The Little People.
Winterport, ME: Borrower's Press, 1977. 31pp., frenchfold. Limited to 300 copies, signed by the printer, Jane Bernier. Bound in silverstamped green cloth. Very fine. (11/16 by 1/2; 18x12mm). More
Winterport, ME: Borrower's Press, 1977. 31pp., frenchfold. Limited to 300 copies, signed by the printer, Jane Bernier. Bound in silverstamped green cloth. Very fine. (11/16 by 1/2; 18x12mm). More
Dallas, TX: Somesuch Press, 1980. 33pp. One of 200 copies, signed by the collaborators and principals, Don Graeme Kelley and Susan Acker. Printed in black with blue initials and tailpieces, with ribald illustrations by Hefling to accompany Espy's jovial account of the various madnesses and mayhems of the English language's..... More
London: Guild and School of Handicraft, Essex House, 1894. Octavo. 166pp. Ornaments on the prefatory material and the final page evince Ashbee's skills Art Nouveau style, and bring illustrative care and craftsmanship to Ashbee's treatise on what makes for good citizenship in an increasingly industrial state. Bound in full red..... More
London: Guild & School of Handcraft, Essex House, 1896. Quarto. 36pp. Illustrated with thirteen plates, several of which are fold-outs. The book was created in an attempt to prevent the demolition of the seventeenth-century Trinity Hospital; in the end, the campaign was successful, and the building was saved. Ashbee's text..... More
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1981. 29 pp. From an edition of 400, this is one of 100 copies specially bound by Bela Blau. Signed by President Gerald R. Ford. The text of a September 1980 address given to the Visa International Convention in Quebec encouraging world peace for economic..... More
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1899. Three quarto volumes. xxvi, 330pp. From an edition of 268, this is one of thirty copies on Imperial Japon. In addition, this is a unique copy with an extra set of the 126 color photogravure plates printed on white satin and backed in celadon silk. The..... More
Amsterdam: Aschenbach Galerie, 1989. Oblong octavo. (12)pp. One of 100 copies, signed and numbered. Penck's signature raw, "primitive" style, which takes cues from graffiti and hearkens to the concurrent pop art movement championed across the Atlantic by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, embodies and communicates the anxious selfhood of one..... More
N.p. 1941-1943. Four octavo volumes. Standard issue blank books printed by the Government Printing Office that were owned by Lorain R. Snyder, who served as a Gunner's Mate aboard the U.S.S. Richmond from 1941 to 1943. The first two volumes contain Snyder's notes and assignments on such matters as wrecking..... More
Enkhuizen: Jack R. Levien, 1970. (54)pp. Levien has reproduced the drawings of Jacobus Meydenbach from 1491, depicting curious sea creatures. A charming book, printed in English, Dutch, French, and German. Very fine, bound in full gilt-stamped red leather with matching leather pull-off case with lightly faded spine. (1 3/16 by..... More
Baltimore: Xavier Press, 1986. 37pp. One of 500 copies composed on a 1911 linotype machine by Francis X. Harrigan. A brief, illustrated biography of the German immigrant who invented the linotype machine in 1886. Trace rubbing to lower cover else fine in pictorially gilt-stamped maroon cloth. A pocket in the..... More
Cincinnati: Mosaic Press, (1981). (32)pp. Signed by the printer, Miriam Irwin. A recounting of five chess games played by the author, who is a USCF expert chess player. Bound by Hugo Grummich in black cloth, with a knight chesspiece gilt-stamped to front cover. T.e.g. (Bradbury, p. 158). (1 by 3/4;..... More
(The Netherlands): 1986. Large quarto. Twenty-three tabbed-in samples of marbled papers in full sheets, folded and separated by interstitial pages. According to the compiler's typed introduction, the papers included here range from early 19th century machine-made paper to handmade contemporary examples from Karli Frigge, Geert van Daal, and others. Bound..... More
(N.p. J.R. van Oostrum, 1992). Quarto. This is a unique copy bound to display ten folded sheets of van Oostrum’s marbled papers in a simple and portable fashion. The papers exemplify a range of color schemes and techniques, including rippling, Spanish marbling, and peacocks. The star of the volume is..... More
Flansham: Greenleaf Press, (1915). 16mo. (16)pp. Inscribed, "With best wishes from the folk at Flansham. Xmas 1915," and illustrated with nine tipped-in engravings. The publication and illustrations were done by Stuart, Robin, and John Guthrie, the sons of James Guthrie of the Pear Tree Press. This is the first book..... More
(London): Essex House Press, 1902. Oblong folio. 49pp. From an edition of 300 copies, this is one of twenty printed on vellum. Illustrated with ten lithographs by Edith Harwood, eight of which are double-page and show the coronation processions of the eight Edwards. As a deluxe copy, the illustrations are..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: St. Dominic's Press, 1925. Octavo. viii, (36)pp. Second edition. Eric Gill's copy of this treatise on the craft of engraving on wood, which contains an introduction, ten engravings, and two diagrams by him. The Introduction of this copy has been annotated by Gill, with pencil corrections to his..... More
Baltimore: Xavier Press, 1986. 28pp. One of 250 copies. Frontispiece photoreproduction of Lady Liberty herself, and a postage stamp commemorating her sculptor, F. A. Bartholdi. Bound in green cloth over boards, Statue motif and titling in gilt. Fine. (2 3/4 by 2 in.; 69x50mm). More
Baltimore: Xavier Press, 1986. 28pp. One of 250 copies. Frontispiece photoreproduction of Lady Liberty herself, and a postage stamp commemorating her sculptor, F. A. Bartholdi. Bound in green cloth over boards, Statue motif and titling in gilt. Some shelf-rubbing, else near fine. (2 3/4 by 2 in.; 69x50mm). More
Baltimore: Xavier Press, 1987. 20pp. One of 250 copies. With three U.S. stamps tipped in, including one as the frontispiece. Fine in gilt-stamped blue cloth. (Bradbury, p. 327). (2 1/2 by 1 15/16; 64x50mm). More
Baltimore: Xavier Press, 1987. 20pp. One of 250 copies. With three U.S. stamps tipped in, including one as the frontispiece. Some rubbing to upper cover, else near fine in gilt-stamped blue cloth. (Bradbury, p. 327). (2 1/2 by 1 15/16; 64x50mm). More