Authors starting with N from The Veatchs Arts of the Book

(West Burke), 1990. . 6 1/2 x 14 1/2 (opening to 70 inches in 3 overlapping sections). Accordion-folded paperwork landscape collage with five varying and irregular sized text pamphlets sewn into each of five openings. Pulp paper paintings throughout by Clarie Van Vliet. Housed in black cloth tray case with paper spine label. Front pocket holds a CD recording of the Opera, in chemise; rear pocket contains empty chemise for the owner's own CD. Fine copy of this colorful and exhuberant book. One of... more information

Hanover, 1943. 2nd. ed. . 6 x8. 25 pages. Wraps. Very good. ... more information

1967. . 8 x 11. (25) pages. Boards, spine label. Spine damged at foot; lower tips worn. Very good. With Prospectus No. 131 of 400 copies, signed by Baskin. Baskin 54 (noting that a number of copies suffered damage to their spines while in storage). ... more information

NY, 1988. . 9 x 15. A 3-color woodcut By Ron Keller unfolds to 38 inches wide and surrounds the 11-page text (8 1/2 x 7 1/2). Green cloth binding by the artist. Fine, with prospectus. One of 100 numbered & signed copies designed, handset, and printed by the artist in black & green; woodcut in black, green & blue. The text is a philosophical analysis of a New England seaport viewed from a chuch steeple. In the woodcut, the viewer's perspective is as Hawthorne's--from the top of th... more information

Philadelphia: Baird, 1856. . 4 3/4 x 7 1/2. 318, 1 p. advertising Williams' Marble and Fancy Papers & Gaskell's Bookbinders' Dies, 18- page Baird catalogue, 7 marbled specimens, 12 plates of binding styles. Illustrations of binding machinery in text. Contemporary amateur binding of 3/4 morocco & marbled paper over beveled boards, all edges red. Spine title misspelled "Mamual." Tips worn through; joints rubbed at head and foot. Very good copy. First edition of the first... more information

NY: Morgan Library, 1971. . 4to. 264 pages profusely ilustrated. Cloth, light wear to tips, but fine. ... more information

London: Scolar Press, (1978). . 6 1/2 x 10, 232 pp +Index. Pagination includes 100 plates for the hundred bindings described. Cloth, dj (faded). Fine. ... more information

Fleece Press, 2005 (actually 2006). . 6 x 9 1/2. 101 pages. Numerous illustrations, including 9 from original wood blocks. Quarter cloth & wood veneer boards, slipcase. Fine. One of 275 copies. With a checklist of 65 bookplates. ... more information

London, 1828 and 1833. Two vols. First editions. . 6 x 9 1/2. With the engraved frontis portrait, folding facsimile letter, and 560 charming wood-engraved vignettes. Contemporary tan morocco richly gilt in dentelle style by "J. Mackenzie bookbinder to the King" (stamped inside front cover). Covers framed with double gilt rules & dogtooth rolls enclosingbroad scrolling floral border with pomegranate, crown, & thistle tools. Front pastedowns show evidence of a lifted oval bookplate, very ... more information

London, 1833. . 4 1/2 x 7 1/2. lx, 248 pages. Bound in red leather with gilt cartouche on covers & gilt spine by J. Mackenzie "bookbinder to the King." Worn, joint & hinge "repaired." Good copy. Bookseller's ticket of Witkowers Old Book Dept, Hartford. Illsutrated with 177 wood-engraved vignettes and 101 wood-engraved initials after William Harvey and James Northcote. Printed by C. Whittingham. Ray #56. ... more information