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New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1933.. Cloth and decorated boards, paper label. Portrait. Top edge a bit dusty, slight tanning at board edges, otherwise very good or better. First edition in book form. One of 400 numbered copies printed on handmade paper, of which 150 were for sale. Foreword by Melbert Cary, Jr. With the small bookplate on the front pastedown of typographer/designer Carl P. Rollins. LAWSON & PANKOW 29.

Princeton & New York: Panache, 1971.. 172,[4]pp. Quarto. Pictorial wrapper. Illustrations and photographs. Upper forecorner slightly bumped, small nick at crown of spine, otherwise near fine. First US edition (published earlier in the Netherlands). A substantial anthology, printing work by Jean Francois Bory, Marvin Cohen, dsh, Edwin Morgan, Jochen Gerz, John Furnival, Dick Higgins, bp Nichol, and many others. Published in a limited, numbered edition of unspecified quantity (but over 500).

North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1974.. Quarto. Quarter gilt-lettered morocco and paste-paper over boards, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Plates, tipped-in samples, etc. Lower fore-tips bumped, scattered spots of surface erosion to the pigment utilized in the pastepaper, internally fine, with the prospectus laid in. First edition. One of 175 numbered copies, printed in Centaur and Goudy types on papers handmade at the press, and bound by the Eberhardts. An important and early production by Morris, treating papermills in Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Italy and Poland, as well as a number in the United States. The second section prints a History and Selective Index to THE PAPER MAKER, compiled and edited by Morris and James Anderson. TAYLOR & MORRIS A15.

London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1929.. 99,[1]pp. Small octavo. Pictorial boards. Usual tanning to free endsheets, some light foxing, a very good copy. First edition of the Welsh poet's second collection, published as No. 6 in the "Hogarth Living Poets" series. One of 500 copies printed. WOOLMER 201.

North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1964.. Quarter brown morocco, lettered in gilt and patterned paper over boards, fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed. Portrait and manuscript facsimiles. Slight darkening at endsheet gutters from morocco turn-ins, otherwise fine, with the prospectus laid in. First edition of this early treatment of Mosher and his books, limited to 200 numbered copies printed by Henry Morris on "Mosher" handmade paper in Janson, Centaur and Arrighi types. A preliminary checklist of Mosher's titles concludes this work, one of Henry Morris's earliest publications. TAYLOR A5.

Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, 1843.. vi,[2],296pp. Octavo. Original publisher's boards, with early rebacking in plain paper. A few smudges to boards, spine backing a bit cracked and with a couple of small chips, old bookseller's catalogue description tipped to the front free endsheet, fore-tips worn, internally very good and bright. First US edition thus, edited by Emerson from Carlyle's original text (and, in part, manuscript), with a prefatory note by him. One of 1500 copies. From the distinguished collections of Henry W. Poor and Walter Thomas Wallace, with their respective bookplates on the front pastedown. MYERSON E3. TARR A13.2. BAL 5194.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, [1945].. 32pp. Small quarto (25.5 x 19 cm). Pictorial wrapper. Modest creasing and dust shadow to wrapper, very good. First edition, wrapperbound issue. One of a total edition of 6000 copies. Of note for its accompaniment: an 8.5 x 14" (35.5 x 22 cm) mimeographed typescript press release, folded, with a MOMA letterhead on the first leaf, treating in some detail Strand's career to date and noting the exhibition of 172 photographs.

[Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1963].. 12mo. Faux parchment wrapper with Phoenix device centered on upper panel. Wrapper shows some soiling and foxing, internally about fine. First separate edition of this translation of text from Philippe de Thuan's Bestiary. One of 450 copies printed for Philip Hofer at the Stanbrook Abbey Press, with color initials executed by Margaret Adams. In spite of the large edition, a rather uncommon imprint, of which there are reputed to be a number of variants.

Minneapolis: Pentagram Press, [1988].. [42]pp. Large octavo. Cloth-backed paper over boards, printed spine label. Printed in colors, with tipped-in photograph and paper specimen. Faint little finger-tip size smudge at top edge of upper board, otherwise fine. First edition. One of 150 numbered copies, from a total edtion of 176 copies printed by Michael Tarachow on Arches wove. Like the 26 special copies, this copy is signed on the half-title by fifteen of the contribuors, among them Clifford Burke, Harry Duncan, Leonard Bahr, et al. Additionally, this copy bears the printer's seven-line presentation inscription to contributor Leonard Bahr on the colophon. Bahr was principal of the Adagio Press and his contribution appears on the verso of the first text leaf, rendering this an appealing association copy of an elegant book. According to the colophon this collection of statements on type design by printers past and present required 112 press runs and nearly 28,000 impressions.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1941.. Gilt cloth. Spine cocked, binding a bit darkened and handsoiled, a few spots to the top edge with a bit of bleed to the top edge of the front endsheets, some light foxing and creasing to a few corners, but a good copy, without dust jacket. First edition. An association copy of a high order, inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet to his contemporary, friend and fellow "Bright Young Thing," Cecil Beaton: "To my dear friend Cecil, the brilliant perpetuator of Paquita Gossamer's charms (see p. 288) with much love from Harold." The reference on p.288 is to a film star and hostess of late-night parties on the roof of the Peiping Palace Hotel, who has promised Freddie Follicle, social editor of the Peiping Star Bulletin, "an autographed 'study' of herself in SEMIRAMIS by Cecil Beaton." A few smudges on that page suggest that Beaton turned to it more than once. The first impression consisted of 1250 copies. RITCHIE A11a.

