London: John Murray Ltd., 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Design depicts church arches and windows with the black curves and spires and church roof structure with the black ink lines. The colours used and onlays reference stained glass windows." [artist statement]. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Full transparent vellum over watercolour; Louise.....
Price: $4,250.00
Valparaiso, Indiana: Sandlin's Books and Bindery, 1993/2024. Limited Edition/Unique. Hardcover. "The Poetical Vagaries of a Knight of the Folding-Stick, of Paste-Castle is part bookbinders poetry and part secret society satire. John Bradford wrote this book with a nod and wink at the fraternal orders and secret societies of the day.....
Price: $2,750.00
New York: Russell Maret, 2022. First Edition. Russell Maret [printer, designer, and afterword]; Nina Schneider [bibliographic descriptions]; Carolee Campbell [commentary]; Harry Reese [foreword]; Annie Schlechter [photography]. One of the 77 numbered copies that includes tip-ins of original material. A lovely catalogue raisonné of the work of Carolee Campbell and the.....
Price: $4,250.00
Hardcover. Bound, gilded, and custom clamshell box by Nate McCall. Tattooed leather label Gabby Cooksey. Original cover of book is inlaid into box. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Bound in burgundy goat skin with hand gilded tooling on outside and inside. Teal goat skin edge to edge doublure with hand marbled.....
Price: $3,500.00
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. From Bohn's Scientific Library series. Joseph Ennemoser (15 November 1787–19 September 1854) was a South Tyrolean physician and stubborn late proponent of Franz Mesmer 's theories of animal magnetism. He became known to English readers through Mary Howitt 's translation of his.....
Price: $2,250.00
Paris/Chicago: 1964/2022. Facsimile/Unique. Hardcover. Facsimile illustrations from the 1568 edition. "Samuel Feinstein began bookbinding after a traumatic brain injury left him with constant pain and unable to continue his other pursuits. While the pain remains, he found that binding books by hand was a possibility for him. He trained at.....
Price: $6,500.00
![Item #9574 Food: A Love Story [Design Binding]. Jim Gaffigan, Sean Richards, binder](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9574-0.jpeg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1637102651)
New York: Crown Archetype, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. An unusual art binding by S. Richards, who loves food nearly as much as binding. In this case, the result is a wonderful portrait of the author as a roasted chicken. Signed by the author, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Green leather.....
Price: $2,500.00
Morell Printing, 2020/2022. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "The book was created by Brenda Gallagher in 2020 for the Guild of Bookworkers travelling exhibition “WILD/LIFE”. All quotes are from the television sitcom “Schitt’s Creek”, created by Dan Levy and Eugene Levy. Black and white illustrations of sweaters worn by David Rose opposite one.....
Price: $2,250.00
Leicester, UK: Orpheus Press for Twelve By Eight Press, 1961 [2013]. Limited Edition/Design Binding. Hardcover. "A traditional American ballad on the joys of the bedroom with its companion poem "In Disapproval of Bundling". The publisher writes "Old bed sheets of several colours gave raw material for the paper, but the.....
Price: $1,750.00
np: Boss Dog Press, 2012. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. "The purpose of this catalog is to document a small bit of book arts history, and to perhaps provide a resource for collectors and scholars of Loyd Haberly's bindings." Tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed pastepaper wrappers, white label onlay, printed in.....
Price: $110.00
London: Folio Society, 1974/1977 [Binding 1981]. Second Printing/Unique Binding. Full Leather. Art binding by Julie H.B. Stackpole, a fine hand bookbinder based in mid-coast Maine. After getting a BA at Kirkland College, Julie Beinecke Stackpole studied bookbinding with Kathryn Gerlach in Vermont, in Ascona Switzerland, at the Camberwell School of.....
Price: $1,500.00
![Item #12328 Match in a Bottle [Artist Book]. Tracy Knapp, Kurt Gohde, David Bourdeau, artist, binder](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/12328_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1727804345)
North Andover, MA: Kat Ran Press/Thistle Bindery, 1997/2000. Limited Edition [Deluxe]. Hardcover. Exquisitely printed on Arches by Michael and Katherine Russem at the Kat Ran Press, this one of only 4 copies in the deluxe binding by David Bourdeau. This copy includes a red cloth folder with several pieces of.....
