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1970ref. 22784Santa Fe: Ancient City Press 1970. Paperback. 46p.5.5x8.5 inches preface introduction map illustrations selected bibliography very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Ancient City Press paperback books
1984ref. 156031Lewiston ID: Blue Moon and Confluence Press 1984. Paperback. 119p. frontis illustration illustrated with drawings gift inscription otherwise very good first trade paper edition in pictorial wraps. 1984 Western States Book Award winner in short fiction. Blue Moon and Confluence Press paperback books
1970ref. 303807Santa Fe: Ancient City Press 1970. Paperback. 46p.5.5x8.5 inches preface introduction map illustrations selected bibliography. A variant printing judging from the bright white paper used for the cover perhaps later printing with ISBN listed on the lower right corner of the rear panel. Very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Ancient City Press paperback books
1970ref. 232973Santa Fe: Ancient City Press 1970. Paperback. 46p.5.5x8.5 inches preface introduction map illustrations selected bibliography very good first printing booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Ancient City Press paperback books
1982ref. 203823New York: Art Direction Book Co 1982. Hardcover. xiv 96p. illustrations personal inscription to poet/activist George Oppen signed by Haberman light foxing on covers and slightly heavier foxing on jacket otherwise a very good first edition in cloth and unclipped dj. George Oppen the inscribee was a poet who was influential in getting Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams published. He was also a member of the Communist Party USA was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge fled the US to Mexico in the 1950s to avoid being called before HUAC and upon his return to California won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969. He died in 1984. Art Direction Book Co hardcover books
1976ref. 42138Las Vegas: Nevada Publications 1976. First printing. Hardcover. vg. 1/200. Folio 12 1/4 x 9 1/4". 63 17pp. Original gilt-stamped grey cloth with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Limitation page signed by both the author and the artist. Original etched frontispiece hand-numbered 74/190 and signed by Roy E. Purcell. Illustrated title page. Book housed in its original gilt-stamped brown cloth slipcase. "The Cerbat Mountains and other barren ranges in western Arizona along the Colorado River offer to the inquisitive visitor a wide range of unexpected experiences. Tucked away in several canyons are the skeletal remains of abandoned mines and towns. Delight in making friends with these desert ghosts awaits the traveler who can discriminate between solitude and loneliness. Illustrated with stunning color illustrations and etchings by Roy E. Purcell as well as numerous "period photographs of the families who lived in this isolated area the small towns with their general stores and saloons and the men who endured the daily drudgery of mine work this book serves as a reminder of the hardships faced by those seeking a living in this remote western area of our country in the late 19th century." From the Publishers. Minor shelf-wear to slipcase. Slipcase binding and interior in very good condition. Nevada Publications hardcover books
1977ref. 59363Durham: The Friends of Duke University Library 1977. First Edition. One of 300 numbered copies of which 250 are for public sale specially bound and signed by the author and illustrator this being copy no.92. Octavo 23.75cm; red cloth with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; 46pp; illus. A Fine copy with the original prospectus laid in. The Friends of Duke University Library unknown books
1969ref. 50314London: Trigram Press Ltd 1969. First edition. Softcover. Very good. Small square quarto 10". 451pp. Lettered cream wrappers head & foot of front hinge rubbed. Illustrated with photographs some nudity on rectos and mostly erotic etchings on rectos. Trigram Press Ltd unknown books
