Search Results: Fine Binding & Printing from Classic Books and Ephemera

New York: M.J. Pollak, 1950. Hardcover. Fine/fine. "A collection of sundry thoughts on friendships and birthdays in general, together with some particular comments by a few of the many friends of William Benton on the occasion of whose fiftieth birthday this privately printed edition of fifty copies is produced." [48] p.; 26 cm. Dark blue leather spine with gilt-stamped spine title; dark blue cloth over boards. Dark blue endpapers. Slipcase has dark blue cloth on spine and ends with light blue paper on sides. Bound by Sloves Bindery. An out-of-series copy. William Benton (1900-1973) represented Connecticut in the United States Senate from 1949 to 1953 and served as U.S. Ambasador to UNESCO in Paris from 1963 to 1968. Contains birthday congratulations from Reginald Marsh, as well as numerous business and political acquaintances. Book and slipcase are in Fine Condition.

Paris: Didier et Cie, 1876. Hardcover. Very Good. Dix-Septième Édition. 2 volumes ([6], 376 p.; [4], 209, [1] p.); 18 cm. Red morocco spines with red pebble-grain cloth over boards. Five spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-stamped spine title in second compartments and double gilt-ruled decoration in each compartment. All page edges gilt. White moire endpapers. Each volume has on the front fixed endpaper the small embossed blue-and-white oval label of the bookbinder, J. Hewetson, Hampstead. Blank leaf following the front free endpaper in vol. 1 bears an inscription: "Maud Ranken--Souvenir et Recompense de bon travail. Juillet 1879 J.C." The author, who published as Mme. Augustus Craven, was the daughter of French parents and the wife of a British diplomat. Her travels throughout Europe provided her with material for her novels, the best known of which was "Fleurange." It was published in 1872 simultaneously in Paris in "Le… Read More

New York: Philip C. Duschnes, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good +. 14 p.; 24 cm. Red cloth with gilt and black cover title. "This poem was written for the Centennial of Haverford College, and first published in the Saturday Review of Literature, October 14, 1933. In deference to occasional requests for separate copies, four hundred are now printed in this edition." -- p. [3]. Proceeds went to the Haverford College Endowment Fund. In Very Good+ Condition: cover is lightly soiled; pages are clean and bright.

London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1932. Paperback. Good. 31, [1] p.; 18 cm. Original orange and black illustrated paper covers. The Hogarth Letters, No. 4. Cover title: A Letter on the French Pictures. Cover signed JB [John Banting]. First edition. A short essay presented as a letter a current exhibition of French art. In Good Condition: cover is stained; lacking tip of lower corner of front cover; page corners are slightly creased; series title page is lightly foxed; otherwise pages are clean and tight.

London: Privately Printed, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. xi, [1], 145, [3] p., frontispiece and 7 leaves of plates: in-text illustrations; 25 cm. Gold textured cloth over spine with printed paper spine label; salmon paper over boards. This is no. 433 of a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Illustrated title page. Coypright 1929 by Herbert J. Williams. No date of publication. In Very Good Condition: lower corner of front board rubbed; paper over boards is lightly soiled; ding in lower edge of front board; shadow from title page on frontispiece; otherwise, clean and tight.

New York: Dodge Publishing Co, 1902. Hardcover. Very Good. Revised and enlarged edition of the first series; preface to vol. 2 is dated 1897. 2 volumes: [12], 404 p.; [10], 295 p.: frontispiece in each volume; 16 cm. Scarlet three-quarter leather with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled spine titles and decoration. Volume one is designated by a single star below the author's name and volume two by two stars. Pale marbled paper over boards and matching endpapers. Top page edges gilt. Title pages are in red and black. No dates of publication given; date of vol. 1, revised and enlarged, is from library records. An attractive binding by an unidentified binder. In Very Good Condition: edges are lightly rubbed; paper over boards is soiled and stained, most noticeably the back board of vol. 1; pages are clean and tight.

Heiliger Berg bei Olmütz, Czech Republic: Otto F. Babler, 1933. Paperback. Very Good +. Michalík, Rudolf. [24] p.: frontispiece and 1 additional full-page woodcut; 20 cm. Plain off-white wrappers with wrapper title. Hand-colored initial article. "Mit Holzschnitten illustriert und auf der Handpresse gedruckt von Rudolf Michalik. Herausgegeben vom Übersetzer auf dem Heiligen Berge bei Olmütz als 2. Bändchen der Edition Heliotrop in 125 Exemplaren. Der erste Besitzer dieses Büchlein ist Zdenek Vojacek." -- colophon. Signed by the translator on the colophon. In Very Good+ Condition: wrapper is slightly soiled; otherwise clean and bright.

