Santa Cruz: Foolscap Press, 2021/2022. 9 3/4 x 13 1/2. 103 pages with 8 fullpage illustrations & 8 vignettes. Red leather spine & grey cloth sides, in a red silk cloth folding box. New. This Russian novel examines eight episodes in the life of the narrator. "The chapters show us..... More
Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, 2022. Two volumes. 11 x 13 1/2. 633 pages. Double column text. Profusely illustrated, including 22 tipped-in folded prints. Index. Quarter cloth & patterned boards. Each volume in a slipcase. Two corners of one case were bumped in shipping (book not affected); else as new..... More
Kentfield: The Allen Press, 1969. 8 x 12. (1), 75, (2) pages. Printed Irish linen over boards. Fine copy. Lewis Allen's manual was invaluable to private presses and hobby printers. One of 140 copies printed on handmade paper; each page printed in two to three colors on a Columbian handpress..... More
Montagnola, 1924. 10 x 14. (24) pages. Vellum-backed Putois marbled paper boards. Light tip and edge wear to boards; small bookplate. Very good. One of 225. Text in printed in Bodoni Casale 20 pt. Roman on Fabriano handmade paper. Early 19th c. Italian poem on the deplorable condition of a...... More
(Easthampton), 1972. 8 1/2 x 6. 8 leaves. Printed wraps. Proof copy of the portrait of Mondrian, before letters, is signed by Moser & laid in. Fine. "Only 25 or so copies survive" (Pennyroyal Checklist No. 6) of the 200 copies printed; Moser was unhappy with the portrait and destroyed..... More
(Florence, Mass.), April 2005. 6 x 5. Printed folder containing 5 decals of the type specimen in "mirror writing," with directions for applying the decals. In printed envelope. Fine. Piece number 4 in the Kat Ran Ephemera Club series. Russem's sense of humor is here displayed. One of about 60..... More
University Press Cambridge, Limited Editions Club, 1954. 7 1/2 x 10. 57 text pages. are followed by 9 pages of music,plus 6 lush plates from water-colors by Edmund Dulac. Quarter vellum & marbled boards, slipcase. A few scratches on slipcase; slight bump at base of book spine. Avery good copy..... More
(Bowling Green Press, 1928). 6 x 9. 16 leaves printed rectos only. Dark gray boards, silver spine label, dark grey dustwrapper (chipped). Very good, unopened copy SIGNED by the author on the copyright page. Decorative title page and ornaments printed in silver; each page ruled in silver, on greyish paper..... More
Minor Confluence, WI: Perishable Press, 1982. 7 x 10 1/2. ( 12), 42, (3) pages printed on a great variety of papers + 3 double-page specimens. Jim Lee's 11 linocuts portrait the equipment and methods of hand papermaking. Irish linen, blind stamped title. A few miniscule, barely perceptible spots on..... More
NY: Grolier Club, 1999. 9 x 12. 144 pages with 46 color illustrations and 54 half-tones. Quarter burgundy morocco titled down the spine in gold. Fine in slipcase. One of 50 deluxe copies, signed by the authors. The leaves are from: Van Krimpen's Iliad for Limited Editions Club, the Officina..... More
Lincoln, 1978. 6 x 9. ix, (2), 34, xiii pages. Illustrated with 17 plates. Blue cloth in matching slipcase. Spine sunned (as usual). Laid in is a signed wood engraving by McCurdy. No. 9 of 100 special copies printed on Rives and hand-bound at the Harcourt Bindery. Signed by 6..... More
Los Angeles, 1961. 5 x 8 1/4. x, 156, (1) pages with index. Illustrated. Cloth gilt, leather label. Fine in slightly faded slip case. Inscribed in 1978. A history and a Selective Checklist of from 1932 to 1960. No. 130 of 300 signed copies. More
(Leicestershire), 1986. Three volumes, each measuring 5 1/2 x 6, are bound in wrappers reproducing the original ones. All laid into a quarto-sized portfolio of cloth & marbled boards. Also laid in are a leaf of letterpress describing the three works, and an original anastatic print. Fine. The leaf is..... More
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1928. 7 x 10. xvii, 135 pages. Full vellum, gilt on spine & covers, top edge gilt, blue & red headbands and ribbon place marker. Fine, almost as new, copy of a book which never shows up. Number 19 of 209 copies printed on the handpress in..... More
(Bronxville, 1979). 8vo. 20 page catalogue followed by 26 plates. Quarter green morocco & marbled boards with morocco tips by G. Parrott. Fine. Limited to 300 copies. (Some copies were bound in cloth, some in paper-covered boards.) The plates in this high quality, attractive reprint are superior to those of..... 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
Boston: Harcourt Bindery, 1980. 9 1/2 x 12. Cloth, leather spine label. 25-page essay followed by 99 plates of dies, 2 tipped-in color photographs of stamped bindings. Fine. One of 500 copies, printed at The Heron Press in Dante types, and handbound at The Harcourt Bindery. The plates, which were..... More
NY, 25 Ann Street, ca. 1865. Broadsheet folded to 9 1/2 x 12, forming 4 pages. A humorous rebus engraved by J[oseph] Hoey heads the first page. And a complimentary article from The NY Mirror appears on the fourth. In between the ads are jokes and entertaining stories. Previously folded..... More
Howell, 1995. 6 x 8. Four leaves, with decorative initials colored in red. Wraps titled on cover. Fine. The identical text, about type founding, is printed 3 times--once in each of Hammer's uncial types (Samson, Aurora, and American). One of 150 copies on Rives Heavy Weight. More
Aurora, Privately Printed, 1993. 6 x 9. 37 pages. Wraps with American Uncial alphabet in gilt on upper cover. Business card of printer-in-residence at Wells in pocket of front end paper. Very good. With 5 other, related items. Contains a "Bibliography of the Aurora Years" by Paul Holbrook; "The Stamperia..... More
Katoomba, NSW. 1989. ix, (4), 37 pages illustrated throughout with bold linocuts in a woodcut style of the 1820s. Full chestnut morocco tooled in blind & gold by the Australian designer bookbinder binder Bettine Gresford. Fine in matching quarter morocco & linen tray case, with large prospectus. One of 5..... More
(Leicestershire) Plough Press, 1981. 9 x 13. Frontis shows progressive stages of a chromolithograph, 35 pages followed by 8 tipped-in original specimens and a facing identification leaf. Rear pocket contains additional examples. Quarter morocco & marbled boards. Spine very faded; contents fine. The specimens of 19th century color printing show..... More
Boston: Mussey, 1848. 12mo. Large folding map of New England, 214 pages including ads. Publisher's brown cloth embossed & gilt binding by Benjamin Bradley. Slight foxing to fore edges, all else fine. Four trade cards, on lightly glazed white paper, adorn the pastedown & endpapers. They are for Jones, Ball..... More
Boston, 1927, 1931 -1942. Thirteen New Year's Greetings in envelope from The Chiswick Book Shop. Toning to some edges, mounting residue on back of one, 2 closed tears. Very good condition. Ruzicka was one of the finest color printers in the 20th century. He employed a chiaroscuro process with subtle..... More
(South Norwalk, September 1974. 15 x 22. Title page & one page of text from Mary McCarthy's The Stones of Florence, both in Frasconi's hand, are followed by 23 full-page color woodcuts and a colophon page with a small woodcut. Most are presented as 28-inch double page spreads on French-fold..... More
