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Specimen type pages. National Library Editions [cover title].
[New York: Bigelow, Brown, 1930]. 8vo, pp. [79]; 4 b/w plates; near fine in the original maroon cloth gilt. With TLS from C.C. Bigelow and a color plate laid in. More
Printing
Fine Print on type: the best of Fine Print on type and typography
San Francisco: Bedford Arts, 1988. First edition, folio, pp. [8], 147, [1]; illustrated throughout; fine in a fine dust jacket. Thirty-five of the best articles in Fine Print on type and typography by James Mosley, Walter Tracy, Stephen O. Saxe, Sumner Stone, Fine Print's own editor, Sandra Kirshenbaum, John Dreyfus... More
Basic typography
New York: Watson-Guptill, 1968. First American edition, square 8vo, pp. 176; illustrated throughout; spine a little discolored, else very good in original black cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine. More
A bibliography of printing with notes and illustrations.
New York: Philip C. Duschnes, 1945. 3 volumes in two, facsimile reproduction of the 1884 edition, 8vo, pp. [2], xii, 449; [2], vii, [1], 412, [2], vi, [2], 115, [1]; illustrated throughout; original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, 2 leaves chipped at margins (not affecting text), else very good with original prospectus laid in. More
A bibliography of printing.
[N. p.]: The Holland Press, [1969]. Reprint edition (first published 1880-1884), thick 8vo, 3 vols. in 1; pp. xii, 449, [1]; pp. . [6], 412; pp. [4], 115; frontispiece portrait of Bernard Quaritch, dec. initials and illustrations throughout text; a fine, fresh copy in dust jacket. Remains a standard work. More
The world of sex: a sampler
[Ann Arbor]: Roger Jackson, 1995. Edition limited to 26 copies of which this is copy "Q," signed by the artist, 8vo, 9 individual unbound sheets on goldenrod cardstock printed in red; laid into a handcrafted envelope made in Nepal from the bark of the Daphne cannabina tree; erotic charcoal illustrations... More
Rarities of numismata typographica. Four examples of early Dutch printers' bookbinders' & booksellers' guild medals cast in sterling silver from original specimens... Introduction by Henry Morris
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1996. Edition limited to 120 copies, 8vo, pp. 32, [4]; with a separate paper-covered portfolio containing 4 actual silver specimens; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine; publisher's brown cloth slipcase; fine. The bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery, and out-of-series. Forty-Four A58. More
The Pentateuch of printing, with a chapter on Judges. With a memoir of the author, and list of his works, by Talbot B. Reed.
London: Elliot Stock, 1891. First edition, 4to, pp. xxvi, [2], 117, [1]; frontis, 2 folding plates, illustrations and facsimiles throughout; front hinge cracked, edges worn, moderate soiling, else a good copy in orig. gilt-decorated red cloth, t.e.g. The story of printing presented as a parallel to the books of the... More
An inquiry into the rights of the British colonies, intended as an answer to the regulations lately made concerning the colonies, and the taxes imposed upon them considered.
Richmond, VA: Appeals Press, Inc, 1922. Edition limited to 190 copies (this, no. 36); 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 37, [1]; brown cloth with paper label on cover; lower edge of cover bumped, edges of text just starting to tone, bookplate residue on upper pastedown. A facimile for the William Parks... More
Ole #7: the Godzilla review issue of small press publications, comprehensively encompassing books published over the last half-decade
San Francisco: Open Skull Press, May, 1967. Large 4to, unpaged; text printed from typescript on vari-colored paper; original white pictorial wrappers, minor wear, pages uniformly toned, else very good. Contains hundreds of short reviews of small-press books printed across the United States and Europe, edited by American poet Douglas Blazek. More
A box of ephemera
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 1980s - 2000s. Contains press catalogues, Xmas cards, greeting cards, chapbooks, broadsides, prospectuses, 1 CD, etc. nearly 50 items in all and contained in a orange cloth clamshell box, paper label on spine. More
[Broadside:] Leonard and Virginia Woolf began their foray into printing...
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 2003. Edition limited to 39 copies, broadside, approx. 12" x 9", signed by Blinn; fine. "Made by Carol J. Blinn at her very own Warwick Press in Easthampton, Massachusetts, to celebrate the Thirteenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, 'Woolf in the Real World," at Smith College in... More
From stripper to publisher: or, how printing changed my life. Two lectures
[Easthampton: Warwick Press, 1986]. Edition limited to 125 copies signed by Blinn and the photographer, 12mo, [2], 30, [3]; 1 color photograph by Robert Lyons of the author in her print shop tipped in; fine in original green paste-paper covered boards, gilt-lettered spine. The text consists of two lectures by... More
On becoming three & thirty: being a brief history & description of Warwick Press from inception to its three year anniversary & also a celebration of Carol J. Blinn's thirtieth year of life.
