Pasadena, CA: The Clinker Press, (2000). 4to. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, gilt-stamped spine and front cover, bottom edge uncut. iv, 7, (3) pages. Limited to 50 numbered copies. Introduction by Andre Chaves. Reprint of an article in The International Studio LIX:233 (July 1916). Bound by David Weinstein tipped-in specimen precedes text. READ MORE about PRINTING WITH WOOD BLOCKS
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 129846
Portland, OR: Clinker Press, The, 2017. 8vo. cloth. 26 pages. Limited to 50 numbered copies, "of which the cat ate the rest." A humorous story by the printer, Andre Chaves, inspired from a recent trip to Brazil. READ MORE about THE BRAZILIAN CAT
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 132278
(Pasadena, MD): The Clinker Press, (2008). 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards, bottom edge uncut. vi, 15, (3) pages. Limited to 100 numbered copies. Introduction by Susan Futterman. Bound by Mariana Blau. Illustrated. READ MORE about THE YELLOW WALL-PAPER
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 129843
(Pasadena, CA: The Clinker Press, 2007). oblong 12mo. embossed leather, decorated endpapers, bottom edge uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 60 numbered copies. Printed on recto only. Bound by Marianna Blau. Minor shelf-wear. READ MORE about THE RAVEN
Price: $80.00 Order nr. 129830
(Pasadena, CA): The Clinker Press, (2016). 4to. cloth portfolio with inlaid paper front cover label, three cloth ties. (6) pages. Limited to 20 copies. A collection of six quotes by composers Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg, Eric Satie, Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, and Dmitri Shostakovich. Designed and printed by Andre Chaves. With illustrations of the composers. Six leaves loosely laid in portfolio. READ MORE about SIX QUOTES FROM 20TH CENTURY COMPOSERS
Price: $120.00 Order nr. 129879
(Pasadena, CA: The Clinker Press, 2001). 8vo. cloth. (iv), 8, (4) pages. Limited to 80 numbered copies, signed by printer Andre Chaves on colophon. A volume in the Ephemera Revisited series. Commentary by David Cathers. Bound by David Weinstein. READ MORE about THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT IN AMERICA
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 129838
(Pasadena, CA): The Clinker Press, n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. ii, 5+(1) pages. Introduction by André Chaves. Reprint from The Craftsman XI (October 1906), 202-7. Portrait of the author on title. READ MORE about USE AND ABUSE OF MACHINERY AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE ARTS AND CRAFTS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 129193
The1986 James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture at the American Antiquarian Society
Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1987. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 31+(1) pages. The1986 James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture at the American Antiquarian Society. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Volume 96, Part 2, October 1986. Lecture on the history of the book, focusing on American literary history. READ MORE about IDEOLOGY AND GENRE: THE RISE OF THE NOVEL IN AMERICA
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 105184
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, (1980). small 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (xiv), 39, (9) pages. First edition. This sixteenth century manuscript, said to have been found in the ruins of Coucy Castle, in 1917, after German bombardments, presents a many-sided view of French society at that time. Many of the rames are eerily similar to English nursery rhymes, which the translator believes were brought to London by Protestant Picard émigrés. Print of Coucy Castle..... READ MORE about N'HEURES SOURIS RAMES, THE COUCY CASTLE MANUSCRIPT
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 115375
Ann Arbor, MI: Legacy Press, 2015. 8vo., half cloth, decorated paper covered boards, 168 pages. Beginning in the 1950s, the American master of wood engraving, John DePol (1913-2004), cut small endgrain blocks featuring subjects from Nature, the Heavens, the Book Arts, and fantastical abstract/geometrical designs. Although many of these images were made into patterns and used as binding papers in a number of important fine-press books, the full breadth of this aspect of DePol's work..... READ MORE about ENDGRAIN DESIGNS & REPETITIONS: THE PATTERN PAPERS OF JOHN DEPOL
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 126320
Ottawa: National Museum of Science and Technology, 1995. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 162 pages. First edition. Well-illustrated history beginning with 1751 to the present. Number 3 in the Transformation Series. Fine condition. READ MORE about TECHNOLOGY AND CANADIAN PRINTING: A HISTORY FROM LEAD TYPE TO LASERS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 43058
N.P. Eleutherian Mills - Hagley Foundation by the University Press of Virginia, (1984). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 332 pages. First edition. Lammot was partners with Henry du Pont and helped shape the du Pont company's growth. Fine condition. READ MORE about LAMMOT DU PONT AND THE AMERICAN EXPLOSIVES INDUSTRY, 1850-1884
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 29240
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall Inc., (1978). thick 8vo. cloth. xvii, 574 pages. Reprint of the fourth edition. Excellent book. Near-fine. READ MORE about THE PRESS AND AMERICA, AN INTERPRETATIVE HISTORY OF THE MASS MEDIA
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 91300
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1902. square 8vo. green cloth, top edge gilt. 448 pages. First edition. (Webber p.70). This particular copy is Daniel Updike's copy, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Part of the English Bookman's Library edited by Alfred Pollard. Information on over 70 English collectors. Illustrated. Covers rubbed and spine faded. Bookseller's ticket at bottom of front free endpaper. Exlibrary markings on spine. READ MORE about ENGLISH BOOK COLLECTORS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 3985
