With a Bibliographical Essay by A. Edward Newton
New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921. Folio, (actual leaf 15 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches; 393 x 287 mm.). Original full black blindstamped morocco by Stikeman & Co., front cover lettered in gilt. Gilt turn-ins, grey endpapers, original slipcase. [6] pp. of text, with title-page and one initial letter printed in red. With a Bibliographical Essay by A. Edward Newton. Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed by William Edwin Rudge. (Printing and the Mind of Man..... READ MORE about A NOBLE FRAGMENT. BEING A LEAF OF THE GUTENBERG BIBLE, 1450-1455

Price: $120,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 92498

Geneva: self published, 1574. small 8vo. Recently bound vellum, cloth slipcase. (8), 31, 120 pages. First and only edition of the printer's own laudatory account of the Frankfurt Fair based on his experiences selling books there the previous year. Adams S1768; Renouard Estienne, 139:2; Schreiber Estienne, 189; Simon, Bibliotheca Bacchia II, 235. Collation: *4, a-i8, k4, woodcut printer's device to title by Elhen von Wolfhagen, Tilemann (1347-1420), decorative head-pieces and initials. Water-staining to preliminary pages..... READ MORE about FRANCOFORDIENSE EMPORIUM, SIVE FRANCOFORDIENSES NUNDINAE. QUAM VARIA MERCIUM GENERA IN HOC...

Price: $16,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136913

London: Macmillan Publishers, 1988. small 4to. two original morocco-backed cloth drop-back boxes, gilt labels on spines, together in cloth slip-case with the commentary volume: original cloth with gilt-stamped calf label to upper cover, cloth slipcase. One of 250 sets, of which this is number 114. A fine set of the tour de force of Jonathan Stephenson's The Rocket Press. Ninety-one wood-engraved plates printed from the original wood-blocks engraved by the Dalziel Brothers and 1 electrotype..... READ MORE about SIR JOHN TENNIEL'S WOOD-ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS TO 'ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND' &...

Price: $13,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136242

Facsimile with accompanying hardcover commentary
Modena: Franco Cosimo Panini, 2011. small 8vo. full velvet, all edges gilt, metal book casing, enamel designs, leather slipcase. 235, 223 pages. Facsimile with accompanying hardcover commentary. Towards 1485, Lorenzo de 'Medici commissioned the most successful miniature painters of Florence for which they were to create three luxurious Books of Hours to be allocated to his daughters as wedding presents. Of these little books, the first, now housed in Monaco, was given to Lucretia, who..... READ MORE about ORE MEDICI ROTHSCHILD

Price: $11,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 108859

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 cloth clamshell box with cloth spine label with title printed in black. (viii), 146, (2) pages. Translated out of Frensshe into Englysshe by: William Caxton. With engravings on wood by Agnes Miller Parker. Limited to 250 numbered copies (Harrop 20). Some light wear and rubbing to the leather along the edges and edges..... READ MORE about FABLES OF ESOPE

Price: $11,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 107211

Facsimile with accompanying hardcover commentary
Modena: Franco Cosimo Panini, 2008. 8vo. velvet binding with precious stones and gilded silver, clamshell case. 201, 336 pages. Facsimile with accompanying hardcover commentary. One of 980 copies. The Libro d'Ore Durazzo, which takes its name from its last owner, is a small masterpiece by the painter and illuminator, Francesco Marmitta. This remarkable work is in two ways quite different from all other devotional codices for private use. One is the use of purple parchment..... READ MORE about IL LIBRO D'ORE DURAZZO

Price: $9,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 105363

Two volumes.
Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1902, 1905. 8vo. original full limp vellum with title in gilt on spine, each enclosed in modern slipcase with cloth dust jacket. 386,(2); 343+(1) pages. Two volumes. Limited to 325 copies printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson (Marianne Tidcombe, The Doves Press, 37-42, Catalogue Raisonne p.20; Ransom no.5&7). Title and margin notes in red. Initials designed by Edward Johnston. The present work is one of Walker and Cobden-Sanderson's earlier productions, and certainty one..... READ MORE about PARADISE LOST, A POEM IN XII BOOKS WITH PARADISE REGAINED A POEM IN IV BOOKS TO WHICH ARE ADDED...

