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The Murders In the Rue Morgue
by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been claimed as the first detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ". Similar works predate Poe's stories, including Das Fräulein von Scuderi (1819) by E.T.A. Hoffmann and Zadig (1748) by Voltaire. C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mysterious brutal murder of two women.
Quarter To Midnight Gaylord Schanilec &Midnight Paper Sales a Discursive Bibliography
by Robert Rulon-Miller
The Incredible Journey Pressbook 1963 �Mile Genest, John Drainie, Tommy Tweed
by John Drainie, Tommy Tweed Directed By Fletcher Markle / Starring �Mile Genest
For Jean Grolier & His Friends 125 Years Of Grolier Club Exhibitions and Publications 1884-2009
by George and Holzenberg, Eric Ong
A Suite Of Ten Lithographs Drawn By Robert Kipniss For the Selected Poems Of Rainer Maria Rilke
by Robert Kipniss
Get Carter Pressbook 1971 Michael Caine, Ian Hendry
by Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland Directed By Michael Hodges / Starring Michael Caine
World Without Sun Pressbook 1964 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Simone Cousteau
by Simone Cousteau Directed By Jacques-Yves Cousteau / Starring Jacques-Yves Cousteau
I Take This Woman Herald 1939 Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, Scarce!
by Hedy Lamarr, Verree Teasdale, Kent Taylor, Laraine Day, Marjorie Main, Willie Best, Louis Calhern, and Dalies Frantz Directed By W S Van Dyke / Starring Spencer Tracy
Who's Minding the Store Pressbook 1963 Jerry Lewis, Jill St John, Ray Walston
by Jill St John, Ray Walston Directed By Frank Tashlin / Starring Jerry Lewis
Assault On a Queen Pressbook 1968 Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi
by Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa Directed By Jack Donohue / Starring Frank Sinatra
Radar Books & Ephemera
Elbert Hubbard: William Morris's greatest imitator
by Walsdorf, Jack
Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 1999. Edition limited to 150 copies (this, no. 30 and one of only 34 to contain specimen leaves), 8vo, pp. vii, [5], 24, [2]; 2 portraits, 2 specimen pages tipped in (one a leaf - the title leaf- of Morris's Gothic Architecture, and another from Hubbard's Rip Van Winkle); original Japanese cloth over boards, paper labels on spine and upper cover; fine. From the library of Kim Merker. Walsdorf A33.
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SGD 551.79
El fuero viejo de Castilla, sacado, y comprobado con el exemplar de la misma obra, que exîste en la Real Biblioteca de esta corte, y con otros mss ... Publícanlo con notas históricas y legales
by Assó y del Rio, Ignacio Jordán de, & Miguel Manuel y Rodríguez
Madrid: por D. Joachin Ibarra, 1771. Small folio, pp. [4], lvi, 143, [1]; engraved vignette title page; bound with: Jordán de Assó y del Río, Ignacio, & Miguel Manuel y Rodríguez, El ordenamiento de leyes, que D. Alfonso XI hizo en las Cortes de Alcalá de Henares el año de mil trescientos y quarenta y ocho. Publícanlo con notas... Madrid: Ibarra, 1774, pp. [2], xxxiv, 158, [2]; woodcut vignette on title page, tail-pieces; decorative initial. Laws, statutes, etc. of the Kingdom of Castile in...
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SGD 1,970.67
Paragraphs on printing elicited from Bruce Rogers in talks with James Hendrickson on the functions of the book designer. With occasional notes and illustrations
by Rogers, Bruce
New York: William E. Rudge's Sons, 1943. First trade edition, 8vo, ix & 187pp., photogravure frontispiece portrait, numerous facsimiles in text (many printed in two colors, 3 double-p. from the Oxford Lectern Bible of 1935); a fine, fresh copy in original brown cloth stamped and titled in gilt; original prospectus laid in. This copy inscribed by Rogers on the frontispiece "For my friend Alfred Howell, Bruce Rogers." Stark, p. 13.
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SGD 433.55
The Spiral Press through four decades: an exhibition of books and ephemera with a commentary
by Blumenthal, Joseph
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1966. Edition limited to 1900 copies, this one of 400 in cloth, large 8vo, pp. 66, [34] (facsimiles); blue and gray cloth, gilt title direct on spine, gilt printer's mark on upper cover, touch of spotting to endpapers, near fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
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SGD 55.18
The collected ephemera of the Adagio Press. A continuing series of type specimens, typographic exercises and announcements printed at various times..
Harper Woods: Adagio Press, [ca, 1972. Edition size not stated, 8vo, printed manila envelope containing 6 folded quarto-sized leaves folded to make 24 octavo pages, each with a typographic specimen and/or experiment.
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SGD 39.41
A comp's-eye view of words
by Wulling, Emerson G
Christmas Lake: Sumac Press, 1936. Edition limited to 100 copies, 17 x 13 cm, pp. 15, [1]; unbound sheets, fine. Rulon-Miller, Wulling 29.
