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London/New York: The Talfourd Press/Richard Minsky, 1990. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This book is based on Tom Phillips' 1988 collage work 'The Class of 47', as exhibited in London at the National Portrait Gallery. "Tom Phillips sent copies of the 31 images to American poet Heather McHugh, who wrote poems about them. Tom then took these poems and transformed them by painting out some of the words. His new text sometimes reaffirms and other times contradicts the poet's interpretation of the pictures. Each page of handmade paper contains the image, expanded and revised both by hand and computer, and hand painted in watercolour following the artist's prototype." "[P]rinted on Richard de Bas handmade paper with a Canon BJ-130 inkjet printer. The images and treatments were painted by hand in watercolours. The edition is limited to forty-seven copies bound in cloth, numbered 1-47, and an edition de tete of ten copies I-X, bound in leather with three additional pages… Read More

Newcastle, NSW: Newcastle University College English Department, 1966. First Printings. Original Wraps. Very Good+ to Near Fine in Wraps.. First Printings. Original Wraps. New Series: Vol. III, No. 5-6; Vol. IV, No. 1-6; Vol. V, 1-6; Vol. VI, 1-6. Minor shelf/edge wear, small pen mark on one, else tight, bright and unmarred. Original printed wraps, staplebound, subscription cards laid into two. Small 8vo. Various pagination.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1970. First Edition/Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Slipcase.. First Edition/Limited Edition. Hardcover. A simply elegant presentation of this remarkable history of the "Coasters" Tight, bright and unmarred. Slipcase shows very minor shelf/edge wear, else tight and clean. Cream sail-cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, burgundy ink lettering and label, pictorial endpages. Oblong 8vo. 201pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 584 of 725. Signed by the author. Original sheet from the press laid in.

New York: Walt Disney Productions, 1940. First Edition. Pictorial Wraps. Near Fine in Wraps. First Edition. Pictorial Wraps. This is the souvenir program for Disney's renowned production with music by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra and narrative introductions by Deems Taylor. A very handsome copy of this rather uncommon volume. Very minimal shelf wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. 4to. 26pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates).

Turner, ME: Self-published, 1937. Unique. Original Wraps. Very Good. Unique. Original Wraps. "West shore of Pleasant Pond, Turner, Maine / October 2nd, 1937 / Pictures by Walter A. Deshates, Deputy Sherrif" [from front wrapper]. 20 b/w photographs of the body and surroundings from a rural Maine murder scene. "Turner, Me, Nov. 1 [1937] - Mystery surrounds the death of Walter Richmond, 45, whose body was found in the yard of his home on the Merrill Mills road Saturday and Dr. Henry S. Prince of Lewiston, country medical examiner, called into the case, ordered an autopsy to determine the cause of death. He said Richmond had been dead several days and his water-soaked clothes supported that theory. Strewn about the yard were articles from Richmond's pockets, jacknives, coins, glasses case, cartridges, matches, a bottle opener, etc. The body was discovered by Walter Mathews or Turner and John H and Charles Comeau of Sumner, lumbering on a lot in the rear of Richmond's home, who passed over a road… Read More

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good to Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed Bayntun binding. Steel engravings from drawings by J.M.W. Turner, illustrating the most celebrated rivers of France. Ray notes that "Turner achieved his best landscapes on steel in this series". [Ray, England, 16]. Minimal shelf/edge wear, sunning at spine, hint of toning, closed tear at rfep of V3, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Full green leather boards, five raised bands, gilt lettering and decorative elements, marbled endpages, frontispiece, tissueguards, aeg. 8vo. 256pp; 256pp; 258pp. Illus. (b/w plates).

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ (Textblock Near Fine). No DJ.. First Edition. Hardcover. A handsome copy of this minor classic. Minor shelf/edge wear, owner signature on half-title, hint of toning at spine, else tight, bright and unmarred. Red cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, pictorial endpages, color frontispiece, red topstain. 8vo. 280pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates).

Portland, ME: Lefavor-Tower Co, 1915. First Editions. Hardcover. Near Fine to Very Good [Textblocks Fine]. No DJ.. First Editions. Hardcover. Arguably the more important collection of Maine related Civil War papers. Includes, several essays from Joshua Chamberlain, the capture of Mobile, AL and Richmond, VA, an essay on "Colored Troops", the "Attitude of Women" about the war, etc. Uncommon to find as a complete set (and this one was clearly "built"). Volume Four bears a presentation inscription to the Paris Hill Library [N.B. there are no library markings] from Henry W. Lyon, "The first paper, Hamlin Centennial Celabration, will interest all citizens of Paris Hill." Overall, a handsome set. Light shelf/edge wear, tips of Vol. 3 gently bumped, spine of Vol. 3 shows light toning, Vol. 3 shows lightening at front lower corner, Vol. 4 shows lightening spot near tail, presentation inscription at fep of Vol. 4, bookplate lifted from Vol. 4, else tight, bright and unmarred. Navy boards, gilt lettering and… Read More

New York: Macmillan/Collier, 1971. Collier Books Edition. Wraps. Very Good+ in Wraps. Collier Books Edition. Wraps. Ochs songs and guitar arrangements, with interviews, photos, poetry and commentary. From the Collection of Jenny Lens. Toning and shelfwear around edges, moderate wear/creasing, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Color paper wrappers. 8vo, 94pp. illus (b/w).

