Results for: Fine Press Books

BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS.

Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1998. 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages. VOLUME 4, NO.1, JAN., 1999. IN THIS ISSUE: K. Ramsland on A. Camus, B. Roismann-Cooper on the private press printer Gloria Stuart (who learned printing from Ward Ritchie and is at the moment better known for her role in a recent movie), S. Stipe on "the book that ruined Kate Chopin's career," B. Hicks on Powell's Books in Portland, N. Basbanes on the London..... READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS

Price: $4.95 Order nr. 53955

THE BOOKS OF PIERRE LECUIRE: FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

New York: The Grolier Club, 1994. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. paperback. 86 pages. This catalogue describes the career of poet and publisher Pierre Lecuire. As one of France's most important contemporary publishers, Lecuire published nearly all of his own work. Deriving from elaborate philosophical and poetical reflections, his work often focused on the relationship between the book and the poem. Books of Pierre Lecuire examines Lecuire's work and contains a frontispiece and thirteen illustrations. Produced..... READ MORE about THE BOOKS OF PIERRE LECUIRE: FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Price: $30.00 save 20% $24.00 Order nr. 106604

Andrews, Michael.

THE CRETAN GOATHERDER.

Retaud, France: Pre Nian Editions, 2014. oblong 8vo. self paper wrappers, slipcase. unpaginated. Limited edition of 60 numbered copies with 15 being numbered and signed by the author. Poem by Michael Andrews. Translation in Greek by Ilias N. Pontikos. Translation in French by Julian Norcross. Hand-set in Vendome pt 16 and printed letterpress by Pre Nian Editions in Atelier de Retaud. Silkscreens by Pindaros Michaeledes and Bertrand Bracaval. Slipcase by Jeanne Frere with contribution by..... READ MORE about THE CRETAN GOATHERDER

Price: $500.00 Order nr. 122837

Auchincloss, Kenneth.

FINE PRINTING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: SELECTIONS FROM THE COLLECTION OF KENNETH AUCHINCLOSS.

New York: The Grolier Club, 2005. 6 x 9 inches. paperback. 32 pages. This catalogue contains some of the most beautiful books of the twentieth century from the collection of Kenneth Auchincloss. It includes a three page biographical sketch of Ken, by his wife Lee Auchincloss, as well as ten facsimiles. Gaylord Shanilec contributed the wood engraving, Bradley Hutchinson printed the cover, and Jerry Kelly contributed the design. The exhibition was held on May 19..... READ MORE about FINE PRINTING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: SELECTIONS FROM THE COLLECTION OF KENNETH AUCHINCLOSS

Price: $25.00 save 20% $20.00 Order nr. 106661

Buff, Jerome H. (curator).

JAMES L. WEIL: MASTER OF FINE PRINTING AND POETRY.

New York: The Grolier Club, 2009. 6 x 9 inches. paperback. 32 pages. This book contains a catalogue of the work of James L. Weil, master of fine printing and poetry. His collection of poetry contained short and thought provoking poems, while his publishing work represented his harmonious personality, artistic sensibility, and poetic taste. This checklist also provides brief biographical profiles of Jim Weil and other poets of the Elizabeth Press. Four black-and-white illustrations are..... READ MORE about JAMES L. WEIL: MASTER OF FINE PRINTING AND POETRY

Price: $12.00 Order nr. 107548

Homer (as translated by Alexander Pope)134215.

THE ILIAD AND ODYSSEY OF HOMER AS TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER POPE, IN GREEK AND ENGLISH. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STEVEN SHANKMAN AND 52 ORIGINAL COLOR DRAWINGS BY AVERY LAWRENCE.

2 volumes.
Chestertown: Chester River Press, 2009. 12.5 x 14.5 inches. cloth, dust jackets, slipcase. 550; 434 pages. 2 volumes. Acclaimed by Samuel Johnson as "a performance which no age or nation could hope to equal," Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad and Odyssey stands as one of the glories of English Literature. The Chester River Press edition of the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer has been designed and printed to reflect the epic proportions of this..... READ MORE about THE ILIAD AND ODYSSEY OF HOMER AS TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER POPE, IN GREEK AND ENGLISH. WITH AN...

