San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2011. Holland, Tom. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 148 of 300, octavo size, 171 pp., signed by Edward Albee and Tom Holland, with prospectus. Edward Albee (1928-2016) was an illustrious playwright whose works often examine "the modern condition", often as psychological examinations and interactions between characters... More about A Delicate Balance
London: Printed for the Guild of Women-Binders and Williams & Norgate, 1902. Hardcover. No. 156 of 500 copies, quarto size, approx. 192 pp., in a custom binding by Reed & Witting, copy owned by Leonard Witting. The Guild of Women-Binders, founded in 1898 by Frank Karslake, promoted the work of... More about The Bindings of To-morrow; A Record of the Work of the Guild of Women-Binders and of the...
[Oakland, California]: The Eucalyptus Press, Mills College, 1937. Uhl, Kathryn. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, quarto size, 54 pp. This publication by the Eucalyptus Press, based in Mills College, is a series of letters written by Mary Atkins, founder of the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852, which would... More about The Diary of Mary Atkins; A Sabbatical in the Eighteen Sixties
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed at the Grabhorn Press], 1957. Audubon, John Woodhouse. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 copies, folio size, [82] pp. John Woodhouse Audubon (1812-1862), the son of renowned artist and naturalist John James Audubon, joined the search for gold in California in 1849... More about The Drawings of John Woodhouse Audubon Illustrating his Adventures through Mexico and California...
New York: Limited Editions Club [printed at the Press of William E. Rudge's Sons, under the direction of Bruce Rogers], 1944. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 540 of 1100, folio size, 203 pp., signed by Bruce Rogers. The first book published by the philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Baron of... More about The Essays or Counsels Civill & Morall
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San Francisco / New York: The Arion Press / Grove Press, 2006. Wiley, William T. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Artist book: Number 68 of 300, elephant folio size, [67] pp., signed by William T. Wiley, with prospectus and invitation to the publication party. Trade book: octavo size, 365 pp. Samuel Beckett... More about Godot: An Imaginary Staging by William T. Wiley of Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett [with] En...
New York: The John Day Company, 1928. Blaine, Mahlon. First Edition. Leather bound. First printing with illustrations by Mahlon Blaine, octavo size, 250 pp., in a custom leather binding. The development of Gothic fiction in the mid-eighteenth century saw many novels incorporating elements of horror and the supernatural as a.... More about Vathek
San Francisco: Arion Press, (1982). Rosenthal, Bernard. First Edition. Wraps. Square duodecimo size, [24] unnumbered pp. Harvey Wilder Bentley (1900-1990) was a well-known calligrapher, printer and poet in Berkeley, California. In the 1930s Bentley bought an Acorn press, and with the help of his wife Ellen they established the successful... More about Wilder Bentley the Elder; At the Archetype Press
London: The Haymarket Press, 1928. Flint, W. Russell. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 79 of 100, quarto size, 66 pp., signed by W. Russell Flint. The famous story of the headhunting heroine whose bold act has inspired painters, poets, sculptors and writers for centuries. This version was finely printed by The... More about Judith; Reprinted from the Revised Version of the Apocrypha
(France): Trianon Press, 1957. Blake, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 219 of 506, Atlas Folio size, 82 pp. In his "Life of William Blake" (1863) Alexander Gilchrist warned his readers that Blake "neither wrote nor drew for the many, hardly for work'y-day men at all, rather for children and angels;... More about William Blake's Illustrations to the Bible
New York: The Limited Editions Club [printed at the Thistle Press], 1968. Miller, Edgar. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500 copies, quarto size, 65 pp., signed by Edgar Miller, with LEC Monthly Letter. The Book of Ecclesiastes, part of both the Christian Old Testament and the Hebrew Bible, offers... More about The Book of Ecclesiastes; In the Revised King James Version
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 351 of 1500, quarto size, 611 pp. for both volumes. The westward explorations of Lewis and Clark remain a source of fascination, with the courage and daring it took to explore then-unknown territory. This edition of Lewis and Clark’s Expedition... More about The Journals of the Expedition under the Command of Capts. Lewis and Clark; to the sources of the...
