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Incident on the Bark Columbia; Being Letters Received & Sent by Captain McCorkle and the Crew of his Whaler, 1860-1862
by (Duncan, Harry, et al., printers) Captain McCorkle
Cummington, Massachusetts: The Cummington Press, 1941. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. Unpaginated. Natural linen cloth, the title printed in black on the upper board. Finely printed on Georgian paper by Harry Duncan, Katherine Frazier & Jane Ward, the staff of the Cummington Press. One of three hundred numbered copies; this is No. 236. A fine copy. The first book printed by the Cummington Press .
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$250.00
Cantique des Cantiques de Salomon
(Weimar): Cranach Press, 1931. Gill, Eric. Tall octavo. 32, (2)pp. From the French edition of 164 copies, this is one of 50 on Japon. Printed in blue and black, and illustrated throughout with eleven wood engravings and decorative initials by Eric Gill. This ancient dialogue between the Bride and Groom is one of the most lyrical love passages of all time. Bound in full orange morocco by Otto Dorfner, with gilt tooling and titling to covers. T.e.g. Small spot of discoloration to upper cover, otherwise a...
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$8625.00
Laudes Beatae Mariae Virginis
by Langton, Stephen, or John Peckham
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Thin 4to. One of 250 copies from a total edition of 260 copies. Half-borders and 163 initials by William Morris, engraved on wood by W. H. Hooper et al. Woodcut press device in Colophon. Printed in red, black and blue in Troy type on handmade Batchelor Perch paper. Linen spine, blue paper over boards, black printed title on the upper board. Boards lightly soiled else a near fine copy and the first Kelmscott edition printed in...
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$5000.00
Pressing Issues: Voices for Justice in the Book Arts
Boston: Bromer Booksellers & Gallery, 2021. Octavo. 160pp. A catalogue of over 100 items pertaining to social justice, identity, and equality. The collection, which includes artists' books, fine press, original art, and posters, represents over a century of responses from book artists to oppression and its impact. It gathers a diverse array of artists to comment on a similarly diverse range of issues, racial equality, LGBTQ rights, environmental justice, disabilities, and environmental justice among...
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$12.00
Island: Journal from Iceland
by Heebner, Mary
Santa Barbara, CA: Simplemente Maria Press, 2010. Heebner, Mary. Quarto. (13)ff. One of sixty copies. Signed by the artist at colophon, as well as on verso of each pigment print. The prints have been hand-touched with watercolor and are individually enclosed in over-beaten abaca paper folios on which twelve poems written by Heebner have been letterpress printed by Inge Bruggeman. The result is poetic topography, in which the reader encounters an impressionistic Icelandic landscape while grounded in...
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$1725.00
The Booksellers of San Serriffe
by Bachaus, Theodore
(N.p.): San Serriffe Publishing Company, 2001. Bates, Wesley W.. Octavo. 95pp. One of 200 copies, printed by the Foolscap Press. A roundup of the booksellers associated with the press, including Ki-flongian Booksellers, Cloacina Books, and Exterminator Books. Replete with tipped-in samples and photographs, bound-in title pages and keepsakes, a large fold-out title page from the Grandiloquent Bookshop, and woodcuts by Bates. A clever and eclectic volume bound in orange morocco with green cloth over...
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$345.00
Two Poems
by Perishable Press. Ondaatje, Michael
[Mt. Horeb, WI]: The Perishable Press, 1986. First Edition, one of 275 copies, broadside folded in thirds, all on Tergiverse Shadwell gray-green paper, all signed in pencil by the author, Michael Ondaatje, on the verso of the last fold. Five copies reserved for Woodland Pattern. Printed in black, blue and brown as triple-fold broadside with title on first fold, "All along the Mazinaw" on second fold, and "Birch Bark" on third fold. Page size: 22 inches x 9-1/4 inches folded to 5-1/2 inches x 9-1/4...
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$200.00
El Acueducto del Padre Tembleque
by Gomez Arriola, Nacho
Guadalajara: Grafica de Comala, 2017. Limited edition. Stiff card wraps. Fine. 4½ by 7 inches. (18)pp. Card wraps covered with bright yellow paper nicely printed in black and red by letterpress. Printed letterpress on handmade paper. The fonts are Garamond and Intertype. Illustrated with full page and in text art by Gomez taken directly from the linocut blocks. A fine copy. One of 50 copies signed and numbered by the author. This is copy No. 44. This is the story of the famed Aqueduct of Padre...
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$150.00
A Christmas Sermon
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1928. Limited edition. Stiff card. Fine. One large sheet folded to make four pages, folio. Title printed on obverse of page one, the text of the Sermon on the inner two-page spread, and the final page blank. Beautifully printed letterpress in a Gothic font. Each of the four sections of Stevenson's work is introduced by an illuminated capital with hand-colored foliage. The title runs across the top of both pages in gilt with more flowers lightly colored in pink, blue,...
