Port Angeles, WA: Printery Farm, (1990). 12mo. decorated cloth, paper cover label. (64) pages. Alternating Mother Goose rhymes with blockprints by Humfleet. READ MORE about MOTHER GOOSE WITH BLOCK PRINTS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 105630
Ottawa: n.p., 1993. 8vo. stiff paper wrapper. (vii), 180-186+(1) pages. Limited to an edition of 50. A facsimile of one clever tongue-in-cheek letter from POST BAG OF THE GREAT WESTERN by Samuel Slick (1840). Presented to Donn W. Sanford from Jenkins: "Donn, With sincere regards. Bill." READ MORE about GOLDEN NUGGETS
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 94052
(Clarence Center, NY): Textile Bridge Press, (1983). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (20) pages. Textile Bridge Little Book No. 2. A collection of poetry. Biographical sketch of the author follows text. Black and white photograph of author on back cover. READ MORE about THE JUNGLE BOOK
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 132755
(Meriden, CT: for The Crow's Nest), 1932-1933, 1938-1939, 1945-1946. 4to. issues loosely inserted in quarter leather, cloth clamshell box. variously paginated. A monthly review of fine books, bibliography, and typography published monthly. This set includes all 41 issues from March 1932 to June 1946, Volumes 1 through 3. Includes March-September, November-December 1932; February-June/July 1933; April-July 1938; September 1938-December 1939. Volume 4 includes issues 1-10. Some issues tanned at edges. READ MORE about THE BOOK COLLECTOR'S PACKET
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 130104
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London: n.p. (printed by C. Whittingham), 1845. small 4to. contemporary full calf, boards ruled with foliat and double fillet roll motifs, rims of boards and turn-ins with gilt roll pattern, all edges gilt, five raised bands, red spine label, gilt-tooled spine panels. (198) pages. Printed as an Eton prize book for 1845. Sixteen satires of Juvenal, and six by Persius. Printed by Whittingham (whose device follows the text) at Chiswick. This book is a minor..... READ MORE about DECII JUNII JUVENALIS AQUINATIS SATIRAE DECEM ET SEX [ORNAMENT] AULI PERSII FLACCI SATIRA SEX
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 55179
Washington: Library of Congress, 1986. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 123+(1) pages. A directory of selected organizations and programs that promote books and reading, administer literacy projects, and encourage the study of books. Edited with an introduction by John Y. Cole. READ MORE about THE COMMUNITY OF THE BOOK
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 70447
St. Paul: Rulon-Miller Books, 1990. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label, slipcase. 61 pages. Limited to 100 copies. Kemble was the foremost philologist of his day, and this text is taken from the recently discovered eight-page manuscript which was dated 1830, three years before his edition of Beowulf. No trace of the actual dictionary itself is known, but this specimen is a fitting tribute to Kemble's work in etymology. Printed by hand under the direction of..... READ MORE about SPECIMEN OF AN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN MITCHELL KEMBLE
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 34666
(Iowa City, IA: The Prairie Press, 1970). 8vo. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards, dust jacket, top edge cut, other edges uncut. 31, (5) pages. Limited to 300 numbered copies, signed by Frank E. Egler. A manuscript by Kenfield written early 1888 in Kenfield, Paris. With a history of the manuscript by Egler. Cloth portion of boards stained near front top. READ MORE about THE PROGRAMME FOR TCHAIKOVSKY'S FIFTH SYMPHONY
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 130370
(Iowa City, IA: The Prairie Press, 1970). 8vo. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards, top edge cut, other edges uncut. 31, (5) pages. Limited to 300 copies, unsigned and not numbered. A manuscript by Kenfield written early 1888 in Kenfield, Paris. With a history of the manuscript by Egler. Cloth portion of boards stained near front top. READ MORE about THE PROGRAMME FOR TCHAIKOVSKY'S FIFTH SYMPHONY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 130371
N.P. The Encino Press, (1981). oblong 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper front cover label. (vi), 29, (5) pages. Revised slightly from appearance in The Washington Post. Signed by the author and illustrator Patrick Oliphant on front free endpaper. Biographical sketches of author and illustrator follow text. Spine lightly sunned. READ MORE about THE TERRIBLE NIGHT SANTA GOT LOST IN THE WOODS
Price: $22.00 Order nr. 129010
Po stopách knih, knihtisku a knihoven.
Praha: Svoboda, 1989. small 4to. stamped cloth, dust jacket. 143+(1) pages. Po stopách knih, knihtisku a knihoven. First edition. A history of the production and distribution of books, from ancient heirogylphics and stone tablets to contemporary fine printing and private presses. Published in Czech with many illustrations, some in color. READ MORE about Z HISTORIE EVROPSKÉ KNIHY
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 74140
2 volumes.
