Royal College of Art: The Lion and Unicorn Press, 1954. Limited Edition. Quarto. No pagination. Limited to 100 copies. The present copy is number 7. Inscription from Arthur Houghton for Robin Darwin, a British artist and Rector of the Royal College of Art and son of the British artist golf..... More
St. Albans, Vermont: Charles D. Forbes. 40p. The most important history of Vermont newspapers from the 1780's when there were three to the greatest period of expansion in the 1880's when there were with the advent of technology 59. By 1905 there were less than 10. Besides listing all of..... More
Oracle, Arizona: Oracle Press, 1974. Limited Edition. Quarto. . First book published by Oracle Press. Limited to 100 copies. The present copy is number 46. 35 pages. One of the most beautifully printed Bruce McGrew conceived the collection which in the introduction says might have been subtitled: A Voluntary of..... More
Watertown, New York: Knowleton Bros. Octavo. 24 unnumbered pages, fan folded with rich color examples. While Knowleton Brothers can trace their work to 1824, it was in the mid-1920's, they began creating the richest preparatory covers for the top designers. This volume is exquisite both in its materials used and..... More
Optics Press and Bindery, 2024. Thick Quarto. Limited edition of only 15 copies. The present copy is #4 and signed by the producer Andrew Boese. In the late 1950s, Boeing produced a supersonic long range surface-to-air missile capable of a nuclear payload. These pilotless aircraft were named Bomac (Boeing Michigan..... More
Red Wing, MN: Verna Press; Red Dragonfly Press, 2006. Original Wraps. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Limited to 90 copies. Signed by the author as "Pete". The only copy recorded by OCLC is at the University of Iowa. The first book of the Verna Press using Dante metal..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 550 copies. The present copy is number 137. Portrait frontispiece, 72pp. plus (1) p. colophon. A monograph on Rockwell Kent and incorporating a few of his illustrations. Finely bound by Earl A. Gray in 1/4 black cloth over blue..... More
London; (1926): John Lane the Bodley Head Limited. First Edition. Quarto. Limited to only 125 copies. The present copy is number 93 and illustrated in color and in black and white by Frank Brangwyn. This edition printed on hand-made paper, and with two extra illustrations in color for a total..... More
New York; (1983): Weatherhill. First Edition. Small Quarto. 316 pages, three paper samples tipped in, index, bibliography, glossary, appendices. As a young man Timothy Barrett traveled to Japan on a Fullbright Fellowship to research washi, Japanese handmade paper. He worked with the craftspeople of Ogawa-machi who forced him to send..... More
Printed in Amherst, MA.(1992): The Gehenna Press and the Bridwell Library. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 2000 copies. The present copy is inscribed and signed by Leonard Baskin on the colophon "For Gladys/From-1998/Leonard". The catalogue of an exhibition curated by Lisa Unger Baskin containing an assessment of the work of..... More
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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1964. Limited Edition. Folio. Limited to only 400 copies. In 1961, the judges of United States District Court in San Francisco entrusted to the Bancroft Library the papers relating to the Mexican and Spanish land grants. This amounted to over 100,000 pages of..... More
Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1982. Limited Edition. Octavo. 45 pages. Limited to 299 signed copies of which this is #105. The book was designed and printed by Henry Morris of the Bird and Bull Press. III Seen, Ill Said forming part of Beckett's final trilogy Nohow On, develops the..... More
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. Limited Edition. Small Octavo. 52, [vi] pp. #365 of 1250 copies on Van Gelder paper, Introduction. Poems. Notes. Bound in white parchment stamped in gilt, spine lettering gilt. A very nice copy. More
New Castle, Virginia; (1991): Cheap Street. Limited Edition. Octavo. Publisher's edition limited to 177 copies. The present copy is not numbered but is signed by the author and by the illustrator Judy J. King. Bound in half-light purple and half dark purple, lettered in brown, decorated in blind. A fine..... More
[East Providence, New Jersey]: Oat City Press, 1996. Limited Edition. 16mo. The great bird essayist Neltje Blanchan is quoted liberally from a 1916 edition of The New Nature Library's Game birds...."--Colophon./ This is copy 30 of a limited edition of 55. OCLC shows there is only one copy at Iowa..... More
Paris; [nd. Ca.1978]: Michel Bohbot. Limited Edition. Small Octavo. 15 leaves.Limited to 60 copies. The present copy is #47. ,A portfolio of engraved color prints and text signed by the artist and author. Three color prints, each numbered and signed by Max Papart, with tissue guards. An exquisite production, all..... More
New York; (1996): South Street Seaport Museum. Limiterd Edition. Small Quarto. Limited to 200 copies signed by the author and the illustrator. No pagination. Illustrated with 8 beautiful wood block engravings. The sources at the end of the book is a bibliography of all the works consulted from books of..... More
Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1987. Limited Edition. Small Quarto. Limited letter "N" of 26 copies signed by Ray Bradbury. Introduction by Helen Bevington. Among his poems are "My Cat has swallowed a bumble bee" which she notes purrs and the poem to his father "For Leonard Bradbury" which is..... More
San Francisco: The Pocket Press By Jackson Burke, 1938. Limited Edition. Small Quarto. Limited to only 50 copies. The present copy is #37 printed by Jackson Burke, no pagination, fan-folded and stitched, bound in plain boards backed in paper, in tan dust jacket printed in red, small stain to upper..... More
London, (: George Routledge and Sons, 1875. Thick Octavo. A new edition. Two books in one. Phillip Massinger was English dramatist and who also collaborated much with Beaumont and Fletcher and others. Engraved vignette title page and regular title page, frontispiece portrait of Massinger, 450pp., including glossary. The Dramatic Works..... More
London: R. Ackermann, 1822. First Edition. Octavo. 267(1) directions to the binder, twenty-four hand-colored aquatints including frontispiece each with over sheet for off-setting protection (not tissue guard but laid paper watermarked English Bond, plates watermarked J. Whatman Turkey 18?? cut off not fully revealing the date or Mill. No foxing..... More
New York: The Composing Room, 1961. 23 pages. This scarce catalog was printed at an exhibition representing thirty-four years of his graphic work in Germany and the United States. Among his famous dust jacket covers are: his early German work before Faulkner's Absalom; Absalom; Thomas Mann's Dr. Faustus; Styron's Lie..... More
[Waltham St. Lawrence], 1928: The Golden Cockerel Press. Limited Edition. Octavo. Woodblock frontispiece, 56(1) pp. limited to 600 copies. The present copy is number 58. Printed and illustrated by Robert Gibbings of the Golden Cockerel Press. Previous owner's name Edith McAllister Claude dated 1928, Chevy Chase, MD. She began the..... More
(Waltham Saint lawrence) 1931: The Golden Cockerel Press. Limited Edition. royal Octavo. . Limited to 1000 copies and the first book with Golden Cockerel type. The book was first to be published in a limitation of 750 copies but with swift sales from subscribers, they decided to do the limitation..... More
[Mill Valley, California]: Sunflower Press, 1976. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 140 copies. The present copy is number 92 signed by Carol Cunningham. 19 unnumbered pages.One of the finest of the Sunflower Press items by Carol Cunningham. Here she and Joan Abelson cut the lino block of Gutenberg using the..... More