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SPECIAL CATALOGUE 18

Lovely fine press books, and other rare titles, from the private collection of Arnold Leibowitz.

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See More... 1  (Abbe, Elfriede) Anderson, Hans Christian. THE WIND'S TALE.
Manchester Centre, VT Elfriede Abbe n.d. (1996) 4to quarter cloth, decorated marbled paper-covered boards, marbled spine labels, top edge cut, other edges uncut unpaginated
Limited to 200 numbered and signed copies. Illustrated, designed, and produced by Elfriede Abbe. Abbe (1919-) is a scupltor and wood engraver who has won numerous prizes for her work. Printed on Linweave hand-made paper. Printed on a Chandler and Price platen press, manually operated. Loosely inserted is an A.L.S. from Abbe dated 1996 in which she talks about this book and even enclosed a marbled paper sample to show the color of the binding and a sample page of the text with an illustration. The letter must have worked as the collector bought the book.
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 107129

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Presentation to his Mother

(Abbe. Elfriede) Irving, Washington
RIP VAN WINKLE: A LEGEND OF THE KAATSKILL MOUNTAINS
Ithaca, NY (Elfriede Abbe) 1951 4to quarter cloth, paper covered boards, gilt emblem on front board, fore-edge uncut, slipcase (viii), 34 +(1) pages
Limited edition of 275 numbered and signed copies. Abbe (1919-) is a scupltor and wood engraver who has won numerous prizes for her work. This is copy # 1 presented to Abbe's mother on Christmas 1951. Woodcut engravings by Elfriede Abbe. Text printed from handset type. Invoice for slipcase laid in. Onlaid xerox of one illustration onlayed on slipcase.
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 107229

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See More... 5  (Ashendene Press) Assisi, Francesco Di. I FIORETTI DEL GLORIOSO POVERELLO DI CRISTO.
Chelsea Ashendene Press 1922 8vo. limp vellum with title stamped in gold on spine, linen ties, enclosed in later clamshell box. (xii), 240 pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 240 copies. (Ashendene no. XXXI; Franklin p.240). Illustrated with 53 wood engravings by Charles M. Gere. Graily Hewitt designed the initial and dropped initials printed in red and blue. Chapter headings and shoulder notes printed in red. Well preserved copy with all ties intact.
Price: $ 2,250.00 other currencies Order nr. 49553

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See More... 6  (Ashendene Press) Malory, Sir Thomas THE NOBLE AND JOYOUS BOOK ENTYTLED LE MORTE D'ARTHUR.
Chelsea Ashendene Press 1913 folio full brown leather, five raised bands, titling in gilt, cloth clamshell box with leather spine label. xxii, (ii), 300, (2) pages.
Limited to 145 copies printed on hand-made paper and 8 on vellum; this is one of the paper copies (Descriptive Bibliography, no.XXVI; Franklin 102). Printed by hand by St. John Hornby. All but three of the illustrations were drawn by Charles M. Gere; the other three were drawn by Margaret Gere. Cut on wood by W.H. Hooper and J.B. Swain. The text was taken from Southey's reprint of 1817 of Caxton's edition. Reprints Caxton's foreword. "In this, for the first time, blue was used alternately with red for the large initials. The chapter-headings are all printed in red. For this book Graily Hewitt designed two or three alphabets of fine initials." Colin Franklin calls this "a marvellous achievement, a glorious book." Faintly written in the back is the name Leonard Baskin. As typical with this book, the original Brown cowhide binding has been recreated by a later binder (WB) with part of the original spine (lettering) inlaid on spine. Some rubbing along edges; minor fading of covers. Foxing along edges of free endpapers from turn-ins.The later clamshell box is faded.
Price: $ 7,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 107188

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See More... 10  (Cuala Press) BROADSIDES: A COLLECTION OF NEW IRISH AND ENGLISH SONGS
Dublin Cuala Press 1937 4to quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper label on front board unpaginated
The broadsides are limited to 300 copies; this is one of 150 bound sets, signed at the end of their prefatory essay by Yeats and Wellesley (Miller, p. 115). . Songs by W.B. Yeats, W.J. Turner, Oliver Gogarty, Hilaire Belloc, Dorothy Wellesley, James Stephens, Edith Sitwell, Frank O'Connor, Gordon Bottomley, F.R. Higgins, Padraic Colum, Walter de la Mare. Illustrations by Jack B. Yeats, Victor Brown, Harry Kernoff, Maurice McGonigal. Music by W.J. Turner, Arthur Duff, Edmund Dulac, Frank Liebich, Hilda Matheson, Art O'Murnaghan, Hilaire Belloc. Twenty-five hand-colored woodcut illustrations. Errata sheet laid in. Leather bookplate on front pastedown. Spine and boards slightly soiled. Boards bumped at corners.
Price: $ 4,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 107274

