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2018Best.-Nr. ABE-1675259210036Strange Attractor Press London 2018 This is a truly odd listing. It is easy to understand at one level. It has a powerful impact. It will set you thinking. It is also a truly original take on an historical theme. Ian Johnstone worked on this odd and fascinating collection. It is VERY odd; it is possibly unique. The wounds all twenty three of them were inspired by this artist's conception of how each stab was wielded and delivered upon Julius Caesar. An attempt to describe it sounds pretentious but with this strange book in your hands you can look and share something of this odd vision. Each was produced on - I believe - white melamine. The wounds are rendered in red pigment or ink. One of them is featured on the shiny white cover. It is an image inset into a blind stamped shape. The images inside are all in keeping with the cover and one can speculate; is this Brutus's mark And can that be yon Cassius's lean and hungry blade Was this how each wound appeared upon the toga of JC Speculate as you wish and contemplate them in whatever order you like. They are all worth a look and you will have seen nothing so strange before. And there are some photographs of the artist at the back by Kerry and Daniel O'Sullivan. Geoff Cox and Serena Korda have written the text. This is hard to describe and easy to look at. It is wondrous strange. It is peculiar.On the back cover it says '23 hawk beaks 23 fragments of a skull 23 curses hung round the neck of a scavenger.' And there are only 300 copies in the whole wide world of this book and it might be a masterpiece. It is not signed or numbered but the publisher insists only 300 copies exist. There is also a cassette of special music. YES! A cassette. The loose prints are ready to frame and the whole package is something very special indeed. Limited Edition. Hardcover. New. Strange Attractor Press London hardcover
1991Best.-Nr. ABE-1570552858889Wakefield The Fleece Press England 1991 Wakefield: Fleece Press 1991. First printing of this edition. 156 pp w/index. Horizontal 8vo. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Robin Myers and wood-engraved illustrations by John Lawrence. One of 250 copies un-numbered. Each copy has a signed print by Lawrence in a rear pocket. The sturdy slipcase is near fine with evidence of a common problem; tiny threads are teasing along the edges. This seems common with all copies I have seen. An attractive example of this small press. The original prospectus is loose laid in the front. Signed by Illustrator. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Wakefield, The Fleece Press, England hardcover
1989Best.-Nr. ABE-1492682002481Garton London 1989 Very scarce and brilliant catalogue. Sixty Four prints brilliantly reproduced. Stiff card covers. Much sought after. Former owner blind stamp to introduction page. Enclosure with price list. Language: eng. Soft cover. Fine. Garton London paperback
2000Best.-Nr. ABE-1485691619800W. W. Norton & Co. 2000 An autographed slip of paper by Iris Murdoch has been mounted on the title page. This story was published after her death in this charming edition illustrated by McCurdy's wood engravings. A handsome two colour binding a protected unclipped jacket. Language: eng. Illus. by Michael McCurdy. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. W. W. Norton & Co. hardcover
1981Best.-Nr. ABE-11095721627Gryphon Press Sussex 1981 SIGNED by the author and dated February 1995. This is an unread first printing of an elegant non standard landscape format by this superb small press book. Beautiful marriage of word and image lyrical poetry complemented by the engravings of Nicholas Perry. As new privately printed a first rate collectable. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Soft cover. As New/As New. Gryphon Press, Sussex paperback
1971Best.-Nr. ABE-10683366153Barre Publishers Massachusetts 1971 Barre Publishers 1971. Hardcover limited and slipcased signed by Michael McCurdy. The illustrations are printed from the original wood blocks. In a sturdy slip case. Signed by the artist limited to 1000 copies of which this is number 49. A beautiful small press production on 100% rag hand made paper. Slight scuffing on the leather spine edges at top and bottom. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. Signed by Illustrator. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Barre Publishers Massachusetts hardcover
1826Best.-Nr. ABE-90785021091826 Faust was Goethe's most celebrated creation with international editions in his lifetime and subsequently in films and books across the world with translations in most languages. This is a complete set of the 26 engravings Moritz Retzsh produced as an illustration of Goethe's text; the book has no words in it not even a publisher or date. What it does have is a fabulous set of the original plate pulls complete with plate marks. Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch was a German painter draughtsman and etcher; much celebrated in his day. This is in a way a fine example of what would now called a graphic novel. The 26 etched pictures tell the story and words are not needed. In Germany there were many such books without words and this one in particular influenced the English Pre Raphaelites. This volume is in its original binding with a very fragile leather spine which turns around to the original marbled cover boards which are also in a fragile state. There is no title page or date and no publishing house is mentioned. The corners are leather also and the spine has five subtly raised bands and no title. A much poorer copy of this was featured in the exhibition of Pre Raphaelites at Tate Britain. My copy is considerably better but it is by no means a fine one. It has been used and looked at probably a great deal over the last 200 years or so. The leather is very worn the marbled cover boards are patinated and there is a mixture of hand written names and an inscription on the front end paper. It is very rare in any state at all because it was easily broken up so the plates could be framed. This is I must stress a complete bound full set and as such it is very rare indeed. The earlier of the two dated inscriptions states 1826; but it cannot be viewed as an accurate issue date. An edition exists which has a German title page and text but this is not one of those. It's a bit of a mystery. The exhibited copy in the Tate exhibition was inspected by me I knew one of the curators and it was also without any text. International Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 112903London: Victor Gollancz 1936 1st edition. Cloth 142pp. Very good plus. Terracotta boards with gilt lettering to spine. Small sticker on front end-paper otherwise near fine. Victor Gollancz Hardcover
1785Best.-Nr. 000633London: Harrison & Co. 1785. Old Calf. Good Plus. 8.5" x 5.25. Stothard Thomas. London: Harrison & Co. 1785. Illustrated with 14 copper-engraved plates after Stothard. Vol 1. only which includes: Johnson Samuel. The Rambler 4 vols. in 1. bound with: Lyttleton George Lord. Letters from a Persian in England to his Friend at Ispahan. 1 vii 463 81 pp. Old calf 8v0 8.5" x 5.25". Joints weak with later three gilt incuse compartments added over spine edgewear; internally quite clean with lovely fine Thomas Stothard plates. L-40n Harrison & Co. unknown
1887Best.-Nr. 26512London: Macmillan 1887. People's Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrations by John Tenniel. Duodecimo 208 pages pictorial green cloth edges of spine rubbed; unusual publisher's monogram on rear cover The rear advertisements state fifty-eight thousandth printing for TTL. Macmillan hardcover
1973Best.-Nr. mon0003130728Dover Publications Inc. New yor 1973-01-01. Perfect Paperback. Very Good. 0.7000 10.8000 8.2000. Dover Publications, Inc. New yor paperback
1965Best.-Nr. 9900038062Kansas City MO: Excalibur Press 1965. Hardcover. etchings. Unpaginated. Large 4to. Small rubber stamp of Carnegie Public Library to copyright page and evidence of pocket removal from rear free endpaper. Slight trace of accession number to base of spine. No other such markings. Contents clean and tight. Corners of boards bumped. Slight wear to edges of boards. Else in good plus to very good condition. Each plate numbered and signed by the artist with limitation of 50 noted in pencil. This book is one of only 50 copies produced. The text was set in Bulmer and printed on a Chandler and Price hand press on Rives lightweight; etchings are intaglio: inked wiped and printed by hand on a Charles Brand etcher's press using dampened Rives heavyweight. Binding is sewn on cords and covered with Fabriano and raw linen. Headbands hand-sewn. Printed and bound by Louise A. Moss Excalibur Press in 1965. Excalibur Press hardcover
2014Best.-Nr. 9791Burke VT: Plowboy Press 2014. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Octavo. 8 52 4 pp. illus. Limited edition one of 100 numbered copies. Signed by Shipley Simpson and the printer Andrew Miller-Brown. As issued in linen over boards printed in black and red with an illustration by Miller-Brown. A fine copy. A beautiful collection by Shipley whose prose and poetry attempt to reconcile the farming life with the writing life. This book was selected as a Boston Globe Best New England Book of 2014. Tom Slayton editor-emeritus of Vermont Life Magazine writes: "Words and work are melded in a series of essays that are brief captivating and profound with references that range from Japanese Haiku to Seamus Heaney and from summertime haying to mid-winter manure piles." And he calls Shipley "one of Vermont's very best emerging writers. Plowboy Press unknown
1970Best.-Nr. 0512086Associated American Artists NY 1970. Text printed in France by Pierre Jean Mathan. Etchings printed by Atelier George's Leblanc. Sandburgs poems have been illustrated with seven original copper plate etchings by Gregory Masurovsky. The book is number 127 of a Signed and numbered edition of 150. In addition each of the etchings has been numbered and signed by the artist in pencil. The book/portfolio is fine and housed as issued in a fine slipcase. Associated American Artists hardcover
