Sumac Press (25 results)

cloth, dust jacket. Sumac Press (illustrator). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 123, (3) pages. Limited to 500 copies. Autobiographical notes by a pharmacist and lovingly printed by Emerson Wulling. Jacket spine is rubbed with some age darkening.

stiff paper wrappers. Sumac Press (illustrator). square small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (18) pages. Limited to 180 copies. Schanilec 101.

cloth, dust jacket. Sumac Press (illustrator). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 123, (3) pages. Limited to 500 copies. Autobiographical notes by a pharmacist and lovingly printed by Emerson Wulling.

paper wrapper. Sumac Press (illustrator). 8vo. paper wrapper. unpaginated. Limited to an edition of 90. Schanilec 64. The four press marks used by Wulling and their histories.

stiff paper wrappers. Sumac Press (illustrator). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 35+(1) pages. Limited to an edition of 300 copies bound thusly. This book of twenty-one poems is number 8 in the William N. Judson Memorial Series of Contemporary American Poets. Printed by Emerson Wulling at the Sumac Press. Errata slip tipped-in on copyright page. Clipping from bookseller's catalogue entry for this book laid-in. Spine sunned.

paper wrappers. Sumac Press (illustrator). 12mo. paper wrappers. (12) pages. Limited to 190 copies. Four page note followed by bibliography.

stiff paper wrappers. Sumac Press (illustrator). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (20) pages. Limited to 270 copies printed by Emerson Wulling. Introduction followed by bibliographical descriptions of 28 items printed by Phelps, many at his Voyageur Press.

stiff paper wrappers. Sumac Press (illustrator). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (18) pages. Limited to 300 copies. Schanilec 164. Well printed and with some illustrations in red. A near fine copy.

paper wrappers. Sumac Press (illustrator). 8vo. paper wrappers. (16) pages. With a Prefatory Note by John T. Winterich. Limited to 300 copies. A fine copy. First separate printing of this article.

stiff paper wrappers. Sumac Press (illustrator). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (28) pages. Limited to 150 copies. Schanilec 48. Nicely designed commonplace book printed in black and brown. A variant paper binding which is partially detached and chipped.

paper wrappers. Sumac Press (illustrator). 12mo. paper wrappers. (12) pages. Limited to 200 copies. A continuation of Wulling's bibliography of his press. Four page note followed by bibliography.

paper wrappers. Sumac Press (illustrator). 12mo. paper wrappers. (16) pages. Limited to 125 copies. A continuation of Wulling's bibliography of his press. Three page note followed by bibliography.

paper wrappers. Sumac Press (illustrator). 12mo. paper wrappers. (16) pages. Limited to 170 copies. A continuation of Wulling's bibliography of his press. Four page note followed by bibliography.

stiff paper wrappers. Sumac Press (illustrator). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 13, (3) pages. Limited to 300 copies. The history of the Liberty Bell in York, Pennsylvania, that rang out the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the York citizens. Corners bumped.

Stiff paper wrapper. Sumac Press (illustrator). 12mo. Stiff paper wrapper. unpaginated. A Retrospect. Limited to an edition of 200. Set in linotype Granjon and foundry Blado. Colophon: "The binding is an experiment in getting a shelfback for a thin book." Wulling's remembrances of a 60-year relationship with Dr. Chandler. Title page has a few faint scattered spots.

stiff paper wrappers. Sumac Press (illustrator). large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (28) pages. Limited to 255 copies. A fine copy. A brief discussion of several late 19th-century and several contemporary (c1980) private presses, with eight reproductions of devices, press titles, etc., followed by a list, by state and then by press name, of 93 private presses, and a bibliography.

cloth. Sumac Press (illustrator). 12mo. cloth. (2), 15+(1) pages. Limited to an edition of 100. Wulling 29. Wulling's views on the importance and flexibility of a comp's style choices. Loosely inserted is a one page A.L.s. from Wulling to a fellow hand-printer. Front cover spotted. Also present is a small broadside printed on both sides by Wulling commenting on Will Ransom and private press printing.

one leaf, folded. Sumac Press (illustrator). 8vo. one leaf, folded. unpaginated. Limited to an edition of 100. A fine copy. An excerpt of an essay on the beginnings of trade composition. Written by a founding member of the International Trade Composition Association. Printed by Wulling for the 100th birthday of Dr. Robert L. Leslie.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Wrappers with affixed cream printed DW, 12mo., (24) pages, illustrated and with an original leaf from the 1924 edition. One of 396 copies printed by Wulling at his Sumac Press. Rear cover toned, else a clean, near fine copy.

stiff paper wrappers. Sumac Press (illustrator). large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (28) pages. Limited to 255 copies. A brief discussion of several late 19th-century and several contemporary (c1980) private presses, with eight reproductions of devices, press titles, etc., followed by a list, by state and then by press name, of 93 private presses, and a bibliography. With T.L.s. from Wulling loosely inserted.

loose leaves, folded. Sumac Press (illustrator). 12mo. loose leaves, folded. 15 pages. Limited to an edition of 100. Schanilec 29. Wulling's views on the importance and flexibility of a comp's style choices.

Portrait frontispiece of Emerson G. Wulling. Printed as a keepsake for an exhibition presented in honour of the printer at the University of Minnesota and the Ampersand Club's Annual Dinner, May 1991. 12mo., [12 x 19 cms], bound by the Campbell-Logan Bindery in original sewn green and red patterned paper wrappers. Housed in the original printer's mailing envelope, slightly toned along one edge. A very good copy. Accompanied by 2 single leaf examples [each approx. 18 x 13 cms] from the Sumac Press, both printed in 1992: 'Comping About Words' and a specimen of Grayda type.

Illustrated with engravings and facsimiles together with one tipped-in leaf from the original 1824 edition. One of 396 copies. Designed, set and printed by Emerson G. Wulling. 12mo., original beige printed cloth, black lettering to spine. Very slightly marking to spine, spine ends a little bumped, otherwise a very good copy.

Comprising 4 volumes of Wulling's 'A Comp's Eye View' series: 1. 'A Comp's Eye View of Type', 1947. One of 150 copies. 16mo., original olive green printed paper wrappers. With 15 different type specimens. 2. 'A Comp's Eye View of Footnotes', 1953. One of 450 copies (350 for 'Typophiles'). Handset in ATF Bulmer. 16mo., original pale yellow printed paper wrappers. Housed in the original printer's mailing envelope. 3. 'A Comp's Eye View of Paper', 1971. One of about 144 copies. Title page illustration from Jost Amman's wood cut of 1568. Set in ATF Caslon and Paul Hayden Duensing's Quadrata Two. Tall 16mo., in the original Nancy M. Storm red paste-paper wrappers. 4. 'A Comp's Eye View of Cat.s', 1976. One of 260 copies. Set in Bulmer and Legend types and printed on Warren's Olde Style paper. 16mo., original pink printed paper wrappers. Wulling's amusing guide to book cataloguing.

Sumac Press (illustrator). 8vo. cloth, gilt on front board and spine. 61 pages. Poems by Dan Gerber, Jim Harrison, George Quasha, J.D. Reed, Charles Simic. First edition limited to 126 copies, of which this is one of 26 lettered copies signed by all five of the contributors. A fine copy. Each author contributed a varying number of poems (Jim Harrison only contributed one, yet Charles Simic contributed over twn). cloth, gilt on front board and spine.