William Hesterberg (10 results)
Published by Hesterberg Press, n.p. (but Evanston IL), 1983
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellercloth, dust jacket. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 133, (6) pages. First edition. A fine copy in fine jacket. The first major work by William Hesterberg and his Hesterberg Press. The book is a photographic documentary of the author's hometown of Norborne, Missouri, a small railroad town of 931 people in the northwestern part of the st…ate. The photographs represent a personal view of the friends, neighbors, relatives and personalities in the community who touched his early life and who are unforgettable to him. This familiarity and friendship is clearly evident in each portrait and offers the viewer a rare and unusual view of a changing rural America. Hesterberg Press (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by The Hesterberg Press, Evanston, IL., 2011
- Hardcover
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.Entropy Books
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used - Fine
US$ 95.00
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Quarter lavender cloth gilt with Iris Nevins marbled paper-covered boards, 8vo., 23, (1) pages, illustrated including 5 mounted plates and a folding specimen. No. 11 of 75 numbered copies printed from Baskerville type in all its available forms by William Hesterberg, with Monotype and border ornaments… by Michael & Winifred Bixler, on soft-White Zerkall Book Smooth paper. Bound at Campbell-Logan Bindery with Iris Nevins marbled paper. A fine copy in archival mylar.
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Published by Hesterberg Press, Evanston, Illinois, 2011
- Hardcover
Seller: Woodbridge Rare Books, Suffolk, United KingdomWoodbridge Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
US$ 110.24
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 26x17cm, 23pp. With tipped-in photographic reproductions of title pages, etc and a tipped-in broadside type specimen printed letterpress. Copy 26 of 75, bound in quarter-mauve cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, the paper by Iris Nevins, gilt title to backstrip. A thorough survey of the 18th… century type designer and his eponymous faces, beautifully produced. Quite scarce. Very Good (a small square of moderate fading to the cloth at the head of the upper board, otherwise Fine).
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Published by The Cherryburn Press, Chi
- Hardcover
Seller: The Literary Lion, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.The Literary Lion
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used - Fine
US$ 200.00
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. (1975). Limited to 100 copies. Thin octavo brown decorated cloth stamped in gilt. Portrait frontispiece and sixteen fine wood engravings. From the preface, "The intent of this book is to explore in Thomas Bewick's engravings and writings his interest in the subject of monuments, both personal and publ…ic". With an addendum and acknowledgments. Fine in the publisher's slipcase. Thomas Bewick (illustrator).
Published by The Hesterberg Press ( 2013 ), Evanston, IL, 2013
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Contact seller2-star sellerCondition: Used - Fine
US$ 100.00
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Add to basketSewn wrappers. Condition: Fine. First, Limited Edition. Small quarto, French wrappers. Rare. This copy is pencilled "3/4 Press Copy". Carolyn Hammer asked William Hesterberg to write this piece for the Encyclopedia, inspired by Hesterberg's master's thesis. Carolyn provided the photograph of Victor by Martin Jessee. This hand-pr…inted work features Hammer's American Uncial type on Arches paper and Zerkall Book papers.
More imagesPublished by Hesterberg Press, The, Evanston, IL, 2014
- Hardcover
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star seller8vo. quarter cloth, paste paper covered boards. 40 pages. Limited to 70 numbered copies. A fine copy. The life of Chicagoan Robert Hunter Middleton, distinguished Ludlow type designer and private press printer, is summarized in this long overdue work that speaks of the twenty year friendship between William Hesterberg and Robert… and Katherine Middleton. quarter cloth, paste paper covered boards. Hesterberg Press (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by Hesterberg Press, Evanston, IL, 2011
- Hardcover
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellertall 8vo. quarter cloth and marbled paper covered boards. 23 pages. One of 75 copies. This wonderfully produced book by The Hesterberg Press chronicles the history of Baskerville type, starting with the influence from Caslon type in 1757 to how it has evolved in the present day. Includes tipped in samples, along with a facsimile… of an early Baskerville type specimen produced by The Hesterberg Press. quarter cloth and marbled paper covered boards. Hesterberg Press (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by The Hestberg Press, Evanstan, Ill, 2011
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, CanadaMinotavros Books, ABAC ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Near fine
US$ 120.48
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo (royal). Copy 45 of 75 limited printed copies. Pink quarter-cloth over pink, marbled boards, purple endpapers, 23pp, illustrated with [5] tipped-in illustrations, and [1] folding sample of Baskerville types. Light sunning on boards, spine. Near FIne.
Published by Cherryburn Press, Chicago, 1975
- Hardcover
Seller: Karl Books, Alpharetta, GA, U.S.A.Karl Books
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 100 copies of which this is numbered 22. Near Fine hardcover in slipcase. This book presents a selection of Bewick's engravings and writings on the subject of monuments, both personal and public. The text contains writings from MEMOIR, two letters and several notations made by…Bewick and his daughter Jane in the margins of two 1821 volumes of the BRITISH BIRDS now in the Victoria and Albert Museum Library, London. Sixteen tailpieces were selected and carefully reproduced on copper from the MEMORIAL EDITION. Other illustrations tipped in include a portrait of Bewick from an original engraving by Burnett, a halftone photograph of Bewick's gravestone and a print pulled on troya paper from an original block. The book is 6" by 8 3/4" and is printed in monotype Baskerville in black on a callendered Japanese paper. Original prospectus enclosed.
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Seller: Trillium Antiquarian Books, Peterborough, ON, CanadaTrillium Antiquarian Books
Contact seller5-star sellerAssociation member: IOBA
Condition: Used - Fine
US$ 275.00
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Chicago: Cherryburn Press, 1975. No. 55 of an edition limited to 100 (pp. 48). Tall octavo (23 cm) in soft brown publisher's cloth with matching slipcase, gilt titles and decoration; sixteen wood engravings by Bewick printed on fine calendered paper, text set in Baskerville. Portrait of Bewick togethe…r with a specially mounted print in a folding album by way of a frontispiece. A brief discussion of Bewick's wood engravings as monuments and memorials which appeared here and there in his work. A Fine copy of a handsome little book.
