THOMAS GREEN.
N.P. n.p., 1913. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. p. 289-309. A biographical sketch of this 18th century Boston printer delivered April 21, 1913. READ MORE about THOMAS GREEN
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N.P. n.p., 1913. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. p. 289-309. A biographical sketch of this 18th century Boston printer delivered April 21, 1913. READ MORE about THOMAS GREEN
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Munich: Ellerman Verlag, (1979). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 174, (2) pages. An overview of the creation of a book, from author to publisher to bookseller to reader. Fine in fine dust jacket. READ MORE about BUCHER WACHSEN NICHT AUF BÄUMEN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 48962
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1936. 8vo. cloth. xii, 186 pages. Revised edition. Lacking the dust jacket. A near fine copy. A chronological history of the book and important firsts which have occurred. READ MORE about CHRONOLOGY OF BOOKS & PRINTING
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 14114
San Francisco: Greenwood Press, 1971. large 8vo. single sheet, folded once. (3) pages. NOTE: THIS IS FOR THE PROSPECTUS ONLY. A fine copy. The book was limited to 750 copies. Albert Camus (1913-1960) respected the printing professions and generally got along well with printers, typographers and others involved in printing. The book is a translation by Gregory H. Davis of "Albert Camus: Ses Amis du Livre," edited by Robert Proix (1962), and contains reminiscences of..... READ MORE about Prospectus for ALBERT CAMUS AND THE MEN OF STONE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 52341
New York: Tudor Publishing Co., (1940). thick 8vo. cloth. xvi, 474 pages. Revised edition. With discussion of all possible illustration techniques applicable to the development of advertising. Has many illustrations in text including a number in color. READ MORE about ADVERTISING AND ITS MECHANICAL PRODUCTION
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 4220
New York: Oswald Publishing Co., 1913. 8vo. cloth, paper spine and cover labels. (xiv), 284 pages. Third edition. Illustrated. Shaken, else near fine. READ MORE about AMERICAN HANDBOOK OF PRINTING CONTAINING IN BRIEF AND SIMPLE STYLE SOMETHING ABOUT EVERY...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 4227
New York: Oswald Publishing Co., 1913. 8vo. cloth, paper spine and cover labels. (xiv), 284 pages. Third edition. Illustrated. Small ink stamp on front pastedown. READ MORE about AMERICAN HANDBOOK OF PRINTING CONTAINING IN BRIEF AND SIMPLE STYLE SOMETHING ABOUT EVERY...
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 88454
New York: Oswald Publishing Co., 1913. 8vo. cloth, paper spine and cover labels. (xiv), 284 pages. Third edition. Illustrated. Ink inscription on front free endpaper. READ MORE about AMERICAN HANDBOOK OF PRINTING CONTAINING IN BRIEF AND SIMPLE STYLE SOMETHING ABOUT EVERY...
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 99249
New York: Oswald Publishing Co., 1913. 8vo. cloth, paper spine and cover labels. (xiv), 284 pages. Third edition. Illustrated. Covers rubbed with damaged spot at top of spine. Shaken. READ MORE about AMERICAN HANDBOOK OF PRINTING CONTAINING IN BRIEF AND SIMPLE STYLE SOMETHING ABOUT EVERY...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 114332
New York: Oswald Publishing Co., 1923. small 8vo. quarter cloth with paper covered boards, wrap-around paper spine label, dust jacket. xxxii, 254 pages. First edition. Gress was the author of THE ART AND PRACTICE OF TYPOGRAPHY and editor of The American Printer. Includes mentions of libraries, bibliophiles and of course printing activities. Jacket is soiled. READ MORE about A DASH THROUGH EUROPE, WITH SNAPSHOTS BY THE WAY
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 8976
New York: Oswald Publishing Co., 1923. small 8vo. quarter cloth with paper covered boards, wrap-around paper spine label, dust jacket. xxxii, 254 pages. First edition. Gress was the author of THE ART AND PRACTICE OF TYPOGRAPHY and editor of The American Printer. Includes mentions of libraries, bibliophiles and of course printing activities. Presentation from Gress on free endpaper. Paper spine label shows wear. READ MORE about DASH THROUGH EUROPE; WITH SNAPSHOTS BY THE WAY
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New York: Oswald Publishing Co., 1920. 8vo. paper wrappers. 8 pages. Limited to 800 numbered copies. Presentation from Gress to James E. Creech and presentation from Creech to The Graphica on first blank page. READ MORE about ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PILGRIM NUMBER OF THE AMERICAN PRINTER
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 4524
Notes historiques par Henri Grimaud.
