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(Center for Book Arts) RECOVERY: THE HOSPITAL DRAWINGS OF ALFONSO OSSORIO
(New York Center for Book Arts 1995) 18 3/8" x 18 1/4" hardcover with clamshell n.p.
First edition limited to 100 signed and numbered copies. Alfonso A. Ossorio (1916-1990) was an abstract expressionist artist who was born in Manila and produced a body of work that remained consistently international in scope. His early fascination with Surrealism gave way to Abstract Expressionism although he continued to be influenced by his native Philippine Catholic folk art as well as the modernist techniques of Informel and assemblage. Instead of completely abandoning one set of principles for another, he would continue to incorporate those features he most favored into his next series of compositions which resulted in complex and multifaceted works.

In failing health, he was hospitalized from January 17 to February 8, 1989 and December 3 to 5, 1990. Given some markers and watercolor paper, he began a series of drawings that would become this striking collection of images. The publication was designed by Richard Minsky, with texts by Rose Slivka, Dr. Lewis Thomas and B.H. Friedman. Each print, mounted and matted on Stonehenge paper, was printed on Permalife paper and authenticated in the margin with the seal of the Ossorio Foundation. Letterpress printed at the Center for Book Arts.

This volume is housed in a red cloth clamshell box.
Price: $ 4,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 103054

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(Center for Book Arts) Rinehart, Benjamin D. TICKET LICKET
New York Center for Book Arts 2001 10.25 x 5.75 inches portfolio, six woodcut images printed on both sides six woodcut images printed on both sides
Limited to an edition of 40 signed and numbered by the author. Comprised of six reductive woodcut images, Ticket Licket focuses on the single life of the artist as a gay male. The raffle ticket format reflects the element of chance that is part of any life. Ben Rinehart, whose socially charged work has been shown throughout the US, specializes in multimedia images with a strong focus on printmaking and book constructions. The six prints are encased in a printed bound portfolio that also uses raffle ticket images for title on the front cover and the stub on the back cover.
Price: $ 1,250.00 other currencies Order nr. 103059

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(Chamberlain Press) Jones, Kenneth STONE SOUP
Portland, OR Chamberlain Press 1985 16mo marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge cut, other edges uncut unpaginated
Limited editon of 150 numbered copies signed by the printer, Sarah Chamberlain. Woodcut illustrations by Sarah Chamberlain. Binding by Barbara Blumenthal and printing assisted by Bill De Armond. Garamond type and Rives paper.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 107271

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(Chamberlain Press) MOTHER GOOSE: A SELECTION OF RHYMES
(Portland, OR) The Chamberlain Press (1987) 4to quarter cloth, designed paper-covered boards, blind embossed leather spine label, fore-edge uncut unpaginated
Limited to 200 numbered and signed copies. Illustrated, designed and printed by Sarah Chamberlain, bound by Barbara Blumenthal. Collection of nursery rhymes. Linoleum-cut color illustrations. Letter from Ms. Chamberlain to a book collector commenting on the two bindings available. Also inserted is the prospectus.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 107128

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(Chamberlain Press) THE PIED PIPER OF HAMLIN.
N.P. The Chamberlain Press 1980 16mo. marbled paper-covered boards; top edge cut, other edges uncut; leather label on spine unpaginated
Limited to 150 numbered copies. Designed and printed by Sarah Chamberlain who signed the colophon page. Handset Goudy bold type on Hosho paper. Illustrated with wood engravings, also cut by Chamberlain. Beautifully executed publication of this famous children's tale.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 112246

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(Chamberlain Press) THE THREE BEARS.
(Portland, OR) Chamberlain Press 1983 16mo decorated paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge cut, other edges uncut unpaginated
Limited edition of 125 numbered copies signed by the printer, Sarah Chamberlain. Woodcut illustrations by Sarah Chamberlain. Binding by Barbara Blumenthal. Bembo type, Japanese Etching paper. Publisher's prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 107272

