BOOKS & PAMPHLETS FROM W.A. DWIGGINS LIBRARY

Ten books and pamphlets to include: The Ninety-First Psalm, "very early work by W.A. Dwiggins given to me at a Manuscript Club meeting by Mabel Dwiggins, J.P.R.", bound in green paper card, 1906, text drawn by Will Dwiggins, Heintzemann Press, Boston; An invitation for a program honoring the Centennial of the Birth of W.A. Dwiggins, Oct. 8, 1980 at the Library of the City of Boston, (Cover: An Allover Stencil Design by W.A. Dwiggins); Pamphlets: "In Praise of Books", Eastwood Corporation, Bellville, N.J., April 1931, Limited Edition #491 of 1000, soiled and wrinkled covers; "The Colonial Printing Press", Wroth, Lawrence, C., ...a chapter from... Portland, Maine 1938, Southworth-Anthoensen press, upper portion is water stained, yellow paper covers; Books include: John Baskerville, ...Benton, Josiah Henry, NY, The Typophiles, 1945, Limited Edition #452 of 600; The Story of An Old Press..., Kimber, Sidney A., University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1937, original cellophane wrappers; Printers and Printing, Pottinger, David, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1941, Special First Edition of 100 copies, signed by the author; Society of Printers, Miscellany, 1944, (Note: W.A. Dwiggins was a contributor with "Brother Jeromy, Afterpiece for Marionettes"), original cellophane wrapper; The Power of Print - and Men, Dreier, Thomas, Merganthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1936, (Note: "Designed and Decorated by W.A. Dwiggins...Press work and Binding by Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass."); (JPR collection).

TWO BOOKS ON MARIONETTES (DWIGGINS LIBRARY)

Marionettes, Easy to Make! Fun to Use!, Ackley, Edith Flack, F.A. Stokes Co., NY, 1929, original dust cover, (tears at bottom), includes patterns in back pocket; The Book of Puppets, Munger, Martha Perrine, and Elder, Annie Lee, Boston, 1934, original dust cover; mounted photograph (10" x 10 1/2") of a marionette of a middle-aged man smoking a cigarette, "Dwiggins Marionette on the back"; Photographic portrait of "William A. Dwiggins" standing and holding a garden tool, Hingham, "C.H. Marble, photographer", 6 3/4" x 5"; A postcard with pen and ink drawing of a cat "Jumper says: Now maybe you'll stay home more of an evening...", from W.A.D. to Dorothy Abbe his assistant/associate, and a wonderful design of 'Petrouchka'", woodcut print by Dwiggins, seated lost in thought holding a book half closed between his outstretched legs, lower left "WAD 1921", 9 1/4" x 6 1/4"; (JPR collection). 

BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS (DWIGGINS LIBRARY)

Five books and two pamphlets: Tompson's Roman Alphabet, Tompson, W.M., NY, F.W. Devoe & Co., 1878; A Book of Scripts, Fairbank, Alfred, Penguin Books, First Published 1949; Alphabets, McMurtrie, Douglas C., Pelham, NY, Bridgeman Publishers, 1942; The ABC of Our Alphabet, Thompson, Tommy, NY Studio Publications, 1942, dust jacket; Alphabets, Scarfe, Laurence, Batsford, London, First Published 1954, dust jacket; Booklets: Ancient Alphabets, Pfeiffer, Robert H., Cambridge, Mass., 1947; Show Cards... Vel Vet, Gage, Harry Lawrence, Carters Ink Co., Boston, 1923; (JPR collection). 

