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1166792021.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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1120596653.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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18930006882London & Boston: Elkin Mathews / Copeland & Day 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo decorated boards October 1893 Elkin Mathews catalogue at rear tips of spine chipped rebacked with original spine laid down top board bumped front endpaper reattached with archival tape. Ex libris Francis Wilson famed actor and bibliophile. Scarce <br/><br/>One of only 500 copies of the first printing of Thompson's first book. Kraus 5 . " Robert Frost took a book off the shelf in the front sitting room and said 'You should have this.' It was the copy of Francis Thompson's POEMS to which Robert made frequent reference over the years in his readings and lectures - Jack Hagstrom in the Dartmouth College Library Bulletin April l1996." Thompson was a lauded poet clearly with the distinction too of being a nominee as Jack The Ripper ! Co-published by Copeland & Day in its first year of operation. Frontispiece and cover design by Laurence Housman. Elkin Mathews / Copeland & Day hardcover
015681Kalamazoo Michigan: Rarach Press 1989. Hardcover. Fine. No. 30 of 38 copies signed by the artist/publisher Ladislav Hanka. In a multi-textured binding by Jan Sobota stamp-signed on rear doublure covers of sueded calfskin printed with original etchings flat spine of brown catfish leather turn-ins and headbands covered in eel skin beige pigskin doublures covered with original etchings leather hinges. In an encapsulated pigskin slipcase covered with etchings beige linen pull-off spine with brown morocco label. With 16 etchings of flora and fauna by Ladislav Hanka. 333 x 248 mm. 13 1/8 x 9 3/4''. A fine copy. This is a handsomely-produced book arts collaboration celebrating the natural beauty of Kalamazoo County Michigan featuring a memorable binding by Czech master binder Jan Sobota. After studying with Karel Silinger in Pilsen and at the School for Applied Arts in Prague and then working in Switzerland Sobota came to the United States where hespend 15 years mostly working at Southern Methodist University. He returned to Loket Czech Republic in 1997 where he founded the Sobota family bookbinding studio and helped to organize the Society of Czech Bookbinders becoming its first president. He has won numerous awareds for his innovative and often whimsical work which has been exhibited worldwide. The present volume is equal parts inventiveness and elegance. Book artist and publisher Ladislav Hanka b. 1952 earned degrees in biology and zoology before receiving his MFA in printmaking and his background in the natural sciences obviously infuses his art which focuses on the flora and fauna of forest and lakes. This volume's collection of prose and poetry inspired by the natural landscape is enhanced by Hanka's dramatic etchings of twisted bare-limbed trees fossils and insects. The letterpress work was done by Amy Bollinger on heavy handmade paper. Rarach Press hardcover
55699Prague: B. Å meral Odeon and Knihtiskárna "Orbis" 1936. Octavo 23.7 × 16 cm. Original red paper wrappers over blind card boards with gray printed label to upper left corner; 71 4 pp. Five full-page illustrations by Toyen Å tyrský Hoffmeister Bidlo and Pelc. In the original red paper-covered slipcase. Signed throughout by all authors and artists. Red wrapper somewhat creased over front board; trace of plastic protective wrapper inside front and rear boards; Very good. First and only edition of this striking "anti-fascist" anthology of poems essays music and art "published for the benefit of the anti-fascist struggle" in Spain by BohumÃr Å meral and sold in commission by Odeon. Å meral 1880-1941 was a leading Czech communist politician a co-founder of the Czechoslovak Communist Party and later advisor to Stalin. The book contains poems by Konstantin Biebl FrantiÅ¡ek Halas JindÅ™ich HoÅ™ejšà Helena MalÃÅ™ová Stanislav K. Neumann Jiřà Noha and Laco Novomeský; prose by Karel Konrád Jiřà KratochvÃl Marie Majerová Ivan Olbracht Marie Pujmanová and Vladislav VanÄura; and songs by E. F. Burian lyrics by VÃtÄ›zslav Nezval and Jiřà Ježek lyrics by Voskovec and Werich. Illustrated with five photomechanical full-page prints reproducing drawings by FrantiÅ¡ek Bidlo Adolf Hoffmeister A. V. Pelc JindÅ™ich Å tyrský and Toyen each signed by the respective artist. With the exception of Karel Teige who provided the typographic and overall design all contributors have signed their texts and illustrations. Numbered copy of 550 copies on wood-free paper. An additional fifteen copies XV were printed on Pannekoek with all illustrations hand-colored. <br /> <br /> Vloemans 337. unknown
