New York: Oswald Publishing Co., 1913. 8vo. cloth, paper spine and cover labels. (xiv), 284 pages. Third edition. Illustrated. Small ink stamp on front pastedown. READ MORE about AMERICAN HANDBOOK OF PRINTING CONTAINING IN BRIEF AND SIMPLE STYLE SOMETHING ABOUT EVERY...
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 88454
New York: Oswald Publishing Co., 1913. 8vo. cloth, paper spine and cover labels. (xiv), 284 pages. Third edition. Illustrated. Ink inscription on front free endpaper. READ MORE about AMERICAN HANDBOOK OF PRINTING CONTAINING IN BRIEF AND SIMPLE STYLE SOMETHING ABOUT EVERY...
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 99249
New York: Oswald Publishing Co., 1913. 8vo. cloth, paper spine and cover labels. (xiv), 284 pages. Third edition. Illustrated. Covers rubbed with damaged spot at top of spine. Shaken. READ MORE about AMERICAN HANDBOOK OF PRINTING CONTAINING IN BRIEF AND SIMPLE STYLE SOMETHING ABOUT EVERY...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 114332
New York: Oswald Publishing Co., 1920. 8vo. paper wrappers. 8 pages. Limited to 800 numbered copies. Presentation from Gress to James E. Creech and presentation from Creech to The Graphica on first blank page. READ MORE about ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PILGRIM NUMBER OF THE AMERICAN PRINTER
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 4524
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1989. 8vo. paper wrappers. (iv), 275-297 pages. The James Russell Wiggins lecture on the history of the book in American culture at the American Antiquarian Society. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society Volume 99 Part 2, October 1989. READ MORE about PRINTING, POLITICS, AND THE PEOPLE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 105186
3 volumes
N.P. (USA): David Gustafson, 1933-1935. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 71;47;43 pages. 3 volumes. Parts one through three, complete. These volumes represent number 3, 4 and 5 of the American Printing Industry Bulletins. Lists such figures as presidents and chairmen of printing companies, typefounderies, engraving corporations and presses. An invaluable insight into the printing world during the first third of the past century. With bookplate of Mills College Library inside front wrappers. Wrappers printed on laid..... READ MORE about WHO'S WHO IN PRINTING IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 79798
With a Bibliographical Essay by A. Edward Newton
New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921. Folio, (actual leaf 15 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches; 393 x 287 mm.). Original full black blindstamped morocco by Stikeman & Co., front cover lettered in gilt. Gilt turn-ins, grey endpapers, original slipcase. [6] pp. of text, with title-page and one initial letter printed in red. With a Bibliographical Essay by A. Edward Newton. Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed by William Edwin Rudge. (Printing and the Mind of Man..... READ MORE about A NOBLE FRAGMENT. BEING A LEAF OF THE GUTENBERG BIBLE, 1450-1455
Price: $120,000.00 Order nr. 92498
New York: The Haberule Co., (1959). square 8vo. fabric covers with plastic spiral binding. (68) pages. "A new and improved method of type calcualting which reduces to simple terms the whole complex problem of copy-casting." Text following by list of type faces and point sizes, a plastic rule inserted in a pocket in the booklet and a built in pica scale. READ MORE about HABERULE VISUAL COPY-CASTER
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 121988
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1984. 8vo. paper wrappers. 28, (2) pages. The first James Russell Wiggins lectures on the history of the American book. READ MORE about ON NATIVE GROUND: FROM THE HISTORY OF PRINTING TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 105183
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959. 8vo. cloth. xx, 388 pages. First edition. Lacking the dust jacket, spine age-darkened. Minor soiling to boards. Gustafson discusses printing and publishing. READ MORE about MADE IN NEW YORK, CASE STUDIES IN METROPOLITAN MANUFACTURING. STUDIES BY ROY B. HELFGOTT, W. ERIC...
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 19777
Advancements in the Graphic Arts.
(Rochester, NY: Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Print Media, 2002). oblong 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 245 pages. Advancements in the Graphic Arts. First and only edition which was never for sale limited to an unknown amount of copies (this copy not numbered on colophon). A fine copy in fine jacket. Contains contributions by David Avino, Dana Busch, Nicholas Minieri, Ivan Mironchuk, Matthew Poliniak, Marnie Soom, Christopher Stanger, and Benjamin Wright. Foreword by Frank J...... READ MORE about HAND OF A MASTER
Price: $300.00 Order nr. 138772
New York: Redfield, 1855. 8vo. publisher's cloth. 235, (4) pages. First edition. Foxing to preliminary pages, else a fine copy. Six lectures on the early satirists from Horace to Byron. READ MORE about SATIRE AND SATIRISTS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137355
A paper read at a Clark Library Seminar on intellectual freedom, June 19, 1976, in honor of Everett T. Moore.
Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1978. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. vii, 39 pages. A paper read at a Clark Library Seminar on intellectual freedom, June 19, 1976, in honor of Everett T. Moore. First edition. Introduction by Neal Harlow. Some soiling of covers. READ MORE about THE COLONIAL PRINTER, TWO VIEWS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 19693
Washington, DC: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 1983. 6 x 9 inches. stiff paper wrappers. 31+(1) pages. Publication accompanying a 1983 exhibition in the Hall of Printing and Graphic Arts of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Introduction, list of illustration captions, endnotes, bibliography. Black and white illustrations throughout. Corrigenda laid in. READ MORE about THE FAT AND THE LEAN, AMERICAN WOOD TYPE IN THE 19TH CENTURY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 132741
Washington: The National Museum of American History, 1997. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 145 pages. Illustrated exhibition catalogue describing 400 patent models. Spine lightly faded, else a fine copy. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about PATENT MODELS IN THE GRAPHIC ARTS COLLECTION
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 76325
Windham: Hawthorn House, (1937). 12mo. leather-backed boards. 24 pages. Limited to 350 numbered copies printed by Edmund B. Thompson at his private press. Presentation from Thompson to Frank Rea Sloan Jr. on free endpaper dated 1937 and with Sloan's bookplate. Wear at spine ends and along hinge. READ MORE about PRINTER'S COMMON-PLACE BOOK
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 8354
N.P. n.p., (1950). oblong 12mo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Song reprinted from the California Star of January 8, 1848. READ MORE about OH! IF THERE WERE NO PRINTERS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 4539
N.P. n.p., n.d. 8vo. self paper wrappers. (14) pages. Presentation from the author above title on first page "For Mr. Delbert Francis Byardus with the Compliments of George Watson Cole.". Accompanied by various clipped illustrations of printing presses and an article on printing removed from some periodical. READ MORE about THE PUBLIC AND THE PRESS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 36672
(White Plains): The Herity Press, 1961. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 16 pages. Limited to 500 copies. This book answers questions for potential Chappel members, which is a club or society of private press proprietors or personal printers which live close enough together to meet. READ MORE about THE WHYS AND THEREFORES OF A CHAPPEL
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 57140
Menlo Park, CA: The Herity Press, 1957. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (12) pages. Limited to 50 copies. An excerpt from Moxon's MECHANICK EXERCISES, London, 1683, the first manual in English on printing. Printed by Ben Lieberman at the Herity Press. READ MORE about ANCIENT CUSTOMS USED IN A PRINTING-HOUSE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 116516
N.P. Privately printed, (1971). small 8vo. leatherette. not paginated. This is a keepsake booklet, bound into leatherette, from the 65th wedding anniversary celebration for printer Clarence D. Herr and his wife Mabel. It contains family photographs, a genealogy, a history of the Herr family's printing business, and a pasted in obituary of Mr. Herr's death in 1978 at the age of 92. Bookplate, embossed name plate. READ MORE about BIOGRAPHY OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 46539
El Paso, TX: University of Texas, 1990-1992. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 8, 9 pages. No. 1, No 2, and No 4 of the Carl Hertzog Lecture Series. The Southwest Printer by Clark Kimball, The Search for Januarius MacGahan, by Dale L. Walker, and You Can Come Home Again by W. Thomas Taylor. All three in fine condition. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about CARL HERTZOG LECTURE SERIES
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 135474
(Austin, TX): Dorothy Sloan Rare Books, n.d. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Sloan's Catalogue Ten, Part Three. 1171 entries. Table of contents, introduction by Al Lowman. Includes Hertzog's work and works from his personal library. References and sources, cross references from Al Lowman's Printer at the Pass, index. Frontispiece portrait of Hertzog, black and white illustrations throughout. Price list laid in. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely..... READ MORE about THE LIBRARY AND WORK OF CARL HERTZOG PRINTER AT THE PASS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 124613
Philadelphia: Printed for Robert Cambell, Philadelphia by V. Bonsal, Wilmington, 1796. small 8vo. contemporary full calf with leather spine label. xi, (13)-226, (6) pages. READ MORE about THE BEAUTIES OF HERVEY: OR DESCRIPTIVE, PICTURESQUE AND INSTRUCTIVE PASSAGES, SELECTED FROM THE...
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 66884
Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1969. 8vo. cloth. xvi, 189 pages. Reprint of the first edition of 1895 which was limited to 375 numbered copies printed by the DeVinne Press. A fine copy. With 31 illustrations, a chronological list of printers and much other biographical information. READ MORE about SKETCHES OF PRINTERS AND PRINTING IN COLONIAL NEW YORK
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 74353
