Olympia, WA: Colophon Book Arts Supply, 1989. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 30, (2) pages. Colophon's Winter 1989-90 catalogue, featuring traditional and Oriental marbling, and hand bookbinding. Table of contents, price list. READ MORE about A CATALOG OF EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134267
(New York, NY): The Guild of Book Workers, 1996. oblong 32mo. stiff paper wrappers, metal spiral bound. unpaginated. Opening comments, list of sponsors. An exhibition of bookbindings with descriptive text and color illustration of the work of each exhibitor. READ MORE about PAPER BOUND, A SHOWCASE OF CONTEMPORARY PAPERMAKERS & BOOKBINDERS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 126417
Chicago: Library Bureau, 1910. 8vo. cloth. 174 pages. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Covers all aspects of bookbinding including materials and paper. Also has a list of equipment, bindery terms and a list of makers of and dealers in material and equipment. From the library of the publisher Ginn and Company with their bookplate. Number on spine and pocket in back. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about NOTES ON BOOKBINDING FOR LIBRARIES
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 6167
Toronto: The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild, 2003. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. x, 150 pages. First Edition. A history of bookbinding told through the physical aspects of the book. The text also serves as a manual of traditional techniques. Includes special sections devoted to marbling, headbands, gilding, leather bindings, binders tools, etc. Better illustrated than most surveys. Extensive endnotes and bibliography. Spine sunned, else fine. READ MORE about BOOKBINDING MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES 1700-1920
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 75148
Sussex: I. Nevins, (1986). 8vo. cloth with marbled paper specimen on front cover. (iv), 318 pages. Limited to 300 numbered and signed copies.This reprint of the first practical bookbinding manual (1856) contains 18 hand-marbled specimens, marbled according to directions given in the text by Iris Nevins. She has also written a two page introduction. READ MORE about A MANUAL OF THE ART OF BOOKBINDING Originally issued with 7 hand-marbled specimens by Mr. Charles...
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 118156
Boston: Richard J. Wolfe, 1991. 8vo. decorated paper over cloth-backed boards. xix, 15, 23, (7) pages. Limited to 250 signed copies, 200 for sale. Text is a facsimile of original Dutch text with translation on facing page. Gives information on gilding of leather; paper; silk; velvet and fore edge, marbling on edges of calf and sheepskin, and dyeing of calf and sheepskin. Tipped-in are 8 samples of some of the processes explained in the book..... READ MORE about GEHEIMEN DER BOEKBINDERIJ, SECRETS OF BOOKBINDING, AN ANONYMOUS 19TH CENTURY DUTCH BOOKBINDING...
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 34250
Riverdale, MD: BookMakers, (1997). small 8vo. self heavy paper wrappers. (4) pages. Catalogue #16 issued by this company. 57 actual specimens of cloth mounted. READ MORE about MACHINEMADE PAPER: TEXT WEIGHT
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 106291
N.P. Strathmore Paper Co., n.d. small 4to. self paper wrappers. 16 pages. Discussion of the design of advertising for the Strathmore Paper Company. Reproduces, in color, many of the ads done for the company by Will Bradley and discusses his role in designing work for them. READ MORE about DESIGN IN STRATHMORE ADVERTISING ... MAKING PAPER PART OF THE PICTURE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 15185
New York, NY: Strathmore Paper, 1954. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (4) pages. Program for a luncheon commemorating the nearly 60 year business relationship between Bradley and the Strathmore Paper Company. With a black and white portrait of Bradley. READ MORE about STRATHMORE LUNCHEON HONORING WILL BRADLEY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 133780
(Manchester, VT): Legacy Press, 2013. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 396, (4) pages. Table of contents, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, thirteen appendices, glossary, bibliography, index, biographical sketch of the author. Designed by the author and Cathleen A. Baker. With two specimens, shifu paper and silk/paper cloth, included in the first 500 copies only. Color frontispiece. Color and black and white illustrations throughout text. A study of the making of shifu, a Japanese textile woven from..... READ MORE about A SONG OF PRAISE FOR SHIFU: SHIFU SANKA
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 131670
Köln: Overstolzenhaus, 1965. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 158, (34) pages. Hans Blum, Severin Corsten and Peter Hasenberg provide a history of the book and papermaking in Cologne. This catalogue accompanied the 1965 exhibition at the Overstolzenhaus in Cologne. Following the essays are 259 entries detailing Cologne publications. Illustrated in red, black & white. Indexed. READ MORE about 500 JAHRE BUCH UND ZEITUNG IN KÖLN
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 61798
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(Newark): Curtis Paper Company, 1962. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 38, (2) pages. (Newark, De. Ninth in a series of these publications issued by Curtis. Designed by Peter Oldenburg and Joseph Blumenthal and printed at the Spiral Press. READ MORE about AMERICA AT EASE, SOME GLIMPSES OF OUR SPORTING BLOOD AT PLAY IN THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 24552
