stained purple, gilt ons pine. (xiv), 484 pages. First edition. Fading to the spine, minor rubbing to spine ends and hinges, else a fine copy. This first edition has numberous tipped-in examples of terms under discussion three color work, marbled papers, etc. READ MORE about GLOSSARY OF THE BOOK, TERMS USED IN PAPER-MAKING, PRINTING BOOKBINDING AND PUBLISHING WITH NOTES...

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Cambridge: Harvard College Library & David Godine, 1972. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 101 pages. First edition, limited to 2000 copies. Spine lightly faded, else a near fine copy. Many illustrations and a bibliography of books by Van Krimpen. Reprints the text of an important letter from Stanley Morison. (Appleton no.233). READ MORE about JAN VAN KRIMPEN, A LETTER TO PHILIP HOFER ON CERTAIN PROBLEMS CONNECTED WITH THE MECHANICAL...

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, paper spine label, original slipcase. xciv pages. First edition, limited to 500 copies signed by "Puterschein" (i.e. Dwiggins). (Agner 28.03). Backstrip of the slipcase is lacking, paper spine label with a touch of age-darkening, else fine in near fine slipcase. "His (Dwiggins) first stencilled book ornaments." One of the AIGA Fifty Books of the Year. The slipcase has a Dwiggins design on the front cover and..... READ MORE about PARAPHS BY HERMAN PUTERSCHEIN

Price: $90.00  other currencies  Order nr. 2279