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Companionship of Stars
by Cary, Julia Metcalf
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1929. First Edition . Pamphlet. Very Good Minus. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Issued April 1929 in a limited edition of 12 copies only. This is a pamphlet. 6 x 4.25 inches. 8 unnumbered pages of stiff blue card stock. The type used is Astrée and the paper Kochi. The semi-still wrapper consists of two sheets of textured silver paper, top and bottom, laminated on to a middle sheet of plain brown paper. Bound by the...
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$195.00
Old Counsel; of the Young Master of a Wrecked California Clipper
by Melville, Herman
[San Francisco]: Designed and printed by Lemoncheese Press, 2019. Limited Edition. No binding. Fine. No. 20 of 50 copies, folio size. Printed in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Herman Melville's birth in 1819 in edition of 50 copies, this no. 20. The Lemoncheese Press is owned and operated by Li Jiang, a Berkeley-based letterpress printer, graphic designer, bookbinder and print maker. The letterpress printing for this broadside was done by Li on a Columbian iron hand-press owned by The Book...
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$66.00
Faust, Eine Tragoedie von Goethe (Volumes I and II)
by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
[Hammersmith]: The Doves Press, 1910. Limited Edition. Vellum. Very good +. Paper copies bound in limp vellum, octavo size, first volume 261 pp., one of 300 copies, the second volume 374 pp., one of 250 copies, text in German. Founded in 1900 by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker, the parnership dissolved in 1909 with Cobden-Sanderson continuing to print on his own. Justly famous for the purity of design and exactness of printing, it is always a thrill of sheer delight to hold a Doves Press book in...
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$3025.00
Short Stories
by Boyle, Kay
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. First Edition. First edition. Copy #39 of 150 copies on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen to be sold at the bookshop of Harry F. Marks in New York. [viii], 55, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps in glassine, housed in gold foil chemise with ribbon ties. Near Fine in glassine with a very small tear at the foot, in a Very Good chemise, rubbed along hinges with a little chipping to foil, a little fraying to ribbons at ends. The rare first story collection by a prolific,...
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$2500.00
A group of 7 titles in 14 volumes, including duplicates and one title from Kahoe's other press, The Whimsie Press
by [ROSE VALLEY PRESS, Walter Kahoe]
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 presents. The Rose Valley Press did non-Christmas books as time permitted. All are 12mo, in original bindings, in very good to fine...
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$250.00
Winter Poems from Eagle Pond
by Hall, Donald
San Antonio: Wings Press, 1999. First edition, limited to 300 signed and dated copies, this being #89. 8vo, [30]pp. Woodcut illustrations by Barry Moser. Signed by Hall at the colophon. Yellow, illustrated, string bound card wrappers, yapped edges. Fine condition. Collection from the American Poet Laureate, Donald Hall (1928-2018), who also served as the first poetry editor of The Paris Review. The work consists of a collection of poems originally sent as Christmas cards by Hall and his wife, Jane...
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$45.00
Nineteen Years and Counting: A Retrospective Bibliography, 1969-1988 (SIGNED Artist Proof copy))
by D'Ambrosio, Joseph
[Sherman Oaks, CA]: Published by the author, 1989. First Edition Limited to 10 artist proof copies and 75 numbered copies. SIGNED by D'Ambrosio on title page with his pencil notation "A.P." above the date. INSCRIBED "To Rose Marie & Wally Dawes - My good friends, and, my excellent advisors. Joe D'Ambrosio". As noted on the colophon, Rose Marie of The Paper Source donated the hand-marbled endpapers by Iris Nevins. 8vo. 129 pp. Sixty tipped-in color photographs for D'Amrosio's first 38 works including...
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$473.00
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
by Flaubert, Gustave; Hearn, Lafcadio (Translator); Carmody, Francis (Editor)
(Kentfield, California): The Allen Press, 1974. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. One of 140 copies, folio size, 90 pp., with prospectus. Although Gustave Flaubert's (1821-1880) best known work may be "Madame Bovary", he had a deep interest in "The Temptation of Saint Anthony", spending thirty years in research and working countless revisions. It is said that he became intrigued with the subject by a stained-glass window in the Rouen cathedral, which depicts the Saint as a hermit. Anthony...
