Category: Fine Printing

Sanskrit Poem. The Greeting of the Dawn.

By: Aliquando Press / William Rueter.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: [Toronto: Aliquando Press, 1992.]

Seller ID: 56825

A broadside poem, measuring 28cm x 43cm. Fine condition. Printed in several colours on silvery hand-made paper. In pencil at the bottom: "2/80 Rueter / 92". Limited to 80 numbered copies, signed by William Rueter.
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The Aliquando Press. 25 Years of Private Printing. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, January 20 - March 31, 1988

By: Aliquando Press. William & Marilyn Rueter.

Price: $40.00

Seller ID: 54624

[Toronto: Aliquando Press]/Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, 1988. Orange pictorial wrappers, stapled, 4to. Faint edge wear, otherwise a fine copy. A descriptive list of 91 items printed by William Rueter from 1963 - 1987. Facsimile illustrations throughout.
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Image for An Apology for Not Preparing A Keepsake for the meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs on September 17 & 18. Regretfully submitted by Wm. P. Barlow, Jr.

An Apology for Not Preparing A Keepsake for the meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs on September 17 & 18. Regretfully submitted by Wm. P. Barlow, Jr.

By: Barlow (Wm. P.)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Piedmont: Wm. P. Barlow / The Nova Press, 1960.

Seller ID: 56980

Original blue wrappers, sewn. Front cover lettered in black. A few scratches and light wear to wrappers, in general a clean and very good copy. Separately printed inclusions include a large broadside, a miniature leaflet, and a couple of other examples. A rather funny little diatribe on keepsakes, and quite scarce.
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Deset Bezrucovskych Novorocenek Jozky Barucha.

By: Baruch (Jozka) [Jozky Barucha]

Price: $100.00

Seller ID: 54830

Gottwaldova: Vytiskly Slovacke, 1957. A portfolio of ten loose plates and an 8-page descriptive booklet, in a portfolio with a decorative letter "B" on the front wrapper. Some light dust soiling, a bit of wear to the edges of the portfolio, otherwise fine. All ten plates are signed in pencil by the artist, Jozka Baruch. They are bookplate designs, woodcuts, all relating in some way to the famour Czech poet Mistra Petra Bezruce (1867 - 1957) [Petr Bezruc, pseudonym of Vladimir Vasek]. The portfolio commemorates Bezruc's 90th birthday. This is copy #46 of an edition of 100.
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The Peacock from Thomas Bewick's A History of British Birds Volume 1: Land Birds.

By: Bewick (Thomas)

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 54925

Yale University: R. Hunter Middleton, 1976. "This impression from the original engraved boxwood block, now in the collection of the Newberry Library in Chicago, has been taken by R. Hunter Middleton as a keepsake for guests at the Carl Purington Rollins Lectures on the Typographic Tradition, Yale University, April 1976. Printed on a sheet measuring about 8 x 10 inches, in a gray paper portfolio with a printed label on the front. Fine condition. Middleton was a type designer and art director; he also was a collector of Bewick, and gave a number of original Bewick engraved blocks to the Newberry...
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Experiments with the Bradley Combination Ornaments. (Cover Title: The Bradley Ornaments).

By: Bradley (Will H.)

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio, 1967.

Seller ID: 55304

Black self-wrappers, lettered in gold, sewn. A few scuffs, slight wrinkling to edges, but basically fine. Printed in many colors on four different papers. Limited to 473 copies, this copy not numbered but written in the number space is: "one of the first ten - for Don Weeks".
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The Sinner. Translated from the Pali of Brahamajaharak.

By: Brahamajaharak.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Cincinnati: Privately Printed [Fleuron Press], 1963.

Seller ID: 55211

Black boards, brown cloth spine lettered in gilt, in a black cardboard slipcase. Some rubbing to the spine, otherwise a fine copy in a slipcase with a slight split along the top edge. Printed in black, red & green, with numerous marginal illustrations. Limited to 140 numbered copies, this is #57. This looks to have been printed as a keepsake for the friends of the Fleuron Press.
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Falcon. A linotype face designed by WA Dwiggins.

By: Dwiggins (W.A.) (imprimerie dromadaire / Glenn Goluska)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Toronto: imprimerie dromdaire, 1980.

Seller ID: 56845

A single leaf once folded to make a 4-page booklet. Printed in red & black. Fine condition. Fifty copies were printed as a keepsake for the 1980 meeting of the Typocrafters in Toronto.
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Zapf's Civilite Disclosed. [Prospectus]

By: Gehenna Press prospectus for Zapf's Civilite Disclosed. [Leonard Baskin].

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Rockport: Gehenna Press, [1995].

Seller ID: 56533

4pp., a single leaf once folded. This prospectus prints a description of the edition and its various limited impressions. Iconic crow pressmark illustration by Leonard Baskin on the final page. An attractive type layout on the inner page. Faint edge wear, about fine.
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Book Trade Tributes to Peter B. Howard.

By: Gertz (Stephen) -editor. (Peter B Howard)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Berkeley: Serendipity Books, 2011. Second Edition.

Seller ID: 55558

Pictorial wrappers. 54pp. A fine copy. Limited to 200 copies. Originally published as: A Wake for the Still Alive, by Booktryst. Tributes to Peter by 21 of his book trade colleagues. Included is "indomitable" by William Matthews. Contributions by Martin Stone, Eric Korn, Jeff Towns, Taylor Bowie, James Pepper, Ken Sanders, Charles Seluzicki, many others. Typography by Alastair Johnston, Poltroon Press.
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Gibbings & Grey and The Charm of Birds. Twenty Wood Engravings printed from the original blocks ... Edited and Introduced by Richard Landon.

By: Gibbings (Robert) & Viscount Grey of Fallodon. (Barbarian Press)..

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Toronto: Friends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library/Mission: The Barbarian Press, 1998. First edition.

Seller ID: 56920

Original grey illustrated boards & blue cloth spine, printed paper label on spine. Grey-blue end papers with printed facsimile signatures. A fine copy, basically as new. Twenty wood engravings executed by Gibbings for Viscount Grey of Fallodon's 'The Charm of Birds' (Hodder, 1927), printed from the blocks for the first time. An edition of 300 copies, 150 of which were for the use of the Friends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
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A Collection of Ephemeral Pieces.

By: Goluska (Glenn) (Nightshade Press) (imprimerie dromadaire)

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Toronto: imprimerie dromadaire, etc., 1970s and 1980s.

Seller ID: 56892

This is a small group of ephemeral pieces printed by Glenn Goluska. It includes two party invitations, a 1976 Christmas Chapbook, a 1989 price list, a 1983 Wayzgoose bookmark, two business cards, a Nightshade Lead Ain't Dead card, a red & yellow Computer Free Zone sign, an illustrated leaflet "When the rags are picked....", A Christmas greeting card, and a 1987 Toronto Book Fair leaflet, printed at the fair. The book fair leaflet has small stains, all others fine. 12 items:
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Image for Hand set type In the Age of The Computer is not an anachronism as long as men obtain satisfaction from personal involvement in the Creation of Beauty.

Hand set type In the Age of The Computer is not an anachronism as long as men obtain satisfaction from personal involvement in the Creation of Beauty.

By: Lange (Gerald) [Bieler Press]. [Quote by Paul Hayden Duensing]

Price: $45.00

Publisher: California: Gerald Lange/Bieler Press, 1987.

Seller ID: 56532

An illustrated broadside on mould-made paper, size 13 x 10 inches. Fine condition. Printed in an edition of 200 copies, the title is a quotation from typographer and type designer Paul Hayden Duensing. An attractive broadside, finely printed.
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Image for Miniature Literature. The Stanley Marcus Collection of Miniature Books at Bridwell Library. 26 February - 27 May 1995. Curated by David J. Lawrence.

Miniature Literature. The Stanley Marcus Collection of Miniature Books at Bridwell Library. 26 February - 27 May 1995. Curated by David J. Lawrence.

By: Lawrence (David J.) -Curator. (Stanley Marcus Collection)

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Dallas: Bridwell Library, 1995. First edition.

Seller ID: 56678

Small patterned boards, printed paper label on front cover. Eight Illustrations. Size is 3 x 3 inches. A fine copy, as-new, the original plain paper wrapper is present. One of 500 numbered copies, signed by the curator.
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The Revolt Of A Tired Typesetter. Two Excerpts and a Threnody.

