New York: American Book Bindery-Stratford Press. Hardcover. First Edition. 79 pp. 8vo. Light scuffing and wear to edges, waffling to text from water damage at some point in its life. Paper covered slipcase intact and stained from water as well.
Promotional piece for the American Book Bindery-Stratford Press showing different font styles and book design elements they were capable of reproducing. Very Good. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. Hardcover. First Edition. 185 pp. Elephant Folio. Light tan cloth spine with gray paper covered boards. Wear and sunning overall, with darkening to spine, small tears along top hinge, losses at edges of boards. Interior clean and crisp in a beautifully designed and printed book. Previous owner's bookplate on first free endpaper. Very Good. More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1998. Hard Cover. First Edition. Clean, crisp copy. As New / As New. More
San Francisco: William Doxey, 1897. Hardcover. First Edition. Unpag. Brown cloth covered boards with a color woodblock illustration by Florence Lundborg of a figure playing a pan flute. Light scuffing, clean tight copy with a previous owner's bookplate pasted to front pastedown. Volume contains one year's monthly issues plus the "Epilark," a final sally.
The Lark ran from May 1895 until May 1897, each 16-page issue was a fanciful collection of creative writing, cartoons, and miscellany. Begins with the year's index followed by twelve 16-page issues. Printed on handmade paper variously described as Chinese rice paper, Chinese bamboo fiber paper, and just bamboo paper, the sure thing is that the stock is untrimmed at bottom edges, appears in various weights, and occasionally is so thin... More
Portland, ME: Casco Printing Company, 1978. Hard Cover. First Edition. Red Cover with gilt lettering on front and spine. Signed, dated, and inscribed by author on first free end paper. Inside text is crisp and clean. Appears unread.
Signed by Author. Fine. More
Stockholm, WI: Midnight Paper Sales, 2002. Printed Wraps. First Edition. A poem about writing. The text has been hand-set in Walbaum, and with twelve wooden numerals illuminated in color with engraved wood blocks.
The book, signed by Danticat and Schanilec, is bound in boards covered with paper marbled for the edition by Carol Scott. Copy # 125 of 170. Danticat was a 2009 MacArthur Fellow. Fine. More
Stockholm, WI: Midnight Paper Sales, 1999. Hard Cover. First Edition. The text was handset in Joanna with Delphian Open Titling. Three full-page, multicolor wood engravings with initial letters to open the three sections; a two-panel engraving for the title page. The book is printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. Hand-bound into boards by the Campbell-Logan Bindery.
Copy #143 of 220, enclosed in a slipcase, signed by Dufresne and Schanilec. Fine. More
Madison, WI: Jones Books, 1993. Trade Paperback. First Edition. 105 pgs. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy.
An important work on Wright's contribution to book and graphic design. Fine. More
Stockholm, WI: Midnight Paper Sales, 1998. Hard Cover. First Edition. Hand-set text in Garamond with Ratdolt titling, hand-printed on Zerkall mould-made paper and hand-bound it into boards. Seven multiple-color wood engravings printed from maple blocks.
Copy #143 of 200, enclosed in a slipcase, and signed by Hautman and Schanilec. Fine. More
St. Paul, MN: The Ampersand Club, 2005. Soft Cover. First Trade. 44 pp. Frontisportrait. Gray cloth over boards with mounted paper title label on spine and front cover. Set in Bembo type and printed on Zerkall paper by Gaylord Schanilec. From an edition of 626, this is one of 500 copies from the trade edition. Fine. More
London: Pimlico, 2006. Trade Paperback. First Edition. First Printing of this edition. As New. More
London: Pimlico, 2006. Trade Paperback. First Edition. First Printing of this edition. Inscribed by author to previous author on title page.
Signed by Author. As New. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. Clean and crisp, never read. Pristine. As New / As New. More
Cruikshank, George. New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, n.d. Hardcover. As. Late 1940s, early 1950s. 100 pp. 8vo. Light scuffing to dust jacket, darkening from age, now in mylar cover. Endpapers have age toning from type of glue used, clean within. Very Good / very good. More
Sacramento, CA: California State Library Foundation, 1987. Wraps. First Edition. Presented at the fund-raiser fidder for the Los Angeles Public Library, held at the 88th Conference of the California Library Association, Long Beach, California, November 17, 1986. Clean, crisp copy that has never been read. One of 1,000 copies. Fine. More
Sacramento, CA: California State Library Foundation, 1984. Printed Wraps. First Edition. The 1986 Coulter Lecture by Ward Ritchie. Clean, crisp copy that has never been read. One of 2,000 copies. Fair. More
Sacramento, CA: California State Library Foundation, 1988. Printed Wraps. First Edition. Clean, crisp copy that has never been read. One of 1,000 copies. As New. More
Sacramento, CA: California State Library Foundation, 1987. Wraps. First Edition. The 1986 Coulter Lecture by Ward Ritchie. Clean, crisp copy that has never been read. One of 1,000 copies. Fine. More
New York: Abner Schram, 1974. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. Dust jacket clean and crisp, in mylar cover. Light foxing along head of text block, clean and crisp within. Fine / Fine. More
Chartres: Librairie Sourget, 1988. Soft Cover. First Edition. 497 pp. Color ills. Subtitle: "De la Renaissance au Cubisme." Glossy white paper covers lettered front and spine in black and illustrated front & back with plates from book. Price sheet laid in. Smal library stamp inside front cover which has bled over to t.p. opposite. One volume from the series on rare books and illustrations. Text in French. Museum quality photos of museum quality books. Very Good / Very Good. More
Sacramento, CA: California State Library Foundation, 1989. Printed Wraps. First Edition. The 1988 Coulter Lecture by Ward Ritchie. Preface by Lawrence Clark Powell. Clean, crisp copy that has never been read. One of 1,000 copies. As New. More
New York: The Grolier Club, 1966-1975. Paperbound. First Edition. 21 Volumes: Numbers 1-19 are individual month editions; numbers 20/21 and 22/23 are for June/December 1974 and 1975, respectively. The paper wraps on numbers 1-16 vary in color, but are color-coded by year. The front covers on these are identical in that they all say "Gazette of The Grolier Club New Series" and are followed by the club's insignia, the number and date of the issue. Beginning with number 17, the format changed to a slightly larger size. Numbers 17-22/23 all have cream-colored wraps and various b/w illustrations on the front and rear covers. Number 7, June 1968, still has a small banner wrapped around it which says, "Johann Gutenberg with a prefatory note by Marshall... More
New York, NY: The Metroplitan Museum of Art, 1984. Hard Cover. First Edition. Illustrated with coloured woodblocks by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806). Maroon cloth boards, white printed paper label to front, Japanese accordion-style binding, housed in tan card slipcase with white illustrated title label at front. Very Good. More