2000ref. 55192Rochester New York: The Black Bird Press 2000. First limited edition. Hardcover. Very good to fine condition. 29/100. 30 6pp. Original gray cloth with black lettering on cover with small drawings on covers housed in same color slipcase. Half-title with drawing and black and blind-stamped lettering. Signed by poet and artist hand-numbered on colophon. Contains thirty poems and is illustrated with three full page etchings one sepia toned initialed by artist. Designed and produced by The Black Bird Press with text hand set in 18 point Centaur and Arrige with titles in Goudy Old Style on Rives BFK paper. Etchings and type are printed by the artist. The edition is numbered one through one hundred. An additional ten copies numbered I through X contain an original graphite drawing. All copies are hand sewn and bound at Olde Ridge Bookbindery Rochester N.Y. Slipcase with very light wear book in fine condition. The Black Bird Press hardcover books
1925ref. 9013300Paris: Le Groupy 1925. paperback. Very good condition. One of 575 numbered soft cover copies loose bound with an original etching on the front cover stamped in black and red. Chips and closed tears to the extremities of the wrapper. Interior is clean. Le Groupy paperback books
1976ref. 35487Lincoln MA: Penmaen Press 1976. Fine. Lincoln MA: Penmaen Press 1976. First Edition Limited to 300 copies of which this is no. 237. Slim octavo 24cm; original two-toned cloth printed in silver foil; 45pp.; full-page etchings. Just About Fine condition. Signed by Ginsberg and Eberhart on colophon in rear of volume. Title page continues "An explanation by Allen Ginsberg of his publication Howl and Richard Eberthart's New York Times article 'West Coast Rhythms' together with comments by both poets and relief etching by Jerome Kaplan." Typographic design by Michael McCurdy and binding by Robert Burlen & Son from a design by Robert Hauser. Penmaen Press unknown books
1977ref. 71157Chatham NY: Sagarin Press 1977. Limited edition signed and hand-numbered #155 of 200 copies. Hardcover. Near Fine. Signed by the author and the illustrator in ink on the colophon. 48 pp. Quarto 27 cm; full tan colored cloth with title blind stamped on the front board and printed in brown on the spine. Forest green endpapers. No dust jacket as issued. Only hints of shelfwear and the boards are very subtly bowed at their fore-edges. A nice copy. With the signed and numbered etching by Brauer titled "Offering" and tissue guard laid-in at the front. Four etchings printed and bound within the text by Bauer alongside the twenty-four poems by Fox. The colophon reads: "This is the special limited edition of The Juggler by Siv Cedering Fox. It is printed on 70 lb. Mohawk Soft White Superfine text paper and set in Optima type. Printed at the Studley Press and bound by hand at the Bridgeport National Bindery. This edition is limited to 200 copies of which this is #155 hand-numbered Siv Cedering Fox signed Bill Brauer signed. Sagarin Press hardcover books
1883ref. 44485Paris: E. Plon et Cie 1883. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Folio 14 3/4 x 11 1/4". 8 414 2pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Later 3/4 brown cloth over marbled paper covered boards with gold-lettered title label to spine. Original wrappers bound in. Front cover and title page in red and black lettering. Frontispiece. Monumental monograph on the life and work of Benvenuto Cellini 1500-1571 the renown Italian goldsmith sculptor and draftsman of the Renaissance. Cellini is one of the most important artists of Mannerism and is remembered for his skill in making pieces such as the Cellini Salt Cellar and Perseus with the Head of Medusa both reproduced in this book. This work is splendidly illustrated throughout with 16 eaux-fortes by Paul le Rat one by Baudran 25 heliogravures by Dujardin 4 by Lemercier 40 b/w illustrations by Kreutzberger and 2 woodcuts by Peulot. Some fraying and moderate abrasion to tail of spine. Minor foxing to very first leaves. Fore-edge of pages 321 to 348 slightly and partly water-stained not affecting text or illustrations. Plate 61 detached but present. Text in French. Binding in overall good interior in good to very good condition. E. Plon et Cie hardcover books
1988ref. 007027New York: The Limited Editions Club 1988. Limited Edition. Quarter Morocco. Cloth buckram boards and slipcase. Fine. No. 411 of 850 copies signed by Welliver on limitation page. 4to. 33.5 by 24 cm. xiii 93 3 pp. Two color plates with many blank leaves beginning by plates rear. A beautiful production by LEC with text paper made at Cartiere Enrico Magnani in Pescia Italy and the etchings printed on Arches paper by Peter Pettengill and by Paul and Clary Taylor in Hinsdale New Hampshire. Other than the subtlest hint of sunning to the green leather of the spine the copy is pristine. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
