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The Golden Reign: the Story of My Friendship with Lawrence of Arabia, with a New Introduction By Malcolm Brown, Newly Illustrated By Vintage Photographs
by Smith, Clare, Sydney
Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, 2004. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Fourth Edition, First Thus. Landscape. A fine new copy, a superb private press reissue with new material and illustrations of the book first published in 1940. This account tells in a moving manner of the friendship of T.E. Lawrence with the wife of the commander of the RAF station where he was in the late 1920s early 1930s. It shows a rather different aspect to the character of T.E. than the popular image. If you are interested in T.E. and have...
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$96.28
The First Religious Society of Carlisle Massachusetts Community Cookbook
1990. The First Religious Society of Carlisle Massachusetts Community Cookbook 1990 Private Press 8vo size plastic spiral comb bound softcover; 176 pages plus laid in errata. Recipes include the name of the contributor. There is no Recipe Index or Index of Contributors. Introduction by Eugene Widrick, Minister provides a brief overview of the First Religious Society from 1758. Contents include: Appetizers Soups & Salads Vegetables & Side Dishes Entrees Breads Coffee Hour Favorites...
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$25.00
Farewell Speech of King Edward the Eighth Broadcast from Windsor Castle the Tenth Day of December MCMXXXVI, With the Instrument of Abdication & A Note by William Saroyan
San Francisco: Ransohoffs [at the Grabhorn Press], 1938. Illustrated by a colored wood-engraving of the lion & the unicorn by Mallette Dean. [ii], [26] pp. Folio. Bound in half pigskin, with cloth board. Fine. Illustrated by a colored wood-engraving of the lion & the unicorn by Mallette Dean. [ii], [26] pp. Folio. Heller and Magee 299
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$300.00
A First List of books printed and published by The Banyan Press
by (Banyan Press), Claude Fredericks and Milton Saul
(New York): Banyan Press, 1948. First edition. Ephemera. Fine copy. 8 unnumbered leaves sewn into paper wrappers. 4 3/8 x 6 5/8 inches. One of 2000 copies printed letterpress accouncing the publication of new books by Stephen Spender, Gertrude Stein and others. Also, includes a later prospectus.
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$50.00
The Tale Of The Rowfant Wallclock; An Historical Narrative Poem
by Bleecker, Russell V., Cary R. Alburn and Carr Liggett
Cleveland: Rowfant Club, 1964. 1st. Paperback. Fine. Wrongfontia No. 2. One of 200 numbered copies, this out of series. Printed by Carroll Coleman at the Prairie Press. Wraps. Fine condition. Cheever 141.
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$36.00
The Beginning and the End, Collected Poems
by Kershaw, Alister
Francestown: Typographeum, 1983. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated by Anthony Palliser and Alannah Coleman. 8vo. Burgundy cloth. Printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in). 96 pp. Illus. 100 numbered copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. Illustrated by Anthony Palliser and Alannah Coleman. Alister Kershaw was already regarded, at seventeen, as one of Australia's most interesting poets. However his...
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$65.00
A List of Books, Booklets, Hand Coloured Prints and Ballad Sheets
by Cuala Press
Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1979. First edition. Ephemera. Fine copy. 4 leaves stapled into wrappers. About 8 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches. Laid in a printed colder with a hand-colored pressmark on the front. One price corrected in ink. The pressmark on the folder, "Lone tree in Irish landscape", was drawn by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and first used in 1925. The pressmark on the booklet, "Lady Emer and tree", was engraved by Elinor Monsell and first used in 1907.
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$45.00
1830 On The Ambitious Projects Of Russia In Regard To North West America, With Particular Reference to New Albion & New California
by An Englishman
Kentfield: Allen Press / Book Club of California, 1955. Hardcover. Near fine. Introduction by George Hammond.One of 350 copies printed by Lewis and Dorothy Allen at the Allen Press. Quarter white parchment-paper and gray paper boards with the title printed in English along the spine and in Russian on the front and back covers, Fabriano endpapers. Uncut. Printed in red and black on laid paper. Text in English with the title printed in Russian below the page headings. Spine is a bit sunned, otherwise...
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$180.00
Red Bird. Love Poems by Christopher Logue based on the Spanish of Pablo Neruda.
by Logue, Christopher. Neruda, Pablo, Illustrated by Christie, John
Surrey: Circle Press, 1979. Hardcover. Fine. Christie, John. Illustrated by John Christie. One of 300 numbered copies, signed by the author and the artist. Folio-sized. 11 folded sheets (i.e. 22 fol.) un-sewn in a wrapper, all contained in a cloth chemise with a lettered spine. Slipcase. The work is illustrated with ten color screenprints, each initialed by Christie, and a color print entitled "Notes 1", one of 300 numbered and signed by the artist. Minor wear to the slipcase cloth, otherwise fine...
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$612.00
In A Boat On The River. (broadside)
by Hampl, Patricia
[Minneapolis]: Hungry Mind / Midnight Paper Sales, 2000. Fine condition.. One of 90 signed and numbered copies. Printed at Midnight Paper Sales by Gaylord Shanilec for the occasion of the last Hungry Midnight. Sheet measures 15 by 10.5 inches. Hungry Midnight number 24.
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$72.00
Anthropological (broadside)
by Bell, Marvin
Amherst: Slow Loris Press, 1971. Fine Condition. A poem of 18 lines, printed on green paper. One of 300 copies, of which 25 are numbered and signed. This copy is unsigned. Sheet measures 8.5 x 11 inches (21.5 x 27.9 cm).