[Easthampton]: Warwick Press, 1976. Edition limited to 150 copies (this, no. 142), 8vo, pp. [16]; title-page self-portrait with a dab of hand-coloring, hand-colored colophon vignette; original green paste paper wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover; fine. An interesting copy. Laid in is a note from Carol Blinn to Greg... More
On the fritz: living with hot flashes...With explanatory mouse drawings by the author
[Easthampton]: Warwick Press, 2010. First edition, 8vo, pp. 36, [6]; 15 color illustrations; original pictorial wrappers; fine. "Illustrated, designed, typeset, and hand sewn into paper wrappers" by Blinn. "The line drawings were originally drawn pen & ink, the watercolored, scanned into an iMac, & carefully cleaned up in photoshop so... More
One woman's work at the Warwick Press [as printed in The private library, fifth series. Vol. 4:2]
[Middlesex: Private Libraries Association], 2001. 8vo, pp. 49-95, [1]; photo portrait, title page and illustration facsimiles; peach printed paper wrappers, fine. Signed by Blinn under her portrait, with a compliments card laid in. A short account of her career, followed by a checklist of material from 1973-2001. This text was... More
One woman's work...Introduction by Michael Russem
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 2015. Edition limited to 32 copies signed by Blinn, 16mo, pp. 30, [6]; pictorial endpapers, tipped-in frontispiece portrait, 17 other tip-ins, including 2 paper samples, a number of photographs, and facsimiles; original red cloth-backed purple cloth-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; fine. Laid in is the... More
Paper girls...With illustrations by Julia Richter
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 2009. Edition limited to 155 copies signed by Blinn of which 112 were donated for inclusion in deluxe copies of Parenthesis 17; 12mo, pp. [16]; title page with a dab of hand-coloring printed in red and black; 2 tipped-in illustrations; original hand-colored pictorial wrappers; fine. A loving... More
Remembering Sherwood Grover, California type man. With an introduction by Carol Blinn
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 2010. Edition limited to 164 copies signed by Blinn, 114 of which were donated for inclusion in the deluxe copies of Parenthesis 19; 8vo, pp. [20]; 4 tipped-in illustrations; original handmade paper covers, printed paper label on upper cover; fine. Sherrwood Grover and his partner Katherine Carruth... More
A pair on printing. Atkyn's The Original and Growth of Printing. William Caslon and the first English type specimen book.
North Hills, PA: 1982. Edition limited to 500 copies, 8vo, 137-[141]pp., facsimile of Atkyn's Original (London, 1664) (36pp.), and numerous type facsimiles after Caslon's Specimen of 1764; fine copy in original beige buckram, paper label on spine. More
Art of the printed book, 1455-1955. Masterpieces of typography through five centuries from the collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, [1973]. First edition, 4to, pp. xiv, 192; title page printed in brown and black; 125 plates in text, plus one folding facsimile; original cloth in tan dust jacket printed in brown and black; a few shallow chips and tears along top edges of jacket, small... More
Bruce Rogers. A life in letters, 1870-1957. Foreword by John Dreyfus
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1989. Edition ltd. to 2125 copies, this 1/125 bound in quarter black Niger; large 8vo, pp. 215, [3]; photograph portrait frontis & 57 plates; very fine. Designed and produced by W. Thomas Taylor; plates produced at The Press of A. Colish. The definitive correspondence of arguably... More
The printed book in America.
Boston: David R. Godine, in association with the Dartmouth College Library, [c1977]. 4to, pp. xvi, 250, [1]; 70 full-page illustrations; red cloth in yellow dust jacket; jacket lightly soiled, bookseller's label on upper pastedown, text watercreased at bottom, not affecting text. More
Robert Frost and his printers
Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor, 1985. Edition limited to 1000 copies, tall 8vo, pp. [2], xi, [1], 105, [1]; woodblock vignette on title page, 31 facsimile plates; original tan buckram, spine stamped, fine in fine paper-covered slipcase. More
The Spiral Press through four decades: an exhibition of books and ephemera with a commentary
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1966. Edition limited to 1900 copies, this one of 400 in cloth, large 8vo, pp. 66, [34] (facsimiles); blue and gray cloth, gilt title direct on spine, gilt printer's mark on upper cover, touch of spotting to endpapers, near fine. More
