Axminister, Devon, UK: Uniformbooks, 2015. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 176 pages. First edition. In Unshelfmarked: Reconceiving the artists book, Michael Hampton vets the mediums history, postulating a new timeline that challenges the orthodox view of the artists book as a form largely peculiar to the twentieth century. Post-Deweyed, these works form an entirely new corpus, showcasing the artists book not as a by-product of the book per se, but both its antecedent and post-digital flowering... READ MORE about UNSHELFMARKED: RECONCEIVING THE ARTISTS’ BOOK

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Meriden, CT: The Kelsey Company, n.d., but circa 1933. 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. 16 pages. Glossary of bookbinder's terms on endpapers. Black and white illustrations. A.L.s. from James A. Richards, V.P. of Gane Brothers, a supplier of bookbinders' materials of New York laid in. READ MORE about THE BOOKBINDER'S GUIDE BOOK

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N.P. n.p., (1950). 4to. self paper wrappers. 24 pages. Part of The Memory Book of Boxmaking. Volume 68, Number 694. A collection of essays on box making and dyes for box manufacturing. Black and white illustrations. Covers lightly soiled and chipped along spine. READ MORE about BOXBOARD CONTAINERS FORMERLY SHEARS: HOW TO MAKE DYES FOR BOX MANUFACTURING

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London, England: L. Upcott Gill, n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers in clamshell box. viii, 184 pages. Late 20th century reprint of first edition (1903). Preface, table of contents, index. Illustrated with 156 engravings. A comprehensive guide to the bookbinder's craft. READ MORE about BOOKBINDING FOR AMATEURS: BEING DESCRIPTIONS OF THE VARIOUS TOOLS AND APPLIANCES REQUIRED AND...

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New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, (1983). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xiv, 176 pages. Reprint of the first edition. With many illustrations in the text. Chapters on binding a book, care and repair and papercraft. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about SIMPLIFIED BOOKBINDING

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Seattle: University of Washington Press, (1965). 4to. cloth. xi, 263 pages. Corrected edition. Contains a history of book-making and simple binding techniques for the amateur, including related crafts such as making folders, files, note pads, cards, boxes, etc. Includes a large section on various techniques for making decorated papers to use in binding. Illustrated with many drawings and photographs. Dust jacket shows wear around edges. READ MORE about CREATIVE BOOKBINDING

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Norwood: Holliston Mills, n.d. 12mo. cloth. (62) pages. With five cloth samples bound-in at the end of the book. Left hand side of each opening has a photograph of some part of the binding operation. Fine condition. Very rare. READ MORE about MAKING OF BOOKBINDING FABRICS, BEING AN ILLUSTRATED STORY SHOWING THE VARIOUS PROCESSES REQUIRED...

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Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons, n.d. 16mo. paper wrappers. (12) pages. Illustrated guide to the types of cases produced by the extra binding department. READ MORE about PROTECTIVE CASES FOR RARE BOOKS

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New York: Keith Smith Books, 2000. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 335+(1) pages. 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 book-length poems, and has compiled ten... READ MORE about TWO HUNDRED BOOKS BY KEITH SMITH

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Harmsworth: Penguin Books, n.d. oblong 8vo. paper wrappers. 26 pages. An elementary guide to bookbinding; with many illustrations. Not in Brenni. READ MORE about BINDING YOUR OWN BOOKS

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Washington: American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers, various years. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Run of the Year Books. Limited to 250 numbered copies. Contains articles on designers and collectors and often has a checklist of a designer's work. Many illustrations of bookplates. Volume 43 1980, Volume 44 1981-82. Price is per issue. READ MORE about YEAR BOOK OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BOOKPLATE COLLECTORS AND DESIGNERS

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Princeton: Princeton University Library, 2003. 9.4 x 12.6 inches. cloth, with gilt-stamped decoration on upper cover, title label on spine. 818 pages. In fall 1996, the Cotsen staff began compiling a multi-volume book catalogue of the research collection, with support from the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections and the Technical Services Department of the Princeton University Library. Four volumes of the catalogue have been completed thus far. In May 2000, volume I, The... READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE COTSEN CHILDREN'S LIBRARY: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, M-Z (VOL. II

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New York, NY: Center for Book Arts, 2016. 8.5 x 5.25 inches. paperback. unpaginated. Queering the BibliObject presents works by contemporary lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender artists who explore the book as an object, removed from both the narrative function and cover-to-cover form of the traditional artists book. A mix of assemblage, drawing, performance, photography, sculpture, and video, the works are organized around four formal and conceptual approaches: restricting access to the book object; repurposing... READ MORE about QUEERING THE BIBLIOBJECT

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