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19980006071International Paper Co. post 1998. Loose_leaf. Very Good. Theo Van Doesburg & 73 others. 8vo 78 loose leaves in alphabetical sequence - including Unknown and ending with Hermann Zapf in a paper chemise in a die-cut paper slipcase; Note: one leaf stained on verso; also this set has 3 duplicate plates. VERY SCARCE. <br/><br/>An international collection of 74 twentieth century typographers callligraphers artists designers contributed this series of works which is now in the permanent collection of the Guttenberg Museum after being exhibited in Europe Latin America and finally the U.S.A. International Paper Co. unknown
1948250370Chicago: The Caxton Club 1948. First Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good/issued without. 4to tan cloth 287 pages spine darkened <br/><br/>Text & drawings by McCutcheon. Limited. to 1000 copies with a unique bawdy Bruce ROGERS tail-piece featuring a dog and one of Rogers' thorn bushes. Printed by The Lakeside Press CCXLVI. McCutcheon was a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for half a century at The Chicago Tribune. The Caxton Club hardcover
19761491N.Y.; Detroit; Charlottesville: The Hroswhitha Club; Gale Research Co.; Dominion Books 1976;1974;1964. Fine. 1976. Hardcover. 89 pp. incl. index; tall 8vo; patterned paper over boards; gilt stamped burgundy cloth back; printed tan paper dust jacket. 600 copies printed. Short biographical notes on 228 woman printers listed by state. Early American Books: 253 pp. incl. index; 8vo; green cloth. Colonial Printer: 368 pp.; 8vo; green cloth; photographs; facsimiles including on folding. Last two both reprints in fine condition. Fine with protective mylar wrap . The Hroswhitha Club; Gale Research Co.; Dominion Books 1976;1974;1964 hardcover
1938240138Highland Park IL: The Elm Press 1938 . First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo 29 2 pp. two-tone cloth some small splotchy spots on some pages inked date on endpaper <br/><br/>In 1902 after only two books and a few pamphlets Millard gave the press and type to Jane Addams' Hull House. Ransom PRIVATE PRESSES AND THEIR BOOKS p.258 #1. I do not know what press was used to produce this book. Printed in Munder Venezian type on Kelmscott hand made paper with watermark hammer and anvil. John Browere dreamed of a national sculpture gallery and he had a secret process to make life masks of notable Americans including John Adams and James Madison and was accused of nearly smothering Thomas Jefferson in the clayey mask. Inserted photogravure portrait plates. The Elm Press hardcover
19584687Cleveland OH: World Publishing 1958. First edition American issue. Hardcover. Good/good. 4to 454 pages cloth; dj not chipped but worn. <br/><br/>With more than 400 illustrations twenty in full color some tipped-in. Covers both Western and Eastern books and codices. World Publishing hardcover
19810007965San Francisco: The Scowrers & Molly Maguires 1981. First Limited edition. Fine. Small folio iv pages <br/><br/>One of only 150 copies done at the occasion of John Bennett Shaw's Sherlockian Seminar at Stanford University. Merrill's sonnet "A Requiem for 221B" is excellent and truer with each passing day. A keepsake limited to 150 copies hand-set and printed by John Ruyle at the Pequod Press. The Scowrers & Molly Maguires unknown
1960006534New York Crown Publishers 1960 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 238 p. illus. part col. fold. maps plans. 28 cm. ; LCCN: 60-15395 ; LC: DG70.P7; N5769; Dewey: 913.377 ; OCLC: 1221384 ; beige with grey lettering ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib stamps label ; Contents : History of Pompeii -- The volcano roused -- The dead cities revived -- Pompeii formerly and today -- Business work and recreation -- The life of the people -- The Pompeiians at home -- The necropolis -- Art at Pompeii and Herculaneum -- Conclusion ; "The object of this book is to represent in as complete and precise a way as possible the form and aspect of Pompeii and Herculaneum and the life led by their inhabitants at the period when that existence was brutally cut short by the eruption of Vesuvius wiping out these two cities in AD 79." ; 132 illustrations some in monochrome and color ; VG <br/> <br/> New York, Crown Publishers, 1960 hardcover
19846968Los Angeles: The Chappel. Fine. 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 152 pp. in various paging sections; 8vo; red cloth; illustrations portraits. Limited to 125 copies. Group publishing venture including: Daniel Berkeley Updike advises Henry Watson Kent on machine composition / Daniel Berkeley Updike ; printed for John Bidwell and Andrea Immel by Patrick Reagh Printers -- America's first civilized man Benjamin Franklin / by Richard J. Hoffman ; printed by Jack M. Conway -- Lahaina's historic House of Printing / by Tom Horton ; printed by Jack M. Leibel -- Stoneman's raid / by Bill Moore ; printed by Clyde Lee Stoneman -- Two stories / by Laura Remson Mitchell ; printed by Gary Marc Remson -- A reprint of a reprint / by William Morris ; reprinted by Tom Parker -- On being found out by William Makepeace Thackerey ; printed by John Urabec . The Chappel hardcover
