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The Mediterranean and Other Poems
by Tate, Allen
New York: The Alcestis Press, 170 Broadway, 1936. First edition, #59 of 165 signed copies on Strathmore Permanent all rag paper. 57 pp. 8vo. Green printed wrappers. Fine, small chip at head of spine, with a damaged original green paper over boards slipcase. First edition, #59 of 165 signed copies on Strathmore Permanent all rag paper. 57 pp. 8vo. WITH SLIPCASE. Rare in original slipcase.
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$750.00
The Mighty Endeavor; American Armed Forces in the European Theater in World War II
by Charles B. MacDonald
Connecticut: EASTON, 1995. Collector's Edition. Full Leather. near fine. Bound in full dark green leather with gilt lettering and design to covers and spine. Six raised bands. AEG. Moire endpapers. Laid in are the "Collector's Notes" and laid in personalized bookplate. Tiny scratch at bottom fore-edge. A beautiful copy.
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$45.00
Garden of Eating
New York Society for Ethical Culture 8vo size spiral bound softcover; 107 bright, white pages with colored section dividers. Laminated covers are "washable" and can be wiped clean with a damp cloth. Cover artwork by John Drummond. Also contains some essays and supplemental text. Contents include: Breakfast Appetizers Soups and Salads Main Dishes Side Dishes Desserts Breads Recipes include: Avocado Dip; Bean Antipasto; Caponata; Beef Barley Soup; Boeuf Bourguignon; Nan's Meatballs;...
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$22.00
Meadow Thoughts
by Jefferies, Richard
Market Drayton, Salop: Tern Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown calf spine and marbled boards with matching endpapers. Fine. Parry, Nicholas. Unpaginated. 14 leaves. 24 x 16 cm. "Meadow Thoughts was first printed in Graphic and included in The Life of the fields in 1884." "Printed in 12 pt. Centaur on Maidstone paper and bound by Nicholas and Mary Parry. No. 61 of 80 copies." With five engravings by Nicholas Parry, and signed by him.
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$150.00
Juxtamorphing Space. Works by by Walter Samuel Haatoum Hamady Being a Series of Autodidactic Tutorials Arranging Certain Things in a Certain Space with a Certain Aesthetic End in Mind as in a Timeline of Sorts Incorporating Books, Collage adn Assemblage on Display at the James Watrous Gallery of the Wisconsin Academy 7 October Through November 20, 2005
by Perishable Press. Hamady, Walter
Madison, WI: Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, 2005. Exhibition catalogue containing bibliography of The Perishable Press taking up where TWO DECADES OF HAMADY & THE PERISHABLE PRESS LIMITED left off (book #106 1983). This starts with book #107, 1984. Page size: 10-1/4 inches x 7 inches; 18pp; one of which is a triple gatefold. Bound: original wrappers printed in color, both front and back wrappers are gatefolds with the bibliography of The Perishable Press on the interior pages of each...
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$30.00
That Church Life
by Howell, Teresa B
Durham, North Carolina: Walking in Victory, 2016. Signed and inscribed on title page Includes two (2) pieces of ephemera: a bookmark and postcard. From back: "The Church Gal Crew is leading the way to Salvation at Mt. Zion Holiness Church. Feisty Natalia Freemon is the " head" of the crew. Rebellious and outspoken, she has no problems challenging the church status quo. Years later however, her loss of faith will tragically impact her life. Michelle Hanks, a country girl from...
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$35.00
My Brush is My Sword; Anthony Gross, War Artist
by Francis, Julian
Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, 2022. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A fine new copy. Limited to 330 copies bound in quarter cloth and marbled paper. Gross travelled almost continuously for his country until 1945, through Britain, Europe, north Africa, the middle east, the Indian subcontinent and Burma. His paintings started with London, showing its suffering in the early days of the war, then military training in various settings, and he...
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$276.21
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
by Thomas Jefferson, Saul K. Padover [editor]
Lunenburg, Vermont: The Limited Editions Club at The Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont, 1967. Limited ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 27.5 x 18.5 cm. Quarto. 362pp. Limited to 1500 copies signed by the artist Lynd Ward this being copy 867. Bound in marble boards. Lacking slipcase. Foxing to the front free endpaper and toning to the foredges.
