Search for an Albion by Weygand, James Lamar - 1963

Articles on the transfer of Icelandic manuscripts from Denmark to Iceland (page 5); "Western Book Roundup" (pages 6, 34-37) by "The Old Bookaroos"; "Des Esseinte's Library", an imagined fiction of a Huysman novel (pages 7-11); "Edmund Gorey, an American Gothic," by Thomas McDade (pages 12-17). McDade on Gorey is rare and desirable; includes bibliography and illustrations.40 pages, illustrated, 28 cm. Stapled; Good+. Stock#48209.

Adagio, the private press of Leonard F. Bahr. Used - Very Good. 1960. Octavo. 24 pp. From a limited printing of 550 copies. Mild shelf wear. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. (Subject: Books on Books.)

Chicago: W. B. Thorsen. Very Good. 1969. First Edition. Softcover. First editions. Magazines. Articles on the Orpheus Press, Thomas Wintrop Streeter collection of Americana, Anvil Press, Wiliam Carlos Williams, wild west fiction, Roman Numerals, Sherwood Anderson, Ralph Waldo Ellison, the colorless Negro in film today, Thomas Hopkins Galladet, etc. Pictorial wrappers [about 8.5" x 11"], 32 + 32 + 32 + 36 + 32 + 48 pages. Very good with light wear andtoning. See photos bx110E

Articles on Armand Hawkins, Thoor Ballylee / W. B. Yeats, the Illinois Frontier Dekalb County 1855-1865, Klondike stampede in dime novels, Valentine Williams, 19th Century women humorists, western illustrators, James T. Farrell, Melville in anthologies, Fred Allen, The Anvil, Jack Conroy, the Santa Fe Trail, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Edmund Spenser's castle at Kilcoman, Rev. Thomas Prince and the Prince Library, Jack London, Jane Austen, Joyce's tower Sandycove, etc. Pictorial wrappers [about 8.5" x 11"], pages: 32 + 32 + 48 + 32 + 36 + 32 + 40. Some scattered fore-edge staining, light wear. See photos bx110E

Articles on nursery stories for adults, Jesse Stuart, western illustrators, Donald F. Hyde, mendicant pieces, modern first editions, the Gravesend Press, Remington rarities, Ernest Bramah, Charles Lanman, Rev. Isaac M. Barr, children's books of the American Sunday-School Union, Ernest Hemingway, etc. Pictorial wrappers [about 8.5" x 11"], 40 + 32 + 32 + 32 + 32 + 32 + 32 pages. Some light colored staining to lower fore-edge areas, light wear. bx110E

Articles on western illustrators, collecting Nietzsche, Theodore Dreiser, Bibliographica Araneorum, Abraham Lincoln, artists' autographs, William Inge, the Kensington rune stone, Rolf Hennequel, Charles King, nursery stories for adults, etc. Vol. XV No. 5, 6, 8, 9, Vol. XVI No. 1, 2,3,4. All issues in very good to near fine condition with very light wear and minor toning to edges. Some have toning fo a few pages. See photos. bx110E

Nappanee: James Lamar Weygand, [1945].. 16mo. Stapled Wraps, 4 pp., Very Good.

Nappanee, IN: Private Press of the Indiana Kid, 1959. About 250 copies. Slight lean, near fine. About 250 copies" 102p. Displays 93 pressmarks, one per page, with the appropriate color and a paragraph about the press. Bound in gilt-titled maroon cloth with the mark of the Press of the Indiana Kid on the upper cover.

Nappanee, IN. Nappanee, IN: Privately Printed (The Indiana Kid). Fine with no dust jacket. 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ever so slightly rubbed at spine tips, no other defects. This is a beautiful copy, with green cloth spine and yellow printed boards, 6. 2 inches x 4.4 inches. One of 150 copies, numbered from 1800 to 1950, for each of Indiana's 150 years. This is number 1825, the year Robert Owen bought the town of Harmonie from the utopian Rappites and began to build another, more successful utopian community in Indiana, New Harmony. A beautiful, collectible copy. . This little book tells, quite humorously, the story of how Indiana got its name. . 16mo 6" - 7" tall. 22 pages. L2 .

Nappanee, IN: The Press of the Indiana Kid, 1969 38 pages. One of 200 copies. A typically handsome book by Weygand.. Illus. by Color Illustrations. 8vo. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. Near Fine.