The Letters of Carl Sandburg.
NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1968). Small quarto. xiv, 577pp. Edited by Herbert Mitgang. Fine in black cloth, with near fine dust jacket showing wear to edges and hinges. More
In their broadest sense, the book arts are at the core of our inventory. To be sure, the category encompasses the specialties that you see on our homepage, such as Fine Printing, Fine Binding, and Illustrated Books. However, it also includes such things as writing books and calligraphy, fore-edge paintings, books on papermaking, and leaf books.
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NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1968). Small quarto. xiv, 577pp. Edited by Herbert Mitgang. Fine in black cloth, with near fine dust jacket showing wear to edges and hinges. More
Santa Cruz: Peter & Donna Thomas, 1991. (ii), (4)ff. One of 150 copies. Title page bears a postage stamp portrait of Saroyan, and what follows, shown through watermarks backed in salmon paper, is a quote from him declaiming the significance of fine paper. Bound in full mauve paper with title..... More
Firenze: A. Pini, (c. 1935). Quarto. A set of twelve sheets, unbound as issued, showing a variety of ornamental alphabets. Printed in numerous colors including red, blue, green, and gold. Several of the sheets appear to be printed by chromolithography, with exquisitely rendered colors. Includes the original parchment paper chemise..... More
Rochester Hills, MI: Erin K. Schmidt, 2016. Octavo. One of four copies, signed by the artist. A sculptural project, crafted as a crocheted baby blanket, unfinished, never used. Text printed on pink ribbion, tied in succession to divide the blanket into thirds and wrap it into an enclosure, describes the..... 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
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
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
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1941. Folio. (10)ff. From an edition of 75 copies printed for David Magee at the Grabhorn Press, this is copy number nineteen of 27 deluxe copies signed by Magee, with a stunning vellum leaf from a sixteenth-century Italian Gradual bound in. The leaf, which has been..... More
Newark, VT: Janus Press, 2011. Twenty-four 16mo. chapbooks, housed in quarto trifold portfolio. Each chapbook (8)ff. One of 120 copies, signed by Peter Schumann, whose charcoal-and-ink drawings illustrate the interiors and whose crayon drawings grace the covers. Here, Schumann explores the format of Latin American cordells, chapbooks traditionally sold by..... More
Chicago: Black Cat Press, (1961). 23, (3)pp., frenchfold. One of 300 copies. From the German by Albert Henry Allen. In full leather. This is one of a few with the incorrect title stamped on the spine: "Return of the Lost Book." A fine copy of the second book of the..... More
Mission, British Columbia: Barbarian Press, 2017. 24mo. (79)pp., + six loose plates. One of 60 deluxe copies. Engravings by John Lawrence printed largely from wood, with some detailed spots in larger engravings from polymer plates, all in the Press' customary assortment of bright colors. Texts from over forty songs and..... More
Greenbrae, CA: Allen Press, 1988. Small quarto. 136pp. One of ten copies bound in full vellum by Jenifer Lindsay. Handsomely illustrated with black & white drawings by Michèle Forgeois. Calligraphic variations on the letters "R" and "J" by Mark Livingston are printed in the margins in lush purple, orange, green..... More
Gambier, OH: Unit IV Arts, 2021. 16mo. (10)pp. One of eighteen copies, signed by the artist. Sheffield's visual and poetic meditation on "lostness" stems from an article on Lost Person Behavior, the science of applying profiles to know how and where to search for someone, to address the pervasive and..... More
NY: Robbin Ami Silverberg, 2021. Four volumes. One of a variable edition of twelve copies, signed by the artist. Silverberg's assemblage contends with religion, sacrifice, humanity, and language, explicating these profound concepts with careful craftsmanship and attention to the necessary experience of the reader. She freights the work with both..... More
(The Netherlands): 1986. Large quarto. Twenty-three tabbed-in samples of marbled papers in full sheets, folded and separated by interstitial pages. According to the compiler's typed introduction, the papers included here range from early 19th century machine-made paper to handmade contemporary examples from Karli Frigge, Geert van Daal, and others. Bound..... More
London: Arc Artist Editions, 2022. Octavo. (37)ff. One of twenty-six copies, signed by the artist, Haein Song. Sixteen cyanotype prints of paper foldings (jong-e-jeop-ki in Korean) give particular attention to methods of interlocking, and of opening and closing. The sixteen foldings were exposed to UV light for different lengths of..... More
London: Karsten Schubert, 1991. Small quarto. 34pp., + six interleaved colored aquatints by Hodgkin, heightened with tempera. One of 243 copies of the deluxe edition, signed by both Sontag and Hodgkin. Sontag's fictionalized (or fictional-ish) narrative of a particular constellation of individuals in the midst of the AIDS crisis has..... More
London: Edward Arnold, (1961). First edition. One of 500 copies. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Spielmann's useful catalogue is among the most important reference tools in the miniature book field. Bound in patterned, quarter-cloth boards, gilt-lettered to the spine. Near fine in good dust wrapper, showing some foxing and..... More
London: Nine Elms Press, 1984. Octavo. 17pp. One of 500 copies. Signed by the author. Bound in Morris "Willow" pattern paper. Fine. More
(Houston, TX: ImpPress, 1965). Small octavo. (12)ff. One of 150 copies, signed by the artist and printer, Dugald Stermer. A quirky type specimen book printed on various colors of paper, in many colors of ink. With full-page illustrations, including a cartoonish frontispiece of a man with a printing press in..... More
Cincinnati, OH: Mosaic Press, 1981. (48)pp. One of 380 copies, this signed by Miriam Irwin, the publisher. An illustrated history of Christmas customs. Fine in illustrated cloth. Edges speckled in red and green. (15/16 by 3/4; 26x20mm). More
(Colorado Springs): Press at Colorado College, 1996. Tall octavo. (56)pp. From an edition of 125 copies, this is one of twenty-five on Rives Lightweight, although not designated as such at the colophon. Signed by the editor at her Introduction, and by the director of the Press, Jim Trissel, at the..... More
St. Louis: Castle Square Opera Co., 1900. Lace-trimmed handkerchief printed on one side only. Issued to commemorate the twenty-seventh week of opera in English by the Castle Square Company, this program was printed for "Souvenir Week," which ran from December 10th to the 15th. A key piece of text from..... More
Boston, MA: Brier Hill Press, 2013. Quarto. Two booklets, both (16)pp., and two portfolios of prints. One of 125 copies, signed by the printer, Robert Strossi. The second booklet in this copy is identical to the first, but not numbered or signed and with frontispiece and caption directly printed onto..... More
Harper Woods: Adagio Press, 1969. Folio. 54pp. With a Preface by Strouse and a Note by the Printer, Leonard F. Bahr. From an edition of 329, this is one of seventy-five copies with a Bible leaf on handmade paper and a quarto leaf on vellum. In this copy, the paper..... More