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BERTHA S. GOUDY / FIRST LADY OF PRINTING / REMEMBRANCES OF THE DISTAFF SIDE OF THE VILLAGE PRESS.
1958.
Price: $80.00
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A small card (3 1/2" X 2 3/8"), no place, no date, issued to note the death of artist and typographer Eric Gill. There is a small Greek cross printed at th top, followed by this text: In gratitude for the things that he made & the truths that he taught pray for ERIC GILL who died on November 17, 1940". Cream paper, watermarked. Postage will be minimal.

MEMORIAL CARD.
(Eric Gill).
Price: $15.00
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12mo, xii, 24pp., a facsimile of the edition published by Ward Ritchie in 1967, with an additional introductory essay by David Kindersley, in honor of the centenary of Eric Gill's birth, with profuse b/w illustrations of Eric Gill's work as an artist and typographer. Fine in heavy grey wrappers.

MR ERIC GILL / with FURTHER THOUGHTS OF AN APPRENTICE.
Kindersley, David.
London and New York: The Wynken de Worde Society, The Sandstone Press, 1982.
Price: $50.00
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11 1/4 x 8 3/4" portfolio (28.5cm). Text from the cover reads: "The broadsides in this folder are contributed by exhibitors represented in the exhibition of the Work of Private Presses of Members of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. They are intended to acquaint our members with the aims and activities of the Presses. This keepsake is distributed in advance of the opening of the exhibition in the Institute Rooms at 115 East Fortieth Street, on December 15, 1937" Sixteen presses were represented in the exhibition. Twelve are included. in the portfolio of broadsides. The Library of Congress entry for the portfolio notes that "there may have been four additional samples intended to be published". The twelve presses which have provided broadsides are Amphora, Attic House and Sumac, Golden HInd, Holiday, Overbrook, Journalism Laboratory, Maverick, Prairie, St. Albans, Thomas Perry Stricher, Timothy, and Woolly Whale. Laid in is a 9cm x 19cm printed note from the AIGA that reads: "For the purposes of its forthcoming Exhibition of Private Press Books of Members / A Private Press is defined as one founded by a private individual (or group), primarily for the pleasure of the founder and the distribution of its output by him -- and not for financial gain. Fine in foldover green wrappers.

PRIVATE PRESSES OF MEMBERS.
American Institute of Graphic Arts.
New York: A.I.G.A., 1937.
Price: $395.00
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26.5 x 17.5cm, being a talk by Mardersteig about Zapf and an article by Zapf about Mardersreig, translated from the German by Margaret L. Ford and the first editions of both in English. An edition of 1,000 copies printed from Optima type. Very fine, sewn into heavy grey wrappers, titled in blue.

LAUDATIO FOR HERMANN ZAPF and IN MEMORIAM GIOVANNI MARDERSTEIG.
Mardersteig, Giovanni and Zapf, Hermann.
New York: Kelly/Winterton Press, 1983.
Price: $30.00
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Quarto, 16pp., published by Champion Papers as The Printing Salesman's Herald # 14, with biographical and typographical information about Hammer and his American Uncial type, a list of Hammer's wlork under different press imprints, and profuse illustrations. Fine in tan wrappers stamped in blind and printed in black and terra cotta inks.

VICTOR HAMMER / ARTIST AND MASTER OF THE PRINTING ART.
Middleton, R. Hunter.
Chicago: Champion Papers, 1965.
Price: $15.00
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small octavo, 27pp., with the title page printed in orange and black, and with 7 b/w sketches, including the colophon, by the author. who visited printing offices in Paris, Mantignac and Aix-en-Provence in France, and in Westerham, Plaistow and London in England (including the Curwen Press). A genial, delightful read. Stinehour bibliography # 196. The colophon reads: Of 500 copies 100 are sent to friends of the press at Christmas MCMLXIII." Very fine in heavy orange wrappers.