Paris: Lefèvre, 1825. Hardcover. Near Fine -. 3 volumes ([4], xxiv, 386 p., frontispiece portrait, double-leaf engraved map; [4], 456 p.; [4], 386 p.); 23 cm. Polished calf spines with gilt-tooled title and volume on leather labels. Decoration in gilt and black on spines. Marbled paper over boards. Top page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers in a different pattern. Part of the publisher's series Collection des Classiques François. Former owner's circular light blue stamp: "St. T." on series title page. In Near Fine- Condition: spines and edges very lightly rubbed; front board of vol. 3 slightly faded along upper edge; otherwise clean and bright.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1952. Hardcover. Near Fine -. 2 volumes with slipcase. xvi, [2], 362, [6], 363-782, [2] p.: color illustrations; 26 cm. Off-grey-white cloth with paper spine labels printed in red and black. Top page edges blue-grey. Slipcase is blue-grey with paper spine label printed in black. This is number 631 of a limited edition of 1,500 copies, signed by the artist. The "Illustrations have been reproduced in Paris: the Color-Plates by Deberny & Peignot, the Color-Printing by Lucien Delaporte." Books are in Near Fine- Condition: spines are sunned, as is typical; otherwise, clean and crisp. Slipcase is in Very Good- Condition: edges around opening are sunned; spine is damp-stained; top section is just starting to separate; still solid, however.

Philadelphia: Sol Mednick and Arthur Williams, 1946. Very Good. [104] p.: 19 full-page and 5 half-page illustrations; 36 cm. Loose signatures housed in card portfolio with black cover title. This is an unnumbered copy out of a limited edition of 100 copies, set in Airport Black Type by Typographic Service; the plates were printed by the Beck Engraving Co. Surrealist painter and printmaker Dmitri Petrov (1919-1986) was born in Philadelphia and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. The poems by English poet Thomas Hood (1799-1845) illustrated here by Petrov are: The Dream of Eugene Aram -- The Last Man -- The Song of the Shirt -- The Key: A Moorish Romance -- The Stag-Eyed Lady: A Moorish Tale -- The Bridge of Sighs. In Very Good Condition: portfolio is separating along spine and lacking some paper over spine and at edges, with small archival repair; internally clean and crisp.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1987. Hardcover. Fine. Hafftka, Michael. [2], 53, [5] p., 4 leaves of lithographed plates; 30 cm. Sewn and bound in vellum paper wrappers with yapp edges and the author's name printed in black on the spine; sewing bands are visible on the wrapper sides. Clamshell box is covered in light grey cloth with a small printed label on the spine bearing the author's name. Edges of box are black; lined with black felt. This is number 198 of a limited edition of 800 copies. Set in monotype Walbaum at the Out of Sorts letter foundery in Mamaroneck, N.Y. and printed on mould-made Magnani paper at the Shagbark Press in South Portland, Me. The lithographs were printed on hand-made Japanese paper at Trestle Editions, N.Y. City. The book design was by Benjamin Shiff. Hand-sewn and hand-bound by Carol Joyce. Signed by the artist at the colophon. In Fine/Fine Condition.

East Aurora, N.Y.: Roycrofters, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good +. [6], 207, [3] p.; 27 cm. Half light brown suede (possibly light green originally) with brown paper over boards. Gilt-tooled spine and cover titles. Top page edges gilt. Grey endpapers. Title page printed in red and black within elaborate woodcut border. Printed in columns, in red and black throughout. Initial letters drawn and hand-colored by Minnie Marcie. This is no. 441 of a limited edition of 960 copies, number and signed by Elbert Hubbard. Very Good+ Condition: minor loss near head of spine; boards are slightly soiled; pages are clean and crisp.

Vicksburg, Mich: Paul Hayden Duensing, 1984. Paperback. Fine. [16] p.; 25 cm. Brown wrapper; wrapper title printed in brown. Title vignette the emblem of Miller & Richard, Letter Founders. This is one of a limited edition of 150 copies printed at the Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing, of which 100 were for attendees of the 4th American Typecasting Fellowship Conference and 50 for the Typocrafter's fall meeting, 1984. Contains a brief history of the Scottish typefounders Miller & Richard and the complete text of H.R. 3671, an 1876 brief for the relief of the firm against efforts by American typefounders seeking to make it harder for Miller & Richard to import their type to San Francisco. In Fine Condition: clean and bright.

