2d edition. 8 pp. 2.5”x3”, stitched, illustrated wrappers. (12) pp. A collection of small poems written in the transcendental style, Birch Bark Poems is printed entirely on thin and delicate birch bark, with engravings of birch trees on front and back. Lummis cut the bark from the trees, set the type, and did the printing. This is a later printing [ninth thousand] of the second edition. First published while Lummis was working for a small publishing firm in New Hampshire, the first printing (1878) was only a dozen or so copies. This allowed Lummis to work out the medium's eccentricities. Th... View More...
First thus, limited to 155 signed copies. 2”x2” green paper-covered boards. 37 pp. Printed green paper boards with title and decorative border on cover, labels tipped in on frontispiece and throughout the text. An excerpt from an essay titled "Shaker Industries," which appeared in The Clarion in Fall 1979.
The only miniature book printed by Barbara Blumenthal of Catawba Press. The essay starts with a short history of the Shaker religion and their industries and then details the medicinal properties of the herbs
Condition: Fine, as-new with bookseller’s penciled notation on fep, a 3/16” ... View More...
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". View More...
1st ed. 24mo, 2-5/8”x3”,78 pp. Limited to 2500 copies. Printed at The Little Press of Jack R. Levien. Bound in pictorial boards depicting a 10,000 mark note, paper label on frontis. ,Engraved half-title and frontispiece, b/w photos, and with several charts recording the daily value of the mark in relation to the dollar from 1919 to1923. A near-fine copy. Small, light stain on the front cover label, prior owner’s book seal at bottom of ffep. View More...
First edition. Miniature book 2 3/16" x 2 7/8". 62 pp. Illustrated with linocuts by Frank J. Thomas, printed in several colors. Original full vellum, paper label on spine; marbled endpapers. ##### No. 75 of 100 copies. This is copy "P" The second of three miniatures from the press of Frank and Phyliss Thomas. ##### CONDITION: Very good; a clean bright copy overall. Two 1/8" light stains at edge of front board. View More...