Offenbach: Klingspor, 1908. 5 1/2 x 6. (28) pages. Unbound sheets, folded and partly sewn. Very good condition. The charming alphabet is composed of Vogeler pictorial intials with the letter printed in gold. Poems are printed in Breitkopf-Fraktur, the whole within a narrow typographic border. An early Klinspor Gebr. imprint..... More
Heavenly Monkey, 2023. 6 x 9. Approx 28 pages. Two pochoir frontispieces in six colors, & a dozen small, single color drawings by Walter Bachinski of the Shanty Bay Press. Bound tete-beche in quarter cloth, slipcase. Fine. These two stories are about "ambiguity and living in a society ruled by..... More
(Flemington: St. Teresa's Press, 1970). 8 x 11. 33 pages. Illuminated by the Carmelite nuns large initial letters painted in 23-carat gold, silver, and a vibrant shades of red, green, blue, and purple. Bound by Fritz Eberhardt in full black morocco with abstract design formed by 62 onlays of morocco..... More
(Oakland:) Seraphim Press, 1951. 8 x 10. (27) pages with 4 woodcuts + a lengthy, expository colophon. Full vellum with red linen ties. Fine. A well-traveled copy. There are 3 inscriptions in the colophon and one on the title page. Initially inscribed by Everson to fellow printer Alfred Kennedy. Re-inscribed..... More
Northampton: Rosemary Press, 1969. 8 x 10. vi, 30, (1) pages; tipped-in errata slip. White spine, green paper sides, gilt, glassine. In custom green cloth tray case lined with white flannel, paper spine label. As new. One of 225 copies. (Offner has crossed out "250" in the colophon, and written..... More
NY: Russell Maret, 2023. 8 x 11. 54 pages profusely illustrated. Cloth & decorated boards. Fine, with prospectus. A wide-ranging meditation on the relationships between language and the oral, scribal, and typographic structures with which we clothe literature. Set in several types designed by Russell Maret, and printed on handmade..... More
Amherst: Fort Juniper, (1992). 7 x 10. 73 pages. Suzanne Moore's calligraphy graces the title page and the binding. Frontis portait by Robert Lyons. Another portrait by Frank Faulkner. Bound by David Bourbeau at his Thistle Bindery in snow white boards gilt, fire red endpapers. Fine in clamshell case. One..... More
NY, 1986. 8 1/2 x 11. (32) French-folded pages.with 4 color linocuts by David Storey. Bound by Claudia Cohen in full citron morocco with a large inlaid design on the upper cover. Claudia's cloth tray case has a morocco label running the length of the spine. Some light smudges on..... More
Leipzig, ca. 1905. Approximately 30 pieces of art nouveau design, most single sheets, most printed in color, and many embossed. Broadsides, letterheads, and checks all feature printers' ornaments from the Schelter & Giesecke type foundry. High quality printing reflects well on their platen press with 3 rollers. The samples are..... More
London: St. James Park Press, 2022. 5 x 7 1/4. 124 pages with 21 multi-colour linocut illustrations and chapter heads by artist Hugh Ribbans. Hand-sewn binding with a multi-coloured linocut wrap-around dust jacket, in an acrylic display case with removable spine label. As new. One of 140 copies signed by..... More
Brussels, (ca. 1840-1860). 4 x 5 1/2 inches. This card features 3 figures looking at an album of blue paper displaying cartes de visite and a large trade card for the lithographer of this piece-- G. Jacqmain, Ghent. It is an elaborate card festooned with ribbons and flowers chromolithographed in..... More
New York, 1845. 6 1/2 x 9 3/4. 307 leaves printed on rectos: title page in ornate border, advertisement (dated 1843) with a more elaborate border, price list, 304 specimens, of which 13 fold out (one duplicate). There are 6 excisions (2 lines of type, 4 smallish ornaments). Original half..... More
