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New York: Random House, 1930. Hardcover. Orig. tan calf spine and color illustrated boards. Fine in very good publisher's sunned slipcase. 132 pages. 27 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 70 of 2000, signed by Donald McKay, fabric and printing by the Pynson Printers under the supervision of Elmer Adler. Drawings by McKay in black and white. Fresh, very bright copy.

London: Trianon Press, 1970. Hardcover. Orig. half green morocco and marbled boards. Near fine in matching, fine slipcase. Unpaginated. Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes. Ten plates. This early tract consists of ten etched plates averaging in size about 5.5 x 4 cm. Keynes notes there is "some uncertainty about the circumstances in which the work was produced, thought it is generally accepted that is must belong to a period of experimentation in the production of the plates for the Illuminated Books." Limited edition, copy 405 of 662 copies. Spine faded to brown.

London: Nonesuch Press, 1936. leather_bound. Orig full tan morocco, gilt spine title, raised bands. Teg. Fine. 202 pages. 21 x 13 cm. Limited edition, copy 14 of 1450. Harvey, refusing to believe what he was taught, was the first to understand and explain circulation. One of the major books in the history of medicine. Issued on the occasion of the tercentenary celebration of the first publication of the text of De Motu Cordis. Printed by Joh. Enschede en Zonen on Dutch paper.

Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1928. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth, front cover escutcheon decorated in gilt. Teg. Very good. Bray, Horace Walter. 94 pages. 34 x 24.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 192 of 350, wood-engravings designed and cut by Horace Walter Bray type, and printed by Robert Ashwin Maynard. Color lithograph escutcheon title page. The life of a Jacobean man of fashion, who may be called the last of the knights errant and the first of the deists. Fresh, clean copy, wide text margins, red initial letters, nicks to backstrip extremities.

London: Nonesuch Press, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter calf and gray boards. Near fine in good dust wrapper. 86 pages. 24 x 15 cm. Device on the title page designed by Stephen Gooden. Francis Meynell planned the book which was printed at the Fanfare Press. Limited edition, copy 188 of 1000. Book-label.

London: William Pickering, 1825. Hardcover. Contemporary brown cloth. Very good. 314 (4) pages. 9.5 x 6 cm. Miniature book. Original spine paper label chipped with loss. Interior contents clean, illustrated with occasional wood engravings.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1889. Hardcover. Three quarter green calf, marbled boards and matching endpapers, spines uniformly faded to brown. Teg. Near fine. 2 Vols. 465 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 111 of 150. 15 "Embellishments," full page tipped-in plates with tissue guards. 74 engravings on wood. General Index. Fresh, clean copy. Raised bands, spine panels with decorative gilt angling designs.

Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Hardcover. Orig. quarter bound parchment spine and green boards. Fine. Nash, John. 36 pages. 26 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 291 of 380 [350 for sale] on hand-made unbleached Arnold paper with twelve wood engravings by John Nash. Printed in black and green in double columns. CHANTICLEER 23. "An experiment, possibly in this case retrograde, in the revival of the bi-columnar page." Fresh, bright copy, free front and back endpapers toned at fore-edge.

London: Nonesuch Press, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth. Fine in clear acetate jacket with some loss. Teg.. Lydia, Mariette. 235 pages. 28 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 387 of 425 printed on Pannekoek paper in the Fleischman Greek and Lutetia types. Designed by Francis Meynell, printed by J. van Krimpen in Holland at the Press of Enchede en Zonen Haarlem. Illustrations with acetate plate guards. Bright, very fresh copy. Bookplate.

Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1922. Hardcover. Orig. yellow boards with red cloth spine. Backstrip paper label. Very good. 44 pp. 8vo, mostly unopened. Limited edition, copy 258 of 500. Coppard's first book of poems and the seventh book of the press. This was the first book in which separately numbered copies were issued. The book contained several printer's errors which the author says, "moved me at the time to a desperate horror. Alas for those enthusiasms of youth -- they make me giggle with laughter now!" CHANTICLEER:I 7. Spine nicks head and foot.

Bloomfield, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Hardcover. Royal blue vertical panels, spine and fore-edge, and decorated front cover in delft blue flower sculptured damask. Teg. Fine. Lily Harmon. 336 pages. 27 x 17 cm. Introduction by Arthur Mizener, Illustrated by Lily Harmon with 12 full page water colors and an equal number of in text black and white sketches. Limited edition, copy 1206 of 2000, signed by Harmon. NEWMAN & WICHE 485. Very crisp, fresh copy.