PEWTER FLAGON AND TWO PAMPHLETS (DWIGGINS LIBRARY)

Pear-shaped flagon, with shell-shaped thumb latch, hallmarked, (Note: apparently the inspiration for the alter ego of W.A. Dwiggins "Dr. Hermann Puterschein", "Having tried in vain to polish this pitcher, Dwiggins exclaimed: 'I can't make this damn Pewter shine!' to the ears of his cousin, Laurance Siegfried, the words were: 'The dam Puterschein.' Such was the origin of the legendary family."; Pamphlets: "Caledonia", A New Printing Type, 1939, Linotype, Mergenthaler Linotype Co., Brooklyn, NY, a description by WAD who invented this typeface, one of the most famous of the 20th c., includes a humorous essay on Dwiggins by Hermann Puterschein (Dwiggins alterego), "Acquired from Mabel Dwiggins" (JPR-1968), 8" x 5 3/4"; and "Caslon Flowers", An Appreciation by Dwiggins, yellow paper cover, a paper read before the Society of Printers, Boston, 1913", Limited to 200 copies, printed at Puterschein Press, Hingham, 1983, very clean, "from Dorothy Abbe", 8 1/2" x 5"; (JPR collection).

BOOK ON PRINTING (DWIGGINS LIBRARY)

Updike, D.B., Some Aspects of Printing Old and New, New Haven, W.E. Rudge, 1941, limited and signed with cellophane wrapper; second copy also limited and signed without cellophane wrapper; Printing Types - Their History, Forms and Use, 2 vols., 2nd Ed., Harvard University Press, 1951, profusely illustrated; Updike American Printer and His Merrymount Press, American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1947, 1st Ed., dust cover, some tears; D.B. Updike & John Bianchi; A Note on their Association, Bianchi, Daniel B., Boston, The Society of Printers, 1965, Limited Edition; (JPR collection). 

BOOK BY W.A. DWIGGINS, AND OTHER BOOKS

Dwiggins, William Addison, Millennium I, a melodrama, 1st Ed., limited to 750 copies, Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1945; Shimer, Florence, Twelve Poems, Puterschein Press, Hingham, 1950; Phillips, John, The Bomb that Wouldn't Go Off, (pictographs by W.A. Dwiggins), signed, 1941, Boston, Bruce Humphries, Inc., dust cover, torn; MSS by WAD, The Typophiles, NY, 1947, a collection of the writings of Dwiggins, limited edition, designed by W.A. Dwiggins; WAD, The Work of W.A. Dwiggins, America Institute of Graphic Arts, NY, 1937, part of the dust cover; Postscripts on Dwiggins, 2 vols., cellophane wrappers, slip cased, 1960, Paul A. Bennett, the Typophiles, Chap Book Number 35; (JPR collection). 

BOOKS ON MAKING BOOKS (DWIGGINS LIBRARY)

Rogers, Bruce, On Printing, NY, W.E. Rudge, 1943; Hunter, Dard, Papermaking, 2nd Ed., dust cover, "Text of this book is set in Caledonia, a Linotype face designed by W.A. Dwiggins"; McMurtie, Douglas C., The Golden Book, 1st Ed., Chicago, 1927, limited to 2000 copies; A Rod for the Back of the Binder, Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnellay & Sons Co., Chicago, 1929; Extra Binding at the Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnellay & Sons Co., Chicago, 1925; Specimens of High Grade Colored Inks, Sigmund Ullman Company, Chicago; Cocknell, Douglas, Bookbinding, and the Case of Books, Drawings by Noel Rooke, NY, D. Appleton & Co., 1902; True Monographs on Color, 1935, International Printing Inc. Co., NY, "Color Chemistry, Color as Light, Color in Use", pebbled cellophane wraps, slip cased; plus four trade supplier journals and pamphlets; (JPR collection). 

TWO BOOKS

Eliot, Charles William. Massachusetts An Old and Prosperous Democracy and a Safe Social Order. An Address By.... Hingham, MA: The Village Press, 1905. Printed by Fred and Bertha Goudy. Limited to 250 copies. Paper covered boards. Carey 23. Ransom 9; and Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Parlement of Foules. Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press for Houghton and Mifflin, 1904. Parchment covered boards. Gilt initials. Printed black, blue, and red. Number 282 of 325. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Warde 44; (JPR collection). 

