Search Results: Titles starting with L from Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Public Library, 1981. paper wrappers. Bruckman, John D.. 8vo. paper wrappers. x, 44, (2) pages. A catalogue of the traveling exhibition from the libraries outstanding collection of materials, mostly on the history of Los Angeles and California, issued in the city's Bicentennial Year. Includes memorial address for John Bruckman, late Collection Development Manager for the Los Angeles Public Library, by Jake Zeitlin. Illustrated.

(Aurora, NY: Press of Robert LoMascolo), 2009. decorated cloth boards, all edges glittered, decorated endpapers. Press of Robert LoMascolo. 12mo. decorated cloth boards, all edges glittered, decorated endpapers. unpaginated. Limited to 33 numbered copies, signed by the publisher on colophon. Monotype composition, hand set ornaments, linoleum illustrations, hot foil stamping, letterpress, and flatback binding. Illustrated by the publisher at Wells College in Aurora. Explanatory note precedes text. Tipped in illustrations throughout text. Type and ornaments cast at the Press and Letter Foundry of Michael and Winifred Bixler in Skaneateles, New York. Selected fables of La Fontaine, with original linoleum cuts, and over 300 hand set typographic ornaments.

Guatemala City, Guatemala: Universitaria de Guatemala, 1981. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 221, (3) pages. Text in Spanish. Limited to 1000 copies. A review of publications in Guatemala 1980-1. Introduction, Four appendices. Index.

Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society, 2013. paperback. 8.5 x 10 inches. paperback. 128 pages. À la Mode Française: La Lithographie aux Estats-Unis, 1820-1860 from the American Antiquarian Society features five essays from Georgia B. Barnhill, Lauren B. Hewes, Catherine Wilcox-Titus, Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire, and Helena E. Wright that explore several topics of interest to scholars of American print publishing. Together, the essays examine the impact of French lithographic practice on the American lithographic industry and American visual culture; the circulation of French imagery in the United States with a case study on portraits of Napoleon and Lafayette; Goupil's French lithographs after American genre and history paintings; and the use of French lithographs in didactic displays at the Smithsonian Institution in the late nineteenth century. The book explores the variations in quality among early American lithographs. The first essay by Georgia Barnhill closely looks at this… Read More

Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society, 2013. paperback. 8.5 x 10 inches. paperback. 128 pages. À la Mode Française: La Lithographie aux Estats-Unis, 1820-1860 from the American Antiquarian Society features five essays from Georgia B. Barnhill, Lauren B. Hewes, Catherine Wilcox-Titus, Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire, and Helena E. Wright that explore several topics of interest to scholars of American print publishing. Together, the essays examine the impact of French lithographic practice on the American lithographic industry and American visual culture; the circulation of French imagery in the United States with a case study on portraits of Napoleon and Lafayette; Goupil's French lithographs after American genre and history paintings; and the use of French lithographs in didactic displays at the Smithsonian Institution in the late nineteenth century. The book explores the variations in quality among early American lithographs. The first essay by Georgia Barnhill closely looks at this… Read More

Bruxelles: HES & DE GRAAF, 1988. Wrappers. Bookbinding. 29,5x21 cm. Wrappers. 143 pp. Exposition organisée par l`Union économique Benelux et la Bibliotheca Wittockiana à la Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Bruxelles, du 8 octobre au 19 novembre 1988. Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.

(Madrid): Real Monasterio de el Escorial, 1960. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pages 666-710. Text in Spanish. Published in La Ciudad de Dios, CLXXIII, pages 666-710, 1960. Frontispiece. Bibliography of literary works of the Augustinians in the Royal Library of the Escorial in Madrid. Organized by subject. Alphabetical index. Introduction. Black and white plates. Wrappers tearing at spine. Small bookplate on inside front wrapper.

Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1990. cloth, dust jacket. Hercules. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxvi, 528, (2) pages. Issued on the 75th anniversary of this Delaware company.

Salt Lake City, UT: Book Arts Program; J. Willard Marriott Library; University of Utah, 2000. wooden boards, accordion fold, decorated cloth bag, in original cardboard shipping box. large 8vo. wooden boards, accordion fold, decorated cloth bag, in original cardboard shipping box. unpaginated. Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered copies, of which this copy is not numbered. A Japanese fold book bound in baltic plywood boards, designed by the artist and printed with the assistance of Celestia Carson and Tiffin West, involving mixed media (painting, screenprinting, and digital printing). Housed in a cloth bag. In the publisher's box, with some light soiling and a small edge split. Book and cloth bag are in fine condition. Text and photographs by the artist and the following among others: Susan Sontag, Tanizaki, R. Buckminster Fuller, Josef Albers, and Alinari.

