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Le surréalisme et ses alentours. Livres, manuscrits, photographies, et oeuvres sur papier. Collection Daniel Filipacchi. Vente en Trois Parties - Deuxième Partie. [With] Le surréalisme et ses alentours. Livres, manuscrits, photographies, et oeuvres sur papier. Collection Daniel Filipacchi. Vente en Trois Parties - Deuxième Partie. Hans Bellmer.

Paris: Christie's, October 21, 2005, quarto, pictorial boards. (327) pp.; 62 pp. Christie's, Christie's auction catalogue offering 209 lots with the separate supplement auction catalogue containing the works of Hans Bellmar, 25 lots. Both of these sales are Christie auctions #5410 representing Part Two of the three part Daniel Filipacchi... More

Price: $65.00

A Master's Bibliophile Bindings. Tini Miura 1980-1990.

(Tokyo): Kyoiku Shoseki, (1991), First English Language Edition. folio, cloth in dust jacket. (200)pp. Kyoiku Shoseki, This catalogue covers the years from 1980 - 1990 and contains 169 fine bindings, 27 designs for commercial book production as well as posters and announcements. Illustrated with 300 color plates. "Although bookbinding may... More

Price: $75.00

ADLER, Georg.

Handbuch Buchverschluss und Buchbeschlag. Terminologie und Geschichte im deutschsprachigen Raum, in den Niederlanden und Italien vom frühen Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart. [Manual book closure and book fitting. Terminology and history in the German-speaking world, in the Netherlands and Italy from the early Middle Ages to the present.].

Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2010, First Edition. large octavo, pictorial boards. 256 pp. Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag, What makes the publication of this book timely and necessary is the apparent need by historians, academics and collectors of antiquarian books for a standardized terminology to describe book fastenings (clasps) and book... More

Price: $140.00

FLETCHER, H. George.

French Book Arts: Manuscripts, Books, Bindings, Prints and Documents, 12th - 21st Century.

New York: Grolier Club, 2018, First Edition. quarto, paste paper boards and linen spine. 208 pp. Grolier Club, This book is a companion volume to the first public exhibition of the 135th season of the Grolier (December 7, 2018 - February 2019) celebrating a thousand years of French Book Arts... More

Price: $75.00

GOLOB, Natasa and Jedert Vodopivec Tomazic.

Bookbindings. Theoretical Approaches and Practical Solutions.

Brepols, 2017, First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. 320 pp. Brepols, Bookbindings: Theoretical Approaches and Practical Solutions is a collection of twelve studies encompassing considerations on bookbinding structures, practices of binders in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, as well as theoretical reflections on the cataloguing of bindings, and on the... More

Price: $100.00

LUNDBLAD, Kristina.

Bound to be Modern. Publishers' Cloth Bindings and the Material Culture of the Book, 1840-1914.

(New Castle, DE): Oak Knoll Press, 2015, First English language edition. large octavo, red boards in dust jacket. 336 pp. Oak Knoll Press, Bound to Be Modern is the most comprehensive study to date on the emergence and function of publishers' cloth bindings. It brings together issues of aesthetics, technique... More

Price: $95.00

MILLER, Julia, editor.

Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding. Volume 1.

Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2013, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 534 pp. Legacy Press, Nine authors writing on nine topics. This collection of essays, published as the first volume of a series of studies on the history of bookbinding, sets a high standard for interesting and groundbreaking scholarship... More

Price: $85.00

MILLER, Julia, editor.

Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding. Volume 2.

Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2015, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 454 pp. Legacy Press, Cathleen A. Baker on "Examination and Image-Capturing Techniques"; "Binding at Midcentury: The Rivers of America Competition of 1946" by Thomas E. Conroy; "Bio-Bibliographical List of Individual Bookbinders" (on DVD) by Thomas E. Conroy; "Finding... More

Price: $75.00

MILLER, Julia, editor.

Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding. Volume 3.

Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2016, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 517 pp. Legacy Press, Erin Albritton & Christina Amato on "A Study of Two Semi-Limp Parchment Binding Styles in the Rare Book Collection at The New York Academy of Medicine Library"; "Historical Bindings of the Chamberlain-Warren Samaritan Collection"... More

Price: $85.00

MILLER, Julia, editor.

Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding. Volume 4.

Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2017, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 350 pp. Legacy Press, Ashley Cataldo, "Catalog of the Finishing Tools of the Eighteenth-Century Binder Henry Bilson Legge"; Jana Dambrogio, "Trickett’s Tickets"; Gary Frost, "Book Interventions: Books Remade by Use"; Marieka Kaye, "Diamond in the Rough: A Study... More

Price: $80.00

MILLER, Julia, editor.

Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding. Volume 5.

Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2019, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 464 pp. Legacy Press, Pictures in Your Pocket: A History of the American Tintype Album; Samaritan Manuscript Bindings from Four Collections in the United States; A Previously Unrecorded Sewing Technique Deciphered During a Study of a Twelfth-Century, Limp... More

Price: $85.00

MILLER, Julia.

Books Will Speak Plain. A Handbook for Identifying and Describing Historical Bindings.

Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2014, Second Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 632 pp.; DVD. The Legacy Press, "Books Will Speak" is published at a time when the historical book is at risk of being ignored, put away, and forgotten. This handbook combines an overview of the history... More

Price: $80.00

RHODES, Dennis E., (editor).

Bookbindings & Other Bibliophily. Essays in honour of Anthony Hobson.

Verona: Edizioni Valdonega, 1994, First Edition. Foreword by Frederick B. Adams. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 368pp. Edizioni Valdonega, On the occasion of Anthony Hobson's seventieth birthday, twelve contributors provided essays on bookbinding and the history of books. The subjects range from great collectors like Grolier, Mahieu, Anne de Montmorency... More

Price: $85.00

SCHEPER, Karen.

The Technique of Islamic Bookbinding. Methods, Materials and Regional Varieties.

Brill, 2018, Second Edition, Revised. octavo, pictorial boards. xiv, 442 pp, Brill, The Technique of Islamic Bookbinding is the first monograph dedicated to the technical development of the bookbinding tradition in the Islamic world. Based on an assessment of the extensive oriental collections in the Leiden University Library, the various... More

Price: $190.00

SHEPHERD, Rob.

The Cinderella of the Arts: A Short History of Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a London Bookbinding Firm Established in 1901. Including a story of the Great Omar, a jewelled binding of the Rub'iyat of Omar Kahyyam lost on the Titanic in 1912.

London: Shepherds and Oak Knoll Press, 2015, First Edition. large octavo, pictorial wrappers. (208) pp. Shepherds and Oak Knoll Press, This book charts the history of one of the most important craft bookbinding workshops of the twentieth century. Sangorski& Sutcliffe was founded in 1901. The founding partners, Francis Sangorski and... More

Price: $85.00

WILCOX, Jonathan.

Scraped, Stroked, and Bound. Materially Engaged Readings of Medieval Manuscripts.

Brepols Publishers, 2013, First Edition. octavo, pictorial boards. 235 pp. Brepols Publishers, This collection of essays makes an original contribution to medieval manuscript studies through deep engagement with the material side of book creation. The volume brings together major scholars of medieval manuscripts with leading contemporary book artists. The result... More

Price: $105.00

WOLFE, Richard J.

Marbled Paper. Its History, Technique, and Patterns. With special reference to the relationship of marbling to bookbinding in Europe and the Western world.

New Castle Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2018, Second Edition, with corrections. quarto, wrappers with French flaps. xx, 245 p., 37 color plates. Oak Knoll Press, With a new Foreword by Sidney Berger. A history of the art and the craft which is the result of more than twenty-five years of... More

Price: $95.00

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