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New York: Random House, 1957. FIRST EDITION. No. 438 OF 450 SIGNED COPIES. 205 x 130 mm. (8 x 5 1/8"). 5 p.l., 371 pp. FINE CONTEMPORARY BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with filigree cornerpieces, gilt titling, turn-ins with decorative gilt roll, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Petersen A34c. ◆Just a breath of wear to the binding, but a near-mint copy, pristine internally. This is a desirable signed copy of the second volume in Faulkner's "Snopes" trilogy, a work written near the end of his storied career. As ANB observes, "Faulkner drew on the history of his region, its brief rise and its rapid fall; on its rich oral traditions, "the rag-tag and bob-ends of old tales and talkings" (as he called them in 'Absalom, Absalom!') that he had begun gathering from the air in his seemingly misspent boyhood and youth; on its customs, mores, folkways, and dialects; and even on its vegetation, geography, and wildlife. Faulkner's fiction conveys a sense of the past and its force.".
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Paris: Simon Vostre, ca. 1502 [calendar 1502-20]. 177 x 112 mm. (7 x 4 3/8").
Each leaf with at least a few (and some with many) one-line initials painted in gold on a red or blue ground, occasional two-line initial similarly painted, rectos and versos with FULL METALCUT BORDERS incorporating various floral motifs, acanthus, animals, putti, grotesques, biblical scenes, and imagery from the Dance of Death. Bohatta 745; Van Praet I, 161. A touch of yellowing to edges of vellum, occasional marginal blemishes, but the vast majority of leaves IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION.
These leaves offer an array of lively and highly detailed metalcut scenes, from their border vignettes with a myriad of interesting images to the several splendid hand-painted miniatures, and taken as a whole, they comprise some of the finest examples from a printed Book of Hours that we have offered for sale. The uncolored borders, appearing on each recto and verso (except those pages with full-page miniatures), contain scenes that range from the delightful to the disturbing: jolly hunting parties and mischievous putti give way to apocalyptic scenes showing stacks of dead bodies and the gates of Hell, while in images from the Dance of Death, a skeleton sidles up to and claims members from all strata of society. Simon Vostre, a publisher and bookseller with premises on the rue Neuve near Notre Dame de Paris, was described by Fairfax Murray as "pre-eminent" among those who produced Books of Hours in this period, and it is easy to see why: the present leaves reflect both a refined sense of design in typographic terms and an obvious commitment to careful presswork. Besides their obvious aesthetic appeal, these leaves also help to tell the story of the gradual shift from manuscript to print and encourage further study of the iconography, typography, and artistic processes that they possess. For additional leaves at different price points, including examples with exquisite hand-colored miniatures, please check our website..
Each leaf with at least a few (and some with many) one-line initials painted in gold on a red or blue ground, occasional two-line initial similarly painted, rectos and versos with FULL METALCUT BORDERS incorporating various floral motifs, acanthus, animals, putti, grotesques, biblical scenes, and imagery from the Dance of Death. Bohatta 745; Van Praet I, 161. A touch of yellowing to edges of vellum, occasional marginal blemishes, but the vast majority of leaves IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION.
These leaves offer an array of lively and highly detailed metalcut scenes, from their border vignettes with a myriad of interesting images to the several splendid hand-painted miniatures, and taken as a whole, they comprise some of the finest examples from a printed Book of Hours that we have offered for sale. The uncolored borders, appearing on each recto and verso (except those pages with full-page miniatures), contain scenes that range from the delightful to the disturbing: jolly hunting parties and mischievous putti give way to apocalyptic scenes showing stacks of dead bodies and the gates of Hell, while in images from the Dance of Death, a skeleton sidles up to and claims members from all strata of society. Simon Vostre, a publisher and bookseller with premises on the rue Neuve near Notre Dame de Paris, was described by Fairfax Murray as "pre-eminent" among those who produced Books of Hours in this period, and it is easy to see why: the present leaves reflect both a refined sense of design in typographic terms and an obvious commitment to careful presswork. Besides their obvious aesthetic appeal, these leaves also help to tell the story of the gradual shift from manuscript to print and encourage further study of the iconography, typography, and artistic processes that they possess. For additional leaves at different price points, including examples with exquisite hand-colored miniatures, please check our website..
