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A Song About Major Eatherly
by Wain, John
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...
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£62.67
Remembering Fritz Eichenberg: Friendship Celebrated
by Eichenberg, Fritz (Artist)
New York: Donnell Memorial Library, 1991. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Eichenberg, Fritz. Fritz Eichenberg (1901-1990) was a woodcut artist and educator and this volume was created in his memory. Published in an edition of 250 copies and although usually numbered, this copy is penciled "A.E." at the colophon. Printed at the Press of the Sea Turtle in Easthampton, MA, by Harold McGrath. A beautiful remembrance of an exceptional man. 31 pp. 4to. Gray paper boards with black ribbon binding in...
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£203.48
To Remember Albert M. (Micky) Bender. With an Appreciation by Elise S. Haas
by Lewis, Oscar; Haas, Elise S
San Franciscio, CA: Robert Grabhorn & Andrew Hoyem, 1973. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Frontispiece portrait of Albert Bender by Ansel Adams. A celebration of the life of noted San Francisco patron of the arts, Albert Bender. Printed by Grabhorn & Hoyem in an edition of 200 copies. 38 pp. Light brown buckram covered boards with paper title label pasted to spine. Light discoloration to cover boards around edges. Clean and crisp within. Beautifully produced with a red titling to title page as...
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£32.56
A Family Letter Written in Nineteen Thirty-Two by George Moser to His Nephew Arthur Moser & Published by His Great-nephew Barry Moser
by MOSER, George and Barry MOSER
Easthampton, MA: The Pennyroyal Press, 1979. A fine copy, the extremities just touched. Oblong (7.5 x 10.5 inches). Original boards. Number 71 of 175 copies signed by Barry Moser on the colophon. A folding plate of a sword, signed by Moser, is tipped to the title-page.
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£122.08
Nine Classic California Photographers
by [CALIFORNIA PHOTOGRAPHY] Hively, William (edited by)
Octavo (9 1/2 x 7 inches) Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, 1980. A keepsake of the Friends of the Bancroft Library printed by Lawton Kennedy. Stiff wrappers, good condition, 94 pages illustrated with captioned black and white photos.
The nine photographers discussed are Robert Vance, Carleton Watkins, Edweard Muybridge, Adam Clark Vroman, Arnold Genthe, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, and Ansel Adams with an example of each of their works.
The nine photographers discussed are Robert Vance, Carleton Watkins, Edweard Muybridge, Adam Clark Vroman, Arnold Genthe, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, and Ansel Adams with an example of each of their works.
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£12.21
The Hovering Fly & Other Essays
by TATE, Allen (1899-1979)
Cummington, MA: The Cummington Press, 1949. 8vo. 102, [1]pp. Original leather-backed boards. Spine worn, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 115 of 140 copies from an edition of 245. Printed by Wightman Williams, who cut the woodblocks, and Harry Duncan, who set the type.
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£142.43
A Sense of Direction Selected Poems (1935-1990)
by GLAZER, Tom
N.p.: Juxtaposition Press for the Author, 1992. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, edges untrimmed, by Carolyn Chadwick and Kiki Bourneuf; printed acetate jacket. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, one of 50 copies printed by Jennifer Magee-McGovern, this copy unnumbered out-of-series. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to Charlotte Ricks "In memory of words and music" in 1997. Scarce privately-printed book by the singer-songwriter best known for writing "On Top of Spaghetti."
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£81.39
My Sister Life
by Boris Pasternak
New York: The Limited Editions Club. Fine. 1990. Limited Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. My Sister Life was written in the summer before the 1917 October Revolution, it was very well received and established him as a genius of Russian poetry. The English translation was done by Mark Rudman. The acclaimed Russian born artist, Yuro Kuyper provides 6 etchings for the publication, printed on Hannemule paper in Paris. The paper used for the text was hand-made by H. M. P. Mill in Connecticut to...
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£1,216.78
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF LON TINKLE
by [DALLAS] Sparkman, M.D., Robert S. editor
Dallas: Friends of the Dallas Public Library, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE. Limited edition of 500 copies of which this is copy number 442 SIGNED with editor's presentation. Designed and produced by Willaim R. Chiles, printed by off-set lithography on 80# Tweedweave Text, and printed recto. Tipped-in sepia portrait by Tom Lea, color photographs by the editor tipped-in. Folio crash linen boards and blue cloth spine. Proceeds to benefit the Dallas Public Library. Blue endpapers no names, clean...
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£24.42
The Golden Hind A Quarterly Magazine of Art and Literature
by Bax, Clifford; Spare, Austin Osman
Chapman & Hall, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 1, no.1-4, of the literary magazine edited by Clifford Bax and Austin Osman Spare, bound the publisher's boards. While the boards show a century of wear, they have protected the interior wonderfully, including the original front wrappers of each number and the many lithographs. Bound with no. 4 is the prospectus for Volume 2, announcing the change to a smaller size ('Originally we chose the large page because we wished to give our...
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£438.69
The Spear
by Herbert, James
Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2021. Prestige reprint of the classic thriller of an occult neo-Nazi conspiracy, with new illustrations by Gerberding, jacket art by David Ho, repros of paperback covers, discussion of the plagiarism lawsuit endured by the author and including one of the original chapter prologues which precipitated the charge of plagiarism, Afterword discussing the court case by author/editor/publisher Jo Fletcher. Number 289 of 300 copies printed, SIGNED by Ho, Gerberding, & Fletcher,...
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£162.78
Printing Digital Type on the Hand-Operated Flatbed Cylinder Press
by Lange, Gerald
Chatwin Books, 2018. Trade Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" New!
