Vashon Island: Foolsgold Studio, 2009. 8 x 8. 10 leaves, most opening to double spreads of text and illustration. "The book is a progression of sanded polyester encapsulations which envelop paintings, drawings, and type on paper and transparent film, layered to produce an effect of depth and space within each..... More
New Castle, 2017. 7 x 10. 195 pages illustrated throughout. Index. Cloth, dj, fine. One of 500 copies. More
Montagnola: Officina Bodoni, 1923. 8 x 12. 13, (2) pages. Putois marbled paper wraps with title label on upper cover. Original slipcase with press device on cover. A little wear to wraps, and offsetting from wraps to endpapers. Very good. One of 151 copies on handmade Van Gelder paper. Printed..... More
Pinner: PLA, nd. 8vo. 126 pages. Quarter blue morocco and printed cloth, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Spine very slightly sunned, very slight crease in bottom margin of some pages. Bookplate of Arthur Rippey. Near fine. One of 300 copies, signed by David Chambers and Christopher Sanford. More
London. 6 1/2 x 10. 112 pages illustrated with wood engravings. Quarter morocco & patterned cloth, top edge gilt.Deckle edges toned. Very good. One of 250 specially bound copies on all rag paper, signed by Christopher Sanford. More
NY: Grolier Club, 1980. 8 1/2 x 11. xii, 241 pages. Illustrated. Cloth, leather label, slipcase. Fine. Ground-breaking bibliography, limited to 1000 copies. More
London, ca. 1894. Sixth edition. 4 x 6 1/4. xvii, 18-207 pages + 8 pages of ads. Illustrations throughout the text. Publisher's blue cloth, red edges. Paper margins are toned; front hinge weakening; separation between p. 80 & p. 81; bookplate removed. Good copy. Jackson Burke's copy. This edition has..... More
Aptos & Woodside, 1983. 8 x 11 1/2. 48 pages. Cloth & boards. Fine in dust wrapper, with prospectus. Each page prints a delightful quotation ("Sample everything in life but incest & folk-dancing."), displaying a wide range of typefaces and ornaments in various typographic settings. One of 275 copies, printed..... More
Brooklyn, 1975. 13 x 21. Four portfolios in wraps in a hinged wooden box with latches & large printed label. The four folders contain loose sheets printed on rectos only: "A History;" "How to Print Wood Type" (with illustrations by Marilyn Gratsdorf); "The Fonts" (50 broadside specimens, almost all in..... More
The Gemini Press, (1934) & (Basilisk Press, 1980). 8 x 13 1/2. Twenty-eight leaves with 23 full page wood engraving. Laid into quarter cloth folder with leather spine label. Fine copy in slipcase. Lacks the separate explanatory booklet. The first book from Hughes-Stanton's press. This is no. 251 of 280..... More
Dallas: Chama Press, 1991. 8 x 11. 48 pages with double spread title and 8 other wood engravings by John DePol, on tan paper. Full green morocco, with DePol patterned endpapers. Fine in tray case, with prospectus. Inscribed on half title and signed by DePol on title page beneath his..... 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
NY, (1980). 8 x 11. 3 leaves, 25 pages printed in black, blue, red, and green on J. B. Green's handmade Milbourne, with illustrations and decorations. Bound in limp natural linen. Fine. One of 85 numbered copies. An offbeat type specimen, with virtuoso shaped typography. In a 3-page spread about..... More
Paris: Gruel & Engelmann, 1858. 4 1/2 x 6. 704 pages, each within an historiated border engraved by Touillot. Finely bound by Gruel, with a miniscule gilt stamp at spine base and, in an unusual feature, woven into the ribbon book mark. Full wine morocco stamped with a floral boarder..... More
Newtown (1987). 6 x 10. Twelve booklets, each with a poem in English or Welsh illustrated by an original wood engraving printed from the block. Fine in cloth folding case. No. 154 of 400 copies. Some such as this were issued in boxed sets. Colin Paynton, Ghristopher Wormwell, Harry Brockway..... More
NY, 1841. 6 1/2 x10 1/2. 288 leaves (4 folding), printed one side only. Three quarter leather binding over decorated paper boards. Rebacked in goat skin (portion of original sheet skin spine laid-in). Wear to extremity corners and board edges, else tight and very good. Faint library stamp on title..... More
London: Hostmann Printing Ink Company, 1904. Second improved and enlarged edition. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2. 32 pages + 26 marbled specimens on 14 pages. Illustrations in the text. Tipped to the title page gutter is a small broadside advertisement & directions for Halfer's preserving solution for carrageen moss size..... More
Minor Confluence, WI: Perishable Press, 1982. 7 x 10 1/2. ( 12), 42, (3) pages printed on a great variety of papers + 3 double-page specimens. Jim Lee's 11 linocuts portrait the equipment and methods of hand papermaking. Irish linen, blind stamped title. A few miniscule, barely perceptible spots on..... More
Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press, 1979. Miniature, 2 1/2 x 3 3/8. (28) pages illustrated with printers' ornaments. Wraps. Fine. Twenty-six paragraphs begin with the 26 letters of the alphabet. One of 225 copies printed in very readable 6-point type, on Shadwell paper made by the Hamady's daughter on her tiny..... More
NY: Wittenborn, 1957. 6 x 9 1/2. iv, 107 pages. Boards covered in an unused sheet from Opus XIII with a large two-color initial. Small booklabel on pastedown. A fine copy in near fine printed dustwrapper. Laid-in is a smaller version of the Kolbsheim Chapel, marked proof and initialed VH..... More
(NY: Spiral Press, 1967). 6 1/2 x 10. 8 leaves. Printed note from R. Hunter Middleton laid in. Boards, cover label. Fine. One of 250 copies printed at The Spiral Press in black and red. Text of the burial service for Hammer. More
Aurora: Hammer Press, (1946). Folio. (4) pages; title in red on first page, text in American uncial on two inner pages. Wraps. Fine. Printed by Victor Hammer as a keepsake for Paul Standard to present to the Double Crown Club. Holbrook, Hammer Press 13. WITH: a Christmas card ca. 1946..... More
Nomad Press & The Society of Wood Engravers, 2020. Folio (10 x 13). Two volumes. (100) pages illustrated throughout (several large engravings printed separately & tipped in). Quarter morocco & boards in a design by Paul Nash. With a separate portfolio of 38 engravings printed from the blocks. Many of..... More
Boston, (1903). 8 x 6. 248 pages. Pictorial cloth. Some soil & wear; front hinge open, but binding tight and contents near fine. This copy was sent to Mr. C. Quint, Yarmouth, Maine. A mechanical genius, Hansen worked for the Dickinson Type Foundry until the great Boston Fire of 1872..... 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
