Columbus: Logan Elm Press, 1982. Edition limited to 200 copies printed on Kozo, 16mo, pp. [4], 15, [3]; 3 small linocuts; original handmade Gampi and Abaca paper wrappers stitched in the Japanese style, printed red paper label on upper cover. More
New York: Privately Printed, 1987. 12mo, pp. [48]; 30 wood engravings plus 3 vignettes printed in brown, original green paper covered boards with gilt title on spine and gilt image on upper cover, fine. John DePol was the engraver for each of the thirty keepsakes published, and produced 401 engravings..... More
[Minneapolis]: [Ampersand Club], [1994]. Broadside, 10.5 x 8.25 inches; fine copy. Reproduction of an 18th century woodcut depicting a bindery. More
[Minneapolis]: Bookslinger Editions & Odegard Books, [1981]. Edition limited to 300 copies, folio bifolium paper cover by Gerry Lange of the Bieler Press, each containing 6 broadsides; the 2 broadsides printed by Schanilec are, “Once in the Pool, Doing My Laps,” by Susan Allen Toth, and, “Why Men Are Not..... More
St. Paul: [Ampersand Club], 2009. Square 8vo, pp. 9" x 9", pp. 47, [1]; color photographs throughout; a collection of rememberences by close friends of Powers; original gray paper wrappers; fine. Powers was design and production manager at Minnesota Historical Society Press as well as proprieter of Amaranth Press and..... More
New York: 1938. Edition ltd. to 190 copies, sm. 12mo, pp. [6], [1]-64, [1]; errata slip laid in at colophon; fine copy in orig. beige buckram, leather label (very slightly rubbed) on spine, publisher's slipcase (rubbed, and with small repair). Sixth publication of The Typophiles, with contributions by Paul Bennett..... More
New York: 1938. Edition ltd. to 190 copies, sm. 12mo, pp. [6], 64, [1]; errata slip laid in at colophon; spine darkened, else a very good copy in original beige buckram, leather label on spine; publisher's slipcase wanting. Bookplate of George Salter. Sixth publication of The Typophiles, with contributions by..... More
New York: New York Chappel, 1960. Edition limited to approximately 200 copies, 12mo, pp. [8], and 55 leaves printed by various members of the Chapel; original red cloth, printed paper label on upper cover; fine. This is the first book published by the New York Chapel members. Some of the..... More
La Crosse: Center for Contemporary Poetry: Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin, 1972. Edition ltd. to 500 copies, this 1 of 450 in wrappers; 8vo, pp. 79, [1]; illus. title-p. printed in pink and black; fine in orig. tan wrappers printed in black. Printed by Emerson Wulling at the Sumac Press..... More
Racine: Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Art, 1991. Large 8vo, pp. 22; illustrated throughout; fine in original pictorial wrappers. "This monograph was published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Walter Hamady: Handmade Books, Collages and Sculptures' organized by the Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin March 17..... More
La Crosse: Department of English, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, [1999]. Edition limited to "approximately" 275 copies printed from Eric Gill's Joanna types, 8vo, pp. 49, [3]; 2 pages are folding; 8 woodcuts (one printed in blue); original white paper-backed marbled boards, titling in black on spine; fine. From..... More
London: Nonesuch Press, 1926. Twelfth impression, small 8vo, pp. xii, 360; marbled endpapers, joints a touch rubbed, else near fine in three-quarter red morocco over marbled boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, decorative gilt-lettered spine. t.e.g. Poems, songs, advice on food and drink and first aid. More
Minneapolis: 1989. Wedding invitation for Michael Tarachow and Mercedes Dostale; 8vo, pp. [8]; printed on rectos only; fine in original printed marbled wrappers. More
Providence: [Merrymount Press], 1917. 8vo, pp. 13, [3]; illustrated title page and 7 full-page photo illustrations; fine in original printed wrappers. Designed by D. B. Updike and printed at The Merrymount Press. Laid in is a tri-fold leaflet on Courses of Instruction at the Women's College for the School Year..... More
Chicago: Calhoun Press, Columbia College, 1994. First edition, limited to an unspecified number of copies, oblong 8vo, pp. 114, [4]; printed in purple and black; text in double column; 12 tipped-in color illustrations by Hollis Sigler, gilt-stamped purple cloth spine, green cloth over gilt-stamped boards; fine. Designed by Marlene Lipinski..... More
[Greeley, Colorado: Caddis Case Press, 1992]. Edition limited to 60 copies (this, no. 9); 8vo, pp. [56]; decorated by Margaret Sunday with abstract, doodle-like wood engravings, and printed on Sakamoto from handset Gill Sans monotype, with Helvetica figures; the illustrations are printed from endgrain blocks cut with burins; the book..... More
San Marino, Ca. The Huntington Library, 1942. 8vo, pp. [2], 32, [2]; 3 illus. on rectos and versos of 2 plates, 2 facsimiles in text; fine in orig. printed orange wrappers. Attractive exhibition catalogue printed at the Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles. More
[Dublin]: The Salvage Press, 2013. Edition limited to 120 copies, this copy is an artist's proof, marked "handling copy." Folio, pp. [35]; title page printed in green and black; wood types printed in a variety of colors; quarter bound in orange cloth over boards; fine in publisher's slipcase. A typographic..... More
La Crosse: 1962. Edition limited to 200 copies, small 8vo, pp. [23]; printed in red and black; fine in orig. blue printed wrappers. Press Preterite, no. 95. "The marks of punctuation are by printers called points. Interestingly, both words come from the Latin root punct..." (Opening line). More
Kirkwood, [Missouri]: The Printery, 1972. Edition limited to 100 copies, 8vo, pp. [28]; printed in red, blue and black, two mounted portraits within typographical borders, fine copy in original half blue leather over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. From the library of Kim Merker. The politically dictated on-again off-again relationship between..... More
[New York]: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1931. Edition limited to 250 copies, none of which were for sale; 12mo, pp. [8], 155; title page with press device printed in blue; very good in original blue morocco-backed blue cloth-covered boards, gilt title on spine, light wear to spine ends and..... More
[Columbus]: Logan Elm Press, the Ohio State University, 1992. Edition limited to 300 copies (this, no. 62); 8vo, pp. [6], 23, [3]; original quarter cloth over cream paper-covered boards stamped in gilt, paper label on spibne; fine. More
West Branch, [Iowa]: Coffee House Press, 1985. Edition limited to 500 copies signed by the author and illustrator; 11" x 5½", pp. [24]; illustrations by Ann Mikolowski; stitched, as issued, in pictorial tan wrappers; fine. Morning Coffee Chapbook 12. More
Crestline, Calif. George Frederick Kolbe, 1999. Edition limited to 500 copies (this, the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery, and out of series), this one of 50 copies in the deluxe binding; 8vo, pp. [6], 11-163, [3]; printed in red and black; portrait frontispiece of the author, folding facsimile, double-page..... More
Crestline, Calif. George Frederick Kolbe, 2007. Special edition limited to 60 copies, (this the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery and out of series), with an original etching from J. F. Loubat's The Medallic History of the United States tipped in; 8vo, pp. 348, [4]; frontispiece, 57 color and grayscale..... More
