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

Tacoma, WA: Springtide Press, 2019. Printed on French Speckletone paper. Bound in varnished railroad board covers. Springtide Press. 10 x 7.25" closed, expands to 24" Printed on French Speckletone paper. Bound in varnished railroad board covers. unpaginated. Limited to 45 copies numbered in Roman numerials. From the artist's website: X has never been common in the English language, and just .02 percent of the dictionary begins with this rare letter. For letterpress printers using wood type, the X is often missing from a font, or the poor sort has had its reverse side surrendered for carving a sorely needed A or E instead. Letterpress printed by Jessica Spring with handset wood and metal and Ludlow-cast type. During a residency at Shooting Star Press in Little Rock, Arkansas, I had the opportunity to explore the huge wood type collection, full of rare and exotic specimens. Inspired by the extraordinary xenodochy (hospitality) of my hosts in contrast to our countrys disturbing xenophobia (fear… Read More

Muscatine, IA: The Prairie Press, 1943. stiff paper wrappers. Prairie Press. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (20) pages. Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman. Signed by the author on half title. A collection of poetry.

New York, NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1946. stiff paper wrappers, fore-edge uncut. Prairie Press. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, fore-edge uncut. (20) pages. Printed by Carroll Coleman at the Prairie Press, Iowa City, Iowa. A collection of poetry. Wrappers tanned, and slightly chipped at edges.

New York: Krausbooks, 1977. stiff paper wrappers. Kraus, H. P.. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Booth No. 8. A catalogue with a subject index and 116 entries. "This is a partial list of items...The entries in this list are brief and do not include page collations." (from the inside front cover). Minor wear.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Fundacao Casa de Rui Barbosa, 1977. cardboard wraps. Brazil. large oblong 8vo. cardboard wraps. 218, (4 (2 blank)) pages. With Lourival Gomes Machado. A near fine copy. The woodcuts of 12 Brazilian artists (and a few unidentified artists), with brief biographies of each printed on brown paper. Profusely illustrated. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included.

Loughborough, (England): The Plough Press, 1970. quarter cloth portfolio with paper-covered boards, slipcase. Plough Press. folio. quarter cloth portfolio with paper-covered boards, slipcase. (16) cord-tied portfolios. Printed in an edition limited to only 75 numbered copies, of which this is copy #2 (Bibliography of the Plough Press, p.8). Includes descriptions and actual period examples laid in for 16 different printing processes utilized during the nineteenth century. Included are familiar processes such as wood engraving, copper and steel engraving, lithography, and aquatint, as well as less familiar processes such as omnigraphy and anastatic printing. An early book from this fine English press. Useful as a teaching tool because of the examples of the different processes which are present. This copy has been supplemented by a number of additional samples of the various processes, and there is a note in pencil stating that "This is an extra-illustrated copy." Slipcase rubbed and faded along edges.

New York, NY: AMS Press, 1985. cloth. 8vo. cloth. (viii), 241+(1) pages. AMS Studies in Social History, No. 5. Acknowledgments, introduction, addenda. Indices of authors, locales, occupations, and major events. A study of autobiographies written by members of the English working class in the 19th century.

LISABON: n.p., 1976. stiff paper portfolio housing the 16 plates and 2 page booklet. Bookplates. 8vo. stiff paper portfolio housing the 16 plates and 2 page booklet. not paginated. Úcastníkum XVI. Mezinárodního Kongresu Sberatelu exlibris V Lisabone Venuje Spolek Sberatelu a Prátel Exlib V Praze. Offert Aux Participants du XVI éme Congrés Internacional des Collecionneurs d'Exlibris á Lisbon 1976 par l'Association des Colleionneurs et Amis D'Exlibris á Praha. Title page in Czech and French. List of 16 Czech artists who contributed the bookplate designs. Printed in black, white and ivory. Foredge of portfolio torn about two inches.

Paris, France: Les Amis de Reliure Originale, 2011. stiff paper wrappers. Ephemera. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (8) pages. Text in French. Exhibition of ephemera held in 2011. Includes a catalogue of items on exhibit and a historical sketch of the organization.

(San Fernando, CA: Junipero Serra Press), 1981. leather, gilt-stamped front cover, all edges gilt. Miniature Books. miniature book (7.4 x 5.4 cm). leather, gilt-stamped front cover, all edges gilt. 14, (2) pages. Limited to 350 copies (Bradbury, Serra 20). U.S. commemorative postage stamp tipped in on verso of title page. Examines preparations for the XXIII Summer Olympic games in Los Angeles.

Munksgaard, Denmark: Forening for Boghaandværk, 1963. quarter leather with paper-covered boards, gold lettering and borders on spine. Hendriksen, F.. 8vo. quarter leather with paper-covered boards, gold lettering and borders on spine. 461 pages. Mennesket og Borgeren. Reformatoren. Skribenten. Tiden omkring ham. Forening for Boghaandværk 1888-1963. Forening for Boghaandværks publikation 1963, nr.1. The Danish wood engraver F. Hendriksen and his time. Illustrated in black-and-white. Index. Advertisement for the binding found on this copy loosely inserted.

Copenhagen: Forening for boghaandvaerk, 1944. patterned paper-covered boards, paper labels on spine and front cover. Hendriksen, F.. small 8vo. patterned paper-covered boards, paper labels on spine and front cover. 36 pages. Besterman 2839. Brief essay on wood engraver F. Hendriksen as a writer, with four illustrations, followed by a bibliography of 109 numbered entries for his written works, or for works to which he contributed, plus seven unnumbered entries for works in which he was editorially involved.

Besterman 2839. Brief essay on wood engraver F. Hendriksen as a writer, with four illustrations, followed by a bibliography of 109 numbered entries for his written works, or for works to which he contributed, plus seven unnumbered entries for works in which he was editorially involved.