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The Murders In the Rue Morgue
by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been claimed as the first detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ". Similar works predate Poe's stories, including Das Fräulein von Scuderi (1819) by E.T.A. Hoffmann and Zadig (1748) by Voltaire. C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mysterious brutal murder of two women.
The Snow Leopard
by Peter Matthiessen
The Snow Leopard is a 1978 book by Peter Matthiessen, which is an account of his two month journey along with naturalist George Schaller in 1973 to Crystal Mountain, in the Dolpo region on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalayas.
For Jean Grolier & His Friends 125 Years Of Grolier Club Exhibitions and Publications 1884-2009
by George and Holzenberg, Eric Ong
The Killer Elite Pressbook 1975 James Caan, Robert Duvall
by Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill Directed By Sam Peckinpah / Starring James Caan
Quarter To Midnight Gaylord Schanilec &Midnight Paper Sales a Discursive Bibliography
by Robert Rulon-Miller
Mill Of the Stone Women Pressbook 1963 Scilla Gabel, Pierre Brice
by Pierre Brice, Wolfgang Preiss Directed By Giorgio Ferroni / Starring Scilla Gabel
Lost Lepidopteras a Brief Description Of Six Newly-Extinct Butterflies With Apologies To Serious Entomologists
by Carol J Blinn
McCabe and Mrs Miller Pressbook 1971 Warren Beatty, Julie Christie
by Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois Directed By Robert Altman / Starring Warren Beatty
A Suite Of Ten Lithographs Drawn By Robert Kipniss For the Selected Poems Of Rainer Maria Rilke
by Robert Kipniss
Marty 1955 Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti
by Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti Directed By Delbert Mann / Starring Ernest Borgnine
Marriage On the Rocks Pressbook 1965 Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr
by Deborah Kerr, Dean Martin Directed By Jack Donohue / Starring Frank Sinatra
Portraits Of Presses Photographs By Ski Harrison Of Fleece, Gregynog, Im Imprimit, Old Stile, Rampant Lions, Rocket, Tern, Whittington & Ctd With Commentary By the Printers
by The Whittington Press
Cattle Queen Of Montana Pressbook 1950 Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Reagan
by Ronald Reagan, Gene Evans, Lance Fuller, Anthony Caruso, Jack Elam, and Yvette Duguay Directed By Allan Dwan / Starring Barbara Stanwyck
Censorship Books & Ephemera
The elegies of a glass Adonis. With a typographical note by Will Carter
by Trypanis, C. A
New York: Chilmark Press, 1967. Edition limited to 450 copies signed by the author, and designed and printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge; large 8vo, pp. [6], 31, [3]; fine in original gilt-lettered paper-covered boards and publisher's slipcase. "The type is a rare 16-point italic, designed by Frederick Warde in 1925 after the calligraphic models of the 16th-century writing master, Ludovico Arrighi...and recently recast by the Oxford University Press from the...
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€81.52
Poems from XV languages. Translated by members of the program in creative writing at the University of Iowa
Iowa City: The Stone Wall Press, 1964. Edition limited to 500 copies, 150 of which are in boards, 350 in wrappers; 12mo, pp. 27, [1]; double-paged insert between pp. 24-25 in Gaelic script and hand-lettered by Michael O'Connell; fine in original brown paper-covered boards with a Korean calligraphy design. From the library of Kim Merker. The preface is by Paul Engle. Among the translators are Mark Strand, Donald Justice, and Engle himself. Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 15.
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€81.52
Nathaniel Baddeley, bookman. A play for the fireside in one act. Illustrated by Fred Lawson
by Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una
Leeds: At the Swan Press, 1924. Edition limited to 100 copies for private circulation, square 8vo, pp. 50, [1]; title printed in red and black, half title and colophon in red; printed by Sydney Matthewman; small chip at top of spine; very good in orig. full blue calf stamped in gilt on upper cover. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 431: "A commercial plant, with considerable attention to good book making" not to be confused with the Swan Press of London.
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€108.70
The applebet book
by Williamson, Lynette & Janice Wheeler
[Place of publication not identified]: Persimmon Press, 1981. Edition limited to 120 copies (this, no. 111) signed by Janice Wheeler; 16mo, accordion fold, title-page vignette and 26 illustrations, one for each letter of the alphabet; first leaf slightly miscreased, else a fine copy in original red paper-covered boards. From the library of Kim Merker. "This book was printed in September, 1981 in the interest of good clean fun. The type is Baskerville and the paper is Arches Text" (colophon)....
