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$17.50NY: Groiler Club (2003). First edition. 68 pp. 4to. Fine in stapled wrappers. Essay by Schlesinger, “Becoming Perishable” with a year-by-year checklist of the press.$27.50San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1960. First edition. 9 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 300 copies. Illustrated with wood engravings by Henry Shir and Ilya Schor. Exhibition announcement postcard laid in.
$150.00Los Angeles: Plantin Press, 1980. First edition. xxi + 194 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Very near fine publisher’s slipcase. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by Lillian Marks.
$35.00West Glover: Printed editions [1979]. First edition. 19 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Lists of works for sale and brief biographies of Cage, Corner, Hendricks, Higgins, Knowles, Mac Low, and Pauline Oliveros.$15.00Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press (1982). First trade paperback printing. 95 pp. Band of sunning along lower edge of front cover, else near fine in printed wrappers. Foreword by Michael Jaffé, introduction by Brooke Crutchley.$15.00New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press (1972). First edition. 125 pp w/notes. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.$25.00NY: Scribners [c 1940s]. First edition. [88 pp]. Very good plus in stapled wrappers. Pencil check-marks next to many of the 139 priced items in this offering, from Henry Adams to Yeats.$25.00Tucson: Truepenny Books, 1997. First edition. 93 pp. Light sunning to spine, else near fine in wrappers with printed cover label.$25.00San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1981. First edition. 64 pp. Fine in full cloth with gilt decoration to front panel. Lacks unprinted white dust jacket. One of 650 copies.$45.00Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1991. First edition. xxxv + 427 pp w/index. Fine in full cloth and near fine unprinted white paper dust jacket.$40.00Cambridge & London: MIT Press (2013). First edition. 287 pp. Corners lightly bumped, else near fine in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Text by Phil Taylor with an essay by Mark Rawlinson. Fully-illustrated.$25.00Revere: Woolmer/Brotherson, 1986. First edition. xix + 70 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly rubbed. Dated (7/22/86) and INSCRIBED by Woolmer to a fellow bookseller.$20.00Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1960. First trade paperback printing. 113 pp w/index of titles. Very good plus in printed wrappers. One of 250 copies.$75.00(np): Documentext/McPherson & Company, 1983. First trade paperback printing. 89 pp w/notes & index. Two small patches of surface abrasion to front panel, else fine in glossy printed wrappers.
$20.00Iowa City: Friends of The University of Iowa Libraries, 1982. April. 66 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Features Michael Peich’s essay on the Toothpaste Press and a checklist for the first twelve years of press production, beginning in 1972.
$45.00New Castle & Aldershot: Oak Knoll Press/Lund Humphries, 2006. First edition. Small 4to. xxi + 218 pp w/bibliography & index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Forewords by Alston W. Purvis and Alan Fletcher. Over 100 reproductions. Includes Tschichold’s own texts on his Penguin redesigns.$35.00Brighton: Tony Applenton, 1972. First printing of this edition (originally published in 1928). 4to. vii + 107 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear along top edges. One of 500 numbered copies.$100.00Austin: The Press at the Humanities Research Center, 1988. First edition. 27 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with printed cover label. One of 100 copies handset and bound by Carol Kent. Collects work by John Dreyfus, Talbot Baines Reed, Harry Klemens Ulrich, Graf von Kessler, William Morris, Robert Seymour Bridges, George Bernard Shaw, Thomas Edward Shaw, and Stanley Arthur Morison.$40.00Linn: Fax Collector’s Editions (1977). First edition. 4to. 134 pp. Corners lightly tapped, else very near fine in like dust jacket that has a split to the rear flap fold.$17.50[Burlington]: Bailey/Howe Library at the University of Vermont, 1983. First edition. 39 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Exhibition catalogue featuring 86 described items.$450.00Andoversford: Whittington Press (1990). First edition. Folio. 125 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Fine publisher’s slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 430 (of 460) numbered copies.$15.00Burton: Asphodel Book Shop, 1985. First edition. 10 pp. Fine in stapled printed wrappers. One hundred items by and about Jonathan Williams, issued by James Lowell as a tribute. His 100th catalogue. Introduction by Dean Keller of Kent State University.
$35.00London: Coracle Press, 1979. First edition. Single stiff tri-fold sheet (8 1/2 x 4 inches, closed). Lightly toned along one edge, else near fine. Printed in two colors with three photographs. Produced on the occasion of an exhibition of books and photographs by Williams at Coracle.
$950.00Candia: John LeBow, 1997. First edition, deluxe issue, for friends. A 42 pp pamphlet (fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket), a twenty page hardcover photo album (fine in full cloth, no dust jacket, as issued), and an envelope of ephemera (all elements fine). The lot is housed in the fine publisher’s clamshell box with printed cover and spine labels. Laid into the pamphlet is a photographic print “for contributors and friends.” One of 15 (of 65) numbered copies for friends of the press, not offered for sale. This copy is SIGNED by Wilson, Di Prima, McClure, Baraka, Ashbery, Levertov, Broughton, Wakoski, Wieners, Clements, and Sanders, and is additionally INSCRIBED by Wilson, “For Burton Weiss, with thanks for all / the years of his friendship and support / across decades and continents, and with / love, / from / Bob W.”
$75.00NY: Groiler Club, 1997. First edition. Small 4to. xviii + 138 pp w/indexes. Fine in full cloth with printed spine label. Contributions by Harry Duncan, Dana Gioia, and K.K. Merker. One of 50 (of 100) hardcover copies. Illustrated. In addition to the bibliographical descriptions, Merker critiques the 106 primary books of the press to date.$100.00Chicago: Society of Typographic Arts (1987). First edition. 4to. 254 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Carl Zahn. Selected articles and lectures on calligraphy and contemporary developments in type design, with illustrations and bibliographical notes, and a complete list of his typefaces.