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This is What You Shall Do
by Whitman, Walt
New York: Calibran Press, 2019. Booklet, stitched, in envelope. 16mo, 11cm. 6pp folding. Handset in Palatino and Garamond. One of 200 copies printed on antique laid paper and sewn into grey paper wrappers titled in black. New in press envelope. Extracted from the Preface to the 1855 first edition of Leaves of Grass. An excellent copy. (bs47). Soft Cover. Fine.
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£15.00
ERHARD RATDOLT: EIN MEISTERDRUCKER DES XV. UND XVI. JAHRHUNDERTS
by Diehl, Robert
Wien: Herbert Reichner Verlag, 1933. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. 24 pp. Limited Edition, number 91 of 200 copies. As issued in red cloth over flexible boards; spine title is a trifle faded; contents clean; printed in red and black; illustrated throughout with 32 facsimiles in addition to a folding frontispiece and three other folding facsimiles. Dust jacket with printed paper spine label is a trifle darkened on the spine else and very gently shelfworn; both book and...
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$99.00
The Mystery and Other Poems
by Hodgson, Ralph
London: Flying Fame, 1913. Soft-cover, sewn, contained in paper wraps. 23cm x 15cm. 20pp. Printed by A.T. Stevens for Flying Fame. Number 7 of 12 large paper copies. Printed on japan vellum, signed by the author and the artist. Hand-coloured woodcut illustrations and decorations by Claud Lovat Fraser, stitched and laid into original pictorial blue wrappers printed in gold. Slight wear to wraps, internally near fine.. Signed by Author and Artist. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Claud Lovat Fraser.
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£220.00
![[Broadside] SAN FRANCISCO: WHERE TYPE GLORIFIES LETTERS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/059/036/1523036059.0.b.jpg)
[Broadside] SAN FRANCISCO: WHERE TYPE GLORIFIES LETTERS
by Nash, John Henry
[San Francisco]: John Henry Nash, 1927. Broadside. Very Good+ binding. Bifolium. 15" x 10" (opening to 15" x 20"). [4] pp. (French fold). Title and woodcut on the front page; two pages of text with title running across the page spread; back page is blank. Light crinkling to the paper; rear cover is just a trifle soiled. A beautifully printed appreciatory note by Nash for having received first honors in the Graphic Arts Leaders of America Exhibition in both 1926 and 1927 for El Toison de Oro and for...
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$138.00
![[Broadside] THE GHOST THAT WALKED AMID THE CASES HAS HIED HIM TO MORE GHOSTLY PLACES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/060/036/1523036060.0.b.jpg)
[Broadside] THE GHOST THAT WALKED AMID THE CASES HAS HIED HIM TO MORE GHOSTLY PLACES
by Nash, John Henry
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1927. Unbound. Very Good+ binding. Bifolium. 15.5" x 11". Printing on the recto of the first leaf, only. Top edge trimmed; bottom and fore-edge are deckled. Printed in black with decorative opening initial in red and back. A very nice copy of a playful announcement for the summer closing of the print shop. The announcement does not indicate the year, but the date and day of the week align with 1927. It is tempting to correlate this to Nash's printing of "Dibdin's Ghost"...
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$83.00
SPIDER POEMS
by [Private Press] Hall, Walter
Madison, WI: Perishable Press, 1967. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. [34] pp. Limited edition, one of 250 copies. As issued, in brown cloth over board with title stamped in blind on the front cover; all pages are printed on the recto only, except the copyright page which is on the verso of the title, as is customary. Hamady's striking calligraphic mark on the colophon. The cloth is unevenly sunned on both the front and rear covers; boards are a trifle bowed; internally, this is a bright, clean...
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$138.00
BUG-EYED
by [Blocker, Mare]
Jerome, AZ: The M Kimberly Press, 1994. Original Wrappers. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. [24] pp., illus. Limited edition, number 36 of 100 copies, signed by Blocker. As issued, sewn into printed wrappers. Printed in black with a marching ant motif in brown across the bottom margin of each page. A playful book with humorous anecdotes to accompany the linocut illustrations of desert insects and reptiles. Blocker has been an educator and book artist for decades. A very fresh copy with little wear to speak...
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$83.00
Weathercock
by John Holloway
Sidcot: The Gruffyground Press, 2006. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. From an edition of 45 copies only and printed for Gruffyground at the Bieler Press, Marina del Ray, California. In fine order throughout. 12mo. 8pp.
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£45.00
THE ADVENTURES OF GIL BLAS, OF SANTILLANE . . . In Three Volumes (Complete)
by Lesage, Alain-Rene | translated by T. Smollett
London: printed by T. Miller for J. Mawman and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1819. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Octavo. Vol. I: xii, 388; II: viii, 375; III: viii, 398 pp. First Edition, Thus. 30 engravings (10 per volumes). Later binding in full calf in a 19th century simplification of the Harleian style with a large central lozenge stamped in blind within series of blind and gold tooled borders with ornamental corners; quite a handsome binding with morocco title and volume labels on an ornately...
