(North Hills): Bird & Bull Press, 1980. Limited edition. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. Morocco & decorated boards. Spine slightly darker (as usual, from binding glue) else fine. One of 350 numbered copies printed on handmade Roma paper. Index by Howell Heaney. A bibliography, yes, but also a fascinating anecdotal commentary by..... More
Toronto: Irwin & Gordon, Ltd., 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. 153pp. Gray cloth printed in black on the spine and in black and silver on the upper board. Large folding map in the rear. Neat ownership name and sticker else a near fine copy with only traces of fading..... More
Los Angeles: California Department of Transportation, 1989. Stiff card wraps. Oblong 4to. 52pp. Heavy textured wraps. A special edition of 'Update' honoring the 50th anniversary of the Arroyo Seco Parkway, California's first freeway. With sections on the Harbor Transitway, Glenn Anderson Freeway, Vincent Thomas Bridge, as well as then-active projects..... More
(Greenbrae): The Allen Press, 1986. Limited edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. (53)pp. Gray cloth printed on the spine and upper board with the title. Title in two colors. Two full page illustrations ad several vignettes in the text; hand-colored initials. Finely printed letterpress on hand-made Richard de Bas paper. One of..... More
Santa Barbara: Doggeral Press, 1981. Illustrated and Handcolored by Diane Roby. Limited edition. Hardcover. fine, bright copy. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. Drawings by Paul Woodroffe engraved on wood by Clemence Housman. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (4), 106pp. Gray linen spine, printed paper label, pale blue paper boards. Four full page woodcuts and several text vignettes. Printed by the Shakespeare Head Press on handmade paper. One..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, (1983). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. First trade edition with the Wrightson illustrations. Small folio. 192,(2)pp. Red paper spine, gilt; green paper boards, gilt title on the upper board. Deep blue endpapers. There are some spots on the textblock edges and a gift inscription..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1892. Hardcover. 4to. x,110pp. 15 plates, some in color. The colored plates are chromolithographed. Additional illustrations in text. Publisher's brown buckram printed in red, black and gilt. Decorative endpapers. All edges red. Boards worn and soiled, nicely rebacked with the original backstrip laid-on. The..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 192pp. Black cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and on the upper board. Illustrated throughout, both in text and full page. Three of the full page illustrations are in color. The endpapers have tape marks where the dustwrapper was..... More
México: Ediciones Singulares, 1966. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. Text in three sections, Spanish, English and French. Illustrated with phoographs and maps. The binding is unusual: It has a smooth leather spine, gilt titles. But the upper and lower boards are molded from chips of jade in resin to create an..... More
n.p. (Seattle): n.p., c. 1979. Broadside. Broadside, approximately 18 by 23 inches. Serigraph in seven colors (light green, dark green, dark blue, black, gray, dark yellow and light yellow) featuring vegetables framed on the left and right with salmon. Issued to commemorate the eighth annual Pike Place Market Street Fair..... More
n.p. Privately Orinted, (1936). Hardcover. First edition. Plates, map of Ireland Hunts on endpapers. 99, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth. About fine. Higginson, British and American Sporting Authors, p. 407; Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, p. 87. Inscribed: "For Edith and Curtis, two of the best sports..... More
New York: Abrams, c. 2010. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Preface by Patrick-Louis Vuitton. Folio. 496pp. Orange cloth spine, cream-colored spine title, printed paper over boards, brown endpapers, ribbon marker. Illustrated throughout in full color. A fine as new copy in a fine publisher's slipcase. A selection of 100 trunks..... More
México: Imprenta Nuevo Mundo, 1949. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. 59pp of text (in Spanish) followed by the catalog of Pinturas y Dibujos (91 plates), Litografias (28 plates) and Grabados (12 plates). Many of the plates are printed in full color. Black cloth, gilt titles on the spine and upper board..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. xi,(1)167pp. Suede spine, buckram sides, the upper board with printed title. Illustrated by Alajálov, with full page plates in three colors introducing each Gerschwin song. Introduction by George Gershwin. A biographical sketch of the artist, Alajálov, by Samuel..... More
Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Beelas Artes / Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, 1963. First edition. Stiff card. 8vo. Stapled booklet containing essays and biographical data on Posada, aas well as a catalog of his works by Adrian Villagomez. Small stain on rear, else a very good copy. Enclosed in a...... More
n.p. Privately Printed, 1920. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 54pp. Title page in red and black with an engraved vignette. Cloth spine, leather lettering label, gilt; brown paper over boards. One of 100 copies printed by the De Vinne Press. Label rubbed else a very good copy. The Hobby Club was..... More
var. John S. Carroll et al. 1960's (?). The group consists of a typed letter from Carroll, dated 1973, signed, enclosing specimens of letterpress printing. Clifford Burke, Looking at Fine Printing, Cranium Press, 1975, 12pp. Printed Card: A New Type 1976 from The Printer's Shop. Printed Card: Typographic Design, Piping Rock Press John S...... More