Newark, DE: The Curtis Paper Company, 1967. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 30, (2) pages. Printed at the Spiral Press with design by Joseph Blumenthal. Illustrated. READ MORE about THE DROWNED RIVER, THE STORY OF CHESAPEAKE BAY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 28871
Newark, DE: Curtis Paper Company, 1956. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 30, (2) pages. The third in a series of booklets issued by Curtis. Printed at the Spiral Press and designed by Joseph Blumenthal. With woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. READ MORE about THE FUNDAMENTAL CREED OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 40417
Newark: The Curtis Paper Company, 1969. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 35, (3) pages. The 16th booklet issued by Curtis and printed by The Spiral Press with design by Joseph Blumenthal. Has reproductions of illustrations by W.H. Bartlett and Granville Perkins. READ MORE about SUSQUEHANNA, RIVER AND LEGEND
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 32028
Newark, DE: The Curtis Paper Co., 1965. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 26, (2) pages and a large foldout map in the back. Study of the Mason - Dixon line. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed by the Spiral Press on Curtis paper. READ MORE about BORDER ROMANCE, THE STORY OF THE EXPLOITS OF CHARLES MASON AND JEREMIA H DIXON
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 29194
Newark, DE: Friends of the Curtis Paper Company, 1954-1970. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. A complete set of 17 booklets published annually by the Friends of the Curtis Paper Company commemorating historical persons, places, and events. Printed by the Spiral Press. Subjects include Washington's Farewell Address, the Fundamental Creed of Abraham Lincoln, the Declaration of Independence, the Jamestown colony, the Fundamental Creed of Robert E. Lee, a tribute to parents, the statehood of Alaska..... READ MORE about Complete set of 17 booklets
Price: $275.00 Order nr. 118520
Newark: The Curtis Paper Company, 1963. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 31+(1) pages. The 10th booklet issued by Curtis. Printed by the Spiral Press with design by Joseph Blumenthal and Peter Oldenburg. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. READ MORE about FATHER OF WATERS, OR WHY, MAJESTICALLY, THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FLOWS ON, MAKING AMERICAN HISTORY
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 40001
Newark: The Curtis Paper Company, 1958. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 33+(1) pages. The 5th booklet issued by Curtis and printed by The Spiral Press with design by Joseph Blumenthal. Illustrated by Antonio Frasconi. READ MORE about FUNDAMENTAL CREED OF ROBERT E. LEE
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 67027
Newark: The Curtis Paper Company, 1954. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (20) pages. The first keepsake booklet issued by Curtis and printed by The Spiral Press. With wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Foreword by Marshall B. Davidson. READ MORE about GEORGE WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS TO HIS COUNTRYMEN
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 67855
3 volumes, complete.
Paris: Leopold Carteret and Lille: Émile Raoust-Leleu, 1925. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv),vi,98,(4); (iv),203,(7); (iv),vi,247,(7) pages. 3 volumes, complete. (Blogie Volume II, pp.299,300,301) The complete set of this important auction sale. Filled with tipped-in plates showing many of the fine bindings in the collection. The plates for volumes two and three are loosely inserted in separate paper portfolios as issued. Wrappers worn; pages fine. Spine mostly missing on volume one, but complete. Volume three, spine..... READ MORE about BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE M. RÉNE DESCAMPS-SCRIVE
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 25152
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, (1971). square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 46 pages. First edition. Four sections: History of Papermaking, The Enemies of Paper, Matting and Framing, and A Note on Restoration. READ MORE about HOW TO CARE FOR WORKS OF ART ON PAPER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 105238
Holyoke: Powers Paper Company, n.d. (circa 1930s). 12mo. limp cloth. 72 pages. Price list 51 issued by this company. A number of the pages have another sheet of prices pasted on. READ MORE about ENVELOPE DEPARTMENT. POWERS PAPER COMPANY
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 42889
Edited by Richard J. Wolfe
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. 5 x 7.25 inches. hardcover. 242 pages. Edited by Richard J. Wolfe. New and Complete Manual on the Making of Fancy Papers was originally written in French by M. Fichtenberg in 1852. Richard Wolfe has translated the book into English and added a new preface. The craft of marbling paper was introduced into Europe and the Middle East from Turkey and Germany during the last two decades of..... READ MORE about NEW AND COMPLETE MANUAL ON THE MAKING OF FANCY PAPERS BY M. FICHTENBERG
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 106047
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(Berlin): John Gerard, (1992). small 4to. Gray paper covered boards opening from either end with pages accordian style. 10 leaves printed on both sides. Limited to 20 numbered copies signed by Gerard and Best. Text and Images by Fritz Best. A double-sided accordion fold book with pulp paper images and text by Fritz Best, produced in collaboration with John Gerard on handmade papers of cotton. Images and text for Tag on one side of the..... READ MORE about TAG UND NACHT. [DAY AND NIGHT
Price: $460.00 Order nr. 124330
