(Glacier National Park), 2008. 8 x 9. Accordion-fold of 12 pages hand written, drawn, and watercolored. The reverse of each page (the "backside" of the accordion) bears a painted fern. In the form of a naturalist's journal, the artist records what she sees, and the feelings evoked. Attached to sage... More
Montagnola: Officina Bodoni, 1924. 8 1/2 x 12. 75, (4) pages. Full dark red vellum with gilt title on spine, press device on cover. Spine is very faded, deckles a bit dusty, light extremity wear. Very good. One of 224 copies on handmade Fabriano. Printed in Bodoni's 20 point Cancelleresco... More
Berkeley: Set in Motion Press, 2011. 9 x 15 (closed) opening to 28 x 14. A standing triptych which recalls a 19th century anatomical atlas. There is letterpress in 4 panels on each side. Torso Women, in the center, holds a sewn codex with numerous printed flaps. Bound with faux... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 2004. Two vols. 6 x 9. 81 pages illustrated with 6 tipped-in color photos. 60 samples of book cloths from 5 producers are mounted in an accordion-fold portfolio. Both volumes in brown silk cloth, leather labels, in a matching slipcase. Fine, with prospectus. A fascinating... More
Grapho Editions, 2009. 7 1/2 x 10 1/2. 25 pages illustrated throughout. Blue cloth titled on upper cover. Fine. In these poems about birds, text and images are interwoven into fluid shapes. Marbling, machined wood, and some wood engraving are used with a light touch. "All sorts of shapes and... More
Swan & Hoop, 2008. 8 x 12. Color map of the city, 25 pages + 16 pages of plates showing letterforms and inscriptions. Stiff wraps with a subtle pattern of paving stones. Half-inch closed tear near head of spine, all else fine. A hunt through the medieval city of Padua... More
(Council Bluffs): Yellow Barn Press, 1991. 7 x 10. xii, 108 pages. Fifteen wood engravings of presses by John DePol. Oatmeal cloth, leather spine label. Fine with prospectus. One of 180 copies, signed by artist and by author. The original edition, beautifully printed letterpress with the wood engravings printed from the blocks. More
(Easthampton): Warwick Press, 1985. First edition. 8 1/2 x 11. (10), 11-63, (1) pages printed rectos only. Japanese paper boards, with title on spine in three small colored paper onlays. With the 6-page Prospectus bound in Japanese paper, with some hand coloring. Fine. First American publication of 17 poems. One... More
(N. Hatfield): Pennyroyal Press, 2008. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. Portrait of Mariani, xv, 38 pages including 3 full page engravings. Black cloth spine, grey pastepaper boards upper cover titled in vermillion, bound by Sarah Creighton. Fine. Moser's three powerful engravings form a triptych for the three powerful poems. No... More
Hadley: Double Elephant Press, 2007. 15 x 13. 53 leaves. Eight poems on white St.-Armand paper are printed letterpress along with a blind-embossed image. Each poem is followed by five intaglios (2 folding out) on variously colored St.-Armand papers. They are tipped to linen which has a thin copper "spine,"... More
New-York: The DeVinne Press, 1891. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2. 145 pages. Original cloth gilt. Light wear to extremities; light stain on upper margin of most of text block, else very good. A handsome specimen printed in black & red, with extensive use of decorated and illuminated initials. It is... More
Gwas Gregynog, 1991. 8 x 12 1/2. 66 pages including 6 full page drawings, with smaller drawings in the text. Quarter black morocco and yellow boards. Fine, with prospectus. No. XXXII of 50 copies bound in quarter leather. An additional 200 copies were bound in quarter cloth. More
Whittington Press, (1989). 10 x 13 1/2. 81 pages illustrated throughout, mostly from the original blocks. Quarter morocco & boards printed from a wood engraving. Fine in slipcase (light wear). One of 50 deluxe copies with a portfolio of 8 full page engravings initialed by the artist. Signed by Jean and John O'Connor. More
(Bowling Green Press, 1928). 6 x 9. 15 leaves printed rectos only. Dark boards with silver spine label, matching grey jacket, in custom cloth slipcase. Very slight wear to corners; piece cut out of dust jacket spine to reveal title. A fine copy. Decorative title page and ornaments printed in... 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
Oldham: Incline Press, 2006. 9 x 6 1/2. 21 pages printed rectos only, illustrated with copper etchings & linocuts of objects dug from the old kitchen garden: glass bottles, fossils, small metal obects, clay pipes. Bound by Chris Hicks in green leather with horizontal bands of tan and brown leather... More
Midnight Paper Sales & Solmentes Press, 2003. 9 1/2 x 13. 153 pages. Illustrated with 14 color linocuts by Esslemont, 3 color wood engravings by Schanilec (including a 33-inch folding panorama), 10 tipped-in color ink jet images, and 6 original leaves. Bound by David Esslemont in laminated bevelled boards covered... More
Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1967. 8 x 11. (25) pages. Boards, spine label. Harold Hugo & family member's small bookplates inside front cover. A fine association copy inscribed by Baskin to "Harold: picture printer from Leonard: type printer." One of 400 copies; this signed "printer's copy" and inscribed. Printed in Arrighi... More
Midnight Paper Sales, 2011. 5 x 9 . 111 pages with 7 (two double spread) color wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec. Quarter oasis goatskin. Issued in a clamshell box with a separate portfolio of progressive proofs of the Cooper Union engraving. Fine. One of 26 deluxe signed copies with progressive... More
Winter Haven: Anachronic Editions, 1986. 9 x 13. (vii), 95 pages illustrated throughout. Cream & black cloth. One lower tip slightly bumped. Fine copy of this colorful book. One of 100 signed copies printed in Ludlow types on Rives heavyweight. Six essays by Richard Huss, R. KArch, William Kittredge, Sol... More
Sandy Hook: Chiswick Bookshop, 1990. 10 x 14. 112 pages. With an original leaf (xix/xx) printed on vellum. Cloth, leather spine label, slipcase. Fine copy, inscribed by the author. One of 285 copies, designed by Jerry Kelly. A fascinating history, including recent discoveries, about Updike's magnum opus. J. P. Morgan... More
NY: MOMA, 1968. 8 1/2 x 10. 216 pages. An exhibition catalogue, illustrated throughout. Indices. Tiniest bit of wear, a touch of foxing to top edges, but a fine example of this hinged color-printed & embossed aluminium binding. Lots of Bauhaus, work by Max Ernst and El Lissitsky. More
(Wakefield), The Fleece Press, (1991). 47 mm x 70 mm (1 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches). 27 leaves illustrated with wood engravings. Floral cloth. Fine. One of 290 set in 8-point Van Dijck at the Rocket Press. More
Los Angeles: Kenneth Karmiole, 1981. 9 x 12. 27, (5) pages. The original leaf is laid loose into a folder which is bound into the book, making the leaf easy to remove. Cloth. Spine faded, inconspicuous book label, else fine. This handsome Aldine leaf in Roman type, has paragraph marks... More
Boston: F. H. Gilson Co., 1905. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4. Frontis with printed guard, facs. letter mounted, xvi, tipped-in map, 452 pages. Pagination includes many specimens, including 60 samples of binding cloth mounted on 10 leaves, and 16 samples of leather mounted on 2 leaves. Publisher's half morocco &... More
