Titles starting with I from The Veatchs Arts of the Book

Chelsea, 1922. . 6 x 8 3/4. viii, frontis, 239 pages. Illustrated with 53 woodcuts drawn by Charles Gere and cut by J. B. Swain. Full limp hairy vellum. Lacks both pairs of green ties, but a fine beautiful copy. One of 240 copies on Batchelor handmade paper. Printed in Subiaco type in black & red; large initials designed by Graily Hewitt in blue and red. Hornby 31. ... more information

West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 1986. . Broadside. 9 x 23. Portrait of the fisherman Norman Netz, with a quotation from Travers Anatomy of a Fisherman. Fine. Signed by Moser. One of 100 copies, printed in black, red, and blue on Mohawk paper. "I had taken many photos of Norman, thinking to use his wonderful face as a future character." Pennyroyal broadside # 82. ... more information

London, Winter 1950. . 7 1/2 x 9 1/2. 82 pp. Printed wraps and dj. Very good. Shenval Press Quarterly edited by Robert Harling. Includes articles about Ethelbert White, George Stubbs, New Mexican Santos, and Leonard Rosoman. ... more information

Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1936. . 7 x 10. 304 pages. Patterned cloth, printed dj (spine slightly darker), slipcase (slight wear). Fine. One of 1500 signed by the designer-printer, Giovanni Mardersteig. ... more information

Rockville, Ct., 1958. . 4 1/2 x 6. Self-wraps. Previously folded, with crease. Small letterpress journal for small and private printers. ... more information

Hamburg, 1934. . 8 3/4 x 11. 191 pages. Original cloth with spine labels. All corners bumped, good copy. William Wreden's copy. One of 1000 copies. ... more information

Frankfurt, 1976. . 7 x 9. 355 pages including plates. Cloth, leather spine label. Fine. About printing, private presses, calligraphy, type design. ... more information

London, January 1913-November 1913. . 8 1/2 x 10 1/2. Over 445 pages, illustrated throughout. Bound without wraps into red cloth. Binding is fine; but upper corners of the text block are gentle jammed. Collated complete. The opening number contains the now famous advertisement--"We require at the offices of The Imprint the services of a young man of good education and preferably of some experience in publishing and advertising."--answered by Stanley Morison. Morison's first critical ess... more information

NY,1969. . 5 x 8. Sixteen wood engravings printed in various colors from the original blocks. These engravings had appeared in Printing Week keepsakes. Wraps, two tips creased. Very good. ... more information

Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 2005. . 7 1/2 x 10. 74 pages illustrated, fold-out 4-color woodcut print. Silk cloth, leather label, matching slipcase. Fine. One of 140 copies. Bates, the premier Canadian wood engraver, also explains the medium of scraperboard, with a comparative example. ... more information

Beckenham, (1988). . 8 x 12. 30 leaves printed in black & red, with 9 relief prints by Ron King. Bound by Silvia Rennie (stamp signed) in full green morocco with large inlaid pictorial panels on each cover. Eve in the Garden of Eden with the snake is inlaid on the upper cover in white, various greens, black, & red morocco. Adam's panel fills the lower cover. The designs reflect King's illustrations. The rounded spine has title inlaid in white morocco, the letter"O" replaced by a r... more information

Northampton, (Massachsusetts), 1974. . 14 x 18. Sixteen broadsides laid into morocco and cloth tray case by Arno Werner. Typography and silkscreens by Edward Hill. Fine. One of 40 copies numbered & signed. Well-printed concrete poetry in numerous colors on Arches Cover. The only book from this press. The printer was Karen Kaplan. ... more information

London, 1960. . 1/2 x 10. Over 900 pages. Cloth, dust wrapper. Fine. ... more information

(Risbury, 2003). . 7 1/2 x 11. xiv, 72 pages. A rear pocket contains the paper dust wrapper from the regular edition. Half black morocco & marbled boards, slipcase. Fine. Indispensible key to the 500 articles in Matrix. One of 125 deluxe (of 500) copies. ... more information

Easthampton: Propolis Press, 2001. . 7 x 9. Nine french-fold leaves with nine relief images. Bound by the artist in Japanese paper dyed a saffron yellow, side stiched, titled with wood type and bearing a large color monotype; in a black cloth tray case topped by a small glass bee. Exhibited in the juried show "Girl Printers." No. 21 of 52 copies. Printed on Hosho paper from hand set Dante, Univers, and wood type. The nine relief images are monotypes--differing in every copy of the book... more information

NY: Eriksson (1973). First ed. . 5 1/2 x 8. 274 pages. Illustrated. Cloth, dj. Small coffee stain top edge. Very good. Introduction by Lawrence Clark Powell. ... more information

Midnight Paper Sales & Solmentes Press, 2003. . 9 1/2 x 13. 153 pages. Illustrated with 14 color linocuts by Esslemont, 3 color wood engravings by Schanilec (including a 33-inch folding panorama), 10 tipped-in color ink jet images, and 6 original leaves. Cloth with pastepaper panels on both covers, slipcased. Fine, with prospectus & printed paper napkin. One of 100 copies (of 200) bound by Gaylord Schanilec. Half the edition was bound by Esslemont. There are 6 original leaves tipped in: ... more information

Northampton: Smith College, 2008. . Exhibition catalogue of 29 designer bindings. Illustrated in color throughout. Wraps. Fine. One of 500 copies. Designed by Michael Russem. ... more information

Lexington: The Anvil Press, 1995. . 8vo. 85 pages. Wraps. One of 500 copies. Fine. Laid in is a printed folder with a woodcut print from the Hammer collection. ... more information

Stockholm (WI): Midnight Paper Sales, 2004. . 5 x 7 1/2. Color wood engraving by Gaylord Schanilec on gray Ingres paper (opens to 13 inches) shows Clayton fishing his favorite pool, 19 pages. Quarter cloth & printed boards, slipcased. Fine. One of 120 numbered copies, signed by Gaylord and Clayton Schanilec. ... more information