1956. Kentfield, California: The L-D Allen Press, 1956. 4to., viii, 43 pp. Quarter vellum, illustrated designs on front cover. In slipcase. Very faint scattered foxing. § One of 130 copies printed by the Allens in hand-set Romanée on handmade paper. Illustrated with wood-engraved vignettes & side borders by Mallette..... More
1963. Kentfield: The Allen Press, 1963. 4to, 47 ff. with 16 two-color wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Original printed boards. A very good copy, prospectus loosely inserted. § Limited to 130 copies. The two-color wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton are designed to represent the main characters' various emotional states. Likewise..... More
1985. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1985. Folio, 114, (8) pp., with 10 original leaves bound in. Printed in black and red with numerous illustrations. Original cloth, fore-edge untrimmed, a few very light scuffs to the cloth, still a fine copy with the original prospectus. § Limited to..... More
1966. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1966. Folio, [19] leaves unpaginated, loose signatures in Siena wrappers, laid in purple cloth covered folding box with printed title label. Fine. § Limited to 400 copies, with a leaf from the Complutensian Bible and a well-researched scholarly essay by Basil Hall. The..... More
1972. Kentfield: The Allen Press, 1972. Large 4to, unpaginated, with 3 full-page plates. Quarter cloth with wooden boards, cloth slipcase. Fine as issued. § Limited to 130 copies, a handsome printing of The Bacchae. The three full-page color etchings, one for each of the three acts, are by French artist..... More
1934. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1934-1935. Folio, spiral bound printed brown paper wrappers, black label tipped in on front cover with gilt type. § Includes sample pages for the 12 books of 1934-1935. Each sample includes the title page, a page or two of text or illustration..... 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..... 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
1975. Los Angeles: Press of the Pegacycle Lady (William and Victoria Dailey), 1975. Large 8vo (10 x 6.5"), [6], 18, 1 (colophon) pp. Marbled paper covered boards with buckram backstrip, paper lettering label on backstrip, fine. § No. 141 of 250 copies printed for the Globe Bookstore (Michael Goth). A...... 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
3419. [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
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..... 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
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
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1885. London: Muir, 1885. 4to, 1p. preface by Muir, 27 leaves hand-colored, 1p. appendix, 2 leaves at the end in facsimile of Blake’s manuscript arrangement of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience, and the separate plate ‘A Divine Image’. Original printed wrappers, bound into full mottled calf, red morocco..... More
1886. Edmonton: William Muir, 1886. 4to, (4), 45 hand-colored plates, (2) leaves. Contemporary half navy calf gilt with navy morocco and gilt label on cover and navy cloth boards, original wrappers bound in. A fine copy, with the bookplate of H.C. Plimmer. § Limited to about 50 copies by Muir..... More
1955. London: Trianon Press, 1955. Small 8vo, 54 color plates, 3 pp. printed text at end. Full teal morocco, slipcase, backstrip faded as usual and lightly rubbed at crown, a very good copy with the book plate of the California physician K. Garth Huston. § Copy #9; the superb color..... More
1972. London: Trianon Press, 1972. 2 vols., 4to and small 4to, with 20 color plates. Full brown morocco, slipcase, new. § Edition de luxe, #XLIV of 50 copies with additional proof sheets, progressive plates, original stencil, etc. “The text is a clear statement of Blake's beliefs regarding the nature of..... More
1970. London: Trianon Press, 1970. 4to, 10 facsimile leaves and 5 pp. of commentary. Original quarter green morocco, backstrip browned, marbled boards, with slipcase. § Copy 351 of 662 copies including 36 de luxe copies numbered I-XXXVI, 600 regular copies numbered 1-600 and 26 copies lettered A-Z reserved for the..... More
1976. London: Trianon Press, 1976. 4to, 5 color plates and commentary, and progressive states of the plates, and an original copper plate etc.. Full brown morocco, slipcase. As new. § Copy #VII of 32 de luxe copies. Limited to 538 copies including 32 de luxe copies numbered I-XXXII, 480 regular..... More
1975. London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1975. 8vo: xxvii [xxviii], [27] pp. Title-page in sepia and 27 plates including title-page in color in double-page spreads alternating with those bearing notes to the plates. Original blue cloth, with lettering in silver to backstrip, original blue cloth slip case with..... More
1965. London: Trianon Press, 1965. 4to, 8 plates, (5) pp. text, plus the extra materials. Full brown morocco, marbled paper-covered slipcase, gilt lettering to backstrip. A fine copy. § De luxe copy #XII of 20 copies with a suite of progressive states of one plate, an original guide-sheet and stencil..... More
