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Rossen, Susan F. (editor).

INLAND PRINTERS: THE FINE-PRESS MOVEMENT IN CHICAGO, 1920-45.

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

Rota, Anthony.

"THE PRIVATE PRESS IN THE MARKET PLACE."

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

Rothstein, Samuel, Richard Blackwell and Archibald Macleish.

THE UNIVERSITY - THE LIBRARY.

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

Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel.

FANTASIES & HARD KNOCKS: MY LIFE AS A PRINTER.

Port Townsend, WA: Ex Ophidia Press, 2015. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 795+(1) pages. Signed by the author on half title. Table of contents, preface, afterword, two appendices, acknowledgments, credits and permissions, recipes index, general index. Biographical sketch of the author on dust jacket. A memoir by one of the most noted handpress printers of the 20th century. Chronicles the author's work with his Plain Wrappers Press and the Ex Ophidia imprint. The work also..... READ MORE about FANTASIES & HARD KNOCKS: MY LIFE AS A PRINTER

Price: $45.00 Order nr. 125475

Shields, Robert R.

" TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN FINE PRINTING."

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

Spender, Stephen.

THE GENEROUS DAYS.

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

Starrett, Vincent.

WHAT'S O'CLOCK?

(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

Strouse, Norman H.

THE LENGTHENED SHADOW.

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

Swenson, May.

A BASIN OF EGGS.

(New Haven, CT): Yale University, 1982. broadside (17 x 12 inches). Limited to 50 numbered copies. A Bibliographical Press Poetry Broadside issued by the library. Broadside of the poem A Basin of Eggs by May Swenson printed on hand-made paper for the occasion of the Bollingen Prize Reading which she won in 1981. May Swenson was an American poet and playwright with much of her work being devoted to children. READ MORE about A BASIN OF EGGS

Price: $35.00 Order nr. 99717

Thomajan, P.K.

EFFEMERA.

N.P. Privately Printed, 1952. 16mo. printed folder hold title page, introductory page, and 19 example broadsides. Designed by G.H. Petty. "Here are some slightly off-color pearls of wisdom picked up along the Gay White Way and from random detours along the Primrose Path." A collection of small broadsides printed in different colors. Interesting examples of graphic design. READ MORE about EFFEMERA

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 118968

Thorp, Willard Brown.

PERSPECTIVES OF THE SPIRIT.

Chula Vista, CA: Denrich Press, (1910). large 12mo. paper-covered boards. 94 pages. First edition thus. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper to May Wise, with her bookplate on front pastedown, signed by Florence England Nosworthy. A book of aphorisms on spiritual themes and daily life. Some stains on covers, worn at extremities. X-Lib, with a few markings on edges. READ MORE about PERSPECTIVES OF THE SPIRIT

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 62600

Tijs, Gonnie and Roely van der Veen.

EEN REISBRIEF.

(Amsterdam: Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 1989). folio. stiff paper wrappers; clamshell box. unpaginated. Text in Dutch. Limited, numbered edition of 49. Hand-numbered and signed by Sjaak Hubregtse (1944-2007). A Travel Letter, Rietveld project 60. Text by van der Veen, design by Tijs. Foldout text. Printed accordian style with images in black and blue ink. Colophon on back of clamshell box. READ MORE about EEN REISBRIEF

Price: $350.00 Order nr. 109780

Triebel, Herbert.

DAS BUCH ALS MITTELPUNKT.

N.P. Privately printed, 1965. 12mo. paper wrappers. 30, (2) pages. Privately printed as a gift for colleagues involved with bookselling and publishing. Essays by Hans Ferdinand Schulz, Else Sommer, and Herbert Triebel. READ MORE about DAS BUCH ALS MITTELPUNKT

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 49453

Tzara, Tristan.

CINEMA CALENDRIER DU COEUR ABSTRAIT - MAISONS.

Ann Arbor: Thomas Press, n.d. (1982?). small 4to. paper-covered boards, strip (3.25 x 23 in.) wrapped around cover, paper-covered slipcase. (38) pages, with 6 additional pages in the brochure and 19 additional leaves of woodcuts. Limited to 1,000 copies. Facsimile edition of the original 1920 edition (itself limited to 150 copies) of two groupings of Dadaist poetry by T. Tzara (1896-1963), generally regarded as the founder of the Dada movement, with 19 woodcuts by the..... READ MORE about CINEMA CALENDRIER DU COEUR ABSTRAIT - MAISONS

Price: $85.00 Order nr. 53184

Updike, Daniel Berkeley.

ON THE INVENTION OF PRINTING; THE CUTTING AND CASTING OF TYPES IN RELATION TO THEIR DESIGN.

Mt. Vernon (NY): A. Colish Inc., 1980. broadside (18 x 24 in. / 46 x 61 cm.). Limited to 50 copies. A text excerpt from the 1962 Belknap Press/Harvard U. Press reprint of D. B. Updike's (1860-1941, founder of the Merrymount Press) 1922 work "Printing Types: Their History, Forms and Use." A "keepsake printed for The Second National Conference on Metal Typecasting & Design on the occasion of their visit to A. Colish, Inc., Mount..... READ MORE about ON THE INVENTION OF PRINTING; THE CUTTING AND CASTING OF TYPES IN RELATION TO THEIR DESIGN

Price: $96.00 Order nr. 52316

Vilain, Jean-François and Lynne Farrington.

