Foolscap Press (15 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Chapbook. Cream colored paper with hand sewn binding. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. Appearing as a letter with address, stamp, and wax seal to rear cover. 12 pages. One of the Presses All Fool's Day keepsakes. VERY FINE. All corners pointed. Binding tight, without stress creasing and square. Without creases, bumps, chips or tears. Not marked in any way and very clean and bright. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Chapbook. Red paper hand sewn binding. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. With color illustration to first page and black/white art throughout the 12 pages. One of the Presses All Fool's Day keepsakes. AS NEW. All corners pointed. Binding tight, without stress creasing and square. Without creases, bumps, chips or tears. Not marked in any way and very clean and bright. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Gray soft cover with red lettering on front cover. Title and copyright pages dated 2021. Unpaginated. Covers are neat. Bound by string. Deckle edge pages. Illustration of skulls on title page. Pages have been well maintained. Text is ornate and legible. Binding secure with no missing pages. Very Good Condition. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Paperback. An April Fools day keepsake. Green, black, and white patterned front wrapper. Pristine. [12 pages] PRI/072408.

Condition: Good. 4to. One folded sheet. [4] pp., illus. Very good on Lana Pur Fil paper. This is a prospectus for a book, not the book itself.

Condition: Good. PROSPECTUS. 8vo. Folded Card, Exhibition Announcement & Postcard, Very Good+. Prospectus for Despatches & Exhibition Announcement finely printed on light card stock. Post card full color photographic reproduction. In opened envelope addressed to Peter Howard, Serendipity Books.

Condition: Good. One-sided card, measuring 3.5' x 5. Invitation to Foolscap Press & Tangram Publication Party & Exhibition of Books.Very good.

title-page with title printed in red over monochrome illustration of gesticulating stringed puppets in Elizabethan costume, pp. 12, tall 8vo, publisher's crimson wrappers with printed Elizabethan glove illustration on cover, fine. Professor Moosekowski 'is Lecturer of History and Dramaturgy at the State Faculty of the Theatre of Puppetry in the Dramatic Arts College in Warsaw, Poland. His paper 'Motions and the Man' was given to a spellbound audience at the Interlude Conference of Shakespearean Scholars in Paris, France, April 1, 2003.' (final words of text0.

Foolscap Press (illustrator). 4to. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 11+(1) pages. Limited to 50 copies. Color woodcut illustrations by Mary Ellen Chapdu. Hand printed on Warren's Oldd Style white wove paper with Nekoosa felt finish paper wrappers. Brief introductory note. Wrappers lightly soiled. Christmas gift letter laid in. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied.

First editions of these farcical pamphlets. Octavos. Variously paginated and often illustrated. Publisher's sewn stiff wrappers of various hues. Excellent.Peggy Gotthold and Lawrence G. Van Velzer each worked at Arion Press with Glenn Todd; Peggy in the bindery and Lawrence as printer and typesetter. In 1990 they established Foolscap Press. "Foolscap Press is Lawrence G. Van Velzer and Peggy Gotthold. They started Foolscap Press in 1990 after many years in the business in order to publish books under their own imprint. All of the editions are designed, printed and bound at the Press. Peggy Gotthold worked as a bookbinder at Schuberth Bookbindery in San Francisco for a number of years, as well as at Arion Press. She trained in letterpress printing and typesetting at Cowell Press (UCSC), Yolla Bolly Press and Artichoke Press. Larry operated his own press and worked as a printer and typesetter at Arion Press. His father taught printing in technical high schools and was a letterpress printer who learned printing from his father, who published a newspaper printed on a handpress in the 1870's. Foolscap Press is located in the small coastal community of Santa Cruz, along the central coast of California, not far over the hills from San Francisco. The printing facility, bindery and their home surround a kitchen garden in the summer and bird sanctuary in the winter. The pressroom is set up with two platen presses, two proof presses and an assortment of other letterpress equipment. Books are printed from either lead type or from work generated from the computer and made into photopolymer plates, then mounted for letterpress printing. They publish their own original first editions or texts, and produce work for other publishers and fine presses as well. Peggy and Larry work as a creative team, collaborating on all aspects of book production, from conception through marketing." (Nawakum). Titles are; The Spring Haiku of Tobu Sho, 1999. A Letter to Isabelle Rimbaud, 2000. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Golf Caddie, 2001. Shakespeare: Motions & the Man: Essays by Henryk Moosekowski, 2003. Gaillard Durfort: An Ordinary Frenchman's Ride Up & Down History related by Laurent Durfort, 2004. Tayler's Ho, a Snaile! A Crye for Haelp, 2005. My Private Library: Confessions of a Collector by Basil Roan Quagga, 2006. On the Labeling of Paintings: A Guide for the Art School Impaired, 2007. [B. Traven: An Interview with Himself], 2008. A Foundational Literature Experience for a Young Person, 2010. Calliope vs. Thamyris, et al., 2011. The Diaries of a Damp Stone, 2012. Hoarder's Manual No. 77, 2013. New Foolszit Roman: Finally, a typeface for the rest of us, 2014. Harry Paget Flashman: Dawn of a Dastardly Hero, 2015. A Truer History of Doctor Dolittle, 2016. Murder by the Book, 2018.

