INNOCENCE
West Chester: Aralia Press, 1988. Soft Cover. Number one in the Aralia Press Chapbook Series. Gray printed wrapper sewn. Edition limited to 125 copies. [24] printed on Ingres Laid with Spectrum Types. More about INNOCENCE
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THE CAMP STEELE ALPHABET
New York: Printed for the Portfolio Club at The Marchbanks Press, 1952. Signed. Signed at the top of the first blank leaf: “Compliments of B.R.” In printed stapled wrappers, [12] pages. Printed at The Marchbanks Press and limited to 250... More about THE CAMP STEELE ALPHABET
BRUCE ROGERS. SELECTED LETTERS, 1915-1918.
[Montclair, NJ]: Caliban Press, 1988. Sixteen letters from Bruce Rogers, selected by the designer and printed Mark McMurry. From the colophon: “The typeface is Frederick Goudy’s Garamont, set by Out of Sorts Letter Foundry and printed on Frankfurt cream paper..... More about BRUCE ROGERS. SELECTED LETTERS, 1915-1918
TYPOGRAPHICAL PARTNERSHIP: TEN LETTERS BETWEEN BRUCE ROGERS & EMERY WALKER, 1907-31. TOGETHER WITH AN UNPUBLISHED FRAGMENT OF BRUCE ROGERS’ BYE-WAYS OF BOOK-MAKING.
Cambridge: Printed for The Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Library at The University Printing House, 1971. Limited Edition. Comprised of ten letters between two great printers -- the American Bruce Rogers and the Englishman Emery Walker. In the original marbled paper... More about TYPOGRAPHICAL PARTNERSHIP: TEN LETTERS BETWEEN BRUCE ROGERS & EMERY WALKER, 1907-31. ...
TWENTY BOOKS DESIGNED BY BRUCE ROGERS
[Brooklyn, N.Y.]: [Mergenthaler Linotype Co.], 1935. With commentary on the pricing of Bruce Rogers’ works by Paul Bennett in which, inter alia, dealers are described as “amiable friends and valued middlemen who frequently are helpful yet seldom reticent in charging..... More about TWENTY BOOKS DESIGNED BY BRUCE ROGERS
IN THE WOODS: A Forest Hymn; When Woods Were Green; Nature
St. Paul, MN: Greenstone Books, 1969. Miniature. Hard Cover. Miniature Book. #161/500. No pencil or ink markings in text. Brown flexible cover. Digital pictures of book available upon request; Not Ex-Library. More about IN THE WOODS: A Forest Hymn; When Woods Were Green; Nature
A BOOK OF MODERN BALLADS
London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner, 1890. Hard Cover. A bright copy of a handsome book, illustrated with full page chromolithographic illustrations throughout. More about A BOOK OF MODERN BALLADS
SELF
Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1845. Hard Cover. 1/4 leather and marbled boards. No pencil or ink markings in text. Some loss of leather at top of spine. Very small loss of leather at bottom of spine. Corners bumped with some... More about SELF
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[MINIATURE] USEFUL INFORMATION FOR BUSINESS MEN, MECHANICS AND ENGINEERS.
Pittsburgh, PA: Jones & Laughlin Steel Co., 1907. Miniature. Full Leather. Sixteenth Edition. A miniature pocket book of Useful Information, published by the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company. A true miniature, it is small enough to fit in a vest... More about MINIATURE] USEFUL INFORMATION FOR BUSINESS MEN, MECHANICS AND ENGINEERS
LETTERING OF TODAY
London: The Studio Ltd., 1941. Hard Cover. Revised Edition. A clean copy with no marks; the dustjacket has been price-clipped and has minor loss at the top of the spine; it is bright and is now protected with a new... More about LETTERING OF TODAY
ITALIAN BOOK-ILLUSTRATIONS AND EARLY PRINTING. A CATALOGUE OF EARLY ITALIAN BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY OF C. W. DYSON PERRINS
Austin, Texas: W. Thomas Taylor, 1994. Hard Cover. A clean copy of the Thomas Taylor reprint of this book, first published by Quaritch in 1914. More about ITALIAN BOOK-ILLUSTRATIONS AND EARLY PRINTING. A CATALOGUE OF EARLY ITALIAN BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY...
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[PRIZE BINDING] MASTERMAN READY: OR, THE WRECK OF THE PACIFIC.
London: Bell & Daldy, 1870. Full Leather. An attractive full leather Prize Binding awarded in 1872 by the Governors of The Horncastle Grammar School to one Frederick Gordon Tweed who passed the Christmas Examinations of 1872 with a First Class... More about PRIZE BINDING] MASTERMAN READY: OR, THE WRECK OF THE PACIFIC
THE ICE KING AND THE SWEET SOUTH WIND.
