Search Results: Titles starting with W from Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts

Oyster Bay (New York): Feral Books, 2001   ¶ ONLY EDITION of a charming anthology gathered together as a medium for "The remarkable collage images of John Digby[, which] are rich in associations that demonstrate man's ancient links with the sea. Using archival and library sources, he has found and utilized colorful antique illustrations from nineteenth century and earlier publications that show humans of diverse cultures in their many ocean-going pursuits. As a basis, he uses outlines of fish that contain within them and sprouting from them miniature ships, sloops, smaller craft, and shipwrecks." (Dudley, page [278].) The text consists of 101 poems and prose extracts arrayed in seventeen "keepsakes" or fascicles (parts) each illustrated by two or more "collages" or vignettes by Digby, together with three additional fascicles, viz: [18] Water voyages: A note on the keepsakes [by] Joan Digby, [19] The maritime collages of John Digby [by]… Read More

Los Angeles: The press of the pegacycle lady (Patrick Reagh), for William & Victoria Dailey, 1978 ¶ ONLY EDITION of the first book printed by Patrick Reagh, one of 365 numbered copies. This copy is numbered "233" and INSCRIBED ". . . in friendship, Bob Essick February 1992". ||| Collation: In 4s (304 x 227 mm untrimmed): 24 leaves, paginated [i-ii blank] [1-8] 9-32 [33-41] [42-46 blank]. Eight full-page facsimiles. Binding: Publisher's quarter art vellum, slate-blue boards. Condition: Near fine, the covers slightly sunned as usual.. First Edition.

London &c: The Pitcairn Press, 1982     ¶ ONLY EDITION, representing an extraordinary loan-exhibition of Bligh relics, artifacts, paintings, engravings, manuscripts, &c, assembled by Stephen Walters and held at Powderham near Exmouth; with an introduction by Lady Devon and a foreword by Rose Pepys, Bligh's great-great-great-great-granddaughter.  Out of print and already VERY SCARCE. Only one copy is recorded in any American library (in the Pacific Collection of the University of Hawaii, Manoa).   ||| Collation: 210 x 147 mm: Pp [1-4] 5-49 [50]. Thirty-three color halftone illustrations (one folding), fourteen black-and-white halftone illustrations.  Binding: Publisher's color-pictorial wrappers.  Conditon: Fine.  Reference: OCLC 29415187.   ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below.  Pour plus de détails, veuillez contacter Jay Dillon  Rare Books +… Read More

New York: Soho Press, 1990 ¶ Collation: 233 x 154 mm: Pp. [v], 296. Binding: Quarter blue cloth, dust-jacket. Reference: ISBN 0939149400. .

New York: Longman, 2003   ¶ ONLY EDITION, first printing; comprising some forty-one readings from Johannes Trithemius, Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, S. L. Clemens, Jorge Luis Borges, Malcolm X, Nicholson Baker, E. D. Hirsch, and others. This copy is SIGNED by the editors.   ||| Collation: 234 x 179 mm: Pp [i-ii] iii-xv [xvi blank], 1-544.  Illustration: Illustrations after Jean-Michel Lengrand (b. 1955) and others, facsimiles.  Binding: Pictorial wrappers.  Condition: As new. .