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North Hills, Pa: Bird & Bull Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Clamshell case holding 1 volume and 1 portfolio with 18 examples of Bird & Bull printing ephemera. 108, [2] p.: illustrations; 33 cm. Original yellow morocco spine with light grey paper over boards printed in a pattern of birds and bulls. Gilt-tooled spine title. Light grey endpapers. Fore-edges and lower edges untrimmed. Title page printed in blue, brown, and black. Contents: Books printed by and for the Bird & Bull Press; Books printed by the Bird & Bull Press for others; Selected ephemera; Articles by or about Morris. This is #150 of a limited edition of 350 copes printed on handmade Roma V.E. paper at the Bird & Bull Press; bound by E.G. Parrot. The index "was compiled by that sterling bookman, raconteur and man about town, Howell J. Heaney" (from the colophon). clamshell case and portfolio are covered in grey linen, with an orange morocco spine label bearing a gilt-tooled title. Morocco…
Read More Jingles from the Postman's Pack to a Blue-Eyed Boy: Delivered from Three to Six; from the pen of Clem Irwin Orr "Tante"; illustrated by Jay Chambers by Orr, Clem Irwin; Chambers, Jay G - 1914
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Jingles from the Postman's Pack to a Blue-Eyed Boy: Delivered from Three to Six; from the pen of Clem Irwin Orr "Tante"; illustrated by Jay Chambers
by Orr, Clem Irwin; Chambers, Jay G
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New York: Marchbanks Press, 1914. Hardcover. Very Good. [40] p.: illustrations; 19 cm. White paper over boards; cover title in black. Front cover illustrated in blue. One of a limited edition of 200 copies printed for the author on handmade paper by the Marchbanks Press in May 1914. In 1914 Hal Marchbanks (1877-1934) was a founding member of AIGA (the American Institute of Graphic Arts) and started the Marchbanks Press. This was the second item printed by the press. The illustrator, Jay Chambers, was a staff artist on the New York World and the father of Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961). Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: spine is sunned; cover is lightly soiled and rubbed; pages are clean and crisp.
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Twenty-One Years of Bird & Bull: A Bibliography, 1958-1979 [with clamshell case]
by Taylor, W. Thomas and Morris, Henry
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The Land of Heart's Desire
by Yeats, William Butler
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Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1909. Hardcover. Near Fine. [6], 31, [3] p.; 19 cm. Off-white stiffened covers with overlapping fore-edges. Spine and cover titles and front cover decoration printed in light green. Original light green slipcase with title in black at foot of front section. Title page and colophon in red and black. Pages are unopened. "Five hundred copies of this book printed on Japan vellum small quarto and the type distributed in the month of July MDCCCCIX." -- colophon. First (American) edition thus. Book is in Near Fine Condition: slight discoloration on back cover; slight darkening along edges of covers; otherwise clean and bright. Slipcase is in Poor Condition: separated into two sections; lacking upper and spine sections; lacking small amount of green paper from front section.
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In the Penal Colony: translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir; with lithographs by Michael Hafftka [with box]
by Kafka, Franz
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1987. Hardcover. Fine. Hafftka, Michael. [2], 53, [5] p., 4 leaves of lithographed plates; 30 cm. Sewn and bound in vellum paper wrappers with yapp edges and the author's name printed in black on the spine; sewing bands are visible on the wrapper sides. Clamshell box is covered in light grey cloth with a small printed label on the spine bearing the author's name. Edges of box are black; lined with black felt. This is number 198 of a limited edition of 800 copies. Set in monotype Walbaum at the Out of Sorts letter foundery in Mamaroneck, N.Y. and printed on mould-made Magnani paper at the Shagbark Press in South Portland, Me. The lithographs were printed on hand-made Japanese paper at Trestle Editions, N.Y. City. The book design was by Benjamin Shiff. Hand-sewn and hand-bound by Carol Joyce. Signed by the artist at the colophon. In Fine/Fine Condition.
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Fantasio: A Comedy in Two Acts; by Alfred De Musset; translated by Maurice Baring [with slipcase]
by Musset, Alfred de
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Paris: The Pleiad, 1929. Hardcover. Fine. Giauque, Fernand. 57, [1] p., 1 hand-colored frontispiece, 1 addition leaf of a hand-colored plate, and 10 in-text illustrations; 28 cm. Original red cloth with gilt-rooled spine title. Burgundy slipcase with printed paper label on front section, with handwritten copy number. Designed by Frederic Warde. This is no. 172 of a limited edition of 550. "The twelve illustrations, ten in lithography and two hand-coloured, have been made by Mr. Fernand Giauque. The Lutetia type used for the text, designed by Mr. J. van Krimpen, has been composed and printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem, Holland." -- Colophon. Former owner's name on front free endpaper, Theodore W. Bozarth, dated 1946. Inscribed (by same hand?) at lower edge of back fixed endpaper: "S-- Trenton, N.J." Theodore W. Bozarth (1918-2005) was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force who served overseas in England and Japan. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and bright. Slipcase is in Very Good-…
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A Song About Major Eatherly
by Wain, John
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Iowa City, Iowa: Qara Press, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine -. Baasch, Norman. [16] p.: 2 linoleum cuts; 27 cm. Original light blue paper over boards with white paper label on front board, printed in black. "Printed by Gerald M. Stevenson, Jr. on Curtis Rag paper with linoleum cuts by Norman Baasch. Of an edition limited to 190 cpies, this is copy 25." -- colophon. This poem first appeared in The Listener on Aug. 6, 1959. Major Claude R. Eatherly was one of the pilots involved in the atomic bombing of Japan in World War II. In Near Fine- Condition: cover lightly soiled; pages are clean and crisp.
