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Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1931. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good. Corners worn. Bookseller's ad pasted to end-paper.. Decorated with engravings on wood by Robert Gibbings. Small 4to. Buckram-backed patterned boards with leather label. Pp. 318. Illustrated. Number 334 of 500 copies. Translated by E. Powys Mathers.
A Parallel: in the Manner of Plutarch: Between a Most Celebrated Man of Florence; an One, Scarce Ever Heard of, in England by Spence, Reverend Mr - 1758
by Spence, Reverend Mr
A Parallel: in the Manner of Plutarch: Between a Most Celebrated Man of Florence; an One, Scarce Ever Heard of, in England
by Spence, Reverend Mr
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[Twickenham]: Strawberry Hill Press. 1758. First Edition. Hardcover. Later full calf with gilt titles on spine and blind tooled decoration to boards, upper joint split along its bottom quarter, aeg, bookplate on front pastedown and ffep, port. frontis of Spence and title page with engraved vignette portrait of Antonio Magliabechi (the celebrated man of Florence), occasional light foxing. , 8vo 8" - 9" tall, 104 pp .
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Salambo
by Flaubert, Gustave
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Francestown, New Hampshire, United States
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S.W.A.M.P.
by Gorham, AB.
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Hoover, Alabama, United States
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Tallahassee, Florida:: AB Gorham,, 2015.. Edition of 25 . 3.625 x 6.125"; 18 pages, four of which are fold outs. One sheet colophon laid in. Handset in metal type (Tower). Letterpress printed on Somerset text paper. Printed pastedowns and free end pages. Paper-covered boards (paper by Cave Paper). Housed in a two-flap enclosure with paper wraparound closure. Bound at Small Craft Advisory Press in Tallahassee, Florida. Text printed at Penland School of Crafts in summer of 2014. Completed at Small Craft Advisory Press using a Vandercook 15-21, Vandercook Universal 1, and Epilog Laser Engraver. Signed and numbered by the artist. AB Gorham, 2016 CBAA Juried Members' Exhibition, catalog: "The text for this book was printed at Penland School of Crafts in summer 2014 while assisting Steve Miller's letterpress class. The book was an investigation into associative printing, in which each new image was created from some element (or combined elements) of the previous images. A final design…
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Cougar Hunter. A Memoir of Roderick Haig-Brown, signed limited edition
by Al Purdy ( SIGNED )
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- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780969646204 / 0969646208
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Vancouver: Phoenix Press, 1992. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed By Author & Designer.. First Edition, Limited, Numbered, Signed. Fine, unblemished copy, in original mylar jacket. Hand coloured, initialled titlepage plate by Jim Rimmer. Signed by Purdy and book designer Alex Widen. #76 of 200 copies planned, though purportedly only half were completed. A pristine copy..
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Epitaph, A Poem. [Signed ltd edition]
by Dreiser, Theodore, and Robert Fawcett
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New York, New York, United States
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New York: Heron Press, 1929. Signed Limited Edition. Leather_bound. Near Fine. 59 unnumbered pages, frontispiece, illustrations. 31 cm. 4to. Hardcover. Full leather bound. Ttitle, author, and decoration in steel and gilt onlay to front cover. Book Condition: Near Fine with wear to the covers mostly along the spine, a very sound binding and pristine interior. This is copy number 200 of a total edition of 1100. Only the first 200 copies are printed on hand made Van Gelder paper and bound in full leather. Signed by the author and the illustrator; Theodore Dreiser and Robert Fawcett. A sharp copy of a lovely production. Theodore Dreiser was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature in 1930; though as it turned out, that was the year that the prize was awarded to Sinclair Lewis.
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Looking Ahead
by John Hollander
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Enfield, New Hampshire, United States
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Fine condition. Grey cloth folio with paper title label on cover. Limited to 126 signed copies.This is letter "P", signed by the author.
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Cantico delle creature
by Francis (St. of Assissi)
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Francestown, New Hampshire, United States
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Pawlet (Vermont): Claude Fredericks, 1957. First edition. Wrappers. Wrappers rather faded and rubbed. Two leaves laid into wrappers with a printed label on the front. 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. Text of poem in Italian on one leaf; translation into English on second. The initial letter on the Italian leaf has been hand applied. An exceptional item, and despite its less than ideal condition--it is very fragile--this is a most unusual keepsake from an interesting private press
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A Burlap Bloom.
by [Down Home Girl Studio] Eder J. Williams McKnight.
