Dispatches from the Lizard Brain
by Carolee Campbell (b. 1936) et al
New York City: Gaspara Stampa, Inc., Russell Maret, 2022. Folio. 15 x 9 3/16 inches. (134) pp. Half-title, color photographic frontispiece of Ms. Campbell, title page printed in 3 colors of ink, the sections of the text are divided by printed text on colored papers, the entire text is illustrated with a variety of samples of work of the press, mounted, tipped-in, bound-in, mounted on stubs, printed in the margins, and so forth, color photographs, list of exhibition catalogs, Ninja Press... Read More
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Type-Faces
by Amanda Blanco (b. 1933), photographer
Northridge, CA: Santa Susanna Press, 1988. Portfolio. 12 13/16 x 9 9/16 inches. Sheets loosely laid in cloth portfolio: v, [2], 12 signed photographs mounted on the rectos, p1, colophon] pp. Half-title, title page, 12 black-and-white photographic portraits of Ritchie, SIGNED AND NUMBERED on the mount by the photographer, SIGNED by Lawrence Clark Powell on the colophon; text clean, unmarked. All loosely laid-in to a clam-shell box with an aperture design on the front cover by Joseph D'Ambrosio; binding square and... Read More
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Books Are Still For Sale
by August Frugé (1910-2004)
Los Angeles, CA: (Privately Reprinted for Lawrence Clark Powell by Wm. M. Cheney), 1956. Pamphlet. 4 5/8 x 3 1/16 inches. (12) pp. Typographic ornaments as rules on title page and colophon; text clean, unmarked. Brown printed wrappers, stitched; binding tight, corners bumped, spot on front cover, light fading to wraps. SCARCE. GK923-001. Good. LIMITED EDITION of 190 copies privately reprinted from the Saturday Review of Literature. The text in this volume makes the case for owning and reading books. Any kind... Read More
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In Black & White
by Wesley W Bates
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2005. 4to. 10 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches. 74, [4] pp. Half-title, title page printed with red and black inks, title-page vignette, 31 examples of Bates' woodcut (1 printed with red ink, 1 folding in 4 colors); text clean, unmarked. Black cloth, printed paper front cover label with a Bates woodcut, red leather spine label titled in gilt, comes in the original slip case covered in red cloth; binding square and tight. Comes with 2... Read More
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Jonah, Judith, Ruth
by [Bible]
Greenbrae, CA: The Allen Press, 1984. Small Folio. 10 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches. 49, [1 blank] pp. Half-title, title page printed in two colors as is the text, with the addition of running heads in Hebrew (in blue) and Aramaic in burgundy), 3 illustrations by Michèle Forgeois; text clean, unmarked. Edition de luxe in the French style where the text block in loosely laid-in into brown paper wraps titled in gilt, and the whole laid into an orange-cloth-covered clamshell box... Read More
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Wooings
by Brendan Gill (1914-1997)
(Verona, Italy): Plain Wrapper Press, (1980). 4to. 11 1/4 x 9 inches. (8) pp. Title page with a leaf ornament in brown cut by Fulvio Testa, poem headings also in brown; text clean, unmarked. Patterned paper over boards designed by Fulvio Testa which were screen-printed by Gino Berardenelli; binding square and tight, no dust-jacket as issued. Errata sheet laid in at the rear. GIL123-003. Fine. LIMITED EDITION to 155 numbered copies, this is number 63, SIGNED by Brendan Gill on the colophon.... Read More
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Dearest Joana
by Brian North Lee (1936-2007), editor. John Dreyfus (1918-2002), Introduction. Joan Hassall (1906-1988), Illustrator.
