NY: D. Appleton & Co., 1886. Quarto. (6)ff. Illustrated with six three-quarter-page chromolithographed images depicting animals, such as cats, horses, and hogs, at their customary activities. Underneath the images are a variety of lessons on counting and vocabulary, all in Spanish. Twelve further lessons appear in between, increasing in difficulty..... More
NY: 6x9 Press, 1957. Oblong octavo. 12 ff., frenchfold. One of an unspecified, but undoubtedly small edition. Illustrated with nine hand-colored linocuts by Chwast. With an Introduction by Dachine Rainer, the anarchist writer whose novella, A Room at the Inn, would be published the following year. An early work by..... More
Omaha: Abattoir Editions, 1979. Octavo. 102pp. One of 250 copies. Translated by Charles Martin, Catullus' ribald and passionate poems have been set in Joanna and Romulus types and printed on Rives paper by Harry Duncan and Mark Watson. Bound in cloth-backed boards covered in marbled papers, with a paper spine..... More
(Boston): Boston Public Library/Society of Printers, 2001. Octavo. First edition. One of 500 copies. Thirty-two pages of color and black & white illustrations from photographs. The story of Dorothy Abbe's contributions to printing, book design, typography, photography, writing, and teaching is gathered from her archives at the Boston Public Library..... More
(London/Andoversford): Acorn Press/Whittington Press, 1975. Oblong quarto. (28)ff., frenchfold. One of 60 copies signed by the artist, Hellmuth Weissenborn. Illustrated with twenty-seven linocuts printed in two colors. Weissenborn's colorful alphabet is accompanied by quotations about various aspects of printing from philosophical and literary luminaries, such as Byron, Nietschze, and Southey..... More
NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2001. Oblong quarto. 191pp. A centennial celebration of Ansel Adams, photographer and visual architect of the American West. Published in concert with exhibitions of Ansel's work in San Francisco, Chicago, London, Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York. Bound in Halflinnen fabric by Roswell Bookbinding of..... More
Philadelphia: Taylor & Hessey, 1981. Octavo. 28pp. One of 400 copies. A humorous analysis of the travel agency industry, rendered even more amusing when read by those of us in the twenty-first century. Fine in plain wrappers. More
Erwinna, PA: 1955. One-and-a-half pages on a single sheet of Colophon stationery, folded into fourths. Dated 16 June 1955 and addressed to Paul Bennett, Adler opens with an apology of sorts, noting that "I am not able to say what my address will be in another two weeks." The reason..... More
NY: American Jewish Historical Society, 2001. Small quarto. 60pp., plus sixteen plates housed in separate sleeve. One of 600 copies. Adler's sixteen woodcuts, crafted in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, offer a harrowing and personal look at life, and death, inside the Nazi camps. The darkness of the images..... More
Japan: Miyako Akai, 2008. (62)pp. From an edition of 100 copies, this is one of 90 regular copies. An original story about a winter trip written in Japanese by Miyako Akai, who also designed the book, with editing and translation into English by Larry Seidman. Circles have been cut out..... More
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Paris: c. 1922. Original illustration in red and black ink and pencil on paper. 11 7/8 by 9 1/2 in. This drawing first appeared in Fifty Drawings by Alastair, published by Knopf in 1925, and a similar version was used in the Paris edition of Wilde's text published the same..... More
Marcham, Oxford: Alembic Press, 1995. (20)pp. One of 110 copies. Six woodcuts by Brett, printed in burgundy and black. These punctuate the Te Deum hymn, which is tidily presented using type from St. Mary's Press, the private press of the Community of St. Mary the Virgin). The music rests on..... More
Oxford: Alembic Press, 1990. 47pp. One of 100 copies printed by Claire Bolton at her Alembic Press. A delightful collection of type ornaments handset and printed in 5-point Modern Italic and illustrated in several colors. Bound in marbled papers backed in orange cloth. Very light wear to spine, otherwise fine..... More
Kentfield, CA: Allen Press, 1953. Octavo. lxpp. One of 160 copies. Printed in blue and black, with title and four wood engraved illustrations by Mallette Dean, each beautifully handcolored by Dorothy Allen. Spine faded, else a fine copy in French marbled paper boards. Prospectus laid-in. More
Kentfield, CA: Allen Press, 1956. Small quarto. 90pp. One of 200 copies. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings by Hughes-Stanton. The images depict the various supernatural forces that hold sway over the journey, such as Chance, the Fates, and the Elements. Printed on Japanese vellum, and bound in marbled papers over..... More
Kentfield, CA: Allen Press, 1974. Large quarto. (86)pp. One of 140 copies. Illustrated with a woodcut portrait of St. Anthony and numerous woodcuts throughout the text. Flaubert's text, based on a fifteenth-century Persian motif, is translated by Lafcadio Hearn, and edited by Francis Carmody. Minor glue offsetting to endleaf gutters..... More
San Francisco: Allen Press, 1947. Octavo. (98)pp. One of 350 copies. Designed and printed by Lewis and Dorothy Allen. Illustrated with five halftones. An early Allen Press title, this marks their third consecutive commission from the Book Club of California. Minor rubbing to extremities, else near fine copy in cloth-backed..... More
Hillsborough, CA: Allen Press, 1948. Octavo. 181pp. One of 200 copies printed by Lewis and Dorothy Allen, who operated at the time as the L-D Allen Press. With decorative headpieces by Mallette Dean, and illuminated initial capitals by the Allens. Chosen as one of AIGA's Fifty Books of the year..... More
Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France: Allen Press, 1952. Octavo. 60pp. One of 300 copies. With pochoir decorations by Ray Bethers. An early publication of the Press, when they were known as the L-D Allen Press. This was the first Book Club of California title to be printed outside the United States. Fine in..... More
San Francisco: Allen Press, 1946. Quarto. 38pp., (16)ff. One of 300 copies, printed by Lewis and Dorothy Allen for the Book Club of California. With title and decorations by Mallette Dean. Contains a 30-page facsimile of the diary. Very fine in green, brown, and white patterned boards. Together with: Teggart..... More
Boston: (Riverside Press), 1900. Octavo. (iv), 92pp. Although not stated, this is one of 250 copies printed, of which 150 were for sale. Illustrated with black & white images of the two cats by C. E. Allen. Laid into this copy are the original pen-and-ink drawings for all eight illustrations..... More
Wein (Vienna): Weidman, J., (1886). (68)pp. Begins with eleven portraits of famous women, including the ballerina Fanny Elssler, the opera singer Amalie Materna, and the actress Charlotte Wolter, each accompanied by a caption. The rest of the almanac provides charts of saints' days, a list accounting the number of years..... More
Neutitschein: L. V. Enders'schen K.-A. (c. 1917). (26)pp. A miniature German calendar, printed in red and black. Housed in a dark green leather portfolio, decorated with a gilt-stamped four-leaf clover to the upper cover. Loose in the portfolio, and pencil markings to two pages, else fine. (2 7/8 by 1..... More
(20)ff. One of the copies in which the pages have been folded vertically and bound into "finger" format. Entirely engraved. Contains the usual lists of royals, officers of state, bank days, Saints' Days, eclipses, and the like. Bound in full dark green morocco. Very fine in a matching slipcase that..... More
London: Company of Stationers, 1820. (24)pp. One engraving of "The London Institution, Moorfields," which spans four pages. The almanac's calendar records the times of sunrise and sunset, as well as various saints' days and term times for academic institutions. The volume also provides a table of the reigns of the..... More