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Hoover, Alabama, United States
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama:: Down Home Girl Studio,, 2013.. Edition of 75. 8.75 x 8.25"; 24 pages. Letterpress printed on handmade paper of cotton and abaca fibers. Text and images were printed using photopolymer plates and reduction linoleum blocks. Fonts are Optima Bold and Gill Sans Light. Handbound in quarter-cloth with cover paper of handmade walnut dyed flax. 3.5 x 3.5" illustration inset of quilted papers, which were designed with the artist's mother. Suzanne Sawyer: "The legacy of quilting is ubiquitous in American history, so much so that it has lost some of the meaning it once held. But its history is rich and perhaps best typified in African American culture such as with the quilters of Gee's Bend. The quilters, descendants of former slaves living in rural Alabama, developed a unique, improvisational style of quilting using just remnants of clothing. Their quilts have become world renowned for their simple geometric patterns and have been compared to the work of modern…
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Private Press Books
by Private Libraries Association
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- 9780900006265 / 0900006263
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Francestown, New Hampshire, United States
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Pinner: Private Libraries Association. First edition. Paperback. Fine copy. A collection of 19 issues, including the years 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981-1984, 1985-1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991. 8vo. Wrappers. 22.2 x 14 cm. Edited by Roderick Cave, David Chambers, Peter Hoy et. al.
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But Move Not.
by [Down Home Girl Studio] Suzanne Sawyer.
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Hoover, Alabama, United States
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama:: Down Home Girl Studio,, 2012.. Edition of 31. 6 x 4"; 14 pages including pastedowns. Letterpress printed using photopolymer plates on Rives BFK papers. Bound in quarter cloth with letterpress printed handmade paper boards. Drum leaf binding. Signed and numbered on the colophon by Sawyer. Colophon: "But Move Not is a collaboration among friends - a poet and an artist. It was inspired by the red mangroves off the coast of Florida, which serve as the nursery for countless forms of flora and fauna. "The poem was written by Eder J. Williams in 2011. The book was designed, letterpress printed, and handbound by Suzanne Sawyer of Down Home Girl Studio in 2012." Suzanne Sawyer: "'But Move Not' is the first of two collaborations with Eder J. Williams McKnight. ... It was inspired by a canoe trip ... to the mangroves of 10,000 Islands off the coast of Florida. The images are created from drawings based on photographs taken during the trip.…
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The Hooded Fisherman
by George Mackay Brown
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St Margarets Hope , Orkney, United Kingdom
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Handpress printed by Frances Cleverdon at the Trumpet Press in a limited edition of 205 copies. Illustrations by Brown's fellow Orcadian, Charles Shearer. Dove grey card covers with white title and author label to front, short story of eighteen pages. A nice example of fine press printing of a rare title.
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Printing Digital Type on the Hand-Operated Flatbed Cylinder Press
by Lange, Gerald
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- 9781633980709 / 1633980707
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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Chatwin Books, 2018. Trade Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" New!
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PRIVATE PRESS.|THE
by Cave, Roderick
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New Castle, Delaware, United States
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New York: Watson - Guptill, 1971. cloth, dust jacket. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 376 pages. First U.S. edition. Jacket lightly soiled, else a fine copy. Traces the development of the private press over the last 500 years. 83 figures in the text and 72 plates. Better printed than the second edition and containing some material not present in the first edition and thus still desirable.
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The Eye of Heaven: a Narrative Poem
by Efird, Susan
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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Abattoir Editions, 1982. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. One of 150 numbered copies printed by Harry Duncan; this being #84. 9.25 X 12 inches. 40pp., bound in tan wraps with mounted cream printed paper label wrapping around the spine and front cover. Letterpress printed on Japanese Etching paper, from Poliphilus, Blado, and Fournier Ornate types; with 2 woodblock prints by Michael McCurdy. Faint dampstaining to the text margins of the fore-edge, else Very Good.
