Jealous Woman by Cain, James M - 1956

Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2018. cloth, dust jacket. Bookbinding. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 707 pages. Research into the history of the book and bookbinding makes our historical bindings relevant again and makes them better company. Studying and understanding and identifying and describing give us more information to consider when we must make decisions about our historical books. Accumulating this information most affects our great institutional collections, and to an extent, private collections, because the custodians of those collections have often tried to pay attention to issues of rarity and importance beyond content. There is certainly a growing and very welcome and broader interest today about the whole book (text and binding), its materials and structures, and the ways that time and use mark books, all books. Custodians and scholars have both arrived at the point where they realize materiality and marking are equally important, and sometimes are just as important as content, for… Read More

New York: Khepri Press, 2017. Limited Edition. Cloth. As New in Fine Dustjacket. Limited Edition. Cloth. Alchemy is the art and science of bringing something to its final perfection, or its completion, much as a work of art is completed or perfected. And so, at heart it is about creation, creator, and creativity. Rooted the Alexandrian alchemical tradition and working from a new translation of the Emerald Tablet, Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter is the author's personal exploration of the union of material and non-material alchemical practice, that is of physical alchemy and inner alchemy. Engaging the Way of the Philosopher, and through direct experimentation, several areas are investigated in light of the Emerald Tablet - Chrysopoiea, the Green Lion, the Quintessence and Aurum potabile. - Author's website. Bound in cloth with risograph printed dust jacket. Limited edition of 28 of which this is ___. 28 covers each with one letter of the Arabic alphabet. Kanat typeface designed by Lara Captan.

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1857. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 44 chromolithograph illustrations with text beneath, printed rectos only, with title page, and bound in the orignal printed plum colored wraps, measuring 7.5 x 10.5' Some loss to spine and and bottom front cover, and fading along the edges, else a Very Good complete copy. // A work by this author, with this title, place of publication and publisher was published in 1857. Cf. English catalogue of Books. However that work has the following collation: xii, 208 p., [44] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 16 cm. Cf. NUC pre-56. The exact relationship between the two publications cannot be determined.

. Collie Drawn Sleigh and Girl
Original photo 10x8, Photographer, date, and location unknown. Excellent condition. Purchased on line.

New York: W.T. Comstock, 1895. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and burgundy decorations. iv, 98pp, (16pp ads). Frontispiece, numerous line drawings and floor plans. Near fine. Exceptionally, unusually tight and bright revised second edition of this study first published in 1893. Scarce in this incomparable, outstanding condition.

Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2018. cloth, dust jacket. Bookbinding. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 707 pages. Research into the history of the book and bookbinding makes our historical bindings relevant again and makes them better company. Studying and understanding and identifying and describing give us more information to consider when we must make decisions about our historical books. Accumulating this information most affects our great institutional collections, and to an extent, private collections, because the custodians of those collections have often tried to pay attention to issues of rarity and importance beyond content. There is certainly a growing and very welcome and broader interest today about the whole book (text and binding), its materials and structures, and the ways that time and use mark books, all books. Custodians and scholars have both arrived at the point where they realize materiality and marking are equally important, and sometimes are just as important as content, for… Read More

New York: Khepri Press, 2017. Limited Edition. Cloth. As New in Fine Dustjacket. Limited Edition. Cloth. Alchemy is the art and science of bringing something to its final perfection, or its completion, much as a work of art is completed or perfected. And so, at heart it is about creation, creator, and creativity. Rooted the Alexandrian alchemical tradition and working from a new translation of the Emerald Tablet, Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter is the author's personal exploration of the union of material and non-material alchemical practice, that is of physical alchemy and inner alchemy. Engaging the Way of the Philosopher, and through direct experimentation, several areas are investigated in light of the Emerald Tablet - Chrysopoiea, the Green Lion, the Quintessence and Aurum potabile. - Author's website. Bound in cloth with risograph printed dust jacket. Limited edition of 28 of which this is ___. 28 covers each with one letter of the Arabic alphabet. Kanat typeface designed by Lara Captan.

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1857. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 44 chromolithograph illustrations with text beneath, printed rectos only, with title page, and bound in the orignal printed plum colored wraps, measuring 7.5 x 10.5' Some loss to spine and and bottom front cover, and fading along the edges, else a Very Good complete copy. // A work by this author, with this title, place of publication and publisher was published in 1857. Cf. English catalogue of Books. However that work has the following collation: xii, 208 p., [44] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 16 cm. Cf. NUC pre-56. The exact relationship between the two publications cannot be determined.

. Collie Drawn Sleigh and Girl
Original photo 10x8, Photographer, date, and location unknown. Excellent condition. Purchased on line.

New York: W.T. Comstock, 1895. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and burgundy decorations. iv, 98pp, (16pp ads). Frontispiece, numerous line drawings and floor plans. Near fine. Exceptionally, unusually tight and bright revised second edition of this study first published in 1893. Scarce in this incomparable, outstanding condition.