Roderick Stinehour (46 results)

Paper Covered Booklet. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. 200 copies printed. Near Fine, internally clean, solid 20 page sewn paper-covered booklet with minor fading to the spine area. Printed as a keepsake for Roderick Stinehour's 1969 lecture in the Heritage of the Graphic Arts series. One page introduction by Stinehour added to this reprint of Nash's 1967 talk. …

Original Stiff Wraps. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Small 4to. Intro by Roderick Stinehour, followed by illustrations and discussion of 25 outstanding books printed by Stinehour. Very clean with no marks or inscriptions. PayPal accepted.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 25 pp., illustrated.

Condition: Fine. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed brown wraps. Unpaginated. [v] pages & [25] pages with commentary on 25 books, illustrated with black-and-white & color facsimiles. Near fine. "Published to celebrate the first quarter-century of The Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont 1950-1975".

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Complete in "Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society" Vol. 94, part 1 (April 1984), pp. 45-58. Complete issue, original wrapper. Also contains articles on Increase Mather, and book culture in post-Revolutionary Virginia.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Quarter black cloth gilt with decorated paper-covered boards, 8vo., (ii), 128 pages. Contribuors include Jan van Krimpen and Dorothy King with an early assessment of The Gehenna Press with an inserted wood engraving printed from the block. Attractive bookplate, else a near fine copy in archival mylar.…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. 32 pp., 8vo, illustrated, stapled self wrapper. This issue largely devoted to commentary and observations from Stinehour, Nash and Atchley in England, France and Italy, respectively. Fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition, Limited. First edition, hardcover, marked as no. 475/1200, book has a slight lean to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and faint sunning to the spine and head. Overall, a solid, tight, Very Good+ copy in a like dust jacket, which has bumps with slight creasing to the spine ends and corners, very light sunning to the spine, and some rubbing with mild edge wear to the covers. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Quarter black cloth gilt with decorated paper-covered boards, DW, 8vo., (ii), 128 pages. Contributors include Jan van Krimpen and Dorothy King with an early assessment of The Gehenna Press with an inserted wood engraving printed from the block. A fine copy in the fine original acetate DW.…

First edition As new and bright slate gray boards with silver titles in like illustrated dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. A heavenly assembly digging deep and with splendor to the fine history of Stinehour and with elegant illustrations throughout. Gift quality.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Sewn, stiff printed wrappers, 8vo., (v), 25 pages, illustrated. Twenty-five books selected by Stinehour to show the nature and output of the press in its first 25 years. Printed, without attribution, at The Stinehour Press. A fine copy in archival mylar.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. pbk 52pp an unread copy excellent clean tight unmarked as new.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Fourth year of four issues of the quarterly journal. Decorative covers with Brown cloth binding. Ex-college lib, but only two discreet stickers inside front cover. No other marks. Slight discoloration along the edges of the cover.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, sewn wraps, postcard lecture invitation from The Stinehour Press is laid-in. The book has bumps with creasing to the cover at the spine ends and corners, rubbing to the covers with some wear along the edges, and some small smudges to the back cover. Overall, this is a bright, crisp, Very Good copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Third year of four issues of the quarterly journal. Decorative covers with Black cloth binding. Ex-college lib, but only two discreet stickers inside front cover. No other marks. Slight discoloration along the edges of the cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Limited edition. 300p, many ills., some with flat color. No. 431 of 1200 copies. Checklist of 1006 publications printed by the Press from 1950 through 1979, with an index of titles. With an appendix of 64 serial publications, everything from the Lancaster County Fair 4-H Premium List to the Grolier Club Gazette. In his text Stinehour recalls the origins and development of the Press and lists the many designers and others who worked with him.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo. Original papwr wrappers, sewn. Printed at the Curwen Press.

