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Francestown: Typographeum, 1992. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in). 60 pp. 125 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk.

Francestown: Typographeum, 2005. Limited private press edition. First edition. Wrappers. Fine copy. 32 pages sewn and pasted into blue paper wrappers with a printed label on front. 185 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Signed by the poet.

Francestown: Typographeum, 1982. Limited private press edition. First edition. Wrappers. Fine copy. Illustrated by Richard C. Walsh. 16 pages sewn into brown paper wrappers with a printed label on front. 175 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Signed by both the poet and the artist. Illustrated by Richard C. Walsh. This is a story of youthful yearnings and dawning maturity.

Francestown: Typographeum, 1986 & 1992. Limited private press edition. Wrappers. Fine. 6 leaves sewn and glued into wrappers, with a 4-page explanation laid in. This poem has often been reprinted. In this case it was commissioned for a Richard Aldington symposium in 1986 but for various highly controversial reasons was never distributed. It was, however, re-issued in 1992 with an explanation by the printer, R. T. Risk.

Francestown: Typographeum, 2000. Limited private press edition. First edition.. Wrappers. Fine copy. 28 pp. sewn into tan paper wrappers with a printed label on front cover. 120 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. The author tells an amusing, punning tale in the form of a dialogue which is full of bookselling and book-related terms. Each of these is defined at the end.

[Francestown]: [Typographeum], 1996. Limited private press edition. First edition. Wraps. Fine. 20 pages sewn into wrappers with printed label on front. Signed by author. Hand-set and printed letterpress by R. T. Risk. Limited to 50 copies, but in two states, with different Thai paper wrappers.

[Pinner]: Society of Private Printers (Private Libraries Association), 1982-1986. First edition. Wrappers. Fine copy. 28 booklets, plus an Index booklet. 6 1/4 x 3 7/8 inches. Preserved in a cloth slip-case with a printed label. This is the fifth printers' exchange organized by The Society of Private Printers. The 28 contributors from England, U.S.A., Australia and Italy include Bullnettle Press, Plough Press, Rocket Press, Septentrio Press, and Typographeum.

Francestown: Typographeum, 1992. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy. Illustrated by Andy Anderian, Paul Ambrosio, Andy Langlade, and Jaspail Riyait. 8vo. Blue cloth. Printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in). Pp. 48. Illus. 85 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. Illustrated by Andy Anderian, Paul Ambrosio, Andy Langlade, and Jaspail Riyait.

Francestown: Typographeum, 19-92. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy. 8vo. Russet cloth. Printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in). Pp. 44.100 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. Translated by Scott Rollins. J. Bernlef is one of the foremost Dutch poets. He began writing in the 1950s and his first book of verse appeared in 1960. This was followed by many other poetry collections, as well as short stories, essays, reviews, plays, and novels.

Francestown: Typographeum, 1994. Limited private press edition. First edition. Wrappers. Fine copy. 24 pp. sewn and glued into overlapping blue paper wrappers with a printed label on the front. 75 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Signed by the author.

[Francestown]: [Typographeum], 1986. Limited private press edition. First edition. Sewn. Fine. 6 leaves sewn into wrappers. 50 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket.

Francestown: Typographeum, 1993. Limited private press edition. First edition.. Hardcover. Fine copy. 8vo. Black cloth. Printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in). Pp. 60. Frontispiece, 4 mounted plates. 125 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. This memoir recounts visits made by the author to four interesting private presses in 1973. The Castlelaw Press was in the Scottish village of West Linton and was run by Alex Frizzell, a much loved bookseller. The Mélissa Press, at Draguignan in the south of France, was operated by Count Potocki of Montalk, a distinctive if controversial individual. The Officina Bodoni, at Verona, Italy, was the private press of Giovanni Mardersteig. And the Cuala Press at Dublin, Ireland, was still being run by members of the Yeats family. The memoir also touches on why the author sought out these printers and how they influenced him.

Francestown: Typographeum, 1993. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. No dust jacket, as issued. Illustrated by Elizabeth Lee James. 8vo. Russet cloth. Printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in). Pp. 32. 100 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. Illustrated by Elizabeth Lee James. These stories are about relationships gone badly wrong and about obsessions. Paul W. Nash is an award winning bibliographer who operates his own private press, The Strawberry Press, now at Witney, near Oxford.

Francestown: Typographeum, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. New copy. Illustrated with 20 etchings/drypoints by John Moat. 8vo. Silk-finish Japanese cloth over boards. Pp. 96. Illustrated. Hand-set and printed letterpress by R T Risk. Limited to 163 copies of which 150 are hand-bound by the printer. Issued without a dust-jacket. Illustrated with 20 etchings/drypoints by John Moat. This is a sequence of 43 poems--"asides and dreams"--which marks the culmination of this poet's fifty year quest to find new expression in poetry of the creative balance of feminine and masculine at the heart of all meaning.

[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 included. The presses include Cherub Press, Keepsake Press, Perdix Press, Pump Press, Peter Stockham, and Typographeum.

Francestown: Typographeum, 1989. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. New copy. 8vo. Blue cloth. Printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in). 52 pp. Checklist. 150 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. James Hanley was born in Dublin in 1901. He left home at 13, went to sea, and enlisted as an underaged soldier in World War I. His novels about ordinary people were difficult and relentlessly honest. For that reason success eluded him in his lifetime.

Francestown: Typographeum, 2000. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy. 8vo. Green cloth. Printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in). Pp. 64. 175 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Signed by the poet. Issued without a dust-jacket. Brother Augustine Towey, C M, is the Director of the University Theatre at Niagara University.

Francestown, N. H: Typographeum, 1987. Limited private press edition. Hardcover. Fine copy. Older, Julia. 8vo. Green cloth. Printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in). Pp. 40. Illustrated. Signed by author. Limited to 125 copies hand-set and printed letterpress by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. Julia Older is the author of a number of books of poetry, as well as a book describing her experiences walking the Appalachian Trail.

Francestown: Typographeum, 1991. Limited private press edition. First edition.. Wrappers. Fine copy. 20 pp. sewn into brown overlapping paper wrappers with a printed label on front cover. Limited to 75 copies hand-set and printed letterpress by R. T. Risk. Roy Campbell's lovely poem, "Mass at Dawn", was first published in 1930. The poem and this musical setting were first published together in 1984. This reprinted edition was published in recognition of the 90th anniversary of the poet's birth.

Francestown: [Typographeum], 1992. Limited private press edition. First edition. Sewn. Fine. 2 leaves sewn into wrappers. 20 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket.