Printer and Playground: An Autobiography
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. 8vo (10 x 6.5 inches). 156 pages. Original grey cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition.
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. 8vo (10 x 6.5 inches). 156 pages. Original grey cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition.
Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1956. Folio (13 x 10 inches). Wood engraved portrait of Owen by Baskin after a drawing by Ben Shahn (with an extra proof copy, see below), and illustrations by Shahn in text. Half brown morocco, gilt-lettered on spine; board slipcase. One of 35 copies with.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957. Folio. Illustrated by Hilary Knight. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, first printing.
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1957. 10 x 7.5 inches. Wrappers. First Edition.
Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1958. Square 8vo. [12] pages. Printed in red and black, on rectos only. Wood engravings by Leonard Baskin. Quarter cloth, paper covered boards, gilt-lettered leather spine label. One of only 100 copies in this binding, from an edition of 300, signed by Baskin and Hecht.....
[Fairfield, WA]: Ye Galleon Press [Glen Cameron Adams], 1960. 8vo. Printed in colors. Cloth with printed paper title label on front cover. One of 149 copies, this copy unnumbered. This was the fourth book from the press. "The paper is 70 pound Angelo Text in ivory. The sheets were printed.....
[Presumably Stockholm]: [no publisher], [circa 1960s-70s]. Oblong (24 x 26 cm). 22 silkscreens after Lindell by Ove Lööf. Bound as issued in half yellow cloth, glazed boards, the front cover with small vignette. Number 42 of 100 copies numbered and signed in pencil by the artist. Lindell (Swedish, 1920-1980) produced.....
New York: The Orion Press, 1961. 11.25 x 8.75. 162 pages. Photographs by Inga Morath. Pictorial cloth; printed acetate dust jacket. First edition. "An introduction to the geography, people, history, government, resources, culture, and major cities of Tunisia."
Editions Du Chene, 1962. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. Cloth, dust jacket. In French.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1962. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. 256 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. "An authoritative account of the fabulous history and romance of the prized stone of the exotic East, jade."
Japan: Asahi Shimbun Publishing Co., 1963. 10.5 x 7.25 inches. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition.
Paris: [Printed by Grou-Radenez] for Serje Mendjisky, 1964. Folio (14.5 x 11 inches). 35 plates. Text and plates laid loose as issued in printed cream wrappers; velvet chemise and slipcase. Copy number 282 from an unnumbered edition.
New York: [Verona: Stamperia Valdonega for] The Limited Editions Club, 1965. Folio (310 x 205 mm). 369, [3] pages. Illustrated by Aldo Salvadori. Original blue leather-backed boards; dust jacket; slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 955 of 1500 copies signed by Mardersteig and Salvadori.
London: Trigram Press, 1965. 8vo. 48 pages. Illustrated by Max Chapman. Cloth; dust jacket. LIMITED EDITION, number 143 of 150 numbered copies from an edition of 750 copies.
Boston: Impressions Workshop Inc., ca. 1965. 7 x 8 inches. 8 pages. Four prints and loose price sheet loose in flap-pocket of inner rear wrapper. Die-cut green wrappers revealing title.
New York, Paris, Geneva: Alexandre Iolas, 1965. 8.5 x 6.75 inches. Text in French. [44] pages. 16 plates (one double-page). Original printed wrappers. One of 200 copies of the trade edition.
Berlin: Eulenspiegel Verlag, 1965. 10.75 x 7.5 inches. Boards.
New York: The Typophiles, 1966. Complete set of 62 pamphlets in original cloth slipcase. In fine condition. Including contributions by Peter Dorn, Fridolf Johnson, Warren Chappell, Bill Jackson, and Charles Antin. These are from fine private presses such as the Cherryburn Press, the Greenwood Press, the Creekside Press, the Mermaid.....
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1966. 8.5 x 8.25 inches. Wrappers. Catalog for the exhibition from December 1965 - January 1966.
Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafa, S.A., 1966. 10.75 x 10.5 inches. 255 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. In Spanish.
Milan: Stamperia Valdonega for Carlo Alberto Chiesa, 1967. 8vo. 35pp. Text in Latin, Italian, and English. Original printed wrappers; slipcase. A fine copy.
Los Angeles: Grant Dahlstrom & Saul Marks, 1967. 8vo. 131, [2]pp. Original orange cloth-backed decorated cloth, printed paper spine label, untrimmed. Fine. FIRST EDITION, one of 800 copies of this fine festschrift with contributions by Bern Dibner, Ward Ritchie, Warren R. Howell, and other authors. Includes Edelstein's bibliography of the.....
Milan: Achille Mauri, 1968. Thermoformed plastic multiple: 11.75 x 11.75 inches; 30 x 30 cm. Some minor age darkening at the edges, generally in fine condition, without cracks or abrasions. The book: 44 pages. Text by Vincenzo Agnetti. In Italian, French, and German. Photographs by Giorgio A. Colombo, Franco Angeli.....
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1968. 10 x 8 inches. 890 pages. Original cloth; dust jacket. "The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana consists of some 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, broadsheets, and photographs, of which about half are described in the present catalogue. The Graff Collection displays.....
New York: Byron Gallery, 1968. 8.25 x 6 inches. 95 pages. Wrappers. Catalog for the exhibition from November - December 1968.