Search Results: Authors starting with K from Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Philadelphia: Falcon Press, 1959. No. 407 OF 600 COPIES. 558 x 430 mm. (22 x 17"). [18] leaves.Edited and designed by Louis R Glessmann and Eugene Feldman, and with an essay on Cuevas by José Gomez-Sicre. Publisher's original black paper boards, covers with multiple layers of printing with subtle areas of deeper black and text, front cover with light gray block titling, flat spine. With nine in-text lithographs and 10 full-page lithographs, most spreading onto opposite page. Text in English and Spanish. Flyleaf with blue ink signature of Cuevas dated 11/10/62. Sylvan Simone Gallery advertisement for Cuevas portfolios inserted at front. ◆Small scuff on front cover, repaired half-inch tear to rear cover, top of spine somewhat dented, a few creases on spine, edges slightly scuffed, but the contents pristine. This is an inspired combination of Franz Kafka's disturbing words and Mexican artist José Luis Cuevas' equally disturbing images. Cuevas (1934-2017) began illustrating books in his native… Read More

London: C. & J. Ollier, 1817. FIRST EDITION. 165 x 92 mm. (6 1/2 x 3 3/4"). 3 p.l., 121 pp. EXQUISITE CITRON MOROCCO, GILT AND INLAID, BY THE CLUB BINDERY (stamp-signed and dated 1908 on front turn-in), covers with inlaid frame and cornerpieces of chestnut brown morocco outlined with double rules and densely tooled in gilt, central panel with rectangular extension at center of each side containing a gilt fleuron, raised bands, spine compartments with inlaid panel of chestnut brown morocco tooled with pointillé and small tools, gilt titling, turn-ins with floral roll, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In a brown morocco-backed marbled paper chemise. Title page with the bust of a poet in laurel wreath. Front pastedown with armorial Cardiff Castle bookplate of the Marquess of Bute and morocco ex-libris of Beverly Chew. Tail margin of p. 109 with faint annotation in a 19th century hand. Hayward 231; Ashley III:9. ◆Leaves a little yellowed with age, isolated tiny rust spots or minor smudges but A… Read More

Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. FROM A COPY OF AN EDITION OF 425. 425 x 289 mm. (16 3/4 x 11 3/8"). pp. 439-42. Untrimmed, unsewn leaves that were never permanently bound, attractively matted. WITH WOODCUT INITIAL AND BORDERS DESIGNED BY WILLIAM MORRIS, THE WOOD-ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS BY EDWARD BURNE-JONES. ◆IN VERY FINE CONDITION, with only trivial imperfections. This beautiful publisher's work of art comes from the Kelmscott Chaucer, one of the great achievements in the history of printing. It comes from an incomplete copy that was apparently put to (gentle) use in the Press workshop, and that was purchased at auction having been laid into the publisher's boards but never having been bound (there are stab holes on some leaves, as here, but nothing was ever glued). William Morris had fallen in love with Chaucer's works when he and Burne-Jones were students at Oxford, and with the founding of the Kelmscott Press in 1891, Morris began plans, first announced to the public in 1892, for the… Read More

Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894-95. ONE OF 250 COPIES on paper (and six on vellum). 210 x 145 mm. (8 1/4 x 5 3/4"). Three volumes. Edited by F. S. Ellis. EXTRAORDINARILY HANDSOME DARK GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT (stamp-signed "G. P. Putnam's Sons" on front doublure, "The Knickerbocker Press" on rear doublure), covers with French fillet border and central panel diapered in elongated ogival compartments containing a stylized "S," raised bands, spine compartments framed by multiple rules with a quatrefoil at center, gilt titling, LIGHT BROWN MOROCCO DOUBLURES AND ENDLEAVES, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed and MOSTLY UNOPENED. In the (slightly worn) original(?) chamois-lined green cloth dust jackets and matching slipcase. Ornate wood-engraved double-page opening in volume I and initials and borders throughout by William Morris. Front pastedown with engraved bookplate (by Joseph Winfred Spenceley) of Veryl Preston. Printed in red and black in Golden type. Peterson A-29; Sparling 29; Rollison,… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall, [1910]. 197 x 150 mm. (7 3/4 x 5 3/4"). 4 p.l., 293 pp. ESPECIALLY APPEALING CRIMSON CRUSHED MOROCCO FOR TRUSLOVE & HANSON of Sloane Street (signed on front turn-in), covers with wide frame formed by two sets of double gilt rules flanking elegant blind-stamped leaf and berries ornaments that are joined by four parallel blind rules; raised bands, spine gilt in double-ruled compartments with blind-stamped circular cornerpieces, wide turn-ins with multiple gilt rules, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. With a frontispiece portrait of the author. ◆Slight offsetting to endpapers from leather turn-ins, but A VERY FINE COPY, the lustrous binding entirely unworn, and the text quite clean, fresh, and bright. This handsomely produced edition of the perennially popular devotional was the second work issued by the bibliophilic Verulam Club, and the elegance of its printing is matched here by the equally lovely binding, bearing the very uncommon stamped signature of Truslove &… Read More

New York: National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc, May, 1971. 305 x 232 mm. (12 x 9 1/4"). [16] leaves. Booklet and plates housed in the original cream colored portfolio. With 27 plates, loose as issued. ◆Portfolio a little browned along spine and with light shelf wear, covers of booklet with a couple negligible spots, otherwise entirely clean. A near fine copy. This is a selection of Kent's writings and artistic output, published as a memorial by the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. Kent served as its chairman for 14 years and was obviously deeply respected--the booklet also contains several tributes to Kent written by prominent members of the organization..

