Oxford: privately printed, 1989. 12mo. self paper wrappers. 9 pags. Reprinted from Dashes of American Humour (London: Piper Brothers, 1852) by Kerryl Lynne Henderson and Michael Winship, with help from students in the M.Litt. qualifying class in bibliography, 1988-89. READ MORE about WHO READS AN AMERICAN BOOK? ANSWERED BY HENRY HOWARD PAUL IN 1852
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 94871
N.P. Heritage Series, n.d. 8vo. paper wrappers. 8 pages. Reprinted from an edition published by The Cambridge University Press. Illustrated. READ MORE about NOTES ON THE ERAGNY PRESS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 8056
London: Bookbang, 1971. 12mo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages printed French fold. Privately printed on handmade paper at the Central School of Art and Design. A poem by Plomer. READ MORE about THE PLANES OF BEDFORD SQUARE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 105625
Tucson: El Signo de los Arboles Caidos, 1982. tall 12mo. cloth-backed boards. 21, (3) pages. Printed by Richard Hoffman and issued for the friends of Fay and Larry Powell at New Year's. READ MORE about FAREWELL TO THE ENCINAL
Price: $18.00 Order nr. 44116
Van Nuys, CA: Lawrence Clark Powell, 1983. small 8vo. cloth. 81, (3) pages. Privately printed for Lawrence Clark Powell by Richard J. Hoffman, Van Nuys, CA, and bound in Phoenix, AZ by Roswell Bookbinding. A memoir and commentary on Duncan Brent's correspondence with the author, who was University Librarian at UCLA from 1944 to 1961. Photographs. With a Best Wishes card from the author laid-in. READ MORE about LE MONDE PASSE, LA FIGURE DE LE MONDE PASSE, A REMEMBRANCE OF DUNCAN BRENT
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 63103
N.P. (but Los Angeles): n.p., 1945. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 6+(1) pages. Limited to 50 copies printed for members of the Zamorano Club by Richard Hoffman. July 14, 1667 diary entry. READ MORE about SAMUEL PEPYS: A PEPYSIAN PASTORALE
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 102288
New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1929. 8vo. cloth. 493 pages. First edition, limited to 1200 copies printed by the Lakeside Press. 193 page history of private presses followed by bibliographies and biographies of many of the private presses. Signed and dated in pencil by Ben Grauer in corner of free endpaper. READ MORE about PRIVATE PRESSES AND THEIR BOOKS
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 51478
New York: Philip C. Duschnes, 1963. 8vo. cloth. 493 pages. Reprint of the 1929 first edition. 193 page history of private presses followed by bibliographies and biographies of many of the private presses. Covers age darkened with scratches. Name in ink along top of front free endpaper. READ MORE about PRIVATE PRESSES AND THEIR BOOKS
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 92884
New York: Philip C. Duschnes, 1963. 8vo. cloth. 493 pages. Reprint of the 1929 first edition. 193 page history of private presses followed by bibliographies and biographies of many of the private presses. Rubbed along hinges. Bookplate. READ MORE about PRIVATE PRESSES AND THEIR BOOKS
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 108296
(Weihnachten: Zerkall, Renker & Söhne, (1965). oblong 16mo. paper wrappers. not paginated. A poem about the landscape and coast of north Brittany, with illustrations by Ernst Ohst. READ MORE about MALOUINISCHES GESTADE
Price: $11.00 Order nr. 49095
Berkeley: Peacock Press, 1964. 12mo. paper wrappers. (x), 94 pages. Reissue of the 1911 first edition. The author sites various sources in Egyptian writings to describe the library as it existed in ancient Egypt. READ MORE about SOME OLD EGYPTIAN LIBRARIANS
Price: $14.00 Order nr. 10264
New York: Battery Park Books, 1978. 8vo. cloth. (ii), 37 pages. Reprint of the 1899 Ballantyne Press edition. With comments on the English private press revival. READ MORE about A DEFENCE OF THE REVIVAL OF PRINTING
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 11923
London: Covent Garden Press, 1971. 8vo. quarter morocco over cloth, top edge gilt. xvi, 310 pages. First edition, one of 100 numbered copies bound thus and containing a tipped-in limitation notice on verso of title page. Ridler has listed hundreds of titles which are not listed in any other individual press bibliographies. Tips of pages at beginning and end are darkened from offset of leather used. READ MORE about BRITISH MODERN PRESS BOOKS, A DESCRIPTIVE CHECK LIST
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 35952
With a Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell.
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1961. small 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. x, 156, (2) pages. With a Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. First edition, limited to 1300 copies of which this is one of 1000 of the trade edition. A bibliography of books designed and printed by Ritchie. With a number of title page reproductions. Name in ink at top of free endpaper. Minor foxing to the edges of the textblock. READ MORE about WARD RITCHIE PRESS AND ANDERSON, RITCHIE, AND SIMON
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 7468
With a Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell.
