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Catalogue 356

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Members ABAA and ILAB 1. [Laboratory Press]: Lang, Andrew: AN EXTRACT FROM RICH AND POOR AN ESSAY COMPARING RICH AND POOR IN THE COLLECTING OF . Pittsburgh: The Laboratory Press, 1926. Folio folded leaflet. Faint nick and crease at top edge, otherwise near fine.

First printing in this format, designed and printed by Nelson P. Mitchell on Batchelor handmade paper in Caslon Old Face as specimen #52. From the of , with his personal stamp and shelf notations. $65.

2. Lachenmeier, Rosa: NEWS. [Basel: BookART, 1993]. Octavo (215 x 152 mm). Boltbound stiff paper boards. Illustrated in color throughout. Fine in decorated and slightly snagged plain paper shipping sleeve with label.

First . One of sixty numbered copies only, signed by the artist. A virtually completely visual chronological presentation of collective world events and individual triumphs and sorrows via small photos inset into larger color maps reflecting climatic, topographic and statistical gradations of various sorts. $100.

3. [Lamson, Wolffe Imprint]: MARSHALL NEWELL A MEMORIAL FOR HIS CLASSMATES AND FRIENDS. : Privately Printed [by] Lamson, Wolffe & Co., 1898. Cloth and boards, paper label. Portraits and photogravures. Extremities rubbed, otherwise very good.

First edition. An uncommon Lamson, Wolffe & Company imprint, printed on handmade paper. Newell, Harvard Class of ‘94, went to work for the Boston and Albany Railroad, and was run down on its tracks on Christmas Eve, 1897. $100.

4. [Land Marks Press]: Avadenka, Lynne: AN ONLY KID. [Huntington Woods, MI]: Land Marks Press, 1990. Small quarto (25.5 x 17.5 cm). Stiff handmade paper wrapper, printed label. Fine.

First edition of this new version of the Haggadah song, “Chad Gadya,” printed in a format “inspired by the life and work of El Lissitzky ....” Copy #50 of 75 numbered copies printed by Avadenka in a variety of typefaces, with Hebrew letters drawn by her, on Frankfurt cream paper. The wrapper stock was made by Twinrocker from goat hair and cotton rags. A relatively early production from Avadenka’s press. $250.

5. [Laurentian Press]: Browning, Robert: IN A BALCONY A DRAMA IN VERSE. [New York]: The Laurentian Press, 1902. Grey boards, very elaborately decorated in gilt and black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Tips rubbed, faint foxing to endsheets, otherwise a very good, or perhaps better, copy.

One of 265 numbered copies on Van Gelder, from a total edition of three hundred copies designed by, and printed under the direction of, Arthur Hahlo and George Hellman. Hahlo and Hellman’s venture seems to have sputtered to a close after a small handful of publications, but Hahlo, at least, carried on as a publisher of prints and gallery owner. $125.

6. [Legatoria Piazzesi]: Krich, John: CHICAGO IS. Venice: Legatoria Piazzesi, [1976]. Oblong quarto. Quarter stiff vellum and pastepaper over boards, printed label. Small pencil erasure on preliminary blank, otherwise about fine.

First edition. Foreword by Studs Terkel. Illustrated with an original dry-point by Krich, numbered (“8/10”), titled and signed by him in the margin. One of a total edition of 170 copies (including twenty hors commerce). This copy is not numbered. An excerpt from the author’s second novel, then a work in progress. In years, was with his travel writing that Krich found his larger audience. $200.

7. [Libanus Press]: Auster, Paul: AUGGIE WREN’S CHRISTMAS STORY. New York: William Drenttel, 1992. Small quarto. Full black morocco, spine lettered in gilt, gilt contrasting leather label inset into upper board. Fine in marbled paper over boards slipcase with cloth endpieces.

First edition in form (US issue). With an illustration by Brian Cronin. From a total edition of 450 copies printed at the Libanus Press, this is one of an unknown number of out of series copies, signed by the author, in addition to fifty numbered copies bound thus, and signed by the author. $300.

8. [Libanus Press]: Auster, Paul: AUGGIE WREN’S CHRISTMAS STORY. New York: William Drenttel, 1992. Small quarto. Cloth and marbled boards, paper labels. Fine.

First edition in book form (US issue). With an illustration by Brian Cronin. From a total edition of 450 copies printed at the Libanus Press, this is copy #54 of one hundred numbered copies bound thus, and signed by the author. $225.

9. [Libanus Press]: Auster, Paul: AUGGIE WREN’S CHRISTMAS STORY. New York: William Drenttel, 1992. Small quarto. Marbled wrapper over stiff wrapper, paper label. Fine.

First edition in book form (US issue). With an illustration by Brian Cronin. From a total edition of 450 copies printed at the Libanus Press, this is one of 300 regular copies in wrappers, issued unsigned. $100.

10. [Libra Press]: Morris, Ann A.: WORD DREAMS I. [Altadena, CA]: Libra Press, [1979]. Folio (42.5 x 35 cm). Loose sheets laid into suede-like material over boards folding case. Some tissue interleaves wrinkled, else fine in publisher’s plastic sleeve.

First edition. Comprised of nine color silkscreens, finished by hand with color pencil, incorporating image and text, plus title and colophon. One of forty-five numbered copies printed on BFK Rives, signed by the artist/author on the title and colophon, and with each of the prints numbered and signed as well. $500.

11. [Librix Continuum]: Williams, Tennessee: TENNESSEE THREE PLAYS BY .... Washington, DC: Librix Continuum, 2004. Large folio (50 x 35 cm; 20 x 13.5”). Full khaki calf, lettered in blind, ruled in gilt. Illustrated with three colored offset lithographs by Clarice Smith. Fine. Enclosed in the publisher’s mammoth (21 x 15.5”) full brown calf suede-lined folding box, decorated in gilt and blind, and further enclosed in the oversize stiff board folding box, with prospectus inserted in sleeve in upper lid.

First edition in this format, including the first book publication of “These are the Stairs You Got to Watch,” in company with Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Glass Menagerie. One of 1500 numbered copies printed on Fabriano Rusticus, published in concert with the Shakespeare Theatre and the Kennedy Center / Shakespeare Theatre’s production of Five by Tenn, directed by Michael Kahn. Kahn contributes a Preface, and David Bruce Smith, the publisher, has provided commentary as well as the text of an interview with Williams. Three additional prints, signed by the artist, are enclosed in a folding compartment in the slipcase. The title leaf is signed by the designer, John Paul Greenwalt. It would appear that a portion of the edition (750 unnumbered copies) appeared (later?) in three less cumbersome volumes, in reduced format (18 x 14”) and modified slipcase, and are denoted by the publisher as the “Standard Edition.” Substantial extra shipping charges apply. $2850.

12. [Lime Kiln Press]: Everson, William, et al: WEST TO THE WATER SIX POETS: A SANTA CRUZ PORTFOLIO. Santa Cruz: The Lime Kiln Press, 1972. Six large folio broadsides (53 x 39.5 cm), plus title-leaf and prospectus, laid into printed, numbered folder. Folder somewhat used and spotted, light splashmark to inner front wrapper and corner of title-leaf, broadsides near fine to fine.

One of 200 numbered sets, printed on Tovil handmade paper, with each broadside signed by the respective poet: Everson, George Hitchcock, Mary Norbert Korte, Naomi Clark, Peter Veblen and John Skinner. The calligraphy in this set was accomplished by Todd Hirogawa, who signed the portfolio. The first production of the Lime Kiln Press, under the direction of Everson. BARTLETT & CAMPO A37. $150.

14. [Lime Rock Press]: Seymour, Tryntje Van Ness: ’ NEW YORK. Salisbury, CT: Lime Rock Press, [1977]. Quarto. Gilt cloth. Photographs. Book about fine, with accompaniments (see below), in folding cloth clamshell box.

First edition, deluxe issue. One of 100 numbered copies, from a total edition of five hundred copies. Prefatory text and photographs by Seymour, accompanied by selections from Under Milk Wood. Accompanied by four original 9 3/4 x 6 3/4” borderless prints of photographs, each matted and signed by Seymour, enclosed in a numbered and signed paper folder, the whole preceded by an extra bifolium portfolio title and colophon, numbered and signed by Seymour. The publisher’s original ill-considered foam packing inserts lived up to their capacity to self-destruct in this case, leaving some offset and traces of stubborn minute particulates on the slightly creased paper folder, and on the liner and in the joints of the clamshell box. The foam liners are no longer present. $350.

15. [Lime Rock Press]: Seymour, Tryntje Van Ness: ACOMA. Salisbury, CT: Lime Rock Press, 1979. Folio (355 x 280 mm). Bifolia and mounted photographs laid into cloth-covered clamshell box. About fine, with the prospectus laid in.

First edition, regular issue. Illustrated with twelve original black & white photographs (250 x 175 mm), each mounted on board, accompanied by descriptive text. One of 75 numbered copies with the text printed on Stonehenge Rag Paper, with each photograph captioned and signed by the photographer on the mount and signed again on the colophon. A photographic exploration of Acoma, its environs, its people, and the distinctive pottery they produce, accompanied by descriptive text. $400.

16. [Lime Rock Press]: Seymour, Gabriel North: MARCEL PROUST’S COMBRAY. Salisbury, CT: Lime Rock Press, [1979]. Quarto. Gilt cloth. Photographs. Book about fine, with accompaniments (see below), in folding cloth clamshell box, the latter with a couple smudges to label, and slight lifting of cloth along one seam.

First edition, deluxe issue. One of 100 numbered copies, from a total edition of five hundred copies. Prefatory text and photographs by Seymour, accompanied by selections from Swann’s Way. Accompanied by four original 9 3/4 x 6 3/4” matted borderless prints of photographs, each signed by Seymour, enclosed in a numbered and signed paper folder, the whole preceded by an extra bifolium portfolio title and colophon, numbered and signed by Seymour. The publisher’s original ill-considered foam packing inserts were discarded, as they have a tendency to self-destruct. $350.

17. [Lime Rock Press]: [Clemens, Samuel L.]: Twain, Mark [pseud]: A MARK TWAIN SAMPLER. [Salisbury, CT: Lime Rock Press, Christmas 1980]. Miniature (7.5 x 6.5 cm). Marbled paper over stiff wrappers, printed label. Illustration. Miniature bookplate on front wrapper flap, otherwise fine, with publisher’s promotional slip. Enclosed in substantially larger cloth clamshell box with inset and marbled paper onlay.

One of 1001 copies printed as the Press’ holiday keepsake. Selections from Huckleberry Finn, accompanied by line drawings by Catryna Ten Eyck. A $75 cloth case on a $40 book. $75.

18. [Lime Rock Press]: Hess, Lynn: WHERE TIGERS ROAR IN SILENCE A BOOK OF RIDDLE POEMS. [Salisbury, CT: Lime Rock Press, 1980]. Miniature (7.5 x 6.5 cm). Stiff blindstamped wrappers. Illustrations. Trace of tanning to white wrappers from proximity to clamshell cloth box, otherwise near fine.

First edition. One of 999 numbered copies, signed by the author. With illustrations by Catryna Ten Eyck. The text is printed on folded sheets in such a fashion that the fold-outs then reveal the answers and illustrations. $100.

19. [Lime Rock Press]: Wister, Owen: OWEN WISTER’S MEDICINE BOW. [Salisbury, CT: Lime Rock Press, 1981]. Quarto. Cloth. Photographs by Tryntje Van Ness Seymour. Fine, enclosed in clamshell box, with accompaniments (see below). Box label has a small smudge.

First edition, deluxe issue. One of 100 numbered copies, signed by the photographer, from a total edition of six hundred published to coincide with the designation of the General Store in Medicine Bow as a landmark. This issue is accompanied by four original 7 x 9.5 inch matted prints of Seymour’s photographs, signed on the verso by her, and by a printed envelope containing a variety of related items, including printed texts and a commemorative ribbon. The original prospectus is also present. $350.

20. [Limited Editions Club]: Thackeray, William Makepeace: VANITY FAIR. A NOVEL WITHOUT A HERO. : Limited Editions Club, 1931. Two volumes. Quarto. Cloth with decorative paper covered boards and matching dust-jackets. Illustrated by John Austen. One of 1500 sets signed by Austen. Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Light wear to dust- jackets, else fine. $200.

21. [Limited Editions Club]: THE FOUR GOSPELS .... Leipzig: Printed for The Members of the Limited Editions Club by Poeschel & Trepte, 1932. Quarto. Quarter gilt vellum and boards. One of 1500 numbered copies, designed with decorations by Emil Rudolph Weiss, and signed by him. Hint of foxing to endsheets, else about fine in slipcase. $125.

22. [Limited Editions Club]: Hearn, Lafcadio: KWAIDAN STORIES AND STUDIES OF STRANGE THINGS. Tokyo: Printed for Members of the Limited Editions Club by The Shimi Shoin Ltd., 1932. Octavo. Silk over boards, spine open-sewn to style, t.e.g. Illustrated in color and black and white by Fujita. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. One of fifteen hundred numbered copies, signed by Fujita. Old bookplate stain on front pastedown offset slightly to free endsheet, else a fine copy in silk board folder with label and ivory clasps (folder a bit worn at corners). $450.

23. [Limited Editions Club]: Confucius: THE ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS .... Shanghai: Printed for Members of the Limited Editions Club by the Shanghai Press, 1933. Quarto. Open-sewn decorated cloth over limp wrappers. Frontispiece. Light foxing, publisher’s descriptive announcement tipped to rear pastedown with two small tabs of cellotape, otherwise a very good copy, in a well-preserved, virtually fine wooden box.

Copy #194 of 1500 numbered copies. Translated from the Chinese, with Introduction and Notes, by Lionel Giles. On January 28, 1932, the main offices and library of the printers were bombed in the opening of the Japanese siege against Shanghai, complicating production of this edition. The box is particularly subject to abuse and splitting. $300.

24. [Limited Editions Club]: Hudson, W. H.: GREEN MANSIONS A ROMANCE OF THE TROPICAL FOREST. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. Small quarto. Cloth and decorative lithographed sidepanels. Illustrated with color lithographs by Edward A. Wilson. One of 1500 numbered copies, printed at the Franklin Press, and signed by Wilson. Introduction by William Beebe. Spine a shade tanned, otherwise about fine in corner-worn slipcase with tanning to label. PAYNE A23j. $75.

25. [Limited Editions Club]: Joyce, James: ULYSSES ... WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STUART GILBERT AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY HENRI MATISSE. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. Quarto. Cloth, decorated in gilt and blind. Illustrated with six original etchings, accompanied by reproductions of the preliminary sketches. Trace of slight darkening along endsheet gutters, otherwise a fine, bright copy, without foxing to the etchings, in somewhat darkened slipcase with bruises at tips, and cracks and splits at joints. Modern half morocco and cloth folding clamshell case.

First U.S. printing of the corrected Odyssey Press text. From an edition of 1500 numbered copies, signed by Matisse, this is one of only 250 copies signed as well by Joyce. A textually significant edition, whatever the shortcomings of its design (by George Macy) and the inappropriateness of the illustrations (Matisse illustrated Homer rather than Joyce, a factor allegedly contributing to Joyce’s reluctance to sign the entire edition). “One of the very few American livres de peintres issued before World War II. According to George Macy, who undertook this only American publication of Matisse’s illustrations, he asked the artist how many etchings the latter could provide for five thousand dollars. The artist chose to take six subjects from Homer’s Odyssey. The preparatory drawings reproduced with the soft-ground etchings (Matisse’s only use of this medium) record the evolution of the figures from vigorous sketches to closely knit, if less spontaneous, compositions” - Artist & The Book. SLOCUM & CAHOON A22. ARTIST & THE BOOK 197. $22,500.

26. [Limited Editions Club]: Wroth, Lawrence C. [ed]: A HISTORY OF THE PRINTED BOOK BEING THE THIRD NUMBER OF THE DOLPHIN. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1938. xv,[1],507pp. plus adverts. Large, thick quarto. Plates, illustrations, facsimiles. A few small splash-marks on spine, faint tanning at edges of text-block, a few spots along top edge of lower board, crown of spine a trifle frayed; a good, sound copy.

First edition. One of 1800 copies designed by Carl P. Rollins and printed at Press. Far and away the most substantive number of the LEC’s short-lived periodical devoted to book arts. $150.

27. [Limited Editions Club]: Winterich, John T., et al [eds]: THE DOLPHIN A PERIODICAL FOR ALL PEOPLE WHO FIND PLEASURE IN FINE BOOKS. New York: George Macy / The Limited Editions Club, Fall 1940 - Winter 1941. Two volumes. Number 4, parts 1 and 2. Large quarto. The first is in printed wrappers, the second in printed cloth. Extensively illustrated. Wrapperbound number very good to near fine, the clothbound fine in lightly chipped glassine wrapper.

Contributors to these volumes include Tinker, H. Jackson, Shaw, McFee, S. Anderson, Lewis, Mencken, Saroyan, Hofer, C. Wells, Beilenson, Rollins, Landacre, Kauffer, Dwiggins, and supplementary illustrated of works by Cable and Poe. $100.

28. [Limited Editions Club]: Stephens, James: THE CROCK OF GOLD. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1942. Small quarto. Cloth, gilt leather labels. Illustrations by Robert Lawson. Introduction by Clifton Fadiman. Endsheets a trace hand soiled, with small spot, otherwise very good in partly cracked slipcase.

In addition to 1500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator, this is one of fifteen presentation copies, bearing the Club’s blindstamp. This copy is designated “M.C.” in place of the number and was later in the Stephens family library. It bears the residue of a wax seal on the title (offset opposite) still faintly discernible as “J.S.” in a stylized fashion, and bears the later bookplate of Richard Finneran. $125.

29. [Limited Editions Club]: Hudson, W. H.: FAR AWAY AND LONG AGO A HISTORY OF MY EARLY LIFE. Buenos Aires: Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club by Guillermo Kraft, 1943. Thick quarto. Open laced half-rawhide (with hair left on) and parchment, suede endsheets. Plates and illustrations. First edition in this format. Illustrated with lithographs by Raul Rosarivo. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by the designer, Albert Kraft, and the artist.Spine a shade darkened, suede endsheets have caused some mild tanning to adjacent leaves, otherwise a very good copy, without the original box and wrapper. The announcement and Newsletter are laid in, the latter torn. $125.

30. [Limited Editions Club]: Hughes, Richard, and Lynd Ward: [illus]: THE INNOCENT VOYAGE. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. Full brown calf, stamped in gilt. First edition in this format. One of 1500 numbered copies, illustrated with original color lithographs by Lynd Ward, and signed by him. Very minor rubs at head and toe of spine, otherwise fine in torn glassine, enclosed in board slipcase (a bit dust soiled) and pictorial chemise. $100.

31. [Limited Editions Club]: Nordhoff, Charles, and James Norman Hall: MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY .... New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1947. Large, thick octavo. Publisher’s pebbled calf, decorated in gilt. Illustrations in color as well as drawings by Fletcher Marin. Binding extremities rather rubbed (but sound), otherwise a very good, internally fine copy, in slightly darkened slipcase.

First edition in this format. One of 1500 numbered copies printed at the Garamond Press and signed by the artist. The authors contributed a new (albeit rather brief) Preface to this edition. Includes an appendix with selections from the biography of Peter Heywood. $100.

32. [Limited Editions Club]: Riggs, Lynn: GREEN GROW THE LILACS. Norman: Printed for Members of the Limited Editions Club by Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1954. Quarto. Cloth, decorated in blind. Plates and illustrations. Bookplate on pastedown, else about fine in glassine and slipcase.

First illustrated edition of Riggs’s best-known play, the basis for the musical Oklahoma!. Illustrated with original lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton, printed from the stone, and with an introduction by Brooks Atkinson. One of fifteen hundred numbered copies, signed by Benton, printed after a design by Will Ransom. $400.

33. [Limited Editions Club]: Dumas, Alexandre: LA DAME AUX CAMILIAS CAMILLE. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1955. Quarto. Blue moiré silk covered boards, gilt spine label. One of 1500 numbered copies printed at the Garamond Press, and signed by the illustrator, Bernard Lamotte. Translated into English by , with an introduction by Andre Maurois, a prefatory letter by the author and a memoir of Marie Duplessis by Jules Janin. Spine faintly sunned, otherwise a near fine copy in very good decorated slipcase with tanning at edges. $75.

34. [Limited Editions Club]: Darwin, Charles: JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES ... INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY & GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRIES VISITED DURING THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. BEAGLE .... : Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1956. Quarto. Decorated cloth, leather spine label. Introduction by Gavin de Beer. Illustrated with wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings. One of 1500 numbered copies, signed by the artist. Front inner hinge cracking, else about fine; the slipcase, however, is battered. KIRKUS 67. FREEMAN 146. $125. 35. [Limited Editions Club]: Beaujon, Paul, et al: QUARTO-MILLENARY THE FIRST 250 PUBLICATIONS AND THE FIRST 25 YEARS 1929 - 1954 OF THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB A CRITIQUE A CONSPECTUS A .... New York: The Limited Editions Club 1959. Large quarto (32 x 24 cm). Half pebbled black calf and cloth over beveled boards, blindstamped leather inset. Illustrations, facsimiles and tip-ins. A few very faint and minor spots to upper board, otherwise fine in modestly bumped and slightly cracked slipcase.

First edition. One of a total of 2250 numbered copies (1500 for Club members) printed by A. Colish and Clarke & Way. With contributions by Beaujon, Paul Bennett, Robert Dothard, James Laver, Edward A. Jewell, Thomas Craven, and John Winterich. $225.

36. [Limited Editions Club]: Vertes, [Marcel] [illustrator]: THE ECLOGUES. By Publius Virgilius Maro. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Quarto. Pictorial cloth. Illustrated throughout with tinted line drawings by Vertes. Translated by C.S. Calverley. Introduction by Moses Hadas. One of fifteen hundred numbered copies, signed by the artist. Fine in bit smudged and sunned slipcase. $100.

37. [Limited Editions Club]: Charlot, Jean [illustrator], and Thornton Wilder: THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Quarto. Quarter publisher’s black leather and decorated boards. Frontis and illustrations. One of 1500 numbered copies printed at the Thistle Press. Illustrated with original color lithographs by Jean Charlot, and signed by him. Introduction by Granville Hicks. Fine, in partially defective glassine wrapper, and slightly bumped and smudged slipcase. $75.

38. [Limited Editions Club]: Melville, Herman: BILLY BUDD BENITO CERENO. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1965. Quarto. Cloth. Illustrated with plates after paintings by Robert Shore. One of 1500 numbered copies, printed by A. Colish, and signed by the artist. With an introduction by Maxwell Geismar. Fine in glassine and modestly dust-marked slipcase. $65.

39. [Limited Editions Club]: Stone, Reynolds [illustrator]: SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS SELECTIONS FROM HIS WORKS .... Chatham: Printed by W. & J. Mackay & Company, Ltd., for Members of the Limited Editions Club, 1969. Quarto. Grey cloth stamped in blind. Illustrated with wood-engravings by Reynolds Stone. One of 1500 numbered copies, signed by Stone. Edited by George Shuster. Bookplate in corner of front pastedown, crown of spine bumped, otherwise a very good copy in slightly tanned slipcase. $75.

40. [Limited Editions Club]: Boswell, James: THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES WITH SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D..... [New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Quarto. Publisher’s half morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g. About fine in slipcase, with newsletter laid in.

One of two thousand numbered copies, printed at the Sign of the Stone Book. Illustrated with reproductions of engravings by Rowlandson, and reproducing Mrs. Thrale’s annotations from her copy of the 2nd edition. $100.

41. [Limited Editions Club]: Crane, Stephen: MAGGIE A GIRL OF THE STREETS A STORY OF NEW YORK. [Avon, CT]: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Quarto. Quarter gilt morocco and cloth. Portrait and plates. Fine in chipped glassine and faintly rubbed slipcase.

One of 2000 numbered copies printed by A. Colish, illustrated with plates after copperplate etchings by Sigmund Abeles, and signed by him. Introduction by Shirley Ann Grau. As with the majority of copies in the publisher’s remainder, this copy is not accompanied by the separate, signed, original copperplate etching of the frontis portrait. $55.

42. [Limited Editions Club]: Wilder, Thornton: OUR TOWN A PLAY IN THREE ACTS. Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Quarto. Corduroy over boards, gilt spine label. One of two thousand numbered copies, printed by Meriden Gravure, and signed by the author and the artist. Illustrations and plates by Robert J. Lee. Introduction by Brooks Atkinson. Fine in slipcase. $225.

43. [Limited Editions Club]: Ward, Lynd [illus]: ON CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES AND OTHER PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. By Edmund Burke. Lunenburg: Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club ..., 1975. Small quarto. Decorated fabric over boards, gilt spine label. Plates and illustrations. First this edition, illustrated with original woodcuts by Lynd Ward, with the texts edited by Peter J. Stanlis. One of 2000 numbered copies printed at the Stinehour Press and signed by Ward. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise about fine in slipcase with tiny smudge at one corner. Newsletter laid in. $100.

44. [Limited Editions Club]: Sassoon, Siegfried: MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN. [New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1977. Quarto. Half red morocco and gilt cloth. t.e.g. Illustrations in color by Paul Hogarth. Introduction by . One of 1600 numbered copies, printed at the Curwen Press, and signed by Hogarth. LEC newsletter laid in. Fine in slipcase. $125.

45. [Limited Editions Club]: Flaubert, Gustave: THREE TALES A SIMPLE HEART THE LEGEND OF SAINT JULIAN HERODIAS. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1978. Quarto. Cloth and decorated boards. Color plates May Néama. Introductory text by de Maupassant. One of 1600 numbered copies printed at A. Colish and signed by the illustrator. Fine in glassine wrapper and sunned and modestly smudged slipcase. $65.

46. [Limited Editions Club]: Fitzgerald, F. Scott: THE GREAT GATSBY. [New York]: The Limited Editions Club, [1980]. Square octavo. Gray cloth, with pictorial stamping in black and silver. Frontis and plates. First printing in this format, with an introduction by Charles Scribner III, and fourteen plates after color gouaches by Fred Meyer. One of 2000 numbered copies printed at the Stinehour Press and signed by the artist. Newsletter laid in. Fine in tissue wrapper and slightly sunned slipcase. $450.

47. [Limited Editions Club]: Graves, Robert: POEMS. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1980. Large octavo. Cloth and decorated boards, t.e.g. First edition thus, edited by Elaine Kerrigan and illustrated by Paul Hogarth. One of 2000 numbered copies, signed by Hogarth, and by the designer, Freeman Keith. Fine in matching slipcase. $85.

48. [Limited Editions Club]: Carson, Rachel, and Alfred Eisenstaedt [photographer]: THE SEA AROUND US. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1980. Large octavo. Cloth, decorated in blind. Color plates, portrait and endsheets. First printing in this format, accompanied by an Introduction by Maitland A. Edey and photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt. One of 2000 numbered copies signed by the photographer. Newsletter laid in.Bookplate on pastedown, faint pencil erasure from corner of title leaf. Very good or better in slipcase (small corner crease to label and small label shadow at corner of one panel). $125.

49. [Limited Editions Club]: Sassoon, Siegfried: MEMOIRS OF AN INFANTRY OFFICER. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1981. Large octavo. Cloth. Illustrated by Paul Hogarth, with an introduction by David Daiches. One of 2000 numbered copies, signed by Hogarth. Fine in slipcase. $125.

50. [Limited Editions Club]: Dostoevsky, Fyodor: THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. Large, thick octavo. Gilt cloth. Wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. The Garnett translation, with a foreword by Boris Shragin. One of 2000 numbered copies, signed by the artist, and by the designer, Michael Bixler. Bookplate, spine a shade sunned, otherwise a very good copy in slightly scuffed slipcase. $65. 52. [Limited Editions Club]: Colette, [Sidonie-Gabrielle]: BREAK OF DAY. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1983. Quarto. Gilt cloth. Illustrated with three original multi-color silk screens and color vignettes in the text by Francoise Gilot. Translated by Enid McLeod. Introduction by Robert Phelps. One of 2000 numbered copies, printed by Daniel Keleher at the Wild Carrot Press, and signed by Francoise Gilot. With the Newsletter laid-in. Bookplate on front pastedown, binding a trace rubbed, otherwise near fine in lightly smudged slipcase. $125.

53. [Limited Editions Club]: [Lawrence, Jacob (illus)]: Hersey, John: HIROSHIMA ... WITH A NEW POEM BY ROBERT PENN WARREN. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1983. Large quarto. Full black aniline calf, lettered in blind. Illustrated with eight original silkscreens printed in eleven colors. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise about fine in modestly rubbed black silk over boards slipcase.

First edition in this format, the text accompanied by eight original full-page color silkscreens by Jacob Lawrence resulting in a haunting conjunction of text and image. One of 1500 numbered copies printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress, with the silkscreens printed at Studio Heinrici Ltd. Each copy is signed by Hersey, Warren and Lawrence. One of the most heralded of the Club’s publications of the 1980s, and justly so. $1250.

54. [Limited Editions Club]: [Lewitt, Sol (illus)]: Borges, Jorge Luis: FICCIONES. [New York: Limited Editions Club, 1984]. Thick oblong octavo. Full black aniline calf, stamped in blind. Spine a bit sunned, large bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise near fine in faintly shelf-rubbed slipcase.

First edition in this format, illustrated with twenty-two original hors texte silkscreens printed by Jo Watanabe after designs by Sol Lewitt, who also undertook the design. Prefatory essay by Alexander Coleman. One of fifteen hundred copies, signed by Lewitt. $550.

55. [Limited Editions Club]: [Rivers, Larry (illus)]: Singer, Isaac Bashevis: THE MAGICIAN OF LUBLIN. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1984. Large quarto. Quarter morocco and Irish linen by Gray Parrot. Illustrated with three original color lithographs by Larry Rivers. First edition in this format, with a new Author’s Note by Singer. One of 1500 numbered copies, signed by Singer and Rivers. Bookplate of the James S. Copley on front pastedown, trace of faint sunning to spine, tiny bump to fore-edge, but a very good copy in slipcase with short snag at bottom fore-edge and tiny sticker shadow on side panel. $350.

56. [Limited Editions Club]: [Mapplethorpe, Robert (illus)]: Rimbaud, Arthur: A SEASON IN HELL. [New York]: The Limited Editions Club, [1986]. Quarto. Full plum-red oasis morocco by the Jovonis Bindery. A fine, unfaded copy in slipcase, with club newsletter.

First edition in this format, illustrated with eight dust-grain photogravures after photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, printed by Jon Goodman on handmade etching paper. The translation is a revised version of Paul Schmidt’s translation, printed parallel with the original French text. One of one thousand numbered copies, printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress on mouldmade paper, and signed by Mapplethorpe and Schmidt. $1500.

57. [Limited Editions Club]: Ionesco, Eugene: JOURNEYS AMONG THE DEAD A PLAY WITH LITHOGRAPHS BY.... [New York]: The Limited Editions Club, [1987]. Large quarto. Printed wrappers. Four original color lithographs by the author. Fine in lightly smudged white slipcase (with tiny pencil-eraser-tip sized spot at top edge), with crimson morocco head and foot panels.

First edition in this format. Translation by Barbara Wright. Prefatory “Conversation with Ionesco” joined by Verena Hayden-Rynsch. One of one thousand numbered copies, signed by Ionesco. $350. 58. [Limited Editions Club]: Rilke, Rainer Maria: THE NOTEBOOKS OF MALTE LAURIDS BRIGGE. [New York]: The Limited Editions Club, [1987]. Small quarto (26.5 x 20 cm). Full stiff vellum over boards, lettered in gilt. First printing in this format of the translation into English by Stephen Mitchell. One of 800 numbered copies printed at the Stamperia Valdonega on Italian mould-made paper.Fine in very faintly smudged cloth slipcase. $175.

59. [Limited Editions Club]: Faulkner, William: HUNTING STORIES. [New York]: The Limited Editions Club, [1988]. Large quarto. Quarter bound in green Nigerian Oasis morocco and cloth. As new in slipcase, with prospectus laid in.

Illustrated with two original etchings by Neil Welliver, with an introduction by Cleanth Brooks. One of 850 numbered copies, printed on Italian text paper at Heritage Printers, with the etchings printed on Arches. Bound at the Jensen Bindery. Signed by the illustrator. A handsome presentation of “The Old People” and the short version of “The Bear.” $500.

60. [Lineweave Association]: Aiken, Conrad, et al: LINWEAVE LIMITED EDITIONS. [Springfield]: The Linweave Association, 1934. Large quarto. Cloth backed boards. Illustrations. Bookplate, boards a bit dust marked and smudged, internally fine.

First collective issue of these elaborate fine print illustrated editions of poems and prose by Aiken, Masefield, Dunsany, Morley, Henley, et al. The constituent items were printed as examples of the use of Linweave papers in the hands of different printers. Aiken’s poem “And in the Hanging Gardens” was distributed separately the previous year. Dunsany’s contribution is accompanied by a photograph by Anton Bruehl. BONNELL A25n. $65.

61. [Linton, William J.]: HARRY MARTEN’S DUNGEON-THOUGHTS [caption title]. [?]. [nd. but possibly ca. 1845]. 4pp. Octavo. Folded leaflet. Light use at edges, but very good.

First (separate?) edition. A rare printing of a mid-career poem by the talented radical engraver and poet, signed at the end ‘W.J.L.,’ and to all appearances printed in the U.K., possibly for his own distribution, in the period prior to his emigration to the U.S. OCLC locates a copy in the distinguished Linton collection at Yale, undated, as well as a different printing, in company with two other poems, tentatively dated 1845, in an odd format paginated [51]-74pp. It is not listed in Linton’s entry in NCBEL, and not recorded in NSTC. $175.

62. Linton, William J.: EURYDICE. (‘ORPHEUS’ SWEETEST SONG’) [caption title]. [London?]. [nd. but ca. 1850]. 6pp. plus blank. Octavo. Printed self-wrappers. Engraved decorative head and tail pieces. Slight tanning at edges, and verso of blank a bit dusty, else very good.

First (?) separate edition. A rare printing of a mid-career poem by the talented radical engraver and poet, to all appearances printed in the U.K., possibly for his own distribution, in the period prior to his emigration to the U.S. OCLC locates a single copy, in the distinguished Linton collection at Yale, there tentatively dated 1850. It is not listed in his entry in NCBEL, and not recorded in NSTC. $250.

63. [Linton, William J.]: CARMEN TRIUMPHALE FOR THE GENERAL REJOICING ORDERED ON MAY 29, 1856 [caption title]. [London or Brantwood: By the Author], 1856. 4pp. Folded, small octavo leaflet. Slightly dusty, else a very good copy.

First (separate) edition of this poem composed and published by Linton on the occasion of the celebration of peace with Russia at the end of the Crimean War. It is quite possible that this item was printed by Linton on the press he maintained at Brantwood, and on which he printed the concluding numbers of The English Republic prior to its cessation in 1855. Rare. OCLC locates a copy at Brown and copies in the definitive Linton collection at Yale; it is not reported in Linton’s NCBEL entry, nor in NSTC. $200. 64. Linton, William J.: TO VICTOR EMMANUEL (WRITTEN BEFORE THE WAR.) [caption title]. [Brantwood, Coniston, Windermere: Printed for the Author, ca. 1860 - 1865]. Narrow quarto broadside (28.5 x 11cm). Printed on recto only. Folded across middle, light use at edges, very good.

First (?) separate printing of this poem. It is quite possible that this item was printed by Linton on the press he maintained at Brantwood prior to his departure for America, and on which he printed the concluding numbers of The English Republic prior to its cessation in 1855. OCLC reports only copies in the near definitive Linton collection at Yale, and supplies the date range above. $150.

65. Linton, William J.: ITALY’S ANSWER... [with:] THREE WISHES [caption titles]. Brantwood, [Coniston, Windermere: Printed for the Author, ca. 1866]. Narrow folio broadside (44.5 x 14cm). Printed on recto only. Folded across middle, light use and foxing at edges, very good.

First (?) separate printing of these two poems, the first on the cession of Venetia to Italy by Napoleon, and the second re: Bismark, Garibaldi and other affairs (signed “Spartacus). It is quite possible that this item was printed by Linton on the press he maintained at Brantwood prior to his departure for America, and on which he printed the concluding numbers of The English Republic prior to its cessation in 1855. OCLC reports only copies in the near definitive Linton collection at Yale and supplies the date above. $150.

66. [Liseux Imprint]: Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de: PAUL ET VIRGINIE. Paris: Isidore Liseux, 1879. xxxvi,218,[2]pp. Small octavo. Handsomely bound in full blue crushed levant, raised bands, spine gilt extra with small red morocco inlays, a.e.g., original wrappers bound in. Frontis, plates. Text framed in ornamental and red-ruled border. A couple of minor rubs to spine tips, otherwise about fine.

First Liseux edition, with an Introduction by Alexandre Piedagnel, and six engravings by Ad. Lalauze. One of 650 numbered copies on Hollande, from a total edition of 775 copies. An attractive edition of this 18th century classic, published under the imprint so highly praised by Apollinaire and others. $275.

67. [Liseux Imprint]: Firenzuola, [Agnolo]: TALES OF FIRENZUOLA BENEDICTINE MONK OF VALLOMBROSA (XVITH CENTURY) FOR THE FIRST TIME TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH. Paris: Isidore Liseux, 1889. 12mo. 20th century three quarter morocco, t.e.g., others untrimmed. First edition thus (the translation not attributed). Ink inscription on preliminary binder’s blank, boards a bit rubbed, but very good. $75.

68. [Little Man Press]: Lowry, Robert: TRIP TO THE BLOOMIN’ MOON. [Cincinnati: Little Man Press, 1939]. Square 16mo. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated. Faint thumb smudge on upper wrapper, otherwise fine.

First edition of Lowry’s first separate publication, issued as the 2nd part of the first series of The Little Man pamphlets. The illustrations are by Hugo Valerio. $100.

69. [Little Man Press]: Ford, Charles Henri: THE OVERTURNED LAKE. Cincinnati: The Little Man Press, 1941. Oblong octavo. Cloth. Title and jacket decoration by Matta. Top edge dust spotted, otherwise near fine in dust jacket with small nick and the usual tanning at the edges.

One of 330 copies, from a total edition of 400 copies designed by Robert Lowry. This copy bear’s Ford’s inscription: “For James, my poetry-lover! Charles 26 Sept. 1941.” $150.

70. [Little Man Press]: Ford, Charles Henri: THE OVERTURNED LAKE. Cincinnati: The Little Man Press, 1941. Oblong octavo. Cloth. Title and jacket decoration by Matta. One of 330 copies, from a total edition of 400 copies designed by Robert Lowry. Lightly sunned at edges, else near fine in dust jacket. $65. 71. [Logan Elm Press]: Cummings, E. E.: POEM 52 FROM 73 POEMS (1963). [Columbus, OH]: Logan Elm Press, 1981. Oblong 12mo. Sewn printed paper wrapper. A couple soft corner creases, otherwise fine.

First edition in this format, with Cummings’s text printed parallel with a rendering of the poem in Blissymbolic logographs. No limitation is explicit, nor is the size of the edition reported in the press catalogue raisonné. Set by hand and printed by Michael Drake and Fanny Norris. The handmade paper utilized for the binding was crafted by them as well. OCLC locates a single copy, at Ohio State (appropriately). OCLC: 9378001. $60.

72. [Logan Elm Press]: Garrett. Caroline, and Naoko Natsubara [illustrations]: IN-WHAN AND THE PEACHTREE. [Columbus, OH]: Knot Press, [1985]. Oblong quarto (23 x 26.5 cm). Decorative woodcut wrapper over boards, enclosing multi-panel accordion fold text. Illustrated. Very near fine.

First edition. Illustrated with original woodcuts printed in colors by Naoko Natsubara. Copy #7 of 105 numbered copies designed by the author and printed at the Logan Elm Press in handset narrow Italic on Lana Gravure paper, signed by the author and artist. A lovely production showcasing the excellent woodcuts by the Japanese-born, Canadian resident master of the form. $300.

73. [Logan Elm Press]: Strand, Mark: THE FAMOUS SCENE [caption title]. [Columbus, OH: The Logan Elm Press, 1988]. Quarto. Sewn decorated wrappers with cutout title window. Portrait. Fine.

First edition in this format. Four color woodcut portrait by Sidney Chafetz. One of one hundred numbered copies printed by hand in Janson types on handmade paper, signed by the author and the artist. $150.

74. [Logan Elm Press]: Jasud, Lawrence: WORDS SOUNDS AND POWER AN EVOCATION OF THE HEART AND MIND OF RASTAFARI THROUGH THE WORDS AND IMAGES OF DR. BONGO U. AND THE BRETHREN OF ST. JAMES PARISH, MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA, W.I. [Columbus, OH]: Logan Elm Press, 1991. Quarto. Cloth and gilt cannabis- hemp paper over upper board. Photographs. Color illustrations. Fine.

First edition. Printed in four colors. One of only sixty-five numbered copies printed on Mohawk Superfine paper by Russ McKnight in Kennerley Forum and Goudy Bold types set by the author, with the collotypes printed by hand. Signed by the author. The text is based on an afternoon the author spent with Dr. Bongo U, a Jamaican herb doctor and Rastafarian religious leader, and is largely an edited transcription of the words of Bongo U and his associates. $300.

75. [Logan Elm Press]: Abbott, Lee K.: A TALE TOLD TWICE. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University Logan Elm Press, 1992. Narrow small quarto. Linen and boards, stamped in gilt, paper spine label. Illustrations. Fine.

First edition. Illustrated by Brent Riley. One of three hundred numbered copies, printed by hand in Bulmer and Baskerville types on Johannot paper, signed by the author and the artist. $150.

76. [Logan Elm Press]: Wallace, David Rains: CHESTNUT RIDGE. [Columbus, OH]: Logan Elm Press Ohio State University, 1993. Small quarto. Printed decorated wrapper over boards. Illustrations. Fine.

First separate edition. Illustrated by the author. Afterword by Edward F. Hutchins. One of 275 numbered copies, printed in Van Dijck and Caslon types on Johannot paper, signed by the author. An elegant presentation of this work selected from Idle (Sierra Club, 1981). $150. 77. [Logan Elm Press]: Matthews, Jack: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE SPHINX. [Columbus, OH]: Logan Elm Press and Papermill at The Ohio State University, 1993. Oblong small quarto. Cloth and boards. Illustrations. Fine.

First deluxe edition. Illustrated (including a pop-up) by Eric May. One of three hundred numbered copies, printed in Joanna and Gill Sans types, and signed by the author and artist. $100.

79. [Lord John Press]: Updike, John: FROM THE JOURNAL OF A LEPER. Northridge: Lord John, 1978. Cloth and marbled boards. First edition in book form. One of 300 numbered copies (of 326), signed by the author. Fine. DE BELLIS & BROOMFIELD A65a. $100.

80. [Lord John Press]: Updike, John: FROM THE JOURNAL OF A LEPER. Northridge: Lord John, 1978. Cloth and marbled boards. First edition in book form. One of 300 numbered copies (of 326), signed by the author. This copy also bears the publisher’s 3/4-page signed inscription. Fine. DE BELLIS & BROOMFIELD A65a. $110.

81. [Lord John Press]: Macdonald, Ross [pseud. of Kenneth Millar]: A COLLECTION OF REVIEWS. Northridge: Lord John Press, 1979. Large octavo. Cloth and marbled boards. First edition, deluxe issue. One of fifty numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. $200.

82. [Lord John Press]: Percy, Walker: OUESTIONS [sic] THEY NEVER ASKED ME. Northridge: Lord John Press, 1979. Small octavo. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition in book form. One of three hundred numbered copies (of 350), signed by the author. This copy exhibits the uncorrected state of the title-page, with the initial ‘O’ rather than ‘Q.’ Fine. $250.

83. [Lord John Press]: Oates, Joyce Carol: QUEEN OF THE NIGHT. Northridge: Lord John, 1979. Full red publisher’s leather. First edition, deluxe issue. One of 50 numbered copies (of 350), specially bound, signed by the author. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. $200.

84. [Lord John Press]: Updike, John: TALK FROM THE FIFTIES. Northridge: Lord John, 1979. Cloth and marbled boards. First edition in book form, deluxe issue. One of 75 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, from a total edition of 375. Fine. DE BELLIS & BROOMFIELD A78c. $150.

85. [Lord John Press]: Welty, Eudora: ACROBATS IN A PARK. Northridge: Lord John Press, 1980. Small quarto. Decorated cloth. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued.

First clothbound printing, preceded by publication as an author’s offprint. One of one hundred numbered copies (of four hundred), differently bound, and signed by the author. This copy is additionally inscribed and signed by Welty on the first blank. POLK A26:1b. $350.

86. [Lord John Press]: Bradbury, Ray: THE LAST CIRCUS & THE ELECTROCUTION ... INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM F. NOLAN. Northridge: Lord John, 1980. Cloth and marbled boards. Fine in very good cloth slipcase, with printed paper label. The slipcase shows some uneven mottling along the top edge.

First edition, deluxe issue. One of one hundred numbered copies, signed by Bradbury, Nolan and Joe Mugnaini, who contributed an illustration, in addition to three hundred ordinary copies. $125. 87. [Lord John Press]: Mailer, Norman: OF A SMALL AND MODEST MALIGNANCY, WICKED AND BRISTLING WITH DOTS. Northridge: Lord John Press, 1980. Publisher’s gilt leatherette. First edition, deluxe issue. One of one hundred numbered copies (of 400) specially bound and signed by the author. Fine in rubbed and dust-marked publisher’s cloth slipcase. $175.

88. [Lord John Press]: Updike, John: PEOPLE ONE KNOWS INTERVIEWS WITH INSUFFICIENTLY FAMOUS AMERICANS. Northridge: Lord John, 1980. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition in book form. One of three hundred numbered copies (of 400), signed by the author. Fine in slipcase. DE BELLIS & BROOMFIELD A84a. $75.

89. [Lord John Press]: Riding Jackson, Laura: A POEM ... HOW A POEM COMES TO BE [caption title]. Northridge: Lord John Press, 1980. Folio broadside. First edition thus. One of 150 numbered copies signed by the author. A bit dim at the edges, else about fine. $55.

91. [Lord John Press]: Updike, John: THE BELOVED. Northridge: Lord John Press, 1982. Half publisher’s leatherette and cloth. First edition in book form, deluxe issue. One of 100 numbered copies (of 400), specially bound and signed by the author. Fine. DE BELLIS & BROOMFIELD A92c. $125.

92. [Lord John Press]: Updike, John: THE BELOVED. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1982. Gilt cloth and patterned paper over boards. First edition in book form, regular issue. One of 300 numbered copies (of 400) signed by the author. Fine. DE BELLIS & BROOMFIELD A92a. $75.

93. [Lord John Press]: Everson, William: COUGAR [caption title]. Northridge: Lord John Press, 1982. Folio broadside. First edition. One of 150 numbered copies, printed by Henry Morris and signed by the author. Two soft vertical creases, near fine. $50.

94. [Lord John Press]: Updike, John: SMALL-CITY PEOPLE [caption title]. [Northridge]: Lord John Press, 1982. Folio broadside. One of 100 numbered copies, printed by Patrick Reagh, and signed by the author and the artist, Don Rico. One corner faintly bumped, else fine. BELLIS & BROOMFIELD A97a. $60.

95. [Lord John Press]: Le Guin, Ursula K.: IN THE RED ZONE. Northridge: Lord John Press, 1983. Half publisher’s leatherette and marbled boards. Illustrations by Henke Pander. First edition in book form, deluxe issue. One of fifty numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author and the illustrator, from a total edition of 200. Fine. $125.

96. [Lord John Press]: Parker, Robert B.: A SPENSERIAN SONNET. Northridge: Lord John Press, 1983. Folio broadside. One of 26 lettered copies (of 126) printed by Patrick Reagh and signed by the author. Fine. $100.

97. [Lord John Press]: Oates, Joyce Carol: LUXURY OF SIN. Northridge: Lord John Press, 1984. Quarter publisher’s calf and marbled boards. First edition, deluxe issue. One of 26 lettered copies, specially bound, from an edition of 151 copies printed by Patrick Reagh and signed by the author. Fine. $200.

98. [Lord John Press]: Crumley, James: THE MUDDY FORK A WORK IN PROGRESS. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1984. Small octavo. Cloth and boards. First edition in book form, ordinary issue. One of two hundred numbered copies, from a total edition of 250 copies, signed by the author. Fine. $150. 99. [Lord John Press]: Everson, William: RENEGADE CHRISTMAS. Northridge: Lord John Press, 1984. Quarto. Half publisher’s leather and pastepaper boards. First edition. One of 125 numbered copies, signed by the author. Fine. $150.

100. [Lord John Press]: Oates, Joyce Carol: THE TIME TRAVELER. Northridge: Lord John Press, 1987. Quarter publisher’s leather and marbled boards. First edition, deluxe issue. One of 26 lettered copies, specially bound, from a total of 176 copies printed by Patrick Reagh and signed by the author. Fine. $200.

101. [Loujon Press]: THE OUTSIDER 3. New Orleans: Loujon Press, Spring 1963. Whole number three of five numbers (in four issues). Pictorial wrappers. Illustrations and plates. Minor use at extremities, but an unusually nice copy, near fine.

Edited by Jon and Louise Webb. Contributors to this number include Patchen, Snyder, Creeley, Woolf, McClure, Burroughs, Layton, Genet, “Wakowski” [sic], Norse, Miller, Bukowski (a special section including tributes to, and contributions by), Motley, Charters and many others. Uncommon, these days. $300.

102. [Loujon Press]: Bukowski, Charles: CRUCIFIX IN A DEATHHAND ... NEW POEMS 1963-65. New York: Lyle Stuart / Loujon Press Award Book, [1965]. Quarto. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Illustrations by Noel Rockmore. About fine, but without the printed bellyband.

First edition. One of 3100 copies printed in New Orleans at the Loujon Press, signed and dated by the author (“3-20-65”). There were also several subvariants of various deluxe natures. The author’s second major collection, in print for nearly a decade at the original price through Lyle Stuart, its publisher. KRUMHANSL A15. $550.

103. [Loujon Press]: Bukowski, Charles: CRUCIFIX IN A DEATHHAND ... NEW POEMS 1963-65. New York: Lyle Stuart / Loujon Press Award Book, [1965]. Quarto. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Illustrations by Noel Rockmore. Fine, with the bellyband intact.

First edition. One of 3100 copies printed in New Orleans at the Loujon Press, signed and dated by the author (“3-21-65”). There were also several subvariants of various deluxe natures. The author’s second major collection, in print for nearly a decade at the original price through Lyle Stuart, its publisher. KRUMHANSL A15. $600.

104. [Loujon Press]: Miller, Henry: ORDER AND CHAOS CHEZ HANS REICHEL ... INTRODUCTION BY LAWRENCE DURRELL. New Orleans: Loujon Press, [1966]. Small quarto. Pictorial parchment wrapper over stiff boards. Photographic portrait. Illustrations. Usual minor offset to wrapper from publisher’s seal (now absent), otherwise fine in near fine slipcase.

First edition, the “Cork” issue, limited to 1399 copies, from a total edition of 1524. A characteristically over-the-top Loujon production. $250.

One of Twenty

105. [Loujon Press]: Miller, Henry: , OR THE DEVIL AT LARGE. Albuquerque: Loujon Press, [1970]. Folio. Quarto spiralbound book in foil wrapper and twelve lithographed broadside reproductions of watercolors, plus frontis and special colophon/title leaf, enclosed in publisher’s folding cloth clamshell box. Fine.

First edition, special issue (distributed ca. 1971). This present copy is one of twenty copies specially cased and distributed as a memorial fund-raiser for the publisher. It includes a frontispiece portrait of Henry Miller by Paul Giovanopoulos not included in the regular issues (1/30 numbered and signed in pencil by the artist in the margin), along with a manuscript note by Mrs. Jon Webb, and a specially printed title leaf for the portfolio (not noted by the bibliographers, who oddly denote this a second “edition,” which it is not). Although not called for, each of the plates of watercolors by Miller is signed by him in the margin (generally near the facsimile signature), in ink, rather than pencil, as was the case with the more exclusive regular issues. This rather awkward production was ill-starred from its initial conception, when an edition of 999 copies was envisioned; reality soon sunk in, and the edition was reduced to 699 copies. In the end, only three hundred of the original wood cases were completed, and some of the more lavish deluxe issues - A through F - were issued in far smaller numbers than intended. A portion of the edition was then offered as the “Economy” issue, without the wooden case, but with the reproductions. Apart from the original issue ‘A’ (12 copies with an original watercolor by Miller), this is the most limited of the distributed issues, and while the clamshell box is less eccentric than the wood slide-case (with the famous photo of Miller astride a toilet) that accompanied a portion of the other issues, it is far more substantial. Oversize and heavy, hence extra postage. S&J A175k. $4500.

106. [Mackintosh, Graham]: Everson, William: IN THE FICTIVE WISH. [Berkeley]: Oyez, [1967]. Folio. Cloth, gilt spine label. One lower fore-tip bumped, else about fine, without the unprinted jacket.

