Book Arts, Fine Printing &amp; Binding

Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

$75 $100 or less

Scarce Prospectus for a Classic Art Book, Signed

Original Prospectus for Picture Book: 32 Original Lithographs By Jean Charlot

Charlot, Jean.

$75 $100 or less

Red Butte Press

A POET'S ALPHABET OF INFLUENCES, Drawings by Bonnie Sucec.

Strand, Mark

$1,400

A Complete Set

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward [Lord Lytton]

THE WARWICK EDITION OF BULWER'S NOVELS

$1,440

Arion Press

SHAPED POETRY, A Suite of Typographic Prints Chronicling This Literary Form from 300 BC to the Present.

Todd, Glenn (editor)

$1,500

DONNER PARTY ACCOUNT, SPECIALLY BOUND COPY

Across the Plains in the Donner Party, "This edition is limited to 1400 copies" on preliminary leaf, to which is tipped a slip "Binding of This Copy as No. 1401 Was Specially Authorized."

Virginia Reed Murphy

$250

1920s Artist Signed Bookplate

Bookplate for R.H. Purdue, with original sketch

Henry Brewerton Quinan

Richard Wagener's Lovely New Book

[Wagener, Richard, illustrator and designer], Keene, Mark Peter.

A Bonsai-Shaped Mind and Postures of the Heart., Designed and co-published by David Pascoe of Nawakum Press and Richard Wagener of Mixolydian Editions.

$2,200

Zamorano Club Honors Women Collectors and Dealers

Zamorano Celebrates 90:, Honoring the contributions of women to books & book collecting in Southern California.

[ Women's Studies] .

$375

Washington DC Plate Printers Union Book

Plate Printers & Engravers Union 1955 Convention Book

$135

100 Book Club of California News-letters 1947-2017

The Book Club of Califirnia

The Book Club of California Quarterly News-Letter

SOLD

Leaf Book - With Two Original Chaucer Leaves

Muscatine, Charles (1920-2010)

THE BOOK OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER, AN ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLICATION OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER'S WORKS FROM THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY TO MODERN TIMES

Center for Book Arts

Center for Book Arts

Center for Book Arts

FILM HISTORY AS TRAIN WRECK

Center for Book Arts

Center for Book Arts

Robert McGinnis

Scott, Art & Wallace Maynard (compilers)

THE PAPERBACK COVERS OF ROBERT MCGINNIS, A Complete Listing of the 1,068 Titles and 1,432 Editions of the Paperback Cover Illustrations of Robert McGinnis

THE TEN SECTIONS: MY WAY TO TYPOGRAPHY

Weingart, Wolfgang

THE COMPOSITOR AS ARTIST, CRAFTSMAN, AND TRADESMAN

Deluxe Edition - Press of The Nightowl

Lawson, Alexander

DIVINA PROPORTIO TYPOGRAPHICA

Hermann Zapf

Rosarivo, Raul M.

Bookbinding

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEDIEVAL BOOKBINDING

TYPOGRAPHIA: AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE ART OF PRINTING, WITH PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR CONDUCTING EVERY DEPARTMENT IN AN OFFICE: WITH A DESCRIPTION OF STEREOTYPE AND LITHOGRAPHY. Illustrated by Engravings, Biographical Notices, and Portraits.

Hansard, Thomas C.

LOGOTYPES & LETTERFORMS, HANDLETTERED LOGOTYPES AND TYPOGRAPHIC CONSIDERATIONS

Young, Doyald

Ringwalt, Luther (editor)

AMERICAN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PRINTING

SCHATZKAMMER DER SCHREIBKUNST, MEISTERWERKE DER KALLIGRAPHIE AUS VIER JAHRUNDERTEN AUF ZWEIHUNDERT TAFELIN

Tschichold, Jan

Baskerville, John

Gaskell, Philip

BASKERVILLE'S PUNCHES

SPECIMEN OF DUTCH BLACK-LETTERS AND GOTHIC INITIALS OF THE XVTH CENTURY

Type Specimens

Enschedé

DIE FARBEN UND IHRE TÖNE, Technische Anleitung zum Anlegen, Mischen und Drucken von Tonfarben.

