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Oregon Printer / Oregon Publication

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•  First edition: A librarian's eulogy for the gentleman printer who founded the Oregon Book Society, in a volume lovingly designed and printed by Benjamin B. Bullwinkle at his private press. This is copy no. 64 of 150.

•  Publisher's quarter red cloth and textured tan cloth–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title, signed binding by Kaufman of Silverton; inoriginal plain paper dust jacket stamped “This is a Book Jacket . . . It is not intended to be decorative . . .”  The whole clean and fresh save for two spots (a dot and a short “slash”) to front wrapper which, clearly, did its announced job! (29054)

Banned! in Mexico

•  Will Pascal ever be admitted to the libraries of devout Roman Catholics? The author of this extended essay, who styles himself "Un Leonés" and who signs himself with the initials "J.I.A.," cautions a supposed subscriber to a new edition of Pascal's letters that they are riddled with Jansenist heresy and that the pope still prohibits the devout from reading them.

•  Sutro 756 ("19p." being a typographical error for collation given here); not in Steele, Independent Mexico: A Collection of Mexican Pamphlets in the Bodleian Library. Folded and never sewn or bound; as issued.

A Great Exhibition — A GreatReference Work

•  The greatest Bible exhibition in America since the Brandeis show of 1968. An essential reference book.

•  Paperbound; new. (26195)

“In the Dew of Time”

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•  A type specimen thank-you to Paul Duensing for teaching “an old dog a new trick. At least P[aul] H D[uensing] managed to taught [sic] W[alter] S H[amady] to cast type in the barn! Here is the first attempt at solo experiment & this is Ashely-Crawford 24 point. MFG. Spring 1980.”

•  Fine copy.  (30791)

First Edition

•  A combined bibliography of Wilson's books, poems, essays, and other writings and of writings about Wilson's oeuvre. The first edition.

•  Publisher's cloth and dust jacket.

Manuscript Guide

•  Indexed catalogue of an important collection of original manuscripts, including major holdings of Cortés and Cortés-related items. Provides provenance data.

•  Publisher's cloth.

PRINCE OF FORGERS

•  First English language edition, translated from the French edition of 1870. Lucas, a self-educated provincial clerk, was so audacious in his astoundingly numerous forgeries that he attempted to sell letters (written in modern French) allegedly signed by such luminaries as Cleopatra and Alexander the Great.

•  Dust jacket and binding as new. (5948)

Early Jesuit Printing in thePacific Northwest

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•  First edition: Historical account of the St. Ignatius and Sacred Heart missions, and bibliography of the output of their presses. This is one of 804 copies designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy; the volume includes a tipped-in facsimile of an 1874 payment received slip from the St. Louis Type Foundry & Paper Warehouse. Laid in at the back are a souvenir program from the Portland Centennial “set in the actual type used on the first printing press in Portland,” and an example of item number 7 in this bibliography, an 1880 Jesuit catechism “in the Flat-Head or Kalispél Language” — folded and unsewn as issued, printed at St. Ignatius Print, Montana.

•  Publisher's red cloth, front cover with white-stamped printing press vignette, spine with gilt-stamped title; minimal wear to lower outer corners. Pages clean. A very nice copy.  (30599)

“Have You aTamerlaine in Your Attic?”

•  First edition, second printing (stated) of this classic compilation of engaging anecdotes about book hunting, selling, collecting, binding, etc., written by the Toronto-born and Chicago-based novelist, newspaperman, Baker Street Irregular, and famed bibliophile, Vincent Starrett. Articles are well illustrated.

A difficult book to find in its dust jacket.

•  Publisher's green cloth, in publisher's printed paper dust wrapper; jacket slightly darkened, taped to boards, chipped at back upper edge, and nicked at corners and spine extremities; very neatly applied pen and ink call number on spine of jacket. Front (inside) hinge tender; front pastedown with institutional bookplate. Offsetting to endpapers from cover tape, otherwise clean internally.  (24656)

Standard . . .    

•  Fully revised for the first time since its original publication in 1955, this work discusses the history of the book in western civilization and the role of the printer as an agent of cultural change. This revised edition includes over one hundred illustrations chosen from the rich collections of the British Library.

•  New. Paperback.

"What are the Correct Questions, I Kept Asking . . ."

•  Carol Z. Rothkopf selected the essays and edited them; Stephen Weissman provides the preface. Must reading for all bibliophiles. By one of the towering figures of the library/book world of the last 50 years.

•  New.

Printing in America BEFORE the Bay Psalm Book

•  Printing in North America began not in 1640 in Massachusetts, but in 1539, in Mexico, at a point in printing history when technique, typography, and aesthetic norms were widely first-rate. The European printers who came to the New World to produce the "incunables" and other "early printed" works of Mexico and Peru maintained the high standards of their homelands in a degree that astonishes those whose understanding of early American printing has been based purely on familiarity with the works produced a hundred and more years later in what is now the U.S.

