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The Beginning and the End, Collected Poems
by Kershaw, Alister
Francestown: Typographeum, 1983. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated by Anthony Palliser and Alannah Coleman. 8vo. Burgundy cloth. Printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in). 96 pp. Illus. 100 numbered copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. Illustrated by Anthony Palliser and Alannah Coleman. Alister Kershaw was already regarded, at seventeen, as one of Australia's most interesting poets. However his...
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SGD 89.53
Bibliophiles at Oxford, A celebration of fifty years of the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles, 1951-2000 with descriptive notes on the term cards
by Nash, Paul W. and Justin Howes
Witney: Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. Small 8vo. Cloth. Pp. 224. Illustrated: including a fold-out frontispiece in color. Index of Printer and Designers. Index of Talks and Visits. Index of Officers. Foreword" by Paul W. Nash. "Beginnings" by Bent Juel-Jensen. "Memories of Meetings" by Giles G. Barber. "Bibliophilic Excursions" by Paul Morgan. 300 copies. Dust-jacket printed letterpress by Paul W. Nash. The...
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SGD 89.53
The Flyin' Machine
by Benkovitz, Miriam J
[Saratoga Springs]: Privately Printed, N.d.. First edition. Wrappers. Fine copy. 4 leaves stapled. 9 x 6 inches. Inscribed by the author.
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SGD 13.77
Zuidwal/South Wall
by Waarsenburg, Hans van de
Banholt: In de Bonnefant, 1993. Limited private press edition. First edition. Paperback. Fine copy. 6 unnumbered leaves sewn into wrappers, cut flus. 20 cm square. 250 copies printed letterpress. Inscribed and signed by the principals. Illustrated by Jan van den Berg.
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SGD 61.98
The Tale Of The Rowfant Wallclock; An Historical Narrative Poem
by Bleecker, Russell V., Cary R. Alburn and Carr Liggett
Cleveland: Rowfant Club, 1964. 1st. Paperback. Fine. Wrongfontia No. 2. One of 200 numbered copies, this out of series. Printed by Carroll Coleman at the Prairie Press. Wraps. Fine condition. Cheever 141.
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SGD 49.59
An Introduction to Léon Daudet, With Selections From His Memoirs
by Daudet, Léon and Alister Kershaw
Francestown: Typographeum, 1988. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. New. Frontispiece portrait by Couneus. 8vo. Blue cloth. Printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in). 76 pp. 210 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. Frontispiece portrait by Couneus. Léon Daudet (1867-1942) was a polymath writer whose work was respected even by those who disliked his right-wing views. This book contains a number of his provocative essays.
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SGD 82.64
Empty Rooms
by Kershaw, Alister
Francestown: Typographeum, 1990. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Olive cloth with printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in). 32 unnumbered pages. 75 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. This volume includes 16 poems written many years earlier but here published for the first time.
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SGD 57.85
1830 On The Ambitious Projects Of Russia In Regard To North West America, With Particular Reference to New Albion & New California
by An Englishman
Kentfield: Allen Press / Book Club of California, 1955. Hardcover. Near fine. Introduction by George Hammond.One of 350 copies printed by Lewis and Dorothy Allen at the Allen Press. Quarter white parchment-paper and gray paper boards with the title printed in English along the spine and in Russian on the front and back covers, Fabriano endpapers. Uncut. Printed in red and black on laid paper. Text in English with the title printed in Russian below the page headings. Spine is a bit sunned, otherwise...
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SGD 247.93
Red Bird. Love Poems by Christopher Logue based on the Spanish of Pablo Neruda.
by Logue, Christopher. Neruda, Pablo, Illustrated by Christie, John
Surrey: Circle Press, 1979. Hardcover. Fine. Christie, John. Illustrated by John Christie. One of 300 numbered copies, signed by the author and the artist. Folio-sized. 11 folded sheets (i.e. 22 fol.) un-sewn in a wrapper, all contained in a cloth chemise with a lettered spine. Slipcase. The work is illustrated with ten color screenprints, each initialed by Christie, and a color print entitled "Notes 1", one of 300 numbered and signed by the artist. Minor wear to the slipcase cloth, otherwise fine...
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SGD 842.97
In A Boat On The River. (broadside)
by Hampl, Patricia
[Minneapolis]: Hungry Mind / Midnight Paper Sales, 2000. Fine condition.. One of 90 signed and numbered copies. Printed at Midnight Paper Sales by Gaylord Shanilec for the occasion of the last Hungry Midnight. Sheet measures 15 by 10.5 inches. Hungry Midnight number 24.
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SGD 99.17
Anthropological (broadside)
by Bell, Marvin
Amherst: Slow Loris Press, 1971. Fine Condition. A poem of 18 lines, printed on green paper. One of 300 copies, of which 25 are numbered and signed. This copy is unsigned. Sheet measures 8.5 x 11 inches (21.5 x 27.9 cm).
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SGD 74.38
God in All; A Gallery of Discovery.
by Hochalter, Cara B
Mancelona: Deep Woods Press, 2000. 1st. Paperback. fine. Written and illustrated by Cara B. Hochalter. "The inspired work of Cara B. Hochalter who is responsible for the words and linoleum cuts within." Letterpress printed individual sheets wrapped in a Laroque Mouchette portfolio with Fabriano Roma title pieces. One of 200 portfolios. 10 original linolcum cuts.
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SGD 297.52
From "the Nuclear Age."
by O'Brien, Tim
Minneapolis: Minneapolis, Toothpaste Press, [1980]., 1980. 1st . Fine. A one page broadside printed at the Toothpaste Press for the fourth Midwestern Writer's Festival and Book Fair. One of 150 numbered copies signed by O'Brien. Fine condition.
