Indianapolis, New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1940. Hardcover. Octavo size, 305 pp., with dust jacket. David Legge Brainard (1856-1946), a career military man, was appointed as the first sergeant for the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. Their destination was the most northern latitude americans had ever explored, with the expedition's goal..... More

Eugene, Oregon: Printed by John Henry Nash, University of Oregon, 1939. First Edition. Wraps. Quarto size, 25 pp., inscribed by David Hadden. An uncommon book of verse by David Hadden, one printed late in the career of the eminent typographer and printer John Henry Nash (1871-1947); this volume contains humorous..... More

Privately Printed [at the Tragara Press], 1996. Limited Edition. Wraps. One of 100 numbered copies, octavo size, 45 pp., with a short ANS by Stephen Stuart-Smith. George Granville Barker (1913-1991), poet, was "partly associated with the New Apocalyptics movement, which reacted against 1930s realism with surrealistic and mythical themes. However..... More

Ditchling: St Dominic's Press, 1929. Hardcover. First printing, sixteenmo size, 87 pp. The Saint Dominic's Press, founded by Harry (Hilary) Douglas Clarke Pepler, flourished at Ditchling, Sussex, from 1916 to 1936. The first home of the Press was "a disused stable", with a hundred-year-old Stanhope hand-press which supposedly had belonged..... More

San Francisco: The Brownstone Press, 1970-1971. No binding. Three broadsides, elephant folio size. A series of three broadsides, the "Butterfly Broadsides", printed by The Brownstone Press during the years 1970 to 1971. While we cannot be certain whether or not additional broadsides in the series were published, it appears likely..... More

San Francisco: Printed at The Grabhorn Press, 1957. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 225 copies, folio size, 119 pp. A limited, fine letterpress edition of the second volume of the Grabhorn bibliography, printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn, Jane & Mary Grabhorn and Sherwood Grover, from the library of esteemed..... More

[New York]: The Limited Editions Club (printed by Heritage Printers, Inc.), (1990). Hejduk, John. Limited Edition. Leather bound. No. 122 of 375 copies, quarto size, 193 pp., signed by John Hejduk, with LEC Monthly Letter. German writer Thomas Mann (1875-1955), a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929..... More

Chicago and La Salle, Illinois: Open Court, (1996). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 353 pp. To some a religion, to others a philosophy and ethical system, Confucianism "laid the foundation for much of Chinese culture" (n.b, from the web site of National Geographic Education). In this publication, the..... More

London: William Jackson (Books) Ltd (Books 1-4) [and] Joiner & Steele, Ltd. (Books 5-12) [Printed at the Chiswick Press], 1930, 1931, 1932. Garnett, R.A.; Austen, John; Gibbings, Robert; Papé, Frank C.; Odle, Alan; Garwood, Tirzah; Hilder, Rowland; Kermode, William; Grant, Duncan; Moon, P.V.; Leighton, Clare; Wolfe, Edward. Hardcover. Each volume..... More