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SGD 39.41
David Smith on art and tradition
by Smith, David
[Columbus]: Logan Elm Press, 1984. Edition limited to 250 copies signed by the artist, 8vo, pp. [6], 4, [2]; printed in red and black; woodcut portrait of Smith by SidneyChafetz; original embossed gray paper wrapper over boards, spine printed in black; fine.
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SGD 118.24
Suite for Drury Pond
by Judson, John
La Crosse: Juniper Press, 1989. Edition ltd. to 400 copies, oblong 16mo, pp. [3]-14; fine in orig. white wrappers printed in purple, endpaper of Japanese Chiri. Printed by Emerson Wulling at the Sumac Press for the Juniper Press. Not in Press Preterite.
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SGD 23.65
Two decades of Hamady and the Perishable Press Limited. An anecdotally annotated check list with articles by & about the press for an exhibition at Gallery 210/University of Missouri/St. Louis October 3 through November 4, 1984 entitled: Hamady's Perishable Press: A twentieth anniversary sampling of hand crafted books"
by Hamady, Walter
Mount Horeb, Wisc: Perishable Press, 1984. First edition, 4to, unpaginated; illustrations and facsimiles throughout; original illustrated printed wrappers; fine. Standard work on the Perishable Press. From the library of Kim Merker.
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SGD 55.18
Thirty: a selection of illustrations from the thirty titles which comprise the library of Benjamin Franklin Keepsakes, published in connection with the celebration of Printing Week in New York, and commemorating the birthday of Benjamin Franklin, printer
New York: Privately Printed, 1987. 12mo, pp. [48]; 30 wood engravings plus 3 vignettes printed in brown, original green paper covered boards with gilt title on spine and gilt image on upper cover, fine. John DePol was the engraver for each of the thirty keepsakes published, and produced 401 engravings in all for the series. Printed here is one engraving from each year of the series.
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SGD 94.59
Nathaniel Baddeley, bookman. A play for the fireside in one act. Illustrated by Fred Lawson
by Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una
Leeds: At the Swan Press, 1924. Edition limited to 100 copies for private circulation, square 8vo, pp. 50, [1]; title printed in red and black, half title and colophon in red; printed by Sydney Matthewman; small chip at top of spine; very good in orig. full blue calf stamped in gilt on upper cover. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 431: "A commercial plant, with considerable attention to good book making" not to be confused with the Swan Press of London.
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SGD 157.65
I Am Type!
by Goudy, Frederic W
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1986. 9½" x 7½" letterpress broadside, printed at MCBA as part of 'Dirty Works' 1986, gray paper.
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SGD 15.77
Oratory: its requirements and its rewards
by Altgeld, John P
[Chicago: Published by J.M.L. (Jacob M. Loeb), 1938. Edition limited to 500 copies (this, no. 299) on hand-made paper, 12mo, pp. [5], 6-60, [2]; original blue cloth with gilt lettering; t.e.g.; base and fore-edge untrimmed; fine copy. The book was printed by the Lakeside Press of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company in Chicago. John P. Altgeld (1847-1902) was the governor of Illinois from 1983-1987. He was a progressive politician who advocated for improved labor laws.
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SGD 118.24
The Bieler Press: a checklist of the first ten years, 1975-1985. Compiled by Tracy E. Smith. Introduction by Rob Rulon-Miller
by [SMITH, TRACY E.]
Minneapolis: Campbell-Logan Bindery, 1985. Edition ltd. to 300 copies, 8vo, (32)pp., wrappers, designed and printed by Emily Mason at the Kutenai Press, Missoula, Montana. As new, at the published price, signed by Ms. Smith & Mr. Rulon-Miller.
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SGD 39.41
A traveller's soliloquy. By
by [Wulling, Emerson G]
Christmas Lake, 1935. Edition limited to 150 copies, leaflet, 13 x 9 cm, pp. [8]; green printed wrappers, fine. "Who wrote it? I should like to know. The text came to me from Marie C. Lehr who had it from a friend, neither knowing the author's name. Its wit is none the less enjoyable." Rulon-Miller, Wulling 26.
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SGD 63.06
Edward Burrett and the Penmiel Press
by Onzea, Wilfried
Esher, Surrey: Penmiel Press, 1993. The press's third and last catalog, 200 copies printed, 6.5" x 6", pp. 18, [2]; text illustrations, 2 photographs; the first half of the text is dedicated to a short history of the press; green printed self-wrappers, fine. Signed by Edward Burrett and with a checklist of Penmiel Press publications 1974-1992. Order form laid in. Custom green cloth clamsell box, green morocco label on spine, the upper lid of the box with a slight waterstain.
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SGD 78.83
Farmers. Wood engravings - Interviews
by [Schanilec, Gaylord.]
