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TARTUFFE & THE WOULD-BE GENTLEMAN
by MOLIERE, J. B. P
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Hardcover. Spine sunned. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. Serge Ivanoff. Large octavo (7-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in bright red fabric imprinted with an overall pattern of dark red roses; 216 pages. Translations by H. Baker and J. Miller with an introduction by Henri Peyre. With 27 illustrations by Serge Ivanoff hand-colored at the Walter Fischer Studio. Copy #473 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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$43.80
Giant: a deity with leaves.
by [Pie in the Sky Press] Rebecca Chamlee
[Simi Valley, California]:: Pie in the Sky Press,, 2019.. Edition of 50. Standard: 7.5 x 11"; 64 pages. Letterpress printing on the Vandercook Universal III power press using Centaur and Arrighi type, cast by M & H Type Foundry and Swamp Press, wood French Clarendon, and photo polymer plates onto Zerkall Book Wove, handmade Kitakata, and Korean Hanji papers. Botanical pages (contact prints) printed on Strathmore Aquarius II watercolor paper. Longstitch binding, sewn with hand-dyed Kinglet...
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$1,350.00
Journeys to the Moon and Sun
by [Hazelwood, Art] Cyrano De Bergerac
Sonoma, California:: Eastside Editions,, 2004.. Edition of 20. 22 x 17"; 28 pages. Letterpress printed. Twelve multiple-plate color etchings with linocut borders. 11 text pages with decorative linocut border. Printed on handmade Abaca paper. Bound in cloth covered boards. Slipcased. Edition of 20: 10 portfolio sets; 10 book sets. Colophon: "Cyrano De Bergerac was the true life inspiration for the romantic figure of Edmond de Rostand's 19th century plan and one of the more curious thinkers...
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$5,500.00
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF LON TINKLE
by [DALLAS] Sparkman, M.D., Robert S. editor
Dallas: Friends of the Dallas Public Library, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE. Limited edition of 500 copies of which this is copy number 442 SIGNED with editor's presentation. Designed and produced by Willaim R. Chiles, printed by off-set lithography on 80# Tweedweave Text, and printed recto. Tipped-in sepia portrait by Tom Lea, color photographs by the editor tipped-in. Folio crash linen boards and blue cloth spine. Proceeds to benefit the Dallas Public Library. Blue endpapers no names, clean...
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$30.00
THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER & OTHER STORIES
by PUSHKIN, ALexander
[Westerham, Kent]: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Hardcover. Bookplate on the verso of the front free endpaper. About Fine in a Very Good slipcase with wear and staining along the backstrip. Charles Mozley. Tall quarto (8-3/8" x 12-1/2") bound in green buckram and linen. Designed by Charles Mozley and printed by the Westerham Press in Kent.Introduction by Kathryn Feuer. Illustrated with lithographs in color and monochrome by Charles Mozley. Copy #39 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the...
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$56.30
JUDE THE OBSCURE
by HARDY, Thomas
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1969. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Agnes Miller Parker. Octavo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2") bound in quarter green morocco leather and green boards; 452 pages. Designed by John Dreyfus and printed at the Spiral Press. With an introduction by John Bayley and wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Copy #887 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.
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$218.80
Barker's Luck Etc.
by Harte, Bret
London: Chatto & Windus, 1896. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. 263+32pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Blue cloth with gilt stamped decorations to the front board and the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Collections of short stories by the celebrated author. Bret Harte (1836-1902) was a celebrated author and poet, who is best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. Born in Albany, New York, he moved to California in 1854, later...
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$750.00
IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS
by LANDOR, Walter Savage
[Verona]: Limited Editions Club, 1936. hardcover. Spine very lightly sunned. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase with light wear. Small quarto (6-3/4" x 10") bound in full, natural decorated linen stamped in brown and gold; 320 pages. A selection from the revised 1846 edition of Landor's series of imaginary conversations between notable figures in history, including Dante and Beatrice, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Washington and Franklin, etc. Copy #1039 of 1500 printed on Maslianico hand-made paper,...
