London, England: Staples Press, (1949). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 287+(1) pages. First edition. Table of contents, acknowledgments, preface, bibliography, index. Specimens of business forms, including foldouts, tipped in. Dust jacket lightly soiled and chipped. READ MORE about ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT FOR MASTER PRINTERS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 125174
Eighteenth-Centruy Prints from the Winterthur Museum
Alexandria: Art Services International, (1991). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 216 pages. Eighteenth-Centruy Prints from the Winterthur Museum. A visual history in microcosm of the period of colonial growth, revolution, and an emerging national image. From the Winterthur collection, the exhibit emphasizes the point that many of these prints were used as household furnishings, some traveling in original frames, others accompanied by ceramics and furniture that added to the enjoyment and enlightenment eighteenth-century Americans found in..... READ MORE about TO PLEASE EVERY TASTE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 104838
New York: Bobbs - Merrill Co., (1917). 8vo. cloth. (ii), 404 pages. First edition. Everything you needed to know in order to run a successful printing business at the beginning of the 20th century. Illustrated. Spot at bottom of spine. Bookplate. READ MORE about PRINTING FOR PROFIT
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 4120
New York, NY: privately printed, 1966. 12mo. cloth, glassine dust jacket. vi, 7-30, (4) pages. Typophiles Monographs No. 80. A keepsake published in connection with The Celebration of Printing Week, New York, commemorating the 260th anniversary of Franklin's birth. Foreword by Charles V. Morris. List of contributors includes John Depol. Illustrated. READ MORE about ARTICLES OF BELIEF
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 119128
Cleveland: The Imperial Press, 1903. 8vo. cloth-backed marbled boards, paper spine label. (viii), 118, (2) pages. First edition, limited to 935 copies. (Hart no. 118). "An important book in establishing the recognition of printing in the reaction after Morris's death." Label chipped along edges and with spot. Unopened copy. READ MORE about PRINTING IN RELATION TO GRAPHIC ART
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 13350
München: Typographischen Gesellschaft, 1991. 8vo. paper wrappers. 30, (6) pages. Speech celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Munich Typographical Society. READ MORE about FESTVORTRAG ZUM 100JAHRIGEN BESTEHEN DER TYPOGRAPHISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 50603
N.P. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, 1961. tall 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 198 pages. A study of bookselling. Covers soiled. READ MORE about BUCH IN DER GEGENWART, EINE EMPIRISCH-SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTLICHE UNTERSUCH
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 31711
N.P. American Library Association, 1939. 4to. self paper wrappers. 8 pages. Brief descriptions of those principles which go into good book production. Folded. READ MORE about ESTHETICS OF BOOK MANUFACTURE, ILLUSTRATIONS FOR A TALK TO LIBRARIANS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 18724
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1946. 12mo. cloth. iv, 145-207+(1) pages. No. 8 in "Printing Theory and Practice" series under the general editorship of John C. Tarr. Different kinds of mechanical feeders and their operation. List of titles in the series, table of contents, author's note. Black and white illustrations throughout. Boards tanned with very light tanning at edges of text. READ MORE about MECHANICAL FEEDERS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 114265
2 volumes.
Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, 1920. tall 8vo. original stiff paper wrappers, enclosed in cloth slipcase. xii,240; iv,148 pages. 2 volumes. An excellent guide to the information available on the book including its binding, bibliography, library science, etc. Chipped around edges. READ MORE about HANDBUCH DER WISSENSCHAFTLICHEN BIBLIOTHEKSKUNDE
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 8877
New York: Burt Franklin, (1970). small 8vo. cloth. xiv, 343 pages. Reprint of the 1899 first edition. Chapters on Public Libraries, the British Museum catalogue, a Universal catalogue, the introduction of European printing into the East, Paraguayan and Argentine Bibliography, the early Italian book trade, the manufacture of fine paper in England and biographies of Panizzi, Jones, Stevens, and Bond. Part of "The Library Series" edited by Garnett. READ MORE about ESSAYS IN LIBRARIANSHIP AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 45589
2 volumes.
(Oxford: Oxford University Press), 1952. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pg. 77-110;149-177. 2 volumes. Article from "The Library" begins in Fifth series, Vol VII, No.2, June 1952, continued in Fifth Series, Vol. VII, No.3, September 1952. Both have some wear on spine and No. 2 has some creasing, both are slightly soiled. READ MORE about ". EARLY WORK OF THE FOULIS PRESS AND THE WILSON FOUNDRY."