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£19.53
STORY OF THE SPANISH MISSIONS OF THE MIDDLE SOUTHWEST
by Lockwood, Frank C
Small quarto (9 3/4 X 6 1/2 inches) Santa Ana, California: The Fine Arts Press, 1934. First Edition. [i-xvi], i-vi, 1-[80] pages, 30 plates on 16 leaves, double map, index, one of 500 copies, hardcover, dark brown cloth with a quarter bound beige cloth spine, title stamped in gold on the backstrip, top and bottom edges trimmed, fore edges untrimmed.
According to "Thomas E. Williams & The Fine Arts Press" by Richard D. Curtiss, "The advance notice for this book indicates 500 copies printed, whereas a... Read more about this item
According to "Thomas E. Williams & The Fine Arts Press" by Richard D. Curtiss, "The advance notice for this book indicates 500 copies printed, whereas a... Read more about this item
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£24.42
Looking Out: 9 Loving Reversals
by Gochberg, H[erbert] S
Madison: M[aralyn] L Dettmann, 1974. Poetry; Gochberg was a University of Wisconsin professor of French.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 7½" by 12¼".
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£48.83
The Land of Heart's Desire
by Yeats, William Butler
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." --...
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£79.76
The Pickwick Papers: Some Bibliographical Remarks
by Bay, J. Christian
Chicago: Caxton Club, 1938. "An address delivered before the Caxton Club, January Sixteenth, 1937", discussing the illustrator Robert Seymour's share of the credit for creating Pickwick, and various states of text & one illustration in early issues of the book. Hardcover, full red cloth, gilt titling, blind-stamped decoration. One of 250 copies printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press in Boston. Light wear to corners; previous owner's name in pencil on front end sheet;...
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£40.70
On Conciliation with the Colonies and Other Papers on the American Revolution
by [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB] BURKE, Edmund
Lunenberg, VT: Stinehour Press for The Limited Editions Club, 1975. Limited edition, number 605 of 2000 copies signed by the illustrator. Fine save a few marks on slipcase. Tall octavo. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. Original decorated cloth; original glassine; publisher's board slipcase. Edited by Peter J. Stanlis.
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£56.97
ARTHUR RACKHAM
by Latimore, Sarah Briggs and Grace Clark Haskell
Octavo (9 1/2 X 6 1/4 inches) Los Angeles: Suttonhouse, 1936. First Edition. Slipcased. 111 pages, colored frontis from Rackham's illustration for "Imagina," black and white photo portrait of Rackham, index, black and white illustrations from Arthur Rackham's first book and advertisements, printed by The Ward Ritchie Press, limited edition of 550 copies (of which 500 numbered copies are for sale), very good condition, patterned paper boards in matching slip case with minor fading near the spine, not...
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£54.94
Lake George to Burlington. Two American Travel Sketches
by [TRAGARA PRESS] Henry JAMES
Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1981. 8vo. 21, [1]pp. Original green cloth; printed paper label on spine. A fine copy. COPY NUMBER 1. LIMITED EDITION, one of 120 copies on Ingres d'Arches.
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£61.04
THE SCULPTURED GARLAND
by LANDOR, Walter Savage
London: Dropmore Press, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Some soiling and dampspotting to covers. Internally Fine. The darkened dustwrapper front panel is separated at the spine. Very Good. Ian Macnab. Quarto, bound in half morocco leather. Illustrated with 15 wood engravings by Ian Macnab. Copy #189 of 300 numbered copies of this lovely book.
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£101.74
The Chaste Planet
by UPDIKE, John
Worcester: Metacom Press, 1980. A near-fine copy, lightly curled but bright and clean. 8vo. 16, [1] pp. Sewn in original blue marbled wrappers, printed paper label on front cover. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 132 of 300 copies signed by Updike from an edition of 326. This is Metacom Limited Editions Series, no. 1. With publisher's slip laid-in explaining the printing.
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£73.25
Auggie Wren's Christmas Story
by Paul Auster
Fine quarter bound buckram and marbled hardcover boards. First edition. From a numbered edition of 450, 50 of which were bound in goatskin, 100 quarter bound in buckram, and 250 sewn into marbled papers, this copy is #70, numbered and signed by Paul Auster. Published by William Drenttel in New York, NY on Zerkall mould-made paper. A lovely and collectible item. The source material for Paul Auster's screenplay and the film Smoke.
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£244.17
KLASSISCHE MARMORIERMUSTER/ CLASSIC MARBLING PATTERNS
by Sönmez, Nedim and Dr. Nuran Sönmez
Tübingen: Nedim Sönmez, 2005. in Japanese binding. Marbling. 4to. in Japanese binding. not paginated. Limited to an edition of 20 copies signed and numbered by Nedim and Nuran Sönmez, of which only 10 were produced per Mr. Sonmez. It contains 80 unique pieces, all of which are tipped in and numbered on the backing sheet. These patterns range through the complete spectrum of traditional patterns now commonly used in Europe and, in most cases, already known in the Orient. This is the first volume in a...
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£374.39
CALIFORNIA'S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 1849-1869
by Baird, Joseph Armstrong, Jr
Large quarto (14 X 10 1/2 inches) San Francisco: David Magee, 1967. One of 475 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn & Andrew Hoyem. 171 pages printed on heavy wove paper, quarter bound brick red leather with title in gilt on the spine, patterned paper over boards, hardcover - very good condition (minor scuffing at head and tale of spine from shelf wear, not affecting contents).
Illustrated with 60 plates - full size reproductions showing examples of California Gold Rush letter sheets - one facsimile is in... Read more about this item
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£77.32
