New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1972). oblong 12mo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. unpaginated. First Edition. (Toledano, A45a). Includes The Toastrack Enigma, The Blancmange Tragedy, The Postcard Mystery. all by D. Awdrey-Gore, a Gorey pseudonym. Illustrated by the author and dedicated to Agatha Christie. Pictorial dust jacket with titles shown. A "negligibly shorter" version appeared in the National Lampoon, February 1972. Boards slightly scuffed at corners. READ MORE about THE AWDREY-GORE LEGACY

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The Secrets: Volume One
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1968). square 12mo. illustrated paper-covered boards, dust jacket. unpaginated. The Secrets: Volume One. First edition (Toledano A29a). Written and illustrated by Gorey (1925-2000), noted for his often macabre illustrated books. Described on the dust jacket as "perfectly incomplete in itself." Dust jacket lightly soiled. Front hinge partly cracked. READ MORE about THE OTHER STATUE

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Lexington, KY: The Gravesend Press, 1951. 12mo. pastepaper-covered boards, paper cover label. x, 16 pages. Limited to 500 copies. Designed by Joseph C. Graves and printed in the Printing Office of Philip Reed. With reproductions of woodcuts in brown ink taken from the collection of R. Hunter Middleton. Middleton made the paper for this book. Rubbed along edges. READ MORE about THOMAS BEWICK, 1753-1828, AN ESSAY. TO WHICH IS NOW ADDED: A LETTER FROM ENGLAND FROM ALYSE POWYS

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N.P. The Regents of the University of California, 1982. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 48 pages. A checklist of Gill's works, posters and one-page job printings omitted, and a lengthy introduction by James Davis. With a list of works typeset by Hague and Gill but printed elsewhere, and a chronology. Illustrated with devices by Gill. READ MORE about PRINTED BY HAGUE AND GILL, A CHECKLIST PREPARED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBIT "A...

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2 volumes.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1958), 1968. 4to. cloth. xvii,265; xv,178 pages. 2 volumes. Main catalogue and supplement. Contains biographies and bibliographies with many facsimiles. An essential reference book in the area. Scratches on covers of volume two. READ MORE about EARLY AMERICAN BOOK ILLUSTRATORS AND WOOD ENGRAVERS 1670-1870

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New York: New York Public Library, 1927. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 44 pages. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library. A bibliographical listing of 244 prints with many illustrations. Corner of front cover lacking, front cover and front free endpaper stained. Chipped around edges of spine. Ex-library with library markings. READ MORE about AMERICAN HISTORICAL PRINTS, EARLY VIEWS OF AMERICAN CITIES, ETC

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Evanston, IL: Hesterberg Press, 2008. large 8vo. cloth. (i), 69 pages, ii, (iii). The Blocks Revisited & Rediscovered documents the fascinating story of Thomas Bewick's personal blocks and their historic journey to Chicago in 1942. Many of these blocks found new homes quickly in the Midwest and across America, while others became well-travelled, eventually making their way back to England. The whereabouts of these blocks and their movements over the years have raised questions and..... READ MORE about THOMAS BEWICK: THE BLOCKS REVISITED & REDISCOVERED

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New York: High Tide Press, 1993. folio. loose sheets housed in a cloth clamshell box with an applied, cast resin architectural facade on the front lid. (12) double-elephant folio leaves, folded. Limited to 25 numbered copies signed by the illustrator / printer John Ross. A fine copy in fine clamshell box. Illustrated with Twelve oversize spreads of relief prints made from collagraph plates depicting various architecture of cities described in Italo Calvino's book, "Invisible Cities"..... READ MORE about VISIBLE CITIES

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Delaware Art Museum, April 1910-1925.
Wilmington (DE): Delaware Art Museum, 1975. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 3-176 pages. Delaware Art Museum, April 1910-1925. Although the American artists featured here had little involvement in typography, book design, or book illustration, their adaptation of European modernism influenced these in the 1930's and later. Fifty-six artists with brief bio-historico-descriptive articles and reproductions of a few works. Eleven short introductory articles, about 160 black-and-white illustrations, indexes. READ MORE about AVANT-GARDE PAINTING AND SCULPTURE IN AMERICA 1910-1925

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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1939. 8vo. paper wrappers. 40 pages. This is The Princeton University Library Chronicle - Volume 1, #1 featuring the Winslow Homer article. Introduction by Lawrance Thompson. Near fine copy. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about WINSLOW HOMER AS A BOOK ILLUSTRATOR WITH A DESCRIPTIVE CHECKLIST

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East Aurora: The Roycrofters, 1908. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. (viii), 22, (4) pages. With front cover, title page and others designed by Dard Hunter. In a circa 1908 quarter suede leather / paper covered boards binding in the style of Hubbard / Hunter. READ MORE about LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF GREAT TEACHERS. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. VOL. 23, NO.1

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East Aurora: The Roycrofters, 1908. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. (iv), 131-150, (4) pages. With front cover, title page and others designed by Dard Hunter. Front cover creased where it was folded at one time. READ MORE about LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF GREAT TEACHERS. FRIEDRICH FROEBEL. VOL. 23, NO.6

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