NY: Doubleday, 1958. First edition. Gorey's fourth book, "A Moral Tale about Nothing-at-All." Signed by Gorey. An uncommonly fine copy in illustrated boards and with original dust wrapper, with three brief tears along edges. (Toledano A4a). More
(N.p.): Fantod Press, 1973. First edition. One of 500 sets of three books: The Disrespectful Summons, The Abandoned Sock, and The Lost Lions. All volumes signed by Gorey. Fine in original publisher's envelope, which shows some wear and soiling. (Toledano A52b). More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1928. Folio. (iv), 157pp. One of 150 copies. Adorned with thirty-four decorative hand-illuminated initials, manuscript paragraph marks in red and blue, and thirty-two woodcuts derived from early editions and manuscripts of the text, all crafted by Valenti Angelo. This copy boasts coloration to all but two..... More
Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1931. Quarto. (iii), 146pp. One of 250 copies. Illustrated with thirty-seven wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker and wood-engraved initials by William McCance, her husband. This title was Parker's first collaboration with the Press. Together with Gertrude Hermes and Blair Hughes-Stanton, Parker helped to usher in a...... More
Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1931. Octavo. (10), 25, (3)pp. From an edition of 250 copies, this is one of twenty-five printed on Japanese vellum and bound after a design by Blair Hughes-Stanton himself. It marks Hughes-Stanton's first contribution to the Press' run of special bindings, and the advent of a shift..... More
Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey Editions, 2013. Large quarto. (2), (9), (15), (4)ff. From an edition of thirty-six copies, this is one of six contributor's copies, signed by the authors, Claudia Cohen and Barbara Hodgson. Illustrated throughout with many examples of cut-paper art from around the world, both selected from the..... More
(Vancouver): Heavenly Monkey, (2015). Two large quarto volumes. (55); (50)ff. From an edition of thirty-six copies, this is one of thirty, signed by the two authors. Binder Claudia Cohen and book designer Barbara Hodgson, makers of The WunderCabinet, Cutting Paper, and a four-part series on color, come together once again..... More
(Vancouver): Heavenly Monkey, 2017. 16mo. (30)ff., printed rectos only. An artist's proof of an eventual edition of thirty-six copies. Signed by the calligrapher at the colophon. Inspired by a previous manuscript by calligrapher Francesca Lohmann, this publication is a calligraphic ABC consisting of twenty-six designs. The sequence begins with a...... More
(Santa Barbara, CA): Simplemente Maria Press, 2020. Octavo volume and strand of ten paper prayer flags. (22)ff., + 20ff. One of twenty copies, signed by the artist. Mary Heebner's flags bear her five invocations to a distressed planet, with one prayer for each element: fire, earth, air, water, and aether..... More
(Chillicothe): Mountain House Press, 1937. Quarto. (82)pp. One of only 125 copies "due to the limited number of original specimens available," numbered and signed by the author. "The present volume deals not only with the use of paper in Chinese sacrificial offerings, but a part of the book, with illustrations..... More
1928. Small octavo. (5)ff. An illuminated manuscript on vellum of the Apostle Paul's famous discourse on love, as written in his epistle to the Corinthians. Holtz's hand evinces calligraphic sharpness via his Gothic letterforms and the outlines of his initials, and his eye for color and illumination shows careful study..... More
(N.p. 1910. 16mo. (ii), 60, (4)pp. A lush hand-embellished prayer book, with an array of finely executed original illustrations, including three full-page compositions and around fifty smaller miniatures representing architectural, pastoral, theological, and ecological subjects. Each spread receives a unique border, illuminated and using a vast variety of colors, all..... More
Frankfurt, Berlin and Vienna: Propyläen, 1973. Folio. (30)ff., + 26 plates laid in. One of sixty copies. Each plate is signed and numbered by the artist. The twenty-six color etchings each depict a letter of the alphabet in a bizarre, fantastic, and sometimes grotesque manner fitting the excerpt from Joyce's..... More
Newark, VT: Janus Press, 2002. Quarto text volume, plus sixteen 32mo. samples. 142pp.; samples variously paginated. One of 200 copies, signed by Claire Van Vliet. A trade copy of Van Vliet and Elizabeth Steiner's how-to manual on creating non-adhesive book structures is accompanied by miniature models of each of the..... More
(Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1897). Quarto. 91pp. One of 300 copies on paper. Illustrated with two full-page woodcuts by Edward Burne-Jones and numerous ornamental initials and borders by William Morris. With pale blue foliate initials. This was one of only two books printed in three colors at the Kelmscott Press, in..... More
(Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893). Octavo. 72pp. One of 500 copies, printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. This is the second issue, with four cancellans leaves replacing pp. 15-16, 19-20, 25-26, and 69-70. With wide leaf and blossom borders to the opening page and to the title-page, which is..... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, 2010. Folio. 37pp. One of 500 copies, signed by the photographer, Robert Frank, and David Armitage, who contributed the Afterword, with a frontispiece photogravure of Frank's "Jay, New York" (1954). Frank's photograph, on its surface, captures the nostalgia and national pride characteristic of 1950s America. A...... More
Columbus, OH: Logan Elm Press, 2010. Folio. (151)pp. One of twenty-six copies, signed by the contributors below the colophon. Each of the twelve chapters begins with a drypoint monoprint menu, drawn and painted by Anthony H. Rice, with calligraphy by Andy Barkus, followed by a six-line initial by Ann Alaïa..... More
London: Tilt & Bogue, (c. 1835). 191pp. Contains forty-eight wood engravings illustrating Aesop's fables, including two portraits of Aesop himself. Bondy writes of Tilt's Handbooks series: "their apparently everlasting popularity has resulted in making it increasingly difficult to find complete copies of these pleasing little volumes." Bound in half mottled..... More
(New Britain, CT): Robert E. Massmann, 1980. (6); (6); (10)ff., frenchfold. One of 68 copies printed at Art Press. Fascinating in form and content, this book addresses two great papermakers in an octagonally-shaped book bound as a triple dos-à-dos. The first part is about Hunter, the second about Elliott. The..... More
(France): 1883. (38)ff. Miniature-sized illuminated manuscript on vellum of a Mass for the Virgin Mary. The volume begins with a full-page miniature of the Virgin and her husband Joseph surrounding and blessing a church official, in the company of an awed congregation. The manuscript itself is replete with elaborate borders..... More
(Riverside, CA): Bo Press, 2012. (22)ff. According to the printer, one of perhaps half a dozen copies, so limited because of the sheer workload required of its construction. The most famous scenes of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" are here rendered as a three-dimensional toy theater, capturing the imagination of..... More
Guildford: Circle Press, 1986. Small folio. (36)pp., french-fold. From an edition of 80 copies, this one is designated "A.P." Signed by the illustrator, Ronald King, and the poet, Roy Fisher. Illustrated in color with numerous photo-collage vignettes, seven tableaux from drawings, and twelve movable puppet designs by King. The puppets..... More
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1973. Two octavo volumes. 278; 120pp. One of 160 copies on handmade paper. Volume One contains the text from the Veronese Edition of 1479, printed by Giovanni Alvise. The Fables are in Latin verse, followed by the Italian of Accio Zucco. The 68 beautiful woodcuts are newly..... More
NY: Pynson Printers, 1939. Quarto. 134pp. One of 370 copies, signed by Hunter and by Elmer Adler, the printer. Contains 85 photogravure illustrations, many from photographs taken by Hunter, and twenty-seven paper samples tipped-in. In this companion to his "Papermaking Pilgrimage to Japan, Korea and China," Dard Hunter highlights the..... More
