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
(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
SF: BCC, 1976. 10 x 14. 97 pages including 43 facsimile specimen pages, some with gold illumination. Blue chapter initials are also gilded. Quarter cloth, paper spine label. Lower tips a bit bumped; all else fine with prospectus and the invitation to Angelo's 80th birthday party at the San Francisco..... 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
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
(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
(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
(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
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
(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 —which is constructed from shredded copies of..... 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
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
Lower Marston Farm: Whittington Press, 2002. 10 x 15. 62 pages. 38 ceremonial papers tipped in. Cloth & boards. A colorful paper fan is laid into a separate folder. Both slipcased. Inscription on blank from the printer John Randle (but not signed by him) to a fellow printer & wood..... More
(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
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
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
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
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
