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1897WRCLIT60548Chicago: Way & Williams 1897. Cherry red cloth with decorative device in black and white t.e.g. Cloth slightly darkened at edges otherwise very good. "New edition" of this novel by the Chicago editor/novelist but the first under the Way & Williams imprint. The first was published by Schulte in 1892. The binding design is by Will Bradley. KRAUS 51. WRIGHT III:5817 first edition. BAMBACE A30. Way & Williams hardcover books
1894WRCLIT70794Chicago: The Dial Press 1894. Ornately gilt decorated green cloth t.e.g. others untrimmed. Decorative title-page. About fine in oversize half morocco clamshell box. First edition this being the primary binding. One of two hundred copies only. Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet: "To my dear sister Mollie with much love Harry B. Smith. July 6 1894." Bambace suggests the binding design is "probably" Will Bradley's work. An uncommon book and imprint. Librettist bookseller and book collector Harry Smith was a frequent contributor to Francis Browne's incarnation of THE DIAL. A portion of the edition presumably a later state was bound in tan cloth with the binding design stamped in blue. BAMBACE C1. The Dial Press hardcover books
1894WRCLIT70793Chicago: The Dial Press 1894. Ornately gilt decorated green cloth t.e.g. others untrimmed. Decorative title-page. Some light spotting to lower portion of upper board lower fore-tip bruised otherwise near fine. First edition this being the primary binding. One of two hundred copies only. Bambace suggests the binding design is "probably" Will Bradley's work. An uncommon book and imprint. Librettist bookseller and book collector Harry Smith was a frequent contributor to Francis Browne's incarnation of THE DIAL. A portion of the edition presumably a later state was bound in tan cloth with the binding design stamped in blue. BAMBACE C1. The Dial Press hardcover books
1894WRCLIT70795Chicago: The Dial Press 1894. Tan cloth decorated in blue. Decorative title-page. Binding darkened and a bit soiled internally very good. First edition this being the secondary binding. One of two hundred copies only. Inscribed on the front endsheet by Smith's son to his daughter ".this book of her grandfather's verse." on Christmas 1948. Bambace suggests the binding design is "probably" Will Bradley's work. An uncommon book and imprint. Librettist bookseller and book collector Harry Smith was a frequent contributor to Francis Browne's incarnation of THE DIAL. A portion of the edition presumably the earliest state was bound in green cloth with the binding design stamped in gilt. BAMBACE C1. The Dial Press hardcover books
1894WRCLIT60952Chicago: The Dial Press 1894. Ornately gilt decorated green cloth t.e.g. others untrimmed. Decorative title-page. Some light spotting to lower portion of upper board lower fore-tip bruised otherwise near fine. First edition this being the primary binding. One of two hundred copies only. Bambace suggests the binding design is "probably" Will Bradley's work. An uncommon book and imprint. Librettist bookseller and book collector Harry Smith was a frequent contributor to Francis Browne's incarnation of THE DIAL. A portion of the edition presumably a later state was bound in tan cloth with the binding design stamped in blue. BAMBACE C1. The Dial Press hardcover books
1903WRCLIT71959Concord MA: At the Sign of the Vine 1903. 12mo. Pale gray-blue boards printed label. Frontis and decorations. Very near fine. First edition in this format designed and printed by Will Bradley. With David Magee's signed pencil note on the front pastedown: "This is one of Will Bradley's own copies purchased by me from his son ." BAMBACE A62. At the Sign of the Vine hardcover books
1974WRCLIT66177New York: Dover Publications 1974. Large quarto. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Eighty-nine black & white full-page plates and eight full-color plates. Wrappers rubbed and a bit creased; very good. First edition wrapperbound issue. Introduction by Hornung and "Notes Toward an Autobiography" by Bradley precedes the plates. An original publication by Dover not a reprint. Dover Publications unknown books
1903WRCLIT76378Concord MA: Will Bradley.the Sign of the Vine 1903. Small octavo. Grey boards printed label. A fine copy. First edition in this format designed set- up and decorated with rubricated title and initials in red by Bradley the whole printed on handmade paper at the Heintzeman Press. One of four titles in similar format undertaken by Bradley in 1903. BAMBACE A61. Will Bradley...the Sign of the Vine hardcover books
1903WRCLIT60520Concord MA: Will Bradley.the Sign of the Vine 1903. Small octavo. Grey boards printed label. Faint dust soiling to label and boards otherwise a near fine copy. First edition in this format designed set- up and decorated with rubricated title and initials in red by Bradley the whole printed on handmade paper at the Heintzeman Press. This copy is signed by Bradley on the colophon. One of four titles in similar format undertaken by Bradley in 1903. BAMBACE A61. Will Bradley...the Sign of the Vine hardcover books
