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Limited Edition Fine Press Book with Tipped-in Specimens

(Seymour, Edward) Berger, Sidney E. EDWARD SEYMOUR AND THE FANCY PAPER COMPANY: THE STORY OF A BRITISH MARBLED PAPER MANUFACTURER.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2006 6 x 9 inches hardcover, quarter leather binding w/ slipcase 104 pages
This book, limited to an edition of 300 copies, tells the story of Edward Seymour and his firm, The Fancy Paper Company. This British company manufactured marbled and other decorated (fancy) papers for the book binding and related industries from about 1919 to 1971. With eighteen illustrations showing their methods and copies of correspondence, and twenty tipped-in, original examples of their many fancy papers, this work is a well-researched text about one of the last English marbled paper manufacturing firms.
Dr. Berger shares with his readers the vicissitudes of the company's fortunes, the personal lives of its owners, and the often touching correspondence he found among its business records. The author also informs us of the salaries, costs of doing business, and the unique demands of bookbinders for the company's products. The work ends with Edward Seymour's valiant efforts to keep the company afloat in the early 1970's.

This edition is published in the best tradition of the fine press book. It was typeset in hot metal, hand printed on 120 gpm, archival paper, and bound in quarter leather with a marbled slipcase by the Manoutios Press of Athens, Greece.

Loosely inserted in this copy is a T.L.s. from the author.
Price: $ 165.00 other currencies Order nr. 93520

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(Shakespeare Head Press) Shakespeare, William THE TRAGEDIE OF CYMBELINE., NEWLY PRINTED FROM THE FIRST FOLIO OF 1623.
London (Ernest Benn Ltd.) 1923 4to. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. lvii, (iii). 134, (2) pages, 6 leaves of black and white plates, 5 leaves of color plates with descriptive letterpress.
Published in a limited edition of 450 numbered copies on pure rag paper; this copy is out of series. (Thomkinson p. 230). Part of the Players Shakespeare Seriesfrom Shakespeare Head Press. Edition based on the First Folio of 1623 with modernized typography. Edited with an introduction by Harley Granville-Barker. Illustrations by Albert Rutherson, line blocks by Emery Walker . Jacket shows minor chipping and foxing. Name and date at top of free endpaper.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 93489

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(Shakespeare Head Press) Shakespeare, William THE TRAGEDIE OF JULIUS CAESAR, NEWLY PRINTED FROM THE FIRST FOLIO OF 1623.
London (Ernest Benn Ltd.) 1925 4to. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. lxxvii,(iii), 89, (3) pages, 6 leaves of black and white plates, 5 leaves of color plates with descriptive letterpress, (2) pages
Published in a limited edition of 450 numbered copies on pure rag paper; this copy is out of series. (Thomkinson p. 230). Part of the Players Shakespeare Series from Shakespeare Head Press. Edition based on the First Folio of 1623 with modernized typography. Edited with an introduction by Harley Granville-Barker. Illustrations by Ernst Stern, line blocks by Emery Walker. Name and date at top of free endpaper.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 93490

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(Society of Private Printers) AN INFANT'S LIBRARY.
N.P. The Society of Private Printers 1980 various small sizes 31 pamphlets in a handmade wood box with a label on the front of the box.
One of 52 sets assembled for the Society's membership only. While 72 copies of the booklets were printed, there were only 52 of the boxes made. The library consists of 31 diminutive children's books printed by member presses. These presses include the Crabgrass Press, Cuckoo Hill Press, Gogmagog Press, Plough Press and the Typographeum. The explanatory text volume by Brian Alderson loosely inserted. This volume lists all the contributors. Loosely inserted is an A.L.s. from Ian Bain meant to accompany this set which was mailed to its American recipient. With a presentation from Bain to the American in the pamphlet that he contributed. Very fine copy of a very interesting production.
Price: $ 1,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 2890

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(Sore Dove Press) Ferlinghetti, Lawrence BASEBALL CANTO.
San Francisco Sore Dove Press 2013 broadside, 7 1/2 by 17 inches leather clamshell box
Limited lettered edition of 26, signed by the author. Published by Soheyl Dahi, editor and publisher of the Sore Dove Press. A poem first written in 1973, mentioning Giants stars Willie Mays, Tito Fuentes, and Juan Marichal, reflecting the ethnic diversity and tensions of baseball in San Francisco. Sore Dove Press is noted for publishing poetry chapbooks and broadsides, mostly in small editions. Broadside and an official major league baseball signed by the poet laid in.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 116114