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(Chester River Press) Conrad, Joseph HEART OF DARKNESS
Chestertown, MD Chester River Press 2008 small 4to quarter calf, marbled paper covered boards, cloth slipcase 112 pages
One of 150 numbered copies. Joseph conrad's masterpiece, Heart of Darkness, continues to ignite the interest of readers and literary scholars alike. The simple story of a sea-captain hired by Belgian colonial ivory merchants to search the Congo River for a disaffected company employee turned pathological demigod becomes as deeply a symboloic and frightening descent into the maelstrom of moral consequence as Dante's expedition through Hell. If there is a moral compass to be discovered within its pages it is to be found spinning between the cardinal points of avarice, genocide, values and cconscience as Marlow, streams deeper into the darkness of the jungle and the core of the human psyche in his search for the enigmatic Kurtz.

Published with 36 original drawings by renowned maritime artist Marc Castelli, this limited edition of Heart of Darkness summons us to listen to Marlow's story which echoes even today.
Price: $ 500.00 other currencies Order nr. 114209

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(Co-Tangent Press) Vollmann, William. THE GRAVE OF LOST STORIES.
(Sacramento) CoTangent Press (1993) 10-7/8 x 7-7/8" steel and grey marble box (tomb) fitted to custom steel hinge by means of a copper sheet riveted to the steel and then crimped upward to form a pan, marble box-sarcophagus.
One of 15 deluxe copies only, 13 of which are for sale, all on Johannot paper, each signed and numbered by the artist/author and binder, from an edition of 200 (185 regular edition). Bound by Ben Pax: The hinge is powder-coated black as is the interior. The front cover is incised with the title, author's initials and Poe's dates. The copy number appears in roman numeral on the back cover (this being number 2). Along the fore edge, 13 teeth have been set in handmade silver bezels. The inside covers each have four brass and copper rods (oxidized green). The book itself is bound in boards with linen spine which are "leafed, and variegated and painted in metallic fungoid patterns over which the author has painted a female figure to represent one of the stories (author's description)." The gessoed boards are copper colored and the female in blue with onlays of four small white bones outlining the skeleton. The book lays into the marble box-sarcophagus. The four illustrations are hand colored by the author who has also made a number of small revisions in the text. Letterpress by Alastair Johnston in Electra and Cochin with display in Caslon, Marbleheart, Rimmed Lith and Astoria at Poltroon Press. title page printed in three colors, guards of black and gold gilt Japanese paper. The story first appeared in THIRTEEN STORIES AND THIRTEEN EPITAPHS in 1991. Vollmann has been called by The Washington Post, "the most prodigiously talented and historically important American novelist under 35" and by The Los Angeles Times an author of "unique and startling imagination" and Madison Smartt Bell says Vollmann is, "one of the precious few young American writers who can fairly be accused of genius."
Price: $ 4,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 61396

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(Cranach Press) Brinks, John Dieter (editor) THE BOOK AS A WORK OF ART, THE CRANACH PRESS OF COUNT HARRY KESSLER.
Berlin and Williamstown, MA Triton Verlag and the Chapin Library, Williams College 2005 4to. cloth, slipcase 456 pages.
First edition in English (from the 2004 German edition). The Cranach Press, though located in Germany, was inspired by and became an integral product of the English private press movement. Following advice from Emery Walker, new typefaces were drawn by Edward Johnston and cut by Edward Prince and George Friend; then Harry Gage-Cole was called in as pressman to print the wood-engravings of Gordon Craig, Eric Gill, and Aristide Maillol. Their work is recorded in this lavishly illustrated book. The Book as a Work of Art includes Essays by John Dreyfus, Anne Hyde Greet, Gunnar Kaldewey, J.D. Brinks, Renate Müller-Krumbach, Lindsay Newman, among others, with extensive documentation and a new and illustrated bibliography of the Cranach Press. Designed by Sabine Golde and John Dieter Brinks, in a black slip-case.

