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1941ref. 46199Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press 1941. 1st edition cf. Ward Ritchie Press p. 86. Limited to 250 cc. Green cloth binding with silver stamped lettering to spine & front board designed by Ward Ritchie. Spine sunned slight cock. Very Good. viii 34 2 pp. 8vo. The Ward Ritchie Press hardcover books
1988ref. 25327San Francisco California: Scenic Road Press 1988. Folding keepsake printed at the Scenic Road Press for members of the Roxburghe & Zamorano Clubs on the occasion of their Joint Meeting in San Francisco in September 1988; one of 150 printed. A letter of November 3 1879 from William Morris to Ruskin noticing the indignation in England at the proposed restoration of St. Marks in Venice. Approx. 6" x 9 3/4" size; printed black and white on quality paper stock; slight wear; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Scenic Road Press paperback books
1985ref. 24920New York N.Y.: The International Typeface Corporation 1985. 80 pages; black and white & color illustrated with a very useful index to typefaces employed in the journal. With editorials of typographic interest; a piece on the work of John Baskerville; on Robert Osborn; an article with color illustrations on hot air ballooning; new developments from ITC; the book art forms of Lois Polansky; advertisements in the trade more. Large format approx. 11" x 14 1/2" size printed and illustrated newsprint-weight paper covers. Covers darkened as are all pages within; the color printed sections still bright. Light wear in good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. The International Typeface Corporation paperback books
1882ref. 43563Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1882. Hardcover. Very good-/No dust jacket. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1882. Numerous b/w figures and maps. 525 pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark brown cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Spine slightly faded; top edges dust-soiled else exceptionally clean and tight. Very good-/No dust jacket. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1953ref. 74425New York NY: The Colton Press Inc. Very Good. 1953. Softcover. This magazine is soft-bound in pictorial covers. The cover wrappers show some light soiling to the covers as well as light wear to the edges and spine. There is some wear to the text-block but with the binding solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations and printing samples such as Metallic paper a Pop-Up and other samples. . The Colton Press, Inc. paperback books
1882ref. 25246Boston Massachusetts: D. Lothrop & Co. 1882. 12 pages; with black and white illustrations throughout. Advertising books for sale with descriptions prices binding variants if desired. Natural history books by Amanda B.Harris Tennyson poetry travel family-oriented & children's publications including magazines - Wide Awake Babyland Our Little Folks The Pansy; at back is "A Complete list of the Popular "Pansy" Books & lists of other other authors with series titles. Approx. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2" size; printed sewn paper covers with a small illustration. Light edge wear to the wraps little darkened tips chipped back cover with a small discoloration at top margin inner top corner chipped away; in very good condition. First Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. D. Lothrop & Co. paperback books
1980ref. 11593Millwood: Kraus International Publications 1980. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good . 4to. Four volume complete set. Introduction by Kenneth A Lohf. Superb reference set. All four books in uniform printed blue boards. All in clean very good plus to near fine condition. Heavy volumes. Kraus International Publications hardcover books
1926ref. BRE918-002San Francisco CA:: Pacific Coast Society of Printing House Craftsmen's Clubs 1926. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. CONFERENCE ISSUE published in conjunction with the Second Conference of the Pacific District International Association of Printing House Craftsmen held in San Francisco July 1926. 8vo. 9 x 6 inches. xii 20 20 16 15 1 blank pp. Portion of the text printed within typographic borders with colored decorative initials the first segment of the text includes report of the Annual Meeting in San Fransisco July 1926 and includes report from officers Haywood Hunt President Frank Rodell Secretary and International Representative of the Pacific District photographic portraits of the Officers of the Pacific Coast Society of Printing House Craftsmen's Clubs mounted on page iv follows are the 4 contributions of the San Francisco Los Angeles Portland and Seattle Clubs including mounted 1 full-page color illustration of San Francisco signed in the plate by the artist full-page color reproduction of an illustration by Charles Marion Russell "American First Printer" 1926 full-page photograph of the Portland Club at a dinner local advertising from each city; text unmarked occasional light foxing. Printed orange wrappers