![The Game 1922. [together with] The Obedience of Authority. David Jones](/pictures/thumb/107189.jpg?v=1564510853)
1922. Ditchling: St. Dominic’s Press, 1922. 2 vols., small 8vo, 118 pp. With 12 full-page woodcuts by David Jones. Original quarter cloth, boards, printed dust-jacket, in perfect condition. § A very rare and interesting book, with superb examples of Jones’s woodcuts. Accompanied by a pamphlet “The Obedience of Authority” by..... More
![Aspidistras and Parlers [with] Further Hints to Aspidistraculturalists. David. Pepler Jones, H. D. C](/pictures/thumb/107187.jpg?v=1564510853)
1929. Ditchling: St. Dominic’s Press, 1929. 2 parts in one, 16mo, [8; 8]pp. With two full-page woodcuts in part 1. Quarter green morocco, marbled boards, a sweet little binding by Roger Powell. § Two very scarce little pamphlets brought together by the master binder Roger Powell. Jones’s woodcut is of..... More
1928. Cambridge and New York: 1928. Thick 4to, xiii, 264, (1) pp. With 10 plates, 60 line blocks in the text, 6 typographical insets, 3 broadsides, and an 8pp. type specimen printed on pale green paper; many in two or more colors; two original prints by David Jones including one..... More
1895. Oxford: Henry Daniel, 1895. 8vo., [12], 63, [1] pp., inlaid photogravure portrait of Keats on the preliminary leaf, printers-device to verso of the Preface. Printed greenish-grey wrappers, handmade Rives paper, untrimmed and unopened. Backstrip slightly faded, some slight curling to the edges of the wraps, minor foxing to outer..... More
2016. Asparagus Valley: Double Elephant Press, MMXVI (2016). Square 8vo., 5” x 5”, 24 pages of relief etchings (recto and verso). Accordion-bound black cloth with pictorial paper label to upper and lower boards, housed in a green four-flap chemise which doubles as a display with magnets at key points to..... More
1967. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1967. Roy. 8vo, 61, (1)pp. With woodcuts by Mallette Dean. Original cloth, color plate laid onto upper cover, printed paper label on backstrip. Very good, as issued. § Limited to 450 copies printed for the Book Club by Mallette Dean and illustrated with..... More
1905. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1905. 12mo, xxvi, 75 pp. Title page in red and black, deckle edges. Blue paper wrappers, upper cover illustrated in red and black. Wrappers evenly toned, internally fine without markings or ownership marks. § An attractive printing of Lang's retelling of the medieval French..... More
1949. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1949. Folio, (14), 42, (1, colophon) pp. Title and vignettes printed in red. Original boards, cloth backstrip, printed paper label, as new. § Edition de luxe, limited to 49 copies (and one retained by the Club); this copy has three fine leaves and..... More
1968. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1968. Folio, (8), 81 pp. Printed in red and black, illustrated with woodcuts from the original edition. Original quarter gray-colored cloth over decorated boards. Stuart B. Schimmel bookplate. A touch of sunning to the upper board, very good. Original prospectus, announcement and other..... More
1903. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903. 12mo, 77, (1, colophon) pp. Title page in red and black. Paper wrappers printed in red and black over stiff card, in the original slipcase with floral paper sides. A fine copy with a hint of toning to the upper cover, slipcase worn..... More
1947. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1947. 8vo, 96pp. Blue paper over boards with repeating design in darker blue. Cream colored backstrip with paper label. § 500 copies of these dreadful poems printed for the author. Absolute rubbish -- the title says it all. GB 436. More
1941. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1941. Blue paper over boards with line backstrip and paper label. 4to, [viii], (14) pp. Frontispiece portrait of Bender is a reproduction of an etching by Max Pollak, title page and decorations printed in blue and black ink, 2 black-and-white photographic portraits of Bender..... More
1996. Honolulu: Manoa Press, 1996. 12 double leaf pages, with 1 folding leaf of the original Chinese text. Rust colored handmade paper cover with paper label on front. Includes a printed announcement for the book with a handwritten note from the author. Fine as issued. § Numbered 31 of..... More
1905. Edinburgh & London: T.N. Foulis Press, 1905. Slim 8vo, 70 pp. Bound by Pender in lush decorated morocco with Whistler’s stylized butterfly with a stinger on upper cover in green and purple. With 16 illustrations including a frontispiece caricature portrait of the author. Top edge gilt and gilt ruling..... More
1998. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1998. Oblong quarto, 55, (1, colophon) pp. 10 full-page b/w drawings on green paper. Green cloth with paper title labels. As new in publisher's slipcase. § Limited to 250 copies signed by the artist. A satiric novella first published in Brazil in 1881. Carroll Dunham..... More
![One Hundred Merrie & Delightsome Stories [Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles] Illustrated by Clara...](/pictures/thumb/109887.jpg?v=1564510978)
1924. Carbonnek: Privately Printed for Subscribers only, 1924. 2 vols., 8vo, xxv, 279; xv, [1 leaf], 272. 16 mildly erotic plates by Tice. Original green cloth, covers blind-stamped and backstrips richly gilt. A very good set. § 496 of 1250 copies signed by the author and the frontispiece to vol..... More
1886. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. January 1886 - October 1888 [and] London: The Chiswick Press, January 1889 - October 1892. 4to. 28 volumes illustrated by woodcut and photogravure, in the original printed wrappers. Expectable browning to the untrimmed edges and occasional foxing and offsetting; issue no. 9 front..... More
1961. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1961. 4to, pp. xvi, 63, [1]; catalogue of some 493 examples, priced, annotated, and indexed, preceded by a short biography. Original white paper wrappers, slightly browned. § With a printed note laid in, as issued, noting that a hard-bound edition limited to 250 copies was..... More
1958. [San Francisco]: Book Club of California, 1958. Folio, xxiii, [5], 79, [1] pp., facsimiles of titlepages. Quarter brown cloth, patterned boards, plain white dust-jacket, as new. § Limited to 400 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. The first book was Cowan’s bibliography of Californiana (1914) -- this book was..... More
1958. [San Francisco]: Book Club of California, 1958. Folio, xxiii, [5], 79, [1] pp., facsimiles of titlepages. Quarter brown cloth, patterned boards, plain white dust-jacket, as new. § Limited to 400 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. The first book was Cowan’s bibliography of Californiana (1914) -- this book was..... More
1992. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1992. 8vo, 14pp. Original brown wrappers. As new. § Limited to 500 copies. More
1992. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1992. 4to, 117pp. With 5 woodcuts by McCurdy. Original green silk over boards, circular silver title on upper cover with a buffalo nickel set into the binding. Prospectus loosely inserted. § Limited to 400 copies signed by Mamet and McCurdy. Probably Mamet’s best known work..... More
2004. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2004. Folio, ix, 107 (1, colophon)pp. With illustrations in the text in b/w. § A perfect copy of this fragile book, limited to 300 copies and often found damaged -- the outer wrapper bears a warning from the publisher about the vulnerability of the..... More
1915. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915. Slim 8vo, 63 pp. Quarter vellum with brown paper covered boards, decorated title stamped in gilt to upper and lower boards. Bookplate of Myra Lumbard Palache on front paste down and her name dated December 23, 1915 on front free endpaper. Preliminaries lightly foxed, vellum..... More
1995. University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries: Silver Buckle Press, 1995. [12pp.], 2 sheet chochingami paper folio with magnesium block print illustrations by Gretchen Hils. Pale green soft cover with printed decorations. Fine as issued. § Limited Edition excerpt from the novel of the same name. Numbered 59 of 100 copies..... More
