(Madison), 1979. 7 x 9. (14) pages. Each page has a blind etched frame (or edges) which cannot contain the fragmentary etchings, collages, and mounted thought bubbles. Both endpapers present the artist's statement. Mustard cloth. Fine. Torn, fragmented, floating, hidden under an overlay with peep holes the words and images... More about EDGES
(Vienna: Fiedler, 1972). 9 x 12. 81 pages + approx. 80 leaves of prints. The prints are tipped (or mounted) to black craft paper labeled with the technique. The facing text page gives its history, usage, commercial value, distinguishing features, and what other technique it might be mistaken for. Glassines... More about A Collection of Original Prints from the 15th to the 20th Century with a Description of Their...
Ashmolean Museum, Morgan Library, & Whittington Press, (2011). 7 1/2 x 10 1/2. 11 text pages + 24 leaves of wood engravings printed on 100-year-old Kelmscott Crown & Sceptre paper. Bound in grey and aqua Ingres boards. Fine in slipcase. Twenty-five pastoral wood engravings Lucien Pissarro created for the Eragny... More about PASTORALE. Wood-engravings by Lucien Pissarro
San Francisco, In association with the Library of Congress, 1987. 6 1/2 x 10 1/2. 63 pages. Two decorative blue initials on red & white ground scattered with gold stars, drawn & illuminated by Thomas Ingmire. Full white vellum titled in blue on spine & both covers, laced with red... More about CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
(Hingham: Village Press, 1905). 7 x 8 1/2. Double-spread title with illustration by Enright enclosed by vine border, 67 pages. Original grey boards titled in red, linen backstrip. Tiny dent in fore edge of upper cover. Laid in is the prospectus for "Four Poems" by James Russell Lowell. A fine... More about THE HOLLOW LAND
Dallas: Chama Press, 1991. 8 x 11. 48 pages with double spread title and 8 other wood engravings by John DePol, on tan paper. Full green morroco, with DePol patterned endpapers. Fine in tray case, with prospectus. Inscribed on half title to Barron Henderson (son of the publisher) and signed... More about SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BIRDS
NY, (1967). 4 1/2 x 7. Sixty individual contributions, various paginations (4 to 20 pages) loosely laid into board slipcase with printed wraparound label. Slipcase a bit soiled, contents fine. With a small photograph of Bennett by A. Burton Carnes, and a rather pointed handwritten letter (1960) from Bennett to... More about PAUL A. BENNETT 1897-1966
San Francisco, November 1979. Four pages (title + list of plates) + 100 engravings. Each engraving is numbered 12/30 and signed by Moser, and has a printed title on the back. A fine set in quarter blue morocco & cloth tray case (few tiny scratches at base of spine) with... More about 100 Wood Engravings by Barry Moser for the Arion Press Edition of Moby-Dick
Petersham: Lone Oak Press, (2015). 7 x 9. 9 leaves with five full page engravings. with touches of hand coloring. Brown boards, white vellum spine dyed partially red. Fine. One of 100 signed copies. Printed by Rorer in Perpetua type in black and red on Zerkall Book paper. The relief... More about Extinction
7 3/4 x 7 3/4. (28) pages, including two full page wood engravings on French-fold tan Kizuki paper. Boards covered with a wood engraving. Stuart Schimmel's copy, with an ALS from the printer/artist. Fine. No. 13 of 15 numbered copies, signed by Ronald Keller. The first Red Angel Press book... More about THE ASSASSINATION
Leipzig, printed for members of the Limited Editions Club by Poeschel & Trepte, 1932. 7 3/4 x 9 3/4. 240 pages with woodcut initials and section titles by Emil Weiss. Bound by Arno Werner in full black morocco ruled in gilt, Poeschel & Trepte printers mark gilt on upper cover... More about THE FOUR GOSPELS
Paris: Chez l'autheur rue de bussey à la croix blance au Fauxbourg St. Germain, nd (1680s). 4 1/2 x 7. Title, (ii), 260 pages beautifully engraved throughout in imitation of a calligraphic prayer book, with lovely and numerous ornamental initials, vignettes, head- and tail-pieces, and title pages for the various... More about HEURES NOUVELLES DÉDIÉES A MADAME LA DAUPHINE
