The engravings of Eric Gill by Gill, Eric - 1983

New York: Harper & Row, 1984. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxi, [1], 836, [1]; fine in original black cloth stamped in gilt, dust-wrapper. Inscribed by Ginsberg on the title page, "For Mark Mutchler Allen Ginsberg May 24, 1986 AH New Orleans."

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. viii, 543, [1]; iv, 492; engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. I, folding facsimile frontispiece in vol. II; full recent gilt-ruled cat's paw calf by Bayntun, red and green gilt morocco spine labels, new endpapers; ex-Duluth Library with usual interior markings, recent owner has taped bookseller's description and magazine cutting to Vol. I front free endpaper and frontispiece verso, his ballpoint notes on front flyleaves; else a very good, nicely bound set. NCBEL III 266.

New York: Loring & Mussey, 1935. First edition, small 4to, pp. 79, [1]; illustrated throughout; a near fine copy in a very slightly chipped dust jacket. This copy inscribed by Mulholland to Carl Jones, the Minneapolis magician on the half-title: "For Carl W. Jones, this account of a few of his friends, Cordially, John Mulholland." Newspaper shadow over all the inscription except the signature.

[New York: Marchbanks Press, 1929. Edition limited to 1000 copies, small, square 4to, pp. [32]; partially unopened; 10 woodcuts (8 full-page), initials illuminated in gilt; small ding at the top of the front board, else fine in original blue cloth-backed boards elaborately stamped in gilt on the upper cover; in a new blue cloth clamshell box.

[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.

London: Longman, Brown [et al.], 1852. Best edition, substantially enlarged over the first edition of 1850-51; 7 volumes, 8vo, 2 folding frontispiece maps, later full polished tan calf, red and black morocco labels on gilt decorated spines, marbled endpapers and edges; slightest rubbing of the extremities; generally fine and handsome.

New York: Harper & Row, 1984. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxi, [1], 836, [1]; fine in original black cloth stamped in gilt, dust-wrapper. Inscribed by Ginsberg on the title page, "For Mark Mutchler Allen Ginsberg May 24, 1986 AH New Orleans."

London: Fielding and Walker, 1778. First published in 2 volumes octavo in 1735, and again in 1744, this is the first edition in quarto, considerably improved and enlarged, pp. viii, plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; engraved frontispiece and 15 engraved plates; 20th-century quarter green morocco, the spine a bit discolored, else very good. With the bookplate of Wm. D. Tarrant, almost certainly the same Tarrant as the mayor of Wichita 1965-67, and the Gun Dog Editor for Field & Stream, and twice named Dog Writer of the Year by the Dog Writers Association of America. Terminology is alphabetically arranged throughout. Alston XVIII-4, 146 (erroneously identified as an octavo).

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 clamshell box, leather label on spine. The whole designed and hand-printed by Schanilec. The text is derived from recorded interviews with farmers in the wake of the farm crisis in the mid 1980s, conducted by Schanilec near his home in Stockholm, Wisconsin, and edited by his brother, Clayton. Quarter to Midnight A.90.a.

[New York: Marchbanks Press, 1929. Edition limited to 1000 copies, small, square 4to, pp. [32]; partially unopened; 10 woodcuts (8 full-page), initials illuminated in gilt; small ding at the top of the front board, else fine in original blue cloth-backed boards elaborately stamped in gilt on the upper cover; in a new blue cloth clamshell box.