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1 . hardback. Fine. Large oblong folio. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white, and with pictorial end-papers. Leicester (Gadsby Gallery/Sycamore Press) 1980. Black 1/4-morocco and green boards. A fine copy in orange slipcase. Edition of 150 copies printed at the Daedalus Press, and signed by RG. This copy marked "Publisher's Copy" and signed by the publisher, Trevor Hickman.
Munchener Kalendar 1894-1911 -
Munchener Kalendar 1894-1911
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Munich: Munich Verlagsanstalt Black buckram with title in gilt on spine. Splits in cloth spine; slightly shaken. With bookplate "From the Library of Janet Ashbee and C. R. Ashbee." Ashbee was the founder of the Guild of Handicraft Essex House Press. the vividly colorful 16 page booklets are printed on thick paper with deckle edges untrimmed. Their design is inspired by 15th and 16th century German woodcuts. They are signed with the initials of Otto Hupp, German graphic and type designer whose main focus was heraldry. Each calendar contains one page for each month of the year, opposite a large, multicolored Wappenschild (armorial shield) representing an illustrious family whose history is furnished in the text section in the back. Hupp also uses imaginative typefaces and varied border desings. Designed for practical as well as decorative use, thre are blank lines adjacent to the name of the appropriate saint. Many of these are neatly filled in with pencil notations, giving a picture of a family's upper middle class life in those pre-war years.. Contemporary Buckram. Very Good. Illus. by Otto Hupp. Tall Narrow 4to.
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Leicestershire.
by GRAHAM, Rigby
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Five short stories...The state of grace; The dwarf; Rue de l'Évangile; Legend of Poldevia; The seven-league boots. Wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec
by Aymé, Marcel
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Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1994. Edition limited to 150 copies (this, no. 39), small 4to, pp. 100; 10 two-color wood engravings by Schanilec, with an extra suite of engravings, each mounted in a printed dye-cut wrapper, and together with "A Companion to Five Short Stories by Marcel Aymé: Creating the Illustrations," a bifolium with an essay by Henry Morris and a "Final Note" incorporating a letter to Henry Morris by Schanilec; housed in red cloth clam-shell box, maroon gilt-lettered spine label. Unlike others in the edition, this copy is signed by Schanilec on the colophon. Quarter to Midnight A.126. Forty-Four A.56.
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Broadcast Addresses To The People Of Great Britain, Italy, Poland, Russia And The United States, By The Prime Minister Of The British Empire, Winston Churchill Mcmxl- Mcmxli
by Churchill, Winston
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Pasadena, California, United States
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San Francisco: Ransohoffs / Grabhorn Press, 1941. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First Printing In Book Form Of The Prime Minister's Famous War Speeches. One Of 250 Copies Printed By The Grabhorns (For Ransohoffs, San Francisco). White Linen Spine With Gilt Leather Spine Label, And Blue Cloth Boards. Finely Printed By The Grabhorns On Fine Paper With Deckled Edges. 16" X 10 3/4". A Fine Copy, No Wear Or Foxing Or Stains, Spine Label Complete And With Brilliant Gilt. Traces Of Rubbing Right Along Top And Bottom Edges Of Boards. Clear Dj Is 3/16" Taller Than Book, No Wear Or Tears Or Chips.
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The Noble & Joyous Boke entytled Le Morte Darthur nothwythstondyng it treateth of the byrth lyf and actes of the sayd Kynge Arthur; of his noble Knyghtes of the Rounde Tale. Theyr merveylous enquestes and adventures....
by Sir Thomas Malory
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Birsay, Orkney, United Kingdom
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Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press Saint Aldgates and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1933 A good to very good copy of the 2 volume limited edition of Malory's epic work, taken from the only remaining copy of the Wynkyn de Worde printing housed by the John Rylands Library in Manchester. In their original half morocco bindings with gilt titles to spine. Copy no 139 of 350 (370 originally published with 20 not for public sale). Both bindings are clean with very light marking to the cloth. In Vol I there is light rubbing to spine ends and corners, most pronounced at the top front corner. Vol II has some fraying at the top of the spine and a little leather loss at the joint with the top of the front board. There is more pronounced rubbing at the top corners. Both have rubbing to front edges. Top page edges gilt, remainder untrimmed. The endpapers are strongly marbled and there is a little splitting to the front endpaper of Vol II where the damage can be seen to the top of the…
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UIT EEN VINGER VALT MEN NIET
by Mortier, Erwin
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New Castle, Delaware, United States
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands: De Bezige Bij, 2005. full leather, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, silk page marker, marbled paper and leather slipcase. De Bezige Bij. small 8vo. full leather, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, silk page marker, marbled paper and leather slipcase. 104 pages. One of fifty signed and numbered copies. The edition of De Bezige Bij, which appears at the same time as the commercial edition of 'From a finger does not fall', was bound by hand in October 2005 in a whole calfskin binding and placed in a house with hand-marbled paper by Karli Frigge. The edition is interleaved with loose relics, which the author and photographer have included. Each copy contains an original print of one of the photos from the book and a poem in handwriting. The edition was provided by Mooi Boeken / Pau Groenendijk (www.mooieboeken.nl). Very light rubbing along the hinges of the spine, else near fine.
