Hardie, Martin

English Coloured Books

London, Fitzhouse Books, 1980. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Introduction by James Laver, being a reprint of the true first edition, published in 1906. A sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear beyond slight smudging to bottom page tips; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing light creasing and slight additional wear, protected by a plastic coat, not price-clipped. Bound handsomely in a tall quarto format, with xxiv, 340 pp. and 28 plates. Bound in green cloth with gilt spine titling. The to that point definitive work on hand-coloring of illustrated books. Large-print text, fine-looking appearance, easy to read and accessible.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Near Fine,

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Book number: 350688

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Heesen, Anke Te

The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2002. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the original hardcover format. Translated from the original Dutch by Ann M. Hentschel. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bound simply in brick-red cloth. 237 pp. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. From the publisher's blurb, "This is a book about a box that contained the world. The box was the Picture Academy for the Young, a popular encyclopedia in pictures invented by preacher-turned-publisher Johann Siegmund Stoy in eighteenth-century Germany. Children cut out the pictures from the Academy, glue them onto cards, and arrange those cards in ordered compartments, the whole world filed in a box of images.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 351780

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Reimer-epp, Heidi and Mary Reimer

Encyclopedia of Papermaking and Bookbinding

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Running Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall. The Definitive Guide To Making, Embellishing, And Repairing Paper, Books, And Scrapbooks. Bound handsomely in a square octavo format, bound in a mustard yellow cloth over boards, with sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. 160 pp. Complete with Table of contents, introduction, glossary, bibliography, index, credits. Color illustrations throughout, quite fine.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 353315

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Hemachandra, Ray

Lark Studio Series: Handmade Books

New York, Lark Crafts, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Square 32mo 4" - 5" tall. As New condition, a little tome to keep in your breast pocket, another fine contribution to the Lark Studio Series of arts and crafts, designed to give the reader an inside look at the new works of contemporary book designers, page by page, artist by artist. Quite fine full-color, full-page photographs. 202 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 353325

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Henderson, James D.

Lilliputian Newspapers

Worcester, Massachusetts, Achille J. St Onge, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A remarkably well-preserved copy in First Edition state, with 95 pp. and including a Full Index, in a short, duodecimo format, bound handsomely in green boards and with a cream cloth-backed spine with a leather label, gilt titling thereto, lightly abraded. Top edge gilt, fore- and bottom-edges rough cut. Sans slipcase, a few fore-edges untrimmed, one page suffering a short, closed tear. Foreword by R.W. G. Vail. Laid into rear panel are five facsimiles of these, in fact, Lilliputian newspapers, miniature newspaper issues issued in extreme miniature. Faint pinkie-finger sized print on front cover, else a remarkably attractive copy designed for William Dana Orcutt and with a fine duotone portrait of William Macy Stone at frontis, tissue-guarded.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 351142

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Heuterman, Thomas H.

Movable Type: Biography of Legh R. Freeman

Ames, Iowa, Iowa State University Press, 1979. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A particularly handsome exemplar of a sturdy copy of a fine social history of typography and an inspiring printing along the Frontier West. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Brown printed paper over boards, black design and lettering to cover and spine. Bright and shiny printed dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. viii [3], 1-172 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 349531

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Heuterman, Thomas H.

Movable Type: Biography of Legh R. Freeman

Ames, Iowa, Iowa State University Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being no additional signed copies available on-line. A particularly handsome exemplar of a sturdy copy of a fine social history of typography and an inspiring printing along the Frontier West. SIGNED by the author at half-title page, being warmly inscribed to a dear friend. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Brown printed paper over boards, black design and lettering to cover and spine. Bright and shiny printed dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. viii [3], 1-172 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 350570

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Hirth, Mary

Cyril Connolly's One Hundred Modern Books: From England, France and America 1880-1950

Austin, Texas, The Humanities Research Center / The University of Texas, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 12mo 7" - 7. Sterling condition hardcover copy bound in in oblong format in blue cloth with sharp and distinct lettering to spine, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Introduction to the catalog by Mary Hirth by Cyril Connolly. Fine catalog for an exhibition held from March to December of 1971. Many score black-and-white illustrations of finely illustrated and bound books from the "Modern" period (1880-1950). [3], 4-120 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 349184