Condition: Fine. One of 200 copies. This is an unusual and lovely scroll book, which, according to the Press, follows the written record of a wondrous monument standing in Athens. The Tower has been explained by scholars from antiquity to the present, yet the Tower of the Winds was and still is a mystery to those who study it. The work is original to the Foolscap Press both in content and exterior form, and was created as a biblio-artifact, both a book and an object. The book is in a pre-codex form, allowing the reader to scroll through history viewing the subject along a panorama 25 feet in length. In addition to reproducing historic texts, there are illustrations of the Tower by James Stuart and Nicolas Revett, two important early British architects. The work is printed in Adobe Herculanum type on Zerkall Book and hand made papyrus from Egypt. It is housed in a formed sculptural / architectural case. Each case is a rigid cylinder hinged with cloth and lined with a map of ancient Athens. Issued with handling instructions. It is a stunning and inventive work from this press. Scroll is in fine condition. PRI/102022.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hardcover. Number 16 of 100 copies. The Snails is a short story by Patricia Highsmith (author of The Talented Mr. Ripley) about giant snails with huge teeth that inhabit a remote island. When an out-of-shape professor decides to visit the island in hopes of capturing one of the snails in order to secure fame for himself, his plans go awry. A seemingly peculiar topic for a story, it was perfect for Highsmith who kept snails as pets and was known to take them to parties on leaves of lettuce in her handbag. The book is housed in a brick red cloth box with a cast-paper sculpture of a snail shell to the top cover. The book is bound in tan cloth with an illustration of a snail pasted down to the front cover. Within the folds of the accordion structure binding are smaller gatherings of pages, which include the text. Illustrations of snails roaming the island and encountering the professor are printed on the larger pages. An interesting structure, as is frequent with books issued by the Foolscap Press. Letterpress printed from polymer plates. In fine condition. Unpaginated. [44 pages] PRI/022217.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hardcover. Number 38 of 90 numbered copies for sale, signed by the author, translator, and illustrator. "A novel in eight chapters, each of which are distinct episodes in the life of the narrator. The chapters show us moments of supreme lucidity where the narrator is consciously alive to the beauty of the world and the possibility of love in its many aspects. The setting is the Brezhnev era in the Soviet Union where as the narrator states, love is in essence subversive.' The essence of this novel is how to move beyond recrimination of the past or even the promise of the future and to be consciously alive to the beauty around us, and to that possibility of love. Andreï Makine is an elegant stylist who allows us to witness these clear moments throughout this moving and thoughtful novel" (Foolscap Press). The author, Andreï Makine, was born in Siberia in 1957, but has lived in France since 1987 where he was granted political asylum. He writes in French but has worked closely with Geoffrey Stachan to translate all of his novels into English. Both the author and translator have won major awards for their work. The illustrator, Vladimir Zimakov, is an art professor and director of the art gallery at Lasell University in Massachusetts. He has illustrated numerous books, specializing in limited editions. Bound in gray cloth with red leather spine titled in grey. Includes eight full page color illustrations and eight vignettes. Designed, printed, and bound by Peggy Gotthold and Lawrence Van Velzer. Letterpress printed on Rives paper in Van Dijck type. Housed in a red cloth covered box with gilt and leather title label to spine. In fine condition. Size: 9.75 x 13.5 inches. 103 pages. PRI/102022.