Price: $350.00 Order nr. 104249

Loney, Alan (ed.).

VERSO NEW SERIES: A MAGAZINE FOR THE BOOK AS A WORK OF ART (COMPLETE RUN).

Malvern East, Australia: Verso Magazine, 2017-2018. 8.25 x 11.75 inches. self cover, saddle stitched. 28, 24, 28 pages. Largely based in Australia and New Zealand, every issue also featured works from the international scene. Verso New Series was the successor to the first five issues of Verso, based on the idea that a book may reach the level of art from any origin, impulse, technology, or cultural location. Largely based in Australia and New Zealand..... READ MORE about VERSO NEW SERIES: A MAGAZINE FOR THE BOOK AS A WORK OF ART (COMPLETE RUN

Price: $78.00 Order nr. 133353

Morris, William.

A NOTE BY WILLIAM MORRIS ON HIS AIMS IN FOUNDING THE KELMSCOTT PRESS.

Edited by Willam S. Peterson.
New York: The Grolier Club, 1996. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover. 78 pages. Edited by Willam S. Peterson. To celebrate the Morris centenary year, the Grolier Club and the William Morris Society in the United States published this enlarged and corrected version of the very last book published by the Kelmscott Press. This autobiographical history of Morris and his Kelmscott Press includes passages related to Morris's approaches to paper, type design, ink, page design and..... READ MORE about A NOTE BY WILLIAM MORRIS ON HIS AIMS IN FOUNDING THE KELMSCOTT PRESS

Price: $45.00 save 20% $36.00 Order nr. 106615

Oppen, Monica and Peter Lyssiotis (editors).

THE SILENT SCREAM: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL COMMENT IN BOOKS BY ARTISTS.

Petersham: Ant Press, 2011. 8 x 9.5 inches. paperback. 190 pages. The Silent Scream: Political and Social Comment in Books by Artists presents not only a companion catalogue to an exhibition held at the Monash University Rare Books Library, but also a journey through some of humanity's most inhumane and hypocritical moments. The catalogue provides insights into 77 influential books and works presented in book form in the past 90 years. Monica Oppen and Peter..... READ MORE about THE SILENT SCREAM: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL COMMENT IN BOOKS BY ARTISTS

Price: $45.00 Order nr. 108927

Ritchie, Ward.

YEARS TOUCHED WITH MEMORIES.

With a Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell.
Clifton: Bookman Publications, Inc., (1992). 6 x 9.5 inches. hardcover. (viii), 171 pages. With a Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. First edition. The autobiography of this legendary California bookman. He recalls his private press work, his friends Lawrence Clark Powell, Jake Zeitlin, Paul Landacre, Robinson Jeffers, W.A. Dwiggins and many others. Illustrated. READ MORE about YEARS TOUCHED WITH MEMORIES

Price: $38.00 Order nr. 60949

Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel.

FANTASIES & HARD KNOCKS: MY LIFE AS A PRINTER.

Port Townsend, WA: Ex Ophidia Press, 2015. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 795+(1) pages. Signed by the author on half title. Table of contents, preface, afterword, two appendices, acknowledgments, credits and permissions, recipes index, general index. Biographical sketch of the author on dust jacket. A memoir by one of the most noted handpress printers of the 20th century. Chronicles the author's work with his Plain Wrappers Press and the Ex Ophidia imprint. The work also..... READ MORE about FANTASIES & HARD KNOCKS: MY LIFE AS A PRINTER

Price: $45.00 Order nr. 125475

Vilain, Jean-François and Lynne Farrington.

COLOR IN AMERICAN FINE AND PRIVATE PRESS BOOKS 1890-2015.

(Philadelphia, PA): Penn Libraries/Kislak Center, (2016). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 132, (2) pages. First edition. A catalogue issued in conjunction with "Across the Spectrum: Color in American Fine & Private Press Books 1890-2015," at the University of Pennsylvania Library. Table of contents, acknowledgments, essays by the authors and by Russell Maret, listing of fine and private presses in the Vilain-Wieck Collection at the Penn Library. Color illustrations throughout. READ MORE about COLOR IN AMERICAN FINE AND PRIVATE PRESS BOOKS 1890-2015

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 128335

(Alembic Press).

