MINUTES OF MOXON ON THE HILLTOP.
N.P. Bean Creek Press, (1981). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. Folder broadside. Foldout broadside tipped in wrappers. READ MORE about MINUTES OF MOXON ON THE HILLTOP
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 119090
N.P. Bean Creek Press, (1981). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. Folder broadside. Foldout broadside tipped in wrappers. READ MORE about MINUTES OF MOXON ON THE HILLTOP
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 119090
Weston, VT: The Countryman Press, (1938). 8vo. cloth with paper wrapper. 78, (2) pages. Limited to 750 numbered copies, signed by the author and illustrator Charles Child on colophon. Drawings by Child. Bookplate of Jean Heresholt on front pastedown. Covers and spine sunned. Small tear at top fore-edge corner of cover wrapper. READ MORE about JOHNNY PYE & THE FOOL-KILLER
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 131188
Weston, VT: The Countryman Press, (1938). 8vo. cloth with paper wrapper, slipcase. 78, (2) pages. Limited to 750 numbered copies, signed by the author and illustrator Charles Child on colophon. Spine faded, else a fine copy with the original acetate slipcase. Drawings by Child. Bookplate of Jean Heresholt on front pastedown. READ MORE about JOHNNY PYE & THE FOOL-KILLER
Price: $160.00 Order nr. 137334
New York: The Typophiles, n.d. (circa 1967). small 8vo. a single introductory pamphlet, followed by 60 pamphlets loosely inserted in a box with a wrap-around paper label. Limited to about 200 copies. Edge of slipcase cracked, else a fine, complete set. With contributions by 60 different private presses including Valenti Angelo, Leonard Bahr, Edna Beilenson, Joe Blumenthal, Jane Grabhorn, the Grovers, Emerson Wulling and Ward Ritchie. Contains the title section and the section listing all..... READ MORE about PAUL A. BENNETT PRIVATE PRESS KEEPSAKE (1897-1966), GATHERED TOGETHER BY FRIENDS AND TYPOPHILES
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 648
Nevada City: Harold Berliner, (1975). large 8vo. cloth. 47, (3) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 750 numbered copies. A fine copy. The story of a handful of Spaniards, which were washed ashore in the Gulf of Mexico in 1528, and traveled across the entire continent, barefoot and naked for eight years led by Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. It was designed by Wolfgang Lederer and printed on Curtis Ray paper in Lutetia types. READ MORE about THE POWER WITHIN US
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 60850
New York, NY: Pantheon Books, (1956). 4to. quarter cloth, paper covered boards, slipcase. unpaginated. One of 850 numbered copies signed by the author / illustrator. Printed by the Meriden Gravure Company. Composed of a collection of facsimile illustrations of imaginative views of Italy by Berman. Bookplate of Robert Elwell on front pastedown. A beautiful copy with the original decorative slipcase. READ MORE about IMAGINARY PROMENADES IN ITALY
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 135514
Engravings by John De Pol.
New York: The Privy Council Press, 1952. small 8vo. paper wrappers. (18) pages. Engravings by John De Pol. First edition, limited to 1200 copies of which this is one of the 350 numbered copies printed for the Typophiles. READ MORE about A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE BETWEEN-HOURS PRESS, BEN GRAUER PROPRIETOR
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 8424
St. Paul: The Bieler Press, 1984. 12mo. paper wrappers. (16) pages. Privately printed and limited to 200 numbered copies. Printed on Lana Laid, a French mouldmade paper. Covers are handmade Papier A Inclusions Florales. READ MORE about FIVE SMALL MEDITATIONS ON SUMMER AND BIRDS
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 57106
(Los Angeles, CA): Bieler Press, (1990). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. A short list of fine press works available at Bieler Press. READ MORE about THE BIELER PRESS CATALOGUE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 124500
Minneapolis: The Campbell-Logan Bindery, 1985. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. not paginated. Limited to 300 copies. Contains a checklist of 43 texts published by Bieler Press within a ten-year span. Some little creases and bumps at the extremities. READ MORE about THE BIELER PRESS: A CHECKLIST OF THE FIRST TEN YEARS, 1975-1985
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 97308
Minneapolis: The Bieler Press, (1985). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 67, (3) pages. Reprint of the hand-set limited edition. Sequence of 26 poems, often collages of the author's own lines with quotations from Burton, with some poems entirely the author's, sometimes in Burton's language, and one or two "composed" entirely from Burton. Many items were previously published elsewhere, in different versions and/or under different titles. With a woodcut entitled "Melancholy" taken from the Augsburg Chronicle..... READ MORE about THE COMPLEAT MELANCHOLICK, BEING A SEQUENCE OF FOUND, COMPOSITE, AND COMPOSED POEMS, BASED...
Price: $145.00 Order nr. 123518
Minneapolis, MN: The Bieler Press, (1985). 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper spine label. 67, (3) pages. Limited to 150 numbered copies, signed by author on colophon. Introductory comments, table of comments. Illustration. READ MORE about THE COMPLEAT MELANCHOLICK, BEING A SEQUENCE OF FOUND, COMPOSITE, AND COMPOSED POEMS, BASED...
