THE TREATISE OF GERARD MERCATOR…(ANTWERP 1540) by OFFICINA BODONI - 1930: EDITED IN FACSIMILE WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAN DENUCÉ ANTWERP AND A NOTE BY STANLEY MORISON LONDON.

Book. Good. Original Wraps. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. New York, the Grolier Club, 1992. 29, (3) pp. 8vo. Wrs. 0.

London: The British Library, 1978. Folded sheet (240 x 165). Portrait of Mardersteig. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, printing Mardersteig's dictum: "A book consists of five elements: the text, the type, the ink, the paper, and the binding. To create a unity from these five elements in such a way that the result is not a passing product of fashion, but assumes the validity of permanent value - that should be our desire." Printed in Verona in Italic Dante designed by Mardersteig, for the exhibition at the British Library August-October 1978.

Verona: Stamperia Valdonega, 1979. 8vo. 15pp. Original printed wrappers. Near-fine. FIRST EDITION, printed on occasion of the celebration of Mardersteig's life and work at the Biblioteca Trivulziana.

Verona Italy: Edizioni Valdonega, 1977. (4) printed sides, the prospectus for this publication. With contents page, specimen page; back cover giving details: "...A substantial portion of this work was written by Giovanni Mardersteig before his death in 1977. Hans Schmoller, a dedicated friend, together with Mrs. Irmi Mardersteig and Martino Mardersteig brought it to completion..." And details of the production and distribution by the Chiswick Book Shop Inc. of Connecticut for the 500 copies of the American edition. Approx. 8" x 12" size, printed on heavy quality cream paper stock; little bit of surface crinkling, clean and in very good condition. . Prospectus. Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: British Museum, 1954. Catalogue of books printed on the hand press MCMXXIII-MCMLIV. Exhibition at the British Museum, September-October 4 1954. Preface by Stanley Morison. Pp. x+36+[8](specimen pages); roy. 8vo; grey stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black, the upper wrapper decorated in red, edges lightly rubbed and browned; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper wrapper, scattered light foxing; British Museum, London, 1954. Edition limited to 500 copies, printed by the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona. Named after the famed Italian printer and typographer Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813), Officina Bodoni was founded by Giovanni Mardersteig in 1922.

London: The British Library, 1978. Books printed by Giovanni Mardersteig on the hand press, 1923-1977. Pp. 96, illustrated; small cr. 4to; printed stiff paper wrappers; British Library, London, 1978. *Catalogue of an exhibition held in The King's Library, British Library Reference Division, 9 August - 22 October, 1978. Lists 98 items. Issued in both cloth and paper wrappers.

[Milan]: Libreria Antiquaria Mediolanum, 2012. 8vo. 118pp. Original printed wrappers, separate folded sheet summarizing the collection in English laid-in. A beautifully prepared and illustrated catalogue of the Lombi collection of editions printed by the Officina Bodoni, comprising 194 works in hundreds of volumes.

London: The British Library, 1978. Four pages on one folded sheet (240 x 165 mm). Photographic portrait of Mardersteig. Original printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, Brooke Crutchley's copy, signed by him on title. Printing Mardersteig's dictum: "A book consists of five elements: the text, the type, the ink, the paper, and the binding. To create a unity from these five elements in such a way that the result is not a passing product of fashio, but assumes the validity of permanent value - that should be our desire." Printed in Verona in Italic Dante designed by Mardersteig, for the exhibition at the British Library August-October 1978.

Hamburg: Maximilian-Gesellschaft, 2013. Soft cover. Fine. Printed stiff cream wrappers, 4to., 61, (3) pages, illustrated including color. One of 800 copies printed from Dante type. Extends and concludes Schmoller's 1979 bibliography. A fine copy in archival mylar.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, [1929].. 8vo. 16 pp. Stapled French-Fold Wraps, Letterpress on Wove. VG. From the Collection of the Book Designer Philip Grushkin (1921 - 1998). First Edition.

Chatwin Books, 2018. Trade Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" New!

