NY: Andrews/ Nelson/ Whitehead, nd. Each volume approx. 7 x 3. The Oriental papers are mostly those used in book making and for printing illustrations. All fine. Together, the 4 specimen books provide a good view of fine printing and art papers worldwide available in the last half of the..... More
London, 1953. 9 x 12. xxi, 427 pages. Frontis, 32 collotype plates, and 50 text illustrations. Leather bookplate of Julia Parker Wightman. Cloth, spine label, printed dust wrapper. Fine. Beautifully printed at the Curwen Press. More
Paris: Éditions de la Pléiade, (1927). 7 x 9 1/2. 122 pages + 4 color aquatints. 19 wood engravings in the text--most in color--as chapter heads and tailpieces. Printed wraps, Small chips at spine base, light soil; slight separation between a few pages. Near very good, in custom chemise and..... More
(Dundas), 2020. 4 3/4 x 6 3/4. (46) pages on an array of papers in a variety of typefaces, decorations, and colors. Cloth spine with paper label & decorated Japanese paper over boards. In an orange paper slipcase. Quotations from musicians, poets, philosophers and others are beautifully printed. One of..... More
San Francisco, 1940. 5 1/2 x 9. 47, (2) leaves printed recto only with a tipped-in colored illustration. Cloth-backed pattern paper boards. Fine copy of the first Allen Press book. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies. Printed in Piranesi type in black, brown and green on Maidstone, an English..... More
(London, 2001). 8 x 10. Twenty-four leaves: 6 original color etchings face 6 evocative vignettes of Indian life; each is preceded by a half-title and interleaved with textured Japanese tissue.;leaves without text or illustration are ruled in various colors. Bound by Allix in golden morocco having geometric onlays in red..... More
NJ 1906. 6 x 10. xxx, 1181 pages plus 34 subscripted pages; with four pagination gaps as issued. Tipped in errata. Laid in are 2 order forms. Collated complete. Red cloth printed in black.A beautiful, fine copy. Extensive specimen with large sections of border and decorative material (about a third..... More
1900. 9 3/4 x 12 1/2. 250 pages printed entirely in olive green. Decorated boards, cloth spine, printed end papers. Two gouges to spine,some light wear & soil, contents very good. Art nouveau, livestock, flora & fauna, trades, chapbook cuts, Della Robbia & Busha ornaments; price list. There is an..... More
USA, 1900. 7 x 12. (98) pages plus 8 smaller format tipped-in specimens, each in wraps (10), (22), (18), (14)(18), (22), (4), (64). Cloth gilt title on cover; binding very worn and upper hinge open; contents very good. An extraordinary specimen showcasing mostly for the first time ATF's new and..... More
•Annual Report of the ATF. 1895-1899, 1901-1904, 1915; By-Laws of ATF 1896; two misc. letter reports to stockholders 1891& 1901. The annual reports are in wraps and most are 8 pp. Much of interest about acquisitions and consolidations. Missing earlier reports for 1893 & 1894. Rare. No comparable group found..... More
Paris: Maxmilien Vox, (1942). 9 x 13. 152 pages including 30 original etchings in black by Alexandre Alexeieff. Unbound signatures, as issued, in printed wraps and publisher's chemise & slipcase. Bit of foxing on last signature; case worn & faded. Very good. In these 33 stories, the Moon visits a...... More
Madison (1995). 4to. x, 74 pages, 20 color plates of Anderson's typography. Linen cloth, leather spine label, cloth slipcase. Fine with prospectus. One of 150 copies handsomely printed by Neil Shaver on dampened Rives. More
SF: BCC, 1976. 10 x 14. 97 pages including 43 facsimile specimen pages. Quarter red cloth, long spine label. Fine copy of a lovely book. One of 400 copies signed by Angelo. Printed by Andrew Hoyem. The illuminated in blue and gilt by Angelo. Essays by Oscar Lewis, Robert Grabhorn..... More
(NY: Charles Antin, 1965). 4 1/2 x 7. Fifty-one items: forty-nine keepsakes plus Introduction and list of Contributors. Most keepsakes are 4 pages; some are longer (Ward Ritchie printed a small booklet). In slipcase with wraparound label (a bit soiled), contents fine. A CONTRIBUTOR'S COPY (Frank Powers) with "thank you..... More
Lexington, 1955. 5 1/4 x 7 3/4. (10) pages with 8 woodcuts by Victor Hammer. Blue boards, wrap-around title label. Spine base bumped, one-inch repair to rear backstrip. Very good. One of 250 copies printed by Carolyn Reading in red and black in Hammer's American Uncial type. Hammer based his..... More
Paris: Sans Pareil, 1926. 9 x 11. 147 pages + 18 plates. Bound by Donald Glaister in 1986 in dark teal morocco with large onlay of blue morocco across both covers & spine, smaller green onlay across spine partially obscures the blind-tooled name "Croniamantal" (the hero's name in this surrealist..... More
The Delaware Valley Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers, 2012. 4 x 7. Twenty-one gatherings by as many book artists. Bound by Todd Pattison in deep citron morocco inset with shapes in marbled & gilt papers. Fine. Inspired by Paul Theroux's three essays on orange, green, and purple, the..... More
Mission, B. C., 2021. 7 1/2 x 10 1/2. xvii, 271, cclxxv-cclxxxi, (2) pages with 24 wood engravings printed from the blocks. Green morocco & decorated boards. A extra suite of the 10 larger engravings from the book is enclosed in a green cloth & boards portfolio. Both volumes are..... More
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1979. 7 3/4 x 11. 120 pages. Fourteen small paper specimens. Bound by Gray Parrot in quarter morocco and decorated Japanese paper boards. Fine in custom cloth slipcase. One of 300 copies printed by Henry Morris, in two colors on his handmade "Nagashizuki" paper..... More
Vratislaviae : Ex officina Grassii Barthii et Societatis, (1818). Folio 13 1/2 x 18. 81 leaves: title, a two-column preface in Latin & German, 73 leaves of poetry, colophon, 5 leaves of translation into German and Latin. A stately presentation of poems in 108 languages, to celebrate the peace of..... More
NY: Knopf, (1985). 7 1/2 x 11. Twenty dragons (from various mythologies and literatures) each face a page of story about that dragon. INSCRIBED by Leonard Baskin to John [Peckham] in 1986. Inscribed again by Hosie to Bob & Lynne in 2001. Near fine copy. More
Gehenna Press, 1974. 14 1/2 x 11 /12. Six gatherings of title, colophon, and 66 wood engravings, woodcuts, and linoleum cuts by Leonard Baskin printed one to a leaf on Troya, and interleaved with backing sheets. Signed by Baskin in the colophon. An unbound binder's copy with 64 of the..... More
Lurey, Devon: The Gehenna Press, 1982. 6 1/2 x 9. Title, (52) pages with 26 line cut illustrations from drawings by Baskin, errata page, hand colored wood engraved press mark (owl & pomegranate). Cream vellumized boards titled in gilt, gilt owl on upper cover. Fine cop, signed by Kaplan and..... More
Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1997. 11 x 16 1/2. (11) pages of text followed by 26 plates of etchings (most in color). Each copper engraving is numbered & signed by Baskin. Full stained green vellum by Daniel Gehnrich, gilt title & lizard on upper cover. In quarter green vellum & cloth..... More
1968. Original wood engraving, matted. 14 x 8.9 cm. No. 14 of 100, signed by Baskin. Fern 506. More