Foolscap Press (illustrator). 9.75 x 13.5 inches. quarter leather over cloth boards, custom cloth-covered box with leather spine label. 103, (7) pages. Translated by Geoffrey Stachan. Illustrated by Vladimir Zimakov. Privately printed in an edition of 100 copies, of which this is one of 90 copies available for sale. Fine in fine clamshell box. The book was designed, printed and bound by Peggy Gotthold and Lawrence Van Velzer at Foolscap Press. The book is printed letterpress on Rives paper in Van Dijck type and signed by the author, translator and artist. There are eight full-page two- or three-color illustrations and eight chapter opening vignettes by Vladimir Zimakov. From the artists: Brief Loves that Live Forever is a novel in eight chapters, each of which are distinct episodes in the life of the narrator. The chapters show us moments of supreme lucidity where the narrator is consciously alive to the beauty of the world and the possibility of love in its many aspects. The setting is the Brezhnev era in the Soviet Union where as the narrator states, "love is in essence subversive." The essence of this novel is how to move beyond recrimination of the past or even the promise of the future and to be consciously alive to the beauty around us, and to that possibility of love. Andreï Makine is an elegant stylist who allows us to witness these clear moments throughout this moving and thoughtful novel. Andreï Makine was born in Siberia in 1957 and has lived in France since 1987 when he traveled there as a member of a teachers exchange program. He determined to stay in France and was granted political asylum. Writing in his adopted language, he is the author of over twenty novels and has won Frances top literary prizes, the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Médicis. In 2016 Makine was elected to the prestigious Académie française, succeeding Assia Djebar. Geoffrey Strachan has worked closely with Andreï Makine, translating all of the novels published in English. Strachan was awarded the Scott Moncrieff Prize in 1998 for his translation of Makines Le testament français. Strachan was shortlisted for the Moncrieff Prize for Makines The Archipelago of Another Life in 2020 and for Tropic of Violence by Nathacha Appanah in 2019. In 2007 he was a runner up for The Woman Who Waited by Makine. Strachan also translates from German and has won the Schlegel-Tieck award in 1973 for Love and Hate by Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt. Vladimir Zimakov is an illustrator, book artist and designer. He is an associate professor of art and design and the director of the Wedeman Art Gallery at Lasell University in Massachusetts. Zimakov has worked with leading publishing houses such as Penguin, Random House, Faber and Faber, Oxford University Press, the Folio Society illustrating books and producing cover art. He has also worked with Mad Parrot Press/Deep Wood Press, Centipede Press and publishes under the Wild Pangolin Press imprint. quarter leather over cloth boards, custom cloth-covered box with leather spine label.

