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1979DEMO015265ILondon: New English Library 1979 . First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. photos. Oblong 4to 141 pages cloth white dj. Out-of-print and uncommon. Extra shipping due to weight of this volume. <br/><br/>Pages & pictures of folding revolving dissolving mechanical scenic panoramic dimensional changing Pop-up & novelty books. Illustrated from photographs. Illustrated lavishly from the collection of David and Briar Philips. An invaluable reference tool. New English Library hardcover
1948051894Alfred A. Knopf 1948. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 235 Pp. Tan Cloth Stamped In Brown. First Edition Stated. Very Near Fine. Dust Jacket Price Clipped With Publisher's Stamped $2.75 Net Price Light Wear A Few Short Tears At Edges Some Fading To Spine Panel. <br/> <br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
050021965 Zürich Schweizerischen Werkbund Verlag Arthur Niggli. 21 x 21 cm - 119 pgs - original soft cover - very well illustrated b/w - important catalogue for design of Switzerland - good copy - see Bolliger Katalog 7 <br /> 1965 Zürich Schweizerischen Werkbund, Verlag Arthur Niggli paperback
19594604New York / Basel SW: Hastings House / Teufen Ar. A. Niggli 1959 . First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/issued without. Square octavo 248 pages clothbacked boards rear joint repaired in publisher's worn slipcase. Scarce. <br/><br/>"This international pictorial survey takes modern graphic art from its origins through the present-day achievements and concludes with a look into the future. Although 'graphic art' is limited here to art in the service of advertising there is no limit to the artistic value of the means employed - this is a selection of the best work in the field past and present. Contemporary graphic art - work done since the end of the World War II - is presented in the second and more comprehensive part of the book. It includes a wide range of media and techniques among which are: Newspaper advertisements leaflets catalogues posters displays lettering packages business stationery trade markes and devices." Trilingual text in Englilsh German and French. 432 illustrations of which 12 are in full colour. Printed in Switzerland. "Gerstner is one of the most important innovators in typography commercial art and corporate design - Swiss National Library." Includes treatments of trade marks book jackets posters magazines etc. Hastings House / Teufen, Ar., A. Niggli hardcover
1812DEMO016656ILondon: J. Carpenter J. Booker 1812. New edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 69 woodcuts. 16mo modern speckled calf extra gilt by Bayntun a.e.g. some closed splits in the leather on the covers. <br/><br/>Classic and handsome treatment of Gay's first collection and his posthumous collection of fables. "Printed at The Chiswick Press by Mr. Whittingham whose taste and skill in fine typography have conspired to enter his name pre-eminent in the literary annals of the country. . the typographical connoisseur sees much to delight his eye and to gratify his mind. He perceives the most careful display and arrangement of type; the most pleasing tone of ink on every page; and the woodcuts brought out in all their brightness clearness and richness of colour -"The Gentleman's Magazine." The first fable in part 2 "The Dog and the Fox" is dedicated to a lawyer. "I know you Lawyers can with ease / Twist words and meanings as you please;". 69 woodcuts. J. Carpenter, J. Booker 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
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
20010008965London: Printed For Presentation To The Roxburghe Club 2001. First Limited edition. Quarter Morocco. Fine. Quarto quarter green morocco <br/><br/>Copy no. 107 of only 200 copies. Printed by Mardersteig at his Stamperia Valdonega. Excellent plates in color. Printed For Presentation To The Roxburghe Club unknown
1997008269New York : Monacelli Press 1997 1997. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 261 pages : color illustrations color maps ; 32 cm ; ISBN: 1885254571; 9781885254573 LCCN: 97-18503 ; LC: NA7755; Dewey: 728.8/2/094562 ; OCLC: 222392275 ; red cloth with gold lettering in color photographic dustjacket ; Contents: Roman villas and gardens: The Campagna of Lazio -- Hadrian's Villa: Tivoli -- Villa d'Este: Tivoli -- Palazzo Farnese: Caprarola -- Villa Lante: Bagnaia -- Villa Orsini: Bomarzo -- Fonte Papacqua: Soriano nel Cimino -- Castello Ruspoli: Vignanello -- Palazzo Odescalchi: Bassano Romano -- Villa Aldobrandini: Frascati -- Villa Grazioli: Frascati -- Giardino Caetani: Ninfa -- Giardino Portoghesi: Calcata ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : Monacelli Press, 1997 hardcover
67-0396San Francisco: Lee Engdahl ca. 1997. One ALS and one TLS from typographer and designer Lee Engdahl to publisher Herb Yellin describing the printing services provided by Engdahl Typography. ALS in a beautiful cursive; TLS with handwritten additions in margin. Both on Engdahl Typography letterhead 8.5 x 11 inch tan paper. Folded once for mailing. Fine. San Francisco: Lee Engdahl, [ca. 1997]. unknown