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THE TOWN
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London: Macmillan and Co, 1922. 156 x 105 mm. (6 1/8 x 4 1/8"). lxvi, [II], 340 pp.Selected and arranged by Stopford A. Brooke. Attractive contemporary moss green morocco, gilt in the style of Roger Payne, covers with double gilt-rule frame, floral cornerpieces, raised bands, spine panels densely gilt, with multiple floral tools emanating from a central rosette, gilt titling, turn-ins ruled in gilt with floral cornerpieces like those on the covers, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Engraved vignette of Shelley's home on title page. ◆Spine lightly sunned (as always with green leather), free endpapers with faint offsetting from turn-ins, otherwise A VERY FINE COPY, with virtually no signs of use. This is a handsomely bound copy of a thoughtfully selected collection of Shelley's verse. Editor Stopford Brooke (1832-1916) was a prominent preacher and literary critic who wished to induce his audience, via these carefully chosen representative poems, to read the whole of the poet's canon. The works…
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Presses of the Pacific Islands: A history of the first half century of printing in the Pacific islands
by Lingenfelter, Richard E.
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Octavo (9 by 6 inches) 129 pages, limited to 500 copies, illustrated with map, title pages, and woodcuts, index Includes a chronological list of presses and printers in the Pacific islands 1817-1867. Very good condittion.Beautifully designed by one the preeminent fine presses in Southern California.
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THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS
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Forward by Rabbi Avraham Soltes. Light blue cloth portfolio, upper cover with gilt titling, in a matching clamshell box with gilt titling on cover and spine. WITH 11 COLOR LITHOGRAPHS, titled, numbered, and SIGNED BY CHAIM GROSS. Text printed in red and black. ◆In mint condition.In this jubilant exploration of faith and community, prominent Jewish artist and émigré Chaim Gross (1902-91) presents a joyful mix of animated figures, bright colors, and decorative lettering in a series of lithographs illustrating the 10 holiest days of the Jewish calendar. Displaced from his small village in the Carpathian Mountains during the First World War, Gross in 1921 immigrated to America, where he studied at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. He specialized in sculpture and printmaking, employing the method of direct carving he helped pioneer and for which he would predominantly be known. Following the Second World War, Gross became increasingly interested in Jewish subjects, and travelled to Israel…
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ULYSSES
by JOYCE, JAMES
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Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1997. No. 3 OF 100 SPECIAL COPIES of the "Illegal" First Dublin Edition, bound in quarter leather and signed by Rose and Banville (from a total edition of 1,000 numbered and 26 lettered copies). 240 x 158 mm. (9 1/2 x 6 1/4"). 4 p.l., v-lxxxiii, [1], 739, [3] pp.Edited by Danis Rose. With a foreword by John Banville. Publisher's quarter blue morocco over navy cloth boards, smooth spine with silver lettering. In a blue buckram slipcase. ◆In mint condition. This is the first printing of Joyce's masterpiece actually to be done in Ireland--75 years after its initial publication. Generally recognized as the most important 20th-century novel in English, Joyce's chronicle of Leopold Bloom's odyssey through Dublin excited much controversy upon publication in 1922 and was for years a target of censorship, especially in the U.S. and U.K. The present edition also met with some animosity when it was discovered that the editor, prominent Joyce scholar Danis Rose, used some language…
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THE TOWN
by FAULKNER, WILLIAM
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New York: Random House, 1957. FIRST EDITION. No. 438 OF 450 SIGNED COPIES. 205 x 130 mm. (8 x 5 1/8"). 5 p.l., 371 pp. FINE CONTEMPORARY BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with filigree cornerpieces, gilt titling, turn-ins with decorative gilt roll, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Petersen A34c. ◆Just a breath of wear to the binding, but a near-mint copy, pristine internally. This is a desirable signed copy of the second volume in Faulkner's "Snopes" trilogy, a work written near the end of his storied career. As ANB observes, "Faulkner drew on the history of his region, its brief rise and its rapid fall; on its rich oral traditions, "the rag-tag and bob-ends of old tales and talkings" (as he called them in 'Absalom, Absalom!') that he had begun gathering from the air in his seemingly misspent boyhood and youth; on its customs, mores, folkways, and dialects; and even on its vegetation, geography, and wildlife. Faulkner's fiction conveys a sense of the past and its force.".
