Private Press Books from Minotavros Books

[Toronto]: Harwood Press, 1998. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Cattell, Ray. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. From an edition of 110 copies, though the number of copies bound and issued may have been much lower. Ten copies were editioned in roman numerals and presumably retained hors commerce; this copy is number IX. Acrylic painted cloth boards.… Read more about this item

Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1905. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Grey cloth, paper label on upper front cover and spine, 35pp. Limited to 950 copies. Boards somewhat soiled, otherwise near fine in a clean copy of Wilde's famous prison poem.

East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1902. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 6" x 7.75" Private press. Quarter green cloth, brown paper boards, tan printed paper label to front board, unlettered spine. Roughly cut edges. 113-135 pp. B&W portrait frontis. of Gainsborough. Paper bears Roycroft watermark. Light chafing to extremities, some rubbing and light soiling to boards commensurate with… Read more about this item

Vancouver: Robert Reid & Takao Tanabe, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. SIGNED, "Bob & Felicity" (publisher and binder). Limited first edition, #21/275. Private press. With an introduction by Neal Harlow. Quarter brown leather, red leather spine label, marbled paper boards. 45 pp. Originally printed in 1871 at the office of the Mainland Guardian, New Westminster,… Read more about this item

Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1917. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Edith Lister (1867-1938). [ii] 94 p.p. Quarter bound in buckram, paper boards, gilt title in frame on front cover. Inner hinge cracked after third leaf. Edges tanned and roughly cut, title page uncut at head. Offsetting to FFEP. Light intermittent foxing. Privately printed by A.H. Bullen at… Read more about this item

New York: The Fantod Press, 1973. First Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 6" x 5" [1971-1973]. Original pictorial wrappers. Saddle stitch. Limited Edition of 526 copies, twenty six of these copies are lettered and signed by the author [this copy is unsigned and unlettered]. Lacks issued envelope. The Abandoned Sock (Dated 1971): [16] leaves. With fourteen illustrations accompanied… Read more about this item

[New York]: The Fantod Press, 1990. Soft cover. Near Fine. Original pictorial wrappers. This is copy no. 165 of 500 copies, 32 unnumbered pages with [14] leaves of illustrations. Signed by Gorey as Mrs. Regera Dowdy. Small stain to upper front cover. Light rubbing to covers. Interior clean, bright. A near fine copy.

Shaftesbury: The High House Press, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 16mo. Original decorative paper boards with red fleur de lys and vellum spine. This is copy no. 89 of 150 limited copies printed on mould-made paper. The press work was done by a school master James Edwin Masters, and is typeset by his wife Beatrice at their… Read more about this item

[New York]: The Fantod Press, 1991. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Original wrappers. [32] unnumbered leaves, illustrated with stick-figures and French captions. Signed by Gorey on title-page. Spine and top-edge of rear cover sunned, with a line sunned across middle of front cover. Interior crisp, clean. A very good copy.

Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1933. Hardcover. Fair. Lowinsky, Thomas. 8vo. 107 p.p. 9 illustrations throughout book. Paper spine label. Lower half of spine worn, previously repaired with glue. Some soiling and sporadic scratches to boards. Occasional foxing to endpapers, interior clean. Bookplate of Harold Brown on front endpaper. Otherwise a good copy.