Two volumes. Translated into modern English by William Van Wyck. Publisher's original pale beige linen, gilt lettering to upper covers and smooth spines, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. WITH 80 WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS BY ROCKWELL KENT, comprised of 25 full-page in black and brown and 55 black & white head- and tailpieces (many repeated). Text in double columns, with modern English adjacent to the original Chaucerian English. Rockwellkentiana, p. 62. ◆Backstrips faintly darkened, very slight wrinkling at spine ends, but an extremely pleasing copy--fresh and bright internally, and the easily soiled bindings remarkably clean.Textually distinguished by a line-for-line modern English translation printed alongside the original Middle English, this is the grand edition of Chaucer's classic illustrated by the renowned American painter, printmaker, and writer Rockwell Kent. An artist with transcendentalist tendencies, Kent (1882-1971) spent much of his career living in, visiting, and producing images of… Read More

London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1896. FIRST EDITION. 190 x 122 mm. (7 1/2 x 4 3/4"). viii, 172 pp., with the half title. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt pictorial design on upper cover and on flat spine, all edges gilt. Vignette headpieces and tailpieces, frontispiece and 20 plates by A. S. Hartrick. Verso of front free endpaper with ink owner's inscription of Constance Reynolds dated 14 February 1898. Stewart 157. ◆Spine a bit cocked and faded, with a little fraying at tail edge, extremities lightly rubbed, a couple of small stains to upper cover, text slightly open at gutter at gathering D, occasional mild marginal foxing or faint fore-edge dampstain to plates (not affecting image), but a very good copy, clean and fresh with nothing approaching a fatal defect. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is most famous for his works portraying the lives of both natives and colonialists on the Indian subcontinent. An opponent of female suffrage and a staunch supporter of British imperialism, Kipling… Read More

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925-26. The "Mandalay Edition.. 213 x 146 mm. (8 3/8 x 5 3/4"). 26 volumes bound in 14.. Recent dark blue highly polished calf, covers with vaguely Art Deco gilt frame, raised bands decorated with stylized silver Greek key rolls, azure morocco labels, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Stewart, p. 575. ◆One leaf with two-inch closed tear into text with no loss, isolated mild foxing or other trivial imperfections, but IN VERY FINE CONDITION, the text clean and fresh throughout, and the bindings as new. The is a pleasing deluxe set of the writings of one of Britain's best-known writers. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is most famous for his works portraying the lives of both natives and colonialists on the Indian subcontinent. An opponent of female suffrage and a staunch supporter of British imperialism, Kipling nonetheless had great sympathy for the traditions of India as well as the literary ability and desire to present it as a land of beauty and enchantment. He… Read More

London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1868. 222 x 143 mm. (8 3/4 x 5 5/8"). Second volume lacking final blank. Two volumes.. Lavishly gilt contemporary black half calf by Bain (stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper), raised bands decorated with gilt roll, spines in six compartments, two of these with titling labels of red or black, the other four quite intricately gilt with a large central filigree ornament framed by scrolling leafy cornerpieces, marbled boards, edges, and endpapers. With four plates, each with four engraved portraits, for a total of 16 portraits. ◆Boards slightly chafed, a hint of wear (only) to joints and extremities, leaves faintly yellow at edges (no doubt as in all copies), but an excellent set, clean and fresh internally, and with solid bindings that make a most attractive appearance on the shelf. The son of a Windsor publisher who kept a bookshop, Charles Knight (1791-1873) was an author, journalist, and publisher of books and periodicals. He edited several "Half-Hours"… Read More

Frankfurt am Main: Ars Libri Verlag, Gotthard de Beauclair, 1962. No. 93 of 250 COPIES IN ENGLISH, SIGNED by the illustrator and designer. 494 x 320 mm. (19 3/8 x 12 5/8"). 40 pp., [2] leaves.Designed by Gotthard de Beauclair. FINE RED CRUSHED MOROCCO BY ROLAND MEUTER (signed "R. Meuter Ascona" on rear turn-in), upper cover with gilt lettering underlined with four gilt rules, smooth spine with gilt titling, leather hinges. In the original linen clamshell box backed with matching morocco. With 30 lithographs in the text by Gerhart Kraaz, and one additional lithograph in a portfolio. ◆Slight discoloration from a bookmark in the lower gutter of colophon opening, otherwise in perfect condition. Handsomely bound and beautifully designed and printed, this very large folio first publication from the Ars Libri Press (later called Ars Librorum) exemplifies the kind of high quality work for which leading German publisher and book designer Gotthard de Beauclair was known. Beauclair (1907-92) began his… Read More