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
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." More
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. 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
NY: American Printing History Association, 2002. 6 x 9. xv, 175 pages with numerous illustrations in the original colors, 3 tipped-in facsimiles, and 3 tipped-in original leaves. Indexed. Hand bound in quarter rose cloth & boards, in sturdy black board slipcase. Fine. One of 50 "special" signed copies (of 500)... More
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. More
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. More
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. More
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. More
(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... More
Printed at the Gehenna Press for the University of Massachusetts, 1966. F7 1/2 x 10 1/2. 213 pages. Extra spine label tipped in. Linen-backed boards. Spine slightly toned; near fine in slipcase with light sunning and small crack, with prospectus. Nineteen tipped-in letterpress facsimiles of title pages are printed in... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1940. 10 x 14). xv, (4), 194 pages + 8 pages of reproductions + 4 bifolia of original leaves. Laid in are 2 prepublication pieces and 10 extra original leaves. Prior owner has placed a light pencil check next to the many titles he owned. Despite... More
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... More
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. More
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... More
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... More
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. More
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. More
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. More
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. More
SF, 1958. 10 x 14. xiii, (5), 80 pages (with index) + 18 illustrations. Half tan linen and decorated paper boards, spine label in gilt. Upper tips slightly bumped, else fine. Original plain dustwrapper is present, but discolored. With the prospectus. One of 400 printed in red and black by... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1957. 10 x 14. xxix, 119 pages + 12 leaves of illustrations + 9 original leaves. Half red morocco & patterned boards. Seven leaves (14) pages have a small, round, light spot in a margin; a few deckles are brown; all else fine. The original leaves... More
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... More
(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. More
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. More