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$154.00
THIS BOOK ANNOUNCES THE PUBLICATION IN FOUR FOLIO VOLUMES OF THE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI OF FLORENCE, COMMONLY CALLED THE DIVINE COMEDY. . . . (Prospectus)
by Dante, Alighieri
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1929. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Folio. [16] pp. Prospectus. As issued, in marbled cloth over thin boards; printed paper label on the spine. Quite a nice copy of this prospectus with sample page openings of each of the four volumes. This copy with publisher issued subscriber information and copy number on a slip pasted to the front pastedown. This announcement was issued in two forms, marbled cloth over thin boards and marbled paper over heavier boards. O'Day...
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$220.00
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[Vale Press] THE LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI (2 Volumes, Complete)
by [Private Press] Cellini, Benvenuto | translated by John Addington Symonds; decorations by Charles Ricketts
London: Vale Press | Hacon and Ricketts, 1900. Hard Cover. Good+ binding. Imperial octavo. clxxxvii, [1 (blank)]; clxxxviii, [2 (colophon)] pp. Limited edition, one of 300 copies on paper. Printed in black in the Vale font with two foliated borders around the opening page of each book. As issued, in holland cloth-backed boards with printed paper title labels on the spines and front boards; Volume II and much of Volume I are unopened. Bindings are soiled and the cloth at the spine is fraying at the...
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$440.00
Hortus Floridus The First Book: Contayninge a very lively and true Description of the Flowers of Springe and The Second Book: Contayning a very lively and true Description of the Flowers of the Summer, Autumn and Winter
by Crispin van de Pass
London: The Cresset Press Limited, 1929. 1/4 leather. Very Good. Two book set. 19.5 x 28.5 cm. Oblong. Unpaginated. Green leather spines and marble boards. With a preface by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde and calligraphy by Margaret Shipton. Text translated from the Latin by Spencer Savage. Limited to 500 copies on mould-made paper, book 1 being # 389 and book 2 being #481. Extensively illustrated with woodcuts. Rubbing to the outer hinges, rubbing to edges of the boards.
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$150.00
SPRING POETRY
by Various contributors | illustrated by Roland Stone
London: The Two Horses Press, 1960. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Quarto. Limited Edition, one of 50 copies; this copy is out of series. Signed by the printer, Armida Colt below the colophon Cloth backed wood veneer boards; light shelfwear only; front free endpaper is gently creased; just a bit of staining to the fore-edge of a few leaves--pretty minor.
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$50.00
Briggflatts
by Basil Bunting
London: Fulcrum Press, 1966. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. First trade edition of Bunting's autobiographical poem, in VG internal order. Covers a little toned and marked, moreso to rear. 8vo. 47pp
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£25.00
LETTERPROEF
by [Private Press] van der Wal, Eric
Eric van der Wal, 1980. Original Wrappers. Near Fine binding. Small octavo. [24] pp. Limited edition, number 9 of 45 copies. As issued, sewn into printed wrappers; printed from wood block type in black, red, beige, and tan; textblock unopened. Light wear to the front wrapper and some sunning near the spine. A charming book. Colophon in Dutch.
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$66.00
The Service
by Henry David Thoreau; F. B. Sanborn [editor]
Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902. Limited ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 25 x 15 cm. xi (3) 31pp. Bound in grey boards with paper title label to spine. Limited to 20 copies printed on Japan paper by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, this being copy number 20 and is signed by the publisher, C. E. Goodspeed. Some soiling ot the top of the boards. Some rubbing to the spine label. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Rubbing to corners of the boards. Believed to have been written around 1840,...
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$750.00
![[Cover Title] TYPES, A SPECIMEN SHOWING OF THREE TYPE FACES: Village No. 2, Goudy Bible, and Goudy Thirty](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/813/141/1533141813.0.b.jpg)
[Cover Title] TYPES, A SPECIMEN SHOWING OF THREE TYPE FACES: Village No. 2, Goudy Bible, and Goudy Thirty
by Goudy, Frederic W. | wood engravings by John De Pol
Philadelphia: Lanston Monotype Machine Company | printed by John Anderson: Pickering Press, 1956. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. Octavo. [8] pp. As issued, stapled into self wrappers. Covers are just a trifle soiled with some light toning; a solid copy; small book label of John Ruyle on the verso of of the front cover. A manuscript note on Hotel Algonquin letterhead addressed to John noting that the book was purchased at the Strand.
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$55.00
On Conciliation With the Colonies and Other Papers on the American Revolution
by Burke, Edmund
Lunenburg, Vermont: The Limited Editions Club at the Stinehour Press, 1975. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine slipcase. 26 x 18 cm. Royal octavo. Bound in illustrated cloth in brown slipcase. Limited to 2000 copies signed by the woodcut engraver Lynd Ward, this being copy 1538 LEC Monthly letter laid in. Light sun toning to edges of the slipcase.