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$75.00
The Alembic Press Guide to Jaunts and Rambles of a Printing Nature that may be of Interest to other Private Press Printers
by Bolton, Clare
Alembic Press, 1983. Card covers, paper wraps. 42pp. Illustrations to text. Number 99 of a limited edition of 125 copies. Slight wear to extremities. . Soft Cover. Near Fine.
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$19.00
Fine Papers at the Oxford University Press
by Bidwell, John
Whittington Press, 1999. 2 volumes, housed in solander box, 44cm x 32cm. Original pale turquoise half-morocco. 85pp, unpaginated leaves of specimens. Number LX of 65 special copies, from total edition limited to 300. With it an additional portfolio of papers. Tipped-in samples, illustrations, 25 additional whole sheets of paper loose in original cloth-backed board folder, together in cloth drop-back box, morocco label on spine. A monumental work.. Hard Cover. Fine.
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$1,140.30
Checklist Stone House Press Books & Ephemera 1978-1988
by Brody, Catherine Tyler (Compiler)
New York: New York Public Library, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. patterned boards and maroon cloth spine. Fine in fine glassine protective overwrapper. 113 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Illustrated in color and black and white. Introduction by G. Thomas Tanselle. Limited edition, copy 57 of 200 signed by Morris Gelfand (printer) and Catherine Tyler Brody. Laid-in the pre-publication announcement printed in red and black.
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$45.00
Jocelin of Brakelond from Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
by Rogers, Bruce (Designer)
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1923. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in nicked very good slipcase. 157 pages. Uncut with rubricated title page. Limited edition, copy 315 of 510. WARDE 168. Lovely copy.
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$40.00
The Way of a Trout with a Fly and some Further Studies in Minor Tactics
by G. E. M. Skues
Newton Abbot, Devon: The Flyfisher's Classic Library, 1993. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A finely bound reprint of the first edition of this classic work with two additional chapters written for the 1949 edition. Published in an edition of 1000 copies - lacking slipcase. Quarter bound in red leather with salmon coloured boards and a silk marker.
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$57.01
Sermon of His Eminence Francis Cardinal Spellman; at the Pontifical Mass on the Occasion of the Observance of the Silver Jubilee of his Consecration, Yankee Stadium September 7, 1957
by Francis Cardinal Spellman
Worcester: Arhille J. St. Onge, 1957. Limited Edition. Full Leather. near fine. Miniature book. (3 1/16" x 2 1/8") Bound in full pink leather with gilt lettering to cover and spine. 38pp. One thousand copies have been printed from Spectrum type on 'Old Kentucky Linen' paper by Joh., Enschede en Zonen Haarlem, Holland. A very nice copy.
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$75.00
Twenty Years After
by Dumas, Alexandre
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1958. Limited ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 24.5 x 17 cm. Octavo. 496pp. Scarlet red cloth, gilt decorations, in gold colored slipcase. Limited to 1500 copies signed by the illustrator Edy Legrand, this being copy 681. Gilt top foredge.Light creasing to head of spine. Light rubbing to edges of boards and slipcase. LEC monthly letter and additional note describing the work laid in. The boards are somewhat cocked.
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$40.00
The Growth of Love; LIMITED TO 450 COPIES
by Robert Bridges
Maine: Thomas Mosher, MDCCCCXIII. Limited edition. Hardcover. near ffine/near fine. Small octavo. (8" x 6") Vellum back boards with cloth pattern. (There is some toning to vellum) Limited to 450 copies. In original tissue dust jacket with title printed at spine. Lovely copy. "Faithfully reprinted in Old Style Roman face from the unique edition in Fell's Old English Type, issed by the Daniel Press.
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$300.00
Historic American Flags
Worcester: Arhille J. St. Onge, 1968. Limited Edition. Full Leather. very good. Miniature book. (2 7/8" x 2 1/8"). Bound in full blue leather with gilt lettering to cover and spine. 50pp. Tipped in stamps of American flaps. There is some darkening along edges of leather. 2000 copies have been printed on Ingrew Butten paper from Jan van Krimpenm's Romulus and Cancelleresca types by Joh. Enschede en Zonen Haarlem, Holland.
