New York: Spiral Press, 1952. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (8) pages. Limited to 2200 copies. With a wood-engraving by Fritz Eichenberg. READ MORE about THE FAITH AND HOPE OF AN AMERICAN
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 15897
Madison, NJ: (Brayers Club, 1946). 12mo. marbled paper covers, paper cover label. 4 pages printed French-fold. Opuscule I issued by the Brayers Club of Madison, New Jersey. Hand-set in Bulmer. Contains a full page woodcut by Eichenberg. This particular copy is a mock draft by Ellis, with contributing labels from the Golden Hind Press. READ MORE about CACOETHES SCRIBENDI
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 133495
New York: NYPL, 1949. tall 8vo. paper wrappers. (16) pages. Includes a three page check-list of his work and reproductions of some of his prints. READ MORE about FRITZ EICHENBERG, ILLUSTRATOR AND PRINTMAKER, AN EXHIBITION HELD AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 20007
York: The Maple Press Company, 1950. small 4to. cloth-backed boards, all edges gilt. x, 95+(1) pages. Limited to 1700 numbered copies. With illustrations by Fritz Eichenberg throughout. The Eighth Annual Keepsake Volume issued by this printing house. Some toning of covers. READ MORE about WITCH OF RAMOTH AND OTHER TALES
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 123200
Introduction by Ruth Mortimer.
Northampton, MA: Smith College Museum of Art, 1977. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (61) pages. Introduction by Ruth Mortimer. First edition. Foreword by Charles Chetham. Fully describes and depicts illustrations from 40 books in the Selma Erving collection of Livre D'artiste in the Smith College Museum of Art. Includes illustrations by Marc Chagall, Jean Louis Forain, Matisse, Picasso and others. Spotting to front cover. READ MORE about THE SELMA ERVING COLLECTION OF MODERN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 115444
New York: M. Walter Dunne, 1904. folio. purple cloth decorated in gilt, blue and pink, top edge gilt, others uncut. (xvi), 386, (2) pages with a laid in supplement of viii pages. First North American edition published with the express permission of the Essex House Press and printed in America by the Plimpton Press. (see Ashbee p.73). Partially printed in the Endeavour type (as well as in the great primer type) specially designed for this..... READ MORE about BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 105384
Washington: Library of Congress, 1977. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (32) pages. Introduction by Fern following illustrated catalogue. READ MORE about THEY MADE THEM LAUGH AND WINCE AND WORRY AND ... DRAWINGS FOR SIX AMERICAN MAGAZINES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 26592
New York: Vincent FitzGerald, 1986. oblong 4to. blue-green silk over boards, lettered in orange, by Gérard Charriere, inserted in specially constructed black cloth clam-shell box with paper spine label. Unpaginated. Limited to only 40 numbered copies, all signed by the artist. Text and Linocuts by Mark Beard. 42 Handcolored linocuts pulled by Mark Beard and Marjorie Van Dyke at The Printmaking Workshop assisted by Zahra Partovi, George Osterman and Robbin Silverberg. 32 Japanese papers are..... READ MORE about THE UTAH READER
Price: $4,500.00 Order nr. 124120
St. Louis: The Pulitzer Publishing Company, (1947). 4to. Comb, stiff paper wrappers. (iii), 240+(1) pages. This book contains the entire collection of insightful yet somber political cartoons by the well-known illustrator Fitzpatrick. Creases and tears on edges. READ MORE about CARTOONS BY FITZPATRICK
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 96914
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1900. 8vo. original cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 111+(1) pages. First edition. Illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy (Reed 94). Paul Leicester Ford (1865-1902) was an American bibliographer, historian, and novelist. He is noted for his bibliographies of the works of many American founding fathers (Ford papers, MssCol 1043, New York Public Library). Decorations by Margaret Armstrong. Frontispiece and four tissue-protected black and white illustrations. Decorations two-toned. Dust jacket tanned..... READ MORE about WANTED--A MATCHMAKER
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 119850
Washington, DC: (Judd & Detweiler), 1930. small 4to. cloth, title gilt-stamped on spine, illustration gilt-stamped on front cover, top edge gilt, slipcase. 158, (2) pages. Limited to 475 numbered copies, signed by illustrator Hans Foy on colophon. Slipcase lightly soiled. READ MORE about THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. LUKE
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 119441
(San Francisco): Book Club of California, (1999). large 4to. half cloth with pictorial paper-covered boards, paper label on spine, slipcase. xi, (i), 156+(2) pages. Limited edition of 450 copies were printed for members of the Book Club of California, San Francisco. Elegantly designed by Jonathan Clark at The Artichoke Press. Antiquarian Colin Franklin explores the rich history of calligraphy, printing, and bookmaking in Japan; supplemented by examples from his extensive collection of Japenese books and..... READ MORE about EXPLORING JAPANESE BOOKS AND SCROLLS
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 73778
New York: Harpers & Brothers, (1923). large 4to. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. (x), 274, (2) pages. Thirty-fine illustrations by Frederic Remington taken from various other works. Frontispiece in color. Lacking dust jacket. Rear hinge cracked, but holding. Shaken. READ MORE about THE BOOK OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
Price: $70.00 Order nr. 99490
4 volumes.
