San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1994. Thiebaud, Wayne. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Folio size (13 3/4" by 10 1/4"), 356 pages plus 18 unnumbered pages for the prints (374 pages total). The text is Neo Didot, in Monotype composition by Mackenzie & Harris. The display type is Bodoni Bold, handset in..... More
[Verona]: A New Directions Book [Printed by the Officina Bodoni], (1966). Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 108 pp., signed by Ezra Pound, no. 78 of 200 copies. Guido Cavalcanti (ca. 1255 - 1300) is regarded as the first major poet of Italian literatue and was the best friend of Dante..... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor [Designed and Printed by David Holman at the Wind River Press], 1983. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 325 copies, folio size, 100 pp. A catalogue published in connection with an exhibition held at the Grolier Club to explore and celebrate the then-current state of fine press..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 176 deluxe hardcover copies, octavo size, 325 pp. Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), an artist as well as an author, is known as the developer of "Vorticism" (so named by Ezra Pound), a style of geometric abstraction. He would eventually..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1981. Limited Edition. No binding. One of 300 copies, elephant folio size, 30 leaves, with companion volume, in box, with plexiglass viewer. A superb marriage of poetry and typography, "Shaped Poetry" consists of a suite of thirty typographical printed sheets, with "the component letters and..... More
New York: Basic Books, Inc., (1979). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing of this Basic Books publication, large octavo size, 501 pp. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's (1712-1778) philosophy heavily influenced his contemporaries and helped to usher in the Age of Enlightenment, which subsequently influenced "the development of modern political, economic, and educational thought"..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed at the Allen Press], 1946. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, octavo size, [68] pp. "The publication of the most famous of all documents relating to the Donner Party," published at the centennial of the author's original accounting of..... More