Chicago: The Reilly and Britton Co., ca 1900's. Hardcover. Tall octavo. 178pp. Beautiful Arts and Crafts Memory Book never used. Half-paper covered boards, with decorated cloth spine. Gilt titles. Each section with decorative design, each page with decorative header. Still in original glassine and in original decorated box, which is.....
Portland, Maine. Thomas Bird Mosher. 1915. First edition thus. Hardcover. 12 1/2'' x 9 1/4''. 72pp. Two hundred and fifty copies of this book printed on Van Gelder Hand-made paper. Soiling to covers, toning to interior. Still a very good copy.
The Little Man Press, 1940. First edition thus. Pamphlet. 7 5/8'' x 5''. 32pp. Pip Pap Po is one of the three books making up the 2nd Issue of THE LITTLE MAN, a quarterly magazine. Each issue consists of a series of booklets. Some minor soiling and toning.
New York: Privately Printed for Hermann Puterschein at the Inkwell Press, 1980. Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 153pp. Profusely Illustrated. Contributors incl. Dorothy Abbe, Warren Chappell, Mary A Ahern and Vincent Torre. Nicely designed book, limited to 500 copies. Issued without dust jacket. "Dwiggins is probably most noted for coining.....
Cleveland, OH: John T. Zubal, 1982. Hardcover. Octavo. 808pp. New Edition, Revised and Greatly Enlarged. Still in publishers shrink-wrap.
Pound Ridge, NY: Cycling Frog Press, n.d. Limited edition. Softcover. Quarto. 16pp.Letterpress. Illustrations by David Johnson. First edition thus. LIMITED TO 75 COPIES. Wrappers, with printed label on front. Split colored sheets at beginning and end of text. Some soiling (light fingerprints?) front cover and extended fold inside. Light foxing.....
Morristown, New Jersey: John F. Apgar Jr., 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong. Unpaginated. Limited to 550 copies. b & w illustrations. Original tan cloth binding, with a pictorial label on the front and brown titles. Pencil mark on edge of front cover.
New York: Burt Franklin, 1977. Hardcover. Octavo. 331pp. Illustrated. History of these once essential reference books which provided information on dates, weather, travel, home remedies, etc. Green cloth lightly faded at edges. Dustjacket is lightly faded on spine and has a few edge tears and associated creases.
Austin, TX: University of Texas & Baylor University, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 179pp. Comprehensive descriptive bibliography., incl. index of textual variants. Dust jacket is faded on spine and edges.
North Hills, PA. Bird & Bull Press, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 11'' X 8 1/4''. 120pp. This is copy number 19 of an edition limited to 300 copies. Leather spine over paper covered boards. Slipcase worn. A beautiful book, hand made paper.
Los Angeles: THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4'' X 6 3/4''. 269pp. Original blue cloth, in slipcase that shows some wear.
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1997. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Oblong octavo. Two Volumes, plus pamphlet. Facsimile Edition. Black leather with gilt lettering to front panels and spines in matching slipcase. Gilt to all page-edges. Spot of soiling to publisher's insert, lacking vellum wrappers. Otherwise fine.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California / The Grabhorn Press, 1927. Limited edition. Flexible boards-vellum. 7.5" x 5". 45 unnumbered pages. Limited Edition. No. 18 of 250 copies. Illustrations and initial capitals in red, blue, and gold by Valenti Angelo. Full vellum with linen ties, black lettering on the.....
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1974. First thus. Hardcover. Octavo.First Thus. 103pp. Preface by Professor James D. Hart. Collage illustrations by Bruce Conner. Black Cloth; gilt front cover and spine titling. One of 400 un-numbered copies printed in San Francisco at the Press of Andrew Hoyem. A reprint of.....
Newton: Bird & Bull press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4'' x 6 1/4''. 35pp. plus specimens. Two volumes in slipcase.
Northridge: Santa Susana Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 13'' x 9 1/2''. Designed, printed, and produced by D'Ambrosio. 12 original photographs, each signed by Blanco. This is copy no. 16 of sixty-five copies each signed by Powell and D'Ambrosio. Loose sheets in a clamshell box. Some light wear to box.....
Worcester, Ma: Achelle J. St. Onge, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 64pp. Illustrated. One of 200 copies. Spine lightly faded. Slight bump to top of spine.
Lexington, Kentucky. At the Gravesend Press, 1954. Woodcuts by Fritz Kredel. First edition thus. Hardcover. 6 3/4'' x 5''. 49pp. The edition is limited to two hundred copies, of which this is copy number 79. An extra woodcut by Fritz Kredel is laid-in.
El Cerrito, CA: Jacaranda Publishing, 1990. Softcover. Octavo. 16pp. In pictorial wrappers. Staple-bound. Pencil note says this is a rejected copy, limited to 10. A Prospectus is laid in, with information different than the colophon, so it does seem like some sort of proof copy. A little toning to fold.....
Florence, KY: Robert L. Barth, 1988. Softcover. 12mo. 7 x 4.25" 8pp. plus title and colophon. In olive green paper wrappers. Staple-bound. Limited edition number 13 of 175 SIGNED and numbered copies; total edition limited to 200 copies. Second copy (number 17).
Los Angeles: UCLA, 2003. First edition thus. Softcover. Two broadsides in folder. 11x 7". Designed and printed letterpress at Occasional Works. Illustrated. Deckled bottom edges. Limited to 100 copies. "Published to commemorate the UCLA Edgar Bowers Conference, April 11, 2003. Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library UCLA.".....
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Unpaginated. (8pp.) Limited edition, number 73 of 350 copies. "...produced and published by Christopher Sanford and Owen Rutter at the Golden Cockerel Press, London, on our Tree and Serpent hand-made paper in our Golden Cockerel Type..." Nicely illustrated. Off-white linen.....
New Port Beach: The Gold Stein Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 6 1/2'' x 4 3/4''. 17pp. This is number 47 of an edition of 50 copies and seven proofs, designed and produced by D' Ambrosio. Each page is a collage work. In the original clam shell slipcase. Signed by.....
Santa Barbara: Doggeral Press, 1983. First edition. Near fine box. Folio. Number 4, of a limited edition of 200 copies, signed by the author. Seventeen loose sheets in hand-made, drop-back box. Illustrated and hand-colored by Brandi; designed by Alice Karle, calligraphy by Peter Katoff, printed on a Hacker hand-press. Blue.....
New York: The Typophiles, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 149pp. TYPOPHILE CHAP BOOK :XV. Limited edition, #246 of 400 copies, of a total edition of 805. Burgundy cloth, with black and gold stamping, in burgundy paper covered slipcase.With three book plates on front paste-down: Albert Sperisen, San Francisco Area Printer.....