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(Sore Dove Press) Hirschman, Jack TALKING LEAVES, 1979.
San Francisco Sore Dove Press 2013 4to. leaves laid in cloth clamshell box unpaginated
Limited to 30 numbered copies, signed by the author. Designed and published by Soheyl Dahi, Sore Dove's editor and publisher. Sore Dove is noted for publishing poetry chapbooks and broadsides. In December 1978, the author and others formed the Union of Street Poets. This work is a collection of Hirschman's poetry, illustrated with artwork by Kristen Wetterhahn. Hirschman wrote a poem weekly, commencing in January through the first week of June 1979. This work was published by Sore Dove in memory of the Union of Street Poets, designed to "evoke the excitement of North Beach in those years."
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 116113

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One of 50 Special Copies

(Stols, A.A.M.) Vondel, I.V. GYSBRECHT VAN AEMSTEL D'ONDERGANG VAN ZIJN STAD EN ZIJN BALLINGSCHAP TREVRSPEL.
Maastricht A.A.M. Stols 1927 8vo. limp vellum with fore-edge and bottom edge uncut 79, (3) pages
Text in Dutch. Limited, numbered (in Roman numerals) edition of 50 printed on Dutch paper. 435 copies, numbered in Arabic numerals, were also printed on English paper. This copy is one of the 50 on Dutch laid paper. No. 25 in the series "Trajectum ad Mosam." Frontispiece woodcut portrait by J. Franken Pzn. Initials by Alphonse Stols. Play by Ioost van den Vondel about a siege of Amsterdam in 1304, first produced in 1638. Two page prospectus and bookseller's description laid in. Coat of arms stamped on front wrapper, partly gilt. Wrappers warped and lightly soiled.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 109636

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The Binder's Own Copy

(Stone House Press) Bertin, Charles. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.
Roslyn, NY The John Carter Brown Library 1992 8vo. quarter leather, cloth, inserted in a clamshell case with separate porfolio containing six woodcuts on individual plates. 85 pages.
Limited to 200 numbered copies signed by the the artist, the binder and the printer, this being one of twenty of the deluxe edition. The prize winning play translated into English by William Jay Smith. Preface by Norman Fiering. Designed, bound and signed by Deborah M. Evetts in quarter leather with Thai silk sides. Portfolio contains six wood engravings printed and signed by John De Pol, and prospectus. Text illustrated with the engravings by John Depol and six engravings from works in the John Carter Brown Library. This copy comes from the library of Deborah Evetts, the binder, and contains a pen and ink drawing of the design used on the front cover, a sample stamped in green leather of this design, and various photographs of the covers.
Price: $ 850.00 other currencies Order nr. 106495

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(Stone House Press) Digby, Joan and John. JOHN DEPOL, FROM DARK TO LIGHT, WOOD ENGRAVINGS FOR THE STONE HOUSE PRESS.
With an introduction by M. A. Gelfand. New York The Stone House Press 1988 8vo. quarter cloth with patterned paper over boards. (viii), 127 pages.
Limited to 200 signed and numbered copies, of which this is one of the 155 copies for sale. This copy is signed by the Digbys, DePol and Gelfand. Contains sixty wood engravings executed by De Pol since 1982 for the books, broadsides, keepsakes and other ephemera produced by the Stone House Press. The text provides an interesting insight into De Pol's life and work, as well as a descriptive analysis of his engravings. A delightful tribute to this fine engraver. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 325.00 other currencies Order nr. 23770

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(Stone House Press) Digby, Joan and John. JOHN DEPOL, FROM DARK TO LIGHT, WOOD ENGRAVINGS FOR THE STONE HOUSE PRESS.
With an introduction by M. A. Gelfand. New York The Stone House Press 1988 8vo. quarter cloth with patterned paper over boards. (viii), 127 pages.
Limited to 200 signed and numbered copies, of which this is one of the 155 copies for sale. This copy is signed by the Digbys, DePol and Gelfand. Contains sixty wood engravings executed by De Pol since 1982 for the books, broadsides, keepsakes and other ephemera produced by the Stone House Press. The text provides an interesting insight into De Pol's life and work, as well as a descriptive analysis of his engravings. A delightful tribute to this fine engraver. Prospectus loosely inserted. This copy has been inscribed on second blank page "For Carl Schlesinger with Best Wishes, John DePol, 3.15.89."
Price: $ 425.00 other currencies Order nr. 109541

