Saint Arithmeticus.
Spartanburg, SC: Kitemaug Press, 1967. (10)pp. A spoof on arithmetic with a tipped-in linocut frontispiece. Limited to 500 copies. Interior toning to endpapers, else near fine in printed wrappers. (2 by 1 13/16; 51x45mm). More
Spartanburg, SC: Kitemaug Press, 1967. (10)pp. A spoof on arithmetic with a tipped-in linocut frontispiece. Limited to 500 copies. Interior toning to endpapers, else near fine in printed wrappers. (2 by 1 13/16; 51x45mm). More
(Mt. Vernon, NY): 1979. A mixed-media sculpture, signed and dated by the artist. Inside a black-painted cigar box is a group of stubby pencils, sharpened to different heights and painted black. The face of a clock, moon-like, is pasted above the pencils. Klebanow was born in Boston in 1915 and..... More
Offenbach am Main: Klingspor, 1930. Oblong 32mo. 24pp., frenchfold. Illustrated with elegant silhouettes of men and women dressed in the height of fashion, each framed by a colorful border. Facing each silhouette or pair of silhouettes is a passage of German verse. This particular copy is specially bound as a...... More
(NY): Harper & Row, (1963). Four 48mo. volumes, variously paginated. First editions. Titles include: A Christmas Stocking Story; Angels & Berries & Candy Canes; A Firefly in a Fir Tree; and The Night Before Christmas (this with co-author Clement C. Moore). A complete set of festive tales by Knight, whose..... More
Venice: Peter Koch, Printer, 2006. Small folio. 25ff., + 7 plates. From an edition of fifty copies, this is one of thirty bound in Venetian red stiff wrappers. Signed by the printer, Peter Koch, and photographer Robert Morgan. Produced during Koch's term as artist-in-residence at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica..... More
Gulfport, FL: Konglomerati Press, 1981. Octavo. (42)pp. One of 1000 copies. Seven illustrations in green, orange, black, and blue, with a two-page spread for the title page. Trace rubbing to corners, else fine in gray cloth with orange cloth over boards and paper label. Prospectus laid in. More
Kyoto, Japan: Unsodo, 1891. Oblong folio. (14)ff. Contains twelve woodblock prints in bright colors and gold and silver metallic ink by Taniguchi Kokyo after Ogata Korin in the Rinpa style. Rinpa artists worked in a variety of formats, including screens, fans, and hanging scrolls; the images in this volume include..... More
NY: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1938. Square 16mo. (30)ff., frenchfold. Illustrated throughout with line drawings by Fritz Kredel, whose straightforward and cartoonish style lends itself well to the lyrics of the "Schnitzelbank" song. The song itself is of the sort in which each set of lyrics builds upon the..... More
The Netherlands: Tine Krijnen, Miniatur Boekbinden, 2015. Unpaginated. A miniature facsimile of P. Cos' 1637 Verzameling Van een Meenigte Tulipaanen, a robustly illustrated and informed manuscript detailing a menage of tulip species and, significantly for its contemporary era of tulipomania, their respective measures and prices. A delightful, colorful reproduction. Fine..... More
(Philadelphia): Philadelpia College of Art, 1972. Quarto. (18)pp. One of eleven copies. Inscribed by the artist, Susan Kronfeld, to Stuart Schimmel, who served on the Grolier Club council and whose personal collections and public curatorial positions allowed him to continually present exhibits to the New York community. Kronfeld's eight color..... More
Chicago: Sherwin Beach Press, 1993. Oblong octavo. 21pp. One of 200 copies. Four photographs by Mike Tappin depict people living on insubstantial government funds, the “safety net.” The text by Steve Bogira, originally published in 1983 in the Chicago Reader, details the lives of those hovering at the poverty line..... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1981. 21pp. One of 150 copies. Charles Lamb's Mr. H. here receives coy, yet noble, bibliographic detail. Bound in full green leather with gilt title to upper cover. Fine. (2 13/16 by 2 1/16; 72x52mm). More
Lakeville, CT: Lakeville Journal, 1959. Large bifolio, printed on both sides. The recto shows Van Doren's poem set at the center of a red and tan checkered border, adorned with six of Lathrop's illustrations of wintry mice and squirrels. The verso, printed in red, displays five Christmas messages from local..... More
London: Duckworth and Co., 1913. First edition. Lawrence's first book of poetry containins over two dozen poems on love and other topics. Full blue cloth over boards with gilt titling to upper board and spine. T.e.g. Slight edgewear, bumps to corners, else near fine. Bookplate of poet and writer Wilfred..... More
London: Duckworth, (1914). First edition, first issue. Lawrence's first book of short stories. Bound in blue cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A hint of fading to spine and minor edgewear, mainly at head and tail of spine, else a very good copy. Bookplate from the Beaufoy Library to front..... More
NY: Thomas Seltzer, 1922. First edition. Follow-up to Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious, this was the book that was partially responsible for rekindling the friendship between Lawrence and John Middleton Murry. The American edition of this work contains an Epilogue that was omitted from the English edition. Spine gilt dulled, as..... More
Chicago: Le Petit Oiseau Press, 1963. 7pp. One of 150 copies. With a portrait frontispiece of Christ tipped in. Printed by Doris V. Welsh. Some soiling to cloth at spine, else near fine in half blue cloth and yellow boards. (1 7/8 by 1 7/16; 47x36mm). More
Evanston, IL: Press of Traci Ann Schori, 1994. (4), (20)pp. One of 100 copies. The third book of the thirteen-year-old's press. Frontispiece portrait engraving of Gutenberg prefaced by a disclaimer about the scarcity of his true visage in the historical record. Concluded by a miniature facsimile from the Gutenberg Bible..... More
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1926. Folio. One of 207 copies. Inscribed by Nash on front endpaper. An original leaf from the Jenson Plutarch of 1478 accompanied Bullen's essay on Jenson as type designer, which has been set by Nash in a recut version of Jenson's Roman type Scattered foxing..... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1969. 27pp. Illustrated with black & white photo reproductions, as well as two original birch leaves from the ninth edition of Birch Bark Poems. A brief reference work to these classics of the 1880s, including a list of editions of Birch Bark Poems. Includes a...... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1969. 27pp. Illustrated with black & white photo reproductions, as well as two original birch leaves from the ninth edition of Birch Bark Poems. A brief reference work to these classics of the 1880s, including a list of editions of Birch Bark Poems. Includes a...... More
Montclair, NJ: Caliban Press, 1991. Quarto. 52pp., followed by four leaves representing specimens printed and published by the Caliban Press. One of 100 copies signed and numbered on the colophon by printer and author Mark McMurray. A comprehensive and informative type specimen book, which includes notes on Garamond, Caslon, Cochin..... More
(Council Bluffs, IA: University of Maryland at College Park Libraries and the Yellow Barn Press, 1990). Quarto. vi, 32pp. One of 170 copies. With an original leaf tipped in. Text by noted Morris scholar William S. Peterson, who provides documentation in the form of correspondence and diary entries. Peterson tells..... More
Vancouver, B.C. Heavenly Monkey, 2019. Tall quarto. 18, (10)pp., + two tipped-in leaves. From an edition of 55 copies, this is one of twenty comprising the "Written" issue, featuring original calligraphy by Martin Jackson on the printed pages. Signed by Jackson on the colophon page. The text is Alfred W...... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1995. Quarto. lxxxiv, 242pp., leaf tipped in at rear. One of 100 copies of the special first edition distributed for the Friends of the Brigham Young University Library by W. Thomas Taylor. Specially bound in quarter goatskin, with an original leaf from the 1524 Colines edition..... More