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€163.05
Droles de journal
by Rakosi, Carl
West Branch, Iowa: The Toothpaste Press, 1981. Limited edition in 1,650 copies, 8 x 6.5 in., pp. [28]; fine copy, perfect-bound in original cream printed wrappers; handset by Ellen Weis, designed and printed by Allan Kornblum, bonud by Rebecca Henderson.
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€21.74
I Am Type!
by Goudy, Frederic W
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1986. 9½" x 7½" letterpress broadside, printed at MCBA as part of 'Dirty Works' 1986, gray paper.
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€10.87
An alphabet stone cut by Eric Gill
by Wells, James M
Chicago, 1963. Reproduced for the Caxton Club of Chicago from the original Eric Gill stone in the Newberry Library, single sheet reproducing the stone approx. 20½" x 24½" and contained in a printed tan sleeve with text by James Wells on Gill and his alphabet stone.
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€81.52
The Four Ducks Press Forbal ... illustrated by Bill Jackson
by Jochems, Roetzel
Wichita: The Printing House at the Sign of The Four Ducks, 1991. Edition limited to 350 copies (this, no. 45); 4to, pp. [8], 33, [3]; numerous color linocuts throughout, mostly botanical in nature; fine copy in the dust jacket. Among the 18 subscribers listed on the jacket flap is Milton Glaser and Phil Metzger of the Crabgrass Press. 'Forbal,' likely here first used in type, is "a natural development and elision of the terms 'forb' and 'herbal'."
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€163.05
Memoirs. The Grand Kentucky Junction
by Crowther, Patricia P., et al
St. Louis: Cave Books, 1984. 8vo, pp. 96, [2]; tan printed paper wrappers, fine. A collection of recollections of a caving trip to Q-87. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
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€54.35
The chamois hunter: a tale of the Alps
by [Gallo, Phil.]
[Minneapolis: Hermetic Press, 1995. Edition limited to 250 copies, 8vo, pp. 8; very fine in original printed wrappers designed and printed letterpress by Phil Gallo of the Hermetic Press for friends of Rob Rulon-Miller in celebration of the holiday season, 1995.
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€27.17
Ye chronicles of Gotham. Buik ye first
by Zadragwagdagdoboribus [i.e. Rev. Dr. Smith?]
Glasgow: imprinted by Andrew Foulis, and sold by him at his shop in the Westergate, and all buiksellers, 1856. First edition (?), 12mo, pp. 110; 22 plates; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped on upper cover with an oval ornament with the motto "Let Glasgow Flourish"; front hinge cracking, else very good. This copy with an ownership signature of "Wm. Connell, Glasgow 1877." Not common: 5 in OCLC as of 3/16, only Stanford in the US who mistakenly attribute this work to Richard Grant White who did in fact...
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€489.14
The Spiral Press through four decades: an exhibition of books and ephemera with a commentary
by Blumenthal, Joseph
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1966. Edition limited to 1900 copies, this one of 400 in cloth, large 8vo, pp. 66, [34] (facsimiles); blue and gray cloth, gilt title direct on spine, gilt printer's mark on upper cover, touch of spotting to endpapers, near fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
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€38.04
Gvlielmi Shakespeare Carmina Qvae Sonnets Nvncvpantvr Latine Reddita Ab Alvredo Thoma Barton Edenda Cvravit Joannes Harrower Mdcccc, XIII (Latin Elegies after William Shakespeare's Sonnets).
by (Shakespeare, William; Alfred Thomas Barton; John Harrower)
( London ): (Riccardi Press). Near Fine. (1913). Limited Edition. Hardcover. A few spots of foxing to front cover near leading top corner, boards just a bit bowed. ; No 59 of 150 copies. Full vellum, front cover lettered and ruled in gilt; top edge gilt; colophon . . . Typis Riccardi amicorvm impensis excvsi a Philippo H. Lee Warner Mediceae societatis librario Londini MDCCCCXIII. Poems in English on versos with Latin translation on rectos. A few spots of foxing to front cover near leading top...
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€330.82
I Am Type!
by Goudy, Frederic W
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1990. 7¼" x 9¾" letterpress broadside, printed by Coffee House Press at Guild Books, 1986, on taupe paper.
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€10.87
Journeys and voyages to nature: a survey of one hundred books
by BAY, J. CHRISTIAN
Cedar Rapids: privately printed at the Torch Press, Christmas, 1950. First edition limited to 400 copies, 12mo, pp. 67, 2 plates; fine in original black cloth over blue paper-covered boards, paper label on upper cover, glassine slightly chipped and torn at top of spine panel. "A hundred great books about nature, chosen from a naturalist's viewpoint."
