Type Punch Matrix

Type Punch Matrix A rare book firm founded by Rebecca Romney and Brian Cassidy.

Congratulations to our co-founder .romney on the publication of her latest book, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF! Look for a cat...
02/18/2025

Congratulations to our co-founder .romney on the publication of her latest book, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF! Look for a catalogue from us on this theme in the coming months…

The angel ornaments on the spine of this 1628 Greek New Testament are 100% why we acquired it — aren’t they striking? ...
10/04/2024

The angel ornaments on the spine of this 1628 Greek New Testament are 100% why we acquired it — aren’t they striking?

Surrealist playing cards from the ever-surprising Leonor Fini — who wouldn’t play with this deck?
10/02/2024

Surrealist playing cards from the ever-surprising Leonor Fini — who wouldn’t play with this deck?

We are suckers for a pocket Cicero. This one, from 1625, includes DE OFFICIIS, DE SENECTUTE, DE AMICITIA, PARADOXA, and ...
10/01/2024

We are suckers for a pocket Cicero. This one, from 1625, includes DE OFFICIIS, DE SENECTUTE, DE AMICITIA, PARADOXA, and SOMNIUM SCIPIONIS.

Yes, that’s the ownership inscription of Sylvia Plath! We will be bringing not one, but two! books from Plath’s library ...
04/03/2024

Yes, that’s the ownership inscription of Sylvia Plath! We will be bringing not one, but two! books from Plath’s library to the New York book fair this weekend (April 4-7) at the Park Ave Armory.

03/30/2024

Type Punch Matrix will feature more than two dozen items from the life and career of Sylvia Plath at the 64th annual New York Antiquarian Book Fair, April 4 - 7 at the Park Avenue Armory.

The 1971 first edition jacket cover art of HAROLD AND MAUDE plays with the concept of the two characters’ different pers...
02/26/2024

The 1971 first edition jacket cover art of HAROLD AND MAUDE plays with the concept of the two characters’ different personalities via typography!

Pre-MAUS Spiegelman: new in the shop is a signed first edition of Compleat Mister Infinity (1970), Spiegelman’s self-pub...
02/25/2024

Pre-MAUS Spiegelman: new in the shop is a signed first edition of Compleat Mister Infinity (1970), Spiegelman’s self-published mini-comic, produced around the time of the artist’s move to San Francisco and immersion in the underground comics scene.

One of the great historical sources about medieval England: the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. First compiled in the 9th centur...
02/24/2024

One of the great historical sources about medieval England: the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. First compiled in the 9th century in Old English, this 1823 publication was the first with the complete text translated into modern English. If you want to learn about Alfred the Great and the Vikings, this one’s for you!

Early photography, 1854: this is the first edition of the first American scientific book illustrated with a photograph. ...
09/01/2023

Early photography, 1854: this is the first edition of the first American scientific book illustrated with a photograph. The book is John C. Warren’s REMARKS ON SOME FOSSIL IMPRESSIONS, an exploration of fossilized dinosaur tracks. The Mesozoic and the modern together in a single book!

Always pleased to have this proto-graphic novel in the shop: Lynd Ward’s God’s Man (1929), told entirely in woodcuts, wi...
08/18/2023

Always pleased to have this proto-graphic novel in the shop: Lynd Ward’s God’s Man (1929), told entirely in woodcuts, without any text.

Mm, yes, that one Twain with the apocryphal story of the professional shark murderer. Oh, you didn’t know that one? Twai...
08/17/2023

Mm, yes, that one Twain with the apocryphal story of the professional shark murderer. Oh, you didn’t know that one? Twain’s travelogues, like Following the Equator, are well worth reading!

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