Fine Press Books

Pinner: Private Libraries Association. First edition. Paperback. Fine copy. A collection of 19 issues, including the years 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981-1984, 1985-1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991. 8vo. Wrappers. 22.2 x 14 cm. Edited by Roderick Cave, David Chambers, Peter Hoy et. al.

Oxford: H. Daniel, 1894. First edition thus, one of 250 numbered copies. Original printed wrappers, glassine and slipcase. 61 pp. Spine slightly darkened, else a fine copy. Madan 33. "First printed in Macmillan's Magazine, vol. 38 (1878), p. 313, it is here for the first time reprinted with loving care.

First edition. One of 500 numbered and signed copies, printed at the Spiral Press from the original blocks. Marbled paper over boards with printed cover label. Nine fables of Aesop, with full page woodcut illustrations on Goyu paper. Lower corners slightly rubbed, still a fine copy, with the original glassine, which has some chips and edgewear. In addition to Frasconi's signature on the colophon, he has inscribed this copy on the first blank leaf to Herman Cohen of the Chiswick Bookshop, dated December 1964.

First edition, one of 215 copies printed. 40 pp. Marbled paper boards over black cloth backstrip, printed spine label. Fine copy. Bolton's first book, and only lifetime publication. Donald Justice wrote of Bolton's poems: "Effortlessly they transcend the merely anecdotal; they are always edging towards something emblematic. And they can be immensely moving in their modesty." A beautiful and dark cycle of verse, full of loss, winter and poverty, yet transcendent in its language and clear-eyed vision.

A fine copy except a small chip missing to the acetate dust jacket. Delicately printed in green & red on Japanese handmade papers. Copy number 108 of 235 ( 300 total ).

London: Vale & Ballantyne Press For Hacon and Ricketts, 1898. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Designs by Charles Ricketts (1866-1931). Sold by Hacon & Ricketts. Limited to 210 copies [8 on Vellum]. Printed with the Vale Type in Red and Black. Designed and cut on wood by Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) Laurel leaf border and two initials, border destroyed after print run. Handmade paper with VP watermark. Half grey paper to paper with pinecone and leaf design in buff and green, printed label on the spine, (4) blank, 67, monogram, colophon, (7) blank. Woodcut border with one initial. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with lightly rubbed corners a darkened spine and advanced rubbing of the boards on the half paper. Free endpages darkened as usual. Tiny bookplate of British Art Historian Campbell Dodgson. 8vo; 9.25 inches tall.. Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who… Read More

Gainesville, Florida:: Crooked Letter Press,, 2021.. Edition of 40. Dimensions closed: 11” x 6.5” x 1.5”. Materials: colorplan 300 gsm paper, letterpress ink, tyvek, book cloth, metal brads and grommets. printed on and constructed from Colorplan paper, and letterpress printed from linoleum reduction blocks and photopolymer plates. Crooked Letter Press: "'Rule of Thumb' is a moveable book about the historical human obsession with ourselves and with approval from others. In the last 10 years, we have become obsessed with living online instead of actual living. We seem to only care about how many thumbs up, likes, or hearts we can accumulate on social media platforms. We practice a psychological social separation. We live virtual lives. Now, with the proliferation of the COVID-19 virus, we are living with the physical reality of social-distancing. How will we make it back? Can we make it back? 'Rule of Thumb' considers the ways in which humans have used our thumbs… Read More

Newtown, Montgomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1939. full green morocco with onlaid designs by Paul Nash incorporating Shaw's initials and having different designs on the front and back in orange morocco - a signed Gregynog binding. Gregynog Press. tall 8vo. full green morocco with onlaid designs by Paul Nash incorporating Shaw's initials and having different designs on the front and back in orange morocco - a signed Gregynog binding. [xi] 188, [1] pages. Limited to 300 numbered copies. (Harrop, Zilverdistel no.40). Frontispiece portrait of Shaw by John Farleigh. Head of spine worn, with some scattered wear to spine. General shelfwear. Boards somewhat bowed. As is common with this title there is offsetting from the leather turn-ins to the front and rear endpaper edges. Edges of preliminary pages show small tears, else the interior is in fine condition. With the bookplate of Robin Satinsky on the front pastedown. Printed in Baskerville type on very pale green hand-made Arnold and Foster paper. Zero fading… Read More

