Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1981. Limited edition. Fine. Publisher's cloth binding, black leather lettering label, gilt, on the upper board. This edition of Le Guin's short story was finely printed at the Lord John Press in an edition of 300 copies in wraps, and 50 signed deluxe copies specially...
Wolfville, Nova Scotia: The Wombat Press, (1978). Limited edition. Hardcover. 8VO. XI,(1),26,(2) pp. Grey cloth spine, gilt; paper over boards with a gilt vignette on the upper board. Color frontispiece; 16 full page plates of which 2 are in full color. One of 500 numbered copies of which this...
Santa Fé: The Press at the Palace of the Governors, 2012. First edition. Wraps. 8vo. Unpaginated. (12pp.) One of 200 copies. Finely printed by letterpress at the Palace Press on Hahnmuhle paper. "Santa" s a local nickname for Santa Fé, which itself is a short form of "La Villa Real...
New Castle: Cheap Street, (1983). Illustrated by Alicia Austin. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Bound in quarter morocco, handmade paper boards and silver spine titles. Housed in the publisher's slipcase. A fine copy. One of 44 copies of the Publisher's Edition, from a total edition of 177 copies. Signed by both...
St. Petersburg: Dmitry Sayenko; Nikodim, 2018. Limited edition. Hardcover. Two volumes, folio. Slipcased. One of 20 copies signed by Owens and Sayenko in the colophon. Prospectus laid in. The volumes are in fine, as new condition; the slipcase has a tiny bump on one corner else is fine. The main...
Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press and published by the Press for Basil Blackwell, 1934. Limited edition. Fine. 4to. Two volumes. (4),xxviii,316;(4)273,(3)pp. One of 370 copies on handmade paper (of which 350 are for sale), this being copy number 268. One of the few copies bound in full brick-red morocco. Printed in...
n.p. Printed by the author, c. 1987. Limited edition. Hardcover. 2¼ by 3 inches. Blue leather blocked in gilt on the upper board with the title and a drawing of a flower. Unpaginated. Each page of text is faced with an illustration handcolored by the author-printer. One of 100 numbered...
Tilton, NH: Hilside Pres, 1972. Limited edition. Hardcover. Miniature: 1-7/8 by 2¼ inches. Peach colored cloth boards blocked with an illustration of an elf beneath a mushroom on the upper boards and with the spine title in black. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Herford. Nine full page full...
Leeds: The Elmete Press, 1978. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. 104pp. Illustrated index. Finely printed on rag-made paper from St. Cuthbert's Mill. Full brown leather, gilt spine title, gilt vignette on the upper board. Top edge gilt. Dark brown endpapers. Printed letterpress, with many pages in two colors. Number 8...
n.p. The Bird & Bull Press, 1967. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 121pp. Quarter morocco, gilt spine title, decorated paper boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Finely printed on Green's hand-made 'Bird & Bull' paper. Bound in are paper samples made at the press and at other places, as well as a....
Long Credon: Seven Acres Press, (19297). Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Title page printed in red, blue and green. Illustrations and versal letters engraved on wood by the printer, Loyd Haberly. Printed in three colors throughout on handmade paper. One of 125 copies of which this is No. 26. Full brown...
Yellow Springs, Ohio: Kahoe & Company, 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. One of 25 numbered copies. Thin 12mo. (5 by 8 inches.) Cream-colored cloth spine, printed lettering label, brown paper with flecks of dark and gold over boards. Title page in red and black. Unpaginated (32pp.) A fine copy with only...
Santa Fé: Press at the Palace of the Governors, 1995. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio: 9½ by 15 inches. Twenty-five hand-colored prints of saints, each mounted onto a die-cut paper triptych with letterpress text and with embossed and curved upper margin. The artwork is by Catherine Ferguson, and Spanish Colonial Arts...
Manhasset, NY: Stone Stable Press, 1940. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 8pp. Publisher's green paper boards, printed label on upper board. Three pages of "Saint Nicholas Nonsense" signed "Q.E.F." Printed in red and black. One of 222 copies printed in Goudy mediaeval, of which none were for sale. A fine copy...
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1958. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. (81)pp. Linen spine, printed paper label, blue paper over boards. One of 400 copies finely printed letterpress on Tweedweave laid paper. A fine copy. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Anges Tobin's niece.
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1932. Limited edition. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. 59, (5)pp. Cased in white buckram heavily blocked in gilt with designs by Rickets. Top edge gilt in the rough. Finely printed by George W. Jones at the Dolphin Press on Van Gelder paper with the Nonesuch watermark, One of...
Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1924. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Vellum spine, paper over boards. One of 325 copies of which this is No. 239. Vellum a little rough in places, paper worn at corners and a small chip on the reverse, else this is a very good copy. The...
North Hills, PA. Bird & Bull Press, 1970. Limited edition. Hardcover. 9-1/2 by 12 inches. 13 pages plus catalogue facsimile in pocket at rear board. Cloth spine with marbled paper boards. Typical slight discoloration in gutters which continues into text, but fades as it gets away from boards, appears to...
Boston; Lexington: David R. Godine; The Anvil Press; Stamperia Valdonega, 1978, Limited editions. Hardcover. Two volumes, 4to. Both finely printed at the Stamperia Voldonega by Martino Mardersteig. The first volume is limited to 500 copies, this copy unnumbered. the second volume is numbered 550 copies, of which this is No...
St Petersburg: Nikodim, (2019). Limited edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. (48p). Text and linocut illustrations taken directly form the blocks by Sayenko. Grey linen boards with a linocut recessed in the upper board. Illustrated throughout with over 80 of Dmitry's linocuts printed directly on dampened handmade paper from the blocks. The...
New Castle: Oak Knoll Books ;BIrd & Bull Press, 1990. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. 55(5)pp. Deep red quarter cloth, leather label, gilt; side papers based on an original Remondidi pattern printed over a paste-colored background. With woodblocks and engravings. A fine copy. One of 250 numbered copies of which this...
Santa Fe: The Press of the Palace of the Governors, 2013. Softcover. Accordion style book, 5 inches high by about 8 inches long. Printed in silver on black paper. An excerpt from 'Macbeth': "Tomorrow & tomorrow & tomorrow...." he text is bound into black boards, with the upper board simply...
Santa Fe: The Press of the Palace of the Governors, 2013. Limited edition. Softcover. Accordion style book, 7 inches high by about five feet long. Printed in silver on Arches Cover Black paper on the Press' Vandercook 4. The typography is properly labeled in the Colophon as iconoclastic 'Shishkabob' which...
Provo: Friends of the Brigham Young University Library, 1975. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. (xi), 59pp. Includes the essays by Spartano, "Dante Alighieri, Universal Poet", and Flake, "Boninus de Boninis in the History of Printing". Red cloth spine, white buckram printed in a design taken from a woodcut. Finely printed at...
Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1953. Decorations by John Austen and Illustrations Engraved in Wood by Agnes Miller Parker. Limited edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Full green buckram stamped in gilt. Printed in monotrype Garamond on William Nash rag paper. A fine set. The dustwrappers are present...
