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See More... (Limited Editions Club) Kafka, Franz METAMORPHOSIS
Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir with Drawings and Etchings by Jose Luis Muir. New York City The Limited Editions Club 1984 8vo. quarter leather, paste-paper-covered boards, slipcase. xii, 62, (2) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. Well illustrated with original colored etchings. Finely hand bound by the Gray Parrot bindery. Spine shows some fading.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 45733

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  (Limited Editions Club) THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB.
14 Volumes. (New York The Limited Editions Club 1957-1972 8vo. stiff paper wrappers variously paginated
A set of 14 of the prospectus catalogues describing the series of books offered for sale by the LEC, the 26th through the 40th series (lacks the volume describing the 38th Series). Includes introductory information along with descriptive information about each item offered for sale and works in progress. Some volumes slightly bent at edges.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 115579

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See More... (Limited Editions Club) Pushkin, Alexander EUGENE ONEGIN, A NOVEL IN VERSE
A New Translation by Babette Deutsch; Edited, with a Special Introduction, by Avrahm Yarmolinsky; illustrated with Lithographs by Fritz Eichenberg. New York The Limited Editions Club 1943 8vo. leather spine and leather along outer edge, outer board jacket, slipcase. xvi, 176, (4) pages.
Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by Fritz Eichenberg. Printed by George C. Miller at the Press of A. Colish. Outer wrapper worn along hinges. Slipcase scuffed. Bookplate.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 27455

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(Lone Oak Press) Thoreau, Henry David OF WOODLAND POOLS, SPRING-HOLES & DITCHES
Excerpts from the journal of Henry David Thoreau wherein he observes and reflects upon the nature of life and vernal pools Petersham MA The Lone Oak Press 2005 oblong large 8vo. quarter leather with leather tipped foredge, marbled paper-covered boards ; cloth portfolio with marbled paper backstrip containing suite of prints ; similar cloth and marbled paper portfolio housing the original engraving block; all are contained in (vi), 89, (3) pages
Limited to an edition of 14, produced thus with an extra suite of engravings and an original engraving block by Abigail Rorer who is the proprietor of The Lone Oak Press. The Tree Frog engraving is the one included in the boxed set. The introduction is by Bradley P. Dean. There are further notes about New England vernal pools by Leo P Kennedy and Matthew R. Burne, as well as by Ms. Rorer. The exquisitely detailed engravings, primarily in black-and-white with some finely tuned touches of color, illuminate Thoreau's words. The extra suite of engravings repeat the illustrations, but are not bound. The engraving block is housed in the specially built box, inside its portfolio with velvet facing the engraving. The book is numbered and signed by the artist on the colophon. Taken together, it is an amazing production.
Price: $ 3,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 89338

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See More... Machen, Arthur BRIDLES AND SPURS
Cleveland Rowfant Club 1951 large 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, paper spine label, fore and bottom pages deckled, slipcase frontispiece, xvi, 70, (2) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 178 copies at the Grabhorn Press. (Schubert pp.42-43, Magee no.510). Preface by Nathan van Patten. Special presentation label from the Rowfant Club to Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Hyde. Title page and head pieces printed in red, black and gold. Titles with red rules. Some spotting on slip case.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 76773

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See More... Mardersteig, Giovanni OFFICINA BODONI, I LIBRI E IL MONDO DI UN TORCHIO, 1923-1977.
Edited and Translated by Hans Schmoller. Verona Edizioni Valdonega (1980) 4to. cloth lxi+(i), 290, (2) pages.
First edition, the Italian language variant. A beautifully produced private press bibliography. Bookplate.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 75984

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See More... (Maret, Russell) Maret, Russell MEDIÆVAL IN PADUA
New York City (Russell Maret) 2008 4to. stiff paper wrappers 25, (3), 10 plates, (2) pages
Limited to 226 copies. This is the first in a new series of occasional publications with the overarching name of Swan & Hoop which documents non-typographic letter forms. This volume focuses on the round gothic capital in Padua Italy. It was written, illustrated and printed letterpress in eight colors by Maret. It features a visual glossary of variant letter forms, a detailed structural analysis of round gothic, and a quire of photographic plates. This is also the first use of Russell Maret's new Baskerville typeface. Included is a letterpress printed announcement of the series which is a little larger than the publication, and a prospectus card for the book itself.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 100265

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See More... (Marion Press) Field, Eugene THE TRIBUNE PRIMER.
New York Marion Press 1900 large 12mo. original half calf with paper-covered boards (vii), 94 pages.
Limited to 115 copies of which this is one of the 25 copies printed on Japan paper (Larremore The Marion Press p 157, 186). While managing editor of the Denver Tribune in 1881, Field printed a number of sketches under the headingThe Tribune Primer. This original collection contained ninety-three of Field's literary sketches. This volume contains 137 sketches, of which 44 are here first collected. Covers rubbed and worn on tips with part of leather covering missing.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 70912

