15640. Almanach. Morgengabe. Eine Auslese aus den Werken und der Zeitschrift der Deutschen Buch-Gemeinschaft. Berlin: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, , no date, 157pp., very good small leather volume with gold titles, well-preserved, $45
.

28845. Armitage, Merle. A Rendezvous with the Book. Brooklyn, New York: George McKibbin & Son, 1949, 30pp., very good yellow cloth with red and black decorations and titles, $15
McKibbin Monograph Series, no. 3. With 11 photographs illustrating book design.

18586. Beerbohm, Max. A Selection from Around Theatres. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1960, 346pp., small PAPERBACK, very good, $10
Typography by Edward Gorey, cover design by Diana Klemin. Anchor Books, A226.

22689. Bible. The Psalms of David. With decorations by Valenti Angelo. Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, no date, probably around 1948, 1948, 132pp., very good tan half-cloth with decorated blue boards, in original slipcase, An edition of 1850 copies.. $14
From King James version. A different version was first published by Peter Pauper Press in 1936 at 282pp. Tthe date of this later and different printing is not noted in the book. Probably in the late 1940s.

28860. Bierut, Michael, ed.. Speaking volumes : the world of the book : rethinking design 3. Fifty books and fifty covers : the 1995 book show of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Cohoes, N.Y. : Mohawk Paper Mills, 1996, 96pp., large PAPERBACK, very good, illustrated throughout, tiny dent on front cover, $15
Particularly noteworthy for creative photos of books, using different angles, focus schemes, and juxtaposition of books, documents, jackets. Articles about books in the digital age, book collectors.

28859. Bierut, Michael, ed.. Speaking volumes : the world of the book : rethinking design 3. Fifty books and fifty covers : the 1995 book show of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Cohoes, N.Y. : Mohawk Paper Mills, 1996, 96pp., large PAPERBACK, very good, illustrated throughout, top corner front and rear lightly bumped, previous owner's name, $12
Particularly noteworthy for creative photos of books, using different angles, focus schemes, and juxtaposition of books, documents, jackets. Articles about books in the digital age, book collectors.

15568. Bö (C. Böckli). So Simmer. 84 Zeichnungen und Verse von Bö aus dem Nebelspalter. Rorschach: Nebelspalter-Verlag, 1955, unpaginated, approx. 200pp., very good brown half-cloth, illustrated paper-covered boards, $40
A book of humorous cartoons, as in the New Yorker, with accompanying short poems (in German).

2285. Boeckler, Albert, 1892-1957. Deutsche Buchmalerei vorgotischer Zeit. Konigstein im Taunus: K. R. Langewiesche, 1953, 39.- 48. Tausend, 79 pp., 27 cm., PAPERBACK with separate very good dust-jacket, very good stiff blue paper wraps, $10
6pp. text followed by full-page book illustrations. Die Blauen Bücher.

8940. Boehn, Max von. Der Tanz. Berlin: Volksverband der Bucherfreunde, Wegweiser-Verlag, 1925, 268pp. plates. 22 cm., extravagant green leather binding showing a dancing couple in silhouette, gold light-steps radiating from two inlaid footlights. Stamped in back Marianne Jelinek, nicely INSCRIBED by Oskar Malinhof, in German, as a sign of what I strive for in the binding "Zum Zeichen dessen, was ich im Einband anstrebe!", dated Christmas 1926. $350
This appears to be a private artistic binding. Also in original black slipcase.

8941. Boehn, Max von. Die Mode. Menschen und Moden im siebzehnten Jahrhundert, nach Bildern und Stichen der Zeit ausgewählt und geschildert. München: F. Bruckmann, 1913, 189pp., extravagant private green and brown leather binding, stamped on back cover: Marianne Jelinek, with two silhouetted figures on front cover, leather at one edge of spine is worn, $200
.

28962. Braine, John. Life at the top. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962, stated First Printing, 308pp., fair dust-jacket, front flap detached, small chip in edge of rear flap, very good black half-cloth, $7.5
Jacket by George Salter. .

27845. Stern, Hans / Stern, Hans. Buchgestaltung für die Literatur der Arbeiterklasse 1918-1933. Leipzig : Deutsche Bücherei, 1982, 52 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm., large sewn PAPERBACK, good but with Library of Congress duplicate stamp on cover and endpaper, cover lightly worn around edges, old bookseller label on rear cover, $15
.

