Sacramento: Printed by various members for The Club, 1989. 14 folio leaves of Mohawk Superfine folded to quarto brochures, each "printed by a club member who uses letterpress methods" and all enclosed in a nice 12x9 inch folder of titled boards and a marbled spine. No markings, no wear, a...... More
Cat.No: 210141
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
London: The Arts Council, 1961. Paperback. 32p., Curwen presswork on glazed alkaline paperstock, illustrated with b&w exhibit photography, oversize paperpack in 11x8.5 bordered wraps staple-fastened. Cover is faintly dusty and along the spinefold there are mild discolorations (foxing? toning? we're unsure), aside from that a sound unmarked copy. More
Cat.No: 260654
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
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1999. [23p] 7.25x9.75 inches, illustrated with duotone photos, decorations by Eric Gill and others, very good limited edition of 1100 copies bound in original sewn, stiff, gray, decorated wraps. A memorial publication for the book collector and publisher of Black Vine Press, (1908-1999). Designed..... More
Cat.No: 86563
[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
![Beautiful Trash: The Lost Library [signed]. Adrian Arias](/pictures/thumb/242048.jpg?v=1567651124)
San Francisco: Mariposa Blanca, 2012. Paperback. 57p., 8.5x8.5 inches, color plates reproducing the artist's miniature Book-Objects, personal inscription signed by the srtist/pot on the title page, hand numbered #234/333 copies on last page, lightly-used limited first edition paperback in blue pictorial wraps. An imaginary book from 2086 about the discoveries..... More
Cat.No: 242048
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
Berkeley: Arif Press, 1972. [14p.], one of 350 examples printed on Wookey Hole mould made paper in sewn wrappers, very good. Originally printed in 1900. More
Cat.No: 260877
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
Binghamton: University Art Gallery - State University of New York, 1969. Pamphlet. 31p., a dozen or so b&w reproductions and an author portrait photo, text consists of several checklists and a short bibliography. Softbound in 10x8 inch stapled pamphlet wraps, covers have picked up a little handling grime, has bumped..... More
Cat.No: 198659
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
New York: J. F. Taylor & Company, 1903. Hardcover. xvi, 231p., a few facsimile cuts, these illustrations and all text printed on Japan vellum with large-paper margins; hardbound in 10x8 inch papered boards gilt and quarter-vellum spine with titling and rulings gilt. Number 25 of fifty copies so printed and..... More
Cat.No: 210579
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
San Francisco & London: printed at Cambridge University Press with plates printed at Curwen Press for The Book Club of California, 1978. Hardcover. viii, 104p., 9.75x14.75 inches, introduction, index, illustrated with 16 plates, fine first edition limited to 500 copies bound in marbled boards and quarter cloth backing, gilt titles..... More
Cat.No: 212719
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
London: Cassell & Co Ltd, 1953. Hardcover. xv, 224p., hardbound in 10x6.5 inch dark blue buckram boards gilt, t.e.g., elegant presswork done by University Press Cambridge in a run of 1,000, this being no. 557. Features a goodly number of Gill vignettes; handsome book in handsome condition, clean, sound and..... More
Cat.No: 242128
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
London: Printed by Richard Amer [Not Published.], 1888. Hardcover. xxxiv, 170p., fine presswork employing several fonts, illustrated with a monochrome folded frontis portrait of Archbishop Harsnett (resembles a brass rubbing), hardbound in 10.5x6.5 inch green cloth boards gilt and blind; textblock in excellent condition with signatures opened neatly throughout. One..... More
Cat.No: 262750
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
![Nouvel Armorial du Bibliophile. Guide de l'Amateur des Livres Armories. Tome Premier [et] Tome II...](/pictures/thumb/262751.jpg?v=1613622087)
Paris: Emile Rondeau Libraire, 1890. Leather Bound. Second Edition: xvii, 390, errata leaf, 494p., rubricated titlepage, text thick with hundreds of devices reproduced in vignette impressions (struck expertly in deep black), matching 11x7 inch hardbound volumes t.e.g in half morocco (executed by Zaehnsdorf) over marbled boards, with marbled endsheets of..... More
Cat.No: 262751
Munich: Verlag Georg D.W. Callwey, 1977. Hardcover. Second printing, all samples are facsimiles. 255p., hardbound in laminated decorated boards and enclosed in its dust jacket. Numerous tipped-in leaves show vivid colors including metallic onlays (usually bronze), and even reproduce texture to fingertips, but a swift glance at versos' bright whiteness..... More
Cat.No: 262698
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
Chicago: The Press of the Silver Quoin, 1944. Hardcover. 9p., rubricated heads and numerals, hardbound in 7x5 inch boards, cloth backstrip, and a printed paper cover label. A nice production; as it were, fine-press once removed. Casing is a little worn, toned and scratched; lies flat and square, a good..... More
Cat.No: 210809
Santa Monica: Paradise Press, [1986?]. two 24x11 inch sheets folded to 4x11 inches listing Paradise Press backstock and new releases, with biographical and historical information on the book-artist and publisher; additionally find a 3.75x8.75 inch card (green) promoting King's new book "Lessons from the South," and a book mark (russet)..... More
Cat.No: 136756