Denby Dale, UK: The Fleece Press, (2000). Two Volumes. 4to. 11 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches. 147; (302), [ii], 7 plates, [ii, colophon] pp. Profusely illustrated with examples of the artist's work, including 60 wood engravings, designs for dust-jackets, bookplates, book illustrations, Christmas cards postage stamps, both tipped-in, mounted, or plates, index, suite of 15 engravings on 7 plates printed from the wood; text clean, unmarked. Quarter natural vellum, marbled paper over boards, spine titled in gilt, clear plastic dust-jackets, housed... Read More
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The Romance of El Camino Real
by California Landmarks and Historical Records Bureau
Los Angeles, CA: Kaloprint Corporation, [1936]. 4to. 13 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches. Unpaginated. [122] pp. Registration and Dedication Pages left blank, 2 vignettes on the title page, list of the missions by date of dedication, what follows are a series of 25 openings with descriptive text on the versos, tissue guards, and a Kaloprint image on the rectos (text facing illustration) of Father Serra, the mission buildings, manuscript documents, and Indian survivors of the missions; text clean, unmarked. Blind-... Read More
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L'Histoire D'Un Tournesol
by Carol Cunningham (1925-2013)
Mill Valley, CA: Sunflower Press, 1992. 12mo. 6 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches. 29 unpaginated leaves. Orange illustrated sunflower frontispiece, hand-stenciled and painted illustrations throughout, 4-page bifold "Addendum" in a pocket bound into the rear pastedown; text clean, unmarked. Patterned cloth with printed paper label on front cover, orange printed endpapers with sunflower pattern, pocket in rear end-paper labeled "Addendum" inside of which is a bifold "How could I forget?" which lists 2 additional Sunflower Press books and further reflections on... Read More
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Considerations of Some Recent Social Theories
by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908)
BOSTON BRAHMIN REACTS TO 1848. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Co., 1853. 8vo. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches. [viii], 158 pp. Text clean, unmarked. Brown cloth, printed paper spine label; binding square and tight, shelf wear, corners showing, spine ends chipped. Ownership rubber stamp of Eugene Bechtold, Los Angeles, CA on the tail of the rear pastedown. Autograph note, signed from Norton to "My Dear Mr. Dwight." DB722-006. Good. FIRST EDITION. This is Charles Eliot Norton's first book, published... Read More
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On Rooks
by Dennis Phillips (b. 1951)
Folio in 3s. 12 3/8 x 6 3/4 inches. [36] pp. Half-title, photographic prints throughout, titles of the poems printed in periwinkle ink; text clean, unmarked. Quarter dark-green French goat-skin spine, boards covered in a decorative English paper, end-leaves of pure Belgan flax; binding square and tight. SIGNED by both Carolee Campbell and Dennis Phillips. Includes the original prospectus. PN216-001a. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 75 copies, this is number 57; 8 additional copies hors commerce. Design, presswork,... Read More
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Letter to a Lexicographer
by Edwin H. Carpenter (1915-1995)
San Francisco, CA [i.e.: Los Angeles, CA]: [Edwin Carpenter, n.d. [1960]. Pamphlet. 6 5/8 x 4 7/16 inches. [ii], 9 pp. Title page printed in pink, blue, and black inks, 3 soldier decorations in blue and 2 decorations in pink on title page, decorative initial in red and pink inks, tailpiece of typographic ornaments in pink; text clean, unmarked. Buff wraps, front cover echoes the title page printed in pink and blue, stitched; binding square and tight. SCARCE. EE516-280. Fine. SECOND EDITION... Read More
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Histoire de Théodose le Grand, Pour Monseigneur le Dauphin
by Esprit Fléchier (1632-1710)
Paris: Chez Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, Imprimeur du Roy, 1679. 4to. 10 3/8 x 7 3/4 inches. [*] A-Z4 Aa-Zz4 AAa-ZZz4, AAaa2. [ii], 535, [21, last two pages blank] pp. Title page with engraved printer's device, 6 engraved tailpieces, 4 engraved headpieces, 4 typographic headpieces, 3 engraved initials, table of contents, Extract du Privilege du Roy; text is unmarked, ink stains in the margin and gutter of pages 10 and 11. Full contemporary brown calf, 5 raised bands, 5 compartments decorated in gilt,... Read More
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Of the Months
by Folgore da San Geminiano (circa 1270 - circa 1332)
Pamphlet. 7 15/16 x 5 7/8 inches. Unpaginated. [16] pp. Title page vignette; text clean, unmarked. Tan wrappers printed in black with red typographic rule, stitched; binding square and tight, covers with toning at the extremities, shelf wear. Former owner's inventory number lightly penciled in the upper left corner of the colophon page. ST1021-001. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies printed at the Plantin Press for friends of Saul and Lillian Marks with greetings & good wishes for the New... Read More
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The Lady, or the Tiger? and The Discourager of Hesitancy
by Frank Richard Stockton (183-1902)
Vancouver, BC, Canada: Heavenly Monkey, 2022. 8vo; two stories bound tête-bêche. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. [iv], (11); [iv], (11) pp. Each tale with a multi-color frontispiece by Walter Bachinski, along with 19 single-color illustrations at the head of each text-page, title pages printed in 2 colors; text clean unmarked. Yellow-orange cloth spine, black paper over boards, one side with a stamped pattern and the other side with gilt-stamped pattern, painted end-papers, comes in black-paper-covered slip case with printed... Read More
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Das Schriftgiessergewerbe in Frankfurt am Main und Offenbach
by Gustav Mori (1872-1950)
Frankfurt am Main: Gedruckt mit Unterstützung der Schriftgiesserei D. Stempel AG, 1926. Portfolio. 16 3/4 x 11 5/8 inches. Sheets measure 16 3/8 x 11 3/16 inches. [x] pp. plus 29 plates. Title page with an eagle vignette on a red shield-shaped ground, list of tables, colophon, 39 plates, the plates are either single sided, folded, with 1 double-folded (3 panels) and show various type specimens produced by a variety of type-foundries; text clean, unmarked, paper toned, some minor wear... Read More
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Die Schriftgiesser Bartholomäus Voskens in Hamburg und Reinhard Voskens in Frankfurt a. M.
