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Lost Tales, Volume I: 1909-1915 [Pegana Press]

Lost Tales, Volume I: 1909-1915 [Pegana Press]

by Dunsany, Lord (Edward Plunkett)

Olympia, WA: Pegana Press, 2012. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. Fine Pegana Press letterpress edition of ten stories that had appeared in magazines but were never before collected into book form. This first volume of the lost tales was printed in an edition of 128 copies, some bound in purple paper covers and some in cloth (hardcover). This is one of the copies in paper wrappers. "The edition...was printed on Hahnemuhle Ingres paper using hand-set Goudy and Civilite types from the Dale Guild Type... Read more about this item
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A$743.71
Complete "Spines" Series

Complete "Spines" Series

by [Marquand Editions]

Tieton, WA: Marquand Editions, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. All ten volumes in the "spines" series, also called "a series of essays on aspects of books and publishing." Ed Marquand is a book artist based in Seattle and Tieton, Washington, who makes editions of books for artists and museums and, from time to time, produces his own work as Marquand Editions. The contributors to this series are mostly writers and artists working with museums and museum presses. Each author contributes a short... Read more about this item
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A$1,394.46
Dire 6 (No. 6; Automne 1963)

Dire 6 (No. 6; Automne 1963)

by Vodaine, Jean, et al. (eds.), Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Ernest Hemingway, Oliver LaFarge, Albert Ayme, Robert Allan, Alister Kershaw, et al

Montpellier, France: Dire, 1963. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 64pp (plus double-fold-out plate), printed wrappers. Brilliantly designed and executed fine-press literary magazine from 1963, includes work by Ginsberg (A Supermarket in California from Howl and Other Poems), Hemingway, Henry Miller, et al. (with translations from English). Unmarked copy, a little reading wear and toning.
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A$387.35
The Osage and the Invisible World: from the works of Francis La Flesche

The Osage and the Invisible World: from the works of Francis La Flesche

by La Flesche, Francis

323 pp. Introduced and edited by Garrick A. Bailey
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A$242.14
40 Years, A Chronology of Announcements & Keepsakes, The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco 1928-1967

40 Years, A Chronology of Announcements & Keepsakes, The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco 1928-1967

by Olmstead, Duncan and Magee, David (Editors)

San Francisco: Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem, 1968. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 150 copies, folio size, 65 pp., with prospectus and original invoice. Published to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, the well-known private club for book collectors, printers, and antiquarian booksellers. Both Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem being members, it was appropriate that they issue the volume. With twenty-five reproductions in colour of meeting invitations,... Read more about this item
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A$384.25
Mottetti, The Motets of Eugenio Montale

Mottetti, The Motets of Eugenio Montale

by Montale, Eugenio; Kart, Lawrence (Translator)

San Francisco: The Press of Grabhorn Hoyem, 1973. Limited Edition. Stitched Binding. Fine. One of 300 copies, quarto size, 61 pp., signed by Eugenio Montale and Lawrence Kart. Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) was the recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature and is widely considered to be the greatest Italian lyric poet since Giacomo Leopardi. ___DESCRIPTION: Designed and bound in Japanese style, with a sewn binding, the front and rear wraps covered in gold silk, the front wrap with black... Read more about this item
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A$469.47
X-Ray Number Seven: Fall 1998

X-Ray Number Seven: Fall 1998

by Brewton, Johnny (editor)

San Francisco: X-Ray Book Company, 1998. First edition. Paperback. The seventh installment of this literary journal combining found objects, broadsides, and tipped-in materials. Some contributors made 226 copies of their work (the entire print run); others sent things in to the editor who printed them (letterpress for broadsides). The contents were velobound with acetate wrappers. The covers are three-piece assemblies, each featuring a letter. The contributors to this issue include Charles Bukowski,... Read more about this item
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A$464.82
THE COLT SPRINGS HIGH; A Publishing Memoir of the Colt Press

THE COLT SPRINGS HIGH; A Publishing Memoir of the Colt Press

by ROTH, William

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2004. First Edition. Decorated Cloth. Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. (xii) 213 (2) pages. First Edition. Illustrated including some from color photographs of Colt publications. Prospectus and order envelope laid in. Cloth-backed illustrated cloth. 6 3/4" x 10". Foreword by Andrew Hoyem. Preface by William Matson Roth. Checklist of Colt Press imprints. Limited to 500 un-numbered copies. Designed by Andrew Hoyem and produced by the Arion Press. Colt pressmark by... Read more about this item
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A$232.41
Cantata di Bomarzo

