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Oxford: Oxford University Press for Limited Editions Club, 1936. Limited ed. Cloth. Very Good in Good + DJ. Austen, John. Two Volumes in Slipcase. 4to, 782 pp. Edition of 1500 (this is no. 89), signed by the illustrator. Light hanlding to boards, head of spine slightly pulled, top edge dusty, page edges and endpapers a bit tanned. Both jackets a bit dustsoiled with some edgewear includingn a few small chips. Slipcase is sunned, edgeworn, with top panel cracked at joint.

Portland, OR: Twombly Press, 1969. First edition. Boards. Very Good in Good DJ. Allman, Frank. 12mo, 21 pp. No. 59 of 102 copies. Edges of boards and page edges a bit tanned, otherwise Fine. Jacket sunned, soiled, torn.

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977. First printing. Wraps. Very Good. 4to, 112 pp., illus. Wrappers a bit sunned, previous owner name.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1951. Second Printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to. 43pp +149pp illus. (reproductions) from England, France,I taly, Spain, Portugal, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and Netherlands.Very handsome copy.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. Second edition. Cloth. Fine/No dust jacket. 8vo xxv + 592pp. Original Green Cloth.Approximately 1,750 entries (1572- 1853), with addenda, and an index. Reprint of original 1854 edition.

Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1995. First edition. Cloth. Fine. 4to, 183 pp., illus.

Privately Printed, 1979. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine. Mahier, Edith. 8vo, 78 pp., illus. Edition of 1000 copies. Very slight sunnuing to covers, otherwise Fine. No jacket.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926. Second printing. Cloth. Good. 8vo, 74 pp., 10 plates. Spine and edges of boards sunned with small tears/fraying at crown, heel bumped, two small stains to front board, page edges tanned, book plate on front pastedown.

Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1982. Boards. Very Good (No Jacket). 8vo, 222 pp. Bibliography. Boards have a few small marks and are lightly bumped at head of spine and corners.

Berkeley: Arif Press. Wraps. Very Good. (1) Wesley Tanner, Cancrum Orbis: A Poem for Daniel Moore. Arif, 1970. Sewn in wrappers, 8vo, [8] pp., illus. One of 60 copies printed. Pasted in as a frontispiece (now detached and laid in) is a small original watercolor by Tanner. Inscribed and dated 1971 in margin below frontis. Wrappers sunned and edgeworn, page edges tanned, some offsetting to title page. (2) Wesley Tanner, Thirty Years at the Case (Book Club of California Quarterly Newsletter, LV:2, Spring 1990). Stapled wraps, 8vo, 52 pp. Issue also includes Membership, Gifts & Acquisitions, Reviews, etc. Small nick at spine, light wear at corners. (3) Evelyn, John, An Abstract of a Letter to the Royal Society Concerning the Dammage Done to his Gardens by the Preceding Winter [1684]. Passim/Wesley B. Tanner, Berkeley, 1990. 15 pp. One of 1000 copies printed "as a keepsake for participants at Type 90, Held at Oxford, August 31 to September 4, 1990." (4) Lovely letterpress holiday card… Read More

Grolier Club / David R. Godine, 2004. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Cloth. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Folio, 110 pp., color plates.

Paris: Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1977. First edition. Wraps. Fair. Square 4to, 104 pp., illus. No. 146 of 600. Signed by Gervais Jassaud, (Gerard) Duchene, and two others. Wrappers worn, foxed, tape-repaired at head of spine, and separated from text block; first two leaves loose and laid in; foxing to page edges and margins. For more than 40 years Gervais Jassaud has been publishing artists books, about 150 titles to date, under the banner of Collectif Génération. Moved by a utopian vision, that of an imaginary library, he has patiently and stubbornly constructed a publishing enterprise worthy of his illustrious predecessors, from whom he drew inspiration for his own endeavours. • It was from Kahnweiler, whose eye for contemporary artists and writers became legendary, that Jassaud drew his passion for art and literature without frontiers. • In Tériade, whose taste in literature was nothing if not old-fashioned, Jassaud… Read More

New York: Greenberg, 1928. First edition. Cloth. Good. Small 8vo, 211 pp. Book collecting. Covers rubbed and soiled, extremities bumped and rubbed with minor fraying at heel, page edges tanned, stains to top edge, previous owner names (two) on front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked.

New York: BDD Illustrated Books, 1993. Boards. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Square 4to, 120 pp., color illus. Signed by the author. Paper crafts. Head of spine lightly bumped.

Offenbach am Main: Klingspor-Museum, 1989. First edition. Cloth. Fine. 8vo, 113 pp., illus.

Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 2003. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo, 309 pp., illus. Spine very slightly cocked, fore-edge lightly bumped at head affecting corners of boards and page corners.

San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1963. Cloth. Fine / Good. Special Publication No. 38. 12mo, 15 pp. Reprint of 1880 article. Jacket worn with a number of small tears.

New York: American Bible Society & New York Public Library, 1962. Cloth. Very Good. Tall 8vo, 475 pp. Covers bumped at corners, bottom edge lightly shelfworn, page edges a bit soiled, note in pencil on ffep, otherwise unmarked.

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, for Ransohoffs, 1938. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. Folio, printed cloth with 1/4 leather, pp. unnumbered, color wood engraving by Mallette Dean. Edition of 200 copies. White leather a bit rubbed and yellowed, magazine clipping mounted on title page. A cancelled envelope bearing King Edward VIII postage stamps is laid in, and three more stamps have been affixed to three pp.

San Francisco: Greenwood, 1949. Cloth. Very Good in Good DJ. 8vo, pp. unnumbered, portrait (by Andre Masson). One of 250 copies. Inscribed on front pastedown by Morgan, who has also made two neat corrections in colophon. Covers and page edges darkened; previous owner name on ffep; faint finger marks to a few pages; portrait plate offset to opposite page. Jacket sunned, rubbed, edgeworn, with chips and small tears mainly along top edge.