New York: The Typophiles, 1951. tall 12mo. cloth. (x), 94 pages. Limited to 640 copies; the 25th Chapbook issued by the Typophiles. Has a title page designed by Dwiggins, contributions by Warren Chappell, Bruce Rogers, Paul Bennett and others. Contains reproductions of Archer's design work. READ MORE about SAGITTARIUS: HIS BOOK, GATHERED FOR JOHN ARCHER BY HIS FRIENDS
Price: $17.00 Order nr. 6070
New York: The Typophiles, 1951. tall 12mo. cloth. (x), 94 pages. Limited to 640 copies; the 25th Chapbook issued by the Typophiles. Has a title page designed by Dwiggins, contributions by Warren Chappell, Bruce Rogers, Paul Bennett and others. Contains reproductions of Archer's design work. Ink stamp of former owner at top of front pastedown. READ MORE about SAGITTARIUS: HIS BOOK, GATHERED FOR JOHN ARCHER BY HIS FRIENDS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 63668
Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Co., (1951). 8vo. cloth. (ii), xviii, 418, (2) pages. First edition. Illustrated. Essays by Wroth, Warde, Dwiggins, Rogers, Ransom, Pollard, Grabhorn, Morison, Gill, Goudy and others. Lacking the dust jacket. Front hinge starting. Else near fine. READ MORE about BOOKS AND PRINTING, A TREASURY FOR TYPOPHILES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 3079
New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1938. 8vo. cloth. xiv, 290 pages. Limited to 1000 copies. With listings of Abbey, Angelo, Benton, Burgess, Clelend, Dwiggins, Green, Glackens, Kent, Oakley, Parrish, Pyle, Seton, Smith, Wyeth and many others. Ex library copy with markings.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about AMERICAN BOOK ILLUSTRATORS, BIBLIOGRAPHIC CHECK LISTS OF 123 ARTISTS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 100441
Nueva York: Instituto Norteamericana de Artes Graficas, 1942. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. Two hundred books are shown which demonstrate the best design principles of the year. A fine copy. Printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. With information on many designers including Dwiggins and Rogers. READ MORE about LAS ARTES DEL LIBRO EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS 1931-1941
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 723
Los Angeles: n.p., 1981. tall 12mo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. 105, (3) pages. First edition, limited to 350 copies. Printed by Richard J. Hoffman for Jones in Dwiggins' Falcon and using ornaments cast by Paul Duensing. 94 items described in detail. READ MORE about A LOS ANGELES TYPESTICKER: WILLIAM M. CHENEY A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS PRINTED WORK
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 15823
New York: The Colophon, 1938. 4to. two-toned cloth. Not paginated. Each signature of the book was contributed by a different press. Includes sections by Knopf, Riverside Press, Derrydale Press, Press of the Woolly Whale and many others. Binding designed by Dwiggins. Covers show some fading. READ MORE about THE ANNUAL OF BOOK-MAKING
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 25491
New York: The Typophiles, 1957. 8vo. self paper wrappers. 4 pages. Eulogy to Dwiggins printed by The Black Vine Press of San Francisco. A fine copy. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about WAD, 1880-1956
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 2292
New York: Marchbanks Press, 1925. 9.25" x 4" Single sheet. With 3 inch square drawing by Dwiggins printed in brown ink at the head of the calendar. READ MORE about MARCHBANKS PRESS CALENDAR FOR JUNE, 1925
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 2274
With Pictographs by W.A. Dwiggins.
Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1941. 8vo. half cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 81, (3) pages. With Pictographs by W.A. Dwiggins. First edition. (Agner 41-17). Dwiggins designed the book including the chapter illustrations and the design on the cover and jacket. Pieces of jacket missing along edges. READ MORE about BOMB THAT WOULDN'T GO OFF AND OTHER FABLES FROM MORONIA
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 16125
Hingham: Press of the Little Red Hen, 1950. square 8vo. boards, wrap-around paper cover label. (24) pages. First edition. Not in Agner. Title page designed by Dwiggins and printed in two colors. 225 copies were printed of which 125 were for sale. Minor spotting of front cover. READ MORE about TWELVE POEMS
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 116237
With a Preface by Sir Francis Meredith Meynell and Illustrations by Honore Guilbeau. Designed and Decorated by W.A. Dwiggins.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1955. 8vo. quarter leather over marbled boards, slipcase. xiv, 314, (2) pages. With a Preface by Sir Francis Meredith Meynell and Illustrations by Honore Guilbeau. Designed and Decorated by W.A. Dwiggins. Limited to 1500 copies signed by Guilbeau (LEC 260). Front edge of slipcase cracked. Small pieces of clear tape on pastedowns. READ MORE about THE SHAVING OF SHAGPAT
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 120948
