Pasadena, CA: Clinker Press, The, n.d. (but c. 1995). small 4to. broadside. Privately printed by Andre Chaves as a commemorative broadside celebrating the 5th anniversary of Book Alley, a used bookstore in Pasadena, CA. This particular broadside has an excerpt from a 1912 Arthur H. Clark Catalog. READ MORE about 5TH ANNIVERSARY OF BOOK ALLEY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 134811
(Pasadena, CA): Clinker Press, The, n.d. (but c. 1999). slim small folio. broadside. Privately printed by Andre Chaves as a commemorative broadside celebrating the 9th anniversary of Book Alley, a used bookstore in Pasadena, CA. This particular broadside has a quote by John Muir. READ MORE about CELEBRATING THE 9TH ANNIVERSARY OF BOOK ALLEY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 134746
(Pasadena, CA): Clinker Press, The, n.d. small folio. Broadside. Privately printed by Andre Chaves of The Clinker Press. This features an engraving and quote by William Blake. READ MORE about NO BIRD SOARS TOO HIGH, IF HE SOARS WITH HIS OWN WINGS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 134759
Pasadena, CA: The Clinker Press, (2000). 4to. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, gilt-stamped spine and front cover, bottom edge uncut. iv, 7, (3) pages. Limited to 50 numbered copies. Introduction by Andre Chaves. Reprint of an article in The International Studio LIX:233 (July 1916). Bound by David Weinstein tipped-in specimen precedes text. READ MORE about PRINTING WITH WOOD BLOCKS
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 129846
(Pasadena, CA: The Clinker Press, 2010). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (8) pages. Limited to 200 copies. Hunter's work in pouch on the back of a broadside (10 1/2 by 7 3/4 inches) with illustration of the Hunter papermill, 1912-1918. Includes a poem by Hans Sachs (1568) and endnotes. READ MORE about ANCIENT HANDMADE PAPER
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 129831
Pasadena, CA: The Clinker Press, (1999). 4to. cloth, dust jacket, decorated endpapers, fore-edge uncut. (ii), 11, (7) pages. Limited to 60 numbered copies. Illustrations by printer Andre Chaves. Bound by David Weinstein. Reprinted from The House Beautifle, XV, 4 (December 1903). Commentary follows text. Bibliography. READ MORE about THE STRUCTURAL STYLE IN CABINET MAKING
Price: $80.00 Order nr. 129840
Pasadena, CA: Clinker Press, (2001). folio. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, cloth tie. unpaginated. Limited to 50 numbered copies, signed by printer Andre Chaves on colophon. A collection of twenty prints of this influential Mexican atelier. Includes an illustrated booklet with introductions by Andre Chaves and Dermot Begley. The TGP was an artists' print collective founded in Mexico in 1937. The subjects of the prints vary from the mystical to the political. READ MORE about TGP EL TALLER DE GRÁFICA POPULAR (THE WORKSHOP FOR POPULAR GRAPHIC ART
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 129880
n.p. (but Pasadena, CA): Clinker Press, n.d. oblong folio. broadside. Designed and privately printed by Andre Chaves of The Clinker Press for The Ruskin Club. Hand-set on a ludlow printer. Features a poem by James Merrill. READ MORE about AN UPWARD LOOK - A DOWNWARD LOOK
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 134779
Pasadena, CA: The Clinker Press, (1999). 8vo. illustrated cloth. (vi), 19, (5) pages. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed on colophon by printer Andre Chaves. Author's note precedes text. Illustrations by Chaves. Bound by David Weinstein. Reprint of an article first published in California Design. Printed on Dard Hunter II paper. READ MORE about THE ARROYO CULTURE
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 129847
Berlin and Williamstown, MA: Triton Verlag and the Chapin Library, Williams College, 2005. 4to. cloth, slipcase. 456 pages. First edition in English (from the 2004 German edition). The Cranach Press, though located in Germany, was inspired by and became an integral product of the English private press movement. Following advice from Emery Walker, new typefaces were drawn by Edward Johnston and cut by Edward Prince and George Friend; then Harry Gage-Cole was called in as..... READ MORE about THE BOOK AS A WORK OF ART, THE CRANACH PRESS OF COUNT HARRY KESSLER
Price: $290.00 Order nr. 88729
3 volumes.