Distributed for Triton Verlag, Berlin, Germany and Chapin Library of the Williams College, Williamstown, MA.
Price: $ 290.00 other currencies Order nr. 88729

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(Crannog Press) McCord, Margaret and Rigby Graham TOWER HOUSES AND TEN POUND CASTLES
(Belfast) The Crannog Press (1970) 8vo two-toned cloth unpaginated
Limited edition of 100 numbered copies. Illustrations of castles built in Ireland pursuant to an act of 1429 granting a £ 10 subsidy. Black and white illustrations throughout, One two-toned illustration, one tipped in. Brief descriptions of each castle illustrated.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 107273

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(Cresset Press) Painter, William. THE PALACE OF PLEASURE.
4 volumes. London The Cresset Press 1929 small 4to. quarter cloth with patterned paper-covered boards, cloth spine label, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges uncut. xxx,196; x,244; x,254; viii,227 pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 530 numbered copies of which this is one of 500 numbered copies on mould-made paper. (Ransom no.16). A collection of tales from various Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and English authors. Volume one contains an introduction by Hamish Miles, followed by a table of sources that Painter may have taken the stories from. Includes Painter's original dedication from 1566. Spine labels slightly age darkened. Slipcase worn and tape-repaired. Well preserved set.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 107033

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(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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One of 20 Copies with Suite of Plates

(Daedalus Press) Melville, Herman A STORY FROM 'THE PIAZZA TALES' CALLED THE LIGHTNING-ROD MAN.
(Minneapolis, MN) Daedalus Press 1982 tall 8vo. paper collage over boards. (x), 24, (6) pages.
Limited to 85 numbered copies signed by the illustrator, Michael McCurdy. This is "10" of the specially issued 20 copies which contained an extra suite of three plates, signed and numbered by the artist. Designed by D. Peigenbaum with foreword by Martin Roth. Printed on Dewint and Whitby paper from J. Barcham Green, with the paper covered boards done as a paper collage by Eileen Custer-Toren. The text comes from the first printed version of this story which appeared in the August 1854 issue of Putnam's Monthly. From the personal library of the illustrator.
Price: $ 500.00 other currencies Order nr. 114452

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(D'Ambrosio, Joe) Gleason, Duncan WINDJAMMERS
(Fullerton, CA Lorson's Books and Prints 1988) folio book-in-a-box binding: black canvas rear board and spine, blue paper-covered front board, marbled paper box structure and front image. white cords not paginated
This is copy number seven. Colophon signed by the designer, printer & binder - D'Ambrosio. It was printed using 14pt Della Robbia type on Rives BFK paper. Ingres marbled paper used for the box structure and endpapers. The front board creates a frame shaped like billowing sail. Behind it is French marbled paper with intersecting white cords used to suggest rigging ropes. (A Memoir of Book Design 1969-2000, page 106-107) This book is made from the limited edition plates created in 1973. In 1922, Duncan Gleason (1881-1959) created a series of copper etchings for the etched book Windjammers. Although the publisher planned 325 copies, probably not more than 100 pulls were made from the plates. No other editions or states of these etchings other than the 1973 Edition printed at Triad Graphics in a limited edition of 25 numbered impressions. The are no signed or unnumbered impression other than 10 publishers proofs which are so marked. The edition including the publishers proofs was done on Murillo paper using brown ink. There are a total of 50 trial proofs of various etchings done in black or brown ink and are marked as such. Each etching is impressed with the blind stamp of the Gallery Easel. ( from the Certificate of the 1973 edition).Card from Lorson's Books & the certificate of the 1973 edition are laid-in. Case is somewhat faded on spine.
Price: $ 3,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 93854