1951WRCLIT82917San Marino CA: The Huntington Library 1951. 273pp. Printed wrappers. Frontis portrait and illustrations. Light use and creasing at overlap wrapper edges internally fine. First edition. One of 1000 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom. Essay "The Gay Nineties" by Bradley introduction by Robert O. Schad. The Huntington Library unknown books
2449Concord Massachusetts Sign of the Vine Press 1903. Arranged and put into type by Will Bradley. Sign of the Vine. 9 pp. Uncut. 16 mo. Bound in white paper-covered boards with a printed label on the cover. Fine. unknown books
2600Concord Mass.: Sign of the Vine 1903. . 12 original blue paper-covered boards printed white paper label on front cover; printed in black and red; uncut and unopened. Bambace A62. The colophon reads "Arranged and put into type by Will Bradley and issued from the Sign of the Vine Concord Mass. 1903" Bambace notes "Printed at the Heinzeman Press in Boston. [Concord, Mass.: Sign of the Vine, 1903]. hardcover books
2598New York: The Company 1899. . including covers. 8vo printed stiff wrappers Bambace p. 185. Printed in orange and black. This copy does not bear the printer's imprint that Bambace mentions. On the back cover bottom center "For Sale by J. F. Lester Atlanta Ga." New York: The Company, 1899. unknown books
189953651899. Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone & Company 1899. Original red cloth decorated in black and white First Edition of this collection of 21 tales some of a fantastical nature. This book is today collected primarily for its binding designed by Will Bradley; its second strongest appeal is as a book produced by the 'Nineties publisher Herbert Stone. This is a near-fine copy slightly faded on the spine. Bleiler p. 203; Kramer 191. <br/><br/> hardcover books
189737620New York & London: Published by John Lane Sign of the Bodley Head 1897. First edition. Printed for John Lane by Will Bradley Springfield Mass. Cover Illustration by Will Bradley. 1 vols. 12mo. Linen spine paper label with some loss else a fine copy. First edition. Printed for John Lane by Will Bradley Springfield Mass. Cover Illustration by Will Bradley. 1 vols. 12mo. Published by John Lane, Sign of the Bodley Head unknown books
191029592Chicago: George Matthew Adams 1910. First Edition. Arranged decorated and with dust jacket by Will Bradley; frontispiece by John T. McCutcheon illustrations by William Stevens. 189 3pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original pictorial brown and orange cloth cover design by Bradley repeated on dust jacket t.e.g.; book is in fine condition jacket lacking about a third of the lower front. First Edition. Arranged decorated and with dust jacket by Will Bradley; frontispiece by John T. McCutcheon illustrations by William Stevens. 189 3pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Dust Jacket and Cover by Will Bradley. Bradley's cover and jacket features the portrait of the author a popular homespun newspaper poet among whose output were some sporting verses football p. 40 baseball p. 102. Bambace Will H. Bradley: His Work A71 George Matthew Adams unknown books
2164New York and London: John Lane: The Bodley Head 1899. First edition An octavo 386 pp. bound in original olive green cloth. Cover and spine design by Will Bradley of stylized doves and foliage in pale gray and black. Top edge gilt. Small book plate of previous owner on front pastedown. Some rubbing on the cover.still a nice copy of a handsome Bradley design. hardcover books
189522158Cleveland: Burrows Brothers 1895. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth spine and decorated gray boards front cover lettered in red. Teg. Very good. 125 pages. 22 1/2 x 15 cm. A spectacular example of Arts and Crafts details and "more ambitious and successful than `When Hearts Are Trumps." Limited edition copy 107 of 600 printed by John Wilson on handmade laid paper. The type is Jenson in red and black with the former used for accents throughout. There are Kelmscott-style borders with the influence of Whistler Beardsley and Morris turned to Bradley's own use. BOMBACE A9. Interior contents clean and bright slight flaking to backstrip decorated end papers. Burrows Brothers hardcover books
1902236926New York: R.H. Russell 1902. The Wayside Series. 158 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Gray blue boards stamped in white. Fine. The Wayside Series. 158 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. R.H. Russell unknown books
1895WRCLIT64105Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Company 1895. Large octavo. Linen and printed pictorial boards t.e.g. others untrimmed. Endsheets and margins foxed spine extremities darkened otherwise a very good copy. First edition thus. One of 600 numbered copies printed on handmade paper. Copiously illustrated and decorated with plates initials and decorative borders by Bradley. An ambitious and important Bradley production described by his bibliographer as "a masterly synthesis of Beardsley Ricketts and William Morris ideals" BAMBACE A9 The Burrows Brothers Company hardcover books