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See More... (Marion Press) Larremore, Thomas A. and Amy Hopkins THE MARION PRESS, A SURVEY AND A CHECKLIST.
With Incidental Alarums, and Excursions Into Collateral Fields. Checklist by Joseph W. Rogers. Jamaica, NY Queens Borough Public Library 1943 8vo. cloth. xx, 272, (2) pages.
First edition, limited to 228 numbered copies. The Marion Press was founded by Frank Hopkins, former shop-foreman for Theodore DeVinne. A total of 197 items are described in detail in the book. A 173 page history of the press and the press movement is included which provides much information on turn of the century printing. Small spots on edge of front free endpaper and pastedown.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 103773

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See More... (McCurdy, Michael) Kessler, Milton WOODLAWN NORTH: A BOOK OF POEMS.
(Boston) Impressions Workshop (1970) 4to. cloth unpaginated
Limited to 125 numbered copies. This copy is a printer's proof. A collection of poetry by Kessler (1930-2000), American poet and Professor of English at Binghamton University. Preface by Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), American poet and short story writer. Etchings executed and printed by Robert Marx. Designed, handset in Garamond, and printed on Velke Losiny (a Czech handmade paper) by Michael McCurdy. Handbound in cloth by Ivan Ruzicka. Signed by the poet, Marx, and McCurdy on colophon.
Price: $ 1,200.00 other currencies Order nr. 114887

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  (Menhart, Oldrich) MENHART 1897-1962.
4 volumes. N.P. Indiana University 1966 folio four paper wrapper fascicules, slipcase. Unpaginated French fold pages.
First edition printed letterpress on Masa and Fabriano papers in an edition limited to 144 numbered copies. One of the few works devoted to the Czech calligrapher, book artist, typographer, and type designer. Includes type specimens. Printed in various colors throughout. With an introduction by Paul Standard. This copy has a loose slip on which is inscribed "Phil, to recall our long years as colleagues & as fellow calligraphers, Paul (Standard), New York, Nov. 1966." Some wear along edges of slipcase.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 110222

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See More... (Menhart, Oldrich) MENHART 1897-1962.
4 volumes. N.P. Indiana University 1966 folio four paper wrapper fascicules, slipcase. Unpaginated French fold pages.
First edition printed letterpress on Masa and Fabriano papers in an edition limited to 144 numbered copies. One of the few works devoted to the Czech calligrapher, book artist, typographer, and type designer. Includes type specimens. Printed in various colors throughout. Wear along edges of slipcase. With an introduction by Paul Standard. Bookplate of Robert Elwell.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 45999

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See More... (Midnight Paper Sales) Esslemont, David and Gaylord Schanilec INK ON THE ELBOW.
Conversation between David Esslemont & Gaylord Schanilec. N.P. Midnight Paper Sales and Solmentes Press 2003 4to. half cloth, with paste paper-covered boards, paper spine label, cloth slipcase 153, (3) pages
Printed in an edition of 200 copies of which this is one of 100 copies issued in the American binding. Finely illustrated with wood engravings by Schanilec, including a magnificent foldout panorama of the Welsh countryside, and color linocuts by David Esslemont. There are also tipped-in original leaves throughout from books produced by each press. A record of email correspondence between David Esslemont and Gaylord Schanilec with additional notes and illustrations. "In one way, the correspondence of Gaylord and David is a daybook chronicling the seasons of the year in Wisconsin and Wales. In another way, it is a diary, with production notes, of editing, printing, and producing some important books. It is also a log of two personal journeys, a record of the writers' struggles to manage personal lives and professional lives in the midst of children, book fairs, accolades, and calamities. Still another important story is Gaylord and David's continuing dialogue about their current printing projects and the implications of their individual printing decisions. These conversations raise a number of interesting issues," (introduction). With introductions by J. Andrew Armacost and David Chambers. Officially published at Oak Knoll Fest X.
Price: $ 480.00 other currencies Order nr. 75259

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See More... (Midnight Paper Sales) Goodman, Richard THE BICYCLE DIARIES; ONE NEW YORKER'S JOURNEY THROUGH SEPTEMBER 11TH.
Stockholm, WI Midnight Paper Sales 2011 8vo. cloth covered boards, paper cover illustration in color by Schanilec, paper label on spine 107 pages
Limited to 250 numbered copies signed by the author and the illustrator/printer. "Shortly after September 11th, 2001, I began riding my bicycle down from my apartment on Upper West Side of New York city to the World Trade Center disaster site - or as near as I could get to it. I rode down almost every day, in all weather, for about four months. When I came home, I wrote about what I saw." -Richard Goodman

The book contains five full-page colored wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec based on a bike ride with the author down toward the disaster site some ten years later. the text is printed letterpress from metal type, and the images from hand-cut end-grain maple blocks.

Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 108200

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See More... (Midnight Paper Sales) Logue, Mary A HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY.
With wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec. Minneapolis, MN Midnight Paper Sales 1994 8vo. quarter cloth with brocaded cloth sides, paper spine label. 62, (4) pages.
Limited to 250 numbered copies and signed by the author and printer. The author, a writer by profession, buys a second home in Stockholm, Minnesota. This relates stories of the fix up and the developing fondness for her old and decrepid home. Accompanied by four spectacular full color woodcuts by Schanilec. Hand printed.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 41170

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See More... Morrison, Lois MY GARDEN FROM WEEDING HEIGHT.
New Jersey n.p. 1993 4-3/8" x 8-3/8" cloth, hand lettered paper cover label
One of 25 signed and numbered copies. Charming landscape done in seven layers offers a close-up garden perspective not often provided. Gocco printed on Levor 100 and Masa, then hand cut and assembled by Morrison. Cover is vintage chicken-feed sack.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 69828

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See More... (Morris, William) Chaucer, Geoffrey KELMSCOTT CHAUCER WITH A COMPANION VOLUME OF BURNE-JONES DRAWINGS BY DUNCAN ROBINSON.
2 volumes London The Basilisk Press 1975 folio decorated cloth covered boards, paper spine label, wooden slipcase 554, 146 pages
Limited to 515 numbered copies. Beautiful same-size reproduction of William Morris's Kelmscott Chaucer. Printed in red and black, with woodblock illustrations, first letter initials, and borders. Fore-edge untrimmed. Top and bottom edge trimmed. Companion volume contains history of the making of the Kelmscott Chaucer, with 85 tipped-in black & white illustrations and plates of Morris, his press, and illustrations of woodblock development to be used in the final 1896 book. Illustrations were drawn by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Binding cover is the 'Larkspur' pattern. The 'Larkspur' pattern cloth was designed by William Morris in 1874 and for this reproduction printed by Liberty of London. Printed on specially made Lochmill cartridge paper by Duncan Robinson at The Basilisk Press. In fine condition, aside from some scuffs to the wooden slipcase.
Price: $ 4,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 107179

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See More... (Mosher, Thomas Bird) Hatch, Benton L. CHECK LIST OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF THOMAS BIRD MOSHER OF PORTLAND MAINE.
Northampton The Gehenna Press 1966 4to. cloth-backed boards, paper spine label, slipcase. 213 pages.
First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. Biographical essay on Mosher by Ray Nash followed by the bibliography. Beautifully printed by the Gehenna Press. With information on William Morris. Well-preserved copy.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 74303

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See More... (Nash, John Henry) Goldsmith, Oliver THE DESERTED VILLAGE.
San Francisco n.p. 1926 4to., facsimile small 8vo. Both volumes quarter white vellum and paper-covered boards, with green leather label ruled and lettered in gilt on spine, in compartment slipcase 4to., (viii), xli, (i), 24, (2) pages; facsimile, (viii), 23, (5) pages
Printed for William Andrews Clark, Jr., by John Henry Nash, in an edition limited to 200 numbered copies, with an accompanying facsimile edition (O'Day, pp.48-9). Introduction by William Andrews Clark, Jr. (1877-1934), the book collector who constructed a fireproof building for his collection that became the library named for him at UCLA. Printed in Caslon Oldstyle Roman and Italic type on VanGelder paper. Frontispiece, title and text within ornamental green borders and green rule designs. Frontispiece portrait of Goldsmith by William H. Wilke done in drypoint after a bas-relief by Helen Hall Culver. In his introduction Clark makes a spirited defense of Goldsmith against the charges of some of his contemporaries--notably Boswell and Walpole. With a facsimile of the first edition of The Deserted Village, published on May 26, 1770. Offset to endpapers, minor wear to slipcase, with some chipping to spine, a few small pieces flaked off, and light stains on one side.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 69939

