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London: Nonesuch Press 1934, a numbered copy from a limited edition of 700. (Hardcover) 147pp. Very good. Printed paper folded and attached over card covers. Enclosed in a rust colored open-ended case with a paper spine label, and the inner boards covered with matching printed paper. Illustrated title page, printed on van Gelder paper. The spine of the case is very lightly faded and is lightly worn along the edges. With illustrative passages. Book about George Chapman. Identified on cover as: Havelock Ellis (George Chapman). (Drama).
The Infernal Marriage by Disraeli The Younger (Benjamin) (1804-1881) - 1929
by Disraeli The Younger (Benjamin) (1804-1881)
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The Infernal Marriage
by Disraeli The Younger (Benjamin) (1804-1881)
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London: William Jackson Books, 1929. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. John Austen (1886-1948).
The Infernal Marriage is the eighth novel written by Benjamin Disraeli who would later become Prime Minister of Great Britain.
Printed at the Curwen Press. Limited edition hand signed by the artist #6 of 850. Hand-colored frontispiece in the pochoir style; plus 4 of the plates.
Quarter blue morocco over beige cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine; top edge gilt. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear, with spine sun-toned a lovely brown and boards with hand soiling. 4to; 85 pages followed by bibliography of books with illustrations by John Austen [16 plates and chapter headers.]. The novelist William Beckford appreciated the novel conveying the message to its author via a friend, 'Pray tell Disraeli that I have read, enjoyed, and admired his Infernal Marriage. The sly, dry humour of that most original composition is to me delightful.'
The artist, John Austen, a British book illustrator, was influenced by the Art Deco movement.
The Infernal Marriage is the eighth novel written by Benjamin Disraeli who would later become Prime Minister of Great Britain.
Printed at the Curwen Press. Limited edition hand signed by the artist #6 of 850. Hand-colored frontispiece in the pochoir style; plus 4 of the plates.
Quarter blue morocco over beige cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine; top edge gilt. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear, with spine sun-toned a lovely brown and boards with hand soiling. 4to; 85 pages followed by bibliography of books with illustrations by John Austen [16 plates and chapter headers.]. The novelist William Beckford appreciated the novel conveying the message to its author via a friend, 'Pray tell Disraeli that I have read, enjoyed, and admired his Infernal Marriage. The sly, dry humour of that most original composition is to me delightful.'
The artist, John Austen, a British book illustrator, was influenced by the Art Deco movement.
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Chapman (Identified on cover as: Havelock Ellis--George Chapman.)
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River of Red Wine and other poems
by Micheline, Jack: with an introduction by Jack Kerouac
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Sudbury MA, Water Row Press, 1986, hardcover, 49 pp, Deluxe Limited Edition, #17 of 100 hardcover copies Signed by the Author on the title page, Fine condition in red cloth-covered boards with original illustrated wrappers bound in, spine lettered in gilt, no dustjacket as issued. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings. First published in 1958, Micheline's collection of poems is required reading as a major voice of the Beat Generation. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. From the Edwin Blair Collection of Beat Literature sold Mar. 9, 2006 at PBA Galleries, San Francisco to benefit Gypsy Lou Webb, publisher and widow of the late Jon Webb, whose New Orleans home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. ISBN 9780934953054
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Love Among the Haystacks & Other Pieces.: With a Reminiscence by David Garnett,
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Lawrence, D.H. Love Among the Haystacks & Other Pieces, With a Reminiscence by David Garnett, Nonesuch Press, 1930. 1st limited edition, No 420 of 1600. 8vo. Yellow cloth on canvas spine, black label, gilt titles in excellent condition, with dustwrapper in very good condition. Top edge specked, others rough-trimmed edges. PP96, colophon. Scattered light spots, otherwise in tight and clean order throughout.
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THE EGGPLANT SKIN PANTS AND POEMS
by [Perishable Press]: Laird, Mary
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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.
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The Osage and the Invisible World: from the works of Francis La Flesche: Introduced and Edited by Garrick A. Bailey
by La Flesche, Francis
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The Mistress; with Other Select Poems of Abraham Cowley 1618-1667 (Illustrations by John Hall--Title Page Illustration.)
by Cowley, Abraham (Edited by John Sparrow; Illustrations by John Hall: Title Page Illustration.)
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London: Nonesuch Press 1926, a numbered copy from a limited edition of 1050. (Hardcover) 213pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Light brown buckram with a spine label which is scuffed and chipped along the left edge (with no loss of text). Illustrated title page, notes, index of first lines. Edited by John Sparrow. Illustrations by John Hall (Title Page Illustration). (Poetry).
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Northanger Abbey (Publisher series: Limited Editions Club.)
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Baltimore: Garamond Press 1971, Limited edition of 1500 signed copies. (4to in slipcase) 210pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Signed by the illustrator. Varicolored narrow-striped satin-finish fabric binding with leather shelfback label stamped in gold. Illustrations, color plates. The spine is very slightly faded and there is a tiny fray in the fabric over the label. "This Edition of Northanger Abbey was designed by Richard Ellis and composed under his supervision by Westcott & Thomson, Inc., Philadelphia. Fifteen hundred copies have been printed from type for the Members of the Limited Editions Club, at the Garamond Press, Baltimore. The illustrations were made by Clarke Hutton who here signs this copy, which is Number 306". Illustrations by Clarke Hutton. Publisher series: Limited Editions Club 2 . Designed by Richard Ellis. (Fiction).
