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
(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
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
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
Chelsea, 1922. 6 x 8 3/4. viii, frontis, 239 pages. Illustrated with 53 woodcuts drawn by Charles Gere and cut by J. B. Swain. Full limp hairy vellum, two pairs of green linen ties. Some protruding deckles are a bit browned, still a fine beautiful copy. With the prospectus. 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
(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
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
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
Seal Harbor, Maine: High Loft Press, (1982). Two volumes. 10 x 14. The book of (62) pages is illustrated throughout with line cuts adapted from Albrecht Durer (1497). Bound by Gray Parrot in quarter morocco with gilt title & blue cloth boards. WITH: A Portfolio of Six Etchings, Accompanying The..... 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
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
Whittington Press, (2019, actually 2020). 7 x 10 1/2. 13 French-fold leaves illustrated with 19 wood engravings in the text. Four Shaker-style seed packets--engraved, hand colored, & fashioned by Sandy--are inserted in photo mounts. Sentiments from a 1557 farmer & poet are printed beneath. Quarter cloth and boards covered in..... 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
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
Np, ca. 2000. Images measure 5 x 7 inches on a sheet 9 3/4 x 11. Each is no. 1 of 8, signed by the artist. PLUS 2 proofs. All fine. Dennerline has been creating artist's books since 1997 at the Bird Press. He received a BFA from the University..... More
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
Chicago: Monastery Hill Press, 1980. 4 1/2 x 7. 148 pages with color woodcut vignettes. Finely bound by J[ean] Lariviere at the Monastery Hill Bindery in full red crushed levant, green morocco onlays, upper cover gilt-lettered, central vellum circular onlays blind-stamped and decorated in wash recreating Reed's illustrations of Fan..... More
NY & London: Caliban Press, 2017. 7 x 10. 107 pages. Illustrated in various media, including wood engraving, relief engraving, pochoir, & mounted collages. Red morocco spine titled in grey, black ribbed flexible covers, with a cutout on upper cover, revealing the title. Sturdy black paper slipcase bears Marley's ghostly..... More
