Hayward (CA), March 1974-Winter 1999. 7 x 10 1/2. Nos. 1-17 are Xerox copies. Nos. 18 -99 are the original Newsletters. Each 8 pages, illustrated. Self-wraps. Folded once for mailing, very good. "As the old craftsmen died, their unique letterpress skills would be lost forever. It seemed apparent that what..... More
St. Gallen, 1969. Fifth revised ed. 4 x 6. Cloth, 195 pages printed in double columns, in five languages. Illustrated. Very good copy of a book you can keep in your pocket. An invaluable little work, consisting of a picture section in English, French & german, and a dictionary which..... 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
NP, 1976. 5 x 4/12. 14 leaves, printed one-side only. Cloth-backed marbled boards. Fine. With the prospectus. Limited to 100 copies, signed by Moser. Printed by Harold McGrath in two colors on Fabriano paper. Calligraphic title page by Anne Kaihlanen and botanical engraving by Moser. The poems are the lyrics..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 2002. Two vols. 9 x 12 1/2. 99 pages plus 24 unpaginated inserts (some multi-page, one foldout broadside) of original leaves, paper specimens, and photographs. Quarter morocco & Japanese cloth. An inch-thick portfolio contains leaves & signatures from previous B&B books, prospectuses, large posters, and..... More
One large sheet folded into 8 pages, listing and illustrating 12 books still in print. WITH: "The Hampshire Typothetae," 4 pages. WITH: "Printed Responses to the Written Word," which has a wood engraving on the upper cover, inscribed and signed by Moser. All 3 items are fine. More
Paris: F.-L. Schmied, 1925. Small 4to 6 1/2 x 9 3/4. Twenty-three gatherings (89 printed pages) plus blanks at beginning and end. Schmied's printed note to the binders and another printed note about the placement of the half-title are laid in. Wood engravings by Schmied throughout, printed in colors, gold..... 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
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
Austin: Taylor, 1993. 12 x 8. 74 pages including color plates. Quarter vellum & Japanese cloth. Fine. One of 40 copies in the special binding, printed on Magnani paper. More
Rheinbach, 2007. 11 x 14. 16 leaves, pulp paper paintings by Gerard meander through the text. Green cloth covered in a pulp paper design, with pulp paper endpapers. Fine in green cloth tray case. Laid in is a typed translation of this poem "The Art of Society." "Grünbein’s poetry is..... More
(Steventon): The Rocket Press, (1983). 9 x 7. 14 loose leaves laid into decorated boards portfolio. Illustrated with linocuts by John R. Smith. The portfolio is in a compartmented tray case which also holds a pair of quoins, 10 pieces of metal type, and a miniature alphabetical type specimen. Small..... More
Berkeley (1976). Second edition. 8 1/2 x 11. 238 pages. Profusely illustrated with type specimens. Cloth, dj. Fine. First published in 1938, in small format, without the American chapter. More
(Chicago), Caxton Club, (2005). 8 x 10. 152 pages illustrated. Cloth, pictorial dj. Fine. A bibliography of 230 leaf books from 1852 to 2004. Indexed. More
Paris: Alain Brieux, 1964. 9 1/2 x 12. 44, (6) pages + the facsimile of 9 pages and 68 plates etched by Jost Amman(some color in color). Issued in wraps, this copy is bound by Samuel Feinstein in deep brown morocco with a partial icosahedron rising from the upper cover..... More
(Frankfurt, 1963). 8 x 12. (5), 78, (4) pages. Vellum spine, green boards, printed dustwrapper. Inscribed to a fellow calligrapher. Fine. No. 77 of 100 copies printed for Zapf. German edition, privately printed at Stempel. Brief introduction in German, English, & French. Many of the 78 typographic layouts are presented..... More
Hammersmith, 1892. (2), viii, 249, (1) pages. Woodcut border on first text page; woodcut initials throughout. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in 1900 in tan morocco with elaborate acanthus leaf pattern which reflects Morris' leafy woodcut border. Covers are stamped in brown, with brown & gilt rules; full morocco doublures & endleaves..... More
NY: Longmans, Green 1907. Second printing. 5 x 8. 308 pages. Bound by Arno Werner for himself in full white pigskin. Blind tooled over-all in a design of horizontal lines radiating from the spine with its 4 raised bands; board edges with single gilt rule, tiny gold stars on spine..... More
NY (1982). 7 x 10. 284 pages. Illus. Cloth. One of 600. Fine, inscribed copy. More
British Library & Oak Knoll, 2002. 4to. 258 pages illustrated, indexed. Cloth, dj. Fine. Includes a thorough bibliography. More
Newark, Delaware: Lead Graffiti, 2014. 15 x 23. Twenty-seven leaves: Title, colophon, descriptive page, 23 daily posters for the Tour de France + 1 composite print of the entire bicycle race. Quarter linen tray case covered in a pastepaper illustration of a landscape traversed by bicycle wheels. Fine. Portfolio E...... More
Treasury Department. Washington, D. C., 1869. Oblong 13 x 9. 3 leaves, 100 pages, 31 plates. The text is arranged in two sections followed by an Index. Pages 1-36 concern bonds, and are followed by 22 hinged-in engraved specimens. Pages 37-66 concern coinage, and are followed by 9 embossed plates..... More
Chillicothe, 1981-83. Two volumes. 12 x 17. Frontis, (8), 198; frontis, (9), 131 pages, plus numerous inserts. Full chestnut morocco by Gray Parrot, ruled in black & gilt, Hunter armorial device gilt on Vol. I, Hunter watermark gilt on Vol. 2. Each volume in a cloth tray case with morocco..... More
Evanston, 1986. Revised ed. 5 1/2 x 8. 87 pages. Cloth-backed boards. Fine. One of 378 copies. The best bibliography of the Fortsas Catalogue editions. The Catalogue was for books so rare only one copy of each was known. "The Fortsas hoax refers to an incident in Binche, Belgium, in..... 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
