Private press books with a focus on the Derrydale Press, the Hakluyt Society, the Ashendene Press, Eric Gill, William Morris, the Kelmscott Press, the Grabhorn Press and the Limited Editions Club.
Boston: David R. Godine, 1981. Copy number G of only 10 copies of the First Edition Deluxe, produced... Read More about Slave to Beauty: The Eccentric Life and Controvertial Career of F. Holland Day, Photographer,...
Price: $1,250
London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston...for the Editor, [1867]. Printed Whittingham & Wilkins at the Chiswick Press. Anti-Catholic rant against Transubstantiation. Read More about Chemical Change in the Eucharist. In four letters shewing the relations of faith to sense from...
Price: $125
Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1939. Limited edition of 650. Read More about Radical Literature in America An Address by Frederick B. Adams, Jr. To Which Is Appended a...
Price: $150
New York: H. Bittner & Company, 1944. Kredel, Fritz. One of 500 copies printed by hand by Victor & Jacob Hammer at the Wells College Press. The first book the Hammers printed at Wells College. Holbrook notes that the charming Kredel woodcuts are colored “in some copies”, as here —..... Read More about The Three-Cornered Hat
Price: $300
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1985. Reprint edition, one of 750 copies. Read More about The Allen Press Bibliography. A Facsimile with Original Leaves and Additions to Date
Price: $250
San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 1985. Reprint edition, one of 750 copies. Read More about The Allen Press Bibliography. A Facsimile with Original Leaves and Additions to Date …
Price: $300
[Kenftfield, Ca.]: Printed and Published by Mallette Dean [Laid out and designed at the Allen Press], 1959. Dean, Mallette. One of 200 copies. Read More about The Duchow Journal. A Voyage from Boston to California 1852. Foreword by George P. Hammond
Price: $300
[Kenftfield, Ca.]: Printed and Published by Mallette Dean [Laid out and designed at the Allen Press], 1959. Dean, Mallette. One of 200 copies. Read More about The Duchow Journal. A Voyage from Boston to California 1852. Foreword by George P. Hammond
Price: $400
Kentfield, Ca: The Allen Press, 1974. One of 140 copies. Read More about The Temptation of Saint Anthony. Translated by Lafcadio Hearn and Edited by Francis Carmody
Price: $400
Kentfield, Calif: The Allen Press, 1972. One of 140 copies designed, printed, and published by Lewis and Dorothy Allen. Read More about Christopher Columbus
Price: $600
Kentfield, California: The L-D Allen Press, 1954. Dean, Malette. One of 175 copies. The typeface is Romanée, set by hand: the paper is Crown & Sceptre, hand-made in England. Printed on an Acorn Press. Read More about The Private Journals of Stendahl, 1811-1817. Selected & Newly Translated by Francis Carmody
Price: $350
Cagne-sur-Mer, France: The L-D Allen Press, 1952. One of 300 copies. Read More about La Porte de Malétroit
Price: $300
Cagne-sur-Mer, France: Printed for the Book Club of California by The L-D Allen Press, 1952. One of 300 copies. Read More about La Porte de Malétroit
Price: $250
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1945. One of 250 Copies. The fourth book issued by the Allen Press. Read More about Heraldry of New Helvetia, with Thirty-Two Cattle Brands and Ear Marks Reproduced from the...
Price: $400
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1945. One of 250 copies. The fourth book issued by the Allen Press. Read More about Heraldry of New Helvetia, with Thirty-Two Cattle Brands and Ear Marks Reproduced from the...
Price: $425
Greenbrae, Ca: The Allen Press, 1984. Forgeois, Michèle. One of 140 copies. Fiftieth limited edition from the Allen Press. Read More about Jonah Judith Ruth
Price: $275
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. First edition, first state, No. 222 of 332 copies, signed by the author on the title page. Superior Copy. The mythic lumberjack (and Babe, his blue ox) in picture and poetry. Read More about Paul Bunyan and Resinous Rhymes of The North Woods
Price: $350
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. First edition, second state, no. 25 of 166 copies [first state, signed by author on title, consisted of 332 copies]. The mythic lumberjack (and Babe, his blue ox) in picture and poetry; very scarce. Read More about Paul Bunyan and Resinous Rhymes of The North Woods
Price: $375
New York: Targ Editions, 1983. First edition in English, one of 250 copies, signed by the Author. Read More about The Miracle of Birds. Translated by Barbara Shelby Merello
Price: $90
Lunenburg, Vt: The Stinehour Press, 1994. One of 200 copies. Contributions made by Dwight Agner at the Press of the Night Owl, Mark Argetsinger, Lowell Bodger, John DePol at the Endgrain Press, Morris Gelfand, Darrell Hyder at the Sun Hill Press, Steve Miller, Henry Morris, David Pankow, Gaylord Schanilec, Neil..... Read More about The American Printing History Association. A Type Miscellany Twentieth Anniversary Broadside...
Price: $600
Champlain, [New York]: Privately Printed at the Moorfield Press, 1931. First edition, limited to 58 numbered copies. Thomas Nye's 1837 account of his journey to marry Corrina Bowman of Duncklee's Grove, Illinois, describing his travels from Montreal to Chicago, through the Great Lakes, including mention of Cleveland, Detroit, Lake Michigan..... Read More about TWO LETTERS OF THOMAS NYE, Relating to A Journey from Montreal to Chicago in 1837. Edited by Hugh...
Price: $75
Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1978. Number 8 of 15 copies on Saunders, signed by the author and specially bound. One of 15 Copies, Signed. Kingsley Amis writes a fine Sherlock Holmes pastiche, a late memoir of Doctor Watson, first published in shortened form in Playboy for May 1978. Watson had..... Read More about The Darkwater Hall Mystery
Price: $1,750
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Parma: Bodoni, 1791. One of 150 copies. One of two Bodoni editions of Anacreon published in 1791. "The [Bodoni Anacreon] editions of 1785 and 1791 are printed in capital letters, and more elegant and exquisitely finished productions cannot be conceived" (Dibdin_. Read More about Anakreontos Teiou Mele [Greek] Praefixo Commentario Quo Poëtae Genus Traditur et Bibliotheca...
Price: $500
London: William Bulmer, 1802. Bulmer's Greek type is perfectly complemented by the simple head and tailpiece vignettes. Read More about Odaria. Ad textus Bernesiani fidem emendata
Price: $250
London: William Pickering, 1847. First Pickering edition, reprinted from the 1845 privately printed edition. Colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and Charles Cotton, by a noted collector of Walton and Johnsoniana With 2-page ad for Pickering's "Books on Angling" at the front. Read More about The River Dove. With some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling
Price: $350
Boston: Berkley Updike, The Merrymount Press, 1896. French-fold. Read More about The Nightingale. Translation by H.W. Dulcken
Price: $250