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: Ashendene Press, 1903. 5 1/2 x 7 3/4. 48 pages. Vellum, spine titled in gilt. Spine slightly creased vertically & text block protrudes a quarter-inch, all else fine. Very good copy. WITH a sheet of Ashendene Press laid watermarked paper. The sheet measures 16 3/4 x 12; circular watermark... More
San Francisco: Colt Press, 5 x 7. (36 ) pages, tipped in facsimile of Austen ms. Bound in heavy English embroidered cloth. Fine with prospectus. First printing of these prayers. Printed in handset Centaur capitals, in black & red, on handmade paper. "We have endeavored to make this...as pure and... More
Tuscaloosa: Red Hydra Press, 2000. Two volumes. 7 x 11. Wood engraved portrait, signed, by John DePol, xxv, 332 pages; indexed. Quarter green morocco & patterned boards by Gray Parrot. A separate, cloth-bound book contains the plates. Both volumes in green cloth traycase. A fine set at publication price. Based... More
New Haven: Prickly Pair Editions, 1993. Miniature 2 x 3. 20 pages with pochoir illustrations throughout. Bound in scarlet Moriki paper over boards, with stenciled decoration and paper label. Fine with prospectus. No. 13 of 70 copies. The poem was printed by Asa Peavy in 7-point Caslon on Arches text... 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
NY: Grolier Club, 1997. 8 x 11. xviii, 142 pages with 18 illustrations. With 5 original leaves (some illustrated, some double) from Windhover Press books. Green cloth spine & pastepaper boards. Fine in slipcase. One of 50 copies specially bound, with original specimens. A comprehensive bibliography of the Stone Wall... 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
San Francisco, 1960s to 1990s. Sizes vary from folio to 12mo. All are printed letterpress, mostly by Californian fine printers and private presses. Most are in fine condition. 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
(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
(Steventon): The Rocket Press, (1983). 9 x 7. 14 leaves + blank, illustrated with linocuts by John R. Smith, loose in decorated boards portfolio. With a pair of quoins, 10 pieces of metal type, and a miniature alphabetical type specimen in a compartmented tray case with labels. Spot on first... More
(Rampant Lions Press. Cambridge, 1939). 4 1/4 X 5 1/2. (44) pages. Cloth spine & Cockerell marbled boards. Bookplate of M. S. Howard tipped to flyleaf. Near fine copy with a prospectus for Sonnets and for Ecclesiastes. Printed in Jan van Krimpen's delicate Romulus italic type. This is the first... 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
Portland, 1982. 5 x 6 1/2. 15 leaves printed in black & red, with Sarah Chamberlain's wood engravings throughout. Bound by Barbara Blumenthal in decorated boards, spine-length leather label. Fine. With the prospectus. One of 125 signed copies. More
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, with inset... 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
The Gogmagog Press, 1972. 5 3/4 x 9. 48 French-fold leaves, illustrated with 8 full page color intaglios. Boards covered with Japanese "net-mesh" paper. Fine. Cox’s impressionistic poems are reflected in his typography. In the layout for “Band in the Park” one can see a park with a lake and... More
Incline Press, 2005. 10 x 14. Two volumes. 74 pages, with 35 mounted facsimiles. Cloth-backed printed boards. A separate paper portfolio contains 10 original broadsides. Fine in cloth & patterned paper slipcase. One of 200 copies. An exhuberant book about Toni Savage and the 1960s private presses in Leicester. It... 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