Cantata di Bomarzo

by Manuel Mujica Lainez

Verona: Plain Wrapper Press, 1981. Keepsake 8, edition of 130. in wrappers. like new. Like New. Softcover. Cantata di Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica Lainez Text in Italian. Published by Plain Wrapper Press, Verona, 1981 No. 59 of 130 press-numbered copies. Soft cover. Stitched spine with brown card wrappers. 4to. 16 pages Printed by Gabriel Rummonds and Alessandro Zanella as keepsake otto (8) Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade.
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A$185.93
What a Word Dreamt; Versions of Aztec Poetry

What a Word Dreamt; Versions of Aztec Poetry

by Everwine, Peter

Stockton, Minnesota: Sutton Hoo Press, 2005. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 136 copies, folio size, 78 pp., signed by Peter Everwine. This volume is Peter Everwine's (1930-2018) translation of Aztec poetry from the Nahuatl language; Everwine worked with various poets and translated poetry from the Hebrew and Aztec languages, as well as writing his own poetry. "Everwine was the recipient of multiple awards and honors, including a Pushcart Prize, fellowships from the National Endowment for the... Read more about this item
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A$596.52
A Book Of Gaelic Airs For Una's Melodeon

A Book Of Gaelic Airs For Una's Melodeon

by Jeffers, Una

San Francisco: The Book Club of California. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1989. Limited Edition. 1/4 Cloth. One of 500 copies. Fine in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket scuffed with a few small tears. Book is in pristine, unread condition. Full white cloth binding with paper spine label. Bountifully illustrated by Robinson Jeffers. Introduction by Dave Oliphant. Book design by Ward Richie. Bound by Bella Blau; This book of Gaelic airs for Una's melodeon is a collection of beautiful melodies... Read more about this item
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A$170.43
The Disappeared and Other Poems

The Disappeared and Other Poems

by Pinter, Harold

London: Enitharmon Press. Fine+. 2002. Limited Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 1900564041 . A most handsome Limited edition in Very Fine condition. This book is number 152 of 175 signed copies in the Regular and deluxe editions (plus 45 hors commerce copies). This copy is SIGNED by author Harold Pinter and artist Tony Bevan. Printed on fine Arches Vélin paper and specially bound in attractive rust colored cloth; This selection of The Disappeared and 28 other poems was made by Harold Pinter... Read more about this item
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A$650.75
The Odessa File

The Odessa File

by Frederick Forsyth

The Easton Press, 1990 (1972). First Edition thus; Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Issued without dust jacket. Used - Fine, "as new" / unread condition. Very minor shelf wear to bottom edges. Binding and text block are tight, bright, and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Bound in full (genuine) leather with hubbed spine. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper with gilded edges. Smyth sewn with... Read more about this item
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A$201.34
Trade Tokens of British and American Booksellers & Bookmakers: With Specimens of Eleven Original Tokens Struck Especially for This Book

Trade Tokens of British and American Booksellers & Bookmakers: With Specimens of Eleven Original Tokens Struck Especially for This Book

by Morris, Henry

Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1989. First Edition. Near fine. An illustrated history and survey of tokens issued by booksellers and those in the book trades. Published in an edition of 300 copies, with a portfolio of eleven tokens the author (and printer) commissioned for modern-day booksellers, papermakers, etc. Spine slightly faded, else a near fine copy in quarter-leather and paper-covered boards. This is copy 175 of 300. Laid in, as issued, are a facsimile letter about the author of an earlier... Read more about this item
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A$371.86
Epitre au Marquis d'Argens; du 23 Septembre 1757

Epitre au Marquis d'Argens; du 23 Septembre 1757

by Le Grand, Frederic

[Montagnola]: Officina Bodoni, 1924. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. One of 225 copies, unnumbered, folio size, 24 pp., in French. Written by Frederick the Great (1712-1786), king of Prussia from 1740 until his death, this letter contemplates suicide as an alternative to surrendering in battle; the king had just experienced a devastating defeat at Kolin during the Seven Years' War, as well as the death of his beloved mother (per Mardersteig). The epistle, written to his close friend... Read more about this item
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A$1,022.60
Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical [Deluxe Copy]

Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical [Deluxe Copy]

by Roethke, Theodore; illustrated with wood engravings by John Roy

Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, 1963. First Edition. Leather bound. Fine. A beautiful collection of poems, printed by Kim Merker, with illustrations printed on delicate mulberry paper bound in between. This book is generally regarded as one of the finest from the press, which is known for the excellence of its letterpress printing and book design. The edition size was 270 copies, of which this is one of 60 deluxe copies bound in quarter-leather and paper printed with an engraved design by Roy. These... Read more about this item
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A$4,648.20
THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO THE GOLD MINES

THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO THE GOLD MINES

by SIMPSON, HENRY I

Haverford, PA: Headframe Publishing Company, 1978. First Thus. Leather-backed Marbled Boards. Near Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. 81 pages. Illustrated. Limited edition of 250 copies, of which this is #68. Folding vintage map of California and the Routes to it. Leather-backed marbled paper covered boards. Prologue and Epilogue by Franz R. Dykstra. Designed and printed by Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press. Bound by E. G. Parrot.Limited reprint of the 1848 first edition. A beautiful binding of an important... Read more about this item
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A$131.70
PRIVATE PRESS.|THE

PRIVATE PRESS.|THE

by Cave, Roderick

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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A$35.64
A MATTER OF TASTE; Willis Polk's Writings on Architecture in The Wave

A MATTER OF TASTE; Willis Polk's Writings on Architecture in The Wave

by POLK, Willis. LONGSTRETH, Richard W. (Editor)

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1979. First Edition Thus. Illustrated Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 77 (2) pages. Prospectus laid in. Plain paper dust jacket. Illustrated, some from period photographs and architectural drawings. One of 450 un-numbered copies designed and produced by Adrian Wilson and The Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco with the assistance of Peter Koch. Bembo types. 8 3/4" x 11". Brown illustrated cloth. Introduction by Richard W. Longstreth. Willis Polk's nineteen... Read more about this item
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A$108.46
The Book of Job (signed)

The Book of Job (signed)

by King James trans

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1946. Limited edition. Hardcover. Szyk, Arthur. #725/1950, 4to, 3/4 cream sheepskin over cream vellum paper, titling stamped in gold leaf. Illustrated with Arthur Szyk's luscious color paintings and signed by the artist on the limitation page. Rubbing to top and bottom of spine, about fine in scuffed and worn slipcase (the gold paper wrapping the slipcase is quite fragile).
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A$426.09
Miniature Books

Miniature Books

by Koopman, Harry Lyman

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1968. Limited Edition. Full Vellum. Near fine. One of 400 copies, unnumbered, miniature size, 113 pp., with prospectus. The last book designed by Bruce Rogers, printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem and therefore the only miniature book done by one of the Grabhorns. According to the bibliography, "[t]he uncorrected page proofs reached Mr. Rogers on the day of his death. For twelve years the galleys gathered dust until Carroll T. Harris generously turned them over to the printers..."... Read more about this item
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A$384.25
THE EGGPLANT SKIN PANTS AND POEMS

THE EGGPLANT SKIN PANTS AND POEMS

by [Perishable Press]: Laird, Mary

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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A$193.68
MEXICO ON STONE. LITHOGRAPHY IN MEXICO 1826-1900

MEXICO ON STONE. LITHOGRAPHY IN MEXICO 1826-1900

by MATHES, W. Michael

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1984. First Edition. Cloth-backed illustrated boards. Near Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. (xiv) (2) 68 (1) pp. One of 550 un-numbered copies of a limited edition. 32 illustrations, including 8 in color and 3 folding. Notes. Chronological checklist of Mexican lithographic works: 1826-1899. List of printers and lithographers of 19th Century Mexico. Bibliography. Linen-backed illustrated boards. 8 1/2" x 12". Designed and printed by Jonathan Clark at The Artichoke... Read more about this item
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A$131.70
A Scandal in Bohemia

A Scandal in Bohemia

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Portland, OR: No Reply Press, 2021. Limited Edition. Hardcover. artwork by Rūta Kuzmickas. NEW, unread === No Reply Press, 2021. The edition is limited to 666 copies and is offered in four states. This is the hardbound edition, Limited to 350 copies, numbered variously between 1 and 600. For sale is number 203. Book measures 6 ¾ by 10 ¾ inches. Typeset in Perpetua, designed by Eric Gill. Printed by hand on Mohawk feltmark paper using a Vandercook Universal I cylinder press at Letterpress PDX in... Read more about this item
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A$395.10
Mexico On Stone. Lithography In Mexico, 1826-1900

Mexico On Stone. Lithography In Mexico, 1826-1900

by Mathes, W. Michael

San Francisco: The Book Club of California. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1984. Limited Edition. 1/4 Cloth. One of 550 copies. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Small tear on front corner of the plain paper dust jacket, else fine. Quarter cloth with decorated brown paper boards. Paper spine label. Illustrated. Illustrations photographed direct from the original lithographs and reproduced from engravings made by the printer. 84 color plates were printed by Robert Collins Lithography from laser-scanned... Read more about this item
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A$232.41
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