OUR DEVIL TAKES A HOLIDAY / letters and sketches sent back to the shop, written and drawn by John R. Nash.
Nash, John R..
Lunenberg, Vermont: The Stinehour Press, 1963.
Price: $25.00
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Large octavo, unpaged (28pp.), being a collection of poems by 25 authors, all of whom have, in some respect, an essential bond to western Massachusetts. including a cover illustration by Michael McCurdy. Sewn into heavy Rives BFK wrappers. Fine.

UNDER ONE ROOF/ A GATHERING OF POEMS.
Sternlieb, Barry and Maureen, editors and designers.
Richmond, Massachusetts: Mad River Press, 1992.
Price: $20.00
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Small octavo (8 3/8" x 5 1/2"), unpaged (16pp.), number 144 of 300 copies, sewn into grey wrappers with a paste-on white title label. Very fine.

ON HAND PRINTING / 2 LETTERS FROM WILLIAM EVERSON.
Everson, William.
Berkeley, California: Anacapa Books, 1980.
Price: $30.00
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Large narrow octavo, 9 3/4" x 5 1/2". 8pp. , being the catalogue for an exhibit in New York of work by the Illustrators Group of the Society of Industrial Artists, which included Edward Ardizzone, Pauline Baynes, Joan Hassall, Paul Hogarth, Lynton Lamb, Ronald Searle and many others. Printed in England. Very fine in buff wrappers.

BRITISH BOOK ILLUSTRATION 1959.
American Institute of Graphic Arts.
New York: A.I.G.A., 1959.
Price: $10.00
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Carmen I
Gaius Catullus and Michie, James, translator.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The Legacy Press, 1998.
Price: $75.00
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12mo, 12pp. A collection of proverbial Irish sayings in triad form, such as: "Three things that are always ready in a decent man's house: beer, a bath, a good fire". The colophon states" First printed in August 1955 as the fourth part of the Dolmen Chapbook & here reset and reprinted at the Dolmen Press 23 Upper Mount Street Dublin Ireland August 1957". Endpapers slightly browned, mild corner crease to title page else very good in red, yellow and grey patterned paper on boards, red cloth spine, tiny abrasion to top corner of front board.

THIRTY THREE TRIADS TRANSLATED BY THOMAS KINSELLA FROM THE IRISH.
Kinsella, Thomas, translator.
Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1957.
Price: $200.00
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Small octavo, v, (1)pp., including the catalog of an exhibit at Middlebury in 1995, as well as "Three For Wyman" by Howard Munford, Leonard Baskin and Robert Buckeye. The introduction identifies Parker as a Middlebury College graduate, librarian and book collector. A listing of books in the exhibit follows, as well as a facsimile of "A Word in re Wyman Parker" in Leonard Baskin's calligraphy. An edition of 800 copies, with a frontispiece portrait of Wyman Parker by Richard Erickson. Stapled into heavy grey wrappers with Leonard Baskin's crows reproduced on the front and back cover with letterpress printing by Peter Kruty Editions, Brooklyn, New York. Fine.

WYMAN PARKER OF MIDDLEBURY / BOOKS FROM HIS LIBRARY.
Buckeye, Robert, introduction by.
Middlebury, Vermont: Friends of the Library, Middlebury College, 1995.
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Large square octavo, 9.5 x 9.5", unpaged, (19 French-folded leaves). There is an introduction by Gibson A. Danes, then Dean of the school of Art and Architecture at Yale, a page of comments by Paul Rand, and color illustrations for a dozen trademarks designed by Rand, including Borzoi Books, Westinghouse, IBM and Esquire Magazine. The cover design and typography are by Paul Rand; the general design and printing are by Hiram Ash, then at the School of Art and Architecture at Yale University. This copy is from Hiram Ash's own library. The book was printed in an edition of 450 copies -- a limitation not mentioned in the book but noted in a Wittenborn advertisement in "Typographica" for June, 1961, and, with reason, considered to be the scarcest of Paul Rand books. Faint age-toning to page edges else fine in heavy white wrappers printed in yellow, orange and black, and in the slightly rippled original glassine, which has two tiny tears and a couple of pinhead-sized chips. The price is net.

