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(Binding Reference)
Catalogue de Relières du XVth au XIXth Siècle, en Vente à la Librairie Gumuchian & C.
Paris: Gumuchian, (c. 1930s). Quarto. (181)pp. + 135ff. of plates. One of 1000 copies. A catalogue of fine bindings from this famed Parisian bookseller, profusely illustrated with full-page black and white illustrations including XX color plates. In original dust wrapper, with the English titling: "Fine Bindings." This title also appears.....	More
A Collector's Guide to Bookbinding.
Kamph, Jamie
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1982. Octavo. 40pp. One of 250 copies. A comprehensive guide to bookbinding techniques and terminology for the layperson collector. Backed in cloth with red paper over boards. Fine.	More
(Biography)
Life of Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Ireland, and Emperor of India.
Bulley, Eleanor
London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1901. 149pp. + (1)p. ads. One of the "Midget" series of miniature books published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. With portrait frontispiece and fifteen plates. Light soiling to cover, small ownership inscription to front endpaper, else fine in cream boards with red and.....	More
(Birch, Reginald)
"Fauntleroy and the Greenaway Girl"
(Burnett, Frances Hodgson)
(N.p. c. 1886). A signed original drawing in ink over pencil by Birch, who is best known for illustrating Burnett's classic work for children, Little Lord Fauntleroy, published in 1886. Fauntleroy is immediately recognizable in his plumed hat and lace-trimmed velvet suit, standing near a little girl in a costume.....	More
(Bird & Bull Press)
Bird & Bull Number 13.
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1972. Oblong 16mo. 70pp. One of 140 copies. An early title, containing six articles on printing, papermaking, etc. Bound in vellum-backed pastepaper boards. Little rubbing to corners, else near fine. Prospectus laid-in.	More
Japanese Paper Balloon Bombs: the First ICBM.
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1982. 16mo. 16ff. One of 375 copies. Illustrated with a fold-out drawing of a balloon bomb tipped into a separate folder. The Japanese lanched these bombs after their defeat at Midway in an attempt at retaliation. This effort met with little success. This is.....	More
The Booksellers of San Serriffe.
Bachaus, Theodore
(N.p.): San Serriffe Publishing Company, 2001. Octavo. 95pp. One of 200 copies, printed by the Foolscap Press. A roundup of the booksellers associated with the press, including Ki-flongian Booksellers, Cloacina Books, and Exterminator Books. Replete with tipped-in samples and photographs, bound-in title pages and keepsakes, a large fold-out title page.....	More
A Pair on Printing: Atkins' The Original and Growth of Printing. William Caslon and the First English Type Specimen Book.
Bliss, Carey S.
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1982. Octavo. 137pp. One of 500 copies. Facsimiles of two important essays on printing by Richard Atkins and the first specimen book by Caslon; introduced and commented upon by Cary S. Bliss. Very fine in tan buckram, with title-label on spine. Prospectus laid-in. (Bird..... More
Mr. Rhodenbarr, Bookseller, Advises a Young Customer on Seeking a Vocation.
Block, Lawrence
New Castle, DE: Bird & Bull Press, 1980. Octavo. (13)pp. One of 250 copies. An amusing recounting of an encounter between a savvy bookseller and a clumsy customer. Minor fading to spine, else fine in tan wrappers.	More
Gordon Craig's Paris Diary, 1932-1933.
Franklin, Colin
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1982. One of 350 copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press and bound by Gray Parrot in morocco-backed Japanese paper. Edited, and with a Prologue by Colin Franklin. Extremely fine. Prospectus laid-in.	More
The Bird & Bull Commonplace Book.
Morris, Henry
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1971. Quarto. 67pp. One of 255 copies. Contains some amusing essays on paper-making, and some paper samples, including two made "with the cooperation of certain local wasps." A brief history of printing gives credit to "a man named Gutenberg, probably a foreigner," who "wanted.....	More
Chinese Decorated Papers: Chinoiserie for Three.
Schmoller, Hans
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1987. Oblong octavo. 77pp.(25) ff. One of 325 copies. The first third of this handsome book consists of correspondence between Hans Schmoller and Morris dealing with the problems of the book itself. The second part by Tanya Schmoller is text about the Chinese tea chest.....	More
Mr. Gladstone's Washi: A Survey of Reports on the Manufacture of Paper in Japan, "The Parkes Report of 1871"
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1984. Quarto. x, 49, 24 pp. + (31)ff. One of 500 copies. Contains three foldout plates, nineteen color reproductions of Japanese watercolors, and 30 illustrated facsimile pages of an eighteenth century Japanese papermaking manual. These woodcut facsimiles are printed on handmade Japanese gampi paper.....	More
On Improvements in Marbling the Edges of Books and Paper: A Nineteenth Century Marbling Account Explained and Illustrated with Fourteen Original Marbled Samples.
