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Orations and Essays with An Introduction by Reginald H. Barrow and Illustrations by Salvatore Fiume
by CICERO
Verona: The Limited Editions Club, 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Salvatore Fiume. 4to. Pp. Introduction by Reginald H. Barrow. Title page printed in color. Illustrated with twelve full-page color portraits by Salvatore Fiume. Bound in decorated cloth, morocco spine label stamped in gilt. Fore-edge and bottom edge untrimmed, top edge stained blue. Book with original glassine protector. Housed in the original slipcase, design matching the cover of the book and featuring a printed...
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A$139.54
Volpone or The Fox A Comedy by Ben Jonson First Acted in 1605 WITH Monthly Newsletter and Prospectus; With a New Introduction by Louis Kronenberger and Illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan
by JONSON, Ben
Oxford: The Limited Editions Club, 1952. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Rene Ben Sussan. 4to. Pp. xxv, 163. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Illustrated throughout with amusing color prints that were then colored by stencil. Bound in a sienna linen over linen on which a repeating, organic pattern has been lithographed, spine stamped in gilt. Book with original dust jacket. Housed in the original slipcase, design matching the cover of the book and featuring a printed paper title label on...
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A$77.52
The Roots of Japanese Architecture: A Photographic Quest
by FUTAGAWA, Yukio; Teiji Itoh [with] Isamu Noguchi (intro.)
New York / Tokyo: Harper & Row / Weathermark Edition / Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 1963. First Edition in English. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Yukio Futagawa (photography). Folio. Pp. 207. Illustrated with large gravure black & white photo reproductions, some fold-out. Foreword by Isamu Noguchi. Brown cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, illustration stamped in black on the cover, wood veneer endpapers. Text set in Perpetua, letterpress printed in Japan. In the two-color...
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A$387.62
Holy Bible, 1850
This beautiful old Bible contains both the Old and New Testaments, marginal notes, a general introduction as well as introductions and concluding remarks to each book, parallel passages from other bibles and bible commentaries, philological and explanatory notes, a table of contents, a chronological index, an index of subjects contained in both old and new testaments, as well as an index to notes, introductions, and concluding remarks. The book is in Good Condition with some foxing on the pages and...
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A$348.86
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers -- WITH original glassine dust jacket; With an Introduction by Charles R. Anderson and Illustrations by R. J. Holden
by THOREAU, Henry David
(Avon, Connecticut): The Limited Editions Club, 1975. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. R. J. Holden. 4to. Pp. xv, 327. Introduction by Charles Anderson. Frontis. illustration spreads to title page, printed in two colors. List of sources. Endpaper maps. Bound in three-quarter green buckram over marbled paper-cover boards, lettering stamped in gilt on spine. Top edge dyed green. Book with original glassine dust jacket. Housed in the original slipcase, design matching the cover of the book and...
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A$100.78
The Mules -- SIGNED/limited ed
by SPENCER, Elizabeth
Winston Salem: Palaemon Press Limited, 1982. Limited Edition. Printed Wraps. Fine/Fine. Fine Literature. Tall, thin 8vo. Pp. 10. One of 150 copies printed, this copy is lettered "R" and is signed by Spencer on the colophon. The paper cover has a marbled-paper cover jacket that features the title label affixed to the front panel. All within a protective (and removable) clear mylar cover. A lovely copy of a short story by Vanderbilt-educated Spencer, best known for "The Light in the Piazza.
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A$77.52
THE THANKSGIVING VISITOR / A CHRISTMAS MEMORY
by CAPOTE, Truman
New York: Random House, 1967. First Thus. Cloth-backed cloth. Fine/Very Good Plus Slipcase. y103 (1) pp. Publisher's slipcase illustrated on both sides from photograph of very young Truman Capote with his cousin, Miss Sook Faulk. Cloth-backed cloth. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2". Two stories originally published in McCall's ("Thanksgiving") and Mademoiselle ("Christmas".) magazines. A Fine copy in a Very Good Plus slipcase (Edgewear, mainly at opening). ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to...
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A$69.77
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.
by BOSWELL, James
Avon, Connecticut: The Limited Editions Club, 1974. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Slipcase Fine. Thomas Rowlandson. 4to. Pp. With marginal notes from a contemporary copy annotated by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi. Title page printed in two colors. Illustrated with Rowlandson's amusing depictions of 18th. C. life. Endpaper maps. Bound in three-quarter red top grain cowhide stamped in gilt, over marbled boards. TEG. Book with original glassine dust jacket. Housed in the publisher's slipcase, design...
