This week we present a selection from our stock of Private Press books, including titles from early presses (Lee Priory and Daniel), presses of the Arts & Craft movement and into the early 20th century (Doves, Kelmscott, Ashendene, Cresset, Gregynog), presses that straddled the private/mass market divide (Nonesuch, Limited Editions Club, Golden Cockerel), press associated with specific authors or movements (Dun Emer and Cuala, Seizin, Mountain House), continental European presses (Bremer, Officinal Bodoni), American presses and printers (Grabhorn, John Henry Nash, Edwin Rudge, Thomas Bird Mosher, D.B. Updike and Merrymount), Parisian expatriate presses (Black Sun, Three Mountains), modern and contemporary private presses (Bird & Bull, Arion, Cheloniidae) and a selection of works designed by Bruce Rogers.
Price: $1,250
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1930. Angelo, Valenti. Number 160 of 200 copies (175 for sale). Read More Item Details for The Subtyl Historyes and Fables of Esope Translated out of Frensshe into Englysshe by William Caxton of Wesmynster in the Yere of our Lorde mcccclxxxiii Add to Wish List
Item #306689
Price: $400
San Francisco: Printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn for John Howell at the Sign of the Open Book, 1930. From an edition limited to 580 copies, this is one of 515 copies in the "Colonial Edition" From an edition limited to 580 copies (this is one of 515 copies in..... Read More Item Details for An Original Leaf from the Bible of the Revolution. And an Essay Concerning It … by Edwin Grabhorn Add to Wish List
Item #253119
Price: $4,000
[New York]: [William Edwin Rudge; The Viking Press], 1928-1937. One of 570 numbered copies, this being no. 252, designed by Bruce Rogers. This set was designed by Bruce Rogers in the last of his eight years at William Rudge's plant. The acquisition of the papers by Isham is itself a...... Read More Item Details for Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle in the collection of Lt.-Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham. Prepared for the Press by Geoffrey Scott. [With:] Boswell's Journal of the Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson [and:] Index Add to Wish List
Item #301136
Price: $2,000
[Munich: Bremer Presse, 1924]. No. 93 of 385 copies printed. Read More Item Details for De Civitate Dei Libri XXII Add to Wish List
Item #40225
Price: $1,250
[Munich: Bremer Presse, 1932]. First edition, no. 61 of 85 copies, signed by Martin Bodmer on the colophon. One of 85 copies. Scarce trial specimen in preparation for a proposed edition of Goethe. Read More Item Details for Die Echten Ausgaben von Goethes Faust Add to Wish List
Item #223947
Price: $750
[Williamsburg, Massachusetts]: Cheloniidae Press, 1983. Robinson, Alan James. Deluxe Edition, No. 30 of 90 copies, printed on Fabriano Perusia. Read More Item Details for Tortoises. Six Poems by D.H. Lawrence...With an Introduction by Jefferson Hunter Add to Wish List
Item #33560
Price: $150
Philadelphia: Printed at the Gehenna Press in Northampton, Mass for the Rosenbach Foundation, 1966. No. 65 of 1100 copies. Read More Item Details for Conrad's Manifesto: Preface to a Career Add to Wish List
Item #302394
Price: $16,500
London: The Cresset Press, 1929. Copy number one of only 30 numbered copies on hand-made paper. 105 Drawings. Together with all 105 original signed drawings, those for the frontispieces hand-colored, together with a separate proof for each of the frontispieces, hand-colored and signed by the artist, the majority of the..... Read More Item Details for The Palace of Pleasure With an Introduction by Hamish Miles Add to Wish List
Item #222936
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Price: $12,500
Churchtown & Dublin: Dun Emer and Cuala Press, 1908-1915. One of 300 copies. The beautiful periodical of verse and images produced by the Cuala Press, each number with three illustrations by Jack B. Yeats, who also contributed many of the poems under pseudonyms R.E. McGowan and W.T. MacGowan. The present..... Read More Item Details for A Broadside. Published Monthly … [Cuala Press Broadsides. First Series] Add to Wish List
Item #265275
![Item #300754 The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo [together with] Tootleoo Two. Bernard and Elinor Darwin](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/300754.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1427982683)
Price: $1,350
London: The Nonesuch Press, [1925, 1927]. First editions. In Dust Jackets. Read More Item Details for The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo [together with] Tootleoo Two Add to Wish List
