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199520053005London: Frances Lincoln Publishers 1995. First Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Published by Frances Lincoln Publishers. First printing thus. About 10 x 8 inches bound in green cloth with title information to spine in gold. With beautifully rendered and printed wood engravings throughout. NEW. Not read. Binding firm and square. All corners pointed. Without bumps or creases. Not marked in any way and very clean and bright. Dust jacket same. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed. <br/> <br/> Frances Lincoln Publishers hardcover
19539695New York: Hammer Creek Press 1953. Unbound. Near Fine binding. Portfolio. 6.5" x 4.25." 4 folded leaves. Limited edition number of copies unknown. As issued 4 bifolium leaves laid into portfolio. Only light rubbing to the portfolio; leaves are fine. <br /> <br /> Comprises as title page with printing on the recto of the first page only; and three engraving on three bifolium with title of engravings in red on the recto of the first leaf and the engraving occupying the recto of the second leaf. Engravings are of "The Hell-Box Press" "The Hammer Creek Press" and "Along the Hammer Creek." An additional pressmark by DePol on the title page. Cohen 24; DePol Catalogue Raisonne p. 41. Hammer Creek Press unknown
19539703New York: Hammer Creek Press 1953. Unbound. Very Good binding. Portfolio. 6.5" x 4.25." 4 folded leaves. Limited edition number of copies unknown. As issued 4 bifolium leaves laid into portfolio with printed paper label on the cover. Light rubbing to the portfolio including some separation starting at the spine; leaves are fine. <br /> <br /> Comprises as title page with printing on the recto of the first page only; and three engraving on three bifolium with title of engravings in red on the recto of the first leaf and the engraving occupying the recto of the second leaf. Engravings are of "The Hell-Box Press" "The Hammer Creek Press" and "Along the Hammer Creek." An additional pressmark by DePol on the title page. As is frequently the case with Fass's small print runs frequently there are difference with an edition; in this instance the portfolio differs from others we've seen and what Cohen describes this with a printed label using DePol's pressmark we have seen others that are stamped in gold using a turtle pressmark designed for the Press by Burton Carnes. Additionally the title leaf is set in upper and lower case italics and is within a border and without a date we have see it set in all capitals without border and is dated 1952—though Cohen suggest the date is actually 1953. This is a very good example of the experimental nature of Fass's work at the Hammer Creek Press. A wonderful issue from the Press. Cohen 24; DePol Catalogue Raisonne p. 41. Hammer Creek Press unknown
19518728Lexington KY: Gravesend Press printed by Philip Reed 1951. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Small octavo. 8 vii 1 16 2 pp. illus. Limited edition one of 500 copies. As issued in paste-paper over boards bound by Elizabeth Kner with printed paper title label on the front cover; partially unopened. 16 in-text engravings from Bewick's blocks printed in brown grace the pages of the charming volume. Light rubbing to the extremities of the binding including a scuffed spot on the front board; interior is fine. <br /> <br /> Designed by Joseph C. Graves this is the second issue with his imprint though Graves's friend Philip Reed executed the presswork at his Chicago print shop. Graves ran the Gravesend Press as a sideline from about 1949 through to the end of his life in 1960 issuing scarcely more than half a dozen books. While less known that some of his contemporaries he took his place amidst a vibrant mid-century printing and illustrating scene—friends with Victor Hammer Carolyn Reading Philip Reed Fritz Kredel John DePol John Fass and others. H. Richard Archer in a history of Graves and his press published in The Kentucky Review Spring 1987 summarizes Graves's work thus: "All of the books whether pamphlets or bound books reflect the taste and high standards of a true amateur craftsman and as such they certainly qualify as choice examples from one of this generation's most distinguished private presses. Gravesend Press | printed by Philip Reed unknown
19476155London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. Printed at the Temple Press 1947. Second Impression. Hardcover. pp. vii 144. Slim 12mo. Publisher's tan cloth over boards gilt lettering over maroon spine label. Features striking wood-cut illustrations attributed to Claire Oldham an obscure seemingly forgotten "self-taught printmaker". Cloth extremities exceptionally well-preserved showing no detectable flaws contents equally without blemish with bright clean and unmarked pages and firm sound binding; near fine and housed in good original unclipped dustjacket showing some chipping along the edges of the panels small loss to the base of spine panel now housed in protective mylar cover. Overall very good. Scarce in commerce in this edition and state. <br/><br/> J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. | Printed at the Temple Press hardcover
