Fine Printing & Small Presses L - Z Catalogue 356 WILLIAM REESE COMPANY 409 TEMPLE STREET NEW HAVEN, CT. 06511 USA 203.789.8081 FAX: 203.865.7653 [email protected] www.williamreesecompany.com TERMS Material herein is offered subject to prior sale. All items are as described, but are considered to be sent subject to approval unless otherwise noted. Notice of return must be given within ten days unless specific arrangements are made prior to shipment. All returns must be made conscientiously and expediently. Connecticut residents must be billed state sales tax. Postage and insurance are billed to all non-prepaid domestic orders. Orders shipped outside of the United States are sent by air or courier, unless otherwise requested, with full charges billed at our discretion. The usual courtesy discount is extended only to recognized booksellers who offer reciprocal opportunities from their catalogues or stock. 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[Laboratory Press]: Lang, Andrew: AN EXTRACT FROM RICH AND POOR AN ESSAY COMPARING RICH AND POOR IN THE COLLECTING OF BOOKS. 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 library of Will Ransom, 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 dust jacket and slightly snagged plain paper shipping sleeve with label. First edition. 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. Boston: 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 later years, it 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 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 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.