Cambridge, 2012. 6 x 9 3/8. 60 pages illustrated in color throughout. Bound by Sarah Creighton in red cloth. Kat Ran Press was founded by Michael Russem in 1994 with the goal of combining classical typography and contemporary art with the old ideals of fine printing. Michael's commentary on his..... More

(San Diego): Brighton Press, (1989). 14 x 11 1/2. Seventeen leaves of letterpress + 12 etchings + 4 oversized woodcuts. The illustrations are all signed. Twelve colorful, tactile etchings are hand-painted in gouache.Protected by a plexiglass sheet, each is interspersed with a leaf of letterpress text.Four large woodcuts--also painted and..... More

NY: Kelly-Winterton Press, 1985. 4 3/4 x 7 1/2. Six pages. Vignette on title. Wraps. Fine. One of 108 copies printed by Jerry Kelly in Garamond types on Fabriano Ingres. More

Cambridge, 2012. Two volumes. 11 1/2 x 16 1/2. A leaf book with 19 tipped-in leaves from Michael's very early work to his latest. Most bear original etchings and are 4 or more pages. Bound by Sarah Creighton in grey cloth, a printed red label running the spine's length. The..... More

Northampton: Double Elephant Press, 1994. 8 x 8. Half title, title, 7 pages of text with 5 wood engravings are followed by 27 color etchings and a double-fold etching in black, which opens to 32 inches. It depicts an anthropomorphic frog in the stages of aging from youth to death..... More

Chelsea, 1922. 6 x 8 3/4. viii, frontis, 239 pages. Illustrated with 53 woodcuts drawn by Charles Gere and cut by J. B. Swain. Full limp hairy vellum, two pairs of green linen ties. Some protruding deckles are a bit browned, still a fine beautiful copy. With the prospectus. The..... More

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1893. 5 x 8. 183 pages + 8 plates. In a Wiener Werkstatte binding (ca. 1920) of black morocco and golden morocco stamped in gold geometric designs, top edge gilt, cloth endpapers in large black & white floral pattern. "Wiener Wekstatte" stamped in gold inside..... More

Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1995. 6 1/2 x 10. 105 pages, including photographic illustrations & eight color plates of bindings. Quarter morocco, sides printed to look like a Middleton binding, slipcase. Fine. With the lovely B&B lapel pin. An enameled lapel pin reproducing Middleton's binding for Henry Morris' own..... More

New York City, nd (ca. 1870s). 9 1/2 x 11 1/2. A scrap book album of about 40 leaves with approximately 200 type specimens pasted onto both rectos and versos. Original pebbled black cloth with large leather label on upper cover; new leather spine and corners. The specimens were printed..... More

San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1977. Folio (10 x 14). xxx, 117 pages + inserted illustrations and original leaves. Quarter green morocco & printed cloth. A couple of light scuffs to spine; but a fine copy of an exceedingly handsome book. Printed by Andrew Hoyem in Franciscan types in black..... More

(Dundas): Aliquando Press, 2016. 5 x 7. 22 leaves. The Old English text faces its modern English translation. A silver sea flows throughout the book. Printed Nepalse paper over boards, paper spine label. Fine in paper slipcase. One of 40 copies illustrated, printed & bound by Rueter. Printed on Hahnemuhle..... More

Petersham: The Lone Oak Press, 2011. 6 1/2 x 11. 26 pages including 7 plates of multi-color wood engravings. Quarter grey morocco & pebble-textured grey boards with circular color engraving inset in upper cover, in navy cloth tray case with leather label. Fine. The Eritrichium nanum is a wildflower "with..... More

NY: The Grolier Club, 1933. 8 1/4 x 12 1/4. Half-title, frontis by Emery Walker, vii, (2), 105, (1) pages. Title within white-on-red strapwork border. Red ornaments & strapwork initials. Illustrated throughout with diagrams of Roman letters, with tissue guards. The letters are so heavily inked that there iis some..... More