Wolfe, Richard J.
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1983. Oblong 12mo. 64pp., + (14)ff. One of 350 copies. An interesting, historic account on marbling taken from the Journal of the Franklin Institute of 1829. Minor toning to spine, some edgewear, else near fine in marbled boards, backed with gilt-stamped blue morocco. Prospectus.....	More
Louis Herman Kinder and Fine Bookbinding in America: A Chapter in the History of the Roycroft Shop.
Wolfe, Richard J. & Paul McKenna
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1985. Octavo. 161pp. One of 325 copies. Illustrated with eighteen black & white photographs and drawings, fourteen full-color photographs of Kinder's bindings, and thirteen pages of black & white impressions of Kinder's bookbinding stamps. A thorough examination of one of America's finest binders and of.....	More
(Black Cat Press)
April Stories.
Bender, Karen Ann
Skokie, IL: Black Cat Press, 1977. (28)pp., frenchfold. One of 249 copies privately printed for the author. Illustrated with drawings in two colors by Elizabeth W. Houghlin. Fine in leather-backed decorated-paper boards. (2 5/8 by 2; 66x51mm).	More
A Testament of Freedom: Ideas Worth Fighting For.
Forgue, Norman W. [ed.]
Chicago: Black Cat Press, (1966). 43pp. A collection of quotes from the likes of Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin to Robert Browning. Bound in red paper wrappers with starry endpapers. Fine. (2 5/16 by 2 1/2; 58x64mm).	More
Nichols, Dale
Chicago: Black Cat Press, (1968). 58pp. One of 250 copies. Nichols' discussion of Caravaggio's own artistic light, accompanied by illustrations and initials in blue, black, and white. Book designed by Norman W. Forgue and printed by Charles Young at the Norman Press. Bound in blue leatherette with gilt stamping to.....	More
The Quick Brown Fox.
Templeton, Richard H.
Skokie: Black Cat Press, (1976). (46)pp. One of 249 copies. The last two pages are a typefounder's variation from an 1882 specimen book which is a delightful ABC. Slightest rubbing to exterior and expected wear along spine, else fine in brown leather with gilt title and decoration. (2 9/16 by.....	More
(Blau, Bela)
The Inaugural Address.
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
(Los Angeles: Blau, Bela, 1965). 47pp. One of 1,000 copies printed on pure vellum by Bela Blau. With a frontispiece portrait of Kennedy, and with each page handsomely printed within a gold-ruled frame. Very fine in gilt-stamped vellum, with a vellum-covered slipcase, which has a split starting to one corner.....	More
(Bleiler, Everett F.)
The Checklist of Fantastic Literature.
Bleiler, Everett F., ed.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1948. First edition. Inscribed by the editor to Stanley Urban. The first bibliography of science fiction, fantasy, and "weird books" in the English language, organized by both author and title. Bleiler went on to become a premier scholar of science fiction, receiving two Hugo Award nominations for.....	More
(Blish, James)
Doctor Mirabilis.
Blish, James
NY: Null-Q Press, 1968. First American edition. One of 250 copies printed on a mimeograph machine on pulp paper, and stapled. This copy is inscribed and signed by Blish. This novel was first published in the U.K. in 1964, and because no American imprint would agree to publish it in.....	More
(Bloom, Tom)
Love Between the Sexes.
Miller, Henry
NY: Greenwich Books, 1978. Oblong 16mo. (15)pp. One of 276 copies. Signed by the author on colophon. Signed by the illustrator thricely: on colophon, on title page, and on upper cover. A sharp and pessimistic critique of sex and love in the modern age. In black wrappers with an erotic.....	More
(Bodoni, Giambattista)
Pitture di Antonio Allegri detto Il Correggio esistenti in Parma nel Monistero di San Paolo.
Arteaga, Abate; Francesco Baroni; Giuseppe de Lama; and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi
Parma: Bodoni, 1800. Folio. Three parts in one. 8, xxvii; 14, xliii; 11, xxxiii pp., + (35)ff. Contains thirty-five stipple-engraved plates, all but one in sepia, showing frescoes by the famed Renaissance painter Correggio at the Monastero de San Paolo in Parma. The engravings were done by Francesco Rosaspina after.....	More