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$750.00
Adirondack Sutra
by Caliban Press. Thoreau, Dickinson, et al
Canton, NY: Caliban Press, 2013. Artist's book, one of 48 copies, all on various handmade papers, mostly from La Papeterie St.-Armand, initialed and numbered by the publisher, Mark McMurray on the colophon. Page size: approximately12.75 x 3-15/16 inches, but some smaller; 50pp; 25 leaves plus 2pp. notes. The colophon notes that this book was printed by Mark McMurray and interns Elizabeth Vitek and Rebecca Doll with additional presswork by students Elizabeth Cashin, Erika Davin and Nicole Porter. Text is...
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$375.00
Miniature Literature. The Stanley Marcus Collection of Miniature Books at Bridwell Library. 26 February - 27 May 1995. Curated by David J. Lawrence.
by Lawrence (David J.) -Curator. (Stanley Marcus Collection)
Dallas: Bridwell Library, 1995. First edition.. Small patterned boards, printed paper label on front cover. Eight Illustrations. Size is 3 x 3 inches. A fine copy, as-new, the original plain paper wrapper is present. One of 500 numbered copies, signed by the curator.
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$90.00
Original drawings for Woodwork in Principle and Practice. Together with: a copy of the printed book
by Green, A. Romney
Ditchling, Sussex: Douglas Pepler, 1917. Gill, Eric. Fifteen sheets with multiple diagrams in pencil, ranging in size from 5 1/2 by 4 1/2 to 11 by 7 1/4 inches; eight sheets of pencil tracings on tracing paper, one of which is clipped to a woodcut proof; and one diagram rendered in blue ink. Two larger sheets are initialled and annotated by Gill, with the dates "26 Jan 1917." Several sheets contain evidence of reuse, including one with a rough sketch for a headstone engraving; others bear lists of...
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$5175.00
Bacchanalia
by Graham, D.L. (trans.)
(Easthampton, MA): Pennyroyal Press, 1970. Moser, Barry. Quarto. (33)ff. From an edition of thirty-five copies reserved for distribution by the artist, this is Moser's own, with his bookplate inside the front cover, and with four additional proofs, each titled, signed, and dated in pencil. Contains ten wood engravings by Moser and six epigrams from the Anthologia Graeca translated by D.L. Graham, along with a list of plates. The six epigrams, in Greek and English, are printed with type ornaments in red,...
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$3163.00
Indulgence
by Jones, Jacob
Seattle: The Windowpane Press, 2012. First printing. 13 x 10.5 inches, single sheet of handmade paper, with deckle on all four edges. Printed letterpress by Bonnie Thompson Norman, from calligraphy by Linda Lundy, in an edition of twenty-six press-lettered copies. As new. A travesty of a medieval indulgence, inspired by Caxton: "Jacobus Jones, quaestiarius of Washington, United States of America, by his own authority, with the sanction of Amituofuo, through the intercession of Quan Yin, and given a...
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$86.00
Epitalamio - una carta en el camino. Etchings by Alicia Scavino
by Ediciones Dos Amigos. Pablo Neruda
Buenos Aires: Ediciones Dos Amigos, 1989. Artist's book, one of 50 copies,all on Canson paper in several colors (blue, cream, beige, grey, lavender), signed by the artist on each of the two etchings in pencil and dated "88". Page size: 9-13/16 x 6-1/2 inches; 32pp. Bound: loose as issued in red wrappers printed in black with author and title; housed in custom-made orange cloth over boards clamshel box with "a sus amigo" printeded in dark orange and the name of the press and paraphe, box a bit rubbed,...
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$2500.00
Doctor Franklin & Spain: The Unknown History
by Chávez, Thomas E
Santa Fé: The Press at the Palace of the Governors, 2016. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. 59pp. plus colophon. One of 80 numbered copies. Printed letterpress at the Palace Press by Tom Leech and James Bourland on handmade wove Spanish paper from the Garza Paper Mill. The typeface is digital Bodoni Old Face; Franklin himself praised Bodoni's' Essay on Type as "one of the most beautiful..." Frontispiece portrait of Franklin based on a painting of Franklin by his French neighbor, Anne-Rosalie...
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$600.00
Lecons de Livre pour Calyban or Prosper's Parisian Printing Parade. Bon mots, bagatelles, & tableaux de l'imprimerie. Also a sometime type specimen & leaf book. As Told to an American. Pochoir by Jef Aerosol
by Caliban Press. McMurray, Mark
St-Zotique, Quebec [Canton, NY]: Cat's Head Press [Caliban Press], 2008. One of 114 copies, all on various papers including Rives and Arches, vintage Barcham Green handmade, St-Armand handmade from Montreal, Quebec, Kochi from Japan and handmade lokta from Nepal, each signed by the author / printer. Mark McMurray has created his own look at printing history in Paris, with a dark back story of immigrant life in the "City of Light." Page size: 8-1/4 x 12 inches; 48pp. Bound: flexible quarter dark grey...
