New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1970. First Edition. Blue and Tan Cloth. One of 600 copies bound in cloth. Signed and inscribed by printer Joseph Blumenthal. Very, very minor scuff to top spine edge. Bookplate at front pastedown. Binding tight, text clean. Model copy. More
NY: Frederic C. Biel, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in near fine dustjacket, inscribed by typographer and book designer Joe Blumenthal to Mike McCabe, owner of the former Lion's Head Books in Salisbury CT, the premises of which are now Johnnycake Books: "for Mike best of country neighbors. Joe..... More
NY: The Spiral Press, 1927. Fiene, Ernest. First Edition, Limited. Hardcover. Some edgewear and shallow loss to paper-backed boards top edge and corners. Early Spiral Press imprint, this #16 of 425 copies, of Elizabethean poetry . Personal copy of its publisher Joe Blumenthal and his wife Ann bearing Joe's very..... More
Boston: David R Godine, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Centennial publication honoring Robert Frost listing, with commentary, 100 of Frost's publications that made up the exhibition on the anniversary of Frost's birth. Book designed by Joe Blumenthal, who designed many of Frost's books, including his earliest, and Frost's annual Christmas cards..... More
NY: Pantheon, 1963. Shahn, Ben. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. First edition. Oblong 8vo. Near fine in price-clipped dw that has a small chip along top panel and modestky edgewron elsewhere. INSCRIBED BY TYPOGRAPHER JOSEPH BLUMENTHAL, publisher of The Spiral Press, who designed the typography for this book, on the colophon..... More