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James Henry
The Madonna of the Future
San Francisco: Arion Press 1997. Dine Jim. Quarto. 68pp. One of 200 copies signed by Jim Dine. Illustrated with a photogravure by Dine from the portfolio of the "Ape & Cat" series. A very fine copy in cloth. Prospectus laid in. Arion Bibliography 52. Arion Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28471
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Martin Carl R.
Go Your Stations Girl
San Francisco: Arion Press 1991. Martin Carl R. Octavo. 82pp. One of 750 copies of which this is one of 250 copies bound in boards. Frontispiece portrait of the author tipped in along with a reproduction of a Carl R. Martin drawing on the final page. A fine rendition of the author's first book. Prospectus laid in. Arion Bibliography 33. Arion Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28452
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MacDiarmid Hugh
The Kind of Poetry I Want
Edinburgh: K. D. Duval 1961. Quarto. 57 4pp. One of 300 copies. Signed by the poet at colophon. Printed by Officina Bodoni for K. D. Duval. MacDiarmid is best known for his play with language such as his works written in "synthetic Scots" and his careful use of scientific and technical vocabularies. Bound in half vellum with patterned paper over boards fine. Housed in slipcase somewhat scuffed and torn along bottom edge. K. D. Duval unknown
Bookseller reference : 28441
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Strouse Norman H.
C-S The Master Craftsman: An Account of the Work of T. J. Cobden-Sanderson
Harper Woods: Adagio Press 1969. Folio. 54pp. With a Preface by Strouse and a Note by the Printer Leonard F. Bahr. From an edition of 329 this is one of ten copies made up of leftover sheets from the original printing. It contains three leaves: and octavo sheet from Tasso and two Bible leaves all of which are on paper. Very fine in cloth-backed marbled boards by the Campbell-Logan Bindery. Laid-in is "A Letter from Stella" Adagio Press 1971 an octavo pamphlet containing a letter from Cobden-Sanderson's daughter and related material. Adagio Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28455
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Shawcross John T.
Harmonious Numbers Though in Shadiest Covert Hid
San Francisco: Arion Press 2003. Octavo. 12pp. One of 500 copies. A talk presented by John T. Shawcross at the Arion Press on January 29 2003 during its celebration of the publication of a new edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost. Bound in gray paper wrappers. Fine. Arion Bibliography p. 270. Arion Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28448
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Higashi/Glaser Design Inc.
Hello Kitty Hello Love!
Abrams Inc. 2005. Board book. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Abrams, Inc. unknown
Bookseller reference : G081095754XI5N00 ISBN : 081095754X 9780810957541
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Grant Design Collaborative
1000 More Graphic Elements Vol. 3 : Unique Elements for Distinctive Designs
Quarto Publishing Group USA 2009. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Quarto Publishing Group USA paperback
Bookseller reference : G1592535518I3N00 ISBN : 1592535518 9781592535514
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Amy Barickman; Indygo Junction Design Team
Bag Boutique : Making Fabulous Purses and Totes
Martingale & Company 2005. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Martingale & Company paperback
Bookseller reference : G1564776115I3N00 ISBN : 1564776115 9781564776112
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Soyinka Wole
Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known
Utah: Rainmaker Editions 2003. Kleinschmidt Robert. Small quarto. 21pp. One of 399 copies signed by the author Wole Soyinka the illustrator Robert Kleinschmidt and Victoria Hindley the book's designer and the creative director of the Red Butte Press. Kleinschmidt's woodcuts adorn the two-page title page and three pages interspersed with the text. Soyinka's poems evoke the humanity of marketplaces as cultural emblems drawing on history and myth to give shape to the exchanges of religion politics and emotion that occur there. Bound by Daniel Kelm with boards covered in Japanese Kyosei-shi handmade paper. Housed in silk-covered slipcase. Fine. Rainmaker Editions unknown
Bookseller reference : 28535
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Strand Mark
The Continuous Life
Iowa City: Windhover Press 1990. Welliver Neil. Folio. 29ff. One of 225 copies. Two woodcuts by Welliver. Eighteen of Strand's poems printed from handset Spectrum types on Windhover and Umbria papers. Bound in gray-blue paper wrappers with paper spine label. Fine. Windhover Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28511
