Results for: Fine Press Books

Duncan, Harry.

DOORS OF PERCEPTION, ESSAYS IN BOOK TYPOGRAPHY.

Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor, 1987. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 99, (3) pages. Second printing, reprinted from the first edition which was limited to only 325 copies. Five provocative essays describe Duncan's ideal in his own life and explores its implications for today's hand-printer and for future generations interested in typography and printing. This popular book contains essays on the Cummington Press, The Technology of Hand Printing, The Art of the Printed Book, My..... READ MORE about DOORS OF PERCEPTION, ESSAYS IN BOOK TYPOGRAPHY

Price: $16.50 Order nr. 63597

Farrell, David.

COLLEGIATE BOOK ARTS PRESSES, A NEW CENSUS OF PRINTING PRESSES IN AMERICAN COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES.

With a Foreword by Harry Duncan.
San Francisco: Fine Print, 1982. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 46 pages. With a Foreword by Harry Duncan. Describes the presses and the equipment they have. READ MORE about COLLEGIATE BOOK ARTS PRESSES, A NEW CENSUS OF PRINTING PRESSES IN AMERICAN COLLEGES &...

Price: $13.00 Order nr. 16314

Field, Eugene.

PENN-YAN BILL'S WOOING.

(Boston: The Bibliophile Society), 1914. small 8vo. half vellum with paper-covered boards and gilt-stamped lettering on cover. 15+(1) pages. Privately printed for The Bibliophile Society in an unstated number of copies. Previously printed in Hoosier Lyrics, 1905, and My Book, 1905 (Blanck,p.136). Prefaced with a letter to the legendary book collector William K. Bixby (1857-1931) from the previous owner of the manuscript,, the original model of Penn-Yan Bill, who mentions that Field wrote the poem..... READ MORE about PENN-YAN BILL'S WOOING

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 70844

Fulton, Len.

THE PSYCHOLOGIQUE OF SMALL PRESS PUBLISHING.

New Brunswick: Graduate School of Library Service, 1976. 4to. self paper wrappers. iv, 16 pages. Rutgers University GSLS Occasional Papers No. 76-3. Introduction by Benjamin Weintraub. Offers a personal perspective on small press publishing. READ MORE about THE PSYCHOLOGIQUE OF SMALL PRESS PUBLISHING

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 116063

Ganick, Peter.

EX-FINITE: DANGER'S DANCER.

(Saratoga, CA): Instress, 1998. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. A collection of poetry. Color illustration on title. READ MORE about EX-FINITE: DANGER'S DANCER

Price: $60.00 Order nr. 133547

Goudy, Fred W. and Will H. Ransom.

VILLAGE PRESS.

(New York: Press of the Whooly Whale, 1938). 8vo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Facsimile printed in black and red of a type specimen circular, the first piece of printing issued by The Village Press. Prepared for participants in the Pilgrimage to Deepdene, July 23, 1938, in celebration of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the press. "This is the first showing of a new type designed by Mr. Goudy for the exclusive use of the Village..... READ MORE about VILLAGE PRESS

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 63881

Hawthorne, Roger.

UNIQUE PRINT SHOP IS FOUND ON CAPE COD.

Barnstable, MA: Harrison C. Kerr, 1964. 12mo. paper wrappers. 10 leaves. Third edition. Short article on Harrison C. Kerr's Clam Flat Press. Illustrated with artwork by Marsden Lore. READ MORE about UNIQUE PRINT SHOP IS FOUND ON CAPE COD

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 51095

Hulbert, Linda Ray.

CALIFORNIA HOURS.

Los Angeles: Hulbert & Barrett Books, 1982. small 4to. quarter cloth with label pasted on spine and paper-covered boards. (iv), 8 (2) pages. Printed by offset lithography in an edition limited to 500 copies and signed by the author. Designed by Bonnie Ruth Barrett and set in Trump Medieval by RS Typographics. Bound by hand at Hulbert & Barrett Books. Poetry. READ MORE about CALIFORNIA HOURS

Price: $12.00 Order nr. 62870

Humfleet, Betty Nash.

MOTHER GOOSE WITH BLOCK PRINTS.

Port Angeles, WA: Printery Farm, (1990). 12mo. decorated cloth, paper cover label. (64) pages. Alternating Mother Goose rhymes with blockprints by Humfleet. READ MORE about MOTHER GOOSE WITH BLOCK PRINTS

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 105630

Johnson, Bonnie.

THE JUNGLE BOOK.

