Syrinx Presse, 1968 Asi se toca. Portrait des Manitas de Plata.Traditionelle Flamencotexte. -- Block book, not paginated, with 5 linocuts. 22.5x22.5cm. boxed. *No 2 of 90 copies signed by the artist on the title page. Very well preserved. View More...
Limited Editions Club, 1987. No. 66 of a limited edition of only 550; Original Nigerian Oasis Goatskin leather, with hand-marbled paper sides., Good in very good slipcase; some abrasions and darkening to slipcase edges..The book has some foxing on the free endpapers and the text block edges. There is a small inactive bug hole trace on the top edge of the inside title page, the front free endpaper until the title page. Text pages are clean and undamaged.. Ships from Hawaii. View More...
Hardcover Fine hardcover, 20 pages, with letter from Ambrosio (with typed name), mentioning that "the cover is an original serigraph on Ingres paper over 4-ply rag boards" Also laid in is a folded brochure titled "An artist working in the book form: D'AMBROSIO" with yearly checklist of works until 1982 Ships with regualr mail, not slow media mail. View More...
Black Sparrow Press 1999, First Edition. Sharp copy of the definitive bibliography of Bukowski's work from 1946-1999. Limited Issue, No 277 of the De Luxe edition limited to 376 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray, each containing the previously unpublished broadside poem "Crime and Punishment," this being copy no.26. Octavo (23.75cm); printed paper-covered boards and teal cloth backstrip, with title label applied to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; 204,[4], with [92]pp of black and white photos of Bukowki's works bound in at center. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. -- Ships with... View More...
Yolla Bolly Press, 1991, No. 81 of only 70 copies made (of 100 for sale, 30 were bound in full leather, plus 20 for the press/collaborators). Prospectus laid in. -- Introduction by Page Smith. Illustrated with woodcuts by David Page. (Folio) 35x25 cm (13¾x9¾"), blindstamped black cloth, slipcase. Printed on mould-formed Lana Gravure paper. -- Some shelf wear to slipcase; very minimal wear to cover. Pages like new and prints fine. Signed in the colophon by Smith and Page. With the Ex-libris of Donald H Mader. Ships from Hawaii. -- The short stories of the Civil War by Bierce were the first to e... View More...
One of the rarest modern Ambrose Bierce editions. The Press at Colorado College, [1986]. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies (thi is no. 51) signed by LaFond, folio, 33 x 25 cm (13 x 9 x 34;") pp. [36]; printed in red and black; 7 full-page illustrations; fine in original red cloth stamped in blind on upper cover. View More...
Book Club of California, 1927. The Testimony of the Suns...Including Comments, Suggestions, and Annotations by Ambrose Bierce. A Facsimile of the Original Typewritten Manuscript with the marginal Notes by George Sterling in black ink and the comments by Ambrose Bierce in red ink. 35 pp. plus 12 pp. facsimiles of Sterling's original typed and hand-corrected manuscript tipped in. Folio, 14.5 x 10 inches. Original decorative boards. Fine, only very light browning of pages, and very small damage to the bottom of the spine. Ootherwise no damages to binding or pages. Ex-Libris of Thomas Wayne Norris... View More...
NEW, unread === No Reply Press, 2021. The edition is limited to 666 copies and is offered in four states. This is the hardbound edition, Limited to 350 copies, numbered variously between 1 and 600. For sale is number 203. Book measures 6 ¾ by 10 ¾ inches. Typeset in Perpetua, designed by Eric Gill. Printed by hand on Mohawk feltmark paper using a Vandercook Universal I cylinder press at Letterpress PDX in Portland, Oregon. Hand-bound in quarter-cloth with boards featuring letterpress portraits of Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes over Zerkall Ingres. Signed by the publisher, printer, binder, and... View More...
Limited Editions Club, 1984. Square hardcover in black cowhide leather designed and with twenty-two silkscreens by Sol Lewitt. No. 1007 of an edition of 1500 numbered copies. Text and illustrations crisp and clean. The free endpapers and the paper edges have some spotting. Ex-Libris of previous owner on inner cover. The slipcase has some shelfwear. The leatherbinding has faded on the spine, front and back are in very good condition.Monthly LEC newsletter laid in. In total a very good -. The spotting of the endpapers and the fading of the spine result in a low price. Ships from Hawaii with free... View More...
A fantastical work about an engineer who invents a machine to erase his memory Vian, Boris L''Herbe Rouge Color frontispiece, 5 hors texte, and 7 in-text etchings by Lars Bo 4to, contents loose as issued in decorated wrappers; terracotta cloth clamshell box. Large format (135 x 105 x 22 inches). Number XIV (imprime pour M. Alfred Chauvac); of 50 copies specially printed for members, from a total edition of 180 printed for members of Cercle Grolier and Societe les Centraux Bibliophiles, 1978. Loose Leaf. Very Good. Slipcase has light shelfwear, 2 corners bumped with small tear (see photo). page... View More...
