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London: Heinemann. Near Fine. 1929. Limited Signed Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; Clean and secure in original white vellum binding with gilt lettering and decoration in original white card slipcase (slipcase worn and splitting); silk ribbon place marker bound in. Printed on very fine India paper. Signed by the author, No. 540 or only 1030 copies issued.… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Bros.. Very Good. 1932. Hardcover. A lovely edition of Millay's classic Sonnets beautifully printed and bound in full brown leather with gilt lettering and compartments at spine; some rubbing at spine and wear at spine ends and corners, still quite nice. Set up by hand in Goudy Mediaevil type by Arthur and Edna… Read more about this item

East Aurora: Roycrofters. Very Good. 1907. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. A very nice example in binding of white buckram spine and with dark grey-green boards; gilt lettering at spine and front board; printed by letterpress on hand-made paper, top edge gilt, fore edge and bottom edge untrimmed. Frontispiece portrait of John Wesley, as well as full page… Read more about this item

Chicago: Pocahontas Press. Near Fine. 1941. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 34 pages; Chicago: Near Fine. 1941. First Edition Thus. 34 pages; Limited edition of only 200 copies designed by Suzette Hamill printed for Pocahontas Press by The Monastery Hill Press, Chicago 1941. Clean and secure in original binding of glossy black boards with hand coloured illustration… Read more about this item

Boston: Merrymount Press. Very Good. 1940. First Edition. Ephemera. 4 pages; Boston: Very Good. 1940. First Edition. 4 pages; Clean and complete, no tears. 1 folded sheet (4 pages) with a colour illustration of the Market House by R. Ruzicka. OCLC 42254519 A special holiday production by D. B. Updike's Merrymount Press sent to clients and friends… Read more about this item

Evansville / New York: Typophiles / Printed For Carl Norwood. Near Fine. 1942. First Edition. Booklet. 12 pages; Evansville / New York: Near Fine. 1942. First Edition. Typophiles Monograph No. 6; 12 pages; Printed for the Typophiles, Christmas 1943. From the Further Papers of the Inland Calligrapher. Evansville, June, 1942. Decorative wrappers printed in red and black.… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara: Santa Teresa Press. Near Fine. 1992. First Edition. Paperback. 16 pages; Santa Barbara: Near Fine. 1992. First Edition. 16 pages; Booklet is is Fine condition as issued in original envelope (toned) . Limited to 500 Copies. Softcover. Christmas book for the friends of Kirk Douglas and Pepper & Stern - Rare Books, Inc. It publishes… Read more about this item

London: Printed for The Villon Society. Very Good-. 1885. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Chap-books and Folk-lore Tracts - First Series V; xliii, 37 pages; Contents clean and secure in original white Japanese vellum with gilt lettering at spine, some soiling to rear board. A beautifully printed facsimile edition of the The Famous and Remarkable History of Sir Richard Whittington, Three… Read more about this item

London: Printed for The Villon Society. Very Good. 1885. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Chap-books and Folk-lore Tracts - First Series III; 34 pages; Contents clean and secure in original white Japanese vellum with gilt lettering at spine, some wear at spine edges. A beautifully printed facsimile edition of the 1685 edition of Mother Bunch's Closet Newly Broke Open, and the… Read more about this item

New York: Aloe Editions. Near Fine. 1974. First Edition Thus. Original stiff printed Wrappers. Aloe Editions limited edition. Number 30 of 74 numbered copies bound in original gray-blue stitched wrappers about Fine. .

Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press. Near Fine. 1939. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Contents clean and secure in original binding of green paper covered boards with brown cloth spine. OCLC 2726500 Privately printed for the friends of Marguerite and Howard Eric by Southworth-Anthoensen Press in Portland, Maine. Unnumbered copy of limited edition (75 copies?).… Read more about this item

Cranleigh: The Samurai Press. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1909. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Autograph; 64 pages; Contents clean and secure in original binding of blue cloth spine over blue paper covered boards in dustjacket with chipping all along spine, closed tear at rear panel and edgewear. Limited edition of only 300 copies.… Read more about this item

Hartford: Trinity College Library Associates. Very Good. 1979. First Edition. Paperback. 14 pages; Clean and secure in original off-white paper wrappers, printed in brown, with image of a thistle. OCLC 606008269. An address given on the occasion of the dedication of the Medieval Studies Room, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, November 9, 1979. .

San Antonio. Near Fine. First Edition. Softcover. 56, (4) pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers. Brilliantly illustrated with Mixed Media Paintings by Isa Catto Shaw created at the Southwest School of Art & Craft in San Antonio, Texas, 2009. Limited edition, hand numbered 39/60 copies issued. 56 numbered pages 10" x… Read more about this item

Editura Minerva. Very Good. 1973. First Edition. Paperback. Autograph; 76 pages; Beautifully printed on textured illustrated paper in printed card wrappers with French flaps. Warmly inscribed and SIGNED by the author on first blank -- "April 6, 1973 / For Stefan Munsing with / thanks & for remembrance of / 'Funen Island' -- of your open… Read more about this item

Evanston: Douglas C. McMurtrie. Near Fine. 1941. First Edition. Brochure. 4 pages; Large four page brochure designed and printed by Douglas McMurtrie for presentation to his friends for Christmas 1941. The front cover is a reproduction of the fabulous manger scene by Albrecht Durer dated 1511, the interior bears McMurtrie's printed Christmas salutations, the rear… Read more about this item

(Bruxelles): (J. Gay). Near Fine. 1860. Limited Edition. Paperback. 139 pages; Réimpression faite à Bruxelles, par J. Gay, 1860, avec une notice bibliographique de P. Lacroix. [Catalogue de la bibliothèque de M. Emile Desmazières] Reimpression faite a 200 exemplaires sur papier de Hollande. No. 63 [of 200] Original plain blue-green wrappers in… Read more about this item

Newark, New Jersey: Privately printed at the Olsen Press, Newark. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. [1960]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; 189 pages; Original maroon boards backed with gilt-stamped pigskin spine -- top edges trimmed, fore and bottom edges left rough -- "bound by Master Bookbinding Company, Inc., New York" [colophon]. The volume is in… Read more about this item

Athens: American College of Greece. Very Good+. 1999. Limited Edition. Paperback. Limited Edition printed in October 1999.One of 940 copies in sewn printed cream wrappers (of 1250 total). ix, (2), 12-45, (2) A letter from Fermor to Oxford professor Trypanis in English and Greek about the contemporary Cretan poet who translated both the Illiad and… Read more about this item

Paris: L'Arbalete. Very Good+. 1963. First Edition Thus. Paperback. 95 pages; Clean and tight in original printed wrappers, pages unopened. Les Bonnes (The Maids), this play by the French dramatist Jean Genet, was made into a 1974 film directed by Christopher Miles. The film starred Glenda Jackson as Solange, Susannah York as Claire, Vivien Merchant as… Read more about this item