Berlin: Triton, 2000. 9 1/2 x 11 1/2. Two vols. 391 pages with 240 fine illustrations (many in color). Cloth. A separate cloth portfolio contains facsimiles. Both fine in slipcase. Seventeen essays about Insel-Verlag publications--which included Van deVelde's Zarathustra and the Cranach Hamlet--from an exciting period in book and binding design. Text in German. More about VOM ORNAMENT ZUR LINIE
Meriden: Columbiad Club, 1936. 5 x 8. 61 pages. Cloth & marbled boards. Small booklabel. Very good copy inscribed by the printer. Inscribed by Harold Hugo to his brother Clarence, in 1972: "I set all the type for this booklet and with the aid of Stanley Topen did all the... More about THE DE VINNE AND MARION PRESSES
(Chicago, 2019). 5 x 7. 22 leaves (4 folding), most printed on both sides. Black cloth with printed label inset on upper cover. The endpapers are printed in black & grey to resemble a brick wall, with the book's title printed on the wall in 14 different type faces. A.... More about The Almighty Starshaped
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 about Images de la Lune
(South Norwalk, 1959). 5 1/2 x 7 1/2. 17 leaves (most French-fold) including 11 woodcut portraits (one double-page) by Frasconi. Boards covered with a woodcut by Frasconi. Fine in glassine. One of 250 signed copies, printed from the original woodblocks at the Spiral Press in black & red on handmade Goyu paper. More about THE FACE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
18th century & later. Full sized, unused sheets. Six of the papers are known or presumed to have been printed by the Remondini factory. Three are later printings by Rizzi from the original Remondini blocks and bear the Stampa Remondiniani PESP blindstamp. Most in very good condition. The stars of... More about Nine rare Italian color xylographed papers
(Seal Harbor): High Loft Press, 1979. 6 3/4 x 9 1/4. 58 pages illustrated with drawings from French architectural garden ornaments. Two-page Afterword by August Hecksher is laid in. Printed boards, full length leather spine label, by Gray Parrot. Fine. One of 140 copies. Text set in 14 point Bembo by Michael Bixler, and printed by August Hecksher. More about AFTER READING THOREAU
NY: Kelly-Winterton Press, 2000. 4 1/2 x 6 1/2. 22 pages. Turquoise pastepaper boards, leather spine label. Fine. One of 90 copies designed and printed by Jerry Kelly in Palatino type on Arches paper. More about THE BOOK OF TWELVE
NY: Kelly-Winterton Press, 1999. 6 x 9. 19 pages. Red cloth. Fine. One of 100 copies printed by Jerry Kelly in Centaur & Columna types in black & red. More about RED UNTO WHITE
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1940. 10 x 14). xv, (4), 194 pages + 8 pages of reproductions + 4 bifolia of original leaves. Laid in are 2 prepublication pieces and 10 extra original leaves. Prior owner has placed a light pencil check next to the many titles he owned. Despite... More about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GRABHORN PRESS 1915-1940
Brussels, 1823. 7 x 9. Title, portrait, xii, (1), 303 hand-written pages. The wove paper is watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1822. Each page is within a pen-work architectural border (displaying great variety) with wide margins. A full page with wide ornamental borders opens each Season. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco... More about The Seasons
Philadelphia , April 1855 - July 1869. 10 x 13. 412 pages plus 6 bound-in supplements. Each issue has a page of 3-column text with substantive news (recent type specimens from other foundries, notices of typographic journals, technical articles) and a page of ads for printing equipment. Specimens of types... More about TYPOGRAPHIC ADVERTISER. Volume I, no. 1--Volume XIV, 3
(San Francisco, 1947-1970). Hallcrest vineyards has 8 + 3 back-of-the-bottle labels; Almadén has 3 + 3 proofs for other wines, without the woodengraving. There are 2 bottlings for the Bohemian Club. There is one label for Ficklin Vineyards Port, along with an uncut sheet bearing 4 identical labels. The "Russian... More about Twenty different, unused wine labels printed at the Grabhorn Press