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Twenty-One Years of Bird & Bull: A Bibliography, 1958-1979 [with clamshell case]
by Taylor, W. Thomas and Morris, Henry
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North Hills, Pa: Bird & Bull Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Clamshell case holding 1 volume and 1 portfolio with 18 examples of Bird & Bull printing ephemera. 108, [2] p.: illustrations; 33 cm. Original yellow morocco spine with light grey paper over boards printed in a pattern of birds and bulls. Gilt-tooled spine title. Light grey endpapers. Fore-edges and lower edges untrimmed. Title page printed in blue, brown, and black. Contents: Books printed by and for the Bird & Bull Press; Books printed by the Bird & Bull Press for others; Selected ephemera; Articles by or about Morris. This is #150 of a limited edition of 350 copes printed on handmade Roma V.E. paper at the Bird & Bull Press; bound by E.G. Parrot. The index "was compiled by that sterling bookman, raconteur and man about town, Howell J. Heaney" (from the colophon). clamshell case and portfolio are covered in grey linen, with an orange morocco spine label bearing a gilt-tooled title. Morocco…
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The Land of Heart's Desire
by Yeats, William Butler
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Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1909. Hardcover. Near Fine. [6], 31, [3] p.; 19 cm. Off-white stiffened covers with overlapping fore-edges. Spine and cover titles and front cover decoration printed in light green. Original light green slipcase with title in black at foot of front section. Title page and colophon in red and black. Pages are unopened. "Five hundred copies of this book printed on Japan vellum small quarto and the type distributed in the month of July MDCCCCIX." -- colophon. First (American) edition thus. Book is in Near Fine Condition: slight discoloration on back cover; slight darkening along edges of covers; otherwise clean and bright. Slipcase is in Poor Condition: separated into two sections; lacking upper and spine sections; lacking small amount of green paper from front section.
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In the Penal Colony: translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir; with lithographs by Michael Hafftka [with box]
by Kafka, Franz
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1987. Hardcover. Fine. Hafftka, Michael. [2], 53, [5] p., 4 leaves of lithographed plates; 30 cm. Sewn and bound in vellum paper wrappers with yapp edges and the author's name printed in black on the spine; sewing bands are visible on the wrapper sides. Clamshell box is covered in light grey cloth with a small printed label on the spine bearing the author's name. Edges of box are black; lined with black felt. This is number 198 of a limited edition of 800 copies. Set in monotype Walbaum at the Out of Sorts letter foundery in Mamaroneck, N.Y. and printed on mould-made Magnani paper at the Shagbark Press in South Portland, Me. The lithographs were printed on hand-made Japanese paper at Trestle Editions, N.Y. City. The book design was by Benjamin Shiff. Hand-sewn and hand-bound by Carol Joyce. Signed by the artist at the colophon. In Fine/Fine Condition.
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Fantasio: A Comedy in Two Acts; by Alfred De Musset; translated by Maurice Baring [with slipcase]
by Musset, Alfred de
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Paris: The Pleiad, 1929. Hardcover. Fine. Giauque, Fernand. 57, [1] p., 1 hand-colored frontispiece, 1 addition leaf of a hand-colored plate, and 10 in-text illustrations; 28 cm. Original red cloth with gilt-rooled spine title. Burgundy slipcase with printed paper label on front section, with handwritten copy number. Designed by Frederic Warde. This is no. 172 of a limited edition of 550. "The twelve illustrations, ten in lithography and two hand-coloured, have been made by Mr. Fernand Giauque. The Lutetia type used for the text, designed by Mr. J. van Krimpen, has been composed and printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem, Holland." -- Colophon. Former owner's name on front free endpaper, Theodore W. Bozarth, dated 1946. Inscribed (by same hand?) at lower edge of back fixed endpaper: "S-- Trenton, N.J." Theodore W. Bozarth (1918-2005) was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force who served overseas in England and Japan. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and bright. Slipcase is in Very Good-…
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A Song About Major Eatherly
by Wain, John
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Iowa City, Iowa: Qara Press, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine -. Baasch, Norman. [16] p.: 2 linoleum cuts; 27 cm. Original light blue paper over boards with white paper label on front board, printed in black. "Printed by Gerald M. Stevenson, Jr. on Curtis Rag paper with linoleum cuts by Norman Baasch. Of an edition limited to 190 cpies, this is copy 25." -- colophon. This poem first appeared in The Listener on Aug. 6, 1959. Major Claude R. Eatherly was one of the pilots involved in the atomic bombing of Japan in World War II. In Near Fine- Condition: cover lightly soiled; pages are clean and crisp.