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Nomi no Kai
by Minegishi, Shinsuke
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, 2006. Limited Edition. Wraps. Fine. [4]pp. Black & white frontispiece by Shinuske Minegishi, reproduced from the original engraving. One of 75 copies (from an edition of 100, signed and numbered by Minegishi). Designed by Rollin Milroy and printed by David Clifford at his Black Stone Press. Sewn into a Canson paper wraps. A Fine copy. // A previously unpublished essay by the artist, paying homage to a group of six Japanese wood engravers 'who were responsible for reviving the art form in that country'. Published to accompany the artist's first solo exhibition in the United States, at Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, November 2006.
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The First Ten: A Penmaen Press Bibliography
by Peich, Michael; Michael McCurdy
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Sebastopol, California, United States
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Lincoln: Penmaen Press, 1978. First Edition, one of 500 copies printed. This copy SIGNED by McCurdy twice, at Title and Afterword. Woodcuts by McCurdy. Bibliographically describes all Penmaen Press books, broadsides and ephemera 1968-1978, with additional items. Includes 16 pp. of photographs of contributors: Peich, McCurdy, Lynd Ward, Allen Ginsberg and others. A demonstrable work of love. 9½ x 6½.. Near Fine original blue cloth-covered boards blind stamped with gilt lettering to spine in like dust jacket.
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Germinal
by Emile Zola
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Longmont, Colorado, United States
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The Easton Press, The Collector's Library of Famous Editions, 1992 (1942). First Thus; Collector's Edition. Translated by Havelock Ellis. Illustrated by Berthold Mahn. Hardcover. Issued without dust jacket. Used - Fine, "Like New" condition. Appears unopened / unread. Binding and text block are tight, bright, and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Bound in full (genuine) leather with hubbed spine. All edges gilt. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints, silk moire fabric end leaves, and permanent satin ribbon marker. Notes From The Archives sheet laid in. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books. A gorgeous copy.
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The Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes (Signed, Limited Edition in Slipcase)
by Faith Jaques; Zena Sutherland
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- 9781852132736 / 1852132736
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Arlington, Virginia, United States
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London: Orchard Books, September 1990. Hardcover. Signed Limited Edition. Quarter-bound in dark grey cloth with dove grey sides. Silver titles and top edge. Silver silk ribbon marker. Illustrated endpapers. Dove grey slipcase. Presentation copy of a Limited Edition of 250 copies. Flat-signed by illustrator Faith Jaques, the noted children's book author, illustrator, artist, and advocate. Fine book in a Near Fine slipcase. Not from a library. 88 pages. Profusely illustrated.
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Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands, 1800-1804: With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.-A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France
by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur; Nicolas-Martin Petit; Jacqueline Bonnemains (ed); Elliott Forsyth (ed); Bernard Smith (ed)
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- 9780195547870 / 019554787X
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Arlington, Virginia, United States
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Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and…
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Catalogue of the Private Collection of Paintings Belonging to Peter A. Schemm Philadelphia, PA
by [SCHEMM, Peter A.]
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Rocky River, Ohio, United States
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Philadelphia: [privately printed] Beck Engraving Company, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Small quarto, unpaginated. Hundreds of black and white halftone plates, depicting the various paintings. On the opposite leaves, printed in red ink, are the painting titles and artists. A front blank contains a tipped-in photograph of Schemm, surrounded by his bounty of paintings. A crisp, clean copy in the publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt. Very minor dust-soiling to the cloth, and an owner's name on the front free endpaper, else a rather crisp, sharp example; near fine. A very nice production.
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A Song About Major Eatherly
by Wain, John
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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Iowa City, Iowa: Qara Press, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine -. Baasch, Norman. [16] p.: 2 linoleum cuts; 27 cm. Original light blue paper over boards with white paper label on front board, printed in black. "Printed by Gerald M. Stevenson, Jr. on Curtis Rag paper with linoleum cuts by Norman Baasch. Of an edition limited to 190 cpies, this is copy 25." -- colophon. This poem first appeared in The Listener on Aug. 6, 1959. Major Claude R. Eatherly was one of the pilots involved in the atomic bombing of Japan in World War II. In Near Fine- Condition: cover lightly soiled; pages are clean and crisp.
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