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Hardy Thomas
Selected Poems
Sussex: Snake River Press 1980. Trenaman Geoffrey. Small quarto. 31pp. One of twenty-five copies. Four full-page etchings by Trenaman depicting scenes from Hardy's poems. Trenaman's rough hand endows places like Hampton Court the Salisbury Cathedral and an open heath with the remembered reverence that characterizes Hardy's poetry. Bound in quarter-leather with purple paper over boards and gilt titling to spine. Faintest rubbing to extremities and slight bow to lower board else near fine. Snake River Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28526
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Schmoller Hans
Mr. Gladstone's Washi: A Survey of Reports on the Manufacture of Paper in Japan "The Parkes Report of 1871
Newtown PA: Bird & Bull Press 1984. Quarto. x 49 24 pp. 31ff. One of 500 copies. Contains three foldout plates nineteen color reproductions of Japanese watercolors and 30 illustrated facsimile pages of an eighteenth century Japanese papermaking manual. These woodcut facsimiles are printed on handmade Japanese gampi paper and bound-in. Includes a history of the Western discovery of Japanese paper and the full texts of two nineteenth century accounts of Japanese papermaking one of them the "Parkes Report." Sir Harry Parkes Queen Victoria's Minister to Japan was the first foreigner to be granted a private audience with the Emperor. Bound in decorated paper boards backed in red morocco with black morocco lettering-piece. Housed in slipcase together with an extra set of the watercolor facsimiles in a paper portfolio. Slipcase shows light toning to extemities spine of book and portfolio slightly sunned else near fine. Bird & Bull Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28536
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Browning Robert
Dramatis Personae
Hammersmith: Doves Press 1910. Octavo. 202 pp. One of 250 copies. Printed in red and black. A collection of Browning's dramatic poems and monologues and the second Browning title published by the Doves Press. Minor cockling to pastedowns spine imperceptibly faded else fine in full limp vellum by the Doves Bindery. Tidcombe DP22. Doves Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28564
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West Nathaniel
The Day of the Locust
San Francisco: Arion Press 2013. Gray Lucy. Octavo. 178 iipp. 20pp. of illustrations. One of 400 copies signed by Lucy Gray whose twenty photographs were printed by offset lithography in two colors and overlaid with varnish. Gray is married to film historian and critic David Thomson who contributed the Introduction to this edition. Very fine in chartreuse cloth featuring a rising cloud of locusts across the covers printed in a darker green along with the titling. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Arion Bibliography 97. Arion Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28525
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Specimens: A Stevens-Nelson Paper Catalogue
NY: Stevens-Nelson Paper Corporation 1952. Quarto. 196pp. A lovely collection of handmade and mouldmade papers each sample showcasing the work of a different press or typographer including Bruce Rogers Saul & Lillian Marks of the Plantin Press the Curwen Press and Hans Mardersteig of Officina Bodoni. A price list and supplemental index is laid in. Bound in morocco-backed marbled boards. Spine slightly toned with some wear to board edges else near fine. Housed in slipcase that shows some wear and toning. Stevens-Nelson Paper Corporation unknown
Bookseller reference : 28519
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Elsted Crispin and Jan
Simon Brett: An Engraver's Progress. A Selection of Engravings with an Introduction by the Artist. Endgrain Editions Four
Mission British Columbia Canada: Barbarian Press 2013. Brett Simon. Folio. 50pp. 134ff. plates. One of 120 copies of the regular edition. Illustrated with 134 examples of Brett's wood engravings. Number four in the Barbarian Press Endgrain Edition series of books on individual wood engravers. This volume includes an autobiographical Introduction by the featured artist Simon Brett a catalogue raisonné of exhibitions in which his work was featured a checklist of his published contributions as an artist author and editor and a chronoligical listing of his engravings from 1961 to 2013. A bit of bowing to rear board else fine in quarter Japanese cloth with a printed paper spine label and paper over boards printed from blocks engraved by the artist especially for this volume. Barbarian Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28514
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Kraus Carl von ed.