28130. Carter, David E.. Fun With Fonts. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications / Hearts Books, 1997, 176pp., large sewn PAPERBACK, very good, $12
. ISBN 0823065863

28307. Casselle, Pierre. La Bibliothèque administrative de la ville de Paris. Paris : Agence culturelle de Paris, 1993, 105pp., square sewn PAPERBACK, very good, cover slightly warped, light wear, $15
Ouvrage concu par Pierre Casselle, avec la collaboration de Pierre-Alain Tilliette et de Noëlle Balley. Illustrated history of the library with many photos of books and documents. ISBN 2906869465

12457. Catherinot, Nicolas, 1628-1688. An integral facsimile of Annales typographiques de Bourges. With an introductory note by Douglas C. McMurtrie (1888-1944). Chicago: Priv. print., 1942, 7pp. , facsim.: 8pp. . 24 cm, very good stapled paper wraps, very slight wear, $17
.

21000. De Grazia, Sebastian. Of time, work, and leisure. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1964, Anchor Books ed, viii, 548pp. 18 cm, small PAPERBACK, very good, $10
cover design by Paul Rand. A380. First published in 1962. A Twentieth Century Fund Study.

11895. Engelhardt, Otto Heinrich. Die Illustrationen der Terenzhandschriften. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Buchschmucks. [Saalfeld: S., A. Nieses nachf., A. Auerbach, 1905, 2pp. l., 97, [2]pp. 23 cm., very good printed sewn paper wraps, chipped at spine extremities, $55
Lebenslauf. Inaug.-diss. -- Jena. "Uebersicht über die Werke, in denen Terenzillustrationen publiciert sind".

28863. Faassen, Egbert van. Drukwerk voor PTT : typografie en vormgeving voor een staatsbedrijf in de jaren twintig en dertig. ’s-Gravenhage : SDU-Uitgeverij in samenwerking met Rijksmuseum Meermanno-Westreenianum/Museum van het Boek, 1988, 48pp., sewn PAPERBACK, very good, illustrated throughout, but title written neatly in red ink on spine, previous owner's name, $25
Typography and print design, 1930s. Black and white and color illustrations, text in Dutch. ISBN 9012058015

2441. Federn, Karl. Der Chevalier von Gramont. Hamiltons Memoiren und die Geschichte. München: Georg Müller, 1911, 2 volumes, illus. 21 cm. 340, 287pp., very good 3/4 leather with green flower decorated boards, pretty copies on good paper, only slight wear to fresh smooth leather spines, $90
Number 707 of an edition of 1500, titles and binding by Karl Walser.

20905. Franklin, Benjamin. Benjamin Franklin, printer. Excerpts from the Autobiography. Boston: Society of Printers, 38pp., very good small light blue cloth, edition of 1000 copies. $12
.

11051. Fustel de Coulanges, Numa Denis. The ancient city. A study on the religion, laws and institutions of Greece and Rome. Garden: City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1956, 396pp. 18 cm., PAPERBACK, good but worn, cover and typography by Edward Gorey, $7.5
Doubleday anchor book, A76.

17529. Gajani, Carlo, 1929- / Crispolti, Enrico (preface). gaiani. Macerata: Foglio Editrice, 1966, Prima Edizione, unpaginated (29), very good dust-jacket, very good printed paper-covered boards, black ink underlining of four words in biography chronology, No. 570 of an edition of 600. $175
14 black and white full page illustrations, one in blue on stiff black paper.

3851. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Faust, a tragedy. Translated by Alice Raphael (b. 1887). New York, Rinehart [1955], 1955, 1st edition in this form, xl, 210 p. 19 cm., small sewn PAPERBACK, very good, slightly faded, review slip tipped in, $15
Typography and cover design by Stefan Salter. Introduction and notes by Jacques Barzun.

