A short list of books and ephemera printed by women from the 18th to the 21st century including several items by Jane Grabhorn, Distaff Side, and The Janus Press.
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Philadelphia: Printed by Lydia R. Bailey for Benjamin and Thomas Kite, [1812]. Original Wrappers. 12mo. [48] pp. Stitched into self wrappers. Heavily worn with loss to the bottom of the cover title including, unfortunately, the imprint which bears Bailey's name. This same loss affects the note to the reader on.....
Philadelphia: Printed by Lydia R. Bailey for Benjamin and Thomas Kite, [1815]. Original Wrappers. 12mo. [36] pp. illus. Stitched into self wrappers; title vignette and anatomical illustration. Final leaf is missing the bottom third of the leaf; otherwise generally worn with many folded corners; ragged page edges; early tidelines; some.....
Jerome, AZ: The M Kimberly Press, 1994. Original Wrappers. Octavo. [24] pp., illus. Limited edition, number 36 of 100 copies, signed by Blocker. As issued, sewn into printed wrappers. Printed in black with a marching ant motif in brown across the bottom margin of each page. A playful book with.....
![Item #7556 [Keepsake] PRINTERS ARE EDUCATED IN THE BELIEF. . . Feathered Serpent Press, Benjamin...](https://michaelpyron.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7556.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1678733042)
Susan Acker at the Feathered Serpent Press, 1978. Broadside. Bifolium. 5.5" x 7". Cover is blank. Opening is a woodcut of a type case with a quote from Franklin's Apology for Printers (1730): "Printers are educated in the Belief, that when men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought to have.....
![Item #7555 [Cover Title] COLT PRESS FIRST ANNIVERSARY, 1939. Jane. Colt Press Grabhorn](https://michaelpyron.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7555.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1678733042)
San Francisco: Colt Press, 1939. Original Wrappers. 12mo. [12] pp., illus. As issued, stapled into stiff, printed wrappers; loose order form laid in. Light soiling to the bright yellow wrappers; some faint wrinkling to the inner margin of the contents, likely from folding and binding; contents clean. A bright copy.....
![Item #7554 [Cover Title] THE COLT SPRINGS HIGH FOR 1940. Jane. Colt Press Grabhorn](https://michaelpyron.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7554.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1678733042)
San Francisco: Colt Press, [1940]. Original Wrappers. Small octavo. [16] pp. As issued, stapled into self wrappers. Lengthy introduction in Grabhorn's inimitable prose as well as upcoming books for 1940. Final leaf is a perforated order from. Soiling to the covers, but largely a clean, bright copy of an early.....
London & West Burke, VT: Gefn Janus Limited, 1998. Soft Cover. 16mo. [16] pp., illus. Half-sized facsimile. French-fold accordian book nestled in Thai gold-threaded burgundy paper in a white, lidded box with a pink sleeve titled in black. The original edition has hand-printed lithographs with rubber stamped text and shoe.....
Newark, VT: Janus Press. Soft Cover. Quarto. [40] pp., illus. Limited edition, one of 3500 copies. As issued, in printed wrappers. Illustrated throughout with Schumann's bold illustrations, often repetitiously filling a full page. A striking production in exceptionally nice condition. One of four Bread and Puppets publication issued by Van.....
Newark, VT: Printed by the Janus Press for Charles Seluzicki, Poetry Bookseller in Baltimore, MD, 1978. Soft Cover. Folio. [24] pp., illus. Limited edition, number 236 of 300 copies (15 of which are unnumbered, hors commerce). As issued, in heavy paper wrappers with decorations stamped in mauve. A bright copy.....
Newark, VT: Janus Press. Unbound. An assortment of correspondence from Van Vliet to "Standing Order Patrons." The group includes (8) typed letters signed by "Claire" that accompanied books, one with a customer invoice, the dates range from 1995-2003. (1) photocopied manuscript letter announcing a Galway Kinnell broadside, order slip not.....
Janus Press. Original Wrappers. (1) Janus Press catalog [2006] with publication from 1993-2006; three color illustrations pasted in; (2) Janus Press catalogues made up of broadside printing laid into printed wrappers, (c. 1967 & 1977). Fairly early catalogues; the broadsides of the latter are folding and includes a note to.....
Warsaw, Poland | Tucson, AZ: [Beata Wehr], 2000-2001. Soft Cover. According fold. Approx 8" x 5". Limited edition, this is number 11 of 20 copies. Black canvas strip sewn to the covers with an rusted washer sew over the canvas to the front cover; the contents are a single accordion.....