Vermont, 1984. 10 x 13. 122 pages. With 40 relief prints by Claire Van Vliet--mainly etchings, many combined with pochoir. Geometric ornaments throughout. Six pages fold out about 57 inches for a panoramic scene of the circus train. Bound in stenciled buckram, vellum spine with exposed sewing. Stenciled traycase has..... More
Berkeley: Foolscap Press, 2024. Folio 15 x 9 1/2. 68 pages, including 5 multi-color and 1 single color calligraphed quotation, printed in black, red, and blue. Errata slip laid in. Cloth boards are sewn onto carbon fiber rods which allow the book to lay open flat. Fine copy, with prospectus..... More
(Mount Holly): Married Mettle Press, 1987. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2. 101 pages. Two full page wood engravings in brown, head pieces, & vignette by Deborah Alterman. Bound by Donald Glaister in green morocco with vertical windows, giving the sense of a brig; painted & woven inlays of laminated mylar..... More
Stanford, (1963). 7 1/2 x 11. ix, 101, (1) pages, 5 inserted folio leaves folded. Illustrations throughout in the original colors. Spine slightly faded, occasional light foxing, near fine. One of 150 copies, designed by Margaret Evans. The Overbrook Press is known for its high quality--in materials, design, and printing..... More
NY: Advertising Agencies' Service, 1924-1930, 1933, 1934, 1948-1954. Broadsides (mostly) ranging in size from 7 1/2 x 10 to 12 x 19. Five are signed by Schiller, and 4 have their mailing envelopes. Also included are cards Schiller designed for others--one in Hebrew. And Schiller's own greeting, the Nazimussjap portrait..... More
(Hammersmith), 1900 (Jan. 1901). 6 1/2 x 9 1/4. Title, xxxiii pages. Full limp vellum, signed The Doves Bindery. Light shelf wear to bottom of the boards; top edge a bit dusty, all else fine. A lovely copy, with the order form and A List of Books Printed & in..... More
London: Sampson Low, 1852. 7 1/4 x 9 1/2. vii, 235, (1) pages. Each page within a wood-engraved border, some with Biblical vignettes; decorative initials in red or blue. Bound in vellum over heavy beveled boards, spine titled in gold. Occasionally light soil & tiny spots. Brief splits in the..... More
USA, 1900. 7 x 12. (98) pages plus 8 smaller format specimens, each in wraps (10), (22), (18), (14)(18), (22), (4), (64). These were tipped-into the binding on hinges. Cloth gilt title on cover. Binding is very worn and disbound. A few specimens are fragile & chipped, but most are..... More
(Lexington, 1953). 8 1/2 x 12. 47, (2) pages. Buff boards, spine label. Light wear at spine ends faint shadow on cover, but fine. An elegant work of pure typography. The first Anvil Press book, and one of only five designed by Victor Hammer. One of 225 copies. The Latin..... More
(Northampton): Gehenna Press, 1967. 8 x 11. 31 leaves. "The twenty-seven maxims and mottoes, in a variety of tongues, are printed one to a leaf in divers colors." Full tan morocco ruled in gold by Arno Werner. Morocco-backed clamshell case case (corner slightly bumped). Fine copy with prospectus. One of..... More
Chelsea,1904. 5 1/2 x 7 3/4. 248 pages. Superbly illustrated by Charles Keates and Robert Catterson Smith with 14 woodcuts based on the 1497 edition.Opening initial in gold, numerous initials flourished in red, blue, and green by Graily Hewitt. Original natural vellum, green cloth ties.Top edge dusty, but fine. Exquisite..... More
NY, 1963. Ten original pen sketches on Roger Smith Hotel paper place mats (9) and on a paper napkin (1). The title is hand written with pink magic marker on a piece of shiny white stock. The 10 sketches are numbered and signed AS; some are dated. Each is taped..... More
London, 1946, 1948, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1983. Each menu is produced by a different designer and press, in a great variety of sizes and styles; most are 4 pages. They include information about the evening's after-dinner speaker. Very good condition. Double Crown is a...... More