30363. Gravenhorst, Traud, 1892-1968. Heimweh des Herzens : Erzählung. Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1937, 19.-22. Auflage, 170pp., good dust-jacket with a few minor chips, darkened along top front edge, very good small white woven cloth, $15
Schutzumschlagzeichnung von Hans Meid. S. Fischer-Bücherei. First published by S. Fischer in 1935. Hans Meid dust-jacket drawing shows nineteenth-century fountain in a town square with a well-dressed couple promenading. Story: the young wife of a Prussian embassy official around 1801 travels to Rome. Gravenhorst was born in Breslau, moved with her husband to Berlin in 1921. Published several novels linking Schlesien to the rest of the world: "a bridge" between Silesia and Italy in this novel, according to a biographer. Of perhaps greater historical interest could be her novella of York between Russia and Napoleon in Reise nach Sagan (1932).

9445. Hagelstange, Rudolf, 1912-1984. Ein beispielhaftes Lebenswerk: Laudatio auf Giovanni Mardersteig. Mainz: Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 1968, 15pp. . 21 cm., very good thin stapled white paper wraps, with green dust-jacket fading around the edges, $21
Kleiner Druck der Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, Mainz. Nr. 83. Praise for the German-born printer and typographer.

6037. Hauptmann, Gerhart, 1862-1946. Die Hochzeit auf Buchenhorst. Berlin: S. Fischer, 1931, 1.-6. Auflage, 117pp., very good small Pappband with minor defects including dents to rear foredge and slight chip to spine, $20
Very pretty cover and endpapers illustrated by Hans Meid.

9575. Hersey, John, 1914-1993. A single pebble. New York: Knopf, 1956, stated First Edition, 181pp., good dust-jacket worn around edges with a few minor tears, very good tan cloth, previous owner's name, $12
jacket and binding designed by Georg Salter. .

13065. Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843. Hyperion, oder, Der Eremit in Griechenland. Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, 180pp., very good black cloth with decorated spine, some wear to edges and corners, rear hinge quite wobbly, previous owner's name and note: Alexander Altmann 1925 von meinem Schüler Hardie Aschkenasi.. $35
Einband nach Entwurf von Hugo Steiner-Prag.

3573. Hoover, Kathleen O'Donnell. Makers of opera. Introduction by Carleton Sprague Smith. New York: Beechhurst Press. A Bittner Art Book, 1965, new edition, xiii, 209pp. 50 plates (incl. ports., facsims.) 26 cm., dust-jacket worn around edges with a few chips and tears, very good large black cloth, book design by Herbert Bittner, $35
.

7060. Horodisch, Abraham. Alfred Kubin als Buchillustrator. New York: Verlag der Aldus-Buch-Compagnie, 1949, 99 full page illustrations with text of, 51pp., very good tan cloth with gold lettering, light wear, $45
27.5cm. Exilarchiv 2514..

28838. Hutchinson, James. Letters. New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1983, 255pp., small PAPERBACK, good used copy but with starting fold mark on spine, usable reading copy, clean, previous owner's name, remainder stripe on bottom edge, $4
. ISBN 0442231326

25858. International Paper Company. Pocket pal : a graphic arts production handbook. New York : International Paper Co., 1989, 14th edition, 220pp., small PAPERBACK, very good, previous owner's name, $7.5
Standard guidebook since 1934. Typography, printing, binding, platemaking, copy editing, etc.

8925. Jacobi, Franz. Die deutsche Buchmalerei in ihren stilistischen Entwicklungsphasen. München: F. Bruckmann a.g, 1923, vii, 136pp. illus., VI col. pl. 19 cm., very good tan 1/4 cloth, but torn at top of spine and reglued. Ex-library, with call number and other markings, text clean. Illustrated throughout, previous owner's bookplate: Robert B. Lawrence, $15
.

11674. Katz, Milton, 1907-1995. The things that are Caesar's. New York: Knopf, 1966, stated First Edition, 227, x pp. 22 cm., dust-jacket with minor wear, very good dark blue cloth, $25
typography and jacket by George Salter. .

28133. Kidd, Chip. Chip Kidd. Book one : work, 1986-2006. New York : Rizzoli, 2005, later printing, 400pp., large sewn PAPERBACK, very good, $25
Comments and illustrations of his book-jackets. ISBN 0847827852

22229. Lawrence, D. H., 1885-1930. The Plumed Serpent (Quetzalcoatl). Introduction by William York Tindall. New York: Vintage, 1951, first Vintage edition, 487pp., small PAPERBACK, good used copy, slight wear, $9
cover design by Leo Lionni. .

9776. Löb, Kurt. Kurt Löb boekkunstenaar Buchkünstler [mit Werkverzeichnis]. Edited by Braches, Ernst; Ekkart, Rudolf E. O.; Heij, Jan Jaap. Amsterdam: Lob, 1984, 91pp. : ill. (some col.). 19 cm., square sewn paper wraps, edges worn, otherwise very good, $30
Kurt Lob Buchkunstler. Dutch and German. Published on the occasion of a traveling exhibition held in the Rijksmuseum Meermanno-Westereenianum, 's -Gravenhage, and other museums in the Netherlands and the FDR during 1984-1985. ISBN 9070884054

23025. Marek, Kurt W., 1915-1972. Yestermorrow. Notes on Man's Progress. Translated by Ralph Manheim. New York: Knopf, 1961, stated First American Edition, 151pp., dust-jacket a bit scuffed around edges, very good white half-cloth, some light pencil marks and scattered pencil underlining, previous owner's name: K. C. Ballard, $20
Typography, binding, and jacket design by Herbert Bayer. Short notes on technology, the acceleration of change, philosophy of history. Author also known as C. W. Ceram: born in Berlin, 1915, journalist, editor at Rowohlt. Published in German as Provokatorische Notizen.

8825. Moylan, Michele / Lane Stiles, ed.. Reading books: essays on the material text and literature in America. Amherst: Ma.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996, x, 288pp. : ill.. 25 cm., PAPERBACK, very good, $9
Studies in print culture and the history of the book. Excellent essays on materiality of literature: how bindings, advertising, and packaging contribute to meaning. With essays on Tauchnitz editions, Dante reception in America, Melville reception, Ticknor and Fields, antebellum newspapers, Twain, Houghton Mifflin, Helen Hunt Jackson, the Riverside Literature series. "The contributors examine the ways in which the material qualities of books - including typography, paper, bindings, layout, and promotional copy - as well as their editing, production, and distribution profoundly affect how they have been read and understood." / "This is a very interesting book, right at the leading edge of scholarship on the history of the book. It is a second generation follow-up to Davidson's Reading in America and will appeal to the same audience.". ISBN 1558490639

28902. O’Gorman, James F.. Accomplished in all departments of art - Hammatt Billings of Boston, 1818-1874. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1998, xi, 291pp., very good dust-jacket, very good brown cloth, fresh copy, $12
Studies in print culture and the history of the book. Includes bibliography of books illustrated by Billings (such as Uncle Tom's Cabin) and buildings designed by him (including major structures such as the Customs Tower in Boston, enormous college halls at Wellesley college and elsewhere). ISBN 1558491481

15241. Platen, August Graf. Venezianische Sonette. Leipzig: Rowohlt, 1910, unpaginated 17pp., very good thin white paper-covered boards with gold titles, top of spine 1cm slightly chipped, bottom of spine also very slightly dented, otherwise well-preserved copy with only slight wear, $85
Drugulin-Drucke, 2.

17837. Preczang, Ernst, 1870-1949. Der leuchtende Baum und andere Novellen. Illustrations by Herbert Hausschild. Berlin: Büchergilde Gutenberg, 214pp., very good white half-cloth, light foxing on spine, slight wear to edges, $125
Elegantly printed volume with sharp small woodcuts by Hausschild, text in Fraktur.

16042. Salzbrunn, Ingeborg. Die Einbandsammlung der Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg. Glashütten, D. Auvermann 1976, 1976, Mit 111 Abbildungen. , V, 126pp., very good half-leather with marbled boards, previous owner's inscription, $65
Veröffentlichungen der Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg, Bd. 1. - Enthält: Augsburger Widmungseinbände. - Augsburger Meister. - Deutsche Meister. - Ausländische Meister. - Flämische Meister. - Unbekannte Meister. - Liebhaber- und Verlagseinbände am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts.

3351. Schottenloher, Karl. Bücher bewegten die Welt. Eine Kulturgeschichte des Buches. Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1951, 2 volumes (612) 25 cm., dust-jacket with minor wear, a few minor tears, gray cloth, foxing around the edges, boards warped, INSCRIBED by Schottenloher and his wife to friends. $85
An English translation appeared in 1989.

