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
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, and 3 tipped-in original leaves. Indexed. Hand bound in quarter rose cloth & boards. Fine in slipcase. One of 50 "special" copies signed by the author. (There were also 450 regular..... 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..... 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
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
Meriden: Bayberry Hill Press, 1969. 9 x 12. 76 pages with numerous tipped in photos, reproductions, type specimens, and 16 original leaves from Bayberry books. Printed blue boards, stapled, spine covered with blue binders' tape. The staples have rusted, tips lightly worn, some of the mounted specimens are loosening from..... 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
Rochester: RIT Press, (2016). 6 x 9. viii, 85 pages illustrated throughout in color. Cloth. Fine. The Aries Press was an American private press founded by Spencer Kellogg, Jr., in the 1920s. Its proprietary type face was designed by Frederic Goudy. A second-generation millionaire and supporter of the arts, Kellogg..... 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..... 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
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. With the prospectus. One of 400 printed in red and black by the Grabhorn Press. Complete bibliographical details of..... More
Vancouver: Heavenly Monkey, 2001. 11 x 15. 37 pages + 3 original double leaves. Laced with vellum tapes into heavy handmade paper wraps, blind embossed with Reid's monoram. An ALS from Milroy describes this trial binding..."more of a French wrap-- much better functionally & aesthetically than the case used for..... 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..... 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
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..... More
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..... More
