ESTHER: A YOUNG MAN'S TRAGEDY: TOGETHER WITH THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS by Blunt, Wilfred S - 1895

[Milford, NY]: ABCedary Letterpress, 1989.. Folio (38 x 28.5 cm). Full limp bleached vellum, with diecut window exposing a pictorial vignette. Illustrated. Fine, accompanied by a separate suite in cloth folder, the whole enclosed in publisher's folding clamshell box (bookplate shadow on box pastedown, small label mark in corner of upper panel, tiny mark on spine label). Prospectus laid in. First edition. Foreword by Brian Davies. Illustrated with eleven etchings and four wood engravings by Alan James Robinson. From a total edition of 79 copies, this is one of twenty-six lettered copies bound thus, accompanied by a separate suite of the etchings and engravings, each lettered and signed by the artist, as well as an original ink and watercolor drawing, executed on a sheet of fine vellum, and signed by the artist. A magnificent undertaking, partaking of the manner and spirit of Robinson's Cheloniidae Press, printing Carol's narrative of the birthing of Harp Seal pups on the Magdalen Islands in company… Read More

Portland, OR: Triangular Press, 2005.. Small quarto. Cloth and natural boards, printed labels. Color photographs, plates and illustrations. Fine. First edition. One of 1000 numbered copies. Schnieder's text is printed in English and German. A well-illustrated catalogue raisonné (1978-2005) and chronology. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Portland Public Library, December 2005.

West Chester, PA: Aralia Press at West Chester University, 1994.. Narrow quarto (29 x 17 cm). Linen and decorated boards, printed spine label. Fine. First edition. One of a total edition of 210 copies printed on Johannot in Spectrum types, bound by Larry Yerkes. Contributors include Barth, Disch, Hadas, Leithauser, Seth and a number of other poets.

Mt. Horeb: The Perishable Press, 1973.. Quarto. Buckram over boards with blindstamped vignette. Illustrated. Faint trace of sunning at extremities, otherwise fine. First edition. Illustrated with eighteen drawings by the author. One of 175 copies printed on Japanese handmade Hosho paper and signed by the author/artist. HAMADY 57.

The first-ever appearance in print of James Joyce's Story for Children, THE CATS OF COPENHAGEN in a special limited edition of 200 copies.
Michael Caine has printed this large-format letterpress edition with virtuoso skill, setting the text in a wondrously expressive array of original, early twentieth-century hand-cut Italian and French founts to capture the imagination of readers young and old. Casey Sorrow has brought to life Joyce's curious 'Københavnere' with ingeniously playful pen-and-ink drawings, specially commissioned, and printed by typographique cliché.
This Numbered issue, printed on Fedrigoni Freelife Vellum, is in double-elephant sextos and hand-bound in one-quarter cloth over marbled boards.
Further details and images are available at http://ithyspress.com

[Milford, NY]: ABCedary Letterpress, 1989.. Folio (38 x 28.5 cm). Full limp bleached vellum, with diecut window exposing a pictorial vignette. Illustrated. Fine, accompanied by a separate suite in cloth folder, the whole enclosed in publisher's folding clamshell box (bookplate shadow on box pastedown, small label mark in corner of upper panel, tiny mark on spine label). Prospectus laid in. First edition. Foreword by Brian Davies. Illustrated with eleven etchings and four wood engravings by Alan James Robinson. From a total edition of 79 copies, this is one of twenty-six lettered copies bound thus, accompanied by a separate suite of the etchings and engravings, each lettered and signed by the artist, as well as an original ink and watercolor drawing, executed on a sheet of fine vellum, and signed by the artist. A magnificent undertaking, partaking of the manner and spirit of Robinson's Cheloniidae Press, printing Carol's narrative of the birthing of Harp Seal pups on the Magdalen Islands in company… Read More

Portland, OR: Triangular Press, 2005.. Small quarto. Cloth and natural boards, printed labels. Color photographs, plates and illustrations. Fine. First edition. One of 1000 numbered copies. Schnieder's text is printed in English and German. A well-illustrated catalogue raisonné (1978-2005) and chronology. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Portland Public Library, December 2005.

Frankfurt am Main, Ars Librorum / Gotthard de Beauclair, ( 1966). . Nr. 175 von 370 Expl. im großzügigen Druck auf Velin d'Arches (GA: 380), im Druckvermerk vom Künstler und Buchgestalter signiert. Unteres Kapital ganz leicht sprenkelfleckig. Die Textfassung hält sich - bis auf die vorsichtig modernisierte Interpunktion - an die Große Weimarer Ausgabe von 1888. - "Goethes Buch Suleika" war das erste einer Reihe von Peiffer Watenphul und G. de Beauclair lang geplanten gemeinsamen künstlerischen Projekte, denen zwischen 1967 und 1969 noch drei lithographische Mappen folgen sollten. Das Gedicht "Gingo Biloba" mit eingelegtem Ginkgo-Blatt (leichter Abklasch, beidseitig im Bund). - Max Peiffer Watenphul (1896-1976), dt. Maler, von den Nationalsozialisten geächtet (siehe: Ausstellung "Entartete Kunst" in München). Sehr schönes Exemplar.

West Chester, PA: Aralia Press at West Chester University, 1994.. Narrow quarto (29 x 17 cm). Linen and decorated boards, printed spine label. Fine. First edition. One of a total edition of 210 copies printed on Johannot in Spectrum types, bound by Larry Yerkes. Contributors include Barth, Disch, Hadas, Leithauser, Seth and a number of other poets.

Mt. Horeb: The Perishable Press, 1973.. Quarto. Buckram over boards with blindstamped vignette. Illustrated. Faint trace of sunning at extremities, otherwise fine. First edition. Illustrated with eighteen drawings by the author. One of 175 copies printed on Japanese handmade Hosho paper and signed by the author/artist. HAMADY 57.