Category: Fine Printing/Small Press

Nurse Lovechild's Legacy / Being a Mighty Fine Collection of The Most Noble, Memorable and Veracious Nursery Rhymes

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, The Poetry Bookshop : 1922

Seller ID: 31703

Mother Goose rhymes; embellished with drawings by C. Lovat Fraser and printed by the Curwen Press. 12mo, red boards. 64 pp. "A new edition, fourth thousand". Very good; front cover has a light band of sunning at top; rear cover lightly soiled.
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A Selection of Aesop's Fables (translated by Boris Artzybasheff)

By: Aesop

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Chamberlain Press : 1984

Seller ID: 1007

boards, 5"x6. A selection of fables illustrated with colored wood engravings by Sarah Chamberlain and translated by Boris Artzybasheff. Limited signed edition of 150 copies. Signed by the illustrator on the limitation page. Ten coloured plates, each with small illustration on the reverse.
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Luxurious Bathing: A Sketch

By: Andrew W Tuer

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, London : 1880

Seller ID: k190218b

Condition: Good

2d ed. [First thus; the true first edition was published in folio form with etchings by another artist.] , 9-1/4”x6”, full vellum binding, gilt titles and decorations, untrimmed pages. 60 pp. [2 advt] Woodcut decorations and ornaments in the text plus eight etchings by Tristam Ellis. Good condition. The covers are soiled with some spotting and chipping; very lightly warped -- though less than commonly found. [A publisher’s slip notice inside states that the book is prone to warping. Losse at the front joint. Prior owner’s bookplate inside front cover. Text block is clean and bright; some of t...
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Illuminated Manuscript: Pope Joan / A Historical Text based upon “Bower’s History of the Popes [1748]” /

By: Anonymous. [Anastasius Scriptor]

Price: $750.00

Seller ID: k180228l

n.p. n.d. 4to, illuminated vellum wrappers; 52 leaves; stitched binding. Pen and ink calligraphy, illuminations with watercolor head and tail pieces, and in-text illustrations all on hand-made paper. The artist/author is unknown. Clean, tight and unmarked interior. Covers torn and chipped on all edges. Date unknown but probably from late 1950’s - early 1960’s.
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Anatomia Humani Corporis (Atlas of Human Anatomy)

By: Bidloo, Govard

Price: $1,200.00

Publisher: Paris, Editions Roger DaCosta : 1972

Seller ID: 1936

Facsimile edition of Bidloo's noted atlas of human anatomy first published in Amsterdam in 1685. Large 4to (11"x16"), bound in burgundy leatherette, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. No. 411 of 2000 copies printed. A bit of rubbing at top and bottom of spine, otherwise fine. The atlas is illustrated with 105 plates by Gerard de Lairesse, showing the human figure both in living attitudes and as dissected cadavers. The book was later plagiarized by English surgeon William Cowper for his Anatomy of the Humane Bodies (1698), which gave no credit to either Bidloo or de Lairesse. This led to...
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[Leaf Book] Illustrated French Book of Hours; 16th century - two-sided original, ornamental

By: Book Club of California

Price: $325.00

Publisher: Book Club of California : 1926

Seller ID: s19111c

Condition: Near fine

5-1/2”x8-1/2 printed both sides with brilliant hand illumination, refined decorative borders and historiated or inhabited surrounds. 29 lines of text each side . In 1926 Edgar Walter presented the Club with about forty leaves of an early 16th century printed Book of Hours. These were sent to life and honorary members, institutions, and those of the membership who were particularly interested in early printing. The distribution was at the discretion of Albert M. Bender. The leaf was unaccompanied by any legend but with a letter of transmittal on Club stationary and signed by Bender -- present...
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The Ravenna Journal / Mainly compiled at Ravenna in 1821 and now for the first time issued in book form.

By: Byron, George Gordon (Lord)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, The First Edition Club : 1928

Seller ID: 042408

Limited Edition (500 copies), being the twelfth book published by The First Edition Club. 8vo, decorative cloth, with a leather spine label with the title stamped in gold, top edge gilt. A very good copy, but with a 1/4" chip from the leather spine label and some flaking at edges. Interior is clean and tight overall but with some age-toning to paste-downs and end papers. Contemporary booksellers label on rear pastedown. Printed by the Curwen Press.
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Old Pastures

By: Colum, Padraic

Price: $50.00

Publisher: NY, The Macmillan Company : 1930

Seller ID: k190218c

Condition: Fine

1st ed., 8vo, Cloth-backed batiqued boards. No. 19 of 200 copies signed and numbered by the author. 42 pp. Fine except for bookplate inside front cover; in poor slipcase lacking top/bottom edges and ½ of spine.
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From the German

By: Drinkwater, John

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. : 1924

Seller ID: 1048

8vo, batiked-paper boards with 1/4 vellum-spine. Printed by the Pelican Press and limited to 250 copies. English translation of seventeen verses by Goethe, Schiller, Moerike, Uhland, Hebbel, Theodor Storm, Keller, Guenther, Gleim, Boie, Hofmannsthal, Liliencron and Buerger. The Pelican Press was founded in 1916 by Sir Francis Meynell, with the active involvement of Stanley Morison - a British typographer, designer and historian of printing. He was one of the most influential type-designers of the 20th century, having designed the Times New Roman typeface (1931) and several historical revivals ...
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Rencontres

By: Fargue Léon-Paul [Jean-Gabriel Daragnès]