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$440.00
Falls the Shadow
by Shirley Jones
Quarter brown leather with brown cloth-covered boards, brown leather onlay of a shell on front cover, title printed blind on spine, brown cloth-covered slipcase. One of the copies bound by Gwasg Gregynog. Number 27 of an edition limited to 40 numbered copies. A blind-printed shell as a symbol of the ideal introduces each movement, a sepia mezzotint shadows its progress. Printed by Shirley Jones on Somerset paper, with interleaves of Japanese Unryushi. Signed and numbered by Shirley Jones. Prospectus...
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$1100.00
THE GOLD DIGGER'S SONG BOOK; Containing the Most Popular Humorous & Sentimental Songs Composed by M. Taylor and Sung By His Original Company etc.
by TAYLOR, M
The Book Club of California, 1975. First Edition thus. Cloth-backed boards. Fine/Very Good +. (6), xii, (4), 34 pages. Illustrated endpapers and in-text illustrations. Introduction by Sister Mary Dominic Ray of Dominican College, San Rafael, California. Leather backed illustrated boards. Limited to 450 un-numbered copies by Cranium Press. Small octavo. Plain paper dust jacket with spine lettering, now in a clear mylar protective sleeve. Many unopened pages. First edition thus after the 1856 first...
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$25.00
The Stone Beloved
by Alighieri, Dante
Quarter vellum with gray paper sides, embossed in silver on spine, slipcase covered in the same paper. Illustrated with seven full page monochrome lithographs, of which the frontispiece-title page sprawls across two pages, by Peter Nickel. Bound by Craig Jensen. Printed in Romanee type on Rives BFK paper by Bradley Hutchinson, Nancy Ruppert, Elaine Smyth, and Tom Taylor. Number 54 of an edition limited to 150 copies. Fine in fine slipcase with the original glassine sheets.
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$325.00
The Cats of Copenhagen
by James Joyce
The first-ever appearance in print of James Joyce's Story for Children, THE CATS OF COPENHAGEN in a special limited edition of 200 copies.
Michael Caine has printed this large-format letterpress edition with virtuoso skill, setting the text in a wondrously expressive array of original, early twentieth-century hand-cut Italian and French founts to capture the imagination of readers young and old. Casey Sorrow has brought to life Joyce's curious 'Københavnere' with ingeniously playful pen-and-ink... Read more about this item
Michael Caine has printed this large-format letterpress edition with virtuoso skill, setting the text in a wondrously expressive array of original, early twentieth-century hand-cut Italian and French founts to capture the imagination of readers young and old. Casey Sorrow has brought to life Joyce's curious 'Københavnere' with ingeniously playful pen-and-ink... Read more about this item
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€450.00
Finn's Hotel
by Joyce, James
First Edition; Numbered Issue. One of 140 copies printed on Fedrigoni Vellum (a 190gram, smooth and elegant Italian paper) and handstiched and handbound in hardcovers featuring the red and black letterpress printed paper designed by Elisabeth Hyder and black head- and tail bands. The front cover is impressed with a letterpress printed label. This issue is our 'standard': a collectible, modestly priced finepress first edition. Fine/New.
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€375.00
The Song of Songs
by Raban, Ze-ev - illustrator
Jerusalem: Hasafer Publishing house, 1923. First edition illustrated by Raban, limited to 500 copies, this copy unnumbered. Folio, unpaginated, [26] colored plates which include the text in Hebrew, mounted opposite the calligraphic text translated to English. Colorful, decorated endpapers with later restoration and reinforcement around edges. Publisher's drab cloth decorated in gilt and silver had been sympathetically rebacked. Boards worn along edges and at corners, toning to pages but plates...
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$275.00
Kirk Douglas Writes to Gary Cooper a Letter - May 4, 1961
by Douglas, Kirk ; Santa Teresa Press
Santa Barbara: Santa Teresa Press. Near Fine. 1992. First Edition. Paperback. 16 pages; Booklet is is Fine condition as issued in original envelope (toned). Limited to 500 Copies. softcover. Christmas book for the friends of Kirk Douglas and Pepper & Stern - Rare Books, Inc. It publishes a long letter that Douglas wrote to Cooper in May, 1961 from on the set of Lonely Are the Brave adapted from the novel, The Brave Cowboy, by Edward Abbey. .