Willowdale: North York Public Library, 1978, 1981. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 109,(3); 79,(3) pages. 2 volumes. With a checklist of Ontario private presses by Marilyn Rueter and an introduction by Douglas Lochhead. Wrappers soiled. READ MORE about READER, LOVER OF BOOKS, LOVER OF HEAVEN, A CATALOGUE BASED ON AN EXHIBITION OF THE BOOK ARTS IN...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 33545
(London, Englanc): Sowula, (1983). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 16, (4) pages. 2nd edition. Two tipped-in black and white illustrations. List of other publications follows text. READ MORE about A CALENDAR
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 133911
N.P. (Albert Lemant, 1991). 4to. stiff paper portfolio with sheets loosely inserted, wooden slipcase with color image mounted on front. 8 leaves. Limited to 50 numbered copies signed by Lemant. Title page and colophon page hand-lettered. Portfolio containing six engravings, each numbered 24/50 signed by Lemant in pencil. Engraved and printed at the Atelier á Bulan in the Pyreneées. Lemant (1953- ) is noted for his graphic work for children and visual art work. READ MORE about BEBETES
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 124431
N.P. n.p., n.d. broadside (11 3/4 by 10 inches). Broadside with a notable quotationi by Ben LIeberman. Lightly tanned at edges. READ MORE about SO LONG AS THE PRIVATE PRESS WEARS LIBERTY AS HER CROWN THE PEOPLE ARE FREE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 133072
Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1988. small 4to. dark brown cloth spine with lighter woven cloth-covered boards on which is printed a reproduction of the Ramage Press. 23, (3) pages. Limited to 300 copies. A history of the first medical book printed in California, the Botica General De Los Remedios Esperimentados. This book was printed by California's first printer, Agustín Vicente Zamorano on a Ramage wooden press imported from Boston in 1834. With a woodcut..... READ MORE about THE ZAMORANO PRESS AND THE BOTICA, CALIFORNIA'S FIRST MEDICAL BOOK
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 62379
New York, NY: privately printed for the Scott-Thaw Company, 1903. small folio. two-toned cloth, paper spine and cover labels, top edge cut, other edges uncut. xii, 265+(1) pages. Limited to 210 numbered copies, signed on behalf of the publisher on verso of half title. Translated from the Latin by Ralph Robynson. Note on publication history, table of contents, translator's note. Includes a biography of More by his son-in-law William Roper. Also includes a collection of..... READ MORE about UTOPIA
Price: $275.00 Order nr. 126530
(Providence: n.p., 1961-62). 12mo. paper covered boards. 24+(1) pages. Inscribed to Bernard Brussel-Smith from Alexander Nesbitt. Goethe's excerpt from the Moritz essay, printed in his Italian Journey. Printed and bound by Ilse Buchert and Alexander Nesbitt at the Rhode Island School of Design. Signed in pencil by both. Covers and edges are rubbed, spine is slightly faded. READ MORE about CONCERNING THE CREATIVE IMITATION OF THE BEAUTIFUL
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 104371
(Providence: n.p., 1961-62). 12mo. paper covered boards. 24+(1) pages. Inscribed to "Dick" from Alexander Nesbitt on colophon page. Goethe's excerpt from the Moritz essay, printed in his Italian Journey. Printed and bound by Ilse Buchert and Alexander Nesbitt at the Rhode Island School of Design. READ MORE about CONCERNING THE CREATIVE IMITATION OF THE BEAUTIFUL
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 116275
Minneapolis: The Ampersand Club, 1940. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 21+(1) pages. Limited to 535 copies. Lyle, pp.48-50. The first book published by the Ampersand Club of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Text of an address by Morley at the 50th Anniversary dinner of the Minneapolis Public Library, on Dec. 16, 1939. Jacket spine faded. READ MORE about FRIENDS, ROMANS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 52681
Grand Rapids: The Private Press of Oliver A. Wallace, 1924. 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards, label on front cover. 16 pages, with one additional leaf with plate. Limited to 377 numbered copies. Private press reprint of a Morley article which originally appeared in the NY Evening Post in 1923. (Lee no.41). One of Morley's maritime writings: The sailing ship Tusitalia is towed from its berth to the mouth of Lower New York Bay, hoists sails, and..... READ MORE about OUTWARD BOUND
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 55530
N.P. Gallery 303, n.d. 8vo. self paper wrappers. (16) pages. Keepsake supplied by Gallery 303 to the participants in the Heritage Series. READ MORE about A NOTE BY WILLIAM MORRIS ON HIS AIMS IN FOUNDING THE KELMSCOTT PRESS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 16431
N.P. (but Stockholm): Sällskapet Bokvännerna, 1959. tall small 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. 110 pages. "Limited" edition of 4,000 copies. A keepsake of the Swedish Society of Bibliophiles with seven short articles: Bewick and English engraving, "the book illustrator who wanted to be a painter" (G. Doré), and five others. All previously published elsewhere. With 27 illustrations. READ MORE about LUSTRESOR PA BOKFLODEN (PLEASURE TRIPS ON THE RIVER OF BOOKS
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 52946
(Köln (Cologne), Germany): Snoeck, 2015. 8vo. paper-covered boards. unpaginated. Text in English and German. One in a series of Kienbaum Artists' Books, edited by Jochen Kienbaum. READ MORE about BOOK
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 128357
(Praha): Edice Sladké jádro srdce, (1992). 4to. quarter leather with marbled paper covered boards in a slipcase with matching marbled paper. 28, (2) pages. Limited to only 100 numbered copies. The full color illustrations are each signed by the artist in pencil. A stunning production. READ MORE about NASLOUCHÁNÍ
Price: $375.00 Order nr. 102976