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€48.91
Charms
by Cott, Jonathan
West Branch, Iowa: The Toothpaste Press, 1981. Edition limited to 850 copies, 6½" x 4½", pp. [24]; fine copy in black printed wrappers with a heart-shaped cutout; designed by Allan Kornblum, handset by Ellen Weiss, printed by A. B.
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€13.04
Fairfax. Translated from the German by Alfred B. Kuttner
by [STERNHEIM, CARL.]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf by the Marchbanks Press, 1923. Edition limited to 950 copies, 8vo, [6] & 66pp., printed under the supervision of Frederick W. Goudy who also designed the type; spine faded, small tear on bottom of spine, otherwise a fine copy in orig. red cloth.
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€21.74
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Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press. Approximately 52 pieces of ephemera including announcements, invitations, broadsides, keepsakes, prospectuses, etc. all fine. Contained in a green cloth-backed DePol paper-covered clamshell box, printed paper label on spine.
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€543.49
Fine Print: a review for the arts of the book
by Kirshenbaum, Sandra
San Francisco, 1990. A complete file of this influential journal, 64 issues in all. Folio, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated throughout; generally fine throughout. Volume I, no, 1 to volume XVI, no. 4 [all published]. Includes the last number, The Complete Index to Fine Print, 1975-1990, often missing.
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€1,032.63
Oratory: its requirements and its rewards
by Altgeld, John P
[Chicago: Published by J.M.L. (Jacob M. Loeb), 1938. Edition limited to 500 copies (this, no. 299) on hand-made paper, 12mo, pp. [5], 6-60, [2]; original blue cloth with gilt lettering; t.e.g.; base and fore-edge untrimmed; fine copy. The book was printed by the Lakeside Press of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company in Chicago. John P. Altgeld (1847-1902) was the governor of Illinois from 1983-1987. He was a progressive politician who advocated for improved labor laws.
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€81.52
A comp's-eye view of type
by Wulling, Emerson
La Crosse, 1947. Edition limited to 150 copies, 16mo, pp. [28]; printed in black and brown; original cream wrappers printed in blue; fine. Wulling discourses on several styles of type, including Centaur, Bulmer, Caslon Oldstyle, Greco Adornado and Copperplate Gothic, among others. Press Preterite, no. 48; Rulon-Miller, Wulling 48.
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€38.04
A year at the Sorbonne: a Proustian life
by Pollak, Oliver B
Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 2002. Edition limited to 150 copies, this, the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery, and out-of-series; 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 127, [3]; 4 pages of photographic inserts; title-page vignette and chapter headers engraved by Sandy Connors printed in blue; original quarter blue cloth, patterend paper-covered boards also by Connors, paper label on spine, fine. Original prospectus laid in. A biography of Elmo Shaver, elder brother of Yellow Barn Press...
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The entire archive of this American photographer and book artist, and of her Running Woman Press
by Hocks, Paula
Largely Sante Fe, 2002. This is the artist's own archive, left to her friend, the bookbinder Priscilla Spitler, on Hocks' death in 2003. Ms. Spitler is committed to seeing this archive in a home where it can be used and studied, and to that end she is willing to work with the buyer to see it properly placed. Paula Jeanne Hocks (1916-2003) was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, the daughter of Malcolm and Eileen (Magruder) Neathery. Her talents touched painting, sculpture, architecture, photographic techniques,...
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€103,263.10
Two decades of Hamady and the Perishable Press Limited. An anecdotally annotated check list with articles by & about the press for an exhibition at Gallery 210/University of Missouri/St. Louis October 3 through November 4, 1984 entitled: Hamady's Perishable Press: A twentieth anniversary sampling of hand crafted books"
by Hamady, Walter
Mount Horeb, Wisc: Perishable Press, 1984. First edition, 4to, unpaginated; illustrations and facsimiles throughout; original illustrated printed wrappers; fine. Standard work on the Perishable Press. From the library of Kim Merker.
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€38.04
A select bibliography of the principal modern presses public and private in Great Britain and Ireland. With an introduction by B.H. Newdigate
by Tomkinson, G. S
London: First Edition Club, 1928. First edition limited to 1000 copies, 4to, pp. xxiv, [2], 238; 28 facsimiles, some wear but generally a good, sound copy or better in original linen-backed blue paper-covered boards, morocco label on spine, t.e.g. Bibliography and notes on 82 presses both in England and America. Standard work on the best presses of the day including the Ashendene, Cuala, Daniel, Doves, Eragny, Essex House, Kelmscott, Vale, Chiswick and many others, and with reproductions of many of the...
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