Anvil press (17 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Sewn creme wrappers printed in black, 12mo., (15) pages, two photograhic illustrations. With a hand-list of publications through 1957. Combined single sheet subscription form and order blank laid in. A near fine copy with just a trace of soiling and edgewear.

paper wrappers. small 8vo. paper wrappers. (4) pages, french fold. The Anvil Press's announces a new book in print. Giovanni Pico, Count of Mirandola (1463-94) is featured here. A fine copy. Anvil Press (illustrator).

Zustand: Good. 8vo. 15 pp., Stapled Wraps, Very Good+. First Edition.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Broadside measuring 8 1/2 by 5 3/4 inches. Prospectus for the fourth publication of the Anvil Press. Layout and presswork by Carolyn Reading. Toned, with two soft folds, a very good copy.

8vo. cloth-backed paper over boards, paper spine label. vii, 36 pages. Limited to 80 numbered copies. Very light yellowing along edges of the preliminary pages, else a near fine copy. With an introduction by Carolyn Hammer. Includes Hammer's notes on his travels in Europe, and the eighteenth century mythical story, "The Genius of Rhodes." Printed with Hammer's American Uncial type, with paper made by the Magnani Mills in Pescia, Italy bearing Victor Hammer's watermark. cloth-backed paper over boards, paper spine label. Anvil Press (illustrator).…

cloth, dust jacket. 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. (i), xii, (ii), 106, (2) pages. unopened. Printed in an edition limited to 175 numbered copies. Very fine condition. A collection of stories by Johann Peter Hebel, a German poet from the 1800's who was also considered one of Germany's rare talents. This was translated by Clavia Goodman and Bayard Quincy Morgan. It was printed on Japanese Hosho paper, and the woodcut on the wrapper is by Victor Hammer from a drawing by Leo Delitz. Anvil Press (illustrator).…

small 8vo. paper-covered boards, paper spine label. unpaginated. Printed in an edition limited to 225 numbered copies. A fine copy. The text is that of the Fairfax MS 16, Bodleian Library (The Chaucer Society, First Series, xxix, edited by F. J. Furnivall, 1871. The type used is American Uncial printed in black and red. Beautiful little book. "Victor Hammer laid the book out and give it final form together with Jacob Hammer who has set the type and done the presswork." paper-covered boards, paper spine label. Anvil Press (illustrator).…

16mo. paper-covered boards, paper spine labels. variously paginated. 4 Volumes. Printed in an edition limited to 300 copies (Holbrook, 15). Acetate dust jackets are present on all but one volume (St. Marke). Spine of the St. Marke volume lightly age-darkened, small crease to the foot of the spine of the St. John volume. Else a near fine set. William Tyndale's translation, possibly began circa 1522, of the four gospels of Saints Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. A portion of the first translation of the Bible from the original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts into the English language. Laid out by Victor Hammer, press work by Jacob Hammer. Each title preceded by two woodcuts from the Holkham Bible which depict the symbolic representations of the gospel writers of angel, bull, lion, and eagle. paper-covered boards, paper spine labels. Anvil Press (illustrator).…

No Binding. Zustand: Fine. Two sheets of Iyo Glased paper folded once to form eight 11 by 8 1/2 inch pages. Printed from Victor Hammer's American and Andrormaque uncial type in red and black. This fine specimen consists of pages 41-48.

Boards. Zustand: Very good. Limited Edition. Large octavo, [78pp]. Bound in the publisher's tan paper-covered boards, with printed paper label on the spine. Text in black and red, with layout by Victor Hammer and printing by Jacob Hammer for the Anvil Press. Uncut edges. Light soiling to paper boards, internally clean. Booksellers' label on the rear pastedown. Lacking the publisher's issue dust jacket. From a limited edition of 240 copies, this being number 149. The limited edition of Shake-Speares Sonnets by William Shakespeare, one of 240 numbered copies from the Anvil Fine Press. (illustrator).…

