Search Results: Fine Printing

Oxford: Design Department, Oxford Polytechnic, [ 1986 ]. First Edition. self-wrappers. Very Good. Folio, 4 pages The first Inky Parrot books appeared in 1982. With samples of the illustrations by Annie Newnham.

New York: Harold Vinal, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor. 12mo, 79 pages, board, lacks spine With a birthday inscription by Uncle George - presumably the author. With holograph annotations, presumed to be by the unnamed recipient, which support an authorial gift and apparently some of the annotations. Designed by Robert S. Josephy.

[ Kirkwood, MO ]: Kay, Daisy, & Scott Kramer, 1975. First Edition. Fine. Small folio, 3 pages, in its original mailing envelope. This is an excerpt from Nathaniel Ames's Almanack of 1758, on the Future State of North America. Unidentified but made at The Printery by its proprietors.

London: Alexander Moring, The De La More Press, 1921. Boards. Good. Small 8vo, 99 pp. Letterpress. Spine darkened with light insect soiling and damage, small tear at head, corners of boards lightly bumped, covers dustsoiled, light foxing to page edges and endpapers.

Cleveland: The Imperial Press. Good. 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine label lacks small corner, extremeties worn, stamp on front end paper, internally about VG. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; [7], 114, [1] pages; Cloth & marbled boards, deckle edge. **"This edition consists of 1000 numbered copies printed at The Imperial Press Cleveland, Ohio, in November, 1903, of which this is number," This copy is not numbered. Hart #118. Note that the limitation of this copy is 1/1000, not 1/935, and that the main pagination is 114, not 118. .

NY: Marchbanks Press. Very Good. 1928. ; 19p. , woodcut illus. .

Northampton, MA: Propolis Press, 2009. First printing. 4.5 x 15.5 inches, letterpress broadside. Edition size unstated but small. Primary text in black, with graphic elements from wood type in blue and blind. An excerpt from The Extruded Gilgamesh, printed by the author/publisher for a reading at the Poetry Project in NYC on March 23, 2009. As new.

New York: The Privy Council Press, 1952. First printing. (16) pp., 4.5 x 7.25 inches. With seven engravings by John DePol. Printed from Linotype Janson in three colors by the author in an edition of 1200 copies, with 350 copies set aside for the Typophiles. Sewn into printed wrappers. Typophile Monographs XXXVI. Very mild crease to corner of wrapper, and trace of handling to extremities, otherwise about fine.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1982. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Hardcover. A fine copy, as new, in original glassine d/j. Original ivory marbled boards, 12mo (4.5 x 7 inches), 72pp. Illustrated with specimen pages (reduced in size) of Nash's Dante, and the projected Vulgate. (Publication number CLXX of the Book Club of California).

Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher. 1 of 425 copies of the 4th edition printed on Japan vellum. Near Fine in Good Original Glassine Dust Jacket with about an inch of the spine missing in Good Slipcase with corner and edge wear. . Near Fine. Stiff Wrappers (Paperbound). Fourth Edition.. 1904.

NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1926.. Second edition (after a limited edition). Cloth/boards. Strained else VG. Designed by Bruce Rogers. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1926.

[oxford]: [Horace Hart]. Very Good. 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. ; 15p. , unopened. .

Minneapolis: Fred Totten Phelps, 1931. Limited edition. Wraps. Very Good +. "Set in Cloister Old Style type and printed on American Vellum paper by Fred T. Phelps typographer and publisher in Minneapolis. no. 48 of 200 copies. Two individual books bound in wraps with deckle edges. Slight soiling to one cover, lacking slipcase, else a very presentable copy.

Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1904. Second edition in Old Word Series. Printed flex boards, as issued. Fine. Thomas Maitland Cleland. Limited ot 925 copies. ________ The preface is by John Ruskin. Mosher never clearly identified from which edition he reprinted: the British or the American edition of 1883. Since copyright problems were most likely avoidable by reprinting the British edition, it most likely was the G. Allen edition (Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent, 1883). ________ The portrait frontispiece is by the author, Francesca Alexander, the American artist who spent much of her life in Italy, befriended John Ruskin, and published much of her work in the 1880's and 90's. She died in 1917. ________ Based upon stylistic evidence, the cover design is most likely by Frederic Goudy. ________ See Bishop's Thomas Bird Mosher--Pirate Prince of Publishers, entry 73. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Private Press.

Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1897. Good +. Offered here are 11 issues of volume 3 (lacking no. 10, Oct.) of Thomas B. Mosher's late 19th-century publication The Bibelot, as issued in their original grey stiffened paper wrappers printed in red and black. [approx. 360] p.; 15 cm. Each issue contains several pages of advertisements for Mosher's publications and for other literary publications. Contents: 1. Three Greek Idyllists: I. Theocritus [translations by C.S. Calverley, Andrew Lang, Leigh Hunt, and Matthew Arnold] -- 2. Three Greek Idyllists: II. Bion and Moschus [translations by John Addington Symonds, and Andrew Lang, ] -- 3. The Exequy and Other Poems by Henry King, D.D. -- 4. Selections from Dr. John Donne -- 5. Letters of Marque: Selections From a Suppressed Book by Ruyard Kipling -- 6. Father Damien: An Open Letter by Robert Louis Stevenson -- 7. The Hollow Land: A Tale by William Morris, Part I -- 8. The Hollow Land: A Tale by William Morris, Part II -- 9. Sandro… Read More

West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1982.. 4to. [4] pp. (one folded sheet). Very good.

Berkeley, Calif.: Pequod Press, 1986.. 8vo. 4 pp. One of 75 copies, reproduced from the first Quarto, 1634.

Berkeley, Calif.: Pequod Press, 1992.. Muchos puns in this letterpress 6.25 x 2 inch bookmark printed in 1992 by John Ruyle at the Pequod Press for Serendipity Books, Berkeley. Erik must be the intellectual bookman Eric. Peter Howard purchased the inventory of the renowned bookman William P. Wreden in 1992.

Jaime Robles, ca. 1960s.. One printed sheet, advertising the technical and pictorial illustration services of Jaime Robles. [1] p., illus. Good, some creasing, small marginal tear bottom center.

Berkeley, Calif.: Panjandrum Editions, 1991.. 4.25 x 6.75 inches. 4 pp. One of 100 copies printed August 1991 at the Pequod Press, Berkeley.