1899ref. 49449Philadelphia: The Walpole Press 1899. Grand Edition De Luxe. Hardcover. Very good condition. 7/1000. Octavo. 365pp. 10 plates in two states with printed tissue guards. Three-quarter red leather over red cloth with gilt ruling on covers gilt lettering on spine; raised bands. Top edge gilt. Decorative endpapers. Frontispiece in two states with tissue guards. Title page printed in red and black Beautiful publication of this novel by Alphonse Daudet 1840-1897. Delightfully illustrated with reproductions of etchings by Eugene Abot and Albert Duvivier as well as b/w reproductions of drawings by Stanislas Rejchan. Engravings in two states protected by captioned tissue guards. This edition printed on Japanese vellum paper. Some scuffing along edges of binding. Ex-libris of Seymour Nebenzal on inside of front cover. Block lightly age-toned. The Walpole Press hardcover books
1976ref. 50105Lincoln MA: Penmaen Press 1976. Fine/Very Good Condition. Lincoln MA: Penmaen Press 1976. First Trade Edition. Slim octavo 23cm; publisher's cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; 45pp.; two full-paged etchings. Light edge wear to jacket margins else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. Inscribed by both authors though only signed by Eberhart to the late collector and bookseller Burt Britton on half title page: "For Burt Britton / from the Author with best wishes for his tranquility & prosperity / January 4 1979" and "For Burt too and with all best wishes Richard Eberhart / January 30 1979." Title page continues "An explanation by Allen Ginsberg of his publication Howl and Richard Eberthart's New York Times article 'West Coast Rhythms' together with comments by both poets and relief etching by Jerome Kaplan." . Penmaen Press unknown books
1896ref. 013618Edinburgh: T.C. and E. C. Jack 1896. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. The Centenary Burns four volumes 8vo tan cloth decorated in gilt in the MacKintosh/ Art Nouveau style volumes 1 and 2 published 1896 3 and 4 in 1897 gte sides untrimmed each in near fine condition. Set owned by Victorian author Ella Napier Lefroy 1854-1919 with her bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume. A Glasgow native and eldest daughter of merchant and politician Alexander Hastie of Luscar in 1873 she married Thomas Charles Perceval Lefroy an Irish businessman who worked for the brewers Guinness and Bass. The couple lived in London and had four children. In the 1890s Lefroy wrote two novels - "A Scots Thistle" 2 vols. London: Bentley 1892 and "Janet Delille" 2 vols. London: Hurst and Blackett 1894 under the pseudonym "E. N. Leigh Fry." Thereafter it appears she gave up literature. Her husband died in 1893 which may have influenced her decision. T.C. and E. C. Jack hardcover books
1922ref. 56032Berlin: Eigenbrödlerverlag GmbH 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Very good to fine condition. 83/100. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original cream-colored pigskin with gilt embossed decor of covers gilt lettering on black leather label and gilt decor on spine; raised bands. Top edge gilt. Cream ribbon marker. Heavy decorative endpapers. Title page printed in blue and black. Signed "Münchhausen" and Kolb" on limitation page. Includes seven etchings with tissue guards all signed by the artist. Story of the legendary horse Bayard in medieval tales of knights. Text in German Gothic script. Binding with light wear along edges and minor scuffs and very light staining of covers. Eigenbrödlerverlag GmbH hardcover books
1819ref. 001587London: J. Bumpus 1819. Very Good. 8vo. xvii 384 pp. With nine of ten hand colored aquatint plates. Since there is no evidence in the form of offsetting of the missing plate it may never have been bound into this particular copy. Notwithstanding its omission the scarcity of this work of English caricature and illustration from Regency England make this a desirable copy. Prideaux 348. Small repair to the top of one plate a tiny chip on another and and a few text pages with a repair. Heavy offsetting onto text pages of plates. Otherwise internally quite clean. Attractively bound in three quarter red morocco. J. Bumpus unknown books