(Clarence Center, NY): Textile Bridge Press, (1983). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (20) pages. Textile Bridge Little Book No. 2. A collection of poetry. Biographical sketch of the author follows text. Black and white photograph of author on back cover. READ MORE about THE JUNGLE BOOK

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 132755

Johnston, Paul (editor).

THE BOOK COLLECTOR'S PACKET.

(Meriden, CT: for The Crow's Nest), 1932-1933, 1938-1939, 1945-1946. 4to. issues loosely inserted in quarter leather, cloth clamshell box. variously paginated. A monthly review of fine books, bibliography, and typography published monthly. This set includes all 41 issues from March 1932 to June 1946, Volumes 1 through 3. Includes March-September, November-December 1932; February-June/July 1933; April-July 1938; September 1938-December 1939. Volume 4 includes issues 1-10. Some issues tanned at edges. READ MORE about THE BOOK COLLECTOR'S PACKET

Price: $350.00 Order nr. 130104

Kemble, John.

SPECIMEN OF AN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN MITCHELL KEMBLE.

St. Paul: Rulon-Miller Books, 1990. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label, slipcase. 61 pages. Limited to 100 copies. Kemble was the foremost philologist of his day, and this text is taken from the recently discovered eight-page manuscript which was dated 1830, three years before his edition of Beowulf. No trace of the actual dictionary itself is known, but this specimen is a fitting tribute to Kemble's work in etymology. Printed by hand under the direction of..... READ MORE about SPECIMEN OF AN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN MITCHELL KEMBLE

Price: $450.00 Order nr. 34666

Kenfield, Warren Goeffrey.

THE PROGRAMME FOR TCHAIKOVSKY'S FIFTH SYMPHONY.

(Iowa City, IA: The Prairie Press, 1970). 8vo. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards, dust jacket, top edge cut, other edges uncut. 31, (5) pages. Limited to 300 numbered copies, signed by Frank E. Egler. A manuscript by Kenfield written early 1888 in Kenfield, Paris. With a history of the manuscript by Egler. Cloth portion of boards stained near front top. READ MORE about THE PROGRAMME FOR TCHAIKOVSKY'S FIFTH SYMPHONY

Price: $45.00 Order nr. 130370

Kenfield, Warren Goeffrey.

THE PROGRAMME FOR TCHAIKOVSKY'S FIFTH SYMPHONY.

(Iowa City, IA: The Prairie Press, 1970). 8vo. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards, top edge cut, other edges uncut. 31, (5) pages. Limited to 300 copies, unsigned and not numbered. A manuscript by Kenfield written early 1888 in Kenfield, Paris. With a history of the manuscript by Egler. Cloth portion of boards stained near front top. READ MORE about THE PROGRAMME FOR TCHAIKOVSKY'S FIFTH SYMPHONY

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 130371

King, Larry L.

THE TERRIBLE NIGHT SANTA GOT LOST IN THE WOODS.

N.P. The Encino Press, (1981). oblong 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper front cover label. (vi), 29, (5) pages. Revised slightly from appearance in The Washington Post. Signed by the author and illustrator Patrick Oliphant on front free endpaper. Biographical sketches of author and illustrator follow text. Spine lightly sunned. READ MORE about THE TERRIBLE NIGHT SANTA GOT LOST IN THE WOODS

Price: $22.00 Order nr. 129010

Larsen, Poul Steen.

CONTEMPORARY DANISH BOOK ART. HELGE ERNST - ILLUSTRATOR; POUL KRISTENSEN - PRINTER; OLE OLSEN - BOOKBINDER.

Los Angeles: University of California, (1986). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 44 pages. Many illustrations in color. READ MORE about CONTEMPORARY DANISH BOOK ART. HELGE ERNST - ILLUSTRATOR; POUL KRISTENSEN - PRINTER; OLE OLSEN -...

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 33489

Moes, Robert J.

THE ZAMORANO PRESS AND THE BOTICA, CALIFORNIA'S FIRST MEDICAL BOOK.

Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1988. small 4to. dark brown cloth spine with lighter woven cloth-covered boards on which is printed a reproduction of the Ramage Press. 23, (3) pages. Limited to 300 copies. A history of the first medical book printed in California, the Botica General De Los Remedios Esperimentados. This book was printed by California's first printer, Agustín Vicente Zamorano on a Ramage wooden press imported from Boston in 1834. With a woodcut..... READ MORE about THE ZAMORANO PRESS AND THE BOTICA, CALIFORNIA'S FIRST MEDICAL BOOK

Price: $17.50 Order nr. 62379

More, Sir Thomas.