Stockholm: Midnight Paper Sales Press, 1989. Edition limited to 200 copies, this one of 26 lettered copies (letter 'U') signed by Schanilec on the colophon with his chop mark; 8vo, pp. [3]-56, [4]; vignette wood engraving on title page, 4 double-page colored wood engravings, plus an extra suite of the engravings in a tan paper chemise with a printed paper label on the front; full natural goatskin by the Campbell-Logan Bindery, embossed in the lower outer corner with Schanilec's chop mark; beige cloth...
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SGD 6,306.14
The locks of the Oxford canal. A journey from Oxford to Coventry. With fifty wood engravings by John Craig
by Craig, John
[Andoversford, Gloucestershire]: Whittington Press, 1984. Edition limited to 350 copies signed by Craig (this, no. 274), 8vo, pp. [12], x, [54]; title page printed in red and black, 50 wood engravings, one folding plate; pictorial endpapers; original full linen boards, spine and front cover paper labels, fine. Contact card for the press laid in.
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SGD 591.20
Meditaciones sobre el evangelio, o exposicion literal, y mystica de los evangelios. Obra póstuma del ill.mo señor Jacobo Benigno Bossuet, obispo de meaux; y la mas acreditada de quantas escribió en este género. Traducidas del Frances al Español
by Bossuet, Jacobo Benigno
Madrid: por D. Joachin Ibarra, 1775. Second edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, pp. [8], 448; [2], 358; contemporary speckled calf, decorated gilt borders, gilt-decorated spine with gilt title direct on spine; marbled edges and endpapers; spines rubbed and worn, extremities rubbed, spine ends lightly chipped; text clean and sound. A good and reasonably sound copy. With a portrait engraving laid in of St. Charles Berromé. See Lasala 0368 for the first edition in quarto.
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SGD 275.89
Coincidental pleasures: printing & farming. An essay...Illustrated by Carol J. Blinn
by Baris, Bob
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 2007. Edition limited to 75 copies signed by Baris and Blinn, this being the issue of 25 special copies in sheep vellum (50 were bound in pastepaper-covered boards); 8vo, pp. [34]; title page printed in green and black, 8 illustrations from drawings by Blinn (7 partially hand-colored); original sheep vellum, dyed green, front cover stamped in gilt; fine. In a custom green paper-covered clamshell, gilt-stamped spine. Laid in, as issued, is a printed slip addressed to "Dear...
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SGD 1,261.23
A group of Londoners
by Lucas, E[dward] V[errall]
Minneapolis: printed for Edmund D. Brooks and his friends, 1913. First edition, thin 8vo, pp. 25; old rubberstamp price (25¢) on front free endpaper and half-title, else a very good copy in original dark green cloth-backed paper-covered boards, slightly soiled and scuffed. Printed in a limited but unspecified edition at The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, and published by Edmund Brooks, the eminent Minneapolis bookseller.
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SGD 55.18
Harvesters
by Miller, Chuck
West Branch, Iowa: Coffee House Press, 1984. Edition limited to 500 copies, signed by the author and artist, 11¼" x 7¾", pp. [22]; fine copy in olive-green Fabriano Ingres printed wrappers; cover illustration by Stuart Mead; designed by Allan Kornblum, handset by Denise Grimsman, printed by David Duer.
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SGD 118.24
Volpone, or the fox, with a new introduction by Louis Kronenberger and illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan
by Jonson, Ben
Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Edition limited to 1500 copies (this, no. 963); 4to, pp. xxv, [1], 163, [1]; unopened, designed by Francis Meynell and printed by Charles Batey at the Oxford University Press, illustrations printed and coloured through stencils in France; signed on the colophon by illustrator Rene Ben Sussan; fine in original cloth-backed boards in dust jacket and slipcase (lightly scuffed on top edge). LEC Bibliography 236.
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SGD 118.24
Job requirements for a small press publisher
by Kornblum, Allan
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2010. 8" x 10" letterpress broadside, "written, designed, set, and printed by Allan Kornblum for the Minnesota Center for Book Arts" for From Start to Here portfolio.
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SGD 18.92
Gvlielmi Shakespeare Carmina Qvae Sonnets Nvncvpantvr Latine Reddita Ab Alvredo Thoma Barton Edenda Cvravit Joannes Harrower Mdcccc, XIII (Latin Elegies after William Shakespeare's Sonnets).
by (Shakespeare, William; Alfred Thomas Barton; John Harrower)
( London ): (Riccardi Press). Near Fine. (1913). Limited Edition. Hardcover. A few spots of foxing to front cover near leading top corner, boards just a bit bowed. ; No 59 of 150 copies. Full vellum, front cover lettered and ruled in gilt; top edge gilt; colophon . . . Typis Riccardi amicorvm impensis excvsi a Philippo H. Lee Warner Mediceae societatis librario Londini MDCCCCXIII. Poems in English on versos with Latin translation on rectos. A few spots of foxing to front cover near leading top...
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SGD 479.82