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(Thornwillow Press) Schlesinger Jr., Arthur. J.F.K. REMEMBERED.
Newburgh, NY Thornwillow Press 1988 8vo. full blue leather, clamshell box. 44 pages
Limited to 425 copies of which this is one of 60 copies with Roman Numerals (this being LX) bound thus and containing marbled endpapers by Iris Nevins. Author was a noted historian and adviser to President Kennedy. Printed on the 25th anniversary of the President's assasination. Hand printed by Luke Ives Pontifell at his Thornwillow Press on Johannot paper from France and with handbinding by Karl Foulkes. With one engraving by Michael McCurdy on the title page. The author has signed this copy at the bottom of the first page of text and the printer has signed the colophon. Loosely inserted is a T.L.s. from Pontifell to the artist, Michael McCurdy, meant to accompany this copy of the book and apologizing for taking so long to get the book to him.
Price: $ 1,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 114458

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(Tideline Press) Fraser, James H. EXLIBRIS DESIGNS FOR SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Tideline Press 2010 8vo cloth covered boards, paper spine, 4 leather cords over spine 53 pages
One of 21 copies. Signed by Leonard Seastone.
Price: $ 800.00 other currencies Order nr. 108202

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(Tideline Press) Seastone, Leonard GOOSEBERRY CREEK.
N.P. Tideline Press 1987 8vo. cloth folding case with ivory ties and pictorial paper-covered inner covers holding the book. The book was produced as a long accordion-shaped book with die cut areas and printing of the text on alternate pages with a background of the scenes along the creek and four mounted Platinotypes by David A. Hanson also showing scenes along the creek.
Limited to 65 numbered copies signed by Hanson and Jack Fitterer who provided the interesting binding and portfolio. Printed by Leonard Seastone at his Tideline Press. An excellent example of combining book printing, illustration, and binding.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 41254

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Tijs, Gonnie and Roely van der Veen EEN REISBRIEF.
(Amsterdam Gerrit Rietveld Academie 1989) folio. stiff paper wrappers; clamshell box unpaginated
Text in Dutch. Limited, numbered edition of 49. Hand-numbered and signed by Sjaak Hubregtse (1944-2007). A Travel Letter, Rietveld project 60. Text by van der Veen, design by Tijs. Foldout text. Printed accordian style with images in black and blue ink. Colophon on back of clamshell box.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 109780

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(Trianon Press) Breuil, Abbé Henri SOUTHERN RHODESIA, THE DISTRICT OF FORT VICTORIA AND OTHER SITES.
France Singer-Polignac Foundation with Trianon Press (1966) folio cloth, dust jacket with a cardboard slipcase. not paginated.
First edition. Printed in an edition limited to 388 unnumbered copies. This is the fifth in the series about rock painting in South Africa with a collaboration of Mary E. Boyle and a foreword by Roger Heim. This volume describes two expeditions made by Abbe Breuil to Rhodesia, then Southern Rhodesia in 1948 and 1950. His study reveals affinities with the White Lady, and traces of immigrants from the north several thousand years before the white settlers of our own time. Most of the paintings here have never before been published and are largely unknown. Regions include Dandabari, Chamavara, Mbara, The Chibi Reserve, the White Rhino shelter and more. It is illustrated with 63 color plates, reproduced by the collotype and hand-stencil process by the Trianon Press, 19 photographs in monochrome collotype, and 3 line illustrations.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 57817

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(Trianon Press) Breuil, Abbé Henri THE TSISAB RAVINE AND OTHER BRANDBERG SITES.
France The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation through Trianon Press (1959) folio cardboard slipcase. variously paginated.
First edition, limited to 1000 copies. The Tsisab Ravine in the Brandberg Mountain range of South-West Africa, which is the site of the famous 'White Lady of the Brandberg," is also the site of a great number of painted rock shelters clustered together nearby. This volume is the outcome of the labors of Abbe Breuil and his companions who camped in the Tsisab Ravine in 1947 and again in 1948 in order to study the sites and to take tracings directly from the rock face. The Abbe's color copies are reproduced by the collotype and hand-stencil process in 77 plates, including one double-page, and are documented by 50 photographs reproduced in monochrome collotype, including two double-page photo-montages. It also includes introductory and topographical material, as well as a detailed description of the plates with the collaboration of Mary E. Boyle, Dr. E. R. Scherz and R. G. Strey.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 57802

