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Zamorano Club Honors Women Collectors and Dealers

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[ Women's Studies] .
Zamorano Celebrates 90:, Honoring the contributions of women to books & book collecting in Southern California.
$375

Student Artwork

Set of Two Student Journals on Printing
$150

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
SOLD

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
$100 $100 or less
Weingart, Wolfgang
THE TEN SECTIONS: MY WAY TO TYPOGRAPHY
$100 $100 or less

Deluxe Edition - Press of The Nightowl

Lawson, Alexander
THE COMPOSITOR AS ARTIST, CRAFTSMAN, AND TRADESMAN
$100 $100 or less

Hermann Zapf

Rosarivo, Raul M.
DIVINA PROPORTIO TYPOGRAPHICA
$100 $100 or less
Spencer, Herbert
THE VISIBLE WORD
$100 $100 or less

Bookbinding

Szirmai, J.A.
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEDIEVAL BOOKBINDING
$100 $100 or less
Hansard, Thomas C.
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.
$100 $100 or less
Young, Doyald
LOGOTYPES & LETTERFORMS, HANDLETTERED LOGOTYPES AND TYPOGRAPHIC CONSIDERATIONS
$100 $100 or less
Spencer, Herbert
THE VISIBLE WORD
$100 $100 or less
Ringwalt, Luther (editor)
AMERICAN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PRINTING
$100 $100 or less
Tschichold, Jan
SCHATZKAMMER DER SCHREIBKUNST, MEISTERWERKE DER KALLIGRAPHIE AUS VIER JAHRUNDERTEN AUF ZWEIHUNDERT TAFELIN
$100 $100 or less

Baskerville, John

Gaskell, Philip
BASKERVILLE'S PUNCHES
$150

Type Specimens

Enschedé
SPECIMEN OF DUTCH BLACK-LETTERS AND GOTHIC INITIALS OF THE XVTH CENTURY
$100 $100 or less
Ehlert, Wilhelm
DIE FARBEN UND IHRE TÖNE, Technische Anleitung zum Anlegen, Mischen und Drucken von Tonfarben.
$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
$175

Bookbinding

Craig, Maurice
IRISH BOOKBINDINGS, 1600-1800
$125
Cornog, D.Y. [with] F.C. Rose
LEGIBILITY OF ALPHANUMERIC CHARACTERS AND OTHER SYMBOLS, II. A REFERENCE HANDBOOK.
$150
Carpocino, Jerome
THE VATICAN
$250
Burns, Robert
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS, CONTAINING THE POEMS, SONGS, CORRESPONDENCE
$125

Occult Books about Books

Manly Palmer Hall
My Books: A Valuable Lecture Reproduced by Popular Demand
$250

Designed and Printed by Ward Ritchie

Miller, Lucille V.
One Hundred Manuscripts and Books from the Estelle Doheny Collection in the Edward L. Doheny Memorial Library. St. John's Seminary, Camarillo, California., Exhibited for the Zamorano Club. May 6, 1950. [Los Angeles]: 1950.
$95 $100 or less

Signed by the Authors

Bosch, Gulnar, John Carswell, Guy Petherbridge
ISLAMIC BINDINGS & BOOKMAKING
$175

Calligraphy

Bickham, George
THE UNIVERSAL PENMAN, Foreword: The Importance of The Universal Penman in Relation to Modern Calligraphy by Philip Hofer.
$150

Type Specimens

Bastien, Alfred J.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA TYPOGRAPHICA. PART ONE., Decor and Classification of Type.
$175
Baker, William and Kenneth Womack (editors)
NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH BOOK-COLLECTORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHERS. VOLUME 184., From the Dictionary of Literary Biography: First Series.
$125
Auer, Alois
POLYGRAPHISCHE APPARAT OBER DIE VERSCHIENDENEN KUNSTFÄCHER DER K.K. HOF- UND STAATSDRUCKEREI ZUM WIEN
$700

One of 75 Copies Printed on Special Paper

CATALOGUE OF I. TYPEFOUNDERS' SPECIMENS, II. BOOKS PRINTED IN FOUNTS OF HISTORIC IMPORTANCE, III. WORKS ON TYPEFOUNDING PRINTING & BIBLIOGRAPHY OFFERED FOR SALE.
$250

Grabhorn Press

NINETEENTH CENTURY TYPE DISPLAYED IN 18 FONTS CAST BY UNITED STATES FOUNDERS, NOW IN THE CASES OF THE GRABHORN PRESS
$125

One of Only 5 Copies

Alberts, S.S.
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF ROBINSON JEFFERS
$2,000

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

Selling books in Finland a hundred years ago

Aksel Kinnanun
Finnish book on Newspaper- and Bookstores in railway stations and elsewhere: LEHTI- JA KIRJAKAUPPA, RAUTATEILLA JA MUUALLA 1910 - 1935
$75 $100 or less

CA volumes from 1969-1991 available on my website

various
CA, THE JOURNAL OF THE COMMUNICATION ARTS - vol. X, nos. 1 - 6 (1968), volumes from 1969 - 1991 also available on my website
$119

The Books of Colorado River & the Grand Canyon

Francis P Farquar
The Books of the Colorado River & the Grand Canyon: A Selective Bibliography 1953
$100 $100 or less