Gambier, Ohio: The Kenyon Collegian, 1964. First edition. Original Wraps. Cream wrappers stamped in gold. Near fine. 56 pages. 29 x 22.5 cm. Limited edition, assemblage of interviews, photos, recollections, and reflections on John Crowe Ransom, poet, teacher, and editor.

Paris: Bibliotheque Nouvelle De La Jeunesse, 1884. First French Edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated cloth, beveled edges. Aeg. Very good. Sirouy, Achille. 238 pages. 23 x 19 cm. Illustrated by Achille Sirouy. Preface by Twain in French. Text block firm, Interior contents clean and fresh, covers lightly soiled. Sirouy was an engraver, lithographer, painter and illustrator.

Edinburgh: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Hardcover. Orig. half red buckram spine, gold stamped with patterned boards. Fine. 8 vols. 3068 pages. 29 x 17 cm. Extensively annotated by the scholar-members of the Casanova Society of France. Text and notes translated by Arthur Machen; introduction by Havelock Ellis, and designed by Francis Meynell. Extensive Index. Limited edition copy 925 of 1500. NEWMAN & WICHE 116. Very lovely set almost as new save for slight, 4 cm adhesion marks at inside front covers: undoubtedly never read, lacking the two slipcases.

Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. Hardcover. Original red buckram. Small rear cover spot. Near fine. 73 pages. 27 x 20 cm. Written at the age of 27 in 1627 and published anonymously when a Fellow of Merton College, it presents the experience of a man of the world as well as a cleric, and is even more remarkable since Earle was at the time an untravelled student at Oxford. Book-plate. Limited edition, copy 374 of 400, printed by Robert Gibbings on English hand-made paper. CHANTICLEER 55.

London: Nonesuch Press, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gilt decorated white cloth in classical motifs, gilt title. Teg. Fine in very good, spine nicked black cloth dust wrapper, spine printed in gilt.. Ricketts, Charles. 60 pages. 26 x 16 cm. A fictitious character, Jean Paul Raymond, created by Ricketts enabling him to reveal his displeasure at the fate of his friend, Oscar Wilde. Decorative title page in red and black. Limited edition, copy 512 of 800. The cover was designed by Charles Ricketts, the typography by Francis Meynell. Introductory Note by Thomas Lowinsky. Front and back free endpapers toned, otherwise fine.

Austin: The Book Club Of Texas, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth covered boards, printed spine paper label. Fine. 109 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Limited edition, One of 300 copies. Illustrated with Wood Engravings from William H. Emory's Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Facsimile of the original title-page and Map of antebellum southwestern Texas, circa 1861. The type is Monotype Walbaum, the paper is Mohawk Letterpress. Designed and printed by Bradley Hutchinson at Digital Letterpress in Austin, Texas. Clean, crisp copy.

Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1930. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. stapled cream wrappers. Very good. 9 leaves. 22 x 14 cm. Introduction by Pepler discusses his start, noting "Cobden Sanderson gave me his blessing, but not his type. I had no intention of attempting to reach the "Doves "standard." Nine wood-cut engravings, some by Thomas Derrick, with a book list noting print runs and out of print status of titles. Also lists of Notepaper and Postcards. Two small brown spots not affecting text or images.

Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. Hardcover. Orig. quarter bound brown morocco, decorated cloth boards. Teg. Very good. Ravilious, Eric. 76 pages. 34 x 24 cm. Limited edition, copy 223 of 275 on Batchelor hand-made paper with Golden Cockerel watermark, wood engraved title, borders plus 29 wood-engravings by Eric Ravilious printed in brown and grey/green, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. CHANTICLEER 82. "One of the Press's greatest aesthetic successes, and the finest flowering of Ravilious' engraved book illustrations" Twelfth Night was Ravilious's "most ambitious project. With a design concept similar to Eric Gill's Canterbury Tales, published by Gibbings [at the Golden Cockerel Press], the decorative borders relate the illustrations to the text in a... visually unified manner" POWERS, ERIC. "Eric Ravilious, Artist & Designer, 2013, p.41). Tiny front cover scratch, bookplate, Laid-in "Golden Cockerel Books For The Spring," four titles noted.