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SGD 198.35
Privilege.
by Oness, C. Mikal
Cut Away Books, [2002].. Hardcover. Fine condition. First edition limited to 100 copies illustrated by Ladislav Hanka. Signed by the author and the artist. Bound in full dark blue cloth with a decorated paper label on the front, 5 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Fine.
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SGD 148.76
The Writing of Rebecca West
by Mosley, Diana
Francestown: Typographeum, 1986. Limited private press edition. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine copy. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. 48. With a new Afterword. 150 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. From 1953 to 1959 Diana Mosley edited a magazine called "The European" advocating the adherence of England to Europe. It included a series of articles, by various authors, on literature and politics. One of these articles, by Diana Mosley herself, was on the...
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SGD 89.53
The Coronary Club; A Cheerful Tale
by West, Herbert Faulkner
Hanover: Westholm, 1962. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. One of 500 copies printed by Carroll Coleman at the Prairie Press and bound in quarter cloth with printed paper boards. Dust jacket. Fine condition. Cheever 132.
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SGD 59.23
A List of Books, Booklets, Hand Coloured Prints and Ballad Sheets
by Cuala Press
Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1979. First edition. Ephemera. Fine copy. 4 leaves stapled into wrappers. About 8 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches. Laid in a printed colder with a hand-colored pressmark on the front. One price corrected in ink. The pressmark on the folder, "Lone tree in Irish landscape", was drawn by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and first used in 1925. The pressmark on the booklet, "Lady Emer and tree", was engraved by Elinor Monsell and first used in 1907.
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SGD 61.98
![Champ Fleury. [Wherin is contained the Art & Science of the proper & true Proprtions of Attic Letters, otherwise called Antique Letters, proprtioned according to the human Body and Face.] Translated Into English and Annotated by George Ives](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/319/262/1276262319.0.b.jpg)
Champ Fleury. [Wherin is contained the Art & Science of the proper & true Proprtions of Attic Letters, otherwise called Antique Letters, proprtioned according to the human Body and Face.] Translated Into English and Annotated by George Ives
by (Rogers, Bruce) Tory, Geofroy
New York: The Grolier Club, 1927. One of 390 copies on antique wove rag paper. Illustrated. xxiii, [i], 208, [1] pp. Printed at the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge, Mount Vernon, New York October, 1927. 1 vols. Small Folio (31 x 21 cm). Original vellum-backed decorated boards. Yale bookplate. In custom cloth slipcase. One of 390 copies on antique wove rag paper. Illustrated. xxiii, [i], 208, [1] pp. Printed at the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge, Mount Vernon, New York October, 1927. 1...
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SGD 964.18
A First List of books printed and published by The Banyan Press
by (Banyan Press), Claude Fredericks and Milton Saul
(New York): Banyan Press, 1948. First edition. Ephemera. Fine copy. 8 unnumbered leaves sewn into paper wrappers. 4 3/8 x 6 5/8 inches. One of 2000 copies printed letterpress accouncing the publication of new books by Stephen Spender, Gertrude Stein and others. Also, includes a later prospectus.
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SGD 68.87
Eeldrop & Appleplex
by Eliot, T.S
Turnbridge Wells, Kent: The Foundling Press, 1992. First Separate Edition, one of 500 copies. 1 vols. 8vo. Grey wrappers printed in black and olive-green. Fine. First Separate Edition, one of 500 copies. 1 vols. 8vo. An early Eliot sketch which first appeared in The Little Review, May and September 1917.
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SGD 82.64
Hermes & Magdalen 43, Poems and Etchings
by Moat, John
Francestown: Typographeum, 2004. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. 92. Illustrated: frontispiece and 19 plates tipped in. Hand-set and printed letterpress by R. T. Risk. The main edition was of 150 copies hand-bound by the printer, but there was an additional 13 copies, of which this is number 3 of 10 signed by the poet, with one original etching, specially bound and preserved in a slip-case. The slip-case is about 15 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches.
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SGD 2,548.19
The Golden Reign: the Story of My Friendship with Lawrence of Arabia, with a New Introduction By Malcolm Brown, Newly Illustrated By Vintage Photographs
by Smith, Clare, Sydney
Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, 2004. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Fourth Edition, First Thus. Landscape. A fine new copy, a superb private press reissue with new material and illustrations of the book first published in 1940. This account tells in a moving manner of the friendship of T.E. Lawrence with the wife of the commander of the RAF station where he was in the late 1920s early 1930s. It shows a rather different aspect to the character of T.E. than the popular image. If you are interested in T.E. and have...
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SGD 130.98
A Life of Merlin
by Gohorry, John
San Francisco: Bullnettle Press, 1998. Limited private press edition. First edition. Ephemera. Fine copy. Two poems: "The Orchard" and "Guitar Music." Printed on card stock and laid in a folded prospectus. "Very few" on this were available. 11 x 7 inches. Evidently these poems, which were numbered v and vi, were included in a book printed in an edition of 95 copies. The book was hand-set and printed letterpress by Asa Peavy. The prospectus has an Author's Note.
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SGD 68.87
Sonnets and Verses
by Enid Clay
Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. 1st Edition. Very Good. Eric Gill. With eight engravings by Eric Gill. In original blue boards with cloth spine. Paper label solidly attached to spine with title and author. General wear to boards and some ageing and soiling to cloth spine. Complete with multiple endpapers at front and back. This book is number 218 of 450. No signatures. Sticker from old (maybe original) bookstore it was sold at. Interior is clean and clear with rough...
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SGD 506.19
