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193015121Washington D.C.: Judd & Detweiler 1930. Edition ltd. to 475 copies tall 8vo pp. 2 158; many illus. throughout; orig. cream linen stamped in gilt a little soiled else very good in publisher's slipcase. Designed and directed by Lester Douglas. This copy marked "designer's copy" on the colophon and with Douglas's bookplate designed by Bruce Rogers and with a 23-line autograph note to Douglas signed by Bruce Rogers "B.R." concerning the design of this book modern art architecture design etc. with orig. envelope tipped to a blank flyleaf; also at the back in a separate pocket are the printed comments of among others Carl Purington Rollins and William Kittridge apparently from Douglas's own newsletter. From Rogers' note: "I like . your modernistic book . better as a remembrance than as a book - but I admire all you youngsters' efforts to put "modernism" on the map - and you have almost done so - but not for long. It's getting passe already." <br/><br/> Judd & Detweiler unknown books
1969291977Madison.: University of Wisconsin Press. 1969. Red cloth gilt titles. Fine in a severely silverfished dust jacket with some loss to the lower edge and foredge. 28x20.5 cm. Heavy book will require extra shipping. weight: 5.5 lb. University of Wisconsin Press. hardcover books
19329026550Leipzig: Limited Editions Club 1932. Hardcover. Near fine. Decorations by E.R. Weiss. Introduction by Ernest Sutherland Bates. One of 1500 numbered copies printed by Poeschel & Trepte and signed by the illustrator. Bound in quarter vellum with paper covered boards. Slipcase with printed paper label shows wear at one edge. Former owner's bookplate on front paste down endpaper. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1932224302Oxford: Clarendon Press 1932. First. hardcover. fine. Printed in red and black. Small folio full red morocco elaborately stamped in gilt & blind with numerous borders enclosing four rectangles also with borders; raised bands with 6 decorated panels on the spine by the French Binders. Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1932.<br/><br/> Printed with the Greek type of Robert Proctor the third book for which the type has been used the others being The Oresteia 1904 and The Odyssey 1909. Two leather bookplates and the dentelles have offset on the flyleaves otherwise fine in a black leather-backed cloth slipcase.<br/><br/> Clarendon Press unknown books
1984278064New York: Ccar 1984. hardcover. near fine/very good. Baskin Leonard. Illustrated and designed by Leonard Baskin. Translations edited by Rabbi Albert H. Friedlander. Introductions co-edited by Rabbi Herbert Bronstein and Rabbi Albert H. Friedlander. xiii 323 pages. Thick folio blue cloth d.w. New Yorki: CCAR Central Conference of American Rabbis 1984/5744. Small dent in dw spine; neat inscription in English and Hebrew on front free endpaper still a near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Ccar unknown books
198471486New York: Central Conference of American Rabbis 1984. hardcover. fine. Hebrew texts English translations introduction and new liturgies. Translations edited by Rabbi Albert H. Friedlander. Liturgies edited by Rabbi Herbert Bronstein. Illustrated and designed by Leonard Baskin. Original frontispiece lithograph signed & dated. 37 watercolor plates. 323pp. Folio cloth d.w. New York: Central Conference of American Rabbis 1984. A fine copy.<br/><br/> New Translations of Ecclesiastes Esther Song of Songs Ruth and Lamentations with explanatory notes. Text in Hebrew and English. One of 175 copies printed on pure rag sheet paper & numbered and signed by the artist.<br/><br/> Central Conference of American Rabbis unknown books
199544341NY: Schocken 1995. Large 8vo pp. xxxi 1024. With suggestions for further reading. The Schocken Bible: Vol. I. Ivory paper over boards cloth spine stamped in gilt. AEG. A nice copy in slilghtly spotted and chipped dj. Heavy. Schocken unknown books
1982226098Santa Cruz The Bood Book Press 1982. 1982. Large 8vo. Woodcut illustrations by Donna Thomas. Original 1/2 brown calf over marbled boards. Original dust jacket printed in red. Fine. No signatures or bookplates. Number 99 of 100 copies on handmade paper by Peter Thomas. Handprinted using Centaur type. The story is Luke 2: 1-18 from the King James Version of The Bible. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Santa Cruz, The Bood Book Press, 1982. hardcover books
193026407Chefoo China 1930. Lovely fine example of the Temple Hill Cut-Out books illustrated with eight pages affixed with cut black paper depicting figures plus one cut-out on the title page. Each of the eight cut-outs is accompanied by a delicate glassine on which is printed in English the legend of the corresponding figure. Bound in pictorial woven cloth over flexible boards string-bound with black cord. Laid in is a sheet about the origin of the cut-out books. Small quarto. 18 x 23.5 cm. Temple Hill Cut-Outs of Chefoo China made by the Self-help Department Women's Bible School Presbyterian Mission. Intricate beautiful cut-paper illustrations. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1913228975<p>First edition. Octavo. 2 color fold-out maps at end. Dust jacket price clipped; few chips; detached. Very good. 381 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p> University Press hardcover books