A TALE OF TWO BENCHES.

Marcham: Alembic Press, 2000. 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. 19, (3) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 120 numbered copies. A reprint of a chapter from Robert Gibbings' book "Till I End my Song," along with his original wood engraving. Included is an introduction describing how Gibbings came to be in Marcham, a history of the Pointer family and Simon Brett's engraving of one of Bill Pointer's benches, who to this day still..... READ MORE about A TALE OF TWO BENCHES

Price: $55.00 Order nr. 60842

(APHA).

VERSE INTO TYPE: THE APHA POETRY PORTFOLIO.

New York: American Printing History Association, 2006. 8vo. contributions loosely inserted in cloth clamshell box, paper spine label. Limited to 225 copies.Various typographic arrangements of seventeen poems, both contemporary and classic, using a variety of typefaces, colors, formats, and papers, all printed letterpress. The poems were selected by the printers. Contributors include Mindy Beloff, Robin Price, Sandy Connors, Barbara Henry, Ed Colker, Ron Gordon, David Pankow, Jerry Kelly, Kay Michael Kramer, Michael Peich, Gaylord Schanilec..... READ MORE about VERSE INTO TYPE: THE APHA POETRY PORTFOLIO

Price: $200.00 Order nr. 97456

(Barbarian Press).

RICHARD WAGENER: A DIALOGUE OF WOOD ENGRAVINGS.

Mission, BC, Canada: Barbarian Press, 2019. folio. quarter morocco over patterened paper boards, slipcase. over 100 engravings. First edition of 125 numbered copies, of which this isone of the 60 deluxe state copies bound in quarter vermilion morocco with a skived leather spine label and a patterned paper by the artist over boards, slipcased with a folder containing a signed and numbered strike of the commissioned frontispiece for the book. This book is part of..... READ MORE about RICHARD WAGENER: A DIALOGUE OF WOOD ENGRAVINGS

Price: $1,500.00 Order nr. 134460

(Barbarian Press). Zwicky, Jan.

FIFTY-SIX ONTOLOGICAL STUDIES.

(Mission, B.C., Canada): Barbarian Press, 2020. 8vo. silk spine over paper covered boards, cloth tips, paper spine label. 66 pages. Jan Zwicky has published several volumes of poetry, winning the Governor Generals Award for Poetry in 1999 for Songs for Relinquishing the Earth and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2004 for Robinsons Crossing, which was also shortlisted for the Governor Generals Award. In 2012 Forge was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Her books..... READ MORE about FIFTY-SIX ONTOLOGICAL STUDIES

Price: $500.00 Order nr. 134763

(Bird & Bull Press).

PROSPECTUS TO PROCEEDINGS AT A MEETING OF THE VAT PAPERMAKERS IN 1853.

North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, n.d. Single sheet. READ MORE about PROSPECTUS TO PROCEEDINGS AT A MEETING OF THE VAT PAPERMAKERS IN 1853

Price: $6.50 Order nr. 466

(Bird & Bull Press). Atkyns, Richards and William Caslon.

A PAIR ON PRINTING.

Introductions by Carey S. Bliss.
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1982. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. 141 pages. Introductions by Carey S. Bliss. One of 500 copies (Heaney A33). This is the first reprinting in facsimile of two important first books on printing in English. The first is Atkyns' The Original and Growth of Printing(1664) which is the first book devoted to the subject of printing; the second is William Caslon's first type specimen book, also the first English..... READ MORE about A PAIR ON PRINTING

Price: $40.00 Order nr. 1353

(Bird & Bull Press). Pfeiffer, Gordon (editor).

AN ANTHOLOGY OF DELAWARE PAPERMAKING.

With an introduction by Gordon A. Pfeiffer and four wood engravings by John DePol.
New Castle, DE: Delaware Bibliophiles and Oak Knoll Books, 1991. 8vo. quarter cloth, printed paper over boards, leather spine label. 81, (3) pages. With an introduction by Gordon A. Pfeiffer and four wood engravings by John DePol. Limited to 200 numbered copies (Berger B40). Set in Bell and printed on mouldmade paper by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press. This work is based on an original article written by Barbara Benson about the..... READ MORE about AN ANTHOLOGY OF DELAWARE PAPERMAKING

Price: $195.00 Order nr. 33045

(Bookbinding). Frigge, Karli.

