(London, 2001). 8 x 10. Twenty-four leaves: 6 original color etchings face 6 evocative vignettes of Indian life; each is preceded by a half-title and interleaved with textured Japanese tissue.;leaves without text or illustration are ruled in various colors. Bound by Allix in golden morocco having geometric onlays in red..... More
Paris: Sans Pareil, 1926. 9 x 11. 147 pages + 18 plates. Bound by Donald Glaister in 1986 in dark teal morocco with large onlay of blue morocco across both covers & spine, smaller green onlay across spine partially obscures the blind-tooled name "Croniamantal" (the hero's name in this surrealist..... More
The Delaware Valley Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers, 2012. 4 x 7. Twenty-one gatherings by as many book artists. Bound by Todd Pattison in deep citron morocco inset with shapes in marbled & gilt papers. Fine. Inspired by Paul Theroux's three essays on orange, green, and purple, the..... More
Paris: Gruel & Englemann, 418 Rue St. Honoré, ca. 1900. 4 1/2 x 6. 176 pages, each with a different medieval style border, + 4 pages for family records & a leaf with Engelmann's printer's mark in gold. Embossed silk pastedown is stamped in gold "Au Cheval de Bronze/ Lyon-Bellecour."..... More
London: Shakespeare Printing Office, 1795 & 1796. 8 11/4 x 11. xx, (1), 76; xv, vii, 126 pages. Illustrated with full page wood engravings and tailpieces by Thomas Bewick, and 2 by John Bewick. Two proofs from a Bewick block are laid in. Contemporary straight grain red morocco, Greek key..... More
Boston: Merrymount Press, 1904. 12 1/4 x 17 1/4. (iii, 42) pages, ornamented with three 7-line initials. Pressmark in red. Quarter calf & tan boards, spine and upper cover with gilt lettering by Sarah Wyman Whitman. Leather spine quite dry & scuffed; boards soiled & edge-worn; pastedowns stained, contents very..... More
1989. 5 x 8 1/2. 129 pages copiously illustrated with mounted color photos. Bound in hinged binding of leather, marbled boards, and copper overlay. Few tiny scratches, but fine in cloth & marbled paper dustwrapper. No. 41 of 75 signed copies. Printed letterpress with Della Robbia type on Johannot paper..... More
Portage, Indiana & Chicago, 1976. 8 x 10. xxxxvii pages printed rectos only. Of these, 14 are full-page colored serigraphs, each numbered 21/50 and signed by D'Ambrosio (author, artist, & binder) and by Elmore Mundell (printer). Numerous gold & red serigraph initials in the text. Bound in natural canvas over..... More
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1928. 7 x 10. xvii, 135 pages. Full vellum, gilt on spine & covers, top edge gilt, blue & red headbands and ribbon place marker. Fine, almost as new, copy of a book which never shows up. Number 19 of 209 copies printed on the handpress in..... More
(Alpignano:Editions Alberto Tallone), 1965. 8 x 13 167 pages. Bound by Jeff Clements in a bold geometric pattern of rectangles & triangles in black, grey, blue, & red morocco, blind-tooled & with raised bands on the covers; pastedowns of black & grey morocco, endleaves of red suede; all edges in..... More
(NY: Grolier Club, 1884). 6 x 9. (93) pages. Bound in green straight grain morocco richly gilt floral tools on pointille grounds with a central medallion, corner pieces, and floral borders on 4 sides that allude to the floral borders of the original Japan vellum wraps (which are bound in..... More
(Syracuse): Bird Press, 1997. 7 x 5 1/4. An accordion book of nine copper plate etchings printed on Richard DeBas handmade paper, with quotation on facing leaf. Bound in full tan morocco by Peter Verheyen with one of the original 9 copper plates mounted on the upper cover. Fine. The..... More
Chicago: Monastery Hill Press, 1980. 4 1/2 x 7. 148 pages with color woodcut vignettes. Finely bound by J[ean] Lariviere at the Monastery Hill Bindery in full red crushed levant, green morocco onlays, upper cover gilt-lettered, central vellum circular onlays blind-stamped and decorated in wash recreating Reed's illustrations of Fan..... More
Boston: HM, 1905. 4 1/4 x 7 5/8. xii, 85 pages. Bound by The Rose Bindery in green morocco gilt, wide turn-ins gilt. professionally rebacked with original spine laid down; some wear to corners. Designed and printed under the direction of Bruce Rogers at The Riverside Press. Most Riverside books..... 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
(Flemington: St. Teresa's Press, 1970). 8 x 11. 33 pages. Illuminated by the Carmelite nuns large initial letters painted in 23-carat gold, silver, and a vibrant shades of red, green, blue, and purple. Bound by Fritz Eberhardt in full black morocco with abstract design formed by 62 onlays of morocco..... More
San Francisco, 1967. 9 x 11. 125 pages with four color illustrations, reproduced for the first time from the only surviving manuscript of the poem. Bound by Fritz Eberhardt in full dark green morocco inlaid with a flowers & leaves in greens, browns, yellow, and turquoise and tooled in turquoise..... More
(Newtown): Gwasg Gregynog, 1990. 7 1/2 x 12. xii, 74 pages illustrated throughout. White & black morocco with large rectangular inset both covers-- a colorful photographic collage of GG books overlaid with translucent paper; ruled in white. Fine in the original black cloth colander box. Copy no. X of 25..... More
San Jose, 2004. Original calligraphic manuscript. 6 x 8 (closed). Accordion-fold of 10 pages, mostly double spreads. The text is lettered on acrylic paste painted Arches, in gouache, pastel, and metallic ink. Each page shimmers. Bound in earthern-toned paste paper over boards tied with beaded suede thongs. Enclosed in a...... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1987. 6 1/4 x 9 1/2. 130 pages. Dos-a-Dos binding by Silvia Rennie (signed in front hinge) of full green morocco tooled in gilt with 5 onlays of binders' brown morocco "scraps" on both covers. Part I has one darker morocco piece, while part II as..... More
(Vashon Island: Foolsgold Studio), 2007. 9 x 15. Most of the book’s painted, stiffened fabric pages have original collages of painted cloth, wood veneer, brass, cork, linen thread and acrylic paint - all materials used in boat building. Quarter leather with painted cloth over sculpted boards with inlays. Fine in..... More
Cleveland, 2002. 12 x 14. (28) pages on 14 leaves of aluminum on paper hinges. Quarter morocco binding with aluminum sides; aluminum felt-lined tray case with aluminum label. As new, with the 4-page prospectus, Notice on interleaving, and the rare waxing kit. "A book of paintings, material studies and poetry..... 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
NY: Typophiles, 1957. 4 3/4 x 7. xii, 57 pages. Bound in full brown morocco, cover gilt with a feather quill and "HB" by Arno Werner. Bound for John Peckham with his initials in gold inside front cover. In quarter morocco tray case using the decorated paper from the Typophiles..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1998. 9 x 12 1/2. 165 pages (including 30 tip-ins: original folio & quarto leaves from Mountain House books, 4 original light-and-shade watermarked papers made by all three Hunters, color photos, and 30 pages of b&w illustrations). Quarter black morocco & golden silk cloth, red..... More