Price: $9,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 41140

Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 1897. 4to. original full vellum with silk ties, custom green cloth covered boards slipcase. (iv), 90 (2) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 308 copies of which this is from a series of 300 copies on paper. (Cockerell 52; Peterson A52, Walsdorf 52). A small abrasion to the limp vellum near the top front tie. Very small red ink stains near the lower front vellum panel and also near the..... READ MORE about LOVE IS ENOUGH, OR FREEING OF PHARAMOND: A MORALITY

Price: $8,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 57837

(Stockholm, WI): Midnight Paper Sales, 2015. folio. quarter leather marbled paper-covered boards in quarter leather, red cloth clamshell box; top edge cut, other edges uncut. (76) pages. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by Gaylord Schanilec on colophon. A fine copy of prestigious book art seven years in the making, winner of the 2015 Judges Choice Award at the Oxford Fine Press Book Fair in Oxford, England. Introduction by Patrick K. Coleman, Senior Curator of..... READ MORE about LAC DES PLEURS: REPORT FROM LAKE PEPIN

Price: $7,800.00  other currencies  Order nr. 123994

Mission, Canada: Barbarian Press, 1994. thick 4to. full blue leather, with patterned endpapers and contained in a drop-back box. Unpaginated (but approximately 340 pages). First edition, limited to 430 copies of which this copy is one of 50 special copies bound thus and containing a signed, tipped-in frontispiece by Rosemary Kilbourn. Contains an astounding 121 wood engravings chosen by the artists and printed directly from the blocks onto individual leaves. Printed and published by Crispin..... READ MORE about ENDGRAIN: CONTEMPORARY WOOD ENGRAVING IN NORTH AMERICA

Price: $7,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 49989

Facsimile with accompanying hardcover commentary
Modena: Franco Cosimo Panini, 2008. folio. red velvet binding (silver ferrules, clasp strips and coat of arms), clamshell case. 64, 183 pages. Facsimile with accompanying hardcover commentary. One of 550 copies. Fine in fine clamshell box. The majestic liturgical book known as the Lezionario Farnese, produced in Rome shortly after the mid-sixteenth century for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, represents a high point for the art of illumination. Given its size the work is of monumental proportions..... READ MORE about IL LEZIONARIO FARNESE

Price: $6,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 105362

(Easthampton, MA): Cheloniidae Press & Wonder Book Editions, (2019). small folio. cloth clamshell box, paper label on cover. loose signatures inserted into two chemise. NOTE: due to high demand, this portfolio has a backorder wait period of about three weeks. First edition of 130 copies, of which this is one of 30 copies reserved for portfolios for a complete set of 24 total broadsides. In addition, this is one of the select undetermined amount of..... READ MORE about IF THERE WERE NO BOOKS

Price: $6,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134385

Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1892. 8vo. original publisher's limp vellum with silk ties. Gothic calligraphic lettering in black ink on spine. (ii), 169+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 310 copies, this being one of 300 copies printed on paper. (Cockerell 5, Peterson A5, Walsdorf 5). Bookplate of George Hewitt Myers on front pastedown. Limp vellum lightly soiled, with minor spotting on the rear cover. All four ties are separated, with the remains of one..... READ MORE about THE DEFENCE OF GUENEVERE, AND OTHER POEMS

Price: $6,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 58057

Rome: Salerno Editrice, 1998. folio. full stamped leather boards, acrylic slipcase. (92) leaves. Limited to 980 copies, of which this is one of 250 copies reserved for Salerno Editrice in Italian. Lacking the commentary volume. The bottom edge of the slipcase has been separated, but is present. Else in near fine condition. One of the masterpieces of French Gothic illumination, the Morgan Bible is an impressive reminder of the importance of biblical history for the..... READ MORE about LA BIBBIA DEI CROCIATI

