Foster, Agness Greene; Jenkins, Will (Decorations); Nash, J[ohn] H[enry] (Typography Design)Biblio.com
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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
1965BOOKS053709INYC: Caroline E. McElveen 1965. PB. very good birchwood veneer covers softcover. Contents include: Courage!; The Widest Sea; Simple Arithmetic; Ultimatum; One of Two; He and She; Reality; A Good Life; Hierarchy; "Know Thyself"; Advice to the Young; "The Boy is Father of the Man"; New England Sunday; Civilization; Campfire; Green Granite. Caroline E. McElveen unknown
19810008356Cincinnati OH: Ye Olde Printery / Oak Knoll 1981. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good/issued without. 12mo 29 38 18 pages clothbacked marbled paper <br/><br/>This is the collected edition one of only 500 copies of these books previously printed in smaller editions by printing historian and printer Ralph Green at his printery. Presentation Copy inscribed to Prentiss Smith in 1981. who is acknowledged in the Preface to this edition. With a promotional piece on this book to Prentiss Smith laid in as is a bookplate from Ralph Green. Ye Olde Printery / Oak Knoll hardcover
050001960 Zürich Schweizerischen Werkbund Verlag Arthur Niggli. 21 x 21 cm - 167 pgs - original soft cover - very well illustrated in b/w - important catalogue on Swiss design - very good copy see Bolliger Katalog 7 nr 254 <br /> 1960 Zürich Schweizerischen Werkbund, Verlag Arthur Niggli paperback
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
050041969 Zürich Schweizerischen Werkbund Verlag Arthur Niggli. 21 x 21 cm - 84 pgs - original soft cover - nicely illustrated in b/w - important catalogue for Swiss design - see Bolliger Katalog 7 nr 254 for nr 34 - nice copy back discoloured by the sun see pictures <br /> 1969 Zürich Schweizerischen Werkbund, Verlag Arthur Niggli paperback
050011962 Zürich Schweizerischen Werkbund Verlag Arthur Niggli. 21 21 cm - 158 pgs - original soft cover - very well illustrated in b/w - impotant catalogue for the Swiss design of the '60 - see Bolliger Katalog 7 nr 254 - good copy <br /> 1962 Zürich Schweizerischen Werkbund, Verlag Arthur Niggli paperback
1965001932S. l. New Britain Conn.: The Sign of the Jaded Jester 1965. Softcover. Miniature first edition limited to 250 copies this copy #150; 2 in x 4.5 ft; vegetable parchment scroll rolled on a wooden spool with plastic stick-pins on either end; sparkly red wrap and a decorative silk ribbon attached to the beginning of the scroll; housed in a transparent pill bottle with a ruled paper label; thin vertical crack to bottle not affecting its integrity; light age-toning to label; ribbon slightly frayed at the free end; parchment fine; overall in very good to near fine condition. With a rather unique three-color printing Edison Julian I. Miniature Book News # 3: 1966 March. St. Louis Missouri. UNT Digital Library. http://digital.library.unt.edu. Web. January 12 2016 the miniature is a beautiful typographical and artistic example containing amusing and insightful book-related apothegms and epigrams including a personal favorite to wit: "On the subject of repetition.as to whether a speaker should have said 'that' or 'which' he replied: "I consider that that 'that' that that man used is correct." The compiler Walter Blumenthal 1883 - 1969 was a renowned Jewish-American scholar writer and editor. Robert Massmann was a former Director of Library Services at Central Connecticut State University who published numerous miniature books usually in very small editions for more than 4 decades. The Sign of the Jaded Jester paperback
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
1998022844Glenn Horowitz Bookseller 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by The Photographer. 1st Edition. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Limited to two hundred copies only this is #40 signed and numbered by the photographer in red ink on the rear colophon. Glenn Horowitz Bookseller Hardcover
044911930 Santpoort C.A.Mees. coverdesign by Margaret Kropholler - 325 x 325 cm - 36 pgs - original cover bindingtype japanese held together with raffia - ills on work by Staal - Le Coultre 10-5/6 1929 - nice copy <br /> 1930 Santpoort C.A.Mees
