Bringhurst Robert Peter Rutledge Koch (12 results)

Paperback. 6 x 9 inches. Paperback. 138 pages. First edition. This companion piece to The Fragments of Parmenides reveals the "blood, sweat and tears" the creators put into their original book. Carving the Elements tells the detailed story of the making of The Fragments of Parmenides, a grandiose book project meticulously crafted by: master letterpress printer Peter Koch; poet, translator and typographer Robert Bringhurst; punchcutter, type designer, typefounder and poet Dan Carr; master stonecutter and type designer Christopher Stinehour; master bookbinder Daniel Kelm; bookbinder, casemaker and printer Peggy Gotthold; and visual artist and master wood engraver Richard Wagener. The text of the book, actually written by the book artists themselves, takes the reader through their journey in the making of The Fragmentswith essays including the following: "Philosophy & Printing in the Real West: or Herakleitos in Montana and Fly Fishing on Telegraph Avenue" by Peter Koch; "Deep in the Stone: A Conversation about Hand-Crafted Letters" by Christopher Stinehour; "Parmenides, Craft and Being: Designing and Cutting an Archaic Greek Typeface" by Dan Carr; "Finding the Form of an Ancient Text" by Robert Bringhurst; "A Dream of Pre-Socratic Color: From Joshua Tree to Baudelaire" by Richard Wagener; "How Is It Possible for the "One" to Have So Many Parts?" by Daniel E. Kelm; "Binding Parmenides" by Peggy Gotthold; and "Raven's Wine Cup" by Robert Bringhurst. Well-illustrated and written by true bibliophiles, "This book is . a guided tour of . the philosophy of artisanship, in some of its many forms." Distributed for Editions Koch.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oversized hardcover without dust jacket. Bound in off white paper over boards with a pictorial paste down on the front cover and gray cloth with gold lettering over the spine. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are crisp, clean, and bright. Images are printed in full color and B&W. Stanford University Libraries. Title page dated 2015. 411 pages. A very good copy. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be necessary for priority or international shipping. We ship everyday from a real neighborhood bookstore. This description is written by an actual person, who is holding the book in front of them to make sure it?s properly described. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Fine. 411 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Covers mildly soiled.

portfolio. Book Club of California (illustrator). 4to. portfolio. unpaginated. Limited to 1000 copies. A fine copy. The club's 2015 keepsake. Table of contents, foreword by Bringhurst.

Hardcover. 64p., hand-set type on grey paperstock (the paper looks pedestrian but is archival-grade, like Diogenes), 8x7 inch pedestrian grey boards lettered in two colors and provided with an inset black cloth backstrip that is a sub-enclosure to the text leaves. Nice copy, one of only 500 exemplars, square and sound, clean and unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No jacket. Thirteen sheets in a paper portfolio. Limited edition of 1,000 copies printed in Berkeley by Peter Koch Printers using a 1965 Heidelberg cylinder press.

Hardcover. Condition: VHG+. Black cloth spine, yellowish boards with inset illustration on front board. xix, 411 pages : profuse color illustrations. Contents: Preface / Michael A. Keller -- Foreword / Roberto G. Trujillo -- Introduction : from a printer's point of view / Peter Rutledge Koch -- The books of Joseph Goldyne / Robert Bringhurst -- Artists' books : some remarks on a legacy of problems / Joseph Goldyne -- Colleagues and working relationships / Joseph Goldyne -- Proofing with Joseph Goldyne at Katherine Lincoln Press / Kay Bradner -- Matching the artist's hand : a Boston-West Coast partnership / Robert Townsend -- Collaboration : images and calligraphy / Thomas Ingmire -- Notes to the catalogue raisonné -- Presses and printers -- Binderies and binders -- Catalogue raisonné -- Limited-edition books -- Unique books -- Limited-edition portfolios -- Unique portfolios -- Unique sheets of calligraphy with prints -- Alphabetical index -- Chronological index -- Printmaking terms -- Illustrations -- Author biographies -- Selected public collections -- Index -- Colophon. "This catalogue is produced in conjunction with the exhibition, Joseph Goldyne: Books, Prints & Proofs presented at the Stanford University Libraries, September 14, 2015-January 31, 2016 . Copies of Joseph Goldyne's limited-edition artists' books and portfolios, as well as a selection of preparatory drawings and prints related to his artists' books, portfolios, and calligraphy sheets are in the Joseph R. Goldyne Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Pictorial hardcover. Exhibition publication. Slightest shelfwear to boards else a square tight unmarked copy. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. Dust Jacket may NOT BE INCLUDED.CDs may be missing. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Bringhurst, Robert, Editor. Koch, Peter Rutledge, Editor. The California Tradition in Type Design. [San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2015]. Looseleaf portfolio containing 13 bifolia and a cover sheet, all printed on thick paper. A few smudges to exterior, otherwise fine. $35.

softcover. Condition: Very good. First edition. Thin, tall octavo (over size) Slight wear to edges of covers. Thirteen unbound printed sheets folded just once, enclosed in a printed paper portfolio. Type specimens, statements and short biographies of six California designers of typefaces. 1,000 copy unnumbered limited edition printed by Peter Koch, Printers. The latter twelve of the sheets look at digital typefaces created in California, while the first is a survey of California types by Bringhurts, and includes a laid in example of 1835 typography by Agustin Zamorano. Uncommon.