New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 1996. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 318 pages with 113 illustrations. Paperback edition. Reprint of the first edition with additional illustrations and new introduction. With his Kelmscott Press and associations with the Arts & Crafts Movement, William Morris helped raise the public's awareness of fine books to new heights. Morris inspired and influenced a generation of other designers and those working in American typography..... READ MORE about AMERICAN BOOK DESIGN AND WILLIAM MORRIS With a new Foreword by Jean-Francois Vilain
Price: $9.95 Order nr. 44931
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press for the Society of Printers, 1955. 8vo. cloth-backed patterned paper-covered boards, dust jacket. xii, 144 pages of text followed by 64 pages containing 80 reproductions of title pages. First edition, limited to 1500 copies. Issued on the 50th anniversary of this distinguished group of printers. Traces the "development of printing processes, typographic styles and the arts and crafts movement." Reference to Dwiggins, Rogers, etc. Jacket spine toned.Loosely inserted in a...... READ MORE about PRINTING AS AN ART
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 14355
Cambridge: Harvard University Press for the Society of Printers, 1955. 8vo. cloth-backed patterned paper-covered boards, dust jacket. xii, 144 pages of text followed by 64 pages containing 80 reproductions of title pages. First edition, limited to 1500 copies. Issued on the 50th anniversary of this distinguished group of printers. Traces the "development of printing processes, typographic styles and the arts and crafts movement." Reference to Dwiggins, Rogers, etc. Loosely inserted is an invitation to the..... READ MORE about PRINTING AS AN ART
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 38675
New York: American Printing History Association, 1998. 8vo. cloth. 176, (4) pages followed by 38 plates. This book is a fascinating survey of typefaces developed in America after 1892 and intended for composition in metal for the use of an individual or press. It includes essays by the following: Susan Otis Thompson on American Arts & Crafts typefaces, Martin Hutner on the Merrymount Press, Herbert Johnson on Bruce Rogers's Centaur type, Cathleen Baker on Dard..... READ MORE about AMERICAN PROPRIETARY TYPEFACES
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 97457
Vancouver/Sheffield: FPBA, 2012. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 64 pages. Issue 22. Collection of essays about fine printing including Bruce Kennett on W.A. Dwiggins. Articles include: Breaking Rules, by Mark Dimunation; The Musée de l'imprimerie by Alan Marshall; Codex, by Caroline Saltzwedel; Flemish Bibliophile Publishers by Wilfried Onzea; and J W Northend, by Keith Stubley. READ MORE about PARENTHESIS 22: THE JOURNAL OF THE FINE PRESS BOOK ASSOCIATION
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 110011
With a Foreword by Alexander Lawson.
Baton Rouge: Press of Nightowl, 1974. small 4to. half cloth over marbled paper-covered boards. xii, 88 pages. With a Foreword by Alexander Lawson. First edition, limited to 206 numbered copies. With ornamentation printed in different colored inks. Introduction by Lawson and preface by the author. well-preserved copy. READ MORE about THE BOOKS OF WAD, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BOOKS DESIGNED BY W.A. DWIGGINS
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 11219
With a Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell.
Clifton: Bookman Publications, Inc., (1992). 6 x 9.5 inches. hardcover. (viii), 171 pages. With a Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. First edition. The autobiography of this legendary California bookman. He recalls his private press work, his friends Lawrence Clark Powell, Jake Zeitlin, Paul Landacre, Robinson Jeffers, W.A. Dwiggins and many others. Illustrated. READ MORE about YEARS TOUCHED WITH MEMORIES
Price: $38.00 Order nr. 60949
New York: The Grolier Club, 1986. 8vo. cloth-backed boards. 150, (30) pages. Limited to 750 copies. A fine copy. Printed by Meriden-Stinehour and designed by Roderick Stinehour. With a chronology of his life and reproductions of a number of his illustrations. Contains an index which is of real help in tracking down his friendships with various other typographers such as Dwiggins and his many jobs for the Grolier Club. READ MORE about RUDOLPH RUZICKA: SPEAKING REMINISCENTLY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 15013
Charlestown and Boston, MA and New Castle,DE: Society of Printers, Boston Public Library, Oak Knoll Press, 2006. 6 x 9 inches. cloth, leather inset label with SP logo. 268 pages. As-new copy. This beautifully produced volume celebrates the centennial of Boston's Society of Printers, the oldest honorary society of its kind in America. Founded in 1905 by such luminaries as Daniel Berkeley Updike, Bruce Rogers, Henry Lewis Johnson, Carl Purington Rollins, and William Dana Orcutt..... READ MORE about THE SP CENTURY: BOSTON'S SOCIETY OF PRINTERS THROUGH ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF CHANGE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 131380
New York: The AIGA, 1940. small 8vo. stiff paper covers with paper wrappers. 56 pages. Limited to 1000 copies. With essays by Royal Cortissoz, David Pottinger, Lawrence Wroth, and Updike on the occasion of the exhibit. With decorations by Dwiggins, Cleland, Benson and others. Includes a checklist of Updike's work by Kark Kup. Front cover detached. READ MORE about DANIEL BERKELEY UPDIKE AND THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 5249