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Printing Digital Type on the Hand-Operated Flatbed Cylinder Press
by Lange, Gerald
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Chatwin Books, 2018. Trade Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" New!
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by Cave, Roderick
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New York: Watson - Guptill, 1971. cloth, dust jacket. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 376 pages. First U.S. edition. Jacket lightly soiled, else a fine copy. Traces the development of the private press over the last 500 years. 83 figures in the text and 72 plates. Better printed than the second edition and containing some material not present in the first edition and thus still desirable.
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The Eye of Heaven: a Narrative Poem
by Efird, Susan
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Abattoir Editions, 1982. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. One of 150 numbered copies printed by Harry Duncan; this being #84. 9.25 X 12 inches. 40pp., bound in tan wraps with mounted cream printed paper label wrapping around the spine and front cover. Letterpress printed on Japanese Etching paper, from Poliphilus, Blado, and Fournier Ornate types; with 2 woodblock prints by Michael McCurdy. Faint dampstaining to the text margins of the fore-edge, else Very Good.
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Nomi no Kai
by Minegishi, Shinsuke
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Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, 2006. Limited Edition. Wraps. Fine. [4]pp. Black & white frontispiece by Shinuske Minegishi, reproduced from the original engraving. One of 75 copies (from an edition of 100, signed and numbered by Minegishi). Designed by Rollin Milroy and printed by David Clifford at his Black Stone Press. Sewn into a Canson paper wraps. A Fine copy. // A previously unpublished essay by the artist, paying homage to a group of six Japanese wood engravers 'who were responsible for reviving the art form in that country'. Published to accompany the artist's first solo exhibition in the United States, at Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, November 2006.
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The First Ten: A Penmaen Press Bibliography
by Peich, Michael; Michael McCurdy
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Lincoln: Penmaen Press, 1978. First Edition, one of 500 copies printed. This copy SIGNED by McCurdy twice, at Title and Afterword. Woodcuts by McCurdy. Bibliographically describes all Penmaen Press books, broadsides and ephemera 1968-1978, with additional items. Includes 16 pp. of photographs of contributors: Peich, McCurdy, Lynd Ward, Allen Ginsberg and others. A demonstrable work of love. 9½ x 6½.. Near Fine original blue cloth-covered boards blind stamped with gilt lettering to spine in like dust jacket.
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Germinal
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The Easton Press, The Collector's Library of Famous Editions, 1992 (1942). First Thus; Collector's Edition. Translated by Havelock Ellis. Illustrated by Berthold Mahn. Hardcover. Issued without dust jacket. Used - Fine, "Like New" condition. Appears unopened / unread. Binding and text block are tight, bright, and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Bound in full (genuine) leather with hubbed spine. All edges gilt. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints, silk moire fabric end leaves, and permanent satin ribbon marker. Notes From The Archives sheet laid in. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books. A gorgeous copy.
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The Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes (Signed, Limited Edition in Slipcase)
by Faith Jaques; Zena Sutherland
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London: Orchard Books, September 1990. Hardcover. Signed Limited Edition. Quarter-bound in dark grey cloth with dove grey sides. Silver titles and top edge. Silver silk ribbon marker. Illustrated endpapers. Dove grey slipcase. Presentation copy of a Limited Edition of 250 copies. Flat-signed by illustrator Faith Jaques, the noted children's book author, illustrator, artist, and advocate. Fine book in a Near Fine slipcase. Not from a library. 88 pages. Profusely illustrated.
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Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands, 1800-1804: With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.-A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France
by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur; Nicolas-Martin Petit; Jacqueline Bonnemains (ed); Elliott Forsyth (ed); Bernard Smith (ed)
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Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and…
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Catalogue of the Private Collection of Paintings Belonging to Peter A. Schemm Philadelphia, PA
by [SCHEMM, Peter A.]
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Philadelphia: [privately printed] Beck Engraving Company, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Small quarto, unpaginated. Hundreds of black and white halftone plates, depicting the various paintings. On the opposite leaves, printed in red ink, are the painting titles and artists. A front blank contains a tipped-in photograph of Schemm, surrounded by his bounty of paintings. A crisp, clean copy in the publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt. Very minor dust-soiling to the cloth, and an owner's name on the front free endpaper, else a rather crisp, sharp example; near fine. A very nice production.
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A Song About Major Eatherly
by Wain, John
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Iowa City, Iowa: Qara Press, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine -. Baasch, Norman. [16] p.: 2 linoleum cuts; 27 cm. Original light blue paper over boards with white paper label on front board, printed in black. "Printed by Gerald M. Stevenson, Jr. on Curtis Rag paper with linoleum cuts by Norman Baasch. Of an edition limited to 190 cpies, this is copy 25." -- colophon. This poem first appeared in The Listener on Aug. 6, 1959. Major Claude R. Eatherly was one of the pilots involved in the atomic bombing of Japan in World War II. In Near Fine- Condition: cover lightly soiled; pages are clean and crisp.
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