NY: Knopf, 1945. First ed. 1/2 x 9. 33-page introduction, [44] pages of poems. Cream cloth gilt, top edge gilt. Bookplate on blank leaf; nickel-size glue mark on rear pastedown. Near fine. Designed by Rogers with Greek and English texts on facing pages. Ornaments and Trafton cuts are printed in... More
Whittington Press, (1983). 5 x 7 1/2. (48) pages. Quarter cloth & marbled boards. Two lower tips bumped (not very noticeable due to the marbled design), all else fine. No. 192 of 325 signed copies. Halifax brewers commissioned Lindsley to design 250 small wood engravings to be enlarged as silk screen signs for their pubs. More
Council Bluffs, 1986-1991. All fine condition. More
Boston: HM, 1905. 5 7/8 x 9. 32 pages. Maroon cloth, gray boards, paper spine label. Extra label tipped in at rear. Very slight wear from rubbing in the slipcase, else a fine copy. The slipcase is missing an inch from the top panel. No. 23 of 375 copies, printed... More
NY: Woodside Press, 1998. 10 x 13 1/2 and 8 x 10. 11 leaves, including 8 signed original wood engravings. Portfolio housed in clamshell box lined with a pattern paper designed by the artist. The case is constructed to hold snuggly the 5 larger and 3 smaller prints. A proof... More
(Northampton): Double Elephant Press, 1997. Broadside. 19 x 14. Burns' poem is printed letterpress by Art Larson in the upper two-thirds of the broadside. The bottom third is Michael Kuch's copperplate etching (printed by him) of a mouse turned up in her nest (constructed of shredded copies of Burns' poem)... More
Iowa City, 1985. 6 1/2 x 11. Frontis is a six-color wood engraving by Dellas Henke. xvi, (170) pages. Cloth spine, pastepaper boards, cloth slipcase. Edges of slipcase & book spine are faded; all else fine. Prospectus laid in. One of 200 copies, beautifully printed on a Washington hand press... More
Circular etching 9 1/2 inches in diameter on a sheet 12 x 16. printed in black. Fine condition. Signed artist's proof. More
NY, 1935. 6 x 8. 124 pages on Frenchfold Kawara paper. Bound by Gerhard Gerlach in oriental style, purple boards, yellow & purple silk hinges, yellow endpapers. A fine copy, with a Christmas gift card from the Carys laid in. No. 210 of less than 250 copies, printed in Centaur... More
1978. Etching in black & red. Image is 6 x 6 inches on heavy paper measuring 14 1/2 x 11. Signed Artist's Proof, inscribed "For Harold [Hugo] from Leonard." Back of paper is lightly toned, else fine. Artist's Proof. (Edition limited to 125 copies) Fern 669. Inscribed by Baskin to Harold [Hugo]. 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
SF: BCC, 1987. Oblong 12 x 9. 49 triple-column pages, printed in black & terracotta. Illustrated throughout. Black cloth. Fine in very good plain white dj. One of 550 copies. A well-illustrated discussion of 47 books by Schmied. More
Northampton: Pennyroyal Press, 1980. 6 1/2 x 10. 29 pages, 3 leaves. Navy cloth, paper spine label. Extra label laid in. Fine. A Patron's copy, inscribed by Moser to Mimi and Arnold [Elkind]. Each of the engravings specially signed by Moser. (The edition of 130 copies did not have signed... More
Warwick Press, 1977. 5 1/2 x 7 1/2. (4) pages, 2 illustrations with touches of hand-coloring by Carol Blinn. Paste paper wraps, made by Carol, resemble stalks of corn and corn silk. Light vertical crease in one fore edge, near fine with prospectus. A humorous, slightly erotic poem. One of... More
(Easthampton): Cheloniidae Press, 1984. 7 x 9 1/2. (56) pages including 15 wood engravings printed from the blocks. Bound by Sarah Creighton in dark blue morocco framed with a narrow inlaid rule of light blue morocco; upper cover bears a circular inlay of light and medium blue morocco in which... More
Np, 1980. 6 x 7. 20 leaves of poems on grey Strathmore Artlaid paper. Pictorial blue wraps. Fine. A collection of Jones' poems which appeared in her Red Hen Press artist's books. One of 500 copies. More
The Red Hen Press, 1986. 6 1/2 x 10. 10 leaves + a doublespread relief etching from "Ellor-Gast" titled, dated, & signed by Jones. Bound in canvas printed across the covers with an illustration from Ellor-Gast. Fine, with prospectus. No. 26 of 30 specially bound signed copies. (The other 170... More
Birmingham: John Baskerville, "1757" (ca. 1770). Second edition. 4to (9 x 11 1/2). Title, [8] Subscribers, 103, [2], 105-231, 233-432 pages. Page 224 is incorrectly numbered 424. FOXING varies from considerable on some pages to none on other pages. Ink name on blank. Straight grain olive morocco paneled in gilt... More
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1981. 6 x 9. 66 pages, 22 leaves of Japanese screen papers, 12 pages. With 2 kimono pattern swatches and 33 Chiyogami samples. Quarter morocco & patterned boards. Spine is faded; contents fine. In a handsome, custom clamshell case., with prospectus. The colorful specimens... 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
(Anvil Press: Lexington, 1979). 7 1/2 x 11. (7) pages + 26 leaves with mounted proofs and prints (2 hand colored), all on heavy grey paper. Leaves I and II are reversed. Blue boards, large printed label on upper cover, blue dustwrapper. Fine. One of 50 copies. Text describes each engraving or cut. More
London: William Pickering, 1853. 4 1/2 x 7 1/4. 360 leaves on fine "India" paper. Title printed in black and red within a border of the Tree of Jesse, and overleaf a portrait of Queen Elizabeth. Each page printed within a pictorial woodcut border by Mary Byfield. Dark navy blue... More
Frankfurt: Stempel, May 1952. 12 1/2 x 9. Eleven leaves: introductory note in German and English + 10 specimens, printed in black & red on rectos only. vellum-back grey boards with gilt MT on upper cover. Fine. Inscribed by Zapf to Jackson Burke, Christmas 1952. No. 9 of 30 copies... More
NY: Museum Books, 1954. Oblong 12 x 9. (4), 100, (7) pages. Vellum-backed boards. With the separate booklet in a pocket at the rear. A fine copy in slipcase. Inscribed by Zapf. With the 4-page folio prospectus. One of 1000 copies. Zapf has designed 100 typographical arrangements, using almost as... More
Rochester: Cary Graphic Arts Collection, 1993. 8 1/2 x 6. (10) pages followed by 16 leaves printed rectos only, in black, red, and blue. Reproduced from Zapf's calligraphy, with printed translation beneath. Blue cloth gilt, with red leather spine label. Fine. One of 30 special copies on Arches paper and... More