printed paper top cover label; binding square and tight light fading to extremities and spine yapp edges a bit bruised with some minor tears. SCARCE. Very Good. The preliminaries include minutes and notes on the conference the report of the district representative of the International Association Frank H. Rodell and comments by the president of the Pacific Coast Society Hawyood H. Hunt 1888-1974 followed by four individual issues that provide information on the activities of the local branches of the Society lists of officers and members and advertisements for regional companies in the printing and allied trades. The Los Angeles issue contains remarks by A. B. Bruce McAllister often referred to as "Los Angeles' first fine printer" with his partner Harold Young and the San Francisco issue contains interesting biographic remarks about John Henry Nash and Ed and Robert Grabhorn that I have not seen in any other sources. The piece about the Grabhorns by Carroll T. Harris note the Grabhorn's desire to print a "masterpiece" 4 years before their 1930s Leaves of Grass. Also includes Haywood Hunt's small article on "The Renaissance by the Golden State. Pacific Coast Society of Printing House Craftsmen's Clubs paperback books
1856ref. D12674London: Dean & Son 1856. Paperback. Fair. Original stitched illustrated wraps; 8vo 243x167mm; with 7 colored lithographs one double-page alternately printed on the recto or verso with some blank pages in between. Publisher's ads printed on rear cover. Covers lightly chipped along the edges with small stains at spine tips from old tape repairs. Some dusty finger-smudges but overall internally not so bad. Scarce. OCLC locates just 4 copies. All the trappings of highfalutin human Western weddings -- except that when fine monkeys get married they travel by pug-pulled carriage. Dean & Son paperback books
1819ref. SS321-001Various: Various 1918-1955. Hardcover. Very Good. For an itemized list of the items in this lot please inquire. Condition Very Good to Good. The Courier-Journal newspaper began publication in Louisville Kentucky in 1868 - the last run of the Courier-Journal newspaper was Sunday February 28 2021; the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company printing facilities closed for good on March 4th 2021. The material offered here is dated 1918 through circa 1955 and includes technical material used by apprentices and compositors working in the composition and press rooms of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Co. Included are 6 volumes of the Typographic Technical Series For Apprentices Part VI Nos. 32-40 out of series Chicago IL: Published by the Committee on Education United Typothetae of America 1918. All copies with the bookplate "Property of Courier-Journal Job Printing Co. For EMPLOYES' sic Use Only Return to Superintendent's Office" in a handsome Art Nouveau design on the front paste-down. This educational material demonstrates that the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company was unionized at least from the beginning of the twentieth-century and highlights the power and influence of typographers who were among the most educated economically mobile wage laborers in the United States and who were represented in every major urban center in the newspaper industry; the typographic unions won a 48-hour work week in 1897 and a standard wage scale throughout the newspaper industry; as an example of the power of the typographers unions in the 1930s the International Typographical Union introduced the 40-hour work week across the industry which spread to other unions and has sinse been codified across the labor sector by federal legislation; the typographers occupied an important if ambiguous place in the development of American labor history in as much as American labor was never successful in uniting all laborers together in one force but tended organize within industries. This grouping tends to focus on the tools of the trade including type specimens and catalogs of process inks issued in the 1920s and 1930s; Courier-Journal typographers left notes to themselves in these catalogs indicating material they felt needed representation in the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company's shops. Something of an outlier in this grouping is an accordion-fold volume of photographs of printing equipment available for use in the 1950s by the competing print shop The Standard Printing Company Incorporated of Louisville Kentucky. Most likely a salesman's dummy to show potential clients that The Standard Printing Company had the latest printing equipment and the most prestigious customers this undated circa 1955 without imprint accordion-fold photo-archive of printing equipment shows the most modern print shop of the 1950s. The earliest book printed by the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company was issued in 1884. An interesting article by Chris Kenning in the Louisville Courier Journal March 11 2021 gave some valuable insights into the history of the newspaper the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company and the challenges