JANUARY LIST 2016 Collinge & Clark 13 Leigh Street London WC1H 9EW 0044 (0) 20 7387 7105 http://www.collingeandclark.co.uk [email protected] 1.(Abattoir Editions) Solitary Confinement, poems by Bob Ross. With four blind etchings by Stuart Dayton. 8vo, 24.5cm, 59p, (Harry Duncan) Abattoir Editions, The University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1977. Handset in Cloister Old Style with Ultra Bodoni display. Number 39 of 200 copies printed in black and drab on Grand Moghul paper. Quarter bound in black cloth and Japanese wood-paper boards, with a paper label on the spine. A fine copy. £45 2.(Abattoir Editions) The Ceremony and other stories, by Weldon Keys and edited by Dana Gioia. With a drawing by Harry Duncan. 8vo, 24cm, 78pp, (Harry Duncan) Abattoir Editions, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1983. Text set in 14 point Perpetua. 295 copies bound in beige-white linen with a printed spine label, this being number 248 and one of 66 copies on Curtis rag paper. A fine copy. £50 3.(Adagio Press) A Typographical Pasticcio. Folder containing six pieces, (Leonard F. Bahr) Adagio Press, Harper Woods, 1965. Envelope of Tan Hamilton Andorra paper, titled in black with ornaments in green. Typefaces include Palatino, Weiss, Delphin, Pascal and Torino, printed in up to nine colours with some hand-coloured Troyer ornaments. One of only 96 sets. A fine copy with prospectus. £90 With the following titles: An introduction to the Adagio Press (12p, 1963); A tribute to Anton Bohm and his work at the Sans Souci Press (8p, 1964); The Spirit of Liberty, by Judge Learned Hand (8p, 1964); Tribute, as if from a dead author, by Donald Weeks (4p); The spring of the year, by Samuel Johnson (16p, 1965); Interpretations and insinuations, or the image of the Adagio Press as seen graphically by its friends (20p, 1965). 4.(Adagio Press) Experiments with the Bradley Combination Ornaments. [By Leonard F. Bahr.] 8vo, [16]pp., Adagio Press, Harper Woods Michigan, 1967. Number 290 of 473 copies handset in Palatino, with display in Sistina and Palatino italic, printed in black and many colours on four colours of Fabriano paper. Sewn into stiff white Fabriano paper covers and black paper covers, cut flush. The covers printed in black on the insides, front and back, and the wrappers printed in brown on the front. A fine copy in its presentation envelope. £40 The text gives the background of the creation of these ornaments, illustrates the basic four-square combinations, and then shows more than forty multiple combinations, concluding with specimens of three additional Bradley designs never produced by ATF but engraved and specially cast for this work 5.(Adagio Press) The collected ephemera of the Adagio Press. Numbers 1-6. A continuing series of type specimens, typographic exercises and announcements printed at various times for various purposes, not least of which is simply the urge to print. Six folders, each 27 X 17cm, (Leonard F. Bahr) Adagio Press, Harper Woods, 1972. Number 63 of 153 sets printed in various types on different papers. Enclosed in an envelope, printed in black and brown on the front. A fine copy. £25 6.(Alembic Press) A Wood Letter Version of Thackeray's Alphabet. Square 8vo, 15cm, 32p, (Claire Bolton) Alembic Press, Winchester, 1979 (1980). Handset in Kennerley and various wood letter types. Number 12 of 150 copies printed in black on grey Victory Cartridge paper. Bound in grey Helicon, printed in black on the spine label, Grey Cartridge endpapers printed with grey tint lettering. £50 7. (Allen Press) Sophocles. Antigone, [with three line-block reproductions of drawings based on sixth-century Greek vase paintings, hand-coloured by Dorothy Allen.] Folio, 30.5cm, 64pp, Produced entirely by hand at The Allen Press, Kentfield, 1978. Handset in Menhart Unciala with display in Solemnis. One of 132 copies printed in black (the display and illustrations in several colours) on St Cuthberts hand-made paper. Bound in hand-made paper boards, printed in black on the spine and front. Front board slightly browned at upper edge. A very good to fine copy. £230 8.(Allenholme Press) Fenton (William) & James Mosley. Printers' Trains. [With a foreword by Kenneth Day.] Oblong Crown 4to, [31]pp., Allenholme Press, Wylam, for the Wynkyn de Worde Society and Newcastle Imprint Club, 1969 [1970]. One of 500 copies handset in Monotype Bulmer, with title in Consort, and printed in black on white Grosvenor and light-green Glastonbury papers. Illustrated with photolitho reproductions of numerous printers' trains and two broadsides. This, one of 165 copies quarter bound in red buckram, with grey patterned paper boards, lettered in gold on the spine. Clear acetate dust-Jacket. A fine copy. £70 9.