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1923210503006Waltham Saint Lawrence Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press 1923. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. White Ethelbert. No. 200 of 320 copies on paper duodecimo size 49 pp. Edmund Spenser 1552/3 to 1599 is probably best known for his epic poem "The Faerie Queene" an ode to Elizabeth I. Even today he is considered one of the greatest poets of the English language. <br/><br/>This work "The Wedding Songs" is a publication uniting two works which were published a year apart both dealing with love and romance.<br/><br/>According to "Chanticleer" this is the first work of the Press to be illustrated with wood-engravings; however they go on to state that "there is no great feeling of harmony between the engravings and the type" p. 16. We find the three wood-engravings charming; Ethelbert White 1892-1972 was a founding member of the English Wood Engraving Society beginning his career with water colour but being introduced to wood-engraving in 1920. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Quarter linen white paper spine label with black lettering blue paper sides over boards fore- and bottom edges uncut the frontispiece one of three wood engravings and the only one in three colours rust green and yellow the other two only in rust; Caslon type on hand-made unbleached Arnold paper duodecimo size 7 3/8" by 4 1/2" pagination: 1-8 9-46 47 final wood-engraving 48 colophon 49 publisher's device; no. 200 of the 320 copies on paper per the colophon; per the bibliography there were 350 copies on paper there were an additional 25 copies on Japanese vellum. In the original plain glassine dust jacket. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume near fine with clean boards perfectly straight corners without rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright with many signatures still unopened and entirely free of prior owner markings; some light sunning at the top edge the glassine wrapper was cut a bit short else fine. The glassine wrapper very good entire the spine sunned and with several tears and chips along the spine. <br/><br/>___CITATION: Chanticleer no. 14. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire 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. Golden Cockerel Press hardcover books
1939SPENDERS007080Atelier 17 Paris & New York. March 1939. First edition. Octavo. Spender's poem ''Fall of a City'' and Louis Aragon's translation ''Chute d'une Cit�'' together with nine engravings loose within wrappers. The engravings were printed by Atelier 17 and Henri Hecht and include one with aquatint and roulette one with soft ground etching one drypoint and one etching. All are on Montval handmade paper with deckle-edges. Held within the original plain board chemise but lacking the slipcase which had a Hayter titling-piece pasted onto the front. Stanley Hayter founded Atelier 17 in Paris in 1927 and it continues to this day in Rue Didot albeit with the name changed to Atelier Contrepoint. This production was his contribution to the raising of funds to help children orphaned by the Spanish Civil War.101 numbered copies were printed for sale and 12 for the contributors. This copy is unnumbered and hors commerce marked ''h.c'' on the limitation page. Each copy including this one was signed by Spender and Aragon at their respective contribution and by each artist in the lower margin of the etched sheet.Fine in custom burgundy morocco box with ''FRATERNITY'' in gilt on the lid. Very scarce with all nine loose etchings as most sets have been broken up for piecemeal sale. Atelier 17, Paris & New York. March, unknown
Three volumes. pp. 167; 192; 183. Frontis and titles engraved by Bicknell. Large 8vo.Original vellum backed boards. Top edge gold. Limited to only 400 copies. Engraved Ex Libris of Truman H. Newberry. Fine English text edition issued by the Bibliophile Society The owner of this set Truman H. Newberry was a Secretary of the Navy under Theodore Roosevelt. He was elected to the Senate in 1918. On Mar ch 20, 1920, Newberry was convicted on charges of spending $3,750 to secure his Senate election (quite amazing, considering modern ideas about expenditures to secure political office). The U.S. Supreme Court overturned this decision (May 2, 1921) on the grounds that the U.S. Senate exceeded its powers in attempting to regulate primary elections. By a vote of 46 to 41 (January 12, 1922), the Senate declared Newberry to have been duly elected in 1918. On November 18, two days before the start of the 3rd session of the 67th Congress, Newberry resigned as certain members resumed their efforts to unseat him. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W118
18-1952Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. 1929. 4to. 118 pp. Very Good. Hard Covers. Green cloth boards. Toning to Spine. No Slipcase. Pages fine. Several pages uncut. Illustrated throughout. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. [1929]. hardcover