WATERCOLOR BY W.A. DWIGGINS; ENGRAVING PLATE

Dwiggins, W.A., watercolor on paper, stagecoach with four horses and passengers, harbor in the background, framed, (purchased from the Dwiggins estate, ex. M.A. Foley, J.P.R.), 3 1/2" x 10 1/2"; and a steel engraving plate of a tall ship in Cathay, China harbor, initialed "WAD" in lower corner of the plate, 18" x 14"; (JPR collection). 

FIVE BOOKS (DWIGGINS LIBRARY)

Year Book of the Plympton Press, The Plimpton Press, Norwood, 1911, very scarce, contains inset exhibit pages, excellent condition; Specimen Pages of Printing Types, The Plimpton Press, Norwood, 1908, includes print types and specimen sheets of paper, very good condition; Orcutt, William Dana, The Society of Printers, limited #38/300; Master Makers of the Book, Doubleday, Doran, & Co., New York, 1928, 1st Ed., dust jacket, very good condition; Society of Printers, Fiftieth Anniversary Dinner, Plimpton Press, limited to 200 copies; (JPR collection). 

ELEVEN BOOKS (DWIGGINS LIBRARY)

Shakespeare, William, A Midsummer Night's Dream with illustrations, The Platt & Peck Co., New York, small piece missing from top of spine, small tear at bottom of spine, "Acquired from home of William Addison Dwiggins, Hingham, Mass...John P. Richardson 1974"; Wolfe, Theodore F., Literary Shrines, J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1895, good condition, "From library of W.A. Dwiggins & Mabel Dwiggins, Leavitt...St. Hingham, Mass. Purchased from Mrs. Dwiggins after Bill Dwiggins death." (JPR); Wilde, Oscar, Le Portrait De Dorian Gray, Librairie P.-V. Stock, Delamain, Boutelleau Et Cie, Editeurs-Paris, foxing, tear in top of spine, 18th Ed., overall good condition, "From W.A. Dwiggins estate, Hingham, Mass" (JPR); Dunsany, Lord, Tales of Three Hemispheres, John W. Luce & Company, Boston, 1919, top half of cover separating from spine, otherwise good condition, tipped in note in blue ink "JPR, For your Fort collection W.A.D."; Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe, The Berkeley Printers, Boston, Mass, 1931, slip case, excellent condition; Stephen Daye and His Successors, Harvard Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1921, limited to 2500 copies, some foxing, tears in spine; One Hundred Years of Publishing 1837-1937, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1937, soft cover, foxing, "Acquired from Mabel Dwiggins, J.P. Richardson"; Preston, Margaret J., A Handful of Monographs, Continental and English, Anson D.F. Randolph & Company, New York, 1886, signed inside "Mrs. W.C. Brown from Margie", few torn pages, front cover almost separated from spine; Rheault, Jr., Charles A., In Retrospect: The Riverside Press 1852-1971, Society of Printers, Boston, 1979, Limited Edition, excellent condition, "Acquired from estate of Dorothy Abbe, assistant to W.A. Dwiggins..." (JPR), tipped in letter dated "January 15, 1987" to Don Hagar from Charles A. Rheault; A New England Keepsake, Presented to All Craftsmen Registered at the 19th Annual Convention of the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen Inc., Boston Club of Printing House Craftsmen, 1938, very good condition, inside cover "WAD 116 J.P.R."; The Proceedings at the Printers' Festival, Franklin Typographical Society, Boston, 1848, water stains on bottom of many pages, loose cover, "Acquired from Mabel Dwiggins as a part of W.A. Dwiggins library, Hingham, Mass. John P. Richardson"; (JPR collection). 