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(Daniel Press) Madan, Falconer DANIEL PRESS, MEMORIALS OF C.H.O. DANIEL WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PRESS, 1845-1919.
Oxford Daniel Press 1921 square 8vo. cloth-backed boards. viii, 200 pages and 15 full-page plates.
First edition, limited to 550 copies and 100 copies respectively, this being one of 550. The first 36 pages contain a memorial of Dr. Daniel, followed by the bibliography of the press. Each book is thoroughly described with notes. With the bookplate of A.T. Bartholomew and with the original subscriber's receipt for Bartholomew tipped-in the back. Also with the bookplate of J.R. Abbey. Well preserved copy.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 114671

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(Deep Wood Press) Traver, Robert THE INTRUDER.
(Mancelona, MI) Deep Wood Press 2012 4to. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards with decoration, title and author stamped on front board. unpaginated
Limited to 150 numbered copies, signed by designer, printer and binder Chad Pastonik. Originally published as a chapter in the book Trout Madness (St. Martin's Press, 1960). Wood engravings by Jim Westergard from original maple blocks. Foreword by Richard F. Vander Veen. Composed in Linotype Janson with ATF Garamond on dampened Hahnemüle Schiller paper. Reflections of quiet days trout fishing in rural Michigan. Deep Wood Press catalogue, bookplate and Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles program (printed by Deep Wood) laid in.
Price: $ 550.00 other currencies Order nr. 114254

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(Derrydale Press) Smith, Edmund Ware THE ONE-EYED POACHER OF PRIVILEGE.
Illustrated by A. Lassell Ripley. New York The Derrydale Press (1941) 8vo. cloth. xxv+(i), 187 pages
Limited to 750 numbered copies. The third and last of the Smith titles to be published by The Derrydale Press. (Siegel-Marschalk-Oelgart 166). Inscribed to Graham Cross by Edmund Ware Smith, "may he emulate the 'one eyed poacher' more in the highest sprit than in the dark deed!" Also inscribed by the illustrator A. Lassell Ripley, "What we need is a one eyed grouse hunter." Both inscriptions are on the front free endpaper. Black-and-white frontispiece and illustrations. Small bookseller's ticket on the bottom of the front pastedown. Boards rubbed, spine faded. Wear to the corners and edges. Reback with original spine laid-down on newer cloth.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 104842

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(Derrydale Press) Smith, Edmund Ware A TOMATO CAN CHRONICLE AND OTHER STORIES OF FISHING & SHOOTING.
New York The Derrydale Press (1937) 8vo. cloth, gilt stamped xx+(i), 189 pages
Limited to 950 numbered copies (Siegel 126). Frontispiece and four black-and-white illustrations by Ralph L. Boyer. Tales of fishing and shooting. Cloth rubbed, spine soiled. Rear hinge slightly cracked.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 104622

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(Dibdin, Thomas Frognall) Rabaiotti, Renato (editor). HORAE BIBLIOGRAPHICAE CANTABRIGIENSES: A FACSIMILE OF DIBDIN'S CAMBRIDGE NOTEBOOK 1823 WITH READINGS FROM THE LIBRARY COMPANION 1824.
With an introduction by Renato Rabaiotti. New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Books 1989 6.5 x 9 inches quarter leather with acetate dust jacket, slipcase. 79, (3) pages.
First edition, limited to 250 copies. Printed by Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona on Magnani mould-made paper. A hitherto unpublished notebook reproduced in facsimile and accompanied by corresponding readings from the 1824 first edition of the Library Companion. It contains Dibdin's comments on books, manuscripts and prints examined by him in the University, Pepys, St. John's College and Trinity College libraries. The introduction by the editor, Renato Rabaiotti, describes the events surrounding Dibdin's life in the 1820's and places the notebook in the perspective of Dibdin's career. There is also a current finding-list of the books, manuscripts and prints Dibdin examined, compiled by David McKitterick. A fine production of one surviving testament of Dibdin's ambition to publish a Tour of England.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 24585