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(USC Fine Arts Press) Plannck, Stephen THE LETTER OF COLUMBUS ON HIS DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD.
With an introduction by Doyce B. Nunis and Charles R. Ritcheson. Translated into English by Samuel Eliot Morison. Los Angeles USC Fine Arts Press 1989 8vo. quarter leather, elephant hide paper over boards. 48, (2) pages.
Limited to 326 numbered copies, this being one of the trade editions bound thus. Contains a facsimile of the Stephen Planck 1493 Latin edition of THE LETTER, an English translation and a bibliographic afterword by Lynn F. Sipe of the University of Southern California. The first book produced by this new private press. Designed and produced by Gerald Lange and hand printed in three colors by Robin Price.
Price: $ 320.00 other currencies Order nr. 25509

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(Verdigris) Rouanet, Marie MAGIE BLANCHE
(Octon) Verdigris 2006 folio loose sheets housed in a clamshell box not paginated
Limited to an edition of thirty, of which twenty-five were for sale. Marie Rouanet's text was inspired by ten mezzotints (eleven plates) by Judith Rothchild and the spirit of the restaurant, The Mimosa, created by Bridget and David Pugh. The book is comprised of a suite of prints and text in loose sheets of Hahnemuhle paper. The text was printed letterpress on an Albion press by Mark Lintott. The boxes are covered in Fabriano Ingres screen printed with mimosa leaves. The colophon is signed by the author and artist and the prints are initialed by the artist.
Price: $ 1,750.00 other currencies Order nr. 95958

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(Village Press) Cary, Melbert B. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE VILLAGE PRESS.
Including an Account of the Genesis of the Press by Frederic W. Goudy and a Portion of the 1903 Diary of Will Ransom, Co-Founder. New York The Press of the Woolly Whale 1938 8vo. cloth, leather spine label, top edge gilt. (iv), 205, (3) pages.
First edition, limited to 260 numbered copies. Illustrated. Loosely inserted is a two page Addendum to the bibliography printed by the press. Ownership inscription in ink in corner of free endpaper.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 95976

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(Village Press) Cary, Melbert B. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE VILLAGE PRESS.
Including an Account of the Genesis of the Press by Frederic W. Goudy and a Portion of the 1903 Diary of Will Ransom, Co-Founder. New York The Press of the Woolly Whale 1938 8vo. cloth, leather spine label, top edge gilt. (iv), 205, (3) pages.
First edition, limited to 260 numbered copies. Illustrated. Well preserved copy.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 35898

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Vrba, Jan DRAZINOVSKÁ HORA.
Prague J. Otto 1931 8vo full green pebbled calf, title and author gilt-stamped on spine, front board decorated in gilt and stamped in blind, top edge gilt, other edges uncut 309, (5) pages
Limited to 200 numbered copies. Text in Czech. First published 1926 (Arno Sánka, 2133). Drazinovska Mountain. Illustrations by Frantisek Vrobel. Signed by author and illustrator. Dedication to Arne Nováku. Front board decorated with natural scene. Some fading to spine and edges of boards.
Price: $ 260.00 other currencies Order nr. 108028