Ehlert, Wilhelm

$1,250

Presentation from the Author

De Vinne, Theodore Low

HISTORIC PRINTING TYPES, A LECTURE READ BEFORE THE GROLIER CLUB OF NEW YORK, JANUARY 25, 1885, WITH ADDITIONS AND NEW ILLUSTRATIONS

IRISH BOOKBINDINGS, 1600-1800

Bookbinding

Craig, Maurice

Cornog, D.Y. [with] F.C. Rose

LEGIBILITY OF ALPHANUMERIC CHARACTERS AND OTHER SYMBOLS, II. A REFERENCE HANDBOOK.

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS, CONTAINING THE POEMS, SONGS, CORRESPONDENCE

Brother Antoninus (Everson, William)

Auerhahn Press

THE POET IS DEAD, A memorial for Robinson Jeffers by Brother Antoninus (William Everson).

$1,500

Mixolydian Editions

Bringhurst, Robert

IN THE BEGINNING, Poem by Robert Bringhurst. Wood Engravings by Richard Wagener.

$600

Deluxe Limited First Edition, Prassinos' binding

CAMUS, Albert

L'Exil et le Royaume

Love & Violence [Signed — No. 3 of 10 Copies], TWELVE ORIGINAL LINOCUTS TELL A WORDLESS STORY OF INTIMACY AND CONFRONTATION—SIGNED, NUMBERED 3 OF ONLY 10 COPIES, AND BOUND BY BARBARA MAURIELLO.

Signed Limited First Edition

KASPAROV, Garry

How Life Imitates Chess

$225

THE DARK SIDE OF DESIRE

Henry, Barbara

$1,850

THE BEAUTY OF TYPE

[The Three Generations Press]

Etc. Type Etc. [Letterpress Typography Specimen / Private Press Production], A PRIVATE PRESS CELEBRATION OF TYPE, INK, AND THE ART OF PRINTING: 1981.

$60 $100 or less

THE LEIPZIG MEDAL WINNER — Circle Press

Smith, Ken (1938–2003) ; Poet — Screenprints by John Christie

Between The Dancers — Artist Edition, A MASTERPIECE OF COLLABORATIVE BOOK ART, THIS AWARD-WINNING VOLUME PAIRS THE VISCERAL POETRY OF KEN SMITH WITH SIX ORIGINAL SCREENPRINTS BY JOHN CHRISTIE.

$425

RELIGIOUS VISIONS OF THE GENESEE VALLEY

Boerner, Steve

Grass Roots. Number 19, March 1984 [New York Religious History — 400 copies printed], RELIGIOUS REVIVALISM, PROPHETS, MILLERITES, AND UTOPIAN COMMUNITIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY UPSTATE NEW YORK. A LIMITED SMALL-PRESS PUBLICATION.

$24 $100 or less

SIGNED by MANN • JAPAN VELLUM • HARRISON OF PARIS

Mann, Thomas (1875–1955)

A Sketch of My Life [Limited to 75 Copies on Imperial Japanese Vellum], Published by Monroe Wheeler's Harrison of Paris shortly after Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1929), this memoir captures the author at the summit of his international fame.

$1,800

A RUSSIAN SOUL IN FINE PRESS

Dostoevsky, Fyodor (1821–1881); Translated by Garnett, Constance (1861–1946)

A Gentle Spirit: A Fantastic Story. [Harrison of Paris] [Limited Edition of 50], ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES PRINTED ON IMPERIAL JAPANESE VELLUM, BRINGING DOSTOEVSKY TO LIFE THROUGH THE ART OF HARRISON OF PARIS.

$1,600

CHILD’S VISION OF ALSACE AT MOMENT OF LIBERATION

Hansi (Jean-Jacques Waltz) (1873–1951)

Le Paradis Tricolore • Alsace • World War I • Chromolithographs • 1918 • Beaucoup D'Images, Issued at the close of the First World War, this richly illustrated patriotic children’s book celebrates the return of Alsace to France. Published for Christmas 1918.

$245

Folded Paper, Unfolding Ideas

Indiana University Graphic Design Program

Indiana University Graphic Design Press Archive 2001–2010 Letterpress Artist Books Collection [9 Keepsakes], A cohesive archive of experimental letterpress books [9] from Indiana University, 2001–2010, issued as keepsakes for the Fine Arts Library Benefit Dinner.

