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.
Read more about one of the book arts, Fore-edge Painting
(Newtown, Montgomeryshire): Gregynog Press, 1937. Quarto. 157(8)pp. One of 200 copies. Translated from the French text by Joan Evans. Printed in red and black, with four- and five-line initials throughout in red and pale blue, designed by Alfred J. Fairbank. The first text page, starting with three sizes of Poliphilus..... More
(Vancouver, BC): Heavenly Monkey, 2020. Octavo. 112, (2) + 8 proofs bound-in at rear. One of fifteen deluxe copies, bound by Claudia Cohen in full limp vellum, with a matching box and the addended proofs. Initials throughout are simplified variations of Griffo's type for Ottaviano Petrucci's 1513 Paulina de recta..... More
Paris: Three Star Books, 2018. Square folio. (50)ff. One of forty copies, signed by the artist, A.A. Bronson. Fifty identical tearaway posters of “AIDS,” using an appropriative design based on Robert Indiana’s 1967 “LOVE.” The relation of AIDS to love, both conceptually and artistically, and its adaptation into a repetitive..... More
(Berkeley & San Antonio): Flying Fish Press & Coyote Bones Press, 2021. Small quarto. Unpaginated. One of 88 copies. Signed by the artists, Julie Chen and Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder, below the colophon, which is located on the inner rear panel of the box. The result of a long-distance collaboration in..... More
Chicago: Starshaped Press, 2019. 24mo. One of fifty copies. A single folded sheet; folded, the recto provides an synopsis of Farrell's fraught summer of 2018, when her daughter underwent nearly eight weeks of chest radiation treatments to stem the growth of tumors around her lungs. The side effects were devastating..... 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, BC: HM Editions, 2015. Small octavo. 16, (6)pp., + 11 plates, + (4)pp. One of six A. P. copies. Signed by the contributors: Barbara Hodgson (author, illustrator, and designer), Rollin Milroy (printer), and Claudia Cohen (binder). An exploration, in theory and practice, of the intersection of art and science..... More
(Vancouver): HM Editions, 2019. Square octavo. (64)ff. One of six A.P. copies, signed by Hodgson and Cohen at the colophon. An astonishing compilation of designs representing a study of patterns as individual specimens. Conceived as a successor to Hodgson and Cohen's other productions, including Decorating Paper (2015) and Folding Paper..... 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
(Vancouver): Heavenly Monkey, 2008. 20ff.,+ 4 tipped-in paper samples. Second edition. One of 50 copies. Printed to mark the tenth anniversary of its original publication, El Autobus Azul was the first book printed by Rollin Milroy, and this new edition adds a Foreword by him. Four samples of papers collected..... More
Vancouver: Heavenly Monkey, 2003. 6ff., + 30pp. accordionfold strip. One of fifty copies signed and numbered by the author. Initial signature includes a brief introductory essay by Jim Rimmer of the Pie Tree Press and Typefoundry about the new typeface showcased here. The type is called Duensing Titling, named after..... More
Santa Barbara, CA: Simplemente Maria Press, 2010. Quarto. (13)ff. One of sixty copies. Signed by the artist at colophon, as well as on verso of each pigment print. The prints have been hand-touched with watercolor and are individually enclosed in over-beaten abaca paper folios on which twelve poems written by..... 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
(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 Heebner. Heebner's flags bear her five invocations to a distressed planet, with one prayer for each element: fire, earth, air, water, and aether. The unification..... More
(Vancouver): Heavenly Monkey, (2015). Two large quarto volumes bound as one. (55); (50)ff. From an edition of thirty-six, this is one of six contributor's copies 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..... More
(Vancouver): Heavenly Monkey Editions, 2017. Quarto. 81pp. From an edition of thirty-six, this is one of six contributor's copies signed by the two authors. Binder Claudia Cohen and book designer Barbara Hodgson present yet another stunning collaboration on paper. Following in the pattern of Decorating Paper and Cutting Paper, Folding..... More
(Paris: Perrigot-Masure, c. 1922). Framed sheet of handmade paper with a chiaroscuro watermark portrait of Dard Hunter as a young man, based on a photograph by Clara Ragna Johnson. To the left, his name is lettered in the style characteristic of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Sheets of this handmade..... More
(Salem: Colonial Society, 1939). First separate edition, which consisted of fewer than 100 copies. A single folded sheet with one page of type, printed by Dard Hunter II at the MIT Paper Museum Press. Inscribed by Frost to Martin K. Howes at foot of poem. Frost read this delightful piece..... 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
NY: Pynson Printers, 1936. One of 370 copies printed on Shogun paper and signed by the author and the publisher. Dard Hunter was granted access to even the most obscure papermaking locations, being one of the first foreigners many of the mills had ever encountered. This placed him on the..... More
Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1981; 1983. Two folio volumes. 198; (131)pp. One of 150 copies signed by the author. Volume I contains numerous specimen woodcuts, title pages, advertisements, letterheads, and color photographs tipped or bound in, all showing various aspects of Hunter's non-papermaking work, including enamel, stained glass, and his..... More
(Vienna): Jugend & Volk Wien Verlag, (1969). Oblong quarto. 210pp. One of 99 copies, signed and numbered by the artist, Wolfgang Hutter. Bound-in are three original lithographs, also signed and numbered by Hutter. An essay on the style of the Austrian neosurrealist artist, followed by a catalog of his works..... More
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Boston: Bromer Booksellers, 2011. Octavo. 408pp. First trade edition. Aun Aprendo: A Comprehensive Bibliography of the Writings of Aldous Leonard Huxley is the culmination of over twenty years of research, fact-finding, and detective work undertaken by David J. Bromer. With over 2,000 entries, Aun Aprendo is the most current and..... More
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Boston: Bromer Booksellers, 2011. Octavo. 408pp. One of 50 deluxe copies signed by the bibliographer, of which 40 are available for sale. The deluxe edition includes a previously unpublished poem by Huxley dedicated to his first wife Maria. Aun Aprendo: A Comprehensive Bibliography of the Writings of Aldous Leonard Huxley..... 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
