Joyce Lancaster Wilson Editor (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Other authors: Phil Abel, Ken Auchincloss, Duncan Avery, Michael Barnes, Geoffrey Beare, William W. Whitney, Kenneth Auchincloss, Wilfried Onzea, Daniel Waters, Adela Spindler Roatcap, Joanne Sonnichsen. Illustrated. With articles by John Randle, Barry Moser, Carol Grossman and many others. Includes: Whittington Press (John O'Connor original linocut signed in pencil; Peter Allen stencilled colour prints); One Tuscany Alley Press (linoleum block illustrations by Adrian Wilson, typejuggler logo by Nuiko Haramaki); Leonard Baskin (poster of King Solomon from the Pennyroyal Caxton Press edition of the Holy Bible); Indian Hill Press (Daniel Waters, cut in linoleum for the patterned paper on the cover); The Book Club of California (Seventy Years, a checklist of the book club's publications); Barbarian Press (Gerard Brender à Brandis wood engraving); Center for the Book Millis College ("A Salon at Larkmead" from the diaries of Martha Hitchcock special collection at the college; Photograph of Porter Garnett, Lillie Hitchcock Coit, Allen Knight and Mrs. Knight by Allen Knight); The Weather Bird Press ("Another Sunset" poem by Mark Nicoll-Johnson). 10" - 13". John O'Connor, John Randle, Barry Moser, Carol Grossman, Adrian Wilson, Joyce Lancaster Wilson, Nuiko Haramaki (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Original half morocco, gilt lettered spine, illustrated with (letterpress) plates in colour and b/w, printed in black and brown, printed in 325 numbered copies (this is number 74), beige cloth slipcase, folio. With loosely inserted letterpress memorial leaf, printed after the death of the printer Adrian Wilson.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Limited Edition. No. 261 of 325 copies. Original publisher's beige-gray cloth-covered boards backed with brown leather. Gilt lettering on spine. Two laid-in ephemera included. 11" x 16 1/4." 158 pages, complete. Tipped-in facsimiles of some of Adrian Wilson's work and small sienna and white illustrations included, complete. Index in back. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for slight rippling to page edges. Covers are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Corners are sharp and unbumped. An As New copy. Beautiful autobiographical bibliography of the works of Adrian Wilson (1923-1988), an American book designer. His wife, Joyce Lancaster Wilson, edited this book. Adrian was originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan, but he and Joyce later settled in San Francisco, California. Adrian's works are listed in chronological order by year. Some of the entries come with decorative illustrations. Others come with tipped-in facsimiles. Many of the entries document Adrian's thought and work processes behind that particular work. Laid in are two related ephemera, a printed postcard invitation addressed to Sacramento bookseller Richard Press (1932-2020) for the publication of this book and an unused fine-press holiday card with a tipped-in black-and-white illustration and printed signatures of "Adrian, Joyce & Melissa." Back colophon: "This book has been designed and printed by Adrian Wilson assisted by Margery Cantor, Zahid Sardar, and Jim Wehlage at the Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco, California. The paper was specially handmade by Barcham Green & Company, Maidstone, Kent, England. The text types were composed by Mackenzie Harris Corporation in monotype Centaur designed by Bruce Rogers and Arrighi by Frederick Warde. The display lines were handset in the Palatino Italic of Hermann Zapf, who handlettered the author's name for the title page. The line cuts were made by Bauer Engraving Company. The photographers were laser-scanned and printed in duo-blacks by Mastercraft Press, Inc. The binding was executed by The Schuberth Bookbindery. The edition is limited to three hundred and twenty-five copies, of which this is number 261.".…

1st Edition. First edition, one of 325 numbered copies. Frontispiece portrait after a photograph by Ansel Adams. Illustrations and tipped-in specimen leaves. Publisher's keepsake laid in. Folio. One of 325 numbered copies, designed and printed by Wilson and associates at the Press in Tuscany Alley, on Barcham Green handmade paper. Printing and publishing bibliography at its very best. Publisher's quarter morocco and cloth Frontispiece portrait after a photograph by Ansel Adams. Illustrations and tipped-in specimen leaves. Publisher's keepsake laid in. Folio First edition, one of 325 numbered copies. …