(N.p.): San Serriffe Publishing Company, 2001. Octavo. 95pp. One of 200 copies, printed by the Foolscap Press. A roundup of the booksellers associated with the press, including Ki-flongian Booksellers, Cloacina Books, and Exterminator Books. Replete with tipped-in samples and photographs, bound-in title pages and keepsakes, a large fold-out title page..... More
New Castle, DE: Bird & Bull Press, 1980. Octavo. (13)pp. One of 250 copies. An amusing recounting of an encounter between a savvy bookseller and a clumsy customer. Minor fading to spine, else fine in tan wrappers. More
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1982. One of 350 copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press and bound by Gray Parrot in morocco-backed Japanese paper. Edited, and with a Prologue by Colin Franklin. Extremely fine. Prospectus laid-in. More
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1971. Quarto. 67pp. One of 255 copies. Contains some amusing essays on paper-making, and some paper samples, including two made "with the cooperation of certain local wasps." A brief history of printing gives credit to "a man named Gutenberg, probably a foreigner," who "wanted..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1987. Oblong octavo. 77pp.(25) ff. One of 325 copies. The first third of this handsome book consists of correspondence between Hans Schmoller and Morris dealing with the problems of the book itself. The second part by Tanya Schmoller is text about the Chinese tea chest..... More
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1984. Quarto. x, 49, 24 pp. + (31)ff. One of 500 copies. Contains three foldout plates, nineteen color reproductions of Japanese watercolors, and 30 illustrated facsimile pages of an eighteenth century Japanese papermaking manual. These woodcut facsimiles are printed on handmade Japanese gampi paper..... More
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1983. Oblong 12mo. 64pp., + (14)ff. One of 350 copies. An interesting, historic account on marbling taken from the Journal of the Franklin Institute of 1829. Minor toning to spine, some edgewear, else near fine in marbled boards, backed with gilt-stamped blue morocco. Prospectus..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1985. Octavo. 161pp. One of 325 copies. Illustrated with eighteen black & white photographs and drawings, fourteen full-color photographs of Kinder's bindings, and thirteen pages of black & white impressions of Kinder's bookbinding stamps. A thorough examination of one of America's finest binders and of..... More
Skokie, IL: Black Cat Press, 1977. (28)pp., frenchfold. One of 249 copies privately printed for the author. Illustrated with drawings in two colors by Elizabeth W. Houghlin. Fine in leather-backed decorated-paper boards. (2 5/8 by 2; 66x51mm). More
Chicago: Black Cat Press, (1966). 43pp. A collection of quotes from the likes of Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin to Robert Browning. Bound in red paper wrappers with starry endpapers. Fine. (2 5/16 by 2 1/2; 58x64mm). More
Chicago: Black Cat Press, (1968). 58pp. One of 250 copies. Nichols' discussion of Caravaggio's own artistic light, accompanied by illustrations and initials in blue, black, and white. Book designed by Norman W. Forgue and printed by Charles Young at the Norman Press. Bound in blue leatherette with gilt stamping to..... More
Skokie: Black Cat Press, (1976). (46)pp. One of 249 copies. The last two pages are a typefounder's variation from an 1882 specimen book which is a delightful ABC. Slightest rubbing to exterior and expected wear along spine, else fine in brown leather with gilt title and decoration. (2 9/16 by..... More
Skokie: Black Cat Press, (1976). (46)pp. One of 249 copies. The last two pages are a typefounder's variation from an 1882 specimen book which is a delightful ABC. Slightest rubbing to exterior and expected wear along spine, else fine in brown leather with gilt title and decoration. (2 9/16 by..... More
(Los Angeles: Blau, Bela, 1965). 47pp. One of 1,000 copies printed on pure vellum by Bela Blau. With a frontispiece portrait of Kennedy, and with each page handsomely printed within a gold-ruled frame. Very fine in gilt-stamped vellum, with a vellum-covered slipcase, which has a split starting to one corner..... More
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1948. First edition. Inscribed by the editor to Stanley Urban. The first bibliography of science fiction, fantasy, and "weird books" in the English language, organized by both author and title. Bleiler went on to become a premier scholar of science fiction, receiving two Hugo Award nominations for..... More
NY: Null-Q Press, 1968. First American edition. One of 250 copies printed on a mimeograph machine on pulp paper, and stapled. This copy is inscribed and signed by Blish. This novel was first published in the U.K. in 1964, and because no American imprint would agree to publish it in..... More
NY: Greenwich Books, 1978. Oblong 16mo. (15)pp. One of 276 copies. Signed by the author on colophon. Signed by the illustrator thricely: on colophon, on title page, and on upper cover. A sharp and pessimistic critique of sex and love in the modern age. In black wrappers with an erotic..... More
Parma: Bodoni, 1800. Folio. Three parts in one. 8, xxvii; 14, xliii; 11, xxxiii pp., + (35)ff. Contains thirty-five stipple-engraved plates, all but one in sepia, showing frescoes by the famed Renaissance painter Correggio at the Monastero de San Paolo in Parma. The engravings were done by Francesco Rosaspina after..... More
(Parma: Stamperia Reale, 1779). Octavo. xii, 296pp. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the poetess crowned with a laurel wreath, eleven beautifully-engraved vignettes and twelve culs-de-lamp. This elegantly-printed volume was published in commemoration of the coronation of poet Maria Maddalena Morelli Fernandez with laurels on the Capitol in..... More
Wien: (Lichtdruck der K.K. Graphischen Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt), (1912). 22; (126)pp. A facsimilie of Viennese printer Ludwig Bonnoberger's famous prayer book of 1607, presented to a gathering of bibliophiles at the Imperial Court Library in September 1912. Bound in buff cloth with interwoven silver threads. All edges are gilt and..... More
1930-1950. Forty-six quarto volumes, including the following: the original series (1930-1935) in twenty volumes; New Series (1935-1938) in twelve volumes; The Annual of Bookmaking (1938); New Graphic Series (1939) in four volumes; The New Colophon (1948-1950) in eight volumes; and the index to the original series. Lacks the New Colophon..... More
NY: Elston Press, 1901. Small quarto. (xv), 68pp. One of 485 copies on Holland hand-made paper, in boards with vellum spine. Unopened. Decorated with initials by H. M. O'Kane, floral devices, and a printer's device on the title page. The text is a 1345 treatise on book collecting written by..... More
San Francisco: Lawton Kennedy, 1958. Small quarto pamphlet. (6)ff. One of 175 copies. A tongue-in-cheek guide to the lexicon of the rare book trade. For example, the entry for "Fore-Edge Painting" states "These are always 'exquisitely executed' even when done by someone's Aunt Esmerelda on a wet Sunday afternoon." Fine..... More
Winterport, ME: Borrower's Press, 1975. 31pp. One of 250 copies, signed and numbered by the printer-illustrator Jane Bernier. An essay on Longfellow, with excerpts from his works. This is the third Borrower's Press publication. Very fine in leather-backed tan cloth. (Bradbury, p. 31). (15/16 by 7/8; 25x21mm). More
Winterport, ME: Borrower's Press, 1980. 32pp. One of 350 copies signed by Jane Bernier, the printer. With charming hand-colored illustrations. Fine in gilt-titled red leather, with gold foil endpapers. (Bradbury, p. 33). (3/4 by 5/8; 19x14mm). More