New York: Watson - Guptill, 1971. cloth, dust jacket. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 376 pages. First U.S. edition. Jacket lightly soiled, else a fine copy. Traces the development of the private press over the last 500 years. 83 figures in the text and 72 plates. Better printed than the second edition and containing some material not present in the first edition and thus still desirable.

Abattoir Editions, 1982. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. One of 150 numbered copies printed by Harry Duncan; this being #84. 9.25 X 12 inches. 40pp., bound in tan wraps with mounted cream printed paper label wrapping around the spine and front cover. Letterpress printed on Japanese Etching paper, from Poliphilus, Blado, and Fournier Ornate types; with 2 woodblock prints by Michael McCurdy. Faint dampstaining to the text margins of the fore-edge, else Very Good.

Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, 2006. Limited Edition. Wraps. Fine. [4]pp. Black & white frontispiece by Shinuske Minegishi, reproduced from the original engraving. One of 75 copies (from an edition of 100, signed and numbered by Minegishi). Designed by Rollin Milroy and printed by David Clifford at his Black Stone Press. Sewn into a Canson paper wraps. A Fine copy. // A previously unpublished essay by the artist, paying homage to a group of six Japanese wood engravers 'who were responsible for reviving the art form in that country'. Published to accompany the artist's first solo exhibition in the United States, at Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, November 2006.

Lincoln: Penmaen Press, 1978. First Edition, one of 500 copies printed. This copy SIGNED by McCurdy twice, at Title and Afterword. Woodcuts by McCurdy. Bibliographically describes all Penmaen Press books, broadsides and ephemera 1968-1978, with additional items. Includes 16 pp. of photographs of contributors: Peich, McCurdy, Lynd Ward, Allen Ginsberg and others. A demonstrable work of love. 9½ x 6½.. Near Fine original blue cloth-covered boards blind stamped with gilt lettering to spine in like dust jacket.

The Easton Press, The Collector's Library of Famous Editions, 1992 (1942). First Thus; Collector's Edition. Translated by Havelock Ellis. Illustrated by Berthold Mahn. Hardcover. Issued without dust jacket. Used - Fine, "Like New" condition. Appears unopened / unread. Binding and text block are tight, bright, and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Bound in full (genuine) leather with hubbed spine. All edges gilt. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints, silk moire fabric end leaves, and permanent satin ribbon marker. Notes From The Archives sheet laid in. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books. A gorgeous copy.

London: Orchard Books, September 1990. Hardcover. Signed Limited Edition. Quarter-bound in dark grey cloth with dove grey sides. Silver titles and top edge. Silver silk ribbon marker. Illustrated endpapers. Dove grey slipcase. Presentation copy of a Limited Edition of 250 copies. Flat-signed by illustrator Faith Jaques, the noted children's book author, illustrator, artist, and advocate. Fine book in a Near Fine slipcase. Not from a library. 88 pages. Profusely illustrated.

Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and… Read More

Philadelphia: [privately printed] Beck Engraving Company, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Small quarto, unpaginated. Hundreds of black and white halftone plates, depicting the various paintings. On the opposite leaves, printed in red ink, are the painting titles and artists. A front blank contains a tipped-in photograph of Schemm, surrounded by his bounty of paintings. A crisp, clean copy in the publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt. Very minor dust-soiling to the cloth, and an owner's name on the front free endpaper, else a rather crisp, sharp example; near fine. A very nice production.

Iowa City, Iowa: Qara Press, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine -. Baasch, Norman. [16] p.: 2 linoleum cuts; 27 cm. Original light blue paper over boards with white paper label on front board, printed in black. "Printed by Gerald M. Stevenson, Jr. on Curtis Rag paper with linoleum cuts by Norman Baasch. Of an edition limited to 190 cpies, this is copy 25." -- colophon. This poem first appeared in The Listener on Aug. 6, 1959. Major Claude R. Eatherly was one of the pilots involved in the atomic bombing of Japan in World War II. In Near Fine- Condition: cover lightly soiled; pages are clean and crisp.