Search Results for: Fine Press Books

(Folio Society). Bewick, Thomas.

MY LIFE.

Edited and with an Introduction by Iain Bain with Numerous Wood-Engravings and Watercolours by the Author.
London: Folio Society, The, 1981. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, slipcase. 192 pages. Edited and with an Introduction by Iain Bain with Numerous Wood-Engravings and Watercolours by the Author. First edition thus. Lacks slipcase. Spot on front cover from removal of label. READ MORE about MY LIFE

Price: $7.00 save 20% $5.60 Order nr. 119712

(Folio Society). Lang, Andrew (editor).

THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK.

(London, England): The Folio Society, 2003. small 4to. illustrated cloth, decorated endpapers, paper-covered slipcase. xx, 371+(1) pages. Table of contents, list of illustrations, introduction by Joan Aiken, editor's preface. Color frontispiece and illustrations in text, and decorations, by Charles van Sandwyk. READ MORE about THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK

Price: $95.00 save 20% $76.00 Order nr. 131193

(Folio Society). London, Jack.

THE CALL OF THE WILD.

London, England: The Folio Society, 2011. 8vo. cloth boards, paper-covered slipcase. xiv, 91+(1) pages. Third printing. Table of contents, introduction by David Vann, list of illustrations. Frontispiece and illustrations in text by Abigail Rorer. The text of the first book edition, with minor emendations. READ MORE about THE CALL OF THE WILD

Price: $30.00 save 20% $24.00 Order nr. 132174

(Folio Society). Shakespeare, William.

THE SONNETS & A LOVER'S COMPLAINT.

London, England: The Folio Society, 1989. 8vo. cloth, slipcase. unpaginated. Table of contents, introduction by Katherine Duncan-Jones, glossary. Engravings by Simon Brett, Peter Reddick, Harry Brockway, Peter Forster, Jany Lydbury, George Tute, and Michael Renton. READ MORE about THE SONNETS & A LOVER'S COMPLAINT

Price: $80.00 save 20% $64.00 Order nr. 132101

(Folio Society). Somerville, E.Oe. and Martin Ross.

EXPERIENCES OF AN IRISH R.M.

London, England: The Folio Society, 1984. 8vo. cloth, slipcase. xviii, 267+(1) pages. Table of contents, introduction by John O'Donovan. Frontispiece and illustrations in text by Paul Cox. A selection of eighteen stories from three original volumes, published from 1899 to 1915. READ MORE about EXPERIENCES OF AN IRISH R.M

Price: $15.00 save 20% $12.00 Order nr. 131303

(Folio Society). Thackeray, William Makepeace.

DRAWN FROM LIFE.

London, England: The Folio Society, 1984. 8vo. illustrated cloth, slipcase. xxiv, 279+(1) pages. Selected and edited, with an introduction by Margaret Foster. Table of contents. Illustrations by the author. READ MORE about DRAWN FROM LIFE

Price: $15.00 save 20% $12.00 Order nr. 131304

(Fortune Press). Bayliss, John and Derek Stanford.

A ROMANTIC MISCELLANY.

London: The Fortune Press, 1946. small 8vo. cloth. 62, (2) pages. First edition. D'Arch Smith, Fortune Press, 58 (no mention of binding variants). Original blue cloth lettered in gold. Cloth worn in places. Lacks dust jacket. READ MORE about A ROMANTIC MISCELLANY

Price: $15.00 save 20% $12.00 Order nr. 112367

(Fortune Press). Heywood, Terence.

HOW SMOKE GETS INTO THE AIR.

London: The Fortune Press, 1952. 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 25 pages. First edition. Author included in Tolley, Poetry of the Forties. Date of publication taken from d'Arch Smith / R. A. Caton and the Fortune Press. Fore-edge foxed, blue cloth marked, rear endpaper darkened, otherwise very good in dampstained, soiled dust jacket chipped at the head and foot of the spine. READ MORE about HOW SMOKE GETS INTO THE AIR

Price: $15.00 save 20% $12.00 Order nr. 112995

(Fortune Press). Jones, Glyn.

THE DREAM OF JAKE HOPKINS.

London: The Fortune Press, 1954. tall 12mo. orange cloth, with gilt stamping on the spine. 43+(1) pages. First edition (D'Arch Smith / R. A. Caton and the Fortune Press 320). Welsh author. Fine without dust jacket. This copy has a flat back (some copies have a rounded back). READ MORE about THE DREAM OF JAKE HOPKINS

Price: $35.00 save 20% $28.00 Order nr. 113111

(Fortune Press). Summers, Montague.

ESSAYS IN PETTO.