Price: $7,500.00
France: Published for PRIX de la 6 Biennale Mondiale de la Reliure d'Art, 2000/1 [1886]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Hand carved hand blown glass in the front and back covers by Dalibor Nesnidal. The binding won First Prize of the "Ville d'Urrugne" in the category "Livre Objet". Text in French. Tight.....
Price: $4,500.00
East Hampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "The inspiration for this text came during fish trips Alan James Robinson took during college, in where he would often see roadkill on the side of the road. These animal deaths became the haunting wood engravings inside the text, which are.....
Price: $6,000.00
![Item #11222 Surplus Value Books: Catalogue Number 13 [deluxe edition] [together with] Surplus...](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11222.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1683661512)
Santa Monica & Minneapolis: Danger! Books & Indulgence Press, 2004. Deluxe/Limited Editions. Various. Moody's short story, Surplus Value Books #13 is a comic parody of a bookseller's modern rare book catalogue. The story unfolds as the galley proofs of the involved book catalogue, where the prices accorded the items for.....
Price: $9,500.00
Chevreuse, France: Biennales Mondiales de la Reliure D' Art, 2006. Limited Edition/Unique Binding. Hardcover. Text in French. This binding was produced for an international competition/exhibition in France for which this textblock was specially produced (the signatures provided to the binders "in sheets"). The artist chose collage as a means to.....
Price: $2,650.00
London/New York: The Talfourd Press/Richard Minsky, 1990. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This book is based on Tom Phillips' 1988 collage work 'The Class of 47', as exhibited in London at the National Portrait Gallery. "Tom Phillips sent copies of the 31 images to American poet Heather McHugh, who wrote poems about.....
Price: $9,500.00
France: Cercle de reliure d’art de Ciboure, 1996/7. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Binding: Crossed structure binding, parchment, and application. Decorative stand: binder’s board covered with brown leather, patina, and compass. Decorative box depicting "Treasure Chest“: Binder’s board, cloth, leather. Folder for the illustrations: Binders’ board and decorative Japanese paper with gold.....
Price: $1,800.00
![Item #11399 Fall [Design Binding]. Sarah Plimpton, Coleen Curry, binder](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11399.jpeg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1683661412)
New York: The Grenfell Press, 2016/2021. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Fall is The poet and artist, Sarah Plimpton, uses the verbal and visual imagery of flocks of swallows migrating south in the fall to conjure up the human condition. These migratory songbirds are small – with long pointed wings, and long.....
Price: $5,500.00
Kadan, Czech Republic: Jana Pribikova. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Tan leather spine, red spine labels, silver gilt lettering, etched acrylic onlay, leather endpages, frontispiece, protective slipcase. 50x65mm. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition of 8 copies. Signed by Pribikova.
Price: $145.00
Carpe Noctum Press, 2003/2018. Limited Edition/Unique. Hardcover. "The book is an artist book by Sialia Rieke who recounts a story of an angel coming to earth and falling in love with a human. The bat is my interpretation of him flying to the woman on a cloudy day forming the.....
Price: $2,000.00
Paris: Le Club Francais du Livre, 1953. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Text in French. Forward by Jean-Jacques Pauvert, afterword by Maurice Blanchot. Bound by Sonya Sheats: "The image on the front cover is taken directly from the text. The binding is a traditional French full leather binding with leather hinges. The.....
Price: $3,500.00
Stockholm, WI: Midnight Paper Sales, 2015/2018. Limited Edition/Unique. Hardcover. "From starting research on the structure to being finished with the box, this book took me over a year to complete. I made several model books to make sure the binding was appropriate and suitable for a masterpiece of modern printing. .....
Price: $12,500.00
![Item #10994 Hamlet [Design Binding]. William Shakespeare, Kathy Abbott, binder](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10994.jpeg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1683661505)
Alpignano, Italy: Alberto Tallone, 1978 [2022]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Hamlet is one of my favourite Shakespearean plays. It is painful and difficult; full of melancholy, bloodshed and heartache." [artist statement]. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Full black leather tongue in slot binding with red feathered onlays on the spine, head is.....
Price: $4,250.00
St. Paul, MN; Muir Beach, CA: Midnight Paper Sales, 2020/2021. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "My design endeavors to create 'Bokeh': the aesthetic quality of the soft blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens. Things may be seen in focus, but memories are often a reverie.....
Price: $6,500.00