Annual Bookmaking (32 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Bound in blue and white buckram with black and silver decoration. The binding is clean with moderate sunning to the spine. Internally clean and fresh with no sign of use. A heavy book so extra post may be neded.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued). 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover 4to in gray and blue cloth w/black titles. Fine and unmarked; no DJ (as issued?). Well-illustrated throughout. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. None Issued. 1st Edition. This is a Near Fine copy of the first edition. Very light soiling to both the front and rear covers-but extremely light. Illustrated with photographs and color plates of a variety of books published during the period. No internal writing but for a former owner's name neatly written on the front endpaper.…

Condition: Good. Good condition. Spine darkened, ends worn. (book design, book industries and trade).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4to in cream and blue cloth, title in black, decorations in silver. Binding tight and square, hinges firm, spine a bit darkened, modest rubbing at the corners and spine ends, text blockk unmarked.

Pamphlet. Condition: Good Plus. Very Good copy except for browning of covers of this 28 page pamphlet. #.

Pamphlet. Condition: Good Plus. Very Good copy except for browning of covers of this 28 page pamphlet. #.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good Plus. Very Good copy except for browning of covers of this 28 page pamphlet. #.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dustjacket. First Edition. Large hardcover book - size approx. 7-3/4" x 11". Beige and blue buckram cloth boards with silver decoration, black and silver lettering on cover; black lettering on spine. Moderate soiling to cloth. Tiny spot of wear to one corner tip. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are mostly clean (a few have narrow stain at bottom margin), with clean endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated with black and white photographs, many examples of typesetting, title page design, illustrations, etc. that go into bookmaking. Unpaginated. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcover, oblong, 6 by 9 inches, 64 pages, illustrated. 1953 Exhibition AIGA. A I G A. Covers have only slight wear, pages are clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A RARE TITLE COVERING THE ART OF BOOK PRODUCTION AND THE WORKS OF MANY SMALLER PUBLISHERS OF THE ERA SELECTIONS OF 50 BEST BOOKS FOR EACH YEAR BOUND IN BLUE WITH GRAY BOARDS COMPLETE BLACK LETTERING AND SILVER DESIGN EXHIBTION INVITION FROM PUBLISHERS LAID IN A LOVELY COPY. PHOTOS AND VARIOUS ARTISTS (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oversized shipping likely required. Book has very light shelving wear at its edges and corners. The fabric at the back cover's bottom corners has a whisper of fraying. Light toning and sun fade can be found on the spine, along with a coffee-colored stain that is about an inch in diameter. It continues to the back cover, about an inch long. Aside from these items this is a sharp good copy that remains well-bound with bright and crisp pages.…

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good-. Small quarto, quarter light blue cloth with buckram covered boards, decorations in silver and black lettering, roughly 300 pp., b/w photos and drawings with some addtional color, ink-stamps Preface by Jon T. Winterich. Articles are "A Cumulative Lst ofthe Examples of Bookmaking Selected an SHown by the Amercan Institute of Graphic Arts," "Tha Makng of Scholarly Books, Samuel T. Farquhar, "Book-Making in the South," "The Riverside Press," "Ten Years of Book Making Progress at H. Wolff," Paul Standard, "The Walpole Printing Offce, The Peter Pauper Press, Nt to Menton the Blue-Behinded Ape," Puppetry Imprints & Ther Making," Paul McPharlin, "Hawthorn House.A Record of the Fist Five Years." George Grady Press, New York," "The Ward Ritchie Press," "A Decade of Effort in Behalf of Easy Reading," Taylor & Taylor," "The Press of the Woolly Whale: Concerning a Private Press Founded in New York in 1928," Melbert B. Cary, Jr., "Ten Examples of Some Recent Books Producred by the Haddon Craftsmen," "The Limited Editions Club: A Survey of Eight Years," Carl Purington Rollns, Printer to Yale University, "Ten Years' Book Making and a Bibliography, The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., Chicago," "University of Oklahma Press,".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. New York: The Colophon, 1938. First Edition. 11 x 7 ½ in. Unpaginated [320] pages. Preface by John T. Winterich. Profusely illustrated with examples of title pages, typefaces, and book-production and illustration. Rockwell Kent illustrated title page. Coverage includes many trade and small press publishers such as Rydal Press, Alfred A. Knopf, Derrydale Press, Ward Ritchie Press, Yale University Press, Lakeside Press, University of Oklahoma Press, many others, and an extensive list year-by-year of the Best Fifty Books. Beige & light blue cloth stamped in black and silver, designed by W. A. Dwiggins. Cloth in very good plus condition, spine moderately faded, no owner's name.; Numerous illustrations; 11 x 7 1/2 inches; 320 pages.…

Pamphlet. Condition: Fair. Unpaginated wraps (approx 13 pages), creases at corners & tiny tears at edges of covers, water stain at top corner margin of interior pages- reads fine- no sticking or odor, sound binding, no markings, the story of San Francisco's Taylor & Taylor, with b/w plates of the presses & library, & some of the more famous titles.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Tall octavo. [64]pp. Illustrated. Wrappers scuffed with tiny nicks at the spine ends, bright and very good or better.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued. cloth on boards, large format, minor shelfwear.

