[ALLEN PRESS]. the Book of Genesis. King James 5

[ALLEN PRESS]. the Book of Genesis. King James 5

1. [ALLEN PRESS]. The Book of Genesis. King James 5. [ARION PRESS]. Stevens, Wallace. Poems. Selected and Bible. (Kentfield, CA), 1970. Quarto. (110)pp. One of 140 cop- with an Introduction by Helen Vendler. San Francisco, 1985. Oc- ies. Illustrated with twenty-four wood engravings by Blair Hughes- tavo. 252pp. One of 326 copies, each with a frontispiece etching Stanton. Hebrew characters act as headings on each page and are signed by the artist, Jasper Johns. To commemorate the thirtieth an- sentences from Chapter One of Genesis, with Hebrew lettering niversary of the poet’s death, Helen Vendler selected 122 of his po- forming the word “Genesis” in green next to every heading. Beauti- ems. She described Jasper Johns’s etching as “a modern version of fully printed by Lewis and Dorothy Allen in brown, orange, and the Melancholia of Dürer—the same sense of fallen emblems and green inks on handmade paper. Considered one of the most beau- disturbed man, perfect for Stevens.” Lower corners a bit rubbed, tiful books of the Press. Spine a trifle sunned, else a fine copy in else fine in quarter blue morocco. Prospectus laid in. (Bibliography green and gold hand-blocked cloth of Iranian design, in a cloth- of the Arion Press 17). $3,500 covered slipcase. (Allen Press Bibliography 35). $1,350 THE LAST GREAT ASHENDENE FOLIO 2. [ANVIL PRESS]. Poems by Li Po. (Lexington, KY, 1983). Two quarto volumes. 72; 17pp. One of 150 copies. De- 6. [ASHENDENE PRESS]. History of the Peloponnesian signed and printed by Carolyn Hammer, with the assistance of W. Wars. Translated into English by Benjamin Jowett, M.A. Chelsea, Gay Reading and Paul Holbrook, in red and black Hammer Un- 1930. Folio. 363pp. One of 260 copies, printed in red and black cial on Iyo Glazed paper. Bound by Hammer, Reading, and Susan Item 7 on handmade paper. The opening line of each of the eight books Coates in black cloth with printed label. Li Po’s seal appears on the is designed by Graily Hewitt and printed in red, and the other red title page, having been reproduced from a seal impression in Mr. initial letters are from an alphabet designed by Eric Gill for Utopia. Ho’s History of Seals from 1623. The second volume was printed This was the last of the great Ashendene folios, and the present by Byron-Page Printing Co. and bound in gray Mingei paper. It copy is fine but for a touch of foxing along top edge that does not contains the translator’s notes and a phonographic recording of extend into the text. Original white pigskin binding by W.H. Smith T’ang Dynasty music on authentic period instruments. Both vol- is uncommonly clean and bright. (Hornby XXXVII). (See image umes are housed in a black cloth chemise with black ties. Very fine. on page 9). $4,500 (Holbrook, pp. 76). SOLD 7. [ASHENDENE PRESS]. The Wisdom of Jesus, The 3. [ARION PRESS]. The Apocalypse: The Revelation of Son of Sirach, commonly called Ecclesiasticus. (Chelsea, 1932). Saint John the Divine. The Last Book of the New Testament from Item 1 Octavo. 182pp. One of 328 copies, printed by C. St. John Hornby the King James Version of the Bible, 1611, with Twenty-Nine in red and black on handmade paper. The initial letters were drawn Prints from Woodblocks Cut by Jim Dine. San Francisco, 1982. by hand in blue and green by Graily Hewitt and his two assistants, Folio. (64)pp. One of 150 copies, signed by Jim Dine and by the Ida Henstock and Helen Hinckley. Hornby maintained this work printer, Andrew Hoyem. Dine’s riveting expressionistic woodcuts was “one of the most satisfactory books of the Press.” Extremely depict objects and characters in Revelation, such as a skull, a cloud, fine in limp orange vellum with silk ties. Housed in the original the Beast, the serpent, and a two-page spread of angel’s wings. The orange marbled paper slipcase. (Hornby XXXVIII). $4,000 text is set in Garamond, with the voices of God and the angels dis- tinguished by type size. To ensure that the pages would lie flat, An- Item 5 8. [ASHENDENE PRESS]. The XI Bookes of the Golden drew Hoyem himself sewed the signatures concertina-style over a Asse Containing the Metamorphosie of Lucius Apuleius....Trans- flexible core of plastic and nylon fiber. The binding is quarter-inch lated out of Latine into English, by William Adlington. Chelsea, laminated oak boards with a lightning-bolt device by Dine, backed 1924. Quarto. viii, 230pp. One of 165 copies on paper. Shoul- in white alum-tawed pigskin. One of the major artist’s books of der notes and Graily Hewitt’s chapter initials printed in red, while our times, drawing on a long tradition of illustrated Apocalypses, his seven-line initials for each book are printed in light blue. In from Dürer to the present. Minor toning to spine, some offsetting speaking of Hornby’s decision to create an undecorated edition from wood boards onto endpapers, else a fine copy. Prospectus laid of Apuelius, Colin Frankin notes that “this of all texts invited il- in. (Bibliography of the Arion Press 10). $7,500 lustration, and the Ashendene version stayed within ‘typographical excellence’. It remains the finest edition of Apuelius, readable and 4. [ARION PRESS]. Bibliography of the Arion Press. The fascinating as ever in allegory and narrative” (149). In publisher’s First One Hundred Books. San Francisco, 2015. Small quarto, plus linen-backed patterned boards, which show light rubbing to cor- portfolio. 