194533330952Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press 1945. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Webb Clifford. One of 500 copies folio size pp. The Golden Cockerel Press came together in autumn of 1920 at a time when post-World War I society was ushering in a renaissance of creative minds including another renaissance of the printing press as the artist's tool similar to that of William Morris and the arts and crafts printers of the previous century. The press worked with many notable artists including Eric Gill Blair Hughes-Stanton Robert Gibbings and the artist for this work Clifford Webb. <br /> <br /> Clifford Cyril Webb 1895-1972 studied art and is best known today for his wood engravings. He was a founder-member of the Society of Wood Engravers and "was a prominent figure in the group of engravers whobrought about the revival of wood engraving in the 1920s and benefited from the encouragement of Robert Gibbings and the Golden Cockerel Press" n.b. quote from Webb's entry in Horne "The Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators" p. 437. <br /> <br /> Per the bibliographical entry for this work "it is surprising that no complete translation of this unique eye-witness account of the First Crusade had ever been published in England before. What the pilgrims did in their fervour of blind fanaticism 'to the glory of God' makes astonishing reading!" <br /> <br /> ___DESCRIPTION: Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in half vellum with orange buckram boards gilt vignette on the front board of crusaders on horseback by Clifford Webb top edge gilt frontis one of five full-page wood-engravings bound in throughout small title page wood-engraving also of crusaders on horseback wood-engraving of a cockerel holding a crusader pennant in its beak on p. 9; Poliphilus type on hand-made paper folio size 12 3/8" by 7 3/8" pagination: 1-4 5-92 1 colophon. <br /> <br /> ___CONDITION: A solid very good copy with clean boards the vellum smooth and without wear a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; a small mark on the vellum on the back board light overall edgewear the corners bumped but not rubbed. <br /> <br /> ___CITATION: Cockalorum 168. <br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire 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. The Golden Cockerel Press hardcover
17716273Barcelona, Thomas Piferrer, 1771. 2 volumes petit in-8 de [24]-479 pages [16]-488 pages, plein veau moucheté brun, dos lisses ornés de filets et fleurons dorés, pièces de titre et de tomaison rouges et vertes. Petit manque à la coiffe supérieure du tome 1. Au tome 2, manque de peau à un coin et mouillure à un autre. Intérieur très frais, sans défaut.2 small in-8 volumes of [24] -479 pages and [16] -488 pages, full brown speckled calf, smooth backs decorated with gilt fillets and floral ornaments, red and green title and number label. Small wear in the turn in at the top of volume 1. In volume 2, wear of skin at one corner and waterstain at another. Very fresh interior, without defects.
18681911190004J. B. Burr and Company 1868-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. History of New York Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Spine image rubbed. 718 2 p. 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. "Rising immigration and increasing social stratification affected the development of American cities during the mid-nineteenth century. City guides delineating the mysteries of the metropolis as well as newspapers magazines and novels presented the East's industrializing cities—New York Philadelphia and Baltimore—as fractured societies. According to these publications each was really two cities: one orderly prosperous and bathed in "sunlight" the other menacing poor and steeped in "darkness" or "gaslight". In this frontispiece from the 1868 Sunshine and Shadow in New York the symbolic extremes of day and night were represented by a Fifth Avenue mansion and the Old Brewery an infamous "thieves' den" located in the Five Points slum district. J. B. Burr and Company hardcover
19291349922Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press 1929. Limited edition no. 3 of 500. Hardcover. Octavo; VG Hardcover; Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and red paper-covered boards; Light rubbing to head and tail of spine; Bookplate of Robert Mackenzie Waggaman to front pastedown; Text block lightly age-toned; Illustrated with numerous engravings by Eric Ravilious; v 156 pages. 1349922. FP New Rockville Stock. Golden Cockerel Press hardcover
232; 52pp., portrait frontis., some light foxing, orig. purple water-silk cloth, spine faded.
1751PHO-1273LONDRES (CHEZ NOURSE) 1751 2 VOL. RELIES EN 1, IN-12°, 17 X 10 CMS, RELIÉ VEAU MOUCHETÉ, DOS A 5 NERFS ORNÉ DE FLEURONS DORÉS, TR. ROUGE. 2FF-285PPS; 1FF-148PPS. PREMIÈRE ÉDITION FRANÇAISE TRADUITE PAR RAULIN, ANCIEN OFFICIER DES DRAGONS.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and wood-engravings (a number full-page) in the text; rose boards, backstrip with printed paper label, uncut, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 150 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THIS COPY NO. 53).
