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
[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press, [2014]. d'Arbeloff, Natalie. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. V of X (total edition 160), folio size, 44 pp., signed by Dick Jones and Natalie d'Arbeloff. Blaise Cendrars (nom de plume for Frederic-Louis Sauser, 1887-1961), the "heir of Rimbaud", greatly influenced the European Modernist movement with his..... 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
![Item #17083234 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
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
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
![Item #CNJL1237 Green Blades, from her mound [No. III of X of the special edition]; Poems from...](/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
n.p. Condorpers [Peter Hendriks (Typography and Printing); WIlma van Ipenburg (Binder)], 2007. Anke Ligteringen. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. IX (total edition not stated), square quarto size, [48] pp., note that text is in Dutch with English translation. A fascinating artist book which is a perfect marriage of custom binding, photography..... More
New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1959. First 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
[New York]: [Nadja Press], 1992. Tanning, Dorothea. Limited Edition. No binding. 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...... 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
Ditchling, Sussex: S. Dominic's Press, 1922. Gill, Eric. Wraps. Sixmo size, 22 pp. Per the St. Dominic's Press bibliography, "[a]n eloquent exposition (compared by Fr. Vincent McNabb to Cobbett) of the spiritual needs of rural-dwelling Catholics in England" (p. 69). ___DESCRIPTION: Stiff brown wrappers printed in black, Eric Gill's engraving..... More
(London): Petersburg Press, 1986. Clemente, Francesco. Limited Edition. Soft cover. No. 98 of 200, total 288, double elephant size, signed by artist Francesco Clemente. In this volume, Clemente has illuminated Alberto Savinio's (1891-1952) autobiographical wartime voyage in 1917. By overlaying words with brightly coloured images and colours, Clemente creates an..... More
Saint Petersburg: [Dmitry Sayenko], 2016. Sayenko, Dmitry. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 9 of 15, folio, 44 pp., signed by Dmitry Sayenko. Dmitry Sayenko (b. 1965 in Kiev) learned a love of book illustration from his father, a book illustrator himself, by watching him at work. In 1995 Dmitry..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, quarto size, 38 pp. William Pène du Bois' (1916-1993) demonstrates his expertise in both writing and illustrating in this charming volume; Pène du Bois won the Newbery Medal for "The Twenty-One Balloons" in 1948, and, for books he illustrated..... More