San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 2013. Series: Book Club of California Publication, No. 231. Tall 4to. 12 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches. Unpaginated. [66] pp. Title page with wood engraving vignette, 2-page introduction by Peter Koch "Richard Wagener's Mountains," 31 engravings of the Sierra Nevada mountains (2 folding); text clean, unmarked. Dark-blue cloth spine, green paper over boards, wood engraved vignette on front cover, printed paper spine label, original slip case with blue cloth top and bottom edges, covered with green paper boards and printed paper spine label on the slip case; ... View More...
Gig Harbor, WA: Nawakum Press; Petaluma, CA: Mixolydian Editions, 2014. Folio. 13 7/16 x 8 15/16 inches. Unpaginated. [40] pp. 16 two-color wood engravings printed by Richard Wagener on his Vandercook proof press with poetic text on facing pages; text clean, unmarked. Unique design binding by Coleen Curry in hand-dyed calf leather with flexible covers, the text sewn "montage sur onglets" (i.e. on guards), fabric onlays on the covers, embossed suede doublers, leather end bands, natural edges, blind-stamped spine label, housed in a blue-cloth covered clamshell box with leather spine label as on ... View More...
Vienna: Offizin am Wolfersberg, 2021. Oblong Miniature Book. 2 1/4 x 3 inches. Unpaginated. [34] pp. Frontispiece water-color illustration, text in English and German with title page printed in red and black inks, 3 water-color illustrations; text clean, unmarked. Limp vellum binding made without glue, made from a hand-written eighteenth-century vellum document with tongue and slot closures with slots on both sides of the covers, stitched spine with a small bead pull, all edges painted and gilt, housed in a paste-paper-covered slip case with the opening of the slip case covered with a small st... View More...
Woodside, CA: (The Heyeck Press), 1986. 4to. 10 3/4 x 8 1/8 inches. 65, [3] pp. Marbled paper sample frontispiece with tissue guard, 28 paper samples tipped-in (most with tissue guards, a few without which have some faint offsetting); text clean, unmarked. Quarter grey morocco, suminagashi marbled paper over boards, spine titled in gilt, slip case; binding square and tight. Laid in are 3 bits of correspondence from Robin Heyeck to Jim Lorson of Lorson's Books and Prints of Fullerton, CA. 1) is a post card, typed, and SIGNED by Robin Heyeck dated January 11, 1987 in which Heyeck discusses the p... View More...
Paris: (Maurice Darantiere), 1926. Small 4to. 8 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches. (64) pp. Half-title, 11 color pochoir head-pieces to 11 literary pieces with 8 smaller pochoir tail-pieces of flowers; text clean, unmarked. Plain stiff-wrappers with a fold-over jacket with a pochoir illustration of a bouquet of flowers, clear mylar jacket; binding square and tight, original jacket rubbed. Laid-in is Miss Tessie Jones' calling card with ms. note and dated Christmas 1926 and a 3-page ALS from Miss Jones on 2305 Park Avenue, Minneapolis letterhead. GIL123-009. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 100 numbered copies, ... View More...
[Los Angeles, CA]: (Muir and Agnes Dawson, 2003). Oblong image measures 1 13/16 x 2 9/16 inches, printed on a piece of paper that measures 5 x 5 inches. Print tipped-inside two pieces of stiff paper that measure 5 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches. Small window (2 3/8 x 3 1/4 inches) cut into the top piece of stiff paper allows the print to be seen whilst the two sheets are folded together. Slip of paper on verso of rear slip of stiff paper explains the occasion of this printing. KGK722–017. Fine. The printed slip mounted at the rear of this print reads: "'The Old Man and the Bag of Gold.' A print from the o... View More...
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2005. 4to. 10 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches. 74, [4] pp. Half-title, title page printed with red and black inks, title-page vignette, 31 examples of Bates' woodcut (1 printed with red ink, 1 folding in 4 colors); text clean, unmarked. Black cloth, printed paper front cover label with a Bates woodcut, red leather spine label titled in gilt, comes in the original slip case covered in red cloth; binding square and tight. Comes with 2 copies of the prospectus laid in. GIL123-008. Fine. LIMITED FIRST EDITION of 140 copies, this is copy 17, printed on Zerkall Mouldmade Paper, co... View More...
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