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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First Edition. Head and tail slightly bruised, corners slightly bumped, small stain on front cover and tail, otherwise fine. Dust jacket near fine in a clear plastic cover. Price clipped. RAPHAEL,ELAINE. Illustrated by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese, 8vo., hardbound, (xii), 434, 2 pages, dust jacket in clear plastic. .

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1965. Near fine with a faint watermark stain at the foot of the spine, very good dust jacket with some creasing at the top and a small closed tear at the bottom edge, dust jacket in clear plastic cover. No price clipping. KREDEL,FRITZ. Second printing signed with a warm inscription by the author. 8vo., woodcuts by Fritz Kredel, quarter bound in green with cloth covered boards printed with nine figures devised by Kredel in green and black, (xiv), 347 pages, dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. First Edition. Head and tail, one corner very slightly bumped, clear plastic covered dust jacket slightly chipped at head and tail, otherwise fine. Price clipped. O'DONOHUE,THOMAS. Etchings by Thomas O'Donohue. 8vo., hardbound, (xii), 315, 2 pages, dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First Edition. Very good + with faint stain on spine, near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with faint uniform coloring and famed book store Kroch's & Brentano's price sticker on the back of the jacket. FINK,HERBERT L.. Signed, illustrated by Herbert L. Fink. 8vo., hardbound, (x), 323, 2 pages, dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First Edition. Near fine in fine dust jacket with a small closed tear on the back of the dust jacket, front bottom corner very slightly bumped, shading of blue picking up color of title across top of dust jacket and of pale ochre picking up the color of the author's name along the bottom of the dust jacket; both shadings faintly picked up in the pastedowns and free endpapers, dust jacket enclosed in a clear plastic cover.The shading appears to be deliberate. Price clipped.. BIAMONTE,DANIEL. Illustrations by Daniel Biamonte. 8vo., hardbound, dust jacket. (viii), 246, 2 pages. Ink signature on front flyleaf--woman's first name, might be in Gardner's hand.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First Edition. Fine with a fine dust jacket, slight bump on lower corners. Not price clipped. Edited and with an introduction by Nicholas Delbanco. 8vo., hardbound, (xviii), 422, 3 pages, dust jacket in transparent plastic cover.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. First Edition. Fine with slight fading of the pale green top staining, near fine dust jacket with a couple of slight stains, not price clipped, covered in clear plastic. Signed with warm inscription by the author. 8vo., hardbound, (xii), 354, 2 pages, dust jacket.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1958. A beautiful book appropriately designed and printed at the Grabhorn Press. A combination lively history of the Club and detailed bibliography of the first 100 books published by the Club narrated by David Magee, renowned California author and rare book dealer. Many sample pages from the books have been reproduced in full color for this edition. Quarter bound in rough linen with sides covered in a paper with an overall leaf pattern superimposed on a wood-grained background. xxviii, 80 pages. Prospectus laid in. Fine condition.

Illustrated by the author. Edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies. Printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress. Plates made and printed at The Anthoensen Press.

A lively text surrounded with many examples of ornamental types and their uses.

Well-organized catalogue of Nash's work, including an assessment of the various sources of information on his work. A few images reproduced in color, most in black and white. Fine in a fine slipcase. One of 750 copies of the standard edition.

Colorado Springs: Press at Colorado College, 1991. A book of dramatic black and white photographs documenting a 4,000 mile sea voyage from the port of Punta Arenas, Chile on the Strait of Magellan, to the Falkland Islands, then on to Antarctica and finishing the first stage at Tierra del Fuego. In the second stage the ship sailed up the western coast of Chile and ended the voyage at Valdivia, Chile. 28 black and white photographs of both ice formations and dramatic stopping points on the voyage by Stuart D. Klipper are tipped in to the pages, which bear appropriate texts from the ship's logs written by the skipper Warren Brown. Poems by the Irish ice-sailor John Gore Grimes complement the logs. The text was typeset by computer and printed letterpress using polymer plates. The fine silk-like fabric binding and slipcase were made by Greg Campbell at the Campbell-Logan Bindery. Signed by the photographer and by James Trissel, who designed the book. Number 39 of 50 copies. Near fine book in near fine… Read More

Kredel worked with Koch before coming to the United States. This was his first book for George Macy. The illustrations for the tales adorn all of the stories, and are vignettes drawn in ink with two or more colors hand applied to each one. The result is one of the most charming books the LEC ever produced! Book is in near fine condition, with very light rubbing along the corners and the head and tail. The spine is very lightly and evenly sunned. The slipcase is entire, but has had some tape repairs. Copy number 522 of 1500.
Signed on the colophon by the famed German book designer Rudolf Koch and also the artist Fritz Kredel.