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Fine Printing and Illustrated Books
History of the Vermont Press in The Vermonter, XI, 1 (August 1905), Tenth Anniversary Issue
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
Keepsake Broadsides Marking the Acquisition of the Original Kelmscott / Goudy Press at the Herity Press
White Plains, NY: Herity Press, 1961. Broadside. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Portfolio of 8 broadsides, housed in stiff folder printed on both sides. 1/100 copies printed for New York area Chappels honors the Kelmscott/Goudy Press at Herity Press, January 31, 1961. More
Ten Basic Treatments: Morocco Covers
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
A Father & Son
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
Our World in Space
New York Graphic Society, 1974. Cloth. Square Quarto. A beautiful pen and colored ink watercolor over two pages with rich blues, greys, brown and black with exploding sun out of planets. Inscribed "to Hugh Downs ...in appreciation for his generous contribution to the Science Center." signed, Robert McCall, 26 Sept 1980. More
The Birds of America From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories (8 Volume set) with 500 Original Hand Colored Plates
New York (1870): George R. Lockwood. Octavo. The last and best of the preferred editions issued in original publisher's full brown morocco, decorated in blind, raised bands, with title gilt, containing 500 superb tinted and hand-colored plates. Not only were the artists-illustrators able to use the original 435 plates from... More
![Bresdin to Redon, Six Letters 1870 to 1881 [with 1/100 Etched Plates Signed By Leonard Baskin]. Roseline Bacon, Seymour S. Weiner.](/pictures/thumb/017117.jpg?v=1438977473)
Bresdin to Redon, Six Letters 1870 to 1881 [with 1/100 Etched Plates Signed By Leonard Baskin]
(Np. 1932): The Gehenna Press, 1969. Limited Edition. Tall Octavo. Limited to four hundred copies printed on Japanese paper. A double portrait of Bresdin and Redon, etched by Leonard Baskin. The first hundred copies, specially bound, have an additional impression of the etching signed by the artist Leonard Baskin. The... More
Japanese Papermaking; Traditions, Tools, and Techniques with an Appendix on Alternative Fibers By Winifred Lutz (signed By the author)
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
Select Poems/ Divine and Human
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
Naissance Des Signes: Trois Eaux-Fortes Originales De Max Papart
Paris: Michel Bohbot, 1978. Limited Edition. 12mo. 15 leaves. A portfolio of prints; #47 of 60 copies, signed by the artist and author. Three color prints, each numbered and signed by Max Papart, with tissue guards. An exquisite production, all laid into a light green wrapper and housed within a.... More
Verse for Christmas
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
The Jolly Beggars-A Cantata
Northhampton: The Gehenna Press, 1963. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 300 un-numbered copies edited by John C. Weston which is preceded by 300 copies bound in cloth backed marbled covered boards. This copy bound in full gray cloth, spine lettering gilt, text printed in red and black. small bump with... More
Early Routines
Np/1981: Cadmus Editions. Limited Edition. Octavo. The present copy "Z" is one of 26 copies lettered and signed by William S. Burroughs and David Hockney who did the portrait of Burroughs. 54pp., bound in beige cloth, portrait illustration mounted to upper board, paper spine label, in glassine and clear mylar... More
Alice in Wonderland
Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930. [6], 114 pages, 6 orignal color lithograph plates by Marie Lurencin and printed by Desjobert of Paris. No. 229 of 300 printed on Rives paper (European Edition). Marie Lurencin (1883-1956) was a French painter and printmaker, associated with the cubists circle of Georges Braque, Picasso... More
The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford
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
Shoes. Poems By Valeria De Serpa and Kirk Robinson
University of Nevada Reno: The Black Rock Press, 1997. Limited Edition. Square Octavo. 28pp. # 95 of 100 copies signed by the author. Illustrated in color by D.R. Wagner. Bound in black cloth backed in red cloth with open window on front panel. In red and black paper slipcase, with... More
The First Editor: Aldus Pius Manutius
[New York, 1983]: Targ Editions. Limited Edition. Small Quarto. Limited to 250 copies. The present copy is number 36 signed by the designer-illustrator Antonio Frasconi who illustrated this work with woodcuts and signed by the printer Leslie Miller at the Grenfell Press on Rives mould-made paper; the type is monotype... More
Royal Windsor (4 Volume Set Bound By Zaehnsdorf
London; 1879-1880: Hurst and Blackett. Octavo. In 4 volumes. Vol. 1 335p. with folding plate of upper, middle and lower wards; Vol. 2. 380p. with Index to vol. 1 and 2.; Vol. 3. 339p. Vol. 4.358p.with index to vol. 3 and 4. This was to be William Hepworth Dixon's crowning... More
Stanley Marcus, a Life with Books
Dallas: Still Point Press, 1993. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 450 copies. The present copy signed by author David Farmer, Gould and Charlotte Whaley, former publisher of Still Point Press in Dallas and by Stanley Marcus himself. Stanley Marcus followed his father's wishes to join in the family business of... More
PRIVATE PAPERS OF HENRY RYECROFT
Portland, Maine: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1921. Limited Edition. Small Octavo. Limited to 700 copies. Title page printed in red and black, 246 pp. unopened and uncut. Introductory essay by Thomas Seccombe. Bound in blue paper covered boards, back in white paper, paper spine label letered in black, some toning to... More
The Reluctant Dragon (illustrated and Signed By Michael Hague in a Limited Edition of 350 copies)
New York; (1983): Holt, Rinehart and Winston. First Edition. Quarto. Limited to only 350 copies numbered and signed by the author. 41(1)pp., illustrated in color by Michael Hauge and with a reproduction of a specially commissioned pen and ink drawing. A fine copy bound in green cloth backed in brown... More
A Bibliography of Father Richard's Press in Detroit
Ann Arbor, MI: William L. Clements Library, 1955. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 48pp. Introduction. Annotated bibliography. In dark blue cloth spine, gilt; and blue paper over boards. In original celophane wrapper (yellowed, with some chips). More
About Books, a Gathering of Essays
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1941. Limited Edition. Small Octavo. Limited to 450 copies. 102pp. with an introduction by James D. Hart, with essays by Randolph G. Adams "Librarians as Enemies of Books" T.M. Cleland "Harsh Words", "The Art of Printing" by Edwin Grabhorn and "The Bibliographical Way" by Lawrence... More
Summer on the Test (Illustrated By Normal Wilkinson)
London, [1924]: P. Allen. Limited Edition. Quatro. 198p. An uncut and unopened copy signed by the author and limited to 300 copies, the present copy is number 13. Clean throughout with all 12 dry-points beautifully done by Norman Wilkinson present with tissue guards and in perfect condition with each image... More