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An Imaginary Portrait
by [DANIEL PRESS]. Pater, Walter
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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Oxford: H. Daniel, 1894. First edition thus, one of 250 numbered copies. Original printed wrappers, glassine and slipcase. 61 pp. Spine slightly darkened, else a fine copy. Madan 33. "First printed in Macmillan's Magazine, vol. 38 (1878), p. 313, it is here for the first time reprinted with loving care.
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New Collective Nouns.
by Hagner, Dirk].
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Hoover, Alabama, United States
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San Juan Capistrano, California:: Inkswine Press,, 2020.. Edition of 10. 25 pages. Measuring 7.875 x 5.75 x 0.5 inches (20 x 14.6 x 1.3 cm). Printed letterpress on heavy weight translucent sheets over 2-color screen-printed type compositions on 250 gm deckle edge rag paper. Hard cover, single page quarter binding, bookmark ribbons. Sea green Ingres end papers with red kozo edging. Signed and numbered by the artist. Dirk Hagner: "I made these little volumes of contemporary New Collective Nouns recently. They are dedicated to James Lipton, whom I would have loved to send a copy. Alas, he passed away in 2020. Thank you for your inspiration and your passion for collective nouns among so many other things. There are 11 new collective nouns." wikipedia, 6/9/2021: "Louis James Lipton (September 19, 1926 – March 2, 2020) was an American writer, lyricist, actor, and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City. He was the executive producer,…
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Full green linen with gold lettering on spine, marbled slipcase, (viii), 37 pages. One of an edition limited to 200 copies, 20 being for presentation. Ten engravings on copper and with a forward by David Jones. Printed under the supervision of Douglas Cleverdon. A masterpiece of the Twentieth Century. A new printing of the Jones masterpiece, with the images printed from the original plates. Very good to near fine condition, head and tail of spine are slightly bumped and boards are slightly rubbed. Slipcase in near fine condition with corners slightly rubbed.
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MARBLED LANDSCAPES
by Sönmez, Nedim
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New Castle, Delaware, United States
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Izmir: n.p., 2007. marbled paper boards, cloth japanese sewn binding. Marbling. oblong folio. marbled paper boards, cloth japanese sewn binding. not paginated (but 13 leaves). Limited edition of only 19 copies. A fine copy. This copy has been bound in Nedim Sonmez's marbled paper covered boards in a japanese sewn binding. Caravan - City in the Desert - Istanbul -Alps - North Italian Landscape - A View from Lake Constance. Marbled on "de geerts" paper. Thirteen sheets with six original samples of marbled landscapes, each 9 x 13 3/4 inches. All landscapes signed by hand. This book is the third book of the series. An amazing and beautiful work.
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A Graver dans le Coeur Net. Presentation et traduction de Michel Seuphor
by Michel Seuphor / Seng Ts'an
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Veldhoven, Netherlands
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De Prentenier, 1995. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator(s). 1st Edition. Bound in black cloth with red title label in die-cut square on frontcover. Limited edition of 22 numbered copies with 2 original etchings by Michel Seuphor. Both etchings signed in pencil by Seuphor. Dimensions are 47 x 34,5 cm. Printed on the hand press on Velin d'Arches. The text is hand-set from the Pantin en de Hollandse Mediaeval. Book design by Ronald Ergo with his signature on the colophon page. 48 x 36 cm. Very fine copy. Rare. .
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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 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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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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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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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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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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A Song About Major Eatherly
by Wain, John
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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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Choice of Churches
by Michael Harrison
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In addition to writing the introduction, the author also assembled the text by various authors: Peter Porter, D.H. Lawrence, Father Bernard Walke, Jack Clemo, John Whitworth, Thomas Hardy, Charles Causley, Canon Hawker, Patricia Beer, and Sabine Baring-Gould. Lavishly illustrated with scraperboard drawings by Alan Richards. These drawings range from quarter-page images to two-page spreads. The boards are covered in a paper printed with another scraperboard drawing by the artist. 12 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches. 48 pages. Number 128 of an edition of 326 copies (36 of which were hand-colored under the direction of the artist). Signed by Richards and Harrison.
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