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An Introduction to The Press of the Nightowl Private Press of Dwight E. Agner

by AGNER, Swight E

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: The Press of the Nightowl, 1965. Staplebound. Fine. 9, [1] p. 22 X 14 cm. Staplebound card covers. "Of this first Nightown publication, about 120 copies were printed." - Colophon.

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£52.60

The Cats of Copenhagen

by James Joyce

The first-ever appearance in print of James Joyce's Story for Children, THE CATS OF COPENHAGEN in a special limited edition of 200 copies.
Michael Caine has printed this large-format letterpress edition with virtuoso skill, setting the text in a wondrously expressive array of original, early twentieth-century hand-cut Italian and French founts to capture the imagination of readers young and old. Casey Sorrow has brought to life Joyce's curious 'Københavnere' with ingeniously playful pen-and-ink... Read more about this item

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£390.42

BODY AND STONE - A Song Cycle

by Kreymborg, Alfred

New York: Random House. Fine. 1929. First Edition. Paperback. One of the very attractive chapbooks of the Poetry Quartos series. One of 475 copies printed in Silvermine, USA OCLC: 2516401; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

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£8.05

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF LON TINKLE

by [DALLAS] Sparkman, M.D., Robert S. editor

Dallas: Friends of the Dallas Public Library, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE. Limited edition of 500 copies of which this is copy number 442 SIGNED with editor's presentation. Designed and produced by Willaim R. Chiles, printed by off-set lithography on 80# Tweedweave Text, and printed recto. Tipped-in sepia portrait by Tom Lea, color photographs by the editor tipped-in. Folio crash linen boards and blue cloth spine. Proceeds to benefit the Dallas Public Library. Blue endpapers no names, clean... Read more about this item

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£24.28

An Infant's Library

by Society Of Private Printers

[Pinner]: Society of Private Printers (Private Libraries Association), 1980. First edition. Wrappers. Fine copy. 31 pamphlets. 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches. Preserved in a mahogany box with a sliding front and the engraving by Pam Reuter on the front. Limited to 70 sets. Engraving by Pam Reuter. A printers' exchange organized by the Private Libraries Association, comprising 30 booklets printed between 1975 and 1980 by various private press printers, chiefly in England and the U.S. An introductory booklet is... Read more about this item

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£687.90

Herbescent Cordials: A Collection of Herbal Tisanes for the Sick, Stressed, Stinky, and Love Sick

by Busby, Michael

Walla Walla, WA: Artist, 1995. First printing. (12) pp., 6.75 x 10.75 inches. Printed by hand from foundry type, original linoleum engravings, and plant materials at the Whitman College Book Arts Lab, in an edition of twenty-five signed and numbered copies. Unbound sheets in stiff card folder with printed cover label. As new. Five linoleum engravings of common herbs (chives, rosemary, oregano, mint, basil), printed over pressure prints of plants, each contained in a glassine wrapper printed with a... Read more about this item

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£93.07

Bundling - Its Origins, Progress and Decline in America

by Stiles, Henry Reed ; & Herb Roth (illustrated)

Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press. Very Good. 1937. Hardcover. 88 pages; Contents clean and secure in original binding of patterned red boards with tan linen spine and printed paper title label at spine, in linen-look slipcase, minor wear at base of slipcase. One of a limited edition of 1450 copies, set in Janson types and printed on Aark paper, have been made at the Walpole Printing Office, Mount Vernon, New York, 1937. Woodcuts by Herb Roth. .

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£20.18

The Hooded Fisherman

by George Mackay Brown

Handpress printed by Frances Cleverdon at the Trumpet Press in a limited edition of 205 copies. Illustrations by Brown's fellow Orcadian, Charles Shearer. Dove grey card covers with white title and author label to front, short story of eighteen pages. A nice example of fine press printing of a rare title.

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£185.00

Barker's Luck Etc.

by Harte, Bret

London: Chatto & Windus, 1896. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. 263+32pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Blue cloth with gilt stamped decorations to the front board and the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Collections of short stories by the celebrated author. Bret Harte (1836-1902) was a celebrated author and poet, who is best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. Born in Albany, New York, he moved to California in 1854, later... Read more about this item

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£606.98

INSCRIPTIONS Eugene O'Neill to Carlotta Monterey O'Neill

by O'Neill, Eugene

New Haven: Privately Printed. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. #251 of a Limited edition of only 500 copies. Book is large and will require extra postage for international or priority. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

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£32.32

The Revelation of St John the Divine

New York: The Limited Editions Club. Near Fine. 1995. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Revelation was written at the height of Christians prosecution by the Romans and the book as inspired many past literary masterpieces by the likes of Dante and Milton. For this edition the great American artist Allan Rohan Crite was inspired to produce fifteen relief engravings for possibly the ultimate illustrated edition of the book of Revelations. Revelations passionately speak against the power of evil... Read more about this item

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£1,452.69

THE SCULPTURED GARLAND

by LANDOR, Walter Savage

London: Dropmore Press, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Some soiling and dampspotting to covers. Internally Fine. The darkened dustwrapper front panel is separated at the spine. Very Good. Ian Macnab. Quarto, bound in half morocco leather. Illustrated with 15 wood engravings by Ian Macnab. Copy #189 of 300 numbered copies of this lovely book.

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£101.16

The Pickwick Papers: Some Bibliographical Remarks

by Bay, J. Christian

Chicago: Caxton Club, 1938. "An address delivered before the Caxton Club, January Sixteenth, 1937", discussing the illustrator Robert Seymour's share of the credit for creating Pickwick, and various states of text & one illustration in early issues of the book. Hardcover, full red cloth, gilt titling, blind-stamped decoration. One of 250 copies printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press in Boston. Light wear to corners; previous owner's name in pencil on front end sheet;... Read more about this item

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£40.46

Finn's Hotel

by Joyce, James

First Edition; Numbered Issue. One of 140 copies printed on Fedrigoni Vellum (a 190gram, smooth and elegant Italian paper) and handstiched and handbound in hardcovers featuring the red and black letterpress printed paper designed by Elisabeth Hyder and black head- and tail bands. The front cover is impressed with a letterpress printed label. This issue is our 'standard': a collectible, modestly priced finepress first edition. Fine/New.

