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
Vancouver: Heavenly Monkey, 2004. (2)pp, (26)ff. One of fifty copies. A tribute to the little understood technique of letterpress printing, favoring the more common terms over the obscure ones. David Clifford writes: "This little book grew from my fondness for playing with type and multi-colour printing, and a desire to..... More
Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey Editions, 2013. Quarto. (2), (9), (15), (4)ff., From an edition of thirty-six, 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 authors' personal..... 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
Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey, 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): Heavenly Monkey, 2017. 16mo. (30)ff., printed rectos only. An artist's proof of an eventual edition of thirty-six. 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 majuscule..... 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, (2008). Quarto. 13pp. One of five hors de commerce copies, with a sample of Doves Press ephemera printed on paper. Hand-set and printed on dampened paper by Rollin Milroy. Bound and tooled by Claudia Cohen in a limp paper vellum case with gilt rules. This is the..... More
Vancouver: Heavenly Monkey, 2001. Folio. 38pp., + sample leaves. From an edition of forty, this is one of five contributor's copies, signed by Robert Reid and by Reid's collaborator, Takao Tanabe, at the end of his Preface. This is the first folio book printed by Rollin Millroy's fine press. It..... More
(Vancouver, BC): Heavenly Monkey, 2007. Octavo. (8)ff. From an edition of fifty, all signed by the author, this is copy number one of ten containing a frontispiece linocut portrait of the author by Andrea Taylor, signed and numbered by the artist, as well as a photo etching of Reid from..... 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
Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey, 2004. Square small octavo. (18)ff. One of thirty copies, signed by the author/artist, Kara Sievewright, at the colophon. A collection of short stories originally published as zines. Each story—"A Small Shimmer of Things," "The Girl with the Mask of a Crow," and "The City of the..... More
(Vancouver, BC): Heavenly Monkey, 2020. 16mo. (18)ff. One of thirty-six copies. Signed by the calligrapher. A celebration of books and letters, with each sheet printed from reproductions of William Rueter's calligraphy with polymer plates, then with embellishments added by hand. Quotations on the sustaining power of books on each sheet..... 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. Heebner's flags bear her five invocations to a distressed planet, with one prayer for each element: fire, earth, air, water, and aether. Written..... More
Letchworth, Hertfordshire: G. W. Russell and Son, (n.d.). 16mo. 16pp. An introductory pamphlet to the process of marbling paper, with four line drawings of a young marbler at work, and two samples by William Chapman of Douglas Cockerell and Son. Number five in a series of pamphlets about the art..... More
Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University, 2008. Folio. 79pp. One of 250 printed in softback at Northend Creative Print in Sheffield. Vibrantly illustrated with various papers from the collection from a variety of locations and eras. Preface by Colin Harris and Foreword by Mirjam Foot. Covers replicate marbled paper from Tirzah (Garwood)..... 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), 1936. Quarto. (36)pp., + 25ff. plates and specimens. One of 115 copies printed on Hunter's handmade paper and signed by the author. Hunter was the first Occidental traveler to visit the Niltongkum family, who had been "making paper by hand along the small canals of Southern..... 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
