Resultados de búsqueda: Libros de Georg Schneebeli :: Rare Books & Prints

The Nonesuch Press prospectus announcing "Alice", "Treasure Island", "At the back of the north wind" and "Fifty favourite fairy tales".
Description: Single folded sheet. Octavo: 24 × 16 cm; pp. [4]. With 2 illustrations. Printed in Monotype Baskerville and Metropolis Shaded, with Monotype Joanna and Nonesuch Plantin.
Ref.: Dreyfus: P86
Condition: The copy is slightly creased at the base and shows some minor signs of age and use. But otherwise a very good copy with very clean internals.
Please note: Due to the low weight, the shipping costs may be lower than indicated. Please inquire with us about the actual shipping costs before ordering.

The prospectus announces the Authorized Version or King James Bible of 1611, in three volumes and reproductions of the woodcuts of Bernard Salomon. Advertising, besides the Bible, a Retrospectus of 1953-62.
Description: Stapled paper covers. Octavo: 24 × 15 cm; pp. 7, [1] + [4] pp. [insert from 'Genesis']. Illustrated with 4 woodcuts. Printed by the Stellar Press in Baskerville on wove cream paper, the insert on India paper.
Ref.: Dreyfus: P58
Condition: The copy is slightly creased at the base and shows some minor signs of age and use. But otherwise a very good copy with very clean internals.
Please note: Due to the low weight, the shipping costs may be lower than indicated. Please inquire with us about the actual shipping costs before ordering.

A brief introduction to 15th and 16th century printer's marks, reproduced from books in the Museum Library.
Description: Red card covers: Octavo: 18 × 12 cm; pp. [16] ll., (unpaginated). With 28 full-page illustrations.
Condition: Boards very lightly rubbed, usual light age tanning. Else a very good, solid, tight, copy with clean internals.
Please note: Due to the low weight, the shipping costs may be lower than indicated. Please inquire with us about the actual shipping costs before ordering.

The prospectus announces "Minnow among Tritons", "George Chapman" and "Pope's own miscellany". With a large Nonesuch device by E. McKnight Kauffer on front (reprinted from "The anatomy of melancholy", q.v.).
Description: Sewn paper sheets. Octavo: 25 × 16 cm; pp. 7. printed in Monotype Goudy Modern and Garamond Bold italic on wove paper.
Ref.: Dreyfus: P31
Condition: Showing some noticeable creases to corners. Occasional mild handling marks throughout. Lacks the loosely inserted order form.
According to the age a good copy of a fragile and ephemeral production.
Please note: Due to the low weight, the shipping costs may be lower than indicated. Please inquire with us about the actual shipping costs before ordering.

Description: Broadside: 49 × 32 cm; folded twice, printed on recto only on wove cream paper. With the editor's note in the upper left corner on cyan paper.
Condition: A few minor signs of age and use, but in very good order for such ephemeral production.
Please note: Due to the low weight, the shipping costs may be lower than indicated. Please inquire with us about the actual shipping costs before ordering.

Very good copy of this influential noughties magazine.
Description: Softcover. Quarto: 27 × 22 cm; pp.: 136.
Condition: Slight shelf wear to edges, light finger-marking and occasional minor staining to covers. Internally clean and well preserved.
Notes: soDA magazine, based in Zurich, was a highly influential publication in the noughties, particularly in the fields of avant-garde graphic design, fashion, and photography. In 2002, issue #18 was awarded the Art Directors Club Switzerland's Golden Cube for Best Design.

Very fine copy of this influential noughties magazine.
Description: Softcover. Quarto: 27 × 22 cm; pp.: 192.
Condition: Slight shelf wear to edges, internally clean and well preserved.
Notes: soDA magazine, based in Zurich, was a highly influential publication in the noughties, particularly in the fields of avant-garde graphic design, fashion, and photography. In 2002, issue #18 was awarded the Art Directors Club Switzerland's Golden Cube for Best Design.

Very fine copy of this influential noughties magazine.
Description: Softcover with flaps. Quarto: 28 × 23 cm; pp.: 175, [9].
Condition: Slight shelf wear to edges, internally clean and well preserved.
Notes: soDA magazine, based in Zurich, was a highly influential publication in the noughties, particularly in the fields of avant-garde graphic design, fashion, and photography. Issue #17, titled Luxus (sic!), was notable not only for its content but also because the designers overspent, causing financial difficulties that delayed publication for almost a year.

