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(Aralia Press). Bradbury, Ray.

READ MY PAGES.

n.p. National Endowment for the Arts, 2008. 8vo. quarter leather with marbled paper covered boards, stiff paper wrappers, loose signature of the colophon, cloth covered clamshell box with leather spine label, gilt lettering on spine. variously paginated. The last publication authored by Ray Bradbury, of which this copy is one of six super deluxe copies. Originally an edition of 125 copies (15 deluxe copies signed by Ray Bradbury and 110 unsigned copies). Signed by Ray... READ MORE

Price: $7,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 129671

(Bookbinding). Wolfe, Richard J.

GEHEIMEN DER BOEKBINDERIJ, SECRETS OF BOOKBINDING, AN ANONYMOUS 19TH CENTURY DUTCH BOOKBINDING MANUAL, REPRODUCED IN FACSIMILE WITH TRANSLATION, INTRODUCTION AND NOTES.

Boston: Richard J. Wolfe, 1991. 8vo. decorated paper over cloth-backed boards. xix, 15, 23, (7) pages. Limited to 250 signed copies, 200 for sale. Text is a facsimile of original Dutch text with translation on facing page. Gives information on gilding of leather; paper; silk; velvet and fore edge, marbling on edges of calf and sheepskin, and dyeing of calf and sheepskin. Tipped-in are 8 samples of some of the processes explained in the book... READ MORE

Price: $250.00 other currencies Order nr. 34250

(Booth, Franklin). Fleskes, John.

FRANKLIN BOOTH: PAINTER WITH A PEN.

Santa Cruz, CA: Flesk Publications, 2002. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. x, 97+(1) pages. Foreword by John Reed, introduction by Roy Krenkel, brief essay by Joseph Pennell. Black and white illustrations throughout. Booth was noted as one of the greater pen and ink artists of the twentieth century. READ MORE

Price: $125.00 other currencies Order nr. 130986

(Canada). Brown, George W (editor).

DICTIONNAIRE BIOGRAPHIQUE DU CANADA.

3 volumes.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, (1969-1974). large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxv,(i),774; xli,(i),792, xlii,782 pages. 3 volumes. A biographical dictionary for scholars, editors, writers, and educators who need authoritative information about significant figures of Canada's past. Volume I, written in French, contains the lives of people who had died before 1701. Volume II, also in French, contains the lives of people who died between 1701 and 1740. Volume III, written in English contains the lives... READ MORE

Price: $195.00 other currencies Order nr. 58622

(Clarendon Press). Shakespeare, William.

SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS BEING A REPRODUCTION IN FACSIMILE OF THE FIRST EDITION 1609.

Oxford, England: The Clarendon Press, 1905. 4to. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, string ties, fore-edge uncut. 71+(1) pages, unpaginated facsimile. Jaggard 456. Numbered copy. From the copy in the Malone Collection in the Bodleian Library. Introduction and bibliography by Sidney Lee. Table of contents, illustrative title page from the John Wright imprint of 1609. Corner of front cover fore-edge severely bumped. Covers lightly soiled. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. READ MORE

Price: $125.00 other currencies Order nr. 130945

(Delaware).

LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE. REVISED EDITION.

Wilmington: Printed by R. Porter and Son, 1829. 8vo. contemporary full calf, red leather spine label. vii, 760 pages. B1-2526. Shaw & Shoemaker 38363. With a three page preface by Willard Hall giving a short history of the printing of the Laws of Delaware and summarizing why this "Revised Edition" was issued. Took the first six volumes and 496 pages of the seventh volume and printed only laws still active. Bookplate of the Delaware collector... READ MORE

Price: $300.00 other currencies Order nr. 126893

(Detective Fiction). Brown, Dan.

THE DA VINCI CODE.

New York: Doubleday, (2003). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 454 pages. First edition. The novel has helped perpetuate popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail legend and the role of Mary Magdalene in the history of Christianity. According to the premise of the novel, the Vatican knows it is living a lie, but continues to do so to keep itself in power. It is a worldwide bestseller with more than 60.5 million copies in... READ MORE

Price: $100.00 other currencies Order nr. 94234

(Farleigh, John). Poole, Monica.

WOOD ENGRAVINGS OF JOHN FARLEIGH With a Foreword by H.R.H. The Prince Philip.

Henley-on-Thames: Gresham Books, (1985). folio. quarter morocco over cloth, slipcase. (iv), 138 pages. First edition, one of 110 numbered copies signed by the author and bound in this manner. This edition also contains a hand printed proof from an original block engraved by John Farleigh and an appendix not in the trade edition. Fine condition. READ MORE

Price: $325.00 other currencies Order nr. 11083

Galantaris, Christian.

VERLAINE - RIMBAUD - MALLARMÉ.