Hard cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Spine is sunned and shaken, but secure. Cover is worn, especially along edges. Inside is sunned, but clean and unmarked.

First edition. 8vo. 8 pp. Illustrated. (41195).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. a 16 page pamphlet, a separate issue of an article in the Colophon with illustrations, fine condition in paper covers, paper title label on the front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. VG+, unpaginated (approx 300 pps) HARDCOVER, cover and book beautifully designed. Cover comprised of turqoise and cream linen cloth stitched together with silver embossed design and black font, spine black font, age toned and top/bottom spine a bit worn from improper use ( but not torn or raveled).Book is now under mylar protective wraps. Sewn binding and contents are tight but cover loose from handling. Interior pages clean, unmarked, tight. Nevertheless a beautiful book in very good plus condition, without marks, tears. Photo illustrated section on the making of a book and numerous examples from major publishing houses of fonts, title pages; section on the 50 BOOKS OF THE YEAR - 1923-1938, A CUMULATIVE LIST OF THE EXAMPLES OF BOOKMAKING SELECTED AND SHOWN BY THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF GRAPHIC ARTS, listing each book by year, author, title, press, including example from Rydal, Derrydale, Hawthorn House, Ward Ritchie, Press of the Woolly Whale, Overbrook, LakesideMajor, et al. Major portion of book printed on STRATHMORE IVORY WHITE 80 lb. stock . Also included is section on Puppetry Imprints & Their Making. Illustrations in b/w and color and throughout color may be used in specifically selected fonts. A joy to view with an understanding of an age when the details of quality were more appreciated and put to use.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Quarter blue and cream cloth with gilt decoration to front. With plates and illustrations. Printed on various paper, Foreword by J T Winterich. Title page designed by Rockwell Kent, bookplates.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo (imperial). Half blue cloth, half cream cloth, silver and black lettering and decoration to boards. [320 pp]. Fully illustrated. Spine sunned, cloth lightly soiled, rubbing to extremities, bumping to corners. Front hinge starting. Inner hinge cracked at last page. Publisher's prospectus pamphlet laid in.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. B&W Photographs & drawings; facsimile title pages; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Small 4to HC in two tone blue and cream cloth with decorative title design in silver and black by Dwiggins. Soundly bound with clean bright text. Light toning and mild shelf soiling to cream cloth boards and mild fading to the blue 1/4 cloth spine. Trace edge toning to some of the printed pages, variously printed by different publishers on different paper stocks. Illustrated throughout with photos of bindings and production, facsimiles of title pages and illustrations. Sound decent copy. VG- . Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.…

Condition: Good. 4to. Hard Cover, Quarter bound Grey blue Cloth on Tan boards, Silver embossed Art Deco Illustration. with Black Titling [ca. 300 pp.] First edition, B&W Plates, Color Illustrations. Some Age Toning, Very Good Condition.

4to. Original two tone cloth, embossed, lightly edgeworn. Collection of unpaginated sample-summaries of various American fine presses including Woolly Whale, Ward Ritchie, Limited Edition Club etc. A very good copy. First edition.

Condition: Good. 8vo. [ca 166 pp.]. Very Good. Hard Cover. Minor losses to Dust Jacket. Protected by translucent covers. Deckled pages. Pages fine. Letterpress printing. Black and white plates throughout. Contents:Binding design / by W.A. Dwiggins --Title-page design / by Rockwell Kent --Foreword / by J.T. Winterich --American Institute of Graphic Arts --University of California Press --Alfred A. Knopf --University of North Carolina Press --Rydal Press --Simon & Schuster --Riverside Press --Wolff Book Manufacturing Co. --Walpole Printing Office --Derrydale Press --Paul McPharlin --Hawthorn House --George Grady Press --Ward Ritchie Press --Yale University Press --Lanston Monotype Machine Co. --Taylor & Taylor --Press of the Woolly Whale --Haddon Craftsmen --Limited Editions Club --Overbrook Press --Lakeside Press --Mergenthaler Linotype Co. --University of Oklahoma Press --Pynson Printers. …

Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue and tan cloth with silver decoration. (Circa 250-300pp). Numerous illustrations. Very good. Tight, clean copy of the famed compilation -- a wealth of informative and entertaining articles on different presses, book design, etc., with contributors such as John T. Winterich.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 50. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1933 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 50.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Published by the Colophon, New York 1938. Part bound in pale blue cloth and hessian cloth with black and silver decoration to front. Spine sunned. Edges scuffed. Discolouring to the hessian section from handling, front and back. Upper face of page block dust-marked. Pages slightly toned, consistent with age and quality of paper used. Contents bright with only light wear. The book contains 25 articles by American presses or similar e.g. Rydal; Knopf; Riverside;Yale; Limited Editions; Overbrook; Lakeside. Well illustrated throughout. More details available on request. A heavy book, therefore extra postage may be required for delivery outside the U.K. (Ub5).…