Mainz: Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 1938. 8vo. paper wrappers. 44, (4) pages. Speech at the 1937 meeting of the Gutenberg-Gesellschaft. With a bookplate that indicates that this copy came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus. READ MORE about DAS LITERARISCHE DENKMAL FÜR GUTENBERG
Price: $22.50 Order nr. 48828
Berlin, Germany: A. Asher & Co., 1890. 8vo. later quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards. (x), 136 pages. Foreword, table of contents, index. No. IV in the "Collection of Scientific Works" series, edited by the author. Footnotes in text. Eight plates, black and white illustrations in text. Covers rubbed and scuffed at edges. READ MORE about GUTENBERGS FRÜHESTE DRUKERPRAXIS
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 126237
Budapest: Móra Könyvkiadó, 1973. 12mo. paper-covered boards. 166, (3) pages. Text in Hungarian. Biography of Johnnes Gutenberg. Black and white illustrations throughout. Genealogical chart and chronology of Gutenberg's life. Back inside hinge cracked. READ MORE about IGY ELT GUTENBERG
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 107715
Paris: L. Hachette et Cie, 1853. small 8vo. original paper wrappers. (iv), 49+(1), 8 pages. First edition (Bigmore & Wyman I, p.417). Published as part of the Bibliotheque des Chemins de Fer. A romantic tale about Gutenberg written by the poet Alphonse Lamartine. Shelf label at top of front wrapper. Spine split and partially lost, bookplate on front pastedown, foxed. READ MORE about GUTENBERG, INVENTEUR DE L'IMPRIMERIE
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 43523
N.P. n.p., (1962). 4to. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. (ii), 20 pages. Typescript translation from German of "Gutenberg und der Meister der Spielkarten" in Gutenberg Jahrbuch, 1962. References to illustrations in the original text and footnotes untranslated but keyed to the original text. Text on recto only. Boards fading. READ MORE about GUTENBERG AND THE MASTER OF THE PLAYING CARDS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 115069
Mainz: Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 1932. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. 24, (2) pages. A play about Gutenberg, written for the 1932 Gutenberg festival. READ MORE about JOHANNISWUNDER
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 48460
Konstanz: Carl Hirsch, n.d. circa 1900. large 12mo. original cloth-backed paper-covered boards, large pictorial paper label on the front cover depicting Gutenberg at his press. 124 pages. A child's biography of Gutenberg. Includes a frontispiece and three color plates by Wilhelm Rheinen. All in German. READ MORE about GUTENBERG UND SEINE ERFINDUNG
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 59664
N.P. n.p., n.d. (circa 1965). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 68-72. Offprint from Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1965. With two full page reproductions of the page discussed. READ MORE about ANOTHER VARIANT PAGE IN THE GUTENBERG BIBLE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 106257
Mainz: Karl Pressler, 1970. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 426-484 plus 1 plate. Offprint from Essays in Honour of Victor Scholderer. Considers the presence of Gutenberg typeface in the work of "Monogrammist d"'s prints. Several black-and-white plates; one color plate tipped-in. READ MORE about GUTENBERGS TYPOGRAPHI UND DIE TEIGDRUCKE DES MONOGRAMMISTEN d
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 77018
Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1972. 8vo. self paper wrappers. 47+(1) pages. Text in German. Current State of Gutenberg Research, No. 1 in a series of monographs. A study of Gutenberg's work in the decade after 1453. Inscribed by the author in pencil. READ MORE about DER GEGENWÄRTIGE STAND DER GUTENBERG-FORSCHUNG
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 115343
Mainz: Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 1930. 8vo. paper wrappers. 19, (3) pages. A short story about Gutenberg's creative vision. Wrappers chipped, discolored, and detached. READ MORE about GUTENBERGS SCHOPFERTRAUM
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 50594
London: British Museum, 1963. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 32 pages and 16 plates. First edition. Some of the plates are in full color. Bookseller ticket inside front cover. Near fine. READ MORE about JOHANN GUTENBERG, THE INVENTOR OF PRINTING
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 8004
Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1972. 8vo. cloth. xii, 302, (2) pages. With contributions by Goodrich, Corsten, Geck, Geldner, Friederichs, Hellinga, Swierk, Widmann and others. With a bookplate that indicates that this copy came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus. READ MORE about DER GEGENWARTIGE STAND DER GUTENBERG-FORSCHUNG
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 31172