[Greenfield Center, NY: Greenfield Review Press, 1986. stiff paper wrappers. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 103 pages. First edition. Nigerian author. Blurb by Hayden Carruth. Wrappers lightly rubbed.

N.P.: Krips Repro Meppel, 1991. stiff paper wrappers. Lazarov, Peter. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 119+(1) pages. Text in Dutch. Table of contents, introduction, bibliography, list of locations with collections of Lazarov's works. Black and white illustrations. Bumped at bottom fore-edge corner.

Salt Lake City, UT: Book Arts Program; J. Willard Marriott Library; University of Utah, 2000. wooden boards, accordion fold, cloth bag, in original cardboard shipping box. large 8vo. wooden boards, accordion fold, cloth bag, in original cardboard shipping box. unpaginated. Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered copies. A Japanese fold book bound in baltic plywood boards, designed by the artist and printed with the assistance of Celestia Carson and Tiffin West, involving mixed media (painting, screenprinting, and digital printing). Housed in a cloth bag. In the publisher's box, with some light soiling and a small edge split. Book and cloth bag are in fine condition. Text and photographs by the artist and the following among others: Susan Sontag, Tanizaki, R. Buckminster Fuller, Josef Albers, and Alinari.

Prague: Europsky Literarni Klub, 1941. unbound signatures, paper covered boards, paper covered boards slipcase. 8vo. unbound signatures, paper covered boards, paper covered boards slipcase. 176 pages. First edition. Slipcase faded around edges, with very light wear. Else near fine. Illustrated. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books.

Pasadena, CA: Clinker Press, The, 2005. broadside. Clinker Press. large 4to. broadside. Privately designed and printed by hand by artist Andre Chaves for his wife, Ann Chaves which commemorates her embroidery class in February 2005.

London: George Bell & Sons, 1895. original cloth, top edge gilt. Bookplates. thick 8vo. original cloth, top edge gilt. x, 358 pages. First edition. (Fuller p.69). Some wear to the hinges and spine ends. Light foxing and spotting to boards. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Overall a very good, tight copy. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of bookplates in the text. The last 96 pages list ladies' bookplates.

London: George Bell & Sons, 1895. original publisher's decorated cloth in blue and green over tan cloth, gilt on front board and spine. Bookplates. 8vo. original publisher's decorated cloth in blue and green over tan cloth, gilt on front board and spine. x, 358 pages. First edition, of which this copy is bound in the original publisher's decorated cloth. (Fuller p.69). Very light age-darkening to the edges of the binding and spine. Light shelfwear at extreminities, particularily to spine ends. Very scarce in this binding variant. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of bookplates in the text and ten separate plates. The last 96 pages list ladies' bookplates. Inscribed to Lady Sackville from Chas. P. Johnson. Bookplate of R.T. Yeend. This appears to be the earliest study of womens' book-plates and women book-plate designers (including Kate Greenaway, Edith Greene, Agnes Castle) in English.

(San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 2009. paper portfolio with 4 page history and 14 broadsides inserte. Book Club of California. 4to. paper portfolio with 4 page history and 14 broadsides inserte. The annual keepsake produced by the Club. A fine copy.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.

Philadelphia: Free Library of Philadelphia, 1968. original paper wrappers. 8vo. original paper wrappers. (ii), 27 pages. Comments on 82 books.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. paper over boards. Detective Fiction. 8vo. paper over boards. 218 pages. First edition, first printing. One of the scarest titles of the 87th Precinct Series. Detectives Carella, Meyer and Kling investigate a murder of three people in a bookstore. Some chipping to edges of dust jacket. Book Club stamp on 2nd free endpaper.

(Santa Barbara, CA): Black Sparrow Press, 1977. self paper wrappers. Black Sparrow Press. 8vo. self paper wrappers. (16) pages. First printing. April 1977. Monthly periodical of the Black Sparrow Press. Covers printed in red and black indicating first printing.