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$14.94
The Luck of Roaring Camp
by HARTE, Bret (Illustrated by Paul Honore)
Camden, NJ: Haddon Craftsmen, 1941. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition thus. One of 1250 copies. Small, neat ink notations to the rear pastedown, owner's embossed stamp on the rear endpaper, else near fine in original near fine glassine dustwrapper. Also present is the publisher's original box with wood grained papercovered boards. Image shown without glassine.
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$240.00
Choice of Churches
by Michael Harrison
In addition to writing the introduction, the author also assembled the text by various authors: Peter Porter, D.H. Lawrence, Father Bernard Walke, Jack Clemo, John Whitworth, Thomas Hardy, Charles Causley, Canon Hawker, Patricia Beer, and Sabine Baring-Gould. Lavishly illustrated with scraperboard drawings by Alan Richards. These drawings range from quarter-page images to two-page spreads. The boards are covered in a paper printed with another scraperboard drawing by the artist. 12 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches. 48...
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$75.00
Crystal Gazer and other poems by Sylvia Plath
by Sylvia Plath
London: The Rainbow Press, 1971. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Bound in quarter buckram with gilt lettering on spine. Decorated hand-made paper covered boards. Printed at the Daedalus Press on dampened hand-made paper. With a full page drawing by Sylvia Plath printed on Japanese paper. This is copy number 107 of a total edition of 400 copies. In cardboard slipcase. 29 pp., 32,5 x 25,5 cm. Both book and slipcase are in very fine condition. .
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€300.00
Moby Dick
by Melville, Herman; Kent, Rockwell [Illustrations]
New York: The Lakeside Press, 1930. First Edition Thus. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition thus, limited to 1,000 copies. Three volumes in publisher's acetate jackets, in aluminum slipcase. Presentation copy signed by Rockwell Kent on the front free end paper of Volume I, "Inscribed with affectionate friendship to Putzie - Rockwell Kent, 1950." Volumes II and III bear Rockwell Kent-illustrated bookplates of Marie Luise Hinrichs. Near Fine. Narrow strips of sunning to spine cloth at ends, light rubbing...
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$18500.00
Jerry N. Uelsmann : An Aperture Monograph
by Jerry N. Uelsmann; Peter C. Bunnell (intro); Russell Edson (fables)
Millerton, New York: Aperture, 1973. Hardcover. Revised, Enlarged Edition. Near Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, head lightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped.
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$29.95
Labour Vertue Glorie Leaves from the Emblem Books of Gabriel Rollenhagen (1611) & George Wither (1635)
by Rollenhagen, Gabriel and George Wither
Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey Editions. Fine+. 2018. Limited/Numbered Edition; First Printing. This title is anticipated to ship in March, 2018. Reserve your copy with a 20% down-payment, using coupon code HM18RESERVE during checkout. Set in Monotype Garamond (several sizes) on a page slightly larger than Wither's quarto. Like the books from which the leaves came, the type will be inked and printed by hand, with a handpress, on dampened paper. A number of decorative initial letters taken from...
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$688.67
Gothic Architecture
by Morris, William (1834-1896)
London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Good. Gothic Architecture: A Lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society; by Morris, William (1834-1896). London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press. Printed by and sold by William Morris. 1893. Limited First Edition. Second State. 16mo: 5 13/16" x 4 1/16" x 3/8" (14.8 x 10.3 x 1 cm). Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 1,500...
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$1100.00
Origin of our Present Method of Registering Days
by Jaquish, O.W. May H. Jaquish; Johann Stoeffler
[Longmeadow, Massachusetts): NP, 1928. First Edition thus; Lettered as No. 156 (of a limited edition). Octavo; frontis (facsimile of the title page of a Calendarium printed by the Koebel Press in 1518); 9pp. A Near Fine copy with faint edgewear and remnant of paper label on upper cover (apparent duplicate label on rear cover) in marble paper-covered boards. Endpapers faithfully reproduce pages in the 1518 'Calendarium Romanum Magnum.'. This very attractive booklet reproduces the antiquarium feel with...
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$263.00
Plays for Puppets
by H.D.C.P. (Pepler, Hilary Douglas Clarke); Short, Mary Dudley (Illustrations)
Ditchling: St Dominic's Press, 1929. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Short, Mary Dudley. No. 431 of 450 copies, twenty-fourmo size, [58] pp., numbered and initialled by HDCP. 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...
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$110.00