044881929 Santpoort C.A.Mees. coverdesign by Hildo Krop - 325 x 325 cm - 18 pgs - original cover bindingtype japanese held together with raffia - illustrations: sculptures by Zadkine - Le Coultre 10-1 1929 - verry good copy <br /> 1929 Santpoort C.A.Mees
044921930 Santpoort C.A.Mees. coverdesign by IR. H.T. Zwiers - 30 pgs - original cover bindingtype japanese stiched by raffia - Le Coultre 10-11/12 1929 - nice copy <br /> 1930 Santpoort C.A.Mees
044931930 Santpoort C.A.Mees. coverdesign by Jessurun De Mesquita - 325 x 325 cm - 24 pgs - original cover bindingtype japanese held together with raffia - illustations Kammerttheater Moscou Meyerhold - Le Coultre 10-10 1929 - fine copy <br /> 1930 Santpoort C.A.Mees
044901929 Santpoort C.A.Mees. coverdesign by Chris Lebeau - 325 x 325 cm - 18 pgs - original cover bindingtype japanese held together with raffia - illustration: works in glass by Lebeau - Le Coultre 10-2 1929 - nice copy <br /> 1929 Santpoort C.A.Mees
1i855Bauersche Gießerei Frankfurt 1913. 104 S. orig. Pbd. quart.-quer. Gutes Exemplar mit Schutzfolie. Zum Andenken an den Künstler Johann Firedrich Anger. Buchdrucker und Schrifterfinder zu Berlin unknown
19780007014Boston & Lexington KY: D. R. Godine 1978. First Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine/issued without. Quartos 57 213 pages quarter brown morocco brown cloth covered boards in matching cloth slipcase. <br/><br/>These are copies XXXII of 50 deluxe copies of printings of 500 and 550 copies. The second title carries the imprint of The Anvil Press 1981. Both volumes were designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at his Stamperia Valdonega Verona Italy. These two companion volumes were later joined by VICTOR HAMMER: AN ARTIST'S TESTAMENT. Sir John Rothenstein was the Director of London's Tate Gallery. His volume includes 19 color plates. Hammer''s volume includes bibliographies of Victor Hammer and his four presses. D. R. Godine hardcover
19781461Boston: David R. Godine 1978. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 57 pp. incl. text & list of plates followed by 26 color plates divided into 3 sections: Portraits Biblical and Mythological Paintings and The Kolbsheim Chapel; 4to; gold cloth in slipcase. Fine condition in like slipcase. First Edition no. 258 of 500 copies. . David R. Godine [1978] hardcover
18990007651Portland ME: Thomas B. Mosher 1899. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo 96 pages unopened in original boards with later quarter black cloth spine. Ex libris Herbert Carleton Wright with the motto "mens sibi conscia recti" that is "a mind conscious of its own rectitude" from THE AENEID. <br/><br/>One of 450 copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper. "A handsome but unauthorised reprint of the book first printed in 1872 with a Preface by the American publisher-editor and 3 Appendices - Colbeck Swinburne 81." This is Swinburne's reply to a literary attack by Robert Buchanan. "Irradiating and informing UNDER THE MICROSCOPE is a rapture of rage unmistakably Swinburnian - Mosher's Preface." Thomas B. Mosher hardcover
24431Slug: ‘Monotype set and printed by students of the London School of Printing and Kindred Trades 61 Stamford Street London S.E. Session 1926-27’. Of the five copies on JISC only that at the BL is from one of the deposit libraries. 21pp 4to. Collotype of engraving of Caxton as frontispiece. Sewn into grey card wraps with Yapp-style edges and title repeated on cover. In good condition lightly aged. Slug: ‘Monotype set and printed by students of the London School of Printing and Kindred Trades, 61, Stamford Street, London, paperback
45014152like new. unknown
21332Very Good. Nice clean copy with a tight binding! Mild cover shelf wear. unknown
2000TYPOGRAP014734Hyphen Press London. 2000. First edition. Edited with introduction commentary bibliography etc by Robert Kinross. Two volumes. Royal octavo. pp 254; 271. Illustrations. Card wrappers. Anthony Froshaug 1920-1984 was a typographer and designer much influenced by the work of Jan Tschichold.Fine in fine printed card slipcase. Hyphen Press, [London]. unknown
1105698157.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
203598Cologne Evergreen 1994. 2vols. xx790798pp. 4to. Original boards lightly rubbed. Previous owners name in ink to ffe. A very good copy. Cologne, Evergreen, 1994. hardcover
