Book Arts Press Publications and Gifts
This is the catalog of the various items available for purchase from Rare Book School.How to Order
Domestic Shipping Rates: All BAP and RBS items are shipped within the US using United Parcel Service (UPS) for a flat fee of $5.00 plus $1.00 for each additional item. If we are shipping to a location within Virginia, please add 5% sales tax to all items (shipping is non-taxable). Please contact us for shipping rates on bulk orders.
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Book Arts Press
114 Alderman Library
PO Box 400103
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4103
The Products
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New Item
| G6 | Printers' Hats. The RBS 2003 Christmas Card took the form of a large folded poster. One side consisted of an illustrated essay on the history of printers' hats; the other side contained instructions for refolding the poster into a printer's hat. In 2008, we reprinted a new edition of the printer's hat poster. See the Printer's hat picture below! | (USD)
$.60/ea. (10 or more) $.50/ea. (50 or more) |
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Books and Pamphlets
| B1 | Belanger, Terry, ed. Proceedings of the Fine Printing Conference at Columbia University Held May 19-22, 1982. 1982, reprinted 1992. 122 pp. | Out of Stock |
| B2 | BAP Address Book. Lists of: the Friends of Rare Book School, Rare Book School attendees 1983-2007, all courses offered by RBS 1983-2008, BAP/RBS Lectures nos. 1-500, ABAA members, ARL senior librarians, &c., &c. All Friends receive a copy of this publication, which appears approximately every two years. To join the Friends of Rare Book School, please visit our Friends of RBS page. Additional copies are available to Friends at $15 per copy. | $30 |
| B3 | Breslauer, B. H. The Uses of Bookbinding Literature. 1986. An annotated and evaluative guide to the literature of bookbinding. | $10 |
| B4 | de Hamel, Christopher. Cutting up Manuscripts for Pleasure and Profit. 1996. The 1995 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture. Second Printing, 1998. | $10 |
| B6 | Printing & Graphic Arts. Through the kindness of Roderick Stinehour, the BAP has mint copies for sale of bound volumes V through IX of this distinguished periodical (1953-65), as well as individual copies of a number of single issues. The bound volumes are $7 each; individual issues are $2 each. Our diminishing stock of these issues and volumes varies at any given point; ask us what's currently available! | |
| B7 | Rare Book School 1993 Yearbook. Names and addresses of participants and complete course evaluations; 218 pp, with about 50 photographs. | $10 |
| B8 | Rare Book School 1998 Yearbook. As above, sans course evaluations; 72 pp, with about 7 photographs. | $5 |
| B9 | Rare Book School 1999 Yearbook. As above; 91 pages, with about 60 photographs. | $5 |
| B10 | Rosenthal, Bernard M. The Gentle Invasion: Continental Emigre Booksellers of the Thirties and Forties and Their Impact on the Antiquarian Booktrade in the United States. The 1986 Sol M. Malkin Lecture. New printing, with a postscript. | Out of Stock |
| B11 | Rota, Anthony. The Changing Face of Antiquarian Bookselling, 1950-2000 A.D. 1995. The 1994 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture. | Out of Stock |
| B12 | Schiller, Justin G. Pioneering Collectible Children's Books: The First 100 Years. 2002. The 1993 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture. | $10 |
| B13 | Stoddard, Roger E. 'Put a Resolute Hart to a Steep Hill': William Gowans, Antiquary and Bookseller. 1990. The 1988 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture. | $10 |
| B14 | Tanselle, G. Thomas. Introduction to Bibliography: Seminar Syllabus. Fifth BAP edition, 2002. 370 pp. | $25 |
| B15 | ______. Introduction to Scholarly Editing: Seminar Syllabus. Second BAP edition, 2002. 257 pp. | $20 |
| B16 | ______. Libraries, Museums, and Reading. The 1990 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture. | $10 |
| B17 | Winship, Michael. Hermann Ernst Ludewig: America's Forgotten Bibliographer. 1986. The 1985 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture. | $10 |
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DVD
| D1 |
Two classic Book Arts Press Publications now remastered on one region-free DVD: The Anatomy of a Book:
Part I: Format in the Hand-Press Period and The Making of a Renaissance Book.
Also sold with a workbook, practice sheets of facsimile chainline paper, and a set of facsimile format sheets (see Facsimiles of Bibliographical Format below). |
$60 25 $95 60 
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| D2 | Two classic Book Arts Press Publications now remastered on one region-free DVD: How to Operate a Book and From Punch to Printing Type. | $60 25 |
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Videotapes
| V1 | From Punch to Printing Type: The Art and Craft of Hand Punchcutting and Typecasting. A 45-minute videotape (VHS; available both in NTSC and PAL) featuring Stan Nelson; directed by Peter Herdrich. 1985. | $50 |
| V2 |
How to Operate a Book. A 30-minute videotape (VHS; available both only in PAL) featuring Gary Frost.
