London & New York: Nonesuch Press & Random House, 1932-1963. Four separate prospectuses in a terracotta cloth-covered clamshell box: 1) Prospectus & Retrospectus, 1932, a 16-page catalogue of upcoming books and books in print, with attractive pink pictorial wrappers; 2) 3 new Nonesuch books for the summer of 1934, 8-page..... More
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 1992. Edition limited to 125 copies signed by the author and the illustrator (one in the same), 8vo, pp. [24]; hand-colored vignette title page and 11 hand-colored text illustrations by Carol Blinn; white paper-covered boards, hand-colored label on upper cover and spine, fine. Signed by author and..... More
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, primarily 1970s and 80s. From folio size to business cards, including Poltroon catalogues, prospectuses, invitations, announcements, advertising material, etc., in broadside, broadsheet, bifoliate, and chapbook formats. Forty-one pieces in all, as collected by Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. More
Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press, 1992. 8vo, pp. 8; 3 sepia-toned illustrations; original orange pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; fine. Catalogue of upcoming titles from the Press, including the reprint of Matrix 2, and the Whittington Press Bibliography by David Butcher. Integral order form. More
Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press, 1991. 8vo, pp. 7, [1]; black and white illustrations throughout; original sienna pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; fine. Catalogue of upcoming titles from the Press, including Miriam Macgregor's Whittington, and the Stanbrook Abbey Bibliography by David Butcher. Integral order form. More
Iowa City: The Stone Wall Press, 1964. Edition limited to 500 copies, 150 of which are in boards, 350 in wrappers; 12mo, pp. 27, [1]; double-paged insert between pp. 24-25 in Gaelic script and hand-lettered by Michael O'Connell; fine in original brown paper-covered boards with a Korean calligraphy design. From..... More
Iowa City: The Stone Wall Press, 1964. Edition limited to 500 copies, 150 of which are in boards, 350 in wrappers; 12mo, pp. 27, [1]; double-paged insert between pp. 24-25 in Gaelic script and hand-lettered by Michael O'Connell; fine in original printed wrappers with a Korean calligraphy design. From the..... More
Cummington, Massachusetts: The Cummington Press, [1948]. Edition of 500 copies designed and printed by Harry Duncan and Wightman Williams in Poliphilus and Blado; 8vo, pp. [12]; 3 illustrations by Wightman Williams printed in blue; unsewn; near fine in original printed yellow wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker. The entire..... More
New York: [Celebration of Printing Week], 1972. 12mo, pp. 55; title-page vignette and wood engravings by John De Pol; very good in orig. mustard yellow paper-covered boards, faint reddish discoloration on cover. More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. First edition limited to 2250 copies (this, no. 1967), large 4to, pp. [2], xiii, [3], 295, [3]; illustrated with numerous facsimlies from the press; fine copy in black morocco-backed red cloth, black moerocco medallion on cover; fine copy in a slightly worn slipcase. More
Champaign, Illinois: The Finial Press, 1975. Edition limited to 50 copies on Shinsetsu (this, no. 12); small folio, pp. [20] frenchfold, 6 wood engravings printed directly from the wood on the versos; near fine copy in original decorative orange boards. From the library of Kim Merker. Printed as part of..... More
Menomonie, WI: The Vagabond Press, Lloyd & Myrtis Whydotski, printers & bookbinders, 1960-83. Contents: The 46th Gutenberg; Stanley Arthur Morison; Visions of Sugar Plums; A Medieval Letter by Fra Giovanni; The Curse of Envy; A Prayer by St. Francis of Assisi; Johnny Appleseed's Prayer, Soapmaking; 21 titles in all, edition..... More
Iowa City: University of Iowa, the Windhover Press, 1981. Edition limited to 310 copies, this one of 260 copies without colored illustrations; folio, pp. 44, [2]; errata slip laid in at colophon; text printed in double column; woodcut title page printed in red and black, 11 woodcut illustrations throughout; fine..... More
Boston: [Rose Bindery Company, 1925]. 8vo, pp. [14], 7 color plates; quarter red cloth, gray paper boards, gilt title on upper cover; light soiling and wear, very good, with the ownership inscription of Michael Robinson. An advertisment for the bindery's service. More
New York: Typophiles, 1951. Edition limited to 640 copies, 12mo, pp. [12], 93-[94]; frontis portrait, illus. and facsimiles throughout. Fine in orig. tan cloth, printed in black and gilt. Typophile Chapbooks, no. 25. More
La Crosse, WI: 1959. Folio broadsheet folded twice; 12mo; fine. A poem anonymously written pre-975, the date of the Exeter Cathedral manuscript in which it was originally found. Printed in red & black. Limited to 300 copies. Rulon-Miller, Wulling, #88. More
Middletown, CT: Robin Price, 1997. Broadside (approx. 15" x 7½") limited to 100 copies, printed in four colors in Perpetual and Stradivarius on Tosa Hanga; fine. The ukiyo-e print at the top by Torii Kiyomine (17587-1868) was reproduced by Keiji Shinohara "whose reproduction print was used as the original source..... More
[Haarlem, printed by Joh. Enschede en Zonen, for]: The Pleiad, 1927. Edition limited to 550 copies printed under the typographic direction of Frederick Warde, slim 4to, pp. [8], 53, [1]; unopened; fine in original green linen lettered in gilt on spine. More
Prairie Village, Ks. The Crabgrass Press, 1968. Edition limited to 250 copies (this, No. 92); 12mo, pp. [14]; printed in red and black; "V12-7161" neatly written in pen on the back cover by private press printer, Emerson Wulling; otherwise a near fine copy in original orange wrappers printed in red..... More
[Austin: Kairos Press, 1986]. Edition limited to 100 copies, 8vo, pp. [16]; the type is Romanée, the paper handmade Magnani, printed damp on a Reliance handpress by Bradley Hutchinson & Tom Taylor, the whole bound in Fortuny cloth by the Jensen Bindery; tan slipcase with printed paper label on spine..... More
New York: Typophiles, 1940. Edition limited to 300 copies, 12mo, pp. xxxi-[xxxii]; 5 illus., 8 pages with rules and decoration, numerous headpieces; very good in original red cloth-backed dec. paper-covered boards, gilt spine. Typophile Chapbook no. 1. More
Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1970. Edition limited to 500 copies, this being one of 450 bound in full cloth; 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 180; frontis of the Abbey, 12 full-page illustrations, 5 facsimiles, list of Stanbrook printers (including Dame Hildelith Cumming, a nun and the motivating force behind the press..... More
Iowa City: Meadow Press, 1975. Edition limited to 45 copies (this, no. 14) signed by each of the poets; square 8vo, pp. [6], 3-23, [3]; 6 woodcuts by Leigh McLellan; fine copy in original pictorial cream wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker. Original prospectus laid in. This is the..... More
[Wakefield, West Yorkshire]: Fleece Press, [1988]. Edition limited to 95 copies, 4to, pp. [40]; 7 wood engravings by Simon Brett, Peter Reddick, John Craig and others; tipped-in photographic portrait, plus 1 other tip-in; original full Laura Ashley cloth, printed paper label on spine; fine. More
[Incline Village, Nevada]: The Huckleberry Press, 1991. Edition limited to 50 copies (this, no. 7); small slim folio, pp. [8]; illustrated title page with the 2 presses printed in red; fine copy in original terracotta wrappers, title on front printed in black. From the library of Kim Merker. "Fifty copies..... More
