Davis, CA: Library Associates, University Library, University of California, Davis, 1979. Two copies of a poster designed by Richard Bigus announcing the "Five Fine Printers" exhibit and related events at the Memorial Union Art Gallery at the University of California, Davis. The exhibit ran from February 22 to April 10... More about Five Fine Printers posters, with exhibition catalogue
Dallas: Bird and Bull Press, 1983. Octavo. 31pp. One of 275 copies. Previously unpublished letters dealing with the row between T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker. With a Foreword by Michael Hornby. Quarter brown cloth with brown paper over boards and gilt titling to upper cover. Spine somewhat toned, else fine. More about The Start of a Worry
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 about A Testament of Freedom. Ideas Worth Fighting For
Munich: Bremer Presse, 1931. Quarto. 158pp. One of 250 copies. A collection of songs by von der Vogelweide, a medieval poet and minstrel, whose songs are widely regarded as the pinnacle of the era's German love lyric. He is also responsible for using poetry to political ends, and was the... More about Walther von der Vogelweide
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1964. Quarto. 84pp + 21 inserted plates. One of 300 copies. Signed by Cornell twice at the colophon and under each illustration, and by Leonard Baskin, who designed the book. The plates, printed on blue paper, bear twenty-one different portraits of the major players in Babeuf's... More about The Defense of Gracchus Babeuf Before the High Court of Vendome
(Minneapolis): Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 2005. Tall quarto. (48)pp. From an edition of 226, this is one of 26 lettered copies, specially bound and with tipped-in editioned prints by five Minnesota artists. An anthology of original poetry from twelve Minnesota writers, including Robert Bly, Adrian Louis, Susan Steger Welsh... More about There is No Other Way to Speak
(Mattapoiset, MA: Busyhaus Publications, 1983). Small oblong octavo. 65pp. One of 200 copies bound in hardcover. Illustrated with photographs of the artists, tipped-in paper samples, and woodcuts by Michael McCurdy. Introduction by Don Guyot. Apart from the description of the work of the twelve artists, among whom are Faith Harrison... More about American Decorative Papermakers. The Work & Specimens of Twelve Craft Artists
Oxford & New Castle, DE: Plough Press/Oak Knoll Books, 1990. Octavo. 85pp. Contains frontispiece and eighteen tipped-in samples of marbled paper, and numerous line illustrations. The samples represent the work of Don Guyot, Nedim Somnez, Karli Frigge, and others. A selection of texts ranging from 1653 to 1912, with modern... More about Marbling Methods and Receipts from Four Centuries. With Other Instructions Useful to Bookbinders
Somerville, MA: Firefly Press, 1991. Octavo. xix, (39)pp., + (6)ff. of samples, four of marbling and four of gilding on paper, silk, velvet, and leather. One of 250 copies. Signed by Wolfe and the printer, John Kristensen. A reproduction of a Dutch bookbinding manual, with translation, Introduction, and notes by... More about Geheimen der Boekbinderij. Secrets of Bookbinding. An Anonymous 19th Century Dutch Bookbinding...
Boston: Southworth Press, 1931. Octavo. xxx, 214pp. One of twenty-five copies printed on vellum. Signed by Braithwaite, Hugh Francis Blunt, who wrote the Foreword, and Ralph Adams Cram, who wrote the Introduction. A hand-colored portrait of Mary Emelda Curley, the wife of James M. Curley, mayor of Boston, appears opposite... More about Our Lady's Choir. A Contemporary Anthology of Verse by Catholic Sisters
Princeton: Pynson Printers, 1983. Two square 32mo. volumes + pamphlet. (4); (16); (12)pp. One of fifty copies. Signed by the printers, Sarah Christ and Scott Strang. Contains twenty-four hand-colored wood engravings printed from the original antique blocks, which were used to illustrate one of the earliest American editions of the... More about Two Tales from the Arabian Nights
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 about The Checklist of Fantastic Literature
(Mount Vernon, NY: Artists & Writers Protest Inc., 1967). Folio. (28)pp. One of 100 deluxe copies. A collection of eighteen poems by writers who contributed their work as a form of opposition to the Vietnam War. The collection was edited by the artist Jack Sonenberg and contains works by Denise... More about Artists and Writers Protest Against the War in Viet Nam: Poems
Boston: Southworth Press, 1931. Octavo. xxx, 214pp. One of fifty copies printed on Kelmscott handmade paper. Signed by Braithwaite, Hugh Francis Blunt, who wrote the Foreword, and Ralph Adams Cram, who wrote the Introduction. A broad collection of poems, largely on religious subjects, some of which reimagine often-male realms of... More about Our Lady's Choir: A Contemporary Anthology of Verse by Catholic Sisters