19912589Austin: W. Thomas Taylor Inc. 1991-1995. Fine. 1991. Softcover. 4to; decorative wrappers; every issue with reproductions; b&w photos; ads. . W. Thomas Taylor Inc. 1991-1995 paperback
18990007651Portland ME: Thomas B. Mosher 1899. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo 96 pages unopened in original boards with later quarter black cloth spine. Ex libris Herbert Carleton Wright with the motto "mens sibi conscia recti" that is "a mind conscious of its own rectitude" from THE AENEID. <br/><br/>One of 450 copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper. "A handsome but unauthorised reprint of the book first printed in 1872 with a Preface by the American publisher-editor and 3 Appendices - Colbeck Swinburne 81." This is Swinburne's reply to a literary attack by Robert Buchanan. "Irradiating and informing UNDER THE MICROSCOPE is a rapture of rage unmistakably Swinburnian - Mosher's Preface." Thomas B. Mosher hardcover
1948DEMO016029INo place: The Banyan Press 1948. First Limited. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Octavo 79pp. clothbacked marbled boards; glassine dj; scuffed blue publisher's slipcase <br/><br/>No. 415 of 626 numbered copies. Stein's version of a mystery novel. Foreword by Donald Gallup. Wilson A47 The Banyan Press hardcover
19765591London: Officyna Stanislaw Gliwa 1976. First Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine/issued without. Oblong 8vo 29 pages brown cloth deckle-edged. Rare. <br/><br/>Copy no. 100 of 275 only being publication no. 37 by the Gliwa Press. Handset by Maria Gliwa with presswork and linocuts by Stanislaw Gliwa. Printed on mould-made Italian paper 'Della Robbia' . Stankiewicz was a prominent political philosopher having lectured on politics history economics history and jurisprudence at over 40 universities. Both he and Stanislaw fought with the Polish forces in exile during WWII. This is an aphoristic dictionary e.g. " ELITISM: A now-derogatory terms revealing democracy's essentially anti-intellectual mood and its fear of 'meritocracy'. " Officyna Stanislaw Gliwa hardcover
19840009327Statesboro GA : The Boxwood Press 1984 . First Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine/issued without dj. wood engravings. Folio unpaginated marbled endpapers; issued without the slipcase mentioned in the colophon. <br/><br/>Copy 10 of only 50 plus 5 proofs signed by Solomon. Handset in 30 pt. Broadway. Twelve full-page blocks by Solomon. These poems were inspired by the legend of St. Julian "The Hospitaller". Ratner's poems were worked out in concert with these woodblock illustrations each influencing the other. "The results are a work of visual literature which exists apart from the poems and which we hope will make its own statement - Introduction by Ratner." Julian's life-journey invlves an encountter with a stag. The stag is invoked in relief on the top cover and in intaglio on the rear and covered fully in split-grain leather. The Boxwood Press hardcover
18855156Leiden: P. Somerwil 1885. Hardcover. Fair. Oblong portfolio 7 pages embossed blue cloth broken ties text block detached. Contains 31 of 36 panels of this chromolithographed panorama 27 x 35 cm. Note: WorldCat cites no copy in the Americas . Offered "as is" with some nicks with panels separating or separated. Note: this is the portfolio only which has a description of the panels but does not have the supplemental historical volume. Ex libris Albert Paul Marin Adrien Storm de Grave 1878-1952 lieutenant de cavalerie ritmestre. <br/><br/>This is one of several panoramic costume cavalcades which depict the Leidsche Studenten Corps re-enacting historical sights. In this case it is a parade of personages from the foundation of Leyden University in 1574 to its 310th anniversary in 1884 in 223 figures by Gerardus J. Bos. P. Somerwil hardcover
1949002551Paris: Nicolas. Societe Anonyme au capital de 1 milliard 50 millions. Printed by Draeger Freres a Montrouge 1949. First Edition. Wraps with spiral. Fine/Very Good. A catalog that is itself a work of art with this issue drawing inspiration from Japanese woodblock imagery. Harada the artist captures the simplicity elegance and understatement of the Japanese aesthetic in his panoramas and images of birds insects flowers etc. 8vo. 33 1 pp. Nicolas a leading French wine distributor that is still very much in business excelled at producing beautiful books and other printed material over the decades. This copy but for light edge toing on the cover made of a heavy card is close to pristine and the original glassine is preserved although it has moderate wear an one inch or so closed tear and a few other trivial closed tears. Also included is a price list insert. Nicolas. Societe Anonyme au capital de 1 milliard 50 millions. Printed by Draeger Freres a Montrouge unknown