THE TRADEMARKS OF PAUL RAND / A SELECTION.
Rand, Paul.
New York: George Wittenborn,Inc, 1960.
Price: $1,500.00
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12mo, 19,(2)pp., an edition of 400 copies printed in Linotype Granjon on Kelmscott hand-made paper. From the original edition of 1568, Merganthaler has chosen six professions and their illustrations: the printer, bookbinder, typefounder, papermaker, draughtsman and woodcutter, each printed recto only with the original accompanying verses by Hans Sachs, a popular Nuremberg poet. A charming book, bound in marbled paper on boards with an ivory parchment spine, and bearing the small bookplate of H. Richard Archer, bibliographer and librarian. Fine.

A TRUE DESCRIPTION OF ALL TRADES
Annan, Jobst, illustrated by.
Brooklyn, New York: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1930.
Price: $75.00
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Large octavo, xv, 478pp., index, profusely illustrated in b/w, many illustrations from wood engtravings. Owner's name stamp on the front paste-dqwon endpaper else internally very good in mildly soiled pale green cloth, with a cover pictorial design in black, gilt titles, slighty edge-rubbed.

REDEEMING THE REPUBLIC / THE THIRD PERIOD OF THE WAR OF THE REBE LLION IN THE YEAR 1864.
Coffin, Charles Carleton.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889.
Price: $65.00
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12mo, 182pp. A novel set in the Civil War, the author's first, and apparently only book. Wriught: American Fiction, Volume III, #374. Internally fine in very slighty rubbed blue cloth, red spine mildly sunned.

AN IDYL OF WAR-TIMES.
Bartlett, Major W.C.
New York: Lew Vanderpoole Publishing Company, 1890.
Price: $25.00
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Small octavo, 352pp., with a tissue-guarded frontispiece and title page, plus other illustragtions fromm original designs by G.G. White (wood engraver and illustrator working in Philadelphia). Moderate foxing throughout, a few waterstains, but otherwise a solid copy in elaborately blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine, discolored and very slighty worn at the top of the spine.

LIFE OF MAJOR GENERAL HENRY LEE, COMMANDER OF LEE'S LEGION IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, AND SUBSEQUENTLY GOVENOR OF VIRGINIA; TO WHICH IS ADDED THE LIFE OF GENERAL THOMAS SUMTER OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
Hartley, Cecil B.
New York: Derby & Jackson, 1859.
Price: $50.00
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Folio, 128, 132, 140 numbered pages, the English-language edition, with covers by Georges Braque, Pierre Bonnard and Georges Rouault. The list of contributors, both artists and writers, still astonishes by its eclectic richness: -- André Malraux, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, André Gide, Matisse, Chagall, MIro, Jean-Paul Sartre, Brassai, Kandinsky, many oihers. Text paper slightly toned at the edges, else internally fine and without markings of any kind. This set of three is bound in terra-cotta cloth with the single word "VERVE" at the bottom of the front cover in silver, a design repeated at the top of the spine. Light wear to the terra cotta cloth; mild rubbing and shelf wear to the base of the spine and bottom corners. A beautiful copy. The book is oversized and heavy and will require additional postage and insurance, at cost.

VERVE, AN ARTISTIC AND LITERARY QUARTERLY, VOLUME 1, NUMBERS TWO, THREE AND FOUR.
Tériade, E, editor and publisher.
Paris: Tériade, 1938-1939.
Price: $1,500.00
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NEW WORLDS / GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN ART 1890-1940.
Price, Renée, editor.
New York: Neue Galerie New York, 2001.
Price: $65.00
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Octavo, 52pp. Neither publisher nor place of publication is given. Robert Brandegee, (1849-1922), was a well-known artist who, among other things, headed the art department of Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, for many years. He lived in Farmington, and was active in Connecticut artist groups. This book has a b/w frontispiece of one of his paintings,two small colored illustrations(which seem to be hand-colored, and several b/w vignettes. The book deals with the seasons of the year in Farmington, including plants and birds, followed by a section on artists. Only four libraries are listed as owning a copy of this title. This copy is internally sound, but is hanging on its threads and is in its original mustard paper wrappers printed in black, with a cover illustration by Brandegee. The binding is worn and chipped but is essentially intact. Good only, but a fine souvenir of Miss Porter's School and Farmington, Connecticut. Uncommon.

