Resultados de búsqueda: Fine Press and Printing from Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB

Toronto: University of Toronto, (1921). First edition. Navy cloth with paper label on front cover, 4to., (c.46)pp. Lovely pictorial book beautifully designed by Canadian firm Rous and Mann. Illustrated in gravure from photographs by G.D. Haight. Wear to spine, else very good..

New Castle & London: Oak Knoll Press / The British Library, 2003. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto, cloth, pp. 240; illustrated. Fine in dust jacket (still in the publisher's shrink wrap). May require extra postage, depending on shipping destination, and delivery standard required.

Chelsea: The Swan Press, 1927. #100 of 100 numbered copies. Small quarto., dark brown wrappers, stich-sewn, with paper title label on upper cover, pp. [2]. Attractively printed in Baskerville type on Dutch paper. Fine press printer Albert Sperisen's copy with his small bookplate on front flap of wrapper. Wrapper flaps have off-set onto endpapers, page edges darkened, slightly sunned spine is worn at ends with a 1" split at the base. Uncommon..

(San Francisco): The Book Club of California, 1988. First edition. Small 4to., cloth-backed boards with paper spine label, pp. 107, with 16 pp., of illustration. One of 450 copies printed by Jonathan Clark at The Artichoke Press. Biography of the Californian printer and designer accompanied by several colour reproductions of his book designs. Fine in the publisher's unprinted gray dust jacket, with a short tear. BCC 188..

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1956. First edition. Quarto, red quarter-cloth spine, paper spine label, pp. xiii, 98, printed in black and red with a frontispiece portrait and one plate in facsimile. One of 350 copies printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn for the Colt Press. Prospectus folded and laid in. Fine in the publisher's unprinted dust jacket, which is unevently browned, else fine. A handsome production. BAL 15055; BCC 92; McElrath A15.I.a.

Los Angeles: Occidental College, 1990. First edition. 8vo., card covers with deep folding flaps, pp. 37, nicely illustrated with reproductions of examples of the printers' work. Complimentary slip laid in. Fine..

(San Fransciso): The Book Club of California, 1950. First edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine. Octavo, maroon and black checkered paper-covered boards, black cloth spine, gilt-lettered, pp. 141, attractively printed in red and black with striking designs by Cas Duchow. One of 400 copies printed by Anderson & Ritchie at The Ward Ritchie Press . The title story was Austin's first published work, appearing in a magazine in 1892. Spine slightly faded, historian's bookplate on endpaper, else near fine. BCC 74.

New Castle & London: Oak Knoll Press / The British Library, 2003, 2004. Soft cover. Fine. Quarto, card covers, a total of 1152 pages; reproduces almost five hundred rare and scarce wood cuts, engravings and photographs. "With the most comprehensive annotated bibliography on the subject ever printed, this monumental, two-volume work stands alone in the annals of printing history." Fine set of this softcover issue. (Still in the publisher's shrink wrap). May require extra postage, depending on shipping destination, and delivery standard required.

Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2006.. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto, cloth, pp. 223; illustrated. Fine in dust jacket (still in the publisher's shrink wrap). May require extra postage, depending on shipping destination, and delivery standard required.

Printed by Grant Dahlstrom as a Souvenir of the Meeting of the Rounce and Coffin Club at the Huntington Library Exhibition of Designs, Writings & Wayside Press Printing. 1950. Stapled self-wraps, oblong 12mo., 18pp. Fine..

(No Place: No Publisher), 1989. #51 of 60 copies signed by Besselink and Zits. 18 cm x 20 cm, accordion fold bound between two stiff boards covered in handmade paper, with card sleeve; Collation: [12] pp, 8 illustrations. In this artist's book, Zits and Besselink juxtapose drawings and poetry. Language of Publication: English. Near fine. .

Jamaica, Queensborough, New York: The Marion Press, 1910. First edition. 7" x 4.5 " dark green cloth, pp. 133; frontispiece illustration. Printed in an edition of 400 copies on Od Stratford paper, handset in Bruce Old-style type. This copy with the author's presentation inscription to the namesake of te press, Marion Day Hopkins, dated 1910. Works from this press are an example of the highest order of quality in fine printing from the tur of the century period in America. Light intermittent foxing, slight wear to rear board, else fine and bright. Lacks the publisher's box. Larremore/Rogers 121. .

London: Privately Printed for The Monotype Corporation Ltd., (at the Oxford University Press), 1964. First edition. 24.9 cm x 16.4 cm. pp. 31; 8 black and white plates. A paper delivered at the Royal Institution intended as a pendant to the Printing and the Mind of Man exhibition. A little faded at the spine, faint creases at lower corners of covers, else near fine..

One sheet, folded into four 8" x 11" panels. One side printed black and white, the other in colour with numerous examples of type design and logos by the firm. Inscribed on the front cover, "For Pam Schofield from Colin Banks, 1991." Colin Banks (1932-2002), co-founder of Banks & Miles, designers and typographers, founded in London in 1958 with partner John Miles. Light handling creases, pencil notations, else very good..

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1901. First American edition. 8vo, medium green cloth with an Arts & Crafts design, printed at the Merrymount Press, pp. (59), rubricated title-page and chapter heads, t.e.g. Updike has designed this book in an Arts & Crafts style, again showing William Morris's enormous influence on book design in America, during this period. Brooke's papers are on Morris, Rossetti, Swinburne, Clough, and Arnold. Tear in front paste-down, with no resultant loss, slightly over-opened in two places, spine has faded, else very good. Smith 86..

(Hamburg: Galerie Christian Zwang, 1985). First edition. Quarto, blind-stamped brown boards designed by Zwang, pp. [6], 60; illustrated with dozens of b&w illustrations of beautiful bindings designed by Zwang. Text in German. Rear cover slightly marked, spine a trifle faded, else near fine, no dust jacket..

London: The Fortune Press,[194?]. Later edition.. Octavo, red cloth, pp. 255. The printer's imprint is Bristol, F.Walker & Son. Private Press, though not finely printied by any means. No dust jacket. Very good. d'Arch-Smith 458.

Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1974. First edition. Octavo, blue boards backed in tan cloth, pp. x, 234. Oxford Bibliographical Society Publications, New Series XVII. Fine in an unprinted mylar wrapper, (mylar a bit split at fore-edge)..

(London): The Golden Cockerel Press, 1942. Copy number 169 of 300 printed. 19.5 cm x 13.6 cm, red cloth stamped with a Golden Cockerel design in gilt on upper board, top edge gilt, pp. 223, [8]; with seven facsimile reproductions. Includes a seclection of previously unpublished letters from the collection in the Library of St. Michael's College, Tenbury. Includes naval, military, political, literary, scientific, royal, French, German, Italian and a miscellaneous sections. Light soiling to otherwise brilliant red covers. A very good copy..

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1973. First edition, 1 of 400 copies printed by Richard J. Hoffman. Octavo, patterned boards backed in black cloth, pp. xv, 119; illustrated. Comprehensive history and descriptive bibliography. Printer's note laid in. Light damp-staining to boards else near fine..