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- Keyword = Fine Bookbinding
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DÉZÉ, Louis. LOUYS, Pierre.
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Sanguines.
Paris
Philippe Renouard for Eugene Fasquelle
1903
An excellent signed example of Dézé’s accomplished, if not always tasteful, moulded leatehr bindings on the first edition of Pierre Louy’s first collection of stories.
Louis…More details Price: £2,200.00 -
BIRD & BULL PRESS. CAMPBELL, Gregor R.
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Son of the Bookbinder. With an appendix showing samples of some of the finest bookcloths manufactured today.
Newtown, PA
Bird & Bull Press
2004
Written by the bookbinder Gregory Campbell, the son of Allan Campbell who founded the Campbell-Logan Bindery in 1949 which binds so many fine press books…More details Price: £400.00
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VERNIER, Renaud, bookbinder. CHAR, Rene
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L'Une et L'Autre.
Alès
[P.A. Benoit]
1957
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STUART, Gloria.
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Writing a Poem about Flying a Kite
[Los Angeles]
Imprenta Glorias
1987
An errata on gampi paper with cut out sheet with birds before it, states “I started writing a poem about flying a kite whilst walking…More details Price: £950.00 -
SMITH, Sally Lou.
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Four Lectures by T.J. Cobden Sanderson.
San Francisco
The Book Club of California
1974
Together with a signed, handwritten letter by Sally Lou Smith from her home in London and dated 18 November 1996 describing the book’s provenance to…More details Price: £6,800.00 -
SMITH, Philip, bookbinder. TOLKEIN, J.R.R.
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The Lord of the Rings. I. The Fellowship of the Ring; II. The Two Towers; III. The Return of the King.
London
George Allen & Unwin
[1968]
A spectacular design by Philip Smith which he conceived as a whole, stretching across the entire binding using Smith’s patented ‘maril’ (marbled inlaid leather) technique…More details Price: £7,500.00 -
SCHROTH, E., binder. HAFIS.
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Eine Sammlung persischer Gedichte.
Basel
Verlag Birkhäuser
1945
The seventh volume of the Birkhauser collections of poetry.
Hafis, otherwise known as Mohammed Schemseddin, was the greatest secular poet of the Near East, being born…More details Price: £1,600.00 -
SAMPLE BOOK. NELSON-WHITEHEAD PAPER CORP.
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Genuine Japanese Wood Veneer.
New York
7 Laight Street
c.1950
The details stress that only 5 thicknesses are stocked in New York in natural colour and the rest have to be ordered.
Nelson-Whitehead Paper Corp…More details Price: £480.00 -
SAMPLE BOOK. G.E. TAYLOR & SONS.
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45 samples of different varieties of book cloth.
Bristol, UK
10, Small Street
27 Dec 1950
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MIURA, Tini, bookbinder. MIDDLETON, Bernard.
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You Can Judge a Book by Its Cover: A Brief Survey of Materials.
North Hills
printed by Henry Morris for Mel Kavin
1994
A charming publication with Bernard Middleton’s text about book binding accompanied with de Pol’s charming illustrations, beautifully designed by Ward Ritchie and printed by Henry…More details Price: £480.00 -
COAT OF ARMS of GENERAL SIR RICHARD THOMAS FARREN.
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Illuminated coat of arms painted in various colours on vellum.
1860
This was how a Coat of Arms was presented by the Heralds to the recipient for them to show, along with a Grant of Arms…More details Price: £480.00 -
CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT. LAO TZU. GILES, Lionel.
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Sayings of Lao Tzu.
[London
c.1995].
The calligrapher notes that help has been given with the Chinese characters from Clive Clunas at the V & A Museum.
Lao Tzu was the first…More details Price: £1,200.00 -
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STUART, Gloria. RITCHIE, Ward. [JEFFERS, Robinson and Una]
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The Inscriptions at Tor House and Hawk Tower.
[Los Angeles]
Imprenta Glorias
1988
The imprint of Gloria Stuart, possibly best known for her role as the elderly Rose in the film Titanic. She began printing late in life,…More details Price: £1,200.00 -
![Rabelais. by [MEYER] EDGAR-FAURE, Lucie, bookbinder. FRANCE, Anatole.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/12264---200.jpg?v=1746029918)
[MEYER] EDGAR-FAURE, Lucie, bookbinder. FRANCE, Anatole.
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Rabelais.
Paris
Calmann-Lévy
1929
Lucie Meyer, later Edgar-Faure, (1908-1977) was from Alsace. On the guidance of her uncle, Julien Cain, she studied History of Art at the Sorbonne and…More details Price: £1,600.00 -
LÉVY, Lucette H., bookbinder. NODIER, Charles.
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Écrin d’un Conteur, Choix de Contes.
Paris
G. Charpentier
1887
In the 1920s many women were drawn to the medium of bookbinding, perhaps influenced by the new modernist designs forged by Pierre Legrain. The women…More details Price: £1,600.00 -
LÉVY, Lucette H., bookbinder. KESSEL, Joseph. LE BRETON, Constant.
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L’Équipage.
Paris
Librairie Gallimard
1925
A WWI novel by Joseph Kessel focussed on a the crew of a two-man reconnaissance plane, inscribed in memory of the author it would seem…More details Price: £1,700.00 -
LÉVY, Lucette H., bookbinder. FLAUBERT, Gustave.
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Madame Bovary.
Paris
Henri Cyral
1927
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LÉVY, Lucette H., bookbinder. DUHAMEL, Georges.
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Confession de Minuit.
Paris
Henri Jonquières
1926
A splendid art deco binding by Lucette Levy, very much in the same style as the bindings of Genevieve de Leotard (see the work in…More details Price: £2,700.00 -
![Le Chateau des Brouillards. by [LÉVY, Lucette H., bookbinder]. DORGELÈS, Roland.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/12371---200.jpg?v=1746029814)
[LÉVY, Lucette H., bookbinder]. DORGELÈS, Roland.
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Le Chateau des Brouillards.
Paris
Albin Michel
1932
Although this book is not signed, it came with the others in the group and by its style and accuracy of tooling must have been…More details Price: £1,500.00 -
LÉVY, Lucette H., bookbinder. DE BONDY, Comte de. MARTY, A.-E.
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Constance dans les Cieux.
Paris
Georges Servant aux Éditions de la Lampe d’Argile.
1925
More details Price: £1,700.00
![The Inscriptions at Tor House and Hawk Tower. by STUART, Gloria. RITCHIE, Ward. [JEFFERS, Robinson and Una]](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/12107---800.jpg?v=1746029688)
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![Another image of The Inscriptions at Tor House and Hawk Tower. by STUART, Gloria. RITCHIE, Ward. [JEFFERS, Robinson and Una]](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/12107_7---800.jpg?v=1746028397)
![Rabelais. by [MEYER] EDGAR-FAURE, Lucie, bookbinder. FRANCE, Anatole.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/12264---800.jpg?v=1746029918)
![Another image of Rabelais. by [MEYER] EDGAR-FAURE, Lucie, bookbinder. FRANCE, Anatole.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/12264_2---800.jpg?v=1746029800)
![Another image of Rabelais. by [MEYER] EDGAR-FAURE, Lucie, bookbinder. FRANCE, Anatole.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/12264_3---800.jpg?v=1746030037)
![Another image of Rabelais. by [MEYER] EDGAR-FAURE, Lucie, bookbinder. FRANCE, Anatole.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/12264_4---800.jpg?v=1746029071)
![Le Chateau des Brouillards. by [LÉVY, Lucette H., bookbinder]. DORGELÈS, Roland.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/12371---800.jpg?v=1746029814)