New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine DJ. First Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright and unmarred. DJ bright and clean. Brown textured paper boards, gilt lettering. 8vo. 215pp.

Eßlingen and Munich: J.F. Schreiber, 1905. First Edition. Boards. Good. First Edition. Boards. Classic German winter fairytale authored in the style of Hans Christian Andersen. Bound in original pictorial boards with color illustrations. Disbound, spine damage, evidence of foxing, however, scarce early edition. 10 pages, on heavy stock boards.

New York: Dodd Mead, 1916. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good+ [Textblock Near Fine] in Near Fine DJ.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Arguably one of Smith's best works...a wonderful story beautifully illustrated. First edition, second issue. Overall, a handsome copy of this Smith classic. Light shelf/edge wear (tips through), very minor moisture mark at top of text block near head, hint of toning at spine, front hinge starting, else tight and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, color pictorial onlay, tipped-in frontispiece, tipped-in plates on grey printed leaves. Small 4to. 362pp Illus. (color and b/w plates).

Oldham, UK: Incline Press, 2008. Limited Edition/Unique Binding. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Archival Case. Limited Edition/Unique Binding. Hardcover. Art binding by Julie H.B. Stackpole, a fine hand bookbinder based in mid-coast Maine. After getting a BA at Kirkland College, Julie Beinecke Stackpole studied bookbinding with Kathryn Gerlach in Vermont, in Ascona Switzerland, at the Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts in London, and with Roger Powell in England. She established her studio, the Merlicorn Bindery, on Nantucket in 1975, which she moved to Maine in 1985. She specializes in one-of-a-kind creative ne binding, all aspects of rare book restoration, and general hand bookbinding. Tight, bright and unmarred. Full leather binding in grey and dark sea-green goatskins; onlays of various leathers, all embossed with lino-cuts (representing various elements of water-sea, clouds, rain, streams, waves, currents); in blind lettering at spine; sewn on raised bands, endpages marbled by the binder, leather… Read More

Austin, TX: Mystical Places Press, 1999. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Handmade paper boards, printed label on front cover, metal sun, matching clamshell box. 70x73mm. 23pp. Illus. (color photographs). Numbered limited edition, this being 12 of 35.

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Despite advanced technology, the practice of water witching - using a forked stick to indicate an underground source of water - persists in both rural and urban areas. The book is look at dowsing, full of personal accounts, historical background, and data from controlled experiments and a nationwide survey. This study includes a collection of photographs, drawings, and historical woodcuts showing the tools, techniques, and early instances of dowsing, as well as cross-sectional views contrasting the dowser's explanation of groundwater with the geologist's analysis. One chapter is dedicated to water witching as magical divination, and folk magic, the rod is a wand. The analysis interviews diviners and farmers using wood specific tree branches for geographic locations. A cross section of rural folkcraft of tradition and agriculture mixed with folk magic belief. Both… Read More

Augusta, ME: Sprague, Owen & Nash, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+ [Textblock Near Fine]. No DJ as Issued.. First Edition. Hardcover. Author was Superintendent, Hydrographic Survey of Maine. Includes a wonderful, hand-colored fold-out map by Colton, often missing. (Williamson 10516) Overall, a handsome copy of this increasingly uncommon volume. Light shelf/edge wear, minor fraying at head, moderate chip at heel, bookseller notation at front pastedown (F. O'Brien); owner signature at ffep, hint of foxing at preliminaries, else tight, bright and unmarred. Black cloth boards, gilt lettering, in blind decorative elements, frontispiece, fold-out hand-colored map. 8vo. 526pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Color map.

1950. Unique Edition. Fine.. Unique Edition. "N.B. Posing and Sequencing of images is in homage to "Idyalle Printainere" [Fedor Rojankowski's Idylle Printaniere (Paris Spring, 1933), a story without words telling of an encounter between two travelers on the metro]. Pencil notations at the rear of the first image, else bright and clean. Appox. 4x6 inches. Black and white watercolors.

New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001. Uncorrected Proof/First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good+ in Wraps. Uncorrected Proof/First Edition. Original Wraps. From the Collection of Jenny Lens. With photographs by Jenny Lens. The uncorrected proof copy is inscribed by the authors: "This is the incomplete fuck-up version-enjoy" --Brendan Mullen and "No you so funny! You take a pretty picture too!, your pal Hal Negro." Other paperback copy marked with Jenny Lens images. Light shelfwear around edges, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Matte/gloss color pictorial wrappers. 8vo, 290pp. illus. (b/w). Uncorrected proof inscribed.

nd. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good in Wraps. First Edition. Original Wraps. A very interesting/unusual bit of racial/racist erotica and fetishism. The book was an overt, debauched, attack on Dowie and his utopian community, in large part due to his support of changing racial views. "Zion was founded by the charismatic preacher and faith healer John Alexander Dowie (1847-1907). Born in Scotland, Dowie came to this region in 1893 when he preached his message of "clean and faithful living" at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. He established the Christian Catholic Church and by 1899, his followers numbered in the thousands. After looking for a suitable location to build a "City of God," Dowie purchased 6,000 acres of farmland in Benton Township, and brought his followers to create a social utopia. Although Dowie's leadership was criticized for its anti-democratic tendencies, he was ahead of his time when it came to social issues relating to the working class and minority groups. He… Read More

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. No DJ.. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, bottom tips through, ownership plates at front pastedown, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Beige buckram boards, gilt lettering, fronitispiece. 4to. 92pp. plus 64 np plates.