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Walpole, Horace.

ON MODERN GARDENING.

New York: Young Books, 1931. large 12mo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, paper spine label, slipcase. x (ii), 80, (2) pages. Printed at the Walpole Press in an edition limited to 325 copies, with a Preface and Bibliographical Note by W.S. Lewis. This essay was first published in 1780 by Strawberry Hill in volume four of the Anecdotes of Painting in England."Horace Walpole's essay is a brief history of landscape gardening, from the First Garden..... READ MORE about ON MODERN GARDENING

Price: $85.00 Order nr. 63084

Wilbur, Richard.

PEDESTRIAN FLIGHT, TWENTY-ONE CLERIHEWS FOR THE TELEPHONE.

(Winston-Salem): privately printed, (1981). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limited edition of 81, signed by the author. Illustrated by the author/poet. Introductory note to the reader by Wright, who was owner/publisher of Palaemon Press of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Colophon page notes private printing for Wright. Collection of 21 clerihews. Clerihew poetry, according to the introductory note, "was invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley, author of Trent's Last Case." READ MORE about PEDESTRIAN FLIGHT, TWENTY-ONE CLERIHEWS FOR THE TELEPHONE

Price: $125.00 Order nr. 109257

Yarnell, Jim.

SPECIMENS: FROM RAGS TO RUSHES.

Wichita: Oak Park Press, 1983. miniature book (6.8 x 5.0 cm). leather, title gilt-stamped on spine and front cover, edges uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by author on colophon (Bradbury, Oak Park 3). Twelve handmade paper specimens, with explanatory comments on each. Gilt on spine worn away, else near fine. READ MORE about SPECIMENS: FROM RAGS TO RUSHES

Price: $125.00 Order nr. 117777

Zakani, Obaid-e.

THE PIOUS CAT.

(London, England): Bertram Rota, 1986. 4to. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, slipcase. 35, (3) pages. Limited to 200 numbered copies. First edition. Translated from the Persian by Basil Bunting. Table of contents, note, postscript. Includes facsimile of Bunting's autographed manuscript. Includes booklet with the original Persian text. Slipcase chipped at bottom edge and lightly sunned. READ MORE about THE PIOUS CAT

Price: $75.00 Order nr. 128038

Zeitlin, Jake.

MORE WHISPERS & CHANTS.

Pasadena, CA: Ampersand Press, 1952. small 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. (vi), 19, (3) pages. Printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press, Pasadena. Poems written by the author "twenty years ago, when I had more of the urge to sing. I send them out as a friend sends a letter to another." Half-title page lacking. READ MORE about MORE WHISPERS & CHANTS

Price: $65.00 Order nr. 63232

Zeitlin, Jake.

MORE WHISPERS & CHANTS.

Pasadena, CA: Ampersand Press, 1952. small 8vo. folded sheet. (4) pages. Advance sample, printed February, 1952, by Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press. Folded sheet with title page and a poem. READ MORE about MORE WHISPERS & CHANTS

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 63863

(Éditions de la Maison Française).

Publication Announcement by Éditions de la Maison Française.

(Paris, France): La Maison Française, n.d., but circa 1948. 4to. self paper wrappers. (8) pages. Text in English and French. Announcement of publications by the Maison Française. Comments by André Maurois. Color illustration. READ MORE about Publication Announcement by Éditions de la Maison Française

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 133059

(Abbe, Elfriede). Irving, Washington.

RIP VAN WINKLE: A LEGEND OF THE KAATSKILL MOUNTAINS.

Ithaca, NY: (Elfriede Abbe), 1951. 4to. quarter cloth, paper covered boards, gilt emblem on front board, fore-edge uncut, slipcase. (viii), 34 +(1) pages. Limited edition of 275 numbered and signed copies. Abbe (1919-2012) was a sculptor and wood engraver who had won numerous prizes for her work. This is copy # 1 presented to Abbe's mother on Christmas 1951. Woodcut engravings by Elfriede Abbe. Text printed from handset type. Invoice for slipcase laid in. Xerox..... READ MORE about RIP VAN WINKLE: A LEGEND OF THE KAATSKILL MOUNTAINS

Price: $650.00 Order nr. 107229

(Abbey Press). Griffith, Roy.

CONCERNYNGE THE RESOUN WE SAVE EGGS: A TREWE HISTORYE AS MORE PLAYNLY SHAL FOLOW HERAFTER.

(Cambridge, MA: The Abbey Press, 1925). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, fore-edge uncut, in envelope. xvii+(i) pages. An announcement of the association of Eugene H. Gordon and G. Gehman Taylor as Gordon-Taylor, Inc., operating the Abbey Press. Reproduces the first advertisement printed in English by William Caxton. Envelope tearing along crease. READ MORE about CONCERNYNGE THE RESOUN WE SAVE EGGS: A TREWE HISTORYE AS MORE PLAYNLY SHAL FOLOW HERAFTER

Price: $30.00 Order nr. 130988

(ABCedary Letterpress). Carol, Mark Philip.