Price: $475.00

Publisher: Paris, Daragnès : 1954

Seller ID: s200628f

Binding: Loose signatures in chemise and slipcase

Condition: Very good

Rencontres [Meetings] Bois en couleurs de Jean-Gabriel Daragnès. Avant propos de Colette, Portraits par A. D. de Segonzac [Colored woodcuts by Jean-Gabriel Daragnes, Foreword by Colette, Portraits by A. D. de Segonzac. ##### Paris, Daragnès, 1954. 4to, 33cmx26cm. [2ff.], 118pp., [3ff.] Copy no. 68 of 140. Orange boards, white vellum spine with gilt lettering. Card slipcase. Fargue’s homage to his long friendship with Daragnes -- published after both their death’s by the latter’s wife. Fargue died in 1947; Daragnes in 1950. The text is previously unpublished and is illustrated with a suit...
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Stockton Boyhood/ Being the Reminiscences of Carl Ewald Grunsky

By: Grunsky, Carl Ewald

Price: $25.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Friends of the Bancroft Library, The : 1959

Seller ID: 000282

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Limited to 800 copies. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. Sm. 4to; 134 pp., illus. Essays written at the end of Grunsky's life about his early years in Stockton, California, and studying engineering in Germany. Grunsky was an important Civil Engineer, working on the Panama Canal and the improvement of port facilities in California.
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Plays for Puppets

By: H.D.C.P. (H. Douglas Clark Pepler)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: St. Dominic's Press : 1929

Seller ID: 111601

Condition: Good

1st edition. 16mo, 1/4 leather illustrated boards. (56 pages) four wood engravings of animal puppets on strings. Limited to 450 copies. (Author's inked limitation statement is on title page.) The plays are entitled: The Horse, The Ox and Ass, St Martin, The Cat Burglar, Tunning Water, The Crockodile. The Interior is generally fine throughout, with some age-toning on end papers. A few small, light spots on front cover. Lightly rubbed along edges, cloth on front edge of spine somewhat frayed.This copy contains an inked gift inscription on the front end paper from bookseller Jake Zeitlin to Hel...
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Marginalia to Life / Being Notes from the Private Papers of Anthony Hillyer.

By: Hillyer, Anthony

Price: $175.00

Seller ID: 07155

12mo, limited to 270 copies. Brown & black boards, 42 pp. "These notes, now first published, convey, in part, the revolt of an individual against the predominating Oriental influences that are disemboweling the once powerful civilization of the West....Very small chip at bottom of spine, otherwise fine in a very good dustwrapper with several small closed tears along the edges, small open tears at top and bottom of spine. Endpapers are darkened where dust jacket flap has discolored the paper.
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Desert, The.

By: Jeffers, Robinson.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Los Angeles:, Dawson's Book Shop, : 1976.

Seller ID: 000130

Binding: Cloth;

Condition: Good;

First book publication of Jeffers' poem, first published in the Occidental Mid-Winter magazine, 1905. Fine in outward appearance, but interior hinge crack. See photo. 2"x2-3/4".
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Homecomings

By: Morris, Willie

Price: $120.00

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi : 1989

Seller ID: 121332

Signed limited edition. One of 174 numbered copies signed by both the author and artist. Fine copy in original slipcase
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Love Books of Ovid, The (A. King illustrations)

By: Ovid

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York:, Art Studio Books. : 1930.

Seller ID: A00015

Binding: Cloth.

Condition: Very good;

One of the many illustrated, 'erotic' classics published during the 1920-30's. This copy is one of two thousand numbered copies. The book was also published in a deluxe edition of 50 copies, with an original erotic sketch on the end paper, and in an addition of 18 copies bound in morocco with the original artwork to one of the illustrations laid inside a clamshell box. The translation, pseudonymously attributed to Charles Young, is also by Alexander King (with the assistance of Jack Borut.)
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Ten Fables

By: Robert Lewis Stevenson

Price: $65.00

Publisher: The Swan Press, London : 1928

Seller ID: k180226h

Condition: Near fine

1st ed. thus. 8vo, Quarter-bound in tan cloth over printed boards with the swan logo. With twenty one woodcut illustrations by Rachel Russell. Printed on hand-made paper and limited to 250 copies; this being no. 193. A near fine copy with light rubbing at corners and toning to end papers. Affixed to the inside back cover is one of the scarce ½” square ‘R.L. Stevenson Copyright” lables with a hand-inked price. These were placed in the back of some of Stevenson’s posthumously published works by representatives of his estate in order to permit collection of copyright royalties.
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The BOOK COLLECTOR'S PACKET. A Monthly Review of Fine Books, Bibliography, Typography, & Kindred Literary Matters. March 1932 - March 1933. No. 1 - 12

By: [Periodical]

Price: $95.00

Publisher: : 1932

Seller ID: k221114d

Condition: Very Good

Complete run [12 issues] for the first year of the monthly miscellany of fine books, bibliography, typography and kindred literary matters. Laid in marbled paper-covered portfolio. 12-1/2" x 9-1/2" with a total of 64 pp including index. Several b/w woodcuts. Articles on book publishing, typography and more, including articles featuring Bruce Rogers, Rockwell Kent & major presses of the era. Five subscriber announcements, advts. Laid in.CONDITION: VERY GOOD. Cover of issue 1 lightly toned, as is last page of issue 12, all others clean and bright with some minor toning to top edges. Substantial...
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