(San Francisco: University of California, Berkeley, 1982). 4to. cloth. 194 pages. Scarce book on bindings by this noted author and binder. A fine copy. The book is an oral history transcript of tape recorded interviews with 5 Bay Area fine bookbinders: Lee Wollenberg, Stell Patri, Duncan Olmstead, Stephan Gale Herrick, and Barbara Fallon Hiller. Each interview was held question-and-answer style and these preeminent bookbinders expounded on their training, teachers and mentors; careers as binders and..... READ MORE about THE HAND BOOKBINDING TRADITION IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

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København: Lehmann & Stages Forlag, 1907. small 4to. later full red morocco, four raised bands, top edge gilt with original front paper wrapper bound in. 162 pages. First edition, limited to 500 copies (S-K 847; Mejer 386). The Danish Museum of Decorative Arts mounted this 1906 exhibit of old bookbindings. A preface by Hannover provides an overview of the material that follows. The catalog is divided into: the old style and the new style. The..... READ MORE about KUNSTFÆRDIGE GAMLE BOGBIND INDTIL 1850

Price: $225.00 save 20% $180.00  other currencies  Order nr. 102696

London: Isaac Pitman & Sons, n.d. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), x, 139, (6), 8 pages. S-K 1828. Second edition. (Brenni no.328). Many illustrations. Jacket lightly chipped with tape repair at spine ends; unusual to find in jacket. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about BOOKBINDING CRAFT AND INDUSTRY, AN OUTLINE OF ITS HISTORY DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNIQUE

Price: $65.00 save 20% $52.00  other currencies  Order nr. 40966

N.P. Designer Bookbinders Publications Ltd., 2008. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 12 pages. Pamphlet No. 1. Reflections on the life of Philip Smith and his contributions to bookbinding. Includes listing of contributions by or about Smith in The New Bookbinder. from 1981 to 2008. One illustration. READ MORE about PHILIP SMITH AT EIGHTY

Price: $20.00 save 20% $16.00  other currencies  Order nr. 106936

London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1950. 8vo. paper wrappers. 26 pages of text followed by 60 plates of bookbindings and 7 of bookbinding technique. S-K 1042. Title in ink on spine. Signed by the noted bibliographer, Roy Stokes, on the inside front cover. READ MORE about BOOKBINDINGS

Price: $8.00 save 20% $6.40  other currencies  Order nr. 5811

Hamburg: n.p., 1992. 12mo. stiff paper marbled wrappers. 31+(1) pages. Presented to Deborah M. Evetts by participant in the exhibition. Catalogue of exhibition in Hamburg, September 1992. Foldout of illustrations laid in rear wrapper. Foreword by Eva-Marie Hanebutt-Benz. Vita and list of publications by author. READ MORE about DAS GESICHT DER BUCHER

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Two volumes bound as one
Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1962. 8vo. cloth with original stiff paper wrappers bound in. xx,351+(1); xxiii,428 pages. Two volumes bound as one. S-K 7781. First editions. "A monumental social history of the German bookbinding trade." Over 50 illustrations in the text. Both volumes bound together in a library buckrum binding. Bookplate on front pastedown. READ MORE about DEUTSCHE BUCHBINDER-HANDWERK, HANDWERKS-UND KULTURGESCHICHTE

Price: $100.00 save 20% $80.00  other currencies  Order nr. 32876

Stanford: Stanford Libraries Associates, 1978. 8vo., paper wrappers. pp.29-32. In The Imprint of the Stanford Libraries Associates, Volume IV, Number 1, April 1978. History of this group of bookbinders which was founded in 1902. READ MORE about "THE HAND BOOKBINDERS OF CALIFORNIA."

Price: $15.00 save 20% $12.00  other currencies  Order nr. 38860

København: Edmont H. Petersens Kg. Hof-Bogtrykkeri, 1924. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 71, (7) pages. Exhibition catalogue describing 420 books. Illustrated. Covers faded. Ink inscription on inside front cover. With a few textual corrections in ink. READ MORE about HISTORISKE OG MODERNE BOGBIND UDSTILLEDE AF UNIVERSITETSBIBLIOTEKET I FORENING MED...

