London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1933. 12mo. marbled paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 64 pages. Third impression. Part of the Dent Memorial Lecture Series. A near fine copy. READ MORE about THE PRINTER, HIS CUSTOMERS AND HIS MEN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 139295
London, England: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1905. 12mo. gilt-stamped cloth, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. xii, 308, (2), 11+(1) pages. Twentieth edition. Some rubbing to spine ends, else a bright copy. Table of contents. Advertisement of other works by the publisher follows text. Designed by Will Bradley. READ MORE about THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN GIRL
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 139293
Chicago: George Matthew Adams, 1911. small 8vo. llustrated Will Bradley cloth cover. 189, (3) pages. First edition, second printing. Lacking the dust jacket. Age-darkening to the spine, some minor soiling to the boards. Else a very good copy. Arranged and decorated by Will Bradley (Bambace A71). Binding designed by Bradley, initialed "B," with orange lettering, black and yellowish background, on brown cloth. Frontispiece by John T. McCutcheon. Illustrations by William Stevens. Prose rhymes originally printed..... READ MORE about UNCLE WALT, THE POET PHILOSOPHER
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 139292
Chicago: George Matthew Adams, 1910. small 8vo. llustrated Will Bradley cloth cover. 189, (3) pages. First edition, first printing. This copy has been signed by the author on the half-title page. Some soiling to the spine, else a very good copy. Arranged and decorated by Will Bradley (Bambace A71). Binding designed by Bradley, initialed "B," with orange lettering, black and yellowish background, on brown cloth. Frontispiece by John T. McCutcheon. Illustrations by William Stevens. Prose..... READ MORE about UNCLE WALT, THE POET PHILOSOPHER
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 139291
Chicago: George Matthew Adams, 1911. small 8vo. llustrated Will Bradley cloth cover. 189, (3) pages. First edition, second printing. Lacking the dust jacket. Very minor soiling and rubbing to the boards, else a near-pristine copy. Arranged and decorated by Will Bradley (Bambace A71). Binding designed by Bradley, initialed "B," with orange lettering, black and yellowish background, on brown cloth. Frontispiece by John T. McCutcheon. Illustrations by William Stevens. Prose rhymes originally printed in the "Emporia..... READ MORE about UNCLE WALT, THE POET PHILOSOPHER
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 139290
Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. 8vo. paper-covered boards. 36, (1) pages. First edition limited to 500 copies printed on English laid paper. Foxing throughout, else a near fine copy. Table of contents. Advertisement of other works by the publisher follows text. Designed by Will Bradley. READ MORE about ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AND OTHER POEMS
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 139287
London & New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1906. small square 8vo. paper boards. 94, (2) pages. Reprint of the 1897 edition. Spine lightly age-darkened and lightly worn at the head of the spine. Covers lightly soiled. Else a very good copy. Ownership inscription in ink on front free endpaper. Cover design by Will Bradley. Volume dedicated to Russell's friend W. B. Yeats. George William Russell (10 April 1867 - 17 July 1935) who..... READ MORE about THE EARTH BREATH AND OTHER POEMS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 139286
A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man.
New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1917. 8vo. publisher's cloth. 351 pages. A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man. A later edition. Bookplate of Miss Ruth Batchelder in corner of front pastedown. Very minor rubbing, else a fine copy. READ MORE about THE STORY OF AB
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 139284
New York, NY: R.H. Russell for Will Bradley, (1897). 16mo. decorated paper-covered boards. 61, (3) pages. First edition, first printing. Translated into English by Edward Fitzgerald. Neat ownership inscription in ink on front free endpaper. Spine has some rubbing and spotting, with some wear to the tail end of the spine. Covers soiled. A good copy. Printed by Will Bradley at the Wayside Press, Springfield, Massachusetts. Includes commentary on Khayyam and endnotes. READ MORE about RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYAM THE ASTRONOMER POET OF PERSIA
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 139283
Wilmington, MA: Compugraphic, (1978). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (4) broadsides. Newly-released typefaces offered by CG. The typefaces are: Aster, Century Old Style, Plantin, and Goudy. All in fine condition. READ MORE about NEW RELEASES OF TYPEFACES
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 139281
New York: Philmac Typographers, Inc., n.d. (ca 1963). 4to. paper wrappers. 23, (1) pages. A near fine copy. A very scarce specimen. READ MORE about PHILMAC TYPES: INDEX 63
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 139275
A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man.
