Glen Dawson: A Bookman Turns 80
by Andrews, Thomas F
[Los Angeles, CA: Thomas F. Andrews, Historical Society of Southern California], 1992 One of 300 copies printed by Patrick Reagh, Printers, Glendale, CA, designed by Scott Freutel and bound by Ruth Hoffman, composed in Monotype Baskerville Types. White wrappers titled in red on the front cover, stitched. 2 7/8 x 2 1/8 inches. . Title-page printed in red and black inks, title-page vignette, decorative initial; A fine copy. And, at this writing, Glen is still going strong at 98.... Read More
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Essai sur le beau. Nouvelle Edition, augmentee de six discours, sur le Modus, sur le Decorum, sur les Graces, sur l'Amour du Beau, sur l'Amour Desinteresse.
by Andre, Yves-Marie
Paris: L. Etienne Ganeau, 1770 Expanded edition, edited the abbé Guillaume Germain Guyot, of Andre's literary essay on "the beautiful," discussing the beauty of morals, costumes, music, and the grace of the body. The Essai sur le beau won him great fame and is considered a classic in the history of aesthetics. Laffort-Bompiani calls the work "du premier traité d'Esthétique paru en France." "The Essai sur le beau…was Cartesian in its foundations, and Platonic and Augustinian in its conclusions that... Read More
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The Heart of a Woman
by Angelou, Maya
New York: Random House, [1981[ First edition. Clothbacked boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.
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Valenti Angelo: Author, Illustrator, Printer
by [ Angelo, Valenti ]
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1976 One of about thirty copies hand-colored by Angelo, out of a total edition of 400 copies. This copy is signed by Angelo, and has his annotation: "This copy has been hand colored by the artist." . Red linen over yellow-gold boards, decorated in blue-gray. Printed paper spine label. . Folio. Numerous full- and partial-page illustrations from Angelo's books, Decorative initial letters and tail-pieces. Bottom corners lightly bumped, Near fine in acetate dust jacket,... Read More
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The American Family: An Album of a Self-Reliant People
by Angle, Paul M. and Earl Schenck Miers, eds
Kingsport, Tennessee: Privately Printed by Kingsport Press, Inc., 1963 One of 1,250 copies. Light brown cloth over paste-paper boards, gilt spine. Octavo. Designed by Stefan Salter, with illustrations by Fritz Kredel. Fine in torn acetate dust jacket, in fine slipcase. In the pages that follow are a description of a house raising, tilling the soil, a corn husking, threshing and household chores, the place of the hired girl, courtship and marriage, religion and holidays--a fair sampling of the moments... Read More
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An Address on Angling Literature Including Some Mysteries and Personal Observations as Well as Some Comments on Piscatoria California and Hints fro Collectors of Angling Books. Edited with an introduction by V.S. Hidy, Preface by Joseph D. Bates
by [Angling]. Kerridge, Philip Markham
Fullerton: The Sultana Press, 1970 One of 350 copies, this being Copy 42, signed by the author. Quarter brown leather over ecru linen boards, gilt spine. Coachman fly embedded in plastic set into the front cover. Octavo. Colored frontispiece of a California trout, black and white and color illustrations throughout. Includes an extensive bibliographical checklist of angling literature Minor rubbing to spine extremities. Fine in matching beige matching linen slipcase. Mark Kerridge formed his magnificent angling library over a period... Read More
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Mr. Carpenter, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following Report…" Senate Report No. 21. 42nd Congress, 2nd Session.
by [ Anthony, , Susan B., Elizabeth Cady Stanton, et al.] Carpenter, Matthew Hale
[Washington, D.C.: January 1872. First edition. Modern blue paper wrappers with added modern endpapers. . 5 in. by 9in. . Some chipping to edges of leaves. Document tape at fore-edge of one leaf. A very good copy of a scarce women's suffrage item. The present report, written by Republican Senator Matthew Hale Carpenter (1824 – 1881), responds to the memorial presented by numerous prominent suffragists including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Isabella Beecher Hooker,... Read More
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Syrie: Memoire et Civilisation..
by [Syrian Antiquities]
[n.p.:] Institut du Monde Arabe/Flammarion, [1993] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. With 400 color illustrations. Fine in fine d.j. An excellent exhibition catalogue, listing 387 Syrian antiquities, including cult and funerary pieces, reliefs, sculptures, cuneiform inscriptions, etc.
