Kate Holland binding on Peter Koch's, Fragments of Parmenides. Photograph inside depicts refugees making the same crossing from Turkey to Greece nearly 2500 years later that Parmenides’s family made. #nyabaa26 #booktok #rarebooks #finepress #designbinding #artistbooks #bookarts
2026, quotations by Orwell from 1984 and Animal Farm. New book by Verdigris. #finepress #artistbooks #booktok #orwell
2026, quotations by Orwell from 1984 and Animal Farm. New book by Verdigris. #finepress #artistbooks #booktok #orwell
Reduction woodcuts by Gaylord Schanilec: This is a set of progressive proofs from Lac Des Pleurs: Report from Lake Pepin. Will be in the booth at the NYC ABAA fair. #nyabaa26 #woodcuts #finepress #artistbook #bookarts #rarebooks #booktok
Another brilliant bit of work by DR Wakefield and Chevington Press. This from a deluxe copy with dozens of state proofs. #finepress #artistbooks #bookarts
Cataloging some earlier work by DR Wakefield and Chevington Press. His engravings never cease to amaze me. #finepress #artistbooks #bookarts

Slowly updating https://www.fromoldbooks.org/books-for-sale.html books for sale page.

I am not a bookseller by trade, but have accumulated hundreds of books over the years, and there are too many. The strategy is to try and sell exceptionally interesting ones first and maybe have money for groceries, too!

Some of these i bought to study the layout and typography (e.g. the Four Gospels fac simile). Which i did.

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Books for sale [FOBO]

Happy Publication Day to the latest here at the Press: "The Angle of Dazzle" by Henry David Thoreau!

Limited edition letterpress printed selection from HDT's journal, with two original linocuts from the marvelous Lana Lambert and handsewn in hand-marbled paper jackets by the brilliant Laura Berretti.
Limited edition of 85 books. $50

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More info here:
https://www.stbrigidpress.net/books/the-angle-of-dazzle

The Angle of Dazzle — St Brigid Press

Letterpress printed selection from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau

St Brigid Press