Washington, DC: David Bruce Smith, 2004 (2012). folio. cloth, hand bound and loosely inserted in custom made leather clamshell case. variously paginated. 3 volumes. First edition and one of 750 numbered copies. The original run was for 1,500 numbered copies, however in 2012 the decision was made to only bind 750 copies with the new and improved leather clamshell box as opposed to the previous faux-suede clamshell box and faux-suede cloth chamise. Three-volume collection containing..... READ MORE about TENNESSEE
Price: $3,000.00 Order nr. 110148
Hartford: Watkinson Library, Trinity College, 2014. 6 x 9 inches. paperback. 64 pages. This checklist of contemporary artists' books at the Watkinson Library comprises a collection of roughly 300 titles spanning from the 1970s to the present. Entries are arranged by artist within categories relating to production methods, and include a short bibliographic description. With 12 color illustrations. Limited edition of 250 copies designed by Michael Russem at Kat Ran Press. READ MORE about ARTISTS' BOOKS IN THE WATKINSON LIBRARY: A CHECKLIST
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 122544
Barcelona, Spain: Granja Grafica, 2011. oblong 8vo. cloth, slipcase in cardboard clamshell box. 367+(1) pages. Text in English, Catalan, Spanish, German, and Italian. Limited to 200 numbered copies. The works of bookplate deisgner Father Oriol Maria Diví. Texts by M. Carme Illa, Joan Roig, and Sergi Mas. Published under the direction of Elies Plana. Binding and slipcase made in the studio of Eusebi Gregori in Barcelona. With Diví's signature on the first bookplate print. Table..... READ MORE about ORIOL MARIA DIVÍ EX-LIBRIS
Price: $400.00 Order nr. 122884
2 volumes.
Neu Isenburg: Edition Tiessen, n.d. (1996). oblong small 8vo. stapled, stiff paper wrappers. (36); (30) pages. 2 volumes. Two catalogues from Edition Tiessen, the first listing 29 books and 3 "special publications" (items distributed gratis to established customers) from the Ed. Tiessen, plus 2 sets (1962-73 & 1974-1986) of catalogues from the "Versandbuchhandlung Wolfgang Tiessen," with 84 illustrations, an introduction by W. Tiessen, and reprints of two reviews or excerpts of reviews of the Ed..... READ MORE about EDITION TIESSEN, LIEFERBARE BUCHER I / II
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 50373
Pinner, Middlesex: Private Libraries Association, 2009. 7.25 x 10.75 in. hardcover. 328 pages. The book consists of a detailed history of the Press and a full bibliography of its publications and ephemera, tracing the venture from its origins in Sydney, Australia, in the early 1920s, to success in London from 1926, and its final dissolution in 1930. The Press was notable for the literary input of its proprietor Jack Lindsay, working initially with John Kirtley..... READ MORE about THE FANFROLICO PRESS: SATYRS, FAUNS AND FINE BOOKS
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 101286
(Llahnstein: FlugBlatt-Presse, 1996). small 4to. accordion fold with stiff paper boards. 42, (2) pages. First edition, limited to 60 signed and numbered copies. The text, by Peter Posei, is printed over 22 original black-and-white photographs by Ines v. Ketelhodt. The photographs feature a nude body, framed and lit to evoke a day landscape when the accordion-folded book is read from one direction and a night landscape when read from the other. Printed over the "landscapes"..... READ MORE about UNSER LANDSCHAFTSBERICHT
Price: $480.00 Order nr. 62819
With a Foreword by L.F. Thompson.