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 124844
San Francisco: Fine Print, 1989. 4to. cloth, dust-jacket. (viii), 148 pages. First edition. Fine in near fine jacket. An anthology of the most interesting and informative articles published in Fine Print under the title "On Type." Covers a wide range of topics from the sixteenth century to the present day. READ MORE about FINE PRINT ON TYPE. THE BEST OF FINE PRINT MAGAZINE ON TYPE AND TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 23196
San Francisco: Fine Print, 1989. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 148 pages. First edition. The Best of Fine Print Magazine on Type and Typography. An anthology of the most interesting and informative articles published in Fine Print under the title "On Type." Covers a wide range of topics from the sixteenth century to the present day. Fine condition. READ MORE about FINE PRINT ON TYPE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 24490
The Best of Fine Print Magazine on Type and Typography.
San Francisco: Fine Print, 1989. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 148 pages. The Best of Fine Print Magazine on Type and Typography. First edition. Covers yellowed with minor shelfwear. An anthology of the most interesting and informative articles published in Fine Print under the title "On Type." Covers a wide range of topics from the sixteenth century to the present day. READ MORE about FINE PRINT ON TYPE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 104958
Oyster Bay, NY: Binnacle Press, 1962. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. (ii), 18, (4) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 600 copies printed for friends of the Binnacle Press. Designed and illustrated by John DePol. The text type is Linotype Times Roman with Bulmer display on Strathmore Text and Ivory Wove Paper. With centerfold chart of the route of the schooner "Stephen Taber" 10 to 15 July, 1961. READ MORE about LOG: FIVE DAYS ABOARD THE SCHOONER "STEPHEN TABER."
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 63708
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
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
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1971. 4to. cloth spine, marbled paper over boards, slipcase. 65, (6) pages and with envelope on inside rear cover with brass token inserted. One of 255 numbered copies (Taylor A11). Fine in fine slipcase. Designed as a collection of "various short pieces which were almost all connected in some way to papermaking or printing, and generally written in a humorous or informal manner." It contains an article on Schaeffer's..... READ MORE about THE BIRD & BULL COMMONPLACE BOOK
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 5504
Republic of San Serriffe: 1977. 9 x 10.5 inches. Single sheet. A stock certificate printed by Henry Morris for 1000 shares in the Bird & Bull Press incorporated under the laws of his mythical kingdom (Taylor C11), San Serriffe. Printed by hand at the press in two colors. READ MORE about BIRD & BULL PRESS, S.S
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 36342
With twenty-five wood engravings by Rosemary Covey.
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1993. small 4to. quarter red morocco with patterned blue cloth sides, leather spine label, clamshell box. 156, (3) pages. With twenty-five wood engravings by Rosemary Covey. Limited to 200 numbered copies (Berger A54). Printed on Arches mouldmade paper and composed in Perpetua types by Golgonooza Letter Foundry with binding by Campbell-Logan. Covey created 25 woodcuts showing Chinese street peddlers specifically for this book. Morris printed the woodcuts directly from the..... READ MORE about CALLS, SOUNDS & MERCHANDISE OF THE PEKING STREET PEDDLERS
Price: $400.00 Order nr. 39437
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1982. oblong 4to. two-sided broadside. Please note this is for the prospectus only. Limited to 350 numbered copies. Acknowledgments, prologue by Colin Franklin, endnotes. Includes facsimiles of the cover and pages from the diary. Commences on November 16, 1932, and ends on November 11, 1933. Recounts difficult times in Craig's life. READ MORE about Prospectus for GORDON CRAIG'S PARIS DIARY 1932-1933
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134680
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1977. 4to. quarter leather over paste paper-covered boards. 65 pages. Limited to 500 copies printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press on Green's Hayle paper, with the paste paper made by Morris and the binding executed by Gray Parrot. (Taylor B6). Prospectus loosely inserted. Spine faded, else a fine copy. Translated into English with an introduction and epilogue by John Fowles who has signed all copies. A thoughtful..... READ MORE about OURIKA
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 33038
N.P. Western Publishing Co., 1971 (1975). square 12mo. pictorial paper-covered boards. (26) pages. In 1979, Henry Morris published a book by Timothy Barrett on Japanese papermaking entitled Nagashizuki. Morris decided to add an additional title to the list of reference books to see if anyone ever really consulted these lists. Thus the last entry was "Wilcox, Daniel. The Invention of Paper. New York: Western Publishing Co., 1971" and was a direct reference to a little..... READ MORE about ERNIE THE CAVE KING AND SHERLOCK THE SMART PERSON IN THE INVENTION OF PAPER
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 39600
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press and Minneapolis: Daedalus Press, 1984. 8vo. quarter morocco with tips, Dutch Gilt sides reproduced from an 18th century German decorated paper, plus 14 larger facsimiles in a separate accompanying portfolio. 109 pages. Limited to 325 copies (Heaney A39). The history of this important piece of publishing ephemera from its beginning in 1610 up through the 19th century and accompanied by 24 facsimile prospectuses from 2 to 10 pages in length..... READ MORE about ENGLISH BOOK PROSPECTUSES, AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 2685