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. Limited Edition. Sixteenmo, [12pp]. Bound in the publisher's patterned paper-covered boards. Faint wear along the spine, else fine. Printed in black and red, with illustrations from Chinese sources, including a drawing of Lao Tzu. Printed by Nancy Chambers for the Anvil Press as Special Publication III. The text is translated from Brecht's German Zu Taoteking and was published with the permission of Suhrkamp Verlag. From a limited edition of 150 copies, individually numbered, this being 109. Brecht's poem recounts the legend of Lao Tzu composing the Tao Te Ching while leaving his homeland. The limited edition of On 'Tao Te Ching' by Bertolt Brecht, one of 150 numbered copies from The Anvil Press. (illustrator).…

8vo. paper-covered boards, paper label, later cardboard slipcase. (vi), 15+(1) pages. First edition, limited to 50 numbered copies. A fine copy. Set in Unical and printed by Carolyn Hammer and Paul Holbrook on paper from the Magnani Mills, Pescia, Italy. The fourth work on Victor Hammer to be published by this press. This typescript was originally sent by Victor Hammer to the Library of Congress in July 1955. An interesting discussion on the roman letter in its written and printed form. paper-covered boards, paper label, later cardboard slipcase. Anvil Press (illustrator).…

Unpaginated. 16 x 12 3/4 cm. #9/200 cc. Printed by Carilyn Reading Hammer. Nr Fine (very slight fading to covers/previous owner's bkplate on fpd). Paper covered boards with black & red lettering on front cover & spine 1st edition thus. Ch. 9 from 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' (Crane, A16-3).

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good+ binding. Octavo. 62 pp. Limited edition, number 66 of 225 copies. As issued, in paper over boards. Largely unopened. Binding is lightly soiled with minor shelfwear. A better, brighter copy that often found. Printed by Jacob Hammer in red and black in Victor Hammer's American Uncial type with title in Civilite. A beautiful edition designed by Victor Hammer and issued by the Lexington collective, The Anvil Press. The Press and those associated became the center of the burgeoning private press scene in Lexington in the middle of the 20th century. Certainly, Victor Hammer was the most accomplished and established of the group having been practicing the art at the highest levels in Florence and Vienna in the 1920s and 1930s before the War chased him to Aurora, New York and eventually Lexington in 1948. But the Anvil Press was much more than just Victor Hammer. This movement began years before Hammer's arrival and continued well beyond his death. Holbrook, Paul Evans (ed.). An Introduction to Victor and Carolyn Hammer (1995): VI/4.…

Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine binding. Small quarto. 18 pp. Limited edition, one of 200 copies (Holbrook notes, perhaps in error, that it was an edition of 250). Signed by Carolyn R. Hammer at the colophon. As issued, in paper over boards with title printed in black and red on the front board. Light soiling, but generally a very nice copy, clean throughout. Designed, printed, and bound by Carolyn Reading Hammer in red and black in Victor Hammer's American Uncial type with title in Civilite. C. R. Hammer was one of the driving forces behind the Anvil Press and the King Library Press collectives in Lexington. A remarkable printer and unquestionably one of the catalysts of the vigorous private press movement in Lexington in the second half of the 20th century. Holbrook, Paul Evans (ed.). An Introduction to Victor and Carolyn Hammer (1995): VI/3. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Tan paper-covered boards printed in black, DW, thick square 12mo., xii, (1), 106, (1) pages. One of 175 numbered copies planned by Victor Hammer and printed in red and black from Rudolf Koch's Jessen type by Jacob Hammer on Japanese Hosho handmade paper. Printed slip laid in. Bound by Lucy Crump with Duna (Val de Laga) paper over boards, with the Boxwood Binders ticket affixed. A clean, near fine copy in a very near fine printed DW with a Victor Hammer woodcut after Leo Delitz, in archival mylar.…

4to. quarter leather over marbled paper-covered boards, edges uncut. 19, (2) pages. Selections from a Contemplation on an Historical Passage in the Old Testament. First edition limited to 60 numbered copies signed by Fritz Kredel. Prospectus loosely inserted. A near fine copy of this rare book. Originally published in London in 1612-1626, with these selections from an Edinburgh edition from 1770. With illustrations by Fritz Kredel. Printed by Victor Hammer in black, red, and blue on handmade Magnani paper. Eight illustrations by Fritz Kredal after the Biblia Pauperum. quarter leather over marbled paper-covered boards, edges uncut. Anvil Press (illustrator). …