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(Shanty Bay Press). Bachinski, Walter & Janis Butler.

MY LANDSCAPE.

(Shanty Bay, Ontario, Canada): Shanty Bay Press, (2022). square 4to. full cloth, illustration on front cover, hand-printed paper spine label, cloth slipcase. 68 pages. First edition, limited to 30 numbered copies signed by both artists, of which 25 were available for sale. Prospectus and Addenda slip loosely inserted. A fine copy in fine slipcase. The text consists of 14 poems by renowned Canadian poets reflecting their interest in nature and the landscape. The selection ranges..... READ MORE about MY LANDSCAPE

Price: $3,000.00 Order nr. 138606

Schaefer, Helma.

GUTENBERG-PREISTRAGER DER STADT LEIPZIG 1968-1978.

Leipzig: Deutsche Bücherei, 1979. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers with cloth spine. 55+(1) pages. On the winners of the Gutenberg Prize for fine book design. A fine copy. READ MORE about GUTENBERG-PREISTRAGER DER STADT LEIPZIG 1968-1978

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 49291

(Akademische Druck- Und Verlagsanstalt).

GENERAL CATALOGUE.

Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1986. 8vo. paper wrappers. xiv, 138 pages. General catalogue, including bibliographies, works on the art of the book, prints, and facsimile editions of important manuscripts. Illustrated. A fine copy. READ MORE about GENERAL CATALOGUE

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 49183

(Calligraphy). Shepherd, Margaret.

USING CALLIGRAPHY.

A Workbook of Alphabets, Projects, and Techniques.
New York and London: Collier Books, Macmillan Publishing Company / Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1979. small 4to. plastic ring binder, stiff paper covers. 143, (1) pages. A Workbook of Alphabets, Projects, and Techniques. First edition, later printing. A fine copy. A handy workbooks, and includes materials, sources, letters, pages, relationship of initials and borders, harmony of alphabet and ornament, color, 16 "borders to illuminate," etc. The book itself is a calligraphic specimen, a facsimile of the..... READ MORE about USING CALLIGRAPHY

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 139479

Thompson, Tommy.

HOW TO RENDER ROMAN LETTER FORMS, A PATTERN FOR UNDERSTANDING.

New York: American Studio Books, (1946). 8vo. cloth. 80 pages. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Spine lightly rubbed, else a near fine copy. READ MORE about HOW TO RENDER ROMAN LETTER FORMS, A PATTERN FOR UNDERSTANDING

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 72730

Wilson, Adrian and Joyce Lancaster Wilson.

MEDIEVAL MIRROR, SPECULUM HUMANE SALVATIONIS, 1324-1500.

Berkeley: The University of California Press, (1984). folio. cloth, dust jacket. 229, (1) pages. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Speculum Humanae Salvationis or "Mirror of Human Salvation" is the only medieval work that exists in manuscripts, blockbooks and in sixteen later incunabula, and was so popular that more than 350 manuscripts, most with miniatures, still survive. This book includes 233 illustrations, 16 in color, which consist of miniatures from 27 manuscripts, reproductions of..... READ MORE about MEDIEVAL MIRROR, SPECULUM HUMANE SALVATIONIS, 1324-1500

Price: $45.00 Order nr. 34101

(Gehenna Press). Hughes, Ted.

A PRIMER OF BIRDS.

Lurley in Devon: Gehenna Press, 1981. large 8vo. quarter crushed green morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt on spine. unpaginated. Limited to 250 copies, of which this is one of 25 deluxe signed and numbered copies containing an additional suite of the etchings at the rear, and bound in quarter green morocco over marbled paper-covered boards. A fine copy. The five striking monochrome woodcuts created by Baskin are printed from the blocks on Dover handmade..... READ MORE about A PRIMER OF BIRDS

Price: $2,500.00 Order nr. 139464

(Roycrofters). Schreiner, Olive.

SO HERE THEN ARE DREAMS.

East Aurora: The Roycrofters, (1928). small 4to. quarter dark blue suede over paper-covered boards. 107+(1) pages. Limited to 1983 numbered copies signed by Elbert Hubbard II. Reprint of the 1901 first edition. Decorative initial letters. Spine rubbed and worn along edges. READ MORE about SO HERE THEN ARE DREAMS

Price: $45.00 Order nr. 105395

(Papermaking).

THE HISTORY AND STORY OF PAPER MAKING AN INDUSTRIAL ROMANCE.

Parchment: Kalamazoo Vegatable Parchment Co., n.d. small 4to. paper wrappers. (20) pages. Printed by the Roycrofters with designs and borders in orange. Exlibris stamp on title page, minor soiling and markings in ink to the covers. Else a near fine copy. READ MORE about THE HISTORY AND STORY OF PAPER MAKING AN INDUSTRIAL ROMANCE

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 8164

(Out of Sorts Press). Taylor, Sgt. Harold A.