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(Stourton Press) Dryden, John ALL FOR LOVE OR, THE WORLD WELL LOST: A TRAGEDY.
Westminster The Stourton Press 1931 4to. full vellum; title and publisher gilt stamped on spine, symbol gilt-stamped on front board; top edge cut, other edges uncut xxiv, 97+(1) pages
Limited to 158 numbered copies, printed on paper. and eight copies printed on vellum. (Modern British and American Private Presses 1850-1965, 175). This copy printed on paper. Decorations at the beginning of each act by Eliot Hodgkin and the decoration for the preface by Edward le Bas. Title page notes "written in imitation of Shakespeare's stile." Epistle dedicatory to the Earl of Danby, preface, list of alterations from the first edition of 1678, list of the publisher's errata. Boards lightly soiled, endpapers lightly tanned.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 116363

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(St. Teresa's Press) PSALMS OF PRAISE
(Flemington, NJ St. Teresa's Press 1967) 4to quarter Oasis Niger Goatskin, decorated Japanese Kinho paper-covered boards. (v), 30 pages
Limited edition of 100. Twelve selections from the Book of Psalms. Hand painted initials throughout the text and a hand-painted initial page showing a dove in flight. Handset Cancelleresca Bastarda type printed on Strathmore Alexandra Japan. Spine, and edges of boards at spine, show minor sunning. Tiny spot on front paper board. Small tape marks on pastedowns.
Price: $ 600.00 other currencies Order nr. 107137

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(Swan Press) Andersen, Hans Christian. NOVA QUADRI PRESI DA CIO CHE VIDE LA LUNA
Chelsea, England Swan Press 1927 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. (20) pages
Published in a limited edition of 100 numbered copies. The 8th production of this private Press (Ransom). Tranlated by Penelope Eyre. Illustrations by Joyce Garrick. Baskerville type on Hand-made paper. Typeset by L.D.O'Walters and H.M.P. Eyre. Presswork by H. Gage-Cole. Foxing along top edge of front and back covers.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 76426

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(Tern Press) Carr, J.L. DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH QUEENS, KING'S WIVES, CELEBRATED PARAMOURS, HANDFAST SPOUSES & ROYAL CHANGELINGS.
(Market Drayton) Tern Press 2003 8vo. cloth, paper spine label, cloth slipcase (40) pages
Printed in an edition of 25 copies in Delphil types and illustrated with original lithographs by Nicholas Parry. The text was first published in 1977.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 75315

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(Tern Press) Clare, John VERSES FOR HIS CHILDREN, TALES & OTHER TRIFLES IN VERSE FOR THE AMUSEMENT OF YOUNG MINDS CHIEFLY WRITTEN FOR & RELATED TO THE AUTHOR'S OWN CHILDREN WHEN UNDER TEN YEARS OLD.
(Market Drayton) Tern Press (1993) small 4to. flowered cloth, paper cover label (48) pages
Limited to an edition of 150 numbered copies signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry, the artist and printers. Printed to celebrate Clare's bicentenary, the poems, which were selected by Eric Robinson, are delightful verses dealing with the travails and joys of such creatures as ladybugs, moths, frogs, grasshoppers, birds and fairies. Illustrated with delicate hand colored relief printed etchings created by Nicholas Parry.
Price: $ 295.00 other currencies Order nr. 64832

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one of 30 copies

(Tern Press) Griffiths, Bill HISTORIES
N.P. Tern Press 2004 small 4to. quarter cloth with patterned paper-covered boards and paper title label on spine (30) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 30 numbered copies. The poem by Griffiths explores timeless ideas of what the world was like through time, before art and before difference. His poem is lyric, expressive and dense. Fairly abstract color illustrations punctuate the sparce text. Front board with multicolored patterned paper and the title printed in red. Half title page printed in red. Signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry. Some uncut edges.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 78653

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(Tern Press) Griffiths, Bill. THE PHOENIX.
Market Drayton, Shropshire Tern Press 1998 4to. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards, paper spine and front cover label. (74) pages.
In a limited edition of 95 numbered copies, signed on colophon by the illustrators. The anonymous Anglo-Saxon author of the Old English poem "Phoenix," possibly a monk acquainted with a 4th-century Christian Latin poem on this ancient myth, emphasized the themes of death and resurrection. This modern translation by Bill Griffiths employs "a loose alliterative chaining...to give some idea of the sound structure that unites the Old English poetic form." Well-illustrated with 20 lithographic plates by Mary and Nicholas Parry of the Tern Press. Some two-color text printing.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 53499

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(Thomas, Peter & Donna) WHERE THE CROSSING HAPPENS.
Santa Cruz, CA Peter & Donna Thomas 2008 8vo decorated cloth folder unpaginated
Limited to 38 numbered copies. Where the Crossing Happens. Compiled and edited by Peter and Donna Thomas. A portfolio of 13 broadsides with words or poems from poets in residence at the fourth session of Naropa Universitys Summer Writers Workshop in 2008, printed by Peter and Donna Thomas and their students at the Universitys Press during the Thomass class The Word Made Flesh (well actually paper).

