New York: Knopf, 1958. First edition. Plates, plus three original paper samples—two bound in and one tipped in. Contains bibliography and index. Typography and binding designs by Rudolph Ruzicka. Very good in a good to very good, lightly faded dust jacket with some very minor soiling, a few small chips.....
Los Angeles: Printed and Designed by Graham Mackintosh for Friends of the UCLA Library, 1977. One of two hundred and fifty signed and numbered copies. 13 x 19 in light burgundy cloth portfolio with paste-on paper cover label. Contains 8 12 x 19 in letterpress broadsides held inside inner recto.....
Claremont [CA]: Privately printed, 1947. Blue green wrappers stitched at spine. Mild toning at wrapper fore-edges and spine. Chip at top-right front wrapper corner. Paperclip indent and rust marking first two leaves. Handwritten note on Dawson’s Book Shop stationery from Muir Dawson to a Ruth Louise Kestenbaum, dated August 20.....
[Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Verde Imprenta, 1975. One of about forty copies. “Printed on an 1853 Albion hand press by Ward Ritchie in his first experiment with nature printing.”. Illustrated with black and white leaf prints super-imposed over variously colored block backgrounds. Laguna Verde Imprenta colophon. Light toning to wrappers’.....
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1990. One of 450 copies printed by Meriden-Stinehour. Title and chapter headings set in Golden Cockerel type at the Rampant Lions Press. Forty-two illustrations, including facsimiles of the text, examples of other woodcuts by Gill, Gill letter designs, and images of the pressmen at.....
Pasadena: The Juniper Press, 1992. One of two hundred copies. Two tipped in photographs of Messrs. Dawson and Zeitlin. Prefatory note by printer Tyrus G. Harmsen. Ruled running-titles. A fine copy. White wrappers stitched at spine and stamped in red with “E D & J Z.” With original mailing envelope.....
[Los Angeles: The Plantin Press, 1970]. One of a small number of copies, the limitation of which is not stated, printed for friends of Saul and Lillian Marks. A fine copy with the original mailing envelope. Printed gray wrappers. 6.25 in x 4.5." [2], 17, + [1, colophon] pp. The.....
Bath: Clear Books, 2003. 2003. One of 500 copies, signed by the author. Fifty-nine illustrations, including seven facsimiles of letters plus wood engravings, colored reproductions of paintings and pencil drawings by the Raverats. Additionally, in a matching green paper folder, an engraving, “Vence, La Place en Eté,” printed by Simon.....
[South Pasadena, California: Ward Ritchie]. 1933. First edition, second issue, of a scarce item, printed by Ward Ritchie for Alice Millard for her exhibition of Doves Press books. The two issues, according to the Ritchie checklist, consisted of one of 125 copies, with a later reprint of 50 copies (as per The Ward Ritchie Press and.....
Richmond [Surrey, England]: The Hogarth Press, 1922. First edition, first binding. Pages 1-6 are publisher’s ads, normally bound at the end. Mild shelf wear to board extremities. Light staining at board edges. Some chipping and staining to spine label. Pencil annotations to text throughout, indicating edits and re-pagination for subsequent.....
Richmond [Surrey, England]: The Hogarth Press, 1921. Light shelf wear to head and foot of spine and board edges. Foxing to endpapers. Bookplate of previous owner (“L&D Lowenthal”) on first front free endpaper. Pages clean and bright. Strong binding. A very good copy. VII, [1 blank], 1-108 + 1 page.....
Los Angeles: Peggy Christian, 1972. One of 200 copies printed by Will Cheney at the Press in the Gatehouse at the Clark Library. With decorative initials. A couple of light scratches to spine but otherwise a fine copy in the original cream-colored stiff paper slipcase with the pink ribbon to.....
Richmond [Surrey, England]: The Hogarth Press, 1923. First edition, printed in an edition of 1,000 copies. “There is a secondary binding in grass-green cloth with white paper label on spine similar to the noted above. Mr. Leonard Woolf does not recall the reason for this, but thinks that the paper.....
[Los Angeles:]: Dawson's Book Shop, 1976. One of 190 copies printed by Cheney at the Auk Press. Eight half-tone illustrations, including a series of five photographs of Will Cheney and Jake Zeitlin taken by Grant Dahlstrom in 1955 and a photo of Cheney and Dahlstrom taken by Zeitlin. The frontispiece.....
Richmond [Surrey, England]: The Hogarth Press, 1922. First edition. Includes contemporary publisher’s note tipped in at title page indicating the erroneous omission of D.H. Lawrence’s name as a co-translator of the titular story. Very light rubbing to front board. Mild shelf wear to board edges. Toning and mild chipping to.....
New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, , [1982]. The acsimile edition is based on the Italian edition (Il codice sul volo degli uccelli nella Biblioteca reale di Torino, Florence: Giunti Barbera 1976), also edited by Augusto Marinoni; the text has been newly transliterated for the present work, so that the reading of earlier transcribers and the punctuation proposed by them.....
[New York: 1958]. One of two hundred copies signed and numbered by Frasconi. Printed by Igal Rodenko. Woodcuts printed from the original blocks. With ten woodcuts hand-colored by Frasconi. Paper is Hosho, handmade in Japan. Hand-colored vignette on title-page. Dedicated to the Spanish-Puerto Rican cellist Pablo Casals. A near fine.....
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1936. Eight images total: one folio of the two-part title-page, printed with one woodcut image on verso and one on recto, and the other six folios printed on inside rectos only witthe chapter heading images. A near fine set overall. Cream-colored medium-weight paper folders with.....
Los Angeles: The Press in the Gatehouse, 1963. One of 200 copies, letterpress printed by Cheney at the Clark Library. Bound by Bela Blau. Title page printed within a ruled border. With bibliography and index. A fine copy. Quarter brown calf, marbled paper over boards, spine titled in gilt. Miniature.....
Chicago: Alex T. Loyd & Co., 1885. First Loyd edition. There is also a Henry A. Sumner & Co. edition first printed in the same year. As both publishers operated in Chicago, and both issued variant editions of numerous Lynch titles, one may presume some connection between the two. OCLC.....
Chicaao: Alex T. Loyd & Co., 1886. First Loyd edition. There also exists a Chicago, Henry A. Sumner & Co. edition (1885), presumably printed from the same plates. OCLC records one copy of the present edition. Frontispiece + 49 illustrations. With publisher’s ads. Light shelfwear to head and foot of.....
New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1926. First edition. One black and white text illustration + one double page plate in appendix in black and red. With fifteen appendices. Very minor shelfwear to head and foot of spine. In publisher’s dust jacket, with slight tear to front cover fiit, Very mild.....
[n.p.:]: Printed with Care & Solicitude by the Ladies of the Distaff Side, 1950. With dozens of color and black-and-white illustrations from designs by William Caxton, Valenti Angelo, W.A. Dwiggins, Millard Sheets, Jeanyee Wong, and more. Each of the 14 excerpts included in the Sampler are set in a different.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923. First edition. Claghorn [1864-1938] was an author, sociologist, and faculty member at the New York School of Social Work from 1912 to 1932. She received her PhD from Yale, and initially began her work as assistant registrar and then registrar of New York’s Tenement.....
San Jose, CA: Monarch Match Co., [1959-1964]. First edition. OCLC lists five Monarch Match Co. catalogs, but none of this edition, and none so extensive. [Together with:] [Adverftising]. Book Matches. San Jose, CA: Monarch Match Co., [n.d,., early 1960s]. Quarto. 9 x 6 in. 4 pp.Printed in red, blue, and.....