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Wall, Bernhard FOLLOWING ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1809-1865
Lime Rock CT Bernhardt Wall 1931-1942 square 12 mo. paper jackets over heavy cardboard affixed by the flaps as issued, paper spine labels, all ephemera held in a clear portfolio. not paginated
Set #1 of 76 (Weber, pages 38-41). Complete set of 85 volumes, plus one of the two ancillary volumes and a portfolio of ephemera related to the books and/or Abraham Lincoln. There are 1035 etchings total, with some volumes having as many as 16 plates and others as few as 8, while most had 10 or 11. As this set was issued over an 11-year time period, complete sets are very difficult to find (Lincoln National Life Foundation, renamed The Lincoln Museum, Harvard, University of Chicago, and the Library of Congress have complete sets of 85). As Weber notes "Though Wall generally lists the number of copies, he seldom reached more than half that goal. Hence, the use of those data are more academic than factual"(24). There is some doubt whether or not all 76 sets were completed. Each of the books are dedicated to different people, including Henry E. Huntington, Carl Sandburg, and Stephen Vincent Benet. Volume 60 and volume 85 are indexes. Wall had originally envisioned a series of only 15 volumes, then he felt the series would end at 60 (hence the index), but began what he termed a supplemental series which ultimately concluded at 85. There were two ancillary volumes, one of which is present here, that contain two etchings of Wall, a tipped-in newspaper clipping and other related materials. In addition to the 85 volumes, there is a portfolio of ephemera having to do with Abraham Lincoln and/or the set of books. There are 14 brochures of tourist information about various Lincoln-related sites. There are five letters to or from George Lee Williams and two photostats of a document, dated October 25, 1952, from Mr. Williams giving information about the set and how he acquired it from Mr. Merl Kimmel in 1950. The most important item in the packet of ephemera is the ancillary volume. It has two more etchings by Wall and an article from the Los Angeles Times dated September 5, 1950, about Bernhardt Wall. Attached to this volume, by two paperclips, is a handwritten note "George - Found this right after you left in the desk drawer with some other stuff. Merl. Also forgot to tell you, - your set is #1, & the only set ever made." (not true as at least two complete sets have been located).
Price: $ 15,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 99316

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(Weather Bird Press) Owen, Wilfred. SELECTED WAR POEMS OF WILFRED OWEN.
Pasadena Weather Bird Press 1983 Folio quarter leatherette with green cloth. (34) pages
Limited to an edition of 125 numbered copies printed letterpress signed by the illustrator. Designed by Vance Gerry. Finely printed on high quality Arches artists paper. Thirteen 2- color linocuts by Dale Barnhart. Water stain (faint) along top edge of both covers.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 62130

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Weissenborn, Helmuth TWENTY-FOUR PICTURES OF DANCERS ACROBATS JUGGLERS CLOWNS & WILD BEASTS
engraved on vinyl London Acorn Press 1980 square 8vo. loose leaves housed in clam-shell box not paginated
Limited to an edition of 50 hand-printed copies, numbered and signed by Weissenborn. One page of text followed by the 24 linocuts, most of which are printed in two colors - brown and green. Acorn Press was Weissenborn's, operated with his wife Lesley, from 1945 until his death in 1982. Although this title is not listed in the Whittington Press bibliographies, John Randle says that he did the letterpress and the type is Whittington's, as is the paper. Bookplate of collector, bookplate historian, and author Brian North Lee on the inside front of the box. Rear hinge of the box is broken.
Price: $ 550.00 other currencies Order nr. 99876

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(Whittington Press) Anderson, Andrew A VISION OF ORDER, 32 LINOCUTS BY ANDREW ANDERSON.
(Lower Marston Farm, Risbury) Whittington Press 2011 22 x 15 inches quarter buckram and paper covered boards, slipcase 64 pages
Andrew Andersons astonishing linocuts are an arresting mix of image, lettering and symbolism. The images show strong influences of his background as an architect with a particular interest in mediaeval architecture; the lettering brings Eric Gill to mind, but with an added fluency and versatility; and much of the symbolism comes from his involvement with cathedral and church architecture. He has written about his work in MATRIX 28, pp. 9.

He combines these three elements with immense skill and with a rare dedication, and yet his images have an astonishing vibrance and magnetism. Little known or seen over the years, hampered perhaps because of their size and the artists preoccupation with his architectural work, they appear here for the first time in a readily accessible form, each with a note by the artist explaining its content and symbolism.

The large format of A VISION OF ORDER allows most of the prints to be tipped in unfolded. Like our Posters published in 1996, it will be a monumental volume in its own right, set in a large size of the Caslon type for which the Press has become renowned. Tom Mayo, who will be doing much of the printing of this large and unusual project, will be posting a blog giving an illustrated report of its progress.