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 102825
Edited by Rev. Joseph Hunter
London: Thomas Thorpe, 1832. 8vo. original cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Gent; iv, 208 pages. Edited by Rev. Joseph Hunter. First edition. (Bigmore & Wyman I, 260). "A very interesting biography of a distinguished country printer. It contains also a number of details relative to the history of typography during the second half of the eighteenth century." Thorpe found this manuscript in an Irish collection he had purchased. Gent had written the manuscript in 1746, 32..... READ MORE about THE LIFE OF MR. THOMAS GENT, PRINTER, OF YORK WRITTEN BY HIMSELF
Price: $325.00 Order nr. 96430
Berlin: Fachverlag Schiele & Schön GmbH, 1960. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 227+(1) pages. On the basics of printing. Four printing samples inserted in pocket on rear pastedown. Numerous illustrations throughout. Indexed. Tape repair to jacket. READ MORE about UMGANG MIT DER SCHWARZEN KUNST
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 48963
Moscow: Kniga, 1982. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, illustration on front board. 149, (3) pages. Text in Russian. Part of "Istoriia Knizhnogo Iskusstva" series. Foldout frontispiece. History of Russian woodcut book illustration in the first third of the 19th century. Illustrated throughout. Three foldout illustrations. Six tipped-in color illustrations. Introduction, Biographical sketches of authors, editors and illustrators. Endnotes and listing of illustrations. Library of Congress catalogue entry laid in. Boards lightly soiled. READ MORE about EPOKHA POLITIPAZHEI: RUSSKOE TIPOGRAFSKOE ISKUSSTVO PERVOI TRETI XIX VEKI (EPOCH OF WOODCUTS:...
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 108122
Frankfurt am Main: Polygraph Verlag, (1976). square 8vo. cloth. (viii), 144, (4) pages. Discussion of the advances in printing that had occurred during the period. With two samples of gold leaf printing, one of raised printing and a foldout example of color work. Text in German. READ MORE about BEITRÄGE ZUR TECHNIKGESCHICHTE DES BUCHWESENS, KLEINE SCHRIFTEN 1969-1976
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 4168
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1900. small 4to. original paper-covered boards, paper cover and spine labels. xi, 119 pages. First edition (Hart no.75). With 56 illustrations. Contains many biographical sketches and reproductions of portraits of booksellers and printers. Chipped around edges with paper along hinges partially split. Covers soiled. Bumped corners. Spine cracked down the center. READ MORE about NOTES ON PRINTERS AND BOOKSELLERS WITH A CHAPTER ON CHAP BOOKS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 1534
N.P. The Composing Room, n.d. square 12mo. self paper wrappers. 17, (3) pages. A prose meditation on letters, typography, and printing. Text in English. READ MORE about CÉLÉBRATION DE LA LETTRE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 51018
Baltimore: The Williams and Wilkins Company, 1940. 12mo. cloth. iv, 76 pages. A guide to navigating the process of publishing and printing books. Table of contents. Spine lightly faded. READ MORE about THE AUTHOR PUBLISHER PRINTER COMPLEX
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 115491
Glasgow: Scottish Typographical Association, 1953. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. Color Frontispiece; xv, 268 pages. First edition. Introduction by Thomas Johnston. Nineteen separate chapters covering the Scottish printing industry from 1507 up through 1952. The appendixes reprints the rules of the association as of 1841, gives a list of General Secretaries and has a table of benefits paid over the period 1853 to 1952. Small chip in jacket along back hinge at top. READ MORE about A HUNDRED YEARS OF PROGRESS, THE RECORD OF THE SCOTTISH TYPOGRAPHICAL AS SOCIATION, 1853 TO 1952
Price: $22.50 Order nr. 97316
Petersburg (VA): n.p., 1965. small 4to. (iv), 72 pages. Bibliography of 1,000+ books "of definite Methodist interest" with price ranges, and a list of 147 "printers, publishers, and booksellers of Methodist related materials published in America prior to 1800." Reproduced typescript. Several facsimile illustrations. Slight looseness of binding before title page. READ MORE about METHODIST BOOK PRICES 1955-65
Price: $22.00 Order nr. 54411
Cleveland: World Publishing Co., (1960). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (xiv), 484 pages. First edition. Over 2600 definitions arranged alphabetically with many illustrations. Fine condition. READ MORE about AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BOOK, TERMS USED IN PAPER-MAKING, PRINTING, BOOKBINDING AND PUBLISHING...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 6413
With a new introduction by Doanld Farren.
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 1996. small 4to. paperback. 576 pages. With a new introduction by Doanld Farren. Paperback edition. Covers faded. Ink ownership inscription on half-title. READ MORE about THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BOOK
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 42511
London: George Allen and Unwin, (1960). thick small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (xiv), 484 pages. First edition. Four samples of marbled paper tipped-in. Jacket shows minor chipping. READ MORE about GLOSSARY OF THE BOOK, TERMS USED IN PAPER-MAKING, PRINTING BOOKBINDING AND PUBLISHING WITH NOTES...
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 16025
1940. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp.17-67. Issued as a separate from the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. READ MORE about DATES IN CERTAIN GERMAN INCUNABULA
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 114434