to the newspaper business and printing in general in the United States with the advent of desktop computers and the rise of the internet. While the Kenning article did not touch much on the time period 1918-1955 there are still interesting stories to tell about the printing industry in America the place of printing in the American labor movement and printing technology in the first half of the twentieth century that can be told using the materials offered here as visual aids. With the sale of the Courier-Journal to the Gannett Co. Inc in 1986 the road to the shut down of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company was opened. Now the Courier-Journal newspaper will be printed in Indianapolis IN. The current print circulation of the paper is now under 60000 while the Courier Journal's digital journalism garners 4.5 million monthly visitors to their website. Media consolidation has been made possible with the internet's ability to distribute news on a minute-by-minute basis making regional newspapers printed on paper a redundancy. The Cincinnati Enquirer the Lexington Herald-Leader the Bowling Green Daily News are all regional newspapers that will no longer be produced locally after having been produced in Louisville by the presses of the Courier-Journal. This consolidation of the newspaper industry means the loss of 102 Louisville jobs including printing press operators mailroom and transportation jobs that have been lost to the relocation of the press work to Indianapolis. Various hardcover books
1942ref. S9519Philadelphia:: Westbrook Publishing Co. 1942. 1942. 8vo. 159 pp. Color frontis. numerous figs. Black cloth gilt-stamped cover and spine titles. Very good. Westbrook Publishing Co., 1942. hardcover books
1926ref. 28634Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1926. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. Cloth 8vo. 86 pp. A brief history of early printing with numerous illustrations. From the library of Newton C. Brainard with his attractive bookplate afixed to the inside front pastedown plus a separate smaller bookplate from the library of Connecticut Printers Incorporated. A very good copy in simple navy cloth covers with printed paper label at spine. Harvard University Press unknown books
1927ref. 004758Detroit: Fisher Body Corporation Fleetwood Body Corporation General Motors 1927. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. An extraordinarily beautiful sales catalogue organized around vivid colors as the title suggests. Folio 33 by 25 cm. xxx 30 2 pp. plus wraps. The colors are "Bird of Paradise" "Midnight Blue" "Angel Fish" "Morpho Menelans" emerald curite "Forest Green" "Th Grand Canyon" "Rose Coral" "Italian Waters" "Orchid" "Autumn" and the cars are all Cadillacs. All the cars have in fact two colors both of which are suggested by the color designation and each color and car receives a luxuriant two-page spread with three color illustrations: one for the inspiration for the particular color one of the car interior and one for the outer body. Accompanying the illustrations are fluid intoxicating descriptions that conjure up the imagery the sensate experience the fantasy with only passing mentions of some of the design specifics. The cars include Cabriolets a Roadster a Phaeton Imperials a Brougham a Town Sedan and a Convertible Coupe. One can see designs that both reach back to the fine coaches of a quickly receding era and the more comfortable sleeker cars to come. The brochure was released in conjunction with a road show showcase of the vehicles staged at fine hotels in New York Chicago Los Angeles and San Francisco the Commodore the Drake the Biltmore and the Palace respectively. Wear to the edges of the dust jacket the decorative paper covering the bound card-stock wrap0 with a few scratch lines on front soiling on rear and a few minor closed tears along edges. A hole to the white front fold-in of this jacket. Other than some light pencilled lettering a child's hand clean and bright within. Fisher Body Corporation, Fleetwood Body Corporation, General Motors paperback books
1913ref. 25501London England: Hodder & Stoughton 1913. xxxv advertisement sections about evenly divided between front and back of the publication 24 page Hodder & Stoughton catalog pages 131 - 194 1- 237 of the Christmas Supplement with iii pages of useful index to the supplement at back. Some color printing including tipped-on plates and black and white illustrations throughout examples of various noted illustrators of the time publishers announcements and catalogs including a couple of tipped-in examples. This does not contain the additional 'Portfolio' section of this special issue. Approx. 9" x 13" size; cover illustrated with tipped-on portrait of J.M. Barrie printed on beige hessian-paper combined softcovers. Some wear soiling to binding spine wrinkly. Contents clean and in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Hodder & Stoughton paperback books
1494ref. EPL96Venice: Bevilacqua 1494. Paperback. Very Good. Printed gloss. Size: 300 x 210mm. Bevilacqua paperback books
