Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 1987. Edition limited to 150 copies, this one of 75 on Mohawk Letterpress and marked "binder's copy" on the colophon; 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 42, [4]; portrait frontispiece, 1 wood-engraved plate and various text illustrations by John DePol, facsimile of LeBonheur, printed with Goudy's own..... More

Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 1987. Edition limited to 150 copies, this one of 75 on Mohawk Letterpress (this, copy no. 89); 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 42, [4]; portrait frontispiece, 1 wood-engraved plate and various text illustrations by John DePol, folding facsimile of LeBonheur, printed with Goudy's own Albion press..... More

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1947-1954. 9 volumes, 4to, each 16 pages or less, each in original printed wrappers or self-wrappers, each ex-Minnesota Historical Society with a small rubberstamp on the front covers; overall in very good condition. Includes Bindery Series nos. 1-9: The Process of Marbling Paper; Bookbinding Pastes;..... More

[Cambridge, MA]: Harvard University Press, 1949. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 128, 40 plates; bottom corners bumped, without dust jacket, else fine in two-toned black & gray cloth, gilt-lettered spine. A collection of illustrated essays on Function, Form, Style, and Prospect by Dwiggins, Rollins, Paul Rand, Lynd Ward, and Merle..... More

North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1970. Edition ltd. to 210 copies, 8vo, 2 parts in 1, pp. 88, [4]; 2 title pages printed in two colors, 10 facsimile pages (2 folding) plus 2 inserted facsimile leaves, 1 tipped-in illustration, and 5 woodcut illustrations reproduced in a range of..... More

New York: Henry Holt & Co., n.d., [1898]. Folio broadside, approx. 12" x 11"; printed in black on brown paper; generally fine. The David Dwight Wells's humorous stories were published by Holt in New York in 1898, and reprinted again in London, where it seems to have enjoyed considerable success..... More

Cambridge: Harvard College Library, 1967. Folio, xiv-[xvi] & 255-[256]pp., 10 color plates, numerous illustrations throughout of manuscripts, bindings, maps, and printed books from Harvard's diverse collections; fine copy in orig. black cloth gilt, t.e.g., with publisher's announcement and presentation slip laid in. More

Newburyport, [Mass.]: entered according to Act of Congress by Thomas & Whipple, booksellers, 1805. First edition, narrow oblong 8vo, pp. [32], 16 unnumbered engraved plates; contemporary blue wrappers, worn and chipped; scattered ink stains; various calligraphic inscriptions on both wrappers; pages toned and bent; rear pages loosening. Plates with calligraphic..... More

Lanzac: Le Point, Souillac, 1945. Small, slim 4to, pp. 48, 16; black and white photographic illustrations throughout; stiff white wrappers laid into similar wrappers, toning, else fine. A moving homage to those who risked their lives printing banned books and pamphlets in Nazi-occupied France. No. 31 of the literary journal..... More

San Francisco: John Henry Nash, n.d., [1937]. Small folio bifolium, approx. 12" x 8½", previous folds; very good. Announcing three books of California interest: John Bidwell's A Journey to California; Alexander Forbes's California: A History of Upper and Lower California from Their Discovery to the Present Time; and, San Francisco..... More

Various places and dates. Broadsides, chapbooks, prospectuses, holiday cards, invitations, birth announcements, stationery, business cards, some proof pages and trial sheets, and assorted job work. Condition is generally fine. Some with manuscript inscriptions. Among the printers and presses included are the Five Tree Press, The Printery, Turtle Press, Cummington Press..... More

New York: [Celebration of Printing Week,], 1970. 12mo, pp. 61; title-page vignette and wood engravings by John De Pol; very fine in orig. light green paper-covered boards, gilt. More