Very fine copy of this influential noughties magazine.
Description: Softcover. Quarto: 27 × 22 cm; pp.: 184, [16].
Condition: Complete, with the poster (52 × 38 cm) inserted. Slight shelf wear to edges, internally clean and well preserved.
Notes: soDA magazine, based in Zurich, was a highly influential publication in the noughties, particularly in the fields of avant-garde graphic design, fashion, and photography. In 2002, issue #18 was awarded the Art Directors Club Switzerland's Golden Cube for Best Design.

A handsomely produced book with three woodcuts by Heinz Keller (printed on rectos only). Limited edition of 500 copies, this being no. 193.
Description: Quarter red cloth with paper covered boards, pp. 29.Text in German.
Condition: Binding faintly bumped at edges. Endpapers and book block in pristine condition. A clean copy in very good condition.
Please note: Due to the low weight, the shipping costs may be lower than indicated. Please inquire with us about the actual shipping costs before ordering.

First edition and first printing , illustrated with 19 wood engravings by John Farleigh (4 are full page).
Description: Original black pictorial boards, ornamental endpapers: Octavo: 21 × 14 cm: pp. 74 (2).
Condition: Some rubbing and minor abrasions to extremities. Pages slightly yellowed with age, with occasional light foxing. Else a very good, clean copy.
Notes: John Farleigh also known as Frederick William Charles Farleigh, was an English wood-engraver, noted for his illustrations in this novel, which caused controversy when released due to the religious, sexual and racial themes within the writing and John Farleigh's complementary (and risqué) wood engravings commissioned by Shaw for the book. He is also known for his illustrations of D.H. Lawrence's work The Man Who Died and for the posters he designed for London County Council Tramways and London Transport.

First edition of Gill's final collection of essays outlining his distributist philosophy on the relationship between man and work, industry and art. With an introduction by Mary Gill.
Description: Orig. navy blue cloth, pictorial decoration (St Thomas's Hands, 1935) blocked in silver to front board, titled in silver to spine, orig. dust jacket, lettered in red and black. Duodecimo: 19 × 13 cm; pp. 93, with 5 illustrations by Gill (frontispiece, St Thomas's Hands on title page, 3 illustrations in the text).
Condition: Dust jacket shows some small tears at head and foot, light soiling. Binding and contents in very good condition.
Notes: "Last Essays" contains a collection of essays written by Gill, entitled as follows: Art. Work. Private property. Education for What? Peace and Poverty. Art in Education. FiveHundred Years of Printing. The Leisure State. Secular and Sacred in Modern Industry.
Please note: Due to the low weight, the shipping costs may be lower than indicated. Please inquire with us about… Leer más

The prospectus announces the Authorized Version or King James Bible of 1611, in three volumes and reproductions of the woodcuts of Bernard Salomon. Advertising, besides the Bible, a Retrospectus of 1953-62.
Description: Stapled paper covers. Octavo: 24 × 15 cm; pp. 7, [1] + [4] pp. [insert from 'Genesis']. Illustrated with 4 woodcuts. Printed by the Stellar Press in Baskerville on wove cream paper, the insert on India paper.
Enclosed: Loosely laid in is the publisher's order form (20 × 13 cm) for the Nonesuch Bible.
Ref.: Dreyfus: P58
Condition: The copy shows some minor signs of age and use. But otherwise a near fine copy with very clean internals.
Please note: Due to the low weight, the shipping costs may be lower than indicated. Please inquire with us about the actual shipping costs before ordering.

