[Rarebooks] FS: BOOK ARTS, BOOKBINDING, &c. -- REDUCTIONS

[Norman Kane]

THE PRINTING ART.  AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE GRAPHIC ARTS.  VOL. XXXIII, MARCH, 1919 - AUGUST, 1919.  Cambridge, Mass, 1919.  Complete volume of 6 issues.  Wrappers bound into publisher’s half morocco, some wear & rippling.  488 pages. Numerous illustrations in the text and advertisements, including many color and/or mounted plates. ($40) $20.00

[HELBERT, Clifford L., ed.]  PRINTING PROGRESS.  A MID-CENTURY REPORT.  Cincinnati, 1959.  First edition.  Original publisher's full tan cloth, textured to simulate leather, with inlaid embossed centerpiece on front cover, raised bands, double gilt rules on dentelles, and moire silk doublures.  11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches; 543 pages.  Fine in fine publisher's slipccase.  Numerous contributors discuss modern techniques in printing, illustration, and book design.  Illustrated throughout in color and black & white, and printed on a variety of papers.  ($40.00)  $20.00

THE AMERICAN BOOKMAKER.  A JOURNAL OF TECHNICAL ART AND INFORMATION FOR PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS, LITHOGRAPHERS, BOOKBINDERS, BLANK-BOOK MANUFACTURERS, AND ALL OTHERS CONNECTED WITH OR INTERESTED IN BOOKMAKING.  Vol. IV, nos. 1-6; Vol. V, nos. 1-4.  New York: [Howard Lockwood, publisher], Jan. - Oct., 1887. 10 issues.  Contemporary half black morocco.  Approx. 12 x 9 1/2 inches. 32, 214, 156 pages [including ads].  Minor wear to extremities with very shallow loss at head of spine, bookplates on front pastedown, still very good.  One of the bookplates reads: "Presented to the Childs-Drexel Home for Union Printers by Crane & Company, Topeka, Kansas." Numerous engravings and other illustrations, including a few full-page, plus numerous illustrated ads. Contains technical articles on all aspects of modern bookmaking (printing, typography, illustration, binding, etc.), essays on the history of the trade, and correspondence.  ($60.00)  $30.00

THE AMERICAN BOOKMAKER.  A JOURNAL OF TECHNICAL ART AND INFORMATION FOR PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS, LITHOGRAPHERS, BOOKBINDERS, BLANK-BOOK MANUFACTURERS, AND ALL OTHERS CONNECTED WITH OR INTERESTED IN BOOKMAKING.  VOLS. I & II.  N. Y., 1885/1886. 12 issues – the first year of this important periodical.  4to, contemporary half green morocco over plain boards. Bookplate of Frederic Melcher on inside of front board.  [Melcher, a prominent American publisher, was president of R.R. Bowker Co., co-editor of "Publisher's Weekly," and co-founder of National Children’s Book Week.] Numerous engravings and other illustrations, including a few full-page and a few printed in red and black.  Contains technical articles on all aspects of modern bookmaking (printing, typography, illustration, binding, etc.), essays on the history of the trade, correspondence, and some ads.  Vol. I is scarce; only about one in four of the institutions with holdings listed in the Union List of Serials have a copy. 
Advts removed by binder.  ($70.00)  $30.00

ARCHIV FUR BUCHGEWERBE UND GEBRAUCHSGRAPHIK BEGRUNDET VON ALEXANDER WALDOW.    61 Jahrgang, Heft 4.  Sonderheft: Deutsche Pressen und Bibliophie Reihendrucke[Leipzig: Verlag des Deutschen Buchgewerbevereins], 1924.  Original printed wraps bound into half green morocco (faded to brown on the spine).  Approx. 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches; [2], 283-506, plus ads.  Binding rubbed, but sound; near fine internally.  Various articles on bindings, a number of which are depicted in photographic plates, plus numerous press specimens.  ($40.00)  $15.00

GELDNER, Ferdinand.  BUCHEINBANDE AUS ELF JAHRHUNDERTEN.  Munich, (1959).  [1959].  Second edition, revised, following the first of the previous year.  Original quarter cloth and boards.  12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches; 46 pages plus 108 full-page photographic plates, including some in color.  Fine in fine dust wrapper and plain slipcase.
($40.00)  $15.00

VEKENE, Emil van der.  BEMERKENSWERTE EINBANDE IN DER NATIONALBIBLIOTHEK ZU LUXEMBURG.  First edition.  One of 1,200 copies.  Presentation slip signed by the publisher on front pastedown.  Three-page color prospectus tipped-in.  Original cloth.  12 x 8 1/4 inches; 142 pages.  Near fine in very good plus dust wrapper (minor edge wear).  Illustrated with a few color and numerous black & white plates of bindings from the 16th to the early 20th centuries.
($40.00)  $15.00

PAPIERS DE HOLLANDE À LA FORME: POUR L'ÉDITION ET LES TIRAGES DE LUXE DE PANNEKOEK & CIE., HEELSUM.
Paris: J. Bachtold, n.d. [19--?]. Approx. 10 x 12 3/8 inches; 22 leaves. Cover-title. Original wrappers printed in red and black and bound with brown cord. Chipping to edges of wrappers and a 3-inch tear on the top of the back wrapper. Bottom corners bent. OCLC locate only two copies of a very similar paper sample book, but none with these specifications.  ($60.00)  $15.00

ALLGEMEINER ANZEIGER FUR BUCHBINDEREIEN....  XXXXII. JAHRGANG.  Stuttgart, 1927.  52 issues, being a complete run of this volume.   Original half brown cloth over purple boards with gilt spine title.  Approx. 13 x 10 inches. 1116, 16 pages. Some stains to boards,  else very good. Index.  Numerous illustrations of fine bindings in the text. Includes articles on modern bindings being produced at the State Binding School of Hamburg and the school in Dusseldorf, plus works by Karl Ebert, Heinrich Engel, and others.  Numerous advertisements in each issue, including one in color.  Several reproductions of edition bindings tipped-in, including one in color.     ($60.00)  $20.00

WEALE, W. H. James.  BOOKBINDINGS AND RUBBINGS OF BINDINGS IN THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM.
[London]: The Holland Press, 1962. Reprint of the 1898 edition. Two vols. in one, as issued.  Approx. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, cl, iv, 329 pages. Original yellow cloth binding.  Mild dust-soiling to cloth, still very good plus. Illustrated in black and white.  ($40.00)  $20.00

MIDDLETON, Bernard C.  New York and London: Hafner Publishing Company, [1963]. First edition. Original blue boards with good price-clipped dust wrapper (sunned spine, slight foxing, small tear to lower front corner). Near fine interior. Approx. 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches; xv, 307 pages. Color frontispiece. Illustrated in black and white throughout and with 11 black-and-white plates following the text. Foreword by Howard M. Nixon. Publisher's presentation stamp on front free endpaper and review slip tipped in at rear.  ($40.00)  $15.00

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