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1978WRCLIT67484Guildford: The Circle Press 1978. Folio. Cloth. Fine in very good modestly smudged slipcase. Second Circle edition though first in this format. One of 250 numbered copies in series III of XX series initialed by the artist with a separate poem by Kevin Power in an inserted folder accompanied by a loose print initialed by King. The Circle Press hardcover books
1958WN31510Cleveland: The World Publishing Company 1958. A facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer with the original 87 illlustrations by Edward Burne-Jones. Introduction by John T. Winterich with a glossary for the modern reader. Pigskin like leatherette binding with gilt spine lettering with blindstamping. Slight splitting of upper hinge. Unpriceclipped dust jacket has some soiling and rubbing. A stunning work. Extra postage will be due if mailed due to size and weight. Kelmscott Chaucer. Leatherette. Very Good/Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Facsimile. The World Publishing Company Hardcover books
1939285250San Francisco California: Black Vine Press 1939. Limited Edition. Quarter Leather. The first book of the Black Vine Press. It has been said that the publisher destroyed most copies see David McGee Fine Printing and Bookbinding from San Francisco p. 27. Printed in black and red by Lawton R. Kennedy Harold N. Seeger and Albert A. Spierson. In calf-backed paper-covered boards stamped in bline. Lacking the slipcase. [Black Vine Press] unknown books
1902285174New York: Grafton Press 1902. Limited Edition. No. 29 of "one hundred and one rubricated~copies on Whatman paper". Printed by Theodore L. DeVinne & Co. With "The Noones Preestes Tale" glossary laid in. With engraved frontispiece portrait and woodcuts throughout. 64 pp. in paper vellum binding. Grafton Press unknown books
195874613NY:: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1958. Hardcover. 0690185618 . Adapted from The Canterbury Tales. The 1959 Caldecott Medal Winner. A later printing. INSCRIBED by Barbara Cooney. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Thomas Y. Crowell Company, hardcover books
1960UMACPAR00EFRandom House 1960. Very Good. Macdonald Dwight editor. Parodies: An Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm - and After. Chaucer Geoffrey; Beerbohm Max. New York: Random House 1960. 574pp. Indexed. 8vo. Navy cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed and bumped edges. Light stains on text edges. Former owner's name on front free endsheet. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with faintly faded spine. Edges are lightly rubbed bumped creased and chipped. Price clipped. Random House hardcover books
193459832NY:: Covici-Friede. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1934. Hardcover. Rendered into Modern English by J. U. Nicolson. Introduction by Gordon Hall Gerould. First edition thus. Brief gift inscription on front free endpaper else very good in a very good minor shelf wear with a few small chips dust jacket. ; 627 pages . Covici-Friede, hardcover books
19293589Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1929. First edition. One of 375 sets this being number 224 on Batchelor's Kelmscott handmade paper out of a total edition of 386 copies. Eight folio volumes 267 x 184 mm. Handsomely bound ca. 1940 in full blue crushed levant morocco by Bayntun Rivière. Covers ruled in gilt spines with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments decorative gilt board edges gilt ruled turn- ins marbled liners and endpapers all edges gilt. Spines uniformly faded. Calligraphic half-titles title-pages and contents pages in red and black by Joscelyne V. Gaskin. Paragraph marks in red and blue first initial in gold other initials and sections headings printed in blue after designs by Gaskin some shoulder notes printed in blue occasional text printed in red and blue. Seventy hand-colored woodcut illustrations and twenty hand-colored woodcut diagrams. "A very handsome and attractive set of this fine edition.<br/><br/>A beautiful example of Chaucer's works. The figures of the Canterbury Pilgrims were freely drawn from the Ellesmere manuscript now in the Huntington Library by Hugh Chesterman. The miniatures in The Romaunt of the Rose were redrawn by Lynton H. Lamb from a fourteenth-century French manuscript MS. Egerton 881 at the British Museum. Other manuscripts from the Bodleian Library and Cambridge University were used for the illustrations to The Compleynte of Mars and A Treatise on the Astrolabe as well as for two portraits of Chaucer. Woodcuts from Richard Pynson's 1526 three-volume edition of Chaucer were redrawn by Lynton H. Lamb to illustrate A Parlement of Foules Troilus and Criseyde The House of Fame and The Legende of Good Women and woodcuts from Vincent's early sixteenth-century Lyon edition of Boethius were adapted for De consolacione philosophie.<br/><br/>Franklin 150 235. Ransom 16 no. 60. Basil Blackwell unknown books
1984276557Manchester Center Vermont: Press of Elfriede Abbe 1984. Printed by Elfriede Martha Abbe --sculptor wood engraver and illustrator -- at her press in Manchester Center. One of 180 copies signed by Elfriede Abbe of which this is #76. In black cloth with a gold decorative stamp backed in gold silk with a foil label to the spine. Illustrated throughout with woodcut illustrations and additional decorative elements in gold black and grey. With prospectus laid in as well as Elfriede Abbe's curriculum vitae. A sumptuous production. Press of Elfriede Abbe unknown books
195853442Cleveland: World Publishing 1958. First printing thus. Large quarto 33cm. Embossed cloth-covered boards lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xxi554pp. Tight Near Fine copy in a somewhat soiled but otherwise well-preserved dustwrapper Very Good. <br/><br/>A quite nice copy of this rather dead-feeling photographic facsimile of Morris's magnum opus about as close to the real thing as reading about music is to music. World Publishing unknown books