ITEMS FROM W.A. DWIGGINS STUDIO

Objects from the studio of W.A. Dwiggins: Briar & Corn cob pipes; tobacco and match boxes including a very fine Chinese cloisonne example with central carved jade medallion (a gift to WAD from D.B. Updike); an early carved wooden book, marked in red "PP AD 1882" (weathered), 8 1/2" h, 9" w; a boxed set of "Stafford's Stencil Combination, Size 1 inch...Instructive and Amusing for Boys"; a cinnabar carved box in red with 2" central carved jade medallion; cased opera glasses that belonged to Dorothy Abbe, assistant artist to WAD"; Osmiroid Lettering Pen Set" with six nibs (used by WAD and given to JPR from Mabel Dwiggins); a square concave glass in a turned handled frame, 12" l; a pine box, end marked "WA Dwiggins, Hingham Mass.", 16" with rope handle, ex. D. Abbe, ex. WAD to JPR collection, 8" x 11 1/2" l. 

BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS (DWIGGINS LIBRARY)

Bookbinding, With Numerous Engravings and Diagrams, edited by Paul N. Hasluck, David McKay, Publisher, Philadelphia, 1908, very good condition; The Society of Printers Keepsake, D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston, 1940, limited #183/300, the Address of William Dana Orcutt at the first meeting of the society Feb. 24, 1905, "Acquired from Mabel Dwiggins...", very good condition; A History of Printing in Andover, Massachusetts 1798-1931 by Scott H. Paradise, The Andover Press, 1931, very good condition; Fifty-five Books Printed Before 1525, Representing the Works of England's First Printers, The Grolier Club, 1968, "Acquired from Dorothy Abbe, Asst to W.A. Dwiggins...", excellent condition; Linweave Limited Editions, The Linweave Association, The P.P. Kellogg & Co. Division, Springfield, MA, 1931, label on inside front cover "Presented to W.A. Dwiggins by Storrs & Bement Co.", very good condition, semi-transparent book cover with tears and pieces missing; A Literary Centre of a Literary Capital, Robert Grant & Son Ltd, Edinburgh, 1946, some yellowing at top of pages, otherwise good condition; Print, A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts, tipped in "Index to Print", soft cover, good condition; an Accounting Book - 1910, for ads by D.B. Updike, The Cowen Company, Paines, Chase & Sanborne, etc.; an advertising page announcing "the publication of A Letter from William Blake...written in 1802", The Gehenna Press, Fort Hill, Northampton, Mass., foxing, small tear upper left side, 14" h, 6" w; Pamphlets include "Abe BiBelof", Reprints of Poetry and Prose, Thomas B. Mosher, Portland, Maine, April and May 1896, foxing and stains; "The Anatomy of the Book", Thomas Todd Company, Boston, 1923; "First Annual Exhibition, Book Jacket Designers Guild 1948", with book jacket design by WAD; "Second Annual Exhibition, Book Jacket Designers Guild 1949", with book jacket design by WAD; "An Investigation into the Physical Properties of Books", Society of Calligraphers by W.A. Dwiggins and L.B. Siegfried, Boston, 1919; "Illustrators and Illustrating" by Philip R. Paulding, pages 151-164 put inside a paper cover, Munsey's Magazine, New York, May, 1895; (JPR collection). 

ITEMS FROM W.A. DWIGGINS STUDIO

Objects from the studio of W.A. Dwiggins: A glass enclosed trimmed postcard paperweight from an English Abbey (from the Dwiggins trip to Paris); W.A.D. handmade wood toys - cannons, boats, horse - in a cigar box (from late 1880's); tools: buck chisel, cased sharpening stone, very fine hammer with rosewood handle; silver book cover corner; a green oval stone seal; family crest boar in a shield with a knight's arm above and the Latin inscription "Perit ad Astra Virtus" (Virtue Rises to the Stars and Leads the Way?), set in a finely detailed rose gold surround, boxed; (JPR collection). 

PHOTOS BY DOROTHY ABBE (ASST TO DWIGGINS)

Collection of mounted black and white photographs from the camera of artist Dorothy Abbe, (Assistant/Associate to W.A. Dwiggins), self-portrait, along with 11 other scenes including many U.S. landscapes such as Utah, Oregon, Arizona, California, and Wyoming; (JPR collection). 