First edition. One of 200 numbered copies, printed on handmade Fabriano paper by Graham Mackintosh, and signed by the author, from a total edition of 220 copies. Woodcut by Mary Fabilli. This copy additionally bear’s Everson’s November 1967 presentation inscription to Henry and Adele Wenning, signed as Brother Antoninus. The Wennings had published Everson’s The Blowing of The Seed the previous year. BARTLETT & CAMPO A27. $250.

107. [Mackintosh, Graham]: Everson, William: WHO IS SHE THAT LOOKETH FORTH AS MORNING. By Brother Antoninus. Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, 1972. Quarto. Gilt cloth. Blockprint by Graham Mackintosh. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies, signed by the author. Fine, with original prospectus laid in. $125.

108. [Mackintosh, Graham]: Tranströmer, Tomas: BALTICS. [Berkeley]: Oyez, [1975]. Small quarto. Cloth and pictorial boards, paper spine label. Faint dust shadow to top edge and extreme top edges of endsheets, otherwise very near fine.

First edition, limited issue, of this translation by Samuel Charters. One of 125 numbered copies printed by Graham Mackintosh and handbound by Emily Paine, signed by Tranströmer and Charters. An early and elusive publication in English by the 2011 Nobel laureate. $450.

109. [Mademoiselle Poubelle Press]: [Krenzer, Jean]: CAT LETTERS THE CORRESPONDENCE OF AN AILUROPHILE [caption title]. [Los Angeles: Robin Price / Mademoiselle Poubelle Press, 1989]. Cloth and printed boards. Cover printed in two colors, cat paw-prints in gray on lighter gray Rives BFK. Bookplate on front blank ghosted to verso, otherwise near fine.

First edition, limited to 120 copies printed on Arches Wove Text by Robin Price, of which this is #25. A selection of letters written to the printer by Krenzer on the topic. $125.

With Two Extra Suites and Ten Proofs

111. Maillol, Aristide [illustrator]: LES GÉORGIQVES DE VIRGILE TEXTE LATIN ET VERSION FRANCAISE DE L’ABBE JACQUES DELILLE. Paris: Philippe Gonin, 1937 & 1943 [i.e. 1950]. Two volumes, plus portfolio. Quarto. Loose signatures laid into printed wrappers. Some modest foxing early and late (largely to the endleaves) of the second text , light foxing to verso of one of the proof plates in the portfolio, otherwise about fine in lightly soiled and corner worn slipcases and vellum-backed chemises.

First edition. The text volumes were printed in editions of 750 copies on rag paper watermarked with a special device of a seated nude by Maillol. Each volume is illustrated with 61 beautiful woodcuts, including illustrated initial letters, executed after Maillol’s drawings. This is one of the preferred sets, accompanied by the separate portfolio including two extra suites of the woodcuts, each suite laid into special printed pictorial wrappers, one suite printed in black and one in sanguine, each plate with a paraph ‘M’ stamped in the margin, along with ten early proof states of woodcuts printed in sanguine on China paper contained in a separate folder initialed and franked by the publisher. This beautiful and ambitious project saw its conception during Maillol’s and Count Kessler’s trip to Greece and Italy in 1908 and was intended as something of a parallel companion project to the masterful Cranach Press Eclogae & Georgica (1929). Maillol made the first woodcut from his drawings shortly after their return, and a few others in following years, but Kessler was unable to proceed further with the project. Philippe Gonin approached Maillol in 1937, proposing that he resume work on the project, “and the last block was delivered to the publisher in September, 1944, shortly before the artist’s death. Most of the cuts were executed by craftsmen after Maillol’s drawings on the block, since at that time his eyes were not strong enough for the cutting” - Artist & The Book. The number of copies of the portfolio is not explicitly stated, but the edition is frequently reported as being only one hundred copies. ARTIST & THE BOOK 175. MONOD 11339. REWALD 156-61. $5500.

112. [Mandrake Press]: Lawrence, D.H.: THE PAINTINGS OF D.H. LAWRENCE. London: The Mandrake Press, [1929]. Small folio. Three quarter publisher’s pebbled morocco, spine stamped in gilt, boards, stamped in gilt, t.e.g. Color plates. A few small rubs to spine, otherwise a very good or better copy, without slipcase.

First edition, trade issue. One of five hundred numbered copies on Arches mouldmade paper, from a total edition of 510 copies printed for subscribers only. ROBERTS A46a. $650.

113. [Manus Press]: Grieshaber, H[elmut] A[ndreas] P[aul]: AFFEN UND ALPHABETE. [Stuttgart: Manus Press, 1962]. Folio (45 x 33.5 cm). Accordion-fold sheets laid into pictorial stiff wrappers. Spine label a bit frayed along the edges, some slipcase rubbing along the extreme edges of the wrappers, otherwise near fine in publisher’s pictorial slipcase.

First edition of this ambitious undertaking by one of the foremost German woodcut artists of the post-WWII era. This work is comprised of sixteen original woodcuts of stylized apes printed in black (and one in black and red), juxtaposed with typographical experiments. From a total edition of three hundred numbered copies, this is one of sixty deluxe copies with the woodcuts signed in pencil by the artist, and with a separate special printing on Japanese paper of the woodcut for the upper wrapper, signed by the artist in the margin. $3500.

114. [Marchbanks Press]: THE STORY OF THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO THE GOSPELS OF SAINT MATTHEW AND SAINT LUKE. [New York: Marchbanks Press, 1929]. Small quarto. Handsome marbled paper over boards, paper spine label, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Full-page illustrations. Decorative initials highlighted in gold. A few minor smudges, otherwise, a very good copy.

One of 1000 copies designed and printed by C. B. Falls at the Marchbanks Press. The binding is post the date of publication and may have been applied to a set of unbound sheets. $125.

115. [Marchbanks Press]: Marquis, Don: HER FOOT IS ON THE BRASS RAIL. [New York & Springfield]: Privately Printed [for Members and Friends of the Linweave Assoc.], February 1935. Gilt decorated red cloth. Extremities a bit sunned, otherwise very good.

First edition. One of 500 copies printed at the Marchbanks Press. Illustrated with a centerfold drawing by James Thurber (captioned: “You gah dam pussy cats!”). $75.

116. [Marion Press]: Garrison, Wendell P.: THE NEW GULLIVER. Jamaica, NY: The Marion Press, 1898. Publisher’s full tan horsehide, decorated in blind, gilt labels. Very slight tanning at endsheet gutters, otherwise about fine.

First edition, deluxe issue, of this tale of a modern visit to the land of the Yahoos and Houyhnhnm by a shipwrecked Yale philologist. One of 120 numbered copies, specially bound, from a total edition of 420. “One of the most attractive of the many sequels to Gulliver ...”- Locke. WRIGHT III:2130. BLEILER, p.80. BLEILER (SCIENCE FICTION) 855. SARGENT, p.115. LOCKE, p.89. $125.

117. [Marion Press]: du Bois, Henri Pene: AMERICAN IN THE LIBRARY OF HENRY WILLIAM POOR ... ILLUSTRATED IN GOLD-LEAF AND COLORS BY EDWARD BIERSTADT. Jamaica, NY: Printed at the Marion Press / Published by George D. Smith, 1903. 77pp. Ribbed cloth, stamped in gilt. Frontis and thirty-eight color plates. Cloth lightly rubbed at corners and lightly handsoiled, some inevitable offsetting from the color plates to the facing page (though minimized by the presence of tissue guards between opposed plates), but a very good copy.

First edition. One of two hundred numbered copies on Dutch handmade paper, in addition to three copies on vellum and thirty-five on Japan vellum. A remarkable achievement in color printing for the time, reproducing with amazing depth and fidelity bindings by Smith, the Club Bindery, Bradstreet, Matthews, et al. The descriptive text suffers no restraint in singing the glories of Mr. Poor’s bindings, though from today’s vantage point, with one or two exceptions, the bindings themselves are thin soup compared to the effort involved in their reproduction here. A highpoint of the Marion Press’s output. ROGERS 61. $650.

118. [Marks. Lillian]: Easton, Phoebe Jane: MARBLING A HISTORY AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1983. xiii,[1],190,[4]pp. Quarto. Full natural linen, with inset of marbled paper. Tipped-in frontis, color and b&w plates, illustrations, and six tipped- in paper samples. First edition. One of 850 numbered copies, designed and produced by Joseph Simon and Lillian Marks. Bookplate laid in (formerly tipped in), otherwise fine. $200.

119. [Massey Press]: Gunn, Thom: BALLY POWER PLAY. [Toronto: Open Door Broadsheet, 1979]. [4] leaves. Small folio. Printed coarse-textured handmade coverboard wrappers. Lower edge very slightly curled, upper outer corner of front wrapper slightly darkened, else about fine.

First edition. One of twenty lettered copies, signed by the author, printed on handmade paper and specially cased, from a total edition of ninety copies printed by hand by David Brooks at the Massey Press. Title-page illustration by Mary Harman. Published to benefit the “Body Politic Defence Fund.” $250.

120. [Masurovsky, Gregory (illus)]: Sandburg, Carl: SEVEN POEMS. New York: Associated American Artists, 1970. Small quarto. Loose signatures laid into printed wrappers. Fine. Enclosed in cloth over boards chemise and slipcase (the latter very lightly soiled and rubbed).

First edition in this format. Illustrated with seven original etchings by Gregory Masurovsky. One of 150 numbered copies on BFK Rives, signed by the artist, and with each etching signed and numbered by the artist in the margin, from a total edition of 190 copies printed in Paris by Pierre Jean Mathan, with the etchings printed at Atelier Georges Leblanc. Masurovsky studied at Black Mountain College in 1947, and subsequently settled in Paris. In 2004, he was featured in an exhibition and workshop at Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center marking the publication of Black Mountain College Dossier No. 8: Gregory Mazurovsky. $350.

121. McLean, Ruari: MODERN FROM TO THE PRESENT DAY. London: Faber, 1958. Gilt blue cloth. Profusely illustrated in b/w. First Faber edition, second impression [1959]. With the author’s signed presentation inscription, “...in return for a shirt..,” on the free endsheet. Two small spots on endsheet, else fine in modestly edgeworn dust jacket with a few shallow chips. $60.

122. [McLellan, Leigh]: Heyen, William: MOTHER AND SON [caption title]. [Dallas]: Northouse & Northouse, 1987. Folio illustrated broadside. Fine in handmade paper folder.

From a total of 156 copies designed and printed by Leigh McLellan, this is one of thirty copies numbered in Roman and signed by the author. A beautiful broadside, illustrated with an original wood engraving by Rik Olson, and printed on French Arches. $60.

123. McManus, Blanche [illus], and Anatole France: THE CURÉ’S MIGNONETTE AN IDYLL FROM THE FRENCH .... New York: M.F. Mansfield, 1898. Narrow large octavo (25.5 x 13 cm). Sewn, in decorated printed wrappers. Overlap wrapper top edge nicked, torn and a bit frayed, sewing thread broken, otherwise a very good copy of an item commonly seen thus. First edition in this format. One of 500 copies printed. Translated by R. W. Arnot, and with decorations by Blanche McManus. $75.

124. McMurtrie, Douglas C.: THE CORRECTOR OF THE PRESS IN THE EARLY DAYS OF PRINTING. Greenwich, CT: Conde Nast Press, 1922. Quarto. Parchment and boards, paper label. First edition in book form. One of four hundred numbered copies, printed on handmade paper, and signed by the author. Fore-corners a bit bruised, otherwise a very good copy. $75.

125. [McMurtrie, Douglas C.]: Atwater, Richard [trans & intro]: SECRET HISTORY OF PROCOPIUS. Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1927. Quarto. Blue cloth, elaborately stamped and lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Frontis. Some slight rubbing at edges, else a very good or better copy with original dust jacket fragments laid in.

First edition of this translation. One of 730 numbered copies (of a total edition of 760) signed by the translator, and by the designer, Douglas C. McMurtrie. The first book set in McMurtrie’s “Procopius” type. $75.

126. McVarish, Emily: WARDS OF OBSOLESCENCE 8 TEXTS WITH MARGINAL NOTES. San Francisco: The Author / Artist, 1995. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Illustrations and typographic decorations. Lower fore-corner slightly bumped, otherwise about fine.

First edition. Copy #23 of 50 numbered copies (and 15 hors commerce), printed on the author / artist’s presses, Axel and Otto, initialed by her on the colophon. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of books and artworks under the same title, held at 871 Fine Arts in San Francisco. An example of the printed invitation is laid in. Emily McVarish is a book artist, writer, and designer who lives in San Francisco where she has operated her presses, Axel and Otto, since 1990. Her work has been widely exhibited. $600. 127. [Medici Society]: Horati Flacci, Q.: OPERA OMNIA .... [London: Medici Society / P.L. Warner, 1910]. Large octavo. Linen and boards, paper labels, t.e.g. One of one thousand copies on paper, in addition to sixteen copies on vellum. Edited by E.C. Wickham. Very near fine. TOMKINSON, p.150. $125.

128. [Medici Society]: Vergili Maronis, P.: OPERA OMNIA.... [London]: Medici Society / P.L. Warner, 1912. Two volumes. Large octavo. Linen and boards, paper labels, t.e.g. One of 525 sets on paper, in addition to twelve sets on vellum. Edited by John P. Postgate from the text established by Henry Nettleship. Small nick to one label, else very near fine. TOMKINSON, p.150. $150.

129. [Merrymount Press]: Carrington, FitzRoy [ed]: THE KINGS’ LYRICS LYRICAL POEMS OF THE REIGNS OF KING JAMES I. AND KING CHARLES I. TOGETHER WITH THE BALLAD OF AGINCOURT.... New York: Printed for R.H. Russell, 1899. 12mo. Publisher’s gilt morocco, t.e.g., with publisher’s monogram stamped in gilt on lower board. Portrait and plates. Joints and tips rubbed, spine sunned, bookplate tipped to front pastedown with small old tape tabs, but a good copy, internally about fine.

First edition, designed by D.B. Updike and printed at the Merrymount Press. This copy bears a presentation inscription from the publisher, signed with initials, and the binding, which surely had the publisher’s blessing, given the monogram, may be a presentation binding. $100.

130. [Merrymount Press]: Stickney, Trumbull: DRAMATIC VERSES. Boston: Charles Goodspeed, 1902. Drab gray boards, paper spine label, untrimmed and largely unopened. Shallow chip to crown of spine, some hand soiling to boards and label, but a very good copy.

First edition of the poet’s first book, published the year prior to his graduation from the Sorbonne as the first American to win the prestigious Doctorat ès Lettres. One of 352 copies printed by Updike at the Merrymount Press (this copy not numbered, as usual). It was to be the only book published during his lifetime: Stickney died of a brain tumor in 1904, after having returned from seven years studying abroad and settling in as Instructor of Classics. George Cabot Lodge, William Vaughn Moody, and John Ellerton Lodge edited the posthumously published 1905 edition of his poetry. SMITH 130. $125.

131. [Merrymount Press]: Whittier, John G.: A NEW YEAR’S ADDRESS TO THE PATRONS OF THE ESSEX GAZETTE 1828 WITH A LETTER, HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED. Boston: Charles R. Goodspeed, 1903. Cloth and boards, paper label. Boards hand-soiled, with discoloration and shallow scrape along edge of lower fore-corner of upper board, internally near fine and partially unopened.

First edition in this format. One of sixty copies printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press (this copy not numbered, as often). BAL 22913. SMITH & BIANCHI 175. $125.

132. [Merrymount Press]: THE CLUB OF ODD VOLUMES OF BOSTON CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS WITH A LIST OF THE OFFICERS AND MEMBERS. Boston. April 1904. Small octavo. Boards, paper labels. First edition. One of 200 copies printed on handmade paper at the Merrymount Press. Fore-tips bumped and a bit worn, internally fine and unopened. Includes a membership list and catalogue of publications. $100.

133. [Merrymount Press]: G[allatin], A.E.: WHISTLER’S ART DICTA AND OTHER ESSAYS. Boston & London: Charles Goodspeed / Elkin Mathews, 1904. Small octavo. Cloth and marbled boards, paper spine label. Illustrations and tipped-in folding facsimiles. Small chip from spine label, fore-tips a bit worn, inconspicuous scratch to upper board, but a nice copy, internally fine.

First edition. One of 175 copies printed at the Merrymount Press by D.B. Updike. Includes an unfinished border design by Beardsley for Le Morte D’arthur, facsimiles of illustrated letters from him, etc. LASNER 145. SMITH & BIANCHI 191. NELSON 1904.20 $200.

134. [Merrymount Press]: Milton, John: THE POETICAL WORKS OF WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATIONS. Boston: R. H. Hinkley, [1908]. Four volumes. Large octavo. Half natural pigskin and monastic style beveled wooden boards, raised bands, stamped in blind, t.e.g, others untrimmed. Sixteen illustrations. Usual tan offsetting to edges of endsheets from binding, a few minor rubs at spine extremities, otherwise a very nice set, near fine.

One of 555 numbered sets, printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press on handmade paper. Life of Milton by John Mitford. The title-page rubrication, border illustrations and decorations are relatively early work by W. A. Dwiggins. The illustrations are adapted from Flaxman. The majority of sets are bound in full pigskin; the sets in these heavy beveled wooden boards are uncommon and not noted in Smith. SMITH 319. AGNER 08.01. $850.

135. [Merrymount Press]: Wharton, Edith [ed]: THE BOOK OF THE HOMELESS (LE LIVRE DES SANS-FOYER) ... ORIGINAL ARTICLES IN VERSE AND PROSE ILLUSTRATIONS REPRODUCED FROM ORIGINAL PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS THE BOOK IS SOLD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE AMERICAN HOSTELS FOR REFUGEES (WITH THE FOYER FRANCO-BELGE) AND OF THE CHILDREN OF FLANDERS RESCUE COMMITTEE. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1916. Folio. Cloth and gilt boards. Plates and facsimiles. Two fore-tips bumped, otherwise fine.

First edition, deluxe limited issue. Copy #33 of fifty numbered copies on large French handmade paper, specially bound, signed by D.B. Updike. There were another 125 numbered copies on Van Gelder paper, as well as the ordinary trade issue. Printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press. Pictorial extra-title by Rudolph Ruzicka. Preface, and translations of the French poems, by Edith Wharton. Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. Contributions by Joseph Conrad, W. B. Yeats, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Rupert Brooke, Stravinsky, et al. Illustrations by Bakst, Beerbohm, Monet, Renoir, Rodin, Sargent, et al. Includes inserted facsimiles of manuscripts by Hardy, Joffrey, et al. As virtually inevitable, the separate folio of prints that accompanied these fifty copies on handmade paper is not present. Of those copies examined by Wharton’s bibliographer and recorded in the relevant entry, only one was still accompanied by the separate prints. Nonetheless, a very scarce issue of this book, and in terms of format, considerably the most lavish of the three issues. WADE 310. GARRISON D1. EDEL & LAURENCE B35. $3500.

136. [Merrymount Press]: Campan, Mme Jeanne-Louise-Henriette: MEMOIRS OF THE PRIVATE LIFE OF MARIE ANTOINETTE TO WHICH ARE ADDED PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE REIGNS OF LOUIS XIV, LOUIS XV, AND LOUIS XI. New York: Brentano’s, 1917. Two volumes. Large octavo. Elaborately gilt decorated blue cloth, t.e.g. Portraits. With a Biographical Notice of the author by F. Barriere. Revised edition, edited by F.M. Graves, with introduction and notes by J. Holland Rose. Printed by Updike at the Merrymount Press. A near fine, bright set. $75.

137. [Merrymount Press]: [Crane, Stephen]: Raymond, Thomas L.: STEPHEN CRANE. Newark, NJ: Carteret Book Club, 1923. Quarter cloth and pastepaper boards, gilt spine label, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Fine, without the glassine wrapper.

First edition. One of 250 numbered copies printed by Updike at the Merrymount Press for members of the Carteret Club. A bio-critical sketch, with a chronology and bibliographical checklist. $65. 138. [Merrymount Press]: Coolidge, Bertha [comp]: A CATALOGUE OF THE ALTSCHUL COLLECTION OF GEORGE MEREDITH IN THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. [New York]: Privately printed, 1931. Small quarto. Cloth and marbled boards, t.e.g. Introduction by C.B. Tinker. First edition. One of five hundred copies printed at the Merrymount Press. Corners bumped, endsheets show faint foxing, otherwise a fine, unopened copy in glassine (torn). $65.

139. [Merrymount Press]: Dickens, Charles: THE LIFE OF OUR LORD WRITTEN DURING THE YEARS 1846-1849 ... FOR HIS CHILDREN. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1934. Full vegetable parchment, stamped in blind and gilt, t.e.g., others rough-trimmed. First US edition, limited issue. One of 2387 numbered copies printed at the Merrymount Press after a design by D. B. Updike. About fine in slightly rubbed slipcase. $125.

140. [Merrymount Press]: Updike, Daniel B.: NOTES ON THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS & ITS WORK ... WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST OF BOOKS PRINTED AT THE PRESS 1893-1933 BY JULIAN PEARCE SMITH .... Cambridge: Harvard, 1934. 280pp. Gilt cloth. Plates. First edition. One of 500 copies printed. Some rubbing at edges, a few smudges to cloth, else very good. $75.

141. [Merrymount Press]: [Cole, Timothy]: Cole, Alphaeus P., and Margaret Ward Cole: TIMOTHY COLE WOOD-ENGRAVER. New York: Pioneer Associates, 1935. Small quarto. Gilt black cloth. Portrait and plates. First edition. One of 750 numbered copies, printed by Updike at the Merrymount Press, and signed by the authors. Slight patina to spine stamping, but a near fine, copy, without dust jacket. $100.

142. [Merrymount Press]: Wroth, Lawrence C.: THE FIRST CENTURY OF THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY A HISTORY WITH A GUIDE TO THE COLLECTIONS. Providence: Associates of the John Carter Brown Library, 1946. vi,88pp. Cloth and marbled boards. Frontis, plates and facsimiles. First edition, hardbound issue. Printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Copies were also issued in wrappers. Small bookplate on pastedown, otherwise abut fine. $65.

143. [Midnight Paper Sales Press]: Schanilec, Gaylord: BUFFALOED FIVE WOODCUTS AND A FEW WORDS. [St. Paul]: Midnight Paper Sales Press, [1983]. Quarto. Cloth and textured paper over boards, paper spine label. Illustrated with five original tipped-in woodcuts, and with type cut by hand in wood. Top fore-corners bumped, else fine.

One of a total edition of one hundred numbered copies, this being one of sixty bound up ca. 2001. RULON-MILLER A51b. $175.

144. [Mike & Dale’s Press]: Nguyen, Hoa: DARK. Austin & San Francisco: Mike & Dale’s Press, 1998. 50pp. Printed wrappers. Six images by Suloni Robertson. First edition of the poet’s first book, ordinary issue. One of 275 copies, in addition to 25 copies numbered and signed by the author. Fine. $75.

145. []: Washburn, William L. [printer]: THE THIRTY-SIXTH PSALM TWO VERSIONS. Haddon Heights, NJ: William Lewis Washburn, 1940. Miniature (5 x 5 cm). Open-sewn gilt lettered vellum, with ribbon ties. Copy #25 of an edition of 64 numbered copies handprinted by Washburn. Fine, in lightly smudged and soiled publisher’s printed and numbered envelope. BRADBURY (WASHBURN) 16. $450.

146. [Miniature Book]: [THE OLYMPIC OATH]. [Munich: Graphische Fachhandlung, Waldman and Pfetzner, ca. 1964]. Miniature (approximately 5 x 5 mm). Limp dark blue- black semi-leather binding, with Olympic Rings stamped in silver. Very good or better in hinged plexi magnifier case.

One of four titles published by the firm in a sequence of “World’s Smallest Books.” The text is the Olympic Oath printed in German, English, French, Spanish, Russian, Finnish, Swedish and Italian. The edition must have been relatively large - as of this cataloguing, copies remain for sale at such venues as the Museum Shop at the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz. $60.

147. [Miniature Book]: Merriam, Robert L.: LUCY TERRY PRINCE Conway, MA: [Privately Printed], 1983. Miniature book (7.5 x 5.5 cm). Cloth, paper label. Silhouette portrait and illustrations. Fine.

First edition. Illustrations by Melinda Merriam. One of 350 numbered copies, signed by the binder, Linda Lembke. Prince was an important spokesperson for African Americans in 18th century Deerfield, best known for her poem on the Deerfield Indian Massacre of 1746, which is reprinted in the context of this essay on her life. $65.

148. [Miró, Joan]: Prévert, Jacques, and G. Ribemont-Dessaignes: JOAN MIRÓ, [Paris]: Maeght Éditeur, 1956. 219pp. Small quarto. Color lithographed pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers. Illustrations and plates. Light shelf-rubbing to extreme edges of wrapper, otherwise near fine.

First edition. Includes seven original lithographs, four of them double-panel foldouts, in addition to the color title-page vignette and the lithos on the front and rear of the wrapper. $1000.

149. [Miró, Joan]: Erben, Walter: JOAN MIRÓ. Mont Carlo: André Sauret, [1960]. 157pp. plus plates. Small sq. quarto. Illustrated in color and b & w. Hint of dust-dimming along top edge, otherwise fine in original color lithographed dust jacket.

First edition. Copy #41 of 2000 numbered copies, with the beautiful lithographed dust jacket numbered identically. $400.

150. [Miró, Joan]: Dupin, Jacques: DERRIERE LE MIROIR [No. 151/2]. [Paris: Maeght, May 1965]. Folio (38 x 27.5 cm). Loose bifolia laid into pictorial wrappers. Illustrations. Light tidemark at fore-corner and spine crown affecting to some degree the upper edge of most leaves, chiefly at the gutter at the spine crown (5 central bifolia not affected significantly), otherwise very good and bright.

First edition, ordinary issue. A special double number devoted to Miró’s “Peintures Sur Cartons,” comprised of 24 original lithographs (two double-spread), four panels in black on medium brown stock, the remainder in color. Accompanied by the [4]pp. inserted “Chroniques.” MOURLOT 360-81. CRAMER 102. $300.

151. Miró, Joan: OEUVRE GRAVÉ ET LITHOGRAPHIÉ.... Genève: Galerie Gérald Cramer, Septembre 1969. Oblong small quarto. Original color lithographed wrapper over stiff wrappers. Portrait and plates. Fine, in envelope captioned and labeled in the hand of Monroe Wheeler.

First edition. One of sixteen hundred and fifty numbered copies, with an original lithograph by Miró for the wrapper. $175.

152. [Miró. Joan]: Leiris, Michel, and Fernand Mourlot: JOAN MIRÓ LITHOGRAPHS VOLUME I. New York: Tudor Company, [1972]. Quaro. Cloth. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white. Fine in color lithographed pictorial dust jacket after a design by Miró. Card slipcase.

First US edition. One of 5000 numbered copies. With the two essays by Leiris and the catalogue by Mourlot translated from the French by Peninah Neimark and E.J. W. Including the dust jacket, illustrated with twelve original color lithographs by Miró, printed by Mourlot. $600. 153. [Miró, Joan]: Cirici, Alexandre: DERRIERE LE MIROIR [No. 203]. [Paris: Maeght, April 1973]. Folio (38 x 27.5 cm). Loose bifolia laid into pictorial wrappers. Illustrations. Photographs. Residue of price sticker in lower corner of rear wrapper, nick at crown and slight fraying to spine, internally fine.

First edition, ordinary issue. Feautres a series of Miró’s cloth constructions, denoted “sobreteixims” and “sobreteixim sacs.” Illustrated with two double-spread color lithographs (38 x 55 cm) by Miro, in addition to the wrapper lithograph. $225.

154. [Miró. Joan]: Queneau, Raymond [preface]: JOAN MIRÓ LITHOGRAPHS VOLUME II. New York: Léon Amiel Publisher, [1975]. Quarto. Cloth. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white. Fine in color lithographed pictorial dust jacket after a design by Miró and printed bellyband. Card slipcase.

First US edition. One of 5000 numbered copies. The translation of Queneau’s essay from the French is not attributed. Including the dust jacket, illustrated with twelve original color lithographs by Miró, printed by Mourlot. $600.

155. Miró, Joan: “TRÈS JOAN” [Original Etching]. [Barcelona?]. [1979]. Original etching with aquatint and intaglio, printed in colors on paper. 53 x 106.5cm (20.9 x 41.9 inches), with full margins. Fine.

An hors commerce copy, signed by Miró in pencil in the lower right margin and denoted “H.C.” at the lower left, in addition to a published issue of ninety-nine numbered copies. Shipped unframed. $25,000.

156. [Mittl, Melchior W. (printer)]: Schiller, Friedrich von: AN DIE FREUDE. [Mindelheim Bayern: Melchior W. Mittl, 1959]. Large octavo. Paper wrapper over stiff wrappers, printed label. Decorations by Erwin Holzbaue. Outer wrapper a bit sunned at extreme edges, otherwise near fine.

First printing in this format, produced by Mittle for the Hahnemühle Paper Company. Signed by the printer on the colophon. Laid in is a full-page a.l.s. from Mittl, on his letterhead, 29 January 1960, responding to the gift of some Bruce Rogers bookplates, sending this item in return, commenting on it and on other projects, etc. $125.

157. [Mittl, Melchior W. (printer)]: Börne, Ludwig: DENKREDE AUF JEAN PAUL WENIGE TAGE NACH DER BEERDIGUNG GEHALTEN .... [Mindelheim, Bayern: Melchior W. Mittl, nd but ca. 1960]. 12mo. Boards, printed label. Trace of sunning to spine, otherwise about fine, unopened.

First edition in this format. One of 123 copies printed largely for distribution to members of the Jean Paul Society. Accompanied by a dense, very closely written a.l.s., Mindelheim, 31 March 1960, from Mittl, in English, to a small press printer in the US, thanking him for a recent gift, describing this enclosed book, progress on his edition of Orpheus & Eurydice (published under the Three Kings Press / Drei König Press imprint), his design of a new type-face, and much else (ca. 350 quite informative words). Accompanied by the original addressed envelope. $100.

158. [Mogollon Press]: Crane, Stephen: LINES [cover title]. [Baltimore: The Mogollon Press, 1947]. [4]pp. French fold leaflet. Fine, in slightly creased plain envelope.

First printing in this format of “this original draft of ‘I explain the silvered passing’.” One of 100 numbered copies printed for friends of Melvin H. Schoberlin, and signed by him. STALLMAN, p.367. $100.

159. [Monadnock Press]: [Bandello, Matteo]: THE GOODLY HISTORY OF THE TRUE & CONSTANT LOVE BETWEEN RHOMEO & JULIETTA. [Nelson, NH]: The Monadnock Press, [1903]. lxxxii,[2]pp. Sq. octavo. Full vellum, edges untrimmed. Pictorial double- spread title-page. Printed in red and black. Endsheets foxed and dusty, vellum warped, textblock very good and largely unopened.

One of 115 copies on handmade paper, in addition to ten on vellum, printed by Temple Scott. The translation is by William Painter, based on the French paraphrase by Pierre Boaistuau. The title-page and colophon are after drawings by S. Chamberlin. $75.

160. [Moonkosh Press & Ragpicker Press]: Napora, Joe: THE JOURNAL OF ELIZABETH JENNINGS WILSON 1853 - 1867. Madison, WI: Moonkosh Press & Ragpicker Press, 1987. Small octavo. Open-sewn vellum backed decorated wrappers. Imaginative maps and ornaments. Fine in custom-made folding cloth clamshell box with inset.

First edition. A poetic distillation of portions of the actual journal kept by Wilson. One of 160 numbered copies printed on Japanese Ogawa paper. $150.

161. Morison, Stanley: CARACTERES DE L’ECRITURE DANS LA TYPOGRAPHIE ETUDE HISTORIQUE. Paris: A l’Enseigne du Pegase, 1927. Folio. Quarter vellum and pastepaper over boards, paper label. Facsimiles. Lower corners bumped, faint foxing early and late, but a nice copy.

First edition in French, limited to five hundred copies on vergé de Rives (and an additional twelve numbered copies on Montval). $200.

162. Morison, Stanley: A REVIEW OF RECENT TYPOGRAPHY IN ENGLAND, THE UNITED STATES FRANCE & GERMANY. London: , 1927. Cloth, paper label. Sixteen illustrations. First edition. Some foxing, otherwise a nice copy in considerably foxed dust jacket. $75.

163. Morison, Stanley: ON LEARNED PRESSES A PAPER GIVEN TO THE DOUBLE CROWN CLUB ON THE OCCASION OF ITS 130TH DINNER, HELD IN KING’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE ...[caption title]. [Cambridge: At the University Press, 1955]. Printed self- wrappers. First printing of Morison’s lecture. One of one hundred copies printed. Wrappers lightly dust smudged, front wrapper faintly tanned toward edges and with a small mark, marginal ink highlight on one leaf, but near very good. $75.

164. Morison, Stanley, and Kenneth Day: THE TYPOGRAPHIC BOOK 1450 - 1935 A STUDY OF FINE TYPOGRAPHY THROUGH FIVE CENTURIES. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, [1963]. xiii,[1],99pp. plus plates (one folding). Large quarto. Gilt cloth. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise about fine in good, somewhat edge-tanned dust jacket with short, internally mended tear, without slipcase.

First edition, U.S. issue, bound up from sheets printed in the UK. The substantially updated and expanded survey based on the model of Morison’s Four Centuries Of Fine Printing (1924). $95. 165. Morris, William: SOME HINTS ON PATTERN DESIGNING. [London: Longmans & Co., 1899]. Cloth-backed boards. Mild handsoiling to boards, internally about fine.

First printing in this format. Printed at the Chiswick Press utilizing the Golden type designed by Morris for the Kelmscott Press. $100.

166. Morris, William: ARCHITECTURE AND HISTORY AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY. [London: Longmans & Co., 1900]. Cloth-backed boards. Some soiling to boards, internally about fine, with the series prospectus laid in.

Second printing in this format. One of 500 copies printed at the Chiswick Press utilizing the Golden type designed by Morris for the Kelmscott Press. $100.

167. Morris, William: THE HOLLOW LAND AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE MAGAZINE. [London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1903]. [4],332,[1]pp. Linen and boards, paper spine label. Shallow loss along right margin of label (but the spare is still tipped in), bookplate, usual slight tan offset to endsheets, minor wear at fore-tips, but a very good copy. Cloth clamshell box.

First edition in this format, printed at the Chiswick Press in the Kelmscott Golden type. Lemire notes the edition consisted of only 316 copies, of which 300 were for sale. Includes some of Morris’s proseworks qualifying as fantasy. LEMIRE C-20. $350.

168. [Morris, William]: Jackson, Holbrook: WILLIAM MORRIS CRAFTSMAN - SOCIALIST. London: A.C. Fifield, 1908. Cloth backed printed boards. Foretips bumped, light soiling to boards; a good copy.

First edition. No. 3 in the “Social Reformers Series.” Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet: “To Samuel Hales who opened for me the magic casement through which I first looked upon the wonderland of Walt Whitman. Holbrook Jackson. Liverpool. Jan. 23, 1909.” With the bookplate of H. W. Edwards on the front paste-down and a small magazine photo of Jackson tipped to the rear free endsheet. Laid in is a folded flyer for an exhibition at Fulham Public of Morris’s works, with lectures by Jackson, May Morris, et al. NCBEL IV:1061. $150.

169. [Morris, William]: Needham, Paul [ed]: WILLIAM MORRIS AND THE ART OF THE BOOK. New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library / Oxford University Press, [1976]. Large quarto. Cloth. Pictorial endsheets. Portrait frontis. 101 black and white plates. Bookplate on front pastedown else fine, in lightly rubbed, spine-faded dust jacket

First edition. In depth essays exploring William Morris as book collector by Paul Needham, as calligrapher by Joseph Dunlap, and as typographer by John Dreyfus. $75.

170. [Mosher Imprint]: [Sharp, William]: FROM THE HILLS OF DREAM. THRENODIES, SONGS AND OTHER POEMS. By “Fiona MacLeod.” Portland: Thomas B. Mosher, 1901. Printed parchment, wallet fore-edges. Early ink name on pastedown, parchment a bit rubbed, but a very good copy.

First edition. One of 925 copies. This collection, which was published with the author’s blessings, is not the direct equivalent of any single British edition, and includes poems here first printed for the first time in book form, as well as the author’s to W.B. Yeats. Not in Colbeck. HATCH 182. BISHOP 121. $60.

171. [Mosher Imprint]: Fitzgerald, Edward: POLONIUS: A COLLECTION Of WISE SAWS AND MODERN INSTANCES. Portland: Thomas B. Mosher, 1901. Gilt vegetable parchment wrapper over boards. With an unsigned bibliographical foreword by Mosher. One of fifty numbered copies printed on Japan vellum, from an edition of 504. Wrapper darkened and rubbed, internally very good or better. BISHOP 306. $125.

172. [Mosher Imprint]: Yeats, William Butler: THE LAND OF HEART’S DESIRE. Portland: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903. Printed white parchment boards. Fine in tissue wrapper. Cloth slipcase.

First public American edition of the revised text. Copy #36 of one hundred numbered copies printed on Japan vellum, signed by the publisher, from a total edition of 1060. The first American printing of the revised text was in IX:6 of The Bibelot (June 1903). Mosher produced a separate printing of thirty-two copies, denoted as “Privately Printed,” in July 1903. The public edition was published in October. WADE 13. BISHOP 186. HATCH 260. $1500.

One of Ten on Vellum

173. [Mosher Imprint]: Yeats, William Butler: THE LAND OF HEART’S DESIRE. Portland: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903. Full limp vellum. Binding slightly rippled and faintly dust soiled, early ink name on free endsheet (“Edw. S. Willard”), otherwise a fine copy.

First public American edition of the revised text. Copy #6 of only ten numbered copies printed on pure vellum, specially bound and signed by the publisher, from a total edition of 1060. The former owner was the British actor, who owned a number of Mosher’s imprints on vellum -- at least two others, in the Bishop Collection, are also copies #6 of ten. The first American printing of the revised text was in IX:6 of The Bibelot (June 1903). Mosher produced a separate printing of thirty-two copies, denoted as “Privately Printed,” in July 1903. The public edition was published in October. WADE 13. BISHOP 186. HATCH 260. $6500.

174. [Mosher Imprint]: Whitman, Walt: THE BOOK OF HEAVENLY DEATH .... Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1905. Large octavo. Printed parchment wrapper over boards. Portrait frontis. Facsimile. Bookplate scar on verso of free endsheet, otherwise a near fine copy in slightly tanned and nicked, very good printed dust jacket.

First edition of this authorized selection, edited by Horace Traubel. One of fifty numbered copies on Japan vellum, in addition to five on vellum and five hundred on paper. BISHOP B48. MYERSON C.19.1.b. $250.

175. [Mosher Imprint]: [Schwob, Marcel]: THE CHILDREN’S CRUSADE. [Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1923]. Small octavo. Paper boards, printed in dark blue. Printed in black and red. A fine copy, in chipped and torn glassine jacket.

First edition in this format. One of 450 copies on Kelmscott handmade paper, in addition to fifty copies on Japan Vellum. Translated by Henry Copley Greene, with a new introduction by John L. Foley. BISHOP 66. $150.

176. [Mosher, Thomas B.]: Bishop, Philip R.: THOMAS BIRD MOSHER PIRATE PRINCE OF PUBLISHERS A COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY & SOURCE GUIDE TO THE MOSHER BOOKS.... [New Castle & London]: Oak Knoll Press and The , [1998]. Quarto. Gilt cloth. Facsimiles and plates (including color). As new in dust jacket.

First edition. Introduction by William E. Fredeman. The essential reference to the output of Mosher and successors, with a wealth of related information and analysis. $100.

One of 96 Copies

177. [Moving Parts Press]: Peyré, Yves: AN INTIMATE COSMOGONY COSMOGONIE INTIME. [Santa Cruz]: Moving Parts Press, [2005]. Folio (37.5 x 25.5 cm). Pictorial stiff wrappers. Illustrated. Fine in card slipcase, and linen covered clamshell box with paper spine label.

First edition of these translations by Elizabeth R. Jackson, printed parallel with the French text in an 18 foot long accordion-fold, illustrated with pen and ink drawings by Ray Rice. From a total edition of 96 numbered copies printed in Janson types on Fabriano Artistico paper by Felicia Rice, this is one of 84 copies with the illustrations colored via pochoir, signed by the poet, the translator and the printer. The elaborate prospectus is laid in. Publisher’s price: $2400.

178. [Nadja]: Morgan, Frederick: ELEVEN POEMS. [New York]: Nadja, [1983]. Quarto. Cloth. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies (of 126), set in Stempel Optima, printed on Rives heavyweight, and signed by the author. Fine copy, at publication price. $75.

179. [Nadja]: Merrill, James: SOUVENIRS. [New York]: Nadja, [1984]. Narrow quarto. Cloth, paper label. Fine.

First edition. One an unknown number of out-of-series copies in addition to the 26 lettered copies, specially bound thus, from a total edition of 226 copies signed by the author - plus, obviously, out-of-series copies. Hagstrom & Morgan indicate that the out-of-series copies were for the author’s use. HAGSTROM & MORGAN A53a. $450.

180. [Nadja]: Snodgrass, W.D.: THE KINDER CAPERS. POEMS ... WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY DELOSS McGRAW. [New York]: Nadja, 1986. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers. About fine, with prospectus laid in.

First edition, wrapper bound issue. One of 100 numbered copies, signed by the author and by the artist. $100.

181. [Nadja]: Snodgrass, W.D.: TO SHAPE A SONG ... ILLUSTRATED BY DELOSS McGRAW. [New York]: Nadja, [1988]. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Fine copy.

First edition. One of 74 numbered copies, signed by the author and the artist, from a total edition of 100 copies. $125.

182. [Nadja]: Simic, Charles: PYRAMIDS AND SPHINXES. [New York]: Nadja, [1989]. Narrow quarto. Printed wrappers. First edition. One of 74 numbered copies from a total of 125 copies, signed by the author. Fine. $100.

183. [Nadja]: Snodgrass, W.D.: AUTUMN VARIATIONS. [New York]: Nadja, [1990]. Printed wrapper over stiff wrapper. Small octavo. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies, signed by the author (of 126). Very fine. $100.

184. [Nadja]: Snodgrass, W.D.: SNOW SONGS. [New York]: Nadja, [1992]. Small quarto. Printed wrapper over stiff sewn wrappers. Slight sunning to spine, otherwise fine.

First edition, wrapperbound issue. Copy ‘v’ of 25 copies numbered in Roman, reserved for the author’s use, from a total edition of 126, all signed by the author. 26 copies were bound in cloth. $125.

185. [Nadja]: Merrill, James, and David Jackson: DAVID JACKSON: SCENES FROM HIS LIFE. [New York]: Nadja, 1994. Small folio. Folded sheets, laid into cloth portfolio with pictorial label and printed internal folder. Plates. A couple smudges to folder lining paper, small rub mark to upper panel of portfolio, otherwise fine.

First edition. One of one hundred copies printed on Arches, for private distribution in commemoration of Jackson’s 72nd birthday. With the printed gift card laid in, personalized in manuscript by Jackson. $1000. 186. [Nadja]: Creeley, Robert: LOOPS TEN POEMS. [Kripplebush, NY]: Nadja, 1995. Stiff printed wrapper over sewn plain wrapper. Fine.

First edition, wrapperbound issue. One of 75 numbered copies, from a total edition of 116 copies, all signed by the poet. $150.

187. [Nash, John Henry]: Stevenson, Robert L.: STEVENSON’S BABY BOOK BEING THE RECORD OF THE SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF .... San Francisco: John Howell, 1922. Small quarto. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. Frontis and facsimiles. Prefatory note by Katharine D. Osbourne. First edition. One of 500 copies printed by J.H. Nash. Edgeworn, persistent foxing; a sound copy. $75.

188. [Nash John Henry]: Dryden, John: ALL FOR LOVE OR, THE WORLD WELL LOST: A TRAGEDY. San Francisco: Printed for William Andrews Clark, Jr., by John Henry Nash, 1929. Two volumes. Large quarto and octavo, quarter vellum and boards, t.e.g. Portraits. Ink gift inscription on prelim blank of first volume, otherwise about fine in dual compartment slipcase with modest wear. Compliments slip tipped in.

One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies printed on handmade paper by John Henry Nash for private distribution. Introduction by William Andrews Clark to the larger volume, which is a new typographic rendering of the text. The smaller volume is a photofacsimile of the Bridgewater-Clark copy of the 1678 first edition. $150.

189. [Nash, John Henry]: Stevenson, Robert Louis: FATHER DAMIEN AN OPEN LETTER TO THE REVEREND DR. HYDE OF HONOLULU ... DATED FEBRUARY 2. San Francisco: Printed for William Andrews Clark, Jr., by John Henry Nash, 1930. Two volumes. Large quarto and octavo, quarter vellum and boards. Portraits. Tan offsetting from slipcase to boards, two faint smudges to one margin, otherwise about fine in dual compartment slipcase with modest wear and soiling. Compliments slip tipped in.

One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies printed on handmade paper by John Henry Nash for private distribution. Introduction by William Andrews Clark to the larger volume, which is a new typographic rendering of the text. The smaller volume is a photofacsimile of the 1890 Sydney edition. $225.

190. [Nash, John Henry]: Gray, Thomas: ODE ON THE PLEASURE ARISING FROM VICISSITUDE LEFT UNFINISHED ... AND SINCE COMPLETED.... San Francisco: Printed for William Andrews Clark, Jr., by John Henry Nash, 1933. Two volumes. Large quarto and octavo, quarter vellum and boards, t.e.g. Portrait. About fine in vellum backed folding chemise and slightly marked slipcase. Compliments slip tipped in.

One of two hundred numbered copies printed on handmade paper by John Henry Nash for private distribution. Portrait after Rowlandson. Introduction by Leonard Whibley to the larger volume, which is a new typographic rendering of the text. The smaller volume is a photofacsimile of the first edition, ca. 1774. $150.

191. [Nash, John Henry]: FauntLeRoy, Joseph: JOHN HENRY NASH PRINTER LEGEND AND FACT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FINE PRESS INTIMATELY REVIEWED. Oakland: The Westgate Press, 1948. Linen and Japanese paper over boards, paper spine label, edges untrimmed. Tipped-in photogravure portraits. Colored initial. Small bump at top edge of lower board, foretips a bit worn, bookplate, else a very good copy.

First edition. One of 235 numbered copies printed by Alfred and Lawton Kennedy, and Joseph FauntLeRoy, on handmade paper specially watermarked with Nash’s name. $100.

192. [Naughty Dog Press]: Martin, Emily: MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. [Iowa City]: Naughty Dog Press, [2002]. Five folding “magic wallets,” printed paper over boards (16 x 11 cm). Enclosed in silk covered folding case, with ties and bone clasps. Fine.

First edition. One of fifty numbered copies, printed on Canson papers, and signed by the printer/artist. A response to news coverage in the period following 9/11, with each wallet presenting one of two bold opposing statements depending on the direction in which it is opened, printed against backgrounds of smaller textual context. $350.

Presentation Copy

193. [New Dresden Press]: Frost, Robert: NEW HAMPSHIRE A POEM. Hanover, NH: The New Dresden Press, 1955. Small octavo. Cloth and boards, gilt spine label. Fine in slightly frayed unprinted tissue jacket with narrow tear in spine panel.

First separate edition. One of 750 numbered copies, signed by the author. Woodcut by J.J. Lanes. This copy bears the author’s additional presentation inscription on the front free endsheet: “To George Cohn from his old old friend in of good talks[.] Robert Frost Cambridge Mass Jan 13 1956.” CRANE A6.2. $1250.

194. [Nexus Press]: Miller, Rob [editor & design]: IMPLEMENTING ARCHITECTURE: EXPOSING THE PARADIGM SURROUNDING THE IMPLEMENTS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ARCHITECTURE. Atlanta: Architecture Society of Atlanta / Nexus Press, [1988]. Quarto, comprised of five 12 x 8” folding cloth panels, printed recto and verso via decorated onlays, with separate booklets and folded broadsheets mounted to five of the panels and letterpress on the others. Fine in faintly rubbed slipcase.

First edition. An unusual format and presentation of five works, each separately printed, by R. Durham Crout, Marco Frascari, John Jacques, George R. Johnston, and Giuseppe Zambonini. Miller’s design won First Place and Grand-Prize in Macworld’s graphic design competition for its year. $200.

195. [Nexus Press]: Barton, Carol: INSTRUCTIONS FOR ASSEMBLY THREE HOW-TO PROJECTS THAT WILL IMPROVE YOUR LIFE. Atlanta: Nexus Press, 1993. Quarto (29 x 21 cm). Stiff decorated wrappers. Color illustrations and pop-ups. Fine, with instruction sheet and 12 extra tab strips laid in.

First edition. According to the colophon, one of “hopefully” 600 copies printed on Mohawk Poseidon 80 pound cover stock. Both a “how-to” and an example of the pop-up art by the proprietor of Popular Kinetics Press, undertaken in the course of a Nexus Press residence award. In the author’s online resume of book productions, she indicates the edition actually consisted of 250 copies. $150.

196. [Nexus Press]: Ohtake, Shinro: A TLANTA 1945 + 50. [Atlanta, GA: Nexus Press, 1996]. Octavo. Glossy pictorial boards, lettered in gilt and blind. Contents comprised of high-quality printings of collages, photographs and graphics, in color and black & white, with numerous original inserts and insets. Fine with string-secured small color booklet inset.

First edition. One of 1500 copies. From the artist’s web site: “Commissioned as one of five contemporary world artists selected for the Cultural Olympiad Artist book project for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic games ... Ohtake`s richly-imaged ATlanta 1945 + 50 is a document that travels from the visual rhythm and density of a Tokyo street to a direct and intense scrutiny of Atlanta`s cultural encrustation. Endless Japanese and American ephemera are juxtaposed, overlapped and manipulated to create complex crosscultural visions - the printing of this artist`s book involved as a many as 150 runs on the press. Each copy is unique: the printing incorporated paper from a variety of sources including Atlanta billboards and throwaway sheets from previous printings in Japan.” $200.

197. [No Press]: Nash, Terry: CITY SKIES POEMS. New York: No Press, [1979]. Octavo. Stiff pastepaper wrappers. About fine.

First edition. Illustrated with an original etching by Janet Morgan. One of forty numbered copies printed by hand on Dieu Donne handmade paper, signed by the author. $95. 198. [Nonesuch Press]: Hudson, W. H.: 153 LETTERS FROM W.H. HUDSON. : The Nonesuch Press, 1923. Large octavo. Polished buckram, paper spine label. First edition. Edited by Edward Garnett, the recipient of the letters. One of one thousand numbered copies. Faint tape ghosts from old-style jacket protector on endsheets, otherwise near fine in good, lightly chipped dust jacket with some old edge-mends on verso. PAYNE A46a. $125.

199. [Nonesuch Press]: Apuleius: CUPID AND PSYCHE. THE EXCELLENT NARRATION OF THEIR MARRIAGE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY WILLIAM ADLINGTON OUT OF THE LATINE BOOKES OF THE GOLDEN ASSE...1566. Soho: The Nonesuch Press, 1923. Parchment backed decorated boards. One of 625 numbered copies. Bookplate. Fine in original plain dust jacket, and slightly worn slipcase. Sold

200. [Nonesuch Press]: Toller, Ernst: MASSES AND MAN A FRAGMENT OF THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1923. Batik boards, paper spine label. Frontis. Light shelfwear at edges, corner of one leaf roughly opened, but a very good copy.

First edition in English, translated by Vera Mendel. Inscribed presentation copy from the translator to a relative: “Edith Wynn Mendel from Vera Mendel.” $85.

201. [Nonesuch Press]: Donne, John: PARADOXES AND PROBLEMES ... WITH TWO CHARACTERS AND AN ESSAY OF VALOUR. Soho: The Nonesuch Press, 1923. Decorated paper over boards, paper spine label. Bibliographical note by Geoffrey Keynes. One of 645 numbered copies, printed in the Fell types. Endsheets a trifle foxed, spine a shade tanned, else a good copy. $60.

203. [Nonesuch Press]: Melville, Herman: BENITO CERENO. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. Folio. Cloth. Illustrated with colored drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. First edition in this format. One of 1650 numbered copies. Spine sunned, with some fraying at crown, a couple of marginal smudges, but a good, sound copy. $75.

204. [Nonesuch Press]: Evelyn, John: MEMOIRES FOR MY GRAND-SON. Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1926. 12mo. Limp parchment over boards. Fine in edgeworn, partially split slipcase.

First edition, second (first published) printing, transcribed from the ms., with notes and prefatory matter, by Geoffrey Keynes. One of 1250 numbered copies, printed on French handmade paper in the Fell types at the Oxford University Press. An earlier, unsatisfactory printing, on English paper, was destroyed with the exception of a half-dozen copies. KEYNES 119. $125.

205. [Nonesuch Press]: Moore, George: ULICK AND SORACHA. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. Polished buckram. Engraving. First edition. One of of 1250 numbered copies printed on japon vellum and signed by the author. The preliminary illustration is an original copperplate engraving by Stephen Gooden. Cloth slightly darkened and smudged, otherwise a very good copy. GILCHER A51a. $60.

206. [Nonesuch Press]: Moore, George: ULICK AND SORACHA. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. Polished buckram. Engraving. Cloth darkened, spotted and marked, a bit of toning to the edges of the text block, but a good, sound copy.