1888DEMO014817ILondon: W. Griggs 1888. SecondRevised edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Small 4to; xix 53 pages quarter leather maroon cloth; ex libris Dr. Schoenbechler. <br/><br/>Introduction by P.A. Daniel. Issued as no.6 in the series of 43 Shakespere Quarto Facsimiles. A great part of the first edition of this work was destroyed by fire in June 1883. This edition was produced to complete the sets of this series. This is a reproduction of the Huth Copy and is an improvement upon the 1883 edition which had defects which have been corrected in this production and with additions to the Introduction. Scarce. W. Griggs hardcover
18260005340Chiswick: Charles Whittingham 1826. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 60 wood engravings by John Thompson from drawings by Stothard Corbould Harvey and others. 16mos full dark cherry calf raised bands extra glt spines inner dentelles a.e.g. bound by Zaehnsdorf Bindery for Lauriat's of Boston some rubbed spots at tips of some spines. <br/><br/>Singer was a member of the Society of Antiquaries and a former bookseller when he and Charles Whittingham printed this handsome popular illustrated edition of the Bard of Avon. "Singer was responsible for a careful collation of the text and many useful notes. . He unostentatiously did much to advance the study of Elizabethan literature - DNB." John Thompson trained by Robert Branston and Thomas Bewick was considered unexcelled as a wood engraver in the two decades surrounding this set. 60 wood engravings by John Thompson from drawings by Stothard Corbould Harvey and others. This was the first edition to possess Singer's Notes - Jaggard SHAKESPEARE BIBLIOGRAPHY p. 517 . Charles Whittingham hardcover
0006906London & New York: The Nonesuch Press / Random House. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo cloth 524 pages . Ex libris John Francis Putnam who was the art director of Mad Magazine for over two decades. <br/><br/>"This is a book . where nearly all the gold of Shakespeare is collected in one small volume which can be known intimately because it contains only some 500 pages; a book which can be carried in the pocket be thrown into the last-minute suitcase; a week-end Shakespeare most definitely not a substitute for the Complete Works but a needed variation of them." The Nonesuch Press / Random House hardcover
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050041969 Zürich Schweizerischen Werkbund Verlag Arthur Niggli. 21 x 21 cm - 84 pgs - original soft cover - nicely illustrated in b/w - important catalogue for Swiss design - see Bolliger Katalog 7 nr 254 for nr 34 - nice copy back discoloured by the sun see pictures <br /> 1969 Zürich Schweizerischen Werkbund, Verlag Arthur Niggli paperback
a97965Blackmoon Press. 1952 first edition. Hardcover sm4to. Illustrated poetry. Signed by both Schwartz and Luhn. VG just light fading /discoloration of cover. Mounted spine label present. Text Fine. in original "wax paper" dj dj is good with a few small chips and edge fraying. No owner marks. Artwork somewhat reminiscent of Maurice Sendak. . hardcover
18-1216Munich: Schumacher-Gebler 1983. . Facsimile print. 19 cm x 26.5 cm. Unboundsingle sheet. Printed and double-sided. Good with marginal edgewear and staining along bottom. Front includes print reproduction in red ink of typographic letter signed by Professor Lucian-Bernhard in 1922. Facsimile created for the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1983. From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner Jr. founder of Gale Research Detroit. Munich: Schumacher-Gebler, 1983. unknown
15-10632Santa Barbara CA: Unicorn Press 1967. First Edition Broadside. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 2 pages 2 leaves; rectos only. Upper wrapper title. Separate issues in broadside format of 2 poems "Green Frog at Roadstead Wisconsin" and "On the Burning of Mingus's Bass"; laid loose as issued in medium heavy stock folding portfolio; issued in conjunction with the poet's reading at the Unicorn Book Shop Santa Barbara California January 23 1967. One of 26 lettered copies of a total edition of 150; this copy is lettered "H" in red ink on lower wrapper colophon; typography by Alan Brilliant printed by Noel Young at the Unicorn Press; signed by Schevill in blue ink on lower wrapper colophon. Different sized individual broadsides "Green Frog" measures 10 1/8" x 10 1/8" or 25.8 x 25.8 cm; "Burning ." measures 12 1/2" x 8 9/16" or 31.7 x 21.7 cm; portfolio measures 15" x 7" 38.2 x 28 cm when folded. Very Good with some staining inside cover to wrapper light creasing. Signed by Author. Santa Barbara, CA: Unicorn Press, 1967. unknown