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Fore-edge Painting of Castle

(Fore-edge Painting)
THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.
London Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green 1864 4to contemporary morocco, gilt designs, gilt edges xvi, 540 pages
Herbert 1951. Engravings on wood from designs of Fra Angelico, Pitro Perugino, Francesco Francia, Lorenzo di Credi, Fra Bartolommeo, Titian, Raphael, Gaudenzio, Ferrari, Daniel di Volterra, and others. Frontispiece. Historated borders on text pages. Other decorations by Henry Shaw. This copy has a large painting of a castle scene beneath the gilt on the fore-edge. Spine scuffed, rear inside hinge shows minor cracking. Foxing on endpapers; very slight foxing in text. Bookplate of Frederick W. Longman on front pastedown.
Price: $ 1,250.00 other currencies Order nr. 107106

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See More... 13  (Frink, Elisabeth) AESOP'S FABLES.
Illustrated by Elisabeth Frink. (London) R. Alistair McAlpine Publishing Limited & Leslie Waddington Prints Limited (1968) oblong 4to. orange leather spine with tan cover covers, title and design in gilt on the front cover Four Frink lithographs inserted
Limited to 250 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. Designed and printed at the Curwen Press on Zerkall Butten paper and bound by Mansell, London. Printed in brown and black on French-fold paper. With 46 illustrations in the text and four signed lithographs. Frink (1930-1993) was a noted English sculptor and print maker. The Frink School of Figurative Sculpture was opened in 1996. Spine slightly faded.
Price: $ 3,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 107191

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See More... 22  (Gregynog Press) FABLES OF ESOPE.
Translated out of Frensshe into Englysshe by: William Caxton. With engravings on wood by Agnes Miller Parker. Newtown, Montogomeryshire Gregynog Press 1931 4to. Welsh natural sheepskin, spine titled in black, a signed binding by the Gregynog Press Bindery, later clamshell cloth box. (viii), 146, (2) pages.
Limited to 250 numbered copies (Harrop 20). Printed in Bembo type on Barcham Green hand-made paper. Contains an engraved title page illustration, 36 wood-engravings in the text by Agnes Miller Parker and wood-engraved initial letters by William MacCance. Some fading of covers along top edge and scuffing of leather at head of spine. Corner bumped. One of the landmark books from this press and the illustrator.
Price: $ 5,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 107211

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See More... 23  (Gregynog Press) THE REVELATION OF SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE.
(Wales) Gregynog Press 1932 4to. full hermitage calf, blocked in blind on front cover, top edge sprinkled, slipcase. (60) pages.
Limited to 250 numbered copies (Harrop 24). Printed in Bembo with Perpetua titling on Japanese vellum. Printing in black and red. With the first three words of the title wood-engraved along with 41 wood-engravings in the text by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Some rubbing of covers. Spine shows fading. Slipcase is broken but present and has part of backstrip missing.
Price: $ 3,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 107209

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See More... 24  (Gregynog Press) Xenophon CYRUPAEDIA: THE INSTITUTION AND LIFE OF CYRUS, THE FIRST OF THAT NAME, KING OF PERSIANS.
Eight Bookes Treating of Noble Education, or Princely Exercises, Military Discipline, Warlike Stratagems, Preparations & Expeditions. Translated out of the Greek into English, and Conferred with the Latine and French Translations, by Philemon Holland. Newton, Mont. Gregynog Press 1936 4to. original green oasis decorated with center-and cornerpieces onlaid in red and light green, outlined in gilt and blocked in gilt decorations of Persian character, five raised bands, gilt paneled spine, top edge gilt. xvii, 321, (3) pages.
Limited to 150 numbered copies. This is one of the 135 bound thus by the Gregynog Bindery and signed at the bottom of the back cover on the turn-in. (Harrop 34). Printed under the direction of Loyd Haberly who provided floriated wood engraved initials. Well preserved copy inserted in clamshell box with matching green quarter leather.
Price: $ 4,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 107189

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See More... 25  (Gutenberg Bible) BIBLIA SACRA.
2 volumes. Patterson Pageant Books 1961 folio red cloth as issued. not paginated.
Facsimile edition. Printed in an edition limited to 1000 numbered copies of which 996 were for sale. This edition is the first ever printed in the United States. It reproduces a copy considered by authorities to be one of the most beautifully illuminated of the forty-seven copies known to exist. It derives from the Insel Verlag edition which was based on the copy in the Koniglichen Bibliothek in Berlin, and the copy in the Standischen Landesbibliothek in Fulda. The text pages have been printed by lithography in red, blue and black. There are also about 100 illuminated pages finely printed by sheet-fed gravure. The paper used is 100 percent rag content made especially for this edition.
Price: $ 5,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 107040

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