First edition. One of 1250 numbered copies printed on japon vellum and signed by the author. The preliminary illustration is an original copperplate engraving by Stephen Gooden. This copy bears Moore’s inscription: “To Virginia Crawford from her old friend George Moore July 8th 1926.” The recipient was indeed an old friend, of some three decades’ standing, and had worked on occasion as Moore’s researcher and proof-reader; she was also associated with the scandal that effectively ended Sir Charles Dilke’s political career. GILCHER A51a. $200.

207. [Nonesuch Press]: Vanbrugh, John: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SIR JOHN VANBRUGH.... Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. Four volumes. Small quarto. Cloth backed boards, paper spine labels. Spines uniformly sunned, light but persistent foxing to endsheets, a few stray marks to boards, but a very good set.

One of 1300 numbered sets on machine-made paper, from a total edition of 1410 sets. The plays were edited by Bonamy Dobree, and the letters by Geoffrey Webb. $175.

208. [Nonesuch Press]: Wilson, Mona: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM BLAKE. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. Quarto. Quarter vellum and marbled boards. Portrait, facsimiles and plates. Forecorners a bit bruised, slight mottling to the vellum side panels, otherwise a very good copy in later, plain slipcase.

First edition, issued in an edition of 1480 numbered copies, separate from, but uniform in format with, the Keynes Writings published by the Press two years earlier. With A.E. Newton’s Oak Knoll bookplate tipped to the front pastedown. $200.

209. [Nonesuch Press]: Thomson, James: THE SEASONS. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. Quarto. Marbled cloth over boards, gilt label. Illustrated with five copperplate engravings by Jacquier, with stencil-colored highlights. Introduction by John Beresford. One of 1500 numbered copies. A near fine copy, with the bookplate of collector/bibliographer Richard Purdy. $100.

210. [Nonesuch Press]: Herbert, George: THE TEMPLE SACRED POEMS & PRIVATE EJACULATIONS. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. Large octavo. Red brocade over boards, a.e.g. Portrait. Preface by . One of 1500 numbered copies. Portrait offset on title, as usual, slight tanning to endsheets, spine slightly darkened, else a nice copy. $125.

211. [Nonesuch Press]: Conrad, Joseph: LETTERS FROM CONRAD 1895 TO 1924. Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, [1928]. Large octavo. Buckram, t.e.g. Portraits. Edited, with an introduction, by Edward Garnett. First edition. One of 925 numbered copies. Original crease in front pastedown incurred during binding, cloth a bit rubbed and darkened at edges and spine; a good copy. $60.

212. [Nonesuch Press]: Beedome, Thomas: SELECT POEMS DIVINE AND HUMANE. Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1928. Gilt limp vellum. Edited by Francis Meynell. One of 1250 numbered copies on Van Gelder. Spine a trace darkened, otherwise fine in very good slipcase. $65.

213. [Nonesuch Press]: Keynes, Geoffrey: JANE AUSTEN: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. London: Printed for the Nonesuch Press, 1929. Boards, paper label. Plates. First edition. One of 875 numbered copies. Spare label tipped in. Fine in dust jacket with a couple of short nicks at edges. $150.

214. [Nonesuch Press]: Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bouyer de: A PLURALITY OF WORLDS. [London]: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Limp vellum over wrappers. Translated by John Glanvill, prologue by D. Garnett. Color headpieces. One of 1600 numbered copies printed on Van Gelder paper at the Curwen Press. Light offset shadow to front endsheets, else fine. Slipcase. $125.

215. [Nonesuch Press]: Cervantes, Miguel de: DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA .... London: The Nonesuch Press, [1930]. Two volumes. Large octavo. Full tan pigskin, gilt labels, t.e.g. on the rough. Spines darkened (as often), a few spots of rubbing, but a good set in repaired slipcase.

One of 1475 numbered sets, illustrated with twenty-one colored lithographs by E. McKnight Kauffer. The translation is Ozell’s revised version of Motteaux’s. $400.

216. [Nonesuch Press]: Lawrence, D.H.: LOVE AMONG THE HAYSTACKS & OTHER PIECES ... WITH A REMINISCENCE BY DAVID GARNETT. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1930. Linen and boards, leather spine label. First edition. Copy #898 of 1600 numbered copies. Inevitable tan offsetting to the endsheets, a bit of foxing to the cloth, otherwise a nice copy (the text generally not foxed) in fine dust jacket. ROBERTS A56a. $200.

217. [Nonesuch Press]: Keynes, Geoffrey: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM HAZLITT. London: Printed for the Nonesuch Press, 1931. Boards, paper label. Portrait. Facsimiles. First edition. One of 750 numbered copies. A couple of minute nicks at edges, else a fine copy. $75.

218. [Nonesuch Press]: Tennyson, Alfred: IN MEMORIAM. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1933. Small quarto. Pastepaper over boards, paper spine label. One of two thousand numbered copies printed at the Fanfare Press on Van Gelder. Faint foxing to pastedowns, otherwise fine, without slipcase. $125.

219. [Nonesuch Press]: Laver, James: LADIES’ MISTAKES CUPID’S CHANGELING A STITCH IN TIME LOVE’S PROGRESS. Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1933. Marbled boards, foil label, edges untrimmed. Illustrations. Edges a bit rubbed, but a very good copy in matching, also somewhat edgeworn marbled slipcase.

First omnibus edition (the first piece new to this edition), limited issue. Nine illustrations from line blocks by Thomas Lewinsky. One of 300 numbered copies printed at the Fanfare Press on Batchelor’s handmade paper. As testimony to the fading of fashion, it is interesting to note that upon publication, the copies of this edition sold in the U.S. were oversubscribed by 2 to 1. A trade issue also appeared McKITTERICK, et al, 88. $125.

220. [Nonesuch Press]: Ellis, Havelock: CHAPMAN ... WITH ILLUSTRATIVE PASSAGES. Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1934. Large octavo. Decorated paper over boards, printed label. First edition. One of 625 numbered copies (of seven hundred), printed in and Arrighi types on Van Gelder paper. Typical slight offset to endsheets, else fine in chemise and lightly dust-smudged slipcase. $100.

221. [Nonesuch Press]: Symons, A.J.A., Desmond Flower, and Francis Meynell: THE NONESUCH CENTURY. AN APPRAISAL, A PERSONAL NOTE, AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE FIRST HUNDRED BOOKS ISSUED BY THE PRESS 1923-1934. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1936. Small folio. Polished green buckram, gilt leather spine label. Plates, illustrations and facsimiles. Large complement of tipped in specimen leaves. Spine and top edges a bit sunned, as usual, label a bit dry, but a nice copy.

First edition. One of seven hundred and fifty numbered copies printed at the Cambridge University Press. At once one of the most interesting and most sought after of the press’ imprints. $650.

222. [Nonesuch Press]: Cavendish, William, and Margaret Lucas: THE PHANSEYS OF WILLIAM CAVENDISH MARQUIS OF NEWCASTLE ADDRESSED TO MARGARET LUCAS AND HER LETTERS IN REPLY. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1956. Full vegetable parchment, elaborately decorated in gilt, red, black and green. Edited by Douglas Grant. One of 785 copies for distribution in the U.K. and North America. With the editor’s year of publication signed inscription on the free endsheet. Binding a shade tanned at spine and upper edges, but a very good copy. $65. 223. [Northland Press]: Dyck, Paul: BRULÉ THE SIOUX PEOPLE OF THE ROSEBUD. Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, [1971]. Quarto. Publisher’s half gilt calf and cloth. Illustrations, plates and photographs. Bookplate, cloth faintly dust smudged, otherwise a very good or better copy in lightly sunned and dust-smudged slipcase.

First edition, limited issue. One of one hundred numbered copies, specially bound, with an original pen and watercolor drawing on the colophon, signed by the author/artist. Dyck’s text is commentary on the accompanying collection of photographs by John Anderson taken at the Rosebud Agency beginning in 1889. $1000.

224. [Northland Press]: Dickinson, Donald C., et al [eds]: VOICES FROM THE SOUTHWEST A GATHERING IN HONOR OF LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL. Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1976. Large octavo. Publisher’s half calf and cloth. Portrait. Plate and photograph. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise about fine. Cloth slipcase a bit rubbed at corners, and with small sticker shadow at one corner.

First edition, limited issue, of this festschrift, concluding with a bibliography of Powell’s keepsakes. One of seventy-five numbered copies, specially bound, and with a leaf signed by the contributors bound in, including Ansel Adams, William Everson, Frank Waters, Jose Cisneros, Paul Horgan, Ward Ritchie, Jake Zeitlin, et al. $400.

225. [Northland Press]: Horgan, Paul: THE RETURN OF THE WEED. Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1980. Cloth. Serigraphed frontispiece by Mark Sanders. Bookplate of the James S. Copley collection, otherwise fine in slipcase with small sticker shadow at corner of one panel.

First printing in this format (as Southwestern Classics No. One), deluxe issue. Foreword by W. David Laird. One of fifty numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author. $65.

226. [Occasional Works]: Grennan, Eamon: TWELVE POEMS. Woodside, CA: Occasional Works, 1988. Stiff wrappers, printed label. First edition, ordinary issue. One of 150 numbered copies, of 200, printed on Arches, and signed by the author. Bookplate tipped inside front wrapper, else fine. $100.

227. [Officina Bodoni]: Dante Alighieri: VITA NUOVA DI DANTE PROEMIO DI BENEDETTO CROCE. [Montagnola: Officina Bodoni, 1925]. Folio. Publisher’s gilt vellum over boards, gilt morocco spine label, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Trace of dust-darkening along top edges, a few isolated faint marginal finger smudges, otherwise a very good or better copy, unopened, without slipcase.

First edition in this format. One of 225 copies printed by hand by Giovanni Mardersteig on Fabriano handmade paper, from a total edition of 230 copies. The text is that of the “Società Dantesca,” and in his prefatory essay, Croce remarks that this “is more beautiful, perhaps, than any previous edition [of this work], though there have been some lavish ones. In this edition, quite properly, the reader susceptible to poetry is left alone with Dante...” [translation by Schmoller]. MARDERSTEIG 14. $2250.

228. [Officina Bodoni]: THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI. Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Thick quarto. Brocade decorated cloth, leather label. One of 1500 numbered copies, printed at the Officina Bodoni, and signed by Hans Mardersteig. Translated by Melville B. Anderson, with an introduction by Arthur Livingston. Hint of sunning to the spine, a few faint patches of foxing to endleaves, otherwise a very good copy, without dust jacket, in somewhat worn slipcase with short cracks and surface scrapes to fore-edges. $150. 229. [Officina Bodoni]: Landor, Walter Savage: IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS. [New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1936. Small quarto. Cloth. Edited by R.H. Boothroyd. One of 1500 numbered copies, printed by Hans Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni, and signed by him.Bookplate on pastedown, otherwise fine in spine tanned dust jacket and slightly chipped slipcase. $100.

230. [Officina Bodoni]: Publius Virgilius Maro: THE GEORGICS TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE BY . Verona: Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at the Officina Bodoni, 1952. Folio. Cloth and decorated boards. One of 1500 numbered copies, illustrated with wood engravings by Bruno Bramanti, and signed by him, and by Giovanni Mardersteig. Fine in near fine slipcase. $150.

231. [Officina Bodoni]: Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George: THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII. Verona: Printed for Members of the Limited Editions Club, 1956. Large, thick octavo. Decorated cloth, gilt label. One of 1500 numbered copies designed by Giovanni Mardersteig, illustrated by Kurt Craemer, and signed by both. Introduction by Edgar Johnson.About fine in slightly soiled dust jacket with small snag. Lacking the slipcase. $75.

232. [Officina Bodoni]: Eliot, T. S.: THE WASTE LAND. London: Faber & Faber, 1961 [i.e. 1962]. Quarto. Quarter gilt vellum and marbled paper over boards, t.e.g. Tiny light pencil name and note in corner of front pastedown, otherwise fine in publisher’s marbled slipcase.

First deluxe edition. Copy #161 of three hundred numbered copies printed at the Officina Bodoni in Dante types on Pescia paper by Hans Mardersteig. All copies were signed by the author. Two pieces of ephemera relating to a Mardersteig exhibition are laid in. GALLUP A6d. MODERN MOVEMENT 30. $4000.

233. [Officina Bodoni]: Pound, Ezra [trans]: CAVALCANTI POEMS. [New York]: New Directions, [1966]. Small folio. Quarter vellum and fabriano over boards, stamped in gilt, t.e.g. Fine in slipcase, with printed label.

First edition in this format. From a total edition of two hundred copies (ten on Japan and 190 on Pescia paper) at the Officina Bodoni, this is one of 115 on paper distributed in the U.S. by New Directions, with their imprint. GALLUP A86a. $2250.

234. [Officina Bodoni]: Baskin, Leonard: “TO COLOUR THOUGHT.” New Haven: [Yale University Library], 1967. Quarter morocco and boards, t.e.g. Color frontis. Plates. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies printed by hand by Giovanni Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni. Minute scratch to upper board, otherwise fine, without the paper slipcase. $275.

235. [Officina Bodoni]: Mardersteig, Giovanni: L’OFFICINA BODONI I LIBRI E IL MONDO DI UN TORCHIO 1923 - 1977. Verona: Edizioni Valdonega, [1980]. Two volumes. Quarto. Half morocco and cloth. t.e.g. Portrait, plates, illustrations and facsimiles. Fine, in somewhat rubbed and soiled slipcase with split at one joint.

First edition, limited issue. With an introduction by Hans Schmoller. One of 99 numbered copies, specially bound, in addition to the trade issue, all printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Accompanied by a second volume containing specially presented specimen leaves or bifolia from productions of the press. There was also an edition in English translation. $1350.

236. [Officina Bodoni]: Mardersteig, Giovanni: THE OFFICINA BODONI AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORK OF A HAND PRESS 1923 - 1977. Verona: Edizioni Valdonega, [1980]. Quarto. Gilt cloth. Portrait, plates, illustrations and facsimiles. Fine, in lightly worn paper slipcase.

First edition in English, trade issue. Edited and translated by Hans Schmoller. One of 1500 copies printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. $225. 237. [Officina Plantiniana]: [Pontifical - Clement VIII]: PONTIFICALE ROMANUM CLEMENTIS VIII PONT. MAX. IUSSU RESTITUTUM ATQUE EDITUM. NUNC PRIMUM TYPIS PLANTINIANIS EMENDATIUS RECUSUM. Antverpiæ [i.e. Antwerp]: Ex Officina Plantiniana ..., 1627. [8],512,[4]pp. (including colophon and printer’s device). Folio. Old calf, elaborately decorated in gilt, a.e.g. and gaufered. Printed in red and black, with music and text in double columns. Binding quite worn, with corner mends and some turn-ins lifting, call numbers on spine and institutional markings (properly deaccessioned), occasional rather early marginalia and underscores; 1631 acquisition inscription on the title (partially effaced); minute worm penetration to four fore-margins, and to lower corners of terminal leaves; occasional spotting and handsoiling; some isolated minor marginal tide-marks; a bit of soiling deep in the gutters early and late; withal, a weary but sound copy.

Balthasar Moretus’s handsome folio edition of the Pontificale of Clement VIII, based on the texts of 1582 and 1595. A modest copy, agreeable for service, teaching or study. Early in the 20th century, this copy was in use on the Island of St. Helena. $650.

238. [Okeanos Press]: Long, Haniel: CABEZA DE VACA HIS RELATION OF THE JOURNEY FLORIDA TO THE PACIFIC 1528 - 1536 AN INTERLINEAR VERSION. [Np]: Okeanos Press, 1988. Narrow quarto. Cloth and boards, paper spine label. Wood and linocut frontis. Bookplate on front pastedown, small label surface scar in lower corner of upper board, otherwise about fine.

First printing in this format. One of 200 copies printed by Eric A. Johnson. This edition reprints Henry Miller’s prefatory essay on Long and his text. $100.

239. [Okeanos Press]: Borges, Jorge Luis, and Yirmiyahu Yovel [translator]: BARUCH SPINOZA [caption title]. [Berkeley]: Black Oak Books, 1990. Quarto broadside (30.5 x 21 cm). Printed on recto only. Fine.

First printing in this format, printed at the Okeanos Press for the occasion of a talk by Yovel at Black Oak Books. $75.

240. [Okeanos Press]:]: von dem Bussche, Wolf [editor & photographer]: TOTEM THE PAPAGO LEGEND OF THE CREATION OF THE GIANT CACTUS, CALLED SAGUARO, WITH TWELVE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES BY .... [Berkeley, CA]: Three Plowshares, 1993. [2],vii,11 leaves plus twelve mounted photographs. Folio (56.4 x 45.5 cm). Loose sheets, laid into publisher’s cloth covered clamshell box. Trace of bookplate inside lid of box, small nick and label shadow to box otherwise fine.

First edition. Introduction by Malcolm Margolin. A formidable production, with the text of the legend edited by von dem Bussche from the record of the legend published by Harold B. Wright, accompanied by twelve original prints of his photographs (39 x 30cm) on Ilford Multigrade matte paper, mounted on Rives, each printed by him, and signed and captioned on the mount in pencil. The letterpress was beautifully printed in Lithos type on Rives Moulin de Gué at the Okeanos Press. The total edition was limited to 77 portfolios, of which this is one of 25 “special” lettered copies reserved for public and special collections. Most widely known for his almost iconic images of the World Trade Center and other New York fixtures, von dem Bussche brought a special personal interest and sensitivity to this production, every aspect of which involved his participation. $6000.

241. [Old School Press]: Kirkup, James: TOKONOMA TWENTY HAIKUS AND TANKA ... WITH WOODCUTS BY NAOKO MATSUBARA. [Hinton Charterhouse, Bath]: The Old School Press, 1999. Twenty-five leaves, plus errata slip. Quarto. Laid into publisher’s cloth display case with folding stand and Plexi lid. Slipcased. One corner of slipcase bumped else about fine.

First edition. One of twenty lettered collaborator’s copies, in addition to eighty-five numbered copies, signed by the author, the artist, and the printers, Alan Flint and Martyn Ould. The twenty original multi-color woodcuts by Naoko Matsubara are printed one per sheet, each accompanied by a haiku by Kirkup, and the whole designed so that any single sheet may be set up for display. Offered at the publisher’s price for numbered copies current at time of cataloguing: $900.

242. [Oliphant Press]: Amado, Jorge: THE MIRACLE OF THE BIRDS. New York: Targ Editions, 1983. Small octavo. Cloth and decorated foil-finished boards. Trace of sunning to spine through glassine jacket, otherwise fine.

First edition of this translation by Barbara Shelby Merello. One of 250 copies printed at the Oliphant Press, signed by the author. $100.

243. [Omlette Press]: Major, Mary Jo, and Faith Gillespie: POEMPRINTS. London: Omlette Press, 1980. Quarto (33 x 26.2 cm). Loose signatures laid into printed wrappers. Fine in cloth chemise and slipcase.

First edition. Illustrated with ten original etchings (two colored) and a title-page decoration by Major. One of a total edition of forty-two numbered copies printed on French handmade paper in Centaur types, signed by the poet and the artist. The first publication of the press, combining the talents of a Canadian artist and an American poet working in London. The press later relocated to Calgary. $500.

244. Osborn, Kevin [author and artist]: TROPOS. [Arlington, VA: Osbornbook, 1988]. Small quarto, rhombus. Foil-printed vinyl stiff wrapper, with slotted dowel spine clamp. Illustrated in color throughout. Fine.

First edition, limited issue. One of 100 signed copies, specially bound, from a total edition of 1750 copies with the contents printed via offset color lithography. $200.

First Imprint

245. [Overbrook Press]: THE OVERBROOK PRESS RIVERBANK, STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT THE TYPES, BORDERS, RULES & DEVICES OF THE PRESS ARRANGED AS A KEEPSAKE. Stamford: Overbrook Press, 1934. Small octavo. Marbled boards, paper label. Minor rubbing at extremities, but a fine copy.

First edition. The first book publication to bear the imprint of the Overbrook Press, printed in an edition of only one hundred and fifty copies. Frank Altschul’s Overbrook Press acquired the hardware of the Ashlar Press, as well as the services of designer/compositor, Margaret Evans. This item marked the debut of the new imprint. Uncommon. CAHOON, p.3. $300.

246. [Overbrook Press]: Tinker, C.B., and C.P. Rollins: ADDRESSES COMMEMORATING THE ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF WILLIAM MORRIS DELIVERED BEFORE THE YALE LIBRARY ASSOCIATES IN THE STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY, XXIX OCTOBER MCMXXXIV. [Stamford]: The Overbrook Press, [1935]. Small quarto. Polished buckram, printed labels, t.e.g. One of 450 copies printed at the Overbrook Press, with a decorative border by Valenti Angelo. Blue cloth sunned at extremities, else a nice copy. CAHOON, p.7. $60.

248. [Overbrook Press]: Malgaigne, Joseph Francois: CONSEILS POUR LE CHOIX D’UNE BIBLIOTHEQUE ECRITS POUR UNE JEUNE FILLE. [Stamford]: The Overbrook Press, 1936. Small octavo. Cloth and marbled boards, paper spine label. One of two hundred and fifty copies printed in Caslon Old Face on Curfew paper. Boards faintly rubbed at edges, else fine. Publisher’s compliments slip laid in. CAHOON, p.11. $75.

249. [Overbrook Press]: Wilde, Oscar: THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1936. Cloth and decorated boards, vellum tips. Illustrated. Faint trace of sunning to pale green spine, a few foxmarks to fore-edge, else about fine in slightly sunned slipcase.

One of two hundred and fifty copies printed in handset Lutetia on Rives Les Bibliophiles paper. Illustrated with original color wood-engravings by Rudolph Ruzicka, who also designed the volume. CAHOON, p.9. $300.

250. [Overbrook Press]: ADVERSE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY ON A BILL TO REORGANIZE THE JUDICIAL BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1937. Small quarto. Tan linen, stamped in red. First edition in this format, limited to one thousand copies printed in Janson type on Worthy Hand and Arrows paper. Fine, without printed dust jacket, as issued. CAHOON, p. 14. $75.

251. [Overbrook Press]: France, Anatole: L’AFFAIRE CRAINQUEBILLE. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1937. Small folio. Cloth, gilt morocco labels. Trace of foxing at extreme fore-edges, one corner of spine label curled, faint marginal smudge on one page, otherwise very good, without slipcase.

First edition in this format, the text in French. Illustrated with twenty original lithographs, printed from the stone, by William Einstein. One of one hundred and fifty copies only. An AIGA Fifty Award winner for its year. CAHOON, p.13. $100.

252. [Overbrook Press]: THE OVERBROOK PRESS AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF FUTURE PLANS & A LIST OF THE BOOKS PRINTED BY THE PRESS 1934-1936 [wrapper title]. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1937. [5] leaves. Quarto. Loose sheets, laid into printed wrappers. Illustrations. A retrospective, and prospectus for current and forthcoming publications, printed in a variety of types and colors. About fine. $30.

253. [Overbrook Press]: [Mann, Thomas]: Thompson, Dorothy: TO THOMAS MANN [caption title]. [Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1937]. [4]pp. Folio. French fold, text on four panels, with typographical decorations and borders. About fine.

First separate printing of this tribute to Mann on the occasion of his arrival in the U.S., reprinted from the New York Herald-Tribune in an edition of five hundred copies handset in Lutetia type on Winterbourne paper. CAHOON, p.14. $30.

254. [Overbrook Press]: Greenman, Frederick F.: ADVANCE PROOFS WIRE-TAPPING ITS RELATION TO CIVIL LIBERTIES ... TO WHICH ARE APPENDED THE LEADING OPINIONS ON THIS SUBJECT. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, [1938]. Small quarto. Plain wrappers. Faint smudges to wrappers, else about fine.

One of fifty copies, denoted as “Advance Proofs,” circulated in this format, comprised of Greenman’s essay, but without the opinions appended to it in the published book. CAHOON, p. 17. $75.

255. [Overbrook Press]: Mann, Thomas: AN EXCHANGE OF LETTERS ... WITH A FOREWORD BY J.B. PRIESTLEY. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1938. Plain wrappers, printed label. First edition thus. One of 350 copies printed to mark a dinner given in Mann’s honor at Yale. Fine. CAHOON, p.16. $85.

256. [Overbrook Press]: Greenman, Frederick F.: WIRE-TAPPING ITS RELATION TO CIVIL LIBERTIES...TO WHICH ARE APPENDED THE LEADING OPINIONS ON THIS SUBJECT. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1938. Small quarto. Gilt cloth, t.e.g. First published edition. One of six hundred copies printed in Janson type on Arak Ash White paper. Trace of foxing at fore-edge, else fine in glassine wrapper. CAHOON, p. 17. $75. 257. [Overbrook Press]: Shakespeare, William: THE POEMS OF SHAKESPEARE.... Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1939. Folio. Gathered unbound, untrimmed signatures. Trace of slight dust spotting at a few extreme fore-edges, otherwise fine.

A complete, unbound set of sheets for one of the most ambitious productions of the press, limited to one hundred and fifty copies, printed in handset Lutetia type on Cromwell handmade gray paper, with decorative initials drawn by Bruce Rogers. The text was based on that established by Kittredge. The press offered copies for sale, though many were given as gifts by the proprietor. Ordinary copies offered for public sale were bound in three quarter morocco and slipcased. However, well over a third of the edition was never bound, presumably to accommodate individual binding tastes, or the economics of the time. CAHOON, p.24. $500.

258. [Overbrook Press]: Adams, Frederick B., Jr: RADICAL LITERATURE IN AMERICA AN ADDRESS ... TO WHICH IS APPENDED A CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION HELD AT THE IN . Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1939. Small quarto. Gilt red cloth. Plates, facsimiles and folding plates. Hint of tanning from binding at endsheet gutters, else fine in glassine wrapper, and slightly dust toned slipcase.

First edition. One of 650 copies printed. A landmark exhibition, being a selected survey of radical, dissident and utopian books, periodicals and ephemera originally published in America, from Thomas Paine to the 1920s, European works of significant influence upon American thought, and as well, American printings of those European works. CAHOON, pp.21-2. $150.

259. [Overbrook Press]: Elizabeth II: [“A Message from Princess Elizabeth to British Children Abroad” published as:] CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM TULA & OTTO JEIDELS.... [Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1940]. 12mo. Pastepaper over boards, printed label. Fine.

The text consists of “A Message from Princess Elizabeth to British Children Abroad,” as broadcast by the BBC in October. One of only one hundred and fifty copies, printed in handset Lutetia type on Swedish handmade paper. Scarce. CAHOON, p.28. $30.

260. [Overbrook Press]: Steinbeck, John: A LETTER WRITTEN IN REPLY TO A REQUEST FOR A STATEMENT ABOUT HIS ANCESTRY .... Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1940. Paper over boards, printed label. Tiny nicks at two fore-tips, small, faint spot on upper board, otherwise near fine.

First boardbound edition, preceded by a four page leaflet printing. One of three hundred and fifty copies printed. Steinbeck’s reply to issues pertaining to Grapes Of Wrath and accusations of it being “Jewish propaganda.” Uncommon. GOLDSTONE & PAYNE A13b. CAHOON, p.27. $750.

261. [Overbrook Press]: THE OVERBROOK PRESS A CHECK-LIST 1934-1940. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, September 1, 1940. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Illustrations. First edition. One of 4800 copies printed in Electra and Janson types on Arak paper. Trace of rust to staples, else fine. CAHOON, p.25. $25.

262. [Overbrook Press]: [Evans, Margaret B.]: THE PIED PRINTER’S PRIMROSE PATH A TYPOGRAPHICAL NONSENSE BOOK. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1940. Gilt cloth. Typographically illustrated in various colors. Slightly dusty at edges, else near fine in dust jacket.

First edition. One of two hundred and fifty copies printed in handset Centaur and Lutetia types on papier de chine. One of the AIGA Fifty for its year. CAHOON, p.24. $100. 263. [Overbrook Press]: Mansfield, Comins: ADVENTURES IN COMPOSITION THE ART OF THE TWO-MOVE CHESS PROBLEM. Stamford: Printed at the Overbrook Press, 1944. Small quarto. Quarter gilt cloth and boards, gilt label. Illustrations. Near fine.

First edition. Edited by Alain White. From a total edition of four hundred copies printed in Centaur and Lutetia types, with handset chess diagrams, this is one of two hundred and fifty copies printed on laid paper. CAHOON, p.42 $150.

264. [Overbrook Press]: OVERBROOK PRESS CHESS PROBLEM BOOKS [wrapper title]. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, December 1944. Folded leaflet. Diagram. Laid in order form. A prospectus for the press’ distinguished series of chess books. Near fine. $15.

265. [Overbrook Press]: Eisenhower, Dwight D.: [TWO ADDRESSES] GUILDHALL ADDRESS IN LONDON AND THE ADDRESS BEFORE THE CONGRESS IN WASHINGTON JUNE 1945. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1945. Plain wrappers, gilt label. Light use to wrapper edges, else fine.

First U.S. edition of the first address, preceded by a U.K. printing shortly following the occasion (July - this edition was printed in September). One of seven hundred and fifty copies printed in Caslon Old Face on Worthy Signature “in order that the Members of Congress may have in permanent form the text of these two addresses....” Though occasionally remarked as the future President’s first book, it is not. CAHOON 47. $125.

266. [Overbrook Press]: [Clemens, Samuel]: THREE SKETCHES BY MARK TWAIN .... Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1946. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. One of one thousand copies, printed in Caslon Old Face on Arak paper, for distribution to members of Congress. About fine. CAHOON, p. 48. $40.

267. [Overbrook Press]: Kanitz, Graf G.: AM GRABE VON OTTO JEIDELS AUS DER ERINNERUNG NACHGESCHRIEBEN .... Stamford: The Overbrook Press, [1947]. Printed boards. Portrait. First edition. Although not stated, only one hundred and fifty copies were printed in Centaur type on Rives. Fine, without printed dust jacket, as issued. CAHOON, p. 56. $60.

268. [Overbrook Press]: Wilson, Woodrow: CABINET GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES ... WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY THOMAS K. FINLETTER. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1947. Boards, printed label. Near fine, in lightly frayed glasssine.

First edition in this format. One of one thousand copies, printed in Caslon Old Face on rag paper, for the Wilson Foundation. CAHOON, p. 56. $125.

269. [Overbrook Press]: Wilson, Woodrow: THE ROAD AWAY FROM REVOLUTION ... REPRINTED FOR THE WOODROW WILSON FOUNDATION FROM THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, AUGUST 1923 [wrapper title]. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1948. Small folio (25 x 195 mm). Folded leaflet. Fine.

First printing in this format. One of only one hundred copies printed in two colors on Wilmot handmade paper in handset Caslon Old Face type from a total edition of twelve hundred copies. CAHOON, p.59. $75. One of Fifteen on Bristol Board

270. [Overbrook Press] A SPECIMEN BOOK OF TYPES, ORNAMENTS AND MISCELLANY. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1948. [4],77,[1] leaves, printed on rectos only. Small quarto. Loose, unbound sheets of Bristol board, printed in a variety of types and a few colors. Upper board (functionally the half-title) a bit tanned and smudged, otherwise a nice set.

First edition, special issue. The second and considerably expanded specimen book of the press. The formal book was issued in an edition of fifty copies only, printed on handmade paper. The copy in hand is one of fifteen impressions made on loose sheets of Bristol board suitable for display. Rare in this format. CAHOON, p.57. $850.

271. [Overbrook Press]: Cleland, T.M.: PROGRESS IN THE GRAPHIC ARTS AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY.... Stamford: Printed in privacy [at] The Overbrook Press, 1949. Plain wrappers, printed label. Errata slip. First edition. One of one thousand copies printed. About fine. CAHOON, p.60. $35.

272. [Overbrook Press]: Churchill, Winston: AN ADDRESS DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS NOVEMBER 30, 1950 [caption title]. [Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1951]. Quarto. Folded leaflet, text in double columns. Fine.

First U.S. edition. One of one thousand copies printed in Caslon type on Arches, for distribution to members of the 82nd Congress. Not in Woods. CAHOON, p.68. $175.

273. [Overbrook Press]: Muggeridge, Malcolm: SENATOR MCCARTHY MCCARTHYIZED OR THE BITER BIT.... [wrapper title]. [Stamford: The Overbrook Press, July 1953]. Folded leaflet. First separate U.S. printing. One of 1250 copies printed in handset Centaur on Curtis Rag. Faint toning at edges, else about fine. CAHOON, p.73. $20.

274. [Overbrook Press]: Stevenson, Adlai E.: MUST WE HAVE WAR? Stamford: The Overbrook Press, [1954]. Small octavo. Printed wrappers. Pictorial title-page. First separate edition. One of one thousand copies printed in handset Centaur on Glaslan paper. Fine. CAHOON, p. 74. $20.

275. [Overbrook Press]: Ballantine, Arthur A.: A FEW POEMS. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, [1955]. Plain wrappers, printed label. First edition. One of only one hundred copies, printed in handset Centaur and Arrighi types on Arches. Fine. CAHOON, p.77. $30.

276. [Overbrook Press]: MacArthur, Gen. Douglas: GENERAL OF THE ARMY ... AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 26, 1955. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1955. Large octavo. printed stiff wrappers. Fine.

First separate edition, being one of 750 copies printed in three colors in Caslon Old Face on Linweave Early American paper. However, of the 750 copies, over five hundred copies were never bound, and almost one hundred bound copies never distributed. CAHOON, p.75. $30.

“...the luxurious book at its most magnificent...” - Cave

277. [Overbrook Press]: Prevost, Abbe: HISTOIRE DU CHEVALIER DES GRIEUX ET DE MANON LESCAUT SUIVANT L’EDITION DE 1753. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1958. Large quarto. Folded and gathered sheets, untrimmed and never bound. Illustrated in color by T.M. Cleland. Fine.

One of two hundred copies printed in hand-set Calson Old Face on Hammer and Anvil Paper. The thirty or so illustrations in each copy were colored by the artist via a silk-screen process. “As an example of the luxurious book at its most magnificent, at its further remove from commercial printing, the Overbrook Manon Lescaut is unequaled among modern books, and has few peers among the books of earlier presses” - Cave. This is one of a handful of complete, colored copies retained in sheets by the printer/publisher, perhaps in anticipation of requests for copies for custom bindings. CAHOON, p.82. $450.

278. [Overbrook Press]: Lassalle, Ferdinand: UNE PAGE D’AMOUR DE ... RECIT . CORRESPONDANCE . CONFESSIONS. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1959. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. About fine.

First U.S. edition (in French) of this controversial work documenting the noted anarchist’s affections for a young Russian girl, first published in 1878, proclaimed a fabrication in later years by Clement Shorter, and vindicated as authentic by Georg Brandes. One of two hundred and fifty copies printed in Caslon type on Arches. CAHOON, p.90. $45.

279. [Overbrook Press]: Kennedy, John F., and Richard M. Nixon: A GLEAM OF LIGHT AHEAD [wrapper title] ON THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTION [caption title]. [Stamford: The Overbrook Press, December 1960]. Large octavo. Photographically illustrated wrappers. Fine.

One of fifteen hundred copies printed for private distribution, handset in Centaur and Arrighi types on Strathmore text paper. Nixon’s early morning, almost-but-not-quite concession (“if the trend continues”) speech, accompanied by the text of John F. Kennedy’s statement to the news conference in Hyannis. CAHOON, p.92. $45.

280. [Overbrook Press]: Kennedy, John F.: AN ADDRESS ... DELIVERED BEFORE THE LEGISLATURE JANUARY 9, 1961 [wrapper title]. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1961. Folded leaflet. First this edition. One of fifteen hundred copies printed in Lutetia type on Strathmore Text paper. Fine. CAHOON, p. 92. $50.

281. [Overbrook Press]: Wilde, Oscar: ROSES AND RUE TO L.L. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, [1962]. Printed wrappers. One of six hundred copies printed in Centaur type on Strathmore Text paper for private distribution. Fine. CAHOON, p. 94. $30.

282. [Overbrook Press]: Phillips, Wendell: TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1963. Printed wrappers. First edition in this format, printed in an unspecified edition for private distribution. Fine. $30.

283. [Overbrook Press]: Galbraith, John Kenneth: HOW KEYNES CAME TO AMERICA. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1965. Printed wrappers. Fine.

First separate edition of this essay on the influence of The General Theory... (occasioned by the appearance of a new edition in the U.S.), printed in an edition of five hundred copies as a tribute by the author to two fellow economists and two businessmen. $25.

284. [Overbrook Press]: Bennett, Arnold: A LOVE AFFAIR. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1965. Printed wrappers. First separate edition of this poem. One of four hundred copies printed on Japanese paper, for private distribution. Fine. $30.

285. [Overbrook Press]: [Churchill, Winston]: Eisenhower, Dwight D.: A TRIBUTE TO WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL DELIVERED OVER THE FACILITIES OF THE BRITISH BROADCASTING COMPANY AT THE TIME OF SIR WINSTON’S FUNERAL JANUARY 30, 1965 [wrapper title]. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1965. Folded small octavo leaflet. First printing in this format, limitation unstated but likely on the order of one thousand copies. Fine. $25.

286. [Overbrook Press]: Wharton, Edith: ETHAN FROME. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, [1967]. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Illustrated. One of three hundred copies printed for private distribution. This edition features colored illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. Fine in acetate dust jacket. GARRISON A19.12. $125.

287. [Overbrook Press]: MacLeish, Archibald: THE GREAT AMERICAN FRUSTRATION. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, [1968]. Printed wrappers. First edition in book form. One of 650 copies printed. Fine. $25.

288. [Overbrook Press]: King, Martin Luther, Jr.: LETTER FROM JAIL. Stamford: The Overbrook Press, [1968]. Small quarto. Stiff printed wrappers. One of six hundred copies printed for private distribution. Fine. $50.

289. [Overbrook Press]: Strouse, Norman H.: THE OVERBROOK PRESS AN EXAMPLE OF COLLECTING IN DEPTH ... [wrapper title]. [San Francisco or Stamford: Privately printed], 1975. [1],25 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript, printed on rectos only. A separate printing of this Address before the Roxburghe Club, 18 November 1975. Very good. $30.

290. [Overbrook Press]: Strouse, Norman H.: THE OVERBROOK PRESS AN EXAMPLE OF COLLECTING IN DEPTH [wrapper title]. [San Francisco: Lawton and Alfred Kennedy, 1976]. Printed wrappers. Fine.

One of a total edition of two hundred copies reprinted from the Book Club of California Quarterly Newsletter for presentation to a joint meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs. $35.

291. [Pace Trust]: Davenport, Guy: TROIS CAPRICES. [Louisville: Pace Trust, 1981]. Boards, paper label. Boards slightly darkened at edges, two stray marks on lower board, but a very good copy.

First edition, limited issue. One of seventy-five copies, specially bound, and signed by the author in 1982. CRANE A17.a1. $125.

292. [Pace Trust]: Davenport, Guy: TROIS CAPRICES. [[Louisville: Pace Trust, 1981]. Printed wrappers. A trifle darkened at spine, but a very good copy.

First edition, first printing, trade issue, second state. As recorded by Crane, after 150 of the 850 copies of the wrapperbound issue had been shipped, a defect in the binding inking was discovered; some forty copies were trimmed slightly (as here) in an attempt to conceal the defect, but that was found to be an unsatisfactory solution, and the remainder of the copies were discarded and a new printing made. This copy measures precisely 17mm from top edge to the top margin of the printed faux label. CRANE A17.a1. $65.

293. [Palaemon Press]: Styron, William: ADMIRAL ROBERT PENN WARREN AND THE SNOWS OF WINTER. A TRIBUTE. Winston-Salem: Palaemon Press, [1978]. Wrappers, printed label. Portrait. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies, signed by the author. Fine. $50.

294. [Palaemon Press]: [Copland, Aaron]: FOR AARON COPLAND ON THE OCCASION OF HIS SEVENTY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY 14 NOVEMBER 1978. [Winston-Salem: Palaemon Press, 1978]. Small folio. Three poetry broadsides, woodcut portrait, and limitation leaf, all laid into quarter cloth and marbled board portfolio, with string ties. Fine.

First edition. One of seventy-eight sets (of which this is one of fifty for sale), made up of separate printings of poems by Robert Penn Warren, James Dickey and Reynolds Price, accompanied by a woodcut portrait of Copland by Ann Carter Pollard, each signed by the author or artist. $450.

295. [Palaemon Press]: Garrett, George: LITTLE MOVIE WITHOUT A MIDDLE. [Winston- Salem: Palaemon, 1978]. Quarto broadside. First edition in this format. One of one hundred numbered copies (of 126), signed by the author. One corner bumped, else fine. $25.

296. [Palaemon Press]: Goyen, William: ARTHUR BOND. [Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press, [1979]. Decorated wrappers over stiff wrappers, paper label. First separate edition. One of 30 copies numbered in roman, signed by the author, from a total edition of 230 signed copies. Very fine. $60.

297. [Palaemon Press]: Goyen, William: ARTHUR BOND. [Winston Salem]: Palaemon Press, [1979]. Marbled wrappers, paper label. First separate edition. One of 200 numbered copies (of 230) signed by the author. As new. $25.

298. [Palaemon Press]: Percy, Walker: BOURBON. Winston-Salem, NC: Palaemon Press, [1979]. Sewn marbled wrappers over stiff wrapper, printed label. First edition in book(let) form. One of two hundred numbered copies (of 230) signed by the author. Fine. $375.

299. [Palaemon Press]: Dickey, James: HEAD-DEEP IN STRANGE SOUNDS FREE- FLIGHT IMPROVISATIONS FROM THE UNENGLISH. [Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press, [1979]. Quarto. Cloth, printed label. First public edition, preceded by a private edition of 25 copies. One of 475 copies, signed by the author, from a total of 528 copies. Fine. $25.

300. [Palaemon Press]: Warren, Robert Penn: TWO POEMS. [Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press Ltd., [1979]. Small octavo. Marbled boards, paper label. First edition. One of 200 numbered copies, from a total edition of 230 copies, signed by the author. Fine. $100.

301. [Palaemon Press]: Welty, Eudora: WOMEN!! MAKE TURBAN IN OWN HOME! [Winston- Salem]: Palaemon Press, [1979]. Printed boards. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued.

First edition in book form. One of two hundred numbered copies, from a total edition of 235 (i.e. 246) copies, all signed by the author. POLK A24:1. $275.

302. [Palaemon Press]: Price, Reynolds: NINE MYSTERIES (FOUR JOYFUL, FOUR SORROWFUL, ONE GLORIOUS). [Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press, [Christmas 1979 (ie. Feb. 1980)]. Small quarto. Cloth. About fine, without dust jacket, as issued.

First published printing thus. One of 309 numbered copies, signed by the author. The first printing was botched by the binder, and all but the usual handful destroyed. $50.

303. [Palaemon Press]: Styron, William: AGAINST FEAR. [Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press, [1981]. Printed wrappers. First edition. One of 250 copies for sale, from a total of 300 copies signed by the author. Fine. $65.

304. [Palaemon Press]: Welty, Eudora: RETREAT. [Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press, 1981. Small quarto. Linen backed decorated paper over boards, paper spine label. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued.

First separate edition in book form. One of forty copies, specially bound, numbered i-xl, for presentation by the author or publisher, from a total edition of 240 copies. This copy is signed by Welty, and bears her additional signed inscription dated the month following publication. POLK A30:1c. $1000.

305. [Palaemon Press]: Phillips, Jayne Anne: THE SECRET COUNTRY (RANDOLPH COUNTY: MITCH). [Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press, [1982]. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. As new.

First edition. One of 100 copies for sale, from a total edition of 150 copies signed by the author. $60.

306. [Palaemon Press]: Snodgrass, W. D.: MAGDA GOEBBELS. [Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press Limited, [1983]. Large octavo. Marbled paper over stiff wrappers, printed label. Fine.

First edition. Copy #2 of a total edition of 150 copies, signed by the poet, of which fifty were not for sale. This was one of the poet’s copies, and does not include the separate leaflet “Note....” $85.

307. [Palaemon Press]: Goyen, William: NEW WORK AND WORK IN PROGRESS. [Winston Salem]: For Private Distribution by Palaemon Press and Triquarterly, [1983]. Cloth, printed label. Fine.

First edition. One of 200 copies, signed by Goyen, and by Reginald Gibbons, who conducted the interview with Goyen appended to the text. $25.

With An Original Collage and Two Planches Refusée

308. Papart, Max [illustrator], and André Verdet: LUBÉRON. [Paris]: Aux Dépens d’un Amateur, [1967]. Small folio (38 x 29cm). Loose sheets laid into folding cloth portfolio. Fine, with minor wear to tips of portfolio.

First edition. A collection of twelve poems by Verdet, accompanied by seven original etchings with aquatint (six in color) by Papart. One of one hundred numbered copies on Grand Vélin de Rives, from a total edition of 113 numbered copies and fifteen hors commerce copies, all signed by the author and artist. Although not called for in the justification, this copy is accompanied by an extra folio, enclosing an original watercolor and paper collage (24.5 x 16.5 cm), signed by Papart, two planches refusée, each captioned and signed by Papart, and a broadside printing of a considerably longer version of the poem, “Pour une belle aprés Mort.” $3250.

309. [Papermaking]: THE HAYLE MILL PAPERMAKERS SONG. [Maidstone, Kent: Simon Green, 1977]. Narrow octavo. Five panel leporello, mounted in stiff handmade pictorial paper wrapper. Fine.

One of 200 copies printed at the Florin Press by Graham Williams on Barcham Green paper, with an illustration by Graham Clarke. Published for friends of Simon Green, with fifty copies offered for sale. $65.

310. [Paradise Press]: King, Susan E., and Jean Gabriel Adloff: SEE, SAY, SEE BON, LESSONSFROMFRENCH. [Los Angeles: Paradise Press, January 1988]. Oblong octavo. Open-sewn pastepaper boards, label. Fine.

First edition. One of 125 copies printed on Kozo and St. Arman paper at the Paradise Press and bound by Shelley Hoyt. An exploration, in the form of a dialogue (of sorts -- an instructor’s annotations juxtaposed with the student’s translations and notes), on the learning of a language. $175. 311. [Paragon Press]: Davie, Alan: MAGIC READER [cover title]. [London: Paragon Press, 1988]. Folio (17 x 14”; 43 x 36cm). Color screenprinted upper wrapper. Illustrated. Fine in publisher’s chemise and slipcase.

First edition in book form, comprised of eighteen original two-color lithographs, usually incorporating text in English, Spanish or French, and occasionally finger or partial hand prints. One of fifty numbered copies (and 3 APs), signed by the artist. The lithographs were pulled by Ian Lawson on Vellum Arches. There was an additional issue of 45 copies in portfolio format. A prime example of the artist’s concern with common symbols from disparate cultures. $650.

312. [Parley Vale Press]: Weldon, Fay: THE DAY THE WORLD BEGAN. [Np]: Parley Vale Press, 1989. Small quarto. Open-sewn handmade paper wrappers. Tinted title vignette and stencil decorations. Decorated endsheets. One corner bumped, else fine.

First edition in this format. From a total edition of sixty copies printed on Frankfurt Cream paper by Jean Buescher, this is one of forty copies bound in Kakali handmade paper. A lovely and uncommon book under the imprint of the precursor to Buescher’s Bloodroot Press, produced contemporary with her association with the Yolla Bolly Press. $225.

314. [Peacocks Press]: Aldington, Richard: A.E. HOUSMAN & W.B. YEATS TWO LECTURES. Hurst, Berks: The Peacocks Press [George Sims], 1955. Large octavo. Cloth. First edition, ordinary issue. One of 350 copies on Barcham Green Medway paper, from a total edition of 360 copies. Fine in lightly frayed glassine dust jacket. $125.

315. [Pear Tree Press]: Waller, Edmund: SONGS & VERSES SELECTED FROM THE WORKS OF.... South Harting, Sussex: Pear Tree Press, [1902]. Small octavo. Linen and boards, decorated spine label. Illustrations and decorations. Short crack at top edge of upper board, a couple of spots of very faint discoloration to the spine, internally fine.

First edition in this format, heavily decorated by Pickford Waller, and printed on heavy handmade paper under the supervision of James Guthrie. One of three hundred numbered copies, in addition to twenty-five deluxe copies. TOMKINSON 2. $250.

316. [Pear Tree Press]: THE BEATITUDES FROM THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. [Harting, Petersfield, Hampshire: The Pear Tree Press, 1905]. 12mo. Linen and printed boards. Pencil inscription on endsheet, boards edgeworn and a bit smudged; a good copy.

One of two hundred numbered copies, of which this is one of one hundred executed in blue and black. The text was calligraphed by Percy J. Smith, and the illustrations and printing were undertaken by James Guthrie. TOMKINSON 6. $150.

317. [Pendragon Press]: Le Guin, Ursula K.: FROM ELFLAND TO POUGHKEEPSIE. Portland, OR: Pendragon Press, 1973. Quarter pseudo-leather and boards. Tipped-in photographic portrait. Introduction by Vonda N. McIntyre. Fine.

First edition. One of 26 lettered hors commerce copies, specially bound, and signed by the author, from a total edition of 776. The first publication of the press. $400.

318. [Penland Book Arts]: Miller, Steve; Sue Ellen McNeil, et al.: LISTS A COLLABORATION BOOK ARTISTS PRINTMAKERS. [Penland, NC]: Penland, 1996. [20]pp. Small quarto (26 x 16.5 cm). Color screen printed outer wrapper over accordion folded text block. About fine.

A collaborative classbook of a Penland School of Arts class in the middle nineties that included Sue Ellen McNeil, Josef Beery, Christopher Robinson, their instructor Steve Miller, and fourteen other book and print artists. Each double-spread features text (occasionally poetry, occasionally word play) juxtaposed with an original color illustration printed via one or several of a number of methods, occasionally enhanced by inserted objects. Each of the contributors to the endeavor has signed the blank verso of the final panel. No limitation is stated, but it is unlikely that the edition was large. $125.

319. [Penmaen Press]: FACE TO FACE TWELVE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ARTISTS INTERPRET THEMSELVES .... [Great Barrington, MA]: Penmaen - Busyhaus Publications, [1985]. Folio (38 x 28 cm). Loose sheets and bifolia laid into cloth clamshell box (42 x 35 cm) with carved wood-grained spine panel. Fine.

First edition, deluxe boxed issue. Copy #5 of 250 numbered sets (200 for sale). Introduction by Leonard Baskin. Dedicatory print by Lynd Ward. Twelve artists contributed original wood-engraved self-portraits and autobiographical texts: Fred Becker, Jack Coughlin, John DePol, Fritz Eichenberg, Raymond Gloeckler, James Grashow, Judith Jaidinger, Stefan Martin, Michael McCurdy, Barry Moser, Gillian Tyler and Herbert Walker. The main illustrative component consists of the twelve original self-portrait wood engravings, each numbered and signed by the artist, plus Ward’s previously unpublished wood engraving (unsigned due to his death), plus an additional suite of the engravings, with the twelve self-portraits signed (but not numbered), plus another impression of Ward’s print. The engravings were printed by Harold McGrath on two different weights of Mohawk Superfine, after which the blocks were cancelled. The original subscriber has lightly noted in pencil a typo in the colophon, and it is accompanied by several letters and prospectus/announcements documenting the long gestation period of the project. The original retail suggested price was $1600 (less to subscribers), and eventually a number of copies were offered (without the special box) at a substantially reduced price. $1250.

320. [Penmaen Press]: Eberhart, Richard: POEMS TO POETS. Lincoln [MA]: Penmaen Press, [1975]. Decorated paper wrappers over stiff card. Engravings by Michael McCurdy. Fine.

First edition, ordinary issue. One of 700 copies, from a total edition of 1000. Briefly signed and inscribed by the author on the first page of the preface in 1982. $35.

321. [Penmaen Press]: Hecht, Anthony [trans]: POEM UPON THE LISBON DISASTER ... By Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire. Lincoln: Penmaen Press, 1977. Small quarto. Cloth and marbled boards. With the attractive bookplate of printer Harold Hugo. Fine in slipcase.

First edition, deluxe issue. Illustrated with six wood-engravings by Lynd Ward. Introduction by Arthur Wilson. One of one hundred copies, numbered in Roman, signed by the principals, from a total edition of five hundred copies. $225.

322. [Penmaen Press]: Steiner, Robert: PASSION. [Lincoln, MA]: Penmaen Press, [1980]. Large octavo. Cloth and decorated boards. Wood-engraved title illustration by Berta Golahny. First edition, deluxe issue. One of three hundred numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author and artist. Fine. $75.

323. [Penmiel Press]: [Burrett, Edward]: PROVERBS AND PAPER-CUTS FROM CHINA. Esher, Surrey: The Penmiel Press, 1986. Quarto. Decorated boards, printed label. Fine in slipcase.

First edition. One of one hundred numbered copies, signed by the compiler/printer. Illustrated with drawings by Clarke Hutton, and with fourteen original, often hand-colored paper cuttings prepared in the People’s Republic of China. The paper-cuttings differ between copies. A charming book. $125.

324. [Pennyroyal Editions]: Irving, Washington: RIP VAN WINKLE. AND THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW. [West Hatfield, MA]: Pennyroyal Editions, 1984. Quarto (31 x 21 cm). Natural linen, paper labels. Illustrated with woodcuts by Barry Moser. Introduction by Alexander Eliot. Fine in matching slipcase.