London: Addey and Co., 1854. Full Leather. Early Edition. Early edition of Caroline Hyde Butler’s The Ice King and the Sweet South Wind. First published three years prior. Illustrations by Henry Marsh, a nineteenth century American wood engraver. Additional title..... More about THE ICE KING AND THE SWEET SOUTH WIND
OLD INNS
London: Heinemann, 1921. Quarter Leather. Limited Edition. A limited edition in quarter vellum over paper covered boards, this being #43 of 380 copies signed by Cecil Aldin, the British artist best known for sporting and rural scenes evoking “Old England”... More about OLD INNS
BAUDELAIRE FLOWERS OF EVIL (FLEURS DU MAL) IN PATTERN AND PROSE.
New York: Privately Printed for William Godwin, Inc., 1933. Hard Cover. Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil, translated by Egan and Alcock. With color frontispiece, printer’s devices, and full page illustrations. Slight musty odor. Foxing to the frontispiece and title page. Significant..... More about BAUDELAIRE FLOWERS OF EVIL (FLEURS DU MAL) IN PATTERN AND PROSE
THE HOLLY TREE
East Aurora: Roycrofters, 1903. A most attractive copy of this Roycroft Edition, in gray suede with yapp edges, and silk moire pastedowns. There is a previous owner gift inscription from the year of publication. More about THE HOLLY TREE
THE HOLLY TREE INN AND A CHRISTMAS TREE.
New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1907. Hard Cover. Charles Dickens’ The Holly Tree Inn, and A Christmas Tree, with illustrated plates, some color, by George Alfred Williams. Some silverfishing and wear to the spine. Embossed green cloth with... More about THE HOLLY TREE INN AND A CHRISTMAS TREE
LES ANCIENS EX-LIBRIS HERALDIQUES VAUDOIS
Lausanne: Librairie Ancienne Rodolphe, 1932. Quarto. Soft Cover. Virtually disbound, with front wrapper detached and chipping to spine. Text block itself holding together well, however, and there are no markings or missing pages. More about LES ANCIENS EX-LIBRIS HERALDIQUES VAUDOIS
THE BOOK OF CHAUCER: AN ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLICATION OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER’S WORKS FROM THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY TO MODERN TIMES.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1963. One of 450 copies issued by The Book Club of California, with a color facsimile leaf tipped in, and black and white facsimiles throughout. With an original leaf of the 1561 Chaucer... More about THE BOOK OF CHAUCER: AN ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLICATION OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER’S WORKS FROM THE...
L'art d'ecrire réduit a des démonstrations vraies et faciles, avec des explications claires, pour le dictionnaire des artes. [Ecritures, Contenant Seize Planches]
[Paris]: [1770]. Folio. Hard Cover. Charles Paillasson’s L’Art d’Ecrire Reduit a des Demonstrations Vraies et Faciles, issued as part of the Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences. A master eighteenth century French calligrapher, who helped elevate calligraphy’s standing by publishing works on..... More about L'art d'ecrire réduit a des démonstrations vraies et faciles, avec des explications claires,...
THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH. A TALE OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1931. Three Quarters Leather. Charles Reade’s historical romance, The Cloister and the Hearth, complete with sixteen color plates by Evelyn Paul. Bright, with no marks of any kind. Bookplate. Three quarters red morocco over..... More about THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH. A TALE OF THE MIDDLE AGES
BENJAMIN COLLINS AND THE PROVINCIAL NEWSPAPER TRADE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (OXFORD HISTORICAL MONOGRAPHS)
Oxford University Press, USA, 1997. Hard Cover. A pristine copy with no marks of any kind. The dustjacket is protected with a new mylar cover. More about BENJAMIN COLLINS AND THE PROVINCIAL NEWSPAPER TRADE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (OXFORD HISTORICAL...
AN ACCOUNT OF CALLIGRAPHY & PRINTING IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Department of Printing and Graphic Arts Harvard College Library, 1940. A presentable copy, one of 250 printed by Daniel Updike at The Merrymount Press. Quarter buckram over paste-paper boards; titling to the spine, which has darkened a bit. There... More about AN ACCOUNT OF CALLIGRAPHY & PRINTING IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
MARBLED PAPERS. BEING A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-TWO CONTEMPORARY HAND-MARBLED PAPERS, SHOWING A VARIETY OF PATTERNS AND SPECIAL TECHNIQUES
Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1978. One of 200 copies printed for Dawson’s Book Shop at the Bird & Bull Press, this being copy #49, signed by master marbler Christopher Weimann and founder of the Bird and Bull Press Henry..... More about MARBLED PAPERS. BEING A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-TWO CONTEMPORARY HAND-MARBLED PAPERS, SHOWING A...
PETIT GLOSSAIRE (Dictionnaire) RAISONNE DE L’EROTISME SAPHIQUE 1880-1930
Editions Borderie, 1980. Folio. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. 123pp. Hardcover cloth binding with gilt lettering. Text in French; no markings in text. #394 of 1000 copies. For members of the “Club du Livre Secret”. More about PETIT GLOSSAIRE (Dictionnaire) RAISONNE DE L’EROTISME SAPHIQUE 1880-1930