Item #300754
Price: $1,000
New York: The Sarabande Press, October, 1982. Number 18 of 20 copies. The paper designed by Karen Miles, and made, with the assistance of Beverly Van Ness, at the Russell-Fleming Papermill. Read More Item Details for A Poem by Emily Dickinson ("Under the Light, yet under") Add to Wish List
Item #226790
Price: $750
Hammersmith: The Doves Press, n.d. ca. 1903. Pages 21-2, 65-6, 71-74 & 93-4 of Isaiah. Read More Item Details for 4 single leaves and one conjugate leaf, from the Doves Press Bible from the Book of Isaiah Add to Wish List
Item #255275
Price: $1,000
Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1923. First edition, Copy No. 234 of 300. One of 300 Copies. Read More Item Details for Women & Men Add to Wish List
Item #54227
Price: $2,000
Wellingborough: The September Press, 1988. One of 80 copies in full leather from a full edition of 600 numbered copies. Specially bound by Zaehnsdorf. Read More Item Details for The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ, According to the Authorized Version of King James I with decorations by Eric Gill; printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXXI Add to Wish List
Item #265829
Price: $250
[Northampton, Mass.]: The Gehenna Press, 1962. No. 42 of 500 copies, signed by Leonard Baskin. First of the Gehenna Essays in Art. Read More Item Details for Four Portrait Busts by Francesco Laurana. With an Introductory Essay by Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy Add to Wish List
Item #218726
Price: $125
[Northampton, Mass.]: The Gehenna Press, [April , 1968]. One of 250 copies. The papers are Nideggens and Fabriano blue and white. Read More Item Details for Culs de Lampe Add to Wish List
Item #33557
Price: $175
[Berkshire]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. Gibbings, Robert. One of 600 copies, # 515. Read More Item Details for Count Stefan Add to Wish List
Item #236744
Price: $4,000
New York: Printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn for Random House, 1928. Angelo, Valenti. No. 56 of 150 copies, SIGNED by Angelo. A superb example of the Grabhorn expertise, one of the Fifty Books of the Year; Rudolph Koch's Gothic type (Bibel Gotisch) is used here for the first time..... Read More Item Details for The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt. Which treateth of the Weye to Hierusalem and of the Marvayles of Inde, with Other Ilands and Countryes Add to Wish List
Item #236765
Price: $750
Newtown, Wales: Printed by James Wardrop at the Gregynog Press, 1938. Stone, Reynolds. No. 81 of 400 copies. A little gem of a book, one of the most charming of the Gregynog's books, with exquisite engravings by Stone. Read More Item Details for The Praise and Happinesse of the Countrie-Life. Written originally in Spanish … Put into English by H. Vaughan, Silurist. Reprinted from the edition of 1651 Add to Wish List
Item #233845
Price: $900
London: Nonesuch Press, 1924-27. GOODEN, Stephen. One of an edition of 1000 copies on Japon vellum paper. One of the great early books of the Nonesuch Press, and Stephen Gooden's second book commission, after the Nonesuch Anacreon of 1923. The fragile binding of the trade issue (later acknowledged by Meynell..... Read More Item Details for The Holy Bible Add to Wish List
Item #300712
Price: $6,000
Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1927. First edition, Copy No. 95 of 200 signed and numbered by Dard Hunter. William Joseph "Dard" Hunter was an American authority on printing, paper, and papermaking -- he was particularly focused on hand-made paper and traditional Western and non-Western papermaking. He learned extensively about the..... Read More Item Details for Primitive Papermaking Add to Wish List
Item #38431
Price: $500
Dundrun: The Dun Emer Press, 1904. First edition, one of two hundred twenty copies. ‘The Dark Angel’ and other poems. Lionel Johnson (1867-1902), educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, affiliated with the Rhymers’ Club, is also remembered as having introduced Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas. “Yeats, who remembered..... Read More Item Details for Twenty One Poems ... Selected by William Butler Yeats Add to Wish List
Item #244759
Price: $1,500
[New York & New Fairfield, Ct: Press of William Edwin Rudge, 1933]. First edition, one of 200 copies. Inscribed from BR to Philip Duschnes. Inscribed on the first blank “Philip C. Duschnes with the regards of Bruce Rogers Christmas 1934” The scarce privately printed volume of letters from Lawrence to..... Read More Item Details for Letters from T.E. Shaw to Bruce Rogers Add to Wish List