Walther von der Vogelweide
Munich: Bremer Presse 1931. Quarto. 158pp. One of 250 copies. A collection of songs by von der Vogelweide a medieval poet and minstrel whose songs are widely regarded as the pinnacle of the era's German love lyric. He is also responsible for using poetry to political ends and was the first to do so in the German language. Bound in buckram with blue paper over boards. Cracking along exterior of spine faint bumps to corners some loosening of interior sewing else near fine. Housed in matching slipcase which is generally sunned and beginning to split at joints. Inscription from former owner on front free endpaper. Bremer Presse unknown
Bookseller reference : 28561
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Wedekind Frank
The Lulu Plays
San Francisco: Arion Press 2015. Kentridge William. Quarto. 169pp. One of 400 copies signed by the illustrator. The sixty-seven images created by William Kentridge depict figures created by brush and ink over dictionary pages which could then be spread over a stage scene or rearranged to suggest new positions or gestures. Some of the images use historical figures to represent certain characters such as Gustav Mahler as the Count Casti-Piani and Sigmund Freud as the Stage Manager. The sinister occasionally voyeuristic imagery underscores the text's tragic violence and its characters' desperation and grotesqueness. To imbue the work with further foreboding the endpapers and slipcase evoke spatterings of blood. Bound in gray cloth over boards. Both book and slipcase fine. Prospectus subscriber letter invoice and sample sheet laid in. Arion Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28504
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Design Museum Staff
Fifty Hats That Changed the World
Octopus Publishing Group 2011. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Octopus Publishing Group hardcover
Bookseller reference : G1840915692I3N00 ISBN : 1840915692 9781840915693
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Lucy Brown Design
The Gardens of Thomas Kinkade
Lightpost Publishing 1997. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Lightpost Publishing hardcover
Bookseller reference : G096386355XI3N00 ISBN : 096386355X 9780963863553
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Pinkhaus Design
The American Directory of Architects : Southern Edition
Pinkhaus Publications 1991. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Pinkhaus Publications hardcover
Bookseller reference : G0962893404I3N00 ISBN : 0962893404 9780962893407
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Applied Research & Design
A Landscape Inventory: Michel Desvigne Paysagiste
2018-11-15. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Bookseller reference : 1940743176q ISBN : 1940743176 9781940743172
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Seuss Dr. Geisel Theodore
Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book
NY: Random House 1962. Seuss Dr. Geisel Theodore. First edition. A very small bug by the name of Van Vleck is yawning and soon the whole world catches it. Every page is full of Dr. Seuss's Theodore Geisel's wacky color illustrations. Scant wear to edges of pictorial boards else near fine in near fine dust wrapper. Random House unknown
Bookseller reference : 28323
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Carroll Lewis
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel
Jamaica NY: Minia Press 1943. Tenniel John. 192pp. Printed and published by Edmund S. Wood at his Minia Press. A reproduction of the original with Tenniel's renowned illustrations. Very fine in gilt-stamped red leather with gold paper slipcase. Minor general wear to book else near fine. T.e.g. Bradbury p.150. 2 1/4 by 1 1/2; 55x36mm. Minia Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28345
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Heures des Jeunes Chretiens
Paris: Marcilly 1830. 127pp. A beautiful little book of hours for young people with engraved title and five plates the most charming showing David dancing and playing his harp as he leads the procession of the Ark. Contains the Order of the Mass and various services in French and hymns and prayers in Latin. Ends with the service for marriage rather than the service for the dead as was customary in older books of hours. Fine in green roan with gilt floral rolls to spine and bordering both covers. The slipcase matches in color and gilt decoration. Minor rubbing to exterior else fine. A.e.g. Welsh 3300. 2 7/16 by 1 13/16; 68x47mm. Marcilly unknown
Bookseller reference : 28346
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Brautigan Richard
Trout Fishing in America
San Francisco: Arion Press 2003. Thiebold Wayne. Quarto. xxi 101pp. From an edition of 400 copies this is one of 200 with a photographic portrait of the author by Edmund Shea and a signed chromolithograph by Wayne Thiebaud. The portrait is printed here for the first time. Preface by Ron Loewinsohn who was named on the dedication page of the first edition of Brautigan's cult classic novel. An extremely fine copy in gray and blue cloth. Prospectus laid in. Arion Bibliography 65. Arion Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28321
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Mamet David
American Buffalo
San Francisco: Arion Press 1992. McCurdy Michael. Quarto. 117pp. One of 400 copies signed by the author and the artist. Illustrated with five wood engravings four of them full page by Michael McCurdy. The first play in the Arion Press drama series. A fine copy in blue-green cloth with a ring of silver foil surrounding an actual buffalo-head nickel. Prospectus laid in. Together with Mamet's The Cabin printed by the Arion Press in 1992 with an additional wood engraving by McCurdy. Fine in brown paper wrappers. Arion Bibliography 37. Arion Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28365
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Holderlin Friedrich
Patmos
Frankfurt: Raamin-Presse 1978. Quadflieg Roswitha. Quarto. 28pp. One of 100 copies. Signed by the artist at the colophon. Five full-page color initials by Quadflieg. The page opposite each initial features decorative rules and at two smaller decorated initials. The volume feature's Holderlin's poem in its 1803 and later versions. Bound in blue cloth over boards. Spine and upper board somewhat sunned else near fine. Bookplate of former owner on front free endpaper. Note from the press bearing Quadflieg's signature laid in. Raamin-Presse unknown
