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History of the Vermont Press in The Vermonter, XI, 1 (August 1905), Tenth Anniversary Issue
St. Albans, Vermont: Charles D. Forbes. 40p. The most important history of Vermont newspapers from the 1780's when there were three to the greatest period of expansion in the 1880's when there were with the advent of technology 59. By 1905 there were less than 10. Besides listing all of..... More
Ten Basic Treatments: Morocco Covers
Watertown, New York: Knowleton Bros. Octavo. 24 unnumbered pages, fan folded with rich color examples. While Knowleton Brothers can trace their work to 1824, it was in the mid-1920's, they began creating the richest preparatory covers for the top designers. This volume is exquisite both in its materials used and..... More
Undine (Limited to 1000 Copies Signed By Arthur Rackham)
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1909. Limited Edition. Quarto. #774 of 1000 copies illustrated and signed by Arthur Rackhamm, Adapted from the German By W.L. Courtney. vii, 136, title page with green pictorial head and tail pieces, 15 unnumbered color plates tipped in, each have tissue guards with descriptive letterpress. When..... More
A Father & Son
Red Wing, MN: Verna Press; Red Dragonfly Press, 2006. Original Wraps. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Limited to 90 copies. Signed by the author as "Pete". The only copy recorded by OCLC is at the University of Iowa. The first book of the Verna Press using Dante metal..... More
The Puppet Show (in Scarce Dust jacket)
Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1922. First Edition. Small Octavo. Limited to 1200 copies. 153(1)pp. unopened. The author's first collection of short fiction; fables and sketches, many ironic, including the delightful "Biography: A Study in Circumstantial Evidence." He was one of the Georgian Poets along with Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, and..... More
Our World in Space
New York Graphic Society, 1974. Cloth. Square Quarto. A beautiful pen and colored ink watercolor over two pages with rich blues, greys, brown and black with exploding sun out of planets. Inscribed "to Hugh Downs ...in appreciation for his generous contribution to the Science Center." signed, Robert McCall, 26 Sept..... More
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The Girl with the Golden Eyes [La Fille Aux Yeux D'Or]
[Chicago, 1928]: Privately Printed/The Peacock Press. Octavo. Unopened, 145(1)pp. translated by Ernest Dowson and illustrated in two states (black and white and very rich color) by Donald Denton. A lovely copy with beautiful color illustrations with tissue guards, bound in 3/4 red morocco over marbled paper covered boards with marbled..... More
An Apology for the True Christian Divinity; Being an Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People Called Quakers
Birmingham, England: Printed By John Baskerville and Sold By the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1765. Small Folio. [12], [1-2] iii-xiii, 504 pages, [16]. Bibliographic references and indexes. The eighth edition in English, the first by John Baskerville. A very nice copy lacking the errata sheet as is typical (Gaskill)..... More
The Bridge, a Chapter in the History of Building
London; (1926): John Lane the Bodley Head Limited. First Edition. Quarto. Limited to only 125 copies. The present copy is number 93 and illustrated in color and in black and white by Frank Brangwyn. This edition printed on hand-made paper, and with two extra illustrations in color for a total..... More
Japanese Papermaking; Traditions, Tools, and Techniques with an Appendix on Alternative Fibers By Winifred Lutz (signed By the author)
New York; (1983): Weatherhill. First Edition. Small Quarto. 316 pages, three paper samples tipped in, index, bibliography, glossary, appendices. As a young man Timothy Barrett traveled to Japan on a Fullbright Fellowship to research washi, Japanese handmade paper. He worked with the craftspeople of Ogawa-machi who forced him to send..... More
Stories from the Pentamerone
London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. First Edition. Small Quarto. First published in Naples and in the Neapolitan dialect by G. Basile, Conte di Torrone, who is believed to have collected them chiefly in Crete and Venice, and to have died about the year 1637. The following version follows the translation..... More
Tristan and Iseult, Translated By Hilair Belloc
