Plain Wrapper Press (11 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.

FIRST EDITION, limited to 300 copies (+ 40 specially bound), folio, pp.74 + colophon; 14 colour plates; very good in prointed stiff wrapper. Bibliography Private Press.

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.

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). 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 copy. Folio, original quarter-leather & cloth, in publisher's cloth box. Fine copy. First edition. Limited to 40 copies signed by Rummonds. The Sampler includes a checklist of books produced by Rummonds at the Plain Wrapper Press and at Ex Ophidia. "This edition . . . was composed in Monotype Dante by Michael and Winifred Bixler. Golda Laurens lettered the title. Bradley Hutchinson printed the front and back matter on Magnani mouldmade paper and the wrappers on Fabriano Ingres mouldmade paper. The signatures and sections in the sampler were printed on a variety of papers by Richard-Gabriel Rummonds and Alessandro Zanella. The frontispiece photograph was taken by Guido Trevisani. The edition was quarter bound in leather with cloth boards by Craig Jensen at BookLab." - from the colophon.

FIRST EDITION, 118/155 COPIES signed by the author, printed on handmade paper, title-page vignette and the title to each poem printed in brown, errata leaf laid in at colophon (wherein the unidentified erratum), pp. 7, 4to, original sewn boards of brown and ochre patterned paper, inset label to upper board, edges untrimmed, fine condition. Poems collected for the first time here; Gill was a US journalist, known for his work - particularly as a critic of film and architecture - at the New Yorker.