1950C45548London: The Dropmore Press 1950. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Number 46 of 300 copies. Slight wear and lean otherwise very good indeed. The Dropmore Press, hardcover
19822110502150904384Sanseido 1982. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Sanseido paperback
19569700New York: Hammer Creek Press 1956. Original Wrappers. Near Fine binding. 12mo. 24 4 blank1 pp. illus. Limited edition to approximately 100 copies. As issued in marbled paper wrappers of stiff covers with printed paper title label on the front cover. Quite a nice copy with little in the way of shelf-rubbing to the cover; Reynolds Stone-designed bookplate of noted collector Norman Sondheim inside the front cover. <br /> <br /> Short introduction by Fass about the history and aim of the press. Includes 43 described books announcements and ephemera from the press. As this present work is the 43rd item in Fass's list and only 35th in Cohen's checklist there are apparently inclusions here not noted in Cohen. Several examples of pressmarks by DePol Angelo and Carnes. Two by Valenti Angelo are done in multiple colors with gilding. <br /> <br /> The Hammer Creek Press began when in 1950 when Fass purchased from Valenti Angelo a small Hughes & Kimber cast iron press previously owned by Bruce Rogers who had sold it to Angelo the year before. It was on this press of significant provenance that the bulk of the Hammer Creek Press editions were printed including this present book. Opening this work is an engraving by John DePol of the storied press with a page of "Data" by Fass. One of the mores substantial works issued by the Press as well as one of the more uncommon titles despite the larger-than-usual limitation. As more than 30 institutions are reporting ownership according to OCLC it means this is increasingly rare in commerce. A lovely example of Fass's work. Cohen 35. Hammer Creek Press unknown
1927355490725414London 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover. London: Published by the Fleuron Limited and printed at the Curwen Press 1927-1930. CONTAINS SIGNED WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY JOHN NASH IN VOLUME 3 AND ERIC RAVILIOUS IN VOLUME 4. Publisher's yellow brown pink or purple buckram with gilt lettering to the spine t.e.g. others uncut spines a little faded. Robert Gibbings writes on the Golden Cockerel Press Eric Gill on intaglio printing from woodblocks Paul Nash on woodcut patterns Douglas Percy Bliss on the tools of the wood-engraver etc. W A Thorpe on the Wood-Engravings of John Nash Wood and Metal in the Invention of Printing by Victor Scholderer German Woodcut Lettering by Dr. Julius Rodenberg et al. Generously illustrated with examples of the work of many of the great wood engravers of the time Eric Ravilious John Nash Tirzah Garwood Gwen Raverat Clare Leighton et al. Vol 1 yellow buckram from 1927 is # 25 of 75 copies of which 70 are for sale. Vol 2 brown buckram from 1928 is # 42 of 80 copies of which 75 are for sale. In addition to the blocks in the text there is a fold-out in collotype of woodcut wall-papers opposite page 1. Vol 3 pink buckram from 1929 is # 18 of 80 copies of which 75 are for sale and contains one of the few woodcuts to be produced in Tirzah Garwood's lifetime Vol 4 purple buckram from 1930 is # 27 of 75 copies of which 70 are for sale. A very good set. Containing signed wood-engravings by Eric Ravilious and John Nash. NB: THESE SPECIAL EDITION SETS ARE VERY RARE AS THE SIGNED ENGRAVINGS BY ERIC RAVILIOUS AND JOHN NASH ARE USUALLY FOUND REMOVED. NNB: Dustwrappers not present. Further photographs available upon request. hardcover
19620008022Chicago: R. Hunter Middleton ca. 1962. New edition. Fine. Thomas Bewick. 8vo measures 6 x 8 inches / 15.3 x 20.2 cm image size of 2 x 3 in. / 5 x 7.5 cm. <br/><br/>This was print no. 39 in the series of Thomas Bewick's wood engravings which were exhibited at Letterio Calapai's Studio in Glencoe IL. in 1969. This impression was made from Bewick's original wood block by R. Hunter Middleton at Chicago. This engraving was originally used in Bewick's AESOP'S FABLES. R. Hunter Middleton unknown
19822080202102501063Shueisha Co. Ltd. 1982. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Shueisha Co., Ltd. paperback
1982306969NY: RANDOM HOUSE. Fine. 1982. First Edition. 0394525019 . First American Edition. SIGNED Limited Edition. Copy #455 of 500 numbered copies. Signed by V.S. Pritchett. Fine in green cloth in an orange cloth slipcase with the original price sticker at the bottom righthand corner. . RANDOM HOUSE. hardcover