Price: $5,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 137063

Excerpted from the Preface of Leaves of Grass, 1855 Edition, First Printing.
Tucson, AZ: Foolsgold Studios, 2022. square 4to. half leather with cherry veneer applied to the boards, cloth clamshell box. 42 pages. Excerpted from the Preface of Leaves of Grass, 1855 Edition, First Printing. Limited to 15 numbered copies, 1 deluxe artists proof variant, 1 prototype and 1 variant saved for fine binding, each signed by the author/publisher on colophon. Complete Instructions is conceived, edited and produced as a response to social and political American life..... READ MORE about COMPLETE INSRUCTIONS

Price: $5,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 138150

New York, NY: Intima Press, 2015. large 8vo. half leather over paper covered boards, chemise and full leather slipcase. unpaginated. First edition limited to 12 numbered copies signed by the printer / artist, Mindy Belloff. A fine copy in fine chemise and slipcase. In the Garden of Earthly Delights is based upon Hieronymus Boschs three-panel painting (1450-1516), which continues to entertain and delight. The book features eleven unique multi-colored etchings, with inks applied in a...... READ MORE about IN THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS

Price: $4,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136812

London: John C. Nimmo, 1896. folio. original two-color buckram, front cover illustrated and lettered in black, gilt spine. 28 pages (including prelims, the arguments for each section of Paradise Lost, and captions opposite the plates). The first edition, beautifully printed in an edition of 150 numbered copies. Foxing throughout, however the plates are not effected. Light fraying to the top hinge of the front cover along the spine. Very light shelfwear. Very light toning to..... READ MORE about PARADISE LOST. A SERIES OF TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS

Price: $4,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136948

London, UK: George Routledge, 1846. large 8vo. full leather, gilt tooling on covers and spine, five raised bands. viii, 104 pages. Later edition. Beautiful full burgundy morocco, covers tooled in gilted panel design with floral motif at corners built up from small gouges and circles, by the Guild of Women-Binders, with stamp in gilt on front turn-in and label on verso of front free endpaper. A most desirable copy with a royal association. Inscribed on..... READ MORE about SEYMOUR'S HUMOROUS SKETCHES COMPRISING NINETY-TWO CARICATURE ETCHINGS

Price: $4,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134222

(Montreal, QC, Canada): La Griffe D'Acier, (1987). 4to. leather with nested Lacunose, top edge cut, other edges uncut, in cloth clamshell box with leather spine label. unpaginated. Text in French. Limited to 38 numbered copies. Engravings by Louis-Pierre Bougie. Text by Gaston Miron. Signed by the author and engraver on colophon. Signed binding by Monique Lallier, russet goat skin. Pieces of Lacunose nested in the front cover encircled with onlays of green leather. Onlays of..... READ MORE about FORGER L'EFFROI

Price: $4,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134389

Hammersmith: Doves Press, The, 1902. 8vo. full limp vellum, gilt, later paper covered boards slipcase. 386, (3) pages. Limited to 325 copies printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson (Marianne Tidcombe, The Doves Press, 37-42, Catalogue Raisonne p.20; Ransom no.5&7). Extremely minor and common foxing along the few of the rear signatures. Some minor cracking to the outer edges of the vellum covers, else tight, bright, and unmarred housed in a later slipcase. Title and margin notes in..... READ MORE about PARADISE LOST, A POEM IN XII BOOKS WITH PARADISE REGAINED A POEM IN IV BOOKS TO WHICH ARE ADDED...

Price: $3,950.00  other currencies  Order nr. 49646

Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1895. 8vo. quarter cloth with blue holland-backed paper-covered boards. (iv), 98 pages. Printed in an edition limited to 358 copies this being one of 350 copies printed on flower paper. (Cockerell 33; Peterson A33; Walsdorf 33). Spine ends and corners bumped and worn, a few short splits to spine, some light marking and toning to covers. This is the first of the trilogy which is completed by Sire Degrevaunt and Syr Isumbrace..... READ MORE about SYR PERECYVELLE OF GALES

