(Dundas), 2020. 4 3/4 x 6 3/4. (46) pages on an array of papers in a variety of typefaces, decorations, and colors. Cloth spine with paper label & decorated Japanese paper over boards. In an orange paper slipcase. Quotations from musicians, poets, philosophers and others are beautifully printed. One of..... More
San Francisco, 1940. 5 1/2 x 9. 47, (2) leaves printed recto only with a tipped-in colored illustration. Cloth-backed pattern paper boards. Fine copy of the first Allen Press book. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies. Printed in Piranesi type in black, brown and green on Maidstone, an English..... More
Madison (1995). 4to. x, 74 pages, 20 color plates of Anderson's typography. Linen cloth, leather spine label, cloth slipcase. Fine with prospectus. One of 150 copies handsomely printed by Neil Shaver on dampened Rives. More
SF: BCC, 1976. 10 x 14. 97 pages including 43 facsimile specimen pages. Quarter red cloth, long spine label. Fine copy of a lovely book. One of 400 copies signed by Angelo. Printed by Andrew Hoyem. The illuminated in blue and gilt by Angelo. Essays by Oscar Lewis, Robert Grabhorn..... More
(NY: Charles Antin, 1965). 4 1/2 x 7. Fifty-one items: forty-nine keepsakes plus Introduction and list of Contributors. Most keepsakes are 4 pages; some are longer (Ward Ritchie printed a small booklet). In slipcase with wraparound label (a bit soiled), contents fine. A CONTRIBUTOR'S COPY (Frank Powers) with "thank you..... More
Lexington, 1955. 5 1/4 x 7 3/4. (10) pages with 8 woodcuts by Victor Hammer. Blue boards, wrap-around title label. Spine base bumped, one-inch repair to rear backstrip. Very good. One of 250 copies printed by Carolyn Reading in red and black in Hammer's American Uncial type. Hammer based his..... 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
Mission, B. C., 2021. 7 1/2 x 10 1/2. xvii, 271, cclxxv-cclxxxi, (2) pages with 24 wood engravings printed from the blocks. Green morocco & decorated boards. A extra suite of the 10 larger engravings from the book is enclosed in a green cloth & boards portfolio. Both volumes are..... More
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1979. 7 3/4 x 11. 120 pages. Fourteen small paper specimens. Bound by Gray Parrot in quarter morocco and decorated Japanese paper boards. Fine in custom cloth slipcase. One of 300 copies printed by Henry Morris, in two colors on his handmade "Nagashizuki" paper..... More
Gehenna Press, 1974. 14 1/2 x 11 /12. Six gatherings of title, colophon, and 66 wood engravings, woodcuts, and linoleum cuts by Leonard Baskin printed one to a leaf on Troya, and interleaved with backing sheets. Signed by Baskin in the colophon. An unbound binder's copy with 64 of the..... More
Lurey, Devon: The Gehenna Press, 1982. 6 1/2 x 9. Title, (52) pages with 26 line cut illustrations from drawings by Baskin, errata page, hand colored wood engraved press mark (owl & pomegranate). Cream vellumized boards titled in gilt, gilt owl on upper cover. Fine cop, signed by Kaplan and..... More
Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1997. 11 x 16 1/2. (11) pages of text followed by 26 plates of etchings (most in color). Each copper engraving is numbered & signed by Baskin. Full stained green vellum by Daniel Gehnrich, gilt title & lizard on upper cover. In quarter green vellum & cloth..... More
New Haven, 1967. 6 x 9 1/2. Color frontis by Blake, 27, (1) pages, including 9 plates. Brown morocco & boards. Spine slightly lighter with a few very tiny spots. Very good in paper slipcase. No. 95 of 300 copies printed at the Officina Bodoni in Dante type. Leonard Baskin's..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 2002. Two vols. 9 x 12 1/2. 99 pages plus 24 unpaginated inserts (some multi-page, one foldout broadside) of original leaves, paper specimens, and photographs. Quarter morocco & Japanese cloth. An inch-thick portfolio contains leaves & signatures from previous B&B books, prospectuses, large posters, and..... More
Chicago: Cherryburn Press, 1972. 7 1/2 x 6. Six-page booklet and 10 folder-mats. Nine mats contain an impression from the original wood block, along with a reproduction of Bewick's drawing for that block. The 10th, "Harrier Dog," was printed from a photoengraved block. Cloth & paste-paper boards. Fine in matching..... More
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 1978. 7 x 8 1/2. 12, (1) pages. Pastepaper boards. Fine. With the hand colored prospectus. A journal of Blinn's former country life, raising ducks & geese. One of 250 copies designed, illustrated, printed in Spectrum type, and hand colored by Carol Blinn. Inscribed by Blinn to..... More
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 2018. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. 102 pages with 55 color illustrations of commercial work and photographs of the printers. Two colors of Japanese cloth over boards, with spine & cover labels. Fine. Carol's memoirs of some 45 years as a printer, from her apprenticeship at the..... More
Northampton, 2004. 8 x 9 1/2. Tipped in wood engraving by Leonard Baskin of a pomegranate in red, 133 pages illustrated throughout. Wraps. Fine in clamshell case by BB. Inscribed by B. Blumenthal & David Bourbeau. This is partially a census of Northampton area book workers from 1954-2004. Some 80..... More
Boston: Impressions Workshop, Cricket Press, 1965. 9 x 9 1/2. 17 French-fold leaves. A color engraving (on the left) faces a poem (on the right). Brown boards, side-stitched, label on upper cover, marbled endpapers. Small bookplates of Harold Hugo & family member on blank. A 45-RPM recording of the poet..... More
Mission: Barbarian Press, 2013. 10 1/2 x 13 1/2. About 30 text pages printed on cream Zerkall laid paper, and 134 engravings printed from the original blocks on Zerkall white smooth paper. Several double spreads of larger images are tipped in. Each engraving has a printed title in green. Quarter..... More
Williamstown, 2005. 4to. 451 pages profusely illustrated. Index. Red cloth. Fine in slipcase. English language edition. Numerous essays about this outstanding private press operating from 1913 to 1931. More
Andover: Whittington Press, 1992. Two volumes. 9 x 12 1/2. Photographic frontis, xvi, 225 pages, 2 photographic plates, 8 tipped-in original leaves, original wood engraving, and honey label. Quarter vellum & marbled boards. A separate cloth & boards portfolio holds 20 original specimens of Stanbrook Abbey printing (both ephemera and..... More
(1992). 12 x 7 1/2. 26 leaves, decorated by Margaret Sunday with her signature abstract, doodle-like wood engravings. Cream-colored boards with exposed stitching in the spine. Fine in its cloth trifold portfolio. Printed on creamy Sakamoto paper in Gill Sans & Helvetica in soft grey. The ornaments are in various..... More
West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 1982. 10 3/4 x 16 1/2. xxv, 163, (7) pages. Half-morocco and decorated paper boards by Gray Parrot, with a separate suite of the engravings, 92 leaves, each signed by Moser; in a buckram chemise. Morocco-backed tray case. Fine. No. 340 of 350 numbered copies signed..... More
British Library & OAk Knoll Press, 2002. 4to. xi, 279 pages illustrated throughout. Index. Cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. More
