Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink by Jeff Johnson - 2009

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. Hardcover, dust jacket. 7.5 x 10.75 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 256 pages. "The texts of the three lectures are given with a plethora of well-reproduced visual aids: almost every manuscript, piece of printed matter or artefact that Walker referred to is illustrated close to the reference, from a wide variety of sources." - Sebastian Carter, Journal of the Printing Historical Society Sir Emery Walker (1851-1933) was a leading figure of the Arts and Crafts movement and the inspiration for the revival of fine printing in Britain, the Continent, and America. His November 1888 address to the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society (summarized in Appendix 1 of this book; the original text of the speech is lost) prompted William Morris to found the Kelmscott Press. With Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, Walker established the Doves Press in 1900, and Walker advised other fine presses as well. In 1935 Charles Harry St. John Hornby wrote, "Walker was a mine… Read More

Chicago: Jugoslav Directory & Almanac Publishing, 1926. Cloth. Very good/No Jacket. [290p.] Endpapers toned, a few pages have minimal pencil markings, cover has fade spots on front and scratches on back with corners lightly worn. Designed for the Yugoslavian communities of Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes in the United States, including contemporary advertisements, articles of interest to these communities, fraternal organizations, and a partial directory of countrymen and women in the United States. Some text in English. B&w photographs. (10-1/2"x7")

London: Chappuis, [between 1859 and 1871]. Cabinet card (103 x 62 mm). Photographer's ticket to the verso. Just a couple of tiny spots. Excellent condition. A lovely carte de visite depicting the Crystal Palace in its permanent home at Sydenham sometime after 1856, when the Brunel water towers, one of which is visible in the photo, were erected. The structure was originally built to house the Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations (the Great Exhibition) in Hyde Park in 1851. Popular acclaim saw it preserved and reopened in Sydenham in 1854, but it was destroyed by a fire in 1936. This card bears the ticket of photographer Paul Emile Chappuis (1816-1887), whose Fleet Street studio operated between 1859 and 1871. Chappuis was also an inventor who held several patents on reflectors that would allow light into buildings that would otherwise require gaslights during the day. The firm that he set up to manufacture them was in operation until the Second World War.

Mansfield: Maurizio Martino Publisher, [1993]. First of the Edition, Limited to 225 Copies Only. Portrait frontispiece from the painting of Burton by Lord Leighton, with several black and white plates throughout. 8vo, publisher's original dark green cloth, lettering and pictorial device in gilt on the spine. xvi, 351 (including index) pp. A pristine copy, as mint. LIMITED EDITION. The standard bibliography for the works of Burton. Norman M. Penzer was a Joint Secretary of the Burton Memorial Fund; Member of the Royal Asiatic Society; Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and Member of the Hakluyt Society. F. Grenfell Baker, who wrote the preface to this book, was the traveling medical adviser to R.F. Burton and was the founder of the Burton Memorial Fund.

Mondadori Electa, 2012. 6.82 x 0.7 x 9.73 inches. Like New. Mondadori Electa, Italy, in English, 6.82 x 0.7 x 9.73 inches, 200 pages An authentic guide to Italian craft skills compiled by Fendi, a name that has always been synonymous with in-depth research and good works made by hand. Condition: Like New Ships from Hawaii.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xxvii, 324pp, 16 color illustrations, 170 black and white illustrations. Tan buckram, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, rough-cut edges. Cover is clean and unworn, endpapers lightly foxed, a very occasional spot in margins, contents are overall very clean and sound, binding is tight, some pages still unopened. A very nice copy of a handsome publication. Dust jacket is heavily soiled, chipped and missing a large piece from rear panel.

New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and V&A Publishing, 2018. cloth, dust jacket. 8.75 x 12 inches. cloth, dust jacket. xx, 396 pages, with folding floor plan of the Crystal Palace in pocket at rear. "...an impressive work of scholarship with beautiful visuals that will appeal to anyone interested in early photography... Hamber's splendid book may be regarded for generations as the authoritative account of photography at the 1851 Great Exhibition. Scholars of photographic history will want to add this title to their libraries, and anyone interested in the study of photography will delight in its compelling text and beautiful images..." - Robert Desmarais, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada "Any student of early photography -- or of the international exposition housed in the famous Crystal Palace in London -- will covet this magisterial work of careful scholarship and beautiful bookmaking." - Michael Dirda, "best books list," The Washington Post "Richly illustrated… Read More

Jovis, 2006. Hardcover. New. Hardcover New.

NY: Rider and Driver Publishing Co, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, 4to, brown pebbled cloth, gilt-stamped titles and pictorial pastedown front cover, 399 pages, copiously illustrated. Printed at the Brooklyn Eagle Press, Pages 1- 16 are advertisements for all manner of product and services to horse riders and drivers, the rest an annual compilation of all aspects that relate to the sport. Laid-in is a collection of contemporary news clippings, mostly from NYC dailies, about horses. RIDING CARRIAGES.

Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4to (32 x 24cm). 63pp. Signed by author on half-title (2007). Black paper covers with B/W photograph of endangered ship to upper. White titles to upper cover and spine. Text block tight and unmarked.