Merrickville: Greyweathers Press, 2010. 4to. cloth-backed paper covered boards, paper cover and spine labels. 6, 13 wood cuts, (2) pages. With a Foreword by L.F. Thompson. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies. Wood engravers toiling away at their trade during the last quarter of the nineteenth century could be forgiven for feeling a touch of despair. Since the early 1800s, they had practiced a viable trade, with graver in hand over an endgrain block..... READ MORE about GRAVEN IMAGES: A PORTFOLIO OF NINETEENTH CENTURY WOOD ENGRAVINGS PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL BLOCKS
Price: $135.00 Order nr. 105925
Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1954. 12mo. self paper wrappers. 12 pages. A biographical sketch of this noted private pressman. READ MORE about VICTOR HAMMER, CALLIGRAPHER, PUNCH-CUTTER, & PRINTER
Price: $7.50 Order nr. 53911
Baltimore, MD: Hill Press, 2019. 8vo. leather. (iv), vi, 44, (2) pages. First edition limited to 60 numbered copies, of which this copy is one of 9 copies bound in full leather by the Don Rash of Boss Dog Press. This book seeks to establish the relationship between Dutch-inspired type faces and English prayer books. Essays included are 'Hendrik van den Keere: an Exceptionally Gifted Craftsman', by Guy Hutsebaut; 'Peter de Walpergen, His Training and..... READ MORE about DUTCH TYPES USED IN THE ENGLISH BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER: 1911 - 1930
Price: $800.00 Order nr. 134707
Oldham: Incline Press, 2000. square 8vo. decorated paper wrappers with a paper cover label. (10) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 100 numbered copies. This is the sixth New Year Booklet published by the Incline Press, which features Helen Binyon's Chinese shadow tiger one of the shadow puppets she uses in her shows. It includes two illustrations of the tiger, one being a line drawing and the other a print in yellow, brown and..... READ MORE about HELEN BINYON'S TIGER
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 60776
N.P. Incline Press, 1997. tall thin 8vo. paper wrappers. (iv), 10 pages. Printed in an edition limited to 200 numbered copies signed by the author. This is the first of occasional series of short stories by modern authors, this one including 14 stories by Robert Graham. It is illustrated with hand-coloured lino-cuts by Peter Allen. READ MORE about PLAYING GERSHWIN
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 60786
New York: The Inkwell Press, 1993. small 4to. cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards. (x), 118, (2) pages. Limited to 150 numbered copies signed by Torre. The third book in Torre's series of three books on fables. Printed by hand on American etching paper with illustrations printed from the block and colored. Bound by hand. Sixteen fables and tales each accompanied by a colored woodcut. While serving in the US Navy, 1951-1954, stationed on the USS Orion..... READ MORE about VERSE & FABLES, WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY VINCENT TORRE
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 126202
New York: Inkwell Library, The, (1969). 8vo. decorated yellow cloth. (x), 68, (2) pages. First edition, signed by Torre on the colophon page. Seventeen of Aesop's fables, retold in rhyme, illustrated and decorated by Vincent Torre. Text and charming drawings in black, framed with woodcut borders of leaf, flower and fruit motifs in ochre. While serving in the US Navy, 1951-1954, stationed on the USS Orion, Torre printed his first books under the imprint of..... READ MORE about AESOP'S FABLES
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 47520
2 volumes.
Berlin: Triton, 2000. 4to. linen-covered boards, both volumes enclosed in a linen slipcase. 391,(3) pages; 20 inserts in portfolio. 2 volumes. Printed in an edition of 2000 copies. Volume I of a series of three installments, not yet completed. Praised as "a masterpiece of book production" and "a product of enthusiasts" by critic Wilfried F. Schoeller, the book traces the early 20th-century history of the Insel publishing house. Insel earned its renown by turning book..... READ MORE about VOM ORNAMENT ZUR LINIE, DER FRÜHE INSEL-VERLAG 1899 BIS 1924
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 63454
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 10.5 x 8 inches. Cloth, dust jacket. 232 pages. "Alastair Johnston's engaging and all-embracing survey of California printing takes us from its early beginnings in the 1870s (San Francisco's first type foundry opened in 1874), and covers all the printers we encountered in California, including himself, and a great many others besides." - John Randle, Matrix "Through the lens of Johnson¡¦s expertise, we again see how fine art..... READ MORE about DREAMING ON THE EDGE: POETS AND BOOK ARTISTS IN CALIFORNIA
Price: $65.00 save 30% $45.50 Order nr. 128359
