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Kredel worked with Koch before coming to the United States. This was his first book for George Macy. The illustrations for the tales adorn all of the stories, and are vignettes drawn in ink with two or more colors hand applied to each one. The result is one of the most charming books the LEC ever produced! Book is in near fine condition, with very light rubbing along the corners and the head and tail. The spine is very lightly and evenly sunned. The slipcase is entire, but has had some tape repairs. Copy number 522 of 1500.
Signed on the colophon by the famed German book designer Rudolf Koch and also the artist Fritz Kredel.

Blue fabric covered boards with title and author in black on the spine, full color dust jacket printed with a photograph of a quilt by Ringgold. xi,116 pages. Well written biography of Faith Ringgold with many full color reproductions of her work, carefully annotated. Ringgold is the creator of the eight serigraphs that illustrate the visually stunning and moving Letter from Birmingham Jail by Dr. Martin Luther King and published by the Limited Editions Club in 2007 in its series of books written by and/or illustrated by African Americans. She is also the current subject of a major exhibition of her entire life's work at the New Museum of New York in and the subject of an extensive article in the Wall Street Journal. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket, with publisher's card laid in.

Quarter brown leather with brown cloth-covered boards, brown leather onlay of a shell on front cover, title printed blind on spine, brown cloth-covered slipcase. One of the copies bound by Gwasg Gregynog. Number 27 of an edition limited to 40 numbered copies. A blind-printed shell as a symbol of the ideal introduces each movement, a sepia mezzotint shadows its progress. Printed by Shirley Jones on Somerset paper, with interleaves of Japanese Unryushi. Signed and numbered by Shirley Jones. Prospectus laid in. Fine condition. Shirley Jones and the Red Hen Press number 19.

Printed in an edition limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by Schanilec on the colophon page. (My Colorful Career, pp.30-36). Four double-page color wood engravings and an additional two-color engraving on the title page. The text consists of a series of interviews of his farming neighbors by Schanilec, and the beautiful color wood engravings depict various aspects of their farms.
The proofs are in a heavy paper portfolio with a color image of a pickup truck, contained in a solander box, cloth covered with a black leather spine label. The title page is printed with two stages of the pick up truck. There are four images plus the title page truck, each 4 to six plates (except 2 for the truck) This is copy 12 of 15, signed in pencil with Schanilec's chop mark and "92." Quarter to Midnight, A.90 and A.109.

Number 53 of 100 copies printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-upon-Avon. Preface by B.H.N, Bernard H. Newdigate. Fifteen wood engravings by Gabriel Pippet. Book is very good plus, with minor corner bumps. The dustjacket is very good, with uniform overall aging and lightly scuffed edges, head and tail have tiny tears.

Fine in a near fine solander box--several slightly worn corners and a slight mark on one side.
Copy number xliii of 65 special copies.
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Whittington: Whittington Press, 1998. One of an edition limited to 300 copies. Half buckram with decorated paper-covered boards, slipcase. About forty samples (many of them half or quarter sheets) of hand-made papers used at the OUP from 1900 to 1970 are tipped in. These samples are from the hoard of papers discovered when the OUP moved its paper warehouse in 1986. The papers were primarily from British hand-made paper mills, but a few were from the continent as well. Bidwell has not only researched the use of each of these papers, but also has provided a detailed history of each mill and a description of the papers, including watermarks. 120 pages. Small folio. Fine in a fine slipcase.

Illustrated by the author. Edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies. Printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress. Plates made and printed at The Anthoensen Press.

London: Folio Society, 2005. First Thus. As new. Illustrated with drawings by Nick Hardcastle, bound in full cloth imprinted with a design by the artist, xvi, 272 pages, slipcase. Number 1250 in Folio 60.

London: Primrose Academy, 1999. Paynter, Hilary. Number 12 of 135 copies. Printed in two colors. Designed and printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press for the Primrose Academy Ltd. Quarter cloth with paper covered sides imprinted with the title. Slip case covered with the same paper as the book. Signed by the artist. As new.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First Edition. Near fine in fine dust jacket with a small closed tear on the back of the dust jacket, front bottom corner very slightly bumped, shading of blue picking up color of title across top of dust jacket and of pale ochre picking up the color of the author's name along the bottom of the dust jacket; both shadings faintly picked up in the pastedowns and free endpapers, dust jacket enclosed in a clear plastic cover.The shading appears to be deliberate. Price clipped.. BIAMONTE,DANIEL. Illustrations by Daniel Biamonte. 8vo., hardbound, dust jacket. (viii), 246, 2 pages. Ink signature on front flyleaf--woman's first name, might be in Gardner's hand.