full leather, clamshell box. Foolscap Press (illustrator). large 4to. full leather, clamshell box. 138 pages. Limited to 175 numbered copies. Here is a book that fairly crackles with wit and wisdom, for six hundred years have not dimmed its ability to speak to our minds through the clarity of its perspective, the power of its language, and the vivid pertinence of its thought. Because of the genius shown in his lyrical works, Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) inspired the Renaissance in Italy. He set patterns and standards for the revival of learning and, at the same time, was a powerful advocate for the preservation of valuable manuscript material. From the classic models, Petrarch transmitted a refinement of taste and thought, and a polish and politeness of speech and style. This copy is bound in a full artist-binding by Don Etherington, bookbinder and former director of Conservation at both the Library of Congress and the Harry Ransom Center (Austin, TX). The binding is a full black and gray crushed moracco with leather onlay panels and ruling in blind. Leather spine label with title stamped in gray ink. Handmade headbands. Beautiful marbled paper makes up the pastedowns and endpapers. Stamped by the binder on the rear pastedown 'Don Etherington 2018'. The book is housed in a custom cloth-covered boards clamshell box with a leather spine label with the title stamped in gray. Petrarch's original manuscript, De remediis utriusque fortunae, or Remedies for Both Good and Bad Fortune, or Phisicke Against Fortune, is a work of prose consisting of two hundred and fifty-three dialogues that he completed near the end of his life. It represents a distillation of his moral philosophy arranged as a treatise that shows how our ideas and actions help us create either true happiness or sorrow and disillusionment. Throughout this long concatenation of dialogues Petrarch counsels modesty in prosperity and courage in adversity; he warns us against putting all our hope of happiness in mundane victories here on earth; instructs us on how to deal with our "Importunate Neighbours," tells us how to cope with "Loss of Time," and what to do when we experience "A Disagreeably Wavering Mind." For Foolscap Press the most difficult choice has been to select from the entire range of Petrarch's dialogues the forty-six that make up this edition. Introduction by Lewis W. Spitz Lewis W. Spitz, William R. Kenan, Jr. University Professor, Professor of history at Stanford University, brings his considerable scholarship to the question of Petrarch's influence on the northern Renaissance, as well as providing an overview of Petrarch's written works. Through background and example he shows why Phisicke Against Fortune is, as he says, "a mirror for mankind." Illustrations by Hans Weiditz Hans Weiditz (c.1495-c.1536) was an important member of the small group of outstanding woodcut designers of the German Renaissance whose membership included Albrect D'rer, Hans Holbein, and Hans Burgkmair. The fact that he was nearly alone in illustrating a great number of secular books makes him in many ways a more interesting artist than his more famous colleagues. Weiditz is best known for his illustrations for "Brunfels' Herbal," which is recognized as the most important herbal of the period and the first botanical book to contain realistic and accurate illustrations. Weiditz's imagination and close observation of real life show most clearly in this herbal and in his handling of the woodcuts for the dialogues of Petrarch. In illustrating Phisicke Against Fortune Weiditz demonstrates his highly individualized style and addresses an astounding range of issues, among which are: an individual's relationship to society; secular versus religious perspective; how we perceive and respond to nature and natural laws; and how we behave toward each other. As an appendix to the text we have included notes on the Weiditz illustrations based on information from Walther Scheidig and translated especially for this edition from the German by Beate Reid. Essay by William M. Ivins, Jr. In his essay on Hans Weiditz, William M. Ivins, Jr. (1881-1961), former Curator of Prints at the Museum of Modern Art, shares his infectious enthusiasm for the artist whose life had remained largely unappreciated until modern scholarship brought to light his great contribution to German Renaissance art. Translation by Thomas Twyne The Elizabethan Age was great both for the depth of its literature and the translations into English of many foreign works. Thomas Twyne's translation of Phisicke Against Fortune, from Latin into English, was completed in 1579. Now, newly transcribed from the Elizabethan blackletter, with the spelling and punctuation standardized, Twyne's translation can be clearly enjoyed. We have retained intact the particular character of the work and the marvelous flavor of the language. This edition brings together for the first time Thomas Twyne's translation of Phisicke Against Fortune and Hans Weiditz's wonderful woodcut illustrations which were made for the German edition of 1532. The original German edition contained two hundred and sixty-one woodcuts illustrating all of Petrarch's dialogues. We have selected forty-six dialogues that represent the enduring wisdom of Petrarch and the impressive imagery of Hans Weiditz. Limited to 175 copies, each book measures 12 x 9 inches and consists of 160 pages printed letterpress on Lana Royal, a mould-made paper from France. The text was set in Monotype as well as handset type using Poliphilus, Bembo Italic and Forum, with Calligraph Initials printed in red. 135 copies are hand-sewn and the rounded spine is covered in red Japanese cloth and is stamped in gold. Printed paper sides cover the boards. 40 copies are specially bound in quarter goatskin and red Japanese cloth and come in a slipcase covered in cloth and printed paper sides.