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A Lost Lady
by Cather, Willa
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1983. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Bailey, William. #1348 of 1500 copies. Small 4to, 3/4 maroon leather over calico, with original etching bound in as the frontispiece, in near fine paper-covered slipcase. Signed and illustrated by William Bailey. Newsletter laid in. Just a hint of fading to spine, else fine, no previous owner's marks. Signed by Bailey.
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$75.00
The Three Wise Men; A Nativity Play
by Pepler, Hilary
Ditchling Common: St Dominic's Press, 1929. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. No. 16 of 100 copies, twenty-fourmo size, 68 pp., initialled and numbered by Hilary Pepler. The Saint Dominic's Press, founded by Harry (Hilary) Douglas Clarke Pepler, flourished at Ditchling, Sussex, from 1916 to 1936. The first home of the Press was "a disused stable", with a hundred-year-old Stanhope hand-press which supposedly had belonged to William Morris. Pepler endeavored to do everything possible by hand,...
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$193.00
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
by Le Fanu, J. Sheridan
London: Folio Society, 1988. Classic gothic suspense novel of a young heiress, her eccentric (at best) uncle & mysterious goings-on in his mansion. First Folio printing, hardcover in slipcase, as pictured; no jacket, as issued. With suitably moody fine ink drawings by Stewart. Light wear, no names or marks, hint of curve to front board, internal evidence of bump to base of spine, but exterior looks fine; slipcase shows minor wear.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Charles W....
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$35.00
YO SEMITE 1878. ADVENTURES OF N & C.
by LeCONTE, Caroline (Carrie)
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1964. First Edition. Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. (xviii) 99 (1) (11 Facsimiles). Illustrated from drawings by Caroline LeConte, both in-text and full page. Introduction to "C" by Susanna B. Dakin. Limited edition: one of 450 un-numbered copies designed and printed by Mallette Dean for The Book Club of California, San Francisco. Frontispiece portrait from period photograph of Carrie LeConte. Cloth-backed decorated boards. Printed spine label. 7 3/4" x 11". The...
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$80.00
If We Wish to Be Free...
by SMITH, Bernard (editor)
Scranton: Haddon Craftsmen, 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. One of 850 copies. Foreword by Allan Nevins. Small, neat ink notations on the rear pastedown and small pieces of masking tape attaching the original glassine dustwrapper to the pastedowns, else near fine in near fine glassine with a small tear to the bottom of the spine. Also present is the original mailing box, orange paper boards lightly soiled. Laid in is Signed Season's Greeting card from the Haddon Craftsmen printers....
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$60.00
Catalogue of a Collection of Early French Books in the Library of C. Fairfax Murray
by Hugh W. Davies
Quarter white vegetable parchment with blue cloth covered boards, gold stamped lettering on spines. xviii,600; iv,601-1096,lxviii pages. The Holland Press reprint of the renowned Fairfax Murray catalogue. The original was limited to 100 copies. This edition is considered the best of several reprints. Profusely illustrated. Quality of reproduction is very high. Books are very good plus, with some wear to the corners of the volumes.
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$100.00
Vile Creatures - A Natural History of Scoundrels, Gold Diggers and other Animals
by Lindsey Carr (illustrations) Angharad Jefferson (poems)
London: Self-Published on Kickstarter, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. new/no dj as issued. Lindsey Carr and Angharad Jefferson are working together under the name 'Fright Beaver', they are a pair of artists and bibliophiles who make books. Vile Creatures began life as a private studio joke about our worst romantic endeavors. We called it 'A Natural History of our Ex Boyfriends' until we started taking other people's stories to make a complete cast of bad eggs. Gold Diggers, Lotharios, Thieves,...
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$85.00
The Tramp Printers: Forgotten Trails of the Traveling Typographers - signed
by Charles Overbeck
Portland, Oregon: Eberhardt Press, 2022. 2nd revised edition. in wrappers with French folds. New/no dj as issued. NEW, a beautifully printed book, signed by the author. Portland, Eberhardt Press 2022, 204 pages, 8 x 5.5 inches. Ships from Hawaii. The tramp printer was a typesetting troubadour with a story in lieu of a song, a scholarly hobo, and a master of the type case. Carrying little more than a union journeyman's card and a few basic tools, these "itinerant" typographers criss-crossed the...
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$39.00
The Evergreen Tales; or, Tales for the Ageless: Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves -- The Ugly Duckling -- The Sleeping Beauty
by Andersen, Hans Christian; Perrault, Charles
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1949. Hardcover. Near Fine -. Three volumes in one slipcase. The Tale of Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves; Being literally translated from the Arabic into French by J. C. Mardrus; and then translated into modern English by E. Powys Mathers; illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. vii, [3], 50, [2] p.: full-page and in-text color illustrations; 31 cm. Yellow cloth with blue spine title and cover illustration. Illustrated endpapers. The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen;...
