Broadsides
Before recollection
[West Branch, Iowa]: Toothpaste Press, 1982. Edition limited to 70 signed and numbered copies, 14" x 10½" poetry broadside printed for Bookslinger Editions on the occasion of the author's reading at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. More
Poetry readings at Alandoni's December 3, 1976 from Ware, Mass., editor of Four Zoas Journal S. R. Lavin ... December 31 returning from Berkeley ... George Mattingly
[West Branch: Toothpaste Press, 1976]. Letterpress broadside, 6½" x 9", on stiff cream paper printed in red; small loss at one corner, else fine. Not in OCLC. More
The truth shall make you free. The City College, Colombo. Recognized by the Calcutta University. Two minutes from Royal College and four from Pettah Railway Station...
Colombo, [Ceylon]: 1897. Quarto broadside printed on orange paper within an ornate metal-cut border, approx. 13" x 10¾"; previous folds with one small break (not touching any letterpress); all else very good. The broadside notes the honorary lecturer, principal and vice-principal, and assistant masters. "No government Grant-in-aid examinations. Students of..... More
The blind man's house at the edge of the cliff
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1987. Edition limited to 150 copies (this copy out-of-series), 14" x 10" poetry broadside printed over relief print by Janice Perry. Printed for the Loft Mentor Series, 1989. More
The Gettysburg address, XIX November, MDCCCLXIII
[New York: Frederic W. Goudy, for R. R. Bowker Co., 1940.]. Large folio broadside (approx. 24½" x 18"), previous central fold; all else fine. Set by Bertha Goudy and beautifully printed in the Goudy-designed Forum type. Only the Huntington in OCLC, but there are also copies at Vassar and Syracuse..... More
Catalogue of English broadsides 1505-1897
New York: Burt Franklin, [1968]. Reprint of the 1898 first edition, 4to, pp. xl, 526; very good in original maroon cloth, spine gilt. 1814 entries with commentary. More
Initium sancti evangelii sec. Joannem...
[Ditchling: Saint Dominic's Press, n.d., ca. Broadside approx. 8¾" x 9¾", printed in red and black in two columns; very good condition. A liturgical sheet consisting of the Initium sancti evangelii... in the left column, and the Lavabo (Deus, qui himanae substantiae dignitatem...) on the right. Unrecorded. Not in Taylor..... More
Papeoiteoei Maoi Gtapegiagan. Oelimgosit gotjino papeoit. Hymne au pape, Micmac
New York: J. Fischer & Bro, [1908]. Broadsheet, title on recto, musical notation on verso; lyrics in Micmac; paper evenly toned, near fine. Pacifique de Valigny, née Henri-Joseph-Louis Buisson, was a Capucin French missionary who wrote and published a number of religious materials for the benefit of the Mi'kmaq and..... More
Saying. Translated by Paul Blackburn
[West Branch, Iowa]: Toothpaste Press, 1980. Bifolium holiday card approx. 6" x 4½", from Lorca / Blackburn: Momo's Press, reprinted December, 1980 for friends of the Toothpaste Press. More
Low's Grand Opera House, Providence, R.I. Programme of the first dramatic entertainment given under the auspices of the Brownson Lyceum, Wednesday ev'ng, Jan. 31, 1883. The Colleen Bawn ... Manager, P. J. McCarthy
Providence: 1883. Folio broadside (approx. 13" x 5¾"), text in a single column beneath the running head; light toning, very good. Listing the cast of characters for this Irish drama in three acts, made for the benefit of the Brownson Lyceum, as well as a synopsis of each of the..... More
The ability to read
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, n.d. 7½" x 11" letterpress broadside, printed on the occasion of the opening of the Contemporary Book Arts at Carleton exhibition. More
Make a wish
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press. 15¼" x 10", broadside gift acknowledgement and certification for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Minnesota. More
In reading...
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1992. 6½" x 9½", letterpress broadside printed over relief print by Leslie Ross. More
The four traitors,* who most infamously sold themselves to the Dorrites, for office and political power. Let us not reward Traitors, but with just indignation abandon them as "Scape-Goats," to their destiny--forever
[Providence? publisher not identified, 1845.]. Broadside (approx. 14" x 9¾"); woodcut caricature of the "four traitors" beneath the running head; old tape stain in the lower right margin (sense remains clear); all else very good. An illustrated broadside reviling four Rhode Island Whigs who broke party ranks to support a...... More
Glasgow Tool Works, Glasgow. Marshall & Wylie manufacturers of improved patent cap welded tubes for locomotive, marine & stationary boilers &c. Price list
[Glasgow?]: McClure & MacDonald, 20 St. Vincent Place, n.d., [ca. 1840s]. Broadside, 10½" x 8¾", oval wood-engraved vignette of the factory, and noting addresses in London, Paris, New York, and San Francisco; previous folds, 1 or 2 very short tears in the margins; very good or better. Printed on thin..... More
Last stands / notes from memory
[West Branch, Iowa]: Toothpaste Press, 1982. 6¼" x 9¾" letterpress broadside from Masters' forthcoming book, printed by Allan Kornblum at The Toothpaste Press as part of the Bookslinger exhibit at the 1982 American Booksellers Association Convention, in Anaheim. More
The dove of Denmark
[London? 1864]. Broadside (approx. 203 mm.); previous folds, else fine. At head of title: "Extract from the reply of His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, on his being presented with the Freedom of the Fishmongers' Company, February 12th, 1863"; below which is given the quotation, followed by Matthews's..... More
Three broadside Monthly Reports
[Boston]: April 15, May 15 and July 12, 1865. Three broadsides, each approx. 12" x 6", text in double column, signed in type at the end of each by Abby W. May. Previous folds, very good. The issue of April 15 has given heightened interest to what would otherwise be..... More
Dog people
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1977. 7½" x 11" prose excerpt from Dog People by Cris Mazza, accompanied by relief print by Kelly Kofron. More
April arboretum
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1987. Large letterpress broadside 26" x 18", limited to 100 numbered and signed copes. Printed in 3 colors on green Fabriano Roma paper. Dedicated to Kenneth Rexroth. More
December 1992 - January 1995. Kim Merker thirty-five years of printing. An exhibition celebrating his achievements with The Stone Wall Press & The Windhover Press. Sponsored by the University of California, Riverside
N.p. [Riverside?]: Jacobsen, 1992. Broadside (approx. 17" x 11") printed in red and black, reproducing a woodcut by John Roy; fine. From the library of Kim Merker. More
Strawberries
[West Branch, Iowa]: Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger Editions, 1981. Letterpress broadside, edition limited to 90 numbered copies (this, marked 'os' - ?), approx. 10¼" x 14½", printed in red and black; printed on the occasion of the author's reading at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, October 16, 1981. This copy..... More
Where the sun sleeps, our fathers came thence
[Stockholm, Wisconsin]: Midnight Paper Sales, 1996. Edition limited to 70 numbered and signed copies, poetry broadside 11" x 15" with a color relief print by Gaylord Schanilec. Excerpted from Metcalf's Collected Works, volume I, published by Coffee House Press. Quarter to Midnight A.155. More