First printing in this format, as one of a sequence of titles projected to be published by Pennyroyal Press and Pioneer Publishing for American Express. Printed at the Stinehour Press and Meriden Gravure. Even though readily accessible details are sketchy, it would appear the project never proceeded to completion. The separate loose original woodcut printed by Harold McGrath mentioned in the colophon is not present in this copy. $75.

325. [Pennyroyal Editions]: Hawthorne, Nathaniel: THE SCARLET LETTER, A ROMANCE. [West Hatfield, MA]: Pennyroyal Editions, 1984. Quarto (31 x 21 cm). Natural linen, paper labels. Illustrated with woodcuts by Barry Moser. Introduction by Alexander Eliot. Fine in matching slipcase.

First printing in this format, as one of a sequence of titles projected to be published by Pennyroyal Press and Pioneer Publishing for American Express. Printed at the Stinehour Press and Meriden Gravure. Even though readily accessible details are sketchy, it would appear the project never proceeded to completion. The separate loose original woodcut printed by Harold McGrath mentioned in the colophon is not present in this copy. A trade edition was published by Harcourt in 1986. $75.

326. [Penumbra Press]: Dubie, Norman: THE PRAYERS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN MARTYRS. Lisbon, IA: Penumbra Press, [1975]. Small quarto. Pictorial cloth, paper spine label. First edition. One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies, printed by hand on Frankfort paper, and signed by the author. Faint sunning at edges, crown of spine faintly bumped, else about fine. $125.

327. [Penumbra Press]: Orlen, Steven: SLEEPING ON DOORS. Lisbon, IA: Penumbra Press, 1975. Small quarto. Pictorial cloth, paper spine label. First edition. One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies, printed by hand on Nideggen paper, and signed by the author. Crown of spine slightly bumped, otherwise about fine. $85.

First Book of Poems

328. [Penumbra Press]: Dove, Rita: TEN POEMS. Lisbon, IA: The Penumbra Press, 1977. Oblong octavo. String sewn wrappers. Double-spread pictorial title with design of outstretched hands. Fine in very faintly worn printed envelope bearing a variation of the hands motif.

First edition of the author’s first book(let) of poetry, published as Number Four of “The Manila Series.” One of 200 numbered copies printed by hand in Palatino types on Frankfurt Creme paper (the entire edition). This copy bears the author’s signed inscription, dated in Nov. of 2004. Uncommon with the envelope. $1650.

329. [Peregrine Press]: Creeley, Robert: IF YOU POEMS BY ... ILLUSTRATIONS BY FIELDING DAWSON. San Francisco: The Porpoise Bookshop, 1956. Folio. Loose sheets laid into oversized printed wrappers. Wrappers dusty, and somewhat tanned and used at edges and spine, otherwise externally about good, the sheets in very good or better condition.

First edition of Creeley’s seventh separate publication, limited to two hundred copies printed by Henry Evans at the Peregrine Press. NOVIK 7. $200. 330. [Perishable Press]: Creeley, Robert: FOR JOEL [caption title]. [Madison, WI]: The Perishable Press, 1966. Quarto broadside (28 x 21 cm). Printed on recto only of pale gray stock. Old horizontal folds from having been mailed, else about fine.

A printer’s proof of the first edition of this poem written to celebrate the marriage of Joel and Helen Oppenheimer on 6 June 1966. The published edition consisted of 85 copies (twenty-five h.c.) printed on “variegated papers hand-made directly from rags” by W.S. Hamady. This copy is inscribed in the lower margin “First [?] proof 21 July 1966 WShamady for Jim Lowell,” and exhibits a setting of the colophon and horizontal rules at complete variance from the final setting, as well as an insertion by Hamady in colored pencil of the diagonal rule in the banner headline. NOVIK 24. $400.

331. [Perishable Press]: Levertov, Denise: PSALM CONCERNING A CASTLE [caption title]. [Madison, WI]: Perishable Press, 1966. Quarto broadside (36.5 x 6.51 cm). First edition. One of a total edition of seventy copies, of which twenty were hors commerce. Fine. WILSON A9. $150.

332. [Perishable Press]: Creeley, Robert: THE CHARM: EARLY AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS. [Mt. Horeb]: The Perishable Press, 1967. Small quarto. Quarter morocco, stamped in blind. Fine, unopened.

First edition. One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies, printed on Medway paper in Palatino types, and signed by the author. According to the publisher: “Though the colophon states there are 250 copies, in reality there are many fewer” due to a production mishap. HAMADY 14. $225.

333. [Perishable Press]: Levertov, Denise: THREE POEMS. Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press, 1968. Printed wrapper over sewn wrappers. Fine.

First edition. One of two hundred and fifty copies printed by hand on handmade Shadwell paper. “This is one of my favorite pamphlets ...” - Hamady. WILSON A15. HAMADY 19. $100.

334. [Perishable Press]: [Snodgrass, W. D.]: Gardons, S. S. [pseud]: REMAINS POEMS. [Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press, [1970]. Quarter blue morocco and cockerell paper over boards. Title-page collage by Walter Hamady. A faint patch of darkening to spine, otherwise fine.

First edition. One of a total edition of 200 numbered copies, printed in various colors on blue-grey Shadwell paper by Hamady. The posthumously collected works of the fictional poet of Red Creek, Texas, and lead guitarist of Chicken Gumbo, who disappeared while on a hunting trip in the mountains. This is number 56 and is one of the copies with the colon on the title-page printed in white. It was also one of the author’s copies, with his faint circular blindstamp in the upper fore-corner of the first blank after the free endsheet. HAMADY 36. $350.

335. [Perishable Press]: Laird, Mary: THE EGGPLANT SKIN PANTS AND POEMS. Mt. Horeb: The Perishable Press, 1973. Quarto. Buckram over boards with blindstamped vignette. Illustrated. Faint trace of sunning at extremities, otherwise fine.

First edition. Illustrated with eighteen drawings by the author. One of 175 copies printed on Japanese handmade Hosho paper and signed by the author/artist. HAMADY 57. $125.

336. [Perishable Press]: Bernard, Kenneth: TWO STORIES. Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press, January 1973. Slim octavo. Textured paper over boards, with vignette stamped in blind. Illustrations. Slight tanning at board edges, otherwise about fine.

First edition. Illustrations by Ellen Lanyan. One of 150 copies (or less) printed in Centaur types on Japanese handmade Hosho paper and signed by the author. This is one of the copies without the embedded butterflies. HAMADY 56. $225.

337. [Perishable Press]: Rothenberg, Jerome: B.R.M.TZ.V.H. Mount Horeb: Perishable Press, [1979]. Blind-stamped wrappers. First edition. One of 225 copies, signed by the author. Fine. HAMADY 90. $75.

338. [Perishable Press]: Brown, Arthur: SONG OF THE SLY MONGOOSE. [Mt. Horeb]: The Perishable Press, [1981]. Printed wrappers. Frontispiece by Janet Morgan. Fine.

First edition. One of two hundred copies printed in Sabon Antique on various papers handmade from rags. HAMADY 98. $65.

“A man does not live in a cardboard box because he wants to ....”

339. [Perishable Press]: Auster, Paul, and Henrik Drescher [illus]: REFLECTIONS ON A CARDBOARD BOX. [Mt. Horeb, WI]: The Perishable Press, 2004. Small quarto (25 x 18 cm). Brown silk-backed Sugikawa paper over boards. Illustrated throughout. Fine.

First edition. One of ten copies denoted in the colophon as an “author’s copy,” from a total edition of one hundred copies (fifty for sale) printed in Gill Sans Bold by Walter Hamady on Twinrocker and St-Armand papers. Drescher’s images were printed from polymer plates prepared at the Boxcar Press. All copies were signed by the author; this copy is additionally inscribed on the title-leaf by Auster to one of his publishers (and his bibliographer), William Drenttel, and signed: “For Bill - In friendship always, Paul A.” One of the AIGA Fifty Books of its year. $1500.

340. [Peter Pauper Press]: Morley, Christopher: “IN MODERN DRESS’ A ONE-ACT PLAY. Larchmont: Peter Pauper Press, 1929. Cloth and boards. First edition. One of 500 copies printed (475 for sale by Random House). Very good. $35.

341. [Peter Pauper Press]: Crane, Stephen: A BATTLE IN GREECE ... DECORATED BY VALENTI ANGELO. Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, 1936. Pastepaper boards, printed labels. First edition in book form. One of 425 copies. Extremities a shade sunned, small nicks at crown and toe of spine, but otherwise, a very good copy, without the slipcase. BAL 4107. WILLIAMS & STARRETT 40. $100. 342. [Peter Pauper Press]: Stiles, Henry Reed: BUNDLING ITS ORIGIN, PROGRESS, AND DECLINE IN AMERICA. Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1937. Linen and patterned paper over boards, printed paper spine label. Woodcuts by Herb Roth. One of 1450 copies. Fore-tips rubbed, edges sunned, else very good, without slipcase. $40.

343. [Petri-Presse]: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: NOVELLE MIT EINEM NACHWORT VON EMIL STAIGER .... [Basel: Petri-Presse / Benno Schwabe & Co., 1943]. Quarto. Boards, printed labels. Illustrations. Minute crack to one hinge toward top, otherwise a very good copy, in chipped and tanned dust jacket, with split along one fold.

First edition in this format, with illustrations by Imre Reiner. One of 600 numbered ordinary copies, from a total edition of 825 copies. $100.

344. [Petronium Press]: Logan, John: ONLY THE DREAMER CAN CHANGE THE DREAM. Honolulu: Petronium Press, 1975. French folded folio sheet. Linocut by Steve Shrader. First printing in this format. One of ninety-nine numbered copies, signed by the author. Fine. $65.

345. Pfäffli, Bruno [design], and Adrian Frutiger [illus]: [GENESIS] IM ANFANG AU COMMENCEMENT IN THE BEGINNING .... [Zurich: Castella, Albeuve and Flamberg, 1969]. Small quarto (26 x 25.5 cm). Decorated wrappers. Illustrations (including color). Trace of foxing along fore-edge, otherwise fine in glassine and lightly edgeworn and soiled plain card slipcase.

First edition. One of 400 copies. An approach to a parallel presentation of selections from Genesis in German, French, English and Hebrew, counterpointed by illustrations by Frutiger (involving gatefolds), with typography by his associate, Bruno Pfäffli. Laid in is the publisher’s printed notice of how to properly view the arrangement. $150.

346. [Philosopher Press]: CHRIST’S SERMON ON THE MOUNT .... [Wausau, WI: Philosopher Press, 1900]. Narrow octavo. Paper boards, decorated in gilt. Spine ends nicked and a bit rubbed, but an unusually nice copy of a fragile book.

One of 600 copies printed by Helen Bruneau Van Vechten with decorations by Agnes Bassett. RANSOM 9. $85.

347. [Philtrum Press]: King, Stephen: . Bangor, ME: The Philtrum Press, 1984. Large quarto. Cloth backed batik paper over boards. Illustrations by Kenneth R. Linkhaüser. Fine in near fine slipcase, the latter marred only by four small scrapes to the paper along one edge.

First edition. One of one thousand numbered copies for sale, from a total edition of 1250 copies, printed at the Stinehour Press after a design by Michael Alpert, all signed by the author. $1000.

348. [Pickering Imprint]: Costello, Louisa Stuart: SPECIMENS OF THE EARLY POETRY OF FRANCE FROM THE TIME OF THE TROUBADOURS AND TROUVERES TO THE REIGN OF HENRI QUATRE. London: William Pickering, 1835. xlix,[3],[3]-298pp. Octavo. Rather clunkily bound in polished calf, rebacked at an indeterminate date. Frontis and three plates, all colored by hand and highlighted in gold. First edition. Binding rather worn at edges and lightly chipped at crown and corners, some darkening and modest soiling at corners early and late; just a sound copy. KEYNES (PICKERING), p.50. $150.

349. [Pickering Imprint]: White, Henry Kirke: THE POETICAL WORKS OF HENRY KIRKE WHITE. London: William Pickering, 1840. lviii,252pp. Small octavo. Unsigned 19th century forest green morocco, elaborately gilt extra, a.e.g. Portrait. A bit of tanning at edges and light foxing early and late, minor rubbing, about very good.

Edited with a memoir by Sir H. Nicolas for the Aldine Poets series, wherein it was first printed in 1830. Keynes notes that printing and an 1853 reprinting. KEYNES, p.48. NCBEL III:406. $100.

350. [Pickering Imprint]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER COMMONLY CALLED THE FIRST BOOK OF QUEEN ELIZABETH PRINTED BY GRAFTON 1559. London: William Pickering, 1844. [17],109,14 leaves. Folio. Original full vellum, decorated in gilt, gilt labels, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. Vellum dustsoiled and a bit spotted, some foxing to isolated gatherings, otherwise a very good copy.

One of the six monumental editions of the various forms of the Book of Common Prayer published by Pickering in 1844, with text printed in red and black on Pouncy’s handmade paper by D. Whittingham. “Upon these six folio volumes, printed in gothic letter on thick handmade paper and bound in vellum, Whittingham lavished the best work of his press, and they are nearly perfect of their kind” - Keynes. Griffiths notes the edition consisted of 350 copies on paper and two on vellum. KELLY 1844.3. KEYNES, p.85. GRIFFITHS 1844:28. $850.

351. [Pickering Imprint]: THE BOOKE OF COMMON PRAYER KING JAMES ANNO 1604 COMMONLY CALLED THE HAMPTON COURT BOOK. London: William Pickering, 1844. [32,109] leaves. Folio. Original full vellum, decorated in gilt, gilt labels, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. Vellum dust-soiled and a bit spotted, some foxing to endleaves and occasional dusting to edges, endsheets a bit rippled along fore-edges, otherwise a very good copy.

One of the six monumental editions of the various forms of the Book of Common Prayer published by Pickering in 1844, with text printed in red and black on Pouncy’s handmade paper by D. Whittingham. “Upon these six folio volumes, printed in gothic letter on thick handmade paper and bound in vellum, Whittingham lavished the best work of his press, and they are nearly perfect of their kind” - Keynes. Griffiths notes the edition consisted of 350 copies on paper and two on vellum. KELLY 1844.4. KEYNES, p.85. GRIFFITHS 1844:29. $750.

353. [Pickering Imprint]: Maskell, William: THE ANCIENT LITURGY OF THE ACCORDING TO THE USES OF SARUM BANGOR YORK & HEREFORD AND THE MODERN ROMAN LITURGY.... London: William Pickering, 1846. clxi,[3],237,[1] pp. plus inserted adverts front and rear. Large octavo. Cloth, paper spine label, edges rough trimmed. Printer’s device. Cloth a bit marked, label tanned and a bit chipped, a bit of foxing early and late, spine ends slightly frayed, but a good copy.

Second, revised edition. The first edition appeared in 1844, and the extensive preface to this edition is dated at the end 8 August 1846. A good association copy, with the ownership inscription of “Charles C. Bubb, DD, Fremont, Ohio. Oct. 12th 1932.” Bubb was the noted collector and printer who maintained the truly private Clerk’s Press beginning in 1908, publishing, in addition to theological texts and items for his parish, the works of several of the Imagist poets. Keynes note this title with a * denoting particular typographic interest. KELLY 1844.18 (note). KEYNES, p.78. $125.

354. [Pickering Imprint]: Botfield, Beriah: NOTES ON THE CATHEDRAL LIBRARIES OF ENGLAND. London: William Pickering, 1849. xiv,[2],527pp. Large octavo.. Three quarter forest green roan and marbled boards, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Title in red and black. Seminary library perforation in several prelims and terminal leaves ( the O.F.M. Capucins Quebec), ink stamps of another library (Allan Library), shelf label on front pastedown, repair to front inner hinge, a weary but perfectly sound reference copy of an uncommon book.

First edition. Inscribed “From the Author” on the half-title. Among Botfield’s best-known works, it contains much information, both historical and bibliographical, on these occasionally little-known collections. KEYNES, P.54. KELLY 1849.2. $125. 355. [Pickering Imprint]: Bunyan, John: THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS FROM THIS WORLD TO THAT WHICH IS TO COME. London: William Pickering, 1849. xii,354,[2]pp. Octavo. Mid 19th century full pebbled blue morocco, ruled in gilt and blind, a.e.g., (for George Rutland, Newcastle-on-Tyne). Portrait. Title and half-title in red and black, with printer’s device on title. First Pickering edition. Extremities worn, but sound, portrait offset to title, institutional bookplate on front pastedown, pencil gift inscription, tidemark at lower edge of portrait, four digits in ink in lower margin of b1; a good, sound copy. KELLY 1849.3 KEYNES, p.55. $75.

356. [Pickering Imprint]: THE HAND BOOK OF MEDIAEVAL ALPHABETS AND DEVICES. London: William Pickering, 1853. [10]pp. text plus 36 plates. Small quarto. Blue cloth, decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt. First edition. Heavy foxing to prelims, much less so to the color monochromatic plates, hinges cracked and text block a bit shaken, binding quite rubbed, with vertical crease in spine, just a sound working copy. KELLY 1853.9. KEYNES, p.89. $85.

357. [Pickering Imprint]: Singer, Samuel Weller: THE TEXT OF SHAKESPEARE VINDICATED FROM THE INTERPOLATIONS AND CORRUPTIONS ADVOCATED BY ESQ. IN HIS NOTES AND EMENDATIONS. London: William Pickering, 1853. xix,[1],312,[2]pp. Large octavo. Original cloth, paper spine label. Cloth a bit sunned and rubbed, some light foxing to endsheets, prelims and very occasionally in the text, label rubbed, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition of the first major book-length attack on Collier’s purported discoveries in the Perkins Folio, and by implication, on Collier’s credibility itself. $275.

358. [Pickering Imprints]: Keynes, Geoffrey: WILLIAM PICKERING PUBLISHER A MEMOIR AND A CHECK-LIST OF HIS PUBLICATIONS. [London]: The Galahad Press, [1969]. Quarto. Gilt cloth. Frontis, plates and facsimiles. Second, revised edition, trade issue. A very good or better copy in lightly soiled dust jacket. $75.

359. [Pickering Imprints]: Kelly, Jerry [comp]: A CHECKLIST OF BOOKS PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM PICKERING 1820 - 1853 ... WITH ESSAYS BY JOSEPH BLUMENTHAL AND ARTHUR WARREN. Pomona, NY: Kelly-Winterton Press, 2003. Gilt cloth and boards. Portrait. Facsimiles and tipped-in leaves. New copy.

First edition. From an edition of three hundred copies, this is one of 180 copies specially bound, with four original leaves from Pickering imprints tipped in. An excellent reference, supplanting Keynes’s checklist (1924/69), augmented with Jerry Kelly’s own essay on “The Earliest Revivals of Caslon Old-Face Types,” Warren’s “The Collaboration Between Charles Whittingham & William Pickering,” and Blumenthal’s “William Pickering, Publisher: An Appreciation.” Includes reproductions of sample title-pages and texts. $125.

360. [Pickering Press]: Garland, Lawrence: THE AFFAIR OF THE UNPRINCIPLED PUBLISHER. BY JOHN H. WATSON, M.D. AS DISCOVERED BY.... New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1983. Cloth and boards. Trace of foxing to spine, otherwise fine.

First edition. limited issue. Title-page device by John DePol. One of 50 numbered copies, specially bound and signed by the author and illustrator, from a total edition of 325 copies printed at the Pickering Press. Sherlock Holmes and T.J. Wise cross paths. $150.

361. [Pickering Press]: Anderson, John [printer]: A PICKERING POTPOURRI. [Maple Shade, NJ]: The Pickering Press, 1983. Small folio. Stiff wrapper folder, printed label, containing loose sheets, leaflets, broadsides and booklets. Faint smudge on label, a few edge creases to individual constituent items, otherwise fine.

A rich assemblage of largely ephemeral examples of Anderson’s work at the Pickering Press, as designer and printer, including items illustrated by John DePol, Claire Van Vliet, and others. Included in this copy are fifty-six items, including the explanatory coversheet. There seems to be some variation of contents between copies. $150.

362. [Pickering Press]: A COMMONPLACE BOOK PROFOUND & PROFANE THOUGHTS & OBSERVATIONS GATHERED, SET IN TYPE AND PRINTED.... Maple Shade, NJ: Pickering Press, 1985. Open-sewn plain wrappers, pictorial label. Illustrated with woodcuts by John De Pol. First edition. One of an unspecified number of copies printed on Japanese papers in a wide variety of types by John Anderson. A few scattered isolated fox-marks, otherwise fine in plain wrapper. $250.

363. [Plain Wrapper Press]: Gill, Brendan: WOOINGS FIVE POEMS .... [Verona]: Plain Wrapper Press, [1980]. Quarto. Open-sewn decorated boards. Posthumously contrived bookplate of a collector, otherwise fine.

First edition. One of 155 press “numered” copies, printed on English handmade paper, signed by the author. Published as “Quartus III.” Decoration and binding paper after designs by Fulvio Testa. Errata sheet laid in. SMYTH 29. $200.

364. [Plantin Press]: [Bowen, Dorothy (compiler)]: A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND RELATED MATERIAL IN THE COLLECTION OF JAMES R. PAGE. Los Angeles: [Privately Printed], 1955. Quarto. Quarter faux-parchment and printed boards, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Folding frontis and plates. Folding frontis creased at fore-corners, otherwise about fine, in good dust jacket with chips and tanning to the spine panel.

First edition. One of an unspecified but modest number of copies printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press. Laid in is a one-page t.l.s., 11 March 1964, on Plantin Press letterhead, from Lillian Marks to an enthusiast of the press, advising her about the disposition of the Page collection subsequent to his death. $225.

365. [Plantin Press]: Robinson, W.W., and Lawrence Clark Powell: THE MALIBU I. RANCHO TOPANGA MALIBU SEQUIT: AN HISTORICAL APPROACH ... II. PERSONAL CONSIDERATIONS: ESSAYS .... Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1958. Small quarto. Linen and decorated boards, paper spine label. Bookplate on front pastedown, two shallow, creased snags in top edge of front free endpaper, tiny ink dot at extreme top edge of lower board, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition. Colored illustrative chapter headings and monochrome in-text illustrations by Irene Robinson. One of 350 numbered copies printed at the Plantin Press. This copy is signed by Saul and Lillian Marks, Powell, and the Robinsons. A fine evocation of the area, and among the most significant of the Plantin Press’ productions. $750.

366. [Plantin Press]: Jackson, Helen Hunt: RAMONA A STORY BY .... Los Angeles: Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club ..., 1959. Large octavo. Coarse woven fabric over boards, paper spine label. Illustrations. A bit of a musty smell, otherwise about fine in very good slipcase with a couple of small rubs and a trace of soiling to the label.

One of 1500 numbered copies produced by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press, and signed by the artist, Everett Gee Jackson. Introduction by J. Frank Dobie. The author’s most widely known work of fiction, and second book in rank of importance, after A Century Of Dishonor. “Ramona, a maudlin, sentimental story, is of course not a great novel. But it is an exceedingly important California book ... by exposing the abuses to which Southern California Indians were subjected, it resulted in numerous wholesome [sic] reforms in the administration of Indian affairs” - ZAMORANO 80. ZAMORANO 80, 47. $75. 367. [Plantin Press]: Alarcon, Pedro Antonio de: THE THREE-CORNERED HAT. Los Angeles: Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at the Plantin Press, 1959. Quarto. Cloth and decorated cloth over boards. Translated by Martin Armstrong, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin, and with an introduction by Gerald Brenan. One of fifteen hundred numbered copies, printed at the Plantin Press, and signed by the artist. Fine in lightly soiled slipcase. $75.

368. [Plantin Press]: Robinson, W. W.: LITTLE HISTORY OF A BIG CITY LOS ANGELES. Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1963. Cloth and boards, paper spine label. Miniature (5.1 x 4cm). Illustrations by Irene Robinson. Printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press, the number of copies not specified. Fine. $125.

369. [Plantin Press]: Johnson, Kenneth [intro & commentary]: THE STING OF THE WASP POLITICAL & SATIRICAL CARTOONS FROM THE TRUCULENT EARLY SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY .... San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1967. Small folio. Gilt cloth. Illustrated with twenty color facsimiles of the lithographed originals. First edition. One of 450 copies printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise about fine, with a folded copy of the prospectus laid in. $125.

370. [Plantin Press]: Levertov, Denise: A TREE TELLING OF ORPHEUS. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. Quarto. Cloth, paper spine label. Illustrations by the author. A few pale spots on upper board, otherwise near fine.

First edition, deluxe issue. One of seventy-five numbered copies, specially bound, from a total edition of 329 copies printed at the Plantin Press. $225.

371. [Plantin Press]: Gill, Cecil, et al.: THE LIFE AND WORKS OF ERIC GILL PAPERS READ AT A CLARK LIBRARY SYMPOSIUM.... Los Angeles: Dawson’s Bookshop, 1969. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. Portrait, plates, illustrations. Fine.

First edition, hardbound issue. Introduction by Albert Sperisen, with contributions by Cecil Gill, and David Kindersley. One of an unspecified number of copies bound thus, in addition to copies in wrappers, the entire edition printed at the Plantin Press. $125.

372. [Plantin Press]: Duncan, Robert: TRIBUNALS PASSAGES 31 - 35. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. Small quarto. Full publisher’s gilt calf. Extreme lower edges shelf-rubbed, else about fine, though wanting the original protective acetate jacket.

First edition, lettered issue. Copy ‘L’ of twenty-six lettered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author, from a total edition of 1297 copies printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press. Inserted in a pocket in the rear is the separately printed THE FEAST: PASSAGES 34. BERTHOLF A37d. $300.

373. [Plough Press]: Wakeman, Geoffrey: THE LITERATURE OF LETTERPRESS PRINTING 1849-1900 A SELECTION. [Kidlington, Oxford: The Plough Press, 1986]. Quarto. Quarter cloth and decorative paper over boards, stamped in gilt, t.e.g. First edition. One of only one hundred and twenty numbered copies printed by hand by the Wakemans. Fine, with the errata slip laid in. $250.

374. [Poltroon Press]: Phillips, J. J.: NIGGA IN THE WOODPILE. Berkeley: Serendipity Books, 2008. [16]pp. Small octavo. Sewn blindstamped wrappers with diecut holes. Woodcut frontis. Gatefold center sheet. Folded facsimile typescript letter laid in back, as issued. Fine.

First edition in book form. One of 140 regular (unsigned) copies from a total edition of 150 copies printed by Alastair Johnston at the Poltroon Press. A corrective presentation of the author’s poem, first published online, in Ishmael Reed’s magazine, Konch, in a format not her intention due to the vicissitudes of its conversion to html (“I had composed a rant that was, with premeditation, left-locked and loaded, and this rigid, left-defined form was integral to the poem”), accompanied by an explanatory essay and notes by the author providing context, as well as a supplementary facsimile of a letter, also contributing to context. $60.

375. [Pomegranate Press]: Creeley, Robert: CHARACTERISTICALLY [caption title]. Cambridge: The Pomegranate Press, September 1972. Narrow folio broadside (51 x 19.5 cm). Illustrated with a block printed by Karyl Klopp. First edition. One of 150 copies, signed by the author, from a total edition of five hundred copies, all signed by the printer/artist. A bit of tanning and offsetting from having been matted at some point, hence very good. LEPPER, p.140. $50.

376. [Pomegranate Press]: Eberhart, Richard: THE GROUNDHOG REVISITING [caption title]. [Cambridge]: The Pomegranate Press, 1972. Folio broadside. Illustrated with an original linocut by the printer, K. Klopp. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies, of which this is one of ca. one hundred signed by the author and the artist. Small patch of faint offset on verso, else about fine. $75.

377. [Pomegranate Press]: Kuzma, Greg: DEATH [caption title]. Cambridge: The Pomegranate Press, 1973. Oblong folio broadside. Illustrated with an original linocut by the printer, K. Klopp. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies, of which this is one of ca. one hundred signed by the author and the artist. Minor soft crease at top edge, else about fine. $75.

378. [Pomegranate Press]: Simpson, Louis: THE MEXICAN WOMAN [caption title]. Cambridge: The Pomegranate Press, 1973. Folio broadside. Illustrated with an original linocut by the printer, K. Klopp. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies, of which this is one of ca. one hundred signed by the author and the artist. Minor soft crease at lower corner, small patch of light offsetting to blank verso, else about fine. $60.

379. [Pomegranate Press]: McClure, Michael: TRANSFIGURATION [caption title]. Cambridge: Pomegranate Press, January 1973. Narrow folio broadside (50.5 x 21 cm). Illustrated with a block print by Karyl Klopp. From an edition of 250 numbered copies, printed and illustrated by Karyl Klopp, this is one of ca. 100 copies signed by the poet as well as by the artist/ printer. Soft horizontal crease and slight creasing at extreme top edge, otherwise fine. $75.

380. [Pomegranate Press]: Merrill, James: FIVE INSCRIPTIONS [caption title]. Cambridge, MA: Pomegranate Press, November 1974. Folio broadside (48 x 30.5 cm). Woodcut decorations. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies, signed by the author, from a total edition of 180 copies printed in Centaur and Arrighi types, and with woodcuts, by Karyl Klopp. One of the more uncommon broadsides in the Pomegranate series. A bit of light creasing and curling, otherwise near fine. HAGSTROM & MORGAN A29. $175.

381. [Pomegranate Press]: Oates, Joyce Carol: THE GIRL A SHORT STORY. Cambridge, [MA]: Pomegranate Press, 1974. Quarto. Printed wrappers over stiff wrapper. Six color linoleum prints by Karyl Klopp. First edition, wrapper issue. One of three hundred numbered copies signed by the author and the artist/printer (there was also a specially bound issue not mentioned in the colophon). A few very faint marks on wrappers, else about fine. $125.

382. [Pomegranate Press]: Casey, Michael: MY BROTHER-IN-LAW AND ME [caption title]. Cambridge: Pomegranate Press, 1974. Folio broadside (47 x 32cm). Color illustration by the printer, K. Klopp. First edition. One of one hundred numbered copies (of 180), signed by the author and artist/printer. A relatively early work, following up on Casey’s selection as the 1972 YSYP. One corner bumped, else near fine. $55.

383. [Pooté Press]: [Clemens, Samuel L]: MARK TWAIN COMPLIMENTS THE PRESIDENT’S WIFE. By “Mark Twain.” Boston: Ann & David Bromer, 1984. 14,[4]pp. Cloth, paper label. Miniature (6 x 4.5 cm). Fine. Inset, along with the original prospectus, into a custom made, grossly oversize folding cloth slipcase, bearing the bookplate of James S. Copley.

First printing in book form of this sentiment written by Clemens in an autograph album for a reception hosted by Mrs. Grover Cleveland. One of 150 ordinary copies, from a total edition of two hundred copies printed by Rez’ Lingen at the Poote Press. $125.

384. [Powgen Press]: THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE SERIES [series title]. New York: Printed for William R. Scott, Publisher, by the Powgen Press, [1936]. Six volumes. Octavo. Cloth. Variously illustrated. Ownership signature in four volumes, some darkening at gutters of endsheets, a couple of small marginal spots in one volume, otherwise a nice set, in very good or better dust jackets, enclosed in publisher’s board chemise and slipcase.

First editions in this format, with occasionally interesting illustrations (though those most interesting and distinctly modernist in tone are at odd counterpoint to their texts). The texts are: a) Compensation. By Emerson, with designs by C. Barney Moore; b) Life Without Principle. By Thoreau, with illustrations by Susanne Suba; c) Legends of the Province House. By Hawthorne, with illustrations by Jean Lamont; d) Song of Myself. By Whitman, with decorations by Jos. A. Low; e) A Descent Into The Maelstrom. By Poe, with illustrations by Charles E. McCurdy; and f) The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow. By Irving, with drawings by Mary Dana. $250.

385. [Prairie Press]: Rosenberger, Francis Coleman [ed]: AMERICAN SAMPLER A SELECTION OF NEW POETRY. Iowa City: Prairie Press, 1951. Large octavo. Cloth and decorated boards. Fine in dust jacket.

First edition in book form, printing poems by Stevens, Williams, Hughes, Eberhart, Patchen, Hayden, Jarrell, Kees, Wilbur, Moss, et al. Initially published in two issues of Poetry Quarterly. A handsome little book. EDELSTEIN B47. $75.

386. [Press 451]: Rosbotham, Lyle: EXTINCTION EVENT: A WORKBOOK. [Arlington, VA: Press 451 / The Author, 1988]. Oblong quarto (155 x 280 mm). Printed wrappers. Photographs, translucent interleaves etc. A very good copy, though we suspect the adhesive for the perfect binding has been refreshed.

First edition. A startling presentation, including photographic images printed on plastic, translucent interleaves bearing images and/or text, and other modes of juxtaposition of visual and technical data on the subject and potential scenarios for same. Rosbotham was art director for National Geographic Publications from 1984 to 2002, and subsequently for Worldwatch Institute. This is one of his earliest artist’s books. $75.

387. [Press at Colorado College]: Drury, John: FIRE IN THE WAX MUSEUM. Colorado Springs: The Press at Colorado College, [1980]. Small folio. Rivet bound stiff printed wrappers. Color illustrations. Pale shadow of bookplate inside front wrapper, a few small rustmarks toward lower edge of lower wrapper, otherwise about fine.

First edition. One of 150 numbered copies, printed in Centaur monotype on Rives by James Trissel and company, and signed by the author. $100.

388. [Press de LaPlantz]: LaPlantz, Shereen: WHEN THERE’S NO LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL. Bayside, CA: Press de LaPlantz, 1996. Five panel variation of a tunnel book, with printed film windows (15 x 13 cm). Rubberband bound at fore-edges, then clothed in colored handmade paper wrapper. The rubber bands are absent from two fore-edges, but the securing stick for one is still present, otherwise fine in printed sleeve.

Copy #35 of 100 numbered copies, with the text and illustrations hand drawn, then digitized and gocco printed on Fabriano Ingres. Signed by the artist. The colophon elaborates upon the disaster and disruption which the edition survived (a flood, moves, etc). The text and illustration counterpoint that with an optimism born of finding endless tunnels grist for art and liberation. $150.

389. [Press of A. Colish]: Commager, Henry Steele [ed]: FREEDOM OF RELIGION & SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. Mount Vernon, NY: A. Colish, Inc., 1985. 44,[2]pp. plus 16 broadsides and index. Folio (31 x 45.5 cm). Octavo text in stiff printed wrappers. The whole enclosed in cloth portfolio with gilt label and stiff card flaps. The spine label is absent, otherwise fine.

One of 2500 sets printed for the friends of A. Colish, and “... as a public service.” Handsome broadside printings of relevant passages from Founding Fathers through John Kennedy to Sam Irvin, all serving to underscore the legitimacy of the notion of the secular origin of the state and the independence of religion from it. Oversize, with extra post. $75.

With an Original Drawing

390. [Press of Emile Moreau]: Righi, Francois: PAVO FRAGMENT SUR LE PAON BLEU. [Ivoy-le-Pré]: Le Tailleur d’Images, 1986. Sq. quarto (9.75 x 9.75”; 25 x 25 cm). Open- sewn wrappers with pictorial vignette. Ten illustrations. Fine in slightly sunned clamshell box with nicks at the top of the joints.

First edition. One of nine deluxe copies, from a total edition of 46 copies printed at the Press of Emile Moreau on Ingres, signed by the author/artist. Illustrated with ten original gravures printed on blue Japanese “Shoji” at L’Atelier des Michauts by the artist. Accompanied by an original pencil and gouache drawing by the artist which was a prelude to one of the engravings, titled “Les Lieux des Yeux,” signed and dated by the artist, inset into a mat within the case (the glue attaching the mat to the case has dried out). The original prospectus is laid in, printing a long commentary by Michele Pinson. $850.

391. [Press of James A. Decker]: Roditi, Edouard: PRISON WITHIN PRISON THREE ELEGIES ON HEBREW THEMES. Prairie City: The Press of James A. Decker, 1941. Printed wrappers. Wrappers and top edge faintly dust soiled, but a near fine copy.

First edition of the author’s second book, illustrated with a frontispiece by Kurt Seligmann. Like many of the Decker Press titles by significant authors, an uncommon book. $250.

392. [Press of the Good Mountain]: THE PRINTER SPEAKS A SELECTION OF TYPES SET BY VARIOUS HANDS IN THE HAND COMPOSITION LABORATORY OF THE ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. Rochester: The Press of the Good Mountain, 1955. [45] leaves, printed on rectos only. Quarto. Cloth and boards, textblock wirebound. Illustrations (chiefly typographic). Spine stamping rubbed away, fore-tips worn, otherwise a very good copy, internally fine.

One of one hundred copies. An attractive exercise in layout utilizing a broad variety of type fonts and paper stocks as a class enterprise, chiefly of texts by designers, printers and type-founders about book design. Among those contributing design and presswork is the late collector extraordinaire of Baron Corvo and related material, Donald Weeks. $125.

393. [Press of the Good Mountain]: Bullen, Henry Lewis: NICOLAS JENSON PRINTER OF VENICE AN EXCERPT FROM AN ESSAY. Rochester: Press of the Good Mountain, [1960]. Quarto. Half calf and boards. Folding frontispiece facsimiles. First printing in this format. One of 75 numbered copies, printed by Robert Wheaton and signed by him. Bookplate of the James S. Copley collection, trace of sunning to boards, else near fine. $75. 394. [Press of the Morning Sun]: Hoskins, Katherine: THE PARTRIDGE [caption title]. San Francisco: Poems in Folio, 1957. Folio broadside (46 x 31 cm). Upper left and lower right corners bumped slightly, otherwise near fine, accompanied by the smaller explanatory/ colophon broadside, as issued.

First edition, deluxe issue. Three color illustration by Ivan Majdrakoff. One of 150 numbered copies printed on Frankfurt Text paper and signed by the poet, from a total edition of 1150 printed at the Press of the Morning Sun. $100.

395. [Press of the Nightowl]: Mills, William: I KNOW A PLACE THREE STORIES. Baton Rouge: The Press of the Nightowl, [1976]. Morocco and boards. Linoleum cuts by Margaret Agner. Fine.

First edition, deluxe issue. One of 30 numbered copies, printed on Hayle handmade paper in Joanna Roman and Palatino Semibold, and handbound by the Eberhardts. Signed by the author. $75.

396. [Press of the Palace of Governors]: Simmons, Marc: THE SENA FAMILY: BLACKSMITHS OF SANTA FE. Santa Fe: Press of the Palace of Governors, 1981. [4],10,[6]pp. 12mo. Cloth and marbled boards, paper spine label. Decorations by Kirk Hughey. First edition in book form. One of 200 copies printed. Pale yellow discoloration along a patch of the upper joint, otherwise fine. $75.

397. [Press of the Palace of Governors]: Powell, Lawrence Clark: MY NEW MEXICO LITERARY FRIENDS. Santa Fe: Press of the Palace of Governors, 1986, Decorated cloth, paper label. Illustrated with woodcuts by Willard F. Clark. Bookplate on pastedown, otherwise fine.

First edition in this format, clothbound issue. Introduction by Marc Simmons. One of 175 numbered copies bound thus, from an edition of three hundred copies, designed and printed by Pamela Smith, and signed by the author, the artist, the printer, the binder and the author of the introduction. $125.

398. [Press of the Pegacycle Lady]: Whigham, Peter: LANGUE D’OEIL. Los Angeles: Press of the Pegacycle Lady, 1971. Sewn printed wrappers. First edition. One of sixty numbered copies, signed by the author. Bookplate, otherwise fine in folding cloth slipcase. $65.

399. [Press of the Pegacycle Lady]: Forrest, Bernard: HER FOOT IN MY HAND. Los Angeles: Press of the Pegacycle Lady, 1972. Cloth and boards, paper spine label. Frontis. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine.

First edition. One of fifty numbered copies (the entire edition) printed on handmade paper, signed by the poet, and with an original wash and watercolor painting by him tipped in as the frontispiece. $200.

400. [Press of the Pegacycle Lady]: [Berman, Wallace]: Hirschman, Jack [trans]: IGITUR BY STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ RENDERED INTO ENGLISH .... Los Angeles: Press of the Pegacycle Lady, 1974. Large octavo. Printed boards, pictorial onlay by Wallace Berman. As common with this boardbound issue, the sewing is a bit slack, bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise about fine.

First edition of this translation, deluxe issue. One of one hundred numbered copies specially bound, and signed by Hirschman, from a total edition of 500. $175.

401. [Press of the Pegacycle Lady]: Essick, Robert N.: WILLIAM BLAKE’S RELIEF INVENTIONS. Los Angeles: Printed for William & Victoria Dailey The Press of the Pegacycle Lady, 1978 Quarto. Parchment backed boards, paper label. Frontis and plates. First edition. One of 365 numbered copies printed by Patrick Reagh in Bulmer types on Rives paper.A bit of sunning and a few stray marks to boards, bookplate on pastedown, otherwise near fine. $100. 402. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: “THOU HAST MOST TRAITOROUSLY CORRUPTED THE YOUTH OF THE REALM...” [caption title]. [New York]: Press of the Woolly Whale, [1930]. Printed broadside, 30 x 22cm. Decorative borders. Set in Eve Heavy with Erbar Initials and printed in black and red. Fine.

A quotation relating to the corruption of youth by schools, books and printing, distributed both separately and as an insert into The American Printer (March 1930). LAWSON & PANKOW 13. $25.

403. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: [Cary, Melbert B., Jr. (ed. & pub)]: MADEMOISELLE FROM ARMENTIERES [with:] MADEMOISELLE FROM ARMENTIERES VOLUME TWO. New York: Privately Printed at the Press of the Woolly Whale, 1930-35. Two volumes. Quarter crimson morocco and gilt black cloth, t.e.g. Pictorial endsheets and illustrations, tipped-in facsimile. Spine ends of first volume rubbed, tiny collector’s bookplate and neat calligraphed shelf number on endsheets, otherwise a near fine set.

First editions. Illustrations by Alban B. Butler Jr. The first volume bears an explicit limitation of 250 copies, the second bears no explicit limitation. An interesting and important collection and analysis of the scores of variants in English (most of them ribald) of this popular marching/drinking song. R.W. Gordon contributes an essay to the second volume. The first volume (only) is quite uncommon. PANKOW, pp.51 & 57. $250.

404. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: [Holmes, John Hayne]: JULIA M. CARY 1856 - 1930. [New York]: Privately printed at the Press of the Woolly Whale, 1931. Octavo. Gilt parchment boards, t.e.g.. Title illumined in gold and silver. First edition. One of 140 copies printed by hand by Cary. A few faint smudges to boards, otherwise fine in slipcase. LAWSON & PANKOW 14. $55.

405. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell: MOLLY MAKE-BELIEVE. [New York]: Press of the Woolly Whale, Christmas 1931. Half blue morocco, t.e.g. First limited edition of the author’s first novel (first published in 1910). One of two hundred and fifty copies printed for private distribution as the Press’s Christmas book. A fine copy. LAWSON & PANKOW 15. $45.

406. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: Lippmann, Walter: THE SCHOLAR IN A TROUBLED WORLD AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AS THE PHI BETA KAPPA ORATION AT THE COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MAY 31, 1932. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1932. 12mo. Boards, paper label. First edition in book form. One of three hundred copies printed on handmade paper for private distribution. Fine copy. LAWSON & PANKOW 20. $25.

407. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: THE BASTARD KING OF ENGLAND. “London: House of Lords Press,” [but New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1933]. 12mo. Sewn printed wrappers. Fine.

One of an unspecified number of copies on handmade paper. A bit of facetious verse, accompanied by a disclaimer asserting that Kipling had nothing to do with its composition. LAWSON & PANKOW 34. $15.

408. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: Carey, Melbert B., Jr.: DIGRESSIONS FOR THE TRAVELLER IN ENGLAND. [New York: Privately Printed at the Press of the Woolly Whale, 1933]. 12mo. Pictorial boards. Decorations by Warren Chappell. First edition. One of “a few copies only” printed on Arak paper. Fine in tissue wrapper. LAWSON & PANKOW 25. $35.

409. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: Tinker, Edward Larocque: THE PALINGENESIS OF CRAPS. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1933. Cloth and decorated boards, paper label. Portrait. Top edge a bit dusty, slight tanning at board edges, otherwise very good or better.

First edition in book form. One of 400 numbered copies printed on handmade paper, of which 150 were for sale. Foreword by Melbert Cary, Jr. With the small bookplate on the front pastedown of typographer/designer Carl P. Rollins. LAWSON & PANKOW 29. $100.

410. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: Angell, Norman: PATRIOTISM VERSUS WELFARE: AN EXTRACT FROM THE “UNSEEN ASSASSINS.” New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, Armistice Day 1932 [i.e. 1933]. Cloth and boards. First separate edition, with a foreword by Melbert B. Carey, Jr., the printer. One of an unspecified limited edition for private distribution. Very fine. LAWSON & PANKOW 26. $25.

411. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: Cary, Melbert B., Jr [ed & pub]: STILLE NACHT HEILIGE NACHT A CHRISTMAS SONG BY FRANZ X. GRUBER AND JOSEPH MOHR. [New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1933]. Large octavo. Quarter calf and Natsume paper over boards, t.e.g. Portraits and facsimiles. Some seemingly inevitable rubbing to head and toe of spine, else fine.

First edition. One of an unspecified number of copies printed for distribution as the Press’s Christmas offering. LAWSON & PANKOW 28. $100.

412. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: Goudy, Frederick W.: THE STORY OF THE VILLAGE TYPE BY ITS DESIGNER.... New York: The Press of the Woolly Whale, 1933. Quarter cloth and boards, printed label. Fine in slightly worn glassine dust jacket.

First edition. One of two hundred numbered copies printed on Arnold handmade paper for private distribution, with an extra page of supplementary information, in addition to 450 copies printed for members of the AIGA. LAWSON & PANKOW 24. $125.

413. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: Goudy, Frederick W. [ed]: ARS TYPOGRAPHICA. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, Autumn 1934. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Collotype plates and illustrations. A fine copy.

I:4. The final number of Goudy’s distinguished periodical, published sixteen years after the first number, and the intervention of McMurtrie’s periodical of the same title. A total of 514 copies were printed. CARY 216. LAWSON & PANKOW 39. $35.

414. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: Blades, William: AN EXTRACT FROM THE ENEMIES OF BOOKS. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, [1934]. 12mo. Decorated boards. Colored illustrations by Philip G. Reed. Printed in Lutetia types on handmade paper. Near fine. LAWSON & PANKOW 40. $45.

415. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: Morris, William: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE ORNAMENTED MSS. OF THE MIDDLE AGES.... New York: Privately Printed [at] Press of the Woolly Whale, 1934. Large octavo. Quarter vellum and boards. Upper corners bumped, isolated minor foxing to boards, a bit more pronounced on endsheets, but a good copy.

One of “a modest number of copies” printed on Morris’s Chaucer Press on the occasion of the centenary of Morris’s birth. An essay on the peregrinations of the press by Melbert Cary is appended. LAWSON & PANKOW 37. $185. 416. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: Cary, Melbert B., Jr.: THE ESTIVATION OF TWO MAO TZU BEING AN INFORMAL AND OCCASIONALLY FRIVOLOUS ACCOUNT OF OUR VACATION IN CHINA DURING THE SUMMER OF 1934. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1935. Sq. octavo. Quarter open-sewn silk and boards, paper label. Maps and decorations throughout (by Warren Chappell). Binding a bit sunned, with modest foxing and a few small spots to endsheets and edges; very good.

One of “less than 250 copies on Kawara” paper, issued as the Press’s Christmas book for the year. With the small bookplate on the front pastedown of printer/typographer Carl. P. Rollins. LAWSON & PANKOW 47. $100.

417. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: EXCERPTS FROM THE WORK OF THE PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE ... [wrapper title]. [New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, ca. 1935]. Sewn printed wrappers. Facsimiles of title leaves, tipped in playing card. First separate issue of this insert printed for inclusion in the Archiv fur Buchgewerbe und Gebrauchsgrahik. Fine. $25.

418. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: JONAH AND THE WOOLLY WHALE WERE BREAKFASTING ... [wrapper title]. [New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1935]. Sewn plain wrappers with pictorial cutout overlay. Fine.

First edition. A humorous dialogue about the Press, accompanied by a trade list of its publications. LAWSON & PANKOW 52. $25.

419. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: Cary, Melbert B., Jr. [ed & pub]: MADEMOISELLE FROM ARMENTIERES VOLUME TWO. New York: Privately Printed at the Press of the Woolly Whale, 1935. Quarter crimson morocco and gilt black cloth, t.e.g. Pictorial endsheets and illustrations, tipped-in facsimile. Fine.

First edition of the supplementary volume, issued five years after the first. Illustrations by Alban B. Butler Jr. An interesting and important collection and analysis of the scores of variants in English (most of them ribald) of this popular marching / drinking song. R.W. Gordon contributes an essay to this second volume. The first volume bore an explicit limitation; this volume does not. LAWSON & PANKOW 41. $90.

420. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: Vorse, Mary Heaton: THE NINTH MAN. [New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1936]. Small quarto. Canvas over boards, gilt leather labels, t.e.g.. Illustrated by Alban B. Butler, Jr. A fine copy.

First edition in this format of this atypical novella by the radical journalist, printed in a limited edition as the Press’s Christmas book. LAWSON & PANKOW 57. $75.

421. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: TO THE YEARLY MEETING EXTRACTS TAKEN FROM THE MINNETS OF OUR QUARTERLY MEETING...1779. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1936. Sewn printed wrappers. One of an unspecified limited edition, reprinting extracts from the Quaker meeting at Millbrook. As new. LAWSON & PANKOW 56. $20.

422. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: THE PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE [caption title]. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, [nd. but ca. 1937]. Printed broadside, 28 x 22cm. Decorative borders. Printed in black and red on blue paper, with elaborate whale device at top. A long statement of the principles of the press, as well as an announcement of the forthcoming Bibliography of the Village Press. A handsome ephemeron. $30. 423. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: WILLI’S WISHFUL THINKING. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1938 [i.e. 1939]. 12mo. Cloth, paper label. A fine copy.

First edition. Reproductions of a series of postcards issued by the German army for use by their troops on the occasion of their anticipated capture of Paris. One of an unspecified number of copies issued to commemorate Armistice Day. LAWSON & PANKOW 85. $50.

424. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: Carey, Melbert B., Jr.: MY LITTLE DACHSHUND A DOGGEREL AND MADRIGAL BY AN OLD ELIZABETHAN COMPOSER OF THE XXTH CENTURY. [New York]: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1939. Oblong octavo. Pictorial parchment wrapper over stiff wrappers. Illustrations by Warren A. Chappell. The adhesive affixing the wrapper flaps has darkened and caused a slight bow to the wrappers, else fine.

First edition, printed for private distribution. The first use in America of a music type designed by Paul Koch. A meditation on Dachshund micturition, and at one point highly sought by aficionados of the process. LAWSON & PANKOW 86. $25.

425. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: Wroth, Lawrence C.: THE OATH OF A FREE-MAN. WITH A HISTORICAL STUDY BY ... AND A NOTE ON THE STEPHEN DAYE PRESS BY MELBERT B. CARY, JR. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1939. Cloth, printed label. Fine.

First edition of this discussion of the history of the first item known to have been printed in English-speaking North America: the 1639 Oath of a Freeman. Although a version was reprinted in 1647 in New Englands Jonas, no authentic copy of the original is known to exist. A forgery played a central role in the Mark Hoffman murder/forgery scandal. LAWSON & PANKOW 88. $25.

426. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: Fuhrmann, Otto W.: GUTENBERG AND THE STRASBOURG DOCUMENTS OF 1439 AN INTERPRETATION ... TO WHICH HAS BEEN APPENDED THE TEXT OF THE DOCUMENTS IN THE ORIGINAL ALSATIAN, THE FRENCH OF LABORDE, AND MODERN GERMAN AND ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1940. Large octavo. Gilt cloth, gilt spine label, t.e.g. Sketches by Fritz Kredel. First edition. One of 660 copies printed. As new in glassine and slipcase. LAWSON & PANKOW 96. $150.

427. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: THE MISSING GUTENBERG WOOD BLOCKS. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1940. Small quarto. Gilt cloth and boards. Illustrations. Boards faintly rubbed, else near fine.

First edition. An elaborate spoof perpetrated by Melbert B. Cary, Jr., recording the alleged discovery of a sequence of woodblocks depicting the life of Gutenberg from nativity to the advent of his printing shop. $75.

428. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: Klinefelter, Walter: THE FORTSAS BIBLIOHOAX ... WITH A REPRINT OF THE FORTSAS CATALOGUE AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES AND COMMENT BY WEBER DE VORE. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1942. Cloth and decorated boards, t.e.g. Map endsheets. Fine in glassine dust jacket.

First edition of one of the most substantial treatments of this elaborate auction hoax, including bibliographical descriptions of the catalogue, its subsequent printings, and the literature on the affair. One of two hundred copies printed in Centaur types on rag paper, with a title-page decoration by Fritz Kredel. LAWSON & PANKOW 109. $75.

429. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: AN INVITATION TO A KAFFEEKLATSCH [caption title]. [New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, nd]. French fold leaflet (21 X 14cm), folded again for mailing. Illustrated. Fine.

A charming illustrated ephemeron for an event at the Carey’s home on an unspecified 23 June. Printed in Goudy Mediaeval type on oriental handmade paper. AUCHINCLOSS 110. $25.

430. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: MAR. [New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, nd]. Sewn octavo French fold. An unattributed bit of facetious verse in dialect. Fine and unopened. Not in LAWSON & PANKOW. $15.

431. [Press of the Woolly Whale]: A SPRING SONG. [New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, nd]. Sewn octavo French fold. An unattributed bit of facetious verse in dialect. Fine and unopened. Not in LAWSON & PANKOW. $15.

432. [Press of Ward Schori]: Ellis, Parker Butler: PIGS IS PIGS. Evanston, IL: The Press of Ward Schori, 1990. [12],39,[3]pp. Miniature (2 5/8” x 2”; 6.5 x 5 cm). Gilt faux velvet. Frontis and Illustrations by Will Crawford. One of 118 copies bound thus, from a total edition of 198. Trace of rubbing to velvet grain, but a fine copy. BRADBURY (Schori) 59. $60.

Deluxe Issue with Extra Suite

433. [Printing House of Leo Hart]: Shakespeare, William: Rockwell Kent [illustrator]: VENUS AND ADONIS. Rochester, NY: The Printing House of Leo Hart, 1931. Quarto. Publisher’s full polished maroon calf, ruled in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Spine extremities somewhat worn, otherwise a fine copy. Slipcased.

First edition, deluxe issue. Illustrated with twenty-one engravings by Rockwell Kent, printed in two colors. One of seventy-five numbered copies printed on handmade paper, specially bound, and signed by Kent, from a total edition of 1250 copies printed at the Oxford University Press after a design by Will Ransom. Accompanied by an extra suite of the engravings, matted and enclosed in a matching cloth box. STANLEY (GROLIER) 40. $3000.

434. [Printing Office at High Loft]: Stevenson, Robert Louis: PROVIDENCE & THE GUITAR. High Loft [ME]: The Printing Office at High Loft, [1985]. Small quarto. Cloth, gilt labels. Illustrated. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise about fine in card slipcase with small sticker shadow at one corner.

First printing in this format. Illustrations in color by Nancy McCormick. One of 125 numbered copies (100 for sale), printed on Arches by Karen MacDonald, and signed by the artist. $150. 435. [Printing Trades]: [Specially Bound Commemorative Number of:] NEW ENGLAND PRINTER AND LITHOGRAPHER. Boston. January 1959. Quarto. Printed wrappers, bound up in cloth, lettered and decorated in blue and gilt. Heavily illustrated, with separately printed inserts. Cloth lightly handsoiled, one leaf creased in binding at lower corner, with slightly askew trimming, otherwise very good.

A special copy of a special issue commemorating the “13th Annual Printing and Publishing Week of New England.” This copy has been specially bound, with a [4]pp. printed program inserted for the Annual Banquet, for presentation to those in attendance at the Sheraton- Plaza Hotel on 15 January. This copy has been signed by fifteen of those in attendance (a tipped-in note indicates they were all seated at the Head Table), among them “Miss Printing Week 1959” and a former Governor of Maryland. $85.

436. [Profile Press]: Kokoschka, Oskar [illustrator], and Albert Ehrenstein: TUBUTSCH. New York: Profile Press Book / Ben Abramson Publisher, [1946]. Thin octavo. Blue cloth, stamped in red. B&w frontis and plates by Kokoschka. Upper board slightly soiled, endsheets show some discoloration from the binder’s glue and the effects of climate/ humidity, a couple of small spots of foxing, small spot on fore-edge, hence just a good copy, in fine dust jacket.

First edition of this translation by Eric Posselt and Era Zistel. From a total edition of 1000 copies, this is copy “1 - out of Series” in addition to 100 numbered copies signed by the artist and the author (this copy signed by Kokoschka only). The 1911 edition was Enhrenstein’s first book, and this edition reprises Kokoschka’s illustrations for that edition. $250.

437. [Pterodactyl Press]: Snodgrass, W. D.: HEINRICH HIMMLER: PLATOONS & FILES. Cumberland, IA: Pterodactyl Press, [1982]. Quarto. Original black wrappers with printed wrapped band/spine label. Text on graph paper stock, printed in black and red, unopened and untrimmed. Slightly sunned at spine, but otherwise near fine.

First edition, ordinary issue, limited to 400 copies printed on Curtis Colophon, from a total edition of 460 copies. This was one of the author’s copies with his circular blind-stamp, “Library of W.D. Snodgrass,” in the upper corner of the front free endsheet. $75.

438. [Purgatory Pie Press]: Bartalos, Michael: VISHNU CREW STEWS VINDALOO ANEW. [New York: Purgatory Pie Press, 1990]. Aluminum and paper construction, contained in 16mm film canister (24 cm diameter), with printed labels on and inside the upper lid. Fine.

Copy #35 of an edition planned to consist of 74 copies. Signed by Bartalos, and by Dikko Faust and Esther K. Smith, principals of the press. The construction contains four accordion- fold booklets, letterpress printed on handmade Khadi jute paper. Each is bound between aluminum covers, which are die-cut into the profile shapes of a cat, duck, crocodile and man’s head. They’re attached with nuts and bolts to a circular, revolving disk, hinged to a die-cut figure, in an allusion to multi-headed conceptions of Hindu deities. The whole, when folded, is then inserted into the felt-lined film canister, calculated as an ode to Bollywood. “I was in India on this trip with my college roommate, and I was really struck by the industrialization and the modernization of India, juxtaposed with the traditional aspects of it ... It’s such an extrasensory experience being in India, and I wanted to express that in this book. ... Each of the heads tell a story and how the industrialization is changing India very, very fast” - the author/artist quoted in the context of an interview. $2500.

439. [Purgatory Pie Press]: Happersett, Susan: SPROUT. [New York]: Purgatory Pie Press, 1998. Small octavo (16.5 x 8 cm). 12 panel leporello folded and sewn into printed paper wrapper. Fine.

First edition. From a total edition of 144 copies, this is one of 55 copies printed on Johannot rag paper by Dikko Faust, bound in handmade paper. Signed by the designer, Esther K. Smith. “This series of mathematical drawings is based on the growth patterns of plants and the Fibonacci sequence.” $150. 440. [Purgatory Pie Press]: Smith, Esther K., and Dikko Faust [publishers]: PURGATOYS. [New York: Purgatory Pie Press, 2001]. Printed stiff card portfolio (24 x 17.5 cm), enclosing separate paperworks by six artists held by folded tabs. Light use at portfolio corners, but near fine.

First edition. One of 150 numbered copies, signed by Smith and Faust. Includes works by Judy Hoffman, Harvey Redding, Susan Happersett, Stephanie Brody Lederman, Chris Collicott and Patricia Clark. The constituent works have the same limitation, and are also signed by the respective artist. In print at $250. $185.

441. [Pynson Printers]: Hoggson, Noble Foster: THE SQUIRE’S HOME-MADE WINES AS DESCRIB’D AND SET-FORTH IN THE JOURNAL OF THOMAS HOGGSON, GENT., 1765 .... New York: Printed by the Pynson Printers ... to be sold by T. B. Holliday, 1924. Small octavo. Vegetable parchment over boards. Boards slightly bowed, with some darkening due to binding adhesive, spine covering chipped away, internally very good.

First edition of this elaborate conceit, presented in the format of an 18th century book. One of 1524 numbered copies, printed by the Pynson Printers. A good association copy, inscribed (with initials) from Bruce Rogers to printer/typographer Carl P. Rollins, with the latter’s small book label on the pastedown. RANSOM 2. $75.

442. [Pynson Printers]: Kent, Rockwell [illus]: CANDIDE. By Jean Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire. New York: Random House, 1928. Quarto. Elaborately gilt decorated polished buckram. Illustrated throughout by Kent. Spine substantially darkened, as often, otherwise a very good copy, without the slipcase.

First edition of the first book issued under the Random House imprint, limited to 1470 numbered copies printed on rag paper by the Pynson Printers and signed by Kent. There were an additional 95 colored deluxe copies. $225.

443. [Pynson Printers]: Kent, Rockwell: THE BIRTHDAY BOOK. New York: Random House, 1931. Pictorial cloth, silk endsheets. Plates. First edition. One of 1850 numbered copies, printed by the Pynson Printers, and signed by Kent. Some wear to tips, else a very good copy, without the plastic wrapper. Enclosed in custom cloth clamshell box. $350.

444. [Pynson Printers]: Kent, Rockwell: THE BIRTHDAY BOOK. New York: Random House, 1931. Pictorial cloth, silk endsheets. Plates. Light foxing to top and fore-edges, and marginally to blank endleaves, a small pencil check and small abrasion to extreme upper corner of silk-covered endsheets, else a very good copy, without the plastic wrapper.

First edition. One of 1850 numbered copies, printed by the Pynson Printers, and signed by Kent. This copy is not numbered, but marked as the/a “Printers” copy. $350.

445. [Pynson Printers]: Kent, Rockwell [illus]: EREWHON. By Samuel Butler. New York: Printed by the Pynson Printers for the Limited Editions Club, 1934. Large octavo. Decorated cloth (with a lithographed design by Kent). Cloth a bit darkened, otherwise a very good copy in corner-worn and a bit marked and soiled slipcase.

Introduction by Aldous Huxley. One of 1500 numbered copies, signed by Rockwell Kent, who contributed plates and special pictorial chapter-headings. $200.

446. [Pynson Printers]: Steinbeck, John: NOTHING SO MONSTROUS A STORY. [New York: Pynson Printers], 1936. Cloth and marbled boards. Illustrations by Donald McKay. Very minor wear to fore-tips, otherwise fine in chipped and worn glassine.

First separate edition, with a new epilogue. One of a total edition of 370 copies. This is one of the copies without an imprint for one of the subscribers, but has been signed in place of the subscriber’s name by Elmer Alder, and denoted by him as for presentation to Walter Pforzheimer. As principal of the Pynson Printers, Adler is recorded as having subscribed for fifty copies for distribution; it is also possible that he distributed some out-of-series copies as well. GOLDSTONE & PAYNE A2f. $1500.

447. [Pynson Printers]: Kent, Rockwell: THE BOOKPLATES & MARKS OF ROCKWELL KENT WITH A PREFACE BY THE ARTIST [with:] LATER BOOKPLATES & MARKS OF ROCKWELL KENT WITH A PREFACE BY THE ARTIST. New York: The Pynson Printers, 1929 - 1937. Two volumes. Small octavo. Gilt cloth. Extensively illustrated. Some sunning to extremities, spine tips of second volume nicked, but a good set, with the prospectus for the first volume, but without the dust jackets. Enclosed in later custom clamshell slipcase.

First editions. Each one of 1250 numbered copies, signed by Kent on the colophon. The first volume was distributed by Random House, the second directly by the Pynson Printers. $500.

448. [Quercus Press]: Jeffers, Robinson: TWO CONSOLATIONS ... WITH AN EXCERPT FROM UNA JEFFERS’ ENGLISH JOURNAL. [San Mateo: Quercus Press], 1940. Quarto. Blue-gray boards, lettered in dark brown. Title vignette after William Morris. Bookplate, a couple faint marks to boards, otherwise fine.

First edition. One of 250 copies (200 for sale) printed on Kelmscott handmade paper on Morris’s Albion proof press. BROOMFIELD A30. $250.

449. [Rampant Lions Press]: Smart, Christopher: A SONG TO DAVID. [Cambridge]: Rampant Lions Press, [1960]. Small folio. Parchment and decorated boards. Frontis by Lynton Lamb. Edited by J.B. Broadbent. One of six hundred numbered copies. Inscribed and signed by Will Carter. Fine in very good, slightly dusty jacket with a couple short edge tears. $100.

450. [Rampant Lions Press]: Trypanis, C.A.: THE ELEGIES OF A GLASS ADONIS ... WITH A TYPOGRAPHICAL NOTE BY WILL CARTER. New York: Chilmark Press, [1967]. Quarto. Boards. Fine in slipcase.

First edition. One of 450 numbered copies, designed and printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press on handmade paper in a special cutting of Ward’s Arrighi italic, signed by the author. The Greek poet’s longest and most important poem, beautifully printed. $125.

451. [Rampant Lions Press]: Reed, Henry: LESSONS OF THE WAR. New York: Clover Hill / Chilmark Press, 1970. Small folio. Cloth and boards. Fore-tips faintly bumped, otherwise fine.

First edition in this format, ordinary issue. Two poems are here published in book form for the first time. One of 420 numbered copies (of 530), printed at the Rampant Lions Press. $100.

452. [Rampant Lions Press]: Reed, Henry: LESSONS OF THE WAR. New York: Clover Hill / Chilmark Press, 1970. Small folio. Small private booklabels in corner of front and rear pastedowns and terminal blank (the latter causing some offset on the verso), otherwise about fine.

First edition in this format, signed presentation issue. Two poems (“Movement of Bodies” and “Returning of Issue”) are here published in book form for the first time. One of ten copies numbered in roman for presentation, signed by the author, from a total edition of 530 copies printed at the Rampant Lions Press. An additional one hundred signed copies were for sale. Some of the best known poems of the Second World War. REILLY (WWII), P.273. $225. 453. [Rampant Lions Press]: TRIBUTES TO ALLEN LANE AT A SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING FOR HIS LIFE AND WORK 1902-1970. [Cambridge]: Privately printed, 1970. Decorated wrappers, paper label. First edition. One of five hundred copies printed, including tributes by Harry Paroissien, Richard Hoggart, and Robert Lusty. About fine. $60.

454. [Rampant Lions Press]: [Brooke, Rupert, et al]: Schroder, John: CATALOGUE OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS BY RUPERT BROOKE EDWARD MARSH & CHRISTOPHER HASSALL [with]: COLLECTING RUPERT BROOKE. Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, [1970] & 1992. Two volumes. First volume: Quarto. Gilt cloth, t.e.g. Frontis by Joan Hassall. Plates and facsimiles. Fine. Second volume: Large octavo. Decorated boards. Plates. Fine.

First edition and only edition of each volume. The catalogue is an “o/s” copy from an edition of 450 copies. The second volume, which includes Schroder’s account of the beginnings and growth of his collection and an addenda/errata to the catalogue, is one of 250 copies. $150.

455. [Rampant Lions Press]: Milton, John: AREOPAGITICA A SPEECH OF ... FOR THE LIBERTY OF UNLICENSED PRINTING TO THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND. [Cambridge: Deighton, Bell & Company, 1973]. Large quarto. Cloth, gilt morocco spine label, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Bookplate, corner crease to front endsheets incurred in binding, otherwise near fine.

One of four hundred numbered copies bound in cloth, from a total edition of five hundred copies designed by Sebastian Carter, and printed by him and Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. The text was edited, with introduction and notes, by Isabel Rivers. $150.

456. [Rampant Lions Press]: Sparrow, John [comp]: LAPIDARIA SEPTIMA. [Cambridge: Privately Printed, 1975]. Small quarto. Printed wrapper over stiff wrappers. About fine.

First edition. One of 200 copies printed at the Rampant Lions Press. Title and colophon by Reynolds Stone. One in a sequence of collections of Latin inscriptions assembled by Sparrow, in this case with suggestions by John Gere. $75.

457. [Rampant Lions Press]: Fry, Christopher: ROOT & SKY POETRY FROM THE PLAYS OF.... Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, [1975]. Small folio. Cloth backed marbled paper over boards. Illustrated with twelve original color collagraph-intaglios. Faint mark to one joint, otherwise a fine copy in lightly edgeworn silk covered slipcase.

First edition thus, edited by Charles and Jean Wadsworth, with Charles Wadsworth’s accompanying prints. One of 220 numbered copies printed on Wookey Hole mouldmade paper, with the intaglios printed on Italian handmade paper. Each copy is signed by Fry and Wadsworth. $300.

458. [Rampant Lions Press]: Lubbock, J. G.: FROM GARDEN TO GALAXY. London: Bertram Rota, [1980]. Quarto. Gilt decorated pebbled morocco by George Percival, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Fine in slipcase.

First edition of the sixth in the sequence of Lubbock’s artist’s books, limited to eighty numbered copies, printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, and signed by the author/artist. The illustrative matter consists of six double-page and six single-page handprinted copperplates by Lubbock, with colors applied by intaglio and relief, with additional color highlighting applied by hand. “The motives of the prints range from the artist’s garden to the mountains of central Asia and are accompanied by thoughts on that which lies beneath the appearance of meadow, sea or mountain, such as the processes of growth and their relationships to the universe.” $800.

459. [Rampant Lions Press]: Theroux, Paul: THE SHORTEST DAY OF THE YEAR A CHRISTMAS FANTASY. [Leamington Spa]: Sixth Chamber Press, [1986]. Small quarto. Cloth, paper label. Illustrated with typographic constructions by Sebastian Carter. First edition, ordinary issue. One of 175 numbered copies, signed by the author, from an edition of 201, all printed at the Rampant Lions Press. Fine. $150.

460. [Rampant Lions Press]: Lubbock, J. G.: LOVE FOR THE EARTH. [London]: Bertram Rota, [1990]. Quarto (29 x 24.5 cm). Quarter gilt lettered morocco and gilt decorated silk over boards, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Fine in marbled paper over boards slipcase.

First edition. One of 95 numbered copies, printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, and signed by the author/artist. Illustrated with five double spread and six single page copper plate etchings with aquatint, the colors printed in intaglio and relief, with additional colors applied by wash. Lubbock’s “are extraordinary and visionary books. Nobody else has steered his course in taking on the universe – for that is the theme, nothing less” (Colin Franklin, writing in the journal Fine Print, 1979). $550.

461. [Rampant Lions Press]: Eliot, T.S.: EELDROP AND APPLEPLEX. [Tunbridge Wells]: The Foundling Press, 1992. Printed wrapper over stiff wrappers. First separate edition of this prosework first published in The Little Review (1917). One of 500 numbered copies printed at the Rampant Lions Press. Fine. $75.

462. [Rampant Lions Press]: Carter, Sebastian: A PRINTER’S DOZEN ELEVEN SPREADS FROM UNREALISED BOOKS .... [Cambridge]: Rampant Lions Press, [1993]. Large quarto (32.5 x 25.5 cm). Cloth and marbled paper over boards, gilt spine label. Fine in board slipcase (one panel faintly smudged).

First edition. One of 200 regular copies, from a total edition of 211. Laid in is a copy of the press’s form letter announcing completion, with a ms. note, signed, from Carter, to the original subscriber. A gathering of specimens of the proposed designs for eleven titles that did not come to fruition, accompanied by explanations by Carter, including works by Rimbaud, Malcolm Lowry, Bierce, Aesop, Dante, Shakespeare, Sidney, Carroll, etc. “The potential demonstrated and the fecundity of ideas in this book makes it an important statement of the state of fine printing, and a hopeful indicator of where the private press book may be going” - Alastair Johnson. $250.

463. [Rampant Lions Press]: Celan, Paul, and Michael Hamburger [trans]: WOLFS-BOHNE ... WOLF’S-BEAN. [Birmingham &] New York: Delos Press / William Drenttel, [ca. 1997]. Cloth and marbled boards, printed label. Fine, with prospectus laid in.

First edition, deluxe issue of Hamburger’s translation, printed in parallel with the German text and with a substantive translator’s note. One of fifty numbered copies, specially bound, signed by the translator, from a total edition of 257 copies printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. $150.

464. [Rampant Lions Press]: Celan, Paul, and Michael Hamburger [trans]: WOLFS-BOHNE ... WOLF’S-BEAN. [Birmingham &] New York: Delos Press / William Drenttel, [ca. 1997]. Marbled wrappers, printed label. Fine.

First edition, ordinary issue, of Hamburger’s translation, printed in parallel with the German text and with a substantive translator’s note. One of 200 numbered copies, from a total edition of 257 copies printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. $65.

465. [Reaugh, Patrick]: Ford, Henry Chapman AN ARTIST RECORDS THE CALIFORNIA MISSIONS. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1989. Oblong small quarto. Linen backed decorative cloth boards. Frontis, illustrations and color plates. Edited, with an introduction, by Norman Neuerburg. One of 450 copies printed by Patrick Reaugh. Fine in lightly smudged white shipping wrapper. $75.

466. [Rebecca Press]: Mamet, David: THE NEW HOUSE. [Np]: Rebecca Press, 1989. Miniature (7 x 5.7 cm). Morocco backed wood boards with die-cut window and small replica door handle and key. Illustrations. Fine in oversize custom cloth clamshell case with inset. Bookplate inside folding case, otherwise fine.

First printing in this format. One of 200 ordinary copies from an edition of 250 numbered copies, illustrated with wood engravings by Sarah Chamberlain, signed by Rebecca Birmingham, and printed by Cheryl Parker at the Hummingbird Press. $500.

467. [Red Hen Press]: Jones, Shirley: FOR GLADSTONE. [South Croydon, Surrey: The Red Hen Press, 1988]. Large quarto (34.2 x 26 cm). Folded signatures and loose sheets laid into paper wrappers and clamshell box with paper spine label.

First edition. One of fifty numbered copies, signed by the author/artist/printer. Illustrated with ten original mezzotints, and a mezzotint enhanced with relief etching. Laid in are three greeting cards and an a.l.s. from Jones. $1200.

468. [Red Hen Press]: Jones, Shirley: SOFT GROUND HARD GROUND & A LITTLE LIGHT RELIEF. [Croydon, Surrey: The Red Hen Press, 1989]. Large oblong quarto (29 x 35 cm). Folded signatures and loose sheets laid into clamshell box with paper spine label. Fine.

First edition. One of forty numbered copies, printed on Barcham Green handmade paper, signed by the author/artist/printer and the slipcase maker/binder. Illustrated with twelve original color etchings (soft ground & hard ground). Laid in is an a.l.s. from Jones, along with a receipt for this copy. $2000.

469. [Red Ozier Press]: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence: THE SEA & OURSELVES AT CAPE ANN. Madison: Red Ozier, 1979. Printed wrappers. Illustrated by Janet Morgan. First edition. One of 200 copies, signed by the author. Fine. $75.

470. [Red Ozier Press]: Faulkner, William: FATHER ABRAHAM. [New York]: Red Ozier Press, 1983. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition. Edited by James Meriwether. Illustrated with wood engravings by John DePol. One of 210 press numbered copies. Fine. $500.

471. [Red Ozier Press]: Davenport, Guy: GOLDFINCH THISTLE STAR. [New York]: Red Ozier Press, [1983]. Printed wrapper over stiff wrappers. Illustrations by Lachlan Stewart. First edition, wrapper issue. One of 155 press-numbered copies in wrappers (of 200), all signed by the author. Fine. CRANE A19. $125.

472. [Reed Pale Press]: Lamb, Charles: THE CHILD ANGEL A DREAM. London. 1928. 12mo. Publisher’s full medium-brown niger morocco, stamped in gilt, t.e.g. by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Color initials. A bit of darkening to edges and endsheets, bookplate, otherwise a very good copy.

First printing in this format. One of a total edition of 160 copies printed at the Reed Pale Press, of which forty copies were on handmade paper and twelve on “special antique paper,” of which this copy is likely one of the latter. An inscribed presentation copy from Edmund W. Brooks, the publisher. Brooks farmed out more ambitious subsequent projects to commercial printers, but the implication of the colophon is that this was printed by the proprietor. Ordinary copies were bound in linen and boards. Not in Ridler or Tomkinson. $275. 473. Reed, Talbot Baines: A HISTORY OF THE OLD ENGLISH LETTER FOUNDRIES WITH NOTES HISTORICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ON THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF ENGLISH TYPOGRAPHY.... London: Faber and Faber, [1952]. Quarto. Gilt polished blue buckram. Fold-out frontis, facsimiles and illustrations. First printing of this new edition, revised and enlarged by A.F. Johnson. A few small marks to cloth, else near fine in rubbed, edgeworn and price-clipped dust jacket with a chip in the lower edge of the upper panel. $75.

474. [Rein Company]: [Hill, George A., Jr.]: PITCHERINO A PROVINCIAL VARIATION OF THE MODERN GAME OF PITCH DESCENDED FROM THE MORE ANCIENT GAME OF ALL FOURS. “By an Observer.” [Houston: The Rein Company, November 1930]. Small octavo. Boards, paper label. Some spotting to lower board and small nick at toe of lower joint, a bit of tan offsetting to the endsheets, but a good copy.

First edition. One of 150 copies privately printed for the author. As usual, this copy is inscribed by Hill, but in 1944. Hill was vice president of the Houston Natural Gas Corporation from 1928 to 1932 and served as general counsel and president of the Houston Pipe Line Company and of the Houston Oil Company. Other than being a skilled player of Pitcherino, he was a motivating force behind the establishment of several museums and a medical center or two in Texas. $75.

475. Ridler, William: BRITISH MODERN PRESS BOOKS A DESCRIPTIVE CHECKLIST OF UNRECORDED ITEMS. [London]: Covent Garden Press Ltd., 1971. Quarto. Cloth. First edition, trade issue, of this essential work, though a revised edition of 1975 expanded the coverage somewhat. Foretips rubbed, but a very good copy. $75.

476. [Ritchie, Ward]: Barr, Rev. William P.: THE PAGEANT OF MAN’S REDEMPTION AN INTERPRETATION OF THE CHOPINEAUX TAPESTRY. Los Angeles: [Privately Printed for Mrs. Edward Laurence Doheny], 1948. Cloth, paper label. Color frontispiece. Printed in red and black. Two bookplates, very slight tanning, but a very good or better copy.

First edition. Copy #3 of one hundred numbered copies printed by Anderson & Ritchie. This copy was presented to the James S. Copley Library by the Curator of the Doheny Collection, and a pencil note in an unknown hand asserts this was “Mrs. Doheny’s Personal Copy.” A trade edition in wrappers appeared the following year. $75.

Publisher’s File Copy

477. [Riverside Press]: Hawthorne, Nathaniel: OUR OLD HOME ... ANNOTATED WITH PASSAGES FROM THE AUTHOR’S NOTEBOOK, AND ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAVURES. Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press [for Houghton Mifflin & Co], 1891. Two volumes. vii,279;[4],[281]-594pp. Publisher’s gilt decorated vellum, t.e.g. Illustrated with photogravure frontispieces and plates (printed by Elson & Co, mainly from photographs). Vellum a bit rubbed and handsoiled, some smudging to second title-page and facing tissue guard, toes of spines a bit shelfworn, otherwise a very good set.

First printing in this format, limited issue. One of 250 numbered sets, specially printed and bound. This set, however, is not numbered, but is rather the publisher’s file set, denoted: “Publisher’s Copy. Not to Be Sold” in manuscript in place of the number in each volume. CLARK A24.7. $350.

478. [Riverside Press]: White, Stewart Edward: THE FOREST. New York: The Outlook Company, 1903. Large octavo. Green cloth, paper spine label, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Frontis and plates. A bit of rubbing to cloth, label tanned, some tanning to some of the extended fore-edges, but a very good copy, largely unopened.

First edition, limited issue. Illustrated with plates and decorations by Thomas Fogarty. Copy #49 of eighty numbered copies, specially printed on untrimmed handmade paper at the Riverside Press and specially bound, and signed by the author. The prolific novelist and naturalist’s fifth book, in somewhat uncommon format. $300. 479. [Rodker Press]: Eliot, T.S.: ARA VUS PREC. London: The Ovid Press, [1920]. Quarto. Quarter yellow-tan cloth and black cloth over boards, paper spine label. Label darkened, with diagonal chip at one corner affecting the horizontal of the terminal ‘T’, coated black endsheets very faintly dusty, soft creases to six page corners, minor rubbing at bottom edge, but a very good copy, in half morocco slipcase.

First edition, second state of the binding for the ordinary issue, in black cloth rather than black boards. From an edition specified as consisting of a total of 264 copies, this is an unnumbered copy. This copy, like six others examined by Cloud, exhibits the reversal of signature ‘C’ with the consequent disruption of pagination, and is printed on a slightly lighter weight Whatman paper, with edges trimmed. Ostensibly, there were to be ten unnumbered copies for review, but “the frequency with which unnumbered copies appear would indicate that a good many more than the unscheduled ten were so issued” - Gallup. See Gerald Cloud’s informed commentary on the internal and binding variants of this, the first book publication of the Rodker Press. GALLUP A4a. Cloud, JOHN RODKER’S OVID PRESS A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY, A5. $3750.

480. [Rogers, Bruce]: Bell, Lilian: A LITTLE SISTER TO THE WILDERNESS. Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1895. Small octavo. Elaborately gilt decorated cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Narrow splits at tips of lower joint, otherwise a very good, bright copy.

First edition, first “issue,” without the colophon, and without additional titles beneath the author’s name on the title-page. One of two binding designs by Bruce Rogers for Stone & Kimball. KRAMER 42. WRIGHT III:448. $75.

481. [Rogers, Bruce]: Aldrich, Thomas B.: FRIAR JEROME’S BEAUTIFUL BOOK A.D. 1200. [Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1896]. Narrow octavo. Full publisher’s medium brown calf, stamped pictorially in darker brown, ribbon ties. Printed in black and red. Endsheets darkened, slight cracking between two gatherings, otherwise an unusually nice copy, in an imperfect pictorial dust jacket missing much of the spine, part of the blank lower panel, and the upper fore-most corner of the upper panel.

First trade edition in this format, featuring Illustrations and decorations by W.D. Hadaway. There were also 275 copies on large paper. A popular example of certain tendencies in 1890s American book arts. This work has been tentatively recognized as one of the first books designed by Bruce Rogers after his arrival at the Riverside Press. FINLAY 31. $150.

482. [Rogers, Bruce]: Quarles, Francis: SIONS SONETS SUNG BY SOLOMON THE KING AND PARAPHRASED BY.... Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1905. Small octavo. Publisher’s red paper boards, spine lettered in gilt. One of 430 numbered copies, printed after a design by Rogers. Spine sunned and a bit rubbed at extremities, otherwise a very good copy in slipcase (top panel broken). ROGERS 133. $85.

483. [Rogers, Bruce]: Murdock, Harold [ed]: 1872 LETTERS WRITTEN BY A GENTLEMAN IN BOSTON TO HIS FRIEND IN PARIS DESCRIBING THE GREAT FIRE WITH INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS AND NOTES BY .... Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1909. Large octavo. Cloth, paper spine label, untrimmed. Plates, illustrations and photographs. Bookplate, label a bit tanned, a couple small spots on upper board, otherwise very good, without slipcase. Spare label tipped in.

First edition. One of 545 numbered copies printed at the Riverside Press, after a design by Bruce Rogers. A slightly frayed example of the prospectus is laid in. WARDE 97. $125. 484. [Rogers, Bruce]: Praed, Winthrop Mackworth: POEMS. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1909. 12mo. Quarter vellum and boards, t.e.g., others rough-trimmed. Portrait. One of 440 numbered copies printed at the Riverside Press after a design by Bruce Rogers. Edited with an Introduction by Ferris Greenslet. About fine, without slipcase. $95.

485. [Rogers, Bruce]: Wharton, Edith: ETHAN FROME. New York: Scribner, 1922. Large octavo. Cloth and boards. Frontis. One of 2000 copies printed after a design by Bruce Rogers. With a new introduction to this edition by the author. A very good copy in worn dust jacket with split up one joint. Lacking the slipcase. GARRISON A19.3.a. $175.

486. [Rogers, Bruce]: Benét, Stephen Vincent: THE BALLAD OF WILLIAM SYCAMORE 1790-1880. New York, New Haven & Princeton: E. Byrne Hackett / The Brick Row Bookshop, [1923]. Boards, paper label. Engraved bookplate of Oscar Aurelius Morgner offset a bit to free endsheet, faint blindstamp of Monroe Wheeler in lower margin of title leaf; a fine copy with excellent dual provenance.

First edition. One of 400 (or 500) copies printed by Rudge after a design by Bruce Rogers. Warde reports the edition consisted of 400 copies; Johnson states 500. Morgner’s distinguished collection of fine printing was sold at auction in 1925. WARDE 174. $75.

487. [Rogers, Bruce]: Lamb, Charles: DREAM-CHILDREN A REVERIE. New York: [Privately printed for Frank Altschul], 1923. Sewn printed wrappers. Illustrations by F.W. Ivins. First edition thus. One of five hundred copies printed by Bruce Rogers. A fine copy. ROGERS 326. $60.

488. [Rogers, Bruce]: Drinkwater, John: PERSEPHONE. [New York: William E. Rudge, 1926]. Quarto. Cloth. Opening decoration and initials in gold. Rear endsheets lightly foxed, otherwise a very good or better copy.

First edition in this format. One of 550 copies, printed in Arrighi on handmade paper, after a design by Bruce Rogers. Although not called for, this copy is signed by Rogers on the colophon. $150.

489. [Rogers, Bruce]: Tinker, Chauncey B.: THE WEDGWOOD MEDALLION OF SAMUEL JOHNSON A STUDY IN ICONOGRAPHY. Cambridge: Press, 1926. Quarto. Cloth and boards. Portraits. First edition. One of 385 copies printed on blue paper under the direction of Bruce Rogers. Usual slight offset to endsheets, minute short crack to rear inner hinge, else about fine in lightly edgeworn plain wrapper. $150.

490. [Rogers, Bruce]: Rollins, Carl Purington: B R AMERICA’S TYPOGRAPHIC PLAYBOY. New York: The Georgian Press, 1927. Octavo. Pictorial boards, paper wraparound label. Illustrated. First edition. One of five hundred numbered copies. One of the author’s own copies, with his small bookplate on the front pastedown. Fine in lightly chipped glassine wrapper. $150.

491. [Rogers, Bruce]: Tory, Geoffrey: CHAMP FLEURY ... TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH AND ANNOTATED BY GEORGE B. IVES. New York: The Grolier Club, 1927. Small folio. Quarter vellum and pastepaper over boards. Natural toning to vellum, else a fine copy. The dust jacket is missing the lower third of the spine, and the slipcase is cracked and at some point was backed with cloth, with gilt leather label.

One of 390 copies on antique wove paper, out of a total edition of 397 copies printed by Rudge after a design by Bruce Rogers in his Centaur type. Illustrated with line illustrations redrawn by Rogers. A Rogers highpoint, and one of the most esteemed of the Club’s publications. ASAF 90. HAAS 143. $950. 492. [Rogers, Bruce]: Stevenson, Robert Louis: MONMOUTH A TRAGEDY. New York: William E. Rudge, 1928. Cloth and marbled paper over boards. Introduction and notes by Charles Vale. First edition. Copy #69 of two hundred and fifty numbered copies, printed after a design by Bruce Rogers. Gilt morocco bookplate on pastedown, else a near fine, unopened copy, in lightly chipped glassine wrapper. $150.

493. [Rogers, Bruce]: Wolfe, Humbert: THE SILVER CAT AND OTHER POEMS. [New York: Bowling Green Press, 1928]. Boards. First edition. One of 780 copies, designed by Bruce Rogers. Small gilt morocco bookplate, else about fine in unprinted dust jacket. This copy is specially signed by Rogers on the colophon. $125.

494. [Rogers, Bruce]: More, Sir Thomas: UTOPIA ... DONE INTO ENGLISH BY RALPH ROBYNSON. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Small quarto. Quarter vellum and pastepaper boards, t.e.g. Illustrations. Faint offset shadow at top of two facing pages toward gutter (from a now absent ?), else fine, without slipcase.

One of 1500 numbered copies, designed by Bruce Rogers, printed by Rudge, and signed by Bruce Rogers. With an Introduction by H.G. Wells. $185.

495. [Rogers, Bruce]: [B.R. DESIGNS A VOLUME FOR THE ROWFANT CLUB . 1925 (wrapper title)] ... PROGRESSIVE LAYOUTS FOR ON DRY-COW FISHING AS DESIGNED BY BRUCE ROGERS. [New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1938]. Decorated printed wrappers, printed pictorial label. Illustrations and facsimiles. Glue used to affix cover label darkened, and label loose, otherwise near fine.

First separate issue of this analysis of Rogers’s design for the Kipling scarcity. Copies without the wrappers were also bound up with the AIGA/Grolier Rogers catalogue. LAWSON & PANKOW 83. $60.

496. [Rogers, Bruce]: Conrad, Joseph: THE TREMOLINO. New York: Philip C. Duschnes, 1942. Gilt blue boards, t.e.g. Endsheets a bit tanned at gutters, otherwise about fine in very good slipcase with a bit of wear at tips.

First edition in this format of an excerpt from Mirror of The Sea. Wood engravings by Edw. A. Wilson. One of 1000 copies designed by Bruce Rogers and signed by Wilson. $60.

497. Rogers, Bruce: REPORT ON THE TYPOGRAPHY OF THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS PREPARED IN 1917 AT THE REQUEST OF THE SYNDICS.... Cambridge: Printed for His Friends by the University Printer, Christmas 1950. Quarto. Cloth and boards. Title printed in black & red. One of five hundred copies printed. Boards rather marked and soiled, endsheets spotted. Textually, a very good copy of this important book, from the library of a working printer rather than a collector, it would appear. $100.

498. [Rogers, Bruce]: Swift, Jonathan: A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG MADE BY LEMUEL GULLIVER IN THE YEAR MDCCII [with:] A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT BY DR. LEMUEL GULLIVER MDCIC. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1950. Two volumes. Cloth and printed boards. First volume 47.5 x 34 cm; second volume 9.4 x 6.2 cm. A bit of sunning to spines, otherwise near fine in good, modestly bumped and scuffed dual compartment slipcase with ribbon ties that exhibits a pale red discoloration at lower rear corner of one side panel.

One of fifteen hundred numbered sets, printed by the Aldus Printers after a design by Bruce Rogers, who initialed both volumes. One of the most whimsical of Rogers’s design commissions, each volume scaled to correspond to the stature of the inhabitants of Swift’s imaginary lands. $450.

499. [Rogers, Bruce]: Milton, John: L’ALLEGRO [with:] IL PENSEROSO. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Small quarto. Gilt cloth. Illustrated with reproductions of paintings by William Blake. Fine in slipcase.

The two works, bound dos-a-dos, and printed after a design by Bruce Rogers. With prefatory notes by C.B. Tinker and W.P. Trent. From an edition of 1780 copies, this is one of 280 reserved for Fellows of the Morgan Library. $150.

500. [Rogers, Bruce]: Beerbohm, Max: THE HAPPY HYPOCRITE A FAIRY TALE FOR TIRED MEN. New Fairfield: Bruce Rogers / October House, 1955. Cloth and decorated boards, t.e.g.. One of five hundred copies for sale by the Chiswick Book Shop, from a total edition of six hundred copies designed by Bruce Rogers. A very near fine copy, with the attractive small bookplate of Monroe Wheeler. A decent association. $85.

501. Rogers, Bruce: SELECTED LETTERS 1915 - 1918. [Montclair, NJ]: Caliban Press, 1988. Large octavo. Calf-backed printed limp boards. Facsimile. Errata slip. Tiny bump at lower edge of rear board, otherwise fine in custom morocco backed cloth clamshell box.

First edition. The texts of fifteen letters from Rogers to H.W. Kent, Emery Walker, Sydney Cockerell and others, and one from Walter Gilliss, edited by Patrick McGuire. One of 190 numbered copies printed by Mark McMurray in Goudy’s Garamond types on Frankfurt Cream paper. $185.

502. [Rogers, Bruce]: Mansbridge, Georgia: BRUCE ROGERS: AMERICAN TYPOGRAPHER. New York: The Typophiles, 1997. Gilt cloth. Frontis. First edition, ordinary issue. One of five hundred copies printed at the Stinehour Press as the Typophiles Chapbook (New Series) No. 1. Near fine. $65.

503. [Rogers, Bruce]: Kelly, Jerry: THE FIRST FLOWERING BRUCE ROGERS AT THE RIVERSIDE PRESS 1896 - 1912 WITH A CHECKLIST OF THE RIVERSIDE PRESS EDITIONS. Boston: Thomas G. Boss, 2008. Cloth and gilt decorated boards. Decorated title-page. Facsimiles. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued.

First edition. One of five hundred copies, printed after a design by the author, of which this is one of 323 copies for public distribution. $75.

504. [Rogers, Bruce, and others]: Bennett, Paul A., et al [eds]: LIBER LIBRORUM. [Stockholm]. 1955. Folio. Octavo explanatory pamphlet, accompanied by 43 printed specimens in various formats. The whole enclosed in linen and decorated boards folder. Small ink blot to lower corner of folder, a few specimens show light use from display, but very good or better.

One of 1500 sets. In celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Gutenberg Bible, an array of the world’s best living typographers printed one or more separate specimens illustrative of their own solutions to the issues presented by printing the Bible. Among the contributors are Bruce Rogers, Hermann Zapf, Joseph Blumenthal, Jan Tschichold, Jack Stauffacher, Jan van Krimpen, Hans Schmoller, Grant Dahlstrom, et al. Although Maximilien Vox (a member of the editorial board) is included in the list of contributors, he missed the deadline for inclusion. Also laid in is a small lot of postcard-size portraits of the printers, and a presentation sheet for this set. $200.

505. [Rollins, Carl P.]: [Printed Christmas Broadside and Portrait Photograph]. [New Haven & New York]. [1923 and ca. 1952]. Printed broadside (120 x 225 mm) with pictorial vignette, accompanied by an original 8 x 10” matte portrait photograph. About fine.

The broadside is a Christmas Greeting from the Rollins family, printing the poem “Christmas in Provence,” and the photograph, with credit stamp and caption on verso, is of Rollins on the occasion of a Typophiles luncheon. The photographer’s negative number suggests it dates from 1952, and the broadside was likely printed by Rollins, or under his supervision. $45. 506. [Rollins, Carl P. (printer)]: SNOWBOUND A WINTER IDYLL. By John Greenleaf Whittier. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1930. Narrow quarto. Moiré cloth and decorated boards. Foreword by George S. Bryan. Small finger-tip size smudge in blank portion of title, else near fine, in cracked slipcase.

One of 1500 numbered copies designed and printed by Rollins at the Yale University Press, and signed by him. The fourth LEC imprint. $85.

Printer’s Copy

507. [Rollins, Carl P.]: Rose, R. Seldon: WINE MAKING FOR THE AMATEUR. New Haven: Printed for Members of the Bacchus Club, 1930. Small quarto. Linen backed pastepaper boards, paper spine label. Wood engravings by F.H. Fischer after drawings by W.A. Dwiggins. Label a bit darkened, forecorners worn, offset to front endsheets (see below), lower board sunned, else a very good copy.

First edition. One of 515 numbered copies designed and printed by Carl P. Rollins at the Sign of the Chorobates. This copy is not numbered, but bears Rollins’s small bookplate (discolored from the glue he used, as often) on the pastedown. Laid in is a copy of the prospectus for membership and the book, along with a long review (offset to endsheets) from the New Haven paper, captioned in Rollins’s hand. Among the AIGA Fifty Books for its year. GABLER G36806. AGNER 30.10. WALKER 1021. $250.

508. Rollins, Carl P.: THIS HOUSE OF HAVOC.... New York: AIGA, 1941. Sewn printed wrappers, with pictorial vignette. Light use at corners, else near fine.

First edition. Signed by the author. Rollins’s speech on the occasion of his receipt of the AIGA Medal. Printed at the Press of the Woolly Whale. CAREY 107. WALKER 1318. $50.

509. Rollins, Carl P.: OFF THE DEAD BANK ADDRESSES REVIEW AND VERSES. New York: The Typophiles, 1949. Small octavo. Cloth-backed boards. First edition. One of 675 copies. Spine a bit faded, but a very good copy. $35.

510. [Rollins, Carl P.]: [Doolittle, Laura Seymor]: REFLECTIONS AND MEMORIES OF L.S.D. [New Haven]: Privately Printed, 1949. Sq. octavo. Gilt red cloth. Cloth a bit darkened and handsoiled, small ink blot on colophon, else very good.

First edition. One of sixty copies printed under the direction of Carl P. Rollins at the Yale University Press. Rollins’s own copy, with his small bookplate on the front pastedown. Not in Walker. $50.

511. [Rollins, Carl P.]: A PRINTER’S SOLUTIONS OF SOME PRINTERS’ PROBLEMS [wrapper title]. [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955]. Printed wrappers somewhat amateurishly bound into cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Portrait. Facsimiles. Very good.

First edition. One of five hundred copies. The catalogue of an exhibition of fifty-five books designed by Rollins at Yale, issued in honor of his 75th birthday. This was Rollins’s own copy, bound for (by?) him, with two examples of his small bookplate (one slightly trimmed in the binding process) and pencil shelf-number. WALKER 1192. $85.

Binder’s Dummy and Unbound Sheets

512. [Rollins, Carl P.]: Crane, Walter: MR. MICHAEL MOUSE UNFOLDS HIS TALE ... REPRODUCED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT IN THE COLLECTION OF MRS. CATHARINE T. PATTERSON. [New Haven: Yale University Library, 1956]. A significant lot of production material, as below. Variously good to fine.

The edition consisted of three hundred copies reproduced in facsimile of the original illustrated manuscript, printed in collotype under the direction of Harold Hugo and Carl P. Rollins, with the plates colored via stencil by Maria Bittner. Present here is a binder’s dummy (in full cloth), made up of both colored and uncolored sheets, with annotations on the front endsheet detailing the specifications for the binding materials actually used for the published book. Laid in are six leaves of the illustrations in colored state and four in blue-line proofs, as well as the letterpress colophon (all trimmed slightly smaller than the final textblock). Also present are unbound, untrimmed sheets, two images per sheet (recto and verso) extending to the format markings, including duplicates, as follow: 48 untrimmed sheets of the images in colored state; 33 sheets (numbered in pencil 2 through 35) in mixed colored and uncolored states, trimmed to various sizes; and finally, five sheets bearing the printed colophon on one side and a colored illustration on the verso. There are some minor variations in coloring, suggesting these may have been either test sheets, or possibly rejected sheets. $750.

513. [Rollins, Carl P. (designer)]: Du Deffand, Marie Anne: LETTERS TO AND FROM MADAME DU DEFFAND AND JULIE DE LESPINASSE. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1938. Cloth and boards. Spine and boards lightly sunned, top edge a bit dust soiled, otherwise very good. With the pencil ownership signature of Carl P. Rollins, the book’s designer.

Edited by W.H. Smith. First edition. One of 500 copies issued as Miscellaneous Antiquities XIV under the general editorship of Wilmarth Lewis. Laid in is an example of the presentation slip, bearing Rollins’s small bookplate on its blank verso. WALKER (ROLLINS) 841. $125.

514. [Rollins Printing Office at Yale]: Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert; Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. [comps]: DRAWINGS FROM THE CLARK ART INSTITUTE A CATALOGUE RAISONNE OF THE ROBERT STERLING CLARK COLLECTION OF EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN DRAWINGS, SIXTEENTH THROUGH NINETEENTH CENTURIES, AT THE STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE, WILLIAMSTOWN. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Two volumes. Text: 164pp., plus b&w text illustrations; Plates: 227 plates, some in color. Folio. Beige linen and paper over boards, gilt lettering pieces. Frontispieces and illustrations. Soft creases to free endsheets, otherwise a near fine set in worn glassine wrappers and lightly rubbed slipcase.

First edition. Laid in is an a.n.s. from the director of the press, forwarding this copy as a gift, and describing it as “one of the most triumphant works yet to come from the CPR PO,” [i.e. the Carl P. Rollins Printing Office at Yale]. $175.

Deluxe Issue

515. [Romulus Editions]: Walker, David, and Thomas Cornell [illustrator]: VOICEPRINTS. [Portland, ME]: Romulus Editions, 1989. Thin quarto. Quarter morocco and decorated paper over boards. Illustrated with five full-page color etchings. Fine. Enclosed, with separate suite in cloth folder, within a folding cloth clamshell box. Bookplate on pastedown of box.

First edition, the “Livres Deluxe” issue. One of 24 lettered copies, printed on Barcham Green handmade paper in Bembo type by George Benington, in addition to 75 ordinary copies. Accompanied by a separate suite of the etchings by Thomas Cornell, each numbered and signed by the artist in the margin. The etchings were printed by James Cambronne. A suite of poems on themes suggested by Kafka, Charles Ives, Henry James, Bruegel, Mandelstam and others. The decorative boards exhibit a print based on an oscilloscope trace generated from the poet reading the title. $3500.

516. Rosner, Charles: PRINTER’S PROGRESS ... A COMPARATIVE SURVEY OF THE CRAFT OF PRINTING 1851-1951. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951. Large quarto. Gilt cloth. Profusely illustrated, including color plates, lithographs, tipped-in leaflets, etc. First edition, American issue, printed in Britain. Spine a bit sunned, otherwise near fine in slipcase. $85.

517. [Rowfant Club]: Locker, Frederick: PATCHWORK SECOND SERIES. Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1927. Gilt-stamped, parchment-backed boards. t.e.g., others untrimmed. Note by Augustine Birrell, and Preface by P.D. Sherman. First edition. One of two hundred numbered copies on English Tovil handmade paper. A fine copy in cloth dust jacket and slipcase. $65.

518. [Roycroft Catalogue]: THE ROYCROFT BOOKS A CATALOG AND SOME REMARKS WITHOUT PREJUDICE CONCERNING THE PUBLICATIONS ISSUED FROM THE SHOP THIS YEAR ... East Aurora. NY: [The Roycrofters], 1902. [4],29,[4]pp. Printed sewn paper wrappers. Tipped-in halftones, some blue tinted. Light offsetting from tipped-in photos, creased tear to lower edge of first blank page, otherwise a very good or better copy.

A catalogue of publications for sale from the reformist community of craft workers founded by Elbert Hubbard. Includes letter extracts and advertisements, and the essay “A Social and Industrial Experiment’’ by Elbert Hubbard, which describes the Roycroft Shop. $60.

519. [Roycroft Imprint]: De Quincey, Thomas: CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM-EATER. [East Aurora: Roycrofters, 1898]. Quarter publisher’s suede and gilt lettered boards, spine stamped in gilt (the ‘The Opium Eater’ variant). Decorative initials. Copy #10 of 925 numbered copies, “signed” on behalf of Elbert Hubbard. Modest rubbing at extremities, but a very good copy. McKENNA 20. $100.

520. [Roycroft Imprint]: Lang, Andrew [trans]: AUCASSIN & NICOLETE BEING A LOVE STORY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ANCIENT FRENCH. East Aurora: Roycrofters, 1899. Limp suede, decorated in blind, lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed. One of an unspecified number of copies printed on handmade paper, with the initials illuminated in color. A bit of sunning to the suede, with a bit of slight dust marking along the overlap top edge of the lower wrapper, but a very good, well-kept copy, and thus modestly uncommon. $75.

521. [Rudge, William E.]: Boker, George Henry: THE LEGEND OF THE HOUNDS. New York: William E. Rudge, 1929. Large octavo. Gilt cloth, t.e.g. Illustrations by Gordon Ross. Introduction by Owen Culbertson. About fine.

First edition thus. One of two hundred deluxe copies, with the illustrations handcolored, and with the frontis signed by the artist, from a total edition of one thousand copies. $150.

522. Rudge, William E., et al [eds]: PRINT A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE GRAPHIC ARTS. New Haven: W. E. Rudge, June 1940 through March 1941 I:1-4. Four issues. Quarto. Printed and pictorial wrappers. Profusely illustrated, photographs, plates, tip-ins, etc. Enclosed in cloth backed marbled board folder, with printed label and string ties. Ownership stamp on each upper wrapper (last name only), a couple pencil notes on one lower wrapper, else very good.

Edited by William E. Rudge, C.P. Rollins, et al. An important journal devoted to graphic arts and the art of the book, including in these early issues tipped in specimens, fine color work, occasional original prints, and the like. One number has the bookplate of Taylor & Taylor. $100.

523. Ruzicka, Rudolph: STUDIES IN TYPE DESIGN ALPHABETS WITH RANDOM QUOTATIONS. Hanover, NH: Friends of the Dartmouth Library, [1968]. Folio. Ten broadsides, each in printed folder, with cover text leaflet. Enclosed in cloth chemise and slipcase. Fine.

Renderings of quotations from Frost, Valery, Melville, Thoreau, Whitman, et al, reproduced by Meriden Gravure. $65. 524. [Rydal Press]: Long, Haniel: ATLANTIDES ... POEMS. Santa Fe: Writers’ Editions, [1933]. Cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies, printed at the Rydal Press, and signed by the author. Spine slightly sunned, a bit of wear at head and toe of spine, else a nice copy, without dust jacket. $75.

525. [Rydal Press]: Church, Peggy Pond: FORETASTE. Santa Fe: Writers’ Editions, [1933]. Cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies, printed at the Rydal Press, and signed by the author. Light rubbing at tips, else a nice copy, without dust jacket. $75.

526. [Rydal Press]: [Henderson], Alice Corbin: THE SUN TURNS WEST. Santa Fe: Writers’ Editions, [1933]. Yellow cloth, stamped in red. Light rubbing, otherwise a very good copy in lightly frayed, moderately darkened white dust jacket with internally mended chip at crown of spine.

First edition. One of five hundred numbered copies, printed at the Rydal Press, and signed by the poet. This copy additionally bears her presentation inscription (utilizing initials) to Glenway Wescott. Wescott and Monroe Wheeler’s blindstamp appears in the corner of the title leaf. A good association. $150.