Bookseller reference : 28383
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Everson William
Ravaged with Joy: A Record of the Poetry Reading at the University of California Davis on May 16 1975
Middletown CT: Robin Price 1998. Shinohara Keiji. Quarto. 36pp. One of 150 copies. Signed by the illustrator Keiji Shinohara below the colophon. Decorated throughout with woodcuts in soft grays greens browns and reds. The woodcuts interplay with the text itself recreating in a visual way the experience of sitting in person for the poet's reading. Binding co-designed with Daniel Kelm. The text is hand-sewn into decorative brown paper-covered boards. Audio compact disc of the original 1975 reading inset into verso of upper cover and a 12pp. pamphlet The Experience of an Everson Reading inset into the back. Fine housed in gray slipcase. Prospectus laid in. Robin Price unknown
Bookseller reference : 28325
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The Dream of the Rood: Taken from the Ninth Century Anglo-Saxon
Flemington NJ: St. Teresa's Press 1966. Small quarto. 14pp. One of 150 copies. With a lovely hand-painted title page and decorative initials modeled after the Book of Kells. Letterpress printed in Solemnis and Palatino Italic on handmade English paper. A short-lived and very fine small press St. Teresa's flourished in a cloistered monastery in the 1960s and early 1970s producing fewer than a dozen superbly printed books. This volume was bound by hand at the press in quarter brown leather and handmade textured-paper boards gilt-titled on the front cover. Upper board slightly splayed and some offsetting from previous owner's bookplate onto front free endpaper else near fine. St. Teresa's Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28367
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Citino David
A Letter of Columbus
Columbus OH: Logan Elm Press 1990. Rice Anthony. Quarto. 38pp. One of 115 copies printed on handmade paper and signed by the poet David Citino the artist Anthony Rice and the designer of the book Robert Tauber. A stunning production crafted in advance of the quincentennial celebration of Columbus's voyage. Illustrated throughout in brilliant colors with monoprints printed directly off hand-painted zinc plates making each copy of the edition unique. The title-page spread is hand-lettered and colored completely in red giving the appearance of paste paper and each stanza of the poem begins with a hand-colored initial letter. Housed in a paste paper slipcase which has a cast paper bas-relief of the title-page illustration on the front. Prospectus laid-in along with a copy of Samuel Eliot Morison's annotated translation of the Columbus letter. Logan Elm Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28322
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Shakespeare William
The Tragedy of Richard the Third: with the Landing of Earle Richmond and the Battell at Bosworth Field
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1953. Grabhorn Mary. Small quarto. vi 191pp. One of 180 copies printed in French Lettre Bâtarde on handmade paper. Illustrated with six striking color woodcuts by Mary Grabhorn. The most beautiful of the Grabhorn Press Shakespeare series. Slight separation at title page gutter faint foxing to one page spread. Overall near fine in full limp vellum with ties and matching slipcase. Magee 404. Grabhorn Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28311
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Shakespeare William
Facsimile of the Cranach Press Hamlet
NY: Benjamin Blom Inc 1972. Craig Edward Gordon and Eric Gill. Folio. 202 5pp. Publisher's facsimile of the famed edition of Hamlet issued by the Cranach Press in 1929. With reprints of Edward Johnston's typography Edward Gordon Craig's 74 woodcuts and Eric Gill's contributions of two initials the title over the first woodcut and spine titling. Bound in paper-covered boards with vellum spine and tips. Edges rubbed and spine slightly bumped else near fine in somewhat worn slipcase. Publisher's history of the Cranach Press attached to rear paste-down. Benjamin Blom, Inc unknown
Bookseller reference : 28310
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Shakespeare William
King Lear
London: Ganymed Original Editions Limited 1963. Kokoschka Oskar. Folio. 109pp. One of 275 copies. Signed by the illustrator on the limitation page. Illustrated by Oskar Kokoschka with sixteen black & white lithographs. Kokoschka's expressionist interpretations of Shakespeare's text successfully translate the psychology of the text into image. The shadowy lithographs set against the bright handmade Crisbrook paper underscore the darker discourse on character age and power that runs throughout the play. Text set in Fell type and printed at the University Press Oxford. Bound in full vellum with marbled endpapers and gilt lettering to spine. Upper board a bit splayed free endpapers somewhat worn at edges because they overhang the main text block else a handsome near fine copy housed in gray cloth slipcase. Ganymed Original Editions Limited unknown
Bookseller reference : 28319
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East Wind Design East Wind Design
Portland Rock Climbs
Ewd. New. Special order direct from the distributor Ewd unknown
Bookseller reference : ING9780963566089 ISBN : 0963566083 9780963566089
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The Book of Sports
Philadelphia: H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss 1850. 191pp. Illustrated with engravings throughout each activity receiving its own full-page image. A charming book encouraging the reader to physical exertion. It describes such expected activities as archery skating and marbles along with the perhaps unexpected pastimes of painting vases the Aeolian harp and "magnetic amusements." Bound in brown cloth over boards gilt stamping to upper cover and spine. Exterior lightly soiled small chip to spine some foxing throughout else near fine with only three copies listed on OCLC. 3 1/8 by 2 5/8; 79x67mm. H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss unknown
Bookseller reference : 28406
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Wells H. G.