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Baltimore: Walter Art Gallery, 1957. 4to. paper wrappers. xi, 275 pages. First edition, limited to 3000 copies. Very good conditino. 56 pages of plates. A valuable reference book on the subject of binding. The paper bound edition. READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING 525-1950 A.D., AN EXHIBITION HELD AT THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART

Price: $55.00 save 20% $44.00  other currencies  Order nr. 115267

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1929. folio. cloth, top edge gilt. (xii), 60 pages followed by 55 full-page plates of bindings. Printed in an edition limited to 500 copies for sale by Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press. (Appleton p.81, S-K 2194). This book is divided into two sections, the Early Bindings, before 1300 and the Gothic Bindings, c.1450-1500. Given as the Sandars Lecture for 1927. A scarce book. Covers faded. With the Randeria bookplate..... READ MORE about ENGLISH BINDING BEFORE 1500

Price: $375.00 save 20% $300.00  other currencies  Order nr. 71367

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1926. 4to. cloth, top edge gilt. xvi, 178 pages of text with 64 full-page plates. First U.S. edition. (Appleton p. 81). With six of the plates in color. A historical account of plaquette bindings, architectural bindings, and studies of the binders Maiolus, Failareto, Canevari, and Farnese. Spine faded. Bookplate of John Arnold Holland on front pastedown with Holland's signature in ink below bookplate. Endpapers toned with small remnant of decription..... READ MORE about MAIOLI, CANEVARI AND OTHERS

Price: $145.00 save 20% $116.00  other currencies  Order nr. 13950

Hamilton: McMaster University, (1975). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (42) pages. First separate edition. Illustrated typescript. Signed and dated by Terry Belanger on inside front cover. READ MORE about PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION, A BRIEF HISTORY, AND AN ACCOUNT OF WORK BEING DONE AT MILLS...

Price: $22.00 save 20% $17.60  other currencies  Order nr. 38625

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1915. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. xvi, 232 pages. S-K 1819. Second edition. (Brenni no.232). With 12 illustrations and 2 figures. Part of the Books about Books Series edited by Pollard. Minor cover soiling; paper label is partially chipped away. Tears in cloth along hinge at top and bottom. READ MORE about THE BINDING OF BOOKS AN ESSAY IN THE HISTORY OF GOLD-TOOLED BINDINGS

Price: $35.00 save 20% $28.00  other currencies  Order nr. 2707

Edinburgh: Hunter & Foulis, n.d. (1958). 8vo. two- toned cloth. 28 pages. First edition. Illustrated history of the trade binder, Hunter & Foulis. Important and scarce book. READ MORE about A HUNDRED YEARS OF PUBLISHERS' BOOKBINDING 1857-1957

Price: $15.00 save 20% $12.00  other currencies  Order nr. 15373

N.P. n.p., 2002. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. Text in Czeck. Exhibition of works of members of the Association of Czech Booksellers. Introductory comments. Color illustrations and descriptive text about exhibited items. READ MORE about III CLENSKA VYSTAVA SPOLECENSVA CESKYCH KNIHARII

Price: $10.00 save 20% $8.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135048

New York: Publishers Book Bindery, n.d. oblong 12mo. boards. (24) pages. Contains impositions most frequently used by this binding firm. Back hinge cracked. Ownership inscription in pencil. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about IMPOSITIONS, EDITION, CATALOG & JUVENILE BINDING

Price: $30.00 save 20% $24.00  other currencies  Order nr. 5876

Bellinzona, Switzerland: Centro de Bel Libro Ascona, 2009. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 76 pages. Text in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Catalogue of the International Bookbinding Competition, 2009. Foreword, report of the jury. Color illustrations throughout. READ MORE about INTERNATIONAL BOOKBINDING COMPETITION BEL LIBRO '09

Price: $15.00 save 20% $12.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134612

(Pownal, VT: Storey Books, 2000). small 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 80 pages. Featuring both simple binding and more complex projects using a variety of materials, such as cloth, suede, wood, vellum and handmade papers, this book is perfect for the beginner as well as a source of innovative ideas for more experienced bookbinders. The author guides the reader through thirteen step-by-step projects, including a ribbon-tied sketch book, a casebound notebook, a zig-zag book, and..... READ MORE about THE HANDMADE BOOK

Price: $20.00 save 20% $16.00  other currencies  Order nr. 74760

London: Cambridge University Press, 1972. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 95 pages. S-K 5541. The bindings for this study come from the John Johnson collection. With 24 illustrations of bindings. Review copy with review slip loosely inserted. Wear along bottom of spine. READ MORE about ENGLISH EMBOSSED BINDINGS 1825-1850

Price: $22.50 save 20% $18.00  other currencies  Order nr. 41647

New York: Watson Library, 1982. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (48) pages. S-K 7043. One of five hundred numbered and signed copies. With an introduction by T. Peter Kraus. Illustrated. READ MORE about JOHN FRANKLIN MOWERY BOOKBINDINGS, AN EXHIBITION IN THE WATSON LIBRARY OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM...