Item #306042
Price: $3,500
Kent: Private Press of Lee Priory by Johnson and Warwick, 1815. First edition. ONLY COPY ON INDIA PAPER; and the other copy one of an edition of 80 copies. UNIQUE COPY ON INDIA PAPER, IN A HAYDAY BINDING. A lovely Hayday binding housing a regular copy and then another copy..... Read More Item Details for Breton's Praise of Virtuous Ladies. Edited by Egerton Brydges Add to Wish List
Item #257690
Price: $1,500
Kent: Printed at the private Press of Lee Priory: by John Warwick, 1820. Only one hundred copies printed. Read More Item Details for Woodcuts and Verses Add to Wish List
Item #257697
Price: $750
San Francisco: Printed for the Book Club of California by the Grabhorn Press, 1937. One of 265 regular copies of a total printing of 300. With 2 texts: "The Noblest Monument of English Prose" by John Livingston Lowes, & "The Printing of the King James Bible", by Louis I. Newman..... Read More Item Details for A Leaf From the 1611 King James Bible. With "the Noblest Monument of English Prose. " [and] "the Printing of the King James Bible. " Add to Wish List
Item #249112
Price: $300
San Francisco: John Henry Nash for William Andrews Clark, Jr, 1929. One of only 250 numbered copies. Second volume is facsimile reproduction of the first edition. Read More Item Details for All For Love or, the World well Lost: A Tragedy Add to Wish List
Item #248290
Price: $600
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Poulton, Thomas, & Sigrist, Charles. Number 1253 of 1600 copies. A beautifully produced volume (the title page alone went through 27 revisions), and the first edition of Walton's complete writings. Read More Item Details for The Compleat Angler; The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson; and Miscellaneous Writings. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes Add to Wish List
Item #52465
Price: $3,250
Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930. First edition, No. 5 of 50 COPIES printed on Japan Vellum and SIGNED BY POUND. One of 50. Read More Item Details for Imaginary Letters Add to Wish List
Item #34706
Price: $500
Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1923. First Edition, one of 300 copies printed on watermarked Rives handmade paper; this copy out-of-series. The Unbound Sheets. This pseudo-autobiographical work by Pound was the first book produced by Three Mountains Press. It is rare in unbound sheets. In this book, which disguises family names..... Read More Item Details for Indiscretions; or, Une Revue de Deux Mondes Add to Wish List
Item #8455
Price: $900
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1995. Limited edition, Copy "U' hors commerce of 26 copies of total edition 326 copies, signed by the author in pencil on limitation page. ONE OF 26. Read More Item Details for Call It Sleep Add to Wish List
Item #241312
Price: $750
[London: Nonesuch Press, n.d.]. Specimen sheet from the Nonesuch Pressfor a projected folio edition of Shakespeare, with variorum notes and stage directions in the margins. Read More Item Details for Proof Sheet for a Nonesuch Press edition in Folio of William Shakespeare Add to Wish List
Item #300755
Price: $300
San Francisco: Printed for Williams Andrews Clark, Jr., by John Henry Nash, 1922. No. 64 of 150 copies printed. The Nash Adonais and Facsimile. Beautiful Nash production and great homage to the poet. Issued with ADONAIS. Issue with a facsimile of the Pisa edition of 1821, in blue wrappers. The..... Read More Item Details for Adonais. An Elegy on the Dewath of John Keats Add to Wish List
Item #24413
Price: $650
Golden Cockerel, 1944. One of 50 copies with the facsimile letters; signed by the editor Walter Sidney Scott. Handsome volume recording the correspondence of a key period in Shelley’s life. Read More Item Details for Shelley at Oxford. The Early Correspondence of P.B. Shelley with his friend T.J. Hogg together with Letters of Mary Shelley and T.L. Peacock, and a hitherto unpublished prose fragment by Shelley Add to Wish List
Item #309503
Price: $2,500
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, [December], 1903. Second edition, one of 950 copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper. Mosher Piracy Signed by Yeats. Yeats did not approve of Mosher's piracies — this is the first Mosher title that we have seen signed by Yeats. Read More Item Details for The Land of Heart’s Desire Add to Wish List
Item #260874