[Amador City, CA]: [Quintessence Printing Museum], [1990]. Limited No. 27 of 53 copies. Broadside (11 x 17") printed on cream cover stock in black, red, green, brown, blue and grey; right edge deckled.Set in cloister Old-Style, an exquisite face designed in 1915 by Morris Benton which, in turn, is based..... More
Portland, Maine: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1922. First Edition Thus, Limited to 450 copies. Original boards. Small 8vo. xix, (3) 3-86, (2) pp. Pages unopened. Index. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Design by George Auriol. Blue paper covered boards with black & red letterting to front cover & spine. Housed in..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, (1949). 1st. Wraps. First Edition; Limited to 500 copies. Small 4to. 32 pp. Title in red, blue and black; chapter numbering and opening initials in red and blue; printer's device in red. Bound in pale blue and white decorative wrappers, stitched, white label printed in red..... More
San Francisco: Cloister Press, 1938. First Edition. 12mo; [16] pages, illustrations. A Near Fine copy (slight splay) in turquoise cloth with title to front cover. '.. reprinted for friends of THE CLOISTER PRESS. One hundred forty copies made Christmas 1938. Designed by WILLIAM B. PARTMANN.' (Colophon). More
Newtown, Powys: Gregynog Press, 1993. First Edition. Leather bound. Limited to 400 numbered copies, this being #323 and privately bound by Pacific Northwest bookbinder, Derek Lowe. 4to. Mounted color plates printed from line-blocks by Brenda Berman. Designed by John Ryder and printed by David Esslemont. Red-brown morocco with striking multi-color..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1984. First Edition Limited to 400 copies. Small 8vo. 15 pp. Color illustration of Membership card for the Socialist League designed by Walter Crane in 1884, the smith a likeness of Morris on title page. Printed for the meeting of the North American and Pacific Coast..... More
Santa Cruz, CA: Peter Thomas, 1994. Limited Edition of 37 copies, made for Donna Thomas's 37th birthday. Miniature Book (2 3/4 x 2 inches). Unpaginated. printed on a single scrolling sheet, leterpress, on Peter's handmade paper, with illustrations; text clean, unmarked. Beige linen over boards, gilt-titled paper label on front..... More
Pasadena, CA: The Clinker Press, 2007. Limited Edition #11 of 60 copies. Leather bound. Oblong 8vo. Printed on recto only. Designed and letterpress printed by Andre Chaves; bound by Marianna Blau in full dark blue leather, with a decorative debossed front cover. A fine copy. A lovely fine press edition..... More
[Tucson]: [Saltbush Studio], 1991. First printing of this format. Quarto broadside (32 x 21 cm). SIGNED by Ward Ritchie; INSCRIBED by Powell for his occasional publisher of later years, Noel Young of the Capra Press. Designed by Ward Ritchie and printed at Saltbursh Studio for the occasion of Powell's 85th..... More
Fullerton, CA: Joe D'Ambrosio for Lorson's Books & Prints, 2002. First Edition Thus, Limited to 50 copies. SIGNED by Joe D'Ambrosio. Miniature book (2 3/4 x2"). The book opens with a purple & brown tissue butterfly pop up surrounded with the printed verse. Green floral cloth spine over green paper..... More
Newtown, Powys: Gwasg Gregynog, 1993. First Edition. Leather bound. Limited Edition of 400 copies, this being one of twenty copies sold as sheets and privately bound by Pacific Northwest bookbinder, Derek Lowe. Tall 8vo. 150, [4] pp. Title page, illustrations in red & black by Quentin Blake, Hans-Joachim Burgert, Michael..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1943. First Edition Limited to 100 copies. Hardcover. Quarto; [31]pp. Faint stain to front board, else a Fine copy in publisher's 1/4 white cloth and light grey, blue and black decorated boards. Handsome presentation of 19 poems ('each one brings something important in my life..... More
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Paris: Les Editions d'Art Les Heures Claires, 1971. Limited to 2680 sets, this being No. 750. 10 tragedies in 6 volumes, complete. Large 8vo. Various paginations. Text in French. Full-page color illustrations by Leonor Fini, Georges Wakhevitch, Jean-Denis Malcles, Yves Brayer, Douking, and Caezou. Publisher's printed single sheet biographies for..... More
Prague: Vladimir Benes at The Bonaventura Publishing House, 1997. Limited Edition of 120 numbered copies. Original wrappers. 4to. 153 pp + colophon. Nine full-page etchings by Marina Richter, each SIGNED by the artist, and printed by Pavel and Milan Drímal. The text was set by hand and printed in the..... More
New York: Printed at Edinburgh by T. and A. Constable for Tandy Publishing Co., ca. 1910. Extra-Illustrated Edition. Small folio. [2], 187-273 pp. Extra-illustrated with 10 original watercolors including frontispiece of Romeo by the artist 'PAL', elaborate full-page floral & love-birds motif title-page for the play, 2 pages of decorative..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1939. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition, Limited to 500 copies printed for Alfred Sutro. INSCRIBED by the author. 4to. Illustrated by W. R. Davenport. Rose cloth spine over cream and red illustrated boards; gilt lettering to spine. A near fine copy (light wear to extremities; slight age..... More
Princeton: University Press, 1944. First Edition, Limited to 125 copies printed on Whatmans handmade paper. 8vo. 32 pp. Light wear to board edges; foxing inside covers; else a near fine copy. American critic, novelist, and poet Donald Stauffer was born in Colorado in 1902. Stauffer earned his BA and MA..... More
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1939. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. Limited to 750 copies issued from The Colt Press by Jane Swinerton, William Roth, & Jane Grabhorn. Quarto; 67 pages, black cloth spine and pale blue paper-covered boards. More
Privately Printed, 1938. First Edition, Limited to 500 copies, this being No. 448. 4to. [16] pp (on double leaves, untrimmed). Designed and set in Hammer Unciale type by the author. Beautifully illustrated throughout by E. C. Line. Printed in 29 colors and gold initials on Roma paper made by hand..... More
Monterey CA: Monte Regio Press, 2001. First Edition Limited to 36 copies. Original cloth. 16mo; 35, (3)pp. Illustarted with frontis and one other photograph of Baron von Huegel. 'Thirty-six copies were printed on Wausau Vellum Opaque paper by the designer, Roger Hilleary, with the assistance of David Salinas. Hand-set Joanna..... More