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...
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...
[Montague], 1915. 8 x 12. 8 pages, tipped in errata slip. Original green paper boards, printed wrap-around label, original green paper dustwrapper. Protected by a cloth chemise & slip case with leather label. Missing small piece at both spine ends, whic have small repairs; faint shadow at gutter from something...
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...
(Boston), 1985. 8 x 11 1/2. Printed folder containing one uncut gathering (8 pages) from "Geoffroy Tory" by Auguste Bernard (designed by Bruce Rogers for Houghton Mifflin, 1909). Fine. An unrecorded "leaf book" issued in a small number for attendees at the celebration. The folder was printed by Firefly Press.
(NY: Rudge), 1943. 7 x 10 1/2. 8 pages. Self-wraps, stapled. Slightly tanned, few light creases, good copy. Humorous menu included "Entree (copy to come), six-pica potatoes, decorative spinach, Rogers romaine, and Apple 'Pi' " is on one page. Photos of BR, Hendrickson, Rudge's compositor & pressman, papermaker, inkmaker, and binder. Text about "Paragraphs."
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.
Cambridge, 1927. 5 x 9. 34 pages. Cloth-backed pastepaper boards. Fine, with glassine. The Byron Satterlee Hurlbut copy. One of 160 copies, this one signed by Hurlbut, Eric Lord Sexton (Chairman), and Carl H. Pforzheimer ,Jr. (Clerk). Printed on green handmade paper, with title in typographic border, typographic decorations. When...
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...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. One full sheet folded to make 4 pages. 9 x 14 3/8. First page is the title page for Volume One with Tory borders; center fold with criblé initial describes the books in great detail; last page reads "The Riverside Press, Cambridge" with BR's thistle mark...
(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...
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...
New Rochelle: Peter Pauper Press, 1933. 4 1/2 x 7 1/2. 29 leaves. Bound by Peter Geraty at his Praxis Bindery in 1988. Red goatskin with green leather onlaid panel. Gold tooled letters G, T (for Tory) and B, R (for Rogers) on this panel are cut out to expose...
(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...
