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
Sandy Hook: Chiswick Bookshop, 1990. 10 x 14. 112 pages. With an original leaf from The Psalter (431/432) printed on vellum. Cloth, leather spine label, slipcase. Fine copy. A fascinating history of Updike's magnum opus. J. P. Morgan sponsored a competition to design and print this book. Bruce Rogers was..... More
[London: Cambridge University Press],1918. 4to (6 3/4 x 10). 4, (1) pages. Green wraps with title & wreath vignette on upper cover. Loose in wraps, upper corners creased, a good copy. Designed by Bruce Rogers. "A small edition in 4to." 9-line decorative initial (from The Centaur). Warde132. Morison, Four Centuries..... More
Boston: Thomas G. Boss, 2008. 5 3/4 x 8 3/4. 54 pages plus 36 color plates. Quarter red cloth & boards gilt. Fine. A checklist of 102 books BR designed at Riverside includes publication date & publication price, type face, edition size. Much of the new information here comes from..... More
NY: Duschnes, 1949. A one-page announcement, with order form, for BR's "World Bible." A typed letter describes the special binding Duschnes could provide and a photograph of the binding. Good condition. Hailed as an"American folio Bible of noble proportions," BR's Bible was issued in red buckram gilt. More
San Francisco: Mackenzie & Harris, 1948. 5 1/2 x 12 1/2. Single sheet printed on both sides. The price list is on one side, with Bruce Rogers Borders on the other. Very good. Copies at Cambridge & Berkeley. More
NY, September 1927. Rogers drew & lettered the proposed title page in black & green. He designed 4 different printed versions of double spread pages 14 and 15 (one of them printed in two colors). Previously mounted, the pages have old glue stains on the versos; dampstain at base of..... More
(Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1906). 11 1/2 x 17 1/2. xxxiv double-column pages. Illustrated with seven "stained glass windows" richly colored by hand. Quarter vellum & boards decorated with a fleur-de-lis pattern, vellum tips. Minor faults to binding: small bump to spine base, light wear bottom edges, small white spot to..... More
Boston: HM, 1905. 5 7/8 x 9. 32 pages. Maroon cloth, gray boards, paper spine label. Extra label tipped in at rear. Very slight wear from rubbing in the slipcase, else a fine copy. The slipcase is missing an inch from the top panel. No. 23 of 375 copies, printed..... More
New Rochelle: Peter Pauper Press, 1933. 4 1/2 x 7 1/2. 29 leaves printed entirely in red. A 4-page introduction by BR precedes Tory's letters. Bound by Peter Geraty at his Praxis Bindery in 1988. Red goatskin with green morocco panel gold tooled with the Roman Capitals GT (for Tory)..... More
(Bowling Green Press, 1928). 6 x 9. 15 leaves printed rectos only. Dark boards with silver spine label, matching grey jacket, in custom cloth slipcase. Very slight wear to corners; piece cut out of dust jacket spine to reveal title. A fine copy. Decorative title page and ornaments printed in..... More