527. [Rydal Press]: [Henderson], Alice Corbin: THE SUN TURNS WEST. Santa Fe: Writers’ Editions, [1933]. Yellow cloth, stamped in red. First edition. One of five hundred numbered copies, printed at the Rydal Press, and signed by the poet. Bookplate, modest hand-smudging to cloth, otherwise a very good copy, without dust jacket. $75.

529. [Rydal Press]: Rhodes, Eugene Manlove: PENALOSA. Santa Fe: Writers’ Editions, [1934]. Small octavo. Stiff printed wrappers. Light foxing to prelims, upper wrapper a bit sunned at edges, but a very good copy.

First separate printing of this chapter from West is West, printed at the Rydal Press in an edition of five hundred numbered copies, signed by the author. $200.

Excellent Association Copy

530. [Rydal Press]: Rhodes, Eugene Manlove: PENALOSA. Santa Fe: Writers’ Editions, [1934]. Small octavo. Stiff printed wrappers. Wrapper extremities sunned and lightly worn, slight ripple (but no discoloration) along lower edge of text block, but very good.

First separate printing of this chapter from West is West, printed at the Rydal Press in an edition of five hundred numbered copies, signed by the author. This is an excellent Southwestern association copy, inscribed by the author: “For Mary Austin With sincere admiration From Gene Rhodes ....” Austin was the author of Land of Little Rain, Taos Pueblo, and many other titles associated with the American Southwest. $650.

531. [Rydal Press]: Long, Haniel: PITTSBURGH MEMORANDA. Santa Fe: Writers’ Editions, [1935]. Cloth. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket.

First edition. One of 1000 numbered copies, signed by the author, printed at the Rydal Press. With the bookplate of Paul Horgan. A good association copy of this important collection. $100.

532. [Rydal Press]: Long, Haniel: PITTSBURGH MEMORANDA. Santa Fe: Writers’ Editions, [1935]. Stiff printed wrappers. First edition, special advance issue for review. One of 90 copies bound thus, in addition to 1000 numbered copies signed by the author, all printed at the Rydal Press. Light use at overlap edges, else a nice copy of this uncommon issue. $65.

Inscribed to the Author

533. [Rydal Press]: Horgan, Paul: FROM THE ROYAL CITY OF THE HOLY FAITH OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI.... Santa Fe: Printed by the Rydal Press for Villagra Bookshop, 1936. Large octavo. Decorated wrappers. One corner creased, a trifle pulled at staples, otherwise an attractive copy of this surprisingly uncommon book.

First separate, and first illustrated edition, wrapper issue. The illustrations are by the author. This special edition was underwritten by Clifford McCarthy, and this copy bears McCarthy’s presentation inscription to Paul Horgan at the time of publication, as well as the author’s bookplate, and two-line annotations on the verso of the title pertaining to the edition. $350.

534. [Rydal Press]: Ratchford, Fannie E. [ed]: THE STORY OF CHAMP D’ASILE AS TOLD BY TWO OF THE COLONISTS.... Dallas: The Book Club of Texas, [1937]. Green cloth. Frontis. Illus. Fine in faintly rubbed slipcase.

First edition thus. One of 300 copies printed by the Rydal Press. Translated from the French by Donald Joseph. With the bookplate of Paul Horgan. A very good association copy of the most important historical work published by the Book Club of Texas, and typographically, far and away the most successful of the original series. $350.

535. [Rydal Press]: Boyle, Kay: A GLAD DAY. Norfolk: New Directions, [1938]. Cloth. Minor darkening at edges of cloth, otherwise fine in good, moderately chipped dust jacket with mends on verso.

First edition. One of 500 copies printed at the Rydal Press. Accompanied by a 6pp. clean typescript of one of the constituent poems, “A Comeallye for Robert Carlton Brown,” signed by Boyle at the conclusion. $150.

536. [Rydal Press]: Boyle, Kay: A GLAD DAY. Norfolk: New Directions, [1938]. Cloth. Top edge dusty, else a nice copy in very good dust jacket (a few small chips and tears).

First edition. One of 500 copies only, printed at the Rydal Press. With the 1938 ownership inscription of artist Alfonso Ossorio, who notes it as a presentation copy from the publisher. Ossorio contributed dust jacket and cover art to a number of the early New Directions publications. $175.

Deluxe Issue

537. [Rydal Press]: Horgan, Paul: THE HABIT OF EMPIRE. Santa Fe: The Rydal Press, [Christmas 1938]. Small quarto. Illustrations after drawings by Peter Hurd. Handbound by Hazel Dreis in three quarter greenish-blue morocco, with overlaid panels of tan cloth with a screen printed adaptation of Paul’s Thunderbird device, gilt brown morocco spine labels. Modest rubbing at edges, usual offset from morocco turn-ins to endsheets, cloth panels a bit dust soiled and slightly discolored, but a good copy.

First edition, first state of the copyright page, deluxe issue, limited to only thirty numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by Horgan and Hurd. These thirty copies were intended for Christmas presentation by Esther and Chester Arthur, but not all copies were bound. This is copy #1. The standard issue copies bear copyright dates of both 1938 and 1939 on the verso of the title -- this deluxe issue bears the date 1938 only. $1750.

538. [Rydal Press]: Long, Haniel: WALT WHITMAN AND THE SPRINGS OF COURAGE. Santa Fe: Writers’ Editions, [1938]. Gilt cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author in Santa Fe in 1940. Printed at the Rydal Press. Small smudge on fore-edge, otherwise fine, in defective dust jacket. $100.

539. [Rydal Press]: Baumann, Gustave: FRIJOLES CANYON PICTOGRAPHS RECORDED IN WOODCUTS AND HAND PRINTED BY.... Santa Fe: Writers’ Editions, Inc., [1939]. Small quarto. Bound by Hazel Dreis in decorated cloth over boards, printed paper label. Woodcut decorated endsheets. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts, including several full-page and one four-panel folding plate. Fine.

First edition. One of 480 copies. One of the major achievements of the Rydal Press, featuring Baumann’s woodcuts printed in a variety of earth-tones, with the four-panel folding plate signed by him in the margin. Alfred V. Kidder contributes a Foreword. $3000.

540. [Rydal Press]: Horgan, Paul: THE HABIT OF EMPIRE. Santa Fe: The Rydal Press, [1939]. Gray cloth, stamped in black and green. Illustrated with reproductions of lithographs by Peter Hurd. First edition, ordinary issue. An inscribed presentation copy from Horgan, dated the year following publication, in Roswell. Spine and endsheet gutters a shade tanned, else a nice copy in moderately tanned and nicked dust jacket, with a partial split along one fold. $250.

The Dedication Copy

541. [Rydal Press]: Horgan, Paul: THE HABIT OF EMPIRE. Santa Fe: The Rydal Press, [1939]. Gray cloth, stamped in black and green. Illustrated with reproductions of lithographs by Peter Hurd. Short surface crack in upper joint near crown, some tanning and slight rippling of the pastedowns, else a near fine copy, in very good, slightly tanned dust jacket.

First edition, ordinary issue. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page (and incorporating the printed dedication): “In friendship To Vernon Knapp from Paul Horgan, the first copy of the edition which is all his, in the name of a long and good time. Roswell 1939.” The recipient joined the faculty of the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell in 1928 as a member of the English faculty, and in time excelled as well in geology, serving as department head. He retired as a Lt Colonel and was inducted into ’s Hall of Fame in 1958. Horgan, himself a graduate of the Institute, was later on staff there, and the Institute’s Library was named for him. $1250.

Triple Presentation, With an Original Ink Drawing

542. [Rydal Press]: Horgan, Paul: THE HABIT OF EMPIRE. Santa Fe: The Rydal Press, [1939]. Gray cloth, stamped in black and green. Illustrated with reproductions of lithographs by Peter Hurd. A few minor spots to cloth, otherwise near fine in slightly tanned dust jacket with a closed tear around the crown of the spine.

First edition, ordinary issue. A fine presentation copy, inscribed by the author (“Inscribed enthusiastically for Connie on behalf of The Bishop with everyone’s Merry Christmas 1939”), the dedicatee (“For Connie with the season’s heartiest greetings as well as with grateful memories Vernon [Knapp] Christmas 1939”), and the illustrator (“For Connie Perry - This glimpse of the country west of the Pecos - from her friend Peter Hurd”). Above his inscription, Hurd has executed in pen and ink a detailed drawing of a Yucca against a New Mexico horizon. $1250.

543. [Rydal Press]: Klah, Hasteen (recorded by Mary C. Wheelwright): NAVAJO CREATION MYTH THE STORY OF THE EMERGENCE. Santa Fe: Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, 1942. Large octavo. Cloth. Portrait. Plates. Thumb-tip size smudge in blank portion of prelim, but a very good copy, in smudged and somewhat soiled white dust jacket with short closed edge tear.

First edition. One of one thousand copies designed and printed by Walter Goodwin and Hazel Dreis at the Rydal Press. The fifteen color plates of sandpaintings were printed by Dunewald Printing Company. As with every copy of this book we have handled, the final signature is secured at the gutter with the same cloth binder’s tape utilized elsewhere in the binding. $225. 544. [Rydal Press]: Keleher, William A.: THE FABULOUS FRONTIER TWELVE NEW MEXICO ITEMS. Santa Fe: The Rydal Press, [1945]. Cloth. Endsheet maps. Photographs. First edition. One of ca. 500 copies. Small bookseller’s label on front pastedown. Lightly rubbed and sunned, else very good, without the dust jacket. $75.

545. [Rydal Press]: Mera, H.P.: THE ALFRED I. BARTON COLLECTION OF SOUTHWESTERN TEXTILES. Santa Fe: San Vicente Foundation Inc., [1949]. Printed wrapper over boards. Photographs. Chipped acetate wrapper affixed to pastedowns with short tape strips, otherwise a very nice copy.

Illustrated with three original color serigraphs by Louie Ewing. Second printing (i.e. first trade printing, after a limited edition of two hundred and fifty copies). An extensively illustrated, annotated catalogue of this important collection. $200.

546. [Rydal Press]: Curtin, L.S.M.: BY THE PROPHET OF THE EARTH. Santa Fe: San Vincente Foundation, Inc., [1949]. 158,[2]pp. plus original color serigraph plate and eight photographs. Large octavo. Decorated printed wrapper over boards. Illustrations. The vulnerable and impractical spine is a bit sunned and rubbed, but a very good or better copy.

First edition. Designed by Merle Armitage and printed at the Rydal Press, with text illustrations by Gerri Chandler. The serigraph was hand-printed by Louie Ewing. Foreword by Odd S. Halseth. A relatively late Rydal imprint, but an early and important production associated with the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe, under the directorship of Willard Hougland. $225.

547. [Saint Dominic’s Press]: [Woellwarth, Mary E.]: SONGS TO OUR LADY OF SILENCE A BOOK OF VERSE. Ditchling, Sussex: S. Dominic’s Press, 1921. Large octavo. Natural linen and grey paper over boards. Bookplate on front pastedown, spine tips a trace frayed, faint press-smudge in one margin, spine label absent, otherwise a very good copy.

First Saint Dominic’s Press printing in this format, with wood-engravings by Desmond Chute. The 1920 printing was in a slightly smaller format, with wood-engravings by Gill. Gill’s title-page device appears again in this edition. GILL 376(n). $250.

548. [Saint Dominic’s Press]: Gill, Eric, and Hilary Pepler: IN PETRA BEING A SEQUEL TO ‘NISI DOMINUS,’ TOGETHER WITH A PREFACE AND NOTES BY.... Ditchling, Sussex: S. Dominic’s Press, 1923. Small octavo. Cloth, paper label. Cloth a bit darkened and foxed, two small initials in upper inner corner of endsheet, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition. Illustrated with six wood-engravings by Gill. This copy is in the variant blue cloth, with printed label, recorded by Gill, et al. GILL, et al, 87. $200.

549. [Saint Dominic’s Press]: Gill, Eric: SCULPTURE AN ESSAY ON STONE-CUTTING, WITH A PREFACE ABOUT GOD. Ditchling, Sussex: Saint Dominic’s Press, [1923]. Pictorial linen. First collective edition of these two essays, with revisions. Printed in Caslon Old Face type on Batchelor handmade paper. Binding slightly bowed and smudged, otherwise a very good copy. GILL 10. $350.

550. [Saint Dominic’s Press]: Pepler, H., and David Jones [illus]: LIBELLUS LAPIDUM ... THE FIRST PART OF A COLLECTION OF VERSES AND WOOD-ENGRAVINGS .... Ditchling: Printed and Published by the Author, 1924. Printed pictorial grey wrappers, with letterpress in red and woodcut in black. Old unfortunate offset from tape used to affix a “protective” wrapper present in the blank corners of the first two and last two leaves (and very faintly in the third), otherwise about fine, unopened.

First edition of this collection of poems, a number of them taking as their subjects such figures as Shaw, Chesterton, Epstein, Inge, Knox, Sadler, G. Murray, et al. Illustrated with 16 wood engravings by David Jones. $200.

551. [Saint Dominic’s Press]: Hinton, Percival: EDEN PHILLPOTTS A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FIRST EDITIONS. Birmingham: Greville Worthington, 1931. Large octavo. Linen and boards. Portrait. Spine a shade darkened, but a very good copy.

First edition. One of 350 numbered copies printed on handmade paper at the St. Dominic’s Press and signed by the subject in the margin of the portrait. $85.

552. [Salter, George (designer)]: Anderson, Lee: PREVAILING WINDS ... A POEM IN FOUR PARTS IN THE SHAPE OF A SYMPHONY. [Np: Privately Printed], 1941. Folio. Cloth and boards. Top edge of upper board very slightly dust marked, otherwise fine in chipped glassine wrapper.

First edition of the poet’s first book, printed in an edition of one hundred and fifty copies, of which this is one of one hundred on mouldmade paper, numbered and signed by the author. Designed by George Salter, and printed by Rudge. Laid in front is the separate, and slightly smaller, eight-page brochure, “About the Poem,” with extravagant illustrations by Arnold Blanch. An uncommon and unusual book. $175.

553. [Samurai Press]: Ficke, Arthur Davison: THE EARTH PASSION, BOUNDARY, & OTHER POEMS. [Cranleigh, Surrey: The Samurai Press, 1908]. Small quarto. Cloth backed printed boards, paper spine label, t.e.g.. Spine very slightly spotted, light rubbing at edges, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition. Although nowhere so indicated, approximately three hundred copies were printed. Because the press could not afford to buy sufficient type to print this work by hand, it was commercially printed. WOOLMER XXII. $75.

554. [Santa Susana Press]: Ritchie, Ward, and Amanda Blanco [photographer]: THE MANY FACES OF JAKE ZEITLIN A PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY .... Northridge, CA: Santa Susana Press, 1978. [2],x,[1],12,[1],[1] leaves, text on rectos only. Quarto (28 x 21.5 cm). Loose sheets, laid into folding cloth portfolio, lettered in gilt. Photographs. Original blockprint by Hans Burkhardt. One margin of blockprint curled (a bit too large for the portfolio), otherwise fine; the tips of the portfolio are rubbed.

First edition of this tribute to antiquarian bookman and scholar, Jake Zeitlin, comprised of an introductory text by Ward Ritchie, a foreword by Norman Tanis, twelve original mounted photographs by Amanda Blanco (each numbered and signed on the mount by her), and the print by Burkhardt (numbered and signed). One of thirty-six numbered copies, signed again on the colophon by the photographer, in addition to an unknown number of artist’s proofs. $1250.

555. [Santa Susana Press]: Bradbury, Ray, and Hans Burkhardt [illustrator]: THE LAST GOOD KISS A POEM .... Northridge: Santa Susana Press, 1984. Small folio (33.5 x 25.5 cm). Loose sheets, laid into plain wrapper. Three plates. Fine in cloth portfolio with printed label (bookplate inside front panel of portfolio).

First edition. Illustrated with three original color linoleum block prints by Hans Burkhardt. One of sixty numbered copies, designed by Howard Williams and printed in Century Type on Arches by Patrick Reagh, signed by the author and the artist. Additionally, each of the three blockprints is numbered and signed in the margin by Burkhardt. $700.

556. [Santa Susana Press]: Wakoski, Diane, and Hans Burkhardt [illustrator]: HUSKS OF WHEAT TWO POEMS .... Northridge: Santa Susana Press, 1987. Quarto (29 x 19 cm). Folded sheets, enclosed in stiff paper sleeve. Illustrated with three original linoleum blockprints. Bookplate inside sleeve, sleeve lightly used, otherwise fine in slightly rubbed cloth slipcase with printed label.

First edition. One of sixty-five numbered copies printed by Patrick Reagh on Arches Heavyweight, signed by the poet and the illustrator. Each of the three separate prints is also numbered, dated and signed by the artist in the margin. $450.

557. [Santa Susana Press]: Amanda Blanco [photographer]: TYPE-FACES: A PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF WARD RITCHIE. Northridge, CA: Santa Susana Press, 1988. v,12,[3] leaves, text on rectos only. Quarto (30.5 x 23 cm). Loose sheets. Photographs. Fine in folding cloth portfolio with diecut aperture and inset panel.

First edition of this tribute to printer/poet/publisher Ward Ritchie, comprised of a foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell, twelve original mounted photographs by Amanda Blanco (each numbered and signed on the mount by her), and a note about the photographer by Norman Tanis. One of sixty-five numbered copies, printed in Della Robbia type by D’Ambrosio, signed on the colophon by Powell and the printer, in addition to an unknown number of artist’s proofs. $750.

558. [Saradane Press]: Clampitt, Amy: A HOMAGE TO JOHN KEATS. [New York]: Saradane Press, [1984]. Small folio. Gilt lettered wrapper over boards. Very, very faint ghost of a duplicate release stamp in gutter of page 34, otherwise fine in slipcase.

First edition, ordinary issue. One of 250 copies printed on Johannot paper after a design by Joe Marc Freedman, with display lettering by G.G. Laurens. Signed by the author. There were 26 lettered copies, specially bound. $175.

559. Sauvage, Sylvain [illus], and Pierre Louys: LES CHANSONS DE BILITIS TRADUITES DU GREC. Paris: Chez Sylvain Sauvage, [1927]. 153,[5]pp. Quarto (287 x 223 mm). Printed wrappers. Illustrated with original colored woodcuts. Fine in lightly frayed glassine, in somewhat frayed and edgeworn cloth and boards chemise and slipcase.

First edition with these illustrations. One of 235 numbered copies, printed on vergé de Montval, from a total edition of 287 copies. Sauvage’s 37 delicate and sensual designs were rendered as colored woodcuts and printed along with the text by Pierre Bouchet. MONOD 7384. $1250.

560. Sauvage, Sylvain [illus], and Pierre Louys: CONTES ANTIQUES. Paris: Éditions du Bois Sacré, 1929. clxxxiii,[1]pp. Small folio. (225 x 255 mm). Printed wrappers. Frontis. Illustrated with original colored engravings, ornamental initials, and with decorative head and tail-pieces in color. Two leaves show minor marginal foxmarks, Fine, but without the slipcase.

First edition with these illustrations. From an edition of 237 copies, this is one of 185 numbered copies on vélin de Montval Spécial. Sauvage’s thirty-two highly stylized copperplate engravings were executed in collaboration with D.-A. Maillart, and printed by P. Haasen. A luxurious example of Sauvage’s art deco at its very best. MONOD 7389. TALVART & PLACE (Louys) 34. $2000.

561. Schwartz, Aubrey: WILD FLOWERS ETCHINGS BY.... [New York?]. 1966. [2] leaves plus ten etchings. Quarto (36 x 25.5 cm; 14 x 10”). Loose sheets, laid into folding cloth portfolio. Fine.

One of a total edition of 110 copies (including 10 artist’s proofs), consisting of ten original etchings (plate size 12.5 x 9.5 cm) by Schwartz, printed on handmade Italia paper by Emiliano Sorini, with each etching signed and numbered in the margin by the artist. A beautiful suite by this notable master of several media, whose other works have illustrated or been accompanied by texts by, among others, Anthony Hecht (Predatory Birds, Gehenna Press 1958), and Czeslaw Milosz (Cats, Privately Printed 1994). $1750.

562. Schwartzott, Carol: HAIKU POEMS. [Niagara Falls: The Artist, 1993]. Oblong 12mo (11.5 x 12 cm). Limp decorated Japanese fabric. Fine in lidded plastic box.

First edition. Copy #5 of fifty numbered copies, signed by the artist, who designed and handbound this work “utilizing traditional Japanese patterns,” papers and fabrics. Schwartzott’s work now appears under the imprint of her Lilliput Press. $175.

563. [Scripps College Press]: Kaufman, Donielle, et al: HABITUÉ. [Claremont, CA]: Scripps College Press, 2007. [96]pp. Small octavo. Sewn gatherings, attached in such a fashion as to create a long accordion-style foldout. Illustrated with color linocuts. Mounted into lime-green blind-decorated silk over board folder. Faint bookplate shadow on inner panel of folder, otherwise fine.

First edition of this collaborative exploration of repetition by the Fall 2007 class in typography and book arts. One of one hundred numbered copies, printed in Centaur and Arrighi types on Somerset paper, signed by the collaborators, and by their overseer, Kitty Maryatt. $150.

564. [Sea Cliff Press]: Merrill, James: THE IMAGE MAKER A PLAY IN ONE ACT. [New York]: Sea Cliff Press, [1986]. Cloth, pictorial onlay on upper board. First edition. One of two hundred and twenty numbered copies, signed by the author. Fine, without printed dust jacket, as issued. $200.

565. [Sea Cliff Press]: Merrill, James, et al: A MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR JOHN BERNARD MYERS .... [New York]: The Grey Art Gallery, 1988. Printed wrappers. Portrait. Fine.

First edition. One of ca. 180 copies printed at the Sea Cliff Press for friends of Myers, a central figure in the promotion of the New York poets and artists of the postwar years. Tributes on the occasion by Thomas Sokolowski, Hilton Kramer, Grace Hartigan and James Merrill. HAGSTROM & MORGAN B4. $125.

566. [Seizin Press]: Graves, Robert: POEMS 1929. Hammersmith: Printed and Published at The Seizin Press, 1929. Polished green buckram. First edition, issued as Seizin Three. One of 225 numbered copies, signed by the author. Typical light tanning of endsheets, spine a bit sunned, otherwise near fine. $450.

567. Sergent, Jean Jacques (a.k.a. “Sergent Fulbert”) [printer], and [Francois Rabelais] Alcofrybas Nasier, Roy des Dipsodes [text]: INSCRIPTION MISE SUR LA GRANDE PORTE DE THÉLÈME. [Cléry: Sergent Fulbert, 1995]. Square small octavo. Printed wrapper over stiff handmade paper wrappers. Printed in red and black. Fine in publisher’s box with pastepaper onlays on upper panel.

Copy #62 of an unspecified number of copies of this typographic jeu d’esprit in tribute to Rabelais. The OCLC/Worldcat entry, based on the copy at the Bib. Sainte-Genevieve, calls for an edition of 59 copies on vélin de Rives, plus an unspecified number of copies hors commerce, and attributes the case to Marie- Kréziak. A characteristic work by one of the most respected non-traditional French typographers/designers of his generation. According to some references, Sergent (1945 - 2011) produced well over 300 different titles from his press, including works by Beckett, Michaux, Aragon, Satie, etc, OCLC: 868886006. $250. 568. Sewell, Brocard: THREE PRIVATE PRESSES .... [Wellingborough]: Christopher Skelton, 1979. Small quarto. Gilt cloth and pictorial boards, t.e.g. Illustrations. Facsimile broadside inserted in the rear. One lower foretip bumped, another faintly smudged, else fine in plastic wrapper.

First edition in book form, revised from its appearance as an accompaniment to the 1976 National Book League exhibition. One of 250 numbered copies, signed by the author. A consideration of the St. Dominic’s, Saint Albert’s and Edward Walters presses. $85.

569. [Shakespeare Head Press]: Shakespeare, William: SHAKESPEARE’S THE MERCHANT OF VENICE PRINTED FROM THE FOLIO OF 1623. London: [Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press for Ernest Benn Limited], 1923. xxxviii,[2],97[2]pp. Small folio (32.5 x 25 cm). Richly bound in full dark brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf (with their extra gilt signet on the rear pastedown), raised bands, elaborately gilt side panels within blindstamped rules, t.e.g., others untrimmed. A few trivial rubs to joints, spine a trace sunned, otherwise about fine.

First edition in this format, deluxe issue, published as an element in the “Player’s Shakespeare,” edited and introduced by Harley-Granville Barker. This volume includes color collotype plates by Thomas Lowinsky and line blocks by Emery Walker. This is one of one hundred numbered deluxe copies printed on Batchelor’s Kelmscott handmade paper, specially bound, and signed by Lowinsky, Albert Rutherston (the series art editor) and Barker. Zaehnsdorf bound the one hundred copies in one of two fashions, in morocco, gilt extra, as here, and in gilt vellum. $850.

570. [Shakespeare Head Press]: Shakespeare, William: SHAKESPEARE’S THE TRAGEDY OF CYMBELINE PRINTED FROM THE FOLIO OF 1623. London: [Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press for Ernest Benn Limited], 1923. lvii,[3],134,[1]pp. Small folio (32.5 x 25 cm). Richly bound in full dark brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf (with their extra gilt signet on the rear pastedown), raised bands, elaborately gilt side panels within blindstamped rules, t.e.g., others untrimmed. A few trivial rubs to joints, otherwise about fine.

First edition in this format, deluxe issue, published as an element in the “Player’s Shakespeare,” edited and introduced by Harley-Granville Barker. This volume includes five color collotypes by Albert Rutherston (who was art editor of the series) as well as a number of line blocks by Emery Walker. This is one of one hundred numbered deluxe copies printed on Batchelor’s Kelmscott handmade paper, specially bound, and signed by Rutherston and Barker. Zaehnsdorf bound the one hundred copies in one of two fashions: in morocco, gilt extra, and full vellum. $850.

Presentation to Josh Logan

571. [Shenval Press]: White, T[erence] H[anbury]: VERSES. Aldernay: [Privately Printed for the Author at the Shenval Press], 1962. Half vellum and polished buckram, stamped in gilt, t.e.g., marbled endsheets. Portrait frontis. A few very minor dust smudges to a couple margins, otherwise near fine.

First edition. Copy #11 of one hundred copies printed for private distribution. A lovely association copy, inscribed by the author below the limitation statement: “Joshua Logan [with his characteristic drawing of an arrow pierced heart] Tim White.” Logan directed the film version of Camelot, based on Lerner and Loewe’s 1960 stage musical, adapted in part from The Once and Future King, and released three years after White’s death. $1250.

572. [Sign of the Black Manikin]: Dunning, Ralph Cheever: ROCOCO A POEM. Paris: Edward Titus at the Sign of the Black Manikin, 1926. Vegetable parchment and boards, paper spine label. Illustrated with three drawings by Howard Simon. Spine a bit foxed and rubbed, endsheets tanned (as usual), boards sunstruck toward edges, but a very good, unopened copy.

First edition of this work by the Detroit-born poet whose work found a staunch advocate in Ezra Pound, among others. Copy #2 of five hundred numbered copies, signed by the artist below the first tipped-in plate, but as usual, not by the author. Dunning was ill at the time of publication, and only a small portion of the edition was signed by him, although it was intended that he sign all copies. The first Black Manikin book imprint. $100.

573. [Sign of the Black Manikin]: Lewisohn, Ludwig: THE CASE OF MR. CRUMP. Paris: Edward Titus at the Sign of the Black Manikin, 1926. Small, thick quarto. Portrait. Original printed wrappers. Small bumps to crown of spine and lower foretips, otherwise near fine in snagged and lightly used glassine.

First edition. One of 500 numbered copies for America, signed by the author beneath his portrait. Upon the publication of a new edition in 1947, a Kirkus reviewer described this novel as “a characterization, in full detail and at long length, of a slattern and a succubus, pursuing and possessive, and of her power for evil which was not weakened by the distaste she provoked.” In spite of legal issues, the novel found a constituency sufficiently large to warrant a second edition in 1931, armed with an Introduction by Thomas Mann. $175.

574. [Sign of the Black Manikin]: Komroff, Manuel: THE VOICE OF FIRE. Paris: Edward Titus at the Sign of the Black Manikin, 1927. Quarto. Cloth and pictorial boards. Boards a bit tanned and edgeworn, edges and endsheets faintly tanned, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition. Illustrated with engravings by Polia Chentoff. Inscribed by the author to his future publisher: “For Thomas R. Coward ... Dec. 1927 P.S. This was my bridge between the short story and the novel.” The recipient’s firm, Coward-McCann, published several of Komroff’s books in the following decade. $125.

575. [Sign of the Black Manikin]: [Guthrie, Ramon (attributed author)]: THE LEGEND OF ERMENGARDE BY THE TROUBADOUR, UC SAINE, TRANSLATED FROM THE PROVENCAL BY HOMER RIGNAULT. Paris: Edward Titus at the Sign of the Black Manikin, 1929. Printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly foxed and dusty, but a very good, unopened copy.

First edition of this rather bawdy poem -- the notion of it being a translation is a fiction. One of 250 numbered copies (of 270) printed for subscribers on heavy Montial Gris Rose handmade paper. $75.

576. [Sign of the Black Manikin]: Lewisohn, Ludwig, and Thomas Mann [preface]: THE CASE OF MR. CRUMP ... WITH A PREFACE BY THOMAS MANN. Paris: Edward Titus at the Sign of the Black Manikin, 1931. Original printed wrappers. Near fine, unopened.

Second Paris edition, the first to include Mann’s Preface and an author/publisher’s note about their intent to combat a US piracy with this new edition. Upon the publication of a new edition in 1947, a Kirkus reviewer described this novel as “a characterization, in full detail and at long length, of a slattern and a succubus, pursuing and possessive, and of her power for evil which was not weakened by the distaste she provoked.” $75.

577. [Sign of the Black Manikin]: Callaghan, Morley: NO MAN’S MEAT. Paris: Edward Titus at the Sign of the Black Manikin, 1931. Linen and boards, paper labels. First edition. One of five hundred numbered copies (of 525), signed by the author. About fine in glassine dust jacket and (typically) split slipcase. $125.

578. [Sign of the Black Manikin]: Lewisohn, Ludwig: THE ROMANTIC A CONTEMPORARY LEGEND. Paris: Edward Titus at the Sign of the Black Manikin, 1931. Cloth and boards, paper label, t.e.g. Faint foxing to edges, otherwise fine in glassine jacket and slightly bumped slipcase.

First edition. One of 500 numbered copies on Vergé de Rives, from a total edition of 535 copies signed by the author. $75. 579. [Sign of the Stone Book]: Defoe, Daniel: A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR, &C .... Bloomfield, CT [& New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Small quarto. Rough woven burlap over boards, gilt spine label. Fine, in slightly sunned and faintly rubbed slipcase. Newsletter laid in.

One of 1500 numbered copies printed at the Sign of the Stone Book, with illustrations by Domenico Gnoli and an Introduction by James Sutherland. Signed by Gnoli. $70.

580. [Silverado Press]: Stevenson, Robert Louis: SILVERADO REVISITED. [Np]: The Silverado Press, 1960. Small quarto. Sewn printed wrappers. First edition. One of approximately 120 copies, set and printed by hand as the press’s Christmas greeting. About fine. $75.

581. [Société Les Exemplaires]: Diderot, Denis: ENTRETIEN D’UN PÈRE AVEC SES ENFANTS OU DU DANGER DE SE METTRE AU-DESSUS DES LOIS. [Paris]: Aux dépens de La Société Les Exemplaires, 1926. Small octavo. Printed wrappers. Woodcut frontis and decorations by Paul Vera. Fine, in decorated board chemise and slipcase (worn and darkened at edges).

First edition thus. One of ninety-nine press-numbered copies on vergé à la cuve for the membership, with the subscriber’s name imprinted on the colophon, and signed with the Société paraph. $85.

582. [Somesuch Press]: Greene, A.C.: A CHRISTMAS TREE. Dallas: Somesuch Press, [1978]. Miniature (7.5 x 5.5 cm). Cloth, lettered in gilt. Fine.

First printing in this format. One of three hundred numbered copies printed in Centaur and Arrighi types by William and Raquel Ferguson, and signed collectively by them. $75.

583. [Somesuch Press]: Boorstin, Daniel J.: GRESHAM’S LAW: KNOWLEDGE OR INFORMATION? Dallas: The Somesuch Press, 1980. Miniature (7.5 x 6.2 cm). Decorated cloth. Decorations. A few minor dust marks to cloth, otherwise near fine.

Copy ‘A’ of an unspecified quantity of lettered copies, from a total edition of 300 copies (275 for sale), designed, printed and bound by Don Kelley and Susan Acker at the Feathered Serpent Press, with decorations by Diane E. Weiss, signed by the author, and by Kelley, Acker and Weiss. Accompanied by the publisher’s review slip, as well as a brief t.l.s. from Stanley Marcus to a noted Dallas book person, hoping he’ll be able to write an article about it. The letter and slip are folded and somewhat dust tanned. First printing in this format of remarks at a White House Conference on library and information services in November 1979. $100.

584. [Somesuch Press]: Allen, John Houghton: THAT WAS RANDADO. [Dallas]: Somesuch Press, [nd. but ca. 1980]. Miniature (7.5 x 5 cm). Marbled paper over boards, printed spine label. Frontis and illustration by Ed Lindlof. Fine.

One of 295 numbered copies printed on Rives paper by David Holman after a design by William Holman. $85.

585. [Somesuch Press]: Fuentes, Carlos: ON HUMAN RIGHTS A SPEECH .... Dallas: The Somesuch Press, 1984. Miniature (7.6 x 6 cm). Cloth. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine, in oversize folding cloth clamshell box with inset.

First edition in this format. Introduction by Henry Ramont. Illustrated with six original postage stamps designed by F. Hundertwasser for the United Nations. One of 395 numbered copies printed by Darrell Hyder, and signed by Fuentes. Perhaps because of its larger than normal constituency, one of the least common and most desirable of the Somesuch miniatures. $275. 586. [Somesuch Press]: Horgan, Paul: THE SAINTMAKER’S CHRISTMAS EVE. [Dallas: The Somesuch Press, 1987]. Miniature (6.6 x 7.6 cm). Gilt lettered cloth. Illustrations by the author. Bookplate on pastedown, otherwise fine. Oversize collector’s half morocco folding case with inset (label mark in lower corner of upper panel).

First printing in this format. One of 250 numbered copies printed at the Meriden-Stinehour Press, signed by the author and by Steve Stinehour. $100.

587. [Spiral Press]: Wilbur, Richard [compiler], and Alexander Calder [illustrator]: A BESTIARY. New York: Printed at the Spiral Press for Pantheon Books, [1955]. Quarto. Cloth. Illustrations. Bookplate on front pastedown, a couple faint, small smudges to free endsheet, spine lettering a bit rubbed (as often), otherwise about fine in corner worn slipcase with split along one joint.

First edition, ordinary issue. One of 750 numbered copies printed on Curtis Rag paper, from a total edition of 825 copies designed and printed by Joseph Blumenthal, and signed by Wilbur and Calder. $650.

588. [Spiral Press]: Frost, Robert: ROBERT FROST MARCH 26 1959 [wrapper title]. [New York: The Spiral Press, 1959]. Sewn pictorial wrapper over plain wrappers. Woodcut by Thomas Nason. Soft vertical crease, small corner crease, lower wrapper faintly dust smudged, otherwise very good or better.

First edition. One of 150 copies printed for friends of the author in commemoration of a dinner held to mark his 85th birthday. Eight new poems by Frost are printed herein. Not in Crane. $250.

589. [Spiral Press]: Barrett, C. Waller: ITALIAN INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN LITERATURE AN ADDRESS ... AND A CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND ART SHOWING THIS INFLUENCE .... New York: The Grolier Club, 1962. Large octavo. Cloth and boards, leather spine label. Photographs. Trace of slight darkening to backstrip, else fine in faintly marked slipcase.

First edition. One of 750 ordinary copies, from a total edition of 850 copies printed at the Spiral Press. Inscribed and signed by Barrett on the occasion of publication. $65.

590. [Spiral Press]: [Frost, Robert]: Adams, Frederick B., Jr.: TO RUSSIA WITH FROST. Boston: Club of Odd Volumes, 1963. Cloth and boards. Portrait and photographs. First edition. One of five hundred copies printed at the Spiral Press. Inscribed presentation copy from the author. Fine in slipcase, paper label. $75.

591. [Spiral Press]: Kennedy, John F.: THE PLACE OF THE ARTIST IN SOCIETY ... SPOKEN AT THE DEDICATION OF THE ROBERT FROST LIBRARY AMHERST COLLEGE ... [wrapper title]. [New York: Privately printed for Ann and Joseph Blumenthal, Christmas 1964]. Small octavo. Sewn printed wrappers. First printing in this format. One of six hundred copies printed at the Spiral Press for the Blumenthal’s holiday greeting. About fine. $85.

592. [Spiral Press]: [Frost, Robert]: Blumenthal, Joseph: ROBERT FROST AND HIS PRINTERS. Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, [1985]. Large octavo. Cloth. Fine in slipcase.

First edition. One of one thousand copies, designed by chief among them, Joseph Blumenthal, and printed by A. Colish. An important, anecdotal discussion of Frost’s relationship with Blumenthal and his other printers throughout his career. $85.

593. [Stagecoach Press]: Utley, Robert M.: FORT UNION IN MINIATURE. [Santa Fe: Stagecoach Press, 1953]. Miniature (2.5 x 3cm). Bound in full deer-skin, lettered in red, marbled endsheets. Fine, in plastic box with printed label (the latter a bit rubbed).

First edition. One of ninety-nine numbered copies, signed by the author, specially bound in Pueblo deerskin. Printed and bound by hand by Jack Rittenhouse, with illustrations by Stephi. $175.

594. [Stagecoach Press]: Utley, Robert M.: FORT UNION IN MINIATURE. [Santa Fe: Stagecoach Press, 1953]. Miniature (2.5 x 3cm). Bound in full deer-skin, with hot-stamped title, marbled endsheets. Fine, in plastic box with printed label.

First edition. One of an unspecified number of regular copies, in addition to ninety-nine numbered copies, signed by the author. Printed and bound by hand by Jack Rittenhouse, with illustrations by Stephi. $125.

595. [Stagecoach Press]: Rittenhouse, Jack D. [printer and editor]: CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO 1850. [Santa Fe]: Stagecoach Press, [1965]. Small octavo. Full brown skiver, gilt label. Frontis map. Fine in near very good, lightly soiled dust jacket.

One of 350 copies, set up and printed by Jack Rittenhouse, who also contributed an introduction. The first of the press’s “Historians’ Editions.” RITTENHOUSE 36. $65.

596. [Stamperia Valdonega]: Rexroth, Kenneth: THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS POEMS, SONGS, ELEGIES, TRANSLATIONS AND EPIGRAMS. [New York]: New Directions, [1949]. Cloth backed pastepaper over boards, printed spine label. Some foxing to edges and endleaves, otherwise a very good copy in lightly nicked and rather foxed dust jacket.

First edition, trade issue. One of 1500 copies (of 1550) designed by Hans Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. HARRISON, NEWTH & CANDIDO, p.28. $125.

597. [Stamperia Valdonega]: Laughlin, James: THE WILD ANEMONE & OTHER POEMS. [New York]: New Directions, 1958. 12mo. printed wrapper over stiff wrapper. Inevitable slight tanning to the text-block, a couple small smudges to wrappers, else fine.

First edition. Printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Inscribed (using initials) by Laughlin to Hugh Kenner. HARRISON, NEWTH & CANDIDO, p.42. $125.

598. [Stamperia Valdonega]: Suetonius: THE LIVES OF THE TWELVE CAESARS. Verona: Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at the Stamperia Valdonega, 1963. Large, thick octavo. Cloth and pastepaper boards. Tipped-in color plates of paintings by Salvatore Fiume. Fine in lightly nicked dust jacket, in partially faded, otherwise very good.

One of 1500 numbered copies, signed by Martino Mardersteig and by the artist. The Holland translation, revised, and with an introduction, by Moses Hadas. $100.

599. [Stamperia Valdonega]: Bronk, William: TO PRAISE THE MUSIC. New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press, [1972]. Large octavo. Boards. First edition, issue in boards. One of a total edition of 500 copies printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. About fine. $85.

600. [Stamperia Valdonega]: Weil, James L.: YOUR FATHER. New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press, [1973]. Printed boards. Backstrip faintly sunned, else fine in somewhat edge-darkened publisher’s card slipcase.

First edition, boardbound issue. One of a total edition of four hundred copies designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed on Magnani Rag paper at the Stamperia Valdonega. With the author’s signed presentation inscription to poet/publisher James Laughlin on the free endsheet. $60. 601. [Stamperia Valdonega]: MacDiarmid, Hugh: DIREADH I, II, AND III. Frenich, Foss: Kulgin Duval & Colin H. Hamilton, 1974. Folio. Quarter gilt morocco and boards. Fine in slipcase.

First edition. One of two hundred numbered copies, designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega, signed by the author. $225.

602. [Stamperia Valdonega]: McGrandle, Leith [ed]: EUROPE THE QUEST FOR UNITY. [London]: Ranelagh Editions, [1975]. Folio (45 x 32 cm). Full deep red crushed levant (by Brazer-Mitchell - Finebinding of London), raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, gilt cover device by Reynolds Stone, t.e.g., others rough-trimmed. Etched frontispiece. Fine in cloth and marbled boards slipcase.

First edition of this compilation of speeches and documents advocating a unified Europe, with a Foreword by Lord Gladwyn, and texts by Churchill, Kennedy, Adenauer, Macmillan, Brandt, Madariaga, and many others. The etched frontispiece is by Pietro Annigoni, and is signed and numbered by him. The text was designed and printed by the Mardersteigs at the Stamperia Valdonega in Bembo types on specially commissioned paper, and the etching was printed on the press of the Officina Bodoni. An imposing folio, one of Giovanni Mardersteig’s last designs. Laid in is a copy of the original publisher’s prospectus, describing copies in this binding; copies also appear in tan leather and in vellum. Oversize: extra post. $450.

603. [Stamperia Valdonega]: Bronk, William: LIGHT AND DARK. New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press, [1975]. Large octavo. Boards. Second edition of the author’s first book, issue in boards. One of a total edition of four hundred copies printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Fine in slipcase. $60.

604. [Stamperia Valdonega]: Pater, Walter: THE RENAISSANCE STUDIES IN ART AND POETRY. Verona: Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at the Stamperia Valdonega, 1976. Quarto. Cloth and pastepaper boards. Tipped-in color plates. About fine in lightly edgeworn slipcase.

One of two thousand numbered copies, signed by Martino Mardersteig. Introduction and notes by Sir Kenneth Clark. $85.

605. [Stamperia Valdonega]: Corman, Cid: ‘S. New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press, [1976]. Large octavo. Boards. First edition, board-bound issue. One of a total of four hundred copies printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. About fine in slipcase. $60.

606. [Stamperia Valdonega]: Ripley, S. Dillon: RAILS OF THE WORLD A MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY RALLIDAE .... Toronto: M.F. Feheley, [1977]. Small folio. Gilt cloth and linen. Frontis and forty plates in color. Fine in dust jacket and slipcase.

First edition. Illustrated with magnificent paintings by J. Fenwick Landsdowne, and with a Chapter on Fossil Species by Storrs L. Olson. Printed under the direction of Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega, in Verona. $175.

607. [Stamperia Valdonega]: Booth, Martin: THE CNOT DIALOGUES. New Rochelle: The Elizabeth Press, [1981]. 61,[2] leaves. Loose small quarto sheets, printed on rectos only, laid into brown paper wrapper with printed label. About fine.

The master set of corrected page proofs for the published edition, bearing occasional corrections and queries in ink, including one response initialed by the publisher re: format. The upper wrapper bears a list of page references, as well as routing details. The published book appeared in an edition of 250 copies, printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. $125. 608. [Stamperia Valdonega]: Windham, Donald: AS IF ... A PERSONAL VIEW OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. Verona [i.e. New York: Printed for Sandy Campbell], 1985. Pictorial wrapper. Portrait and photographs. Small spot on spine panel, else about fine in lightly smudged slipcase.

First edition, signed issue. One of fifty press-numbered copies printed on Vava paper and signed by the author, from a total edition of three hundred copies printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. $175.

609. [Stamperia Valdonega]: Taylor, Peter: A STAND IN THE MOUNTAINS. New York: Frederic C. Beil, [1985]. Large octavo. Cloth, paper label. Portrait. First edition. One of a reported 1500 copies printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Although not called for, signed by the author on the title. Fine in publisher’s slipcase. $200.

610. [Stanbrook Abbey Press]: Sassoon, Siegfried: ARBOR VITAE (1959) [with:] UNFOLDMENT. [Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, ca. 1960]. Single quarto leaf tipped into unprinted folder. A few finger smudges to lower wrapper panel, otherwise about fine.

A separate of the poems as printed in The Path to Peace. Some copies were sent to the author for his use, but others were circulated publicly in some fashion. The front wrapper has the calligraphic inscription: “From ‘The Path to Peace’ © Siegfried Sassoon,” and the rear wrapper bears the manuscript denotation “Printed in England.” “ KEYNES A62(ref). $200.

611. [Stanbrook Abbey Press]: Sassoon, Siegfried: SOMETHING ABOUT MYSELF. [Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1966]. Quarto. Gilt stiff wrappers. Calligraphed, illustrated and decorated by Margaret Adams. Wrappers a trace dusty and slightly darkened along fore-edges, internally a fine copy

First edition. Printed in an unspecified edition on Milbourn Lexpar paper. A lavishly presented bit of juvenilia, written when Sassoon was eleven and published in observance of his 80th birthday. The edition likely consisted of between 3-400 copies. $125.

613. [Stanbrook Abbey Press]: THE STANBROOK ABBEY PRESS NINETY-TWO YEARS OF ITS HISTORY WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY THE BENEDICTINES OF STANBROOK. Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1970. Medium brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Frontis, plates and facsimiles. First edition. One of 450 copies bound thus, from a total edition of 500 copies. Fine, without dust jacket. $75.

614. [Stanbrook Abbey Press]: Stacpoole, Alberic: THE SEVEN WORDS FROM THE CROSS A MEDITATION IN POETIC IDIOM. Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1974. Quarto. Gilt decorated stiff wrappers. Trace of sunning et edges, else near fine.

First printing in this format. One of 100 numbered copies printed in van Krimpen’s Spectrum type in red and blue on Medway handmade paper, bound in ‘Badger’ covers. Fifteen copies numbered in Roman were specially bound, and an unnumbered issue of 100 copies on Cartridge paper finished off the edition. $150.

615. [Stanbrook Abbey Press]: Craihead, Meinrad: THE MOTHER’S BIRDS IMAGES FOR AND A BIRTH. Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1976. Small oblong quarto. Full black morocco, decorated in blind. Illustrated with monochrome plates reproduced by offset lithography at Skelton’s Press. Fine in acetate wrapper and slightly marked slipcase.

First edition, deluxe issue. One of thirty copies printed on handmade paper, numbered in Roman, and signed by the printer and author/artist, from a total edition of 240 copies. Accompanied by a copy of the separate printing of John Dreyfus’ memoir of Dame Hildreth and the revived Press from The Book Collector, inscribed by Dreyfus. $600. 616. [Steinberg, Saul]: DERRIERE LE MIROIR [No. 53/54]. [Paris: Éditions Peirre a Feu / Maeght, March / April 1953]. Folio (38 x 28 cm). Loose bifolia laid into pictorial wrappers. Illustrations, including color. Short snag at crown of spine, otherwise fine.

Second edition of this double number, arranged and first published on the occasion of the first exhibition of Steinberg’s work held in Paris. $60.

617. [Steinberg, Saul]: Damisch, Hubert: DERRIERE LE MIROIR [No. 205]. [Paris: Maeght, September 1973]. Folio (38 x 28 cm). Loose bifolia laid into pictorial wrappers. Illustrations. Photographs. US distributor’s small sticker and price tag inside upper wrapper, otherwise fine.

First edition, ordinary issue. A striking presentation of Steinberg’s color work (as well as some reproduced in b & w), including four original color lithographs, along with other high-quality reproductions. $150.

618. [Steiner-Prag, Hugo]: Mérimée, Prosper: CARMEN. Berlin: Propylaen-Verlag, 1920. Quarto. Publisher’s original quarter calf and boards, spine gilt extra, upper board lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Pictorial title, plates and illustrations. Edges a bit rubbed, with very shallow loss to calf at toe of spine, a few faint marginal finger smudges, light foxing to endleaves and edges, old two letter annotation on free endsheet, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition in this format. Translated by Elfriede Willis, and illustrated with twelve full- page, and numerous in-text lithographs by Hugo Steiner-Prag (1880-1945). Apart from the lithographed pictorial title, each of the other 11 full-page hors-text lithographs is signed in pencil in the lower margin by the artist. One of 450 numbered copies printed by Poeschel & Trepte in Leipzig. $450.

619. [Stellar Press]: Lubbock, J. G.: ART AND THE SPIRITUAL LIFE. New York: The Chiswick Bookshop [1967]. Folio. Gilt decorated cream paper over boards, edges untrimmed. Fine.

First edition, U.S. issue, of the first in the sequence of Lubbock’s interesting artist’s books, limited to a total of 150 numbered copies, designed by Will Carter and printed at the Stellar Press on Barcham Green handmade paper, and signed by the author/artist. The illustrative matter consists of a multitude of double-page, single-page and half-page handprinted, intricately worked copperplate engravings and etchings by Lubbock, with colors applied by intaglio and relief, with additional color highlighting applied by hand. $800.

620. [Stevens-Nelson Paper Company]: SPECIMENS: A STEVENS-NELSON PAPER CATALOGUE. New York: Stevens-Nelson Paper Company, [ca. 1953]. Quarto. Half black morocco and marbled boards. Edges shelf-rubbed, shallow bump across top edges of boards, otherwise very good, internally fine, without slipcase.

One of the last and greatest of the elaborate paper catalogues, including over one hundred specimen leaves of fine hand and machine-made papers, printed in various ways by distinguished international printers: Plantin, Mardersteig, Enschede, Curwen, Marchbanks, Spiral, etc. The [8]pp separate price list / index / errata is laid in. This copy was presented by Clarke & Way / The Thistle Press. $200.

621. [Stinehour Press]: Horgan, Paul: UNDER THE SANGRE DE CRISTO. Santa Fe: The Rydal Press, 1985. Cloth and marbled boards. Illustrations by the author. Bookplate of the James S. Copley collection, small bookseller’s label on rear pastedown, otherwise fine in slipcase (small sticker shadow in lower corner of one panel).

First edition. One of 180 numbered copies, from a total edition of two hundred copies “Printed & bound at Meriden-Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont, in Monotype Baskerville on Mohawk Superfine Text & with Van Heek Textile Scholco cloth & handmade Marblesmith Papers,” all signed by Horgan. The first publication of the revived (in name only) imprint. $125. 622. [Stone Company]: Phillips, Walter S.: JUST ABOUT A BOY. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone Company, 1899. Small octavo. Pictorial gray-green cloth, stamped in black and gray. Pencil inscription and erasure from free endsheet, else a very good copy.

First edition. A.k.a. “El Comancho,” the author was a “well-known hunter, sportsman, and editor of the Pacific Coast; the lettering and border of the binding were done by him” - Kramer. KRAMER 222. $85.

623. [Stone House Press]: Heyen, William: THE SHORE. [Roslyn, NY]: The Stone House Press, 1991. Cloth. Illustrated with wood engravings by John De Pol. Fine.

First edition. One of 26 lettered copies, in addition to 85 specially bound copies, from an edition of 170 numbered copies, signed by the author, the artist and the designer, Morris Gelfand. No lettered copies are called for in the colophon. $125.

One of Twenty Deluxe Copies

624. [Stone House Press]: Bertin, Charles: CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. [Providence & Roslyn]: John Carter Brown Library / The Stone House Press, 1992. Quarter morocco and silk over boards, stamped in gilt, t.e.g. Illustrated with wood-engravings by John de Pol, as well as illustrations from historical sources. Fine, with folding portfolio, the whole enclosed in folding clamshell box.

First illustrated edition of William Jay Smith’s translation of Bertin’s play, here present in the deluxe issue of twenty numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the illustrator, the printer/publisher and the binder, Deborah Evetts, and accompanied by an extra suite of the six original wood-engravings, each signed by the artist. The regular issue consisted of two hundred copies. Laid in is a t.l.s. about the book from the printer/publisher, Morris Gelfand, to the original subscriber for this copy. $850.

625. [Stone House Press]: Heyen, William: WITH ME FAR AWAY A MEMOIR. Roslyn, NY: Stone House Press, 1994. Small quarto. Half morocco and linen over boards. Wood engraved illustrations. Fine in slipcase, accompanied by separate suite in folding cloth chemise.

First edition, the edition de tete. One of twenty-five deluxe copies (only twenty for sale), signed by the poet, by John De Pol (who contributed the woodcuts), and by Morris A. Gelfand, the printer/publisher. These deluxe copies are accompanied by a duplicate suite of impressions of the wood-engravings, each signed by the artist. $650.