Catalogue raisonné d'une collection
Paris & Genève: (Éditions des Cendres), 2000. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 411, (3) pages. Catalogue raisonné d'une collection. Text in French. This is the second printing numbered 351 to 850. Catalogue of 282 books, manuscripts, letters, portraits, and other precious items by and about French poets Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, and Stéphane Mallarmé from the collection of Édouard-Henri Fischer. Illustrated in color throughout. Bookplate of Édouard-Henri Fischer on front wrapper designed by Hans Erni... READ MORE

Price: $107.00 other currencies Order nr. 94613

Glick, William J.

IN THE SERVICE OF SCHOLARSHIP: HAROLD HUGO & THE MERIDEN GRAVURE COMPANY.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. 7.375 x 10.5 inches. Cloth with dust jacket. 208 pages. "This work skillfully demonstrates that the aura of unsurpassed quality around the work of Harold and Meriden was both hard earned and richly deserved.... a handsome book that alludes in choice of type, layout, printing quality, and binding to a Meriden Gravure publication." - Paul M. Wright, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America "Throughout its nearly century-long... READ MORE

Price: $75.00 other currencies Order nr. 128978

(Greenboathouse Press).

ALPHABETUM ROMANUM.

Vernon, BC, Canada: Greenboathouse Press, 2010. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 75, (5) pages. Limited to 115 copies, 100 numbered; this copy is thus. The letterforms of Felice Feliciano, circa 1460, as redrawn by Jason Dewinetz. Foreword by Paul F. Gehl of the Newberry Library. Afterword by Dewinetz. With bibliography of works about Feliciano. Wrapper and endsheets made by Reg Lissel of Vancouver, British Columbia. Letters beautifully hand-colored. Prospectus loosely inserted (with one hand-colored letter). READ MORE

Price: $400.00 other currencies Order nr. 120788

Grossman, Carol Porter.

THE HISTORY OF THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, cloth spine over paper-covered boards. xii, 276 pages. "This handsome volume is long overdue. ... lively, well illustrated, honest and informative: Macy and Schiff may not have been Cobden-Sanderson or Mardersteig, but they deserve study nonetheless, and it is hard to see how the task could have been done better." - Angus O'Neill, The Library "Designed in the spirit of the LEC with... READ MORE

Price: $125.00 other currencies Order nr. 114346

Hamber, Anthony.

PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE 1851 GREAT EXHIBITION.

New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and V&A Publishing, 2018. 8.75 x 12 inches. cloth, dust jacket. xx, 396 pages, with folding floor plan of the Crystal Palace in pocket at rear. "Ever since the Great exhibition I have felt that a new era had commenced for photography", said William Henry Fox Talbot -- inventor of photography on paper.... In charting the pioneering and diverse role of photography at the Great exhibition, this... READ MORE

Price: $95.00 other currencies Order nr. 129325

(Japan). Neuer, Roni, Herbert Libertson, and Sususu Yoshida.

ESTAMPES JAPONAISES.

(Paris, France): Flammarion, (2002). 4to. illustrated paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 359+(1) pages. Text in French. Translated from the English by Catherine and Jean-François Allain. Table of contents, glossary, list of illustrations. Color frontispiece and illustrations throughout text. A study of Japanese Ukiyo-e prints. READ MORE

Price: $100.00 other currencies Order nr. 132066

Lalllier, Monique.

MONIQUE LALLIER: A RETROSPECTIVE.

New Castle, DE and Greensboro, NC: Oak Knoll Press and Guilford College Art Gallery, 2018. 8.5 x 11 inches. paperback. 120 pages. "A prolific and endlessly inventive designer with flawless technical mastery, Lallier has also been a generous and influential teacher to scores of students around the globe." - Theresa Hammond, Director and Curator, Guilford College Art Gallery, from the Foreword Catalogue for an exhibition at the Guilford College Art Gallery in Greensboro, NC from... READ MORE

Price: $35.00 other currencies Order nr. 130456

(Libanus Press). Boccaccio.

THEODORE AND HONORIA, A TRANSLATION...BY JOHN DRYDEN, WITH ILLUSTRATIO.

Marlborough: Libanus Press, 1985. tall 4to. quarter leather, paper-covered boards. (24) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 300 copies, of which this copy is one of 50 bound in quarter leather. A Dryden translation or paraphrase of Boccaccio, probably from Dryden's Fables (1700). Five woodcuts by Carol Walklin accompany the text, four printed in black and one in green and red. One of these is also printed in green as a title page decoration... READ MORE

Price: $175.00 other currencies Order nr. 50394

(Libanus Press). Kociejowski, Marius (editor).

THE TESTAMENT OF CHARLOTTE B.

Marlborough, England: Libanus Press, 1988. tall 8vo. cloth-backed decorated paper covered boards, cardboard slipcase. 68+(2) pages. First edition. Limited to 220 numbered copies. Set in Garamound and printed on handmade Amatruda paper. Illustrated by Richard Shirley Smith. A fascinating true account of love, villany, abduction and rape in eighteenth century England. The editor unearthed the unpublished manuscript of this testament during a move. Intrigued by the fact it was addressed to his great-great-great-grandfather he began... READ MORE

Price: $175.00 other currencies Order nr. 124150

Lodge, Edmund.

PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGRAVED FROM AUTHENTIC PICTURES, IN THE GALLERIES OF THE NOBILITY, AND THE PUBLIC COLLECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF THEIR LIVES AND ACTIONS.

4 volumes
London, England: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Lepard and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821-34. folio. 19th century half leather, marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers, gilt tooling, four raised bands on spine, top edges gilt. irregularly paginated. 4 volumes. First edition. DNB XII: 57-9. Called his "chief work" by the DNB, Lodge commenced work on the first volume in 1814 and completed the project in 1834. Lodge (1756-1839) was a historical scholar and became... READ MORE

Price: $2,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 122017

(Music).

BOUWSTENEN VOOR EEN GESCHIEDENIS DER TOONKUNST IN DE NEDERLANDEN.

3 volumes.
(Utrecht, Netherlands): Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 1965. 8vo. cloth, title and volume number gilt-stamped on spine. 344; 349+(1); 285+(1) pages. 3 volumes. Text in Dutch. A collection of primary sources, from the 14th through the 18th centuries, assembled with the objective of writing a history of musical works in the Netherlands. Each volume with a preface, list of credits, table of contents, and index. Each source included has reference to the primary document from which... READ MORE

Price: $250.00 other currencies Order nr. 120817

Patkus, Ronald.

THE PRIVATELY PRINTED BIBLE: PRIVATE AND FINE PRESS PRINTINGS OF BIBLICAL TEXTS, 1892-2000.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, cloth spine over paper-covered boards. 264 pages. The Privately Printed Bible is the first book to offer a broad survey of the history of private and fine press printings of biblical texts. Author Ronald Patkus focuses on English-language examples from the United Kingdom, Ireland, and North America, and includes more than 500 works in his study. He begins with the late nineteenth century... READ MORE

Price: $95.00 other currencies Order nr. 129283

(Pencz, George). Röttinger, Heinrich.

DIE HOLZSCHNITTE DES GEORG PENCZ.

Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1914. 4to. quarter cloth with paste paper-covered boards. (viii), 46, (2) pages plus 24 leaves of plates in black and white. First edition. The German Renaissance painter and engraver, Georg Pencz (c.1500-1550) was active in Nuremberg and was probably part of Dürer's workshop. Pencz's style was heavily influenced by his two trips to Italy, the first coming early in his career. The fine, crisp style of his paintings in particular reflect... READ MORE

Price: $225.00 other currencies Order nr. 77802

(Shakespeare, William).

THE SONNETS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

(London, England: Philip Lee Warner, 1913). 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket, top edge cut, other edges uncut. (iv), 78, (4) pages. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. A Riccardi Press Booklet. Bibliographical note precedes text. Edited by W.J. Craig. Published for the Medici Society. A collection of Shakespeare's sonnets. Dust jacket chipped at edges. Endpapers tanned. READ MORE

Price: $125.00 other currencies Order nr. 131176

(Watkins, J., & F. Shoberl).

A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE LIVING AUTHORS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND; COMPRISING LITERARY MEMOIRS AND ANECDOTES OF THEIR LIVES; AND A CHRONOLOGICAL REGISTER OF THEIR PUBLICATIONS, WITH THE NUMBER OF EDITIONS PRINTED.

London: Henry Colburn, 1816. 8vo. Full calf, re-backed with cloth. viii+449 pages. "Mr. [Frederic] Shoberl proceeded to assure me, in the presence of his son, that the work was written by [John] Watkins as far as the letter F -- that some dispute with the publishers then arose -- that the materials were therefore handed over to himself -- and that he completed the work as it now appears." Bolton Corney. Notes & queries (1)11... READ MORE

Price: $250.00 other currencies Order nr. 97841

Wilde, Oscar.

DE PROFUNDIS, A FACSIMILE.

(London): The British Library, 2000. 4to. cloth. 14, (2) pages followed by the facsimile. Limited to 495 numbered copies. With a ten page introduction by Merlin Holland followed by the facsimile of the original manuscript of this important book. The manuscript consists of 20 foolscap folio sheets, each of four sides. This manuscript was written while Wilde was imprisoned for being a homosexual. READ MORE

Price: $175.00 other currencies Order nr. 61992

Wolfe, Richard J.

MARBLED PAPER: ITS HISTORY, TECHNIQUES, AND PATTERNS.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2018. 9 x 12 inches. stiff paper covers with French flaps. xx, 245 p., 37 color plates. "With a new foreword by Sidney Berger, this second edition meticulously tracks the rise and fall of paper marbling." - Printmaking Today, Fall 2018 Subtitle: with special reference to the relationship of marbling to bookbinding in Europe and the Western world. Second edition with corrections, from the original edition published in 1990... READ MORE

Price: $95.00 other currencies Order nr. 128896

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