Fairfax, CA: Jungle Garden Press, 1991. Oblong 24mo. (14)pp., accordion-fold. One of 55 copies designed, printed, and bound by Marie Dern at the Jungle Garden Press. A tongue-in-cheek printer's alphabet, with large initials in, appropriately, Caslon type. The initials are accompanied by humorous representations of the letters printed using numerous..... More
Rahart, France: Atelier d'Images, 2002. Oblong 24mo. (11)ff. One of 50 copies, signed by the artist, Patrice Goré. An imaginative tale of the discovery of the alphabet, with "A" as the genesis to a typographic, pictorial, and poetic journey through letters. Bound in paper boards with a bold "A" embracing..... More
Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, 1827. 48mo. 16pp. Engraved frontispiece and title page, as well as several devices in text. A moral tale told through the nature of snow-drop flowers, the lesson providing greater resolve in Christ's provision and righteousness. The final two pages rephrase the lesson into a poem..... More
NY: American Tract Society, (n.d.). 32mo. 16pp. Engraving on the title page and full-page engraving on the title-page verso. A narrative following the persistent purity and faith of Mary Jones throughout her life, with firm encouragements that readers adopt a similar devotion. Crisp in engraved paper wrappers with repair work..... More
Cambridge, MA: Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College, 1968. Square 16mo. (8)ff. One of 500 copies, signed by the artist. Marie Angel, who also contributed illustrations to A. Colish's 1974 edition of The Velveteen Rabbit, here adorns Dickinson's two poems with a diverse array of butterflies set softly..... More
(N.p.): Angelica Press, 1976. Octavo. xi, 99pp. Illustrations primarily in green with black and white outlining. Running titles in green. Travels to places fictional and real, from Laputa to Lilliput to Japan, as told in the first person. Bound in quarter red cloth and buckram, with green and black illustration..... More
(N.p., n.d.). An original linoleum block print measuring 8 by 10 inches, tastefully matted and framed. Valenti Angelo here employs bold use of line and cross-hatching to show the texture of these trees, which are in the foreground, set against a predominantly black backdrop. Inscribed by the artist to Henry..... More
Bronxville, NY: Valenti Angelo, (1963). Small quarto. (18)pp. One of fifty copies. Signed by Angelo. Title roundel printed in blue and illuminated. Five-line gold initial, six-line blue initial, eight-line red initial hand-drawn. A dignified edition of a significant Biblical passage. Bound in half-parchment paper with brown paper over boards. Spine..... More
Northampton, MA: Apiary Press, 1964. Small quarto. (16)pp. One of twenty-five copies. Signed by the author and the printer. This scarce item was printed for the author by his friend Ronald Gordon, now the proprietor of the Oliphant Press in New York. With eight vignettes taken from wood engravings by..... More
Pasadena, CA: Archetype Press, 2005. Folio. (45)ff. One of 80 copies. Contains thirty-seven illustrations depicting American inventions ranging from the profound (Morse code, cloning, etc.) to the underappreciated (American cheese singles, flyswatter, etc.). Printed using "metal foundry type, wood type, linoleum blocks, laser-cut masonite, and digital polymer plates." Occasionally mixed..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1984. Circular folio, 18 inches in diameter. (40)ff. One of 150 copies signed by the poet, John Ashbery, and the printer, Andrew Hoyem. This is the thirteenth book of the Arion Press. The Parmigianino painting which inspired Ashbery's poem is reproduced on the title page. The..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2003. Quarto. xxi, 101pp. From an edition of 400 copies, this is one of 200 with a photographic portrait of the author by Edmund Shea and a signed chromolithograph by Wayne Thiebaud. The portrait is printed here for the first time. Preface by Ron Loewinsohn, who..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1997. Quarto. 68pp. One of 200 copies, signed by Jim Dine. Illustrated with a photogravure by Dine from the portfolio of the "Ape & Cat" series. A very fine copy in cloth. Prospectus laid in. (Arion Bibliography 52). More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2005. Oblong octavo. 18pp. One of 350 copies. Illustrated throughout with ten prints made by scratching ink printed from a block onto frosted mylar, which is then used as a negative to produce a photopolymer plate. "The Tulipomania" is a chapter from Memories of Extraordinary Popular..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1991. Octavo. 82pp. One of 750 copies, of which this is one of 250 copies bound in boards. Frontispiece portrait of the author tipped in, along with a reproduction of a Carl R. Martin drawing on the final page. A fine rendition of the author's first..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1990. Elephant folio. 44ff., + 24pp. booklet. From an edition of 180 copies, this is one of only a few that has been hand-colored "at the heart of the book" (leaf 27) by the artist, Jim Dine. Signed by Dine on the colophon page. Illustrated with..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2003. Octavo. 12pp. One of 500 copies. A talk presented by John T. Shawcross at the Arion Press on January 29, 2003, during its celebration of the publication of a new edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost. Bound in gray paper wrappers. Fine. (Arion Bibliography, p...... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1993. Large quarto. 143pp. One of 300 copies, signed by the author and the artist. Illustrated throughout with fifteen drawings by Stan Washburn. The second in Arion's drama series. A very fine copy in pictorial boards and goatskin spine, with a mylar wrapper. Lacks accompanying CD..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2015. Quarto. 169pp. One of 400 copies, signed by the illustrator. The sixty-seven images created by William Kentridge depict figures created by brush and ink over dictionary pages, which could then be spread over a stage scene or rearranged to suggest new positions or gestures. Some..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2008. Octavo. 330pp. One of 300 copies. Illustrated by Stan Washburn utilizing etchings on film which are then transferred to polymer plates. A fine edition of Wells' under-appreciated novel about a fictional patent medicine, loosely based on perhaps one of the most successful such elixirs of..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2013. Octavo. 178, (ii)pp., + 20pp. of illustrations. One of 400 copies, signed by Lucy Gray, whose twenty photographs were printed by offset lithography in two colors and overlaid with varnish. Gray is married to film historian and critic David Thomson, who contributed the Introduction to..... More
Zurich: Maison Kratz, 1956. Lithographic print measuring 23 1/4 by 18 7/8 inches. One of 200 numbered copies, this one signed by the artist, with his name incorporated into a small drawing of a bull's head, and inscribed vertically, "For Martin Oberstein cordially 30 12 56." The lithograph is printed..... More
Fairfax, CA: Jungle Garden Press, 1994. Quarto. (18)ff. One of only three copies, signed by the illustrator, Carl Dern, and the printer, Marie Dern. A portfolio of eight pieces of original art by Carl Dern, mixing printing, watercolors, pen drawings, and collage. Playing with the concept of the livre d'artiste..... More
(New York: Fleming & Carnrick, 1898). Quarto. 28ff. Decorated title page printed in four colors; twenty-three ornamental initial capitals printed in red and gold. Spenser's poem celebrating his marriage to Elizabeth Boyle is presumably printed here to mark the occasion of the nuptials of one of the printing firm's partners..... More
South Freeport, ME: Ascensius Press, 2015. Small quarto. 44ff. From an edition of forty-one, this is one of twenty-six lettered copies, bound in full calf. Frost's second book of poetry is here published in a centenary edition by Scott Vile of the Ascensius Press. In homage to Joseph Blumenthal, Frost's..... More
