Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Co., 1920. First edition of this collection of personal narratives of Confederate women. With four photo plates (including frontispiece). Some dustsoiling to cloth. Ink ownership signature (1921) of a Mrs. E.L. Merry to front pastedown. Foxing to a few leaves. One plate loose, laid in at.....
[ Portland, Oregon: ]: Terrace Yarn Shop, 1949. The Terrace Yarn Shop issued the Terrace Textures guidebooks beginning in 1949. OCLC records two similar titles, a 1957 issue at the Smithsonian and an undated issue at San Francisco State, and a series of issues (1949 – 1954) at Surrey Public.....
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[ London: Day and Son, 1865 ]. First edition thus. The poem was originally published in 1816. [20] ff. chromolithograph plates (printed on one side only). Beautifully illuminated by Audsley with decorations by W.R. Tymms. Expertly recased. Slight rubbing to extremities. Faint contemporary ink signature to front flyleaf. A very.....
Newark, Vermont: The Janus Press, 1980. One of forty-five numbered copies. Another forty hors commerce copies were inscribed to patrons, participants, and organizations involved in the Bread and Puppet Theater production. The recording was produced in an edition of one thousand. Every page illustrated with color relief prints by Claire.....
London: Grant and Griffith, 1855. First edition of this collection of didactic stories for children. With a frontispiece and three other engraved plates. Binding is bright and attractive. Pale yellow endpapers. Minor foxing. A very good copy of the first book written collaboratively by sisters Mary and Elizabeth Kirby. Original.....
Berkeley: Peter Koch, 1998. One of seventy numbered copies, signed by Wagener. Designed and printed on Zerkall paper by Peter Koch and Richard Wagnener. Twenty-six full-page wood-engravings, one for each letter of the alphabet, with short prose statements on facing pages. Twenty-six smaller woodcut section titles in red. Fine in.....
Claremont, California: Scripps College Press, 2003. One of ninety copies. Signed by Kitty Maryatt and the seven students who contributed to the project. Color-illustrated on almost every page using a combination of linoleum block printing, ink, pochoir, and colored pencil, along with mounted fabric. Printed on Zerkall Book Laid paper.....
Sedro-Wooley [WA]: Grey Spider Press, 1996. One of 175 copies designed, printed, and bound by Chris Stern with assistance by Jules Remedios Faye. With seven tipped-in photomontages by the author. Printed letterpress in Caslon 337 and Bernhard Tango on Zerkall paper. Photomontages rendered in halftones by Dale Hart. Ornaments cast.....
[ Paris: Ernest Dieutegard, [later] Dieutegard & Doizey, Succrs, ca. 1895-1900.]. Embroidered and woven trimmings like those shown in the present album were in high demand at the end of the nineteenth century due to the rapidly expanding French fashion market and the growing relevance of French fashion in the.....
[ Upland, California:]: Blackbird Press, 2005. One of eighty copies signed by Goldenthal, Simon, Gillingwators, and Alquitela. With eighteen prints of Baila Goldenthal’s paintings from photos by Michael Honer and Michael Nelson. Type is handset Optima and Times New Roman printed with a Vandercook Universal on Zerkall Book paper. The.....
[ Sherman Oaks, California:]: Ninja Press, 2001. One of one hundred numbered copies signed, numbered, and ink stamped by the poet. Twelve letters hors commerce copies were also produced. With three platinum print photographs taken by Carolee Campbell and printed by Gordon Mark. Hand-set Meridien printed by Campbell on Moulin.....
[Sherman Oaks, California:]: Ninja Press, [2007]. One of a hundred copies signed by the author. A fine copy of an out-of-print Ninja Press book. Quarter green leather over flax paper-covered boards, hand-coated with a mixture of ochre pigment and fine volcanic pumice. In purple cloth chemise, together with separate chapbook.....
[Sherman Oaks, CA:]: Ninja Press, 2009. One of eighty-five copies signed by the printer and the poet. This is one of the most ambitious projects of Carolee Campbell's press, which was founded in 1984. 'Dispatches from the Lizard Brain: A Descriptive Bibliography of Ninja Press,' finely printed by Russell Maret.....
London: George Philip & Son, 1890. First edition. OCLC records only four copies of this edition, all in the UK: Cambridge, BL, National Library of Scotland, University of Newcastle. Wear and soiling to cloth. Contemporary ink ownership signature of the Montreal Infant School to front flyleaf. Some dustsoiling. A decent.....
New York: Putnam's, 1914. First edition. The publisher’s preface notes that the present work was published posthumously from a manuscript found in the author’s papers. Title-page in red and black. Faint soiling to cloth in a couple places. Top edge gilt. Contemporary ink gift signature to front flyleaf: “Merry Christmas.....
New York: A.S., Barnes & Co., 1945. First edition, an introductory work of music and songbook for children. Reprinted at least seven times between 1845 and 1860. Binding extremities a bit rubbed, minor soiling to boards. Trivial foxing, light intermittent staining, touching text at times, but never affecting legibility. A......
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1880. First edition. Some dampstaining to boards. Toning to endpapers. Very clean inside. A very good copy. Original cream-colored paper boards, neatly rebacked, with modern paper spine label. Octavo. 58 pp. After a perusal of my list I think every gentleman will agree with me that Ladies.....
London: Printed for John Murray, 1817. First edition. Twentieth century bookplate of an A.R. Turner to front pastedown. Still quite fresh throughout despite some foxing. A very good, clean copy. Contemporary calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt rule and red morocco label. Octavo. vii, 351 pp. In June of.....
[London:]: Emily Faithfull, Victoria Press, [n.d., 1868]. Twenty-nine chromolithograph plates (each with a blank protective page) plus 9 pages of descriptions of the plates. The plates include depictions of the Ark of the Covenant with cherubim, enclosed in a 15th century-style border (plate #4); the emblems of 12 saints, including.....
[Pico Rivera, California: Mel Cavin, 1994]. One of 500 copies. Signed by all eight contributors. Seven wood engravings by John DePol. Text designed by Ward Ritchie and printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press. Two-page title decorated and ruled in gilt. Gilt chapter headings. Edited by David.....
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1940. First edition of this teacher’s edition instructional folio, the first primer in the Easy Growth in Reading series. Every page illustrated in color. With text leaf of instructions for teachers at end of work. Some light wear. One page with a tear at.....
[ Berkeley California: ca. 1930s]. A unique item. Block printing was a fixture of many school art classes during the 1910s-30s. California was a hub of block print making during the Arts & Crafts movement, with iconic California artists like Pedro Lemos (1882 – 1958) publishing art education books that.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863, First American edition. A London edition was published in the same year. OCLC records no physical copies of the present edition and seven copies of the London (four in North America). Spine sunned. Spot of soiling to front board. Contemporary ink gift inscription to.....
[ London: Ernest Nister, 1896]. First edition. With over a hundred attractive color-printed vignettes illustrating words beginning with each letter of the alphabet. Some dustsoiling and dampstaining to boards. Very bright inside despite some light toning to margins. A very good copy of a scarce and attractive book of educational.....
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Portland, Oregon: [ca. 1912]. With thirty-one mounted fabric sewing samples and a paper pattern. All text in manuscript (in black and blue ink). Each sample with a project title and explanatory text detailing the assignment and the student’s process. Some creasing and chipping to wrappers. Some toning and offsetting to.....
