(New York, NY): Amalgamated Printers Association, 1978. 16mo. loose broadsides inserted in box with printed cover label. unpaginated. A set of 17 privately printed keepsakes from the APA's Wayzgoose meeting of 1979. READ MORE about APA WAYZGOOSE GEM BOX
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 121886
Middletown, CT: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, (1960). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Introductory comments by Russell T. Limbach. A study of the laboratory's privately printed publications since 1943. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about ART LABORATORY IMPRESSIONIS
Price: $20.00 save 20% $16.00 Order nr. 128573
New York, NY: Pierpont Morgan Library, (1973). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xiv, 192, (2) pages. Table of contents, preface, foreword, acknowledgments, list of plates, select bibliography, index. Essay by Joseph Blumenthal. Black and white plates including one foldout. READ MORE about ART OF THE PRINTED BOOK 1455-1955; MASTERPIECES OF TYPOGRAPHY THROUGH FIVE CENTURIES FROM THE...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 129963
San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Center for the Book, 2001. 4to. self paper wrappers. 31+(1) pages. A catalogue of classes and exhibitions on book arts, binding, printing, and related subjects. READ MORE about BOOK ARTS CLASSES AND EXHIBITIONS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 129401
(New York, NY: The Cooper Union), 1994. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages. A brochure published in connection with the exhibition "From Gutenberg to the Government." Commentary by William Bevington. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about CONCISE INFORMATION: A GENERAL SURVEY OF CONCISION: TYPOGRAPIC, EDITORIAL, AND VISUAL
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 131768
Washington: American Print Alliance, 1993-98. large 8vo. paper wrappers. 32 pages each. Eleven issues from Spring 1993 through Spring 1998. Each issue is broken up into three sections: Issue & Insights; Views & Reviews; The American Print Alliance. Well-illustrated. Includes interviews and articles on artists of book printing. READ MORE about CONTEMPORARY IMPRESSIONS, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PRINT ALLIANCE
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 55496
San Francisco, CA: Black Stone Press, 1980. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 42 pages. Limited to 250 copies. Table of contents, biographical sketches of contributors. A collection of essays and poetic works. Illustrations. Corrigenda laid in. READ MORE about DEAD START: A JOURNAL OF LETTERS, DESIGN AND TYPOGRAPHIC PRINTMAKING
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 125060
Newark: University of Delaware, (1931). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, paper cover label. 143 pages. B1-4670. Seventh series. With a one page prefatory note by the editor, Ezra B. Crooks. Article by H. Clay Reed on "Lincoln's Compensated Emancipation Plan and its relation to Delaware", Joseph Sidney Gould on "Three Decades of Delaware's Manufacturers" and other articles by Delaware faculty on non-Delaware related subjects. Remnants of paper label on front cover. READ MORE about DELAWARE NOTES
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 67275
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
Chicago, IL: The Inland Printer, 1953. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 100 pages. March 1953 issue. Table of contents. Published for the printing industry. Color and black and white illustrations. Covers lightly soiled and chipped at edges. READ MORE about THE INLAND PRINTER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 129483
Newark, NJ: Jaenecke Printing Ink Co., n.d. broadside (8 3/4 by 12 inches). Illustrated publisher's advertisement, in five colors. Slightly tanned. Top edge chipped. Staple marks on left edge. READ MORE about JAENECKE PRINTING INK CO
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 128039
Boston: Machine Composition Co., 1929. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. Not in Ulrich & Kup. One issue (Vol.X, 2 - January 1929). Features a speech by Melbert Cary, President of Continental Type Founders along with a showing of type faces. READ MORE about NEW-ENGLAND COMPOSITOR (THE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 40797
Saint Louis: Inland Type Foundry, 1907. 8vo. paper wrappers. Ulrich & Kup p.59. The house organ of this type foundry. Includes the following: Volume 8, no.12 (December 1906), Volume 9, no.1 (January 1907). READ MORE about PRACTICAL PRINTER (THE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 42790
New York: Precision Rule Company, (1950). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 46 pages. Trade catalogue issued by this company showing rules for the printer. Filled with illustrations. Tipped-in is a price list from January 1950. READ MORE about PRECISION HAND PLANED RULES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 91383