16032. Stampa, Gaspara. Sonette an den Grafen Collaltino di Collalto. Ausgewählt und übertragen von Leo Graf Lanckoronski und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Maria Gräfin Lanckoronska. Gedruckt v. d. Offizin Haag-Drugulin Leipzig 1930, 1930, 111pp., very good half-pergament, in worn and torn original slipcase, $110
Siebenter Rot und Schwarzdruck. Auflage von 400 Exemplaren, davon 200 für die Frankfurter Bibliophilen-Gesellschaft. Italian and German on facing pages.

13061. Stehr, Hermann, 1864-1940. Meister Cajetan. Novelle. Vignetten und Einband von Hans Alexander Müller. Weimar, Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen, 1931, 163pp., good illustrated paper-covered boards, a bit edgeworn with small tear at top of spine, some light foxing, $85
Vignetten und Einband von Hans Alexander Müller. Densely montaged cover illustration stretches over entire surface focusing on musical violin theme.

9330. Steinberg, S. H.. Die schwarze Kunst. 500 Jahre Buchwesen. Übersetzt von Johann Jakob Hässlin. München: Prestel, 1961, 2te, durchgesehene Auflage, 471pp. : ill., facsims., dust-jacket with minor wear, very good small brown cloth, previous owner's label and name, $15
Translation of his: Five hundred years of printing.

3199. Swedenborg, Emanuel. Himmel, Hölle, Geisterwelt. Eine Auswahl aus dem Lateinischen Text in deutscher Nachdichtung von Walter Hasenclever. Berlin: Die Schmiede, 1925, 322pp. . 17 cm., good small soiled white cloth, lower right corner stained, binding by Georg Salter. Newspaper clipping photo of Swedenborg glued neatly to title page, binding solid, text clean, aesthetic defects of cover not that bad, previous owner's name, $25
Die Geisterwelt, oder, Der Zustand des Menschen nach dem Tode -- Der Himmel und die Entsprechungen -- Die Holle -- Nachwort des Herausgebers. Translation of selections from: De coelo et eius mirabilibus and Arcana coelestia.

12180. Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953. The collected poems of Dylan Thomas, 1934-1952. [New York] New Directions [1971], 1971, xviii, 203pp. port. 20 cm, PAPERBACK, very good copy, previous owner's inscription: 7/30/71 - To John / with deep thanks for your help and warm heart / the Gurians, $7.5
cover design by Stefan Salter. New directions paperbook. 316. First clothbound edition was 1953, revised 1956.

25405. Turner, Francis MacDougall Charlewood. The Pepys Library. Cambridge: Printed in Great Britain by Sun Printers, no date, perhaps around 1950, 1950, 18pp., PAPERBACK, worn paper wraps, illustrated cover, edges a bit bumped and with fold marks, $13
10 photographs or drawings in text, showing books from the library, bindings, bookcases, diary page. Text is a description and history of the library, including a chronology 1633 to 1724 (the year the library was moved to Magdalene College).

7061. Vekene, Emil van der. Bemerkenswerte Einbände in der Nationalbibliothek zu Luxemburg. Luxemburg: Nationalbibliothek, 1972, 142pp., illustrated dust-jacket, soiled around edges, good brown cloth with red labels, but a bit musty, bottom edge of pages wavy, adequate, content undamaged, SIGNED on title page by the author E. v. d. Vekene, dated 1975.. $25
Edition of 1200.

12960. Vercel, Roger, 1894-1957. Tides of Mont St.-Michel. Translated by Warre Bradley Wells. New York, Random House [1938], stated First Printing, 3pp. 1., 3-305pp. 21 cm, illustrated dust-jacket chipped at top of spine, a bit worn and faded but good, good gray cloth, some light wear, $9
illustrated dust-jacket by K. S. Woerner. Translation of Sous le pied de l'archange. Illustrated lining-papers by Steinberg, dust-jacket by K. S. Woerner.

28125. Vienne, Véronique. Chip Kidd. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2003, 112pp., sewn PAPERBACK with stiff cover, very good, illustrated throughout, previous owner's name, $17
Series: Monographics. Illustrations of book jacket design by Kidd with introduction by Vienne. ISBN 0300099525

28127. Why Not Associates. Why not. London : Booth-Clibborn Edtions : Distribution in USA by Gingko Press, 1998, 206pp., very good dust-jacket, very good large black cloth, BUT pages a bit wavy for no apparent reason, $25
Consists of full-pages of illustrations of their graphic design and book design projects. ISBN 1861540027