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...
Oxford: Alembic Press, 1989. 6 1/2 x 10. 57 pages with tipped-in specimens, including 5 original leaves from books and samples of endpapers. Quarter cloth & marbled boards. Light wear to extremities. No. 88 of 100 copies. Not in "Disbound and Dispersed."
NY: Grolier Club, 1984. 6 x 9. 223, (1) pages. Illustrated. Cloth. Fine. One of 600 copies. An excellent reference work describing 169 classics in bibliography from 1469 to 1968.
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...
Cambridge, 1974. 6 3/4 x 9. 41 pages, 1 foldout plate. Illustrated. Quarter cloth & decorated boards. Slight wear. WITH: the 1959 checklist of books from 1930-1958. And "The Cambridge Christmas Books" printed in 220 copies in 1976 by the Rampant Lions Press (no. 34, signed by Crutchley). One of 500 copies, this annotated bibliography is the last Christmas book.
Pinner: PLA, nd. 8vo. 126 pages. Quarter blue morocco and printed cloth, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Spine very slightly sunned, very slight crease in bottom margin of some pages. Bookplate of Arthur Rippey. Near fine. One of 300 copies, signed by David Chambers and Christopher Sanford.
London. 6 1/2 x 10. 112 pages illustrated with wood engravings. Quarter morocco & patterned cloth, top edge gilt.Deckle edges toned. Very good. One of 250 specially bound copies on all rag paper, signed by Christopher Sanford.
BCC: San Francisco, 1993. 10 x 14. x, (1), 62 pages plus 6 plates, 1 tipped-in original announcement. Half linen and patterned boards. Fine. One of 500 copies. The format and layout of the book follow that used for The Hundreth Book.
(Llandogo: Old Stile Press, 2000). Two volumes. 12 x 16 and 8 x 11. 135 pages, illustrated throughout. Pictorial boards. With 59 ephemera. A sturdy cloth tray, lined with Robin Tanner's patterned papers, houses the book in a fitted compartment. The three categories of ephemera are in a slide-out tray...
Wilmington, 1997. 7 1/2 x 11. xvi, 17-127, (1) pages, 16 plates. Quarter morocco and cloth. Fine. One of 50 specially bound (of 225). Herbert Johnson's long awaited history, appraisal, and bibliography of the Elston Press. A well researched (and produced) study, balanced between the press work of Conwell and...
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1976. 6 1/2 x 9. 88 pages, illustrated with color reproductions. Silkscreened cloth, paper spine label. Slight wear, near fine. "Somewhat less than 500 copies.
Pomona: Kelly-Winterton Press, 2004. 51/2 x 8 1/2. ix, 56, (2) pages plus 56 plates, four original leaves tipped in. Quarter red leather & boards, slipcased. Fine. One of 25 copies (total edition was 198 copies) with 4 original leaves tipped-in. Arranged chronologically, Kelly's long-needed Checklist expands and greatly revises...
Pomona: Kelly-Winterton Press, 2004. 51/2 x 8 1/2. ix, 56, (2) pages plus 56 plates, four original leaves tipped in. Full green morocco gilt, slipcased. Fine. Edition A. One of 6 signed & numbered copies (of 198), with four "more interesting" original leaves tipped-in. Arranged chronologically, the Checklist expands and...
NY:Grolier Club, 2007. 8 x 10. 140 pages, with 80 color illustrations plus 6 original leaves. Quarter leather, slipcase. Limited to 20 copies. Designed by Jerry Kelly. The original sheets of the Grolier Club's 2000 catalogue are augmented by four illustrated leaves from books, an illustrated 4-page prospectus for the Michelstadt map, and a personal greeting card.
NY: Grolier Club, 2000. 8 x 10. 140 pages, with 80 color illustrations. Cloth. Lower tip bumped. Very good. A comprehensive list of Kredel's work by Mathilde Kredel Brown; with essays by Gay Walker, Hermann Zapf, & Ronald Salter. Designed by Jerry Kelly.
Yale Center for British Art, 2002. 6 x 9. 179 pages filled with color illustrations and photographs, and a pop-up of the letter "E." Stiff pictorial wraps. Fine. King provides a brief commentary for each of his 115 works.
SF: BCC, 1987. 8vo. 54 pages, printed in colors. Color photo ills. Half cloth & boards decorated with gilt printer's ornaments. Near fine. One of 1200 copies designed & printed by Andrew Hoyem at the Arion Press.
NY, 1959. 9 x 12. xiv, (2), 295 pages. Quarter black morocco & red cloth. Fine copy in chipped board slipcase. No. 147 of 1500 copies for members of LEC (from a total edition of 2250). Beautifully printed in black, blue, & red, with numerous illustrations and color plates. A critique, conspectus, and bibliography, with indices.
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1988. 9 1/2 x 12. 103 pages. Quarter morocco and pastepaper boards. With a cloth covered portfolio containing a generous amount of ephemera and sheets from books. Both are contained in a cloth clamshell box. Fine, with prospectus. One of 300 copies, printed on damped...
(North Hills): Bird & Bull Press, 1980. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2. 108 pages. Morocco & decorated boards, with portfolio of specimens, in clamshell case (10 x 12 1/2). Spine slightly darker (as usual, from binding glue) else fine. Fine. One of 140 (of 350) with the separate portfolio of prospectuses and signatures from books. Index by Howell Heaney.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. 7 1/2 x 10 1/2. xxiv, 302 pages. + 110 plates Quarter cloth, decorated boards, paper spine label. Fine. No. 61 of 276 large paper copies signed by the 3 authors, and handbound by Earle Gray. A handsome production for this literary fine press.
San Francisco, 1937. 7 1/2 x 10 1/2. 100 pages. Marbled cloth, red leather spine label gilt. Deckle edges are darkened, and the marbled sides are rubbed. With the 4-page Prospectus & order card. Although the Prospectus calls for a list of broadsides, they are not included in the bibliography...
Lincoln, 1978. 6 x 9. ix, (2), 34, xiii pages. Illustrated with 17 plates. Blue cloth in matching slipcase. Spine sunned (as usual). Laid in is a signed wood engraving by McCurdy. No. 9 of 100 special copies printed on Rives and hand-bound at the Harcourt Bindery. Signed by 6...
Council Bluffs, 1993. 7 1/2 x 10. xxxii, 85 pages, errata slip laid in. In the deluxe binding of quarter red morocco, pastepaper sides, morocco fore edges. Fine in slipcase. Ken Botnick and Steve Miller printed original works by such authors as Robert Bly, William Bronk, William Faulkner,William Goyen, Galway...
Princeton, 1958 and 1968. Two volumes. 8 1/2 x 11. xlviii, 265 pages, 56 pages of illustrations; xv, 178 pages, 16 pages of illustrations. Cloth. Near fine. A classic, standard, important reference.
