Search Results: Titles starting with K from Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1901. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto. 261 pp., frontis, First edition. In publisher's cloth. Generally a clean, bright copy with only minor shelf-rubbing and clean throughout but for one page with a small ink smudge.

London: Folio Society, 2008. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Folio, 17" x 12" x 3". [4 (blank)], iv, 559 pp. Full-sized facsimile. As issued in brick buckram with gilt stamping on the front board and spine with a design after William Morris; the laid paper is purpose made at the James Cropper Mill; top edge gilt and ribbon marker. Very light rubbing to the gilt on the spine and very lightly bumped at the tail; slipcase is unevenly sunned and also abraded on the front panel and bumped at the bottom of the opening. A stunning reproduction of this monument from the private press movement.

Louisville: Democratic Historical Society, 1935. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Royal Octavo. 689; 596; 592 pp. First edition. In publisher's embossed faux-leather bindings with relief image of the Kentucky capital building; bindings a bit darkened; some traces of white paint on the bottom edges of the boards; offsetting form the endpaper to a couple of the preliminary and terminal leaves of each volume else clean throughout; illustrated throughout by many portraits. A remarkably heavy set on coated paper so international or expedited shipping will be additional; please inquire for a quote.

London: Henry Sotheran & Co, 1881. Full Leather. near Very Good binding. Quarto. xiv, 304 pp., plates. First edition. In publisher issued full red levant goatskin with stamping in gold on the front cover and titled and tooled in gold on the spine. Binding is stamp-signed by Sotheran on the front turn-in. A handsome binding on a stately work illustrated by 32 plates (many chromolithographs). Front hinge is just starting to separate, but holding well. Half title is chipped around the edges and laid in; the frontispiece (with contemporary gift inscription on the recto) must have detached at some point and was reinserted with the illustration facing forward rather than than the title page. All 32 plates present.

Bolinas, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1976. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo. viii, [2], 57, [3] pp. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Whalen on the series title. Trade paperback. Very light rubbing to the covers; spine sunned; additional inscription with illegible signature below Whalen's; contents clean. A nice copy of this mid-career collection by Whalen, a significant figure of the Beat Generation and the San Francisco poetry scene. This copy is inscribed to poet, Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, and was acquired from Moore's estate.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. ix, [1], 290 pp., maps. First edition. In publisher's cloth with dust jacket. A bright copy in similarly sharp dust jacket; contents clean.

Philadelphia: Printed by Lydia R. Bailey for Benjamin and Thomas Kite, 1812. Original Wrappers. Fair binding. 12mo. [48] pp. Stitched into self wrappers. Heavily worn with loss to the bottom of the cover title including, unfortunately, the imprint which bears Bailey's name. This same loss affects the note to the reader on the verso of this page; the second leaf containing an anatomical illustrations is quite ragged with a couple of large closed tears but all text is present; the balance of the almanac is in more stabile if fair condition with dog-eared corners, early tidelines, an occasional closed tear, and one leaf that has an 1/8" tear in the center of a leaf with minor loss of text. This is an early almanac printed by Bailey, who took over her husband Robert Bailey's print shop after his death in 1808 and ran in until she retired and closed the shop in 1861. Karen Nipps in her biographical sketch writes, "Bailey was the master printer of a shop that at its peak was one of the largest in the… Read More

Philadelphia: Printed by Lydia R. Bailey for Benjamin and Thomas Kite, 1815. Original Wrappers. Fair binding. 12mo. [36] pp. illus. Stitched into self wrappers; title vignette and anatomical illustration. Final leaf is missing the bottom third of the leaf; otherwise generally worn with many folded corners; ragged page edges; early tidelines; some insect spotting, but complete except for this final leaf. This is an early almanac printed by Bailey, who took over her husband Robert Bailey's print shop after his death in 1808 and ran in until she retired and closed the shop in 1861. Karen Nipps in her biographical sketch writes, "Bailey was the master printer of a shop that at its peak was one of the largest in the city, employing more than forty workers. . . . [S]he transformed her husband's floundering business into one of the busiest printing establishments in Philadelphia. Although previous generations of printers' widows had continued their husbands' careers, they had done so only long enough to… Read More

New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1909. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. Octavo. vii, [1], 431, [1], [10 (ads)] pp.,frontis, plates. In original decorative cloth; all four plates are present as called for. Binding a trifle soiled, but a reasonable copy; contemporary owner inscription on the front free endpaper, dated 1909. Originally published anonymously in 1845, first editions of this work are extremely rare in commerce. Surprisingly, even early 20th reprints are anything but abundant.

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 them well, without regarding on which side they are of the Question in Dispute." As pertinent today as it was in the 18th century.

San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1927. Unbound. Very Good+ binding. Bifolium. 16.5" x 11". [4] pp. French fold. Tipped on reproduction of Henry Raschen's painting of Morris. The bifolium opening showcases a beautiful woodcut border reproduced from the trial pages for the unfinished Kelmscott Press Froissart. This borders O'Day's appreciation which is printed from a recutting of Morris Chaucer and Troy types. The description of the keepsake on the cover is printed in a recutting of Morris Golden type. A very striking keepsake with only minor wear; covers with trivial soiling.