Category: Books about Books

Don Punchatz - A Portfolio

Price: $345.00 USD

Publisher: Lakewood, CO, Centipede Press : 2019

Seller ID: 837I

ISBN-13: 9781613471968

LIKE NEW, only leafed through once.. Centipede Press, 2019. Limited to 300 copies. This is n. 78. Signed by Gregor Punchatz with a Don Punchatz facsimile signature. -- Introduction by Gregor Punchatz. Loaded with gorgeous full-page, full-color prints. Mohawk Superfine dustjacket, cloth with image onlay on front board, ribbon marker, signature page. Gorgeous dustjacket. Book size is 5½ × 7½ inches. 240 pages, all in full color on heavy matte coated stock. -- Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade within US. --- Don Punchatz's career spread from the 1960s to the early 2000s, with his ...
View More...

John Stewart: A Portfolio - limited Centipede Press Edition

Price: $375.00 USD

Publisher: Lakewood, CO, Centipede Press : 2012

Seller ID: 683I

ISBN-13: 9781613470022

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: like new

Light shelf wear to dust jacket and book corners, pages like new. Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade within US. Limited to 250 copies, Signed by Andrew Smith and Ramsey Campbell, Introduction by Andrew Smith, Preface by Ramsey Campbell, Loaded with gorgeous full-page, full-color prints, Mohawk Carnival dust-jacket, cloth with image on lay on front board, ribbon marker, signature page, Gorgeous dust-jacket, Book size is 5½ × 7½ inches, Published September 2012, dust jacket and book corners have light wear overall presents very well and DJ still has great color. With unparalleled ...
View More...

Senju No. 5 - Rare Japanese Paper Sample Book - over 300 Samples

Price: $590.00 USD

Publisher: Japan, Senju Paper Mfg. Co. Ltd : 70's - 80's

Seller ID: 715I

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: very good

Japan 1970's - 80's? Senju Vol. 5 Handbound cover with gilded title on front and back, 1 page text, 320 samples numbered from no. 501 - 821. 8° (8 1/4" x 5" x 2.5"- 21 x 13 x 5,5 cm). Light shelf wear to cover, all samples fine.
View More...

D'AMBROSIO. A CHECKLIST TO 1976

By: (SIGNED by D'Ambrosio)

Price: $44.50 USD

Seller ID: VAE-3A7-CQI

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Hardcover Fine hardcover, 20 pages, with letter from Ambrosio (with typed name), mentioning that "the cover is an original serigraph on Ingres paper over 4-ply rag boards" Also laid in is a folded brochure titled "An artist working in the book form: D'AMBROSIO" with yearly checklist of works until 1982 Ships with regualr mail, not slow media mail.
View More...

Gardening by the Book: Celebrating 100 Years of the Garden Club of America

By: Arete Swartz Warren

Price: $169.00 USD

Publisher: New York, The Garden Club In America and The Grolier Club : 2013

Seller ID: 511

ISBN-13: 9781605830445

Binding: Illustrated binding

Condition: used - very good

Garden Club of America, Grolier Club, New York, 2013. Hardcover. used - very good with subtle shelf wear. Color illustrated binding. Printed end sheets. Color frontispiece and profuse color illustrations. 255 pp. Includes text by Marian Weldon Hill, Eugene S. Flamm, Arete Warren, Leslie K. Overstreet, and Denise Otis in addition to a catalogue of 150 items for the exhibition at The Grolier Club in 2013. . Ships from Hawaii with Priority Mail within the US, not slow media mail. . This lush volume celebrates the centenary of the Garden Club of America. Drawing on the Garden Club's little known b...
View More...

KA PAI PALAPALA - Early Printing in Hawaii

By: by Albertine Loomis, A. Grove Day

Price: $14.50 USD

Publisher: Honolulu, Printing Industries of Hawaii : 1997

Seller ID: 620

Binding: paperback

A monograph on early printing (circa 1822-1850) in Hawaii. 32 pages with several color photos.
View More...

The Tramp Printers: Forgotten Trails of the Traveling Typographers - signed

By: Charles Overbeck

Price: $39.00 USD

Publisher: Portland, Oregon, Eberhardt Press : 2022

Seller ID: 735D

Binding: in wrappers with French folds

Condition: New

NEW, a beautifully printed book, signed by the author. Portland, Eberhardt Press 2022, 204 pages, 8 x 5.5 inches. Ships from Hawaii. The tramp printer was a typesetting troubadour with a story in lieu of a song, a scholarly hobo, and a master of the type case. Carrying little more than a union journeyman's card and a few basic tools, these "itinerant" typographers criss-crossed the continent for more than a century, train-hopping from newspaper to newspaper. To the tramp printer, personal autonomy and adventure were far more valuable than material possessions. Many of them were brilliant, lite...
View More...

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. [Facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer.]