UTOPIA.

New York, NY: privately printed for the Scott-Thaw Company, 1903. small folio. two-toned cloth, paper spine and cover labels, top edge cut, other edges uncut. xii, 265+(1) pages. Limited to 210 numbered copies, signed on behalf of the publisher on verso of half title. Translated from the Latin by Ralph Robynson. Note on publication history, table of contents, translator's note. Includes a biography of More by his son-in-law William Roper. Also includes a collection of..... READ MORE about UTOPIA

Price: $275.00 Order nr. 126530

Moritz, Karl Phillipp.

CONCERNING THE CREATIVE IMITATION OF THE BEAUTIFUL.

(Providence: n.p., 1961-62). 12mo. paper covered boards. 24+(1) pages. Inscribed to Bernard Brussel-Smith from Alexander Nesbitt. Goethe's excerpt from the Moritz essay, printed in his Italian Journey. Printed and bound by Ilse Buchert and Alexander Nesbitt at the Rhode Island School of Design. Signed in pencil by both. Covers and edges are rubbed, spine is slightly faded. READ MORE about CONCERNING THE CREATIVE IMITATION OF THE BEAUTIFUL

Price: $95.00 Order nr. 104371

Moritz, Karl Phillipp.

CONCERNING THE CREATIVE IMITATION OF THE BEAUTIFUL.

(Providence: n.p., 1961-62). 12mo. paper covered boards. 24+(1) pages. Inscribed to "Dick" from Alexander Nesbitt on colophon page. Goethe's excerpt from the Moritz essay, printed in his Italian Journey. Printed and bound by Ilse Buchert and Alexander Nesbitt at the Rhode Island School of Design. READ MORE about CONCERNING THE CREATIVE IMITATION OF THE BEAUTIFUL

Price: $75.00 Order nr. 116275

Morley, Christopher.

FRIENDS, ROMANS.

Minneapolis: The Ampersand Club, 1940. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 21+(1) pages. Limited to 535 copies. Lyle, pp.48-50. The first book published by the Ampersand Club of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Text of an address by Morley at the 50th Anniversary dinner of the Minneapolis Public Library, on Dec. 16, 1939. Jacket spine faded. READ MORE about FRIENDS, ROMANS

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 52681

Morley, Christopher.

OUTWARD BOUND.

Grand Rapids: The Private Press of Oliver A. Wallace, 1924. 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards, label on front cover. 16 pages, with one additional leaf with plate. Limited to 377 numbered copies. Private press reprint of a Morley article which originally appeared in the NY Evening Post in 1923. (Lee no.41). One of Morley's maritime writings: The sailing ship Tusitalia is towed from its berth to the mouth of Lower New York Bay, hoists sails, and..... READ MORE about OUTWARD BOUND

Price: $30.00 Order nr. 55530

Powell, Lawrence Clark.

FAREWELL TO THE ENCINAL.

Tucson: El Signo de los Arboles Caidos, 1982. tall 12mo. cloth-backed boards. 21, (3) pages. Printed by Richard Hoffman and issued for the friends of Fay and Larry Powell at New Year's. READ MORE about FAREWELL TO THE ENCINAL

Price: $18.00 Order nr. 44116

Powell, Lawrence Clark.

LE MONDE PASSE, LA FIGURE DE LE MONDE PASSE, A REMEMBRANCE OF DUNCAN BRENT.

Van Nuys, CA: Lawrence Clark Powell, 1983. small 8vo. cloth. 81, (3) pages. Privately printed for Lawrence Clark Powell by Richard J. Hoffman, Van Nuys, CA, and bound in Phoenix, AZ by Roswell Bookbinding. A memoir and commentary on Duncan Brent's correspondence with the author, who was University Librarian at UCLA from 1944 to 1961. Photographs. With a Best Wishes card from the author laid-in. READ MORE about LE MONDE PASSE, LA FIGURE DE LE MONDE PASSE, A REMEMBRANCE OF DUNCAN BRENT

Price: $8.00 Order nr. 63103

Ransom, Will.

PRIVATE PRESSES AND THEIR BOOKS.

New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1929. 8vo. cloth. 493 pages. First edition, limited to 1200 copies printed by the Lakeside Press. 193 page history of private presses followed by bibliographies and biographies of many of the private presses. Signed and dated in pencil by Ben Grauer in corner of free endpaper. READ MORE about PRIVATE PRESSES AND THEIR BOOKS

Price: $75.00 Order nr. 51478

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