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$500.00
Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut
by Prevost, Abbe
Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, 1958. Cleland, T.M.. Illustrated in color by T. M. Cleland, who printed the images in each copy using the silk screen method. Laid in is a note on the manner of the book's design and printing, including an explanation of the illustration process. Roderick Cave cites this as "an example of the luxurious book at its most magnificent." Quarto. (207)pp. One of 200 copies. Spine a trifle sunned, light scuff to spine head, else fine in full brown calf, with gilt-stamped...
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$863.00
For Now
by Plimpton, Sarah
[New York, 2008. Artist's book, one of 15 copies, all on Fabriano Tiepolo paper, each copy signed and numbered by the poet / artist / printer, Sarah Plimpton. Page size: 8-3/4 x 11-3/4 inches; 20pp. Bound: loose as issued, in cinnamon-colored wrappers, black label title printed in gold on spine housed in brick-colored cloth custom-made clamshell box, black leather label with title and author in gold gilt on spine, made by Claudia Cohen. Ms. Plimpton's poem reads, "one eye / drawing circles / with...
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$750.00
Global Stability
by Ford, Gerald R
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1981. 29 pp. From an edition of 400, this is one of 100 copies specially bound by Bela Blau. Signed by President Gerald R. Ford. The text of a September 1980 address given to the Visa International Convention in Quebec encouraging world peace for economic purposes. Fine in quarter morocco and marbled paper boards. With a matching marbled slipcase. (Bradbury, p. 140). (3 by 2 1/4; 75x58mm).
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$316.00
Quatre Fois Son Portrait dans les Etats-Unis d'Amerique. Four Portraits of Him in the United States. Bi-lingual edition with English translation by Joshua Watsky. Poem by James Sacre. Original Painting by Julius Baltazar
by Curry, Coleen (Binder). Sacre, James
Stonington, CT: Wequetequock Cove Editions, 2012. Artist's book, poetry by James Sacre in English and French, in a unique binding by Coleen Curry, one of 30 copies with text printed on Velin d'Arche, the original watercolor that is the frontispiece is on Sekishu Japan paper, as are the four copperplate engravings, all copies signed by the artist, the author, and his translator, Joshua Watsky, who is also the publisher. Page size: 12.8 x 9.8 x 1/2 inches; 32pp. Bound by Coleen Curry: full goat cerulean...
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$9500.00
Twelve Mammal Skulls
by Trissel, James, Sally Hegarty, and Barbara Winternitz
Colorado Sprints: Press at Colorado College, 1989. Moore, Charles. Quarto. (52)pp. One of 75 copies, signed by Trissel. Equal parts a scientific and aesthetic exploration of the skulls of various mammalian orders, including representative illustrations and descriptions for the Eastern Cottontail Rabbit, the weasel, and the house cat. Illustrations, of which there are twelve, rendered as photoengravings by Charles Moore. Printed in black, tan, and brown inks. Fine, in gray cloth-backed linen boards, with...
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$1323.00
Storms
by Plimpton, Sarah
[New York, 2011. Artist's book, one of 15 copies only, all on Somerset black paper, each signed and numbered by author / artist, Sarah Plimpton. Page size: 11-3/4 x 15-5/8 inches; 9pp. including titlepage and colophon. Bound: loose as issued in tan cloth over card stock envelope printed with author and title in black on front panel. The nine pages, which are all original woodcuts, as well as the text printed letterpress in Caslon, were accomplished by Sarah Plimpton with the assistance of Brad Ewing at...
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$950.00
Lawrence of Arabia
by Liddell Hart, Capt. B. H., and Sir Ronald Storrs
London: The Corvinus Press, 1936. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. Finely printed on Barcham Green "Medway" handmade paper. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe cloth spine, gilt title, handmade paper over boards with the Corvinus device block in gilt on the upper board. A fine copy. In the original strange glassine cover with paper flaps and in the publisher's nondescript slipcase. The book is in fine condition. The glassine has some splits and is a bit shorter than the book, its paper flaps with...
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$2000.00
Blueberry Surprise
by Grigely, Joseph
Brussels: mfc-michèle didier, 2006. Octavo. (96)pp. One of 250 copies. An entrancing yet mildly unsettling illustration of conversation, Joseph Grigely's book presents one continuous text of 45,000 words transcribed from written conversations that the artist has been collecting for the past ten years. The transcription mimics the words' original presentations, exactly reflecting the way Grigely, who lost his hearing at the age of ten, encountered them. Change in voice appears as change in color, but...
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$403.00