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First Edition. Small Octavo. 196 pages. Illustrated by Mac Harshberger. One of the great love stories in all world literature, here translated by Hilaire Belloc with the rich art deco illustrations of Mac Harshberger. It is the story of King Marc of Cornwall..... More
Select Poems/ Divine and Human
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. Limited Edition. Small Octavo. 52, [vi] pp. #365 of 1250 copies on Van Gelder paper, Introduction. Poems. Notes. Bound in white parchment stamped in gilt, spine lettering gilt. A very nice copy. More
Naissance Des Signes: Trois Eaux-Fortes Originales De Max Papart
Paris: Michel Bohbot, 1978. Limited Edition. 12mo. 15 leaves. A portfolio of prints; #47 of 60 copies, signed by the artist and author. Three color prints, each numbered and signed by Max Papart, with tissue guards. An exquisite production, all laid into a light green wrapper and housed within a...... More
The Ninety-First Psalm with Wood Engravings By Dorothea Braby
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 300 copies. 8 unnumbered pages, 5 wood engravings. the first and last pages are blank/ Published just after D-Day, it is the Psalm of God's protection. Beautifully engraved by Dorothea Braby, produced by Christopher Sandford and Owen Rutter at..... More
Verse for Christmas
San Francisco: The Pocket Press By Jackson Burke, 1938. Limited Edition. Small Quarto. Limited to only 50 copies. The present copy is #37 printed by Jackson Burke, no pagination, fan-folded and stitched, bound in plain boards backed in paper, in tan dust jacket printed in red, small stain to upper..... More
The Jolly Beggars-A Cantata
Northhampton: The Gehenna Press, 1963. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 300 un-numbered copies edited by John C. Weston which is preceded by 300 copies bound in cloth backed marbled covered boards. This copy bound in full gray cloth, spine lettering gilt, text printed in red and black. small bump with..... More
Alice in Wonderland
Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930. Oblong Quarto. [6], 114 pages, 6 orignal color lithograph plates by Marie Lurencin and printed by Desjobert of Paris. No. 229 of 300 printed on Rives paper (European Edition). Marie Lurencin (1883-1956) was a French painter and printmaker, associated with the cubists circle of Georges..... More
The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford
London, (: George Routledge and Sons, 1875. Thick Octavo. A new edition. Two books in one. Phillip Massinger was English dramatist and who also collaborated much with Beaumont and Fletcher and others. Engraved vignette title page and regular title page, frontispiece portrait of Massinger, 450pp., including glossary. The Dramatic Works..... More
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in Seven Parts
New York,[1910]: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. First Edition. Quarto. . First American trade edition beautifully illustrated by Willy Pogany with 20 tipped in color plates, beautifully decorated borders, several with artwork within the borders. One of the longest major poems of an English poet which is still published today..... More
Creatures
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1927. First Edition. Octavo. 56(1)pp., illustrated with drawings in black and white by Boris Artzybasheff depicting the creatures within the author's poetry. Padraic Colum was an Irish-born American poet and one of the great figures in the revival of literature in Ireland. He was a...... More
The Hundreth Story of A.E. Coppard
(Waltham Saint lawrence) 1931: The Golden Cockerel Press. Limited Edition. royal Octavo. . Limited to 1000 copies and the first book with Golden Cockerel type. The book was first to be published in a limitation of 750 copies but with swift sales from subscribers, they decided to do the limitation..... More
The First Editor: Aldus Pius Manutius
[New York, 1983]: Targ Editions. Limited Edition. Small Quarto. Limited to 250 copies. The present copy is number 36 signed by the designer-illustrator Antonio Frasconi who illustrated this work with woodcuts and signed by the printer Leslie Miller at the Grenfell Press on Rives mould-made paper; the type is monotype..... More
Eeldrop and Appleplex
Tunbridge Wells, Kent: The Founding Press, 1992. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 500 copies of which this is number 48. 10 (1) pages. The text is taken from The Little Review, May and September 1917. This work is T.S. Eliot's only short story from which two sentences must be added..... More