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London: Faber and Faber, 1957. First Edition. Partial offsetting to front and rear endpapers, near fine in very good to near fine, price clipped dust wrapper, slightly rubbed along the spine and one small snag to the rear.

New York: Crosby Gaige, 1929. Limited Edition 632/ 742 copies (700 for sale), printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press on Zanders handmade paper. Slight browning to board edges else fine without dust wrapper as issued.

London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1955. One of the 445 copies bound in quarter cream parchment with blue cloth boards. Title and device in gold on the spine. Illustrated with two watercolour paintings and 40 crayon drawings.
Though not called for, this copy has been signed by Flint on the colophon. Additionally, Sir William has inscribed the copy for his sister Charlotte: "My dearest Lottie's copy of my Herrick, from Willie, April 1955".
Flint's reference to "my" Herrick indicates how personal a venture this book was for him. As press proprietor Christopher Sanford explains in Cock-a-Hoop:
"This was a book that I printed for the artist at his request and expense. Indeed the type was already set when he asked me to make it a Cockerel, and all the subsequent details of its production were exactly to his specifications. The illustrations were no commission for Sir William but as he maintained a long-sustained labour of love, a painter's tribute to a great poet."
Spine a little discolored, boards… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Limited edition 164/350, signed by Welty. Surprisingly scarce based on the print run.
A fine copy without dust wrapper as issued in fine slip case (one small mark)

First Edition of this winner of the 1975 National Book Award in History.
Inscribed "with best regards", signed and dated by the author. The recipient, a student pursuing his MPA at Harvard where Bailyn was a professor at the time, had previously written in his name and date, hence a difference in hand-writing in the inscription.
Spine a bit creased but book is tight and seemingly unread. Near fine in little rubbed, near fine dust wrapper.
Books signed by Bailyn are scarce indeed.
Few historians since World War II have left an imprint on that field of study that rivals Professor Bailyn's. In his classic 1967 work, "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution," Bailyn reshaped the study of the origins of the American Revolution, maintaining that the ideology of liberty and freedom was ingrained in the colonists, displacing Charles A Beard's then dominant theory that the American Revolution was primarily a matter of class warfare and that the rhetoric of freedom was meaningless.
On topic after… Read More