Thirty-nine Books and Broadsides describes works that well represent the earliest Mexican printing, the rarities including 14 New World incunabula, 9 only known surviving copies (3 described for the first time), several second known and several more earliest known copies, and a number of works with woodcut illustrations — all from a major private collection. All entries are illustrated and provide exact collations; notably, the bibliography provides the very first accurate system of description for sixteenth-century New World broadsides.

•  Cloth bound and limited to 250 copies.

TEXAS-SIZE FRAUD!

•  Masterful account of the history of the plundering of Texas archives in the period 1950 to 1980 combined with the related story of the fabrication, beginning in the 1960s, of fake copies of important, early, printed Texas historical documents. Taylor names those implicated and tells of how the fakery was slowly discovered. A must read.


•  New; publisher's quarter cloth with paper sides with a reproduction of the Texas Declaration of Independence.

Reading Up onPrinting-Related Patents

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•  A lawyer's gathering of 25 important British and U.S. patents related to technological developments in printing, dating from 1876 through 1904. The patents here include “Engraving-Machine” and various specifications on the Pantograph (by John Hope, of the Hope & Sons textile printing company, whose “pantograph engraving machine . . . revolutionized the business of roll-engraving,” Bicknell, History of the State of Rhode Island, 141), “Phototypography” (by Hannibal Goodwin, famed for later inventing roll film), and “Calico-Printing Machine” (by James Blair, the Scottish inventor of the aforementioned roller). Also represented is John Jacobson, holder of several photographic patents, and British engraver Gabriel Raphael Hugon.

The patent record copies are accompanied by36 plates illustrating the various devices. Atyped index is stitched in at the front; the title given above comes from this volume's spine label.

A full list of contents is available upon enquiry.

Provenance:  Front and back pastedown each with rubber-stamp of A. Bell Malcolmson, attorney and counsellor at law; final page with pencilled annotation: “Bind for Mr. Malcolmson.” Malcolmson is recorded as having been involved, in 1908, with a case regarding patent infringement of a method for duplicating typewritten work.

•  Contemporary tan cloth, spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label; cloth spotted and moderately discolored, extremities and spine label lightly rubbed. Preliminary index pages, of onion skin, each with short tear from outer margin; one text leaf with small chip to upper margin; some leaves creased; occasional pencilled annotations and marks of emphasis.  (30399)

A Neat Nice Facsimile

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•  1954 facsimile of the 1890 first edition: One of the great culinary reference works.

Evidence of Readership: Intermittent errata markings and (useful) pencilled marginalia, often offering additional bibliographical references.

•  Publisher's dun cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title, in original dust wrapper; binding clean and fresh, wrapper with spine very slightly darkened, short tears at spine extremities and small nicks to upper front edge. Pencilled markings as above; pages otherwise clean. A worthy copy.  (29381)

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With a Photo ofthe Printers in Their Garret

•  Nice look at the Goudys' body of work at the Village Press, with an introduction by Will Ransom and a tipped-in photographic illustration of Frederic and Bertha Goudy at the press. Click the images for enlargements.

•  Sewn in publisher's printed paper wrappers; wrappers slightly age-toned, otherwise a clean, handsome copy.  (14424)

Copiously & Usefully Illustrated

•  Short bibliographical essays on such topics as Spanish-language printing in Italy in the 16th century, Spanish books on chess and on women in the 15th through the 17th centuries, and the Ibarra press. Click the images for enlargements.

This copy with an authorial inscription to a recipient whose name has been gently, but entirely, obliterated!

•  Good quality red cloth, original wrappers bound in; grey spine label. Very good copy.  (21546)

A Dutch Printer's ManualSet Forth & CONSIDERED

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•  Scholarly printing, with much apparatus, of the oldest known Dutch printer's manual — a manuscript dated 1801; with a good summary in English at the end, and a detailed index.

•  Publisher's cloth with dust-jacket; jacket with a bit of light smudging and a few interior leaves with line creasing, probably occurring in production and unaccompanied by soil. A very good copy.  (27614)

Revelation Scholarship

Willoughby, Harold Rideout; & Ernest Cadman Colwell, eds.

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•  First edition: Reproduction, with scholarly commentary and annotations, of a ca. 1600 translation of the Apocalypse of St. John into Greek, illustrated with two color frontispieces and 77 black and white plates. Vol. I is subtitled “A Greek corpus of Revelation iconography” and vol. II “History and text.”

•  Publisher's blue cloth, spines with gilt-stamped titles; lacking dust jackets and front free endpaper of vol. I with affixed publisher's blurb clipped from same; spines with inked call numbers. Neat institutional rubber-stamps on front pastedowns, first text pages, and lower and outer page edges of closed books (not title-pages). Pages clean. (20791)

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