Price: $3,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 58016

(New York: Center for Book Arts, 2005). 17" x 17", four 8.5 x 11 books. black cloth with paper label. three 28 pages, one at 20 pages. Edition limited to 75 signed and numbered copies, including five artist proofs, with only 25 copies for sale. This innovative interdisciplinary work intersects at the pinnacle of creative writing, graphic design, book art, and performance. This is a poem for three voices, meant to be read by three..... READ MORE about NEW WORLD SUITE NUMBER THREE

Price: $3,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 103052

Tucson, AZ: Suzanne Moore, 2022. 25.45 cm by 29 cm. pamphlet-sewn, layered painted and monoprint cover, painted monoprint lead-in, Layered and hand-colored mono prints on Rives BFK, with sized Matsuo Kozo interleaved pages carrying the hand-lettered Dickinson poems written in gouache. 23k gold leaf, edge-stitching with silk twist. 2 signatures, 25 pages. An unique artists' book featuring calligraphy and decorations by Suzanne Moore. Housed in a Cave Paper portfolio wrapper. Seven Emily Dickinson poems around..... READ MORE about AMBER REVELATION

Price: $3,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 138151

Paris, France: René Kieffer, (1924). 8vo. stamped leather, suede clamshell box with leather spine label. (x), 183, (3), illustrations. Text in French. Table of contents. Illustrations by Jacques Touchet. Signed binding by René Kieffer. Leather with gilt, green, blue, red, and orange stamping on both covers. A touch of humor in the depictions of birds, three trees, and grass on the covers. Spine gilt stamped with title, author, and decorations. Gilt decorated turn-ins with plaid..... READ MORE about MERVEILLEUSES HISTOIRES DE NASR' EDDINE

Price: $3,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134441

3 Volumes.
London, England: W. Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare Printing Office For John and Josiah Boydell, and George Nicol, 1794-7. folio. contemporary leather, five raised bands on spine, all edtges gilt. cxxxiv, 213+(1); 282; 300, (4) pages. 3 Volumes. Brunet III, 1728; Watson 1, 1239. Volume I published 1794, Volume II 1795, and Volume III 1797. With a three part life of Milton by William Hayley preceding text. Table of contents of all three volumes at conclusion..... READ MORE about THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON

Price: $3,250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 133829

Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1924. 4to. rough linen. 36 leaves containing 38 large wood-engravings by Gill. E.G. : Being a Selection of Eric Gills Engravings on Wood. Printed on one side only of handmade paper, with one engraving in red and black. One of 100 copies in an edition of 150. With the scarce dust jacket. No limitation statement in this copy. Dust jacket has some minor shelfwear to the top edge, else fine. The..... READ MORE about WOOD-ENGRAVINGS

Price: $3,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 43996

Hammersmith: Doves Press, The, 1906, 1910. 8vo. original limp vellum, custom slipcase. 260, (1); 373, (1) pages. First edition (first part, one of 300 copies on paper; second part, one of 250 copies on paper). From the library of bibliophile and long-standing Grolier Club member David Allen Fraser (1911-2003). Spine of Part Two lightly age darkened. Some discoloration to vellum, as usual. Housed in a finely-crafted custom cloth slipcase with leather fore-edges to protect both..... READ MORE about FAUST EINE TRAGOEDIE VON GOETHE (PARTS ONE AND TWO

Price: $3,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136907

Urbino: Edizioni I.S.A, 1997. 4to. full decorated leather, clamshell box. 578, (14) pages. First edition. This book was the focus of an international exhibition of the bindings of a single work, L'infinito, by Giacomo Leopardi, held at Chiesa di San Paolo, Macerata, Italy, Sept. 12-Oct. 30, 1998. Competitors were asked to design bindings for the poem L'Infinito by Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837). This particular copy is bound in full morocco by Monique Lallier. The..... READ MORE about L'INFINITO IN TUTTE LE LINGUE CHE L'HANNO SAPUTO PRONUNCIARE

Price: $3,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134374

(Mt. Horeb, WI): The Perishable Press, (1973). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limited to 120 numbered copies (Hamady 61). Slight sunning to top third of front cover, and along the spine of both the front and rear cover, else a fine copy. First of a series of playful books, perhaps a parody of the structure and parts of a book. Handset type on a variety of Shadwell papers of different sizes. Handsewn into blue..... READ MORE about INTERMINABLE GABBERJABBS

