London: Office of “The British Printer,” 25 Pilgrim Street, 1890. First edition of this number. Large 8vo (11.25 x 9 inches), contemporary deep wine half morocco, pebbled cloth sides, gilt lettering, [8] pages plus 280 specimen leaves of printing (generally rectos only, several with multiple examples per leaf; one example..... More
Newtown [Penna.]: Bird & Bull Press, 1988. First edition. Large 8vo (11 x 8.13 inches), original gray morocco spine, paste-paper boards, red leather label and gilt lettering, 103, [6] pages, untrimmed. With folding plates and various samples tipped in. With a buckram portfolio of Bird & Bull ephemera, as issued..... More
[N. p.]: Bird & Bull Press, Iris Nevins, 1991. First edition. 8vo (9.13 inches), original blue quarter cloth, marbled sides, leather spine label printed in gilt, 79, [3] pages. 12 mounted specimens of marbled paper. Vignette illustrations. Number 25 of 250 numbered copies, printed on Johannot mould-made paper. With the..... More
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Louisville: Contre Coup Press, 2015. First edition. Laundry Book: 13 stitched fascicles (plus a leaf, “Care and Reading of the Laundry Book”), each measuring approx. 13.13 x 8.5 inches, with tipped-in items, enclosed in the publisher’s custom clamshell box. Laundry Lampoons: 19 leaves (9.63 x 8 inches) laid into a...... More
(Louisville: Contre Coup Press, 2013.). Top-stitched portfolio wrappers (6.75 x 8 inches), 6 leaves printed rectos only. A fine press treatment from the Louisville printer Timothy Hawle of the prose poem by the cabaret singer who played Sister Berthe in the film version of Sound of Music, likely best known..... More
Louisville: Contre Coup Press, 2007. Tall 8vo (12.63 x 7.88 inches), Japanese stab binding in gold thread and red cloth over boards, printed paper label, 18 pages printed rectos only. One of 32 copies printed by Tim Hawley, Schumann’s maxims for young musicians. More
Louisville: Contre Coup Press, 2012. First Contre Coup edition. Original French flap wrappers (9.25 x 6.13 inches), [4], 7, [3] pages. Tim Hawley on Twain on masturbation. About as nicely-produced a work on self-abuse as one might expect to find. With a colophon model of brevity: “20 copies.”. More
London: Office of “The British Printer,” 1 Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Circus, 1891. First edition of this number. Large 8vo (11.75 x 9,13 inches), contemporary deep wine half morocco, pebbled cloth sides, gilt lettering, [8] pages plus 303 specimen leaves of printing (generally rectos only; several specimens folding). Numerous instances of..... More
London: Office of ‘The British Printer,’ 1 Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Circus, 1893. First edition of this number. Large 8vo (11.75 x 9.5 inches), contemporary deep wine half morocco, pebbled cloth sides, gilt lettering, [10] pages plus 284 specimen leaves of printing (generally rectos only; eight specimens folding). Numerous instances of..... More
North Hills, Pa. Bird & Bull Press, 1976. First edition. 8vo (9.25 inches), original black quarter morocco, marbled sides, 68, [4] pages. 11 mounted samples of marbled papers, illustrations in the text. Sumner’s account of marbling paper had first been published in 1854; it is here republished with notes and..... More
(Colophon): Council Bluffs: Printed by Marc Faré at the Yellow Barn Press, May, 1986. First edition. Original card stock wrappers (11.25 x 6.5 inches), linoleum cut decoration to the upper wrappers, [14] pages plus blanks, stitched. Linoleum cut vignettes. Original tissue jacket. An attractive work and something of a Yellow..... More
(Council Bluffs, Iowa): University of Maryland at College Park Libraries and the Yellow Barn Press, (1990). First edition. Folio (12 x 9 inches), original gray coarse linen, black leather spine label, gilt lettering, [x], 32, [1], [1] pages. Frontispiece wood engraved portrait of Morris by John De Pol, four inserted..... More
Council Bluffs, Iowa: The Yellow Barn Press, (1996). First edition. 8vo (9.75 x 6.38 inches), original quarter cloth, marbled sides, printed paper label, xi, [1], 55, [3] pages. Frontis portrait. Number 21 of 225 numbered copies. Tributes to the crime writer Symons, from such contributors as P. D. James, Robert..... More
Council Bluffs, Iowa: The Yellow Barn Press, 2001. First edition. Folio (12.75 x 9.25 inches), original black morocco spine, decorated boards, leather spine label lettered in gilt, xvii, [1], 122, [3] pages. Inserted plates and facsimiles. In the original clamshell box. Number 33 of 175 numbered copies. With the original..... More
