Concerning Goudy Old Style.
Bangor, ME: The Eastern Corporation, [1949]. Paper sample with sample type set in Goudy Old Style. 8-1/2 x 11 inches. Card stock. Very Good. Scarce. From the collection of San Franciscan Albert Sperisen. More
Bangor, ME: The Eastern Corporation, [1949]. Paper sample with sample type set in Goudy Old Style. 8-1/2 x 11 inches. Card stock. Very Good. Scarce. From the collection of San Franciscan Albert Sperisen. More
San Francisco, CA: John Henry Nash, 1929. Broadside. Folio. French-Folded Sheet [4 pp.], Decorative Borders. Very Good. Scarce. More
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, [ca. 1942]. Broadside. Folio (39 cm.). French-Fold Sheet, Decorative Header, Text Within Ruled Black Lines [4 pp.] Very Good. Scarce. Memories of Japanese-Americans and culture in San Francisco before the Internment camps. More
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1931. Folded Sheet. Folio (48 cm.). Printed covers with black and white photograph, signed in ink. [4 pp.] Good with tears. Scarce. More
San Francisco, CA: John Henry Nash, 1929. Exhibition Broadside. Folio. Folded Sheet [4 pp.], Letterpress on Deckled Watermarked ("Hearst") Laid Paper, Decorative Borders. Good with a few marginal tears, else Very Good+. Scarce. More
Hamburg: Gustav Petermann, 1929. 8vo. Wraps. [4] pages. Lovely little work with woodcuts by Josua L. Gampp, using types of Rudolf Koch. Lacking dust wrapper. More
[Boston, MA: Dromenon Press, 1988?]. Broadside. 23 x 29 cm. Letterpress on J. Whatman Wove Paper, With Deckled Edges, Very Good. More
La Crosse, Wisconsin: Sumac Press, 1977. 12mo. Stapled Wraps [16 pp.]. Decorative Border. Black & Ochre Ink. Very Good. Scarce First Edition. More
Vineburg, CA: Engdahl Typography, May 10, 1992. ALS from Lee Engdahl to bookseller Jane J. Steele, responding to her inquiry. On printed letterhead, with handwritten address corrections. 8-5/8 x 8-13/16 inches. Catalog: Current Catalogue. 1992-93. Saddle-stitched. 8vo. 5-1/2 x 8-7/16 inches. 16 pp. Both Fine. From the collection of Frederick..... More
[Los Angeles: Ernest Dawson, ca. 1947?]. Broadside. 36" x 24" Letterpress On Glassine, Text within Decorative Border. Good with tears. Very Scarce. Note penciled on verso: "See Dawson Cat 454 # 528. This was never published." Dawson is likely a reference to Ernest Dawson, who started Dawson's Book Shop in..... More
San Francisco, CA: John Henry Nash, 1929. Folio. French-fold sheets with Illustrated Header, Gilt Decorative Border, Red Lettered Title, Black Ink. Within Marbled Boards. [4 pp.] Near Fine. More
London: The Eugrammia Press, 1965. Prospectus for facsimile edition of Pierre Simon Fournier's Modéles des Caracteres de l'Imprimerie (1742). 4to. One 22 x 9 inch sheet of heavy paper folded once to make a 4-pp. booklet. Pages 2 through 4 reproduce type samples, with one page folding out to an..... More
London: The Eugrammia Press, [1962]. Prospectuses for facsimile editions of Albrecht Dürer's Apocalypse (1498) and L'Apocalypse Figureé (1555) by Jean Duvet. Prospectus for Dürer's Apocalypse: 4to. One 16-1/2 x 12 inch sheet of laid paper folded once to make a 4-pp. booklet. Printed in sepia and black inks. Page 1..... More
Wein: Herbert Reichner Verlag, 1935. 8vo. Wraps. 13 loose pages. Elegy on Rilke's death by a friend. More
San Rafael, CA: Feathered Serpent Press, 1992. Broadside. 21.5 x 28 cm. Letterpress on Wove with Deckled Edge. Very Good. Illustrated. Signed dedications by Larson & Acker ("for Louis"). This Keepsake was printed for Jennifer Larson by Susan Acker at the Feathered Serpent Press and presented to members of the..... More
Bremen: H. A. B. Finke, 19th cent. 10 pp. With stamp of Finke. 295 x 225 mm. More
Budapest: Verlag der Gesellschaft Ungarischer Bibliophilen, 1932. 8vo. Wraps. 15 loose pages. Offprint supplement to the Philobiblion. Work is about the first Printer in Hungary. More
Paris.: L. Carteret, 1924. One sheet printed in 2 colors. Unfolded. 39 x 57cm. More
New York : Four Penny Press, 1977. 12mo. Stapled Wraps. Letterpress On Wove Paper, Black and Green Ink. [8 pp.] Illustrated. Very Good. Scarce First Edition. More
Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1971. 8vo. 46 pp. Stapled Wraps. VG. Illustrated. The publication of this guide was prompted by two exhibitions held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the spring of 1971. From the Collection of the Book Designer Philip Grushkin (1921 - 1998)... More
Berkeley, Calif.: Tamalpais Press, 1959. Extract from a letter, dated at Passy, August 19, 1784, reprinted from the Smyth Edition of Franklin's works in 99 copies for their friends of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco by Stan Speck and Roger Levenson at the Tamalpais Press for pleasure. 8vo. [4]..... More
San Francisco, Calif.: Book Club of California/ Matrix Press. Prospectus. Matrix Press, printer. [This is an advertisement for the book, not the book itself]. More
New York: Frederic W. Goudy Society, 1968. 8vo. pamphlet & envelope, Stapled Wraps. [8] pp. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches. Photo of Goudy reproduced on first page. Keepsake produced by Lanston Monotype for the dinner held by the Frederic W. Goudy Society in New York City on March 7, 1968. Very..... More
New York: Continental Typefounders Association, 1927. Folded Broadside. 11-1/2 x 16 inches sheet folded once to make 4-pp. booklet. First page has sample sheet of Goudy-designed typeface Deepdene. Inner pages printed as a broadside. Decorative capital printed in red. Letterpress on deckled wove. Very Good. Scarce. From the collection of..... More