FROM THE OPEN BOOK OF NATURE.
Brandegee, Robert B.
1901.
Price: $75.00
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12mo, unpaged , (a single signature of 16pp.) The title page reads: "Notes prepared for an informal discussion between Joseph Blumenthal and the Society of Printers in Boston on December 6, 1961 together with a foreword added in 1969" . The colophon notes that 250 copies of this booklet were designed by Joseph Blumenthal, set in Emerson type and printed at the Spiral Press. Very fine, sewn into greige wrappers.

A TYPOGRAPHIC DISQUISITION.
Blumenthal, Joseph and the Society of Printers.
New York: The Spiral Press, 1969.
Price: $35.00
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Octavo, unpaged, a single signature of 16pp.), with three b/w drawings by Susan Stone. This is the account of an October afternoon's trap shooting in Connecticut's Litchfield Hills, a competition among the fifteen members of the Six Shooters Trap Club, of which the author, a noted educator and writer, was a member. The book is one of a limited edition (25 numbered copies, plus "certain additional copies reserved out of series "-- this copy being one of the latter) printed by graphic designer Hiram Ash at his Orchard Press on cream Molina cover and text paper and sewn into heavy wrappers with the cover title printed in red. Very fine, with the prospectus for the booklet laid in.

"JUST ONE SHOT"
Perretti, John F.
Winsted, Connecticut: The Orchard Press, 1995.
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Octavo, viii, 543pp. This is a new, expanded edition, comprising the original volume of 17 stories, plus 15 new tales. Edges just slightly foxed, but otherwise a tight, clean copy, with an uncreased spine that shows that the book was never opened out or, presumably, read. Very good in heavy white wrappers with imprinted (not real!) coffee staIns. This copy is INSCRIBED on the half-title by Ed Sanders.

TALES OF BEATNIK GLORY / Volumes I and II.
Sanders, Ed.
New York: Citadel Press, 1990(1975).
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Octavo, 222pp. Fine in salmon paper on boards, black cloth spine, and a terrific dustjacket, designed by Michael Ian Kaye and Melissa Hayden, showing the front and back of Micheangelo's "David", with the wraparound band (which is present) well-positioned. Fine.

LIFE FORCE.
Weldon, Fay.
New York: Viking Penguin, 1992.
Price: $35.00
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Octavo, vi, 705pp., with 16 pp. of b/w photographs. For anyone young enough not to remember, Moynihan, besides being a Democratic senator from New York for four terms, was ambassador yo India and the United Nations, as well as a professor at Harvard. And, as evinced by this book, he was a brilliant and elegant writer and thinker. This copy is warmly inscribed by Steven Weisman on the title page. Fine in dustjacket.

DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN / A PORTRAIT IN LETTERS OF AN AMERICAN VISIONARY.
(Moynihan, Daniel Patrick) and Weisman, Steven R.
New York: Public Affairs, 2010.
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Square octavo, unpaged (approximately 60pp.), the catalogue for an exhibition from February 24 through April 15, 1910 that explores humor in art, with an explanatory text by Dennis Reed, and works by over a dozen artists, including William Wegman. Profusely illstrated in b/w and color, and bound onto a wire comb and then into printed and laser-cut khaki card stock. Fibne.