Tono-Bungay
San Francisco: Arion Press 2008. Washburn Stan. Octavo. 330pp. One of 300 copies. Illustrated by Stan Washburn utilizing etchings on film which are then transferred to polymer plates. A fine edition of Wells' under-appreciated novel about a fictional patent medicine loosely based on perhaps one of the most successful such elixirs of all time: Coca-Cola. Interleaved throughout are "advertisements" created by Andrew Hoyem and Ray Folger and set in various period typefaces. Includes the pamphlet reprint of Edward Mendelson's notes for the Penguin Classics edition of 2005 as well as the prospectus. Extremely fine in maroon cloth with paper labels on cover and spine. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Arion Bibliography 82. Arion Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28422
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Mann Thomas
The Black Swan
NY: Limited Editions Club 1990. Hejduk John. Small quarto. 183pp. One of 375 copies signed by the artist. Illustrated with eight lithographs by John Hejduk printed at Pondside Press by Melissa and Ted Braggins. With an Afterword by David Shapiro. Mann's text is printed in black while Shapiro's appears in brown. Bound by the Jovonis Bindery in full brown niger with title stamped in black to upper cover. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. Minor rubbing to covers else near fine. Limited Editions Club unknown
Bookseller reference : 28401
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Gorey Edward
The Utter Zoo
NY: Meredith Press 1967. Gorey Edward. First edition. "From Ampoo to Zote" this alphabet offers "an improbable menagerie for Sunday's child." Upper portion of boards foxed slight splay to upper cover else very good in very good dust wrapper. Toledano A26a. Meredith Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28390
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O'Hara Frank
Poems
NY: Limited Editions Club 1988. de Kooning Willem. Elephant folio. 70pp. One of 550 copies with an authorized facsimile of the artist's signature. Illustrated with seventeen lithographs by Willem de Kooning. After Frank O'Hara's untimely death in 1966 a volume of his poetry was published with illustrations from over thirty artists. O'Hara's poem "Ode to Willem de Kooning" which was inspired by the artist was included in that volume. De Kooning illustrated it with three drawings which were chosen from the eighteen that he had submitted. Although these other drawings were occasionally exhibited with the book they had not been published. Seventeen of these drawings were transferred directly to plates to illustrate this edition making this the first appearance of these plates. Originally drawn in charcoal the plates reflect de Kooning's style of quickly drawing sometimes with his eyes closed and then smudging the lines to capture the desired effect. Bound in full black morocco with simple gilt titling to the front cover. Very fine in publisher's dropback box which is lightly sunned at spine. Limited Editions Club unknown
Bookseller reference : 28416
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Hardy Thomas
Green Blades
Monmouthshire UK: Old Stile Press 2007. Cazalet Mark. Oblong quarto. 46pp. Signed by the artist. Each poem illustrated with a color woodcut or linocut by Cazalet. Cazalet's images visually complement the topography of Hardy's experience and the sensations evoked by his poetry. Cazalet himself arranged the poems to suggest Hardy's gradual reconciliation to guilt and grief resolving into a dawning sense of acceptance. Bound in cloth with pictorial covers. Fine in green folding slipcase. Old Stile Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28411
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Paz Octavio
Three Poems
NY: Limited Editions Club 1987. Motherwell Robert. Square elephant folio. 120pp. One of 750 copies signed by the poet and the artist. Illustrated with twenty-six full-page lithographs by Robert Motherwell plus one original lithograph set into the upper cover. Three of the lithographs are printed on colored paper: one on blue one on red and the third on yellow. Paz's poems are printed here in red and black in English and Spanish. Very fine in linen-covered clamshell box which has a small split at the lower front corner. A sizable and ambitious Limited Editions Club publication that marked a new chapter in the Club's efforts to engage the leading artists of the day. Newsletter announcing this title laid in. Limited Editions Club unknown
Bookseller reference : 28414
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Bentley William
Scenes from the Cutting-Room Floor