New York: George F. Nesbitt & Co., n.d. broadside, 34 by 11 inches. Reproduction of a broadside advertising a banquet to be held on January 17, 1851, to commemorate the 145th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin at Niblo's to benefit the Printer's Library. Includes a listing of events of the evening and listings of the officers of the library and the program committee. Decorated border with illustrations of Franklin. Folded, and inserted in... READ MORE about PRINTER'S BANQUET: CELEBRATION OF FRANKLIN'S BIRTHDAY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 109595
New York: George F. Nesbitt & Co., n.d. broadside, 34 by 11 inches. Reproduction of a broadside advertising a banquet to be held on January 17, 1851, to commemorate the 145th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin at Niblo's to benefit the Printer's Library. Includes a listing of events of the evening and listings of the officers of the library and the program committee. Decorated border with illustrations of Franklin. READ MORE about PRINTER'S BANQUET: CELEBRATION OF FRANKLIN'S BIRTHDAY
Price: $14.00 Order nr. 109607
(New York, NY): Printing History, 2017. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 72, (8) pages. Number 21, New Series (Winter 2017). Editorial, three scholarly articles, book reviews. Black and white illustrations throughout. READ MORE about PRINTING HISTORY, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 131483
New York, NY: American Printing History Association, 2011. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 47+(1) pages. Michael Winship on "Pirates, Shipwrecks, and Comic Almanacs: Charles Ellms Packages Books in Nineteenth-Century America" and Alastai M. Johnston on "A Glance at the First Century of California Printing." READ MORE about PRINTING HISTORY, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION. NEW SERIES NO.9
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 110229
Albany: Delmar, 1955. 4to. pictorial paper-covered boards. vi, 201+(1) pages. Textbook designed to teach the basics of printing design and layout. Boards are worn at the extremities, with a dark smudge on the rear board. READ MORE about PRINTING LAYOUT AND DESIGN
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 91053
Dayton, OH: The Set-O-Type Co., (1930). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 15+(1) pages. Extols the virtues of Set-O-Type automatic typesetting equipment. Black and white illustrations. Wrappers lightly soiled. Back wrapper separated. READ MORE about SET-O-TYPE: A REVOLUTIONARY METHOD OF SAVING AND MAKING MONEY IN YOUR MULTIGRAPHING
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 120151
San Francisco: Taylor & Taylor, 1917. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Volume XVIII (Winter 1917) of this periodical issued by this San Franisco printer. With color. Cover damaged. READ MORE about T & T IMPRINT
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 40832
With a new introduction by John Bidwell.
New York: Garland Publishing, 1981. 8vo. cloth. xviii page introductory material followed by 288 page facsimile, (4) pages. With a new introduction by John Bidwell. Reprint of the 1844 second edition. (Bigmore & Wyman I,3). The first edition was issued in 1837. This was the second practical printing manual issued by an American author; it was compiled from many of the facts given by Hansard and Johnson. Illustrated. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIA: OR THE PRINTER'S INSTRUCTOR; A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE ORIGIN RISE, AND PROGRESS OF THE...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 22587
Ann Arbor, MI: Legacy Press, 2018. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 466 pages. Pablo Alvarez offers the first complete English translation of Alonso Víctor de Paredes Institucion, y origen del arte de la imprenta, y reglas generales para los componedores [Institution, and Origin of the Art of Printing, and General Rules for Compositors]. This 96-page printing manual set and printed by Paredes himself was issued in Madrid around 1680. It opens with an introductory digression on... READ MORE about ALONSO VÍCTOR DE PAREDES’ INSTITUTION, AND ORIGIN OF THE ART OF PRINTING, AND GENERAL RULES...
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 133686
Spartanburg, SC: Wofford Library, 1971. 4to. spiral bound paper wrappers. unpaginated. Report on the third printing seminar/workshop hosted at the Wofford Library, Black and white illustrations and page specimens. With comments about Ronald David Jones, Charles G. MAxcy, Daniel Outlaw, and William A. Smith, Jr. READ MORE about PRINTING FOR PLEASURE III
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 133293
Baltimore: Maran Printing Services, 1975. 4to. cloth. (xiv), 245 pages. First edition, limited to 500 copies. The definitive bibliography to-date of American type specimen books. Includes historical accounts of each company, a list of their specimen books with size and number of pages and illustrations. Lacks jacket. READ MORE about TYPE FOUNDRIES OF AMERICA AND THEIR CATALOGS
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 11232