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Seattle: University of Washington Press, (1973). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xi, 263 pages. Corrected edition. Contains a history of book-making and simple binding techniques for the amateur, including related crafts such as making folders, files, note pads, cards, boxes, etc. Includes a large section on various techniques for making decorated papers to use in binding. Illustrated with many drawings and photographs. READ MORE about CREATIVE BOOKBINDING

Price: $17.50 save 20% $14.00  other currencies  Order nr. 13949

Seattle: University of Washington Press, (1977). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xi, 263 pages. Corrected edition, second printing. Contains a history of book-making and simple binding techniques for the amateur, including related crafts such as making folders, files, note pads, cards, boxes, etc. Includes a large section on various techniques for making decorated papers to use in binding. Illustrated with many drawings and photographs. Light soiling to covers and light toning to the textblock. Else fine..... READ MORE about CREATIVE BOOKBINDING

Price: $10.00 save 20% $8.00  other currencies  Order nr. 72034

Wien: Hofbibliothek, n.d. (c.1930s). 12mo. full paper-covered boards stamped in gilt in the design of a binding, top edge gilt. vi, 197 pages. Descriptions of 606 bindings in the library including oriental, Italian, German, French, English, etc. No illustrations. Minor rubbing around edges, else fine. READ MORE about KATALOG DER AUSSTELLUNG VON EINBANDEN. K.K. HOFBIBLIOTHEK

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Halle: Wilhelm Knapp, 1920. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. vii, 154 pages followed by 37 full-page plates of binding ornaments and illustrations of bindings. Followed by 6 pages of advertisements. Third edition, revised and enlarged (Mejer no.1874; Brenni 233). Contains 133 text illustrations, 45 plates and 44 paper specimens; the paper specimens are lacking from this copy. Guide to bookbinding technique by one of the great German craftsmen of the period. Bookplate of..... READ MORE about DER EXAKTE BUCHEINBAND, DER GUTE HALBRFRANZBAND DER KUNSTLERISCHE

Price: $150.00 save 20% $120.00  other currencies  Order nr. 98808

Stony Stratford, Bucks, England: Patrick King Rare Books, 1979. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. King Catalogue 8. 92 items. Index of binders, bibliography, price list. Black and white illustrations throughout. READ MORE about FIVE CENTURIES OF BOOKBINDING IN THE BRITISH ISLES

Price: $10.00 save 20% $8.00  other currencies  Order nr. 131606

Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Co., (1960). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 86 pages. Revised edition. An how-to-do-it manual with many illustrations. Jacket chipped along edges with small pieces missing. READ MORE about BOOKBINDING MADE EASY

Price: $17.00 save 20% $13.60  other currencies  Order nr. 126312

Wolfenbuttel: Herzog August Bibliothek, n.d. (circa 1965). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 96 pages. S-K 6287 and 6301. Foreword by Paul Raabe and text by Kurt Londenberg followed by many plates showing bindings that he executed. READ MORE about KURT LONDENBERG BUCHEINBANDE

Price: $15.00 save 20% $12.00  other currencies  Order nr. 32933

Offenbach am Main: Freunde des Klingspor-Musuem, (1965). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 95+(1) pages. S-K 6287. Foreword by Paul Raabe and text by Kurt Londenberg followed by many plates showing bindings that he executed. Torn along front hinge. READ MORE about KURT LONDENBERG BUCHEINBANDE

Price: $10.00 save 20% $8.00  other currencies  Order nr. 126258

Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard, 1938. large 4to. quarter cloth over paste paper covered boards. 128 pages. Edition limited to 250 copies. Volume I is the only volume published. Bookbinding and its aesthetic aspects are beautifully shown with the help of books accumulated through the centuries. Illustrations with text range from the XIIth through the XIXth centuries. The Royal Library contains a wealth of specimens of Italian, French, and German Renaissance bindings, but scarcely anything of..... READ MORE about BOOKBINDINGS IN THE PUBLIC COLLECTIONS OF DENMARK VOL. I, THE ROYAL LIBRARY COPENHAGEN