NO LAUGHING MATTER / ART AND HUMOR IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Reed, Dennis.
Valley Glen, California: Art Gallery, Los Angeles Valley College, 2010.
Price: $35.00
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Quarto, unpaged, with a forreword by Sorel, and a wonderful collection of Sorel's b/w cartoons and caricatures, many of them, of course, bitingly political, such as the frontispiece of Richard Nixon, titled "Milhous I". Very good in black paper on boards, cloth spine titled in gilt, and a very sllightly worn and aged dustjacket with two color panels by Sorel. This copy is INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper by Sorel: "For the *** / With affection and good wishes / Ed Sorel / 5/19/81"

SUPERPEN / THE CARTOONS AND CARICATURES OF EDWARD SOREL.
(Sorel, Edward) and Ferrara, Lidia, designer and editor.
New York: Random House, 1978.
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Octavo or oblong octavo, usually 16 pages. A run of 22 issues, not contiguous, from May-June, 1962, # 122, through November-December 1966, # 149. Profuse illustrations articles on typography. Very good in pictorial wrappers, each different.

TYPE TALKS, 22 issues.
AdvertisingTypographers Association.
New York: Advertising Typographers Association, 1962-1965.
Price: $125.00
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Octavo, 311pp., with nine illustrations, one a line drawing by Arthur G.Dove, the others photographs by Alfred Stieglitz., Alice Boughton, Dana Desboro and Paul Strand. Essays on fourteen poets, painters, ciritics, educators and photographers, including Van Wyck Brooks, Sherwood Anderson, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Alfred Stieglitz, Carl Sandburg, Georgia O'Keeffe, William Carlos Williams and others. Completely unopened; a fine copy in very slightly mottled purple cloth with paste-on title patches and a complete but chipped and edgeworn dustjacket.

PORT OF NEW YORK / ESSAYS ON FOURTEEN AMERICAN MODERNS.
Rosenfeld, Paul.
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1924.
Price: $40.00
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12mo, 29pp., with a brief preface by Morison explaining that the text had previously been published in No. 7 of "The Fleuron" in 1930. Light browning to the pastedown endpapers else very good in tan cloth and dustjacket -- with a recommendation by Bruce Rogers on the front panel of the dustjacket -- "The clearest and most closely-reasoned exposition of the subject that I know".

FIRST PRINCIPLES OF TYPOGRAPHY.
Morison, Stanley.
New York: Macmillan, but printed at the printing office of Yale U.P., 1936.
Price: $45.00
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Small octavo, 62pp., with b/w drawings by Peter Green, and additional dialogue by the author's husband, John Mitchell, who was at that time the attorney general of the United States under president Richard Nixon. They lived at the Watergate, where the Nixon scandal broke the next year. By 1973, the couple had separated. An odd sidelight on an odd time in American history. Nicely printed in black and red and internally fine in pale coral wrappers, slightly foxed. and with a sunned spine.

ON WITH THE WIND / MARTHA MITCHELL SPEAKS.
Mitchell, Martha.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1971.
Price: $20.00
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Large octavo, 15, (13)pp., with a text by the editor followed by pages of typographical quotes and ornaments printed in several colors. This is #73 of approximately 325 copies printed at the Adagio Press and signed by Leonard Bahr. Very fine in heavy wrappers.

TypoGraphia 1.
Bahr, Leonard F., editor.
Harper Woods, Michigan: The Adagio Press, 1976.
Price: $40.00
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12mo, 27pp., an edition of 200 copies, with lovely small decorations by Ray Holden, printed in green on many pages.. Triangular mild paper crease on leaf 5-6, possibly a paper fault, and faint foxing top the endpapers, else very good and quarter bound in striated green pastepaper on boards, and tan linen, corners slightly rubbed. The verses first appeared in a book issued for Windham's bicentennial in 1892, and recound the story of a frog fight at a local pond in 1754. The present edition was honored aa one of the 50 books of the year in 1935.

BATTLE OF THE FROGS / A DISCOVERY OF THE RARE & SINGULAR DISTURBANCES OF AN HISTORIC NIGHT; WITH OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF MOMENT COMPRISING THE EPIC OF WINDHAM.
Brown, Theron.
Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House, 1934.
Price: $45.00
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12mo, unpaged (12pp.) A note on the copyright page mentions that "these "Meditations" are selected from those used at The Community Church in Summit, New Jersey", a Unitarian church where Trapp had been the minister from 1945 to 1970. No limitation noted, but the booklet was "hand set in Cloister Oldstyle type and hand printed on dampened Ruysdael all-rag paper".Fine, sewn into tan wrappers with a small b/w title label.