Tours, France: Librairie Péricat, 1891. small 8vo. printed wrappers. 6 pages. Notes historiques par Henri Grimaud. First edition. Wrappers and textblock chipped at edges. Covers loose yet present. Very scarce. READ MORE about LES ORIGINES DE L'IMPRIMERIE A CHINON
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Wiesbaden: Guido Pressler, 1965. 4to. boards. 366 pages. First edition. Exlibrary with markings. Lacking the dust jacket. Spine lightly faded. A history of the German printer's mark along with a study of its significance as an indicator of the changing patterns of culture. Profusely illustrated and with lengthy historical descriptions of printers. READ MORE about DEUTSCHE BUCHDRUCKERSIGNETE DES XVI. JAHRHUNDERTS GESCHICHTE SINNGEHALT UND GESTALTUNG KLEINER...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 4233
(Paris): Éditions des Cendres, (1997). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 138, (4) pages. Text in French. Limited to an edition of 350. Contains an essay by Charles Verneuil entitled "Les Machines à Pédale" and another entitled "La Presse à Platine Dans l'Imprimerie" by Jules Soufflet. Illustrated throughout, with 17 illustrated advertisements for pedal presses in the appendix. Printed on Vergé Légende by Plein Chant. READ MORE about LES PRESSES À PÉDALE
Price: $32.00 Order nr. 94587
New York: Colton Press, (1950). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 174 pages. First complete edition. Portions reprinted from the Ninth Graphic Arts Production Yearbook, 1950. Author started to learn printing at a printing plant in New York in 1900. Drawn freely from "that mental storehouse." Relates experiences at Beck Engraving Company. READ MORE about A PRIMER OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING, INCLUDING COMPOSITION, ELECTROTYPING PAPER, PRESSES AND INK
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 20933
New York: The Grolier Club, 2009. 6 x 9 inches. paperback. 44 pages. First edition. A fine copy. The Grolier Club membership consists of private and institutional collectors; the antiquarian book trade; book scholars; and practitioners in the book arts, both amateurs and professional. No matter the reason for their interest, all Grolier Club members appreciate good design, fine bindings, letterforms, quality paper, and all the other facets of books. This book celebrates the 125th..... READ MORE about THE GROLIER CLUB CREATES: BOOK ARTS BY CLUB MEMBERS
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Vienna: Alfred Hölder, 1908. 8vo. paper wrappers. 24 pages. Wrappers spotted. READ MORE about KLOSTERDRUCKEREI IM PRAMONSTRATENSERSTIFTE BRUCK A.D. THAYA (MAHREN), 1595-1608
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 48867
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1989. 8vo. paper wrappers. (iv), 275-297 pages. The James Russell Wiggins lecture on the history of the book in American culture at the American Antiquarian Society. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society Volume 99 Part 2, October 1989. READ MORE about PRINTING, POLITICS, AND THE PEOPLE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 105186
Graphische Hilfsbücher für den Buchhersteller Heft 4
Dresden: Wilhelm und Bertha v. Baensch Stiftung, n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 24 pages. Graphische Hilfsbücher für den Buchhersteller Heft 4. Text in German. Illustrated guide for book makers about book titles and layouts. Bookplate, from the library of Karl Thiemig. Spine has faded, fragile; edges have faded lightly; half inch chip missing from heel of spine. READ MORE about BUCHSEITE UND BUCHTITEL
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 91890
Chicago: Committee on Invention of Printing, Chicago Club of Printing House Craftsmen, 1942. 4to. stapled wrappers. 6 pages. Contributions to Materials on the History of printing, No. 5. A fine copy. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about LIST OF PRINTING OFFICES CURRENTLY OPERATING IN THE REPUBLIC OF GUATEMALA
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Mayenne: Floch, 1938. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 93 pages. Illustrated throughout. Presentation from the author to Louis Guiral on half-title and with Guédon's calling card inscribed loosely inserted. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about LA MUSE A L'IMPRIMERIE. PRÉFACE DE TRISTAN DERÈME
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 80267
New York: Guild of Book Workers, 1962-1985. 8vo. paper wrappers. variously paginated. Filled with articles of interest to binders, papermakers, marblers, printers, etc. A total of 57 pamphlets. Includes the following: Volume I, No.1 (Fall 1962) through Volume XIV, No.1 (55 consecutive issues). Also includesIndex to the Journal: Volumes 1-VIII (1972); and the Index to the Journal IX-XVII (1982). A marvelous set, and scarce to find with early issues. The Guild of Book Workers is..... READ MORE about GUILD OF BOOK WORKERS JOURNAL. VOL I, NO.1 THROUGH VOL XXIV, NO. 1. WITH TWO INDEXES
Price: $1,000.00 Order nr. 138747
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1940. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 45 pages. Reprinted (with additions) from the "Bulletin of the John Rylands Library," Vol. 24, No.2, October, 1940. With 18 separate plates. Chipped around edges. READ MORE about EVOLUTION OF THE ART OF PRINTING IN COMMEMORATION OF THE FIVE-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ART OF...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 87725
2 volumes in 1.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1940. 8vo. later half cloth over paper covered boards. 45; 83-121 pages. 2 volumes in 1. Reprinted (with additions) from the "Bulletin of the John Rylands Library," Vol. 24, No.2, October, 1940. With 18 separate plates. Second volume comes from the 1927 Bulletin. Cloth spine shows some fading. READ MORE about EVOLUTION OF THE ART OF PRINTING IN COMMEMORATION OF THE FIVE-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ART OF...
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 122154