$600

REMEMBERING PROVENCE IN WORD AND IMAGE

Mauron, Marie (1896–1986); Christian de Gastyne (1909–1969), illustrator.

Marchés de Provence [Markets of Provence] [Inscribed by Marie Mauron], THE MARKETS OF PROVENCE — A WRITER'S TRIBUTE AND AN ARTIST'S MEMORIAL. Limited Edition, No. 242/600

$285

THE POEM AS OBJECT

Price, Jonathan; Simon Brett, illustrator

Private View [Signed by Simon Brett — Rocket Press — One of 230 Copies], POETRY, HANDMADE PAPER AND WOOD ENGRAVING MEET IN A ROCKET PRESS EDITION OF 230.

$65 $100 or less

Signed by the Authors

Bosch, Gulnar, John Carswell, Guy Petherbridge

ISLAMIC BINDINGS & BOOKMAKING

THE UNIVERSAL PENMAN, Foreword: The Importance of The Universal Penman in Relation to Modern Calligraphy by Philip Hofer.

Calligraphy

Bickham, George

LOST & FOUND, Hand-colored illustrations by Timothy Ely.

Caliban Press

Berrigan, Daniel

$250

Type Specimens

Bastien, Alfred J.

ENCYCLOPAEDIA TYPOGRAPHICA. PART ONE., Decor and Classification of Type.

POLYGRAPHISCHE APPARAT OBER DIE VERSCHIENDENEN KUNSTFÄCHER DER K.K. HOF- UND STAATSDRUCKEREI ZUM WIEN

Auer, Alois

$700

Paper Specimens

THE AVANT GARDE LETTERHEAD

THE LETTERS OF WESTERN AUTHORS

Palaemon Press

NORTHERN LIGHTS

$825

Book Club of California

Cummington Press

Harrison of Paris

A TYPOGRAPHICAL COMMONPLACE BOOK

CATALOGUE OF I. TYPEFOUNDERS' SPECIMENS, II. BOOKS PRINTED IN FOUNTS OF HISTORIC IMPORTANCE, III. WORKS ON TYPEFOUNDING PRINTING & BIBLIOGRAPHY OFFERED FOR SALE.

One of 75 Copies Printed on Special Paper

$250

Grabhorn Press

NINETEENTH CENTURY TYPE DISPLAYED IN 18 FONTS CAST BY UNITED STATES FOUNDERS, NOW IN THE CASES OF THE GRABHORN PRESS

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF ROBINSON JEFFERS

One of Only 5 Copies

Alberts, S.S.

$2,000

THE ART OF A NEW NATION — Indonesia

Lee Man Fong, compiler

Paintings and Statues from the Collection of President Sukarno of the Republic of Indonesia [Lukisan dan Patung Kolleksi Presiden Sukarno dari Republik Indonesia], THE MONUMENTAL CATALOGUE OF PRESIDENT SUKARNO'S ART COLLECTION — 567 COLOR REPRODUCTIONS IN FIVE FOLIO VOLUMES

$795

A MODERNIST VISION OF SHAKESPEARE

Shakespeare, William; Robert Graves, preface; Clarke Hutton, illustrations; Edward Burrett, design.

The Sonnets, SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS IN A FINELY PRODUCED SIGNED EDITION.

$875

WITH ARTIST'S ORIGINAL PROOF — COPY #1 of 10

Barnwell, Ysaye M.; Curlee Raven Holton, illustrator

We Are... Words and Music by Ysaye M. Barnwell., WITH ORIGINAL ARTWORK PROOF AND THE ARTIST'S LETTER DOCUMENTING THE BOOK'S CREATION.

$475

signed by Lax and illustrator Antonucci

Robert Lax

The Circus of the Sun - the rare hardcover (1959, ltd., signed), A wonderful collaboration between poet and artist Robert Lax with drawings and design by Emil Antonucci.

$295

ART NOUVEAU BINDING WITH ELABORATE GILT DESIGN

Robert Browning

Christmas Eve

Lenguagente, Limited Edition #16 of 50 copies

EVER RODRIGUEZ'S ARTISTIC CELEBRATION OF LANGUAGE

Ever Rodriguez

Fire..., Limited Edition #33 of 50 copies

LANGSTON HUGHES ON RACIAL INJUSTICE AND RESISTANCE

Langston Hughes

$75 $100 or less

Limited Ed Private Press Publ w/Wallpaper Wraps

John Gordon

Ancient Printers' Customs Also My First Year at the Printing Trade, Dedicated to the Union Printers Home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Limited to 150 Printed Copies

SOLD

Three wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg.