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$75.00
Floor Plan of a Legend
by Simpson, Herbert W. ; W. A. Dwiggins
Evansville / New York: Typophiles / Printed For Carl Norwood. Near Fine. 1942. First Edition. Booklet. 12 pages; Evansville / New York: Near Fine. 1942. First Edition. Typophiles Monograph No. 6; 12 pages; Printed for the Typophiles, Christmas 1943. From the Further Papers of the Inland Calligrapher. Evansville, June, 1942. Decorative wrappers printed in red and black. Nicely printed Errata slip laid-in. Decorated initial by W. A. Dwiggins. On book designer and illustrator W. A. Dwiggins. OCLC...
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$19.93
THE HOLY BIBLE. Reprinted according to the Authorised version 1611. -- With; The Apochrypha
by NONESUCH PRESS. ; GOODEN. STEPHEN. Illustrates
The Nonesuch Press. London. 1924-27. FIVE VOLUMES. Tall 4to. (12.3 x 8.3 inches). Limited edition. One of 1000 sets printed on Japon vellum (The Apochrypha is one of 1250 copies) from a total edition of 1075 copies. The typography was arranged by Frances Meynell. Each volume decorated with copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden, including the title pages. A lovely clean set finely bound in recent full black morocco, decorative gilt border to boards. Spines with raised bands, each with decorative gilt...
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$3,454.28
Selections from the Koran
by [Mohammed]
Boston: Nathan Haskell Dole, 1903. Nicely illustrated collection of extracts from the Koran, issued as one of 157 copies for subscribers as part of the 'Breviary Treasures', a set of ten volumes issued in various formats. Hardcover, imitation vellum over grey boards, brown titling; watermarked paper. Light wear, scuffing to lightly tanned spine, minor tanning elsewhere, corners lightly bumped & frayed, front endsheet lightly tanned, a few tiny stains. Text clean; [4], 212 pages; gravure...
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$65.00
THE SCULPTURED GARLAND
by LANDOR, Walter Savage
London: Dropmore Press, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Some soiling and dampspotting to covers. Internally Fine. The darkened dustwrapper front panel is separated at the spine. Very Good. Ian Macnab. Quarto, bound in half morocco leather. Illustrated with 15 wood engravings by Ian Macnab. Copy #189 of 300 numbered copies of this lovely book.
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$125.00
The Pickwick Papers: Some Bibliographical Remarks
by Bay, J. Christian
Chicago: Caxton Club, 1938. "An address delivered before the Caxton Club, January Sixteenth, 1937", discussing the illustrator Robert Seymour's share of the credit for creating Pickwick, and various states of text & one illustration in early issues of the book. Hardcover, full red cloth, gilt titling, blind-stamped decoration. One of 250 copies printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press in Boston. Light wear to corners; previous owner's name in pencil on front end sheet;...
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$50.00
ODES AND EPODES OF HORACE
by HORACE
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Fine in glassines with small tears and a Near Fine dual slipcase with a paint streak. Two volumes in octavo (5" x 7-1/4") and folio (9-1/2" x 13-3/4") bound in half buckram with highly distinctive hand-marbled paper sides by Putois Freres of Paris. The smaller volume, printed in red and black, consists of the original Latin odes with English translations on facing pages selected and edited by Louis Untermeyer with no less than 45 translators...
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$187.50
from Elephants by Night - poems of Africa.
by [Haybarn Press] Abraham Sutzkever
New York:: Haybarn Press,, 2005.. Edition of 90. 9 x 12" with 36 pages, numbered and signed by the translator and the artist. A full-color frontispiece on Fabriano Uno. Poetry in English typeset in Palatino by Spring Salvin. Letterpress printed by Bradley Hutchinson. Drawings printed duotone lithography by Omega. Housed in clamshell box in full cloth Canapetta with silver stamping. A new publication from Haybarn Press in honor of the 92nd birthday of Abraham Sutzkever, the foremost living Yiddish...
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$310.00
THE RED AND THE BLACK
by STENDHAL (BEYLE, Marie-Henri)
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. Hardcover. Leather on spine very dry and cracked. Good in a Very Good slipcase with some fading. Rafaello Busoni. Large octavo (7" x 10-1/4") bound in red morocco leather stamped in gold with black linen boards with a gold-stamped decoration. Designed by Richard Ellis and illustrated with lithographs by Rafaello Busoni printed from the stones by George Miller on white rag paper. Copy #1420 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.
