Turnadot, prinzessin von China by Schiller, Friedrich and Gozzi

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2002.. Edition of 10. 8.5 x 8.5" with compound binding. Mixed media prints with hand lettering. Another of Goodale's books in the Threatened & Endangered series. Each in this series uses different structures and approaches to communicate knowledge and love of each species. In this book she used Japanese grass paper to cover the boards. Using this material allows the reader to have a tactile experience as well as a visual one with the subject of the book.

Lanston Monotype Corp. Ltd. London 1928. FIRST EDITION. 4to. ( 11.5 x 8.9 inches). Illustrated with mono printed examples of ornamental borders and panels on both sets of endpapers and from pages 5 to 67. These are followed by 19 pages of various coloured paper which have been printed with colour pattern. A beautiful book in fine condition in the publishers red cloth with gilt lettering and decorations to the spine and front board. In an early, possibly original, plain glassine wrapper which is a bit torn and creased but has done its job of protecting the book.

London: George Bell & Sons, 1895. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Color And B/W Illustrations. Xiv, 358 Pp. Printed In Black And Red, Some Color Illustrated Bookplates. Finely Bound In Turquoise Goat, Gilt, With Wrap-Around Embossed Design. No Names Or Marks.

First edition. One of 500 numbered and signed copies, printed at the Spiral Press from the original blocks. Marbled paper over boards with printed cover label. Nine fables of Aesop, with full page woodcut illustrations on Goyu paper. Lower corners slightly rubbed, still a fine copy, with the original glassine, which has some chips and edgewear. In addition to Frasconi's signature on the colophon, he has inscribed this copy on the first blank leaf to Herman Cohen of the Chiswick Bookshop, dated December 1964.

Contents: Mercantile precedents for the use of commercial schools. Engraved and published by Jones & Compy. ... London; Select passages by Wm. Jones (with imprint: J. Souter, London, 1838); Clarke's Latin apothegms [by Joseph Clarke?]; Jones' small hand, historical (with imprint: J. Souter, London, 1838); Latin examples, for the use of classical schools. Engraved and published by John Souter ... London.Printing: engraved throughout by Jones and Co. and John Souter, some after William Jones. Oblong. (8.8 x 24.7 cm) [6], [12], [1], [8], [6]fol. Half cloth, black spine and green gauffred wrappers. (sl. dam.). Lower margins cut short. Rare little booklet (I have only found one copy in Worldcat) showing different kinds of commercial writing. [not in Bonacini].

Oakland, California:: Moshi-Moshi Press,, 2006.. Edition of 20 in English, 10 in French, and 10 in Italian. 4.75 x 7"; 16 8-page booklets housed in a plexiglas box designed by the artist. Digital print on vellum paper. The origami structures are constructed from organdi and tea chest papers. Seiko Tachibana from the Colophon: “Letter in the Wind is a book about poetry—the poetry of language itself. There is a familiar Japanese phrase, which literally translated become ‘I heard it from a letter in the wind.’…More precisely, the phrase means ‘the wind delivered a message to me,’ or as the common English saying goes, ‘a little bird told me.’ “This book is comprised of 16 Japanese words, each realized in the form of a card. These 16 words are themselves constructed from two separate words: the Japanese word for wind and one other word, which when combined create an entirely new term whose meaning relates in some way to the wind.”… Read More

Lanston Monotype Corp. Ltd. London 1928. FIRST EDITION. 4to. ( 11.5 x 8.9 inches). Illustrated with mono printed examples of ornamental borders and panels on both sets of endpapers and from pages 5 to 67. These are followed by 19 pages of various coloured paper which have been printed with colour pattern. A beautiful book in fine condition in the publishers red cloth with gilt lettering and decorations to the spine and front board. In an early, possibly original, plain glassine wrapper which is a bit torn and creased but has done its job of protecting the book.

Contents: Mercantile precedents for the use of commercial schools. Engraved and published by Jones & Compy. ... London; Select passages by Wm. Jones (with imprint: J. Souter, London, 1838); Clarke's Latin apothegms [by Joseph Clarke?]; Jones' small hand, historical (with imprint: J. Souter, London, 1838); Latin examples, for the use of classical schools. Engraved and published by John Souter ... London.Printing: engraved throughout by Jones and Co. and John Souter, some after William Jones. Oblong. (8.8 x 24.7 cm) [6], [12], [1], [8], [6]fol. Half cloth, black spine and green gauffred wrappers. (sl. dam.). Lower margins cut short. Rare little booklet (I have only found one copy in Worldcat) showing different kinds of commercial writing. [not in Bonacini].

First edition, 1977, second printing after the 1938 first. Progress Publishers, Moscow. Large octavo, original yellow cloth, with copper casings fastened over both boards, designed by Koba Gouruli.
The Knight in the Panther's Skin is an unequivocal work by medieval Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli, this translation by Marjory Waldrop was the first prose translation in the English language. This copy bound in a unique copper relief casing featuring a traditional Georgian portrait to the front with a bold pattern and Georgian script to the rear board.
A prolific translator, Waldrop travelled to Georgia in the late 1800s when it was still part of Imperial Russia, and published three English translations of Georgian titles in the following five years. The Knight in the Panther's Skin was the fourth and final translation, but was only published in 1912 three years after her death. Waldrop refused publication in her lifetime, feeling it wasn't up to snuff. It remains the translation against which all others… Read More

The Skeptical Press. El Cerrito, California. USA. 2000 - 2007. LIMITED EDITIONS, signed by Reisbord. Various sizes, formats and shapes. A collection of 25 examples of hand printed and constructed book and paper art, each number 24 of limited editions of 60 copies, plus 11 items of Skeptical Press ephemera, including subscription reminders, envelopes and memos, all hand printed at the press. Housed in a purpose made archive box, constructed by Coriander Reisbord in 2005 and with a printed list of the Press titles from 2000 to 2004 mounted to the inner panel of the lid, covered in green cloth and with a printed label to the front. The box measures 9.9 x 7.8 x 2.7 inches, the works within all vary in size and format. A wonderful and varied collection of interesting works by one of America's most talented paper artists and printers of the modern era.