Available Summer 2011
Price: $ 525.00 other currencies Order nr. 107015

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(Whittington Press) Bishop, Hal. LOST & FOUND
Risbury, Herefordshire Whittington Press, The. 2010 8vo. half-bound in buckram and paper 112
Trade edition, one of 225 copies. Lost and Found will show all sixteen of the blocks for The Mill on the Floss for the first time, as well as reconstructing the larger palimpsest images on the reverse of the blocks. As Hal Bishop remarked in Matrix 26, 'Despite the loss of the short central section of each block, Rachel's compositional whole is easily reconstructed by the eye.'

The book will also include eighteen of her wonderfully energetic earlier engravings, showing how her style developed before she began The Mill on the Floss. Lost and Found tells the story of sixteen powerful illustrations that have remained hidden for nearly sixty years, and the highly unusual images that were sacrificed unneccessarily in the process. It brings to light the work of one of the century's most original engravers, whose work is little known partly because her financial independence made her relatively unconcerned about publicising her work.

Limited to 185 trade editions which are bound in buckram and decorated paper sides.
Price: $ 216.00 other currencies Order nr. 105220

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(Whittington Press) Butcher, David BRITISH PRIVATE PRESS PROSPECTUSES, 1891-2001.
(Risbury, Herefordshire) Whittington Press (2001) small 4to. half-cloth with patterened paper-covered boards, cloth and paper-covered slipcase xii, 147, (3) pages with 16 additional leaves of illustrations
Limited to 350 numbered copies of which this is one of the 260 bound thus. The development of the private press in Britain during the twentieth century is traced through this collection of prospectuses that come from both famous and not so famous publishers. As the books they represent become rarer and more expensive, the prospectuses, which can offer fascinating clues to the development of the titles they promote, are becoming collectible items themselves. Frontispiece is a wood-engraving by Eric Ravilious for the cover of the Golden Cockerel Press' Autumn List 1931. Includes 16 colored plates and three facsimile prospectuses inserted in a pocket in the back board.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 88961

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(Whittington Press) Gant, Roland STEPS TO THE RIVER.
With Eight Wood-Engravings by Howard Phipps. Leominster The Whittington Press (1995) small 4to. cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards, paper spine label accompanied by a matching portfolio containing proofs of the woodcuts with both inserted in a slipcase. Full color frontispiece woodcut; (38) pages; accompanied by the nine proofs.
Limited to 200 numbered copies signed by the author and the illustrator; this is one of the 40 copies to be issued thus with the proofs of the woodcuts. Five page introduction by John Randle of the Whittington Press recalling how he met Roland Gant. Two page preface by Gant. In addition to the full color woodcut as frontispiece there are seven other woodcuts in black and white.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 41481

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(Whittington Press) Gerry, Leslie and Robin Llywelyn PORTMEIRION
DELUXE EDITION (Lower Marston Farm, Risbury Whittington Press 2008 4to. paper covered boards, clamshell box
This deluxe edition contains a 23" x 33" foldout illustration, 8 loose 12" x 16" illustrations, and a custom clamshell box.

Portmeirion is the extraordinary Italianate village created by the architect and town-planner Clough Williams-Ellis on a remote peninsula in North Wales.

The double-spread images in Portmeirion brilliantly capture its architectural eccentricities in a pageant of colour created by the artist in the form of a series of seven original prints drawn on an electronic tablet, a technique he has exploited that is in many ways the successor to the Jean Berte and pochoir processes in that it achieves its effects by superimposing layers of flat colour on top of one another.

Clough's grandson, Robin Llywelyn, who spent much of his childhood at Portmeirion, provides a vivid and concise commentary on each scene, tracing the development of the village from its beginnings in 1925 and describes how Clough put 'fallen buildings', rescued from demolition before and after the war, to brilliantly creative use in his uniquely bizarre concept of Portmeirion.