By: CHAUCER Geoffrey

Price: $425.00 USD

Publisher: London, Folio Society : 2008

Seller ID: 2079K

Binding: Hardcover in slipcase

Condition: Like new

Folio Society, 2008. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. [Facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer.]. Edited by F.S. Ellis and illustrated by E. Burne-Jones. Large folio, (16.75" x 12.25" x 3.25") on laid paper, text in red and black throughout, with numerous fine illustrations and borders in the text; full brown buckram boards and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt top, brown endpapers, broad black silk marker. Housed in a solid board slip-case lettered in gilt. -- Condition, Book like new, the slipcase has some shelf wear. -. Superb facsimile of the Arts & Crafts classic. Includes...
View More...

Liber Bestiarum. MS Bodley 764. (Facsimile of Manuscript from mid-13th century in Bodleian Library)

By: Christopher de Hamel. (Comm.), Richard Barber (Trans.)

Price: $965.00 USD

Publisher: London, Folio Society : 2008

Seller ID: 2080L

Binding: Leatherbound hardcovers in Solander Box

Condition: Like New

Folio Society, 2008', limited edition of 1980; a facsimile edition of one of the most stunning bestiaries from the mid-13th century which is now housed in the Bodleian Library. Full red goatskin leather binding, all paper edges gilt, four raised bands on the spine, ribbon marker. 135 miniatures with the original gold leaf reproduced in foiling. 282 pages in total, 12" x x7 3/4" x 1.5". Accompanied by a text volume with commentary and translation, and a protective buckram-bound solander case with leather title label. Condition: Book and commentary volume are like new. Very minimal shelf wear to...
View More...

Isadora Duncan. Sechs Bewegungstudien - (Six Movement Studies.) 1906

By: Craig, Edward Gordon

Price: $1,150.00 USD

Publisher: Leipzig, Insel Verlag : 1906

Seller ID: 723ho

Binding: loose plates in original linen case

Craig, Edward Gordon: Isadora Duncan. Sechs Bewegungstudien (Six Movement Studies.) With 6 plates Leipzig, Insel 1906. Each approx. 12" x 9" (30 x 22 cm) on mounts approx. 23" x 17" (56.5 x 42.5 cm). With accompanying booklet loose in original linen case with bone fasteners 24" x 18" (60 x 45 cm). (Cover partly rubbed, bumped and stained, small defects). Very rare at present not verifiable for us in international trade. One of 500 copies. The collotype prints in mounts with gilt monogram stamps. The studies on themes by Peri, Gluck, Beethoven and Strauss. - The passepartouts minimally staine...
View More...

Daniele Serra Artbook - signed, limited edition in slipcase

By: Daniele Serra

Price: $185.00 USD

Publisher: Hornsea, East Yorkshire, PS Publishing : 2021

Seller ID: 786C

ISBN-13: 9781786364654

Binding: Hardcover in slipcase

Condition: NEW

DANIELE SERRA ARTBOOK An oversized COLLECTION of artwork - PS Publishing, January 2021, Signed hardcover limited to 500 copies. A signed and lettered edition in a slipcase limited to 26 copies was also made I'm offering a unique combination: the signed and numbered edition (edition of 500) in a slipcase that was made only for the lettered edition (edition of 26). This is a PC copy (Publisher's copy). Those are normally made to be given to collaborators who worked on the book. Here the publisher made it available for sale and put it in the very rare slipcase. == Ships from Hawaii with free Prio...
View More...

Engraved at Lahainaluna: A History of Printmaking by Hawaiians at the Lahainaluna Seminary, 1834-1844

By: David Forbes

Price: $119.00 USD

Publisher: Honolulu, Hawaiian Mission Childrens Society : 2014

Seller ID: 551

ISBN-13: 9781892460004

Binding: Hardcover

New, in publisher's shrink wrap. Ships from Hawaii. Weight 3.2 pounds, Dimensions 10.7 x 0.9 x 10.7 inches Between 1834 and 1844, a remarkable collection of copperplate engravings issued forth from the Lahainaluna Seminary, a school on the island of Maui run by the Hawaiian Mission. Collectively, these engravings?views of the Hawaiian Islands,including towns and rural settlements, portraits, objects of natural history, and original maps and charts?form one of the most important visual records of nineteenth-century Hawaii before the age of photography. Although most of the drawings on which the...
View More...

Les livres a figures vénitiens de la fin du XVe siècle et du commencement du XVIe

By: Essling, Prince de

Price: $239.00 USD

Publisher: Martino Publisher : 1994

Seller ID: WN-DL13-9DQQ

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Hardcover Fine Les livres a figures venitiens de la fin du XVe siecle et du commencement du XVIe: Etudes sur l'art de la gravure sur bois a Venise 3 / Prince d'EsslingDate de l'edition originale411 pages Only leafed through once Ships from Hawaii Facsimile reprint, originally published in 1907 3 parts in 6 volumes Large format hardcovers Edition limited to 350 Red cloth, gold lettering Over 2,000 illustrations Fine binding and cover.
View More...