1974ref. 26582Zurich Switzerland: L'Art Ancien S.A. 1974. Two sheets announcements of this Swiss booksellers' sales of the Ricketts collection of books and that of the Pissarro collection; with black and white graphic illustrations. Approx. 6" x 8" size printed on quality heavy paper stock; clean and in very good condition. Booksellers Catalog. Single Sheets. Very Good. L'Art Ancien S.A. paperback books
1914ref. 25502London England: Hodder & Stoughton 1914. xxii advertisement sections about evenly divided between front and back of the publication 21 page Hodder & Stoughton catalog including 4 pages on browned paper 'war publications' pages 61 - 112 1- 157 of the Christmas Supplement. Some color printing including tipped-on plates and with black and white illustrations throughout examples of various noted illustrators of the time publishers' announcements and catalogs. This does not contain the additional separate 'Portfolio' section of this special issue. Approx. 9" x 13" size; cover illustrated with tipped-on color plate "The Glory of Belgium" by Bruckman; printed on beige hessian-paper combined softcovers. Some wear soiling to binding old faint discoloration bottom edge cover illustration chipped worn. Contents clean and in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Hodder & Stoughton paperback books
1897ref. 25325Hamden Connecticut: Hamden Card Works 1897. Four black and white printed sides to one large sheet. From the text: ".Remember these are all hidden name cards. The name is printed in the center of the card and the floral ornament can be raised at one end to show the name when desired.We allow a cash commission of 25 per cent on cards sold at these prices or you can select any of the premiums on our List not shown." Each style of card offered is illustrated including showing decorative and fringed border-work and with descriptions of each style; 32 different cards are shown. Including a variety of fancy beveled edge cards gold & silver bevel and colored envelope-style die-cut silk fringed combination packages of cards photo cards and more. Approx. 9" 5/8 x 13 3/4" size; printed on thin newsprint paper stock. Old fold lines edge tips wear few tiny holes; old edge-repairs not in imagery or text; in good condition. First Edition. Not Bound. Good. Hamden Card Works paperback books
1895ref. 24890No Place Listed: Not Published 1895. A collotype of this statue of Sir Francis Drake in Great Britain attached at top back edge only to a cardstock window-matte. Collotype approx. 6 1/2" x 8 1/2" overall size with some rubbing of the paper in the right margin. Matte measures 10" x 12"; some edge-wear; in very good condition. . Photograph. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback books
1965ref. 22350Long Island New York: Not Published 1965. Including: Original pencil still-life outdoors artwork taped to a transparency in preparation for creation of the printing plate tape with some soil & spotting art very good; with the zinc "Revere Triplemetal Plus' printing plate; an impression of the completed plate; an impression of a partially-complete version of the art; artwork approx. 4" x 6" size the sheets with several inches of margins around; with a folding color brochure of an exhibition of Seidler's works numbered titled and with ownership details one color illustration on cover and with a biography of the artist on back light wear couple of small pieces of tape from mounting unobtrusive; not dated circa 1960s; everything in very good condition and illustrative of the process of original art to printed work by this professional. . Art. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books
ref. 022680Colorado Springs Colorado: Out West Printing & Stationery. Fine with no dust jacket. 26th. Trade Catalogue. Light and dark green with black imprint on front and back. Thick staple-bound trade catalogue in fine condition. All edges green. Only true fault we could find is a lack of laid in price list in pocket in back. A truly enjoyable and classy trade catalogue for office supplies circa 1910. Full of steel engravings and line drawings. Catalogue includes six pages of striking color graphics including some of the prettiest Library Paste Adhesive Containers money could buy in 1910. No copies of this catalogue found in OCLC as of April 2021.; Oblong Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 184 pp . Out West Printing & Stationery unknown books
ref. 296443Calcutta: DIPT printing. Pocket map. Lithograph. 33 1/2 x 23 inches. In very good condition. Lined. Beautiful large map of Calcutta with 3 inset boxes; Postal Zonal numbers 7 References to temples and telegraph offices and a list of 238 important places. DIPT printing unknown books
ref. 285083unbound. very good. Fine engraving on heavy paper. 8" x 6". In very good condition. unknown books
ref. 285086unbound. Fine engraving on heavy paper. 8" x 6". In very good condition. unknown books
1943ref. 2861131943. unbound. very good. Poster. Offset lithograph. 27.75" x 22". Shows a .5" tear at left bottom corner some light wear to edges. In very good condition. 2 fold as issued. Graphic WWII propaganda poster. unknown books