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1972. Kredel, Fritz. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500, quarto size, 253 pp., signed by Fritz Kredel, with LEC Monthly Newsletter and Announcement. Journalist and fiction writer Ambrose Bierce (1842- ca. 1914) was a prolific and diverse writer, often drawing from his experiences... More about The Devil's Dictionary
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Northridge, California: Santa Susana Press, Northridge University Libraries, 1978. Blanco, Amanda; Burkhardt, Hans. Limited Edition. Folio in a case. No. A. P. 2 of 36 numbered copies and an unknown number of artist proofs, this the publisher's copy (Norman Tanis), quarto size, 28 leaves, signed and inscribed on the colophon... More about The Many Faces of Jake Zeitlin [Norman Tanis copy]; A Photographic Essay
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed at the Allen Press], 1946. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, octavo size, [68] pp. "The publication of the most famous of all documents relating to the Donner Party," published at the centennial of the author's original accounting of the tragic... More about The Diary of Patrick Breen; Recounting the Ordeal of the Donner Party Snowbound In the Sierra...
[Vancouver, BC, Canada]: Heavenly Monkey, 2016. Maru, Jane. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 32 of 50 copies, quarto size, 62 pp., signed by Harold Budd and Jane Maru. The musical compositions of Harold Budd (b. 1936) have a minimalist and avant-garde approach; his poetry also has a soft minimalist quality. "Aurora... More about Aurora Teardrops
Risbury, Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, (1992). Limited Edition. Leather. One of 17 bound in inlaid Oasis leather, folio size, 227 pp., signed by David Butcher and Dame Joanna Jamieson. This work serves the dual purpose of being a bibliography of the work produced by the Stanbrook Abbey Press for over... More about The Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1956-1990, and a Memoir of Dame Hildelith Cumming by The Abbess of...
Limited Editions Club, (1987). Juarez, Roberto. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 331 of 750, signed by Alejo Carpentier and Roberto Juarez, with LEC Monthly Letter. A significant novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980), "The Kingdom of This World" depicts Haiti and the time surrounding the Haitian Revolution led by Toussaint... More about The Kingdom of This World
London: The Argonaut Press, 1927. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 628 of 975 copies, quarto size, [318] pp. Sir John Chardin (1643-1712) was a French merchant and traveler; the publication of the first volume of his "Voyages du chevalier Jean Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l'Orient" simultaneously in French... More about Sir John Chardin's Travels in Persia
New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., (1935). Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), octavo size, 1048 total pp., with fold-out map. The fur trade in the American West was an extensive economic vernture that brought many families to form settlements there, and strongly impacted the way of life of numerous Native Americans... More about The American Fur Trade of the Far West; A History of Pioneer Trading Posts & Early Fur...
San Francisco: Printed by the Grabhorn Press for Leon Gelber and Theodore Lilienthal, 1936. Starr, Judson. Limited Edition. Wraps. One of 200 copies, quarto size, [16] unnumbered pp., with holiday card and ms translation slipped in. An edition of this Christmas poem by Canadian poet Louis Frechette (1839-1908) the poet-laureate... More about Voix de Noel
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New York: The Limited Editions Club [printed by Daniel Keleher at Wild Carrot Letterpress], 1983. Gilot, Francoise. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 2000, quarto size, 155 p., signed by illustrator, with Monthly Newsletter and separate, additional silk-screen. Colette (1873-1954), author, actress, journalist, and mime, is best known for her... More about Break of Day [with additional silk-screen
San Francisco: The Limited Editions Club, printed by Taylor & Taylor, 1961. de Frietas, Lima. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500, quarto size, 401 pp., signed by Lima de Freitas, with LEC Monthly Letter and announcement. Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) (1857-1924) was an English novelist and... More about Nostromo, Tale of the Seaboard
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 926 copies, octavo size, 76 pp., printed by Bruce Rogers. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a Polish-British writer who wrote stories and novels that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutible universe; he often brought... More about The Sisters
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1969. Shore, Robert. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 351 of 1500, fine in a fine slipcase, quarto size, 117 p., signed by Robert Shore. First published in 1902, this story, written at the height of the British empire, reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad... More about Heart of Darkness