THIS IS MY BLOOD by Laughlin, James - 1989

Baltimore, MD: The Xavier Press, 1995. cloth, gilt-stamped spine and front cover, decorated endpapers. Miniature Books. miniature book (7.1 x 5.5 cm). cloth, gilt-stamped spine and front cover, decorated endpapers. (iv), 24, (2) pages. Limited to 200 numbered copies (Bradbury Xavier Press 10). Frontispiece tipped in portrait of Poe. Tipped-in illustrations, and U.S. postage stamp in text. Blade of grass, encased in plastic, from Poe's original grave in pocket on back pastedown.

New York: Watson - Guptill, 1971. cloth, dust jacket. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 376 pages. First U.S. edition. Jacket lightly soiled, else a fine copy. Traces the development of the private press over the last 500 years. 83 figures in the text and 72 plates. Better printed than the second edition and containing some material not present in the first edition and thus still desirable.

Tübingen: Jäckle-Sönmez, 1991. marbled paper-covered boards, leather spine label. Miniature Books. miniature (7.5 x 5.5 cm). marbled paper-covered boards, leather spine label. 75+(1) pages, 10 plates. Limited to 150 copies. 0A history of marbled flowers by Sönmez in both English and German, with ten samples of marbled flowers in the back.

Baltimore: The Hill Press, 1998. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, paper cover and spine label. Hill Press. large 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, paper cover and spine label. (vi), 73+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 125 numbered copies each signed by the printer Stephen Heaver. A fine copy. This is one of the one hundred copies bound in cloth and paper. Finely illustrated with nine wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec, which were printed from the original blocks. A collection of provocative and philosophical essays from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, written by Francis Bacon, Thomas Fuller, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Paine, Charles Lamb, Henry David Thoreau, John Ruskin, and Thomas Henry Huxley.

(Easthampton, MA): Chamberlain Press, The, 1975. marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label. Chamberlain Press. 16mo. marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label. not paginated. Limited to 75 copies signed by Sarah Chamberlain, printer and illustrator. A fine copy. This is the first book printed at the Chamberlain Press. Printed on Rives buff using Goudy Old-style type. The illustrations are engraved in wood.

Baltimore, MD: The Xavier Press, 1995. cloth, gilt-stamped spine and front cover, decorated endpapers. Miniature Books. miniature book (7.1 x 5.5 cm). cloth, gilt-stamped spine and front cover, decorated endpapers. (iv), 24, (2) pages. Limited to 200 numbered copies (Bradbury Xavier Press 10). Frontispiece tipped in portrait of Poe. Tipped-in illustrations, and U.S. postage stamp in text. Blade of grass, encased in plastic, from Poe's original grave in pocket on back pastedown.

Tübingen: Jäckle-Sönmez, 1991. marbled paper-covered boards, leather spine label. Miniature Books. miniature (7.5 x 5.5 cm). marbled paper-covered boards, leather spine label. 75+(1) pages, 10 plates. Limited to 150 copies. 0A history of marbled flowers by Sönmez in both English and German, with ten samples of marbled flowers in the back.

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 series of pattern books. Text in German and English.

Decorah, IA: Solmentes Press, 2020. pastepaper boards, with a leather spine, presented in a cloth-covered drop-back box. Solmentes Press. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. pastepaper boards, with a leather spine, presented in a cloth-covered drop-back box. 60 pages. First edition limited to 35 copies (although '40 copies' is stated on the limitation page), of which this is one of thirty regular copies. The book comes with a metallic paper inserted into a paper folder which is used to help read the poem. In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, Alice climbs through a mirror into another world and finds many strange things: "There was a book lying near Alice on the table . . . she turned over the leaves to find some part that she could read, for its all in some language I dont know, she said to herself. She puzzled over this for some time, but at last a bright thought struck her. Why, its a Looking-glass book, of course! And if I hold it up to a glass, the words will all go the right way again. This was the… Read More

Amsterdam, The Netherlands: De Bezige Bij, 2005. full leather, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, silk page marker, marbled paper and leather slipcase. De Bezige Bij. small 8vo. full leather, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, silk page marker, marbled paper and leather slipcase. 104 pages. One of fifty signed and numbered copies. The edition of De Bezige Bij, which appears at the same time as the commercial edition of 'From a finger does not fall', was bound by hand in October 2005 in a whole calfskin binding and placed in a house with hand-marbled paper by Karli Frigge. The edition is interleaved with loose relics, which the author and photographer have included. Each copy contains an original print of one of the photos from the book and a poem in handwriting. The edition was provided by Mooi Boeken / Pau Groenendijk (www.mooieboeken.nl). Very light rubbing along the hinges of the spine, else near fine.