London and Paris: Fisher, Son, & Co., [ca. 1843]. Allom, Thomas. First Edition. Hardcover. Four volumes bound in two, quarto size, approx. 364 pp. Draughtsmen, architect, and artist Thomas Allom (1804-1872) is probably best known for this title, which was the most popular and best known work on this subject... More
![12 O'Clock News [ARTIST BOOK - Judith Rothchild]. Elizabeth Bishop, Judith Rothchild, Author, Artist.](/pictures/thumb/CNJL1217_1.JPG?v=1497054272)
[Octon, France]: Verdigris, [2006]. Rothchild, Judith. Limited Edition. Japanese Stab Binding. No. 6 of 10 deluxe copies (total edition 50) with original copper plate and separate mezzotint, Oblong Folio - over 12” - 19” tall, 28 p., Signed by Artist and Printer/Binder. Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) wrote this poem... More
Buenos Aires: Edito Vehil, (1955). Botana, Helvio I. Limited Edition. Wraps. Number VIII of XX, octavo size, [124] pp., signature at the colophon. A lovely version, in the original Spanish, with an original drawing by the author serving as frontispiece, and signed by the author at the colophon. Offered as... More
Alexandria: Cottom and Stewart, 1801. Leather. Volume I ONLY, duodecimo size, 256 pp. Volume I only of Jane West's (1758-1852) work considered anti-Jacobin; many of West's writings were praised for advocating "improvement", and they often had political and feminist themes, as West, even though broadly conservative, advocated better education for... More
![Trans-Siberian Prosody and Little Jeanne from France [No. V of X of the Special Edition]; La Prose du Transsiberian et de la Petite Jehanne de France. Blaise Cendrars, Dick Jones, Natalie d'Arbeloff, Author, Artist.](/pictures/thumb/CNJL1218_1.JPG?v=1501885538)
[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press, [2014]. d'Arbeloff, Natalie. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. V of X (total edition 160), Folio - over 12” to 15” tall, 44 pp., signed by translator and artist. Blaise Cendrars (nom de plume for Frederic-Louis Sauser, 1887-1961), the "heir of Rimbaud", greatly influenced the European Modernist... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1966. Szalay, Lajos. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 351 of 1500, quarto size, 172 pp., signed by the illustrator. Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a literary artist of laconic precision who probed below the surface of life, laying bare the secret motives of his characters. Chekhov’s... More
San Francisco: The Westgate Press [Printed by the Grabhorn Press], 1931. Hardcover. Unnumbered limited edition of 475 copies, octavo size, 124 pp. This edition of de Russailh's tales of his time in San Francisco was printed by the Grabhorn Press, one of the most highly renowned private presses in America... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1937. Derby, George H. [John Phoenix (pseudonym)]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 550 copies printed, unnumbered, 8vo - over 7.75” - 9.75” tall, 240 p. John Phoenix, alias John P. Squibob, or George H. Derby (1823 - 1861), was an early California humorist who used... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, printed at Heritage Printers, (1989). Cosindas, Marie. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 351 of 650, folio size, 41 pp., signed by artist and author. A lovely production by the Limited Editions Club of a new telling of the ancient Greek story of Oedipus; Friedrich Durrenmatt... More
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc., 1929. Field, Rachel. First Edition. Hardcover. 24mo size, 67 pp. Rachel Lyman Field (1894-1942) was a well-loved children's author, as well as a novelist and poet; she is best known for her Newbery Award-winning "Hitty, Her First Hundred Years". She was also... More
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc., 1928. Field, Rachel. First Edition. Hardcover. 24mo size, 62 pp. Rachel Lyman Field (1894–1942) was an American novelist, poet, and children's fiction writer, best known for her Newbery Award-winning "Hitty, Her First Hundred Years". Field also won a National Book Award, Newbery... More
(Kentfield, California): Allen Press, 1974. Redon, Odilon. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 140 copies, folio size, 90 pp., with prospectus. Although Gustave Flaubert’s (1821-1880) best known work may be "Madame Bovary", he had a deep interest in "The Temptation of Saint Anthony", spending thirty years in research and working countless... More
London: Hague & Gill Ltd, (1940). Gill, Eric. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth lettered in silver, with "St. Thomas's Hands" (P382) stamped in silver to front board and printed in black to title page; light blue dust jacket printed in red. Features 36 full-page plates of reproductions of Gill's drawings... More
