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 about The 50th Anniversary Keepsake of the Sacramento Book Collectors Club, February 10, 1989
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 about Judaica, including gold & silver ritual objects; early brass and pewter; textiles; Hebrew...
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 about Paper making in Massachusetts in the year of the Panama-Pacific exposition, 1915 by authority of...
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 about Remembering Albert Sperisen: William P. Barlow Jr., Paul Birkel, John W. Borden, Barbara Land,...
Cat.No: 86563
Moscow: The USSR Copyright Agency. unpaginated, 8.75 x 9.5 inch wraps in good condition. Profiles fifteen Soviet book artists. More about Soviet masters of book illustration
Cat.No: 116971
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, Printed for The Book Club of California, 1962. Hardcover. Unpaginated, the limited folio, one of 400, text leaves and plates entirely fine and unblemished by any markings or edgewear; the exterior casing however is mottled with handling of cloth spine and cover edges; upper corner-tips... More about Ukiyo-e "The Floating World" Illustrated by twenty-eight rare examples of Japanese...
Cat.No: 212436
[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 about Vita de sancto Hieronymo
Cat.No: 132311
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 about Sacramento Illustrated, A Reprint of the Original Edition Issued by Barber & Baker in 1855;...
Cat.No: 209820
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San Francisco: Gilman D. Parsons, Books c/o The Greenwood Press, 1985. Pamphlet. 12p., pamphlet in 9x6 inch photo-decorated wraps, Stauffacher presswork on Mohawk Superfine. Although Baudin's name appears only on p.12, his estimation of Haiman's celebration of Kis is the bulk of the text here, followed by terminal remarks by... More about book review of] Nicholas Kis, A Hungarian Punch-Cutter & Printer 1650-1702, by Gyorgy Haiman...
Cat.No: 228216
Stockholm: Michaelisgillet i samverkan med Gidlundsförlag, 1983. Hardcover. viii, 494 p., very good hardcover in lightly worn dj. Color facsimile reprint of the early printed book of fables, original Latin text with Swedish transcription and commentary, issued on the work's 500th anniversary. More about Dyalogus creaturarum moralizatus 1483 / Skapelsens sedelärande samtal 1483
Cat.No: 171257
San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash for The Book Club of California, 1928. Hardcover. xvi, 13p., letterpress on heavy, watermarked ("J Perrigot Arches MBM"?) paperstock, hardbound in 11x7.5 inch marbled brown cloth boards with leather spine label gilt, every page of text framed in rubricated lines. The spine panel... More about An Invocation by Ambrose Bierce with a critical introduction by George Sterling and an...
Cat.No: 209986
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 about El libro su diseño
Cat.No: 123235
San Francisco: Joss Press, 1990. 4p., very good in wire-spiral-bound wraps, 8.5x11 inches, b&w facsimiles in a running text. Having married Robert Grabhorn in 1932, Martha Jane Bissell was pressed into service; by 1937, "under her own imprint, Jumbo Press, she printed books, pamphlets, broadsides and ephemera. While the name... More about Jane Grabhorn: Fine letterpress printer, designer, bookbinder and publisher
Cat.No: 211648
New York: Granary Books, 2007. Paperback. 173p., very good softcover. Cutts was the longtime publisher of Coracle Press; he is optimistic about the future of smallpress publications. More about Some forms of availability: critical passages on the book and publication
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 about John De Pol a Retrospective; February 5 to March 1, 1969
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 about Thomas Deloney, His Thomas of Reading; and Three Ballads on the Spanish Armada, Edited with Notes...
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 about Signal: 01, a journal of international political graphics & culture
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 about Themes in aquatint
Cat.No: 212719
San Francisco & Mountain View: designed by Jonathan Clark at the Artichoke Press for The Book Club of California, May-October 1999. Hardcover. xi, 156p., 10.5x14.25 inches, decorative endpapers, color frontis, introduction, index, 93 plates and maps, fine first edition limited to 450 copies bound in half blue silk cloth over... More about Exploring Japanese Books and Scrolls
Cat.No: 212695
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 200. More about The Zamorano Club: the first half century, 1928 - 1978
Cat.No: 210748
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 about Brief ground; three discourses to be read at the dinner table
Cat.No: 132872
Berkeley: Printed by The Grabhorn Press for The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1949. Hardcover. [viii] 79p., rubricated title and chapter heads, facsimile map, treaty text in both Spanish and English; hardbound in linen-backed paper boards, one of 500 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Faintest edgewear, spine label toned... More about The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, February second 1848, edited by George P. Hammond
Cat.No: 18438
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 about The two hundredth book: a bibliography of the books published by the Book Club of California...
Cat.No: 210742
Kentfield: The L-D Allen Press, 1955. Hardcover. 110p., letterpress on Rives, running heads are rubricated sepia with underlines, hardbound in two shades of paper over 10x6.5 inch boards and spine-titled gilt in heavy acetate wrapper; head has suffered a tiny bump which the acetate took the brunt of (it has... More about A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready
Cat.No: 209764
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 about Lawrence Clark Powell; California Classic. A speech given at the Library Associates Dinner for...
Cat.No: 199316