198228363Salisbury Wiltshire: Michael Russell 1982. Near Fine/Very Good. Salisbury Wiltshire: Michael Russell 1982. First Edition Limited to 150 signed copies of which this is no. 28. Slim 12mo; publisher's green cloth pictorial paste-on to upper cover in original glassine dust jacket; 48pp.; woodcut frontispiece illus. throughout. A hint of shelf wear glassine a bit wrinkled else a Fine example. Signed by Pritchett and Theroux on limitation page. Michael Russell unknown
19549407Lexington KY: Gravesend Press 1954. Vellum Binding. Near Fine binding. 18mo. 10 48 4 pp. illus. Limited edition number 9 of 200 copies. As issued in vellum-backed patterned-paper over boards. Lacking the slipcase. A handsome copy with only light toning to the perimeters of the boards; contents clean. This copy with 4-page prospectus. <br /> <br /> This work was the first book issued by the Gravesend Press that was actually printed using the Graves' press in their stable by Graves and Jacob Hammer. Kredel's charming engraved pressmark of a sleeping pressman graces the final page. Graves writes about this in his Bibliographical Confession the donkey in the window was their family pet Patience. Graves operated the press as a sideline from about 1949 through to the end of his life in 1960 issuing scarcely more than half a dozen books. While less known that some of his contemporaries he took his place amidst a vibrant mid-century printing and illustrating scene—friends with Victor Hammer Carolyn Reading Fritz Kredel John DePol John Fass and others. H. Richard Archer in a history of the Graves and his press published in The Kentucky Review Spring 1987 summarizes Graves's work thus: "All of the books whether pamphlets or bound books reflect the taste and high standards of a true amateur craftsman and as such they certainly qualify as choice examples from one of this generation's most distinguished private presses." Press historian Roderick Cave notes that this was "probably the most successful Gravesend book" p. 263. Cave The Private Press 2nd edition; Graves The Gravesend Press: A Bibliographical Confession p. 11-13. Gravesend Press unknown
1990059927Lincoln Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press 1990. Book. Illus. by Moser Barry. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrators. 157 pages 12mo. SIGNED and inscribed by the illustrator Barry Moser on title page. Foreword by Joyce Carol Oates. Shelfwear to DJ: light scuffing along edges a few small tears along top edge of front cover and top edge of spine moderate spine fade. DJ in mylar. Tightly bound no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition. University of Nebraska Press Hardcover
1996TENNIELS014377The Workshop Press Thaxted. 1996. First edition. Quarto. pp 24. Card wrappers with flaps. Illustrated with twelve Tenniel drawings printed letterpress from electrotypes created from the original wood engravings cut by the Dalziel Brothers c. 1860-1970.Number 29 of fifty copies.Spine slightly faded otherwise fine. The Workshop Press, Thaxted. unknown
19401262991940. New York: Lee A. Ault & R. C. von Ripper 1940. <br /> <br /> Huge folio 50 pp. text and illustration engraved throughout on folded leaves separated with tissue guards in stiffened wrappers with an additional suite of 22 plates lacking some together in the original cloth portfolio and card slipcase. Together with seven sheets of proof plates and a folder of five related press clippings bearing the printed label of Monica McCall Inc. Wrappers lightly toned portfolio worn and splitting slipcase considerably worn and stained and lacking spine panel plates themselves are very good throughout with only a hint of age-toning to the outer margins.<br /> <br /> § Copy V signed by Von Ripper and Muriel Rukeyser one of three Rives paper with a suite of etchings on Velin de Normandie from a total edition of 67 copies. This copy belonged to Muriel Rukeyser who has extracted some of the suite of prints they now number 22 and added seven proof sheets some showing and annotating alternate inking options as well as a small collection of related press clippings gathered for her by Monica McCall her literary representative and sometime lover.