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[Tokyo]: Kyuryudo Co. Ltd, 1980. First edition, folio, pp. 195, [5]; text in Japanese; the first 62 pages are a description of bookbinding techniques illustrated by 174 diagrams. The remainder of the book is dedicated to high-quality, full color photographs of fine bindings produced by Miura, some in folding spreads. Original red silk, gilt title direct on spine, gilt designs on cover, fine in original pictorial slipcase; bookplate of John Howll Books. Inscribed by author on half-title page, with the English title provided on title page.

Rochester, N.Y.: Keith Smith Books, 1995. First edition limited to 1000 copies, 8vo, pp. 315, [5]; diagrams and photographic illustrations throughout, covering dozens of sewing patterns; pictorial paper wrappers, fine. Keith Smith book 169.

London: The Ulysses Bookshop, 1931. Third impression, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 95; 2 facsimiles on recto and verso of 1 plate; very good in somewhat soiled original orange cloth titled in gilt on spine and front cover, beveled boards, the spine darkening and with ends a little frayed.

London: Maggs Bros, 1953. 4to, pp.179, [1]; color frontispiece, illustrated throughout; original gray printed wrappers printed in red and gilt; some spotting top the upper cover; al;l else very good and sound. With a 2-page foreword on the history of the firm.

London: Maggs Bros, 1953. 4to, pp.179, [1]; color frontispiece, illustrated throughout, many full-page; original gray wrappers printed in red and gilt; very good. 123 choice items fully described.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1948. First edition, 8vo, pp. [12], 254; printed in red and black throughout; frontispiece and numerous illustrations; fine copy in a dust jacket with piece out at the bottom on the spine and affecting also the bottom edge of the back panel.

Menomonie, Wisconsin: The Vagabond Press, 1960. First edition, 8vo, pp. [9], 21-[23]; Location and provenance of the 45 known copies, and the story behind the discovery of the 46th. presentation copy with Leslie's warm inscription, The Blake School Library bookplate on front paste-down, library cards at rear paste-down; extremities lightly stained, else very good in original cream cloth with gilt decorated upper cover and gilt-lettered spine.

Menomonie, Wisc: Vagabond Press, 1960. First edition, 8vo, pp. [9], 21-[23]; original tan cloth stained, else very good. Location and provenance of the 45 known copies, and the story behind the discovery of the 46th.

Madrid, 1962. Edition limited to 33 copies (this, no. 30), 8vo, stiff paper portfolio with title and imprint on one side, and containing a bifolium index to the bookplates plus 49 (of 50) separate reproductions of bookplates with bullfighting themes, the whole contained in a full blue Spanish calf slipcase; some blue from the slipcase offset onto the portfolio, else generally fine. Bullfighting bookplate of James J. Nieto. Not in OCLC.

Washington, D. C.: Guild of Bookworkers, 1986. First edition, 4to, pp. [9]-183, [1]; 72 photographic illustrations, several in full color; fine in the original stiff black and white wrappers; in a custom black cloth clamshell box with spine lettered in gilt. A catalogue of striking contemporary examples of the book makers' art in celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Guild.

[New Castle, Del.]: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], xii, 141, [1]; 63 illustrations, fine copy in original dust jacket.

New York: American Printing History Association, 1984. 4to, generally 4 or 8 pages each issue; lacking no. 85; mostly fine, in a clamshell box lettered in gilt on spine. Together with 4 issues of Type & Press, 1988-89. Thirty-three issues in all.

[New York]: Advertising Typographers Association of America, 1954. Revised and enlarged edition, 8vo, pp. 91, [1]; text illustrations throughout, including 7 full-page illustrations demonstrating a four-color printing process; original blue cloth with red lettering, owner's stamp on flyleaf and on headers throughout, lower board stained, very good. ATA membership list laid in to pocket in lower board.

Berkeley: Book Arts Club of the Univ. of California, 1941. First edition ltd. to 450 copies, sm. 8vo, pp. [8], 102, [1]; vignette title-page; fine copy in the jacket. Essays by Randolph Adams, T.M. Cleland, Edwin Grabhorn and Lawrence Wroth, introduced and edited by Hart.

Carbondale, IL: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, 1974. 4to, pp. 88; Accessions list no. 5, Library series no. 6; typescript text in English, Vietnamese and Chinese; extremities lightly spotted, else near fine in original white and orange printed wrappers.

Naarden [Netherlands]: Anton W. Van Bekhoven, 1968. Reprint edition (originally published Paris - Rouen, 1908), 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 251; fine in original leather-grained dark green cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine.

Washington [D.C.]: Library Resources and Technical Services, 1962. Staplebound pamphlet, 8vo, pp. 143-160; Reprinted from Library Resources & Technical Services, Vol. 6, No. 2, Spring 1962; creme printed paper wrappers, little toned, near fine. A general outline and layout of concerns regarding the new method of binding without sewing.

Gabriels, NY: Adirondack Mountain Club, 1958. First edition; 8vo; pp. xviii, 354; frontispiece map, pictorial endpapers; near fine in original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine.

New York: [The Printing Week Library], 1975. 12mo, pp. 50; vignette title page and text engravings by John DePol; blue paper over boards, title gilt direct on upper cover, fine in fine glassine dust jacket. This keepsake is the 22nd in The Printing Week Library of Benjamin Franklin Keepsakes. It was published in connection with Printing Week In New York 1975 commemorating the 269th birthday of Benjamin Franklin, Printer.

[San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley, 1988. 8vo, pp. [22]; printed in blue and black; mounted frontispiece photograph of Wilson by Ansel Adams; fine in original blue wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover. From the library of Kim Merker. Remarks by William Eshelman, James D. Hart, Ward Ritchie, and Sandra Kirshenbaum at a memorial for Wilson in San Francisco on Feb. 13, 1988. Prologue by Joyce Lancaster Wilson with Melissa & Craig Marshall, "designed and printed by Margery Cantor, William Eshelman, Deanna LaBonge, and Zahid Sardar at the Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco. Calligraphy by Christopher Stinehour" (colophon). The Ansel Adams portrait is not in all copies.