1979289259New York. : The Limited Editions Club. 1979. Limited edition #171 of 1500 copies. . Hardcover quarter ivory leather over brown cloth gilt titles slipcase with gilt title. . Very good plus lower spine has some discoloration otherwise fine in a slipcase with a spot of wear at the lower edge. . 4to. Signed by Littell and Gross on the colophon. Introduction by Franklin H. Littell. Illustrated by Chaim Gross. The Limited Editions Club. hardcover books
1979250925New York: Limited Editions Club 1979. Limited. hardcover. fine. Chaim Gross. In the King James Version. With 11 watercolor illustrations by Chaim Gross. 121pp. Short folio white calf-backed brown cloth; publisher's slipcase. N.Y.: The Limited Editions Club 1979. A fine copy.<br/><br/> One of 2000 numbered copies signed by the artist.<br/><br/> Limited Editions Club unknown books
1952WRCLIT85142New York: The Press of A. Colish 1952. 101953pp. 12mo 15 x 9 cm. Full red-brown morocco raised bands gilt extra marbled endsheets t.e.g. Very slight darkening to the spine otherwise fine in board slipcase with some wear to the corners. First printing in this format. One of 450 numbered copies designed and printed by Abraham Colish. The Press of A. Colish hardcover books
192521279Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press 1925. Hardcover. Orig. quarter brown morocco spine blue boards backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine. Rooke Noel. 43 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Presentation copy "Mabel Gill from her husband Evan R. Gill April 29th 1926" in black and red ink. Limited edition copy 188 of 370 printed in red and black on Batchelor hand-made paper in Caslon O.F. The text taken from Barker's quarto edition of the Authoriized Version of 1612. Wood engravings by Noel Roarke who made a major contribution to the revival of British wood engraving in the twentieth century. Rooke was employed by William Lethaby his first class of seven students included Rooke Eric Gill Graily Hewitt T.J. Cobden Sanderson. CHANTICLEER 32. Laid-in an extract from the London Mercury by B.H.Newdigate and hinged at back cover obituary of Noel Rooke The Times of London October 7 1953. Bookplate of Richard D. Friedlander. Golden Cockerel Press hardcover books
19021322Hammersmith The Doves Press 1902-1904. Containing the Old Testament and the New Translated Out of the Original Tongues by Special Command of His Majesty James the First. Issued in 5 volumes. Folio. Bound by Doves Bindery in original limp vellum with gilt title on the spine. A perfect copy of one of the 500 on handmade paper only two were printed on vellum. This is the one of the most beautiful books ever published by a private press and one of the three most desirable the other two are the Kelmscott Chaucer and the Ashendene Dante. In addition there are 18 specimen proof pages and original leaves included. Franklin: pp.117-118 Cave p.148. Doves Press books
1971IY915-265Los Angeles:: Bela Blau 1971. Hardcover. Very Good. Miniature Book. 1 1/2 x 1 3/16 inches. 22 pp. Hand-colored portrait of Moses ten commandments in Hebrew printed within tablet-shaped rules text of the ten commandments in English; text clean unmarked. Gilt-stamped brown leather decorative end-papers; binding square and tight light shelf wear smudges to covers. Very Good. SECOND EDITION of Blau's masterful edition of the Ten Commandments handset printed and bound by Bela Blau. Bela Blau was a mainstay in the fine press community in Los Angeles for 40 years. Blau had been a printer in Hungary until he was imprisoned in a Nazi labor camp during World War II. He had restarted his business after the war only to lose it again when the Communists took over Hungary. After fleeing to the United States in 1956 Blau went to work for a Los Angeles bookbinding company. Several years later he opened his own custom binding company and named it A-1 Bookbinding to win the lead spot in the telephone directory. An oral history of Blau's experiences during World War II is online at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Bela Blau, hardcover books
1965IY915-266aLos Angeles:: Bela Blau 1965. Hardcover. Like New. Miniature Book. 1 x 3/4 inches. 27 pp. Portrait of Moses depictions of stone tablets with Hebrew text the Ten Commandments in English; text clean unmarked. Gilt-stamped full red leather marbled end-papers; binding square and tight. IY915-266a. Fine. Handset printed and bound by Bela Blau. Blau published several miniature book editions of the Ten Commandments. This was his first with the variant binding in red leather and elaborate gilt decorations on the front cover. REFERENCE: Bradbury 20th-Century U.S. Miniature Books No. 408. Bela Blau, hardcover books
