Plain Wrapper Press (10 results)

stiff paper wrappers. Plain Wrapper Press (illustrator). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 29, (3) pages. Printed in Italy at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona (Smyth, p.12). A fine copy. With a note on the Press by Kenneth I. Pettitt. The second checklist issued since its founding in 1966, containing twenty-nine items. With photo of the printers and facsimiles of bindings and title-pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Frontispiece portrait, checklist, list of PWP hand-printed editions currently in print loosely folded in. Printed wrappers with press device. A fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Set in Diotima, designed by Gudrun Zapf, printed in black, two blues and two purples on Velké Losiny handmade Prague paper at Sandy Tilcock s Lone Goose Press in Bisbee, AZ. Paste papers (predominantly in shades of blue) designed and produced for the covers by Sandy Tilcock. One of 100 copies. Colophon signed by the artist and by the author of the introduction. Quarter-bound in gold-stamped blue leather, with slipcase, by Jace Graf at Cloverleaf Studio in Austin, TX. Publisher Emeritus Gabriel Rummonds oversaw the project. New copy. Book design by Jerry Kelly. Republished on its 175th anniversary. New introduction by Carnegie Mellon s Lisa Tetrault, Ph.D., and two high-impact, three-colour images by Susan Lowdermilk, both with wood engravings.

paper-covered boards. Plain Wrapper Press (illustrator). 4to. paper-covered boards. 7+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 155 numbered and signed copies. (Plain Wrappers Press 29). Foot of spine bumped, else a fine copy with errata sheet inserted apologizing for the error on the colophon page. Five poems in English by Brendan Gill. Two of the poems, "Ferragosto" and "Norfolk," were written especially for this edition. "Easter" was previously published in Harper's magazine, and "In Wicklow" and "Voices" previously appeared in The New Yorker. Toned parchment substitute wove paper printed damp on a Washington handpress in black and light brown. Covers are glued boards covered with matching Ingres paper screenprinted in black and yellow with a leaf-and-berry pattern.

paper-covered boards. Plain Wrapper Press (illustrator). 4to. paper-covered boards. 7+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 155 numbered and signed copies. (Plain Wrappers Press 29). Neat private bookplate of John Carroll Collins on front pastedown. A fine copy with errata sheet inserted apologizing for the error on the colophon page. Five poems in English by Brendan Gill. Two of the poems, "Ferragosto" and "Norfolk," were written especially for this edition. "Easter" was previously published in Harper's magazine, and "In Wicklow" and "Voices" previously appeared in The New Yorker. Toned parchment substitute wove paper printed damp on a Washington handpress in black and light brown. Covers are glued boards covered with matching Ingres paper screenprinted in black and yellow with a leaf-and-berry pattern.

paper-covered boards. Plain Wrapper Press (illustrator). 4to. paper-covered boards. 7+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 155 numbered and signed copies. (Plain Wrappers Press 29). A fine copy with errata sheet inserted apologizing for the error on the colophon page. Five poems in English by Brendan Gill. Two of the poems, "Ferragosto" and "Norfolk," were written especially for this edition. "Easter" was previously published in Harper's magazine, and "In Wicklow" and "Voices" previously appeared in The New Yorker. Toned parchment substitute wove paper printed damp on a Washington handpress in black and light brown. Covers are glued boards covered with matching Ingres paper screenprinted in black and yellow with a leaf-and-berry pattern.

brown stiff paper wrappers. Plain Wrapper Press (illustrator). 8vo. brown stiff paper wrappers. Unpaginated (but 4 pages). A Spectrum Specimen. A "keepsake, limited to seventy copies" (Taylor, Item 23). Excellent condition. Contains type specimens and mottos of Sabastian Gryphius, Christopher Plantin, Geofroy Tory, Mark Flynn, Theodore Martens, and Aldus Manutius. Commemorates Abe Lerner's seventieth birthday, September 14, 1978. Very scarce.

Paul Zweig (1935-1984) was an American poet, critic, and memoirist, who taught at Columbia University. His poem, Images & Footsteps, first appeared in The Hudson Review. Bertha Moltke (b. 1938) is a Dutch painter and printmaker. Her art has been featured at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and many other places Quarto. 26], [+1, colophon] pp. The frontispiece is one of five surrealist etchings by Berta Moltke. Handset in Horizon Light type from Bauersche Giesserei, printed letterpress on a Washington Press on handmade Umbria paper from the Cartiere Miliani Fabriano. Etchings pulled by Luciano Cristini. Quarter green morocco, ruled and stamped in gilt, over boards with a gilt-lettered spine and with original prospectus, order form, and signed, typed letter on Plain Wrapper Press letterhead written by Richard-Gabriel Rummonds dated September 15th, 1971 to John J. Walsdorf offering this book for sale with the original mailing envelope postmarked September 17th, 1971 A fine copy in original board slipcase that is very lightly worn with minor soiling. One of 200 copies, signed by the author and artist on the colophon. One of 200 copies, signed by the author and artist on the colophon. Title-page additionally inscribed by Berta Moltke.

Condition: Fine. 4to, unpag.; saddle-stitched in printed wrappers. One of 130 press-numbered copies, the entire edition, printed by Gabriel Rummonds and Alessandro Zanella as a keepsake from the press.

First edition. Tan paper boards, lettered in red on the front board, publisher's cardboard slipcase. Slipcase shows some minor handling wear, book fine. One of 80 numbered copies, signed by the authors. Ten poems in Italian, French, English, and Latin by Max [Paolo] D'Arpini and ten aphorisms in Italian by Bruno Corridori. With a linocut by Ger van Dijck and a woodcut by Mirek [Miroslav Zahradka]. A very early Rummonds/Plain Wrapper publication.