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£325.35

The Adoration of the Magi [Durer's Manger Scene - Folio Size Christmas Card]

by McMurtrie, Douglas C. ; Albrecht Durer

Evanston: Douglas C. McMurtrie. Near Fine. 1941. First Edition. Brochure. 4 pages; Large four page brochure designed and printed by Douglas McMurtrie for presentation to his friends for Christmas 1941. The front cover is a reproduction of the fabulous manger scene by Albrecht Durer dated 1511, the interior bears McMurtrie's printed Christmas salutations, the rear panel presents McMurtie's explanatory text on Durer and this woodcut in particular in double columns. A wonderful survivor house... Read more about this item

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£28.28

Finnegans Wake

by Joyce, James

First Edition. New. One of 150 Numbered copies of the Special Issue. Copy No. 38, signed by the Editor and the Printer.Printed on Magnani Mouldmade 130g deckle-edged paper. Royal quarto. Bound in full black calfskin over boards, gilt-stamped on front cover and spine. Presented in a black cloth-covered slipcase with a companion volume of introductory essays hardbound in grey paper over boards. Dublin, Houyhnhnm Press. 2010.The first critically emended and completely reset edition of James Joyce's... Read more about this item

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£2,602.80

The Deserted Village Wood-engravings by Stephanie Maberly Smith

by Goldsmith, Oliver ; Stephanie Maberly Smith (illustrator)

London: The Caravel Press. Near Fine. 1953. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 34 pages; Publisher's binding: vellum spine over blue-grey paper-covered boards, with pictorial device in gilt on the front cover and lettering in gilt on the spine. Endpapers with a wood-engraved device printed in green, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Four full page wood engravings and three smaller engravings, one as title page device, the other two as tail-pieces to the colophon and list of illustrations. The... Read more about this item

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£16.15

Cantico delle creature

by Francis (St. of Assissi)

Pawlet (Vermont): Claude Fredericks, 1957. First edition. Wrappers. Wrappers rather faded and rubbed. Two leaves laid into wrappers with a printed label on the front. 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. Text of poem in Italian on one leaf; translation into English on second. The initial letter on the Italian leaf has been hand applied. An exceptional item, and despite its less than ideal condition--it is very fragile--this is a most unusual keepsake from an interesting private press

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£182.09

How Can It Be? A Rock & Roll Diary (Signed Genesis Limited Ed)

by Wood, Ronnie

Genesis Publications, 2015-09-29. 1st Ed. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 5x1x8. Signed. LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY RONNIE WOOD! A wonderful assortment of materials from Genesis Publications including a leatherbound diary signed by Ronnie. This is number 534 of only 1969 created. Condition is as new, opened only to photograph, all original packing materials included. A breathtaking work of art. Please note that the exceptional weight of this item will significantly increase shipping costs well above the original... Read more about this item

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£748.60

Private Press Books

by Private Libraries Association

Pinner: Private Libraries Association. First edition. Paperback. Fine copy. A collection of 19 issues, including the years 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981-1984, 1985-1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991. 8vo. Wrappers. 22.2 x 14 cm. Edited by Roderick Cave, David Chambers, Peter Hoy et. al.

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£141.63

Storm Front, Dresden Files (Signed Easton Press Ltd Ed)

by Butcher, Jim

Easton Press, 2007. Limited Edition. hardcover. Fine/Fine. 6x1x9. Signed. SUMPTUOUS LEATHER BOUND EASTON PRESS EDITION SIGNED BY JIM BUTCHER. Brand new and still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Expedited shipping is welcome; signed by author.

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£210.42

A SKETCH OF JOSEPH CONRAD'S LIFE, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF IN 1900

by Conrad, Joseph

Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press. Near Fine. 1939. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Contents clean and secure in original binding of green paper covered boards with brown cloth spine. OCLC 2726500 Privately printed for the friends of Marguerite and Howard Eric by Southworth-Anthoensen Press in Portland, Maine. Unnumbered copy of limited edition (75 copies?). Contains three folded facsimile sheets of Conrad's manuscript pages with the nicely printed edition of Conrad's... Read more about this item

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£80.89

Countdown: An Autobiography (Signed Easton Press)

by Borman, Frank

Sumptuous EASTON PRESS leatherbound edition SIGNED BY APOLLO 8 ASTRONAUT FRANK BORMAN. As-new inside and out but missing Easton COA. Expedited and international shipping are welcome. Signed by author.

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£339.91

Goblin Market and Selected Poems

by Rossetti, Cristina

London: Folio Society, 2011. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine. Tamaki, Jillian. 1st ptg. tall 8vo, 3/4 maroon cloth with pictorial cover panel, top edge gilt, illustrated with fantastical color plates and black and white vignettes by Jillian Tamaki, top edge gilt. Fine in fine purple slipcase, no previous owner's marks.

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£80.93

My Sister Life

by Boris Pasternak

New York: The Limited Editions Club. Fine. 1990. Limited Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. My Sister Life was written in the summer before the 1917 October Revolution, it was very well received and established him as a genius of Russian poetry. The English translation was done by Mark Rudman. The acclaimed Russian born artist, Yuro Kuyper provides 6 etchings for the publication, printed on Hannemule paper in Paris. The paper used for the text was hand-made by H. M. P. Mill in Connecticut to... Read more about this item