67-0457Vineburg CA: Engdahl Typography May 10 1992. ALS from Lee Engdahl to bookseller Jane J. Steele responding to her inquiry. On printed letterhead with handwritten address corrections. 8-5/8 x 8-13/16 inches. Catalog: Current Catalogue. 1992-93. Saddle-stitched. 8vo. 5-1/2 x 8-7/16 inches. 16 pp. Both Fine.From the collection of Frederick Gale Ruffner Jr. 1926-2014 the founder of the Detroit based reference book publisher Gale Research. Vineburg, CA: Engdahl Typography, May 10, 1992. unknown
19711231206.23<p>Philadelphia College of Art 1971. Hardcover. As New. 8vo hardcover. No dj grey cloth. Near fine condition. Covers and contents clean unworn no marking or writing. Binding square and tight.</p> Philadelphia College of Art hardcover
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
1974111022736United States of America: Theater of the Universt Inc. 1974. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Oblong. Black front embossed cover with gilt title lower front. Secure binding with clean pages. Color illustrated book about the Bible. About 14 x 11-1/4 with 95 pages. Scarce!. Theater of the Universt, Inc. Hardcover
19064978Chicago: Frederick J. Drake 1906. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong 8vo unpaginated cloth <br/><br/> Frederick J. Drake hardcover
1992DEMO012900ISherman Oaks CA: D'Ambrosio 1992. First Limited edition. hardcover. Fine. Josephp D'AMBROSIO's serigraphs. Octavo 24pp. crenellated spine paper label aqua spine floral boards. <br/><br/>A Livre d'Artiste by D'Ambrosio. Introd. by Patrick Magarick. Limited to 85 copies on handmade papers by Madeleine Pestiaux. Villiers de L'Isle Adam a French contemporary to de Maupassant and Huysmans is best known for his CONTES CRUELS. D'Ambrosio designed hand-set printed and bound this work. "D'Ambrosio is a book artist of individual books. As his aim is not to break tradition in and of itself heis not avant-garde. His goal is to make beautiful books and there is never any doubt that the object he creates is just that. His work is so outstanding that I have never seen anything like it in a lifetime of book collecting -Magarick." In this work he has set most of the text pages into three-dimensional framed borders in a self-boxed format. D'Ambrosio hardcover
193239018Paris: Editions du Belier 1932. A PERFECT COPY ON IMPERIAL JAPANESE PAPER of this beautifully-illustrated edition of Dante´s Paradiso with art déco typography by François-Louis Schmied. 141 pp. From a total edition of 500 copies this is ONE OF ONLY 54 COPIES ON IMPERIAL JAPANESE PAPER WITH AN EXTRA SUITE OF COSTETTI'S WOOD-ENGRAVINGS PRINTED WITHOUT THE TEXT ON FINE CHINESE PAPER. Laid in is a cordial handwritten letter dated 1932 from Maurice Tahon co-founder with Schmied of Editions du Belier to the original purchaser of this volume. 4to. Sewn in original printed wraps. Suite of wood-engravings loose as issued. FINE AND BRIGHT WITH NO DEFECTS in the original board chemise and slipcase. <br/><br/> Editions du Belier paperback
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2010DADAX1160716420Kessinger Publishing 2010-03-19. paperback. New. 6.00x1.43x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Kessinger Publishing paperback
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1989DEMO013090INo place: Joseph J. D'Ambrosio 1989. First Limited edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. photographs. Octavo 129pp. leather copper and marbled paper; Italian linen & paper dj <br/><br/>D'Ambrosio's second bibliography of his work bringing it up-to-date. This one gives a much fuller account of the genesis and processes of each of his works with laser-printed color photographs of the books some of which are limited to only one copy! Indispensable to the appreciation of the artistry and the artist. Laid in is the original announcement for this work. Joseph J. D'Ambrosio hardcover
1952biblio918<p>120 pages plus 12 color plates. Bookplate on front pastedown</p> Amilcare Pizzi S. A. hardcover
19866969Los Angeles: The Chappel. Fine. 1986. Limited Edition. Softcover. Six printed items enclosed in printed folded 'Table of Contents' without box. Including: THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS PRINTERS 12 woodcuts by Herschel Logan reprinted by Jack Conway on 4 3/8" x 4 6/8" cards with text on verso in original envelope. WHAT IS TYPE by O. A. Owen reprinted by Richard Hoffman in a booklet; 12mo; green card wraps. WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO YES PLEASE by Ernest Linder on a printed card. A PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR by Edgar Guest reprinted by Ethan Lipton in a small booklet. TOM PARKER'S HOT METAL FONTS 25" x 4.5" printed sheet laminated and folded into 4 parts. WELL PRINTED BOOKS by George Bernard Shaw reprinted on a card by Clyde Stoneman. . The Chappel paperback