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Sudbury MA, Water Row Press, 1986, hardcover, 49 pp, Deluxe Limited Edition, #17 of 100 hardcover copies Signed by the Author on the title page, Fine condition in red cloth-covered boards with original illustrated wrappers bound in, spine lettered in gilt, no dustjacket as issued. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings. First published in 1958, Micheline's collection of poems is required reading as a major voice of the Beat Generation. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. From the Edwin Blair Collection of Beat Literature sold Mar. 9, 2006 at PBA Galleries, San Francisco to benefit Gypsy Lou Webb, publisher and widow of the late Jon Webb, whose New Orleans home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. ISBN 9780934953054
A Year at the Sorbonne: A Proustian Life by Pollak, Oliver B - 2002
by Pollak, Oliver B
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Small Quarto (9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches; 247 x 162 mm), xii, [2] 127, [3] pages, in quarter-cloth and patterned boards, paper label to spine, in a patterned slipcase.
One of only 150 copies, this is a biography of Elmo Elton Shaver (1916-1995), a Francophile and popular teacher of foreign languages. Elmo kept diaries documenting his life from tenth grade until just days before his death. Oliver Pollak, a lawyer and professor of history at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, has drawn from Elmo's diaries to paint a vivid picture of his life.
We follow him growing up in Long Beach and his 1937 junior year at the Sorbonne in Paris. (That year had a profound influence on Elmo, and he was a frequent visitor during the rest of his life.) We also learn about his embrace of Christian Science, his distaste for the New Deal, his decades of teaching languages at Orange Coast College in California, and his attraction to men.
This book was published by the Yellow Barn Press, founded by Elmo's younger brother, Neil Shaver. Neil designed the book, which is printed in 12-point Monotype Garamond, set by Michael and Winifred Bixler. Sandy Connors created the wood engravings and the pattern for the covers. The paper was bound by the Campbell-Logan Bindery in Minneapolis. Copy 93 of the 150 in the edition.
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Small Quarto (9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches; 247 x 162 mm), xii, [2] 127, [3] pages, in quarter-cloth and patterned boards, paper label to spine, in a patterned slipcase.
One of only 150 copies, this is a biography of Elmo Elton Shaver (1916-1995), a Francophile and popular teacher of foreign languages. Elmo kept diaries documenting his life from tenth grade until just days before his death. Oliver Pollak, a lawyer and professor of history at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, has drawn from Elmo's diaries to paint a vivid picture of his life.
We follow him growing up in Long Beach and his 1937 junior year at the Sorbonne in Paris. (That year had a profound influence on Elmo, and he was a frequent visitor during the rest of his life.) We also learn about his embrace of Christian Science, his distaste for the New Deal, his decades of teaching languages at Orange Coast College in California, and his attraction to men.
This book was published by the Yellow Barn Press, founded by Elmo's younger brother, Neil Shaver. Neil designed the book, which is printed in 12-point Monotype Garamond, set by Michael and Winifred Bixler. Sandy Connors created the wood engravings and the pattern for the covers. The paper was bound by the Campbell-Logan Bindery in Minneapolis. Copy 93 of the 150 in the edition.
A scarce copy of a beautiful fine-press production.
CONDITION: The book and slipcase are both fine.
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River of Red Wine and other poems
by Micheline, Jack: with an introduction by Jack Kerouac
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Alonzo Delano's Pen-Knife Sketches, or Chips of the Old Block
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San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934 Reprinted from the only other edition of 1853. Limited to 550 copies. Foreword by G. Ezra Dane. Small quarto. Pp. xxi, [1], 79, [1]. Frontispiece, twenty headpieces, and four full-page drawings in color by Charles Nahl. Printed in double columns. Colophon and thirty-one initials printed in sepia. Original blue-green boards, tan spine, printed paper spine label; colored drawing and title by Charles Nahl on front cover. A very fine and bright copy with the elusive plain peach dust jacket. Scarce in this condition. The humorous sketches of California Gold Rush life by the man as famous for his profile as well as his wit, "Old Block" of California. Includes a new foreword by G. Ezra Dane. One of the Fifty Books of the Year. [Grabhorn: 204]..
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The Coriolis Effect
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Fine book in marbled paper-covered boards, with title on paper label on spine. A small, limited edition - this is number 132 of 170 copies - that is approximately 7 ½ by 5 ½ inches. Printed by Gaylord Schanilec on Zerkall paper. The colophon indicates that book was hand-set in monotype Walbaum; marbled paper by Carol Scott; and bound by Franny Bannen and Lucy Graber. Twelve chapters with short, autobiographical statements by the Haitian author. The book is numbered and signed by both Danticat and Shanilec on the colophon page. Two small promotional brochures from Midnight Paper Sales are laid-in.