London: The Fortune Press, n.d. (but 1928). 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, fore edges uncut. Frontispiece; x, 183 pages. First edition, this copy being one of 70 copies printed on handmade paper and "finely bound." (Smith no.526.) This copy however is out of series and not signed by the author as aclled for in the bibliography. Essays on various literary topics, including Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Byron, Samuel Pepys, and the Marquis de Sade... READ MORE about ESSAYS IN PETTO

Price: $135.00 save 20% $108.00 Order nr. 51183

(Foulis, T.N.). Elfick, Ian and Paul Harris.

T.N. FOULIS, THE HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AN EDINBURGH PUBLISHING HOUSE.

New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press & Werner Shaw Ltd., 1998. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 277 pages. First edition. Operating from Edinburgh and London, the firm, T. N. Foulis, published more than 400 titles during the period 1904-25. The vast majority of their books were produced to the most exacting of standards. In recent times, the hallmarks of a Foulis book in the form of colored buckram bindings, tipped-in color plates, the... READ MORE about T.N. FOULIS, THE HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AN EDINBURGH PUBLISHING HOUSE

Price: $27.50 save 20% $22.00 Order nr. 50318

(Gefn Press). O'Callaghan, Julie.

JASPER THE LION HEART.

(London: Gefn Press, 1990). 4to. Khadi covered boards with 13 pages which foldout and are joined with gold paper strips. 13 pages. Lomited to 50 numbered copies signed by the author and the printer, Susan Johanknecht (Gefn Press Catalogue Raisonné p.39). Contains three original collagraphs printed in bronze ink by Johanknecht and was set by hand and printed on an Albion by her and Graham Bignell at the New North Press on smerset paper, and... READ MORE about JASPER THE LION HEART

Price: $200.00 save 20% $160.00 Order nr. 124151

(Gogmagog Press). Chambers, David, Colin Franklin and Alan Tucker.

MORRIS COX & THE GOGMAGOG PRESS.

Pinner, Middlesex: Private Libraries Association, 1991. small 4to. cloth. 184 pages. A tribute to the work of Morris Cox and his Gogmagog Press. Cox started his press, in 1957, as a means to present his own poetry and illustrations, in the meanwhile, creating some beautiful bindings and some highly individual techniques in printing. The text presents Cox's life and work, some of his poetry and illustrations and a lengthy and well annotated bibliography of the... READ MORE about MORRIS COX & THE GOGMAGOG PRESS

Price: $20.00 save 20% $16.00 Order nr. 33963

(Golden Cockerel Press).

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS 1921-1949.

Three volumes combined in one.
San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1975. 8vo. cloth. 47+(1); 51+(1); 112 pages. Three volumes combined in one. Reprint of the separately issued bibliographies. Lacks slipcase. Ex-Library. READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS 1921-1949

Price: $45.00 save 20% $36.00 Order nr. 101086

(Golden Cockerel Press).

COCKALORUM, A SEQUEL TO CHANTICLEER AND PERTELOTE BEING A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS, JUNE 1943 - DECEMBER 1948.

London: Golden Cockerel Press, n.d. (1949). tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 112 pages. First edition. Presentation from Christopher Sandford to James Moran dated 1953 on free endpaper. Sandford wrote the introduction to this book and was the principal partner in the Golden Cockerel Press. Jacket chipped at head of spine. READ MORE about COCKALORUM, A SEQUEL TO CHANTICLEER AND PERTELOTE BEING A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GOLDEN COCKEREL...

Price: $135.00 save 20% $108.00 Order nr. 58043

(Golden Cockerel Press).

COCKALORUM, A SEQUEL TO CHANTICLEER AND PERTELOTE BEING A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS, JUNE 1943 - DECEMBER 1948.

London: Golden Cockerel Press, n.d. (1949). tall 8vo. cloth. 112 pages. First edition. Spine faded. Lacks jacket. READ MORE about COCKALORUM, A SEQUEL TO CHANTICLEER AND PERTELOTE BEING A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GOLDEN COCKEREL...

Price: $35.00 save 20% $28.00 Order nr. 78364

(Golden Cockerel Press).

NUMBER OF PROSPECTUSES AND YEARLY ANNOUNCEMENTS OF BOOKS ISSUED.

Number of prospectuses and yearly announcements issued by the Golden Cockerel Press of England. Per item:
various dates. Number of prospectuses and yearly announcements issued by the Golden Cockerel Press of England. Per item:. Have the following years: 1952 (worn spot along front corner), Autumn 1954, 1955-1956 (2), 1956-1957 . Price is per volume. READ MORE about NUMBER OF PROSPECTUSES AND YEARLY ANNOUNCEMENTS OF BOOKS ISSUED

Price: $15.00 save 20% $12.00 Order nr. 8912

(Golden Cockerel Press). Bannet, Ivor.

THE AMAZONS, A NOVEL.