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A$139.54
A Graver dans le Coeur Net. Presentation et traduction de Michel Seuphor
by Michel Seuphor / Seng Ts'an
De Prentenier, 1995. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator(s). 1st Edition. Bound in black cloth with red title label in die-cut square on frontcover. Limited edition of 22 numbered copies with 2 original etchings by Michel Seuphor. Both etchings signed in pencil by Seuphor. Dimensions are 47 x 34,5 cm. Printed on the hand press on Velin d'Arches. The text is hand-set from the Pantin en de Hollandse Mediaeval. Book design by Ronald Ergo with his signature on the colophon page. 48 x 36 cm. Very...
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A$997.32
Epitome - De Humani corporis fabrica librorum - Facsimile of 1543
by Andreas Vesal (Vesalius)
Stuttgart: Edition Medicina Rara, 1970. Fascsimile, De Luxe edition with additional prints. Hardcover. Fine/no dj as issued. Medicina Rara Stuttgart, 1970. Edition originale. De Humani corporis fabrica librorum Epitome. Luxusausgabe. Von Andreas Vesalius. Stuttgart 1970. 20 x 14.5 inches (39 x 52 cm) 24 pages, printed on Fabiano Rug, half-leather binding with leather corners, extra suite of 4 sheets with woodcut illustrations in a folder, numbered in Roman numerals, limited (500 copies). At the age...
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A$463.60
Zebra Noise with a flatted 7th
by Wagener, Richard
Berkeley: Peter Koch, 1998 One of seventy numbered copies, signed by Wagener. Designed and printed on Zerkall paper by Peter Koch and Richard Wagnener. Folio. 8 1/2 x 14 1/2." . Twenty-six full-page wood-engravings, one for each letter of the alphabet, with short prose statements on facing pages. Twenty-six smaller woodcut section titles in red. Fine in brown board chemise and red silk slipcase with printed paper label. This beautiful letterpress production is an alpha-bestiary, with woodcuts of animals...
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A$7,597.45
The Well at the World's End: A Tale
by Morris, William
London/New York/Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896. Fantasy classic of adventurous knights, a quest, and romance; based on medieval epics and a clear inspiration to Tolkien & C. S. Lewis. First trade edition, also published the same year in a limited edition by Morris's Kelmscott Press. Two volumes, complete; as pictured. General wear, light staining, spines dished, corners bumped & frayed; coy gift note in volume one; a few internal stains, some splits to inner hinges, a few short tears...
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A$620.20
Running The Goat Books & Broadsides
by [PARSONS, Marnie]
St. John's: Running the Goat, 2011. Softcover. Fine. 40 p. 28 cm. B&w illustrations. Purple hand made paper. Catalogue celebrating the first 10 years 2000-2010.
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A$46.52
A New Year's Address to the Patrons of the Essex Gazette 1828; With a Letter, Hitherto Unpublished by John G. Whittier
by WHITTIER, John G
Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1903. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Thin 8vo. Pp. 10. Title page with a handsome stamped device mid-page. Printed by D. B. Updike at The Merrymount Press. This is number 52 of an edition limited to 60 copies. Top edges mostly unopened. Green quarter cloth binding over paper-covered boards. An exemplary copy. First thus. Ransom ("Private Presses and Their Books"), p.343, notes two titles printed by Merrymount in 1903, both published by Goodspeed, but neglects to cite...
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A$155.05
The Duke of Sacramento A Comedy in Four Acts by Warren Baer - WITH Scarce Dust Jacket
by BAER, Warren
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Arvilla Parker. Small 4to. Pp. (x) 77. With a history of the early San Francisco stage by Jane Bissell. With illustrations by Arvilla Parker. Bound in tan buckram over blue decorated cloth; printed paper label on spine. Except for slight, closed tear to fore-edge of title page, Fine in Fine dust jacket, which is unprinted, plain blue cloth matching the binding. One of 550 copies. Per the colophon, this is the first volume...
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A$62.02
Two Warriors
by SMITH, Edward Lincoln
Seattle: Frank McCaffrey at his Dogwood Press, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Small 8vo. Pp. 47. Two essays by Smith, one concerning John Knox ("Saint or Sinner"); the other concerning Oliver Cromwell ("His Place in History"). Quarter brown morocco, with gilt lettering, over gray paper-covered boards, presented here in top-notch condition. Both essays were given as addresses to the Monday Club, which continues to thrive today, meeting monthly at Seattle's Rainier Club. Smith was the minister at...
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A$38.76
Poems for Fun
by ADAMS, Edwin H
Seattle: The Silver Quoin Press, 1949. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Pp. 25. Bound in rust-colored cloth with paper title label on front cover. Fine in VG dust jacket. Edition limited to 290 copies. Charming doggerel with references to Puget Sound and it's natural environment, including Walla Walla onions, geoducks (given here the phoenetic spelling "gooeyducks") etc. A handsome production from James Dille at his Silver Quoin Press. Dust jacket now protected in a clear removable,...