YOSEMITE MEMORABILIA

Plumb, Stanley, The Four Seasons in Yosemite National Park, Times-Mirror, Los Angeles, 1938, photographs by Ansel Adams, (from Dorothy Abbe, Assistant to W.A. Dwiggins); also pamphlets and photos of Yosemite "acquired from Priscilla Sprague" (JPR). 

FOLIO BOOKS WITH PHOTOS OF EUROPE

Collection of seven large folio books, each with 100 pages of photographs of the cities of Europe, including Naples, Rome, Venice, Florence, Bologna, Paris, London, etc., over 1,200 photographs; (JPR collection). 

BOOKS ON FARMING

Eighteen volumes, mid 19th c. books on farming including bound volumes of The American Agriculturist, The Farmers Monthly Visitor, etc.

BUILDERS OF THE BAY COLONY

Morison, Samuel Eliot; Builders of the Bay Colony.... Boston: 1930. Limited large paper edition. Number 155 of 500 copies for sale. 25 cm. Cloth with printed pictorial label. Slip case. Illustrated. Signed by author on front free end sheet. Very good; (JPR collection).

CATCH 22 BY JOSEPH HELLER

Heller, Joseph, Catch 22, Deluxe Edition, signed, Limited Edition, 661 of 750, bound in blue cloth, red gilt stamped slip case, Simon & Schuster, NY, 1994, very fine, (JPR collection). 

AUTHOR SIGNED BOOKS

Twenty-three volumes of "The Signed First Edition Society", special editions signed by the authors, including Norman Mailer, Tough Guys Don't Dance; Joseph Heller, God Knows; John Hersey, The Call; Philip Roth, The Anatomy Lesson; John Irving, The Cider House Rules; John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick; Gore Vidal, Lincoln; etc.

FIVE FRAMES FOR PHOTOGRAPHS

Frames with decorative needlework on fabric mats, one with facing peacocks in multiple shades of blue and green, paper labeled on the reverse "Decorative Art Society of Baltimore, established 1878...", "Acquired from John D. Long's House..." (JPR), 11" x 10"; Green floral with linen background with a profile of "Capt. Barnabas Lincoln (1751-1822). Captured by Pirates and published a pamphlet about his experiences. Resided on Lincoln St. Hingham,..." (JPR), 12" x 10"; Silver and white needlework flowers on gray and green vines "with an oval portrait of Loring H. Cushing, Civil War Veteran" (JPR), 10" x 8"; Red berries with green vines and leaves, portrait of a young girl, "Found in the attic of the Gates Sisters home East side of Lincoln St..." (JPR), 10" x 8"; Small metal frame with a portrait of "Joanna Stowell, found under floor boards of the Stephen Stodder House, Fort Hill St. Hingham, 1784-1858, daughter of Israel Stowell, Revolutionary War soldier and a cooper on West St. in Hingham." (frame found in the John D. Long house), (JPR), silk decorated with pink and silver flowers, and green leaves and vines, 6" x 5"; (JPR collection). 

FRAMED HINGHAM POSTCARDS

Twenty-one postcards of Hingham, held in seven frames, each containing three 4" x 6" postcards, three frames contain historic scenes of Hingham, four frames contain scenes of Hingham harbor and waterfront.

BROADSIDE

"Minstrel Show - Benefit of St. Mary's Parish, At the Hull Municipal Building Thursday & Friday, August 14 & 15, Subscription 50 cents, Hull-Nantasket Times Job Print", framed and glazed, 20" x 12" (sight).

DISNEY'S PETER PAN ILLUSTRATION

Walt Disney Animation, "Peter Pan", with Peter and Tinkerbell showing Wendy, Michael and John how to fly, with London, the Thames River and London Bridge far below, the characters and moon appear to be cut out and applied to a blue background with painted stars and the lights of London below, the back is imprinted "Russell Patterson, Illustration Board, NY", and "Handle with Care" in pencil, c. 1953, 13 1/4" x 10 1/4" (sight), 20" x 13 1/2" (framed).