Waltham Saint Lawrence, Eng: Golden Cockerel Press, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 68, [2] p.; 20 cm. Original pale yellow paper over boards with yellow cloth spine; printed paper spine label. Lacking the dustjacket but with custom mylar cover. Former owner's name on front free endpaper: Mary Greenacre. Chanticleer, 5. First edition of first work of fiction by Havelock Ellis. In Very Good Condition: cloth spine soiled; pale green paper over boards largely faded to beige; a few pages carelessly opened; spine label intact; pages are clean and bright.

Paris: Editions de la Sirene, 1920. Hardcover. Near Fine. Dufy, Raoul. 72, [2] p.; 15 cm. Contemporary binding with light grey handmade paper over boards; black morocco spine label with gilt-tooled spine title. Top page edges blue. Original blue wrappers bound in. Wood-engraved title vignette by Raoul Dufy on title page and front wrapper. This is one of a limited edition of 30 copies printed by the press of Henri Diéval. Small bookplate of Monroe Wheeler on front free endpaper. In Near Fine Condition: slight loss at one corner of spine label, which has one small knick; otherwise a solid, clean, and bright copy.

Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1909. Hardcover. Near Fine. [6], 31, [3] p.; 19 cm. Off-white stiffened covers with overlapping fore-edges. Spine and cover titles and front cover decoration printed in light green. Original light green slipcase with title in black at foot of front section. Title page and colophon in red and black. Pages are unopened. "Five hundred copies of this book printed on Japan vellum small quarto and the type distributed in the month of July MDCCCCIX." -- colophon. First (American) edition thus. Book is in Near Fine Condition: slight discoloration on back cover; slight darkening along edges of covers; otherwise clean and bright. Slipcase is in Poor Condition: separated into two sections; lacking upper and spine sections; lacking small amount of green paper from front section.

Paris: Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1925. Hardcover. Near Fine -. "Dixième Mille." viii, 215, [1] p.; 19 cm. Lavender pebble-grain cloth spine; leather spine label with gilt-tooled title. Marbled paper over boards in gilt, lavender, and maroon. Lavender endpapers. Bookbinder's label on front free endpaper verso: Theo. Jirasko Relieure d'Amateurs, Lausanne. List of other works by the author on page facing title page. Former owner's name on half title page: Margaret Lowry. In Near Fine- Condition: front joint rubbed at edge of spine label and head of spine; pages are browning along edges; clean and tight.

Riverside, Conn: The Hillacre Bookhouse, 1913. Paperback. Very Good +. [20] p.; 16 cm. Sewn brown card covers with paper label on front printed in red and black. Title page and facing page printed in red and black; initial letter printed in red and black. Pages are unopened. In Godkin's letter, first published in the London Daily News on March 7, 1865, he reflects on Abraham Lincoln's accomplishments in his first term as president. Written shortly after Lincoln's inauguration to his second term, the letter's praise for his work is poignant given that he was assassinated five weeks later. In Very Good+ Condition: stitching is broken; clean and bright.

1911. Hardcover. Good +. "Printed not published May, 1911." -- title page. [2] p., 9 leaves of text, [8] leaves of tipped-in plates; 22 cm. Blue moire with gilt-stamped cover title; blind-ruled decoration on both boards. All page edges gilt. Blue embossed endpapers. Plates mounted on versos of printed leaves. The illustrations are reproduced from Old Provence by T.A. Cook, with permission of Charles Scribner's Sons. "Copyright 1911 by Walter H. Bonsall" -- at head of first page of text. This was probably the Walter H. Bonsall who was a printer in Germantown (Philadelphia), suggesting that this was printed in Philadelphia. Edmund Bayly Seymour, Sr., was a Philadelphia real estate lawyer and secretary of the Princeton Endowment Fund, who committed suicide in 1906 because of ill health. The author, Edmund Bayly Seymour, Jr., may have followed his father into real estate; this small publication presents an account of his visit to Provence in 1909, travelling with a… Read More

East Aurora, N.Y.: Roycrofters, 1912. Hardcover. Near Fine. Miriam Edition. 148, [1] p., 6 leaves of plates (portraits of the featured artists); 20 cm. White cloth with greay paper over spine and boards, revealing the white cloth at the uncovered joints. Gilt-stamped spine title and cover title, the latter within decorative medallion. Top page edges gilt. Grey endpapers. Light grey ribbon bookmark. Printed on watermarked Roycroft paper. Woodcut border and initials by unidentified Roycroft artists. Contents: Fortuny -- Ary Scheffer -- Francois Millet -- Joshua Reynolds -- Landseer -- Gustave Dore. In Near Fine Condition: ends of spine lightly rubbed; clean and bright.