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$31.30
Favole vervi di Giacomo Leopardi.
by Luisolo, Piera
Santa Lucia ai Monti, Verona:: Alessandro Zanella,, 2010.. Edition of 30. 7.25 x 11" Composed in Californian typeface. Printed letterpress on Hahnemuhle paper. Printing by Alessandro Zanella. Images by Peiera Luisolo. Text in Italian. Illustrated with linoleum prints by Piera Luisolo. In light weight black paper slipcase. Numbered. Signed by Luisolo. Notes from Favole in Versi: "Giacomo Leopardi was born in Recanati on 29 June 1798, the eldest of 10 children of Count Mondaldo and Adelaide of...
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$250.00
L'ALLEGRO & IL PENSEROSO
by MILTON, John
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with a small nick. William Blake. Octavo (7" x 10-1/8") bound in dark green buckram with gilt lettering and marbled endpapers; 90 pages. Illustrated with twelve reproductions of watercolors by William Blake. Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed dos-a-dos. Issued unsigned in a total edition of 1780 copies. Two copies available: one is one of the 280 copies designated for members of the Pierpont Morgan Library; the other is...
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$106.30
THE KORAN: SELECTED SURAS
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1958. Hardcover. Tasteful bookplate on the front pastedown. About Fine in a close to Fine publisher's clamshell box. Valenti Angelo. Octavo (6-3/4" x 9-3/4") bound in tan cloth impressed in two colors and gold with a traditional walletlike flap. Decorated and illuminated by Valenti Angelo including the use of genuine gold on the title page and the page facing the opening sura. Translated with notes and an introduction by Arthur Jeffery. Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the...
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$125.00
FIFTEEN DECISIVE BATTLES OF THE WORLD
by CREASY, Sir Edward
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1969. Hardcover. Bookplate on the verso of the front free endpaper. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Joseph Domjan. Small folio (9-3/8" x 12-1/4") bound in full decorated buckram with a black leather label lettered in gilt; 254 pages. Copy #39 of 1500 printed at the Stinehour Press and illustrated with 15 full-page multi-color woodcut and 14 black-and-white woodcut reproductions by Joseph Domjan. SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.
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$100.00
THE ART OF LOVE
by OVID
[Mt. Vernon]: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. About Fine in a Fine slipcase of this charming book. A wonderful Valentine's Day present. Eric Fraser. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9") bound in full imported natural vellum over heavy beveled boards with Cupid stamped in pure gold leaf on both covers and lettered in gold leaf on the spine; 152 pages. Translation, introduction, and notes by B. P. Moore. Illustrated with 20 black-and-white part-page and 10 two-color full-page...
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$125.00
A RAW YOUTH
by DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor
Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Hardcover. Fine in glassines and a Fine slipcase. Fritz Eichenberg. Two large quarto (8" x 11-3/8") volumes bound in fine-textured gray-green cloth with a silk finish. Designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Translated by Constance Garnett with an introduction by Konstantin Mochulsky. Illustrated with 18 full-page wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Of 2000 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page, this copy is...
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$187.50
SONG OF ROLAND
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Hardcover. Some foxing to pastedowns and endpapers. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Valenti Angelo. Octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound with a genuine parchment spine stamped in gold and blue paper sides on which a design by Valenti Angelo is stamped in gold and hand-colored by the artist; 154 pages. Translated by C. Scott-Moncrieff; introduction by Hamish Miles. Copy #323 of 1500 numbered copies with illustrations colored and illuminated by hand by Angelo and SIGNED...
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$93.80
ON CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES AND OTHER PAPERS ON THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
by BURKE, Edmund
Lunenberg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. Lynd Ward. Quarto (7" x 10") bound in Schumacher cloth printed with a multi-color Colonial eagle pattern and a gilt-lettered leather spine label; 328 pages. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Stinehour Press. Introduction and individual prefaces by Peter J. Stanlis. Illustrated with 12 full-page two-color wood engravings and a number of smaller decorations by Lynd Ward. Of 2000 copies SIGNED by...
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$106.30
My Sister Life
by Boris Pasternak
New York: The Limited Editions Club. Fine. 1990. Limited Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. My Sister Life was written in the summer before the 1917 October Revolution, it was very well received and established him as a genius of Russian poetry. The English translation was done by Mark Rudman. The acclaimed Russian born artist, Yuro Kuyper provides 6 etchings for the publication, printed on Hannemule paper in Paris. The paper used for the text was hand-made by H. M. P. Mill in Connecticut to...
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$1,495.00