1931DEMO007006ISan Francisco: The Limited Editions Club 1931. Limited edition. Hardcover. Good. frontis. by Wm. Wilke. 4to 243 pages calf spine marbled bds. extremities worn <br/><br/>Signed by the printer John Henry Nash. Limited to 1500 numbered copies. A printer's book about a printer. Frontispiece by William Wilke. With the Newsletter laid in. The Limited Editions Club hardcover
19831445San Francisco: The Book Club of California. Fine. 1983. Hardcover. 84 pp. frontis port.; tall 8vo; brick red cloth spine stamped in gilt; glassine jacket; reproductions throughout; printed errata slip laid in. BCC publication no. 173 Limited to 550 copies designed and printed by Harold Berliner. . The Book Club of California hardcover
195512041San Francisco: The Greenwood Press 1955. Very Good. San Francisco: The Greenwood Press 1955. Limited Edition of 500 copies. Octavo. 40 pp. Illustrated wraps. Photographs of a busts of Henry Miller affixed to front and rear endpapers. <br /> <br /> Wraps lightly edgeworn with some toning. Binding is sound. Ownership inscriptions of a Jack Pieri to front and rear alongside photographs. Pages otherwise unmarked. The Greenwood Press unknown
1915DEMO005562IEast Aurora: Roycrofters 1915. Author's. Hardcover. half light brown morocco . portrait gravures. 4to 312 pages half brown embossed pigskin marbled boards raised bands lacks lowest panel of spine. <br/><br/>Limited to 378 numbered copies signed by Elbert Hubbard II in the aftermath of his parents' deaths on "The Lusitania". McKenna 230 . The Old Philistine's selected essays including "The Titanic" -how ironic! "John Burroughs" "The Ex-Libris Collector" "A Message to Garcia" "The Book of Job" "The Journal of Koheleth" etc. With portrait gravures. Roycrofters hardcover
19920008703Washington DC: Smithsonian 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 350 photos many in color. 4to 319 pages red cloth; short tear in dj <br/><br/>Celebrates the world of books in human culture illustrated with 350 photos many in color. Smithsonian hardcover
19901571San Francisco: The Wodehouse Society. Fine. 1990. Softcover. Printed by Doug and Margaret Stow at The Paper Crane Press. 8 pp.; 12mo; stapled wrappers. With autograph presentation note on both sides of a printed card from printer Doug Stow to two colleagues laid in. . The Wodehouse Society paperback
1925016544London: The Beaumont Press 1925. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First edition limited to 390 copies this being no. 103 printed on hand-made paper. Hardback cloth spine titled in gilt boards covered in leaf patterned paper. Fore-edge untrimmed. 23 × 15cm 58pp. This book collects 35 poems by Edmund Blunden the first twenty are more pastoral and meditative in style the second section containing fifteen poems are Great War poems each poem has a decorated initial and both sections have an illustrations the first section has goats drinking from a neo-classical the second has a skeleton in World War One equipment gasmask tin hat barbed wire pole. Condition: This copy is in very good condition. There is a little light tanning to the page edges and spine but otherwise it remains a good solid copy with clean pages and secure binding. <br/> <br/> The Beaumont Press hardcover
1909SB2739San Francisco: Paul Elder & Company The Tomoye Press 1909. Hardcover. Very good . Jenkins Will. Reprint sixteenmo size 71 pp. This collection of poems by Agness Greene Foster was printed by the Tomoye Press an imprint associated with Paul Elder & Company a notable bookstore in San Francisco run by Paul Elder who also published his own books. The Tomoye Press was Elder's collaboration with the eminent typographer and printer John Henry Nash 1871-1947 whose standards of quality were second to none. This volume is a careful execution of Foster's seasonal poetry featuring Nash's excellent typesetting and decorations by Will Jenkins.<br /> <br /> ___DESCRIPTION: Full mauve paper with pink lettering and decorations on the front board fore- and bottom edges uncut purple endpapers frontispiece a reproduction of an illustration titled "My Lady's Garden" by J. Young Hunter with lettered tissue guard title page with decoration by Will Jenkins in black; sixteenmo size 6 1/4" by 5 1/4" pagination: i-ii iii-vii viii 1-2 3-61 62-63.<br /> <br /> ___CONDITION: Volume is very good plus with a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; boards are clean overall with a few spots of soiling to the rear board some rubbing to the tail of the spine and to the corners and corners are gently bumped sunning to the boards and light soiling to the endpapers. <br /> <br /> ___CITATION: David Mostardi "A Checklist of the Publications of Paul Elder" no. 376. <br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br /> <br /> ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Paul Elder & Company [The Tomoye Press] hardcover
