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Traders Press, New York. Near Fine. 1987. 1st edition. 1st ed. 24mo, 2-5/8”x3”,78 pp. Limited to 2500 copies. Print ed at The Little Press of Jack R. Levien. Bound in pictorial boa rds depicting a 10,000 mark note, paper label on frontis. ,Engrav ed half-title and frontispiece, b/w photos, and with several char ts recording the daily value of the mark in relation to the dolla r from 1919 to1923. A near-fine copy. Small, light stain on the f ront cover label, prior owner’s book seal at bottom of ffep. .

Chillicothe, OH: Charles Lummis. Very good. 1884. 2d edition. 2d edition. 8 pp. 2.5”x3”, stitched, illustrated wrappers. (1 2) pp. A collection of small poems written in the transcendental style, Birch Bark Poems is printed entirely on thin and delicate birch bark, with engravings of birch trees on front and back. Lu mmis cut the bark from the trees, set the type, and did the print ing. This is a later printing [ninth thousand] of the second edi tion. First published while Lummis was working for a small publis hing firm in New Hampshire, the first printing (1878) was only a dozen or so copies. This allowed Lummis to work out the medium's eccentricities. The books proved popular and by the end of the f ollowing summer Lummis had printed more than 3,500 copies in vari ous editions. This lead to a second volume in 1883 and this first work was retitled Volume 1. . fine. Several thin tears in the right margin of the leaves. The se are from natural flaws… Read More

Los Angeles:: Dawson's Book Shop,. Good;. Cloth;. 1976.. First Thus;. First book publication of Jeffers' poem, first published in the O ccidental Mid-Winter magazine, 1905. Fine in outward appearance, but interior hinge crack. See photo. 2"x2-3/4". .

First edition. Miniature book 2 3/16" x 2 7/8". 62 pp. Illustrated with linocuts by Frank J. Thomas, printed in several colors. Original full vellum, paper label on spine; marbled endpapers.
No. 75 of 100 copies. This is copy "P"
The second of three miniatures from the press of Frank and Phyliss Thomas.
CONDITION: Very good; a clean bright copy overall. Two 1/8" light stains at edge of front board.

Northampton, MA: Catawba Press. Fine. Hardcover. 1984. 1st ed.. First thus, limited to 155 signed copies. 2”x2” green paper-c overed boards. 37 pp. Printed green paper boards with title and d ecorative border on cover, labels tipped in on frontispiece and t hroughout the text. An excerpt from an essay titled "Shaker Indu stries," which appeared in The Clarion in Fall 1979. . iniature book printed by Barbara Blumenthal of Catawba Press. The essay starts with a short history of the Shaker religion and the ir industries and then details the medicinal properties of the he rbs . tion on fep, a 3/16” light blemish on rear board .