MEDITATIONS WRITTEN OR ARRANGED BY JACOB TRAPP.
Trapp, Jacob.
Madison, New Jersey: Golden HInd Press, 1954.
Price: $35.00
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6 1/2 x 4 1/2", 38,(5)pp., this being number 64 of 200 copies designed, printed and made into a book by Francis Earl Bonnell at The Bunny Press. Bonnell notes that this story was first published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine for November, 1871. The title page bears, as illustration, an actual 5-cent Johnny Appleseed stamp. Fine in green cloth, paste-on gilt title label.

JOHNNY APPLESEED -- A PIONEER HERO.
Haley, W.D.
North East, Pennsylvania: The Bunny Press, 1967.
Price: $35.00
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Octavo, xxxii, 358pp., the third editrion of a book furst puboished in 1912, with an introduction abnd a notations by William T. Stearn, and with 24 b/w plates and 131 illustrations in the text. An appendix lists the principle herbals and related botanical works published between 1470 and 1670. Two one-line underlinings in the second appendix (a list of sources) else fine in heavy wrappers. A volume in the Cambridge Science Series.

HERBALS / THEIR ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION / A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF BOTANY 1470-1870.
Arber, Agnes.
Cambridge: Cambidge University Press, 1988(1986).
Price: $25.00
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Quarto, 32pp., with profuse illustrations in color and b/w, and an introductory note about Paul Rand by Mildred Friedman, the magazine's editor. Fine in black and gray heavy wrappers.

DESIGN QUARTERLY 123 / A PAUL RAND MISCELLANY.
Rand, Paul (guest designer).
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1984.
Price: $75.00
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Octavo, 233pp., with profuse watercolor illustrations by Alfred Dubout (1905-1976), both full-page and in the text. Internally fine in slightly bumped and edgeworn paper on boards. Text -- the actual driving code then in France -- is in French. Utter charm.

CODE DE LA ROUTE / TEXTE OFFICIEL ET COMPLET.
Dubout, (Albert), illustrated by.
Paris: Maurice Gonon, editeur, 1956.
Price: $125.00
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Folio, 14" x 11", with an introduction by Georgia O'Keeffe, and 51 b/w plates by Stieglitz showing O'Keeffe in the years from 1918 through 1924, printed recto only. Finely produced by Meriden Gravure and the Stinehour Press, and bound in greige paper on boards with a cream cloth spine, pictorial dustjacket and a paper-covered slipcase. The dustjacket is price-clipped, otherwise fine.

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE.
Stieglitz, Alfred.
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art / Viking Press, 1978.
Price: $150.00
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Large octavo, 166 (1)pp. , with many illustrations. A three-part treatise -- book design as a school of thought, designing books, and books designed by Jost Hochiuli. There is an introduction by Robin Kinross, a reading list, and indexes of book designers and illustrators, puboishers and journals. Very fine and as new in black cloth stamped in yellow and orange, and in an as-new dustjacket.

DESIGNING BOOKS: PRACTICE AND THEORY.
Hochuli, Jost and Kinross, Robin.
London: Hyphen Press, 1996.
Price: $130.00
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Large octavo, 21pp., wth two full-page b/w illustrations, and three facsimile autographs in the text (of Edwin Arlingotn Robinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Thomas Hardy). An edition of 425 copies, issued as Keepsake No.18 by the Southworth-Anthoensen Press, with the press's presentation card laid in. This copy also bears the library record label of graphic designer and bibliographer Will Ransom, with his hand-written acquisition notes on the label, plus the original mailing label from the press to Ransom at the University of Oklahoma Press. Two shadowy tape marks on the rear patedown, else fine in burnt orange paper on boards, ivory vellum paper spine with a gilt title.

