New York: The Typophiles, 1951. tall 12mo. cloth. (x), 94 pages. Limited to 640 copies; the 25th Chapbook issued by the Typophiles. Has a title page designed by Dwiggins, contributions by Warren Chappell, Bruce Rogers, Paul Bennett and others. Contains reproductions of Archer's design work. READ MORE about SAGITTARIUS: HIS BOOK, GATHERED FOR JOHN ARCHER BY HIS FRIENDS
Price: $17.00 Order nr. 6070
New York: The Typophiles, 1951. tall 12mo. cloth. (x), 94 pages. Limited to 640 copies; the 25th Chapbook issued by the Typophiles. Has a title page designed by Dwiggins, contributions by Warren Chappell, Bruce Rogers, Paul Bennett and others. Contains reproductions of Archer's design work. Ink stamp of former owner at top of front pastedown. READ MORE about SAGITTARIUS: HIS BOOK, GATHERED FOR JOHN ARCHER BY HIS FRIENDS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 63668
Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Co., (1963). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), xviii, 418, (2) pages. Reprint of the first edition. Illustrated. Essays by Wroth, Warde, Dwiggins, Rogers, Ransom, Pollard, Grabhorn, Morison, Gill, Goudy and others. Covers toned. READ MORE about BOOKS AND PRINTING, A TREASURY FOR TYPOPHILES
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 32192
New Hope, PA: Bird & Bull Press, c. 1985. 12mo. paper wrappers. (4) pages. This very limited (35 copies or so) privately printed pamphlet was written and printed by Henry Morris. It is a poem on how Henry Morris sold four copies of a bookmark that was made from an assortment of materials, including clothing worn by Bruce Rogers, which the proceeds were then used as funds for a dinner at Morris' local eatery, 'The..... READ MORE about SOME PEOPLE'S UNDER-WEAR IS BETTER THAN OTHERS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 134221
Nueva York: Instituto Norteamericana de Artes Graficas, 1942. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. Two hundred books are shown which demonstrate the best design principles of the year. A fine copy. Printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. With information on many designers including Dwiggins and Rogers. READ MORE about LAS ARTES DEL LIBRO EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS 1931-1941
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 723
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, (1987). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 168 pages. First U.S. edition. Describes the careers of the great type designers of this century - Goudy, Rogers, Koch, Dwiggins, Gill, Morison, etc. Well illustrated. Fine condition. READ MORE about TWENTIETH CENTURY TYPE DESIGNERS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 62292
New York: The Typophiles, 1998. 8vo. quarter blue cloth with patterned paper-covered boards. 101, (3) pages. Typophile Chap Book - New Series Number Two. Limited to 500 copies designed by Dan Carr and printed in the original metal Monotype Dante on vintage Mohawk Letterpress Text by J. Ferrari & D. Carr at Golgonooza Letter Foundry & Press. Well-illustrated with reproductions of John DePol's wood-engravings. READ MORE about JOHN DE POL AND THE TYPOPHILES, A MEMOIR AND RECORD OF FRIENDSHIPS
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 69520
New York: The Typophiles, 1998. 8vo. quarter blue cloth with patterned paper-covered boards. 101, (3) pages. Typophile Chap Book - New Series Number Two. Limited to 500 copies designed by Dan Carr and printed in the original metal Monotype Dante on vintage Mohawk Letterpress Text by J. Ferrari & D. Carr at Golgonooza Letter Foundry & Press. This particular copy has the exlibris bookplate on John De Pol on the front pastedown. Well-illustrated with reproductions..... READ MORE about JOHN DE POL AND THE TYPOPHILES, A MEMOIR AND RECORD OF FRIENDSHIPS
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 128633
Boston: David R. Godine, (1995). 8vo. cloth. x, 339 +(1) pages. First edition. A compilation of writings on many aspects of printing and book design, chosen by the author. The topics are varied, and include eighteenth-& nineteenth-century studies, private presses, type design and manufacture, exhibitions and speculations. In an interesting chapter on twentieth-century typographers, the author discusses Stanley Morrison, Eric Gill, Bruce Rogers and several other well known printers. Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles. Handlist..... READ MORE about INTO PRINT, SELECTED WRITINGS ON PRINTING HISTORY, TYPOGRAPHY AND BOOK PRODUCTION
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 45937
Translated by R.T. Nichol from the Latin Text of the Edition of MCXXXV.
New York: Dover Publications, (1965). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 40, (4) pages. Translated by R.T. Nichol from the Latin Text of the Edition of MCXXXV. Reprint of the 1917 Grolier Club production which was designed by Bruce Rogers. Some soiling to the covers, else very good. READ MORE about OF THE JUST SHAPING OF LETTERS BY ALBRECHT DURER
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 31477
No. IV.
London: Office of the Fleuron, 1925. small 4to. cloth. (viii), 163, (19) pages. No. IV. With an article on script types by Stanley Morison, Holbrook Jackson on Robert Bridges, George Moore and Bernard Shaw and their printing, Sidgwick on Percy Smith, Newdigate on Emery Walker, Hanna Kiel on modern German printing and Frederic Warde on Bruce Rogers. Spine slightly faded. READ MORE about FLEURON, A JOURNAL OF TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 14441
New York: n.p., 1966. 4to. stiff paper folder with 15 articles and broadsides about Goudy produced especially for this dinner by various pressmen loosely inserted. Includes contributions by Earl Emmons, Roland Baughman, Earnest Calkins, Frances Perkins and others. Some of the tributes have been hand-set. A fine collection of material about one of America's finest type designers. Covers faded. READ MORE about KEEPSAKE TRIBUTE TO FREDERIC W. GOUDY TO COMMEMORATE THE GOUDY CENTENN IAL DINNER, MARCH 8, 1966
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 22058
New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1972. tall 8vo. cloth. xii, 291 pages. First edition. Essays on William Morris, Frederic Goudy, Bruce Rogers, Edward Johnston, T.M. Cleland, the Grabhorns, etc. Illustrated. Covers show fading. READ MORE about HERITAGE OF THE GRAPHIC ARTS. A SELECTION OF LECTURES DELIVERED ... UNDER THE DIRECTION OF DR....