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Hollander, Annette; Maureen Hollander

Bookcraft: How to Construct Note Pad Covers, Boxes, and Other Useful Items

New York, Van Nostrand, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Augmented by the fine black-and-white photographs of Charles S. Koch and Richard Suavez, and by the text of Maureen Hollander. Preface by Eva Orsini. Chapters devoted to basic materials and their use, flat decorative items, the single hing, the hard-spine double hinge, the soft-spine double-hinge, binding a book, shallow books. 101 pp. including a bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 353327

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Keywords: Anne Hollander Maureen Hollander Charles S. Koch RIchard Suavez

Hollander, Annette

Decorative Papers & Fabrics

New York, Van Nostrand, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. 119 pp. and with many, many score fine black-and-white, duotone, tritone and full-color reproductions of handmade books, quite fine, and printed on high-gloss paper.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 353335

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Holloway, Owen E.

French Rococo Book Illustration

London, Alec Tiranti, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A fine exemplar of a presentation copy of the true First Edition of an important book, the only SIGNED copy available currenly on-line, with unbruised tips, tight binding of blue cloth and gilt lettering to spine, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Sans intact dust jacket, but one flap and front panel laid in. Inscribed warmly to Mr. Clifford Maggs (yes, that Maggs!) over the latter's handsome bookplate, "with great respect for a name beloved of all book-lovers, and in especial, by Owen E. Holloway." Laid in also are two letters from Holloway to Maggs from London, 22 Sept. 1969 and 27 Sept. 1969 of exceeding charm and meaning. Special focus on the book illustrations of Gravelot (1699-1773), Eisen (1720-1778), Moreau (741-8114), Marillier (1740-1808), Choffard (1730-1809), and complete with a list of illustrations and index, bibliography. 283 illustrations, quite sumptuous, in black-and-white, mostly engravings. vi + 115 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Fine

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Book number: 349192

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Hoot, Christopher

A Century of Innovative Book Design: Influences of Art, Design Theory & Technology on Book Design

Akron, Ohio, University of Akron, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Bound unusually in tall, narrow quarto fashion, and replete with lovely black-and-white illustrations. 216 pp., measuring 10 1/2" x 5 1/2" in height and width, respectively. Comprises an exhibition catalog for a show that was held at the Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, focusing on mass-produced books. The design of the catalog itself is unusual and very modern. Preface, Acknowledgments, and then an Introduction by Steve Heller. One page is given to each of several score profoundly influential book designers.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 347532

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Hoot, Christopher

A Century of Innovative Book Design: Influences of Art, Design Theory & Technology on Book Design

Akron, Ohio, University of Akron, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Bound unusually in tall, narrow quarto fashion, and replete with lovely black-and-white illustrations. 216 pp., measuring 10 1/2" x 5 1/2" in height and width, respectively. Comprises an exhibition catalog for a show that was held at the Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, focusing on mass-produced books. The design of the catalog itself is unusual and very modern. Preface, Acknowledgments, and then an Introduction by Steve Heller. One page is given to each of several score profoundly influential book designers.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 348410

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Hoot, Christopher

A Century of Innovative Book Design: Influences of Art, Design Theory & Technology on Book Design

Akron, Ohio, University of Akron, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. As New condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Bound unusually in tall, narrow quarto fashion, and replete with lovely black-and-white illustrations. 216 pp., measuring 10 1/2" x 5 1/2" in height and width, respectively. Comprises an exhibition catalog for a show that was held at the Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, focusing on mass-produced books. The design of the catalog itself is unusual and very modern. Preface, Acknowledgments, and then an Introduction by Steve Heller. One page is given to each of several score profoundly influential book designers.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 351973

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Horodisch, Abraham

Picasso As a Book Artist

Cleveland, Ohio, World Publishing Company, 1962. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Brilliantly red cloth over boards binding, some rubbing to the gilt over black label to spine, with resulting schmutz to inside of dust jacket but that is otherwise in easily Very Good condition and now protected in a Gaylord sleeve. Stated First Edition, but in translation from the original German by I. Grafe. Illustrated dust jacket. [4], 5-155 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 345999

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Keywords: Abraham Horodisch|Pablo Picasso|books about books|book illustration