Fine Press from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

New York: Privately Printed for Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach [by Boston: The Bibliophile Society], 1921. 4to (23 x 17.5 cm). Frontispiece portrait, folding facsimile plates of the manuscript. Original gilt-lettered parchment-backed boards; fragment of plain original dust wrapper. One of 450 copies of this "Small Complimentary Edition," issued by The Bibliophile Society as a "token of gratitude and… Read more about this item

N.p.: Privately Printed by Lecram Press for Richard Jean Picard for Noel, 1948. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Slight toning to edges, and slight wear at corners, but a fine copy. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, stapled as issued. First edition, number 33 of 100 copies of this Christmas keepsake, the first publication in book form of Wolfe's 1918… Read more about this item

Moylan, PA: The Rose Valley Press, 1977. A good selection of books produced by Walter Kahoe (with occasional assistance from his wife Mildred) under his Rose Valley Press imprint. After moving to Philadelphia in 1940 and joining the medical department of J.B. Lippincott Co., Kahoe began The Rose Valley Press, printing and binding several hundred little books as Christmas… Read more about this item

New York: Covici-Friede, 1929. A fine copy, a few chips to glassine. Lacks slipcase. Translated by Max Eastman. 8vo. x, 33, [1] pages. Woodcuts by Rockwell Kent. Original parchment, gilt-decorated with a small dove designed by Kent on cover, gilt-lettered on spine; plain glassine wrapper; acetate. Number 105 of 750 copies. Typography by S. A Jacobs, printed at… Read more about this item

Hammersmith, London: Printed at the Chiswick Press for the Hammersmith Publishing Society [i.e. Annie and Thomas Cobden-Sanderson], 1905. A fine copy with a few small stains on boards. 8vo. 39, [1] pages. Original vellum backed boards, black lettering on spines. Provenance: Richard D. Friedlander (bookplate). The trade edition, second impression, after the first trade impression of 1902. Laid-in:… Read more about this item

Risbury, Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 2005. A fine copy. Folio. 50 pages. 31 tritone photographs by Edwin Smith. Original cloth, wood-engraving by Smith on covers; slipcase. Number 236 of 280 copies from an edition of 350. Set in Poliphilus and Fry's Baskerville, printed on Bugra-Bütten mould-made paper. Smith's images were made in the 1950s and are here presented with… Read more about this item

New York: Aloe Editions, 1973. A fine copy. 8vo. 11 pages. Printed wrappers, sewn. One of 110 copies. Printed by Ronald Gordon at the Oliphant Press. This copy unnumbered and unsigned, out-of-series, and from the printer's personal collection.

Privately Printed, 1979. Fine. 8vo. Marbled wrappers, printed paper label on front cover. One of only fifteen copies, printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press. A scarce Gordon title.

Northampton, MA: Apiary Press, 1965. A few very small creases to wrapper. Oblong. 14 leaves, including blanks. Plain boards, with printed paper wrapper mounted as dust jacket. One of only 25 copies of this very scarce apprentice-work by Ronald Gordon, later of The Oliphant Press. While a student at Amherst, Ronald Gordon studied printing and bookmaking with Baskin… Read more about this item

Brooklyn: Jordan Davies, 1979. Fine. 8vo. [11] pages. Sewn in original wrappers, printed paper label on cover. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 200 signed copies, printed by Ronald Gordon at the Oliphant Press, from Garamond type on Fabriano papers. Bertholf A53a.

New York: Lospeccio Press, 1997. A fine copy. Oblong 8vo. Illustrations by Larry R. Collins. Original printed wrappers, sewn. First edition. One of 126 copies signed by the illustrator (not signed by Ferlinghetti). Printed on a Vandercook press by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press.

New York: Targ Editions, 1979. A fine copy with slightest of soiling to wrapper, otherwise virtually untouched. 8vo. [12] pages. Original cloth; plain orange wrapper. FIRST EDITION, one of 350 copies signed by Roth, of the first Targ Edition. Designed and printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press.

New York: David Lewis, 1973. Fine, nearly untouched. Translated by Robert Lamberton. 8vo. 117, [4] pages. Original black cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; printed dust jacket. One of 1500 copies designed by Ronald Gordon at the Oliphant Press, printed at The Stinehour Press and bound by A. Horowitz & Son.

New York: Targ Editions, 1980. A fine copy, the glassine with some light toning and wear, with one larger loss at head of spine. 8vo. v, 75, [1] pages. Original cloth-backed blue boards; plain glassine wrapper. FIRST EDITION, one of 350 copies signed by Laura (Riding) Jackson. Designed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press, printed by Westbrook.… Read more about this item

New York: Frank Hallman & The Oliphant Press, 1974. A fine, virtually untouched copy. 8vo. [19] pages. Two full-page plates by Leonard Baskin. Original printed wrappers, sewn. FIRST EDITION, one of 200 copies signed by Leonard Baskin. Designed and printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press. Fitz-James O'Brien, born in Ireland in 1828, left his home country… Read more about this item

New York: Aloe Editions, 1974. A fine copy. 12mo. [12] pages (including blanks). Original orange printed wrappers. One of 250 copies designed and printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press. This copy unnumbered, out-of-series, and from the printer's personal collection. This fable first appeared in 'The Double-Dealer' in 1922.

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1988. A fine copy, without marks or wear. 8vo. 32, [1] pages. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Original decorated paper over boards, gilt-lettered on spines. One of 326 copies, signed on the colophon by Samuel Beckett, this copy out-of-series and reserved for the printer Ronald Gordon of The Oliphant Press. The edition consisted of… Read more about this item

New York: David Lewis, 1970. A fine, virtually untouched copy with some minot edgewear to the glassine. 8vo. [23] pages. Original burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; plain glassine wrapper. One of 500 copies designed and printed on Charter Oak paper by Ronald Gordon at the Oliphant Press, bound by A. Horowitz & Son.

New York: Targ Editions, 1984. Spine gently faded, without the glassine, a few minor marks on covers, generally fine, and internally fresh and unblemished. 8vo. Numerous paper and printing specimens. Original cloth-backed glazed boards. FIRST EDITION, one of 200 copies signed by Targ and the three printers of the edition: Ronald Gordon, Leslie Miller, and Leonard Seastone. … Read more about this item

New York: Targ Editions, 1983. A fine copy, virtually untouched. 8vo. 64 pages. Original two-toned cloth, printed paper label on cover; slipcase. FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies signed by Michener. Designed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press and printed letterpress at The Anthoensen Press. Dedicated to the great collector Jane Engelhard.