John Fante: Selected Letters, 1932 to 1981 - Signed, numbered HC

By: Fante, John. Seamus Cooney (editor)

Price: $95.00 USD

Publisher: Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press : 1991

Seller ID: 2091E

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: very good

Black Sparrow, 1991. Limited First Edition, Cloth-backed boards, acetate jacket. No, 98 of 176 signed and numbered copies. signed by Cooney (editor) and Joyce Fante on the colophon. . 351 pp. incl. index. Condition: Near fine.
View More...

SAMPLE BOOK OF THE FANCY PAPER FACTORY ASCHAFFENBURG - Limited edition of 110

By: Frigge, Karli

Price: $625.00 USD

Publisher: Netherlands, Frits Knuf : 1993

Seller ID: 644ho

Binding: Hardcover in slipcase

Condition: very good

hardcover, cloth with paper sample inset on cover, slipcase. narrow 8vo. (xx), 26+(4) pages. Issued as Volume I in Sample Book series. A 14-page English introduction & history is followed by 26 accordion-fold pages with 90 mounted specimens of Aschaffenburg papers. The book opens to several feet, and is fitted with a flap to hold the book so all specimens are visible at the same time.Limited edition of 110 signed and numbered copies. Fine condition. Original samples of 90 decorated papers on twenty-six accordion-fold pages; they cover the 150 year history of this fine paper factory in Aschaffe...
View More...

Georges Crette - Les Matres de la Reliure

By: Garrigou, Marcel

Price: $590.00 USD

Publisher: Toulouse, Arts Et Formes : 1984

Seller ID: 515

Binding: Unbound signatures as originally issued. Publishe

Condition: Fine

Fine, in French, in fine slipcase(viii),265,(vi)pp + 204 full-page plates in b/w & color. Unbound signatures as originally issued. Publisher's embossed paper chemise binding in slip case. Printed in 450 copies only. Documentation of 659 bindings, sorted by authors and with references to the sales in which they figured in and the prices that were realized (where available). The major work and catalog raissone on Georges Crett (1893-1969), the successor of Marius Michel and one of the greatest twentieth century bookbinders. Large format (13.5 x 10 x 2 inches). Ships with Priority Mail from Hawai...
View More...

Journals Mid-Fifties 1954-1958 - - Signed by author

By: Ginsberg, Allen

Price: $235.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harper Collins : 1995

Seller ID: 2050D

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Harper Collins 1995. First edition. No. 1 of 150 (of 176 total) numbered copies, signed by Ginsberg.Tall octavo, .489 pages. Edited By Gordon Ball. Faint sunning on spine, else fine in fine publisher's slipcase. No dj as issued. Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade within US.
View More...

Shadows of the Sun: Diaries of Harry Crosby

By: Harry Crosby

Price: $139.50 USD

Publisher: San Francisco, Black Sparrow : 1977

Seller ID: 07-L9HP-LM9A

ISBN-13: 9780876853047

Condition: Very Good

Very Good One of 1300 hardcover copies First Edition 1977 Very good in printed paper-covered boards and cloth spine with printed paper label Fine acetate dust jacket. Ships from Hawaii.
View More...

Three Lions and the Cross of Lorraine: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, John of Trevisa, John Tate, Wynkyn de Worde, and De Proprietatibus Rerum

By: Heaney, Howell, Dr. Lotte Hellinga, and Dr. Richard Hills

Price: $1,350.00 USD

Publisher: Newton, PA, Bird & Bull Press : 1992

Seller ID: 717L

Binding: Quarter burgundy morocco over tan paper boards

Condition: very good

Newtown, Pa.: Bird & Bull Press, 1992. = No. 98 of only 138 copies made, with an original leaf from the 1495 Wynkyn De Worde book, in a protective sleeve at the end of the volume. pp.40,(26) 26 pages of woodcut reproductions of the originals,(2) leaf; no dustjacket as issued. Quarter burgundy morocco over tan paper boards, gilt black morocco spine label, decoration in red on front cover. 12.5 x 8 3/4 inches. Three Lions and the Cross of Lorraine: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, John of Trevisa, John Tate, Wynkyn de Worde, and De Proprietatibus Rerum. A leaf book with essays by Howell Heaney, Dr. Lotte...
View More...

Image for Incunabula Typographica;: A descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century (1460-1500) in the library of Henry Walters

Incunabula Typographica;: A descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century (1460-1500) in the library of Henry Walters

By: Henry Walters

Price: $225.00 USD

Publisher: Baltimore, Privately Printed : 1906

Seller ID: 8O-32BO-G6SD

Condition: Very Good

Very Good A descriptive catalogue with many illustrations of books printed in the Fifteenth century (1460 - 1500) in the library of Henry Walters Beautifully printed and bound catalog of an important collection of fifteenth century books Full calf (in imitation 15th century binding) Approximately 1,100 entries Full calf imitation medieval binding, with raised bands, title stamped in gilt, with top edge gilt Color frontispiece, and illustrated with reproductions of woodcuts The books include works in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, Italian, German, Dutch and Spanish from 300 presses Color frontis...
View More...

$0.00 USD (0 Items)

Category: Books about Books