LEATHER BOOKS, AN ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK.

(Joppe, Netherlands: K. Frigge, 1997). tall large 8vo. limp wrap-around cowhide binding with raised bands, slipcase. 3-90, (2) pages. Limited to 415 copies, of which this is one of 45 special signed and numbered copies. These copies are printed on Kaschmir, a fine cotton paper from Gmund, and bound with a handcrafted wrap-around binding that illustrates one of the techniques explained in the book. Frigge describes two methods of binding in leather based on sewing..... READ MORE about LEATHER BOOKS, AN ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK

Price: $1,000.00 Order nr. 73839

(Bookplates). Littlewood, Robert C.

BOOKPLATES FOR PAT CORRIGAN & FAMILY.

Melbourne, Australia: Douglas Stewart Fine Books, 2014. small folio. cloth, gilt on cover and spine, slipcase. (xii), 130 pages. Limited to 215 copies, of which this is one of 200 numbered copies bound thus. Tipped-in illustrations and photographs of Corrigan and the bookplates. Text set in Monotype Baskerville at Whittington Press, England. Includes an exclusive 90 minute interview with Pat Corrigan on DVD. Finely bound by hand in gilt-illustrated full cloth, with slipcase, at The..... READ MORE about BOOKPLATES FOR PAT CORRIGAN & FAMILY

Price: $450.00 Order nr. 132672

(Bookplates). Littlewood, Robert C.

BOOKPLATES FOR PAT CORRIGAN & FAMILY.

Melbourne, Australia: Douglas Stewart Fine Books, 2014. small folio. cloth, gilt on cover and spine, slipcase. (xii), 130 pages. Limited to 215 copies, of which this is one of 15 deluxe copies bound in full ostrich skin, contained in a cloth clamshell box, and includes a number of original bookplates signed by the respective artists. Tipped-in illustrations and photographs of Corrigan and the bookplates. Text set in Monotype Baskerville at Whittington Press, England. Includes an..... READ MORE about BOOKPLATES FOR PAT CORRIGAN & FAMILY

Price: $4,500.00 Order nr. 132746

(Boss Dog Press). Collin, Ernst & Peter Verheyen (translation).

THE BONE FOLDER.

Plains, PA: Boss Dog Press, 2017. 9" x 12" quarter leather with paste-paper covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, slipcase. 68, (3) pages. Limited to 96 copies, of which this is one of 26 lettered and signed copies bound thus. The Bone Folder is the fifth, and most ambitious, publication of the Boss Dog Press. A letterpress edition of Ernst Collin's Der Pressbengel, translated from the original German by Peter D. Verheyen, the text is..... READ MORE about THE BONE FOLDER

Price: $600.00 Order nr. 132336

(Boss Dog Press). Collin, Ernst & Peter Verheyen (translation).

THE BONE FOLDER.

Plains, PA: Boss Dog Press, 2017. 9" x 12" paste-paper covered boards, paper label on cover and spine, slipcase. 68, (3) pages. Limited to 96 copies, of which this is one of 50 numbered and signed copies. The Bone Folder is the fifth, and most ambitious, publication of the Boss Dog Press. A letterpress edition of Ernst Collins Der Pressbengel, translated from the original German by Peter D. Verheyen, the text is a dialog between..... READ MORE about THE BONE FOLDER

Price: $450.00 Order nr. 132337

(Boss Dog Press). Eberhardt, Fritz.

THREE LECTURES.

Plains, PA: Boss Dog Press, 2014. 8vo. paper-covered boards, labels on spine and front cover, top edge cut, other edges uncut. iv, 39+(1) pages. Limited to 100 numbered copies, 70 numbered and signed by Don Rash, writer of the introduction and designer of this work. Moku hanga woodblock print color frontispiece after a photograph by A. Pierce Bounds. Three lectures on bookbinding by a noted artist, bookbinder, and calligrapher. READ MORE about THREE LECTURES

Price: $225.00 Order nr. 122981

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