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[Winston-Salem, N.C.]: Privately Printed, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. half red leather spine lettered in gilt and marbled boards. Fine. 32 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 3 of 15 privately printed for Stuart Wright on the occasion of the eightieth birthday of Robert Penn Warren, and signed by Warren in blue ink. Slight glue bleed to inside pastedown covers.

London: Nonesuch Press, 1930. First edition. Stif wraps. Orig. decorated covers. Very good. 29 pages. 14.5x 9 cm. One of 250 copies printed in Janson type on Chinese tinsel paper. Essays and poems by Alice Meynell. Clean, fresh copy, slight cover rubbing.

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. light blue boards, decorated canvas back lettered in gray on front cover. Very good. [4] 14 pages. 29 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 250 copies privately printed for Samuel L. Wormser in Goudy Modern type. GRABHORN 349. Front cover faded at head.

Winston-Salem, N.C.: Privately Printed, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. stiched blue stiff wrappers, front cover paper label. Fine. 18 pages. 23.5 x 15 cm. Limited edition copy 5 of 250 signed by Styron. Designed by Stuart Wright. printed by Heritage Printers. and bound by Richard Murdoch with Frontispiece photograph of Gabriel Penn Warren.

West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 1985. leather_bound. Full green morocco by Gray Parrot, gilt cover border fillets frame front cover gilt center motif. Fine in fine beige basket weave portfolio in fine slipcase. Moser, Barry. 417 pages. Folio, 33 x 25,5 cm. Limited edition, copy 313 of 350 signed by Barry Moser in initials, with an additional suite of 49 wood engraved plates by Moser in a separate portfolio. Printed in Centaur and Arrighi type on Mohawk Letterpress, as are the engraved additional plates, an archival sheet with hand composition by Chase Twitchell. Foreword by Henry Nash Smith. Printed by Harold McGrath. The illustrations in the text measure six by nine inches, and printed for the original wood blocks, The plate size of the additional 49 engraved plates, 13 x 10 inches.

New York: Random House, 1930. Hardcover. Orig. tan calf spine and color illustrated boards. Fine in very good publisher's sunned slipcase. 132 pages. 27 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 70 of 2000, signed by Donald McKay, fabric and printing by the Pynson Printers under the supervision of Elmer Adler. Drawings by McKay in black and white. Fresh, very bright copy.

Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. plain white stiff boards, decorated paper cover. Very good. Jones, David. 94 pages. 20.5 x 13 cm. Title page engraving of a Friar by David Jones. Limited edition, one of 480 copies. Swinstead notes in her preface, "The pieces in this book have all been taken from pre-Victorian books for children." The last story a gem, the vagaries of eating cake. Interior contents crisp, bookplate of Richard D. Friedlander. TAYLOR & SEWELL. A158.

London: Trianon Press, 1970. Hardcover. Orig. half green morocco and marbled boards. Near fine in matching, fine slipcase. Unpaginated. Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes. Ten plates. This early tract consists of ten etched plates averaging in size about 5.5 x 4 cm. Keynes notes there is "some uncertainty about the circumstances in which the work was produced, thought it is generally accepted that is must belong to a period of experimentation in the production of the plates for the Illuminated Books." Limited edition, copy 405 of 662 copies. Spine faded to brown.

Cummington, MA: Cummington Press, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. sky blue cloth backstrip lettered in silver. Near fine in ragged dust wrapper lacking spine. 93 (3) pages. 25 x16 cm. Limited edition, copy, one of 475 printed by the Southworth-Anthoensen Press.

London: Nonesuch Press, 1936. leather_bound. Orig full tan morocco, gilt spine title, raised bands. Teg. Fine. 202 pages. 21 x 13 cm. Limited edition, copy 14 of 1450. Harvey, refusing to believe what he was taught, was the first to understand and explain circulation. One of the major books in the history of medicine. Issued on the occasion of the tercentenary celebration of the first publication of the text of De Motu Cordis. Printed by Joh. Enschede en Zonen on Dutch paper.

Newtown, Montgomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1934. leather_bound. Orig. gilt stamped full brown morocco, backstrip lettered in gilt. Teg. Fine. 75 pages. 21 1/2 x 17 cm. Printed in red, green and black throughout. Limited edition, copy 166 of 300. Index Of First Lines. This Welsh press found by the Davies sisters in the early 1920's continued publishing through the 1930's. RODERICK CAVE notes, "During its life, Gregynog published some noble book: how many of which were completely successful is remarkable when one considers some of the difficulties.

