Baton Rouge: Press of the Nightowl, 1974. 7 x 11. Half cloth & marbled boards. xii, 85 pages. Printed with WAD's ornaments in colors throughout. Tips bumped; very good. No. 44 of 190 copies. More
(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
Portland,1943. 7 x 10. x, 170 pages plus inserts. Cloth, leather spine label. Small scrape on label; small light spot on spine, tiny stain on 2 fore edges. Very good copy in moderately worn slipcase. Prospectus and Review laid in. Contains "A Bibliographical Catalogue" by Ruth A. Chaplin, "Notes on..... 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
(Lexington): King Library Press, 1975. 7 1/2 x 10. (92) pages, 2 errata slips laid in. Hand-stamped paste paper over boards, title label on spine. Blind-embossed dustwrapper is darkened. Book is fine. One of 75 copies initially designed by Victor & Carolyn Hammer for the Anvil Press in the 1960s;..... 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
NY: Grolier Club, 2002. 7 x 12. xi, 44 pages, including 8 full page color wood engravings & 3 vignettes. Quarter black morocco & gray silk cloth boards with black & silver leather label. With a separtate portfolio containing both an extra suite of Schanilec's engravings (each one signed), and..... More
(Seal Harbor): High Loft Press, 1979. 6 3/4 x 9 1/4. 58 pages illustrated with drawings from French architectural garden ornaments. Two-page Afterword by August Hecksher is laid in. Printed boards, full length leather spine label, by Gray Parrot. Fine. One of 140 copies. Text set in 14 point Bembo..... 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
(Dallas): The Bridwell Library, (1992). 8 1/2 x 11. 238 pages illustrated throughout. Specially bound by David Bourbeau in powder blue Magnani paper over boards, printed with gold rules and large gold pomegranate on upper cover; signed with a gilt thistle inside lower cover. As new in grey cloth traycase..... More
Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1997. 9 1/2 x 12 1/2. 26 leaves, including 24 multi-colored montotype portraits of imaginary artisans. Each portrait is signed by Baskin. These are in 9 gatherings, loose in cloth traycase with morocco binding plaque by Claudia Cohen laid in. Fine. Very much in the tradition of..... 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 copy, 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
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 1999. 5 x 7. 3 text pages, 8 tipped-on wood engravings, and a tipped-in framing label. Red silk cloth with paper labels. A fine copy. One of 200 copies signed by Baskin, Blinn, Perry Smith, and Harold McGrath. Created between 1955 and 1974, only two of these..... 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
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
PA, 1969-2005. Various sizes. Very good to fine. An attractive sampling of Henry Morris' design and printing. More
U. of Delaware Library, 1988. 6 x 9 1/2. 55 pages, 1 tipped in specimen by Henry Morris. Illustrated. Reproduction Dutch gilt wraps. Fine. This copy is inscribed by Henry Morris to Lili Wronker, who has lettered the spine. Lili Wronker was a calligraher, who illustrated at least one of..... More
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 2009. 5 x 6 1/2. (6) pages and 2 mounted digital color illustrations by Julia Richter--Carol Blinn's mother. Card cover with hand colored illustration by Carol Blinn. Fine. One of 43 signed copies for sale. The remaining 112 copies are included in the deluxe edition of Parenthesis..... More
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 1978. 7 x 8 1/2. 12, (1) pages. Pastepaper boards. Fine. With the hand colored prospectus. One of 250 copies designed, illustrated, printed in Spectrum type, and hand colored by Carol Blinn. Inscribed by Blinn to John Peckham. A journal of Blinn's former country life. Printers' Choice..... 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