Fritz Eichenberg

Lincoln portrait - WW II - Season's Greetings, An interesting provenance

$450

With leaf printed by Sweynheym & Pannartz in 1471

Edwin Charles Hall

Sweynheym & Pannartz and the Origins of printing in Italy: German Technology and Italian Humanism in Renaissance Rome

$825

THEODORE BACHAUS, [HENRY MORRIS]

The Booksellers of San Seriffe - 1/200 copies (all numbered 9), Morris' witty successor to "The Private Presses of Sans Serriffe" (1980).

$445

Rare graphic arts / book printing press trifecta.

Three printing press manufacturers

R. W. Hoe & Co. hand-letterpress - Fuchs & Lang stone lithography press - Rembrandt Graphic Arts intaglio press., Near complete book arts / graphic arts printing studio.

$20,000

“…at the intersection of politics and intimacy…”

Adrienne Rich

"Letters Censored, Shredded, Returned to Sender or Judged Unfit"

$3,500

Limited Edition Press Book with Woodcut Illus

Jane & Anne Taylor

The Plum Cake and Other Poems for Infant Minds by Jane & Anne Taylor, #11 of 20 from a Fine Private Press with Woodcut Illustrations by Megan E. Miller

$40 $100 or less

1787 Type Speciman

(TYPE SPECIMEN) [STOWER, Caleb]

The Printer's Grammar. Containing a Concise History of the Origin of Printing... chiefly Collected from Smith's Edition.

$1,000

Two Attractive Fore-edge Paintings

(FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS) BROWNING, Robert

The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. With Portraits. In Two Volumes..

$750

SIGNED BY POET GARY SNYDER AND ARTIST JULIO GRANDA

Snyder, Gary; Julio Granda (artist).

Night Herons: A Poem, Limited #22 of 108 copies

D'Ambrosio: Nineteen Years and Counting, SIGNED Limited #13 of 100 copies

UNCOMMON JOE D'AMBROSIO BROADSIDE

Joe D'Ambrosio

HENRY DILTZ (photographer) Graham Nash, Stephen Stills and over 20 contributors

One of only 350 of the Deluxe Edition.

CSN&Y - LOVE THE ONE YOUR WITH (CROSBY STILLS, NASH AND YOUNG) (signed, 2022), Ltd. Genesis Publications DeLuxe edition with extra print

$795

Exhibition poster, French book history & Matisse.

Paul Hilber, artist and illustrator

Ten Centuries of French Books / Henri Matisse, Musée des Beaux-Arts (Museum of Fine Arts) Lucerne in Switzerland

$450

One of the finest 20th century Dutch books.

Signed by Jan van Krimpen, designer and typographer

The Book of Psalms. Printed According to the Authorized Version of the Holy Bible. MDCXI., Text after the 1611 edition of the Psalms

$1,050

A masterpiece of 18th century printing.

John Pine's celebrated edition of Horace

Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera, John Pine's tours de force of 18th c. English bookmaking

$2,500

Paul Muldoon on borders in Ireland.

Paul Muldoon

"Unapproved Road"

$1,000

16 full page color lithographs by M. LAURENCIN.

Katherine Mansfield, Marie Laurencin (illustrations)

The Garden Party and Other Stories (Ltd. The Verona Press Edition 1939), - designed by Hans Mardersteig and printed at his Officina Bodoni in Verona in 1939

$325

Presented to Ward Ritchie by Los Compadres

[Ritchie, Ward, association].

[Broadside]. A Printer Dances a Terrible Dance of Death” [and] “A Bad Case of the Jitters.”

Ye Primer. A Rhyme Book on Ye Letters of Ye Alphabet

Early 20th Century Alphabet Advertising Piece

Goodrich, B.F., Co.

$650

From the Weather Bird Press, 1 of 200 Copies

Jones, Louise Seymour

A Tussie Mussie., From her book, Who Loves a Garden.