A TEN-DAY INVASION OF ENGLAND.

New York, NY: Out of Sorts Press, 1977. 4to. cloth, paper cover label. (vi), 16, (2) pages. Limited to 50 numbered copies, of which this copy has been rebound in full cloth. A fine copy. Recollections of a trip to England after service in the A.E.F. during World War I. READ MORE about A TEN-DAY INVASION OF ENGLAND

Price: $60.00 Order nr. 139442

(Type Specimens). Lanston.

DEEPDENE, A NEW ROMAN AND ITALIC TYPE DESIGN.

Monotype, Volume XXIII, March 1930, Number 74
Philadelphia: Lanston Monotype Machine Company, (1930). 4to. paper wrappers. 15 pages. Monotype, Volume XXIII, March 1930, Number 74. Specimens of Frederic W. Goudy's Roman and italic type designs which were available exclusively on the monotype for machine and hand composition in a variety of sizes from six to sixty point. Well preserved copy. Includes articles by Goudy. READ MORE about DEEPDENE, A NEW ROMAN AND ITALIC TYPE DESIGN

Price: $50.00 Order nr. 58353

(Monotype).

THE USERS TELL THE STORY.

Philadelphia: Lanston Monotype Machine Co., n.d. tall 8vo. paper wrappers. 14, (2) pages. Promotional booklet from Monotype; includes Goudy's piece "The Type Speaks." A fine copy. READ MORE about THE USERS TELL THE STORY

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 51817

(Rollins, Hyder Edward). Baker, Herschel.

HYDER EDWARD ROLLINS, A BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960. cloth-backed boards. plastic dust jacket with printed flaps. (viii), 51 pages. Biography followed by bibliography of this noted English professor at Harvard. READ MORE about HYDER EDWARD ROLLINS, A BIBLIOGRAPHY

Price: $7.00 Order nr. 40986

(Gehenna Press). Michelson, Richard.

MASKS.

Illustrated with 16 original colored etchings by Leonard Baskin.
Leeds: The Gehenna Press, 1999. folio. Quarter morocco on red colored boards. In cloth clamshell case. Unpaginated (15 leaves). Illustrated with 16 original colored etchings by Leonard Baskin. Limited to 26 numbered copies signed by Baskin and Michelson on the colophon. Spine of the clamshell box with a slight hint of fading, else a fine copy in fine clamshell box. From the colophon: "Twenty-six copies of Masks were printed at The Gehenna Press during the..... READ MORE about MASKS

Price: $10,000.00 Order nr. 139421

(Limited Editions Club). Dickens, Charles.

THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH.

New York, NY: Limited Editions Club, 1933. tall 4to. bound in full yellow cloth with the Golden Cockerel Press emblem printed in green on the front cover, title on spine in green. (x), 70, (4) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 1500 numbered copies. (Bibliography no.51). Lacking the slipcase. Uneven fading to spine and edges of the boards. Minor discoloration to endpapers. Else a fine copy. Designed by Robert Gibbings and printed at the..... READ MORE about THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH

Price: $35.00 Order nr. 87470

Order Nr. 42691 CHRESTOMATHY OF FREDERIC W. GOUDY. BEING A FEW SELECTED COMMENTS ON HIS ART BY...

(Goudy, Frederic W.).

CHRESTOMATHY OF FREDERIC W. GOUDY. BEING A FEW SELECTED COMMENTS ON HIS ART BY ONE OF THE GREAT PRACTITIONERS OF THE ANCIENT CRAFT OF TYPEFOUNDING.

Rochester, NY: The Press of the Good Mountain, 1955. 8vo. paper wrappers, paper cover label. 20, (2) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 200 copies by Alexander Lawson at the Rochester Institute of Technology's Press of the Good Mountain. An unsewn copy, else in near fine condition. Includes a tipped-in frontispiece portrait of Goudy by Earl Richards. Printed in three colors. READ MORE about CHRESTOMATHY OF FREDERIC W. GOUDY. BEING A FEW SELECTED COMMENTS ON HIS ART BY ONE OF THE GREAT...

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 42691

(Kelmscott Press). Chaucer, Geoffrey.

THE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER, NOW NEWLY IMPRINTED.

Hammersmith, England: Kelmscott Press, 1896. large folio. morocco, half leather & cloth portfolio with metal buttons. [4 | preliminary blanks], ii, [2], 554, [2 blanks]. Printed in an edition limited to 438 copies of which this is one of 425 copies printed on paper. (Cockerel 40, Peterson A40, Walsdorf 40). Bound in full rich tan morocco, with raised beveled panels to front and rear boards, blind-stamped in a diamond pattern, borders and dentelles also stamped..... READ MORE about THE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER, NOW NEWLY IMPRINTED

Price: $125,000.00 Order nr. 133716

(Diederichs, Eugen).