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$54.00
God in All; A Gallery of Discovery.
by Hochalter, Cara B
Mancelona: Deep Woods Press, 2000. 1st. Paperback. fine. Written and illustrated by Cara B. Hochalter. "The inspired work of Cara B. Hochalter who is responsible for the words and linoleum cuts within." Letterpress printed individual sheets wrapped in a Laroque Mouchette portfolio with Fabriano Roma title pieces. One of 200 portfolios. 10 original linolcum cuts.
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$216.00
From "the Nuclear Age."
by O'Brien, Tim
Minneapolis: Minneapolis, Toothpaste Press, [1980]., 1980. 1st . Fine. A one page broadside printed at the Toothpaste Press for the fourth Midwestern Writer's Festival and Book Fair. One of 150 numbered copies signed by O'Brien. Fine condition.
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$144.00
Privilege.
by Oness, C. Mikal
Cut Away Books, [2002].. Hardcover. Fine condition. First edition limited to 100 copies illustrated by Ladislav Hanka. Signed by the author and the artist. Bound in full dark blue cloth with a decorated paper label on the front, 5 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Fine.
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$108.00
Bibliophiles at Oxford, A celebration of fifty years of the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles, 1951-2000 with descriptive notes on the term cards
by Nash, Paul W. and Justin Howes
Witney: Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. Small 8vo. Cloth. Pp. 224. Illustrated: including a fold-out frontispiece in color. Index of Printer and Designers. Index of Talks and Visits. Index of Officers. Foreword" by Paul W. Nash. "Beginnings" by Bent Juel-Jensen. "Memories of Meetings" by Giles G. Barber. "Bibliophilic Excursions" by Paul Morgan. 300 copies. Dust-jacket printed letterpress by Paul W. Nash. The...
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$65.00
The Coronary Club; A Cheerful Tale
by West, Herbert Faulkner
Hanover: Westholm, 1962. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. One of 500 copies printed by Carroll Coleman at the Prairie Press and bound in quarter cloth with printed paper boards. Dust jacket. Fine condition. Cheever 132.
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$43.00
The Flyin' Machine
by Benkovitz, Miriam J
[Saratoga Springs]: Privately Printed, N.d.. First edition. Wrappers. Fine copy. 4 leaves stapled. 9 x 6 inches. Inscribed by the author.
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$10.00
Wein Von Den Grabern (Signed Limited Edition)
by Wieland; Shmied H.A.P. Grieshaber (illustrations)
Wulfrath: Heiderhoff and Marschner, 1962. Quarto. This edition limited to 165 copies of which this No. 90. SIGNED by both the poet and artist on the colophon page. Near Fine and unread in perfect-bound stiff laid paper wrappers. Minor toning to the spine and panel edges with light soil and a few tiny nicks at the spine ends. Illustrated with four woodblock prints by H.A.P. Grieshaber. Text in German.
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$45.00
The Writing of Rebecca West
by Mosley, Diana
Francestown: Typographeum, 1986. Limited private press edition. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine copy. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. 48. With a new Afterword. 150 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. From 1953 to 1959 Diana Mosley edited a magazine called "The European" advocating the adherence of England to Europe. It included a series of articles, by various authors, on literature and politics. One of these articles, by Diana Mosley herself, was on the...
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$65.00
A High Wind in Jamaica
by Hughes, Richard
London: Folio Society, 2005. First Folio Society Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 23 x 16 cm. Octavo. 178pp. Bound in illustrated cloth, in slipcase. With illustrations by Mary Kuper. Introduction by Michael Holroyd. Previous owner's embossed stamp on title page.
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$50.00
An Introduction to Léon Daudet, With Selections From His Memoirs
by Daudet, Léon and Alister Kershaw
Francestown: Typographeum, 1988. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. New. Frontispiece portrait by Couneus. 8vo. Blue cloth. Printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in). 76 pp. 210 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. Frontispiece portrait by Couneus. Léon Daudet (1867-1942) was a polymath writer whose work was respected even by those who disliked his right-wing views. This book contains a number of his provocative essays.
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$60.00
Baking the Rounds: Recipes from the Dome
Baltimore, MD, 2001. A Collection of Recipes by the Medical Auxiliary of the Johns Hopkins Hospital 8vo size pictorial treated clothbound hardcover with plastic comb binding; 80 pages followed by an Recipe Index, a Recipe Pocket into which you can tuck additional recipes and some publisher supplied content. Recipes include the name of the contributor, but there is no Index of Contributors. Full-page, full-color section dividers with publisher supplied content (such as Helpful Hints) on the reverso....
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$21.00
Empty Rooms
by Kershaw, Alister
Francestown: Typographeum, 1990. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Olive cloth with printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in). 32 unnumbered pages. 75 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. This volume includes 16 poems written many years earlier but here published for the first time.
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$42.00
Sonnets and Verses
by Enid Clay
Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. 1st Edition. Very Good. Eric Gill. With eight engravings by Eric Gill. In original blue boards with cloth spine. Paper label solidly attached to spine with title and author. General wear to boards and some ageing and soiling to cloth spine. Complete with multiple endpapers at front and back. This book is number 218 of 450. No signatures. Sticker from old (maybe original) bookstore it was sold at. Interior is clean and clear with rough...
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$367.50