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POEMS OF SHELLEY
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London: Macmillan and Co, 1922. 156 x 105 mm. (6 1/8 x 4 1/8"). lxvi, [II], 340 pp.Selected and arranged by Stopford A. Brooke. Attractive contemporary moss green morocco, gilt in the style of Roger Payne, covers with double gilt-rule frame, floral cornerpieces, raised bands, spine panels densely gilt, with multiple floral tools emanating from a central rosette, gilt titling, turn-ins ruled in gilt with floral cornerpieces like those on the covers, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Engraved vignette of Shelley's home on title page. ◆Spine lightly sunned (as always with green leather), free endpapers with faint offsetting from turn-ins, otherwise A VERY FINE COPY, with virtually no signs of use. This is a handsomely bound copy of a thoughtfully selected collection of Shelley's verse. Editor Stopford Brooke (1832-1916) was a prominent preacher and literary critic who wished to induce his audience, via these carefully chosen representative poems, to read the whole of the poet's canon. The works…
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Presses of the Pacific Islands: A history of the first half century of printing in the Pacific islands
by Lingenfelter, Richard E.
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Octavo (9 by 6 inches) 129 pages, limited to 500 copies, illustrated with map, title pages, and woodcuts, index Includes a chronological list of presses and printers in the Pacific islands 1817-1867. Very good condittion.Beautifully designed by one the preeminent fine presses in Southern California.
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THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS
by (JUDAICA). GROSS, CHAIM, Illustrator
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Forward by Rabbi Avraham Soltes. Light blue cloth portfolio, upper cover with gilt titling, in a matching clamshell box with gilt titling on cover and spine. WITH 11 COLOR LITHOGRAPHS, titled, numbered, and SIGNED BY CHAIM GROSS. Text printed in red and black. ◆In mint condition.In this jubilant exploration of faith and community, prominent Jewish artist and émigré Chaim Gross (1902-91) presents a joyful mix of animated figures, bright colors, and decorative lettering in a series of lithographs illustrating the 10 holiest days of the Jewish calendar. Displaced from his small village in the Carpathian Mountains during the First World War, Gross in 1921 immigrated to America, where he studied at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. He specialized in sculpture and printmaking, employing the method of direct carving he helped pioneer and for which he would predominantly be known. Following the Second World War, Gross became increasingly interested in Jewish subjects, and travelled to Israel…
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ULYSSES
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Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1997. No. 3 OF 100 SPECIAL COPIES of the "Illegal" First Dublin Edition, bound in quarter leather and signed by Rose and Banville (from a total edition of 1,000 numbered and 26 lettered copies). 240 x 158 mm. (9 1/2 x 6 1/4"). 4 p.l., v-lxxxiii, [1], 739, [3] pp.Edited by Danis Rose. With a foreword by John Banville. Publisher's quarter blue morocco over navy cloth boards, smooth spine with silver lettering. In a blue buckram slipcase. ◆In mint condition. This is the first printing of Joyce's masterpiece actually to be done in Ireland--75 years after its initial publication. Generally recognized as the most important 20th-century novel in English, Joyce's chronicle of Leopold Bloom's odyssey through Dublin excited much controversy upon publication in 1922 and was for years a target of censorship, especially in the U.S. and U.K. The present edition also met with some animosity when it was discovered that the editor, prominent Joyce scholar Danis Rose, used some language…