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$170.00
Square Squared. Shaped by the Typography students and strengthened by Professor Kitty Maryatt..
by [ Scripps College Press ]
Claremont, California: Scripps College Press, 2003 One of ninety copies. Signed by Kitty Maryatt and the seven students who contributed to the project.. Full aluminum with decorative cutouts and onlays. Spine sticked. Black and gold endpapers. . Small quarto. Color-illustrated on almost every page using a combination of linoleum block printing, ink, pochoir, and colored pencil, along with mounted fabric. Printed on Zerkall Book Laid paper in six different type faces. A fine copy.
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$600.00
Rhumb Lines
by Deaton, Anthony
Winona, Minnesota: Sutton Hoo Press, 2002. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 136 copies, quarto size, 24 unnumbered pp. Anthony Deaton works for the U.S. Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer and has served in Italy, Syria, and Namibia; this volume is his first book of poetry, a beautiful fine press book printed by the Sutton Hoo Press. Some of these poems have appeared in journals including the Paris Review, the Gettysburg Review, The Nation, and Virginia Quarterly Review. He is the...
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$220.00
Roan Stallion - illustrated by Karin Wikstrom - 1/60 Deluxe Ed
by Robinson Jeffers
Covelo, California: Yolla Bolly Press, 1990. 1/60 of the Deluxe Edition. Hardcover in traycase. Fine/no dj as issued, in clamshell box. Karin Wikstrom. Jeffers, Robinson, illustrated by Karin Wikstrom, Roan Stallion, number 60 of 155 copies, this being one of the deluxe edition limited to 60 copies (of a total of 155 copies) in full leather binding, that comes with the extra signed woodcut and the text booklet in wraps. Housed n a clamshell-style box of archival boards covered in a rough, dark green...
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$545.00
Young Man's Country
by Henry T. Chambers
~~FLAT SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FFEP~~ Bristow, OK: The Coronado Press (1st Edition, Coronado Chapbooks, undated). Chapbook in very good condition, with textured wraps and red titles/illustration, unpaginated. Dust jacket in poor condition: age discoloration, some spotting on front, chipping and closed tears along the edges, open tear at base of spine. Front and back covers of dust jacket have been reattached with clear archival document tape. (See our photos for condition.) Text is clean and...
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$200.00
Figure Prints of Old Japan; A Pictorial Pageant Of Actors & Courtesans Of The Eighteenth Century
by Harold Stern
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. very good/very good. Book Club of California, 1959. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Folio, 40 x 26 cm. Limited edition of only 400.52 colored or tinted plates. Introduction by Harold Stern. Illustrated from original prints in the collection of Edwin and Marjorie Grabhorn, printed by the Grabhorn Press. Reproductions printed recto only. Includes prints by Harunobu, Kiyomasu, Masanobu, Sharaku, Utamaro, Kaigetsudo, et al. Bright, clean and...
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$225.00
King of Camargue - with fore-edge painting. 1 of 5 copies, Ex Libris A. Zukor
by Jean Aicard, George Ives (translator)
Philadelphia: George Barrie & Sons, 1901. No 4 of a Limited edition of five copies: Edition Magnifique of Chefs-d'Oeuvre du Roman Contemporain. Full morocco leather binding. near fine. Louis V. Ruet (etchings), George Roux (drawings). Philadelphia: Printed only for subscribers by George Barrie & Sons, [1901]. Limited edition of five copies of which this is number four, Edition Magnifique of Chefs-d'Oeuvre du Roman Contemporain, Romanticists, bound for Warren R. Fales. Octavo. 349 pages. Illustrated...
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$750.00
Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell
The Easton Press, 1986. Children's Classics. Illustrated by Lucy Kemp-Welch. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Used - Near Fine condition. Easton Press bookplate with former owner's name affixed to front fly leaf. Gilt slightly worn off of 'Y' in title. Else Fine / As New. Binding and text block are tight, bright, and clean with no other ownership markings. Bound in full (genuine) red leather with hubbed spine. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on...
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$140.00
When men were animals and animals were men. A study of the graphic work of David Itchkawich
by Mattingly, John R
New York: The Angelica Press, 1976 Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator(s). xvi, [ii], 92 pages. One of the 100 copies with an original etching by Itchkawich which acts as frontispiece. Numbered 66 of a total edition of 520. Signed by author, the book's designer Dennis J Gastorf and Itchkawich. Loosely inserted brief note signed Dennis [Gastorf]. In the original paper covered boards with cloth spine and with the slipcase. The volume is in good condition, the slipcase though is damaged and...