(Aldershot): Scholar Press, (1996). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 331+(1) pages. First edition in English. A biography of Johannes Gutenberg, covering both his personal life and his achievements. Well illustrated with photographs, diagrams, drawings and facsimile pages, many in full color. With end notes, chronology, suggested readings, glossary, indexed by name and subject. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned, else fine. Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about JOHANN GUTENBERG, THE MAN AND HIS INVENTION
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 93704
Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann, 1947. small 4to. cloth-backed boards. 230 pages. Second edition, revised. Study of Gutenberg. Spine shows some spotting. Inside hinges cracked. READ MORE about JOHANNES GUTENBERG, SEIN LEBEN UND SEIN WERK
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 30567
London: British Museum, 1970. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 32 pages and 18 plates. Second edition, revised. Some of the plates are in full color. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about JOHANN GUTENBERG, THE INVENTOR OF PRINTING
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 45603
Mainz: Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 1930. tall 8vo. paper wrappers, paper cover label. 21, (3) pages. Kleiner Druck 14. Some cover wear. READ MORE about ERFINDUNG DER DRUCKKUNST UND IHRE ERSTE AUSBREITUNG IN DEN LÄNDERN EUROPAS
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 31075
Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, (1967). 8vo. cloth. xiv, 105 pages. First edition. Well-annotated guide to the literature on the subject. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about PRINTING AND THE BOOK IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SURVEY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 13857
Oldham, England, and St. Johns, NL, Canada: Incline Press and Running the Goat, 2007-2009. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut. 16, (4) pages. Limited to 250 copies. Introduction, poem by James Logie Robinson, essay by Douglas Graham. Frontispiece illustration of Androw Myllar's device. Illustration from Robert Dickson, The Introduction of the Art of Printing into Scotland (1885) on colophon. READ MORE about TO CELEBRATE FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF SCOTTISH PRINTING 1507-1509
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 132297
Tony Savage and the Leicester Broadsheets
Oldham, England: Incline Press, 2005. folio. cloth spine, paper-covered boards, stiff paper portfolio, slipcase. (v), 73, (2) pages. Tony Savage and the Leicester Broadsheets. Limited to an edition of 200 copies. The ten sheets in the folder are genuine. However, the tipped-in sheets (as explained in the Acknowledgements) were all forged at the Incline Press. All of the forgeries differ from the original is some major respect: typeface, paper and use of color in paper..... READ MORE about A PAPER SNOWSTORM
Price: $425.00 Order nr. 91306
England: Incline Press, 1999. 16mo. paper wrappers. 10, (2) pages. An extract from a talk given to the Typophiles, New York in 1999. A discussion on buying second hand type. Illustrated with letters of the alphabet. READ MORE about I AM NOT A TYPE COLLECTOR
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 58721
Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1933. 8vo. cloth, leather spine label. xxiv, 362 pages. Limited to 850 copies printed by the Lakeside Press. 1794 entries. Spine label rubbed. Bookplate. READ MORE about A CHECK LIST OF FIFTEENTH CENTURY BOOKS IN THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY AND IN OTHER LIBRARIES OF CHICAGO
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 15821
La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff, 1889. 8vo. original paper wrappers. iv, 29 pages. Third supplement to expand the bibliography of fifteenth century books printed in the Netherlands (Besterman 5160). Entries accompanied by brief commentaries. Laid paper, uncut pages. Spine rubbed. Edges of cover slightly discolored and occasionally chipped. READ MORE about ANNALES DE LA TYPOGRAPHIE NEERLANDAISE AU XVe SIECLE, 3rd SUPPLEMENT
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 76907
La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff, 1890. 8vo. original paper wrappers. vi, 5 pages. Fourth supplement to expand the bibliography of fifteenth century books printed in the Netherlands (Besterman 5160). Entries accompanied by brief commentaries. Laid paper, uncut pages. Covers detached and chipped. Edges slightly discolored. READ MORE about ANNALES DE LA TYPOGRAPHIE NEERLANDAISE AU XVe SIECLE, 4th SUPPLEMENT
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 76908
Stockholm: (Almqvist & Wiksells), 1914. folio. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 88 pages. First edition. The plate volume of part I (of three), each volume self contained.This volume contains illustrations from 150 examples of early printing. Wear along edges. Unopened copy. READ MORE about KATALOG DER INKUNABELN DER KGL BIBLIOTHEK IN STOCKHOLM. TIEL 1, TAFELN 1-150
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 123612