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Santal
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London: Grant Richards, 1921. Only 300 copies were printed. Wrappers slightly chipped and faded. Bookplate of Dubois-Phillips on inside front cover.. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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PAUL FRENZENY'S CHINATOWN SKETCHES. An Artist's Fascination with San Francisco's Chinese Quarter, 1874 - 1882
by CHALMERS, CLAUDINE
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San Francisco: Book Club of California;, 2012. Hardcover. Fine. PAUL FRENZENY. . One of only 425 printed Fine. Artist Paul Frenzeny, a Frenchman of noble descent, strict military training, and encyclopedic knowledge, became one of the leading "special correspondents" in the United States and Europe in the days when woodcuts, rather than photographs, were used to illustrate newspapers. In 1873, Frenzeny undertook a year-long sketching tour of the frontier for Harper's Weekly, with fellow artist Jules Tavernier. This 100-sketch assignment proved to be an irresistible subject for author Claudine Chalmers, who then followed the Frenchmen's careers after their journey's end on the Pacific Coast. As she patiently gathered Frenzeny's subsequent illustrations in the Weekly, Dr. Chalmers discovered that he had depicted San Francisco's Chinese culture in all its pageantry and intensity, at a time when most of the white population, within California and across the country, reviled the pioneering Chinese…
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Herbescent Cordials: A Collection of Herbal Tisanes for the Sick, Stressed, Stinky, and Love Sick
by Busby, Michael
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Walla Walla, WA: Artist, 1995. First printing. (12) pp., 6.75 x 10.75 inches. Printed by hand from foundry type, original linoleum engravings, and plant materials at the Whitman College Book Arts Lab, in an edition of twenty-five signed and numbered copies. Unbound sheets in stiff card folder with printed cover label. As new. Five linoleum engravings of common herbs (chives, rosemary, oregano, mint, basil), printed over pressure prints of plants, each contained in a glassine wrapper printed with a relevant recipe taken from The Complete Book of Herbs & Spices, plus title page and colophon. A striking and elegant production; no copies located in WorldCat.
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The Infernal Marriage
by DISRAELI THE YOUNGER, [Benjamin], Illustrated by John Austen
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London. William Jackson (Books) Ltd. 1929. Hardcover. sm4to, 26cm, 85,(1)pp., limited edition of 850 copies, this being #629, coloured frontis, title page vignette, 12 plates (4 coloured), 4 header illustrations, quarter vellum backed light green cloth boards, gilt spine titles, t.e.g., fade speckling on the vellum, some slight foxing on the endpapers, bookplate, good to very good (Lt). ~ First published in 1834, Disreali's satire on contemporary English society. Illustrated in Art Deco style with list of John Austen's illustrated books at rear. Printed at the Curwen Press. With Introductory Note by Eric Partridge.
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The Infernal Marriage
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London: William Jackson (Books) Ltd, 1929. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Very Good. John Austen. 4to. A very good copy. Gilt lettered quarter vellum. Top edge gilt. A lovely clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. Number 365 of 850 copies. 85pp followed by a Hand-list of books illustrated by John Austen. 5 colour and 8 black and white illustrations + 4 head-pieces.
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William Jackson, 1929. John Austen. Limited edition, this being copy #507 of 850 numbered copies. Very Good condition. Owner nameplate.
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The Infernal Marriage
by Disraeli the Younger)
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London: William Jackson (Books) Ltd, 1929. Limited, Numbered, 1st, thus edition; white w/blue; gilt titles; lite sunning, foxing; #247 or 850 copies in limited edition; 85 clean, unmarked pages. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by John Austen--black and white illustrations in the text, plus 13 full-page illustrations from drawings . slim 4vo.
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The Infernal Marriage
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William Jackson Books Ltd, 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. very good/very good. Small quarto. 10" x 7". 85pp This is copy #279 of a total edition of 850 copies. Five color illustrations, eight black and white illustrations and four heading decorations by John Austen. Bookplate of previous owner. Toning to endpapers. Nice copy ikn a chipped dust jacket.
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William Jackson, 1929. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Limited edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Numbered 523/800. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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The Infernal Marriage
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London: William Jackson, 1929. hardcover. very good. Frontispiece and color illustrations by John Austen. 85pp., slim 8vo, 1/2 blue morocco; (covers slightly soiled, bookplate pasted into page after flyleaf). London: William Jackson Ltd., 1929. Very good.<br/><br/> One of 800 numbered copies, signed by the artist.<br/><br/>
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The Infernal Marriage
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London: William Jackson. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter leather/gilt, cloth, TEG. #82 of 200 signed copies (of 850 total) signed by John Austen to the colophon. Spine browned, cloth faintly soiled, mild foxing to endpages, slight bumping to points. ; quarto; 85,[1] pages; Signed by Author .
