Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Book + Art: Handcrafting Artists' Books

Krause, Dorothy Simpson · 2009

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Cincinnati, Ohio , North Light Press, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial wraps, in gate-fold...

Book Art: Creative Ideas to Transform Your Books, Decorations, Stationary, Display Scenes and More

Clare Youngs · 2012

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, CICO Books, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Glossy pictorial paper over boards, red cloth-backed, with plentiful black-and-white and full-color illu...

French Bookbinders, 1789-1848

Ramsden, Charles · 1989

$20.80 (€18.87 | £15.74 | ¥3,321)

London, B.T. Batsford, 1989. Reprint Edition. . . Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Simple, attractive blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, though ...

Splendid Pages: The Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books

Mellby, Julie, ed. · 2003

$15.20 (€13.79 | £11.51 | ¥2,427)

New York, New York / Toledo, Ohio, Hudson Hills Press / Toledo Museum of Art, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing ...

Book Typography 1815-1965 in Europe and the United States of America

Day, Kenneth · 1966

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Chicago, Illinois, The University of Chicago Press, 1966. Offprint. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Repri...

One Hundred and Fifty Years of Publishing 1837-1987

Little, Brown and Company · 1988

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

Boston, Little Brown & Co, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket. Apparently unread, spine still crackles. Bound in green cloth, with gilt lettering to c...

A Century of Innovative Book Design: Influences of Art, Design Theory & Technology on Book Design

Hoot, Christopher · 1998

$8.80 (€7.98 | £6.66 | ¥1,405)

Akron, Ohio, University of Akron, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. As New condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Bound unusually in tall, narrow quarto fashion, ...

Books Illustrated by Painters and Sculptors from 1900

1980

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Introduction by James M. Wells to this catalog of an exhibit held from September to November of 1980 by the Arts Club of Chicago. Simple printed wraps in square format, stap...

Trance & Recalcitrance: The Private Voice in the Public Realm--20 Years of Poltroon Press

Butler, Frances and Alastair Johnston · 1995

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

San Francisco, Edizione Velocissime Faville, for the Pacific Center for the Book Arts in Association with the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and due catalogue-format homage to Poltroon Press's work o...

Modern Scribes and Lettering Artists

Gullick, Michael and Ieua Rees · 1980

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Boston, David R. Godine, 1980. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Big, tall, quarto softpaper format with a glossy illustrated front cover, light wear to bottom tips, else easily Fine condition. With 160 pp. Reprint edition of the first edition, and with a...

Printing Progress - a Mid-Century Report

The National Association of Printing House Craftsmen · 1959

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Cincinnati, International Association of Printing House Craftsmen, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, a big, fat, heavy tome, with little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked, housed in a simple, Good c...

The Master's Hand: Drawings and Manuscripts from the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

Cara Durour Denison · 1998

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Stated First Edition, First Edition, bound handsomely in a big, tall quarto hardcover format, light tan cloth over boards, sharp and distinct burgundy lettering to front cover and spi...

English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton

Hotchkiss, Valerie; Robinson, Fred C. · 2008

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, University of Illinois Press, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Big, tall quarto sized...

Radical Chapters: Pacifist Bookseller Roy Kepler and the Paperback Revolution

Doyle, Michael E. · 2012

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bound simply in brown cloth over boards, gilt lettering ...

A Batsford Century: The Record of a Hundred Years of Publishing and Bookselling 1843-1943

Bolitho, Hector · 1943

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, B.T. Batsford, Ltd., 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bumping to spine head and foot, slight tear to the latter. Sharp and distinct gilt lettering to...

The Early Nineties: A View from the Bodley Head

Nelson, James G. · 1971

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bound in gray cloth over boards, blind-stamped designs to front cover, b...

The Officina Bodoni, Montagnola, Verona: Books Printed by Giovanni Mardersteig on the Hand Press, 1923-1977

Barr, John · 1978

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, The British Library, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the King's Library, British Library Reference Division, 9 August - 22 October, 1978. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, a...

The Contributors

Atterbury, Rowley Streatfeild · 1974

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Westerham, Kent, England, Westerham Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Near pristine copy, being the paper of a talk delivered to the Wynkyn de Worde Society at Stationers' Hall on 16th May, 1974, in Westerham, Kent, England. Replete with black-and-whit...

The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia

Heesen, Anke Te · 2002

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2002. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the original hardcover format. Translated from the original Dutch by Ann M. Hentschel. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright ...

Wentzel Hagelstams Forlag 1891-1903

Hundraarsminne, Ett · 2003

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

, Eckanas, 2003. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the trade, there being currently no copies available on-line. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear ...