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Lexington: Anvil Press, 1986. Edition limited to 100 copies (this, no. 44), printed in red and black in Victor Hammer's American and Andromaque uncial types; 4to, pp. 10, [2], iv, vii, [1], 51, [7]; text printed in red and black throughout; with 21 woodcuts by Fritz Kredel; fine. Original prospectus, order form, extra label, and an autograph note signed by Carolyn Hammer all laid in.
Munchener Kalendar 1894-1911 -
Munchener Kalendar 1894-1911
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Munich: Munich Verlagsanstalt Black buckram with title in gilt on spine. Splits in cloth spine; slightly shaken. With bookplate "From the Library of Janet Ashbee and C. R. Ashbee." Ashbee was the founder of the Guild of Handicraft Essex House Press. the vividly colorful 16 page booklets are printed on thick paper with deckle edges untrimmed. Their design is inspired by 15th and 16th century German woodcuts. They are signed with the initials of Otto Hupp, German graphic and type designer whose main focus was heraldry. Each calendar contains one page for each month of the year, opposite a large, multicolored Wappenschild (armorial shield) representing an illustrious family whose history is furnished in the text section in the back. Hupp also uses imaginative typefaces and varied border desings. Designed for practical as well as decorative use, thre are blank lines adjacent to the name of the appropriate saint. Many of these are neatly filled in with pencil notations, giving a picture of a family's upper middle class life in those pre-war years.. Contemporary Buckram. Very Good. Illus. by Otto Hupp. Tall Narrow 4to.
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Andromache: a tragedy freely translated into English in 1674 from Jean Racine's "Andromaque" by a young gentleman & John Crowne. Foreword by Desmond Flower
by Racine, Jean
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An Imaginary Portrait
by [DANIEL PRESS]. Pater, Walter
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Oxford: H. Daniel, 1894. First edition thus, one of 250 numbered copies. Original printed wrappers, glassine and slipcase. 61 pp. Spine slightly darkened, else a fine copy. Madan 33. "First printed in Macmillan's Magazine, vol. 38 (1878), p. 313, it is here for the first time reprinted with loving care.
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Endeavours & Experiments. John Buckland Wright's essays in woodcut and colour engraving, together with other blocks remaining in his studio
by Christopher Buckland Wright
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Veldhoven, Netherlands
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Upper Denby: The Fleece Press, 2004. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Quarter bound in vellum with patterned paper boards and gilt title on spine. This is number 56 of 60 specially-bound copies ( total edition of 300 copies) with additional, original print 'Cafe Dansant No 2' numbered and dated in pencil, loose in printed wrapper. The 60 copies of this limited edition also contain 2 extra tipped-in prints 'The Blue Dress' and "The Red Room'. Color and black & white woodcut illustrations from the original blocks, some tipped-in. Printed on Magnani avorio Biblos. Housed in orange cloth clamshell case with paper title label on spine. (4), 71 pp. Book 31,5 x 23 cm., loose print 34 x 27,5 cm., case 37,5 x 30 cm. In very fine condition. .
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Full green linen with gold lettering on spine, marbled slipcase, (viii), 37 pages. One of an edition limited to 200 copies, 20 being for presentation. Ten engravings on copper and with a forward by David Jones. Printed under the supervision of Douglas Cleverdon. A masterpiece of the Twentieth Century. A new printing of the Jones masterpiece, with the images printed from the original plates. Very good to near fine condition, head and tail of spine are slightly bumped and boards are slightly rubbed. Slipcase in near fine condition with corners slightly rubbed.
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A House in the Country
by Mary Logue
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Boulder, Colorado, United States
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This is number 13 of the 50 deluxe copies. Total edition limited to 250 numbered copies. Accompanied by an extra set of five full color woodcuts, numbered and signed by Schanilec and inserted in a paper wrapper, all loosely inserted in the cloth-covered clamshell box. This deluxe edition also contains a fifth print facing the colophon not in the regular edition which is a woodcut of a house that turned out to be the wrong house. Wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec. Binding by the Campbell-Logan Bindery. Numbered and signed by the author and printer/illustrator. Fine in a fine clamshell box, with slight fading to the spine of the box. Quarter to Midnight A.130.b
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The Australian Flower Paintings of Ferdinand Bauer
by Stearn, William T.
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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London: The Basilisk Press, 1975. Folio [measures 638mm x 455mm], quarter morocco and marbled boards, pp 30, double page map + 25 fine mounted colour plates with accompanying text, (one plate slightly waved). otherwise a very good copy in fitted cloth-covered box (a little marked and faded). [Limited edition of 515 copies - this being number 200] . [Extremely heavy - extra postage will be required.]. First Edition. Quarter calf and boards. Very Good.
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Leicestershire.
by GRAHAM, Rigby
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St Louis, Missouri, United States
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1 . hardback. Fine. Large oblong folio. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white, and with pictorial end-papers. Leicester (Gadsby Gallery/Sycamore Press) 1980. Black 1/4-morocco and green boards. A fine copy in orange slipcase. Edition of 150 copies printed at the Daedalus Press, and signed by RG. This copy marked "Publisher's Copy" and signed by the publisher, Trevor Hickman.
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The Noble & Joyous Boke entytled Le Morte Darthur nothwythstondyng it treateth of the byrth lyf and actes of the sayd Kynge Arthur; of his noble Knyghtes of the Rounde Tale. Theyr merveylous enquestes and adventures....
by Sir Thomas Malory
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Birsay, Orkney, United Kingdom
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Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press Saint Aldgates and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1933 A good to very good copy of the 2 volume limited edition of Malory's epic work, taken from the only remaining copy of the Wynkyn de Worde printing housed by the John Rylands Library in Manchester. In their original half morocco bindings with gilt titles to spine. Copy no 139 of 350 (370 originally published with 20 not for public sale). Both bindings are clean with very light marking to the cloth. In Vol I there is light rubbing to spine ends and corners, most pronounced at the top front corner. Vol II has some fraying at the top of the spine and a little leather loss at the joint with the top of the front board. There is more pronounced rubbing at the top corners. Both have rubbing to front edges. Top page edges gilt, remainder untrimmed. The endpapers are strongly marbled and there is a little splitting to the front endpaper of Vol II where the damage can be seen to the top of the…
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How Can It Be? A Rock & Roll Diary (Signed Genesis Limited Ed)
by Wood, Ronnie
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- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781905662364 / 190566236X
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Roselle Park, New Jersey, United States
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Genesis Publications, 2015-09-29. 1st Ed. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 5x1x8. Signed. LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY RONNIE WOOD! A wonderful assortment of materials from Genesis Publications including a leatherbound diary signed by Ronnie. This is number 534 of only 1969 created. Condition is as new, opened only to photograph, all original packing materials included. A breathtaking work of art. Please note that the exceptional weight of this item will significantly increase shipping costs well above the original quote. Signed by author.
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UIT EEN VINGER VALT MEN NIET
by Mortier, Erwin
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New Castle, Delaware, United States
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands: De Bezige Bij, 2005. full leather, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, silk page marker, marbled paper and leather slipcase. De Bezige Bij. small 8vo. full leather, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, silk page marker, marbled paper and leather slipcase. 104 pages. One of fifty signed and numbered copies. The edition of De Bezige Bij, which appears at the same time as the commercial edition of 'From a finger does not fall', was bound by hand in October 2005 in a whole calfskin binding and placed in a house with hand-marbled paper by Karli Frigge. The edition is interleaved with loose relics, which the author and photographer have included. Each copy contains an original print of one of the photos from the book and a poem in handwriting. The edition was provided by Mooi Boeken / Pau Groenendijk (www.mooieboeken.nl). Very light rubbing along the hinges of the spine, else near fine.
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Printing Digital Type on the Hand-Operated Flatbed Cylinder Press
by Lange, Gerald
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- 9781633980709 / 1633980707
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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Chatwin Books, 2018. Trade Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" New!
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PRIVATE PRESS.|THE
by Cave, Roderick
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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
by Minegishi, Shinsuke
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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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
by Emile Zola
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Longmont, Colorado, United States
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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)
by Faith Jaques; Zena Sutherland
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- 9781852132736 / 1852132736
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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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- 9780195547870 / 019554787X
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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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A Song About Major Eatherly
by Wain, John
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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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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Evening Redness
by Lawrence Clark Powell
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Boulder, Colorado, United States
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A collection consisting of four novels and reminiscences about Powell's career and his writing. Powell was a renowned expert in bibliographical matters and in addition to his writing held important posts at academic libraries. He possessed the rare gift of writing about books and personalities with a great deal of feeling and affection. Whole generations of book collectors, librarians, and book sellers came to admire his work and owe their inspiration to him. Designed by Ward Ritchie for the Capra Press. One hundred copies were quarter bound in leather with patterned paper covered boards enclosed in a cloth covered slip case. 436 pages. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. The book is signed by Powell. Number 9 of 100 copies. Fine.
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