WILLE UND GESTALTUNG.

Jena: Eugen Diederichs, 1921. 8vo. paper wrappers. 212 pages, with illustrations. A collection of literary excerpts, followed by a list of Eugen Diederichs's publications. Wrappers chipped, yellowed, and water-stained; partially detached at spine. Pages yellowed. READ MORE about WILLE UND GESTALTUNG

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 48387

Marryat, Capt. (Frederick).

A DIARY IN AMERICA, WITH REMARKS ON ITS INSTITUTIONS.

Edited, with notes and an introduction by Sydney Jackman.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. 8vo. cloth. 487, ix, (1) pages. Edited, with notes and an introduction by Sydney Jackman. First Bornzoi edition. Lacking the dust jacket, else a fine copy. Designed by Warren Chappell. Marryat (1792-1848) joined the British navy at the age of 14, lived at times in Canada and the United States, and returned home in 1839. He was a friend of Charles Dickens and was one of the early authors..... READ MORE about A DIARY IN AMERICA, WITH REMARKS ON ITS INSTITUTIONS

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 139384

Shelley, Percy Bysshe.

THE ESDAILE NOTEBOOK, A VOLUME OF EARLY POEMS.

New York: Knopf, 1964. 8vo. cloth. (ii), xxi, 377, (3) pages. First edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Else a near fine copy. 57 poems from Shelley's manuscript notebook, of which only 14 were previously printed. Edited by Kenneth Neill Cameron, with 9 illustrations and a map. Designed by Warren Chappell. READ MORE about THE ESDAILE NOTEBOOK, A VOLUME OF EARLY POEMS

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 62123

Orcutt, William Dana.

IN QUEST OF THE PERFECT BOOK, REMINISCENCES & REFLECTIONS OF A BOOKMAN.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1926. 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt. (x), 318 pages. Second impression. Spine slightly age-darkened; front hinge tender. Else a near fine copy. Profusely illustrated. Many excellent chapters of interest to the book-collector. READ MORE about IN QUEST OF THE PERFECT BOOK, REMINISCENCES & REFLECTIONS OF A BOOKMAN

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 55458

Order Nr. 16180 TEN YEARS AND WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A SURVEY OF THE PUBLISHING ACTIVITIES OF THE...

(Limited Editions Club).

TEN YEARS AND WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A SURVEY OF THE PUBLISHING ACTIVITIES OF THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB FROM OCTOBER 1929 TO OCTOBER 1940.

N.P. The Limited Editions Club, (1940). 4to. cloth. 82 pages. Contains "The Book as Literature" by John T. Winterich, a bibliography and index by Will Ransom and other articles. A near fine copy. READ MORE about TEN YEARS AND WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A SURVEY OF THE PUBLISHING ACTIVITIES OF THE LIMITED EDITIONS...

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 16180

Order Nr. 13855 FIFTY YEARS, BEING A RETROSPECTIVE COLLECTION OF NOVELS, NOVELLAS, TALES, DRAMA...

(Borzoi). Fadiman, Clifton.

FIFTY YEARS, BEING A RETROSPECTIVE COLLECTION OF NOVELS, NOVELLAS, TALES, DRAMA ... ALL DRAWN FROM VOLUMES ISSUED DURING THE LAST HALF-CENTURY BY ALFRED AND BLANCHE KNOPF OVER THIS SIGN AND DEVICE.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxxi, 1088, (2) pages. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. With a long introductory history of the firm. Designed by Warren Chappell. READ MORE about FIFTY YEARS, BEING A RETROSPECTIVE COLLECTION OF NOVELS, NOVELLAS, TALES, DRAMA ... ALL DRAWN...

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 13855

(Papermaking).

INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY AFTER FIFTY YEARS 1898-1948.

(N.P. International Paper Co., 1948). folio. boards, paper cover label. 110 pages. History of this well known papermaker. Spine faded, with some minor damage to spine ends. Front free endpaper has a hole. Else a very good copy. Illustrated. Typography & design by Ansbacher and endpapers by Artzybasheff. READ MORE about INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY AFTER FIFTY YEARS 1898-1948

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 5392

(McGraw - Hill). Burlingame, Roger.

ENDLESS FRONTIERS THE STORY OF McGRAW-HILL.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., (1959). 8vo. cloth. 506 pages. First edition. No slipcase but a very good copy. READ MORE about ENDLESS FRONTIERS THE STORY OF McGRAW-HILL

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 958

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