307pp. From an edition of 550 copies, this is one of ners and extremities. About fine overall. Housed in a cloth chemise 100 accompanied by a portfolio of original leaves from each of and slipcase. Single-sheet prospectus laid in. Bookplate of noted the 100 books recorded in the bibliography. With contributions by book collector and New York World science editor, Albert Parsons Kevin Starr, Glenn Todd, Peter Kraus, and Andrew Hoyem. Color Sachs on front paste-down. (Hornby XXXIII; Franklin, The Ash- images of each book throughout, along with a frontispiece depict- endene Press, 149). $3,000 ing the pressmarks of the Arion Press. Bound in full tan cloth with leather spine label and matching slipcase. Leaves housed in original archival box. A very fine testament to a storied press. $2,000 Item 3 Item 8 2 3 AN ODE TO THE CONNECTICUT RIVER edition. The publication 14. (Cranach Press). also contains numerous THE ECLOGUES OF 10. [BLUE MOON PRESS]. Place of the Long River. A collotype reproductions VERGIL. In the Original Connecticut River Anthology. Glastonbury, CT, 1995. Octavo. of the remaining blocks Latin with an English Prose One of 100 copies. Signed by each of the eight featured authors, from these editions. With a Translation by J. H. Mason. who include W. D. Wetherell, Cynthia Huntington, Sydney Lea, powerful, calligraphed title (London, Emery Walker Roger Weingarten, Gary Metras, Wally Swist, Brendan Galvin, and page by Josef Lehnacker Limited, 1927). Quarto. David Holdt, and by the artist/printer, Jim Lee. With numerous and fourteen other smaller 116pp. One of 225 copies. color reduction woodcuts throughout. Lee’s illustrations offer a titles. The care and skill Text in Latin and English, lushly styled view of the landscape, engaging the reader in a sensual with which the blocks were and with Suetonius’s Life experience of central Connecticut. With this imagery, alongside the printed result in images of Virgil in Latin. The for- prose and poetry of the eight writers from the Connecticut River which are superior to those ty-two illustrations, includ- Valley, the reader is invited to lyrically and visually dwell in the pas- produced in the sixteenth ing the pictorial title, two toral leaves of the book. Bound in raw silk over boards by Barbara century. Unfortunately, the initials, and the pressmark, Blumenthal. Fine. $1,400 blocks were later destroyed were cut by Maillol during in World War II. Laid in to the years 1912-1914 and 11. [BREMER PRESSE]. Alighieri, Dante. La Divina Com- this copy is a text leaf from 1925, and were based on media. (Munich, 1921). Quarto. 459pp. One of 300 copies. the 1555 second edition, his surroundings at Banyuls Printed in Willy Weigand’s roman type, with calligraphed title, half- printed by Johannes Oporinus. A very fine copy bound in half pig- in the Pyrenees. The other initials and the title headline were cut by titles, two opening words, skin and gilt-stamped brown boards by Frieda Thiersch. Housed in Eric Gill. The typesetting and printing were supervised by Count and 97 initials designed by a later cloth clamshell box. Lacks “To the Reader” insert. (Bremer Harry Kessler and J. H. Mason, though the task, begun in 1914, Anna Simons, who studied Presse 39). $5,500 was interrupted by World War I. Bound in linen-backed boards; with Edward Johnston. The minor toning along extremities and some cracks to spine label, else WITH ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR Bremer Dante is regarded 13. [CALIBAN PRESS]. Dickens, Charles. A Ghost Story of near fine. (Müller-Krumbach 43) $3,500 as one of the masterpieces Christmas. Canton, NY, 2017. Small quarto. (110)pp. One of 104 9. [BASKIN, LEONARD]. Hughes, Ted. Crow. From the of the Press: “The felici- copies, signed by the printer, Mark McMurray. Illustrated through- PRINT AND PICTURE IN HARMONY Life and Songs of the Crow. London, Faber and Faber, (1973). tous balance of Simons’s out with paper-cuts, collage, wood engravings, and relief blocks by Quarto. (124), (2)pp. One of 400 copies. This copy contains an initials and Weigand’s ro- several collaborators.

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