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![[ Broadside]. The Woman's Bible. Editor Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the National Suffrage Association, one of the Revising Committee.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/244/327/1382327244.0.l.jpg)
[ Broadside]. The Woman's Bible. Editor Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the National Suffrage Association, one of the Revising Committee.
by [ Anti-Woman;s Suffrage].
[ n.p.] n.d., ca. 1920.] First edition. Probably issued shortly before the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in August of 1920. The latest event mentioned in the broadside occurred in May 1920, when "the women who invaded Connecticut to try to force Governor Holcomb to call a special session, met in New York on Sunday and had a big political dinner on that day. Thus the party today lives up to the theory 'that much injury has been done... Read More
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Treatise on Physical Education; Specifically Adapted to Young Ladies.
by Bureaud-Riofrey [Antoine-Martin]
London: Henry Kent Causton, 1839 According to the title page, this copy is "Second edition, considerably enlarged, with plates." It originally appeared in Paris as Education physique des jeunes filles (1835). Another English edition came out in 1838, from which the present edition is enlarged. It is unclear whether there are revisions in the text from the earlier edition, or whether the only change is the addition of plates. Contemporary crushed red morocco stamped in gilt on... Read More
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The Crooked Lines of God: Poems 1949-1954. Contemporary Poets Series
by Antoninus, Brother [William Everson]
Detroit: University of Detroit Press, 1959 One of 1,000 copies. Printed at the Albertus Magnus Press, Oakland, California. 1st edition. Clothbacked boards. Oblong octavo. Fine in dust jacket with slight soiling.
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Understanding and Explanation: A Transcendental-Pragmatic Perspective...Translated by Georgia Warnke
by Apel, Karl-Otto
Cambridge: MIT Press, [1984] Wrappers. Octavo. Former owner's ink signature. A very good copy.
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The Newspaper in Art
by Apgar, Garry, Shaun O'L. Higgins, and Colleen Striegel
[Spokane:] New Media Ventures, Inc., 1996 First edition. Cloth. Quarto. With 210 reproductions, along with a checklist of hundreds of additional works by more than 200 artists.
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The Writings of Stanley Morison: A Handlist..
by Appleton, Tony
Brighton: Tony Appleton, 1976 First edition. Parchment-backed boards. . Octavo. Frontisportrait. Fine in fine d.j.
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Lucii Apuleii Madaurensis Platonici philosophi opera interpretatione et notis illustravit Julianus Floridus..
by Apuleius
Paris: Apud Federicum Leonard, Regis, Serenissimi Dephini 1688 First edition edited by Julien Fleury (1650-1725), published as part of the Delphine Classics, prepared in the reign of Louis XIV, for the use of the dauphin. One of the most respected works in the series, praised by Brunet, Moss, Schwegler and Graesse. Contemporary mottled sheep, gilt spine with brown morocco label, edges stained red. . Quarto. Engraved frontispiece, woodcut device on title-page, woodcut coat-of-arms on dedication page, engraving of a... Read More
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Basic Writings of..
by Thomas Aquinas
New York: Random House, [1945.] Ninth printing. Cloth, in publisher's slipcase. 2 volumes, octavo. Fine in very good slipcase. Case has minor soiling and a small stain from a pressure-sensitive label.
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Kierkegaard's Authorship: A Guide to the Writings of Kierkegaard
by Arbaugh, George E., and George B. Arbaugh
Rock Island, Illinois: Augustana College Library, 1967 First edition. Boards. Octavo. Former owner's embossed stamp on free endpapers. Very good in very good dust jacket. One small brown spot on back cover of d.j.
