Kalligrafische Sinfonien / Calligraphic Symphonies
Hermann Schmidt, 2010. Hardcover. Covers lightly bowed. Dust jacket mildly soiled. More
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Specimen Sheets Pulled from the Wood Type in Drawer Six From the Cabinet at Green Gables and a Sheet or Two of Type from Friends
Quadp Press, 1983. Hard cover. Minor wear and scuffing on corners, small tear on bottom edge of spine. Stabbed thread binding is strong. Gene Holtan woodcuts bound in throughout. One of 100 copies produced. More
A Letter From Gustave Flaubert
Gehenna Press, 1960. Soft cover. Limited to 300cc. Woodblock prints by Leonard Baskin. Tipped-in title label detached, but present. More
A Captain From Portugal
1972. Soft cover. One of a first edition of 700 copies printed. A short story entirely in cipher by L.A. based performance artist Guy de Cointet. Covers have some mild wear and staining. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and unmarked. More
The Book through 5000 Years
Editions Arcade, 1972. Hard cover. Slip cover is worn and tanned along edges. Jacket is tanned, but legibility is not affected. Jacket is worn, especially along edges. Jacket has Mylar covering. Spine is tight. Top and fore edges are foxed, but readability is no affected. Cover edges are worn. Inside..... More
the book through 5000 years
Phaidon, 1972. Hardcover. Covers lightly faded along top edge. Dust jacket edgeworn. More
Ransom.
Sacramento: Fruitridge Printing and Lithograph / Vega Foundation, 1978. Paper. Wrappers, 24 cm, 40 pages, with tipped-in illustrations and hand-colored frontispiece. Pages folded to outer edge. Author's and artist's prefaces are tipped-in pages printed from their handwriting compositions. Stamped number 6 in ink from an edition of 100 copies. Signed..... More
Artists Books from the Workshop of Hank Hine
Limestone Press, 1998. Soft cover. First edition. Light scuff marks on cover, not covering text. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmarked. More
Jemand ein Chorwerk
Verlag Oprecht, 1938. Frans Masereel. Hardcover. Limited to 50cc. In German. Illustrated with woodcuts by Franz Masereel. Covers worn and stained. Gift inscription on front flylaf. More
Figure Prints of Old Japan
The Book Club of California, 1959. Hardcover. oversized5. " A pictorial pageant of actors & courtesansof the eighteenth century reproduced from the prints in the collection of Marjorie & Edwin Grabhorn." Dust jacket edgeworn and chipped. More
Door of Perception, Essays in Book Typography
W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. Hardcover. Limited to 325cc. Signed by the author. Spine a little sunned. More
Some American College Bookplates
The Champlin Press, 1915. Hardcover. Bottom two inches water damaged. More
Voyages: Six Poems
Museum of Modern Art, 1962. Softcover. #285/975cc, signed by Leonard Baskin. Light foxing on the fore edge. In a broken case. More
A Master's Bibliophile Bindings: Tina Miura 1980 - 1990.
Tokyo, Jap: Kyoiku Shoseki Co., Ltd., 1991. Hardcover. Boards, 35 cm, 199 pages, full color plates throughout. English language edition. Very good in dustjacket. More
Peintures et Dessins
Paris: Les Editions du Point du Jour, 1946. Softcover. Presentation copy signed by Michaux. One of 30 H.C. copies. Includes 43 plates with printed tissue guards, in black and white and in colour reproducing the works of Michaux from 1936 to 1946. Gift inscription to film director Stanley Kramer on..... More
Glemmesteder Dicte
Brondum, 1991. Soft cover. In Danish. Pages are uncut. Jacket is worn along edges. Cover of book itself is lightly shelf-worn. Binding glue is visible between cover and endpapers, but cover remains securely attached. Binding is secure, and inside is clean and unmarked. More
The Right Frame: A Consideration of the Right and Wrong Methods of Framing Pictures
James H. Heineman, 1964. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author. Dust jacket looks to be a replacement for the original as the lettering has been pasted on the front and spine. More
The Madonna of the Future
The Arion Press, 1997. Hardcover. #112/200cc, signed by Jim Dine, who supplied the photogravures. More
The Psychology of Printing Types
Dogwood Press, 1931. Hardcover. First book published by Dogwood Press and its printer Frank McCaffrey. Thin leather spine, shipped at the top. More
Into the Night Life
Henry Miller and Bezalel Schatz, 1947. Hardcover. tall case. Signed by both Henry Miller and Bezalel Schatz. Miller hand marking it as #36 of the less than 200 copies originally bound in 1947, all of which (like this copy)had lettering on the spine and an included slipcase. Prospectus has been..... More
Miscellaneous Writings of Henry the Eighth, King of England, France & Ireland
The Golden Cockerel Press, 1929. Hardcover. Limited to 365 cc. Covers shelfworn. Spine darkened and worn at bottom. More
The Color Guide / Iro no Techō: Iro Mihon to Bunkenrei to de Tsuzuru Iromei Gaido
Shōgakkan, 1986. Hard cover. Text in Japanese. Jacket is shelf worn and slightly rubbed. Spine is slightly smudged. Cover boards are in slightly shelf worn and has a few minor smudges, not affecting legibility. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmarked. More
Finishing in Hand Bookbinding
Herbert and Peter Gahey, 1951. Hardcover. Bound in green leather. More
Introduction to Printing: The Craft of Letterpress
Faber and Faber, 1980. Soft cover. Covers and spine sunned with some light rubbing. Foxing on edges of pages, not visible inside. Clean and unmarked inside. More
About Alphabets: Some marginal notes on type design
MIT, 1970. Hardcover. Dust jacket scuffled along edge. More