Small Quarto (9 1/2 X 6 inches) San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1975. First Edition. 175 pages, printed in three colors on English Inveresk cream mould-made paper, vignettes from wood engravings in "Ecole des Cuisinieres, Paris, c. 1870," 425 copies, quarter blue cloth with paper label, patterned paper over boards, very good condition (almost imperceptible minor age toning to one edge of front cover and label, not affecting contents.)

"Intellectual infection..." A stimulating sampling of food related aphorisms from many sources collected over many years by a well known San Francisco fine press printer and bon vivant; in a beautiful edition.

New York: House Of Books, Ltd, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in fine original glassine wrapper. Unpaginated. 19.5 x 13 cm. Limited edition, copy 72 of 300. This manuscript fragment found by the executor of his Estate had never been published, and deemed of sufficient importance to be published at this time. Printed at the Southworth-Anthoensen Press and number five of the Crown Octavos.

Bloomington, Indiana: The Raintree Press, 1975. RARE, copy 19 of only 29 copies printed. Hand-set in Garamond with Lombardie and Cloister initials, and printed by letterpress. Near Fine, small stain bottom edge front wrapper. 24 unnumbered pages. "A Blessing of the Plants" was set down more than a thousand years ago in the LACNUNGA, or leech-book, and Anglo-Saxon collection of medicinal recipes." A masterful example of Brewer's skill with illustration and the letterpress. Not recorded at OCLC. . SIGNED BY ARTIST. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition.

Paris, 1931, small 4to, pp. 236 (3); orig. cloth; as published in card slipcase, printed label to one side. Book designed by Monroe Wheeler and printed in Paris in the Didot types by Ducros and Colas; the illustrations done in collotype by Jacomet. One of 660 numbered copies on Montgolfier vellum, after 35 on Maillol and 5 on japan vellum. - A quite good copy; light wear (fading) at head and foot of spine, a faint splash mark at top edge of rear board; tissue guards to illustrations all present. Some normal shelf-wear at the slipcase, without any real damage; printed label browned. - This copy became William S. Cockrell's, when it was given and inscribed to him in June 1963, by the writer Glenway Wescott, who was Wheeler's close friend, lover, and long time companion, and brother-in-law to Barbara Harrison. An impressive book production - Wescott's idea - from this expatriate, Parisian press, of Byron's long narrative poem, containing over twenty painterly illustrations by Sir Francis Cyril Rose… Read More

Santa Barbara , CA: Lord John Press, 1978. # 29 of 275 copies handbound by Vance Gerry and SIGNED BY AUTHOR at Limitation Page. In quarter brown cloth and decorated boards, Fine. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. Quarter Cloth. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.

Cottondale, AL: Ex Ophidia, 1986. # 63 of only 90 copies on hand-made paper and bound in full rust-colored niger morocco with a single small gilt square on spine. In publisher's cloth box, with Ex Ophidia Books In Print catalogue laid in. Fine in Fine box, a few minor spots to lower front cover of box. 21 pages. A gorgeous production, published after Cheever's death with his daughter Susan's approval. . Limited and Numbered 1st Edition. Niger Morocco . Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Limited Edition.

Graz -Austria: Akademische Druck- U. Verlaganstalt, 1978. Limited Edition Facsimile. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Superb facsimile in original full leather binding in the original box, LIMITED and numbered EDITION OF 850 NUMBERED COPIES. THIS COPY NR.330. A very good copy clean and fresh copy. - Colophone in deutscher Sprache. Mit dem Kontrollblatt des Verlags.