1994008990Folio Society London ©1994 1994. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. xxii 268 14 leaves of plates : illustrations some color facsimiles maps portraits ; 26 cm ; OCLC 30545849 ; Dewey 910.45092 ; LC G246.D17 A3 1994 ; Maps on endpapers. - without slipcase ; pictorial gold and black cloth ; "By Diana Preston Michael Preston · 2010 Preview unavailable Learn more Overview Get the book Other editions More by author Similar books About this edition ISBN: 9781446429181 1446429180 Page count: 512 Published: December 14 2010 Format: ebook Publisher: Transworld Language: English Author: Diana Preston Michael Preston William Dampier 1651-1715 was an English adventurer and pirate who preyed on ships on the Spanish Main. Poor and ill-educated and determined to make his fortune he nonetheless had a passion for exploration and scientific research.Dampier was the first to map the winds and currents of the world's oceans; led the first recorded party of Englishmen to set foot on Australia - 80 years before Cook; wrote about Galapagos wildlife 150 years before Darwin who drew on Dampier's notes in his own work; was the first travel writer ; FINE <br/> <br/> Folio Society, London, ©1994 hardcover
198023055Crown publ NY 1980. HBDJ 1980 1st edition 468 pgs DJ light rub wear Tiny chips Extremities PC Interior Nice tight Clean light Wear . First Edition. Hard Cover. Crown publ, NY hardcover
19240008442Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1924. First Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 69 pages marbled cloth frayed a bit at head of spine unopened. Ex libris printer John Frank Connor of R. H. Connor & Co. Buffalo NY and with a business card. <br/><br/>Copy no. 86 of only 260 copies thus. Three essays by this master printer with facsimiles Harvard University Press hardcover
1960045034New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1960. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Xiii Xiv. Brown Cloth Spine Tan Cloth Covered Boards Gilt. First Edition Stated. First Printing. Berenson 1865-1959 Was Best Known As An Art Expert But "His Magnificent Assemblage Of Books Some Forty Thousand Volumes Chosen Over The Decades Remains His Ultimate Monument. This Great Collection One Of The World's Finest Private Libraries He Bequeathed - Along With I Tatti His Estate Itself- To Harvard University." See Dj. A Short Or Long Paragraph About 365 Books What We Are Never Assigned To Read But Would Read If We Knew Enough To Be Fully Aware Of Them Although Some Would Be Difficult To Obtain In English Translation. <br/> <br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
199517094AB1995. Den Haag 1995. 118 pages 1 leaf. Original boards. Extensive overview of the work of the Dutch typograpic designer and book-illustrator J. van Krimpen. hardcover
1945DEMO009380IChicago: Silver Quoin Press 1945. First Limited. Hardcover. pink boards head torn splitting at joints. Octavo 15 pages pink boards thin spine repaired. <br/><br/>One of 150 copies. The Silver Quoin Press was a hobby press by James Madison Dille a medical student. This copy is inscribed by Dr. Kampmeier to Dr. William F. Petersen. Tipped-in is an ALS from Kampmeier to Petersen: "I am sending you one of my poems entitled 'Curriculum Vitae'. You are the first one to get a copy." CV is part of his magnum opus a long poem "Madonna of the Rockies". Laid in is another ALS asking Dr. Petersen to consider critically reading the 175 typewritten pages of the poem. Silver Quoin Press hardcover
1942DEMO014329INorfolk CT: New Directions 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Thin 8vo tan boards; dj edges nicked <br/><br/>One of the Poet of the Month series. Designed in part by Patchen in a design repeated on title cover and dj. Of the total printing this is one of only about 500 copies in hardcover. New Directions hardcover
19691635Boston: David R. Godine. Fine. 1969. Softcover. 10 pp.; 8" x 6"; marbled wrappers paper title label. Bookplate of J. G. Dreyfus tipped inside front cover; small ownership label of Albert Sperisen lower inside corner front cover. New Year's keepsake 350 copies printed and bound by hand . David R. Godine paperback
19064978Chicago: Frederick J. Drake 1906. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong 8vo unpaginated cloth <br/><br/> Frederick J. Drake hardcover