190415664Bielefeld ; Leipzig : Velhagen & Klasing 1904. 142 S. : Mit 107 Abb., darunter 6 farb. Einschaltb. ; 4°, Eigentümersignatur auf Vorsatzblatt Kart., Softcover/Paperback, Gebrauchsspuren am Einband, Papier etwas wellig, sonst guter Zustand
17786494Turin, Imprimerie Royale, 1778 ; in-4 ; demi-veau glacé havane, dos à faux-nerfs dorés et palettes décoratives, pièce de titre vert-pistache, tranches mouchetées de bleu (reliure de l'époque) ; (14), 359, (1 bl.) ; (4), 55, (1) pp. et 30 planches gravées dépliantes.SUIVI DE : "CONSIDERATIONS SUR LA GUERRE DE 1769 ENTRE LES RUSSES ET LES TURCS. Nouvelle édition corrigée et augmentée de plusieurs notes historiques."
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 8 1/4"w x 9 1/8"h. Unpaginated. Filled with glossy photos.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with title-vignette, numerous reproductions of engraved plates throughout, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. High quality facsimile reissue of a classic of nineteenth century London topography, first published in 1829.
139758Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. Harrison Smith and Robert Haas New York NY 1934. First Thus. 259 pages. White cloth binding black and blue pastedown of a man standing with raised hands spine has label with black lettering. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Spine sunned brown. Has bookplate. Does not have slipcase. Size: 8vo. Fiction Antique Fiction Modern::Horror 5923 hardcover
1974252078Norwalk: Heritage Press 1974. Hardcover. xxvii 313p. introductionillustrations very good Heritage Press edition in powder blue cloth boards and plain cream slipcase Sandglass newsletter laid-in ownership bookplate of Jane Trahey affixed on pastedown endpaper. Trahey was the first woman to own and run an advertising agency and was a writer as well. Her semi-autobiographical book was the basis of Hayley Mills "The Trouble With Angels Heritage Press hardcover books
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full light gray cloth boards with green pasted-down label with gilt decoration and title. Sharp corners. Small spots on spine. Wood engravings by John Farleigh. Limited Edition, 168/1500. Signed by John Farleigh. No slipcase.
20151379124Monterey: Larkspur Press 2015. Hardcover. Octavo 58 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good dust jacket. White spine with black text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has mild shelf wear. Textblock clean. Shelved Poetry. 1379124. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Larkspur Press hardcover
Seven Volumes in Fourteen. Illustrated with mounted proofs on India paper with original tissue guards. Title pages printed in red and black. Text printed on Japanese Vellum. Uncut and unopened. LIMITED EDITION. Number 29 of only 100 copies. Printed and inked ownership of Dr. Wm. M. Findley. Tall 8vo. Original full cloth bindings. Original paper spine labels. Head and tail of some volumes lightly chipped. Hardbound. Very good set of an extremely scarce edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! HAKESPEARE BOX 3
18101302843London: M. J. Godwin 1810. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavos 2 volumes; G; bound in patterned light brown cloth rebacked with brown cloth majority of previous spine preserved including back labels with gilt lettering; some chipping and rubbing to boards; with 20 engraved plates by Blake after drawings by Mulready including frontispieces one for each tale told within some plates offset onto the facing page including the title page for volume 2; Some foxing/spotting throughout; With the bookplate of English Novelist Hugh Walpole on front pastedowns of both volumes; small bookseller sticker to front pastedown of volume 1; Volume 1: xi 1 235 1 Volume 2: 4 261 3 pages; shelved case 0. Lamb says in his preface that he "wished to make these Tales easy reading for young children.for young ladies too it has been my intention chiefly to wrote because boys are generally permitted the use of their fathers' libraries at a much earlier age than girls are they frequently have the best of Shakespear by heart before their sisters are permitted to look into this manly book";<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Hugh Walpole was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s with a large and varied output. Between 1909 and 1941 he wrote thirty-six novels five volumes of short stories two original plays and three volumes of memoirs. His range included disturbing studies of the macabre children's stories and historical fiction most notably his Herries Chronicle series set in the Lake District. He worked in Hollywood writing scenarios for two Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films in the 1930s and played a cameo in the 1935 version of David Copperfield. As a gay man at a time when homosexual practices were illegal for men in Britain Walpole conducted a succession of intense but discreet relationships with other men and was for much of his life in search of what he saw as "the perfect friend". He eventually found one a married policeman with whom he settled in the English Lake District. Having as a young man eagerly sought the support of established authors he was in his later years a generous sponsor of many younger writers. He was a patron of the visual arts and bequeathed a substantial legacy of paintings to the Tate Gallery and other British institutions. wikipedia. 1302843. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. M. J. Godwin hardcover books