New York: Eros Magazine, 1962. 4to. pictorial paper-covered boards. 79+ (1); 81, (15); 96; 96 pages. 4 volumes. Volume 1, Nos. 1-4, the complete set of Eros Magazineedited and published by Ralph Ginzburg. Eros used a combination of contemporary authors, artists, and photographers along with historical sources to create a sense of literary erotica. Articles include Love-Making Can Be Fatal, by John Erno Russell; A Plea For Polygamy, by Albert Ellis; Madame Tellier's Brothel, by..... READ MORE about EROS
Price: $185.00 Order nr. 71078
Stamford, CT: Glad Hand Press (Robert M. Jones), 1975. small 4to. loosely inserted in a heavy dark blue paper box with sheath. 83 sheets in 7 signatures, hand set in 18 pt., Farmer's Old Style Italic and others. Limited to 100 copies of which 55 were distributed to friends. Reproductions of 254 blocks dating from the late 17th century to 1940 and including thirty by Thomas Bewick and his students. Prospectus loosely inserted. READ MORE about WOOD ENGRAVINGS, BEING IMPRESSIONS FROM THE ORIGINAL BLOCKS IN THE COLLECTION AT THE GLAD HAND PRESS
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 23046
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
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 108486
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1976). oblong 12mo. pictorial paper-covered boards, matching dust jacket. not paginated. First edition (Toledano A63c). This book combines, with breath-taking cleverness, two objects of consuming interest: postcards and bicycles (from the front flap). Sixteen of the illustrated cards first appeared in Sports Illustrated, June 1976. READ MORE about THE BROKEN SPOKE
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 108323
New York: Young Scott Books, (1970). oblong 12mo. decorated cloth, dust jacket. unpaginated. First edition. (Toledano, A37a). Text by Neumeyer, illustrations by Gorey. Whimsical account of the earth's rotation and the reason for day and night. Dust jacket slightly soiled and small tear at top of spine. READ MORE about WHY WE HAVE DAY AND NIGHT
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 108697
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
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 108460
Washington: GAE, 1947. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 31 pages. Special issue of this periodical. A series of articles on the education of printers and graphic designers. READ MORE about SILVER ANNIVERSARY ISSUE, 1922-1947
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 21750
New York, NY: The Grolier Club, n.d., but 1965. 8vo. self paper wrappers. (16) pages. Handlist of an exhibition at the Grolier Club, New York, 1965-1966. Introduction. Cover features a drawing by Ben Shahn. READ MORE about AMERICAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS 1945-1965
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 131639
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...
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 47250
Volumes 1 through 4 (of 14).
New York: The Anderson Galleries, 1916-1917. thick 8vo. later half leather with original paper wrappers bound-in. 95+(1); 63+(1); 154,(2); 144,(2) pages. Volumes 1 through 4 (of 14). A magnificent collection of historical prints with a number of illustrations throughout. Volume I, the catalogue devoted to Americana, Volume II. Sporting Prints, Volume III, French Engravings, Volume IV, Stipple Engravings, Filled with separate plates. Some volumes are priced. Spine leather detached. Hinges broken. READ MORE about THE FREDERIC R. HALSEY COLLECTION OF PRINTS
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 109198
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
Price: $185.00 Order nr. 6477
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958. 4to. cloth. xlvii, 265 pages. First edition. Contains biographies and bibliographies with many facsimiles. An essential reference book in the area. With an introduction by Frank Weitenkampf. A supplement was issued in 1968 and that is not present. READ MORE about EARLY AMERICAN BOOK ILLUSTRATORS AND WOOD ENGRAVERS 1670-1870
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 20120