San Francisco: Arion Press 2017. Baldessari John. Small quarto. 214pp. One of 300 copies signed by the author. Illustrated with twenty photo-collages by John Baldessari based on stills from B-movies. These images were then set before Bentley who authored twenty scenes to accompany them. The volume has been crafted as a mock screenplay with page format following the conventions of Hollywood scriptwriters and all pages gathered into a three-ring binder. A comic and learned take on American film history fine in burgundy leatherette. Arion Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28425
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Shepard Sam
A Lie of the Mind: A Play in Three Acts
San Francisco: Arion Press 1993. Washburn Stan. Large quarto. 143pp. One of 300 copies signed by the author and the artist. Illustrated throughout with fifteen drawings by Stan Washburn. The second in Arion's drama series. A very fine copy in pictorial boards and goatskin spine with a mylar wrapper. Lacks accompanying CD "The Music of Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind" by the Red Clay Ramblers. The music was performed for the first production of the play. Arion Bibliography 39. Arion Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28432
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Stoppard Tom
Arcadia a Play
San Francisco: Arion Press 2001. Matthews William. Oblong folio. xvi 115pp. One of 400 copies signed by the author Tom Stoppard and the artist William Matthews. Illustrated with four reproductions of watercolor views showing the manor and landscape as they change over the course of the play. Foreword by the author. A fine copy in green cloth with paper labels and matching slipcase. Prospectus laid in. Arion Bibliography 62. Arion Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28430
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Corbiere Tristan
Poems
Nevada City CA: Berliner Harold 1988. Lederer Wolfgang. Quarto. 105pp. One of 150 copies. This copy inscribed by the printer to wood engraver John DePol with his bookplate and signature to front paste-down. Design and frontispiece illustration by Lederer. Translated by C. F. MacIntyre and printed in French and English on opposing pages. The initials at the start of each English poem appear in gold. Bound in cloth-backed boards covered in marbled paper. Fine with matching slipcase. Prospectus laid in. Berliner, Harold unknown
Bookseller reference : 28437
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Shakespeare William
The Tempest
Montagnola: Officina Bodoni 1924. Quarto. 151pp. One of 224 copies. Shakespeare's late iconic comedy printed in Catania an original Bodoni type on Fabriano handmade paper. Book designed by G. Mardersteig. Bound in green-dyed vellum over boards with the Press's device stamped in gilt on the front cover. Upper board slightly splayed foxing to edges of text block and endpapers spine somewhat toned but interior remains wonderfully bright. Overall very good and housed in orange slipcase which shows shelf-toning. Mardersteig 7. Officina Bodoni unknown
Bookseller reference : 28314
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Hatch Sandra L. {editor and Layout Design}
Easy Denim Quilting 10 Quick And Easy Denim Projects
House of White Birches 1996-01-01. Paperback . VeryGood. Clean text solid binding. House of White Birches paperback
Bookseller reference : mon0000154242
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Rhode Island School of Design
Patterns and Poetry : No Robes from the Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection
Very Good. Used book in very good condition. Some cover wear may contain a few marks. Ex-library with the usual stamps. 100% guaranteed. 062420 unknown
Bookseller reference : 091151760X[vg] ISBN : 091151760X 9780911517606
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Woolman John
A Journal of the Life and Services of John Woolman
London: Essex House Press 1901. Savage Reginald. 16mo. 400pp. One of 250 copies printed under the care of C.R. Ashbee. With a wood-engraved pictorial frontispiece by Reginald Savage and numerous initials surrounded by flowers called "pinks" designed by Ashbee. Woolman an eighteenth-century New Jersey Quaker advocated the simple and unostentatious life and preached against slavery. Ashbee thought of him as "the first Socialist of the age of Industrialism." A stout little book in a uniform format with Ashbee's John Bunyan and his William Penn which three books Ashbee referred to as "a series of dumpy little Puritans." Very slight wrinkles to spine ends else a fine unopened copy in full vellum with yapp fore-edge and title printed on spine. Ashbee p. 59; Ransom 18; Crawford C.R. Ashbee Yale 1985 pp. 382-3 and plate 190. Essex House Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 28297
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