by Gustav Mori (1872-1950)
Frankfurt am Main: Gustav Mori, no date [but 1923]. 4to. 11 3/8 x 9 inches. Unpaginated. [ii], 6 pp. 2 plates (loose from the stubs originally mounted upon); text clean, unmarked, paper lightly toned. Cloth spine, cloth tips, patterned paper over boards, printed paper label on front cover; binding square, rubbed. Two bookplates on the front paste-down: "Graphische Fachbücherei Heinrich Jost, Frankfurt A. M" and "Bibliothek der Bauerschen Giesserei, Frankfurt A M." SCARCE. CH818-922c. Good. LIMITED EDITION of 150 copies,... Read More
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“An Italian Paperchase
by Hans Peter Schmoller (1916-1985)
"An Italian Paperchase: The Decorated Papers of Flavia Farina Cini, Pia Vitali, and Eleonora der Conti Gallo," In: Matrix, Number 5, Winter 1985, pp. 1-14. WITH: DREYFUS, John Gustave (1918-2002). "The Curwen Press Collection in Cambridge University Library," pp. 23-33. Manor Farm, Andoversford, Glouchestershire: The Whittington Press, 1985. 4to. 11 1/4 x 8 inches. [vi], (164) pp. Schmoller's article "is mainly about three Italian women, two of whom were active in the early part of our century, and in whose wake we... Read More
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Anza's California Expeditions
by Herbert Eugene Bolton (1870-1953)
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1930. 5 Volumes, complete. Thick 8vo. (xxiv), 529, [1 black]; (xiv), 522; (xxii), 436; (xiv), 552; (xx); 426 pp. Frontispiece portrait of de Anza, 53 illustrations, 10 maps (7 folding), index; offsetting to copyright page and dedication page, and pages 72-80, at the end has been laid in several pieces of paper as noted below, the typed letter from Bolton to Gantner was at one time stapled to a front fly-leaf with staples, now... Read More
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Further Interiors
by Howard Phipps (b. 1954)
(Risbury, Herefordshire): The Whittington Press, (1992). 4to. 10 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches. [20] double leaves folded at the fore-edge. 15 wood engravings (4 color), plus an additional engraving on the colophon, printed from the original engravings on Zerkall Rosa and Ingres papers; text clean, unmarked. One of 235 copies bound Japanese-style, laced with black ribbon, in dark grey handmade paper covers folded at the fore-edge, Ingress title-label within a rectangular blind panel on the front cover, housed in a slip... Read More
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Dogs
by Michael Bond O'Mara (1938-2004) illustrator
Los Angeles, CA: Peggy Christian, 1976. Miniature Book. 2 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches. 12 ff. Title leaf printed in 2 colors, 10 prints of etchings of a variety of dog breeds, colophon printed in brown ink on a separate page; text clean, unmarked. Housed in the original folding stiff paper case, string tied; text clean, unmarked, bookseller's pencil notation on the edition number on outside of paper case, else fine. Each print SIGNED, titled, dated, and numbered by Michael... Read More
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The Yellow Barn Press
by Jack Walsdorf (1941-2017), compiler
Council Bluffs, IA: The Yellow Barn Press, 2001. Folio. 12 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches. (xviii), (124) pp. Half-title, title page printed in black and red, 22 color plates (1 folding), 58 illustrations, index; text clean, unmarked. Black oasis goatskin spine, John DePol-designed patterned paper over boards, brown leather spine label titled in gilt, opaque glassine dust-jacket, housed in a clamshell box covered in black cloth with printed paper spine label with an additional paper spine label laid-in; binding square and... Read More
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Inaugural Address of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Thirty-fifth President of the United States of America
by John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)
[Los Angeles, CA]: (Printed by Students of "The Art of the Book" at the Press of the Department of Fine Arts, University Southern California, 1962). 12mo. 4 7/8 x 3 3/8 inches. [iv], 13, [3] pp. Half-title, title page printed in red and black, running heads; text clean, unmarked. Parchment paper spine, decorative paper over boards, printed paper spine label, clear plastic dust-jacket, slip case covered with grey paper; binding square and tight, light offsetting from adhesive on spine parchment.... Read More
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The Art of Papermaking
by Joseph Jérôme le François de Lalande (1832-1807)
Mountcashel Castle, Kilmurry, Sixmilebridge, Co. Claire, Ireland: The Ashling Press, 1976. Folio. 14 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches. [vi], 118, [2] pp. Half-title, title-page with mulberry tree silhouette, 14 plates (1 folding) printed on blue mold-made paper, explanation of plates, index and glossary, mulberry silhouette printer's device on colophon; text clean, unmarked. Half brown leather, orange burlap sides, gilt ornamental rules on sides, spine titled in gilt, marbled end-papers; binding square and tight. Original prospectus laid-in. LH823-013. Fine. LIMITED FACSIMILE EDITION of... Read More
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Body’s Breviary
by Joseph Warren Beach (1880-1957)
Pamphlet. 7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches. [ii], 30, [2] pp. Printed in red and black ink throughout; text unmarked with occasional light marginal soiling. Wrappers printed in red and black; binding square and tight, light shelf wear and soiling. SCARCE in the market. ST1021-006. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION, printed by Gregg Anderson for presentation to the members of the Zamorano Club, limitation not stated. Only a few copies were produced for the Zamorano Club. Presented by Robert E.... Read More
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