Contains a foreword (by FM, VM, DG) announcing the results of the voting on the 'outer wrappings of its books' invited in Bodkin permitting. The prospectus announces "Florio's Montaigne" (note by FM), Homer's "Iliad" (DG), Donne's "Courtier's library" (VM), "Selected essays of William Hazlitt" (G. L. Keynes), "A bihliography of William Hazlitt" (FM), "Love among the haystacks" (DG), "Astrophel & Stella" (Mona Wilson), "Selected poems of Alice Meynell", "The history of Herodotus" (DG). Retrospectus of books published May 1923-June 1930.
Description: Sewn marbled paper covers, white paper label with black lettering on the front board. Octavo: 22 × 15 cm; pp. 31, [1]. Set in Caslon Old Face, printed on Auvergne handmade paper.
Ref.: Dreyfus: P21
Condition: Paper wrappers with slight edgewear, internally in good condition but some foxing throughout.
According to the age a good copy of a fragile and ephemeral production.
Please note: Due to the low weight, the shipping costs may be lower than indicated.… Leer más

Printed under the direction of Bruce Rogers at the press of William Edwin Rudge. Limited edition to 400 copies.
Description: Black paper covered boards. Sextodecimo: 17 × 11 cm; pp. [4], 23, [1]. With a colour wood engraving headpiece by Florence Wyman Ivins.
Ref.: Warde: 66
Condition: Wear to corners, edges and spine ends, the printed spine label is missing. Pages are bright and clean. Despite the flaws on the binding a very good copy.

A brief history of the Doves Press, the famous Doves typeface and the destruction of the punches and matrices by Cobden-Sanderson. One of 350 copies, signed by the author.
Description: Bound in Morris 'Willow', purple and cream patterend paper covers. Tall octavo: 26.5 × 17 cm; pp. 23. Printed from Monotype Caslon on Sommerville laid paper.
Condition: A very good clean sound copy.

Announcing "Some recollections of Oscar Wilde", "Butleriana", Dryden's "Works", Evelyn's "Directions for the gardiner at Sayes Court", and Donne's "Sermon of valediction". Retrospectus of limited editions 1923-1931. With a large Nonesuch Press device by Stephen Gooden in centre of front cover.
Description: Pink wrappers loosely glued over sewn endpapers. Quarto: 27 × 18 cm; pp. 15 [1]. Printed by Cambridge University Press in Monotype Plantin on grey laid paper.
Ref.: Dreyfus: P25
Condition: Light age toning to edges of covers, corners are slightly scuffed and show marks of usage. Internally in generally very good condition.
According to the age a good copy of a fragile and ephemeral production.
Please note: Due to the low weight, the shipping costs may be lower than indicated. Please inquire with us about the actual shipping costs before ordering.

A carefully designed and beautifully printed booklet of poems about the trials and tribulations of working with typesetting and printing presses.
Description: Card covers with pictorial papers wrappers. Octavo: 22 × 15 cm; pp. 11 leaves all but one printed on one side only. Printed from 'Bembo' and 'Old Face Open' (frontispice), 2 illustrations.
Condition: An excellent copy.
Notes: This slim booklet, with a wonderfully minimalist cover, was written by John Frederick Bell (1922–2008), a senior editor at Oxford University Press. The poems were originally published, according to the introduction, in The Lantern, OUP's house magazine, in 1951–1953. The booklet was printed by the Perpetua Press, a side project of the university printer Vivian Ridler, in an edition of 200 copies, according to the colophon.

The prospectus announces "The life of William Blake", Blake's "Poetry and prose", Blake's "Pencil drawings", "The life and adventures of Peter Porcupine", "The New Testament", "The Temple", "The princess of Babylon", "The seasons", "A stitch in time", "The divine comedy", Vanbrugh's "Works", Pindar's "Pythian odes", and "The pilgrim's progress". Retrospectus of limited editions and a list of unlimited editions including blank books. Extract from Stanley Morison's "A review of recent typography" (1927).
Description: Sewn plain paper doubled over wrappers. Quarto: 27 × 20 cm; pp. 23. With 4 headpieces by Percy Smith and the Nonesuch device 'Prospectus and retrospectus 1927' on front and back. Printed by R. & R. Clark in Caslon and Moreau-le-jeune open types on laid paper.
Enclosed: Addendum slip (13 × 9 cm) with details of price of Herbert's "The temple" loosely laid in.
Ref.: Dreyfus: P14
Condition: Covers slightly soiled and browned at the edges. Internally somewhat browned at the page corners.… Leer más

First edition, number 261 of 750 numbered copies.
Description: Paperback in glassine wraps. Duodecimo: 18.5 × 14 cm; pp. 61, untrimmed. Illustrated with 3 woodcuts by Jean Kéfalinos.
Condition: Covers in good condition. Spine somewhat discoloured. Internally in very good condition.