Price: $650.00 save 20% $520.00  other currencies  Order nr. 55288

N.P. n.p., 1925. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (4) pages. Text in French. Limited to 100 copies; this copy is out of series. Extract from Summer 1925 issue of "Byblis," a journal of book arts, Describes the work of André-Charles Boulle, bookbinder for Louis XIV. One black and white plate. wrappers slightly torn and bent at edges and corners. Creasing at top corner to wrappers and leaves. READ MORE about UNE RELIURE D'ANDRÉ-CHARLES BOULLE, EXECUTÉE POUR LOUIS XIV

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(Ascona, Switzerland: Galleria del Bel Libro, 1970). square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (20) pages. Text in Italian, German, and French. Includes a number of workshops. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about LEGATORIA ARTISTICA OKTOBER 1970 / 5

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With a Foreword by Hugh R. Dent.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, (1935). 12mo. marbled boards, dust jacket. 64 pages. With a Foreword by Hugh R. Dent. S-K 6607. First edition. (Brenni no.406). The Fifth Dent Memorial Lecture. Dust jacket moderatly foxed; jacket spine sunned. Paper edges lightly foxed. READ MORE about MODERN BOOKBINDING, A SURVEY AND A PROSPECT

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Urbino: Edizioni I.S.A, 1997. 4to. full decorated leather, clamshell box. 578, (14) pages. First edition. This book was the focus of an international exhibition of the bindings of a single work, L'infinito, by Giacomo Leopardi, held at Chiesa di San Paolo, Macerata, Italy, Sept. 12-Oct. 30, 1998. Competitors were asked to design bindings for the poem L'Infinito by Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837). This particular copy is bound in full morocco by Monique Lallier. The..... READ MORE about L'INFINITO IN TUTTE LE LINGUE CHE L'HANNO SAPUTO PRONUNCIARE

Price: $3,000.00 save 20% $2,400.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134374

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, (1984). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 151 pagees. First edition. With 33 plates in color and 82 in black and white. Jacket age yellowed along edges. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about FINE BOOKBINDING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Price: $9.00 save 20% $7.20  other currencies  Order nr. 79999

London: London School of Printing and Graphic Arts, 1959. 8vo. paper wrappers. 41 pages. Occasional descriptive text. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about LIBRARY BOOK LISTS, BOOKBINDING AND WAREHOUSE WORK, A GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE AVAILABLE UP TO 1957

Price: $25.00 save 20% $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 102907

Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1951. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xxiv, 254 pages followed by 15 plates. A counterpart to the London exhibition of 1948 of 1000 years of French books. Biographical descriptions of the more famous English authors with representations of their work. With a 35 page section on binding by Howard Nixon. READ MORE about LE LIVRE ANGLAIS TRESORS DES COLLECTIONS ANGLAISES, BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE

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Paris, France: Librairie Théophile Belin, 1912. 4tp/. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards. 62, (2) pages, plates. Text in French. A catalogue of outstanding examples of French bookbinding from the 16th through the 18th centuries. Black and white plates follow text. Spine label badly worn yet still legible. Slight scuffing at corners. READ MORE about LIVRES AVEC RICHES RELIURES HISTORIQUES DES XVIe, XVIIe, ET XVIIIe SIÈCLES

Price: $350.00 save 20% $280.00  other currencies  Order nr. 130617

Monte Carlo: Sotheby Parke Bernet Monaco, 1980. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. Sale of October 7, 1980. Head of spine worn, else near fine. With a biographical sketch of McLaughlin. 2071 lots. Many bindings illustrated in black and white. Prices realized loosely inserted. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about LIVRES PRECIEUX PROVENANT DE LA BIBLITHEQUE DE MAJOR ADRIAN MCLAUGHLIN

Price: $20.00 save 20% $16.00  other currencies  Order nr. 72386

Amsterdam: Amsterdamsche Grafische School, 1935. 8vo. cloth. (viii), 99 pages followed by 42 plates. First edition. S-K 1834. Written under the pseundonynm of Bibliopegus. History of bookbinding filled with illustrations of bindings taken from important Dutch libraries. These illustrations are often in color. READ MORE about DE GESCHIEDENIS VAN DEN BOEKBAND DOOR BIBLIOPEGUS

