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CA16B-00053Printed for Richard Worthington / Villon Society. Collectible - Very Good. New York: Printed for Richard Worthington The Book. Vol. I and II / Printed for Subscribers Only The Book. Vol. III - IX and Alaeddin. / Printed for the Villon Society Tales from the Arabic Vol. 1-3 1884 1889 Alaeddin. 13 Volumes 9 3 1. Limited Edition. The Book of a Thousand Nights and One Night printed on Holland paper limited to five hundred copies No. 3 as stated on limitation page of Vol. I. Tales from the Arabic No. 90 as stated on limitation page of Vol. 1. Alaeddin unnumbered on limitation page. Sm 4to blue cloth hardcovers with paper spine labels with black text. Top edge in gilt. Blue endpapers. Illustrations. Very Good set. The volumes of The Book of a Thousand Nights are each only lightly shelfworn with the majority of the edgewear to the spine head and top-edge of the boards. Spine labels are browned with a couple of chips. Volume VII's first 30 or so pages have minor brown staining along the lower edge. The volumes of Tales from the Arabic each have scuffs to the tops of each board and small stains to the paper labels. Otherwise only lightly shelfworn. Alaeddin shows a dime-sized red rub to the front board and a few white rubs that have left dents to the rear board. Each volume shows little foxing or spotting inside and are in wonderful condition for their age. A fantastic set! Arab Folklore Arab Folklore Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES. Printed for Richard Worthington / Villon Society hardcover
66 pages. Features: Design for leather; Junior craftsman project; Woodcarving caricaturist - Alfred Perry of Cedar Grove, Ontario - article with photos; Painting in oils is easy; Felt Spectacle case; Food casting; The Sculptured Shillalagh; Stamp collecting; Hobby cures a soldier - Private Jerome Biegel of the U.S. Army carves matches; How to Make Crepe-Paper Flowers (part 2); Home Weaving Service; Message from the Hon. Paul Martin; 1949 National Hobby Exhibition; List of hobby exhibitors; Feature exhibits, Phil. S. Quelch's operating miniature sawmill; Profitable little animals; Mosaic pictures from human hair; Neville C. Seymour and his silk strand etchings; The Narcissus; Garden Glimpses; Fine Wood Inlay; Model Railroads; Shell Craft; Spiral Coil Applique; Camera Kinks; Your Photography; Weaving with Reeds; A Hall Lantern; Birch Bark Art; Hobby-Craft Patterns; Model Plane Contest; What's New; and more. Interesting full-page ad for Canadian government annuities shows regretful elder woman holding broom outside boarding house. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this very uncommon vintage Canadian hobby publication. Book
199337567San Francisco: Arion Press 1993. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Number 126 of 250 numbered copies signed by the artist on his artist's statement preceding the text. There were also 26 lettered copies for private distribution. This was the forty-first publication of the Press. The text of this book is "From the History of an Infantile Neurosis" that was reprinted in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Volume XVII pages 7-122 translated from the German under the editorship of James Strachey. The Wolf-Man was the pseudonym given by Freud to his patient a young Russian man named Sergei Pankejeff. Freud's analysis of the Wolf-Man became his most famous case centering on the interpretation of dreams and childhood sexuality. In addition to the text of Freud's study this book includes an erudite and detailed discussion of Freud's work and influence by Richard Wollheim. Wollheim was a British philosopher noted for original work on mind and emotions especially as related to the visual arts specifically painting. <br /> <br /> The striking woodcuts and etchings illustrating the book were done by Jim Dine b. 1935. He is a well-known American artist who rose to prominence in late-1950's New York. He was closely associated with the Pop Art movement. An innovator throughout his long career Dine's extensive output includes paintings assemblages sculptures drawings prints and over twelve books of poetry. He has been the subject of more than 300 solo exhibitions around the world including eleven major surveys and retrospectives since 1970. The book was designed printed and bound at the Arion Press under the direction of Andrew Hoyem. <br /> <br /> Bound in gray cloth with a black cloth spine with titling in silver. The front cover has an image by Dine of a young boy confronting a wolf. Printed in Century Old Style type for the text with Century Expanded italic and Miller & Richard Old Style capitals for display. The text paper is Johannot mouldmade in France. The etchings and woodcuts are on T.H. Saunders Drawing paper mouldmade in England. The intaglio prints were editions by Pace Editions in New York. The book is housed slipcase covered in black paper with gray cloth trim with a black title label to spine. Accompanied by prospectus. Book is in fine condition in a near fine slipcase. Measures 10 x 12.5 inches. 114 pages plus illustrations. PRI/103024. Arion Press hardcover
1334109869.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
133439685X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1334389292.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
190253698London: Freemantle & Company 1902. Hardcover. Collectible: Good. Full leather with five raised bands on the spine. #12 of 150. Interior is VG. Mild wear to the edges this has been stored properly throughout its existence. Not musty or moldy. The gutters were cracked in both volumes: they have been properly preserved/restored professionally. The interior hinges have been reinforced with appropriately colored tape. Signed by Strang and Cameron. Board tips are slightly through on a few of the tips. Mild wear only. Not bowed. Gilt leather VG interior. 11 lbs. <br/><br/> Freemantle & Company hardcover