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The Infernal Marriage
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London: William Jackson , 1929 Original quarter vellum and cloth covers, dust wrapper chpped and spotted, limited to 800 copies.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by John Austen . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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The Infernal Marriage
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London: William Jackson (Books) Ltd, 1929. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition thus, with illustrations by John Austen. Fine in lightly age-toned, very near fine dustwrapper with modestly worn, unprinted glassine overjacket. One of 850 numbered copies.
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Printing Digital Type on the Hand-Operated Flatbed Cylinder Press
by Lange, Gerald
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New York: Watson - Guptill, 1971. cloth, dust jacket. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 376 pages. First U.S. edition. Jacket lightly soiled, else a fine copy. Traces the development of the private press over the last 500 years. 83 figures in the text and 72 plates. Better printed than the second edition and containing some material not present in the first edition and thus still desirable.
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The Eye of Heaven: a Narrative Poem
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Abattoir Editions, 1982. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. One of 150 numbered copies printed by Harry Duncan; this being #84. 9.25 X 12 inches. 40pp., bound in tan wraps with mounted cream printed paper label wrapping around the spine and front cover. Letterpress printed on Japanese Etching paper, from Poliphilus, Blado, and Fournier Ornate types; with 2 woodblock prints by Michael McCurdy. Faint dampstaining to the text margins of the fore-edge, else Very Good.
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Nomi no Kai
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Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, 2006. Limited Edition. Wraps. Fine. [4]pp. Black & white frontispiece by Shinuske Minegishi, reproduced from the original engraving. One of 75 copies (from an edition of 100, signed and numbered by Minegishi). Designed by Rollin Milroy and printed by David Clifford at his Black Stone Press. Sewn into a Canson paper wraps. A Fine copy. // A previously unpublished essay by the artist, paying homage to a group of six Japanese wood engravers 'who were responsible for reviving the art form in that country'. Published to accompany the artist's first solo exhibition in the United States, at Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, November 2006.
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The First Ten: A Penmaen Press Bibliography
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Lincoln: Penmaen Press, 1978. First Edition, one of 500 copies printed. This copy SIGNED by McCurdy twice, at Title and Afterword. Woodcuts by McCurdy. Bibliographically describes all Penmaen Press books, broadsides and ephemera 1968-1978, with additional items. Includes 16 pp. of photographs of contributors: Peich, McCurdy, Lynd Ward, Allen Ginsberg and others. A demonstrable work of love. 9½ x 6½.. Near Fine original blue cloth-covered boards blind stamped with gilt lettering to spine in like dust jacket.
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Germinal
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The Easton Press, The Collector's Library of Famous Editions, 1992 (1942). First Thus; Collector's Edition. Translated by Havelock Ellis. Illustrated by Berthold Mahn. Hardcover. Issued without dust jacket. Used - Fine, "Like New" condition. Appears unopened / unread. Binding and text block are tight, bright, and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Bound in full (genuine) leather with hubbed spine. All edges gilt. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints, silk moire fabric end leaves, and permanent satin ribbon marker. Notes From The Archives sheet laid in. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books. A gorgeous copy.
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The Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes (Signed, Limited Edition in Slipcase)
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London: Orchard Books, September 1990. Hardcover. Signed Limited Edition. Quarter-bound in dark grey cloth with dove grey sides. Silver titles and top edge. Silver silk ribbon marker. Illustrated endpapers. Dove grey slipcase. Presentation copy of a Limited Edition of 250 copies. Flat-signed by illustrator Faith Jaques, the noted children's book author, illustrator, artist, and advocate. Fine book in a Near Fine slipcase. Not from a library. 88 pages. Profusely illustrated.
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Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands, 1800-1804: With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.-A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France
by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur; Nicolas-Martin Petit; Jacqueline Bonnemains (ed); Elliott Forsyth (ed); Bernard Smith (ed)
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Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and…
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A Song About Major Eatherly
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Iowa City, Iowa: Qara Press, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine -. Baasch, Norman. [16] p.: 2 linoleum cuts; 27 cm. Original light blue paper over boards with white paper label on front board, printed in black. "Printed by Gerald M. Stevenson, Jr. on Curtis Rag paper with linoleum cuts by Norman Baasch. Of an edition limited to 190 cpies, this is copy 25." -- colophon. This poem first appeared in The Listener on Aug. 6, 1959. Major Claude R. Eatherly was one of the pilots involved in the atomic bombing of Japan in World War II. In Near Fine- Condition: cover lightly soiled; pages are clean and crisp.
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Evening Redness
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A collection consisting of four novels and reminiscences about Powell's career and his writing. Powell was a renowned expert in bibliographical matters and in addition to his writing held important posts at academic libraries. He possessed the rare gift of writing about books and personalities with a great deal of feeling and affection. Whole generations of book collectors, librarians, and book sellers came to admire his work and owe their inspiration to him. Designed by Ward Ritchie for the Capra Press. One hundred copies were quarter bound in leather with patterned paper covered boards enclosed in a cloth covered slip case. 436 pages. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. The book is signed by Powell. Number 9 of 100 copies. Fine.
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A$116.38