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CIRC CIRC CIRC TRAPEZE

CIRCUS CIRCUS

Edition: 50 numbered copies, and 7 artist proofs

Size: 8 x 10 inches

Type: 18 pt. Centaur, and 24 pt. P.T. Barnum

Leaves: 50 - Rives BFK paper

Binding: Artist proofs and copies 1 through 17 in honey-colored vinyl cloth over boards and wood with waxed threads;

Japanese paper over boards slipcase

Publication price: $85.00

CIRC CIRC CIRC TRAPEZE

CIRCUS CIRCUS

Edition: 50 numbered copies, and 7 artist proofs

Size: 8 x 10 inches

Type: 18 pt. Centaur, and 24 pt. P.T. Barnum

Leaves: 50 - Rives BFK paper

Binding: copies 18 through 50 in natural canvas, over boards and wood with waxed threads;

Japanese paper over boards slipcase

1977

A CHECKLIST

Edition: 60 copies

Size: 6-5/8 x 8-1/2 inches

Type: 18 pt. Centaur

Leaves: 12

Binding: Serigraphed Ingres paper

over boards

The Mookse & the Gripes,

from

Two Tales of Shem and Shaun, by James Joyce

Edition: 75 numbered copies, and 5 artist proofs

Size: 8-1/2 x 10 inches

Type: 18 pt. Bulmer

Leaves: 32 - Rives BFK paper

Binding: Red velvet cloth over boards framing a relief-serigraph gilded with 23K gold leaf.

The first 25 copies of this edition are presented in a lined clam-shell box of paper over boards. This box slips into a much larger container of paper over boards which houses a special serigraph not included within the book. It depicts the "mookse" confronting the "gripes" from the opposite side of a flowing river.

In the background, a female form within a cumulus cloud sheds water and is the apparent source of the river.

The Mookse & the Gripes,

from

Two Tales of Shem and Shaun, by James Joyce

Edition: 75 numbered copies, and 5 artist proofs

Size: 8-1/2 x 10 inches

Type: 18 pt. Bulmer

Leaves: 32 - Rives BFK paper

Binding: Red velvet cloth over boards framing a relief-serigraph gilded with 23K gold leaf.

The last 50 numbers are in an unlined clam-shell box of paper over boards.

1978

LITERARY FIGURES

Edition: 50 numbered copies, and 7 artist proofs

Size: 12 x 15 inches

Type: Various faces and sizes

Leaves: 23 - Strathmore carrier pages, and various printed papers

Binding: Serigraphed Strathmore paper and black cloth over boards (outer box); Natsume paper and white cloth over board (inner binding)

1985

Long After Ecclesiastes by Ray Bradbury

Gold Stein Press

A Miniature Book

Edition: 75 numbered copies

and 10 artist proofs

Size: 2-1/2 x 2-3/4 inches

Type: 8 pt. Centaur

Leaves: 32 - Rives paper

Binding: Gray kid and silver tea chest paper over boards;

French marbled paper over boards slipcase

1986

THE SMALL GARDEN OF GLORIA STUART

Edition: 50 numbered copies, and 10 artist proofs

Size: 4-1/2 x 6-1/4 inches

Type: 14 & 12 pt. Centaur

Leaves: 32 - Mouette, and various decorative handmade papers

Binding: Gold kid leather over boards,

and cast paper; black canvas over boards clam-shell box with black felt lining

Publication price: $475.00

1986

A Traveling Exhibit of ex libris etchings by Scott FitzGerald

Lorson's Books & Prints

A Miniature Book

Edition: 75 numbered copies

Size: 2-7/8 x 2 inches

Type: 8 pt. Centaur & Arrighi Leaves: Mi-tiens Canson paper

Binding: 7-point fan (or star) binding;

covers of brown Ingres paper over boards; brown ribbon tie

1987

The Twilight of Orthodoxy in New England by William Nykamp

Santa Susana Press

Edition: 60 numbered copies, and 5 artist proofs

Size: 5-3/4 x 8-3/4 inches

Type: 14 pt. Centaur

Leaves: 36 - Johannot paper

Binding: Black leather and marbled paper over boards hinged with plastic rods; gilt cast paper