190540530Bedford 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. <br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> One of 350 unnumbered copies on paper out of a total edition of 364. <br /> <br /> Binding rubbed along joints with head of spine slightly chipped. Binding in overall good interior in very good condition. The Caradoc Press hardcover
1883058370New York: Henry Holt and Company 1883. First American Edition . Green Stamped Cloth. Very Good /No Dust Jacket. 8" Tall. Xlvii 339 Pages . Green Cloth Lettered In Gilt Decorated In Red And Black And Gilt. First American Printing With 1883 Date On Title Page. Some Slight Foxing. Previous Owner's Bookplate On Front Pastedown "Young Folk's Library Of The New Jerusalem San Francisco #13 ". . Gilt Lettering And Stamped Cover Designs All Clean And Bright. An Attractive Copy. Contents Crisp A Little Light Foxing On Some Pages. The Two Etchings By Tadema Are Plates Without Plate Marks And Are The Frontispiece And Another Facing P. 49 As Called For In The Table Of Contents. <br/> <br/> Henry Holt and Company hardcover
First Edition, large 4to, ix,36pp., number 44 of a limited edition of 200 copies, large paper copy printed on hand-made paper, 96 full-page plates printed on one side only of which several are heliogravure facsimiles each with protective tissue with short descriptive text, orig. full vellum, some lightly soiled, title stamped in gilt on upper cover, label to spine, uncut, a nice copy. An important work on Whistler's etchings with a 448 item list of his etchings reprinted from Kennedy's 1910 catalogue.
First Edition, large 4to, ix,36pp., number 44 of a limited edition of 200 copies, large paper copy printed on hand-made paper, 96 full-page plates printed on one side only of which several are heliogravure facsimiles each with protective tissue with short descriptive text, orig. full vellum, some lightly soiled, title stamped in gilt on upper cover, label to spine, uncut, a fine copy. An important work on Whistler's etchings with a 448 item list of his etchings reprinted from Kennedy's 1910 catalogue.
4to., First Edition, with 96 illustrations, endpapers mildly browned; boards, vellum back lettered in gilt, gilt top, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy.
26544New York, Theodore B. Donson, 1981 Illustrated cardboard cover in colour, 180 x 255mm., pages not numbered, 60 b/w etchings.
188419249London & New York: J. C. Nimmo and Bain 1884. hardcover in full black leather. Good. Thick quarto oversized. Some wear to edges and corners of boards. Gilt top edge. Corners bumped. Some wear to joints. 2 inch tear in leather joint at lower front board and a one inch tear at top joint. First and last hinge reinforced with green tape. Gift inscription on a card glued in on the first pastedown. Black leather with gilt boirder detailing at edges on both sisdes of the boards. though the title page notes 24 illustrations this is the extra illustrated edition with 50 attractive detailed b&w etchings by Delierre. <br/><br/> J. C. Nimmo and Bain hardcover
1884D11324London: J. C. Nimmo and Bain 1884. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary full morocco ornately gilt-stamped on boards and spine a.e.g.; 4to; pp. viii 304 plus frontispiece and 24 plates. Translated from the French. Spine and edges of boards scuffed and lightly bumped; small chip at fore-edge of upper board. Small ink scribble in margin of p. 3; some foxing here and there but overall internally nice and clean. A lavish production. <br/><br/> J. C. Nimmo and Bain hardcover
1884D11324London: J. C. Nimmo and Bain 1884. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary full morocco ornately gilt-stamped on boards and spine a.e.g.; 4to; pp. viii 304 plus frontispiece and 24 plates. Translated from the French. Spine and edges of boards scuffed and lightly bumped; small chip at fore-edge of upper board. Small ink scribble in margin of p. 3; some foxing here and there but overall internally nice and clean. A lavish production. <br/><br/> J. C. Nimmo and Bain hardcover books
1982203823New 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
63-2084Northampton MA: Gehenna Press 1994. Prospectus. Folio. Folded Sheet. Very Good with minor creasing. Letterpress on Laid Paper Ochre & black ink used for text. Color etchings. This is an advertisement for the book not the book itself. Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1994. unknown
2000CNJL795Baltimore Maryland: Dolphin Press / Maryland Institute College of Art 2000. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Lorenz Hilary. No. 7 of 40 copies of the deluxe edition total edition 100 elephant folio size 40 pp. signed by Albert Mobilio and Hilary Lorenz. "The Handbook of Phrenology" is a collaboration between artist Hilary Lorenz an artist and printmaker whose work has been exhibited throughout the United States Europe and Asia and the co-founder of the Dolphin Press and writer Albert Mobilio a poet and literary critic whose work has appeared in The Village Voice Harper's Fortune and The New York Times Book Review n. b. artist bios from the book. <br /> <br /> The book is a collection of five prose fiction pieces that revolved around the nineteenth-century science of phrenology or "the reading of one's head shape to determine personality" n. b. from website of Hilary Lorenz and is a provocative examination of what is now recognised as a pseudoscience.