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(Dibdin, Thomas Frognall) Rabaiotti, Renato (editor). HORAE BIBLIOGRAPHICAE CANTABRIGIENSES: A FACSIMILE OF DIBDIN'S CAMBRIDGE NOTEBOOK 1823 WITH READINGS FROM THE LIBRARY COMPANION 1824.
With an introduction by Renato Rabaiotti. New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Books 1989 6.5 x 9 inches quarter leather with acetate dust jacket, slipcase. 79, (3) pages.
First edition, limited to 250 copies. Printed by Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona on Magnani mould-made paper. A hitherto unpublished notebook reproduced in facsimile and accompanied by corresponding readings from the 1824 first edition of the Library Companion. It contains Dibdin's comments on books, manuscripts and prints examined by him in the University, Pepys, St. John's College and Trinity College libraries. The introduction by the editor, Renato Rabaiotti, describes the events surrounding Dibdin's life in the 1820s and places the notebook in the perspective of Dibdin's career. There is also a current finding-list of the books, manuscripts and prints Dibdin examined, compiled by David McKitterick. A fine production of one surviving testament of Dibdin's ambition to publish a Tour of England.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 104177

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One of 25 copies

(Dropmore Press) Bryant, Arthur HISTORIAN'S HOLIDAY
London The Dropmore Press 1956 4to. three-quarter vellum with cloth-covered boards, slipcase (vi), 84,(2) pages
Limited to 550 copies of which this is one of twenty-five specially bound, numbered and signed by the author on the limitation page. Historian's Holiday is the third in a series called the Dropmore Essays. Slipcase is missing the rear panel.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 78532

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(Dropmore Press) Cubbin, Thomas THE WRECK OF THE SERICA, A NARRATIVE OF 1868.
With Wood Engravings by John Worsely and an Introduction by H.M. Tomlinson (London Dropmore Press 1950) small 4to. blue cloth with designs and title in gilt, dust jacket (vi), x, 105, (3) pages.
First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies (Ridler no.20). Founded by Lord Kemsley who took over the equipment of the Corvinus Press in 1945 when the founder of that press, Viscount Carlow, died in the 2nd World War. Printed in Bembo type on cream wove paper hand made by Hodgkinson of Wells in Somerset. A stirring story of shipwreck with heroes and cowards. The engravings are colored. With an introduction by the master of sea adventures, H.M. Tomlinson. Jacket slightly chipped with a tear along the bottom of the back hinge. Corners bumped.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 78479

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Duncan, William James (editor) NOTICES AND DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE LITERARY HISTORY OF GLASGOW, DURING THE GREATER PART OF LAST CENTURY
Glasgow Maitland Club 1886 4to original paper covered boards (iv), xii, 156 pages
Reprint of the 1831 edition (Lowndes, 21). Limited to 350 copies. Additional appendix of Foulis Press bibliography. Hinges cracked.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 105565

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(Elston Press) Johnson, Herbert H. NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE ELSTON PRESS.
Wilmington, DE Douglas M. Harris 1997 4to. quarter cloth, paper spine label, cloth-covered boards. 127, (2) pages
First edition, printed in a limited edition of 225 numbered copies. Printed letterpress at the Press of Michael and Winifred Bixler. A history of the press in addition to bibliography. Describes 26 books and 26 pieces of ephemera. Illustrated. Includes bibliography and index. The only Elston Press bibliography to date.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 50384

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(Elston Press) Johnson, Herbert H. NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE ELSTON PRESS.
Wilmington, DE Douglas M. Harris 1997 4to. quarter cloth, paper spine label, cloth-covered boards. 127, (2) pages
First edition, printed in a limited edition of 225 numbered copies. Printed letterpress at the Press of Michael and Winifred Bixler. A history of the press in addition to bibliography. Describes 26 books and 26 pieces of ephemera. Illustrated. Includes bibliography and index. The only Elston Press bibliography to date. Front cover has scratches.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 114963

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