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. View More...
8vo, blue-grey wrappers. A short-lived periodical [4 issues] "devoted exclusively to new poems" by the four contributors, this issue containing pp. 109-152 of the series. 4 poems by Brooke. ##### CONDITION: Fair; Covers toned; 1/2" chip top of spine, corners bumped, several edge nicks. Interior is good; a reasonably tight copy but with occasional light foxing. View More...
Publisher:
New York, Lewis Carroll Society of North America : 1977
Seller ID: 01302
A suppressed chapter of "Alice" published here for the first time in a limited edition of 750 copies. 8vo, red cloth, 72 pp. New copy; no d/w issued. View More...
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...
A Collection of Epitaphs and Inscriptions, interesting either from historical associations or quaintness of wording (2 Vols.).
Edinburgh: privately printed by E & G Goldsmid 1885-86. 12vo. 54; 48pp; Limited to 275 copies. head and tail-pieces, title-pages printed in red and black. One of 275 small paper copies (total edition of 350). Printed parchment paper wrappers. A two-volume compilation of graveyard epitaphs. Condition: Good; covers soiled and toned, that of volume I chipped and partially split at spine. Interior clean and bright overall, with soiling to half-title and title page of vo... View More...
First edition. #64/300 signed copies. Cloth backed marble boards with paper labels on spine and front cover, deckle edges. Very good; corners bumped and rubbed, light wear to edges; spine label beginning to peel at top edge but still fully intact. Former owner's bookplate and signature on front endpapers. View More...
A trade paperback magazine featuring work by Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Gregory Corso, Kenneth Rexroth and others. Good; clean and tight but with A few small chips along edge of spine and shelf-wear at edges. View More...
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... View More...
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. View More...
12 pp; 12mo stapled grey wrappers. Colophon: "Set by Hand and 12 copies printed; none of which are for sale; VII-XI-XXXIII." A forty-line, four-stanza poem about a knight returning from battle. First, and only, separate publication. The poem was first published in The Book of Beauty / A Collection of Beautiful Portraits with Literary, Artistic and Musical Contributions by Men and Women of the Day; edited by. F. Harcourt Williamson; London; Hutchinson & Co, 1897. It was next reprinted by E.W. Martindell in Fragmenta Condita: The Unrecorded Portion of my Kipling Collection. (Appendix to 'A Bibli... View More...
1st ed., 16mo, 9 pp. First edition. Cloth backed decorated boards. Good copy with rubbed corners and scratches on back cover. Interior clean and tight throughout. A lovely production from this fine small press. The 8th of the Press' Armistice Day publications. Foreword by Melbert B.Cary Jr., founder of the Woolly Whale Press. Cover design by Charles W.Smith. Printed by George W. Van Vetchen, Jr. View More...
8vo, gray-green stitched wrappers. 32, (2)pp. Title printed in red & black. Edition limited to 200 copies printed by Harry Ward Ritchie at the press in the old Abbey of San Encino. Very good-near fine. No chips or tears but two small [1/8”] stains on front cover to the right of the title. View More...
1st ed., limited to 80 copies. 8vo, mauve boards, linen backed. Xxi, 16 pp. The first publication of the club. Photographic map frontispiece of New Helvetia. Introduction by Neal Harlow.CONDITION: Good. A clean, bright copy overall. Front hinge lightly cracked after the FEP; rear hinge just starting. End papers toned; ½"x 2" peel lower front pastedown where a label was apparently removed. 1x1" stain lower front board, a label appears to have been removed. Lacking the printed paper label on the spine. A 5x8 printed sheet showing the charter members of the Sacramento Book Collectors Club is ... View More...
Publisher:
Sacramento CA, Press of Arden Park : 1976
Seller ID: 07154
Handset and printed in black and peacock blue ink with Indian motif illustrations. 16mo, beige cloth, 16 pp. Limited to 120 copies signed by the printer, Bud Westreich. Fine 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...