New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1907. 8vo. publisher's cloth. 351 pages. A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man. A later edition. Ownership inscription in ink on front free endpaper. Spine slightly faded, with minor shelfwear, else a near fine copy. READ MORE about THE STORY OF AB
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 139274
Chicago: Eugene Field Monument Fund Committee, (1896). large 8vo. original decorated cloth, all gilt edges. (40) pages. A Eugene Field Monument Fund Souvenir, published to create a fund equally divided between his family and a fund to build a monument (Blanck, Vol.III, sec. iii, p.140). Covers soiled and foxed. Else a near fine copy. Poems by Fields with illustrations by A.B. Frost, E.W. Kemble, F. Hopkinson Smith, Frederic Remington, Will Bradley, Mary Hallock Foote, and..... READ MORE about FIELD FLOWERS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 65418
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., (1897). 8vo. original pictorial cloth. (ii), 405+(1) pages. First Bradley design (Bambace A21). Covers rubbed, spine faded. Else a very good copy. With cover design by Will Bradley done in green, yellow and gilt on a light tan background. Also has title page designed by Bradley. READ MORE about THE SCHOOL FOR SAINTS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 33419
Chicago: American Photo-Engraver's Association, (1927). thick 4to. simulated leather decorated in blind and stamped with a red and yellow eagle on the front cover, top edge gilt. 488 pages. First edition. The very scarce prospectus is loosely inserted. Minor wear to covers. Light wear to spine ends. Else a very good copy. Scarce in this condition due to the heavy textblock. Devoted to every aspect of the art of photo-engraving and letterpress printing with contributions..... READ MORE about ACHIEVEMENT IN PHOTO-ENGRAVING AND LETTERPRESS PRINTING
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 19673
Rochester: Whybrew & Ripley, 1882. 12mo. original cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Franklin; 78 pages. Second edition. (Bigmore & Wyman III, 82 for this second edition only; the NUC notes only one copy of the first edition of 1881 and that in the Library of Congress). Only the slightest hint of rubbing to the spine ends, else a pristine copy. With a number of illustrations in the text and one colored plate printed in 8 colors..... READ MORE about PROGRESSIVE PRINTER, A BOOK OF INSTRUCTION FOR JOURNEYMEN AND APPRENTICED PRINTERS, CONTAINING...
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 18320
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1933. 12mo. marbled paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 64 pages. Later impression. Part of the Dent Memorial Lecture Series. Jacket worn with pieces missing. READ MORE about THE PRINTER, HIS CUSTOMERS AND HIS MEN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 16133
Chicago: Barnhart Bros. & Spindler, n.d. (circa 1907). thick 8vo. cloth. xx, 1022 pages. Annenberg p.59. Shaken. Some wear to the spine ends, minor soiling to the covers. Rear cover has a large dampstain, but not effecting any of the final pages. A very good copy. A massive specimen book issued by this Chicago firm. This copy has the location as "NEW YORK CITY" on the front cover. READ MORE about BOOK OF TYPE SPECIMENS, COMPRISING A LARGE VARIETY OF SUPERIOR COPPER-MIXED TYPES ... SPECIMEN...
Price: $300.00 Order nr. 15694
New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1906. 8vo. cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. x, 166 pages. First edition (Bambace A68). Gift presentation in ink on the 2nd free endpaper. Spine worn along the bottom third along the hinge, some soiling to the boards. Minor shelfwear. Rear cover has a small abrasion near the corner. The textblock is tight. The book is filled with Will Bradley illustrations in black and orange and also contains a full color..... READ MORE about PETER POODLE, TOY MAKER TO THE KING
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 8427
(Concord, Ma. Will Bradley, n.d.). 12mo. original boards, paper cover label. xviii, (4) pages. First edition thus with designs by Bradley at The Sign of the Vine (Bambace A62). Spine slightly faded, small crease on front board, else a fine copy. Spread title page printed in red and black, initial letter and head and tail pieces. Distributed as a Christmas gift. READ MORE about A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG
Price: $35.00 save 30% $24.50 Order nr. 882
A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man.
Chicago: Published by Way & Williams, 1897. 8vo. publisher's cloth, top edge gilt. 352 pages. A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man. First edition. Some light wear to the spine ends, else a near fine copy. Ownership inscription in ink on front free endpaper. Map frontispiece. READ MORE about THE STORY OF AB
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 139260
Frankfurt a.M. D. Stempel AG, n.d.(c1960). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (10) pages. "Derived from original matrices from the 17th century, which are in our possession. They come from the typefoundry of the famous Dutchman Anton Janson..."(introduction)...but they are the work not of Janson but of another 17th-century Amsterdam typecutter. A fine copy. READ MORE about ORIGINAL-JANSON
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 53386
Frankfurt am Main: D. Stempel AG, n.d. large 8vo. stapled, self paper wrappers. (10) pages. "Melior" in lines and sample compositions. A near fine copy. Produced by Stempel for its American distributors, Amsterdam Continental and Mergenthaler. No date, but probably mid-50's (Zapf designed "Melior" in 1952). READ MORE about MELIOR, AN ORIGINAL TYPE DESIGN BY HERMANN ZAPF
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 52475
Frankfurt am Main: D. Stempel AG, n.d. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages. Type specimen booklet from Stempel for three typefaces: Diotima, regular and italic, by Gudrun Zapf von Hesse; Smaragd ("Emerald"), also by Zapf, and Ariadne, for initials. A fine copy. Examples in alphabets and texts, in various sizes. By its nature, Smaragd has no italic version. READ MORE about DIOTIMA, SMARAGD, ARIADNE INITIALEN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 50118
Frankfurt am Main: D. Stempel AG, n.d. small 4to. paper wrappers. (16) pages. Type specimen book for "Original Baskerville" by D. Stempel A.G., type casters. Examples in regular, half-bold and italic, upper and lower case, different sizes, in alphabets and texts. READ MORE about ORIGINAL-BASKERVILLE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 50117
