Fine Press from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1929. Number 155 of 425 copies. A fine copy, light spotting to vellum. 8vo (157 x 105mm). [16], 54 pages. Colored frontispiece and initial by Valenti Angelo. Original limp vellum, gilt-lettered and decorated; publisher's blue board slipcase. Grabhorn Bibliography 116.

Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1902. One of 425 copies printed on Japan vellum. Near-fine, with modest soiling and a few short tears. 13.4 x 8.8 cm. Original printed wrappers. Printed at the press of George D. Loring, Portland, Maine. With folded advertisement for the Brocade Series laid-in.

Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903. Second edition. One of 425 copies printed on Japan vellum. Slight wear but a fine, unopened copy. 13.4 x 8.8 cm. Original printed wrappers, unopened. Printed at the press of George D. Loring, Portland, Maine. With folded advertisement for the Brocade Series laid-in.

Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1902. One of 425 copies printed on Japan vellum. Near-fine, with modest soiling and a few short tears. 13.4 x 8.8 cm. Original printed wrappers. Printed at the press of George D. Loring, Portland, Maine.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1985. Limited edition, number 100 of 800 copies. Light soiling to slipcase, a few small spots on spine, otherwise fine. Folio. Original Nigerian goatskin-backed marbled boards, goatskin facings on the boards, gilt-lettered on spine, bound by Denis Gouey; publisher's slipcase. Designed by Harry Milliken, Ben Shiff and David Wolfe. Presswork by The… Read more about this item

Deya, Majorca: The Seizin Press, 1930. Rubbing and wear to binding, small loss at head of spine. Small folio (283 x 210 mm). [6], 27 pages. Quarter cream calf, gilt-decorated paper cover boards. First edition, one of 200 copies signed by Len Lye (this copy unnumbered), hand-set and printed on hand-made paper by Robert Graves and Laura Riding,… Read more about this item

Easthampton, MA: The Pennyroyal Press, 1979. A fine copy, the extremities just touched. Oblong (7.5 x 10.5 inches). Original boards. Number 71 of 175 copies signed by Barry Moser on the colophon. A folding plate of a sword, signed by Moser, is tipped to the title-page.

Chelsea: Ashendene Press; St. John Hornby, 1922. 8vo. 53 woodcuts by J. B. Swain after C. M. Gere, initial letters designed by Graily Hewitt, printed in red and black, sheets untrimmed. Original vellum, gilt-lettered on spine, with silk green ties. Housed in cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. One of 240 copies on paper, of which 200 were for sale… Read more about this item

New York: Privately Printed for Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach [by Boston: The Bibliophile Society], 1921. 4to (23 x 17.5 cm). Frontispiece portrait, folding facsimile plates of the manuscript. Original gilt-lettered parchment-backed boards; fragment of plain original dust wrapper. One of 450 copies of this "Small Complimentary Edition," issued by The Bibliophile Society as a "token of gratitude and… Read more about this item

N.p.: Privately Printed by Lecram Press for Richard Jean Picard for Noel, 1948. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Slight toning to edges, and slight wear at corners, but a fine copy. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, stapled as issued. First edition, number 33 of 100 copies of this Christmas keepsake, the first publication in book form of Wolfe's 1918… Read more about this item

New York: Covici-Friede, 1929. A fine copy, a few chips to glassine. Lacks slipcase. Translated by Max Eastman. 8vo. x, 33, [1] pages. Woodcuts by Rockwell Kent. Original parchment, gilt-decorated with a small dove designed by Kent on cover, gilt-lettered on spine; plain glassine wrapper; acetate. Number 105 of 750 copies. Typography by S. A Jacobs, printed at… Read more about this item

Hammersmith, London: Printed at the Chiswick Press for the Hammersmith Publishing Society [i.e. Annie and Thomas Cobden-Sanderson], 1905. A fine copy with a few small stains on boards. 8vo. 39, [1] pages. Original vellum backed boards, black lettering on spines. Provenance: Richard D. Friedlander (bookplate). The trade edition, second impression, after the first trade impression of 1902. Laid-in:… Read more about this item

Risbury, Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 2005. A fine copy. Folio. 50 pages. 31 tritone photographs by Edwin Smith. Original cloth, wood-engraving by Smith on covers; slipcase. Number 236 of 280 copies from an edition of 350. Set in Poliphilus and Fry's Baskerville, printed on Bugra-Bütten mould-made paper. Smith's images were made in the 1950s and are here presented with… Read more about this item

Privately Printed, 1979. Fine. 8vo. Marbled wrappers, printed paper label on front cover. One of only fifteen copies, printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press. A scarce Gordon title.

Northampton, MA: Apiary Press, 1965. A few very small creases to wrapper. Oblong. 14 leaves, including blanks. Plain boards, with printed paper wrapper mounted as dust jacket. One of only 25 copies of this very scarce apprentice-work by Ronald Gordon, later of The Oliphant Press. While a student at Amherst, Ronald Gordon studied printing and bookmaking with Baskin… Read more about this item

Brooklyn: Jordan Davies, 1979. Fine. 8vo. [11] pages. Sewn in original wrappers, printed paper label on cover. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 200 signed copies, printed by Ronald Gordon at the Oliphant Press, from Garamond type on Fabriano papers. Bertholf A53a.

New York: Lospeccio Press, 1997. A fine copy. Oblong 8vo. Illustrations by Larry R. Collins. Original printed wrappers, sewn. First edition. One of 126 copies signed by the illustrator (not signed by Ferlinghetti). Printed on a Vandercook press by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press.

New York: Targ Editions, 1979. A fine copy with slightest of soiling to wrapper, otherwise virtually untouched. 8vo. [12] pages. Original cloth; plain orange wrapper. FIRST EDITION, one of 350 copies signed by Roth, of the first Targ Edition. Designed and printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press.

New York: Targ Editions, 1980. A fine copy, the glassine with some light toning and wear, with one larger loss at head of spine. 8vo. v, 75, [1] pages. Original cloth-backed blue boards; plain glassine wrapper. FIRST EDITION, one of 350 copies signed by Laura (Riding) Jackson. Designed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press, printed by Westbrook.… Read more about this item

New York: Frank Hallman & The Oliphant Press, 1974. A fine, virtually untouched copy. 8vo. [19] pages. Two full-page plates by Leonard Baskin. Original printed wrappers, sewn. FIRST EDITION, one of 200 copies signed by Leonard Baskin. Designed and printed by Ronald Gordon at The Oliphant Press. Fitz-James O'Brien, born in Ireland in 1828, left his home country… Read more about this item