San Francisco: Grace Hoper Press, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter beige cloth and decorated boards. Near fine. 32 pages. 33 x 23 cm. Limited edition one of 75 copies. Title page printed in red and black, remainder of text printed in a variety of colors and type faces. Backstrip label chipped.

San Francisco: James Linden, 1986. Hardcover. Orig. preliminaries and plates loose issued. Fine in fine blue clamshell box with front cover paper label.. Folio, 36 x 36 cm. Limited edition, copy 38 of 50 with four photographs titled and signed by Michael Mundy, taken during a trip along the Big Sur River. All negatives were made using roll film. The prints are enlargements made on Ilford Galerie paper, tone in selenium. Each print mounted on Light Impressions Westminster, a four ply archival board, using the drymount technique. This is the first separate edition of "Aplogy for Bad Dreams," since Ward Ritchie's famous 1930 Paris edition of only 30 copies. List of Subscribers. Designed and printed by Peter Rutledge Koch in Janson and Van Dijck types on Arches paper. Box made by Klaus-Ullrich Roetzscher. As new copy with publisher announcement and reservation request laid-in.

Ontario: Shanty Bay Press, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated black cloth decorated in red. Fine in fine black cloth slipcase    . Folio, 72 pages including blanks. 38 x 27 cm. Limited edition, copy five of 55 for sale printed on 200 gsm arches cover in 18 point Deepdene Roman signed by Bachinski and Janis Butler. Four full-page pochoir plates and 8 multi-coloured linocuts including title and colophon, all by Walter Bachinski. Shanty Bay was established in 1996 as a private press devoted to publishing livres d'artistes. The press is a partnership between Janis Butler, who does the typesetting, presswork and bindings, and Walter Bachinski, who illustrates the books. The French Saltimbanque translates to "travelling entertainer street entertainer." Laid in the original four page prospectus and a larger version of the title page illustration and notes price for each copy at $3000.00. The latter price would translate roughly to US$2400.00. The authors include Apollinaire, Beaumont,… Read More

Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1927. Original Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. 4 leaves. 13 x 9 cm. Two woodcuts and initial letter by Gill, printed from Caslon O.F. on hand made paper. This was one of the Rhyme Booklets (No.9) in St. Dominic's Press Book List published 1930. GILL 392. Clean, bright copy.

Portland: Thomas Mosher, 1896. Second edition thus. Paperback. Orig. decorated wrappers, yapp edges. Near fine. 88 pages. 18 x 10 1/2 cm. Limited edition one of 925 copies printed on Japanese vellum. Frontispiece. Bright, clean copy.

Portland: Thomas B. Mosher, 1907. Full contemporary crushed navy morocco with intersecting gilt cover frames. Upper cover gilt lettered with gilt leaf motifs. Aeg. Fine. XX1V, 62 (5) pages. 18 x 9.5 cm. Engraved frontispiece on Japan vellum and three woodcut designs by Jacob Hood. First Mosher limited issue on Van Gelder paper of the "Old World Edition" that reproduces the 1887 edition. Bound by Hatchards of Picadilly with raised bands, spine panels in gilt, gilt doublures.

Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1928. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth, front cover escutcheon decorated in gilt. Teg. Very good. Bray, Horace Walter. 94 pages. 34 x 24.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 192 of 350, wood-engravings designed and cut by Horace Walter Bray type, and printed by Robert Ashwin Maynard. Color lithograph escutcheon title page. The life of a Jacobean man of fashion, who may be called the last of the knights errant and the first of the deists. Fresh, clean copy, wide text margins, red initial letters, nicks to backstrip extremities.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1955. Hardcover. Full cream buckram, gold-stamped leather label with drawings by the artist inset at covers. Fine in fine slipcase. 300 pages. Tinted pencil drawings by Raymond J. Holden. Introduction by Van WyckBrooks. Limited edition, copy 1474 of 1500, and signed by Holden. NEWMAN & WICHE 257.

Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1923. Hardcover. Orig. decorated paper over boards. Very good. 103 pages. 19 x 13 cm. The British Drama League Library of Modern British Drama, N0.5. Clean copy.