193033600np 1930. Oblong 16mo original printed and illustrated wrappers 8pp. Near Fine. <br/><br/> Stella is presented here engaged in graphically illustrated indiscreet behaviors with her dentist. <br/> Tijuana Bibles "were produced by a shadowy criminal underground in the 1930s. Very little hard information is available about how the Bibles were created where they were manufactured and how they were distributed. One certain fact confirmed by numerous anecdotes is that these comic books were for many young men their first peek into the forbidden world of erotic intimacy" Adelman. They were crudely printed and illustrated porn tract-comic books. The skimpy stories featured contemporary movie sports folk political and cartoon characters in absurdly hyperbolic sexual relations. Why they're called Tijuana Bibles is a matter of speculation; 'Tijuana' was typically associated with iniquity and as an outlet for behavior considered impermissible elsewhere. Properly considered the ancestor of America's underground comics Tijuana Bibles declined in popularity in the 1960's as mainstream publications like Playboy would satisfy readers' prurient interests.<br/>Adelman Tijuana Bibles. Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies. 1930s-1950s. 1997. unknown books
1965295082Chicago: Follett Publishing 1965. paperback. very good. A gun catalog illustrated in black and white. 576 pages. 4to paper wrappers. Chicago: Follett Publishing 1965. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Follett Publishing unknown books
19413501SAN JOSE VICTOR HILLIS 1941 1941. STITCHED STIFF BLUE PRINTED WRAPPERS. 13 PAGES. VERY GOOD. ONE OF 600 COPIES. Soft cover. SAN JOSE, VICTOR HILLIS, 1941 paperback books
193021655Paris: F.L. Schmied 1930. Schmied François-Louis. Small folio 14-1/16 in x 11-1/8. 76 pp. Illustrated with twelve double-page and four single-page colored wood engravings. One of 155 copies printed on Madagascar paper plus 10 for collaborators and 7 on japon. Nasti B15. Full red morocco bound with the pages tipped to hinges cover with a central design after motifs in the book tooled in gilt on inlays of black and maroon morocco dentelles tooled in gilt and with gilt corner onlays gold and black silk moiré endsheets edges rough-gilt bound by Schmied signed on the front turn-in "F.L.S." Chemise and new matching slipcase. Light marginal foxing but in excellent condition.Schmied bound only books of his own creation choosing above all the books of his great years.The subjects of his designs come from the books themselves" Ray The Art Deco Book in France pp. 101-102. "In the introductory note.Théo Schmied points out the natural happiness of the interconnection between his father's cultural tendencies and art of the book and the world of the Near East as it is filtered by the 'inspired' Mardrus translations.throwing light on the the two fundamental aesthetic coordinates we need in order to understand how the details are made subordinate by the elegant decorative unity expressed by the plates that is the purity of the Egyptian graphic art and the will of the Italian primitives. The layout shows either a text harmoniously arranged in respect of double and single plates of various size or a text framed by rules forming a variety of geometrical patterns and decorated by bout de lignes in sienna. The illustrations mainly show subdued and delicate pastel colours" - Nasti. <br/><br/> F.L. Schmied unknown books
1940015027Brooklyn NY: Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society 1940. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Early edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 381 pages of text including an index followed by 3 pages of publisher's advertisement. Original green hardcover binding with minor shelfwear and moderate soiling. The text is clean and unmarked. Jehovah's Witness. An early edition. Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society Hardcover books
1904WRCLIT67265London & New York: Samuel Bagster and Sons / James Pott and Co. 1904. xix14862pp. Octavo. Printed wrappers. A few pencil notes wrappers tanned at spine with shallow chips at spine ends; a good copy. A preliminary private version of Herbert 2136 with a special preface re: justification and methodology. The wrapper title asserts the text embodies "the Labours of Many Eminent English and Greek Scholars" and Herbert identifies the editors as Samuel Lloyd and George Washington Moon. The edition described in Herbert is "tentative" and has a different collation; an earlier partial proof appeared in 1902 see D&M 1348. COPAC locates two copies of the "tentative" edition and OCLC/Worldcat four but both come up empty for this "Private issue." A bibliographic and textual curiosity. HERBERT 2136ref. Samuel Bagster and Sons / James Pott and Co. unknown books
1973403467Bloomfield Hills MI and Columbia SC: Bruccoli Clark 1973. 8vo. Three unbound gatherings laid loose as issued in cloth folding case. Near-fine slightest toning to case. FIRST EDITION limited issue number 3 of 250 copies signed by the author from an edition of 300. Printed by A. Colish Mount Vernon New York. <br/><br/> Bruccoli Clark hardcover books
1953017966Stuttgart: Privileg. Württ. Bibelanstalt 1953. Cum apparatu critico curavit Eberhard Nestle novis curis elaboravit Erwin Nestle. Editio photomechniace in maiorem formam producta. 84 671p. original black cloth. Privileg. Württ. Bibelanstalt unknown books
