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 about The Books of WAD
(Toronto, 2013). 7 x 11. 45 pages illustrated throughout. Cloth-backed marbled boards. Fine in paper chemise with spine label. A colorful and exuberant book printed letterpress in various colors and type faces. The essays are interspersed with mini "broadsides" showcasing quotations from other printers. One of 50 copies. Rueter has... More about PRESSING MATTERS
SF: BCC, 1976. 10 x 14. 97 pages including 43 facsimile specimen pages. Quarter cloth, paper spine label. Lower tips a bit bumped; all else fine with prospectus. One of 400 copies signed by Angelo. Printed by Andrew Hoyem. Hand illuminated in blue and gilt by Angelo. Essays by Oscar... More about VALENTI ANGELO. Author, Illustrator, Printer
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 about TYPES AND BOOKMAKING
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 about DE QUATUOR EVANGELISTIS
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 about Secondary Colors. A Collaborative Book
(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 by Michael Bixler, and printed by August Hecksher. More about AFTER READING THOREAU
(North Andover): Kat Ran Press, 1999. 6 x 9. (3) pages. Wraps bound by David Bourbeau in a three-part fold-over binding of pastepaper boards edged & hinged in morocco. The pastepaper on the outer cover is brushed to resemble a column of rising wood smoke, with title stamped in palladium... More about A YEAR OF SMOKE
Leipzig, printed for members of the Limited Editions Club by Poeschel & Trepte, 1932. 7 3/4 x 9 3/4. 240 pages with woodcut initials and section titles by Emil Weiss. Bound by Arno Werner in full black morocco ruled in gilt, Poeschel & Trepte printers mark gilt on upper cover... More about THE FOUR GOSPELS
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 2018. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. 102 pages with 55 color illustrations of commercial work. 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 Gehenna Press to the present... More about SECRETS OF A GIRL PRINTER
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 about SIXTEEN POEMS IN VERSE & WOOD
NY: Khelcom New York, 2010. 8 x 10. Twenty-eight French-fold leaves: 4 pages of text, 3 photogravures (2 double spread) of pilgrimages, 21 fullpage color woodcuts. There are 2 smaller woodcuts within the text. Bound by Gray Parrot in stiff vellum wraps, in cloth traycase with vellum label. Fine. Bogardus... More about BURAKE : BLESSINGS
Oxford: Alembic Press, 1989. 6 1/2 x 10. 57 pages with tipped-in specimens, including 5 original leaves from books and samples of endpapers. Quarter cloth & marbled boards. Light wear to extremities. No. 88 of 100 copies. Not in "Disbound and Dispersed." More about The Alembic Press Bibliography, 1978-1988
Northampton: Smith College Libraries, 2005. 7 1/2 x 10 1/2. Photogravure print of Ruth and Clarence Kennedy, (32) pages illustrated, a tipped on proof of title page text Kennedy left as standing type. Bound by David Bourbeau and Stephanie Gibbs in blue & white boards gilt (binding signed with their... More about OUT OF THE CELLAR. A Garland for Cantina
NY: Clarke & Way, 1951. 6 x9. (64) pages. Full navy morocco, upper cover gilt with design by Bruce Rogers, top edge gilt. Slight wear to spine, & one tip, very good in marbled board slipcase. With prospectus for the regular edition. One of 100 DELUXE copies SIGNED by Rogers... More about THE TWELVE MONETHS & CHRISTMAS DAY. From "Fantastickes."
(Emeryville): Havilah Press, 1999. 7 x 10. 11, (1) pages. Wraps, cover label. Fine. No. 122 of 150 copies. The story centers around a newspaper advertisement for a lost umbrella and discusses an 1875 baseball game which was attended by Twain and his friend the Reverend Joseph H. Twitchell. More about Mark Twain and The Great Base Ball Match
Bromer Booksellers & HM Editions, 2015. Miniature. 2 1/4 x 2 3/4. 72 pages + 4 original leaves tipped-in. Bound by Sarah Creighton in full black morocco gilt all-over in a vine pattern. In red silk clam shell box with leather spine label. Fine. No. XXXII of XXXV deluxe signed... More about XI LXIVMOS: Memoirs of a Bibliomidget
(Northampton): Double Elephant Press, 1977. Broadside. 19 x 14. Burns' poem is printed letterpress by Art Larson in the upper two-thirds of the broadside. The bottom third is Michael Kuch's copperplate etching (printed by him) of a mouse turned up in her nest (constructed of shredded copies of Burns' poem)... More about "To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in her Nest with the Plough, November 1785."
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 about The Stanbrook Abbey Press 1956-1990
Ashuelot: Trois Fontaines Press, (1997). An original etching tipped-in as frontis, 30 leaves, 3 duotones of etchings. Bound in an abstract paste paper painting over boards. Dan's poems were inspired by the Celtic symbolic alphabet of trees. Written during the 10 years required for him to cut the Regulus type... More about GIFTS OF THE LEAVES
(Columbus, OH): Logan Elm Press, 1990. 9 x 12 1/2. 19 leaves with colorful images and hand painted calligraphic initials throughout the letterpress. The double spread title page is hand-lettered & ornamented with gold. Stiff wraps sewn onto leather spine, yapp edges. Fine in sturdy slipcase cover in paste paper... More about A LETTER OF COLUMBUS
Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1934. 10 x 14. xvi, 157 pages plus 54 plates and 2 pages of watermarks. Quarter blue morocco spine & corners, tan cloth sides, spine titled in gilt, top edge gilt. Spine sunned to green, leather scuffed at joints and extremities. Book plate on paste down... More about PAPER
London: The Gogmagog Press, (1963). 4 1/4 x 7 1/2. 26 leaves, joined at fore edges, including 8 double page color prints. Plain brown wraps. Fine. One of 80 copies signed by Cox. "This little book utilizes a series of blocks made from odds and ends of waste material, printed... More about Crash! An Experiment in Blockmaking and Printing
NY: American Printing History Association, 2002. 6 x 9. xv, 175 pages with numerous illustrations in the original colors, 3 tipped-in facsimiles, and 3 tipped-in original leaves. Indexed. Hand bound in quarter rose cloth & boards, in sturdy black board slipcase. Fine. One of 50 "special" signed copies (of 500)... More about THE SPIRAL PRESS, 1926-1971: A Bibliographical Checklist
Bird Press, 2003. 6 x 9. 41 leaves: sixteen multi-color lithographs overlaid with sixteen "diagram poems." Citron morocco, uncovered spine reveals yellow cords, grey cloth traycase with leather spine label, by Barry Spence. One of 24 copies. These diagram poems are inspired by the human condition. "In the tradition of... More about LOVER/LOSER. Diagram poems by Egil Dennerline with Lithographs by Thorsten Dennerline