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1961. small 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. x, 156, (2) pages. With a Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. First edition, limited to 1300 copies of which this is one of 1000 of the trade edition. A bibliography of books designed and printed by Ritchie. With a number of title page reproductions. Spine label has been partially chipped away. READ MORE about WARD RITCHIE PRESS AND ANDERSON, RITCHIE, AND SIMON
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 96750
With a Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell.
Clifton: Bookman Publications, Inc., (1992). 8vo. cloth-backed boards. (viii), 171 pages. With a Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. First edition. The autobiography of this legendary California bookman. He recalls his private press work, his friends Lawrence Clark Powell, Jake Zeitlin, Paul Landacre, Robinson Jeffers, W.A. Dwiggins and many others. Illustrated. READ MORE about YEARS TOUCHED WITH MEMORIES
Price: $38.00 Order nr. 40361
Chicago: The Caxton Club, 2003. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, smythsewn: drawn-on, hinge-scored cover; trimmed flush. 40 pages. Full color catalogue written for the Caxton Club exhibition: Inland Printers: The Fine-Press Movement in Chicago, 1920-45 ; at Columbia College in Chicago; held January 15, 2003. Features writings of 12 Caxtonians including: John P. Chalmers, Robert A. Cotner, Kim Coventry, Celia Hilliard, Thomas J. Joyce, Arthur H. Miller, Frank J. Piehl, Susan F. Rossen, Michael Thompson..... READ MORE about INLAND PRINTERS: THE FINE-PRESS MOVEMENT IN CHICAGO, 1920-45
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 73697
New York: Guild of Book Workers, Inc., 1985. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 49-58. An article in the "Guild of Book Workers Journal", Volume XXIII, Numbers 1 and 2, 1984-1985. Laid-in is a type-written letter by Rota to a "Harold", signed by the author in ink. Some soiling on cover, notes in pen at top-right corner of front cover. Presentation by Rota in ink "Harold, You asked to see this. It comes with my affection..... READ MORE about "THE PRIVATE PRESS IN THE MARKET PLACE."
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 101319
Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1972. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, glassine wrapper. 62 pages. Papers presented by Samuel Rothstein, Richard Blackwell, Archibald Macleish at York University, Toronto, on the occasion of the dedication of the Scott Library, 30 October, 1971. Some photographs of the new building are included and a color coat of arms has been laid-in. The endpapers are notable as they are photographs of the interior of the new library. READ MORE about THE UNIVERSITY - THE LIBRARY
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 98331
Chicago: Privately printed, (1945). 8vo. cloth. 294 pages. First edition. Includes the history of the Aldebrink Press, reminiscences of Copeland & Day, Way & Williams, etc. Parts of original jacket loosely inserted in back. Signed by the author on half-title. READ MORE about SOME WENT THIS WAY, A FORTY YEAR PILGRIMAGE AMONG ARTISTS, BOOKMEN AND PRINTERS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 10356
In The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress. Volume 39, Number 4
(Washington D.C.): Library of Congress, Fall 1982. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (i), 198-260 pages. In The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress. Volume 39, Number 4. This issue has the following articles: "The Bollingen Foundation: Mary Mellon's 'Shining Beacon'" by William McGuire, "My Monday Morning Country Store" by Patrick Hayes, "Twentieth-Century American Fine Printing" by Robert R. Shields, and "Heroes and Victims: Willa Cather's Marriage Theme" by Doris Grumbach. Illustrated in black-and-white throughout. Separate..... READ MORE about " TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN FINE PRINTING."
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 92763
Boston: David R. Godine, 1969. small 8vo. cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label. (vi), 20, (2) pages. First edition, limited to 250 copies. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about THE GENEROUS DAYS
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 96773
(Ysleta, TX: Edwin B. Hill, 1930). 12mo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Limited to 100 copies (Myers 48 for Hill; Honce 30 for Starrett). This copy is a presentation copy "Vincent Starrett (another pen) for David Belch." Honce in his bibliography of Starrett devotes an entire section to these Hill productions that were either written by or edited by Starrett or contain bibliographical and biographical notes by Starrett. Hill operated a small private press in..... READ MORE about WHAT'S O'CLOCK?
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 93203
Bloomington, IL: Scarlet Ibis Press, 1974. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (v), 17, (2) pages. Limited to 300 copies. "An Address Delivered Before The Friends Of Milner Library On The Occasion Of Their Spring Meeting 7 May, 1973" (from page v). On American book collectors and the collections they formed. READ MORE about WITH NEITHER RHYME NOR REASON?
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 102160
New York: Philip C. Duschnes, 1960. 8vo. decorated boards, dust jacket. 42 pages. First edition, limited to 1250 copies. Talk by Strouse on fine printing given at the opening of an exhibition at the Grolier Club. Presentation on free endpaper "To Roger Levenson = On the occassion of his Grolier visit to our library = May 22, 1964. Norman H. Strouse." READ MORE about THE LENGTHENED SHADOW
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 114651