THOMAS HARDY IN MAINE.
Weber, Carl J.
Portland, Maine: The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1942.
Price: $125.00
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KINDERZEICHNUNGEN ZU BRECHT / 34 TAFELN UND DIE TEXTE.
Hecht, Werner.
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1970.
Price: $18.00
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Large octavo, (10 1/2" x 6 3/4"), 12, (ii) pp. An edition of 200 copies, 100 for a meeting of the Washington Chapter of the AIGA and 75 for the Baltimore Bibliophiles. "Life and Hard Times" was originally a talk given at the Roxburghe Club in 1967 and later printed as a keepsake for the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs. Grover gives impressions of some of the visitors to the Grabhorn Press, including Robinson Jeffers,William Saroyan, Bennett Cerf, Eugene O'Neill, Alfred Knopf, Henry Miller, Edmund Wilson, and Frederic Goudy. Fine, sewn into tomato red wrappers, with a paste-on title label.

LIFE & HARD TIMES OR SHERWOOD GROVER'S TWENTY-FIVE YEARS WITH THE GRABHORN PRESS.
Grover, Sherwood.
Bethesda, Maryland: The Gallimaufry Press, 1970.
Price: $35.00
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A CHRISTMAS SERMON.
Stevenson, Robert Louis.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900.
Price: $150.00
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Octavo, xi, 338pp., with a glassine-protected color frontispiece and endpapers, and profuse b/w drawings -- all, of course, by Lofting. Faint thinning of the cloth binding at the spine ends, else very good in grey cloth with a pictorial paste-down illustration that repeats the frontispiece.

DOCTOR DOLITTLE'S ZOO.
Lofting, Hugh.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1925.
Price: $200.00
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12mo, not paginated (48pp). Written in 1907, the manuscript came to light after Beatrix Potter's death. This edition is beautifully illustrated by Marie Angel. Fine in pale blue pictorial boards and dustjacket.

THE TALE OF THE FAITHFUL DOVE.
Potter, Beatrix.
New York and London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1970(1956).
Price: $125.00
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Large octavo, 171pp., plus 19 pages reproducing the Calzolari account book. As stated in the introduction, "the account book...was compiled by a Veronese apothecary... between the autumn of 1618 and the summer of 1630. It records the expenses he incurred in the printing and distribution of the "Musaeum Francisci Calceolarii," a large illustrated volume comprising a Latin description by two Veronese doctors...of some of the items in the family's natural history collection". This is number 746 of 750 copies printed by the Stinehour Press, with a frontispiece and 12 pp. of b/w illustrations, a transcript of the text, a glossary, an index, and bibliographical information. As new in light brown cloth and a pictoerial marbled dustjacket.

PRINTING A BOOK AT VERONA IN 1622 / The Account Book of Francesco Calzolari Junior.
Fahy, Conor, editor and introductio by.
Paris: Fondation Custodia, 1993.
Price: $75.00
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4 3/4" x 3", one signature of 8 pp., showing illustrated numbers from 1 to 10. "600 copies were set by hand in foundry tyhpe and ornaments and printed on a Vandercook proof press at Boqwne & Co., Stationers, South Street Seaport Museum, and sewn into grey wrappers, slightly creased.

THE SOUTH STREET COUNTING BOOK.
South Street Seaport Museum.
New York: South Street Seaport Museum, 1989.
Price: $10.00
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Octavo, 109pp., an edition of 1,000 copies printed and bound by Meriden-Stinehour Press. "Some reminiscences by his former students, wkith a foreword by President David T. McLaughlin and an introduction by Roderick Stinehour...to which is added the text of Professor Ray Nash's essay 'Education in a Workshop,' as well as a biographical chronology of his Dartmouth years and a selected list of his published writings". There are also essays by Alvin Eisenman, Sinclair Hitchingd, David Godine, John Nash, Stephen Harvard and others, as well as a fine collection of b/w illustrations. Fine and as new in tan cloth on boards, with terra cotta paper title and spine title patches, and a plain translucent glassine dustjacket.

RAY NASH AND THE GRAPHIC ARTS WORKSHOP AT DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.
Lathem, Edward Connery, editor.
Hanover, New Hampshire: Friends of the Dartmouth Library, 1987.
Price: $25.00
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