(Ashby Lane Press) Six Poems, by Sue Barraclough. Narrow 8vo, 31cm, 16p, (B.K. Foster) Ashby Lane Press, Bitteswell, 1974 (1975). Handset, text in Arrighi, dislay in Centaur with Saltino numerals. Number 28 of 120 signed copies in black and indian red on cartridge paper. Sewn into white card covers, pasted into Ingres wrappers, printed in black on the flaps, printed in grey on the front with a woodcut by B.K. Foster. Fine. £20 10.(Ashby Lane Press) Ides of March, by G.H. Godbert. With five brush drawings by Brian Whitfield. Narrow 8vo, 28cm, 24p, (B.K. Foster) Ashby Lane Press, Bitteswell, 1976. Handset in Bembo. Number 155 of 250 copies, signed by the author, printed in black (the illustrations in various colours) on Snoscen paper. This, one of 100 copies bound at the press, sewn, and glued into overlapping grey Ingres paper wrappers, printed in black. A fine copy. £50 With an interesting A.L.s from the printer loosely inserted as well as a proof of a linocut, done by him for a local pub, The Royal Oak, and two pulls from a wood block he did for a man called Toni Savage who lived nearby. 11.(Ashby Lane Press) Do You Sense an Angel? Wood engravings and poems by sister Margaret Tournour with additional verse from other poets. Crown 12mo, 17cm, 28p, (Bryan K. Foster), Ashby Lane Press, Leicester, 1993. Text set in 14 point SB Verona. 120 copies printed, this being one of 76 on Abbey Mills Greenfield paper with Barcham Green paper wrappers. Illustrated with 10 wood-engravings by the author. A fine copy. £50 One of 50 copies containing a tipped-in engraving, printed by the artist and initialled by her. With a good TLs from the printer loosely inserted. He makes clear that this copy (number 14) is in a variant binding of Brcham Green paper, rather than Ingres. 12.Bawden (Edward). Hold Fast by Your Teeth [& other stories]. Medium 4to, [64]pp., Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1963. Illustrated with 55 coloured lithographs printed by W.S. Cowell. Pictorial boards from a lithograph by the artist, matching dust-Jacket. Bookplate. A fine copy in matching dust-Jacket. £350 ‘Take the Broom’ was originally published by Rainbird McLean in an edition of 500 copies in 1952. The text of this has been very much altered. Otherwise, this is the first appearance of the other eight stories, all of which were told by Bawden to his children. In the story Right Away Driver, Richard Bawden may be identified as the engine-driver of the Cheltenham Flyer, Joanna Bawden is the girl in the Schiaparelli hat, and Edward himself is Mr Draw de Nedwab. 13.(Beagle Press) A Colloquy: Between Henry Evans, a printer & Donovan McCue, an apprentice. Crown 8vo, 19cm, [12]p, (Donovan McCune) The Beagle Press, n.p. [ValleJo, CA], 1968. Set in Centaur and Arrighi and printed in black with ornaments in brown. Edition of 17 copies on Kimberly text, but this not numbered and presumably one of “a few extra” on Curtis Rag. Colophon inscribed by the printer. Sewn into card covers, printed in black. Near fine copy. £40 Dr Donovan James McCune, noted bibliophile and member of the Roxburghe Club printed this little piece. Henry Evans was the owner of the Peregrine Press. 14.(Bodley Head Booklet) Boland (Maureen). Garden Lore: Extracts from Old Wives' Lore for Gardeners. Foolscap 8vo, pp.16 (inc. colophon), Printed at the Stellar Press for private distribution by the publishers for Christmas 1976. One of 250 copies on wove paper. 6 full-page illustrations in green taken from sixteenth-century herbals. Sewn into plain card covers, buff paper dust-Jacket with an additional illustration on the front and rear panel. A fine copy. £60 With a presentation inscription from John Ryder: "My greeting will be late, I fear, but some financial difficulties cropped up at a late stage this year! John" 15.(Brewhouse Press) Mountains, by Mervyn James. Illustrations by Rigby Graham. Foolscap 4to, 46pp., Trevor Hickman at the Brewhouse Press, Wymondham, 1972. Number 93 of 200 (226) copies printed in black (the title-page in blue and black, the illustrations in various colours) on cartridge paper in Times Roman. 17 lithographs (including that used on the endpapers) and 11 drawings by Rigby Graham. Grey cloth, spine gilt, upper board blocked in gold with a design by Rigby Graham. Green endpapers printed overall with a lithograph. A very good copy indeed. £60 16.(Cernel Press) Hodgson (Ralph). Songs to our Surnames. [Edited by Colin Fenton.] Square 12mo, 160 X 145mm., [12]pp. including colophon, George Tee, Cerne Abbas, Cernel Press, 1960. Number 31 of 50 copies handset in Bell and printed on Whatman paper. 7 eighteenth-century wood engravings taken from 'wood blocks salvaged from the dustbin'. Cockerell marbled paper covers, brown, black and beige, printed label superimposed on the front. A fine copy.