London: Aquila Trust, 1984. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Touch of sunning at spine and top edge, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Green paper wraps, cream paper label, black ink lettering. 8vo. 45pp. Numbered limited edition, this being 134 of 500.
Price: $25.00
Belluno, Venezia: Edizioni Colophon, 2009. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Three beautiful woodcuts numbered and signed in pencil by the artist. The Book of John the Evangelist or Secret Supper is a apocryphal Gospel in Latin, dating from the late Middle Ages. Proposte d’arte Colophon [Colophonarte] has emerged as a major force.....
Price: $2,000.00
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Unlimited edition published with the limited. Printed by Christopher Sandford and Owen Rutter. Includes work by John Buckland-Wright, Robert Gibbings, Eric Gill, Lynton Lamb, Reynolds Stone, and others. Light toning at board edges, else tight, bright and unmarred. Blue cloth boards, red.....
Price: $100.00
Pittsburgh, PA: The Pittsburgh Bibliophiles, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. A book dedicated to the Pittsburgh Bibliophiles for their Pilgrimage to Italy in 1976. Members who made the trip and libraries visited are listed in the Appendix. Tight, bright and unmarred. Glassine dust jacket shows closed notched tear at rear, else.....
Price: $45.00
International Poetry Forum/Byblos Editions, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. This edition precedes the 1982 first trade edition printed by Ohio U. Press. The author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977. Minor break in gilt (manufacturing flaw), inscribed to the printer. else tight, bright and unmarred. Original acetate DJ clear.....
Price: $45.00
New York: Purgatory Pie Press, 1986. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine press edition using a variety of typefaces (ten) on Amora paper. Letterpress work by Dikko Faust. Designed and editted by Esther K. Smith. Signed by all parties. A very handsome copy. Signed by all involved parties, else tight, bright and.....
Price: $100.00
Portland, ME: Wolfe Editions, 2003. First Edition Thus/Off-Print. Print. Applin illustrated Bowles', "A Distant Episode" for a limited edition of 30 copies. While each illustration in the volume is striking, this image is our favorite. Very strong and striking. Penciled "WP" in lower corner, else bright and clean. Approx. 8"x10".....
Price: $75.00
New York: Delphic Arts, 1962. Limited Edition. Cased Loose Sheets. Created for Delphic Arts, this portfolio consists of 60 offset lithographs and 3 original etchings (with a title page, text, and colophon). Signed by the artist. A handsome, as new, set. Bright and clean. Drop-spine case tight and clean (and.....
Price: $2,500.00
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Nocturnal animals with accompanying text. Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) was a renowned artist (sculptor, illustrator, printer, and graphic artist), writer, teacher and general polymath. Touch of sun at spine, else tight, bright, and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge wear/sunning, else bright and.....
Price: $145.00
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Nocturnal animals with accompanying text. Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) was a renowned artist (sculptor, illustrator, printer, and graphic artist), writer, teacher and general polymath. Minor shelf/edge wear, touch of sun at the spine, gift inscription at ffep, else tight, bright, and unmarred;.....
Price: $125.00
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "450 copies of this book were printed on various interesting papers during the autumn of 1976. The pressman was Harold McGrath." Bound by Gray Parrot. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Marbled paper boards, black leather spine label, gilt lettering. 4to. np. Illus. (b/w.....
Price: $650.00
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "450 copies of this book were printed on various interesting papers during the autumn of 1976. The pressman was Harold McGrath." Bound by Gray Parrot. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Marbled paper boards, black leather spine label, gilt lettering. 4to. np. Illus. (b/w.....
Price: $650.00
Portland, ME: Leonard Baskin, 1958. Limited Edition. Print. "Tobias and the Angel" is included in the "complete graphic works of Leonard Baskin". (Fern & O'Sullivan, 367) There were at least three printings of this engraving, including one of 300 copies, another of 200 copies. This copy appears to be outside.....