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See More... (Nash, John Henry) TO REMEMBER RAY FREDERICK COYLE: SIX REPRODUCTIONS OF HIS WORK.
San Francisco John Henry Nash 1926 folio cloth, lavender marbled paper covered boards, morocco spine label lettered in gilt unpaginated
Limited to 210 numbered copies (See Robert D. Harlan, John Henry Nash: The Biography of a Career (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970), 81-2 and Neil O'Day (compiler), A Catalogue of Books Printed by John Henry Nash (San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1937), 48). Includes sonnet dedicated to Coyle by George Sterling and a foreword by Nash. Dedication to Albert Maurice Bender and William Randolph Keltie Young. Six reproductions of the work of illustrator Ray Frederick Coyle (1885-1924), born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, educated at Princeton and Edinburgh. He established an interior decorating business in fhe San Francisco Bay area. Six plates by Coyle in his Art Nouveau style, two gilt-embellished. Coyle worked closely with Nash; correspondence between the two is included in the Nash papers in Special Collections, Bancroft Libray, University of California, Berkeley, collection BANC, MSS 72/245 c. Spine label slightly chipped, boards faded along edges, edge wear.
Price: $ 550.00 other currencies Order nr. 108942

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See More... (Nonesuch Press) Farquhar, George. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GEORGE FARQUHAR.
2 volumes. London The Nonesuch Press 1930 large 8vo. quarter dark blue cloth with light blue ingres paper sides, light blue spine label. All edges untrimmed. xxxvi, 401+(1); (vi) 443+(1) pages.
Published in a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies, of which this is one of 900. (Dreyfus no. 66). Part of the Nonesuch "Restoration Dramatists" series. Edited with an introduction by Charles Stonehill. Monotype Caslon with Stephenson Blake Old Face Open. Several pages unopened.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 76728

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See More... (Nonesuch Press) Harvey, William ANATOMICAL EXERCISES OF DR. WILLIAM HARVEY DE MOTU CORDIS 1628 DE CIRCULATIONE SANGUINIS 1649.
London Nonesuch Press (1928) 8vo. full niger morocco. (xvi), 203 pages.
Number 1028 of 1450 copies. Dreyfus, Century number 51. Bound in full niger morocco with gilt title on spine, and gilt double rule frame with stars in the corners on front and back covers. Printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen on Van Gelder paper with the NONESUCH water mark. Fold-out illustration of the valves in the veins of the fore-arm engraved in copper from a drawing by Stephen Gooden. Top edges gilt "on the rough." A landmark edition of an important work--based on the first English text of 1653 and printed on the three-hundredth anniversary of the initial appearance of the work in Latin. Newly edited by Geoffrey Keynes, author of a bibliography of the work of Harvey. A very good copy of the work.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 46751

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See More... (Nonesuch Press) Keynes, Geoffrey (editor) THE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM BLAKE.
3 volumes London Nonesuch Press 1925-1927 small 4to. matching quarter parchment with marbled paper-covered boards, gold lettering on spine. xx,(2),365 pages in addition to (28) leaves of numbered plates tipped in; (viii),399 pages plus (10) leaves of plates; (viii),430 pages plus (21) leaves of plates
Printed by the Chiswick Press in an edition limited to 1575 copies. (Dreyfus no. 24). Black and white plates. Deckle edges, many leaves unopened. Some soiling of parchment spines.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 75824

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See More... (Nonesuch Press) Raymond, Jean Paul & Charles Ricketts OSCAR WILDE
Recollections Bloomsbury Nonesuch Press 1932 large 8vo. white cloth with gilt title and decorations, top edge gilt, dust jacket 59, (5) pages
Dreyfus 81. Limited to an edition of 800. This biographical essay was written by Charles Ricketts and the fictional character he created, Jean Paul Raymond, based on material he had collected from diaries and letters about his friend Oscar Wilde. Ricketts designed Wilde's book of poems, The Sphinx, in 1894 and did other design work for him later on. He also ran the Vale Press, one of the great English private presses, between 1896 and 1904. Ricketts designed the cover of this book, while the typography was designed by Francis Meynell. This is the only book designed by Francis Meynell to be set on a Linotype machine. Introductory note by Thomas Lowinsky. Printed by George W. Jones at the Dolphin Press in Linotype Granjon on Van Gelder paper with a Nonesuch watermark. Unopened. Boards slightly bowed, transfer from dust jacket flaps has tanned a section of the free endpapers, jacket edges very worn with small tears at head and tail edges, some paper loss at corners, 1" x 4 1/2" open tear on jacket of lower board with larger closed tears and creases extending down from there.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 95355

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See More... (Officina Bodoni) PASTONCHI, A SPECIMEN OF A NEW LETTER FOR USE ON THE "MONOTYPE."
London The Lanston Monotype Corporation (1928) small 4to. half vellum with marbled paper-covered boards, remnants of slipcase. 65, (5) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 200 copies on special Fabriono paper by Mardersteig at his Officina Bodoni. (Officina Bodoni 25). A trade edition was also issued but was not bound in quarter vellum and printed on special paper. An English specimen of a new type-face is designed by Eduardo Cotti under the direction of Francesco Pastonchi. Various specimen booklets of various sizes bound in. Introduction by Giovanni Mardersteig. Light foxing (as typical).
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 57642

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