The dowel spine portfolio binding (developed by the Thomases and described in their book More Making Books by Hand) is decorated with a unique acrylic print (made indirectly from metal type) measures 6.75 tall by 5.25 wide. The binding has two pockets holding 15 letterpress printed broadsides (13 signed by poets, one title page, one colophon signed by all printers). 32 letterpress printed in different type faces on a differently colored sheets of Canson Mi Tientes Paper. Six copies on Peter Thomas's handmade paper.

Poets included in collection: Sawako Nakayasu, Ilya Kaminsky, Rikki Ducornet, Forrest Gander, Anna Moschovakis, Bob Holman, Anne Tardos, Dodie Belllamy, Steven Taylor, Brian Evenson, Kevin Killian, Raymond Federman, Pierre Joris.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 107370

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(Thomas, Peter and Donna) Graham, Rigby YOU CAN'T MAKE PAPER FROM A LOOFA.
Santa Cruz Peter & Donna Thomas 1991 8vo. stiff handmade paper wrappers, cord-tied. (ii), 27, (3) pages.
Second edition, corrected. Limited to 50 numbered copies. The illustrations in this book were taken from Mason's 12 x 8 PAPERS, a book produced in 1958. Designed, printed and bound by the Thomas's. Rigby Graham's reminiscences of the papermaker, John Mason.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 41483

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Thomas, Peter and Donna PAPERMAKING IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND.
Santa Cruz, CA Peter & Donna Thomas 1990 12mo. full leather, four raised bands, slipcase. (42) pages.
First edition, limited to 200 numbered copies. Reproduces diary entries written by John Evelyn and Celia Fiennes which record their visit to an English paper mill. These accounts are the only known records of how paper was being made in England in the 1600s. Contains an original sample of seventeenth century paper and a reproduction of brown paper. Printed by letterpress on handmade paper and illustrated with five linocuts by Donna Thomas.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 31793

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Thomas, Peter BIKUPAN, THE STORY OF A TRIP TO VISIT A HAND PAPER MILL IN SWEDEN, WITH A BIT OF HISTORY ADDED IN FOR GOOD MEASURE.
Santa Cruz Peter & Donna Thomas 1992 small 4to. quarter blue leather over marbled paper-covered boards, slipcase. (viii), 13, (3) pages.
Limited to 119 numbered copies printed by hand by Peter and Donna Thomas on paper handmade by Peter using white and black rags with blue pigment. Thomas visited the Lessebo mill in Sweden, a mill which had first started manufacturing paper in 1693. In addition to describing what he found there, Thomas gives a history of papermaking in Sweden. Tipped-in are six samples of paper from Lessebo, one made in 1990 and the rest during various times in the 20th century.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 36707

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Tidcombe, Marianne THE BOOKBINDINGS OF T. J. COBDEN-SANDERSON. With THE DOVES BINDERY.
2 volumes. London and New Castle, Delaware The British Library and Oak Knoll Books 1984, 1991 4to hand-bound in quarter vellum for the author by James Brockman, leather spine labels, slipcase with some leather trim. xii,407; 512 pages.
One of nine numbered sets bound-thus and signed by Tidcombe. This special edition contains three additional color plates in the first volume and two samples of marbled paper in the second volume. Companion volumes covering all aspects of Cobden-Sanderson and his bindings. The first volume covers the bindings executed by him over the period 1884-1893 and before the establishment of the Doves Bindery. The second volume is a chronicle of the binding shop he founded in 1893 and the famous bindings it produced over a 30 year period. In its early years the bindery shared premises with William Morris's Kelmscott Press. The consequent collaboration resulted in a series of richly-decorated copies of the Kelmscott Chaucer. Later on the majority of the bindery's work was for the Doves Press, which Cobden-Sanderson founded with Emery Walker in 1900. Dr. Tidcombe's comprehensive work includes a complete catalogue of the books produced with many bindings illustrated in color. Bound by one of England's most famous contemporary binders.
Price: $ 2,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 35581

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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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