London: Duckworth, 1928.. Quarto. Cream buckram, lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Plates. Very near fine. First edition, limited issue. Copy #116 of 116 numbered copies (100 for sale) specially printed on Arnold's handmade paper at the Westminster Press, signed by the author and the artist on an inserted limitation statement. FIFOOT OA14b.

[New York]: Dramatists Play Service, [1961].. Printed wrappers. First edition in book form, preceded by 1958 periodical publication. One of 1000 copies. Fine, in morocco backed folding case, with bookplate. CRANDALL A24.I.b.

London: Elkin Mathews, 1909.. Drab boards, stamped in gilt. Bookplate on pastedown, erased ownership signature and 1910 acquisition date on free endsheet (the date still intact), crown of spine slightly bumped, with narrow crack at top of upper joint; still, a good, internally fine copy. First edition of Pound's first trade collection, in the first state of the binding, with the spine stamping measuring 2 cm high. The edition consisted of 1000 copies, of which 500 sets of sheets were utilized for the 1913 omnibus reissue with EXULTATIONS. GALLUP A3a.

New York: An American Place, 1942.. Folded leaflet, pictorial vignette on front panel. Fine. First edition. A leaflet issued to accompany a three-week exhibition of new work by Marin at An American Place, including a bibliographical checklist.

New York: An American Place, 1942.. Folded leaflet, pictorial vignette on front panel. First edition. A leaflet issued to accompany a three week exhibition of new work by Marin at An American Place, including a bibliographical checklist. Fine.

Leipzig: J.G. Schelter & Giesecke, [1899].. 48pp. plus 10 plates. Quarto (28.5 x 22.5 cm). Cloth backed boards with pictorial upper board. Relevant promotional stamps on title, boards a bit soiled and edgeworn, slightly shaken, but a good copy. Pocket on rear pastedown (for price list??) not occupied. First edition of this substantial and beautiful promotional for the Phoenix Platin Press, manufactured in Leipzig by Schelter and Giesecke. Several of the pages are printed in color as representative of the press's work, as is one sheet of an illustration executed wholly in blind. The stamps on the title are for the Grand Prize at the 1900 Paris Exposition and for the Brussels office of the firm. Rare: OLC locates a single copy (under two records) at BM Lyon. OCLC: 123507675 & 822847681.

[London]: John Murray, [1972].. Quarto. Cloth and decorated boards. Photographs, some in color, by various hands. Trace of finger smudges to spine matching slipcase thumb-pulls, otherwise fine in very good matching decorated paper over boards slipcase (crown and toe of rear panel slightly scuffed). First edition, limited issue. Copy #35 of one hundred numbered copies specially printed and bound and signed by Betjeman,

London: Macmillan and Co., 1870,.. viii,[2],302,[2]pp. Chocolate brown cloth, ruled in blind, lettered in gilt. Rear inner hinge shows an old repair, short splits at crowns and toes of outer joints, internally very good and sound. First edition of the future educator's first book. Although opposed to women gaining the right to vote, she did introduce an extended curriculum during her successive tenures as mistress at several women's schools.

New York: A. Colish, 1947.. 12mo. Sewn printed wrappers. Illustrations by R. Ruzicka and C.R. Capon. Trace of sunning along spine, otherwise a fine copy. First separate edition in this format, reprinted from the Journal of 1856 by A. Colish and Bruce Rogers. Borst records only this copies with Rogers's New Fairfield imprint. This copy bears Rogers' signed presentation inscription, and is thus unusual as most often Rogers's compliments card is the signifier of the presentation, even for those copies bearing his imprint. BORST A20.5.

[London]: Thames & Hudson, [1979].. Large octavo. Gilt decorated cloth. Plates. Fine in very slightly darkened dust jacket. First edition. One of a total edition of approximately 3000 copies for British and US distribution, this being the UK issue which precedes by a couple of months. Inscribed by the author: "For Jimmy with happy memories of his dancing in New York. very cordially Harold." RITCHIE A27.