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
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
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
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. § 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 trustees..... 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 XXXII de luxe copies, in an edition limited to 512 copies in all. The companion volume..... 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. § Edition limited to 426 copies, de luxe issue being copy XII of XX copies with a suite of progressive states of..... More
1968. London: Trianon Press, 1968. 4 vols., 8vo and 12mo, Vol. I (8vo), [i-vii]-viii, 50, (4) pp., Vol. II (12mo), [2] pp., 22 plates, Vol. III [4] pp., 31 plates, Vol. IV (12mo), [2] pp., 10 plates, negative and copper plate. Original tan morocco, (volume 4 in brown cloth, as..... More
1968. London: Trianon Press, 1968. 4 vols., 8vo and 12mo, Vol. I (8vo), [i-vii]-viii, 50, (4) pp., Vol. II (12mo), [2] pp., 22 plates, Vol. III [4] pp., 31 plates, Vol. IV (12mo), [2] pp., 10 plates, negative and copper plate. Original tan morocco, (volume 4 in brown cloth, as..... More
1968. London: Trianon Press, 1968. 4 vols., 8vo and 12mo, Vol. I (8vo), [i-vii]-viii, 50, (4) pp., Vol. II (12mo), [2] pp., 22 plates, Vol. III [4] pp., 31 plates, Vol. IV (12mo), [2] pp., 10 plates, negative and copper plate. Original tan morocco, (volume 4 in brown cloth, as..... More
1972. London: Trianon Press, 1972. Folio, with 116 color facsimile leaves reproduced by collotype and hand-stencil color, the text of the poems reproduced from copper-plate with 3 additional printings to reproduce Blake’s pencillings and the tone of the paper. Original sheets, marbled boards, morocco backstrip lettered in gilt,quarter brown morocco..... More
1972. London: Trianon Press, 1972. 3 volumes, folio, with 116 color facsimile leaves reproduced by collotype and hand-stencil color, the text of the poems reproduced from copper-plate with 3 additional printings to reproduce Blake’s pencillings and the tone of the paper. Marbled boards, morocco backstrips, slipcases, backstrips stained, slipcases worn..... More
1972. London: Trianon Press, 1972. 3 volumes, folio, with 116 color facsimile leaves reproduced by collo-type and hand-stencil color, the text of the poems reproduced from copper-plate with 3 additional printings to reproduce Blake's pencillings and the tone of the paper. Marbled boards, morocco backstrips, slipcases, a very good set..... More
1956. Northampton, Mass.: Gehenna Press, 1956. Small 4to, [11 inc. the first blank]pp. 18 b/w plates printed on Japan vellum with a title-sheet printed in red on plain paper preceding each image. Stapled into wrappers, very good. § “Fifty copies of this book have been printed by Esther and Leonard..... More
