Tuscaloosa: Legacy Press, (2000). 5 1/2 x 10. x, 154 pages plus 5 original patterned paper specimens mounted. Quarter black cloth, black & white patterned boards by Gray Parrot. Fine. "Beginning in the 1950s, the American master of wood engraving, John DePol (1913–2004), cut small, endgrain blocks featuring subjects from... More
SF: Book Club of California, 2001. 9 x 12. 165 pages. Quarter cloth & patterned boards, slipcase. Fine. One of 400 copies. Foreword by Donald Fleming. Preface by John Dreyfus. Biographical Essay by Catherine Brody. Catalogue is arranged by Books & Pamphlets, Etchings, Lithographs, Wood Engravings, Keepsake Wood Engravings, Posters. Profusely illustrated. Indices. More
1982. Approx. 3 x 2 on a larger sheet of Baskingwerk paper. The engraving pictures the engraver's tools, a woodblock engraved with DePol's image, and 2 proofs pulled of that image. Penciled by DePol "10 proofs 2/18/82." Fine. More
(Maple Shade): Pickering Press, 1985. Broadside 14 1/2 x 11. Woodengraving of a hand holding a composing stick, by John DePol, heads the quotation. Printed in black & red on cream paper. Fine. Signed by John DePol and John Anderson. WITH: Broadside 13 x 9. "Oak Knoll Fest October 7... More
Paris, 1855. First ed. 5 3/4 x 9 1/4. x, 440 pages, one double folding, with index. 19th century calf-backd boards with marbled edges. Joints and corners worn; spot on inner margin of a few pages, slight scattered foxing else a clean very good copy. With typographic bookplate of John... More
(Pico Rivera, 1994). 2 1/4 x 2 3/4. 161 pages. Seven wood engravings by John DePol. Gold-printed decorations for each chapter head. Full black morocco with abstract onlays of red & blue morocco, stamped all over with iridescent blue & green dots & one gilt circle, top edge gilt and... More
Maple Shade: Pickering Press, 1985. 5 1/2 x 8. (28) pages of french-folded Japanese paper. Side-stitched wraps with label on cover, Japanese paper dj. Fine. A lovely printer's commonplace book in brown and black using about 20 different type faces on Japanese paper, with 5 wood engravings by De Pol... More
(Maple Shade, (1982). 6 x 8 1/2. (16) pages illustrated by John DePol. Erata slip. Sewn on linen tapes into wraps; bound by Benjamin Alterman. Fine, with prospectus. One of 75 copies, printed in Perpetua Titling, Bulmer, and the personal types of the designers. Printed on Mohawk Letterpress Text. Quotations... 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
(Roslyn) Stone House Press & John Carter Brown Library, 1992. 6 x 9 1/2. 85 pages. Six original wood engravings, each printed in a different color, by John DePol; text illustrations. Dark grey cloth, DePol patterned endpapers in blue-grey. One of 200 numbered copies signed by translator, artist, and printer... More
NYPL & Stone House Press, 1989. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2. 113 pages. Quarter cloth & DePol patterned paper over boards. Copiously illustrated with specimen pages. Fine. DePol's own copy, dated and signed by him on pastedown. No. 181 of 200 numbered & signed copies. John DePol was the "house... More
Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 2001. 9 x 12 1/2. 140 pages, 22 color plates. Illustrated throughout. Quarter black morocco, DePol patterned paper sides, leather spine label, in black cloth clamshell box. With prospectus. The book is in fine, as new condition; but the case is bumped at both bottom... More
