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Broadside. About 300 copies. A striking presentation of this fanciful poem, silkscreened in turquoise, purple and orange by Karyl Klopp. Very fine. ... more

Price: $35.00

A single woodcut measuring 7 7/8 by 5 3/16 inches, originally designed by Eric Gill for use on a poster. The design shows an adoring Virgin holding the baby Jesus close to her bosom as he gazes back at her. Each figure is haloed and has expressive eyes, but neither... more

Price: $250.00

Folio broadside. One of fifty copies. Signed by Karyl Klopp, proprietor of the press. A twenty-five-line poem by Mark Van Doren, beautifully printed on cream-colored paper and featuring an illustration by Karyl Klopp beside the text. Van Doren's long career as a poet and writer included a job teaching at... more

Price: $250.00

Framed etching measuring 11 by 8 inches. One of an unknown number of copies; the edition was probably no greater than 200. An image of an early flying machine crashed and abandoned in a field of clover, printed in green with a caption printed in orange. A black border frames... more

Price: $275.00

Complete set of eleven woodblocks by Charles Keates used to print the illustrations in this edition. The blocks vary in size, the largest being 3 9/16 inches by 4 1/2 inches from the frontispiece, depicting the angler about to grab his fish with the city wall not far from the... more

Price: $7,500.00

A receipt signed by C. Henry Daniel of the Daniel Press, dated 1901, for a copy of Muses Garden for Delights. A standard receipt, with pertinent information filled in by Daniel in his handwriting. Fine. ... more

Price: $100.00

Group of ephemera printed at the Vale Press between 1896 and 1903 containing twenty-two order forms, seven book lists, and four notices, two of which are duplicates. Three of the order forms are printed in red and black, and many of the pieces contain decorative woodcut elements. Light foxing and... more

Price: $1,250.00

Oblong folio. (62)pp. One of 300 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Illustrated with thirteen drawings in black and white by Henry Miller. Introduction by Edith M. Coulter and Eleanor A. Bancroft. Fine in cloth-backed patterned boards, with a plain dust wrapper. ... more

Price: $150.00

Quarto. 28pp., frenchfold. One of forty copies. Signed by the author/artist, Gunnar Kaldewey. This book is inspired by the notion of "nature as art." The first text page poetically states: "Books are like gardens that one can carry/around; gardens are like books that one can/experience, promenade through or get lost..."... more

Price: $1,600.00

Small quarto. 32ff. One of five copies, signed by the artists. An artistic collaboration between noted bookbinder, typographer, and illustrator Eri Funazaki and Danny Flynn, a fellow typographer who also wrote the text. Each letter was printed using different wood and metal types, many of which were altered by the... more

Price: $5,500.00

Octavo. (26)ff. An elegant and charming alphabet, designed and illustrated by Harwerth, a member of Rudolf Koch's workshop in Offenbach a.M. Known primarily as an illustrator, Harwerth here presents scenes of animals and plants surrounding his letters. The letters and illustrations have been beautifully hand-colored, showing painstaking detail, below which... more

Price: $1,500.00

Small quarto. 15pp. In blue printed wrappers. Announcement laid in. In this booklet, the famed typographer Bruce Rogers documents the process of creating his masterpiece work, the Oxford Lectern Bible, and includes pages showing various trials of lettering for the bible. Rogers also supervised the printing of the booklet in... more

Price: $40.00

Quarto. (viii), 56 pp. Limited to 500 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Introduction by David Magee. Reprinted from Beadle's Half-Dime Library, Number 814, February 28, 1893. Illustrated by Mallette Dean. A fine copy in cloth backed patterned boards, plain d/w. Prospectus laid in. ... more

Price: $175.00

Quarto. 45, (3)pp. From an edition of 170, this is one of twenty-five copies hand-colored by Sylvia Stokeld and signed by the author. The colophon states that 85 copies were to be Pochoir colored, but in a letter to noted Irish collector Alan Clodd laid in, the publisher, Dennis Hall,... more

Price: $550.00

Quarto. Fine in buckram-backed blue and silver patterned paper-covered boards with a fleur-de-lis design. ... more

Price: $125.00

Small quarto. xxxv, 368 pp. One of 300 numbered copies. Illustrated with engravings by True W. Williams and others. A reprint of the author's account of his coast-to-coast trek, originally published by Columbian Book Company in 1884. Includes a fold-out map of the U.S. showing Powers's route from Raleigh, NC,... more

Price: $250.00

Quarto. xv, (21)pp. One of 60 copies. A book of thirteen poems by Irish poet Peter Fallon, with three color illustrations by Carol Blinn, title-page calligraphy by Jerry Kelly, and a foreword by Wendell Berry. Bound by Priscilla Spitler in marbled-paper boards backed in blue cloth, with a title label... more

Price: $350.00

Quarto. xxvii, 106pp. One of 160 copies printed on handmade Amalfi paper. This reprint of Torniello's alphabet includes a reproduction of the title page portrait of Torniello, newly engraved after Guillaume Le Signerre by Leonardo Farina; a facsimile of the geometrically-constructed alphabet; and a comparison of Torneillo's roman capitals with... more

Price: $2,000.00