18101302843London: M. J. Godwin 1810. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavos 2 volumes. Volume 1: xi 1 235 1 Volume 2: 4 261 3 pages. In Good Plus condition. Bound in patterned light brown cloth rebacked with brown cloth. The majority of previous spine preserved including back labels with gilt lettering. Some chipping and rubbing to boards. Includes 20 engraved plates by Blake after drawings by Mulready including frontispieces one for each tale told within some plates offset onto the facing page including the title page for volume two. Some foxing/spotting throughout. With the bookplate of English Novelist Hugh Walpole on front pastedowns of both volumes; small bookseller sticker to front pastedown of volume one. shelved case 0. Lamb says in his preface that he "wished to make these Tales easy reading for young children.for young ladies too it has been my intention chiefly to wrote because boys are generally permitted the use of their fathers' libraries at a much earlier age than girls are they frequently have the best of Shakespear by heart before their sisters are permitted to look into this manly book";<br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> Hugh Walpole was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s with a large and varied output. Between 1909 and 1941 he wrote thirty-six novels five volumes of short stories two original plays and three volumes of memoirs. His range included disturbing studies of the macabre children's stories and historical fiction most notably his Herries Chronicle series set in the Lake District. He worked in Hollywood writing scenarios for two Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films in the 1930s and played a cameo in the 1935 version of David Copperfield. As a gay man at a time when homosexual practices were illegal for men in Britain Walpole conducted a succession of intense but discreet relationships with other men and was for much of his life in search of what he saw as "the perfect friend". He eventually found one a married policeman with whom he settled in the English Lake District. Having as a young man eagerly sought the support of established authors he was in his later years a generous sponsor of many younger writers. He was a patron of the visual arts and bequeathed a substantial legacy of paintings to the Tate Gallery and other British institutions. wikipedia. 1302843. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. M. J. Godwin hardcover
1935050551New York City: E. P. Dutton 1935. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Xv 110 Pp. Red Cloth Gilt. First American Printing 1935 In The Dutton Dust Jacket With This Title Fifth From End In List On Rear Flap. Book Fine Gift Inscription Dated 1937. Dust Jacket With Light Wear 1" Tear At Bottom Of Rear Spine Edge. Complete Sets Of The New Temple Shakespeare In Jacket Are Available But Not In First Printings. <br/> <br/> E. P. Dutton hardcover
009237Los Angeles: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Booksellers 1974. Book. Fine. Hardcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY PUBLISHER. Limited and Numbered First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. #105 of 120 copies printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at The Plantin Press Los Angeles completed April 1974. "The entire edition subscribed for by Jacob Israel Zeitlin & Josephine ver Brugge Zeitlin." Association Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY PUBLISHER at colophon page "for Gary Jake". From the collection of Gary Steigerwald at the time of publication a young bookseller working for Jake Zeitlin. In lovely Max J. Adjarian binding his small label to upper left corner of front pastedown of quarter brown morocco over patterned paper boards.and complementary custom clamshell case of quarter brown morocco over grey buckram boards with beige felt lining stamp-signed "Frank Burton". Both are Fine. SCARCE Association Copy. Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Booksellers, Hardcover
Two Volumes. pp. 535; 602, (8) + Engraved title + 35 plates. With engraved illustrations in the text. Illustrated with numerous full page engravings and lithographs of views, buildings, maps, drawings, etc. One plate in hand color. Marbled endpapers. Text and plates have some foxing. Some offsetting from plates. Top edges gold. Deckle edges. 4to. 290 mm. Half leather over marbled boards. Raised bands. Spines decorated and lettered in gold. Inked ownership of Miss Ann Willcox on top of preface pages and elsewhere. Bookplate of Redmond Conyngham in both volumes. Redmond Conygham (1781-1846) was born in Philadelphia. He inherited from his paternal grandfather an estate in the county Donegal, Ireland, yielding L2,000 a year, and subsequently spent some time in Ireland. During his stay abroad he became intimate with Curran, Grattan, and other prominent Irishmen, including his cousin, William Conyngham Plunket, afterward lord-chancellor of Ireland. On his return to the U.S. he settled in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and was active in state and local politics. He then removed to Lancaster County, where he devoted much of his leisure to antiquarian research. Issued as a limited edition, less than 500 copies were printed. A very good copy of this handsome and informative book. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! LivRm