ANCIENT NEEDS.

Easthampton, MA: ABCedary Letterpress, 1989. 15" x 10 3/4" full vellum non-adhesive binding, sewn on exposed laces by Claudia Cohen. 11 etchings. One of 75 copies, of which this is one of 26 lettered copies. A specially crafted window in the cover of this bleached vellum binding frames a wood engraving of a seal pup. This edition also includes a full suite of all the prints and a drawing laid in a chemise and placed..... READ MORE about ANCIENT NEEDS

Price: $3,750.00 Order nr. 61362

(Acorn Press).

TK: TIBE KALLISON KOTZ NOVEMBER 12, 1903-JULY 26, 1982.

N.P. (Acorn Press, 1983). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 16, (2) pages. Limited to 1000 copies. Eulogy for Kotz, descendant of a pioneer Texas family, by her son Nick. Trump medieval type with Trajanus initials. Foil-stamped on front wrapper. READ MORE about TK: TIBE KALLISON KOTZ NOVEMBER 12, 1903-JULY 26, 1982

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 115558

(Acorn Press). Bonham-Carter, Victor.

A POSY OF WILD FLOWERS GATHERED IN THE COUNTRYSIDE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.

London and Dulverton, England: The Acorn Press and The Exmoor Predd, (1983). 12mo. cloth, paper front cover label. 126, (2) pages. Limited to 350 numbered copies, signed by the author on colophon. Reprint of 1946 edition. Illustrated with wood engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn. Table of contents, introductory essay by the author. Descriptions of numerous flowes found in English literary works with excerpts of poems that mention them. "Sentimental vocabulary" of the flowers follows text. Acknowledgments..... READ MORE about A POSY OF WILD FLOWERS GATHERED IN THE COUNTRYSIDE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

Price: $100.00 Order nr. 130907

(Acorn Press). Hollister, Isaac.

A BRIEF NARRATION OF THE CAPTIVITY OF ISAAC HOLLISTER, WHO WAS TAKEN BY THE INDIANS, ANNO DOMINI, 1763.

Washington: March, Milligan & Company, 1976. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 14, (2) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 400 numbered copies. Designed and reprinted by Jean and John Michael at the Acorn Press. Originally printed and sold at the Printing Office in New London in 1767. A rather matter-of-fact first-hand account of Isaac Hollister's captivity by Native Americans beginning in 1763. Surprisingly devoid of details about the people who captured him or the..... READ MORE about A BRIEF NARRATION OF THE CAPTIVITY OF ISAAC HOLLISTER, WHO WAS TAKEN BY THE INDIANS, ANNO DOMINI,...

Price: $22.50 Order nr. 79438

(Acorn Press).

ONE LINE SPECIMEN BOOK.

Forest Park, IL: Acorn Press, (1962). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, front wrapper gilt-stamped. (vi), 29, (3) pages. Limited to 350 copies. Type faces available at the Acorn Press. Foreword and explanation. Indexed. Wrappers faded. READ MORE about ONE LINE SPECIMEN BOOK

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 114780

(Adagio Press).

ADAGIO PRESS BROCHURE.

(Harper Woods, MI: The Adagio Press, 1968). 8vo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Brochure describing the installation of a new printing press by the press, a C&P Craftsman Platen. READ MORE about ADAGIO PRESS BROCHURE

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 128720

(Adagio Press).

A TYPOGRAPHIC PASTICCIO.

Contents: "An Introduction to the Adagio Press;" "A Tribute to Anton Bohm and his work and the Sans Souci Press;" "The Spirit of Liberty," by Judge Learned Hand; "Tribute, as if from a dead author," by Donald Weeks; "The Spring of the Year," by Samuel Johnson; "Interpretations and Insinuations, or, the image of the Adagio Press as seen graphically by its friends."
Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio Press, (1963, 1964, 1964, n.d., 1965, 1965). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers; loose leaf; envelope. 12; 7+(1) pages; remainder unpaginated. Contents: "An Introduction to the Adagio Press;" "A Tribute to Anton Bohm and his work and the Sans Souci Press;" "The Spirit of Liberty," by Judge Learned Hand; "Tribute, as if from a dead author," by Donald Weeks; "The Spring of the Year," by Samuel Johnson; "Interpretations and Insinuations, or, the image..... READ MORE about A TYPOGRAPHIC PASTICCIO

Price: $100.00 Order nr. 93931

(Adagio Press). Bahr, Leonard F., compiler.