626. [Stone & Kimball]: Garland, Hamlin: PRAIRIE SONGS BEING CHANTS RHYMED AND UNRHYMED OF THE LEVEL LANDS OF THE GREAT WEST ... WITH DRAWINGS BY H.T. CARPENTER. Cambridge & Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1893. Large octavo. Elaborately gilt pictorial cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Spine ends rubbed, tan cloth foxed, free endsheet and title leaf snagged at top gutter, with short marginal tear in top margin of both leaves. Later collector’s bookplate.

First edition, limited issue. One of 110 numbered copies printed on large paper and specially bound, signed by Garland. This copy also bears Garland’s slightly later four-line signed inscription on the free endsheet, KRAMER 5a. $100.

627. [Stone & Kimball]: MEMORIAL SKETCH OF DR. WILLIAM FREDERICK POOLE MDCCCXXI. Chicago: [Printed on behalf of Stone & Kimball], 1895. Gilt lettered boards, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Portrait. Offset on endsheets from wrapper flaps, otherwise exceptionally fine in tissue wrapper.

First edition of this tribute to the librarian / bibliographer, including a bibliography of his published writings. Reprinted from the Minutes of the Board of Trustees of the Newberry Library. The text exhibits Stone & Kimball’s watermark, though not recorded in Kramer. $150.

628. [Stone Wall Press]: Tongue, Margaret: A BOOK OF KINDS. Iowa City: The Stone Wall Press, 1958. 12mo. Cloth. Illustrations by Constance Merker. First edition. One of three hundred and twenty copies, issued as the first book to bear the Stone Wall imprint. A couple of light spots to cloth, small smudge to endsheet, otherwise near fine in plain dust jacket. $125.

629. [Stone Wall Press]: Pauker, John: EXCELLENCY: A SEQUENCE OF POEMS.... Iowa City: The Stone Wall Press, 1967. Small folio. Red cloth, lettered in gilt, with pictorial vignette in black. Illustrations by Thomas Kovacs. A few small rust spots to front free endsheet at gutter, spine tips faintly rubbed, else a nice copy.

First edition. One of 230 copies printed by hand on Rives heavy paper. Inscribed and signed by the author in 1969 to an academic colleague. $65.

630. [Stone Wall Press]: Tate, James: NOTES OF WOE POEMS. Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, 1968. Boards, lettered in gilt. First edition. One of 230 copies printed by hand on Hayle paper. Fore-edge of rear board faintly sunned, small bump at toe of one joint, otherwise close to fine. $225.

631. [Stone Wall Press]: Rutsala, Vern: SMALL SONGS A SEQUENCE. Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, 1969. 12mo. Printed wrappers. First edition. One of 180 copies printed by hand from Romanee types on Rives Light. A fine copy. $65.

632. [Stone Wall Press]: Meyer, Tom: POIKILOS. Urbana: The Finial Press / The Stone Wall Press, 1971. 12mo. Textured cloth boards, ruled in gilt. Woven silk marker. Near fine.

First edition. One of 250 copies printed by Kim Merker and associates. YOUNG 1807. BERGER 46. $85.

First Strawberry-Hill Imprint

633. [Strawberry Hill Press]: Gray, Thomas: ODES BY MR. GRAY. Strawberry-Hill: Printed at...For R. and J. Dodsley, 1757. 21,[1]pp. Quarto. Extracted from bound volume, a.e.g. Half-title a bit soiled, occasional foxing, old mends to marginal tear at bottom of first four leaves, uniformly slightly tanned, otherwise very good.

First edition, published in an edition of two thousand copies as the first Strawberry-Hill imprint. This is the proper first printing, with ‘Ilissus’ at 8:17 and a comma after ‘Swarm’ at 16:19. Kirgate made a close to literal reprint of the work at some point in the 1790s on thicker paper, and with variations at the two points noted above. HAZEN (STRAWBERRY-HILL) 1. ROTHSCHILD 1067. NORTHUP 180. HAYWARD 174. ESTC T42023. $1450.

634. [Strawberry Hill Press]: Dobson, Austin: HORACE WALPOLE A MEMOIR WITH AN APPENDIX OF BOOKS PRINTED AT THE STRAWBERRY HILL PRESS.... New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1890. Cloth and boards. Illustrated by Percy and Leon Moran. First edition (preceding British edition). One of 425 numbered copies, from a total edition of 484 copies printed at the DeVinne Press. Spine a bit soiled and edgeworn, offset to endsheets. A good, sound copy. $60.

635. [Strawberry Hill Press]: Havens, Munson A.: HORACE WALPOLE AND THE STRAWBERRY HILL PRESS 1757 - 1789. Canton: The Kirgate Press, 1901. Linen and boards. Frontis, plates and facsimiles. First edition of this preliminary bibliography and historical essay. One of 300 copies on handmade paper. Bookplate, a few small smudges to spine, otherwise fine with printer’s apology leaf laid in. $200.

636. [Strawberry Hill Press]: Walpole, Horace: JOURNAL OF THE PRINTING-OFFICE AT STRAWBERRY HILL NOW FIRST PRINTED FROM THE MS ... WITH NOTES BY PAGET TOYNBEE. [London & Boston]: Constable and Company and Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. Quarto. Quarter calf and boards, gilt label. Portrait, facsimiles, folding plates. Tasteful collector’s bookplate on pastedown, modest rubbing at extremities, else very good to near fine, without the slipcase.

First edition. One of a total edition of 650 copies printed at the Chiswick Press for British and American distribution. This copy is in the binding indicative of the American issue. $175.

637. [Strawberry Hill Press]: Lewis, Wilmarth S.: THE FORLORN PRINTER BEING NOTES ON HORACE WALPOLE’S ALLEGED NEGLECT OF THOMAS KIRGATE. Farmington, CT: Privately Printed, 1931. Small quarto. Cloth and boards. Frontis and facsimile. As characteristic of copies of this title, the spine is a bit faded, the edges a bit tanned, and the white boards a bit dust-smudged; still, a good, sound copy of one of the scarcest of the titles in the series.

First edition. One of fifty copies printed for private distribution, as Miscellaneous Antiquities Number Six. Lewis’s compliments card is laid in. $225.

638. [Strawberry Hill Press]: Hazen, A.T., and J.P. Kirby [comps]: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE STRAWBERRY HILL PRESS WITH A RECORD OF THE PRICES AT WHICH COPIES HAVE BEEN SOLD ... TOGETHER WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHY AND CENSUS OF THE DETACHED PIECES. New Haven: Yale, 1942. Quarto. Cloth. Frontis and facsimiles. First edition. A fine copy, without the dust jacket. $150.

639. [Student Printing]: Lienhard, Heinrich: I KNEW SUTTER. Sacramento: The Nugget Press, 1939. Small octavo. Cloth. Lino-cut portrait frontis. Decorative initials. Ink name, bookplate on front pastedown, paperclip mark at top edge of prelims, a bit of rubbing at tips, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition in this format. One of 285 numbered copies printed as a class project by the students of C.K. McClatchy High School. Presentation card tipped in. A section of acknowledgements at the end lists the students involved, ranging from the translating and of the text to , printing and binding. Evidently the first production by the endeavor. $175.

640. [Student Printing]: Students of C.K. McClatchy Senior High School: JUAN RODRIQUEZ CABRILLO. Sacramento: The Nugget Press, 1947. Octavo. Cloth. Portrait frontis and map. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition. One of 180 numbered copies printed as a class project by the students of C.K. McClatchy High School. A section of acknowledgements at the end lists the students involved, ranging from the researching and writing of the text to typesetting, printing and binding. $125.

641. [Subcutaneous Press]: Fawkes, Russell: THINGLESSNESS: THE STORY OF NO ONE. [Madison, WI: The Subcutaneous Press, 1979]. Large quarto. Unlettered plain white linen. Modest dust smudging to cloth, internally fine.

First edition. Illustrated with five original copper and zinc intaglios, including an expansive double-spread pictorial title, by Janet Morgan. One of thirty numbered copies (the entire edition), printed on Arches and Rives heavyweight in Bodoni type. $300.

642. [Swan Press]: Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una: NATHANIEL BADDELEY, BOOKMAN A PLAY FOR THE FIRESIDE IN ONE ACT. Leeds: At the Swan Press, 1924. Quarto. Publisher’s gilt soft greenish-blue calf, t.e.g. Illustrations by Fred Lawson. Lower tips slightly bumped, otherwise fine in chipped plain shipping wrapper.

First edition. One of one hundred numbered copies, printed for private circulation. An entertainment predicated, in part, on the issues associated with the flow of antiquarian books from the UK to the U.S. At least a portion of the edition appeared in stiff wrappers. $150.

643. [Sylvan Press]: March, Joseph Moncure: THE WILD PARTY. New York: Privately printed for The Sylvan Press, 1947. Quarto. Black cloth, stamped in gilt. Frontis and pictorial vignettes. Gilding oxidized, as usual, else fine in acetate wrapper (a couple short tears) with printed paper flaps.

First printing in this format, designed and illustrated by Lewis F. White. Introduction by Louis Untermeyer. One of 2998 numbered copies (of 3008). $75.

644. [Talisman Press]: DeJong, David Cornel: THE UNFAIRNESS OF EASTER AND OTHER STORIES. San Jose: Press, 1959. Cloth and boards, paper label. First edition. One of 500 copies printed by Robert Greenwood and Newton Baird (who also contributes illustrations). Near fine. $35.

645. [Talisman Press]: Johnson, Kenneth M. [ed]: SAN FRANCISCO AS IT IS GLEANINGS FROM THE PICAYUNE. Georgetown, CA: The Talisman Press, 1964. Quarto. Cloth, gilt spine label. Plates, folding photographic panorama. Spine faintly sunned, else near fine in slipcase.

First edition, deluxe issue. One of 75 numbered copies, specially bound, extra-illustrated, and signed by the editor. Selections from columns appearing in the Evening Picayune 1850-1852. $125.

646. [Tamal Land Press]: De Quille, Dan: DAN DE QUILLE OF THE BIG BONANZA. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1980. Small quarto. Cloth and boards. Portrait and illustrations. First edition. Edited by James J. Rawls. Foreword by Oscar Lewis. One of 650 copies printed at the Tamal Land Press. Fine, in plain wrapper, with prospectus laid in. $60.

647. [Tamarack Editions]: Heyen, William: THE BEES. [Syracuse]: Tamarack Editions, [1981]. Cloth and boards. Illustrated with linocuts by Alice Wand. One of 26 lettered, hors commerce copies, signed by the author and the artist, from a total edition of 376 copies. Fine. $75.

648. [Taylor & Taylor]: Sterling, George: ODE ON THE OPENING OF THE PANAMA- PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION - SAN FRANCISCO - 1915. San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1915. Small quarto. Linen and boards. Printed in red and black. Some foxing to endleaves, pencil ownership signature and shelf-label of typographer/printer Carl Rollins, a bit of handsoiling to boards, but a very good copy.

First edition. One of 525 copies printed on handmade paper by Taylor and Taylor. A good association copy of this characteristic example of work by the first of the many fine printers nurtured in the Bay-area. MATTILA A8. BAL 18762. $150.

649. [Taylor, W. Thomas]: Heyen, William: BROCKPORT, NEW YORK: BEGINNING WITH “AND.” Dallas: Northouse & Northouse, 1988. Cloth, paper spine label. Fine in dust jacket.

First edition, limited issue. One of fifty numbered copies (of 76) designed and printed by W. Thomas Taylor, signed by the author. Published at: $95.

650. [Taylor, W. Thomas]: Marcus, Stanley: THE BOOK CLUB OF TEXAS. Dallas: DeGolyer Library / SMU, 1989. Small quarto. Cloth and marbled boards, paper spine label. Facsimiles. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued.

First edition, deluxe issue. From an edition of 850 copies printed by W. Thomas Taylor, this is one of one hundred copies specially bound and signed by the author. A sketch of the history of the original incarnation (1930 - 1937), with descriptions of the publications. $150.

651. [Taylor, W. Thomas]: Roberts, Verne L., and Ivy Trent: BIBLIOTHECA MECHANICA. New York: Jonathan A. Hill, [1991]. xiv,[2],391pp. Quarto. Linen and pictorial boards. Frontis portrait. Illustrations. As new in unprinted dust jacket, as issued.

First edition, trade issue. One of 1000 copies, from an edition of 1100 copies printed by W. Thomas Taylor. An extensively annotated, descriptive catalogue of this collection of primary works relating to the history and development of the mechanical sciences and engineering from the 16th through the 19th centuries. $260.

652. [Taylor, W. Thomas]: Biggers, Don Hampton: BUFFALO & BARBED WIRE TWO FRONTIER ACCOUNTS .... [Dallas & Lubbock]: The Book Club of Texas in Association with Texas Tech University Press, [1991]. Oblong octavo. Half calf and decorated boards. Maps and photographs. Fine in slipcase with extra suite of photographs.

First edition in this format, with an Introduction by A. C. Greene, and a Biography of Biggers by Seymour V. Connor. This is one of 260 copies prepared for the Book Club of Texas, specially bound, with a separate suite of the photographs, and signed by Greene, and by the printer, Tom Taylor. The suite of photographs were printed as duotones by David Holman at the Wind River Press. $200.

653. Taylor, W. Thomas [editor & publisher]: BOOKWAYS A QUARTERLY FOR THE BOOK ARTS. Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1991-5. Whole numbers 1-16 (including two double numbers). Quarto. Stiff pictorial and typographically decorated wrappers. Illustrations, plates, photographs, occasional inserts. Fine, enclosed in two substantial cloth clamshell cases with gilt leather spine labels.

A complete run of this beautifully executed quarterly journal devoted to the fine press movement and the art of the book, ably edited by Tom Taylor and Anita Prewitt (and a host of contributing editors), and printed letterpress at the printing office of W. Thomas Taylor. The list of contributors is expansive and distinguished, and in addition to publishing topical articles, narratives and reviews, each issue kept readers current with “Booktalk: News and Views.” Bookways generously over-filled the vacuum left by the 1990 cessation of Fine Print. $300. 654. [Tenfingers Press]: Thomas, Frank J.: MARK TWAIN ROUGHED IT HERE. Los Angeles: Tenfingers Press, 1964. Oblong quarto. Boards, with pictorial paper onlay and printed label. Photographs. Bookplate, otherwise fine in half morocco folding case and chemise.

Second “edition,” but actually comprised of overprinted sheets from the first edition. From an issue of 70 copies, this is copy #26 of 45 copies printed by hand on Warren’s Olde Style. Illustrated with a linocut portrait of Clemens and eight “miniatures” of the original photographs from the first edition, printed four to a sheet. Laid in front is a mounted 12 x 18.5 cm original print of one of the photographs, signed by the author/photographer. The text is about Clemens’s visit to Mono Lake, the subject of the photographs. $150.

655. [Thistle Hill Press]: Neal, Avon, and Ann Parker [photographer]: LOS AMBULANTES THE ITINERANT PHOTOGRAPHERS OF GUATEMALA. North Brookfield & Cambridge, MA: Thistle Hill Press / MIT Press, 1982. Oblong small quarto. Rough-woven decorative cloth. Photographs (including color). Bookplate on pastedown, otherwise fine, enclosed in folding cloth clamshell box with printed labels (small smudge in one corner of upper panel).

First edition, deluxe issue. One of one hundred numbered copies, specially bound, signed by the author and the photographer, and accompanied by a separate matted selenium-toned silver print of “Two Brothers from Nahuala,” numbered and signed by the photographer. The image size is 228 x 151 mm plus margins, and the print is now neatly detached from the mat. A captivating photo-essay on the itinerant photographers who practice a traditional vocation following religious and secular holidays from marketplace to marketplace, hauling ancient view cameras and painted backdrops, and photographing semi-formal portraits of the villagers in their holiday best. $750.

656. [Thistle Press]: Jonas, Klaus W. [comp]: CARL VAN VECHTEN A BIBLIOGRAPHY ... WITH A PREAMBLE BY GRACE ZARING STONE. New York: Knopf, 1955. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition. One of 400 copies printed for Knopf at the Thistle Press. Fine in dust jacket. $40.

657. [Thornwillow Press]: Rimbaud, Arthur: LE BATEAU IVRE. [West Stockbridge & New York]: Thornwillow Press, 1992. Folio (47 x 31.5 cm). Loose folded signatures and sheets, laid into half morocco folding cloth case. Cloth portions of slipcase lightly shelf-rubbed, otherwise fine.

First printing in this luxurious format, illustrated with twenty-eight drawings by Thierry W. Despont, reproduced via offset lithography. The French text is printed in parallel with the Louise Varese translation. One of 250 numbered copies printed on rag paper by Michael and Winifred Bixler, signed by the artist. $1800.

658. [Thornwillow Press]: Auchincloss, Louis: CIVIL WARS THREE TALES OF OLD NEW YORK ... ILLUSTRATIONS BY ELLIOTT BANFIELD. [New York, West Stockbridge & Prague]: Thornwillow Press, 1999. Large octavo. Publisher’s three quarter green morocco, lettered in gilt, and pastepaper over boards, t.e.g. Frontis and illustrations. A fine copy in publisher’s clamshell case.

First edition. One of 175 numbered copies, printed by Michael and Winifred Bixler on Cardinal Mill handmade paper after a design by Luke Pontifell. Signed by the author, the artist and the designer. $750.

659. [Three Mountains Press]: Windeler, B.C.: ELIMUS: A STORY. Paris: Printed at the Three Mountains Press, 1923. Cloth backed printed boards. Endsheets tanned, as usual, one corner bumped, otherwise an unusually nice copy.

First edition. One of three hundred numbered copies issued in Ezra Pound’s “Inquest” series. Illustrated with twelve designs by Dorothy Shakespear Pound, and a woodcut frontis by Robert Dill. $250.

660. [Three Mountains Press]: Windeler, B.C.: ELIMUS: A STORY. Paris: Printed at the Three Mountains Press, 1923. Cloth backed printed boards. Endsheets tanned, lower fore corners bruised, a few smudges, but very good copy.

First edition. One of three hundred numbered copies issued in Ezra Pound’s “Inquest” series. Illustrated with twelve designs by Dorothy Shakespear Pound, and a woodcut frontis by Robert Dill. This copy has the tipped-in label indicating distribution by Contact Editions. $200.

661. [Three Mountains Press]: Pound, Ezra: INDISCRETIONS; OR, UNE REVUE DE DEUX MONDES. Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1923. Original cloth backed printed boards. A few minor smudges and very faint spots of soiling to boards, otherwise an unusually fine, unworn copy. Half morocco clamshell case.

First edition of the first title in Pound’s “Inquest” series, limited to three hundred copies, a significant number of which remained, unbound and unnumbered, with the effects of William Bird, the publisher. While not a particularly scarce book in general, copies such as this, with the corners intact and sharp, and the endleaves as fresh as new snow, are seldom seen. GALLUP A23. $1600.

“Author’s Proof”

662. [Three Mountains Press]: McAlmon, Robert: DISTINGUISHED AIR (GRIM FAIRY TALES). Paris: Printed for Contact Editions at The Three Mountains Press, 1925. 16mo. Quarter roan and marbled boards. Edges rubbed, some occasionally pronounced spotting to several leaves, but otherwise a good copy.

First edition. In addition to one hundred numbered copies on Arches (and fifteen deluxe copies), this is one of more than a small handful of copies denoted an “Author’s Proof” in type on the colophon. This copy bears early ink manuscript corrections on fifteen pages, often single words or minor deletions of such a nature as to defy meaningful confirmation as in McAlmon’s readily identifiable hand. Wanting the errata slip. “Most notably, in Distinguished Air: Grim Fairy Tales (1925) McAlmon recorded life in the gay subculture of Berlin with a frankness that was unequaled in the era. Compared to his stories, Christopher Isherwood’s later and more famous tales of the city seem almost tame” - Richard G. Mann, GLBTQ (online) YOUNG 1755. $2250.

663. [Tidal Press]: Wadsworth, Charles: VIEWS FROM THE ISLAND POETRY AND PRINTS.... [Cranberry Isles, ME]: The Tidal Press, 1978. Small quarto. Quarter morocco and marbled paper over boards by Gray Parrot. Wrinkle in front pastedown incurred in binding, else fine.

Second edition, revised. One of fifty deluxe copies, specially bound and signed by the author/artist, from a total edition of 1250 copies. The first edition was published by Godine in an edition of 110 copies. For this redaction, the intaglios were reproduced by photo- offset. $150.

664. [Tidal Press]: Fry, Christopher: DEATH IS A KIND OF LOVE. Cranberry Isles, ME: The Tidal Press, 1979. Cloth and marbled boards. Frontis and illustrations. Fine in cloth slipcase.

The limited issue of the first edition in this format of Fry’s November 1977 talk at Chichester Cathedral. Illustrations by Charles E. Wadsworth. Calligraphy by Lance Hidy. One of fifty numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author, the artist and the calligrapher, from a total edition of 600 copies. $125.

665. [Toothpaste Press]: Shange, Ntozake: MELISSA & SMITH. [St. Paul: Bookslinger, 1976]. Small octavo. Sewn stiff wrappers, stamped in blind. Scattered speckling to leaves in the outer gathering (a common affliction for a number of copies of this book), otherwise fine.

First edition. One of a total edition of 300 numbered copies, signed by the author, printed by Alan Kornblum at the Toothpaste Press. $100.

666. [Torch Press]: Lucas, E. V.: A GROUP OF LONDONERS. Minneapolis: Privately printed for Edmund D. Brooks and His Friends, 1913. Large octavo. Cloth and boards, untrimmed. First separate U.S. edition, printed on handmade paper at the Torch Press. Spine tips rubbed, otherwise near fine, unopened. A variant binding, without binding lettering. $100.

667. [Torch Press]: Bay, J. Christian: A HANDFUL OF WESTERN BOOKS [with:] A SECOND HANDFUL OF WESTERN BOOKS [with:] A THIRD HANDFUL OF WESTERN BOOKS. Chicago [and for second and third volumes:] Cedar Rapids: Privately Printed for the Friends of Walter M. Hill [and for second and third volumes:] Privately printed for the Friends of the Torch Press, 1935 - 1937. Three volumes. Small octavo. Cloth and boards, printed labels. Frontis in each volume. One leaf in second volume has a soft crease, a couple small spots on lower edge of second volume, otherwise a very good set.

First editions, the first printed in an edition of 350 copies, the others in editions of 400 copies, printed at the Torch Press. The second volume is pleasantly inscribed by the author: “To the dear old General, from whom all friends of Americana got their best books (not a single foreign element in them) - from J. Christian Bay.” An anecdotal overview of classical Americana collecting as practiced at the time. $250.

668. [Tragara Press]: Powell, Lawrence Clark: TO NEWBURY TO BUY AN OLD BOOK. Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1973. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers. Light crimp to fore-edge, else a fine copy.

First separate printing of this essay from Books in My Baggage. One of 160 copies (of 170) printed for distribution as a New Year’s greeting by Lawrence and Cicely Arden. HALLIWELL B10. $50.

669. [Tragara Press]: Symons, Julian: THE OBJECT OF AN AFFAIR AND OTHER POEMS. Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1974. Small quarto. Decorative pastepaper wrappers, paper label. Fine.

First edition, deluxe issue. Copy #1 of twenty-five deluxe copies printed on Sheepstor handmade paper, signed by the author, in addition to ninety ordinary copies and twenty author’s copies. With the bookplate of George Sims. HALLIWELL A29a. $225.

670. [Tragara Press]: Symons, Julian: THE OBJECT OF AN AFFAIR AND OTHER POEMS. Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1974. Small quarto. Decorative pastepaper wrappers, paper label. Fine.

First edition, author’s issue. In addition to twenty-five deluxe copies printed on Sheepstor handmade paper, signed by the author, this is one of twenty copies for the author’s use, with a special colophon. There were an additional ninety ordinary copies. Inscribed by the author to George Sims, and with the recipient’s bookplate. HALLIWELL A29b. $225.

671. [Tragara Press]: Thomas, Edward: A SPORTSMAN’S TALE. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1983. Marbled wrappers, printed label. Fine.

First edition, printed from the manuscript, with an introduction by R. George Thomas. One of three special copies, printed on Barcham Green paper, in addition to 125 numbered copies for sale. Inscribed and signed by the printer/publisher to bookseller George Sims. HALLIWELL A94b. $250.

672. [Tragara Press]: Symons, Julian: TWO BROTHERS FRAGMENTS OF A CORRESPONDENCE. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1985. Printed wrapper over stiff paper wrappers. Frontis portrait by Wyndham Lewis. First edition. One of 135 copies hand-set in Bembo types, of which this is one of 110 on W.S. vellum parchment. Very fine. HALLIWELL A110. $65.

673. [Tragara Press]: Symons, Julian: TWO BROTHERS FRAGMENTS OF A CORRESPONDENCE. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1985. Printed wrapper over stiff paper wrappers. Frontis portrait by Wyndham Lewis. About fine.

First edition, author’s issue. In addition to 130 ordinary copies hand-set in Bembo types and printed on handmade paper, this is one of thirty author’s copies with a special colophon, and bears Symons’s presentation inscription to George Sims and his wife. Sims’s bookplate appears on a prelim. HALLIWELL A110b. $200.

674. [Tragara Press]: Summers, Montague: LETTERS TO AN EDITOR MONTAGUE SUMMERS TO C.K. OGDEN. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1986. Plain wrappers, printed label. Fine.

First edition, with introduction and notes by D.E. Wickham. In addition to 145 numbered copies, this is an unnumbered proof copy, so designated by the printer/publisher, and bearing his presentation inscription to bookseller George Sims. HALLIWELL A115 (ref). $150.

675. [Tragara Press]: Symons, Arthur [trans]: POESIES. By Stephan Mallarme. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1986. Small quarto. Plain wrappers, printed label. Upper corner bumped, but a nice copy.

First edition thus, edited, with notes and bibliography, by Bruce Morris. An unnumbered “proof” copy, so designated by the printer/publisher, and bearing his presentation inscription to bookseller George Sims. HALLIWELL A118 (ref). $125.

676. [Tragara Press]: [Yeats, William Butler]: Symons, Arthur: AN ANONYMOUS REVIEW OF W.B. YEATS’S IDEAS OF GOOD AND EVIL IN THE 27 JUNE 1903 ATHENAEUM. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1988. Plain wrappers, printed label. First book printing of the full text, edited with notes by Bruce Morris. One of 120 numbered copies, of which 95 were for sale. Fine. HALLIWELL A129. $50.

677. [Tragara Press]: O’Sullivan, Vincent: THE NEXT ROOM. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1988. Plain wrappers, printed label. Fine.

First edition in book form, with an introduction by Richard Dalby. From an edition of 145 copies (including 30 on Gainsborough paper), this is an unnumbered “proof” copy on Abbey Mill paper, inscribed and signed by the printer/publisher to bookseller George Sims. HALLIWELL A130 (ref). $125.

678. [Tragara Press]: O’Sullivan, Vincent: THE NEXT ROOM. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1988. Plain wrappers, printed label. First edition in book form, with an introduction by Richard Dalby. From an edition of 145 copies (including 30 on Gainsborough paper), this is one of 115 ordinary copies on Abbey Mills paper. Fine. HALLIWELL A130. $65. 679. [Tragara Press]: Mallalieu, H.B.: ON THE BERLIN LAKES AND OTHER POEMS. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1988. Large octavo. Printed wrapper over stiff wrappers. Fine.

First edition of this posthumous selection, with a prefatory note by Julian Symons. In addition to 125 copies (85 for sale) on Gainsborough paper, this is one of an unknown (but small) number of “proof” copies on different paper. This copy bears the printer’s presentation inscription to George Sims, as well as the latter’s bookplate. HALLIWELL A131 (note). $150.

680. [Tragara Press]: Sims, George: CHRISTMAS 1989. [Np: Tragara Press for George Sims], 1989. Folded 12mo leaflet on stiff card. A poem by Sims, originally written in 1945, printed as his Christmas card for this year. Fine. HALLIWELL, p.137. $10.

681. [Tragara Press]: Thomas, Edward: LETTERS TO AMERICA 1914-1917. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1989. Plain wrappers, printed label. First edition, with an introduction and notes by R. George Thomas. One of 110 numbered copies on Abbey Mills paper, from an edition of 140 copies. Fine. HALLIWELL A137. $75.

682. [Tragara Press]: Sims, George [comp]: A DARKENED BEING. [Edinburgh]: Privately printed, 1991. Black cloth. Tips faintly rubbed, otherwise fine, without dust jacket, as issued.

First edition of this commonplace book edited by the poet/novelist and bookseller. One of two hundred copies printed on Abbey Mills laid paper at the Tragara Press. This is one of an unknown, but small number of copies, perhaps for presentation, with additional selections written out in manuscript by Sims, and bearing his bookplate. HALLIWELL B62. $200.

683. [Tragara Press]: Sims, George [comp]: A DARKENED BEING. [Edinburgh]: Privately printed, 1991. Black cloth. Fine, without jacket as issued.

First edition of this commonplace book assembled by the late bookseller/poet/novelist. One of two hundred copies printed on Abbey Mills laid paper at the Tragara Press. HALLIWELL B62. $25.

684. [Tragara Press]: Burnett, David: SIX POEMS WITH WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY SISTER MARGARET TOURNOUR. Durham: Black Cygnet Press, 1995. Marbled wrapper over stiff wrappers, paper label. Label darkened from glue used to affix it, otherwise fine.

First edition in this format, illustrated with a frontis and seven other wood-engravings printed from the blocks. One of one hundred and fifty copies printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper by Alan Anderson at the Tragara Press. This copy bears Anderson’s presentation inscription to George [Sims]. HALLIWELL B75. $75.

685. [Tragara Press]: Frost, Peter: SELWYN IMAGE AN ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH. [Oxford]: Privately Printed for the Eighteen Nineties Society, 1997. Stiff wrappers, paper label. Plates. Fine.

One of fifty numbered copies bound in Colorplan wrappers, from a total edition of 75 copies printed at the Tragara Press. Occasional Series No. 4 of the Society’s publications edited by Steven Halliwell. HALLIWELL B92. $65.

686. [Tragara Press]: Gray, Thomas: ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. Durham: Black Cygnet Press, 2003. Quarto. Marbled wrappers, printed label. Fine.

First edition in this format. Illustrated with three wood engravings by Sister Margaret Tournour. Limited to 100 copies “composed in 14-point Perpetua type with engravings printed from wood on Zerkall mould made paper in Cockerell marbled wrappers at the Tragara Press July MMIII.” HALLIWELL 130. $50.

687. [Tragara Press]: Halliwell, Steven [comp]: FIFTY YEARS OF HAND-PRINTING: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE TRAGARA PRESS. [High Wycombe, Buck.]: Rivendale Press, 2005. xviii,174pp. Small quarto. Gilt cloth. Plates and facsimiles. Very fine, without dust jacket, as issued.

First edition, ordinary issue. One of 450 copies, from a total edition of five hundred copies. With an introductory essay by David Burnett. A complete listing of the books printed and published by the Tragara Press from 1954 to 2004, including descriptions of subvariants and known proof states, as well as privately commissioned works and a representative selection of miscellaneous items: including broadsheets, leaflet poems, Christmas cards, catalogues, and ephemera. $75.

688. [Triangular Press]: Carmin, Jim, and Uta Schneider [commentary]: HALF-LIFE 25 YEARS OF BOOKS BY BARBARA TETENBAUM & TRIANGULAR PRESS. Portland, OR: Triangular Press, 2005. Small quarto. Cloth and natural boards, printed labels. Color photographs, plates and illustrations. Fine.

First edition. One of 1000 numbered copies. Schnieder’s text is printed in English and German. A well-illustrated catalogue raisonné (1978-2005) and chronology. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Portland Public Library, December 2005. $100.

689. [Trigram Press]: Hirschman, Jack: YOD. London: Trigram Press, [1966]. Quarto. Accordion-fold panels. Fine in slightly darkened and rubbed cloth-backed foil over boards chemise.

First edition. One of sixty numbered copies, signed by Hirschman, from a total edition of two hundred copies, the entirety printed in facsimile of the author’s holograph, with decorations, via color silkscreen. Formerly uncommon. $150.

690. Trovillion, Hal W.: DESIGNING A BOOKPLATE. Herrin, IL: Trovillion Private Press, 1953. Small octavo. Pale blue paper wrappers, printed in red. Frontis, one full-page facsimile. Lower wrapper dust tanned at edges, wrappers a bit rubbed; very good.

First edition. One of 413 numbered copies printed on Batchelor handmade paper, signed by the author/printer. With a signed specimen of Trovillion’s bookplate tipped in and with the Trovillions’ folded leaflet holiday greeting laid in. $75.

691. [Turkey Press]: Laughlin, James: STOLEN & CONTAMINATED POEMS. [Isla Vista]: Turkey Press, 1985. Large octavo. Cloth and paper over boards. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued.

First edition, limited issue. One of two hundred numbered copies printed on Frankfurt Cream paper in Dante type, from a total edition of 240 copies, signed by the author. There were forty deluxe copies printed on handmade paper. $150.

692. [Turkey Press]: Hannon, Michael: FABLES POEMS ... DRAWINGS BY WILLIAM T. WILEY. [Isla Vista, CA]: Turkey Press. 1988. Small folio (32.7 x 22.3 cm). Cloth backed boards, lettered in blind. Fine in lightly rubbed cloth clamshell box, with bookplate on pastedown of box.

First edition. One of 125 numbered copies printed in Spectrum, Neuland and Albertus types on handmade Japanese kozo paper. $350.

693. [Turkey Press]: Laughlin, James: HEART ISLAND & OTHER EPIGRAMS. Isla Vista: Turkey Press, 1995. Octavo. Cloth and paper over boards, hand-colored vignette on upper cover, paper spine label. Illustrated. Fine copy.

First edition. Illustrated with engravings after those of M.L. Breton used in Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire Infernal (1863). One of two hundred press-numbered copies, printed on Nideggen and Kitakata papers in Walbaum type, designed, printed and bound by Sandra and Harry Reese, and signed by the author. Kindly dedicated by the author to a grateful bookseller. A lovely book, at publication price. $200.

694. [Turret Books]: Williams, Jonathan: THE LUCIDITIES SIXTEEN IN VISIONARY COMPANY ... DRAWINGS BY JOHN FURNIVAL. [London]: Turret Books, [1967]. Small quarto. Cloth. Fine in dust jacket.

First edition, signed limited issue. One of one hundred numbered copies, signed by the author, from a total of 280 copies. $100.

695. [Twelve by Eight Press]: Mason, John: SOME PAPERS HAND MADE BY JOHN MASON. London: Maggs Bros., 1959. [32] leaves. Square octavo. Quarter gilt parchment and handmade paper over boards, incorporating a botanical specimen on each board, edges wholly untrimmed. Illustrations and inserts. Fine, with prospectus laid in, in faintly soiled box with gilt label.

First edition. Copy #6 of one hundred numbered copies, produced by Mason at his 12 x 8 mill. Comprised of half-sheets of papers dating from 1954 to date of publication, several of them examples of his inclusion of whole botanical objects in the sheets, preceded by a brief introductory essay and some notes specific to the circumstances of production of each of the papers. $750.

696. [Twelve by Eight Press]: Mason, John: PAPER MAKING AS AN ARTISTIC CRAFT. Leicester: Twelve by Eight Press, [1963]. Limp boards, stamped in gilt. Foreword by Dard Hunter. Illustrations by Rigby Graham. Fine.

Second, revised, edition, deluxe issue. One of an unknown, number of copies with eight original paper specimens tipped in. $150.

697. [Twelve by Eight Press]: Mason, John: PAPER MAKING AS AN ARTISTIC CRAFT. Leicester: Twelve by Eight Press, [1963]. Limp boards, stamped in gilt. Foreword by Dard Hunter. Illustrations by Rigby Graham. Small smudge in upper corner of front board, otherwise fine in decorated wrapper.

Second, revised, edition, ordinary issue, with three samples tipped in (copies vary as to the number of samples; they were inserted when sold). $65.

698. [Twowindows Press]: Gray, Don: LITTLE UN’S BOOK. [San Francisco: Twowindows Press, January 1968]. Chocolate brown cloth over boards, with stencil-printed pictorial design and titling. Illustrations by Rasan Gray. One lower foretip rubbed, a couple of small smudges to cloth, internally fine.

First edition. One of 12 numbered copies, specially bound and signed by the author, from a total edition 262 printed in Centaur Types. $50.

699. Twyman, Michael: PRINTING 1770 - 1970 AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF ITS DEVELOPMENT AND USES IN ENGLAND. London: Eyres & Spottiswoode, 1970. Quarto. Gilt linen. Extensively illustrated, including color. First edition. Fine, in very good, somewhat rubbed and corner worn pictorial dust jacket. $100.

700. [Typographeum]: Kershaw, Alister: ADRIAN LAWLOR: A MEMOIR. Francestown: Typographeum, 1981. Cloth and boards, paper spine label. Portrait of the subject by Anthony Pallisher. Trace of hand soiling to binding, otherwise about fine.

First Edition. One of 85 numbered copies signed by Kershaw (the entire edition). An affectionate memoir of the Melbourne modernist painter and writer. $75. 701. [Typographeum]: Campbell, Roy, and Christopher Connolly [composer]: ‘MASS AT DAWN’ A POEM SET TO MUSIC .... Francestown: Typographeum, 1984. Large octavo. Stiff wrapper, paper label. Fine.

First edition. One of eighty copies handset and printed by R.T. Risk and signed by the composer. A second edition appeared in 1991. $75.

702. [Typographeum]: Lyle, Anna Campbell: POETIC JUSTICE A MEMOIR OF MY FATHER ROY CAMPBELL. Francestown: Typographeum, 1986. Large octavo. Red linen, paper spine label, edges untrimmed. Portrait and plates. Trace of sunning to the spine, otherwise about fine.

First edition. One of a total edition of 150 copies printed and bound by R. T. Rick. $125.

703. [Typographeum]: Harrington, Frank G.: JAMES HANLEY: A BOLD AND UNIQUE SOLITARY. Francestown: Typographeum, 1989. Cloth, paper label. Portrait and plates. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued.

First edition of this excellent appreciation, memoir and bibliographical consideration. One of 150 copies printed. Warmly inscribed upon publication by the author, and with the recipient’s ownership signature following the inscription. $85.

704. [Ulysses Press]: Collier, John: GEMINI. London: Ulysses Press, [1931]. Cloth and printed boards. Minor soiling to white spine, but a near fine copy.

One of 185 numbered copies, signed by the author. Collier pays homage to the influence of Joyce and Ulysses upon these poems in his introduction. $285.

705. [Unicorn Press]: Snyder, Gary: A CURSE ON THE MEN IN WASHINGTON, PENTAGON [caption title]. [Santa Barbara]: Unicorn Press Broadsheet One, [1968]. Folio broadside (40.5 x 30.5 cm). Modest tanning along top and left edges, else very good or better.

First letter press printing (preceded by a mimeographed typescript). This is the first printing, with ‘Buddah’ at line 16. One of 270 unsigned copies, from a total edition of three hundred printed on Hayle handmade paper. McNEIL A15b. $75.

706. [Updike, D.B.]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. New York: Printed for the Convention, 1893. [28],566,[2]pp. Folio. Original heavily gilt decorated vellum over boards, with brass fore-clasps, t.e.g., others untrimmed, ribbon marker. Printed in red and black, with floriated borders by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, title in black letter. Binding a bit dust soiled, with bruises to foretips and small chip from lower corner of front pastedown, front inner hinge cracked, but webbing sound, some occasional dust and finger smudging to the margins of the early leaves, bookplate and small label on front pastedown, some bleed-through on the title from the array of original ink signatures on the verso, otherwise about very good.

Copy #12 of the limited issue of the revised Book of Common Prayer, overseen by D.B. Updike, and signed in ink on the verso of the title by many of the principals associated with the revision approved at the 1892 General Convention, including financier J.P. Morgan, who helped fund the edition’s publication. The limited edition was prepared in two forms, one being this form, intended for distribution to each diocese and jurisdiction within the Church, with original signatures on the verso of the title and with a variant title, all in black letter, without border. The standard limited edition of 500 copies on handmade paper has the signatures of the principals in printed facsimile, and a foliated border around the title resembling those around the main text, and the central “Laudate Dominum” device, and the two lines: “Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David.” Updike comments at length on this project in his introduction to Notes on The Merrymount Press, and about his role in the attempted rescue of an ill-conceived attempt to produce a decorated edition from the plates of the 1892 printing: “The best things about the book were the cover and charming end-papers which Goodhue designed for it. Sad to relate, the edition had an immediate and resounding success! We were congratulated, and we blushed. Our shame was taken for modesty and we were congratulated more! While the book is indeed a strange one, it is by no means so strange as the designs originally made for it” (see pp. 9-10). Nonetheless, the experience was an important prelude to the production in 1928 of Updike’s own edition, widely regarded as his finest work. Laid into this copy is a photocopy of the 4pp. leaflet, On the Decorations of the Limited Edition of The Standard Prayer Book of MDCCCXCII. GRIFFITHS 1893.6. $5500.

707. [Updike, D. B.]: Mores, Edward Rowe: A DISSERTATION UPON ENGLISH TYPOGRAPHICAL FOUNDERS AND FOUNDRIES ... WITH APPENDIX BY JOHN NICHOLS .... New York: The Grolier Club, 1924. Large octavo. Marbled cloth, paper spine label. Folding table. First edition thus. One of two hundred and fifty copies, edited and printed by D.B. Updike. Spine a bit cocked and slightly darkened, crown a trifle frayed, endleaves a trifle foxed; a good copy. $110.

708. [Updike, D. B.]: Lewis, Wilmarth S. [ed]: NOTES BY LADY LOUISA STUART ON GEORGE SELWYN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES BY JOHN HENEAGE JESSE. New York: Oxford, 1928. Quarto. Cloth and marbled boards. Plate. A fine copy in chipped and tanned glassine.

First edition. One of five hundred copies printed by Updike. A handsome publication of the notes which, according to Collector’s Progress, led to Lewis’s search for Walpoliana. Inscribed presentation copy from Lewis to Walter Pforzheimer. $150.

709. [Updike, D. B.]: UPDIKE: AMERICAN PRINTER AND HIS MERRYMOUNT PRESS. NOTES ON THE PRESS AND ITS WORK ... WITH A GATHERING OF ESSAYS ... AND A GALLERY OF MERRYMOUNT TITLE-PAGES AND TYPES. New York: AIGA, 1947. Gilt cloth. Illustrations and facsimiles. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. $60.

710. [Vale Press]: Campion, Thomas: FIFTY SONGS BY.... [London: Sold by Messrs. Hacon & Ricketts at the Sign of the Dial, 1896]. Large octavo. Paper and decorated boards, printed spine label. Label a trifle darkened and lightly rubbed, a few isolated foxmarks to spine, touch of wear at spine tips, usual tan offsetting to endsheets, otherwise an unusually nice copy.

First edition of this selection, edited by John Gray. Title-border and decorative initials by Charles Ricketts. One of 210 copies printed on Arnold’s handmade paper at the Ballantyne Press. RANSOM (VALE PRESS) 7. TOMKINSON (VALE PRESS) 7. $300.

711. [Vale Press]: “Field, Michael” [pseud. of Katherine H. Bradley and Edith E. Cooper]: JULIA DOMNA A PLAY. [London: The Vale Press, 1903]. Large octavo. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. Label slightly rubbed, a few faint marks to boards, foxing and offsetting to endleaves and occasional foxing in text, but a good copy.

First edition. One of two hundred and forty copies printed on handmade paper, in addition to ten copies on vellum, under the supervision of Charles Ricketts, who also contributed the woodcut decorations. NCBEL III:626. TOMKINSON (VALE PRESS) 41. COLBECK I:249. $250.

712. [Vehicle Editions]: Phillips, Jayne Anne: FAST LANES. [New York]: Vehicle Editions, [1984]. Pictorial wrapper over limp boards. Illustrations by Yvonne Jacquette. Fine. However, the perishable publisher’s translucent plastic sleeve is darkened (as seems to be inevitable) and has a couple of small surface scrapes along one edge. Uncommon.

First edition, limited issue. One of twenty-six lettered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author and artist. $525.

713. [Vehicle Editions]: Phillips, Jayne Anne: FAST LANES. [New York]: Vehicle Editions, [1984]. Pictorial wrapper over wrappers. Illustrations by Yvonne Jacquette. Fine.

First edition, signed trade issue (one of fifty copies thus, of 2026). Signed by the author and the artist. Fine. Laid in is a t.l.s. from the publisher concerning the recipient’s order for copies, and explaining that this signed issue (which is not mentioned in the colophon) consisted of only fifty copies. $85.

714. [Verlag 3]: Heissenbüttel, Helmut, and William Turnbull [illustrator]: DER WASSERMALER DAS DILEMMA AUF DEM TROCKENEN ZU SITZENH. Zurich: [Verlag 3], 1976. Small quarto. Folded sheets laid into printed wrappers. Fine in very good glassine and lightly handsoiled slipcase.

First edition, ordinary issue. Illustrated with three spare color gravures by William Turnbull. Copy #59 from an edition of 100 copies (including 25 deluxe and 25 HC), signed by the author and the artist. Published as the first of the Verlag 3 series. $250.

715. [Verlag 3]: Mock, Jean-Yves, and Jacob El Hanani: L’OUBLI ÉVASE LE VIDE. [Zurich]: Verlag 3, [1980]. Small quarto. Loose folded sheet, laid into decorated wrappers. Illustrated. Fine in glassine and faintly smudged white slipcase.

First edition. Illustrated with seven original etchings (one in two colors) by Jacob El Hanani. From an edition of 125 copies printed on papier moulin du gué by Dölf Hürlimann, this is one of 75 copies of the ordinary issue, signed by the author and the artist. The etchings were printed at l’Atelier Garric Tanguy. Published as title VIII in the Verlag 3 series of publications. $125.

One of Sixty Signed Copies

716. [Village Press]: Wells, H.G.: THE DOOR IN THE WALL AND OTHER STORIES ... ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAVURES BY ALVIN LANGDON COBURN. London: Grant Richards, [1911]. Small folio. Cloth backed boards, elaborately lettered in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, printed spine label. Frontis and nine tipped-in photogravure plates. One end of spine label chipped, boards a bit hand smudged, with a few small nicks at edges; usual mild offset from plates to facing pages, tiny surface abrasion to extreme margin (not image) of frontis, small spot of ink offset in margin of title, otherwise fresh and crisp, with the plates in fine state.

First edition in this format, the very scarce British issue. From a total edition of six hundred copies printed on French handmade paper by Bertha Goudy at the Village Press, this is one of sixty copies distributed in the U.K. by Grant Richards with their imprint, and with a handwritten limitation statement on the blank verso facing the half-title, signed at the end by Wells and by Coburn. The hand-pulled photogravures were printed under the supervision of Coburn, from plates he prepared himself. Due to a production accident, only three hundred of the six hundred were issued with the full complement of photogravures; in the remaining three hundred, sometimes one and usually many more of the plates were supplied as aquatones. This copy, as we suspect all copies of the limited British issue as originally distributed, includes all of the plates in photogravure. CARY 70. TRUTHFUL LENS 184. $7500.

717. [Village Press]: Waller, Edmund: SONGS AND VERSES SELECTED FROM THE WORKS OF... New York: The Village Press, 1911. 19,[1]pp. Unsewn, unbound gathered folded sheets. A bit dusty and smudged, old soft vertical crease (as if from having been posted in an envelope at an early point); a good copy.

First edition thus. One of 110 copies printed on Glaslan handmade paper by Frederic and Bertha Goudy at the Village Press. This publication, and a Walpole Society Keepsake, marked the of the press after its destruction in a fire on 10 January 1908. The majority of copies were issued in boards, though at least two other unbound copies such as this are extant. RANSOM 19. CAREY 65. $150.

718. [Village Press]: Irving, Washington: NEW-YEAR CIVILITIES BEING AN EXCERPT FROM SALMAGUNDI. New York: Privately Printed, Christmas 1912. Small octavo. Printed paper over boards. The paper over the thin spine is a bit chipped, a few smudges, otherwise very good.

One of 200 copies printed in Kennerley type on Barcelona paper for Thomas Nast Fairbanks at the Village Press. Uncommon. CARY 78. BAL 10408. $75.

719. [Village Press]: Ransom, Will, et al: INTIMATE RECOLLECTIONS OF THE VILLAGE PRESS BY THREE FRIENDS .... Marlborough, NY: [The Village Press], 23 July 1938. Small quarto. Boards, printed label. About fine in lightly worn glassine.

First edition. One of two hundred copies printed by Goudy for presentation on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the imprint. Ransom, Mitchell Kennerley and Charles E. Park contribute, in company with a brief prefatory note. $75.

720. [Vine Press]: [Neuburg, Victor B. (ed & pub)]: LILLYGAY: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ANONYMOUS POEMS. Steyning: The Vine Press, 1920. Cloth and decorated boards, paper label. Woodcut illustrations. Boards somewhat tanned and rubbed, foretips bumped, endsheets show the inevitable tanning, spine label chipped and tanned (the spare is still present in back), otherwise a very good copy.

First edition of the first book printed by Victor Neuberg, Aleister Crowley’s former protégé and accomplice in a notorious bit of magick. One of 550 numbered copies, of 590. Woodcuts by Eric and Percy West. Neuberg was later the poetry editor of The Sunday Referee, and was in large part responsible for the publication of Dylan Thomas’s first book. It is possible that some of the anonymous verse printed herein was of his own composition. TOMPKINSON 1. $140.

721. [Vine Press]: [Neuburg, Victor B.]: SONGS OF THE GROVES: RECORDS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. Steyning, Sussex: The Vine Press, 1921. Gilt cloth backed pictorial boards. Light rubbing and tanning at edges, usual offset to endsheets, a bit of soiling to boards, else a very good copy of this crude production

First edition. One of 550 numbered copies on laid paper, from an edition of 590. Inscribed by Neuburg on the free endsheet: “For Abraham Friedman, Counseller [sic] at Law of New York City; Of Pagan Seed, [indecipherable] spring Love and Awe, Mercy and Pity! With best wishes from his ever-frater[n]al Victor B. Neuburg xxvi : viii : mcmxxvii.” An early production from the press and pen of Aleister Crowley’s one-time protégé and accomplice in a notorious bit of magick, and later, Dylan Thomas’s first book publisher. TOMPKINSON 3. $225.

722. [Vine Press]: [Neuburg, Victor B. (ed & pub)]: LARKSPUR: A LYRIC GARLAND. Steyning: The Vine Press, 1922. Cloth and pictorial boards. Woodcut illustrations. Lower fore-tips bruised, boards somewhat dusty and a bit smudged, a few corner creases, but a good copy.

First edition. One of 550 numbered copies printed on laid paper from a total edition of 590 copies. The woodcuts are by Dennis West. While the selected poems are by a wide range of authors, we presume the dedicatory verse is Neuberg’s work. Neuburg was Aleister Crowley’s one-time protégé and accomplice in a notorious bit of magick, and later, Dylan Thomas’s first book publisher. TOMKINSON 4. $125.

724. [Visual Studies Workshop Press]: Sizer, Irma Martinez: EVERYDAY MEATLOAF. [Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 2007]. Quarto (22.5 x 22 cm). Open-sewn boards, with mounted framed digitally modified religious image. Illustrated in color throughout. Fine.

First edition. Copy #3 of 25 numbered copies, signed and dated by the artist. Printed via Epson Inkjet ultrachrome on BFK Rives. A significant artist’s book by an important Latina artist, produced during her March 2007 residence at the workshop. Ms. Sizer’s work as photographer, designer and graphic artist has been exhibited widely, particularly in the Southwest. $650.

725. [Vixen Press]: Seidenberg, Caryl: OPERATION RESCUE IN WHICH 25 YEARS OF MISPRINTS - NO TWO ALIKE ARE MIRACULOUSLY REINCARNATED. [Winnetka, IL: The Vixen Press, 1980]. Small quarto. Linen and boards, paper label. Tipped-in illustrations. Slight discolorations to upper board and spine panel at edges, two tiny bleed marks at top edge, otherwise very good, internally about fine.

First edition. A relatively uncommon title under the imprint, being one of 35 numbered copies printed by Seidenberg on Arches, and signed and bound by her. There is some variation in the illustrative component of the copies, the illustrations being “odd bits and pieces from the Vixen Press.” The six illustrations in this copy are chiefly colored engravings, with two of them en face as a center spread. $300.

726. [Wall, Bernhardt]: BRUNO’S GARRET SECOND EXHIBIT OF ETCHINGS, DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLORS INCLUDING A SET OF PORTRAITS OF WELL KNOWN MEN BY BERNHARDT WALL [wrapper title]. [New York: Guido Bruno], June 1915. [24]pp. 24mo. Printed wrappers. 8 illustrations. White wrappers dusty, with tiny spot, production crease in blank margin of one illustration, otherwise very good.

First edition of the handlist for one of the earliest major exhibitions of Wall’s etchings and works on paper. 37 items were exhibited, and the prefatory essay asserts: “New York has its new romancier. Another O. Henry is among us.” Weber refers to this catalogue, but errs in the count of items exhibited (19 rather than 37). WEBER, p5. $75.