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$75.00
![A TRUE ACCOUNT AND DECLARATION OF THE HORRID CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINATE KING CHARLES II AT THE RYE-HOUSE AS IT WAS PRDERED TO BE PUBLISHED BY HIS LATE MAJESTY MDCXCVI [COMPLETE IN THREE VOLUMES]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/351/067/277067351.0.b.jpg)
A TRUE ACCOUNT AND DECLARATION OF THE HORRID CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINATE KING CHARLES II AT THE RYE-HOUSE AS IT WAS PRDERED TO BE PUBLISHED BY HIS LATE MAJESTY MDCXCVI [COMPLETE IN THREE VOLUMES]
by Dr. Thomas Sprat. ; edited by Edmund Goldsmid
Edinburgh: Privately Printed. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1886. Paperback. Collectanea Adamantaea; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 60, 67, 48 pages; A TRUE ACCOUNT AND DECLARATION OF THE HORRID CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINATE KING CHARLES II AT THE RYE-HOUSE AS IT WAS PRDERED TO BE PUBLISHED BY HIS LATE MAJESTY MDCXCVI [complete in three volumes] This is the original printing produced in printed vellum dustwrappers. This is one of a series that was edited by Edmund Goldsmid, mostly from...
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$112.65
![[William Pickering. Diamond Classics] THE COMPLETE ANGLER; OR THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/826/138/1535138826.0.b.jpg)
[William Pickering. Diamond Classics] THE COMPLETE ANGLER; OR THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION
by Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton
London: William Pickering, 1825. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 48vo in 8s (4" x 2.25"). xvi, 314, [4 (index)] pp., engr title, frontis, illus. First Pickering edition. As issued in publisher's cloth with printed paper title label on the spine; woodcuts of fishes in the text; largely and unopened copy. Spine a trifled sunned; very light edgewear; contents are clean; a remarkably nice copy of this proper miniature edition of Walton's classic. Keynes p. 94; Checklist 1825.15; Welsh 7028.
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$165.00
Ten Fables with twenty one illustrations by Rachel Russell
by [RUSSELL, Rachel] STEVENSON, Robert Louis
Chelsea: Swan Press, 1928. Rachel Russell. This attractive edition of Stevenson's fables is a pleasure to behold: the type is beautifully set amidst Russell's striking woodcut vignettes and this edition is printed in a large paper format with generous margins. Limited edition of 250 copies, printed in Baskerville type on hand-made paper. Large slim octavo, quarter cloth and patterned papered boards. Aside from some gentle external browning, this is a fine copy.
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A$375.00
![[Keepsake] PRINTERS ARE EDUCATED IN THE BELIEF. . .](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/457/537/1525537457.0.b.jpg)
[Keepsake] PRINTERS ARE EDUCATED IN THE BELIEF. . .
by [Feathered Serpent Press] Franklin, Benjamin
Susan Acker at the Feathered Serpent Press, 1978. Broadside. Very Good binding. Bifolium. 5.5" x 7". Cover is blank. Opening is a woodcut of a type case with a quote from Franklin's Apology for Printers (1730): "Printers are educated in the Belief, that when men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick; and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter: Hence they cheerfully serve all contending Writers that pay...
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$39.00
SELECT POEMS DIVINE AND HUMANE
by (NONESUCH PRESS). BEEDOME, THOMAS
Bloomsbury [London]: Nonesuch Press, 1928. No. 142 of 1,250 copies. 201 x 120 mm. (7 7/8 x 4 3/4"). 4 p.l., 51, [1] (blank), iv pp., [2] leaves. Publisher's limp vellum, gilt design on upper cover, flat spine with gilt titling. In the original glassine jacket (lacking most of spine) and original cardboard slipcase, slightly worn. Dreyfus 54. A breath of browning just to untrimmed edges, otherwise A PRISTINE COPY, well protected for 90 years by its original jacket and slipcase. The verse of Thomas...
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$99.00
The Lisping Goddess: A Figurehead Fantasy
by Flint, Sir William Russell
Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1968. Hardback, quarter morocco and cloth. 113pp [4]. 2 colour and numerous monochrome illustrations. Signed by Flint on the copyright page. Number 173 of a total edition of 275 copies, numbers 26 to 240 were bound in quarter morocco and cloth by Mansell. Marbled end-papers. Spine a little age-discoloured and stained and a few small spots to rear boards. Contents clean and unmarked.. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good.
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£200.00
The Dancing Scorpion
by HETHERINGTON, Paul
Canberra: Molonglo, 1993. First Edition. Fine. Softcover in a paper slipcase : pp (1-10) 11-67 (68-72) : graphics by Romola Templeman : midnight blue card covers lettered in light blue : midnight blue paper slipcase with graphic of beached row boat in light blue : numbered and signed by the poet at the colophon : no 138 of 500. The Molonglo Press was established by poet Ian Templeman AM in 1992 and named for the river that feeds Lake Burley Griffin. The press produced two series of books, this being...
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A$30.00
