Los Angeles: Grabhorn Press. 1956. First Edition, First Printing. Original Wraps. First edition. Octavo, original floral patterned khaki and cream coloured wrappers. 8vo, 28pp., title-page with device of the Colt Press printed in red & other devices in text. 500 copies printed. Tiny tears at edges of wrappers, a near... More
Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 1961. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original blue paper-covered boards with black cloth spine, the boards stamped in black, the spine in gilt. 107 pp. Illustrated. 500 copies printed, published by the Zamorano Club and printed as a joint venture by Saul Marks... More
Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Original Wraps. 8vo, [12 pp]. A letter, printed in facsimile, from Canadian typographer Carl Dair to a young Robert Reid and Will Carter, proprietor of the Rampant Lions Press. Edition of 75 numbered copies, this being copy No. 60. Introduction &... More
Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus. 1498. A Folio leaf from the 1498 Edition of Saint Thomas Aquinas's OPUSCULA, published in Venice by Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus in 1498. Pages 303-304, with one small initial woodcut on the recto and two small initial woodcuts on the Verso. Printed in double... More
Nuremberg, Germany: Anton Koberger, 1479. A large folio leaf of incunabula, from the 51-line Biblia Latina printed by Anton Koberger on August 6, 1479 at Nurenburg. Text is from 2 Esdras, Chapters11-13. The leaf measures 410 x 287 mm. Double column, 51 lines of Gothic type in Vulgate Latin, with... More
Nuremberg, Germany: Anton Koberger, 1577. A large folio leaf of incunabula, from the 51-line Biblia Latina printed by Anton Koberger on August 6, 1479 at Nurenburg. Text is from Ecclesiasticus [Sirach], Chapters 11 - 14. The leaf measures 410 x 287 mm. Double column, 51 lines of Gothic type in... More
Nuremberg, Germany: Anton Koberger, 1479. A large folio leaf of incunabula, from the 51-line Biblia Latina printed by Anton Koberger on August 6, 1479 at Nurenburg. Text is from Genesis, Chapters 44 - 47. The leaf measures 410 x 287 mm. Double column, 51 lines of Gothic type in Vulgate... More
Nuremberg, Germany: Anton Koberger, 1479. A large folio leaf of incunabula, from the 51-line Biblia Latina printed by Anton Koberger on August 6, 1479 at Nurenburg. Text is from Isaiah, Chapters 37 - 40. The leaf measures 410 x 287 mm. Double column, 51 lines of Gothic type in Vulgate... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Small octavo, original paper covered board (faux vellum) titled in gilt on spine, JHN monogram on front panel. 76 pp. Illustrations, & tipped in facsimiles. Printed in an edition limited to 1000 copies, 500 for... More
No Place [Olympia, WA]: Pegana Press, 2015. First Printing of This Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this New Edition, the first edition to bear illustrations by Charles van Sandwyk. Octavo. Hand-printed with hand-set Goudy and Civilite types on a Vandercook SP 15 press on Hanhnemuhle and Canson papers; handbound in... More
New York: R.R. Bowker Company. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, brown cloth, gilt titles. 493 pp, Index. 1200 copies printed. Bookplate of Duncan Houx Olmstead on front paste-down; a fine copy in a slightly worn dust jacket. ¶ A history of the private press movement in England and... More
New York: Philip C. Duschnes, 1945-1950. First Edition. Original Wraps. First Edition. Twelve Parts in Nine Volumes, Complete. Octavo, original printed wrappers (variously coloured), stapled at spine. 420 pp. A bit of mild tanning to covers, a very nice set. ¶ Contents: pt. 1. Ashlar Press. Aquila Press. Cresset Press... More
San Francisco: Helen Gentry. 1930. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 500 copies printed. 12mo, original grey boards with printed paper labels on spine & front panel, finely printed with nice woodcut illustrations by Jones throughout. Light browning to endpapers and also faintly on spine panel, a nearly fine copy. Self-appointed poet... More