Price: $3,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 120398

West Chester, PA: Aralia Press, 1983-2014. A large collection composed of 103 items, including books, pamphlets, broadsides, and ephemera printed by Michael Peich, proprietor of Aralia Press. Of the 104 items, 36 are broadsides / ephemera. All are in fine condition, with a few signed by the author / authors. The authors include J. Peter Adler, W.H. Auden, Bruce Bawer, Thomas Bernhard, Ray Bradbury, Thomas Carper, Nina Cassian, C.P. Cavafy, Lynn Chandhok, Wendy Cope, Daniel..... READ MORE about A COLLECTION OF BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, BROADSIDES, AND EPHEMERA RELATING TO MICHAEL PEICH AND HIS...

Price: $2,950.00  other currencies  Order nr. 138290

Austin, TX: Press Intermezzo, 1997. 12mo. half leather / half pewter, clamshell box. (54) pages. Limited to 175 copies. This copy is bound by Monique Lallier in pewter and purple goat skin leather with pewter making up the inside doublures. The design is of crushed pewter. Top edge graphite. Embroidered end bands with silk thread. Signed on the rear free-endpaper (leather). In a custom cloth clamshell box with leather spine label with the title stamped..... READ MORE about THE ENCHIRIDION OF EPICTETUS: A MANUAL FOR LIVING

Price: $2,950.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135447

Endgrain Editions Three.
Mission, BC: Barbarian Press, 2003. folio. quarter sienna leather with patterned paper-covered boards, gold-stamped leather label on spine, slipcase. 132 pages. Endgrain Editions Three. Privately printed in an edition of 190 copies, of which this book is one of 60 copies handbound by Simone Mynen and containing a signed and numbered proof of the frontispiece in a handmade paper folder. Prospectus loosely inserted. Fine in fine slipcase. With an introduction by Lazarov, a Publisher's Foreword..... READ MORE about PETER LAZAROV, A SELECTION OF ENGRAVINGS WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE ARTIST

Price: $2,900.00  other currencies  Order nr. 74609

Oxford, United Kingdom: Printed at the University Press, n.d. (but circa 1958). 4to. full leather. 1049, 261, (1) pages, followed by 11 plates of illustrations and blank pages for births, marriages, baptisms, etc. Translated Out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches. Cum Privilegio. London, New York, Toronto. The New Clarendon Lectern Bible. Printed by Vivian Ridler. This..... READ MORE about HOLY BIBLE: CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, AND THE BOOKS CALLED APOCRYPHA

Price: $2,750.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135451

Uithoorn, Netherlands: Atelier de Ganzenweide, 2012. oblong 12mo. full leather, clamshell box. 151+(1) pages. Text in Dutch and English. Limited to 500 copies, of which this is one of the unbound and uncut copies of the revised and enlarged edition. This copy is bound in a full artist-binding by Monique Lallier, award-winning bookbinder from Greensboro, NC. The binding is a full crushed brown moracco with onlaid decorated leather panels on both the front and rear..... READ MORE about " DIRCK DE BRAY" A SHORT INSTRUCTION IN THE BINDING OF BOOKS

Price: $2,600.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135134

Facsimilo-Lichtdruck nach den Originalen der Staatsbibliothek zu Breslau Hergestellt von der Reichsdruckfrei. Herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin.
Berlin: W.H. Kühl, 1891. portfolio. half cloth spine, cloth-covered boards. Facsimilo-Lichtdruck nach den Originalen der Staatsbibliothek zu Breslau Hergestellt von der Reichsdruckfrei. Herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin. Portfolio with three maps from Gerhard Mercator in 41 loose plates. Illustrates Europe in 15 leaves, the British Isles in 8 leaves and a world map in 18 leaves. Two pages of text in German. Bookplate from the Long Island Historical Society on the front..... READ MORE about DREI KARTEN VON GERHARD MERCATOR; EUROPA-BRITISCHE INSELN-WELTKARTE

