[New York]: Type Directors Club of New York, 1950. First Edition. Publisher's blue folder containing: 1) SIGNED original wood engraving by Bernard Brussel-Smith printed by L. F. White Co. and distributed at a dinner for the friends and members of the Type Directors Club of New York given in Warde's..... More
Milan: Libreria Antiquaria Hoepli, 1955. 1st. Hard Cover. Quarto; 160 pages. Price list laid in. More
Philadelphia: Royal Electrotype Company, 1929. First Edition. Small 4to. 53 pp. Frontispiece. black & white photo-illustrated plates depicting printing techniques. Business card for Royal Electrotype Co. employee (salesman?) laid in. Striking gilt, green brown & orange decorative wrappers in near fine condition (with minor wear to sine ends; minor foxing..... More
Detroit: Published by the author, No date. First Edition Thus. Small 8vo. [52] pp. Stiff tan softcover in very good condition (some smudging to covers; some internal smudging; minor pencil notations pertinent to the content). These Printograms are Editorials reprinted from "Craftopics" of the Detroit Club of Printing House Craftsmen..... More
Middlesex: Chiswick Polytechnic School of Art, 1935. First Edition. Octavo; 40pp. A Fine copy in rust colored wrappers with printed paper label to upper cover. From the library of bibliophile Porter Garnett with his bookplate to verso of front cover. More
Lewiston, Idaho: Confluence Press, 1990. First Edition. Octavo, 280 pages. Original color photograph of Wallace Stegner at a book signing, laid in. Green cloth with gilt lettering. A fine copy, as new. 'In addition to her exhaustive list of Stegner's book publications ( including translations), Colberg also provides us with..... More
Sacramento: California State Library Foundation, 1991. 1st. Paperback. First Edition octavo; vii, 83pp. Fine copy, one of an edition limited to 1,000. Laid in is a warm note from Stanford Library Director David Weber to President Richard Lyman. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship..... More
San Francisco: Limited Editions Group, 1955. First Edition. 8vo. 21, [1] pp. Illustrations. Dark grey cloth spine over grey paper boards with orage title label affixed to front board; illustrated endpapers. A fine copy. A brief history on the formation and mission of the Limited Editions Group. More
Cambridge: Privately Printed by the University Printer for Friends in Printing & Publishing, 1949. First Edition, Limited to 250 copies. Small 8vo. vii, 36, [1] pp. Illustrations. Teal cloth spine over marbled paper covered boards. ALS from Frederick B. Adams, Jr., American bibliophile and the director of the Pierpont Morgan..... More
Kalamazoo, MI: The Private Press, 1976. First Edition, Limited to 250 copies. Square 8vo. [37] pp. Illustrations (some in color). Black cloth with red illustration & lettering. Minor wear else a fine copy. Paul Hayden Duensing (1950-2006) was a private typefounder and one of the founding members of the American..... More
London: John Murray, 1898. Hard Cover. Octavo; ix, 334 pages. From the library of Clare Ryan Talbot with her blindstamp (CRT) to title page and her pencil notes to ffep. Bears the bookplate of University of California zoologist Dr. Charles Atwood Kofoid tipped to front pastedown. More
Bremen: Temmen, 2010. 1st. Hardcover /. 1st edition thus. Quarto; 229 pages. Near Fine copy (dent to fore-edge of boards). Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
Washington, D. C. The Bruin Press, 1938. 1st. Paperback. Tall 8vo. 48 pp. Stiff tan wrappers, stab-stitched. A fine copy. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 17th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014. 1st. Paperback. Octavio; xxi, 305pp. Bibliography; Index. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. Illustrations. Stiff illustrated wrappers in fine condition. In the eighteenth century, booksellers enjoyed an unparalleled monopoly on the Parisian book world, leaving little room for authors who wanted to enjoy the fruits of..... More
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1974. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 240pp. Index. Frontispiece photo-illustration of Steinbeck. Publisher's tan cloth. John Payne’s copy with his handsome bookplate and INSCRIBED “August 15, 1974. Second copy from the Press. Sent copy one to Adrian this morning. John R. Payne.” A fine copy in..... More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Library, 1964. 1st. Cloth. Quarto. (xv) 51pp. 321 items listed. Original red cloth with gilt lettering in original glassine dust jacket. INSCRIBED "To one who until/recently didn't know/about us - Bill Fitzhugh,'with best wishes from/the author/Walter Goldwater." With a geneological chart and a concise lexicon..... More
Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press, 1987. First Edition. Limited Edition #96 of 150 copies. Small 4to. 42, (4) pp. printed on Mohawk Letterpress paper. Wood engravings by John DePol, including a SIGNED two-color engraving titled "Falls at Deepdene." Single-sheet (folded) prospectus laid in, with tipped-in photographic illustration of Goudy..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2007. 1st. Hardcover. 4to. 383pp. Bibliography; Index. Black & white photo-illustrations. INSCRIBED by the author. Dark green cloth in publisher's cream dustjacket. A fine copy. The biography of Robert Greenwood and, to a lesser extent, of his long-time partner, Newton Baird. "The Talisman..... More
Detroit: Thomson Gale, 1997. 1st. Hardcover. Quarto;xvi, 926 pages. More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1982. First Edition. Of a total edition of 1000 copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press, this is one of 500 for the Book Club of California, designed and printed by Abe Lerner. 12 mo. [6], 9-76, [3] pp. Illustrated with six samples..... More
London: Shenval Press, 1946. 1st. Hardcover. Square 8vo. 91, (1) pp. Color and black & white illustrations; 4 color lithographs by Edward Bawden. Color printed card covers, spiral bound. A very good copy ( although flat now, the book was previously folded in half; light wear). Includes articles on Times..... More
London: Shenval Press, 1946. 1st. Hardcover. Square 8vo. 91, (1) pp. Color and black & white illustrations (including 4 fold-outs). Color printed card covers, spiral bound. A near fine copy with a hint of wear. Includes articles on the gothic title-piece and the English newspaper; the engravings and book decorations..... More
London: Shenval Press, 1947. 1st. Hardcover. Square 8vo. 98 pp. Color and black & white illustrations. Color printed card covers, spiral bound. A near fine copy with a hint of wear. Includes articles on The Posters of the Beggarstaff Brother (with striking color lithographs; newspaper printing in the n ineteenth..... More
London: Art & Technics, 1947. 1st. Hardcover. Square 8vo. 99, (1) pp. Color and black & white illustrations. Card covers in tan illustrated dustjacket. A near fine copy (short, tape repaired tear to upper rear dustjacket). This issue contains articles on: Drawings by Lynton Lamb & by George Du Maurier;..... More
London: Art & Technics, 1948. 1st. Hardcover. Square 8vo. 95, (1) pp. Color and black & white illustrations. Card covers in tan illustrated dustjacket. A near fine copy with a hint of wear & age toning. This issue contains articles on 'artistic' Victorian printing; the type designs of Eric Gill;..... More