San Francisco: Mackenzie & Harris, 1948. 5 1/2 x 12 1/2. Single sheet printed on both sides. The price list is on one side, with Bruce Rogers Borders on the other. Very good. Copies at Cambridge & Berkeley. More
(Beltsville): Hand Papermaking, 2010. 8 1/2 x 11. Fourteen delightful examples of paper engineering: pop-ups and other moveables, constructed from handmade paper, each in a printed folder. Many are signed by the artists. With a 40-page book. Fine in clamshell case. Twenty-eight book artists & papermakers collaborated to construct these..... More
(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
1994. 6 1/4 x 10. Eleven double-spreads accomplished in acrylic, pencil, pen and gold leaf painting, and collage. Calligraphic text. Bound in highly textured, painted boards with an abstract design formed by onlays of various materials. Fine in cloth tray, which has a blind & gilt decoration. Edition of 1..... More
Iowa City: Naughty Dog Press, 2012. 10 3/4 x 10 3/4 when closed. A double tunnel book, with the two tunnels side-by-side. One side represents the Mother who has frontal lobe dementia; the other her family. The family's view is printed in black & grey and is prison-like; the mother's..... More
(Nuremberg, early c19). A diamond pattern (12 1/2 x 11) of simple flowers, grapes, & pomegranates embossed and gilt on a blue paste ground (15 1/2 x 13 1/4) is signed G. N. Renner & Abel" in the design. There is a central fold line, as these papers were traditionally..... More
Hamburg & Munich, ca. 1913. A collection of about 75 specimens of design & typefaces. The 4-page specimens are tipped in, and the single page specimens are mounted, onto 34 leaves of good quality black stock. Bound into flexible cloth boards with string ties, printed cover label. A little extremity..... More
Paris: F. Didot for Lami Denozan, (1828). 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. cxlvi, 48 pages + 11 leaves bearing the lithographs uncolored. Title page & 10 half-page lithographic vignettes by Richard Parkes Bonington (6) and Monnier (4). Bound by Charles de Samblanx in Romantic style in black straight grain morocco..... More
London: W. Alard and J. Browne, 1770. First edition. 5 1/4 x 8 1/8. (21 cm) Frontis, (10) Preface, 502, (4) Contents pages + 24 extra leaves of Caslon's ornament specimen. This extra, inserted specimen, printed by T. Wright on rectos only, collates [ ]4, I4, *I4, K-M4. It is..... More
(London: The Studio, 1931). 8 1/2 x 10 1/2. (90) pages + 20-page summary in French + 15 inserted plates. Printed in black and blue, and illustrated throughout. Cloth spine, printed paper over board sides. One joint with several splits, occasionally affecting a gutter between leaves. Very good copy in..... More
Krefeld, Germany ca. 1905. 9 3/4 x 12 1/2. 359 pages. Collated complete. Later cloth binding. Text in German, French, English, Spanish, & Italian. Paper is a bit brittle; title & first few leaves are chipped, some foxing, and a couple of tape repairs. Overall good plus. Brass bookbinding ornaments..... More
(Long Island, ca. 1980). 5 1/2 x 7. 8 pages. Booklet in a loose printed wrap of Howell's hand made paper. The booklet has photographs of six Howell hand-bindings for sketch books using some of his highly textured papers. The wrap is sheet of Howell paper, pastel colored with embedded..... 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
(Tarrytown), 1989. 15 x 22. About 28 leaves, a mixture of single sheets, double sheets, and foldout leaves. Some of the pages have been colored before letterpress. Wraps covered with a multicolor woodcut and monotype image on front. In a sepia linen traycase with inset woodcut portraits of Paz and..... More
(Madison, 1999). 7 x 10. 61, (2) pages. Cloth, paper labels, and endpapers printed from wood type and ornaments. Rear pocket holds a folded broadside printed in three colors of wood type and ornaments. Fine. One of 200 copies printed letterpress on Mohawk Superfine paper. Signed by Kelly, Saxe, and..... More
NY: Pynson Printers, 1936. 9 x 11. 148 pages + numerous photogravure plates + 51 annotated specimens. Bound by Gerhard Gerlach in black Oasis Niger spine & boards printed with an old Korean woodblock; tooled in gold & red. Bookplate of K. S. Maclachlan. A few tiny scrapes to spine..... More
New-York: Printed [by D. & G. Bruce] for Ezra Sargeant, 1810. Two vols. 4 x 7. 346; 348 pages + 8 full page wood engravings by Alexander Anderson. Bound in full green leather, spines faded to brown. A "composite" binding with central embossed plaque framed by a wide gilt border;..... More
Minneapolis, 1994. Approximately 185 printed examples from the first 20 years of this fine press. A wonderful collection of greeting cards, invitations, announcements, letterheads, bookmarks, and broadsides. Housed in three cloth clamshell cases with printed paper labels, all within a stepped cloth slipcase (8 1/2 x 14 x 11). Fine..... More
Easthampton: Pennyroyal Press, 1974. 6 1/2 x 10. 4 leaves printed in black & red, 13 broadside wood engravings in black, titled in red. The engravings measure about 3 x 2 1/2 inches. Laid into a custom cloth folder & matching tray case with leather spine label. Each engraving is..... More
Barbarian Press, 2020. 6 1/2 x 10 1/2. 66 pages. Forty-eight poems by Jan Zwicky. Eight photographs by Robert Moody. The photographs were printed by Moody and are tipped in. The facing page prints the photograph's title. Grey cloth spine, blue paper boards. Fine. "It is important to realize that..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1998. 9 x 12 1/2. 165 pages (including 30 tip-ins: original folio & quarto leaves from Mountain House books, 4 original light-and-shade watermarked papers made by all three Hunters, color photos, and 30 pages of b&w illustrations). Quarter black morocco & golden silk cloth, red..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1998. 9 x 12 1/2. 165 pages including thirty pages of black and white illustrations, thirty tip-ins, many of which are in full color, seven original folio or quarto leaves from Mountain House books, and four original light-and-shade watermaked papers made by all three generations..... More
(Cape Town, 2000). 10 x 9. (44) pages incorporating gold leaf, gold Cameo cigarette papers, tissue paper collages, stamps, cut-outs, fold-overs, strips of printed text paper, & etchings. Bound by the artist with open spine with cotton thread & cotton tapes, black Indian petal paper boards with inset copper plate..... More
Douglas Cleverdon: Bristol, 1928. 5 1/2 x 8. 31 pages. Vellum-backed boards with exposed cords, hand colored wood cut on upper cover. The binding is browned on the spine and around the edges, else very good. Letter "A" of 6 lettered copies and signed, specially bound, and with an extra..... 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
