San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1984. Folio (20 1/2 x 14 inches). 28 drypoint etchings, combining engraving and drypoint, using hand and electric tools, by Jim Dine, plus an additional print on chine colle from the second state of the frontispiece (entitled "Details from Nancy's Garden"), signed by Dine, laid.....
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1990. Essay and glossary by Bill Berkson. Broadsheets (22 x 15 inches). 42 lithographs by Jim Dine. With 8vo (11 x 7 1/2 inches) text volume in pocket of box; sewn in original printed wrappers. Contents loose as issued in red cloth portfolio box. LIMITED.....
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.....
North Andover, Mass. Kat Ran Press, 1997. 4to (11 x 8 inches). [24] leaves including initial and terminal blanks. Seven original "smoke" drawings by Gohde. Red cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover; matching red cloth clamshell case. Number 35 of 50 copies (an additional 15 were not for sale). Printed on.....
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.....
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1988. 8vo. 32, [1] pages. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Original decorated paper over boards, gilt-lettered on spines. One of 326 copies, signed on the colophon by Samuel Beckett, this copy out-of-series and reserved for the printer Ronald Gordon of The Oliphant Press. The edition consisted.....
Northampton, MA: The Apiary Press, 1964. 8vo. [15] pages. Wood-engravings by Thomas Bewick in text. Hand-bound in marbled wrappers over stiff card. Scarce first book designed and printed by Ronald Gordon, whose future Oliphant Press would print many celebrated fine press books of the 1970s-90s. One of only 25 copies.....
Northampton, MA: Apiary Press, [1965]. Oblong. 14 leaves, including blanks. Plain boards, with printed paper wrapper mounted as dust jacket. One of only 25 copies of this very scarce apprentice-work by Ronald Gordon, later of The Oliphant Press. While a student at Amherst, Ronald Gordon studied printing and bookmaking with.....
New York: Grenfell Press, in association with The X Press, 1980. 8vo. 3 leaves, 25 pages printed in black, blue, red, and green. Original limp linen. Number 29 of 85 copies printed for Easter 1980. The first book from the Grenfell Press, including a variety of typographic styles and designs.....
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. 8vo (245 x 165 mm; 9.5 x 6.5 inches). Title printed in red and black. 362, [1] pages. Engraved portrait frontispiece by Goupil & Co. Contemporary green half morocco, top edges gilt, others untrimmed and unopened, silk page marker. LIMITED ISSUE, number 21.....
New York: The Grenfell Press, 1986. 8vo. Sewn in wrappers; dust wrapper with woodcut by Joel Shapiro. FIRST EDITION, number 13 of 150 copies signed by Cole and Shapiro.
[Columbus, Ohio]: The Logan Elm Press at The Ohio State University, 1979. Accordion form (each panel 6.5 x 5 inches), 8 panels. Printed in red and black, one full-page woodcut and three small vignettes (including on title). Mounted in grey board covers, title printed on front; printed slipcase. One of.....
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1985. Limited edition, number 322 of 800 copies. Folio. Original Nigerian goatskin-backed marbled boards, goatskin facings on the boards, gilt-lettered on spine, bound by Denis Gouey; publisher's slipcase. Designed by Harry Milliken, Ben Shiff and David Wolfe. Presswork by The Anthoensen Press, Heritage Printers.....
New York: The Frick Collection, 2002. 80. [16] pages. Facsimiles of letters and other ephemera loose as issued in pocket on inner front cover. Beautifully bound in Japanese book cloth, the front cover with printed paper title label. One of 200 copies fabricated in the Conservation Department of the Frick.....
Springfield, MA: Privately printed by the Wayside Press [by Will Bradley], May and June 1896. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 volumes, tall 8vo (10 x 5 inches). Original pictorial wrappers with designs by Bradley. "'Bradley, His Book' (1896-1897) was the most beautiful and ambitious of the American little magazines.....
West Burke, Vermont: The Janus Press, Christmas 1976. 8vo. Woodcuts by Helen Siegl. Quarter cloth, decorated paper over boards. With the extra suite of plates in cloth chemise. Slipcase. Number 31 of 50 copies casebound and with the extra set of prints, signed by Siegl, from an edition of 300.....
London: Macmillan, 1924. 8vo. Portrait frontispiece of Morris by Emery Walker, 16 plates. Original linen-backed blue holland boards, printed paper spine label. A fine copy. First edition, and a fine copy of this excellent study of the operation and history of the Kelmscott Press. The author was the son-in-law of.....
Verona: Alessandro Zanella for Verba Edizioni, 1988. Folio (13 x 8 inches). Text in Russian and Italian. 40, [1] pp. Three fine etchings by Neil Moore. Original wrappers with an etching by Moore mounted on front cover; slipcase. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, number 50 of 90 copies signed by.....
New York: Targ Editions, 1983. 8vo. 64 pages. Original two-toned cloth, printed paper label on cover; slipcase. FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies signed by Michener. Designed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press and printed letterpress at The Anthoensen Press. Dedicated to the great collector Jane Engelhard.
N.p. Privately Printed by Lecram Press for Richard Jean Picard for Noel, 1948. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, stapled as issued. First edition, number 33 of 100 copies of this Christmas keepsake, the first publication in book form of Wolfe's 1918 tribute to Rupert Brooke.
Risbury, Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 2005. Folio. 50 pages. 31 tritone photographs by Edwin Smith. Original cloth, wood-engraving by Smith on covers; slipcase. Number 236 of 280 copies from an edition of 350. Set in Poliphilus and Fry's Baskerville, printed on Bugra-Bütten mould-made paper. Smith's images were made in the 1950s.....
New York: Targ Editions, 1984. 8vo. Numerous paper and printing specimens. Original cloth-backed glazed boards. FIRST EDITION, one of 200 copies signed by Targ and the three printers of the edition: Ronald Gordon, Leslie Miller, and Leonard Seastone.
New York: The Subcutaneous Press, 1979. Square 4to (11.25 x 12.25 inches). Etchings by Janet Morgan. Tan cloth. LIMITED EDITION, one of 30 copies.
New York: The Oliphant Press, 1969. 12mo. [21] pages. Illustrated by Phyllis Goodwin, several illustrations hand-colored by the artist. Original parchment-backed blue boards, gilt-lettered on spine. One of only 75 copies, designed and printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press. This copy unnumbered, out-of-series, and from the printer's personal.....
New York: Godfrey A. S. Wieners, 1902. 4to. Title-page and decorative borders are by Louis B. Coley. Original cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered; glassine; publisher's slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 numbered copies on Brown's hand-made paper.