Price: $75.00 save 20% $60.00  other currencies  Order nr. 72445

London, England: Shepherds Bookstores, 2001. small folio. tapestry cloth over boards, canvas reproduction of New York Times front page on covers, clamshell box. 76 pages. Limited to 750 numbered copies, of which this copy is one of 250 copies reserved in sheets available for binders. Our copy was bound by Jamie Kamph in full tapestry cloth over boards with an official front page reprint of the New York Times front page on canvas which is..... READ MORE about LOST ON THE TITANIC THE STORY OF THE GREAT OMAR

Price: $1,500.00 save 20% $1,200.00  other currencies  Order nr. 130612

Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1923. 4to. parchment-backed marbled paper-covered boards, leather spine labels, top edge gilt. xii, 212, (2) pages. Various citations in S-K (see S-K 275 for article on Loubier). Not in Brenni or Mejer. Two articles on Loubier followed by nineteen articles on bookbinding. Illustrated including a frontispiece portrait of Louber after a drawing, 10 plates and other illustrations depicting. the graphic work of Loubier, and two original etchings, Many pictures of old..... READ MORE about BUCH UND BUCHEINBAND AUFSATZE UND GRAPHISCHE BLATTER ZUM 60. GEBURTSTAGE VON HANS LOUBIER

Price: $225.00 save 20% $180.00  other currencies  Order nr. 1529

Berlin und Leipzig: Verlag von Hermann Seemann Nachfolger, n.d. small 4to. modern cloth with part of original cover laid down on spine and front cover. (iv), 186, (2) pages. Reprint of the first edition. S-K 1821. Part X of the Monographien des Kunstgewerbes Series. Contains 197 illustrations. Some paper repair along hinges. Bookplate. READ MORE about DER BUCHEINBAND IN ALTER UND NEUER ZEIT

Price: $35.00 save 20% $28.00  other currencies  Order nr. 65024

Berlin, Germany: Hermann Seemann Nachfolger, n.d., but circa 1903. small 4to. quarter leather, marbled paper-covered boards. (iv), 186, (2) pages. Text in German. No. X in the "Monogphien des Kunstgewerbes" series. Index, table of contents. 197 illustrations in text. Spine worn at top extremity. Covers rubbed and scuffed, especially at hinges..Text lightly tanned at edges. A study of bookbinding from medieval times to the 19th century. READ MORE about DER BUCHEINBAND IN ALTER UND NEUER ZEIT

Price: $30.00 save 20% $24.00  other currencies  Order nr. 130832

2 volumes.
London: Maggs Bros. 1987. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 533 pages. 2 volumes. Catalogue 1075 issued by this firm. Detailed descriptions of 382 bindings, including the Guild of Women-Binders, with plates throughout (many in color). READ MORE about BOOKBINDING IN THE BRITISH ISLES, SIXTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Price: $125.00 save 20% $100.00  other currencies  Order nr. 38666

Catalogue 489.
London: Maggs Bros. 1927. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. iv, 208 pages. Catalogue 489. S-K 1482. With a colored frontispiece showing a binding by Samuel Mearne and many other plates. There are 311 items described in detail. Light cover wear, otherwise near fine. READ MORE about BOOK BINDINGS: HISTORICAL AND DECORATIVE

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Catalogue 893.
London: Maggs Bros. 1964. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 193 pages. Catalogue 893. S-K 3520b. With many full-page plates illustrating bindings. (Brenni no.769). READ MORE about BOOKBINDING IN GREAT BRITAIN, SIXTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Price: $22.00 save 20% $17.60  other currencies  Order nr. 7947

Paris: Maggs Bros. n.d. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 135+(1) pages. Catalogue 9 of the Maggs "Série Française". Frontispiece photograph of part of the Pereire library followed by four page preface by Alfred Pereire. 608 priced items. Covers soiled. READ MORE about BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'UN HUMANISTE, D'APRÈS LES LIVRES CHOISIS PRINCIPALEMENT DANS LES BIBLIOTHÈQUES...

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Milano: Librairie Ancienne Ulrico Hoepli, 1938. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Full color frontispiece; (vi), 67 pages followed by 71 plates. With estimated prices loosely inserted. Priced in margins throughout. Wear at spine ends and corners. Tears in the edges of a few pages in the middle. READ MORE about MANUSCRITS ET INCUNABLES, LIVRES A FIGURES RELIURES, BIBLIOTHEQUE ASHBURNER

Price: $95.00 save 20% $76.00  other currencies  Order nr. 16075