1942. [New York]: The Limited Editions Club, Printed by The Merrymount Press, Boston, 1942. 4to, xvii, 485 pp. 12 etched plates by Chamberlain. Publisher's red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, original slipcase. Slightest hit of fading to backstrip else a fine copy inside and out, slipcase sunned, paper label to..... More
1969. Kentfield, CA: Allen Press, 1969. 4to, 75 pp. With illustrations by Victor Seward and Mallette Dean. Original full Irish linen lettered and decorated in red. A fine copy. § One of 140 copies. Printed in red, blue, and black at the Allen Press, the text presents the technical procedures..... More
1962. [Kentfield]: The Allen Press, 1962. Folio, [98] leaves unpaginated, in five unsewn sections, each in its respective beige handmade paper wrappers, together in linen slipcase and chemise; nine hand-colored initials and 47 border drawings by Mallette Dean. Very fine. § Limited to 130 copies printed damp on handmade paper..... More
1970. Kentfield: The Allen Press, 1970. Folio, [56] leaves unpaginated. With 24 engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Original “Fortuny” cloth, slipcase, near fine with slight dulling to backstrip. Bookplate on half title. § Limited to 140 copies printed on Umbrian paper and decorated with Hebrew calligraphy at the head of each..... More
1969. Kentfield, CA: Allen Press, 1969. 4to, 75 pp. With illustrations by Victor Seward and Mallette Dean. Original full Irish linen. A fine copy with the original prospectus and a 2pp. typed and autograph note from the Allens. § One of 140 copies. Printed in red, blue, and black at..... More
1978. San Francisco: Amaranth Press, 1978. Folio, 10 1/2 x 16 1/2”, color printed calendar, loosely bound at the top-edge with string. § Limited edition. “The material in this calendar has been adapted from original Egyptian antiquities as identified in their captions...”. More
1955. San Francisco: Lewis and Dorothy Allen Press for The Book Club of California, 1955. 8vo, 79 pp. Frontispiece map, running decorative border in red Cyrillic characters. Original gray-blue boards with white parchment back, title in red on back, Russian characters in red on covers. As issued. § Limited to..... More
1976. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1976. Folio, 99 pages. Richly illuminated and illustrated throughout, with 43 specimen leaves. Original quarter red cloth and boards, fine, original plain dust-jacket, age toned and lightly worn. § Limited to 400 copies printed at the Arion Press and signed by Angelo. This..... More
1996. Oldham, UK: Incline Press, 1996. [8pp.], with 5 wood engravings by Enid Marx. Dark gray soft cover with hand-bound pages. Fine as issued. § One of an unnumbered edition. More
1986. Bloomington, Indiana: Echo Press/ the Private Press of Fredric Brewer, 1986. Large folio, 19 x 14 ins., with 12 plates mounted on sheets, accompanied by a facing leaf of text all enclosed in a natural linen clamshell box by James Canary, As new. § Presentation copy with an extra..... More
1987. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1987. Small 4to, 64 pp. Initials drawn and illuminated in red, blue and gold by Thomas Ingmire. Handset deepdene type on paper handmade especially for this edition. Full limp white vellum interlaced with 3 red vellum strips; the covers and spine lettered and decorated..... More
1980. Boston: The Steinhour Press for the Club of Odd Volumes, 1980. 8vo, 37 pp. Original papered boards with printed label on backstrip. Boards lightly spotted, else fine. Original prospectus laid in. § One of 200 copies. Sidney Ives' lively work on the mysterious affair of the trial of Jane..... More
1911. Portland, Maine: Thomas Mosher, 1911. 12mo, 16pp. Printed in red and black. Original stiff card binding with paper wrapper decorated in red and black. Occasional soiling, small bump to the base of the spine. In the original green printed slipcase, worn. Very good. § A attractive printing by Mosher..... More
1932. Leipzig: The Limited Editions Club, 1932. 4to, 237 pp. Quarter vellum with paper covered boards. Slight fading to top edge of upper board, lacking slipcase, internally fine. § Copy #757 of 1500 numbered copies, signed by Weiss, the German artist, typographer and book designer of the interwar period... More
V.p., v.d. -Single leaf, 11 1/2 x 16 1/2, printed on both sides, oval portrait to recto, color facsimile to verso; very good. -Folio, 10 1/4 x 15”, with photographic frontisportrait inlaid, facsimile of a handwritten letter tipped in, printed in black and red, deckled fore- and lower edge; very..... More
1920. [London]: R.A. Walker, 34 Oakley Crescent S.W., 1920. 4to, 7 pp., frontispiece. Original printed wrappers as issued. Unopened. Bookplate of Nina Ranger Herzog. § Limited to 200 copies numbered and signed in purple ink by the author. Derry describes, page by page, the contents of a scrapbook containing sketches..... More
1941. San Fransico: Book Club of California, 1941. Folio, (12), 74 pp. With 4 color plates (including frontispiece). Grey boartds, vellum backstrip, top edge a bit gnawed, internally fine. § Limited to 350 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. The historical introduction by Edith Coulter describes Beechey's visit en route..... More
1941. [New York]: Printed for the Members of the The Limited Editions Club at the University Press Oxford, 1941. 2 vols., 4to. Illustrated in color and black and white throughout. Quarter green cloth and floral patterned boards, matching slipcase. Vol. 1 with printed dust jacket, dust jacket of vol. 2..... More
1939. Los Angeles: The Albertson Press in Association with Bunster Creely, 1939. 8vo, 17 pp. Original red boards with gold paper title label on upper cover, frontis. plate present but detached, boards irregularly faded, some paste action to front blanks. § Edition limited to 1000 copies signed by Bennett and..... More
1983. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1983. 4to. 58,(4)pp. Frontispiece, 8 illustrations, an original leaf, and a proof from an original block. Original brown boards, white paper spine label. As issued, in perfect condition. § Edition limited to 518 numbered copies. The inserted leaf is “ Jupiter and..... More
1990. San Francisco Book Club of California 1990. 4to, [vi] 40pp. Original quarter red morocco, backstrip lettered in gilt, as new. § Limited to 395 copies printed by W. Thomas Taylor Also known as the Douai Bible, the Rhemes New Testament is one of the most important and influential Biblical..... More
1763. Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville, Printer to the University, 1763. Royal folio, 573 unnumbered leaves. A2, 1, B-13D2, *a-*e2, *f1. English binding of contemporary full blue-green morocco, covers with elaborate gilt border, backstrip richly gilt with red morocco lettering pieces stamped in gilt "HOLY BIBLE" and at the foot..... More
1975. London: Trianon Press, 1975. 4to, 8 plates, 8 pp. commentary by Keynes with another plate, and 22 additional progressive proof plates, and with a metal pochoir stencil mounted at the end. Full brown morocco, a fine copy in slipcase. § Copy B, special publisher’s copy of 26 de luxe..... More
1978. London: Trianon Press, 1978. Oblong folio, unlettered quarter morocco, cloth, worn. § The Trianon Press mock-up for the published edition which was limited to 376 copies. The first accurate reproduction of Blake’s seven engravings for the Divine Comedy, first published in 1838. This new edition has an introduction and..... More
1970. Bushey Heath [UK]: Taurus Press, [1970]. Very slim small folio, [32]pp., illustrated throughout. Original cloth, fine as issued. § Limited to 23 copies, this is #21, signed by Piech. A rare little edition by Piech who was a Ukrainian-American artist from NY. I sold a number of books and..... More