1988

A Leaf from

THE FIRST OF MAY with an essay on Walter Crane

S&L Publishers

Edition: 50 copies

Size: 17-1/2 x 15-1/2 inches

Type: 14 pt. Centaur

Leaves: 14 - Somerset paper

Binding: Clam-shell box of ecru-colored

linen and gold tea chest paper over (and within boards; clear plastic opening in front cover

1988

Type-Faces: Ward Ritchie

A Photographic Study by Amanda Blanco

Santa Susana Press

Edition: 65 numbered copies, and 10 artist proofs

Size: 9-1/2 x 12-3/4 inches

Type: 14 pt. Della Robbia

Leaves: 20 - 2-ply archival board

Binding: Clam-shell box of brown linen over boards; Ingres paper lining1987

The Twilight of Orthodoxy in New England by William Nykamp

Santa Susana Press

Edition: 60 numbered copies, and 5 artist proofs

Size: 5-3/4 x 8-3/4 inches

Type: 14 pt. Centaur

Leaves: 36 - Johannot paper

Binding: Black leather and marbled paper over boards hinged with plastic rods; gilt cast paper

1988

"WINDJAMMERS"

by Duncan Gleason

Lorson's Books & Prints

Edition: 21 copies

Size: 11-1/4 x 15-1/2 inches Type: 14 pt. Della Robbia

Leaves: 20 - Rives BFK cream paper Binding: Marbled paper, Ingres paper,

and black canvas over boards; decorative 7-ply linen thread

2008

The Second Voyage

3 copies made using etchings printed in 1973 as was used in the the 1988 edition.

15 copper-etched prints, with the blind stamp of the Gallery Easel in Rancho Santa Fe, California

2008

Windjammers III, The Third Voyage

73x54 mm. 15 miniature reproductions of etchings by Duncan Gleason. Blue cloth with Japanese wood block patterned boards in a book-in-a-box format, small pop-up sail inside front cover. Ribbon tie.

1989

Nineteen Years and Counting has been printed with hand-set Della Robbia type on Johannot paper

with a Vandercook No. 4 proof press, and is limited to 75 numbered copies and 10 artist proofs.

The hand-marbled endpapers by Iris Nevins

1989

Single copy of poetry by Pat Magarick for his wife Trudy.

Cover of black shiny kid with inset cameo. Cutaway slipcase.

1990

A — SPECIAL EDITION

15 copies include the book with colored etchings, sculptured paper cover design, one of the cancelled etching plates or an original drawing by James W.

Johnson, with two extra etchings all encased in a clam-shell box.

Publication price: $2500.00

B — DELUXE EDITION

25 copies are as above except the etchings are not colored and there are no extra etchings or original plate or drawing.

Publication price: $1500.00

C — REGULAR EDITION

35 copies as above but less the clam-shell box and sculptured paper cover design.

Publication price: $950.00

6 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches

Designed and produced by D' Ambrosio using 14 pt. Centaur type, monotyped by M & H Type,  and printed on Johannot paper with a Vandercook No. 4 proof press for Santa Susana Press.

Edition of 65 copies.

6 x 9 x 2 inches

Designed and produced by D' Ambrosio, using hand set 14 pt. Greeting Monotone, and Fournier (Introduction/ Colophon) types; printed on Madeleine Pestiaux's handmade "Misty Rose" paper, using a Vandercook No. 4 proof press, with Van Son's inks: Brick Dust and Slate Gray. All 

multicolored areas obtained  through the medium of serigraphy.

Edition of 75 copies.

Publication price: $375.00

1993

13 x 10 inches

edition of 25 copies

Publication price: $2500.00

2 5/8 x 2 1/4 inches

10 leaves numbered on recto.

Edition of 1 copy.

Image from the collection of Jennifer Lorson

1994

Edition of 1 copy

Image from the collection of Gary Strong.

2 1/2 x 2 7/8 inches

Designed and produced  by D'Ambrosio on a Macintosh Centris 610  and printed letterpress  from magnesium plates on a Vandercook No. 4. The paper is Arches Text Wove.