London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. small 4to. half brown polished buckram with marbled paper covered boards. 252, (2) pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies. (Cockalorum no.181). Wood engravings by Clifford Webb. The colophon has a wood engraving of the famous cockerel doing battle with an Amazon. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about THE AMAZONS, A NOVEL

Price: $150.00 save 20% $120.00 Order nr. 44360

(Golden Cockerel Press). Chambers, David and Christopher Sandford.

COCK-A-HOOP, A SEQUEL TO CHANTICLEER, PERTELOTE AND COCKALORUM, BEING A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS, SEPTEMBER 1949 - DECEMBER 1961.

N.P. Golden Cockerel Press, 1961. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 126 pages. First edition. With many woodcuts. Also has a bibliography of the prospectuses. With the Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about COCK-A-HOOP, A SEQUEL TO CHANTICLEER, PERTELOTE AND COCKALORUM, BEING A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE...

Price: $25.00 save 20% $20.00 Order nr. 71586

(Golden Cockerel Press). Chambers, David and Christopher Sandford.

COCK-A-HOOP, A SEQUEL TO CHANTICLEER, PERTELOTE, AND COCKALORUM BEING A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS, SEPTEMBER 1949 - DECEMBER 1961.

Pinner: Private Library Assoc. n.d. 8vo. cloth. 126 pages. First edition. Well-illustrated. Also gives a checklist of prospectuses for the period 1920 to 1962. Working copy only as the covers are wrinkled from water damage. No dust wrapper. READ MORE about COCK-A-HOOP, A SEQUEL TO CHANTICLEER, PERTELOTE, AND COCKALORUM BEING A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE...

Price: $10.00 save 20% $8.00 Order nr. 95481

(Golden Cockerel Press). Coppard, A.E.

HUNDREDTH STORY OF A.E. COPPARD. WITH ENGRAVINGS BY ROBERT GIBBINGS.

Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerell Press, 1931. tall 8vo. quarter blue calf with decorated paper-covered boards, top edge gilt, others uncut. (ii), 57, (3) pages. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. (Chanticleer no.74). Contains four woodcuts by Robert Gibbings. "The first book in the very successful `Guinea Series' of illustrated modern authors. Printed in the new Golden Cockerel type, specially designed for the Press by Eric Gill." Spine faded with some wear at extremities. READ MORE about HUNDREDTH STORY OF A.E. COPPARD. WITH ENGRAVINGS BY ROBERT GIBBINGS

Price: $50.00 save 20% $40.00 Order nr. 40082

(Golden Cockerel Press). Ghose, Sudhin N.

FOLK TALES AND FAIRY STORIES FROM INDIA.

London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1961. 4to. full morocco, slipcase. 147 pages. Number 41 of 100 specially bound copies. (Cock-a-hoop no.212). Bound by Hiscox in full maroon morocco with a gilt medallion enclosing a musician playing a sitar. Illustrated with six full page illustrations by the painter Shrimati E. Carlile executed in the traditional eighteenth century style of Bengal, with sharp white lines on a black background and overprinted in brown. Enclosed in a cloth-covered slipcase... READ MORE about FOLK TALES AND FAIRY STORIES FROM INDIA

Price: $650.00 save 20% $520.00 Order nr. 46756

(Golden Cockerel Press). Mathers, E. Powys. (Translator).

A CIRCLE OF THE SEASONS.

(Berkshire, England): Golden Cockerel Press, 1929. 8vo. polished cloth. frontispiece. 28, (4) pages. Published in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Text is a translation of the Ritu-Samhara of Kalidasa. 4 engravings on copper by Robert Gibbings. Spine age darkened, as usual. Covers slightly bowed, else a fine copy. READ MORE about A CIRCLE OF THE SEASONS

Price: $75.00 save 20% $60.00 Order nr. 76270

(Golden Head Press). Lister, Raymond.

THE EMBLEMS OF THEODOSIUS OR THE UNITY OF ENDYMION AND PROMETHEUS.

(Cambridge, England: The Golden Head Press, 1969). 8vo. decorated stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limted to 50 numbered copies. Designed by the author. Tipped-in illustrations. Bound by John P. Gray & Son. Front wrapper chipped at fore-edge. READ MORE about THE EMBLEMS OF THEODOSIUS OR THE UNITY OF ENDYMION AND PROMETHEUS

Price: $30.00 save 20% $24.00 Order nr. 131273

(Golden Head Press). Warner, Francis.

PERENNIA.

Cambridge, England: The Golden Head Press, 1962. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 27+(1) pages. A colleciton of poetry. With wood engravings by Raymond Lister. READ MORE about PERENNIA

Price: $15.00 save 20% $12.00 Order nr. 132083

UK Press Books

Refine search results