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Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books …...
Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson, London, 1758. First Baskerville edition. Vol. I, p.... Read More
Price: $1,500
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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.
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Chemical Change in the Eucharist. In four letters shewing the relations of faith to sense from the French of Jacquws...
London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston...for the Editor, [1867]. Printed Whittingham & Wilkins at the Chiswick Press. Anti-Catholic rant against Transubstantiation. Read More
Price: $125
The Creation. Lines from the Old Testament and From Paradide Lost.
Manchester: [1977]. Number 90 of 135 copies sgned by the Artist printed on Jaopanese paper. Read More
Price: $250
Radical Literature in America An Address by Frederick B. Adams, Jr. To Which Is Appended a Catalogue of an Exhibition...
Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1939. Limited edition of 650. Read More
Price: $150
The Three-Cornered Hat.
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
Price: $300
The Allen Press Bibliography. A Facsimile with Original Leaves and Additions to Date.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1985. Reprint edition, one of 750 copies. Read More
Price: $250
The Allen Press Bibliography. A Facsimile with Original Leaves and Additions to Date ….
San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 1985. Reprint edition, one of 750 copies. Read More
Price: $300
The Duchow Journal. A Voyage from Boston to California 1852. Foreword by George P. Hammond.
[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
Price: $300
The Duchow Journal. A Voyage from Boston to California 1852. Foreword by George P. Hammond.
[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
Price: $400
The Temptation of Saint Anthony. Translated by Lafcadio Hearn and Edited by Francis Carmody.
Kentfield, Ca: The Allen Press, 1974. One of 140 copies. Read More
Price: $400
Christopher Columbus.
Kentfield, Calif: The Allen Press, 1972. One of 140 copies designed, printed, and published by Lewis and Dorothy Allen. Read More
Price: $600
The Private Journals of Stendahl, 1811-1817. Selected & Newly Translated by Francis Carmody.
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
Price: $350
La Porte de Malétroit.
Cagne-sur-Mer, France: The L-D Allen Press, 1952. One of 300 copies. Read More
Price: $300
Heraldry of New Helvetia, with Thirty-Two Cattle Brands and Ear Marks Reproduced from the Original Certificates Issued at Sutter's Fort...
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1945. One of 250 Copies. The fourth book issued by the Allen Press. Read More
Price: $400
Heraldry of New Helvetia, with Thirty-Two Cattle Brands and Ear Marks Reproduced from the Original Certificates Issued at Sutter's Fort...
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1945. One of 250 copies. The fourth book issued by the Allen Press. Read More
Price: $425
The Noble Knight Paris & the Fair Vienne. (Translated from the French by William Caxton).
[Kentfield, Calif: Allen Press, 1956]. Dean, Mallette , & Dorothy Allen. One of 130 copies set in Van Krimpen's Romanee types on Val de Laga French paper. Read More
Price: $400
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Paul Bunyan and Resinous Rhymes of The North Woods.
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
Price: $350
Paul Bunyan and Resinous Rhymes of The North Woods.
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
Price: $375
The Miracle of Birds. Translated by Barbara Shelby Merello.
New York: Targ Editions, 1983. First edition in English, one of 250 copies, signed by the Author. Read More
Price: $90
Odaria. Ad textus Bernesiani fidem emendata.
London: William Bulmer, 1802. Bulmer's Greek type is perfectly complemented by the simple head and tailpiece vignettes. Read More
Price: $250
The River Dove. With some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling.
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
Price: $350
The Nightingale. Translation by H.W. Dulcken.
Boston: Berkley Updike, The Merrymount Press, 1896. French-fold. Read More
Price: $250
The Snow Queen. A Tale of Seven Stories. Translated by Patricia L. Conroy and Sven H. Rossel. Postscript by Erik...
Herning, Denmark: Poul Kristensen, 1986. One of 26 copies (none for sale, signed by the artist.) Printed in linophoto Baskerville. Read More
Price: $400
Tally Ho! 400 Years of Foxhunting Books, Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings from the collection of Duncan Andrews.
[New York]: An Exhibition at the Grolier Club, December 10, 1975 - January 17, 1976. First edition. One of 1000 copies printed at the Harbor Press. A fine exhibition of sporting books with very informed comments by Mr. Andrews, a preeminent collector of sporting books. Now a standard reference. Read More
Price: $50
Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle. From the Book of St. Albans … With an Introductory Essay on the Contemplative...
New York: Scribners, 1903. Limited to 160 copies on hand-made paper. Read More
Price: $1,500