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 106 pages. No dust jacket. Patterned paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and illustrations are lightly tanned throughout. Sticker to front pastedown. Pencil inscriptions to endpapers. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Spine is in good condition. Stickers to both boards.…

Condition: VG+ wraps. paperback. 8vo. unpp. Edition of 150.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, Limited. First edition, sewn wraps, limited to 600 copies, the book has bumps with creasing to the spine ends and corners, mild sunning to the spine, and some shelf wear to the edges. Overall, a solid, clean, Very Good copy.

cord-tied paper wrappers. large 8vo. cord-tied paper wrappers. (4) pages printed French fold. Commemorating the achievements of Roderick Stinehour, accompanied by a biographical sketch. Lists other award winners of this distinguished award. A fine copy. Stinehour, Roderick (illustrator).

First Edition. First Edition. octavo, decorated boards and cloth in original glassine, in plain board box with metal clamps. (iv), 112pp. Stinehour Press, Illustrated. Very fine copy. Articles by Van Krimpen, Sinclair Hitchings, Marcus McCorison, Carey S. Bliss, James Eckman and others on Chical Type Foundry Specimen Books, the Gehenna Press, Type and Typography, etc. Book and glassine without flaw, box very fine. octavo, decorated boards and cloth in original glassine, in plain board box with metal clamps.…

First Edition. First Edition. octavo, decorated boards and cloth in original glassine, in plain board box with metal clamps. (iv), 108pp. Stinehour Press, Illustrated. Book ad glassine without flaw, book very fine. octavo, decorated boards and cloth in original glassine, in plain board box with metal clamps.…

Condition: Very Good. 10 pages, 5 plates. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Category: Book Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hardcover. Condition: Used. An exhaustive list of 1,320 books which influenced and informed their owner, Roderick "Rocky" Stinehour, and were available for the enjoyment and edification of the staff ofhis legendary scholarly pressin Lunenburg, Vermont. No mere list of books, it's a checklist of graphic- and typographic foundations and holds clues to forgotten booksonewon't see on Instagram. But let us tell you something about Rocky and how a conversation we had with him changed the course of our working lives. We were complaining (No surprise.) about the fact that people weren't reading the books we were printing. He said that when he got started as a printer he didn't want to make merely beautiful books. He wanted to make useful books. Up until that moment it had never occurred to us that books were-first and foremost-meant to be useful. Duh. This book is useful. 907.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hardcover. Published to announce a new printing company, Meriden-Stinehour Incorporated, created by the merger of two small, well-known, and well established printing firms. Meriden Gravure Company was founded in 1888 and The Stinehour Press began in 1950. This book commemorates this new entity with a history of the two companies and many pages of halftone photographs of the company, its people, and their printing presses and equipment. Bound in orange cloth with gilt titling to spine. Inserted is a card sending the book as a gift. In fine condition. Measures 9.25 x 10.5 inches. 30 pages. BUS/040220.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition, Limited 1200 copies. Lunenburg, Vermont: Meriden-Stinehour Press, 1988. BRAND NEW in a BRAND NEW dust jacket. Perfect condition [just removed from the publisher's shrinkwrap and original cardboard shipping box so we could write this description]. NOT a remainder. Sharp corners. Fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked - obviously never read. 1988. Limited to 1200 numbered copies, this being #440. An elegantly produced volume, with 70 illustrations -- most in color. Printed letterpress on Mohawk Superfine paper. Described here are over 1000 imprints from 1950 through 1979. Historical introduction by Roderick Stinehour. Bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in bright silver on the spine and front cover. Complete with pristine dust jacket. From the Book Source Monthly review: "There may never have been an imprint bibliography so rich in books the average bookman would like to own; indeed, would like to read. A list of the publishers represented here would be a nearly complete list of the best scholarly and bookish institutions of this country. American Antiquarian Society, the Grolier Club, The Limited Editions Club, the Typophiles, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the New York Public Library." From the dust jacket, quoting The Book Collector (Vol. 27, No. 4, 1976): "When the intellectual history of this period is examined it will be found that The Stinehour Press played a leading role in printing a record of our culture. It has been a leading force as a scholarly printer, and it has played an equally major role in its contribution to typographic excellence.". First Edition, Limited 1200 copies. Hardcover. New/New. xxi, 301pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A sort of introduction to the work of the Meriden-Stinehour printing company. Heavily illustrated with b&w photo-reproductions. Unpaginated, roughly 60 pp. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.