New York: The Grolier Club, 2020. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. paperback. 140 pages. The Gazette of the Grolier Club Number 68/69 contains the following essays: --NOTES ON A RENOVATION: Being a Brief Account of the Origins, Progress, and (Mostly) Happy Conclusion of the Grolier Club "Second Century" Project by Eric Holzenberg --CAROLYN WELLS: Making Fun of Books and Making Books Fun by Margaret D. Stetz --BORGES READS KAFKA by Alberto Manguel --SOME WOMEN BOOK COLLECTORS..... READ MORE about GAZETTE OF THE GROLIER CLUB, NEW SERIES, NUMBER 68/69, 2018/2019
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 134728
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 351, (3) pages. First edition, near fine. And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities about the Writing, Selling, and Reading of Books. READ MORE about CASANOVA WAS A BOOK LOVER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 101173
Philadelphia: Penn Libraries/Kislak Center, 2020. 8.5 x 11 inches. Paperback with French flaps. 352 pages. This exhibition catalogue examines the making of the hand-written and hand-illuminated book during a time of great political, religious, and technological transformation in Europe. Through approximately forty loans from ten regional institutions, as well another forty items from Penn's own collections, the exhibition examines the full intellectual and artistic depth of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries through a varied selection..... READ MORE about MAKING THE RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPT: DISCOVERIES FROM PHILADELPHIA LIBRARIES
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 134574
(Toronto, Canada): University of Toronto Library, 1989. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 35+(1) pages. Preface, introduction, bibliography. An exhibition of Renaissance-era woodcuts. Frontispiece, black and white illustrations throughout. Fine condition. READ MORE about FIFTEENTH CENTURY ITALIAN WOODCUTS FROM THE BIBLIOTECA CLASSENSE, RAVENNA
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 127038
Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1972. 8vo. cloth. xvi, 300 pages. Fifth edition, revised. A guide to the bibliographies available in fiction, biography, poetry, publishing, etc. READ MORE about CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 3718
From Hired Hand to Union Craftsman in the Preindustrial American Printing Trades, 1778-1815.
Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1991. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 261 pages. From Hired Hand to Union Craftsman in the Preindustrial American Printing Trades, 1778-1815. First edition. The story of printers on the road and the trade societies they formed in New York, Philadelphia, and points westward. Illustrated. READ MORE about SOME DEGREE OF POWER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 57969
New York: Dover Publications, (1968). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 256 pages. Reprint of the first edition. With hundreds of illustrations. Light foxing and wear, else near fine. READ MORE about ALPHABETS & ORNAMENTS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 22931
Foreword by John Neal Hoover
New York: The Grolier Club, 2010. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. paperback. 48 pages. Foreword by John Neal Hoover. This catalogue contains selections from the St. Louis Mercantile Library, which houses the largest American rail history collection in a North American Library. It contains papers, books, and historic photographs from the collector and rail executive, John W. Barriger III, as well as other collections from historical societies and libraries. As the rail collection developed, a collection..... READ MORE about LIVES ON THE MISSISSIPPI: LITERATURE AND CULTURE ALONG THE GREAT RIVER FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 107105
Premier Volume.
Paris: A. Quantin, 1880. thick small 4to. half leather, all edges gilt. 431 pages. Premier Volume. The first few issues of volume one bound in one volume of this deluxe periodical for bibliophiles first published by A. Quantin in 1880, and later by Quantin with Octave Uzanne as editor-in-chief from 1881-1889. (Ulrich & Kup p, 124). Included here are the first 232 pages of Volume One. READ MORE about LE LIVRE, REVUE MENSUELLE BIBLIOGRAPHIE ANCIENNE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 32595
Paris, France: A. Quantin, 1882-1883. small 4to. original paper wrappers. A deluxe periodical for bibliophiles first published by A. Quantin in 1880, and later by Quantin with Octave Uzanne as editor-in-chief from 1881-1889. (Ulrich & Kup p, 124). Included here are 1882-1883. Lavish use of llustration, including drawings, illustrations of books and bindings, and many original prints bound-in. Some plates reproduced in color. Each volume is composed of two parts: Ancient Bibliography and Modern Bibliography..... READ MORE about LE LIVRE, REVUE MENSUELLE BIBLIOGRAPHIE ANCIENNE
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 43292
Paris: A. Quantin, 1880, 1882-1886, 1888. small 4to. variously bound in original paper wrappers, later half cloth with leather spine labels and marbled covered boards. variously paginated. A deluxe periodical for bibliophiles first published by A. Quantin in 1880, and later by Quantin with Octave Uzanne as editor-in-chief from 1881-1889. (Ulrich & Kup p, 124). Included here are 1880, 1882-1886 and 1888. Lavish use of llustration, including drawings, illustrations of books and bindings, and many..... READ MORE about LE LIVRE, REVUE MENSUELLE BIBLIOGRAPHIE ANCIENNE
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 62071