An examination of the physical structure of books, from the medieval manuscript codex to the modern paperback.
Directed by Peter Herdrich.
Out of print in both NTSC and PAL formats, but now available on DVD (see above). |
50$ |
| V3 |
Anatomy of a Book: I: Format. A 30-minute videotape featuring Terry Belanger. First principles of
bibliographical format. Directed by Peter Herdrich. Produced by Viking Productions; distributed by the
Book Arts Press.
Out of print in both NTSC and PAL formats, but now available on DVD (see above). All tapes for sale are previously viewed, and supplies are limited. Also sold with a workbook, practice sheets of facsimile chainline paper, and a set of facsimile format sheets (see Facsimiles of Bibliographical Format below). |
$35 $70
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| V4 |
The Making of a Renaissance Book. The classic 22-minute 16mm film made in 1969 by the American Friends
of the Plantin-Moretus Museum, now owned and distributed by the BAP and available as a videotape.
Out of print in both NTSC and PAL formats, but now available on DVD (see above). Supplies are limited. |
50$ |
| V5 | The 'Doc' Robert Leslie Collection of Videotapes and Films on Graphic Arts Subjects Owned by the Book Arts Press. A classified, evaluative 48-page guide to over 100 videotapes and films. | Out of Stock |
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Bibliographical Facsimilies
| P1 | Facsimile Chainline Paper. Sheets of 11" x 15" paper with schematic deckles, chainlines, tranchefiles, a watermark and a countermark printed on both sides of each sheet; intended for use in teaching the principles of bibliographical format. Available in orders of 25, 100, or 500 sheets (1 ream). |
$10/25 $25/100 $100/500 |
| P2 | Facsimiles of Bibliographical Format. A set of six facsimile sheets showing various bibliographical formats (2º, 4º, 8º, 8º in half-sheet imposition, 12ºin 12s, 12ºin 6s). Each set includes 18 format sheets (three copies of each of the six facsimiles), 10 sheets of facsimile chainline paper (see description above) and the Format dvd workbook | $35 |
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Exhibition Catalogs
| E1 | Breslauer, B. H. Historic and Artistic Bookbindings from the Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana. In November 1986, a selection of books from the Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana notable for their bindings was exhibited at the Bibliotheca Wittockiana in Brussels. The 168-page catalog of the exhibition contains full-page illustrations of 75 bindings (including six in color). | $20 |
| E2 | Dewey. The Dewey Years at Columbia, 1883-1888: An Exhibition Held in The Rotunda, Low Library, Columbia University, December 1987. | $5 |
| E3 | Leab, Daniel J. It Is Impossible to Sell Animal Stories in America, Mr Orwell: George Orwell and His Publishers. A Book Arts Press Exhibition Drawn from the Collection of Daniel J. Leab Held in the Rotunda of the University of Virginia 6 February–15 May 1997. 52 pp. | $5 |
| E4 | Calvin P. Otto. Only in Cloth: Publishers' Bookbindings 1830–1910: An Exhibition from the Collection of Calvin P. Otto on Display in the Rotunda of the University of Virginia, 18 September–22 December 1997. 1998. 48 pp. | $5 |
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Rare Book School Gift Items
G1. Red RBS Apron
Features a pen-wielding lion
$10
G3. White Tape Measure
Retractable, features red RBS ‘coins’ lion
$3
G2. RBS Coffee Mugs
All mugs are dark blue with yellow printing. Each year features a different lion:
2008 25th Anniversary, 2007 Pen, 2006 Coins, 2005 Monk, 2004 Suit, 2003 Postage stamp,
2002 Paper airplane,
2001 Skating
$5 each
G4. Brass Keychain
Features the RBS lion
$5
G6. Canvas Tote Bag
Features the RBS lion
$10
G5. RBS T-Shirts
(From left to right: RBS shirt front design, RBS shirt back design, 2005 RBS shirt front design, 2007 RBS shirt front design)
I.
RBS T-shirts are white, 100% cotton with a purple lion wielding a yellow
lightning bolt on the back and the RBS logo on the front chest area.
II.
RBS 2005 T-Shirts only have a small lion (with tonsured head and monk's
robe) on the front. Colors & Sizes: Pine (S M L); Cardinal (S M L XL);
and Graphite (S M L XL)
I. $10 II. $12.50
G7. Printers' Hats
The RBS 2003 Christmas Card took the form of a large folded poster. One side consisted of an illustrated essay on the history of printers' hats; the other side contained instructions for refolding the poster into a printer's hat. In 2008, we reprinted a new edition of the printer's hat poster. Individual copies are for sale for $1 each; they are $.60 each in quantities of 10 or more, and $.50 each in quantities of 50 or more.