New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 1957. Unpaginated preliminaries, 46p., coated paperstock throughout with scattered b&w exhibit photos in-text, booklet in 6x9 inch stapled printed blue wraps. A bottom-edge dampstain affects every leaf and cover margin, staples are rusting with migration, a fair-to-good copy. Has no markings of any kind, nor..... More

Cat.No: 184985

Springfield MA: Springfield Homestead Newspaper Company, Publishers, 1915. Unpaginated, perhaps 32p., printed on various stocks: a heavy (50#?) textured sort, a slick yellowish, and a tissue-guard-type; ads fore, aft and betwixt. 15.5x11 inch plainish printed wraps fastened with four staples as issued, staples begun to rust, spinefold terribly abraded and..... More

Cat.No: 164272

[Cambridge]: Stamperia del Cigno / Cygnet Press, 1928. unpaginated, 5.25x6.5 inches, twenty woodcuts from the 1497 edition, fine presswork on fine mouldmade paper, text in Italian, cloth-backed boards spine-titled gilt with a paper cover-label. Front board bears an inch-long scratch, signatures show gutter gaps but item even so is sound..... More

Cat.No: 132311

Santiago de Cuba: Editorial Oriente, 1990. 281p., illustrated hardcover, 7x4 inches, no dj. Illustrated history of the book around the world (illustrations are B&W, some are photos of mediocre clarity). Includes glossary. More

Cat.No: 123235

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1949. Hardcover. 245p., modernist elements abound, Armitage appears especially inspired by the composer. Hardbound in black cloth boards titled yellow, Armitage' endsheets, and portraits on inserted stock, his chapter heads in agressive colors, all enclosed in a dust jacket of unmistakeable design. Book itself..... More

Cat.No: 261496

Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1973. Hardcover. xvii, 124p., 5.75 x 8.75 inches, ex-library with ownership stamp on front paste-down endpaper else very good condition. No dj. More

Cat.No: 249841

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2006. Paperback. 38p., wraps, very good condition, 10x8 inches, illustrated of course, with a number rubricated for this edition (for colors other than red, the captions merely inform us). Review: George Cukor's, a Landacre wood-engraving, is one of the standouts; there are many..... More

Cat.No: 191199

Limburg und Frankfurt/main: Diözesan Museum und Dom Museum, 2007. Paperback. [30p.] 8.75x12.5 inches, text in German, illustrated with color plates, very good in sewn heavy card-stock covers with Frenchfolds. Monograph of the artist's works on tour with an introduction/appreciation by Dr. Heuser. German book artist born in 1953. More

Cat.No: 254887

Oakland: Never Mind the Press, 1983. [16p] 8.5x9.75 inches, illustrations, #22/33 hand-made and -bound poetry booklet in sewn wraps, lightly foxed and soiled. Hand numbered and signed by the poet/ DIY bookbinder in pencil. More

Cat.No: 132872

Venezia: Edizioni l'Altra Riva, 1989. Paperback. 251p., glazed alkaline paperstock throughout, profuse captioned exhibit photography and facsimiles in b&w, with a brief but lively color section, softbound in 11.5x8.5 inch color wraps. Extremities slightly abraded with corner-tips turned, top and tail rims show dots of card, two remainder stamps (to..... More

Cat.No: 263947

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1993. Hardcover. x, 62p., 10.25x14.25 inches, preface, introduction, plates, rubricated dates, very good bibliography limited to 500 copies in half-cloth over decorative boards with paper title spine label. More

Cat.No: 210742

Utrecht, Netherlands: Hes Publishers, 1989. Hardcover. xii, 518p., red cloth boards, illustrated including fold out drawing attached at rear, top and fore-edges foxed/stained, else very good condition. 38 contributions from rare booksellers and bibliographers celebrating the importance of Nico Israel. More

Cat.No: 266333

San Francisco: Printed at The Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1963. Hardcover. Unpaginated, a brief introduction followed by full-page color reproductions (details below), letterpress folio (14.5x10 inches) with openweave raw linen spine over brocaded cloth boards; luckily this exemplar lacks the woefully acidic kraft-paper dj originally furnished..... More

Cat.No: 231664