727. [Wall, Bernhardt]: Wilson, Woodrow: WHY THE U.S. PRESIDENT MUST NOT WEAR UNIFORM ... WITH A PEN PORTRAIT OF THE PRESIDENT BY GUIDO BRUNO. New York: Privately Printed [by Guido Bruno], 1918. Printed wrappers. Small nicks at corners, but very good.

First edition. Prints a letter from Wilson to Bernhardt Wall and Bruno’s sketch, all relevant to Wall’s creative portrait of Wilson in uniform being omitted from the cover of an issue of Bruno’s Bohemia. $35. One of Twenty-Six -- With Two of the Original Etched Zinc Plates

728. Wall, Bernhardt [etcher]: GREENWICH VILLAGE TYPES TENEMENTS & TEMPLES. [New York: Printed and Published by the Artist, ca. 1920]. Quarto. Original cloth tape backed boards, with etched vignette. Separation between front free endsheet and second endsheet due to the weight of the boards, some creasing to spine, but a very good copy, internally fine. Rear panel of dust jacket present.

First edition thus, and one of Wall’s least common and most desirable productions, consisting of twenty-two original etchings printed from zinc plates in various hues, with each of the plates signed by the artist in the margin, accompanied by the original etched preliminaries, title, index and colophon. Wall had originally intended the edition to consist of fifty copies, but the zinc plates did not hold up sufficiently for that many impressions, and he reduced the edition to twenty-six copies (so corrected on the colophon in ink, and signed by him). Two of the original etched zinc plates are inlaid into the inside of the boards, in this case those for two of the best of the images: “Washington Square Arch” and “A Studio.” A typed transcript of some comments Wall made in 1937 about the edition is laid in, along with a 1948 cover letter from Dawson’s Book Shop. Weber does not note the truncation of the edition, gives a variant plate count - perhaps including some of the etched prelims in his count, as this copy collates complete according to the index, plus the two self-portraits - and notes “many copies have a cancelled plate embedded in the cover.” As noted above, this copy, #22, has two of the original zinc plates, and unlike Father Weber’s copy, has the etching on the upper board imprinted in the board itself, rather than on a separate label. The descriptive text leaf describes this as the “third state” of the project, no doubt referring to the 1918 Ten Etchings of Greenwich Village. WEBER, p.31. $4500.

729. Wall, Bernhardt [etcher]: WHY FIRST EDITIONS? [with:] JAMES F. DRAKE, ESQ. [New York: Bernhardt Wall, ca. March 1921]. Two original etchings (platemarks 17.5 x 12.5 cm approx), in sienna and brown, with large margins. Matted. About fine (a couple scuffs to mat).

The first etching is the text of Drake’s justification of collecting first editions (both economic and intellectual), and the second is Wall’s etched portrait of Drake. These appeared as two of the sixteen original etchings prepared for I:3 of Wall’s Etched Monthly (March 1921, limited to 125 copies). Drake served as the distributor and promoter at the time of Wall’s periodicals and publications. He also sold single prints of the etchings (see Weber, p.53), but the two examples in hand have clean stabholes in the extreme left margins from once having been part of a copy of the issue. Weber also notes that Drake’s selling price for individual prints was the same as for complete issues (containing 16 etchings in this case). $100.

730. [Wall, Bernhardt (etcher)]: Vest, George Graham: MAN’S BEST FRIEND A PLEA TO A JURY BY ... SENATOR FROM MISSOURI. New York: Etched by Bernhardt Wall, 1920. 15 leaves. Small quarto (22 x 16.2 cm). Cloth tape backed boards, etched pictorial label. One fore-tip nicked, else a very good to near fine copy.

First edition. One of 125 numbered copies, signed by the artist/printer/publisher. Comprised of fifteen original copper-plate etchings by Wall, plus the label, printed in various colors. Wall’s third “etched” book, and the first to achieve commercial circulation and success. Wall dated his inscription in this copy “2.28.22.” WEBER, p.31. $475.

731. [Wall, Bernhardt (etcher)]: Wood, Clement: THE LAUGHER. New York: Published by Bernhardt Wall, 1922. [5],8,[1] leaves. Small quarto (21 x 16.2 cm). Cloth tape backed boards, etched pictorial label. Fore-tips of boards worn, with chips to the extended crown and toe of the spine tape, small chip to fore-edge of front free endsheet, two leaves show a bit of marginal foxing, but a good, internally very good copy.

First edition. Copy #1 of fifty numbered copies, signed by the author and artist/printer/ publisher. Comprised of fourteen original copper-plate etchings by Wall, plus the label, printed in various colors. In his monograph on Wall’s work, F.J. Weber reports the edition consisted of one hundred copies. Given the nature of the production, at some point after this copy was printed, Wall could easily have elected to enlarge the edition to accommodate a greater number of orders than expected. WEBER, p.33. $375.

732. [Wall, Bernhardt (etcher)]: Addison, Joseph: TANTALUS ... FROM THE SPECTATOR FIRST PRINTED JUNE 13TH 1711. New Preston, CT.: Bernhardt Wall, 1925. Small quarto. Cloth backed boards, spine label (worn). Light rubbing at corners, some minor marginal smudges to a few leaves, else a very nice copy.

Copy #6 of 150 numbered copies, signed by the artist/publisher. Comprised of twenty-one original etchings, printed from the plate. This copy bears Wall’s 1926 pencil presentation inscription to Col. Marston E. Drake. The Drake firm was Wall’s primary distributor at the time. WEBER, p.36. $500.

733. [Walpole Printing Office]: KOHELETH THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES. [Norfolk]: New Directions, 1940. Cloth. Fine in slightly cracked and used slipcase.

First edition thus. With full-page illustrations by Emlen Etting. One of 1500 copies printed at the Walpole Printing Office. HARRISON, NEWTH & CANDIDO, p.4. $75.

With Two of the Original Drawings

734. [Ward Ritchie Press]: [Clemens, Samuel L.]: Twain, Mark [pseud]: THE WASHOE GIANT IN SAN FRANCISCO BEING HERETOFORE UNCOLLECTED SKETCHES .... San Francisco: George Fields, 1938. Large octavo. Cloth and boards. Illustrations. Two bookplates on front endsheets, otherwise about fine in very good dust jacket with some small chips and closed tears along top edge.

First edition. Printed at the Ward Ritchie Press. Edited by Franklin Walker and illustrated with drawings by Lloyd Hoff. Laid into this copy are two of the originals of Hoff’s ink drawings, for the illustrations on pages 66 and 115. BAL 3559. $350.

735. [Ward Ritchie Press]: Everson, William: SAN JOAQUIN. Los Angeles: Printed by the Ward Ritchie Press, 1939. Square octavo. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. Spine and label slightly darkened, otherwise about fine.

First edition of the author’s second book, elegantly printed in an edition of only one hundred copies. Decorations by Hubert Buel. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. Inscribed by Everson: “for Gilbert and Margret [sic] Neiman, who made this house feel very fine for a few hours. William Everson. Selma Calif. June 20 1941.” $2000. 736. [Ward Ritchie Press]: Everson, William: SAN JOAQUIN. Los Angeles: Printed by the Ward Ritchie Press, 1939. Square octavo. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. Fine in slightly faded cloth case.

First edition of the author’s second book, elegantly printed in an edition of only one hundred copies. Decorations by Hubert Buel. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. With Everson’s solicited signed inscription, dated 1983. $1650.

737. [Ward Ritchie Press]: Harte, Bret: HOW SANTA CLAUS CAME TO SIMPSON’S BAR. [Los Angeles]: Ward Ritchie Press, [1941]. Large octavo. Cloth and decorated boards. Illustrations by Paul Landacre. One of five hundred unsigned copies, from a total edition of 525. With the small bookplate of typographer/printer Carl P. Rollins. Near fine in slipcase. BAL 7565. $125.

One of Ten Author’s Copies

738. [Ward Ritchie Press]: Steinbeck, John: THE FIRST WATCH. [New York: Marguerite and Louis Henry Cohn], Christmas 1947. 6,[2]pp. Small octavo. Sewn printed wrappers. Decorated title-page. Fine, in original envelope. Enclosed in an extravagant full dark blue morocco slipcase, gilt extra, with silk lined folding insert.

First edition. Copy #10 of sixty numbered copies (and some out-of-series copies) privately printed at the Ward Ritchie Press as the Cohns’ Christmas greeting for the year. The first ten copies - of which this example must be counted - were reserved for Steinbeck, and the remaining fifty for distribution by the Cohns. The text of a 1938 extended letter by Steinbeck. GOLDSTONE & PAYNE A26a. $8500.

739. [Ward Ritchie Press]: Jeffers, Robinson: POETRY, GONGORISM AND A THOUSAND YEARS. [Los Angeles]: Ward Ritchie Press, 1949. Decorated boards. Boards somewhat tanned at edges and spine, endsheets a bit foxed, two small nicks to spine; just a good copy.

First edition. One of two hundred copies printed. Designed by Ritchie, and an AIGA award book for its year. BROOMFIELD A36a. $175.

740. [Ward Ritchie Press]: Corle, Edwin: FIG TREE JOHN. [Los Angeles]: Ward Ritchie Press, [1955]. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. Illustrations. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in good slipcase with small sticker scar and a few small nicks.

First illustrated edition, with decorations by Don Perceval and a Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. One of 550 numbered copies. $60.

741. [Ward Ritchie Press]: [Soule, William Strinson]: Belous, Russell E., and Robert A Weinstein: WILL SOULE INDIAN PHOTOGRAPHER AT FORT SILL, OKLAHOMA 1869- 74. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1969. vii,120pp. Quarto. Cloth and pictorial boards. Photographs. First edition. Top edge lightly foxed, otherwise a tight, clean, near fine copy, in lightly worn, price-clipped, pictorial dust jacket with a few small losses and tears to the upper panel. A hitherto unpublished collection of American Indian photographs - lost for nearly one hundred years. $75.

742. [Warde, Frederic]: Cooper, James F.: THE SPY; A TALE OF THE NEUTRAL GROUND. New York: Bowling Green Press, 1929. Small octavo. Gilt cloth, t.e.g. Spines sunfaded, otherwise a nice set in slightly nicked slipcase.

First edition thus, with an introduction by Henry S. Canby, and illustrations by William Cotton. One of one thousand numbered sets, designed by Frederic Warde, and printed by Rudge. Accompanying this set are separate printings of the four color illustrations by Cotton, in a handmade paper folder, captioned in manuscript in an unknown hand. $100. 743. [Warde, Frederic]: Aldington, Richard: LOVE AND THE LUXEMBOURG. New York: Covici Friede, 1930. Gilt cloth, t.e.g. Some foxing to edges and early and late leaves, otherwise a very good or better copy in bumped and slightly chipped slipcase.

First edition, preceding British publication. One of 475 numbered copies, signed by Aldington, and by the designer, Frederic Warde. $75.

744. [Watch Hill Press]: Palissy, Bernard: A DELECTABLE GARDEN. [Peekskill, NY]: The Watch Hill Press, 1931. Large octavo. Parchment over boards. Portrait. Title vignette by Pamela Bianco. Parchment shows some characteristic mottling, a few smudges to endleaves, but a very good copy.

First edition of this translation, with introduction, by Helen Morgenthau Fox. One of 125 copies printed by hand by Crosby Gaige and James Hendrickson on German handmade paper. This copy bears the translator’s undated presentation inscription to a member of the Spingarn family. $125.

745. [Way & Williams]: Forman, H. Buxton: THE BOOKS OF WILLIAM MORRIS DESCRIBED WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS DOINGS IN LITERATURE AND IN THE ALLIED CRAFTS. Chicago: Way & Williams, 1897. 224pp. Large octavo. Gilt polished buckram, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Frontis and plates. Spine faded, front endsheets browned, small ink gift inscription in margin of title; a good, sound copy.

First edition, U.S. issue, bound up from the sheets of the U.K. edition published by Fred Hollings. Somewhat less common than the U.K. issue. KRAUS 61. $250.

746. [Way & Williams]: Adams, Mary M.: THE CHOIR VISIBLE. Chicago: Way & Williams, 1897. 185pp. Pictorial cloth, decorated in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Decorative title in red and black. Spine tips a trace rubbed, bookplate of the Zamorano Club on front pastedown, otherwise near fine.

First edition. With a lengthy presentation inscription from “the author,” dated 1898. A handsomely produced volume, printed on fine laid paper from W. King Alton Mill, with a title and binding design by Frank Hazenplug. The title poem was printed separately in 1893. KRAUS 53. $150.

747. [Way & Williams]: Lang, Andrew [trans]: THE MIRACLES OF MADAME SAINT KATHERINE OF FIERBOIS TRANSLATED FROM THE EDITION OF THE ABBÉ J.J. BOURASSÉ, TOURS, 1858. Chicago: Way & Williams, 1897. Half white cloth and boards, untrimmed. Inscribed gift sentiment affixed to front free endsheets, binding handsoiled and endsheets a bit foxed; a good, sound copy.

First edition, U.S. issue. One of 350 numbered copies on handmade paper, from a total of 400 for distribution in the U.S.; another 400 copies were exported to the UK. The edition was printed by the De Vinne Press. KRAUS 41. $75.

748. [Welty, Eudora]: Brooks, Cleanth, et al.: EUDORA WELTY: A TRIBUTE 13 APRIL 1984. [Winston-Salem]: Printed for Stuart Wright, 1984. Large octavo. Half Niger morocco and marbled boards. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued.

First edition in book form, published in observance of Welty’s 75th birthday. A collective reprinting of essays by Brooks, B. Malamud, W. Maxwell, R. Price, W.J. Smith, E. Spencer, P. Taylor, Anne Tyler, R. P. Warren and R. Wilbur. One of seventy-five copies, signed by each of the authors at the end of their respective contribution. $850.

749. Westvaco: WESTVACO INSPIRATIONS FOR PRINTERS SERIES OF NINETEEN THIRTY. [Np]: West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, 1930. Quarto. Later cloth, with original panels (somewhat faded) laid down. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Private bookplate and shelf number on binder’s endsheet, very good.

The annual format for Westvaco’s design periodical, showcasing superb period technique, styles and processes. Whole numbers 51 through 60 are here bound up with the annual indices and cover title. $150.

750. [Whitridge, Thomas]: Everson, William: RIVER-ROOT. A SYZYGY FOR THE BICENTENNIAL OF THESE STATES. [Berkeley]: Oyez, [1976]. Quarto. Calf backed boards. Fine.

First edition. One of 200 numbered copies (of 250), signed by the author. Designed by Thomas Whitridge, with illustrations by Patrick Kennedy. $125.

751. [Whitridge, Thomas]: Everson, William: RIVER-ROOT. A SYZYGY FOR THE BICENTENNIAL OF THESE STATES. [Berkeley]: Oyez, [1976]. Quarto. Calf backed boards. About fine.

First edition. One of 200 numbered copies (of 250), signed by the author. Designed by Thomas Whitridge, with illustrations by Patrick Kennedy. One of a small, but unknown number of copies with a variant illustration on page 22 (a variation not noted by the bibliographers). $185.

752. [Whittingham Imprint]: Lyttelton, George Lord: THE POETICAL WORKS OF ... WITH ADDITIONS: TO WHICH IS PREFIXED AN ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE. London: Printed by C. Whittingham for Cadell and Davies [et al], 1801. x,[4],147pp. Octavo. Contemporary polished calf, rebacked to style. Engraved title and four plates. Title and plates foxed, some darkening, bumps and scrapes to edges of boards, inner hinges reinforced in the course of rebacking, but a good, sound copy.

First edition in this format, in characteristic Whittingham style. The “Life” is Johnson’s. FLEEMAN 79.4LP/SS/121. $85.

753. [Whittington Press]: MATRIX [wrapper subtitle: A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS AND BIBLIOPHILES]. Whole Number 5. [Andoversford]: Whittington Press, October 1985. Quarto. Printed wrapper over stiff wrapper. Heavily illustrated, including plates, inserts and folding plates. Tiny crimp at crown of spine, otherwise fine.

Edited by John and Rosalind Randle. One of 635 numbered copies bound thus, from a total edition of 715 copies printed on Somerville Laid and Zerkall Halbmatt papers. The substantial, informative and beautiful annual devoted to the arts of letterpress printing and illustration. Among the impressive roster of contributors are Hans Schmoller, John Dreyfus, Noel Carrington, Sebastian Carter, Henry Morris, Brooke Crutchley, et al. $300.

754. [Whittington Press]: MATRIX [wrapper subtitle: A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS AND BIBLIOPHILES]. Whole Number 6. [Andoversford]: Whittington Press, Winter 1986. Quarto. Printed wrapper over stiff wrapper. Heavily illustrated, including plates, inserts and folding plates. Bookplate, otherwise fine with publisher’s trade list laid in.

Edited by John and Rosalind Randle. One of 800 numbered copies bound thus, from a total edition of 900 copies printed on Somerville Laid and Zerkall Halbmatt papers. The substantial, informative and beautiful annual devoted to the arts of letterpress printing and illustration. Among the impressive roster of contributors are Robert Gibbings, R. Cave, Vance Gerry, John Dreyfus, Sebastian Carter, John Bidwell, Ruari McLean, Robert Kelly (on Black Sparrow Press, with a Bukowksi flyer tipped in), et al. $275.

755. [Whittington Press]: MATRIX [wrapper subtitle: A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS AND BIBLIOPHILES]. Whole Number 7. [Andoversford]: Whittington Press, Winter 1987. Quarto. Printed decorated limp boards. Heavily illustrated, including plates, inserts and folding plates. Small faint smudge two top edge of upper front wrapper, otherwise about fine.

Edited by John and Rosalind Randle. One of 850 copies bound thus, from a total edition of 960 copies printed on Somerville Laid and Zerkall Halbmatt papers. The substantial, informative and beautiful annual devoted to the arts of letterpress printing and illustration. Among the impressive roster of contributors are Simon Lawrence (on TEL), Cleverdon, Dreyfus (a fascinating article on French Resistence printing), Skelton, Sebastian Carter, Ritchie, Crutchley, Gerry, Cave, Carrington, et al. $250.

756. [Whittington Press]: MATRIX [wrapper subtitle: A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS AND BIBLIOPHILES]. Whole Number 8. [Andoversford]: Whittington Press, Winter 1988. Quarto. Printed wrapper over decorated limp boards. Heavily illustrated, including plates, inserts and folding plates. Minute nick at crown of spine of outer wrapper, otherwise fine.

Edited by John and Rosalind Randle. One of 800 copies bound thus, from a total edition of 900 copies printed on Somerville Laid and Zerkall Halbmatt papers. The substantial, informative and beautiful annual devoted to the arts of letterpress printing and illustration. Among the impressive roster of contributors are Crutchley, Gerry, Brett, Ritchie, Ryder (on Mozley’s unpublished illustrations for ULYSSES), McLean and many others. Includes a substantial gathering of tipped-in Chinese decorated papers. $250.

757. [Whittington Press]: Lawrence, T.E.: T.E. LAWRENCE: LETTERS TO E.T. LEEDS WITH COMMENTARY BY E.T. LEEDS. [Andoversford, Gloucestershire]: The Whittington Press, [1988]. Quarto. Linen and boards. Frontis photograph. Illustrated with line drawings by Richard Kennedy and with photographs. Fine in slipcase (the latter with a small corner bump).

First edition, ordinary issue. One of 650 numbered copies bound thus, from a total edition of 750 copies printed in Caslon type on Zerkell mould-made paper. Edited, with an introduction, by J.M. Wilson, and with a memoir of Leeds by D.B. Harden. A sequence of fifty-two letters, most previously unpublished, chiefly from the time of Lawrence’s Carchemish expedition. $250.

758. [Whittington Press]: MATRIX [wrapper subtitle: A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS AND BIBLIOPHILES]. Whole Number 10. [Andoversford]: Whittington Press, Winter 1989. Quarto. Color autolithographed wrapper over printed limp boards. Heavily illustrated, including plates, inserts and folding plates. Fine, with prospectus for next number laid in.

Edited by John and Rosalind Randle. One of 820 copies bound thus, from a total edition of 925 copies printed on Somerville Laid, Zerkall Halbmatt and Tosa Butten papers. The substantial, informative and beautiful annual devoted to the arts of letterpress printing and illustration. This number includes an index to its predecessors, and the autolithographic wrapper is by Alan Powers, and the medium is treated by several articles. Contributors include Cave, Jerry Kelly, Enid Marx, Sewell, Schanilec, Ritchie, et al. $225.

759. [Whittington Press]: MATRIX [wrapper subtitle: A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS AND BIBLIOPHILES]. Whole Number 9. [Andoversford]: Whittington Press, Winter 1989. Quarto. Printed wrapper over decorated limp boards. Heavily illustrated, including plates, inserts and folding plates. Fine, with prospectus for next number laid in.

Edited by John and Rosalind Randle. One of 820 copies bound thus, from a total edition of 925 copies printed on Somerville Laid and Zerkall Halbmatt papers. The substantial, informative and beautiful annual devoted to the arts of letterpress printing and illustration. This number is substantially devoted to Robert Gibbings, including work by and about him, alongside Ritchie, Stuart, D’Ambrosio, Shirley Jones, Cave, Sewell, Reagh, a long sequence of letters from John Buckland-Wright to Christopher Sandford, and much more. $250. 760. [Whittington Press]: MATRIX [wrapper subtitle: A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS & BIBLIOPHILES]. Whole Number 11. [Risbury]: Whittington Press, Winter 1991. Quarto. Printed wrapper over decorated stiff covers. Heavily illustrated, including plates, inserts and folding plates. Fine.

Edited by John and Rosalind Randle. One of 850 copies bound thus, from a total edition of 955 copies printed on Somerville, Zerkall and Tosa Bütten papers. The substantial, informative and beautiful annual devoted to the arts of letterpress printing and illustration. Among the impressive roster of contributors are Brooke Crutchley, John A. Lane, Steven Tuohy, John Dreyfus, James Mosley, Sebastian Carter, Joseph D’Ambrosio, Christopher Skelton, and Solveig Stone, et al. $200.

761. [Whittington Press]: Hanscomb, Brian: CORNWALL: AN INTERIOR VISION. [Lower Marston, near Risbury: Whittington Press, 1992]. Small folio. Open-sewn wrappers, printed label. Fine in faintly smudged board slipcase.

First edition. Nine original copperplate engravings, with accompanying text, by Hanscomb. From a total edition of 135 copies, this is one of one hundred numbered copies printed on F. J. Head handmade paper, signed by the author/artist. $300.

762. [Whittington Press]: MATRIX [wrapper subtitle: A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS & BIBLIOPHILES]. Whole Number 12. [Risbury]: Whittington Press, Winter 1992. Quarto. Printed wrapper over decorated stiff covers. Heavily illustrated, including plates, inserts and folding plates. Fine, with prospectus for next number laid in, and a notice of an impending reprint of the elusive Matrix 2 for the summer of 1993.

Edited by John and Rosalind Randle. One of 825 copies bound thus, from a total edition of 925 copies printed on Somerville Laid and Zerkall mould-made papers. The substantial, informative and beautiful annual devoted to the arts of letterpress printing and illustration. Among the impressive roster of contributors are William S. Peterson, Simon Lawrence, Ronald Blythe, Roderick Cave, Fiona MacCarthy, Brooke Crutchley, John A. Lane, Steven Tuohy, John Dreyfus, James Stourton, Sebastian Carter, Dermot McGuinne, and Tanya Schmoller, et al. $200.

763. [Whittington Press]: MATRIX [wrapper subtitle: A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS & BIBLIOPHILES]. Whole Number 13. [Risbury]: Whittington Press, Winter 1993. Quarto. Printed wrapper over decorated stiff covers. Heavily illustrated, including plates, inserts and folding plates. Three small dings at shelf-edge of lower panel, else fine, with January 1994 issue of the press News laid in.

Edited by John and Rosalind Randle. One of 835 copies bound thus, from a total edition of 925 copies printed on Somerville Laid and Zerkall mould-made papers. The substantial, informative and beautiful annual devoted to the arts of letterpress printing and illustration. Among the impressive roster of contributors are Alan Dodson, Peter Allen, John Dreyfus, James Mosley, Susan Falkner, Peter Foden, Jerry Kelly, Roderick Cave, Maureen Richardson, an J. F. Oakley, et al. $165.

764. [Whittington Press]: MATRIX [wrapper subtitle: A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS & BIBLIOPHILES]. Whole Number 14. [Risbury]: Whittington Press, Summer 1994. Quarto. Printed wrapper over decorated stiff covers. Heavily illustrated, including plates, inserts and folding plates. Fine, with limited prospectus for next number laid in.

Edited by John and Rosalind Randle. One of 880 copies bound thus, from a total edition of 975 copies printed on Somerville Laid, Zerkall mould-made, and Americana papers. The substantial, informative and beautiful annual devoted to the arts of letterpress printing and illustration. Among the impressive roster of contributors are Roderick Cave, L. M. Newman, Joanna Selborne, Ruari McLean, Mike Hudson, Bernard Roberts, Jean-Claude Peissel, John Dreyfus, John Craig, J. G. Lubbock, and Sebastian Carter, et al. $150. 765. [Whittington Press]: MATRIX [wrapper subtitle: A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS AND BIBLIOPHILES]. Whole Number 15. [Risbury]: Whittington Press, Winter 1995. Quarto. Pictorial boards. Heavily illustrated, including plates, inserts and folding plates. Fine, with prospectus for the next number laid in, along with a copy of #2 of the press News.

Edited by John and Rosalind Randle. One of 855 copies bound thus, from a total edition of 950 copies printed on Somerville Laid, Zerkall Halbmatt and other papers. The substantial, informative and beautiful annual devoted to the arts of letterpress printing and illustration. Among the impressive roster of contributors are Ward Ritchie, Sebastian Carter, Ruari McLean, Henry Morris, John Dreyfus, Roderick Cave, et al. $200.

766. [Whittington Press]: Butcher, David: INDEX TO MATRIX 1-21. [Risbury]: Matrix, [2003]. Quarto. Three piece black morocco and marbled boards. Fine in slipcase.

First edition, deluxe issue. One of 110 copies numbered in Roman, and specially bound, from an edition of five hundred copies printed on Conqueror Laid Paper at the Whittington Press. Includes a Foreword by John Randall. $250.

One of Fifteen

767. [Wide Awake Garage]: Kelm, Daniel E.: MARS. [Easthampton, MA: Wide Awake Garage, 2002 & 2005]. Large, thick quarto quarter morocco box (30 x 21 x 7 cm), enclosing three metal objects, two texts in wrappers, and a 12 panel accordion construct (page edge ca. 8.5 cm) assembled with metal hinges. Fine.

First edition. Copy #5 of fifteen numbered copies (plus an artist’s proof and a prototype), signed by Kelm. A project long in conception and production, Mars includes an accordion book structure bearing images of the god Mars, as well as the phrase “God of War” and the two names of the god (the Greek “Ares” and Roman “Mars”), that can be assembled into a three-dimensional dodecahedron shape by pinning the sides together (pins included), the surfaces of which were built up with color by layering paste paper decoration, silk screen printing, and mouth-atomizer spattering. Also present are two texts: The Narrative of Mars (11[1]pp., in printed wrappers, including the colophon) and “The Voice of Mars,” a collaborative poem by Kelm, and Greta and Taz Sibley, printed on folded stiff card. The narrative is a full history of the conception, design and production of the work, as well as an explanation. The three objects include an actual iron-nickel meteorite found in Namibia, a rusted Civil War canister ball, and a chrome steel ball bearing -- the latter representing the Scientific Mars and the Military Mars. The significance of their positioning in the box inset in relation to the orientation of the accordion construct is elaborated in the Narrative.... Accompanied by a 2002 t.l.s. from Kelm associated with delivery of the main portion of the work, and a 2005 e-mail arranging for the imminent delivery of the printed texts and the completion of the project. This was a central work in Kelm’s 2007-8 exhibition at Smith College, Poetic Science. Kelm’s work is imbued with his knowledge of physical science, alchemy and philosophy, which combined with his skills and talent as binder and book artist, has produced a unique body of sculptural and kinetic bookworks. OCLC: 61330357. $6500.

768. [Wilamowitz-Moellendorff]: Sophocles, and Sepp Frank [illustrator]: OEDIPUS. Berlin: [Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919]. Large quarto. Gilt vellum over boards, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Some modest handsoiling to the binding, tasteful collector’s bookplate, otherwise very good or better in custom slipcase with labels.

First printing in this format, illustrated with seven full-sheet original etchings, plus a title- page vignette and decorative initial, by Sepp Frank. From a total edition of one hundred numbered copies, this is one of ninety on paper, signed by the artist on the colophon. The text is that established by Wilhelm von Kaufmann. A rather early example of Frank’s work as a book illustrator, which has been eclipsed somewhat by his fame as a bookplate artist. $800.

769. [Wild Carrot Letterpress]: Brecht, Bertolt: THE THREEPENNY OPERA. New York: The Limited Editions Club, [1982]. Quarto. Black cloth, stamped in gilt. Original lithographed frontis and illustrations by Jack Levine. Bookplate affixed to front pastedown, else fine in slipcase (small label shadow on one panel). Relevant publisher’s newsletter laid in.

First edition in this format of Desmond Vesey’s translation, limited to two thousand numbered copies, printed by Wild Carrot Letterpress, signed by Levine, and by Eric Bentley, who contributed a new introduction. Newsletter laid in. $75.

770. [Wild Carrot Letterpress]: Miller, Arthur: DEATH OF A SALESMAN CERTAIN PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS IN TWO ACTS AND A REQUIEM ... WITH FIVE ETCHINGS BY LEONARD BASKIN. New York: The Limited Editions Club, [1984]. Quarto. Full medium brown morocco by Gray Parrot. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in board slipcase with small sticker shadow at lower corner of one panel.

First printing in this format. With five original etchings by Baskin printed from the plates by Bruce Chandler at the Heron Press. One of 1500 numbered copies printed at the Wild Carrot Press, and signed by the author and the artist. For this edition, Miller wrote a special Foreword. $650.

771. [Wild Carrot Letterpress]: Thomson, Virgil, and Maurice Grosser [illustrator]: EIGHTEEN PORTRAITS. New York: Vincent Fitzgerald & Co., 1985. Folio (44.5 x 35.5 cm). Loose sheets and folded bifolia laid into publisher’s cloth clamshell case. Illustrated with full- page lithographs. Bookplate on front pastedown of case, small label residue in corner of upper panel of case, else about fine.

First edition. One of 120 copies printed on handmade Crisbrook paper by Wild Carrot, signed by the author and the artist. Music rendered in facsimile of Thomson’s manuscript printed by John Hutcheson, and calligraphy by Jerry Kelly. The lithographs were editioned by the Printmaking Workshop of Paul Blackburn, and each is numbered and initialed in the margin by Grosser. A collaboration by two long-time friends, with Thomson’s musical portraits accompanied by Grosser’s lithographic portraits of the same subjects, including themselves, Jane Bowles, the singer Theodate Johnson, Mark Beard, et al. The dates of composition of Thomson’s portraits range from 1929 to the year of publication, with many of the earlier works being newly rewritten for piano for this edition. $3000.

772. [Wild Carrot Letterpress]: Carpentier, Alejo: THE KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD. [New York]: The Limited Editions Club, [1987]. Small folio. Three-piece gilt morocco, with rough silk side-panels. Fine in suede-lined silk over boards slipcase.

First edition in this format, illustrated with original etchings by Roberto Juarez, printed chine collé on handmade Japanese tissue and mounted on handmade paper. Translation by Harriet de Onis, with and Introduction by John Hersey. One of 750 numbered copies, printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress, and signed by the artist and by John Hersey. $400.

One of 100 Copies

773. [Wild Carrot Letterpress]: Rumi, Jalaluddin Mohammed, and Mark Beard [illustrator]: MOSES AND THE SHEPHERD. New York: Vincent Fitzgerald & Company, 1987. Quarto. Cloth, paper label. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in folding case with paper label.

First edition in this format. Translated by Zahra Partovi and David Rattray. Illustrated with ten drypoint etchings by Mark Beard. Presented in accordion-fold format, ca. ten feet in length, with the etchings placed as a continuous running head the length of the work. One of 100 numbered copies printed by Daniel Keleher of Wild Carrot Letterpress on Moulin du Gue paper, with the etchings editioned at Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop. Signed by Beard and by Partovi. $2000.

774. [Wild Carrot Letterpress]: Ibsen, Henrik: POEMS. New York: Vincent Fitzgerald & Company, 1987. Quarto. Full handwoven decorative cloth over boards. Illustrated with original colored etchings and a four-panel gatefold three-color lithograph. Faint bookplate shadow on front pastedown, otherwise fine in silk-covered gilt-stamped folding clamshell box (lower fore-tip rubbed, small sticker shadow in lower corner of upper panel).

First edition of these translations by Michael Feingold, accompanied by a translator’s Foreword, illustrated with five colored etchings and a lithograph by Neil Welliver. One of seventy-five numbered copies, from an edition of ninety-five copies printed by Daniel Keleher of Wild Carrot Letterpress on handmade Dieu Donné paper. The etchings were printed by Shigemiotsu Tsukaguchi, and the lithograph at Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop. The handwoven fabric for the cover was made by Sara Dochow. $6000.

775. [Wild Carrot Letterpress]: Joyce, James: GIACOMO JOYCE ... INTERPRETED BY SUSAN WEIL. New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Co., 1989. Small folio (35.5 x 25 cm). Linen over boards, with stiff-handmade paper endleaves. The crown of the spine is marred by three pin-pick size holes in the surface cloth and several smaller dents (evidently the work of a cat), otherwise fine.

One of fifty numbered copies, with the text and illustrations printed on handmade Dieu Donné and special Japanese papers by Daniel Keleher and Bruce Chandler at Wild Carrot Letterpress, signed and numbered by the artist below the portrait of Joyce facing the colophon. As a follow-up to her collaborative edition of Joyce’s Epiphanies of 1987, Weil here illustrates Joyce’s text in a variety of media, including etchings, stencil cuttings, original watercolors, etc. The calligraphy was executed by Jerry Kelly, the etchings printed by Marjorie Van Dyke, and the collages by Zahra Partovi. $3500.

776. [Wild Carrot Letterpress]: Schuman, Robert [composer], and Joan Busing [illustrator]: A WOMAN’S LOVE AND LIFE SONG CYCLE ... ON EIGHT POEMS BY ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO. New York: Vincent Fitzgerald & Company, 1989. Folio (39 x 30 cm). Loose bifolia laid into decorated paper over boards clamshell box. Fine.

First edition in this format. Illustrated with original color etchings and collages by Joan Busing. One of fifty numbered copies, printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress and Allethaire Press on Dieu Donné paper, with calligraphy by Jerry Kelly. Original German text printed parallel with a translation and introduction by Michael Feingold. Musical interpretation by Judith Busing; a live performance of same - with Joan Morris and William Bolcom - is enclosed on an audio cassette specially fitted into the clamshell box. Signed on the justification by Feingold and Busing. $2000.

777. [Wilson, Adrian]: Hart, James D. [ed]: MY FIRST PUBLICATION ELEVEN CALIFORNIA AUTHORS DESCRIBE THEIR EARLIEST APPEARANCES IN PRINT. [San Francisco]: The Book Club of California, 1961. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. Label and upper edges a trifle sunned, otherwise fine.

First edition. Illustrations by David Stone Martin. One of 475 copies printed by Adrian Wilson at the Press in Tuscany Alley. This copy bears Hart’s presentation inscription in the year of publication “with thanks for all their aid and thoughtful help....” Californians and authors adopted by California from Dana to Saroyan ruminate about the trials of their earliest efforts. $150.

778. [Wilson, Adrian]: Nietzsche, Friedrich: THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Quarto. Quarter gilt parchment and boards. Decorations by Arnold Bank. Fine in lightly rubbed slipcase.

One of 1500 numbered copies printed at the Thistle Press after a design by Adrian Wilson. Introduction by Henry David Aiken. Perhaps not surprisingly, the publishers chose to reprint the then public-domain (i.e. free) Thomas Common version of the text rather than the more accurate Kaufmann-Hollingdale translation. $85.

779. Wilson, Adrian: THE WORK & PLAY OF ADRIAN WILSON A BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH COMMENTARY. Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. Folio. Quarter morocco and cloth. Frontispiece portrait after a photograph by Ansel Adams. Illustrations and tipped-in specimen leaves. Bookplate on front pastedown, a few minute flecks of foxing at edges of endsheets, otherwise fine.

First edition. Edited by Joyce Lancaster Wilson. One of 325 numbered copies, designed and printed by Wilson and associates at the Press in Tuscany Alley, on Barcham Green handmade paper. Printing and publishing bibliography at its very best. $600.

780. [Wind River Press]: McMurtry, Larry: COWBOYS [caption title]. [Austin]: Printed for the First Annual Meeting of the Book Club of Texas, 12 November 1988. Oblong folio broadside (14 x 20 inches; 34.5 x 50 cm). Matted. About fine, but without the separate explanatory letter.

First printing in this format, printed by the Holmans at the Windriver Press, with watercolor highlights. $100.

781. [Wind River Press]: Osborn, Carolyn: THE GRANDS A SHORT STORY .... [Austin]: Book Club of Texas, 1990. Oblong small quarto. Woodcuts by Barbara Whitehead. Foreword by Richard Holland. First edition. One of four hundred copies printed at the Wind River Press, signed by the author and the artist. Fine, with prospectus laid in. $60.

782. [Windhover Press]: Thoreau, Henry D.: HUCKLEBERRIES. [Iowa City] & New York: Windhover Press / New York Public Library, 1970. Narrow small quarto. Cloth. Fine, without printed dust jacket, as issued.

First edition. Edited by Leo Stoller with a preface by Alexander C.Kern. Published here for the first time from a manuscript located in the Berg collection of The New York Public Library. One of 330 copies printed by Kim Merker and associates in Emerson types on Rives Heavy. BAL 20174. BORST A38.1. $75.

783. [Windhover Press]: [Clemens, Samuel]: Twain, Mark [pseud (translator)]: TALE OF THE CALIPH STORK. Iowa City: The Windhover Press, 1976. Small quarto. Cloth, printed label. Illustrated by Eleanor Simmons. A fine copy.

First edition. A previously unpublished translation by Clemens of a portion of a popular German story by Wilhelm Hauff. Clemens’s manuscript dates from the 1870s. One of 100 numbered copies printed by hand in Bembo types on Rives Heavy paper. One of the more uncommon Windhover titles. $600. 784. [Windhover Press]: Merwin, W.S. [trans]: ROBERT THE DEVIL ... FROM AN ANONYMOUS FRENCH PLAY OF THE XIV CENTURY.... Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1981. Folio. Cloth, paper spine label. Illustrated with wood-engravings by Roxanne Sexauer. One of 275 ordinary copies, of 310, printed in Dante and Bembo Italic types on handmade paper. A few minor smudges to cloth, else about fine. The errata slip is not present. $150.

785. [Windhover Press]: d’Almeida, George: MEMOIRS OF AN ISMARIC SPEAR. Iowa City: Windhover Press, [1984]. Cloth and boards, paper spine label. First edition. One of 230 copies printed in Bembo types on Windhover paper by Kim Merker and associates. Fine. $60.

786. [Windhover Press]: Laughlin, James: THE DECONSTRUCTED MAN. Iowa City: Windhover Press, [1985]. Quarto. Sewn printed wrappers. Fine.

First edition. One of 240 copies printed in Spectrum types on Iyo Glazed paper, signed by the author. This copy also bears JL’s presentation inscription: “For John with admiration & gratitude JL.” The recipient, John Harrison, was the authorized New Directions bibliographer (posthumously published in 2008, completed by Rebecca Newth and Anne Candido). Laid in is a 1979 t.l.s. from JL to Harrison concerning an interruption in the work on the bibliography, as well as an a.pc.s. (Christmas 1977) from Ann Laughlin to John and Rebecca [Newth Harrison] about their pending visit and the Laughlin herd of sheep. $150.

787. [Windhover Press]: Strand, Mark: THE CONTINUOUS LIFE. Iowa City: The Windhover Press, 1990. Folio. Sewn stiff wrappers, paper spine label. Fine.

First edition. Illustrated with two original woodcuts by Neil Welliver. One of 225 numbered copies printed on Windhover paper by Kim Merker and Don Howell, and bound by Larry Yerkes. A major publication of thirteen poems. $150.

788. [Windhover Press]: Faulkner, William: AFTERNOON OF A COW. By “Ernest V. Trueblood.” [Iowa City]: The Windhover Press, 1991. Stiff wrappers. Very fine.

First separate edition in book form of this tale, first published in a French translation by M.E. Coindreau in Fontaine, and then in English in 1947 in Furioso. Introduction by Carol de Saint Victor. One of 200 copies printed in Romanee types on Johannot paper. $75.

789. [Windhover Press]: Peirce, Kathleen: DIVIDED TOUCH DIVIDED COLOR. Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1995. Quarto. Pastepaper over stiff wrappers. Illustrated with woodcut decorations by Peggy Fitzgerald. One of two hundred copies printed in Romanee type on Windhover paper, after a design by, and under the direction of, Kim Merker. As new. $75.

790. [Windhover Press]: Stevens, Wallace: VASSAR VIEWED VERACIOUSLY 16 PENCIL SKETCHES.... Iowa City: The Windhover Press, [1995]. Quarto. Stiff wrappers, printed paper label. Plates. First edition. As new, at publication price.

First edition. Introduction and notes by Daniel H. Woodward. One of three hundred and fifty copies, with the text printed by Kim Merker and associates on handmade paper, and the plates reproduced on Mohawk Superfine. $65.

791. [Windsor Press]: Douglas, Norman: THE ANGEL OF MANFREDONIA. San Francisco: The Windsor Press, 1929. Cloth and marbled boards. Spine a shade sunned, neat bookplate on front pastedown and strip of residue of another, else a nice copy without slipcase.

First separate edition of this excerpt from Old Calabria. One of 225 numbered copies, printed by hand, and signed by the author. Decorations by Howard Simon. WOOLF A31. $175. 792. [Windsor Press]: Kipling, Rudyard: THE LAMENTABLE COMEDY OF WILLOW WOOD. San Francisco: Windsor Press, 1929. Cloth and boards. Light foxing at fore-edge, small spot on upper board, else near fine in sunned slipcase.

First edition in book form (unauthorized) of this short play first published in The Fortnightly Review for May, 1890. One of only one hundred numbered copies printed. STEWART 569. LIVINGSTON 68(n). $150.

793. [Windsor Press]: Blake, William: THE BOOK OF THEL. [San Francisco]: The Book Club of California, 1930. 12mo. Gilt vellum over stiff wrappers. Slight tanning at endsheet gutters, vellum shows natural slight mottling and a bit of foxing, otherwise very good in slipcase with slight darkening to the label.

One of three hundred numbered copies printed at the Windsor Press. One of the illustrations by Julian Links drew a letter of protest from Rockwell Kent, for it is blatantly derivative of one of his bookplate designs. $100.

794. [Windsor Press]: [Adams, Ansel]: Anderson, David: THE ENCHANTED GALLEON. [San Francisco]: Privately Printed, 1930. Large, thin quarto. Cloth, paper label. Frontispiece. Usual slight offset of letterpress from first page of text to frontis, some very faint, scattered dust marks to cloth, otherwise near fine in lightly hand-soiled slipcase with small label shadow at lower corner of one panel.

First edition. One of sixty numbered copies, privately printed at the Windsor Press for Garfield Merner. dedicated to Flodden W. Heron “in appreciation of a Stevenson night given by Mr. Heron before the Roxburghe Club....” The distinguishing feature of this undertaking is an original photographic frontispiece of the Stevenson Memorial by Ansel Adams, signed by him in pencil in the margin. A relatively early example of Adams’s photography used for . $750.

795. [Windsor Press]: Hall, Carroll: BIERCE AND THE POE HOAX. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1934. Quarto. Cloth, paper label. Photographs and facsimiles. Spine label sunned, else near fine.

First edition. Introduction by Carey McWilliams. One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies, printed at the Windsor Press. Bierce and two friends contrived the publication of a poem falsely attributed to Poe in the Examiner, and sat back to await the explosion of interest and controversy. Alas, there was none. BAL I:227. $200.

796. [Women’s Studio Workshop]: Connors, M.J.: EVIDENCE OF ATTENDANTS. [Rosendale, NY: Women’s Studio Workshop, 1991]. Oblong open-sewn pictorial stiff wrappers (10 x 18 cm). Textblock consists of ten printed sleeves, open at the fore-edge, each containing a pictorial card with letterpress on verso. About fine.

First edition. One of 95 numbered copies, signed by the artist. “This book records the collection of objects considered as debris left by angels on their visits to the mortal world. Cards documenting each object are held in the ten pockets that comprise the pages of the book. On each pocket is a brief introduction to the heavenly bodies that carry out divine work” - publisher’s . $100.

797. [Wu-Shan]: Pound, Ezra: FROM CANTO CXII [caption title]. [, NY]: Wu-Shan, 2011. Oblong folio broadside (315 x 440 mm). Fine.

One of fifty numbered copies, printed on Rives, and illustrated with an image after a brush-drawing by Path Soong. Signed by the artist, and with the atelier’s ink chopmark. $300. 798. [Wu-Shan]: Pound, Ezra: [SELECTIONS FROM THE PISAN CANTOS]. [Norwich, NY]: Wu-Shan, 2013. Sequence of eight folio broadsides (32 x 45 cm), portrait and landscape formats. Illustrated. As new.

A series of eight broadside printings of selections from the Pisan Cantos, each selection illustrated with an image after a calligraphic painting by Path Soong. The edition was limited to twenty numbered copies of each broadside, plus 4 artist’s proofs, printed on heavy Rives paper. Each broadside is signed by the artist and bears the Atelier’s pictograph chop. The selections are from Cantos LXXIV, LXXVII, LXXVIII, LXXX, LXXXI, LXXXIII, LXXXIV, and LXXXVI. For the set of eight: $1000.

800. [Yale University Press]: Born, Wolfgang: AMERICAN LANDSCAPE PAINTING AN INTERPRETATION. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1948. xii,228pp. Quarto. Cloth. Colour frontis by Charles Sheeler. Black & white illustrations. Notes. Index. Spine ends a trace darkened, else very good or better in lightly foxed pictorial dust jacket with a few small chips and tears at edges.

First edition. With the small bookplate of Margaret and Carl [Purington] Rollins on front free endsheet. Typographer/Printer Carl P. Rollins was one of the principals of the Yale University Press when this book was published. However, it is not cited in Walker. $85.

801. [Yellow Barn Press]: Symons, Julian: OSCAR WILDE: A PROBLEM IN BIOGRAPHY. Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press, 1988. Cloth and paper-covered boards, paper spine label, extra spine label tipped to rear pastedown. Title-page printed in red and black. Wood engraved frontis and three text-illustrations by John De Pol. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine. Errata laid in.

First edition. One of 200 numbered copies (the entire edition) of the text of Symons’s Lurcy Lecture delivered at Amherst College in April 1988. $100.

802. [Yellow Barn Press]: Colebrook, Frank: WILLIAM MORRIS: MASTER-PRINTER A LECTURE GIVEN ON THE EVENING OF NOVEMBER 27, 1896 TO STUDENTS OF THE PRINTING SCHOOL, ST. BRIDE FOUNDATION INSTITUTE IN LONDON. Council Bluffs, IA: Yellow Barn Press, [1989]. Quarto. Linen over boards, decorated labels. Two-color woodcut portrait and two black & white woodcut illustrations by John De Pol. Bookplate shadow on front pastedown, otherwise fine, with prospectus laid in.

First printing in this format, with an introduction by William S. Peterson. One of 155 numbered copies printed in Poliphilus and Blado types on dampened Rives. A more modest printing was prepared from the proofs of this letterpress printing for distribution by Blackwell North America (1400 copies), with two hundred copies retained for distribution by the Yellow Barn Press. $250.

Deluxe Issue

803. [Yolla Bolly Press]: Saroyan, William: THE DARING YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE AND OTHER STORIES. [Covelo, CA]: The Yolla Bolly Press, [1984]. Quarto. Half publisher’s leather. Illustrated with woodcuts by Bill Prochnow. Afterword by Herbert Gold. Fine, as issued, in publisher’s elaborate black oak box, with inlaid leather label, the whole enclosed in a custom-made cloth clamshell case.

First this edition, deluxe issue, limited to twenty-five numbered copies constituting the “Collector’s Edition.” Accompanied by a separate suite of printings of the eight woodcuts on fine paper, each specially handcolored, signed and numbered by the artist. The book bears the corresponding number on the colophon, and is also signed by the artist, and by Herb Gold. Accompanied by two typed letters, signed, from the publisher attending publication. $650. 804. [Yolla Bolly Press]: Steinbeck, John: FLIGHT A STORY .... [Covela, CA]: The Yolla Bolly Press, [1984]. Quarto. Decorated cloth, paper spine label. Illustrated. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in very good slipcase with two small sticker scars on one panel.

First edition in this format, illustrated with six color woodblock illustrations and five wood engraved page decorations by Karin Wikström, and with an Afterword to this edition by Wallace Stegner. One of 250 numbered copies (of 260), signed by Stegner and by Wikström, published as the second of the press’ “California Writers of the Land” series. $475.

One of Forty Deluxe Copies

805. [Yolla Bolly Press]: Steinbeck, John: ZAPATA A NARRATIVE, IN DRAMATIC FORM, OF THE LIFE OF EMILIANO ZAPATA. [Covela, CA]: The Yolla Bolly Press, [1991]. Thick quarto. Three quarter plum cloth and decorated paper over boards, paper spine label. Illustrated with 18 woodcuts (7 full-page). Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in folding cloth box with hasps, in company with enclosures. Small label smudge in lower corner of upper panel of case.

First edition in this format. Illustrated with original woodcuts by Karin Wikström. One of forty numbered copies (of fifty), with the seven large woodcuts handcolored, accompanied by an additional woodcut portrait of Zapata, signed in pencil by the artist, from a total edition of 257 copies printed on French Rives paper in Veronese types, and signed by the artist. A copy of the original prospectus is laid in, as well as the separately printed and bound supplemental text, Zapata The Man The Myth And The Mexican Revolution by Robert E. Morseberger (1/100 copies signed by the author). The substantial original 1949 treatment for the proposed film biography of Zapata by Steinbeck, here published for the first time, and of course differing substantially from the final shooting script for the 1952 film. $2500.

With Ten Signed Woodcuts

806. [Yolla Bolly Press]: [Baskin, Leonard (illus)]: Lawrence, D.H.: THE MAN WHO DIED A STORY.... [Covello, CA]: The Yolla Bolly Press, [1992]. Folio. Open-sewn limp goat vellum over stiff wrappers. Illustrated with woodcut plates by Leonard Baskin. Fine, in publisher’s cedar and bay laurel wood box.

First edition in this format, with a commentary by John Fowles. From a total edition of 135 copies printed on Somerset paper, with illustrations printed from original woodblocks by Leonard Baskin, all signed by Baskin and Fowles, this is one of thirty-five deluxe copies, specially bound and boxed, with a separate suite of the nine woodcuts, each signed by the artist in the margin. An additional hors-text impression of one of the woodcuts, also signed by Baskin, is laid in the book. Fine, with prospectuses and publisher’s letters/ announcements laid in, along with the set of cotton gloves provided by the publisher for handling the book. Five of the thirty-five deluxe copies were hors commerce, and evidently some out of series copies in the ordinary binding were accompanied by copies of the suite. $8500. 807. [Yolla Bolly Press]: Stein, Gertrude: PARIS FRANCE A MEMOIR. [Covelo, CA]: The Yolla Bolly Press, [2000]. Oblong quarto. Pictorial boards. Illustrated with drawings by Ward Schumaker. Very fine in slipcase, with prospectus and other promotional material.

One of two hundred numbered copies, signed by the artist, and by George Plimpton, who contributed an afterword. Set in Gill Sans by Michael and Winfred Bixler, and printed by Aaron Johnson and Sarah Granatir on Somerset paper. $450.

808. [Young, Noel]: Durrell, Lawrence: DOWN THE STYX. Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, 1971. Small quarto. Decorated boards. Light sunning to spine and edges, but very good or better.

First separate edition, limited issue. From an edition of 1000 copies printed by Noel Young, this is one of 200 specially bound and signed by the author. Binding illustration by the author. Preface by F.J. Temple, Illustrations adapted from Doré’s engravings. $85.

819. Zapf, Hermann: THE FINE ART OF LETTERS THE WORK OF HERMANN ZAPF EXHIBITED AT THE GROLIER CLUB .... New York: The Grolier Club, 2000. Quarto. Gilt decorated blue cloth. Illustrations and plates. Fine, without dust jacket, as issue.

First edition. Introduction by Jerry Kelly, with an autobiographical essay by Zapf. One of 1030 ordinary copies, of an edition of 1050, designed by Kelly and Zapf. $75.

810. [ZET]: O’Hearn, Karen: DOWN, FROM, ABOVE. Amsterdam & New York: ZET, [1996]. Small quarto. Cloth, paper label. Plates and photographs. Fine.

First edition. A concrete poem fashioned from an entry in the Larousse Encyclopedia Of Astronomy, accompanied by eight photographs, some double-spread, one a gatefold. One of forty numbered copies, signed by O’Hearn. $175.