Price: $2,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 104058

Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1955. 8vo. full crushed morocco, five raised bands, author and title stamped in gilt on spine in second compartment, morocco-tipped slipcase. 125, (7) pages. One of 140 copies, of which this copy is one of 125 numbered copies. Two very light rubbing marks to two of the leather raised bands one the spine, as well as to compartment four of the spine. Very light darkening to the endpapers from the leather turn-ins..... READ MORE about TRATELLO IN LAUDE DI DANTE

Price: $2,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 84970

Oldham, England: Incline Press, 2002. 4to. leather, decorated endpapers, cloth clamshell box, top edge cut, other edges uncut. 27+(1) pages. Limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by the authors on colophon. Preface, corrigendum. Color illustrations, two tipped-in illustrations precede text, two tipped-in illustrations in text. Signed binding by Monique Lallier, red leather, with inlaid illustrations of animals with natural background on both front and back. Turn-ins with decorated endpapers. READ MORE about THEIR BOOK OF TOYS FROM INDIA

Price: $2,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134443

(London, Strand: Essex House Press, 1900). 12mo. original full vellum over boards, embossed rose vignette on front cover and the motto "Soul is Form.", gilt titling on spine. 23+(1) pages. Limited to 125 numbered copies printed by C. R. Ashbee of the Essex House Press (Modern British and American Private Presses 1850-1965, 63). Lacking the tissue paper issued at time of publication. A few dots of foxing on edges of textblock, just a hint of..... READ MORE about THE EVE OF ST. AGNES

Price: $2,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 116316

Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. 12mo. original publisher's quarter cloth with Holland backed blue paper-covered boards. (iv), 67+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 515 copies of which this is one of 500 copies printed on paper. (Cockerel 23, Peterson A23, Walsdorf 23). Very light rubbing to the Holland backed boards, else a fine copy. Printed in Chaucer type, in black and red, and is uniform in size with the romances from the French, as..... READ MORE about OF THE FRIENDSHIP OF AMIS AND AMILE

Price: $2,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 43962

Nantes: Pré Nian Editions, (1988). folio (15 1/8 x 11 inches). loose signatures gathered in a paper wrapper, grey linen clamshell box. (28) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 60 copies, on Johannot paper, each copy signed by the poet and the artist. A sequence of five haiku by the Scottish poet Kenneth White who lives in France and has written verses in English and in French. Each page has the English verse, followed..... READ MORE about METHODOS

Price: $2,450.00  other currencies  Order nr. 61609

Paris, France: Georges Visat, 1948. 8vo. full leather, leather endpapers, top edge cut, other edges uncut. 52, (6) pages. Text in French. Limited to 225 numbered copies. 20 dry point etchings, frontispiece and in text, by Christiane Alanore. Signed binding, 2014, by Monique Lallier, signature on back pastedown. Bound in dark brown calf skin with shapes in the covering leather that resemble horse skin. Doublures and fly leaves with the same leather. Silk embroidery end..... READ MORE about LE CHEVAL TROYEN

Price: $2,250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134376

Vashon Island, WA: Suzanne Moore, 2015. 38 cm by 28.5 cm. handmade paper, with heavy paper portfolio. 20 pages. Limited to 26 unique copies signed and dated by the artist on the colophon, of which this is a regular edition lettered A to Z. This book explores some of the variations of the "vanguard of letters." Executed on Rives BFK paper and Revere papers. The title page extends across two pages and features a large..... READ MORE about A.MUSINGS

Price: $2,200.00  other currencies  Order nr. 138152

Montreal, QC, Canada: M. A. Thesis, Concordia University, 1975. 4to. leather, clamshell box, top edge marbled. xxvi, 143, (3) pages. Text in French. Foreword, summary, acknowledgments, preface, introduction, bibliography, table of contents. Frontispiece, illustrations in text. Signed binding by Monique Lallier. Leather binding with gilt and red stamping and onlaid illustrations on both covers and pastedowns. With cloth clamshell box. READ MORE about LA PREMIÈRE ÉCOLE D'ARTS GRAPHIQUES EN AMÉRIQUE