<br /> <br /> An important collaboration between Rukeyser and the Austrian-born surrealist etcher Rudolph von Ripper 1905-1960 on the eve of America's entry into the Second World War. Rukeyser's poem looks to the legacy of John Brown the militant abolitionist of the 1850s and celebrates the possibility of spiritual renewal through resistance to injustice. It first appeared in the June 1940 edition of Poetry Magazine. Here the poem is fully engraved and illustrated with original etchings by von Ripper and interleaved with the etched verses of the old Civil War marching song. By the time Von Ripper was engaged on this project he was only 35 but had already fought for the French Foreign Legion been imprisoned and tortured by the Gestapo and been wounded while fighting on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. His direct physical experience of the rise of fascism is evident in his visceral Goya-like etchings. The series was exhibited in the Bignou Gallery in New York in 1941. A contemporary review described it is "an unusal undertaking brilliantly executed the drawings forming not so much illustrations or decorations as actual parts of the poem. Realism symbolism powerful design and dramatic presentment mark these plates which form a distinguished piece of bookmaking. unknown
1920DEMO015993IKansas City: The American Bookplate Society 1920. First Limited. Cloth. Fine/fine. Spider-web glassine dj torn. 34pp. in very good publisher's slipcase. <br/><br/>One of 250 copies. Focusses on the bookplates engraved by William Edgar Fisher the current President of the society The American Bookplate Society hardcover
1974000652Land's End Press 1974. Hardcover. Good/Good. Scarce edition. From dust Jacket: "Here in one volume are facsimiles of three rare and valuable works of fencing by the noted eighteenth century fencing masters Domenico and Henry Angelo." Hard back binding in publisher's original crimson cloth covers gilt title and author lettering to the spine. Landscape 6½'' x 9¼''. Contains printed pages of text with full-page monochrome etchings and engravings throughout.Very Good condition book with minor rubbing of the cloth along the spine. Good condition dust jacket with some damage. Not price clipped.Names stamped on First page. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. <br/> <br/> Land's End Press hardcover
190410410Good. 1904. Non-Book. Cover only. Cover is toned with modest soiling and address label but in very framable condition. 10.5" x 14".; Prints . unknown
193610414Good. 1936. Non-Book. Cover only. Cover is worn at extremities and soiled. 10.5" x 14".; Prints . unknown
193020691New York: Coward-McCann Inc 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth spine. Paper pastedown on boards. Very Good. John Held Jr. A Prohibition Era paean to the bibulous lifestyle with many apercus and interspersed among these short pieces over 60 cocktail recipes and of course the inimitable woodcuts of John Held who made something of a specialty as an illustrator of cocktail literature. With a short inscription by compiler editor writer Hunt who was Librarian at Yale and who also had been a publishing executive. 8vo. 22.5 by 17 cm. xiv 2 95 1 pp. The short inscription was to a woman living on Christopher Street back when it was the backdrop for "My Sister Eileen". Cover stained. Hinge somewhat loose. Leaves fairly heavily age toned but generally clean otherwise. Coward-McCann, Inc hardcover
194913511Los Angeles: Limited Edition Club 1949. First Edition in this Format; Limited Edition. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good bound in 1/4 leather and paper covered boards housed in a Very Good slipcase. Minor edge wear and a few weak smudges to slipcase. Sunning to slipcase. A few smudges to covers. A few small weak scuffs to spine of each volume. Text is clean and unmarked. Illustrated throughout. Limited to 1500 copies this set numbered 822. ; Signed by the engraver Carl Schultheiss on the Limitation page. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 690 pages. Limited Edition Club hardcover
190736510Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company 1907. Revised edition. Cloth. Very Good. Maria L. Kirk. Original wood engravings after Arthur Hughes. Revised edition 1907. A Very Good book lacking dust jacket. 8vo. 304 pp. bound in publishers decorated red cloth. Spine is sunned with rubbing to top and base. Goblin figure on the spine very lightly rubbed. Some occasional spotting to cloth with tips rubbed. George MacDonald 10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905 was a Scottish author poet and Christian Congregational minister. He became a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow-writer Lewis Carroll. J. B. Lippincott Company unknown
1929POETRYQU011103Random House New York. 1929. First edition. Royal octavo. Twelve four-page pamphlets stitched each with a cover illustration by Paul Johnston. One of 475 sets. The poets are Genevieve Taggart Robert Frost "The Lovely Shall be Choosers". Vachel Lindsay "Rigamarole Rigamore" Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Prodigal Son" Louis Untermeyer Alfred Kreymborg H.D. "Red Roses for Bronze" Theodore Dreiser William Rose Ben�t Conrad Aiken "Prelude" and Witter Bynner. A fine set in publisher's paper chemise with long closed tears. Lacks the slipcase. Random House, New York. unknown