Best.-Nr. 111926The Golden Cockerel Press London 1945. . 8vo 109pp black and white illustrations top edge gilt. A good hardback copy in marbled cloth with cream cloth spine. Covers rubbed corners lightly bumped. Edges foxed. . Number 225 in a limited edition of 500 copies. . The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1945. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1798736608.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Best.-Nr. 1853268631.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2011Best.-Nr. 47394Berkshire: Memminger Medien Center for the Folio Sociaty 2011. Facsimile edition after the original. Hardcover. Fine condition. 477/1250. Folio. 309 2 48pp. Original black goatskin with gilt stamped illustrations and lettering on cover and spine gilt edges with companion book in black half leather over dark blue boards with black lettering on cream paper label on cover; housed in matching black cloth slipcase with gilt lettering on spine. Dark blue endpapers. Illustrated title page. Red initials. Historiated endpieces. Black ribbon marker. Companion volume with frontispiece photograph of Eric Gill by Howard Coster 1927. Exquisite publication and beautifully illustrated in margins with large drawings by Eric Gill. These drawing were perceived by the public as erotic. Modern prose translation of Chaucer's masterpiece printed on Rigoletto Panna felt-merked paper. "Troilus and Criseyde was originally printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press in 1926-7 using the text from the Globe edition of 1898. This facsimile edition was printed in 2011 by Memminger MedienCentrum for the Folio Society on Rigoletto Panna felt-marked paper and bound by G. Lachenmaier in full goatskin leather with Merida Indigo endleaves. Colophon. The companion volume "Barry Windeatt's essay on Troilus and Criseyde was first published as an introduction to his translation of the poem published by the Clarendon Press in 1992. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press. The text of this edition follows that of the first edition with minor emendations. " Imprint. Contains notes at rear. Memminger Medien Center for the Folio Sociaty hardcover
Best.-Nr. 93656N.D. Non-Book. Very Good with no dust jacket; Framed Civil War Print Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest. Signed by John Warr. 9 1/2" across and 9 1/2" high Framed. Print is 5 3/4" by 5 3/4". Good condition; Prints . unknown
1989Best.-Nr. 327176San Francisco: North Point Press 1989. 56p. illustrated signed by Berry on the title page first trade edition hardcover bound in decorative boards and green quarter-cloth slight toning to top quarter of the boards otherwise in very good condition. Originally published in a limited edition of 150 copies by the Press of Appletree Alley. North Point Press unknown
1991Best.-Nr. 909001991. Non-Book. Very Good with no dust jacket; Framed Civil War Print Hanging Out Till The Smoke Clears. Signed by John Warr. Print is 5" high and 8 1/2" across Frame is 13" across and 9" high. Very good condition. ; Prints . unknown
1760Best.-Nr. 047298Tubingen Germany: Johann Ulrich Cotta 1760. In German. Two thick volumes first and second parts both title pages dated 1760. Volume I has been professionally rebound in the same style as the second. Extensively illustrated with full page and folding engravings including folding tables and maps frontis portraits of the emperor and eagle engraving on title pages. Full mottled leather with newer gilt and dark green spine labels raised spine bands all edges tinted red original marbled endpapers with additional new endpapers in first part. Part I is 1000 pages and is very good with faint dampstains to the lower corners of pages 993-1000 very minor worming to the bottom of one folding table short closed tear to one map. Part II has some edgewear and small area of worming to the outer edge of the front cover 28 1024 pages margins of two folding maps trimmed a little closely. Overall quite a nice set sturdy bindings good to very good throughout. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Johann Ulrich Cotta Hardcover
1805Best.-Nr. 046033New York: John Low 1805. Please read complete description. Scarce single plate volume XXI for Low's encyclopedia first such reference published in the United States in seven volumes from 1805 to 1811. Heavily worn volume containing 46 plates original total unknown numbered by section not consecutively with the following subjects: Scenography incorrectly identified as stenography on front cover; Sculpture; Shadow; Ships; Short Hand; Silk Manufactures; Steam Engine; Stereotomy; Stocking Frame; Stone Henge; Sugar Mill; Surgery. Paper covered boards with remains of leather spine two blanks at front and at rear about 10.75 x 8.5 inches. Covers heavily worn and detached spine chipping away blanks and final plate detached paper very age-browned and somewhat brittle especially nearest the edges some stray spots closed tear to one of the Steam Engines plates another plate with repair to reverse side generally very worn. . Hard Cover. Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Low Hardcover
Best.-Nr. 009824England 1808: Alnwick Printed By W. Davison Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. Later Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 1 preliminary leaf illustrated title page ix-xxvi pages 1 leaf 29-198 pages 1 leaf including plates frontispiece. Bound in contemporary pebbled calf covers with central floral decoratios in gilt surrounded by decoratibve gilt border and two rules back gilt marbled end papers all edges gilt. Very Good Plus back gilt dulled and sunned light wear at spine ends and corners. Some of the illustrations toward the back are thought to be by Bewick. Alnwick, Printed By W. Davison Hardcover
1969Best.-Nr. 009593San Francisco: Kayak Press 1969. Book. Very Good Plus. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR at front end page. His 2nd book. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Very Good Plus bottom corner crease rear wrapper spine and half of rear wrapper evenly browned. Kayak Press Paperback