1995WRCLIT57935Newcastle & Boston: Oak Knoll / Thomas G. Boss. 1995. Quarto. Quarter calf and decorated paper over boards gilt label. Photographs. Fine. First edition. One of fifty numbered copies specially bound and signed by the compiler. Some of these deluxe copies were issued in a slipcase in company with a copy of BRADLEY HIS BOOK but not the present copy. The highly useful chief reference on the work of the influential American book designer illustrator and graphic artist. "Will H. Bradley 1868-1962 is widely regarded as one of the masters of design during the Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts periods. His typographic and illustrative work pushed the boundaries of these fields into new directions. In addition his re-introduction and use of Caslon type brought it back into popularity. The guide includes 261 illustrations including his designer's marks to help identify his pieces. The guide includes a Book Work section containing three parts: one of 81 definite books of Bradley's own execution one listing those exhibiting the Bradley stamp but with no confirming documentation and one listing those using his designs but were probably not produced by him. The remaining sections document magazine covers advertisements illustrations posters and other works" - Publisher's blurb. Oak Knoll / Thomas G. Boss. hardcover books
1995WRCLIT59083Newcastle & Boston: Oak Knoll / Thomas G. Boss. 1995. Quarto. Cloth. Photographs. Fine. First edition trade issue. The highly useful chief reference on the work of the influential American book designer illustrator and graphic artist. "Will H. Bradley 1868-1962 is widely regarded as one of the masters of design during the Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts periods. His typographic and illustrative work pushed the boundaries of these fields into new directions. In addition his re-introduction and use of Caslon type brought it back into popularity. The guide includes 261 illustrations including his designer's marks to help identify his pieces. The guide includes a Book Work section containing three parts: one of 81 definite books of Bradley's own execution one listing those exhibiting the Bradley stamp but with no confirming documentation and one listing those using his designs but were probably not produced by him. The remaining sections document magazine covers advertisements illustrations posters and other works" - Publisher's blurb. Oak Knoll / Thomas G. Boss. hardcover books
4395Stunning original printed color lithographed poster by Will H. Bradley for The Chapbook 1894. This famous poster was printed in 1894 by Stone and Kimball famed Chicago publisher. Will H. Bradley 1868-11962 born in Boston is widely considered one of the greatest American graphic artist and illustrator known for his Art Nouveau stylized poster-like interpretations of figures. This 1894 design for Chap-Book titled "The Twins" has been called the first American Art Nouveau poster; this and other posters for the magazine brought him widespread recognition and popularity. Bradley founded The Wayside Press in Springfield in 1895 and produced the now famous monthly periodical "Bradley His Book. This poster for The Chapbook 1894 is striking in its Art Nouveau quality and very much the pinnacle of Bradley's poster art depicting identical twins in profile with matching orange dresses and green hair. Sight size 19 1/4" x 13 1/2"Frame 25" x 19 1/4" Signed "Will H. Bradley" lower left. Provenance from the Ainsworth Gallery Boston. From the property of the Boston Company Inc. Asset Management. Light folds lower left otherwise excellent condition archival frame and mat. <br/><br/> unknown books
4397Stunning original printed color lithographed poster by Will H. Bradley for The Echo 1895 depicting a woman walking a yellow landscape. Printed at the Ralph Meriman Co. Press 1895. Sight size: 21" x 14.' Frame 25" x 19 1/4" Signed "Will H. Bradley" lower left. Will H. Bradley 1868-11962 born in Boston is widely considered one of the greatest American graphic artist and illustrator known for his Art Nouveau stylized poster-like interpretations of figures. His posters for The Chap-Book and other posters for journals and advertising in the late 1890's and early 1900's brought him widespread recognition and popularity. Bradley founded The Wayside Press in Springfield in 1895 and produced the now famous monthly periodical "Bradley His Book. A wonderfully balanced image and coloration Provenance: from the Ainsworth Gallery Boston. From the property of the Boston Company Inc. Asset Management. Light wrinkle upper right folds to paper otherwise good condition archival frame and mat. <br/><br/> unknown books
4868One page on folded light green paper. Autograph Letter Signed by Will Bradley to noted American architect author and printing designer Frank Chouteau Brown dated April 21 1901 and dealing with Brown's new book "Letters and Lettering" which the architect was petitioning Bradley to provide art in the form of alphabet. Bradley writes "10 Kirkland Rd. Cambridge April 21 1901. My Dear Sir: I should be pleased to comply with your request to furnish an alphabet for your forthcoming book but am so busy just now that I am unable to spare the time. Wishing it all success I am very truly yours Will Bradley. To F.C. Brown Esq. 19 West Cedar St. Boston." <br/><br/> unknown books