Montagnola, Officina Bodoni, March 1925. 4to. pp. 4, 55, 1, colophon, 4pp. 1 of a limited, unnumbered edition of only 225 copies on paper (5 on vellum). Printed on Fabriano hand-made paper. Printed with the original Bodoni types Device on colophon printed in red, publisher's full vellum binding, Bodoni's device gilt blocked at center of front board, spine gilt lettered, No slipcase. Condition very good. Straight and firm binding, no damages to covers or pages. no foxing, paper edges slightly browned. Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade (within US). View More...
NEW, a beautifully printed book, signed by the author. Portland, Eberhardt Press 2022, 204 pages, 8 x 5.5 inches. Ships from Hawaii. The tramp printer was a typesetting troubadour with a story in lieu of a song, a scholarly hobo, and a master of the type case. Carrying little more than a union journeyman's card and a few basic tools, these "itinerant" typographers criss-crossed the continent for more than a century, train-hopping from newspaper to newspaper. To the tramp printer, personal autonomy and adventure were far more valuable than material possessions. Many of them were brilliant, lite... View More...
Folio Society, 2008. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. [Facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer.]. Edited by F.S. Ellis and illustrated by E. Burne-Jones. Large folio, (16.75" x 12.25" x 3.25") on laid paper, text in red and black throughout, with numerous fine illustrations and borders in the text; full brown buckram boards and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt top, brown endpapers, broad black silk marker. Housed in a solid board slip-case lettered in gilt. -- Condition, Book like new, the slipcase has some shelf wear. -. Superb facsimile of the Arts & Crafts classic. Includes... View More...
Still the best description of his life and work, supplemented with a large format folio with 138 quality reproductions of his work (printed in Japan). Published for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by The Harvard Univ. Press, 1939. Volume I is text, volume II is a portfolio of plates. Text volume viii, 545 pages, 30 cm. Hardcover. No dust jacket.as issued. Volume II, has all plates called for: 8 color and 138 collotype. 13-1/44" x 19-1/4". Collotypes by Otsuka Kogeisha, Tokyo, Color prints by Shozaburo Watanabe, Tokyo. Shipds from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade within US. Torii Kiyonaga... View More...
Folio Society, 2008', limited edition of 1980; a facsimile edition of one of the most stunning bestiaries from the mid-13th century which is now housed in the Bodleian Library. Full red goatskin leather binding, all paper edges gilt, four raised bands on the spine, ribbon marker. 135 miniatures with the original gold leaf reproduced in foiling. 282 pages in total, 12" x x7 3/4" x 1.5". Accompanied by a text volume with commentary and translation, and a protective buckram-bound solander case with leather title label. Condition: Book and commentary volume are like new. Very minimal shelf wear to... View More...
The LIMITED EDITION in a masterfully made wooden slipcase.This is no. 77 NEW, in original shipping case. Ships from Hawaii (with free Priority Mail upgrade within the US). Please ask for international shipping rates) The limited edition version of the book is a true work of art worthy of Milan's level of craftsmanship, style, and beauty. Cherry veneer wood slip case with laser cut bird shape and laser-etched Emil Milan quote. Perfect gift idea for the woodworker, maker, designer, or mid-century modern lover. Hand numbered in a limited edition Hand signed by the members of the Emil Milan Resear... View More...
Arion Press, 1987. Signed in pencil by Dine on frontispiece under tipped-in self-portrait (original etching). First edition, deluxe limited issue.. 78 pp. Fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 120 copies on Rives paper. View More...
The Limited Editions Club, 1989. Hardcover Folio in slipcase. Hardcover. quarter-bound with burgundy Nigerian Oasis goatskin, natural linen boards, gilt lettering, 42 pp, fine in Fine black cloth felt-lined slipcase with paper label taped at spine, numbered 191 of 650, photo engravings by Marie Cosindas, signed by the author and the photographer at the limitations page, LEC newsletter laid in. Hardcover Very Good A brilliant twentieth-century adaptation of Oedipus that unfolds in response to the author's conviction that "Even transposing Oedipus into a sequence of 'coincidences' gives us troub... View More...
NEW, unread === No Reply Press, 2021. The edition is limited to 400 copies, numbered 1 through 400. This is no.204. == Printed by Phil Abel on Zerkall-bütten paper using a Heidelberg cylinder press. Bound in handmade paste paper wrappers. Housed in an acrylic slipcase with a genuine wine label. A sequel to No Reply's The Masque of the Red Death, our Amontillado returns to a familiar author and artist with a livre d'artiste twist. The story is presented as a bottle of amontillado itself, with a clear slipcase and genuine letterpress wine label, containing flowing paste paper with latticework wh... View More...
Black Sparrow, 1991. Limited First Edition, Cloth-backed boards, acetate jacket. No, 98 of 176 signed and numbered copies. signed by Cooney (editor) and Joyce Fante on the colophon. . 351 pp. incl. index. Condition: Near fine. View More...