COLOR IN AMERICAN FINE AND PRIVATE PRESS BOOKS 1890-2015.

(Philadelphia, PA): Penn Libraries/Kislak Center, (2016). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 132, (2) pages. First edition. A catalogue issued in conjunction with "Across the Spectrum: Color in American Fine & Private Press Books 1890-2015," at the University of Pennsylvania Library. Table of contents, acknowledgments, essays by the authors and by Russell Maret, listing of fine and private presses in the Vilain-Wieck Collection at the Penn Library. Color illustrations throughout. READ MORE about COLOR IN AMERICAN FINE AND PRIVATE PRESS BOOKS 1890-2015

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 128335

Vrba, Jan.

DRAZINOVSKÁ HORA.

Prague: J. Otto, 1931. 8vo. full green pebbled calf, title and author gilt-stamped on spine, front board decorated in gilt and stamped in blind, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. 309, (5) pages. Limited to 200 numbered copies. Text in Czech. First published 1926 (Arno Sánka, 2133). Drazinovska Mountain. Illustrations by Frantisek Vrobel. Signed by author and illustrator. Dedication to Arne Nováku. Front board decorated with natural scene. Some fading to spine and edges of..... READ MORE about DRAZINOVSKÁ HORA

Price: $260.00 Order nr. 108028

Walpole, Horace.

ON MODERN GARDENING.

New York: Young Books, 1931. large 12mo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, paper spine label, slipcase. x (ii), 80, (2) pages. Printed at the Walpole Press in an edition limited to 325 copies, with a Preface and Bibliographical Note by W.S. Lewis. This essay was first published in 1780 by Strawberry Hill in volume four of the Anecdotes of Painting in England."Horace Walpole's essay is a brief history of landscape gardening, from the First Garden..... READ MORE about ON MODERN GARDENING

Price: $85.00 Order nr. 63084

Wilbur, Richard.

PEDESTRIAN FLIGHT, TWENTY-ONE CLERIHEWS FOR THE TELEPHONE.

(Winston-Salem): privately printed, (1981). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limited edition of 81, signed by the author. Illustrated by the author/poet. Introductory note to the reader by Wright, who was owner/publisher of Palaemon Press of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Colophon page notes private printing for Wright. Collection of 21 clerihews. Clerihew poetry, according to the introductory note, "was invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley, author of Trent's Last Case." READ MORE about PEDESTRIAN FLIGHT, TWENTY-ONE CLERIHEWS FOR THE TELEPHONE

Price: $125.00 Order nr. 109257

Wilson, Adrian.

TWO AGAINST THE TIDE A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR IN WORLD WAR II, SELECTED LETTERS, 1941-1948.

Edited and with commentary by Joyce Lancester Wilson.
Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor, 1990. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. xii, 198, (2) pages. Edited and with commentary by Joyce Lancester Wilson. Limited to 850 copies and printed from Monotype Ehrhardt at the press of W. Thomas Taylor. Adrian Wilson (1923-1988) was internationally known as a designer and printer of fine books. During his career, he produced over 200 titles, authored a standard text, The Design of Books for his field, wrote two important..... READ MORE about TWO AGAINST THE TIDE A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR IN WORLD WAR II, SELECTED LETTERS, 1941-1948

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 42169

Yarnell, Jim.

SPECIMENS: FROM RAGS TO RUSHES.

Wichita: Oak Park Press, 1983. miniature book (6.8 x 5.0 cm). leather, title gilt-stamped on spine and front cover, edges uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by author on colophon (Bradbury, Oak Park 3). Twelve handmade paper specimens, with explanatory comments on each. Gilt on spine worn away, else near fine. READ MORE about SPECIMENS: FROM RAGS TO RUSHES

Price: $125.00 Order nr. 117777

Zakani, Obaid-e.

THE PIOUS CAT.

(London, England): Bertram Rota, 1986. 4to. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, slipcase. 35, (3) pages. Limited to 200 numbered copies. First edition. Translated from the Persian by Basil Bunting. Table of contents, note, postscript. Includes facsimile of Bunting's autographed manuscript. Includes booklet with the original Persian text. Slipcase chipped at bottom edge and lightly sunned. READ MORE about THE PIOUS CAT

Price: $75.00 Order nr. 128038

Zeitlin, Jake.

MORE WHISPERS & CHANTS.

Pasadena, CA: Ampersand Press, 1952. small 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. (vi), 19, (3) pages. Printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press, Pasadena. Poems written by the author "twenty years ago, when I had more of the urge to sing. I send them out as a friend sends a letter to another." Half-title page lacking. READ MORE about MORE WHISPERS & CHANTS

Price: $65.00 Order nr. 63232

Zeitlin, Jake.

MORE WHISPERS & CHANTS.

Pasadena, CA: Ampersand Press, 1952. small 8vo. folded sheet. (4) pages. Advance sample, printed February, 1952, by Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press. Folded sheet with title page and a poem. READ MORE about MORE WHISPERS & CHANTS

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 63863

(Éditions de la Maison Française).

Publication Announcement by Éditions de la Maison Française.

(Paris, France): La Maison Française, n.d., but circa 1948. 4to. self paper wrappers. (8) pages. Text in English and French. Announcement of publications by the Maison Française. Comments by André Maurois. Color illustration. READ MORE about Publication Announcement by Éditions de la Maison Française

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 133059

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