1966. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1966. Folio, [19] leaves unpaginated, loose signatures in Siena wrappers, laid in purple cloth covered folding box with printed title label. Fine. § Limited to 400 copies, with a leaf from the Complutensian Bible and a well-researched scholarly essay by Basil Hall. The..... More
1934. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1934-1935. Folio, spiral bound printed brown paper wrappers, black label tipped in on front cover with gilt type. § Includes sample pages for the 12 books of 1934-1935. Each sample includes the title page, a page or two of text or illustration..... More
1976. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1976. Folio, 99 pages. Richly illuminated and illustrated throughout, with 43 specimen leaves. Original quarter red cloth and boards, fine, original plain dust-jacket, age toned and lightly worn. § Limited to 400 copies printed at the Arion Press and signed by Angelo..... More
2004. NY: Grolier Club, 2004. 8vo, 54 pp. Illustrated. Wavy green/yellow patterned wrappers. As new. § Limited to 1500 copies printed at the Thornwillow Press. A lovely and useful little booklet. More
1846. New York: Herald Book and Job Office, 97 Nassau Street, 1846. Single sheet, folio, 492 x 628 mm. Printed on recto only, title and three columns of verse surrounded by a highly elaborate border composed of printer's ornaments. Very good with old folds, slightly toned, two 30 mm closed..... More
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1906. Berkeley: California Bookplate Society (Sheldon Cheney), 1906-1907. 4 vols, 12mo, (16); (16); (18); (16) pp. First issue of this booklet with 9 facsimile bookplates; the 3 remaining volumes each with at least 1 bookplate tipped in, the remaining examples in line-drawn facsimile. Wrappers of Vol. 1 No. 1 with..... More
1860. New York: Thaddeus Davids & Co., 1860. Sm. 8vo, 72, 4,[6]pp., with an elaborate chromolithographic title-page, and 16 lithographic plates (1 colored). Original brown boards lettered in gilt, rebacked and hinges strengthened. § A scarce and interesting book on the subject. An early and handsome history of ink..... More
1929. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1929. 12mo, xxii , 54, 4 pp. With a colored frontispiece and a hand colored initial by Valenti Angelo. Full russet morocco, backstrip slightly faded. § Limited to 425 copies, this one of a very few in the leather binding. In pencil in the colophon..... More
1986. Woodside, CA: Heyeck Press, 1986. 4to, 63 pp. with 28 marbled paper samples tipped in. Quarter grey morocco, grey & white boards, gilt titling, grey slipcase, mint. § 150 copies on handmade paper. Samples of papers with different flaws are included, and chapters are devoted to many variables that..... More
2019. The Book Club of California, 2019. Large 4to (9 x 12.25 inches), 192 pp. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs. Publisher's brown boards with gray linen backstrip, photo portrait of Mora mounted on upper board, backstrip lettered in brown, slipcase. As new. § Copy number 68 of..... More
2019. The Book Club of California, 2019. Large 4to (9 x 12.25 inches), 192 pp. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs. Publisher's quarter brown leather over gray linen boards, photo portrait of Mora mounted on upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, with a paper portfolio slipcase containing two..... More
1932. Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1932. Tall folio, 71 pp. with 15 specimens of paper made from bamboo, mulberry, china grass and mitsuma, 3 specimens of bark, and numerous color and black and white illustrations. Three quarter buckram and decorated paper boards, printed paper label to upper board, occasional light..... More
1936. New York: Pynson Printers, 1936. Quarto, 148, (4)pp., plus 51 paper specimens. With frontispiece, three woodcut and 65 photogravure illustrations. Quarter leather with paper over boards printed in gilt from 18th century wood blocks acquired by Hunter in Korea, backstrip tooled in red and lettered in gilt, insignificant wear..... More
1928. Cambridge and New York: 1928. Thick 4to, xiii, 264, (1) pp. With 10 plates, 60 line blocks in the text, 6 typographical insets, 3 broadsides, and an 8pp. type specimen printed on pale green paper; many in two or more colors; two original prints by David Jones including one..... More
1900. London: 1900. 8vo, 20 pp. With 26 photographic plates of Prideaux’s bindings. Original blue boards, upper cover titled in black, cloth backstrip, a fine copy. § Limited to 200 copies but very scarce and rarely found is acceptable condition. It was printed by the author and her friend and..... More
2012. Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 2012. Roy. 8vo, 144 pp. of which 127 are numbered. Letterpress printed. Tip-ins and fold outs. Set in Bell, Bodoni, Goudy Modern, Arrighi, Romulus, Poliphilus. Fournier and Caslon types. Printed on Somerville Laid & Zerkall mould made paper. Case bound in light boards. Printed dust wrapper..... More