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Paris: Simon Vostre, ca. 1502 [calendar 1502-20]. 177 x 112 mm. (7 x 4 3/8"). Each leaf with at least a few (and some with many) one-line initials painted in gold on a red or blue ground, occasional two-line initial similarly painted, rectos and versos with FULL METALCUT BORDERS incorporating various floral motifs, acanthus, animals, putti, grotesques, biblical scenes, and imagery from the Dance of Death, THESE LEAVES EACH WITH TWO SEVEN TO EIGHT-LINE MINIATURES BEAUTIFULLY PAINTED BY HAND, with some liberties taken, over printed metalcuts. Bohatta 745; Van Praet I, 161. ◆A touch of yellowing to edges of vellum, an occasional marginal blemish, but the vast majority of leaves IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION, THE MINIATURES EXQUISITELY PAINTED and on the whole very fresh and deeply hued. These leaves offer an array of lively and highly detailed metalcut scenes, from their border vignettes with a myriad of interesting images to the several splendid hand-painted miniatures, and taken as a whole, they comprise…
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Paris: Simon Vostre, ca. 1502 [calendar 1502-20]. 177 x 112 mm. (7 x 4 3/8"). Each leaf with at least a few (and some with many) one-line initials painted in gold on a red or blue ground, occasional two-line initial similarly painted, rectos and versos with FULL METALCUT BORDERS incorporating various floral motifs, acanthus, animals, putti, grotesques, biblical scenes, and imagery from the Dance of Death, THESE LEAVES WITH TWO EIGHT-LINE MINIATURES FROM THE SUFFRAGES; the miniatures painted, with some liberties taken, over printed metalcuts. Bohatta 745; Van Praet I, 161. ◆A hint of yellowing to edges of vellum, a few marginal blemishes, but the vast majority of leaves IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION, THE MINIATURES EXQUISITELY PAINTED and on the whole very fresh and deeply hued. These leaves offer an array of lively and highly detailed metalcut scenes, from their border vignettes with a myriad of interesting images to the several splendid hand-painted miniatures, and taken as a whole, they comprise some…
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ALL WITH LIVELY BORDERS, AND SOME WITH FINELY HAND-COLORED MINIATURES
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Paris: Simon Vostre, ca. 1502 [calendar 1502-20]. 177 x 112 mm. (7 x 4 3/8"). Each leaf with at least a few (and some with many) one-line initials painted in gold on a red or blue ground, occasional two-line initial similarly painted, rectos and versos with FULL METALCUT BORDERS incorporating various floral motifs, acanthus, animals, putti, grotesques, biblical scenes, and imagery from the Dance of Death, THESE LEAVES EACH WITH A FULL-PAGE MINIATURE, MOST FROM THE LIFE OF THE VIRGIN OR KING DAVID, set within a gold architectural frame, ALL MINIATURES AND INITIALS BEAUTIFULLY PAINTED BY HAND; the miniatures painted, with some liberties taken, over printed metalcuts. Bohatta 745; Van Praet I, 161. ◆Full-page miniatures trimmed close at top and fore edges (just barely grazing the gold frame in a few cases), paint on a few miniatures with a hint of rubbing here and there, a touch of yellowing to edges of vellum, occasional marginal blemishes, but the vast majority of leaves IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION, THE…
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ALL WITH LIVELY BORDERS, AND SOME WITH FINELY HAND-COLORED MINIATURES
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Paris: Simon Vostre, ca. 1502 [calendar 1502-20]. 177 x 112 mm. (7 x 4 3/8"). Each leaf with at least a few (and some with many) one-line initials painted in gold on a red or blue ground, occasional two-line initial similarly painted, rectos and versos with FULL METALCUT BORDERS incorporating various floral motifs, acanthus, animals, putti, grotesques, biblical scenes, and imagery from the Dance of Death, THESE LEAVES EACH WITH A FULL-PAGE MINIATURE, MOST FROM THE LIFE OF THE VIRGIN OR KING DAVID, set within a gold architectural frame, ALL MINIATURES AND INITIALS BEAUTIFULLY PAINTED BY HAND; the miniatures painted, with some liberties taken, over printed metalcuts. Bohatta 745; Van Praet I, 161. ◆Full-page miniatures trimmed close at top and fore edges (just barely grazing the gold frame in a few cases), paint on a few miniatures with a hint of rubbing here and there, a touch of yellowing to edges of vellum, occasional marginal blemishes, but the vast majority of leaves IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION, THE…
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