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Arion Press

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Todd, Glenn (editor)
SHAPED POETRY, A Suite of Typographic Prints Chronicling This Literary Form from 300 BC to the Present.
$1,500

Printing Machine Stock Certificates

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Various Companies
1864-1906 – Collection of four scarce stock certificates relating to the U.S. printing industry
$600

PRINTING & TYPOGRAPHY SPECIMEN BOOK

64757 [PRINTING & TYPOGRAPHY -- PACIFIC NORTHWEST]. [SNEDDON, John Raymond “Ray”].
Type styles available at Portland Linotyping Company typographers. . . Linotype, Monotype, Hand Type, Ludlow.
$350

PRINTING & PAPER SAMPLES

64782 [PRINTING & PAPER SAMPLES].
From stone to halftone. No. three-five; seven-nine of a series. [Six paper and printer’s specimens on Dill & Collins paper stock].
$200

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
Weingart, Wolfgang
THE TEN SECTIONS: MY WAY TO TYPOGRAPHY
$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
Spencer, Herbert
THE VISIBLE WORD
$100 $100 or less
Ringwalt, Luther (editor)
AMERICAN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PRINTING
$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

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

Type Specimens

Bastien, Alfred J.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA TYPOGRAPHICA. PART ONE., Decor and Classification of Type.
$175
Auer, Alois
POLYGRAPHISCHE APPARAT OBER DIE VERSCHIENDENEN KUNSTFÄCHER DER K.K. HOF- UND STAATSDRUCKEREI ZUM WIEN
$700

Book Club of California

THE LETTERS OF WESTERN AUTHORS
$700

Cummington Press

AMERICAN DECADE
$500
TYPORAMA
$100 $100 or less

Harrison of Paris

A TYPOGRAPHICAL COMMONPLACE BOOK
$150

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

Three wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg.

Fritz Eichenberg
Lincoln portrait - WW II - Season's Greetings, An interesting provenance
$450

Trompe l'oeil Visiting Card

unknown
sample for a folding penknife card, size and shape of a Hollinger
$25 $100 or less

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

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

World War I peace through victory!

Comité de l'Union
À tous les Français" (To all the French people), A demand for total victory, accountability, and security guarantees so that the fallen soldiers’ sacrifice is not betrayed.
$275

French WW I/ interwar campaign against alcoholism.

National League Against Alcoholism (Ligue National Contre l'Alcoolisme)
Let's mobilize against the enemy from within! (Mobilisons!.. Contre l'ennemi... del'intérieur!!!), A large and rare example of French letterpress printed ephemera pertaining to the early 20th century history of the French Temperance movement.
$250

1930s Dance Card

Lithographer's Local 13
Program, Washington DC
$25 $100 or less

1926 Publications List

Lane's List
"X-Ray" promotion card, Augusta, Maine
$65 $100 or less

1922 Private Press Keepsake

Henry Collins Brown
Listing subscribers to Book of Old New-York, published in 1913
$25 $100 or less

1901 Calendar

E. P. Dutton & Co.
Pansies for Thought, Four die-cut panels
$45 $100 or less

1896 Los Angeles Weddings

H.M. Lee & Bro.
A Knotty Question, a short treatise on Good Form for Weddings
SOLD

With Facsimiles of a Gutenberg Bible Leaf

Scripps College Press
Beorum II, Fragmentary Evidence
$450

1880s Card Sample

Butler and Kelley
Visiting card sample with note on back, An apartment for rent on Sharp Road
SOLD

1860s Decals

Charles Palm
Advertising card for transfer ornaments, With a 'gem' transfer portrait as sample
$50 $100 or less

Scholar or Dunce? Make Your Choice

Unidentified
Circa 1825 – An academic reward of merit featuring an illustration of a post-chaise and a cautionary couplet
$100 $100 or less