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£250.00
Submarine bells. A selection of nine poems...with etchings by David Rathman
by Rathman, David, & Russell Edson
Minneapolis: Red Egypt Press, 1994. Edition limited to 20 copies plus 3 artist's proofs (this, copy no. 19), signed by David Rathman; 4to; 13 double leaves, illustrated with 9 three-color "intaglios printed from relief plates and lift-ground etchings with aquatint created and printed by Rathman; typography and letterpress printing by Philip Gallo at the Hermetic Press; the text is set in Studio and printed on Rives BFK; bound in grey cloth boards in exposed wire-binding by Jill Jevne after the...
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$5750.00
THOMAS E. WILLIAMS & THE FINE ARTS PRESS
by Curtiss, Richard D
Octavo (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches) Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1973. half cloth over patterned paper boards. 119 pages + (1), limited to 400 copies, illustrated with photo portraits of Thomas E. Williams and examples of his title pages "...the designs on the title page, chapter headings and initial letters are made up of typographical border units."
Very good condition, bookplate: "From the Library of the Iron Bear Press, Gary & Kathy Miller" on front paste down, shadow residue of old labels since... Read more about this item
Very good condition, bookplate: "From the Library of the Iron Bear Press, Gary & Kathy Miller" on front paste down, shadow residue of old labels since... Read more about this item
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$18.00
So Far From God
by John S. D. Eisenhower
The Easton Press, 1993. The Leather-Bound Library of American History. First Thus; Collector's Edition. Signed by author. Issued w/o dj. Used - Fine, "as new" condition. Appears unopened / unread. Binding and text block are tight, bright, and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Bound in full (genuine) leather with hubbed spine. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper. AEG. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin...
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$145.00
The passionate pirate
by Norman H Strouse
Bird & Bull Press, 1964. limited edition of only 200. hardcover. Very Good. Very Good Bird & Bull Press, 1964, 91,(2)p, linocut portrait of Thomas Bird Mosher, no 44 of edition printed in 200 numb copies, orig gilt lettered - With STROUSE AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION to "George Olmsted, Jr" plus B & B prospectus, plus program of the Celebration of Life for Strouse in 1993, plus typed note from 'Norm' to 'Mark", see photos.
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$385.00
Scenic
by [Roxburghe Club - Keepsake] Updike, John; Angelo, Valenti (Illustrations)
San Francisco: Printed by Andrew Hoyem, 1976. Limited Edition. No binding. Near fine. Angelo, Valenti. One of 150 copies, quarto size. John Hoyer Updike (1932-2009), one of only three authors to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, is probably best known today for his "Rabbit" series. He often wrote about "everyday life", and this poem, originally published in 1958 (in "The Carpentered Hen"), touches upon the little things which make the city of San Francisco so memorable to so...
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$440.00
The Life of Our Lord
by Dickens, Charles
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1934. Published only after the death of Dickens' youngest son, by consent of a majority of the grandchildren, this was written for Dickens' children between 1846 and 1849. The version is faithful to Dickens' manuscript; the trade versions were slightly modified to make them easier reading for modern eyes. Cream-colored imitation vellum hardcover, debossed boards, gilt titling, top edge gilt. Light wear, slight darkening at spine ends; near fine in rumpled &...
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$75.00
Humbert the Lion
by [Carl Hertzog]; Jessen, Bubi
El Paso: Carl Hertzog, 1959. First edition. Quarto, 29x22cm, [1], 18, [1] leaves, text on verso, blue, black, and white illustrations on facing recto. Beige card wrappers in printed blue paper jacket, attached at front flap. Nearly fine, jacket bumped along yapped edges. Nice copy of this beautifully illustrated work from Texas artist, Bubi Jessen (1908-1979). Laid in is a letter from the Texas Book Arts Guild at Southern Methodist University to Dick Bosse, Dallas bookman and owner/manager of the...
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$125.00
![Naming, A Poem by Philip Levine, Sutton Hoo Select Number Four [Copy "B" (beta) of 13 special copies lettered in Greek]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/131/150/1017150131.0.b.jpg)
Naming, A Poem by Philip Levine, Sutton Hoo Select Number Four [Copy "B" (beta) of 13 special copies lettered in Greek]
by Levine, Philip
[Winona]: [Sutton Hoo Press], 2004. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Jacobsen, Cheryl. One of 13 copies of the deluxe edition, duodecimo size, 64 pp., signed by Philip Levine. Philip Levine (1928-2015) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1995, the Ruth Lillly Poetry Prize in 1987, and was named the Poet Laureate of the United States for 2011-2012; this publication by the Sutton Hoo Press features a long poem by Levine with calligraphic marks by Cheryl Jacobsen running through each page. This volume...
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$825.00