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$50.00
White Fang
by London, Jack
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1973. Collector's Edition. Full Leather. Near Fine. 25.5 x 17 cm. Octavo. 245pp. Bound in full red leather with gilt lettering and design to cover. AEG. 5 raised bands to spine, moire endpapers, silk ribbon. Illustrated by Lydia Dabcovich, introduction by Ray Gardner. Small scratch to gilt foredge. Part of the "Masterpieces of American Literature" series.
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$60.00
Poema de Xul Solar
by Ediciones Dos Amigos. Solar, Xul
Buenos Aires: Ediciones Dos Amigos, 1981. One of 50 copies, all on velin d'Arches paper, each with a full-page original aquatint by Martha Ripoll, signed and numbered by her in pencil on the print. The text was composed and printed by Eduardo Audivert in 14pt. Bodoni in red. Page size: 12-3/4 inches x 10 inches, 16pp. Bound: loose in original gray wrappers printed in red with author, title, artist, publisher and date, fine. Xul Solar was the adopted name of Oscar Schulz Solari (1887-1963) Argentian...
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$500.00
Recipes from Friends
Weston, Massachusetts, 1998. Recipes from Friends Rare Community Cookbook from Friends of the Weston (Massachusetts) Public Library 8vo size wide softcover with unique binding: patterned light tan colored corrugated card board has a sprinkling of colored "dots." It is covered with thin clear acetate onto which the titles are printed in black. Copper colored "nails" fasten the two-hole punched binding. 134 ivory color pages with a blend of typed and facsimile handwritten recipes....
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$31.00
Underneath the Bough; LIMITED TO 100 COPIES
by Michael Field
Mosher Press, 1898. Limited edition. Hardcover. fine/near fine. 16mo. (7" x 5") White stiff wrappers. . This is copy # 52 of 100 copies printed on Japan vellum. A fine copy in slipcase. Title label to slipcase. Lacking the tissue dust jacket.. A beautiful copy.
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$250.00
Passover Recipes and Reminiscences
Connecticut by the UJA Federation of Westport, Weston, Wilton, Norwalk; the United Jewish Federation of Greater Stamford, New Canaan, Darien; the Jewish Center for Community Services of Eastern Fairfield County & UJA Federation of Greenwich 8vo size treated cloth bound pictorial hardcover with an interior three-ring binding; 140 bright, white pages with section dividers illustrated with vintage photos and advertisements plus Index of Contributors, Index of Recipes, some publisher supplied content...
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$56.00
La Juana Figueroa (Juana Figueroa)
by Ediciones Dos Amigos. Calvetti, Jorge
Buenos Aires: Ediciones Dos Amigos, 1984. Copy no. 19, one 6 copies on Holland paper, from a total issue of 27: 2 on Japan paper, 4 on Auvergne paper, 12 on Raffaello Fabriano paper, 6 on Holland paper (this copy) and 3 on Ingres paper. Page size: 12 inches x 9-1/4 inches; 40pp. Bound: loose in original black wrappers printed in gold with author, title and date on front panel, housed in publisher's black clamshell box with title printed in jade green, fine. Printed as an homage to prematurely deceased...
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$700.00
More Than Forever
by McLean, Jay
2014. Book Four in the More Than Series 8vo size trade paperback; 369 pages Please note: This book has a Mature Readers Advisory. From back: "Lucy - There is love so fierce it cannot be measured... Cameron - Forever. Everlasting. Eternal. THere is no measure of time... But our forever isn't always." Creased back cover and last few pages, worn corners. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Trade Paperback....
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$10.00
Mr Cobden-Sanderson's two-handed engine
by Nash, John
Nine Elms Press, 1994. Paper wraps, sewn. 23pp, [1]. One of an edition of 350 copies. William Morris willow pattern wraps. Signed by John Nash. Slightest wear only.. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Near Fine.
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$22.81