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Center Sill
by [ Archetype Press ]. Albon, George
Pasadena: Archetype Press, 2017 No limitation given, but probably one of about fifty copies (based on other Archetype Press editions). Signed on the colophon by George Albon. Designed and printed by Art Center College of Design students Keith Oshiro, Kristine Lim, Landi Gonzalez, Lulubi Garcia, and Victor Artiga Rodriguez. The group of students worked closely with Albon and under the guidance of professors Gloria Kondrup, Dennis Phillips, and Steve Turk. Hand-bound by Alex Ascencio in gray Rives BFK paper wrappers... Read More
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![Chapbook. ["The Blackbird Whistling (Or Just After)."]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/457/515/1613515457.0.l.jpg)
Chapbook. ["The Blackbird Whistling (Or Just After)."]
by [ Archetype Press.] Ronk, Martha
[ Pasadena:] Archetype Press, [ArtCenter College of Design,] 2017 One of fifty copies. Designed printed and bound by the students in the "Text, Image, and the Written Word" course at the ArtCenter College of Design in Fall 2017: Devin Lee, Juan Pesquera, Hyek Im, Melanie Yu, Hera Cho, Lars Gresslien Fiva, Matthew Goldstein, Rebecca Kim, Hilda Rios, Simon Baek, and Lovisa Boucher. The class was taught by Gloria Kondrup, Dennis Phillips, and Steve Turk.. Black, white, and gray paper wrappers... Read More
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40 Mills Place: A Collection of Type Specimens.
by [ Archetype Press, Pasadena:]
Pasadena, CA: Archetype Press, Art Center College of Design, 2003 One of 120 copies, printed as a tribute to 40 Mills Place, the address at which the Archetype Press printed forty different projects. The Press has recently moved to new quarters. Fifty-three sheets, printed on rectos only, consisting of a half-title, title-page, introduction by Doyald Young, colophon leaf, an illustrated leaf containing an image transfer print by photographer Steven A. Heller, and forty-eight type specimens, featuring color and... Read More
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A Mars Anthology. 25.19º.
by [ Archetype Press, Pasadena. ]
[Pasadena:] Archetype Press, 2002 One of 75 copies. . Housed in wraparound box, handmade by Alice Vaughn, with 1.25" wide pocket into which the folio fore-edges slip. . 8 " x 8 ." . Printed letterpress on Vandercook proof presses using metal foundry type, wood type, linoleum blocks, wood cuts, silk screens, laser-cut masonite blocks, zinc plates, and digital polymer plates. Printed on Legion Domestic Etching and Rives BFK papers. A fine copy. Mars's axial... Read More
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ISSUES: of Consequence
by [Archetype Press, Pasadena]
[Pasadena]: Archetype Press, 2006 One of 35 copies. Cream-colored Coptic binding with lace over wrappers. . Quarto. 10 x 8 in. . Designed and letter-press printed, by students of Art Center College of Design using foundry metal and wood type, photopolymer plates, linoleum cuts, and silk screens. Hand bound. 100% hemp paper. A fine copy. "Established at the College in 1989, Archetype Press offers students the unique opportunity to practice what has become a Digital Age rarity: setting type... Read More
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Pasadena
by [ Archetype Press, Pasadena ]
[ Pasadena, California: Archetype Press, Art Center College of Design, 2006 Special bindery edition, limited to twenty-six copies, presented in a slipcase. There were also seventy-five regular copies. Hand-bound by Alice Vaughan in quarter brown morocco over green cloth boards. Oblong quarto. Fifteen plates, printed on Japanese Mulberry paper, using linoleum blocks and photopolymer plates. A fine copy in publisher's full tan cloth slipcase. A tribute to Pasadena in type and illustration, presented by the students of Art Center... Read More
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The Wasps of Aristophanes As Performed at Cambridge November 19-24, 1897. With the verse translation by Benjamin Bickley Rogers, M.A
by [Binding]. Aristophanes
Cambridge: Printed for the Committee at the University Press and sold by Macmillan and Bowes, 1897 Finely bound by Elsé Hoffman for the Guild of Women Binders in full reddish-brown morocco, with gilt spine. Gilt single rules on both covers, with blindstamped leaf decorations. . Octavo. With Greek and English texts on facing pages. Spine lightly faded, some light discoloration to portions of covers. A very good copy. Later bookplate. Marian Titcombe mentions the work of Elsé Hoffman in Women... Read More
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The Lysistrata of Aristophanes. Now first wholly translkated into English and illustrated with eight full-page drawings by Aubrey Beardsley
by Aristophanes
[New York: Odyssey Publications, 1967] Facsimile of the 1896 Smithers publication. One of 515 copies. Blue paper boards with printed label on front cover. Quarto. A fine copy in partially faded purple cloth slipcase. Corners of slipcase bumped.
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