By: Magee (David), Grabhorn Press.

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 54656

[San Francisco]: Grabhorn Press, 1958. Oblong printed wrappers, sewn. Illustration in color on title page; text in black & red. Faint wear, short tear in the lower edge of the back cover, about fine. Limited to 200 copies, Printed for the Members of the Roxburght and Zamorano Clubs, 1958. David Magee indulges in humorous Grabhorn reminiscences relating to the production of the Bibliography of the Press.
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Wor Geordie's Dinner. In Commemoration of the Bisonteenary of the Fourth Edition of Tommy Bewick's Fower-leggit Beasties.

By: Poltroon Press

Price: $60.00

Publisher: [Berkeley: Poltroon, 2007.]

Seller ID: 55863

Decorative wrappers. A single sheet folded twice to create a booklet measuring about 7.5 x 8 inches. Text in red, decorative cuts in purple. A fine copy. This is a menu for a picnic in Berkeley, Sunday 15 April 2007. POLTROON IMPRESSIT.
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Hadriano.

By: Rimmer (Jim) & Gerald Giampa.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Vancouver: Giampa & Rimmer, [c.1985].

Seller ID: 55925

An illustrated broadside, one sheet measuring 11.5 x 17.5 inches. Printed in black, green, red, and gray. Fine condition. This is the special issue: "A SPECIAL EDITION SIGNED & NUMBERED FOR THE SHAREHOLDERS OF GIAMPA TEXTWARE CORP". This is copy #3 of 25 copies signed by Jim Rimmer. This broadside is basically an advertisement for Giampa Textware Corp., and Goudy's Hadriano Font, "Now in Digital Font Format".
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A group of 20 items printed at the South Hall Press, UC Berkeley, in the early 1970s.

By: South Hall Press, Berkeley.

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: 54654

This is a group of 20 ephemeral pieces, most probably printed by students, produced at the University's press in the early 1970s. They include a Georges Braque broadside, a William Langland quote, poetry by Lynne Dal Poggetto (2 copies) and Karen Aughinbaugh (4 copies), a bookplate, some poetry broadsides, and a few small printed signs for the press itself. Condition is mostly fine, several are dated 1971 - 1973. Various sizes, mostly about 6 x 9 inches.
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Image for The Remarkable Martin Stone: Remembering the Celebrated Rare Book Dealer and Blues Guitarist. Edited, and with an Introduction by Stephen J. Gertz.

The Remarkable Martin Stone: Remembering the Celebrated Rare Book Dealer and Blues Guitarist. Edited, and with an Introduction by Stephen J. Gertz.

By: Stone (Martin) [Edited by Stephen Gertz].

Price: $275.00

Publisher: McMinnville, Oregon: Booktryst, 2017. First edition.

Seller ID: 56100

Patterned boards & cloth spine, printed paper label on spine. Frontispiece by Frances Butler, after a photograph by Linda Moorcock. Blue end papers, in a burgundy slipcase. One of 125 copies for sale, the entire edition being 150 copies. Signed at the colophon by Frances Butler and Alastair Johnston. Printed by Alastair Johnston at the Poltroon Press in Berkeley. A fine copy. A collection of eulogies by Marianne Faithfull, Peter B. Howard, Iain Sinclair, Michael Moorcock, John Eggeling, Ed Maggs, Jeremy Reed, Nigel Burwood, Charles Seluzicki, Tom Bushnell, William Matthews, Sylvia Beach Whitma...
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Two Signed Gravures from Gelykenissen en Wonderen Van Jezus Christus.

By: Van Gelder (Dirk)

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: 55001

Amsterday: Van Holkema & Warendorf, [1941]. These are possibly proofs from this book; they are the frontispiece and illustrated title page, both signed in pencil beneath by Dirk Van Gelder. One leaf, folded in half, fine condition; the leaf has been pasted to a page from a binder, glued only at the fold, and can be easily removed. Images are about 2 x 3.25 inches, the entire sheet measures 11 x 7 inches when opened.
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Category: Fine Printing