<br /> <br /> ___DESCRIPTION: Full black Japanese Asahi cloth gilt vignette and lettering on the front board hand-marbled paste-down endpapers hand-sewn binding six etchings interspersed throughout the text both etchings and text printed on the rectos only; Dante monotype on Rives Heavyweight elephant folio in size 16" by 13.5" unpaginated with 20 leaves excluding front and back blank leaves per the colophon page a limited edition of 100 copies this being number 7 per the web site for Hilary Lorenz numbers 10-100 were for sale signed by Albert Mobilio and Hilary Lorenz on the colophon. The slipcase is covered in matching cloth gilt vignette and lettering on the front which mirrors the book lined with maroon paper. With a sheet with a description of the book serving as the prospectus one sheet printed on one side.<br /> <br /> ___CONDITION: Volume is fine with a strong square text block solid hinges perfectly straight corners with no rubbing the interior is clean and bright and it is entirely free of prior owner markings - crisp as new. Slipcase is also fine strong and sturdy clean without wear. The prospectus sheet is near fine clean with very light toning to the edges and light wear to the corners else fine.<br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an oversize book and additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us for details. <br /> <br /> ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Dolphin Press / Maryland Institute, College of Art hardcover
2000CNJL795Baltimore Maryland: Dolphin Press / Maryland Institute College of Art 2000. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Lorenz Hilary. No. 7 of 40 copies of the deluxe edition total edition 100 elephant folio size 40 pp. signed by Albert Mobilio and Hilary Lorenz. "The Handbook of Phrenology" is a collaboration between artist Hilary Lorenz an artist and printmaker whose work has been exhibited throughout the United States Europe and Asia and the co-founder of the Dolphin Press and writer Albert Mobilio a poet and literary critic whose work has appeared in The Village Voice Harper's Fortune and The New York Times Book Review n. b. artist bios from the book. <br/><br/>The book is a collection of five prose fiction pieces that revolved around the nineteenth-century science of phrenology or "the reading of one's head shape to determine personality" n. b. from website of Hilary Lorenz and is a provocative examination of what is now recognised as a pseudoscience.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full black Japanese Asahi cloth gilt vignette and lettering on the front board hand-marbled paste-down endpapers hand-sewn binding six etchings interspersed throughout the text both etchings and text printed on the rectos only; Dante monotype on Rives Heavyweight elephant folio in size 16" by 13.5" unpaginated with 20 leaves excluding front and back blank leaves per the colophon page a limited edition of 100 copies this being number 7 per the web site for Hilary Lorenz numbers 10-100 were for sale signed by Albert Mobilio and Hilary Lorenz on the colophon. The slipcase is covered in matching cloth gilt vignette and lettering on the front which mirrors the book lined with maroon paper. With a sheet with a description of the book serving as the prospectus one sheet printed on one side.<br/> <br/>___CONDITION: Volume is fine with a strong square text block solid hinges perfectly straight corners with no rubbing the interior is clean and bright and it is entirely free of prior owner markings - crisp as new. Slipcase is also fine strong and sturdy clean without wear. The prospectus sheet is near fine clean with very light toning to the edges and light wear to the corners else fine.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an oversize book and additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Dolphin Press / Maryland Institute, College of Art hardcover books
196743562Maine: Anthoensen Press/Bowdoin College Museum of Art 1967. limited edition. Hardcover. Very good . 11 x 15 in. Folio. Not paginated. Limited edition of 30 copies this is number 29 signed by Stephens and Lent on the limitation pg. and numbered. Black cloth and marbled paper boards. Bound by Arno Werner. Hand-made rag paper. 6 etchings in all including the frontis each signed in pencil on the margin. Small etching on the limitation pg. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers have light wear to the edges but are very clean with some dulling to the black cloth. Binding tight. Text and etchings are spotless and all tissue guards in excellent condition. Very scarce. Art. RGR. Anthoensen Press/Bowdoin College Museum of Art hardcover
1984156031Lewiston 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
18869854326John C. Nimmo 1886. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. 8vo cloth binding. Gilt lettering on cover and backstrip. Some shelf-wear and scuffing. Hinge split. Light foxing. B/w illustrations. Frontispiece in good condition tissue guard with light foxing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1000grams ISBN: John C. Nimmo hardcover
197771157Chatham 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.<br /> <br /> 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
1987JC12731The Limited Editions Club 1987. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Black morocco with rough maroon silk side panels gilt-stamped lettering on spine; folio; in black cloth slipcase. With full-page etchings by Roberto Juarez on hand-made Richard de Bas paper. Number 67 of 750 copies on mould-made Cartiere Enrico Magnani paper signed by Hersey and Juarez. Book is fine in lightly rubbed slipcase. A lavish production. <br/><br/> The Limited Editions Club hardcover