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, B.C.): Heavenly Monkey Editions, 2012. Square octavo. (45)pp. One of thirty copies. This third collaboration on the various aspects of color theory has been signed by both Cohen and Hodgson. The present work examines color as employed by seventeen occupations, including architect, illuminator, printer, opthamologist, dyer, and chemist. In..... More
(Vancouver, BC): Heavenly Monkey Editions, 2007. Octavo. 39 pp. One of thirty-five copies. Signed by the artists. With handcolored charts, diagrams, color wheels, and other illustrations by Barbara Hodgson. Titled after Goethe's and Schiller's "Die Temperamentrose," which describes color relationships as circular, the book consists of brief text descriptions of..... More
Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey Editions, 2011. Octavo. (57)pp. One of thirty copies, signed by the authors at the colophon. As playful as it is studious, Hodgson and Cohen's modern take on wunderkammern, or cabinets of curiosity, is an elegant collection on collecting. Through a variety of media - engravings, drawings..... 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, 2009. Quarto. 40pp., + 4ff. samples of paper made by Reg Lissel and 4ff. of specimens of the metal types held at Heavenly Monkey. One of forty copies. Five leaves from works influential to the press are bound in, dating from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Also..... More
Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey, 2000. 48mo. (14)pp. One of "a few dozen copies run through the office copier," this designation an acknowledgement of "the anachronistic nature" of the private press enterprise. A year's wrap-up from Milroy, with hand-colored illustrations throughout. Bound in handmade paper wrappers, fine. More
(Vancouver): Heavenly Monkey, (2008). Quarto. 13pp. One of five hors de commerce copies, with a piece of Doves Press ephemera printed on paper in place of the vellum leaf described on the title page. Hand-set and printed on dampened paper by Rollin Milroy. Bound and tooled by Claudia Cohen in..... 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, B.C.): Heavenly Monkey, 2010. Broadside measuring 22 by 15 inches. One of thirty copies—this copy marked "Position proof." Unsigned. With full-page illustration of a hermaphroditic figure, titled "The Botanist," and two smaller text figures of mushrooms, all from drawings by Atsushi Fukui. Sylvian was the former frontman for the..... 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 Heebner. Heebner's flags bear her five invocations to a distressed planet, with one prayer for each element: fire, earth, air, water, and aether. Written in..... More
Buffalo: Hillside Press, 1971. xv, 50pp. One of 300 copies. Illustrated with eighteen full-page plates. Contains a preface by Robert E. Massmann, as well as a life of Frank Irwin, co-proprietor of this well-known miniature book press, by Eleanor Irwin. Fine in red leatherette with gilt decoration to cover and..... More
Tilton, NH: Hillside Press, 1971. xix, 51pp. One of 350 copies. Illustrated with twenty-five full-page woodcuts and other illustrations. Contains a preface by Robert E. Massmann. Fine in green, gilt-stamped cloth. Bookplate. (Bradbury, p. 95). (2 3/8 by 2; 61x51mm). More
1971. Four original illustrations capturing scenes of protest. Two focus on the central figure of a young Black man, one who is raising his fist in a timeless and insistent gesture of power and belief, and the other who is pointing with a posture that suggests purpose and urgency. Another..... 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
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
(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
(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
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
(San Francisco & Santa Barbara: Paul Elder & Co., 1909). Quarto. Frenchfold. 22ff. First and only edition. Pictorial title page and colophon, decorated copyright page, and 19 illustrations by Robert Wilson Hyde, all printed in color and gold. Considered one of the highlights of Paul Elder's publications, this is one..... 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
(N.p.): Cat Skinner Press, 2006. Five etchings here evince learned and detailed attention to the fine shapes and shadows of plants. At the colophon, Briony Morrow-Cribs identifies each plant: lilium martagon, anthoxanthum odoratum, liriodendron tulipifera, tigridia meleagris, and dianthus superbus cardneri. Octavo. (7)ff loose. One of twenty copies, signed and..... More