The edition is limited to 50 copies.

2 x 2 1/2 inches

Design and production for  the Gold Stein Press  by D’Ambrosio.  Hand set 8 pt. Arrighi  type printed on Arches 

text wove paper using a Vandercook No. 4 proof press

Edition of  ninety–five copies.

5 1/2 x 9 inches

Letterpress printed on Lana Royal Classic paper  from computer generated plates using the Black Chancery font.

Edition of 50 copies.

2 7/8 x 2 1/4 inches

Designed and produced  by D'Ambrosio using computer typesetting,  and a combination of laser and letterpress  printing on archival paper; hand bound.

Edition: 50 copies

5 x 8 1/2 inches

Designed and typeset

in 12 pt. Palatino by D'Ambrosio.

The edition is 250 copies.

5 x 8 inches

Letterpress printed  on to colors of  Confetti paper using  a Vandercook No. 4 printing press, Antique  No. 14 type, and handmade "paper" printing plates, and a  multitude of printing inks.

Special edition of Oaxaca and the Saguaro Cactus  is bound in Clansman Niger Goat  and contains inclusions.

Limited to 25 copies.

5 x 8 inches

Letterpress printed  on to colors of  Confetti paper using  a Vandercook No. 4 printing press, Antique  No. 14 type, and handmade "paper" printing plates, and a 

multitude of printing inks.

Edition of 100 copies.

1997

Size: 2-7/8 × 2 x 2 inches

Five bound boxes between two covers.

Edition: 50 copies

4 3/4 x 6 1/2 x 2 5/8 inches

Designed and produced by D'Ambrosio for The Gold Stein Press Newport Beach, Califomia

Edition of 50 copies.

Experimental  versions at the California State Library.

D’Ambrosio made four "states of experimental models which led up to the finished product," an edition of 50 copies. The California State Library has three of the models, numbered A.P.#1, A.P.#2, & A.P.#3.

Courtesy of the California History Room, California State Library, Sacramento, California

Four boxes from 3 x 3 x 1-1/2 inches to 1 1/4 x 1 1/2 x 1/2 inches with  7/8 x 1 1/8 inch book.

Edition of 50 copies.

Publication price $250.00

2000

Edition of 1 copy

Image from A Memoir ob Book Design

9 x 7 inch hexagon base with boxes bound together in the form of a mountain with a multicolored plateau on top

Edition of 25 copies

Publication price $1,200.00

2 x 2 3/4 inches,

Six stanzas of poem: As I lay in the solemn cool transparency of night; with popup of 4 primarily purple butterflies

Edition of 50 copies

EDITION: 50 Copies (signed and numbered)

BOOK SIZE: 2.875" high x 2.875" wide × 2.375" deep

2 3/8 x 2 7/8 inches,

46 pages

Reflections on a"Boy Bookseller" from: Norm Blitch, Florence Blitch, Joe D’Ambrosio, Margaret Ann & Rinard Hart, Stuart F. Robinson, Vivian Strong and Robert Bothamley.

Courtesy of the California History Room, California State Library, Sacramento, California

2003

2 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches

Edition of 50 copies

Size: 2½" × 3”

60 pages

Edition: 35 copies

2005

one of a kind book

Image from the collection of Gary Strong.

2005

5 x 5 1/2 inches

includes DVD

Edition of 150 copies

Publication Price: $85.00

2005

2 x 2.5 inches

40 pages

Edition of 50 copies

2006

5 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches

75 copies.

Image from the collection of Gary Strong.

50-copy limited edition designed, produced and bound by Joe D'Ambrosio using Hoefler text, Apple Chancery, Lydian, and OptiArgentine digital type faces, and printed on various hues of Ingres paper, exclusively for  Lorson's Books and Prints in Fullerton, California.

2007

5 3/4 x 6 1/2inches 

2008

2 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches

Lorson's Books

edition of 12 copies

2008

3 x 3 inches with clam-shell box

Edition of 1 copy

Image from the collection of Jennifer Lorson

2008

2008

Special binding probably done for Bromer Booksellers

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