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A$15.50
Youth Typhoon The End of the Tether; With an Introduction by Leo Gurko and Illustrations by Robert Shore
by CONRAD, Joseph
Los Angeles: The Limited Editions Club, 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Robert Shore. 4to. Pp. xv, 251. Introduction by Leo Gurko. Frontis. Title page printed in three colors. Illustrated with nine full-color plates, no margins, and some covering two pages. Bound in half-morocco over a blue cloth with linen effect, with a morocco spine label stamped in gilt. All edges speckled. Book with original glassine protector. Housed in the original slipcase, design matching the cover of the...
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A$139.54
Marpessa; Together with a Foreword by James S. Johnson
by PHILLIPS, Stephen
San Francisco: The Windsor Press, 1926. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo. Pp. 21. Foreword by James S. Johnson. Charming spot illustrations by Julian A. Links. Printed on handmade paper. Bound in stiff cardstock covers with dust jacket affixed, lettering and device stamped to front cover and lettering stamped on spine. Slight closed snag to top of spine, else Fine. A charming edition of Phillips' defining work. One of a series of works in the publisher's "Benoit Classics," with the...
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A$38.76
The Kasidah (Couplets) of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi: A Lay of the Higher Law
by Haji Abdu El-Yezdi (Sir Richard Burton, translator and editor)
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1919. Limited Edition. Vellum. Very Good. 4to. Pp. vii, 52. Introduction by Aurelia Henry Reinhardt. Bound in quarter vellum over marbled paper-covered boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Copy #421 of an edition limited to 500 copies. Corners a tad worn, with some wear along fore-edge of covers. Printed by John Henry Nash. Burton's distillation of Sufi thought, presented as a response to the Rubaiyat of Omar Kayyam, is a slight literary hoax inasmuch as Burton...
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A$116.29
Rural Sports together with the Birth of the Squire and the Hound and the Huntsman
by GAY, John
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. Pp. xxviii; 36. Introduction by Owen Culbertson. Illustrations by Gordon Ross. One of 1,550 copies. Black half-cloth binding over red paper-covered boards; gilt lettering and design on spine. In lovely condition. Culbertson was an authority on sporting books; his own collection was sold by Anderson Galleries in 1933. His prolix introduction here provides an informed setting for Gay's works.
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A$46.52
James, First Marquess of Montrose, 1612-1650. Abridged Translation of Bishop Wishart's 'History of the Kings Majesties Affairs in Scotland,' under Montrose. Edited, with Notes, and a Biographic Sketch of Montrose and Wishart
by WISHART, George; John Sime (editor)
London: F. E. Robinson & Co, 1903. Limited Edition. Full leather. Very Good. Small 8vo. Pp. lx, 157. Frontis. Montrose portrait photogravure reproduction. With notes and index. Black morocco, elaborate decorations surrounding royal coat of arms stamped in gilt front and back, spine gilt fleur de lys diapered, red watered silk endpapers, gilt tops, title page with ornamental border, hand-numbered 134 of an edition limited to 320. Spine faded to dark brown although gilt remains brilliant, edges minimally...
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A$193.81
Tartuffe & The Would-Be Gentleman; Translated by H. Baker and J. Miller with an Introdction by Henri Peyre and Illustrations by Serge Ivanoff
by MOLIERE (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1963. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Slipcase Fine. Serge Ivanoff. 4to. Pp. xvi, 197. Introduction by Henri Peyre. Frontis. Title page printed in red and black. Bound in brocade cloth with spine label stamped in gilt. Top-edge stained red. Housed in the original cloth-covered slipcase, design matching the cover of the book and featuring a printed paper title label on the spine. Number 498 of an edition limited to 1,500 copies. Signed by Serge Ivanoff on the...
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A$46.52
Oscar Weil Letters and Papers
by WEIL, Oscar
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1923. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 4to. Pp. xv, 119, [6]. Frontis. mounted subject portrait painting by Olga M. Ackerman photographed by Dorothea Lange, with tissue guard. Title page illustration by H. Von Schmidt. Black half cloth binding over brown watermarked paper covered boards, titles and decorations stamped in gilt on dark red labels on the cover and spine. Letterpress printed in black, red and blue on art paper by the Grabhorn Press December...
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A$69.77
The Felicity of Epigones
by John, Derek
Egaeus Press, 2016. Collects "six tales of the decadent and supernatural", one previously unpublished, with seven b/w illustrations by Kluger. Second of the British small publisher's Keynote Edition series of pocket-sized collections of macabre tales, one of 275 printed. Delicate hardcover, as pictured; shows a bit of wear & rubbing, minor bumps to head of spine, minor scuffs; no jacket, as issued. Text clean, no names or marks; 188, [3] pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No...
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A$147.30
