THE WRITER IN A CHANGING SOCIETY.
Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, (1956). small 8vo. red cloth stamped in gilt. 29 pages. Hermon Ould Memorial Lecture No. III. READ MORE about THE WRITER IN A CHANGING SOCIETY
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 80651
UK Press Books
IL PARADISO DI DANTE. AN ENGLISH VERSION.
With a Foreword by Roy Campbell.
Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, (Printed at the Curwen Press(, 1952. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket, top edge gilt. 148, (2) pages. With a Foreword by Roy Campbell. 2,000 copies printed. READ MORE about IL PARADISO DI DANTE. AN ENGLISH VERSION
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 80158
THE ROUT OF SAN ROMANO AND OTHER POEMS.
[Aldington, Kent: The Hand and Flower Press, (1952). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (121)-144 pages. First edition. Poems in Pamphlet V. Lightly soiled stapled printed wrappers. READ MORE about THE ROUT OF SAN ROMANO AND OTHER POEMS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 114107
STOKER HASLETT.
London: Joiner and Steele, 1932. 8vo. cloth, gilt lettering on spine and gilt signature on front cover, top edge gilt. 38 pages. Printed by The Alcuin Press, Gloustershire, in an edition limited to 350 numbered copies, signed by the author (Gibbs A7a). James Hanley (1901-1985) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and playwright, who ran away from home at the age of thirteen to become a merchant seaman, returning ten years later. He was..... READ MORE about STOKER HASLETT
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 70159
HASLEWOOD BOOKS, THE BOOKS OF FREDERICK ETCHELLS & HUGH MACDONALD.
Church Hanborough: Hanborough Parrot, 1990. 4to. cloth over boards, paper label, slipcase. 53 pages. First edition, limited to 170 numbered copies signed by the author. This copy has the following limitation written in "V/LX" and is one of the copies that has the four pouchoir colored plates executed by Sylvia Stokeld. Printed litho and bound by The Fine Bindery. An interesting history of this fine publishing firm. Well-illustrated with wood engravings by John Nash, Hester..... READ MORE about HASLEWOOD BOOKS, THE BOOKS OF FREDERICK ETCHELLS & HUGH MACDONALD
Price: $400.00 Order nr. 31632
CHARLES CLARK, THE BARD OF TOTHAM ... PRESENTING PIECES, POEMS AND BIOGRAPHICAL BITS, PERTAINING TO A PECULIAR PRINTING PERSONAGE OF THE PAST.
Loughborough: (Hedgehog Press), 1990. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. (iv), 10+(1) pages. Limited to 200 copies. With six tipped-in facsimiles of printing produced by this 19th century English printer. Clark ran a private press in Totham between 1828 and 1862. Head of spine slightly bumped. READ MORE about CHARLES CLARK, THE BARD OF TOTHAM ... PRESENTING PIECES, POEMS AND BIOGRAPHICAL BITS, PERTAINING...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 36689
ANCIENT CUSTOMS USED IN A PRINTING-HOUSE.
Menlo Park, CA: The Herity Press, 1957. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (12) pages. Limited to 50 copies. An excerpt from Moxon's MECHANICK EXERCISES, London, 1683, the first manual in English on printing. Printed by Ben Lieberman at the Herity Press. READ MORE about ANCIENT CUSTOMS USED IN A PRINTING-HOUSE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 116516
PHAROS AND PHARILLON.
Richmond, Surrey, England: Hogarth Press, 1923. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 98, (2) pages. Second edition (Woolmer 29). List of works by the author on verso of title. Table of contents, introduction. Publications by the press follows text. Wrappers chipped and tanned at edges and along spine. Bottom of front cover stained. Foxing on endpapers. Front inside hinge cracked. READ MORE about PHAROS AND PHARILLON
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 121863
A CHECKLIST OF THE HOGARTH PRESS, 1917-1938.
With a Short History of the Press by Mary E. Gaither.
Andes: Woolmer - Brotherson Ltd, 1976. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xi, 177 pages. With a Short History of the Press by Mary E. Gaither. First edition. Much on Virginia and Leonard Woolf. With four page addenda loosely inserted. Minor jacket soiling and chipping. Inscribed by the author on the front free end paper. READ MORE about A CHECKLIST OF THE HOGARTH PRESS, 1917-1938
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 3102
FIVE AUTUMN SONGS FOR CHILDREN'S VOICES.
(Bow, Nr. Crediton, Devonshire, England: Richard Gilbertson, 1968). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 9+(1) pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies. Number 4 in the publisher's manuscript series. READ MORE about FIVE AUTUMN SONGS FOR CHILDREN'S VOICES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 118828
ENGLISH ILLUMINATION.
2 volumes.
Florence, Italy: Pantheon [printed in Italy for the Pegasus Press and designed at the Officina Bodoni] / New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., n.d. but 1928. 4to. cloth, spine gilt-stamped, top edges gilt. xx,(ii),132; (iv) pages, with 101 and 159 additional leaves in vols. I and II respectively. 2 volumes. First edition. In the 1920's, the Pegasus Press (or "À l'enseigne du Pégase") of John Holroyd-Reece, based in Paris, published a number of art books..... READ MORE about ENGLISH ILLUMINATION
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 130557
CUTS OF CRAFT-WORKERS.
(Oldham, England): Incline Press, 2008. small 8vo. Marbled paper covered boards. i-ix, 1-57 pages. Limited to 400 copies. Jost Amman, 1589 - 1591, was primarily known as a draftsman for wood-cut book illustration, & the cut on page 2 may well be a self-portrait. He became the master in craft workshop in Nuremburg, negotiating instruction from customers, then making the illustrations that would be used by other craftsworkers in the shop, in the case of..... READ MORE about CUTS OF CRAFT-WORKERS
Price: $70.00 Order nr. 101565
THE ANAGNOSTAKIS POCKET GUIDE TO AUSTRIAN GERMAN AND SWISS ANTIQUARIAN BOOKDEALERS TERMINOLOGY.
Oldham, England: Incline Press, 2012. 16mo. stiff paper wrappers, paper front cover label, bottom edge uncut. (14) pages. Brief notes precede text. A dictionary of terms frequently employed by German-speaking booksellers. READ MORE about THE ANAGNOSTAKIS POCKET GUIDE TO AUSTRIAN GERMAN AND SWISS ANTIQUARIAN BOOKDEALERS TERMINOLOGY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 132666
BULLRUSHES.
(Oldham, England): Incline Press, 1995. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut. 33, (3) pages. Limited to 175 numbered copies. Table of contents, biographical sketches of the author and illustrator Anna Ravenscroft. Wood engravings by Ravenscroft. Signed by the aurhor and illustrator. Corrigendum tipped in. READ MORE about BULLRUSHES
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 132296
ON THE TRANSITION FROM BOOK LABELS TO BOOK PLATES AMONGST THE CIRCULATING LIBRARIES & THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE LATER EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.
Oldham: Incline Press, 2002. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (18) pages. Printed in an editionof "less than" 175 copies. The text of a lecture given at the University of Reading May 22, 2002. Includes references to Ralph Beilby and Thomas Bewick. Illustrated with tipped in plates. The first publication printed on the presses 1890s Warfedale press. READ MORE about ON THE TRANSITION FROM BOOK LABELS TO BOOK PLATES AMONGST THE CIRCULATING LIBRARIES & THE...
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 72621
AN ELEGY FOR X.
Oldham, England: Incline Press, 2018. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Introducing a series of Occasional Essays and Poems by Anthony Burgess selected by Andrew Biswell, Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. Each of the uniform series will have a contextual introduction, and in this first book that is by Dr Graham Foster, archivist at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester. Originally published in 1991 as part of an alphabet book commissioned by David..... READ MORE about AN ELEGY FOR X
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 133690
A GARLAND OF LOVE SONGS.
(Oldham, England): Incline Press, n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper front cover label, top edge cut, other edges uncut. (12) pages. Limited to 200 copies. An Incline Press Chapbook. Introductory comments by Graham Moss. Illustrated with old engravings printed from the wood. READ MORE about A GARLAND OF LOVE SONGS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 132662
Catalogue of Books in Sheets.
(Oldham, England: Incline Press), n.d. oblong 32mo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. A catalogue of unbound sheets available from the Incline Press. READ MORE about Catalogue of Books in Sheets
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 133031
Collection of Incline Press ephemera.
Oldham, England: Incline Press, 2010-2014. various sizes. A collection of seventeen items of ephemera produced by the Incline Press. Includes cards, announcements, and other items. READ MORE about Collection of Incline Press ephemera
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 132670
Collection of Incline Press ephemera.
Oldham, England: Incline Press, circa 2015. 8vo. variously bound. variously paginated. A collection of ephemera from the Incline Press. Includes broadsides with poetic works, a copy of William Hone, Better and Not So Good (2015), and a letter from the publisher. READ MORE about Collection of Incline Press ephemera
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 132695
A PAPER SNOWSTORM.
Tony Savage and the Leicester Broadsheets
Oldham, England: Incline Press, 2005. folio. cloth spine, paper-covered boards, stiff paper portfolio, slipcase. (v), 73, (2) pages. Tony Savage and the Leicester Broadsheets. Limited to an edition of 200 copies. The ten sheets in the folder are genuine. However, the tipped-in sheets (as explained in the Acknowledgements) were all forged at the Incline Press. All of the forgeries differ from the original is some major respect: typeface, paper and use of color in paper..... READ MORE about A PAPER SNOWSTORM
Price: $425.00 Order nr. 91306
SONG OF THE FOUR SEASONS.
(Oldham, England): Incline Press, 2011. 8vo. decorated stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut, paper front cover label. (8) pages. Limited to 195 copies, 45 numbered with Roman numerals. Published as a New Year's keepsake. This copy is thus numbered. Illustrated with cuts by Eduard Ege. Biographical sketches of the author and illustrator. Printed on recto only. READ MORE about SONG OF THE FOUR SEASONS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 132760
GARDEN RELICTS.
Oldham: Incline Press, 2006. Small oblong 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. (ii), 21 pages + colophon. Limited to an edition of 150 copies, of which this is number 123. Written, illustrated, and signed by Molly & Bert Eastman. This book is printed on paper from the Magnani mill at Pescia, Italy, supplied by John Purcell Paper. The hand binding has been completed by Christ Hicks of Oxford using a Curwen Press patterned paper that was..... READ MORE about GARDEN RELICTS
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 93008
HELEN BINYON'S TIGER.
Oldham: Incline Press, 2000. square 8vo. decorated paper wrappers with a paper cover label. (10) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 100 numbered copies. This is the sixth New Year Booklet published by the Incline Press, which features Helen Binyon's Chinese shadow tiger one of the shadow puppets she uses in her shows. It includes two illustrations of the tiger, one being a line drawing and the other a print in yellow, brown and..... READ MORE about HELEN BINYON'S TIGER
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 60776
Ephemera from the Incline Press.
Oldham, England: Incline Press, n.d., but circa 2015. various sizes. Three items of ephemera: advertisement of a speaking engagement by Graham Moss, the Manhattan Book Fair, and notice of accidentally discarding a list of orders. READ MORE about Ephemera from the Incline Press
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 133051