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 4213
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1907. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. xvi, 322 pages. First edition, limited to 530 numbered copies. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Spine and top edge of front cover faded. Bookplate on front pastedown of Jerome Carrie Hanauer.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 15173
With a Bibliographical Essay by A. Edward Newton
New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921. Folio, (actual leaf 15 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches; 393 x 287 mm.). Original full black blindstamped morocco by Stikeman & Co., front cover lettered in gilt. Gilt turn-ins, grey endpapers, original slipcase. [6] pp. of text, with title-page and one initial letter printed in red. With a Bibliographical Essay by A. Edward Newton. Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed by William Edwin Rudge. (Printing and the Mind of Man..... READ MORE about A NOBLE FRAGMENT. BEING A LEAF OF THE GUTENBERG BIBLE, 1450-1455
Price: $120,000.00 Order nr. 92498
New York, NY: The Typophiles, 2003. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 31+(1) pages. Typophiles Monograph New Series #20. Known throughout the world of typography, Abe Lerner was a highly respected and talented typographer/book designer with links to the likes of the great Bruce Rogers. With a meticulous eye for detail and clean design, he was constantly working on new projects. With a career that landed him as the Director of Design and Production at Macmillan..... READ MORE about ABE LERNER 1908-2002
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 94392
New York: Columbia University, 1957. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. 46 pages. With text by Bruce Rogers and Helen Macy at beginning. Reproduces Norman Rockwell portrait of Macy as frontispiece. READ MORE about ADDRESS BY SIR FRANCIS MEYNELL AT THE DEDICATION OF THE GEORGE MACY MEMORIAL COLLECTION OF BOOKS...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 9904
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1950. folio. cloth-backed boards. (36) pages. Limited to 3000 copies. With photographs of the meeting. Includes the printed talks given by George Macy, Carl van Doren, Edward A. Wilson and Bruce Rogers. Wear at tips. READ MORE about A RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS AT THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB'S DINNER TO CELEBRATE THE TWENTY-FIRST...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 9469
Philadelphia: Lanston Monotype Machine, 1926. 4to. paper wrappers. (23) pages. Volume 21, No.71. Includes information on Frederic W. Goudy. Covers chipped along edges. Spine crudely repaired with tape. READ MORE about MONOTYPE, A JOURNAL OF COMPOSING ROOM EFFICIENCY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137712
3 volumes.
New Castle, Delaware and Los Angeles: Oak Knoll Press & Heritage Book Shop Inc., 1997. small 4to. full leather in slipcase. 1350 pages. 3 volumes. One of 20 sets bound thus. Originally printed and limited to only 150 copies, this legendary three-volume work describes over 1,300 English literary rare books manuscripts in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, one of the foremost American collections of early English literature. The original catalogue, extremely difficult and expensive to..... READ MORE about CARL H. PFORZHEIMER LIBRARY, ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1475-1700
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 47049
3 volumes.
New Castle, Delaware and Los Angeles: Oak Knoll Press & Heritage Book Shop Inc., 1997. small 4to. cloth. 1350 pages. 3 volumes. Limited to 700 copies. Originally printed and limited to only 150 copies, this legendary three-volume work describes over 1,300 English literary rare books and manuscripts in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, one of the foremost American collections of early English literature, now housed at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. The original catalogue..... READ MORE about CARL H. PFORZHEIMER LIBRARY, ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1475-1700
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 129308
New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1940. 4to. cloth, leather spine label, slipcase. xii, 260 pages. Limited to 660 copies. Handset in Bruce Rogers' 14 point Centaur by George W. Van Vechten Jr. and printed by George C. Montgomery. Contains illustrations by Fritz Kredel. A scholarly work, handsomely printed. Crack along top hinge of slipcase. Spine slightly faded. READ MORE about GUTENBERG AND THE STRASBOURG DOCUMENTS OF 1439; AN INTERPRETATION
Price: $140.00 Order nr. 14485
1980. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 48 pages. Volume II, NO.1 Saxe on type founders of New York City, Dunlap on Charles Kegan Paul, Thompson on Bruce Rogers, William Dane on Will Bradley and Singerman and Pollak on a document attributing Jewish background to Johann Gutenberg. READ MORE about PRINTING HISTORY, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOC IATION. Number Three
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 32440
1984. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Volume VI, No.1. Judy Larson on separately issued engravings in America through 1820, Larry Sullivan on New York printing and Marcella Genz about Bruce Rogers and correspondence with Robert Ballou. READ MORE about PRINTING HISTORY, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOC IATION. Number Eleven
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 32443
1983. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Volume V, No.1. John Lancaster on 19th century American book trade technology and social history, Rollo Silver on the power of the press, James Barnes on Jonas Winchester, various authors on H.L. Mencken, Bruce Rogers Looks Back by Neville Thompson and information on ELbert Hubbard and W.W. Denslow. READ MORE about PRINTING HISTORY, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOC IATION. Number Nine
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 32445