Price: $995.00
London: Editions Medicina Rara/Curwen Press, 1972. Baskin, Leonard. Limited Edition. Loose Plates in Portfolio. An exceptional set of prints reproducing Baskin's pen and ink drawings and printed on Bugra laid paper [showing the private watermark of Editions Medicina Rara [two snakes wrapped around a tree]. Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) was a......
Price: $425.00
Portland, ME: Wolfe Editions, nd [circa 1990]. Limited Edition. Print. "Tobias and the Angel" is included in the "complete graphic works of Leonard Baskin". (Fern & O'Sullivan, 367) There were at least three printings of this engraving, including one of 300 copies, another of 200 copies. This particular copy is.....
Price: $750.00
Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1965. First Edition. Original Wraps. Preface by Martin S. Sadik. A relatively significant exhibition catalogue. Notable as Leonard Baskin designed the volume. Minor shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. Cream paper wraps, black ink lettering, red ink decorative element, b/w pictorial element.....
Price: $45.00
Portland, ME: Wolfe Editions, 1998. First Edition/Limited Edition. Hardcover. Letterpress printed by David Wolfe. An exceptional production piece, with gilt onlay, cut-aways and burn-throughs. Very complex to print and bind. A pristine copy. Tight, bright and unmarred. Quarterbound, black cloth spine, mustard paper boards, paper onlay, black ink lettering and.....
Price: $450.00
Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1921. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Third book of the press. A collection of seventeen stories. A rather handsome copy of one of the press's more poorly bound books...difficult to find in good condition. Light shelf/edge wear, minor toning/soiling to the boards, touch of dust staining at top.....
Price: $75.00
Boston, MA: Houghton, 1960. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Owner emboss, else tight, bright and unmarred. Glassine DJ shows very minor edgewear. Brown paper boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, printed on pale pink paper. Small 8vo. 29pp. Illus. (b/w plates).
Price: $25.00
Portland, ME: Ivy Derderian/Wolfe Editions, 2009. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. The first solo project from Ivy Derderian, working at Wolfe Editions. Printed in Linotype Bonodi Book, created on an Intertype (the Linotype's successor). From the prospectus: “Frederic Brown’s entertaining short story about a sentient Linotype, titled Etaoin Shrdlu, was originally.....
Price: $245.00
London: George G. Harrap, np. Reprint. Hardcover. Repairable damage to hinge notwithstanding, a lovely fine binding by Rivière. A wonderful volume in hand. Minor shelf wear, front hinge shows partial split at head, spine lightly toned, else tight, bright and unmarred. Red leather boards, five raised bands, gilt lettering, decorative.....
Price: $125.00
Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Initials by Eric Gill. [Chanticleer 26]. Light shelf/edge wear, touch of toning at the spine, presentation inscription at ffep, minor foxing at preliminaries, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Quarterbound, vellum spine, blue paper boards, gilt lettering. 4to. 39pp. Numbered limited edition, this.....
Price: $125.00
San Francisco, CA: Gallimaufry, 1976. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Letter from the author to Lowry Thompson (founder of Rubberstampmadness) thanking her for an article on a mutual friend (and illustrator of Cabral's books). Tight, bright and unmarred. Illustrated paper wraps. 8vo. 48pp. Laid in letter, signed by author. Limited edtion.....
Price: $25.00
Washington DC: Library of Congress/Wolfe Editions, 2001. First Edition/Limited Edition. Staplebound Wraps. Letterpress printed by David Wolfe. Inscribed by author (5/3/2002). An exceptional copy of this rather scarce volume. Tight, bright and unmarred. DJ bright and unmarred. White paper wraps, black DJ printed with silver ink lettering and decorative elements.....
Price: $65.00
Belluno, Venezia: Edizioni Colophon, 2011. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Printed on paper by Fabio Reolon, 400g Aetna Sicars. Estroflessioni (three-dimensional paper art) signed and numbered by the artist. Proposte d’arte Colophon [Colophonarte] has emerged as a major force publishing new artist’s books–in lavish, limited, editions–illustrated by noted European artists. The goal.....
Price: $1,500.00