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THE EGGPLANT SKIN PANTS AND POEMS
by [Perishable Press]: Laird, Mary
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Mt. Horeb: The Perishable Press, 1973.. Quarto. Buckram over boards with blindstamped vignette. Illustrated. Faint trace of sunning at extremities, otherwise fine. First edition. Illustrated with eighteen drawings by the author. One of 175 copies printed on Japanese handmade Hosho paper and signed by the author/artist. HAMADY 57.
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Stephen Shore. Pet Pictures.
by Shore, Stephen
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Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2012. Original archival color print signed by Stephen Shore on the back is tipped in. First edition / First printing. Limited edition. 500 copies. This copy is an Artists Proof. Taupe laminated boards. Very fine. Issued without dust jacket. The 73th publication in the Nazraeli Press One Picture Book series.
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The Mistress; with Other Select Poems of Abraham Cowley 1618-1667 (Illustrations by John Hall--Title Page Illustration.)
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London: Nonesuch Press 1926, a numbered copy from a limited edition of 1050. (Hardcover) 213pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Light brown buckram with a spine label which is scuffed and chipped along the left edge (with no loss of text). Illustrated title page, notes, index of first lines. Edited by John Sparrow. Illustrations by John Hall (Title Page Illustration). (Poetry).
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Private Press Books
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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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Tuscaloosa, Alabama:: Red Hydra Press,, 2014.. Edition of 65. 2.75 x 2.75" miniature book. Letterpress printed by Steve Miller in three sections, sewn, consolidated, then wrapped in handmade paper. Printed in Centaur and Charlemagne types. Printed and wrapped in four papers made at Papeterie St. Armand in Montréal. Signed by the poet. Numbered. Steve Miller: "Billy Collins penned a sweet new poem, and this is its first appearance.
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Herbescent Cordials: A Collection of Herbal Tisanes for the Sick, Stressed, Stinky, and Love Sick
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Walla Walla, WA: Artist, 1995. First printing. (12) pp., 6.75 x 10.75 inches. Printed by hand from foundry type, original linoleum engravings, and plant materials at the Whitman College Book Arts Lab, in an edition of twenty-five signed and numbered copies. Unbound sheets in stiff card folder with printed cover label. As new. Five linoleum engravings of common herbs (chives, rosemary, oregano, mint, basil), printed over pressure prints of plants, each contained in a glassine wrapper printed with a relevant recipe taken from The Complete Book of Herbs & Spices, plus title page and colophon. A striking and elegant production; no copies located in WorldCat.
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A Note On Experts: Dexter Vespasian Joiner
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New York: House Of Books, Ltd, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in fine original glassine wrapper. Unpaginated. 19.5 x 13 cm. Limited edition, copy 72 of 300. This manuscript fragment found by the executor of his Estate had never been published, and deemed of sufficient importance to be published at this time. Printed at the Southworth-Anthoensen Press and number five of the Crown Octavos.
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A year at the Sorbonne: a Proustian life
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Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 2002. Edition limited to 150 copies, this, the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery, and out-of-series; 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 127, [3]; 4 pages of photographic inserts; title-page vignette and chapter headers engraved by Sandy Connors printed in blue; original quarter blue cloth, patterend paper-covered boards also by Connors, paper label on spine, fine. Original prospectus laid in. A biography of Elmo Shaver, elder brother of Yellow Barn Press proprieter Neil Shaver, which draws from almost 70 years worth of diaries and covers his early education, his year in Paris, his career as a teacher, and his experience as a gay man through the 20th century.
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Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 2002. Edition limited to 150 copies (this, no. 12); 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 127, [3]; 4 pages of photographic inserts; title-page vignette and chapter headers engraved by Sandy Connors printed in blue; original quarter blue cloth, patterned paper-covered boards also by Connors, paper label on spine, fine. From the library of Kim Merker. Original prospectus laid in. A biography of Elmo Shaver, elder brother of Yellow Barn Press proprietor Neil Shaver, which draws from almost 70 years-worth of diaries and covers his early education, his year in Paris, his career as a teacher, and his experience as a gay man through the 20th century.
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Printing Digital Type on the Hand-Operated Flatbed Cylinder Press
by Lange, Gerald
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Chatwin Books, 2018. Trade Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" New!
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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
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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
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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)
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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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Catalogue of the Private Collection of Paintings Belonging to Peter A. Schemm Philadelphia, PA
by [SCHEMM, Peter A.]
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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
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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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