VARIOUS ASPECTS OF BORROWED BOOKS.

being a subdued interpretation of The Chap-Book printed for The Society of Private Printers.
N.P. The Adagio Press, 1984. 12mo. stiff paper wrapper. unpaginated. being a subdued interpretation of The Chap-Book printed for The Society of Private Printers. Tanner and Alstrom 44. An attractively designed and bound selection of quotations about the borrowing and lending of books. Set in various types. READ MORE about VARIOUS ASPECTS OF BORROWED BOOKS

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 94056

(Adagio Press). Cobden-Sanderson, T.J.

A LETTER FROM STELLA.

AN EPILOGUE TO THE PUBLICATION OF C-S: THE MASTER CRAFTSMAN.
Harper Woods, MI: The Adagio Press, 1971. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (20) pages. AN EPILOGUE TO THE PUBLICATION OF C-S: THE MASTER CRAFTSMAN. First edition, limited to 432 numbered copies. Tanner and Alstrom 24. Concerns a letter from Cobden- Sanderson's daughter and additional information by John Dreyfus. Hand-printed by Leonard Bahr at his private press. READ MORE about A LETTER FROM STELLA

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 15428

(Adagio Press). Johnson, Samuel.

THE SPRING OF THE YEAR.

N.P: (The Adagio Press, 1965). large 12mo. paper wrappers. (16) pages. Privately printed and limited to 240 copies. An essay from "The Rambler" from 1750. READ MORE about THE SPRING OF THE YEAR

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 57120

(Adagio Press). Ruskin, John.

THE TEXT OF JOHN RUSKIN'S LETTER TO 'MY DEAR TINIE ' WRITTEN FROM THE BRIDGE OF ALLAN ON 31 AUGUST 1857. WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY NORMAN H. STROUSE AND FIVE PEN-AND-INK ILLUSTRATIONS BY ADELE BICHAN. CONTEMPTIBLE HORSE.

Harper Woods, MI: Adagio: the Private Press of Leonard F. Bahr, 1962. 8vo. quarter cloth with marbled paper-covered boards. xix, 23-43, (3) pages. First edition, limited to 365 copies. (Tanner and Alstrom 7.) Second production of this private press. The text of John Ruskin's letter to "My Dear Tinie." Sharp satire on British industrialization. READ MORE about THE TEXT OF JOHN RUSKIN'S LETTER TO 'MY DEAR TINIE ' WRITTEN FROM THE BRIDGE OF ALLAN ON 31...

Price: $50.00 Order nr. 63479

(Adagio Press).

PRINTING IN PRIVACY: A REVIEW OF RECENT ACTIVITY AMONG AMERICAN PRIVATE PRESSES.

Grosse Pointe Park: Adagio Press, 1960. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 24 pages. Limited to 550 copies. Tanner and Alstrom 4. Surveys by Levenson and Lieberman, notes on the colophons of various private presses, an article by Steve Watts on 19th century typefaces, and a discussion of work in progress. Handprinted. READ MORE about PRINTING IN PRIVACY: A REVIEW OF RECENT ACTIVITY AMONG AMERICAN PRIVATE PRESSES

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 8177

(Adagio Press).

STATUS REPORT 1983.

(Harper Woods, MI: Adagio Press), 1983. 4to. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Comments on the travails of the Adagio Press. Prospectus for William Blake Proverbs of Hell, laid in. Also laid in is a quote from Horace Walpole. READ MORE about STATUS REPORT 1983

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 133069

(Adagio Press).

TYPOGRAPHIA I.

Harper Woods, MI: The Adagio Press, 1976. 8vo. paper wrappers, mailing envelope. 27 pages. Printed in an edition limited to 325 numbered and signed copies. Tanner and Alstrom 34. This is a commonplace book of typographic exercises interspersed with notes on printing, typography and the private press. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIA I

Price: $45.00 Order nr. 6

(Adagio Press).

TYPOGRAPHIA TWO.

Harper Woods, MI: The Adagio Press, 1979. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, mailing envelope. pp.29-60. Printed in an edition limited to 325 numbered copies. Tanner and Alstrom 37. A continuation of the work presented as Typographia 1. This copy is signed by the private press owner, Leonard Bahr. This is a commonplace book of typographic exercises interspersed with notes on printing, typography and the private press. Signed by Bahr next to limitation statement. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIA TWO

Price: $45.00 Order nr. 18

(Adagio Press). Zaun, Rev. Allan A.

BUT THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE.

The text of the Sermonette delivered by The Reverend Allan A. Zaun at the wedding of Ann and Leonard Bahr Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church
Detroit: n.p., 1960. 8vo. stiff paper wrapper. unpaginated. The text of the Sermonette delivered by The Reverend Allan A. Zaun at the wedding of Ann and Leonard Bahr Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church. Limited to an edition of 210. Not in Tanner and Alstrom, but printed by Ann and Leonard Bahr of Adagio Press for presentation to their friends. A very attractive printing of the text read at the Bahr's wedding. READ MORE about BUT THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE

Price: $30.00 Order nr. 94183

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