Price: $2,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134444

2 Volumes.
London, England: Harding, Triphook, and Lepard; and J. Major, 1825. 8vo. full crushed brown morocco, gilt ornamentation on front and rear boards as well as the spines, five raised bands, title in gilt in second compartment, author and volume number in fourth compartment, leather turn-ins have gilt ornamentation around the circumference, marbled pastedowns and endpapers. l, 448; (ii), 449-899+(1) pages. 2 Volumes. Second edition. (Windle and Pippin, A50b). This copy is extra-illustrated with 212 total..... READ MORE about THE LIBRARY COMPANION; OR, THE YOUNG MAN'S GUIDE, AND THE OLD MAN'S COMFORT, IN THE CHOICE OF A...

Price: $2,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 130788

Summer Garden Editions
New York: Center for Book Arts, 1998. 7.25 x 11 inches. hardcover with clamshell box. 56 pages. Summer Garden Editions. Limited to an edition of 100 signed and numbered copies, of which 50 were reserved for the Center's members and associates. Diary of a Madman is considered to be one of Gogol's greatest short stories. The tale centers on the life of a minor civil servant during the repressive era of Nicholas I. Translated from..... READ MORE about THE DIARY OF A MADMAN

Price: $2,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 103057

Cincinnati: Oscar H. Harpel, 1870. 8vo. original gilt stamped cloth, all edges stained red. Frontispiece; (ii), 252, (18) pages. First and only printing. (Bigmore and Wyman I, 306). Harpel lists many important facts necessary for the running of a successful printing business and includes a history of printing. The most important feature of this book is the full color plates, some printed and some done by lithography. Contains folded plates, tipped-in specimens, and other examples..... READ MORE about HARPEL'S TYPOGRAPH OR BOOK OF SPECIMENS CONTAINING USEFUL INFORMATION, SUGGESTIONS AND A...

Price: $2,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 46847

Oxonii (Oxford, England): E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1708. small 8vo. full contemporary paneled calf, stamped in blind on the front and rear panel, four flural ornaments stamped in black at each corner on the front and rear boards, four raised bands, all edges sprinkled red. (x), (1), 2-135, (1) pages, copperplate engraving of the Sheldonian on the title-page. First edition of this extremely scarce work on Polycarp's Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippines. Edited by C...... READ MORE about EPISTOLAE SEPTEM GENUINAE QUAS NIMIRUM COLLEGIT S. POLYCARPUS SUAEQUE AD PHILIPPENSES EPISTOLAE...

Price: $2,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136462

(Rétaud): Pré Nian Editions, (1991). folio. paper wrappers, loose sheets housed in lined-faced box, cardboard packing box. unpaginated. Limited to 60 copies. Poems illustrated with six silkscreens by Bertrand Bracaval. Signed by the poet and the illustrator. Title page and title on upper board of box in blind. Malenfant is a professor of literature at the University of Quebec at Rimouski. He won the Governor General's Prize in 2001 and the Alain-Grandbois in 1998 for..... READ MORE about ABSTRACTIONS FAITES

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Containing an Account of his Education, Travels, Adventures, Connections, Literary Productions, and pretended Conversion from Heathenism to Christianity; which last proved the Occasion of his being brought over into this Kingdom, and passing for a Proselyte, and a Member of the Church of England.
London: Printed for the Executrix; Printed for R. Davis; J. Newbery; L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1764. large 12mo. half leather with marbled paper-covered boards, 5 raised bands, top edge gilt, red leather spine label. frontispiece, (ii), ii, 364 pages. Containing an Account of his Education, Travels, Adventures, Connections, Literary Productions, and pretended Conversion from Heathenism to Christianity; which last proved the Occasion of his being brought over into this Kingdom, and passing for a...... READ MORE about MEMOIRS OF ****. COMMONLY KNOWN BY THE NAME OF GEORGE PSALMANAZAR; A REPUTED NATIVE OF FORMOSA....

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