The images are printed by the artist on Somerset mould-made paper, and the text, on alternate openings, is set in 24-point Caslon and printed on a heavyweight Zerkall chamois geglattet mould-made paper in a threadless zig-zag binding.
Price: $ 440.00 other currencies Order nr. 103752

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(Whittington Press) HELLMUTH WEISSENBORN, PAINTER & GRAPHIC ARTIST. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD WALKER.
London Bachman & Turner. Printed at Whittington Press. 1976 tall 4to. stamped cloth, slipcase (viii), 18, (2) pages followed by 65 unnumbered leaves of illustrations, 85-88, (4) pages.
First edition, limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by the artist. A handsome production from the Whittington Press (Butcher 17). Printed on Wookey Hole mouldmade paper. The illustrations are shown in color and also include 8 tipped-in color plates.
Price: $ 425.00 other currencies Order nr. 80838

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(Whittington Press) Jefferies, Richard ; Clare, John ; Thomas, Edward ; Hanscomb, Brian SUN, SEA & EARTH
(Manor Farm, Andoversford) Whittington Press (1989) large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers bound in the Japanese style with dark blue ribbon, slipcase not paginated
One of 100 copies (of 125 total) with 12 double leaves ( 8 leaves on toned laid hand-made paper & 4 leaves cream laid paper) folded at the fore-edge. Eight copper-engravings by Brian Hanscomb illustrate the text. There were a limited supply of the hand-made papers for the engravings, hence the preliminary and subsidiary leaves were printed on a different stock. Very scarce.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 78594

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(Whittington Press) Lindsley, Kathleen. PUB SIGNS FOR SAMUEL WEBSTER
Manor Farm, Andoversford Whittington Press 1983 small 8vo. quarter cloth with marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label. not paginated
The edition is limited to 350 numbered copies (Butcher 67). It is signed by the author/illustrator on the colphon. The book contains forty-one of the more than two hundred wood-engravings commissioned for the Halifax brewers Samuel Webster. The book was printed for Pentagram Design. At least half the edition went to Samuel Webster, so only a relatively few were left for general distribution.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 78600

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(Whittington Press) Macgregor, Miriam MIDWINTER
Lower Marston Farm, Risbury Whittington Press 2012 large 8vo decorated paper covered boards, slipcase 32 pages
One of 185 numbered trade copies. In February 2009 the north Cotswolds were covered by a brief but deep fall of snow. A fairytale landscape of changing shapes and patterns appeared overnight. Beside the predictable snowman on the village green, there was even a habitable igloo. Miriam Macgregor at once ventured out into this unfamiliar snowscape with sketchbook and camera, and these engravings, mostly full-page, are the ideal medium for their subject. This is the third book of Miriam's engravings in which all the subjects are within walking distance of her cottage.

Hand-set in 16 point Centaur and printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, with 24 wood-engravings, in an edition of 255 copies.
Price: $ 216.00 other currencies Order nr. 115190

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With Proof

(Whittington Press) Macgregor, Miriam NEW CASTLE, A BRIEF ENCOUNTER.
Risbury The Whittington Press 1998 4to. decorated paper-covered boards in a paper-covered slipcase. (20) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to only 100 numbered and signed copies of which this is one of the 75 regular copies (this copy is out of series). A beautiful illustrated book on New Castle, Delaware. These images and words are the result of Miriam Macgregor's visit to Oak Knoll Fest in October 1998. The pochoir illustrations and cover are cut on stencils and watercolored by the artist. Includes a view of Oak Knoll Books at its previous location at 414 Delaware Street. Accompanied by a proof of one leaf from the book showing four pages and four scenes in pochoir and with a note in ink stating that this is a proof sheet. With notes in pencil stating the four steps necessary to complete this sheet.
Price: $ 1,250.00 other currencies Order nr. 57935

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Special Edition

(Whittington Press) MATRIX 11.
Manor Farm Whittington Press 1991 4to. quarter leather, marbled paper over boards, in slipcase with separate bound copy of additional material. (v), 207, (14) pages.
Limited to 955 copies, this being one of 105 copies bound thus. (Butcher 110). Filled with tipped-in plates, photographs and samples of private press items. Some of the articles in this issue are "Reynolds Stone and Cambridge" by Brooke Crutchley, "Stanley Morison and Jan van Krimpen, a Survey of their Correspondence" by Sebastian Carter, "On Preparing Designs for Monotype Faces" by Jan Van Krimpen and "Compton Marbling" by Solveig Stone. Also includes, in a separate bound volume, a copy of TWINS by John O'Connor, illustrated with two color engravings and signed by the author.
Price: $ 600.00 other currencies Order nr. 34248

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