![Sculpture and the Living Model [Presentation Copy]. Eric Gill, Author and Artist.](/pictures/thumb/17083234_1.jpg?v=1506479994)
London: Printed by Hague & Gill, Published by Sheed & Ward, (1932). Gill, Eric. Limited Edition. Sewn binding. One of 500 copies, duodecimo size, 22 pp., inscribed by Eric Gill. This volume is a presentation copy with a nice association to Eric Gill's (1882-1940) sculptural work; here Gill articulates the... More
Council Bluffs: The Yellow Barn Press, 1986. Gill, Eric; DePol, John. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 58 of 200 copies, reprinted from the S. Dominic's Press edition of 1921, with prospectus. The fourth collaboration of John DePol and Yellow Barn Press, this volume contains an essay by Eric Gill (1882-1940), in... More
London: Jonathan Cape [Printed by Walter Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge], 1931. Gill, Eric. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 129 of 160, octavo size, 206 pp., signed by Eric Gill. Clothing has long been an integral part of society, and can be used to reflect diverse religious and cultural identities... More
[Capel-y-ffin, Abergavenny, Wales]: [printed by The Golden Cockerel Press], [1926]. Gill, Eric. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 30 of 150, with prospectus, octavo size, 26 pp., signed by Eric Gill. "Id quod visum placet" is Latin for "that which pleases merely by being seen", a definition of beauty given... More
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Gill, Eric. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 197 of 500, octavo size, 16 pp. "The Lord's Song" is a sermon composed by the inimitable Eric Gill (1882-1940); it is a call to reaffirm free will as well as an acknowledgement of sin and spiritual responsibility... More
![Green Blades, from her mound [No. III of X of the special edition]; Poems from "Poems of 1912 - 1913" by Thomas Hardy, A selection by Mark Cazalet who also made all the images. Thomas Hardy, Mark Cazalet, Author, Artist.](/pictures/thumb/CNJL1237_1.JPG?v=1501288508)
[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press, [2007]. Cazalet, Mark. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. III of X of the special edition, total edition 210, folio size, 46 pp., signed by artist. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is one of Britain's most influential Victorian novelists and poets; he often wrote of tragic characters struggling against... More
[New York] (Munich): The Limited Editions Club (printed by Typostudio Schumacher-Gebler), (1987). Ionesco, Eugene. Limited Edition. Cardboard. Number 425 of 1000, folio size, 145 pp., signed by Eugene Ionesco. Eugene Ionesco (1909-1994), one of the formost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre, wrote this work later in his career. In... More
New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1959. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 256 pp., with letter signed by John D. MacDonald. A three-paragraph letter from John D. MacDonald (1916-1986) to Miriam Allen DeFord (1888-1975), signed by MacDonald, accompanied by the first edition of the book discussed in the letter. The letter... More
[Nadja Press], 1992. Tanning, Dorothea. Limited Edition. No. IV of X of the deluxe edition with a separate suite of etchings (total edition 110). Slightly oblong, unbound sheets, duodecimo size, 40 pp., signed by James Merrill and Dorothea Tanning. With prospectus and related material. Per a small slip of paper... More
![Maurizius Forever [INSCRIBED BY JANE GRABHORN]. Author, Artist, Henry Miller, Mallette Dean, Linocuts.](/pictures/thumb/17100543_1.JPG?v=1508026233)
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1946. Miller, Henry; Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, square octavo, [78] pp., inscribed by Jane Grabhorn. Warmly inscribed by Jane Grabhorn "To Bill and Molly / to whom, if I could,/ I would dedicate / all my books - / Jane... More
[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press, 2015. Abell, John; d'Arbeloff, Natalie; Brockway, Harry; Hicks-Jenkins, Clive; Kiggell, Ralph; Lemaire, Angela; Macdonald, Robert. Limited Edition. Folio. Number 11 of 25, folio size, unpaginated, 14 folded leaves and 14 relief prints, each print is signed and numbered by the respective artist, signed at the... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1987. Motherwell, Robert. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 750 (820 total), elephant folio size, unpaginated, signed by Octavio Paz and Robert Motherwell, fine book in a near fine box. Octavio Paz (1914-1998), Mexican poet and diplomat, won many awards including the Miguel de... More