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
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
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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
Sacramento: Printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press for the Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1950. xiv, 135p., folio hardbound in 12.5x9.5 inch cinnamon-brown buckram titled gilt, top edge tinted, semi-trimmed foredge. title page and chapter heads rubricated in sepia. Largely unopened, and where opened done neatly. One of a...... More
Cat.No: 209820
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: Granary Books, 2007. Paperback. 173p., very good copy of an exceptionally attractive softcover; expect mild dust-soil to white border of cover. Cutts was the longtime publisher of Coracle Press; he is optimistic about the future of smallpress publications. More
Cat.No: 214789
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
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
Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2010. Paperback. 136p., [viii], wraps, color illustrations, 5x7 inches, as new. Includes two articles on Mexican poster art, one on seditious freight graffiti, one on children's playgrounds and more. Includes "The future of Xicana printmaking" an interview with Taller Tupac Amaru and "Mexico 68: the graphic..... More
Cat.No: 148999
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
Los Angeles: Printed by Richard Hoffman for The Zamorano Club, 1978. Hardcover. 99p., spot color throughout with numerous vignette reproductions throughout (printed black on pale tint-blocks), hardbound with black cloth backstrip over 12.5x9.5 inch patterned boards, spine gilt-titled; faintest edgewear, entirely sound and clean within, a near-fine copy, one of..... More
Cat.No: 210748
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
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
Los Angeles: UCLA Library, 2008. Pamphlet. vi, 21p., softbound, a pamphlet measuring 9x6 inches, printed letterpress on laid paperstock, rubricated cover and title page, illustrated with seven monochrome reproductions of Powell's bookplates, early and late. A fine, unblemished copy, one of a run limited to 1,000. More
Cat.No: 199316
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
San Francisco: Printed by The Grabhorn Press for the author, 1955. 25p., rubricated titlepage and numerals, has a 3.25x2 inch woodcut, hardbound folio letterpress on handmade paperstock, 13x9 inches, in the original kraft-paper wrapper. Number 95 of 200, judge's signature on terminal leaf. The plain brown dj has a little..... More
Cat.No: 212527
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
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
San Francisco: Printed by The Feathered Serpent Press for The Book Club of California, 1996. Hardcover. 133p., illustrated with a tipped-on sepia photoportrait and numerous vignette cuts from the stories' first venues (largely magazines), hardbound in 10.5x7.5 inch quarter-cloth boards titled in silver-foil and blue ink. A fine unblemished copy..... More
Cat.No: 212670
San Francisco: The Greenwood Press, 1989. Pamphlet. 16p., staplebound pamphlet in 8.5x6 inch frenchfold wraps, an unmolested copy, one of a run of 500. A critique of "the afflictions of modern man: false collectivigty, false subjectivity.." the latter defined here as "striving of the individual who wishes to glorify himself"..... More
Cat.No: 228220
San Francisco: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for David Magee, 1961. Paperback. xvi, 63p., sewn signatures with minimal finepress touches, in yapp-edged 12x9 inch printed wraps. The overlapping margins are crimped, and general light handling wear will be noted, as at top and tail rims; a good to very good..... More
Cat.No: 214124