1926ref. 44185Paris: Éditions de l'Intermédiaire du Bibliophile 1926. Limited edition. Softcover. vg. 1/705. Quarto 9 x 7". 220 4pp. Uncut and unopened. Original glassine over printed dust-jacket and blind wrappers. Tissue-guarded etched frontispiece in two states. Publisher's device on title page. "Le Spleen de Paris" is a collection of 50 short prose poems by Charles Baudelaire the iconic author of "Les Fleurs du Mal" The Flowers of Evil. The collection was published posthumously in 1869 and is associated with the modernist literary movement. This limited edition is splendidly illustrated throughout with 10 tissue-guarded etchings by Édouard Chimot. One of 705 numbered copies of which this is No. 622. Some age-toning to glassine. Text in French. Dust-jacket wrappers and interior in very good condition. Éditions de l'Intermédiaire du Bibliophile unknown books
2000ref. 60889Knight Library Press; University of Oregon 2000. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Thin folio 33 cm Designed printed and bound by Sandy Tilcock. Printed letterpress on Heine paper. The etchings are hand-colored by the artist. Calligraphic title headings and ornaments by Marilyn Reaves. The cover was made by laminating two handmade papers: Moulin de Larroque's Brown and Twinrocker's Mica Rose. Binding tied together with a leather strap. With the instructions for the "Tying of Strap" laid in. Number 56 in an edition of 125 numbered copies. Signed by Barry Lopez and Robin Escher on the limitation page. Knight Library Press; University of Oregon unknown books
1980ref. 36982Paris: A Parole Donnee 1980. Fine/Fine. Paris: "A Parole Donnée" 1980. First Edition Limited to 60 copies of which this is no. 15. Small square quarto 17cm; loose as issued in original green printed dust jacket housed in tan cloth chemise and slipcase; 20pp.; two leaves of color etchings signed with limitation by the Japanese printmaker Hiroshi Asada. A Fine example. Additionally signed by the poet and artist on colophon in rear. The sixth volume in Bohbot's "A Parole Donnée" series. No copies in OCLC as of October 2025. A Parole Donnee unknown books
1912ref. 52175Essen Germany: Krupp A. G. 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Inscribed to "Max von . in friendship Krupp Bohlen Halbach Herbst 1912" on front free endpaper. Folio. 416 2pp. 4 plates 2 foldouts. Original ochre cloth with brown lettering and publisher's device on cover brown lettering and ruling on spine. Black edges. Title page with publisher's device. Green ribbon marker. Head and endpieces with drawings and woodcuts by Robert Engels and C. Thiemann throughout depicting factories factory grounds and company products of the manufacturer. Three full page etchings of Alfred Krupp and one of Friedrich Alfred Krupp by W. Conz. Contains twofold color lithograph of the cast steel factory and a twofold color lithograph with plans of Krupp factories from different years in pocket at rear. Text in German. Light water-staining along bottom of front cover and spine. Imprint at rear with light foxing at top near spine and some water stains at bottom of back free endpapers. Krupp A. G. hardcover books
1978ref. 36983Paris: A Parole Donnee 1978. Fine/Fine. Paris: "A Parole Donnée" 1978. First Edition Limited to 60 copies of which this is no. 39. Small square quarto 16.5cm; loose as issued in green printed dust jacket housed in original black cloth chemise and slipcase; 20pp.; three color etchings signed with limitation by the artist. Light fraying to slipcase else a Fine example. Additionally signed by the poet and artist on colophon in rear. Issued as the seventh volume in the poet's "A Parole Donnée" series. Not in OCLC as of October 2025. A Parole Donnee unknown books
1905ref. 40530Bedford Park Chiswick: The Caradoc Press 1905. Limited edition. Hardcover. g to vg. 1/350. Large octavo. 14 155 1pp. Striking contemporary gilt-ruled full calf with gold decoration and lettering to spine. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. Dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Izaac Walton. Title page in red and black lettering. Decorative initials and tailpieces. This splendid limited edition of Walton's masterpiece "The Compleat Angler" is the exact reprint of the first edition published in 1653. It is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse. Walton's frontispiece portrait as well as the decorative initials and ornaments were designed and engraved by Harry George Webb a recognized artist of the time. One of 350 unnumbered copies on paper out of a total edition of 364. Binding rubbed along joints with head of spine slightly chipped. Binding in overall good interior in very good condition. The Caradoc Press hardcover books
