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
n.p. The Private Press of Alvin S. Fick, 1977. Limited Edition. Stiff wraps. One of 70 copies (not stated), miniature book, [20] pp., letterpress printed. A perfect Christmas keepsake, which is how this was presented, as set forth in the introduction Alma and Al Fick wrote, beginning with: "When Christmas..... More
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
New York: The Limited Editions Club [printed by Michael & Winifred Bixler], 1981. Benson, Richard. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 2000 copies, folio size, 97 pp., signed by Richard Benson, with LEC Monthly Letter, announcement, and slipcase. Hart Crane (1899-1932) tragically died by committing suicide at the age of..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. Parker, Arvilla. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, quarto size, 107 pp. Nicholas Dawson (1819-1903), the partly self-educated schoolteacher infected with wanderlust, spent much of his life travelling on foot across America. His wanderings brought him through Missouri, Louisiana, and Arkansas to Mexico..... More
[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press, 2009. Lemaire, Angela. Limited Edition. No binding. No. 3 of 25 copies for sale, folio size, 52 pp. The story begins: "I was present during the Great Plague of 1665, It took away my life," he said. Per the artist, this work, originally produced by..... More
San Francisco: The California Historical Society [printed by Andrew Hoyem, Printer], (1977). Dixon, Maynard. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 1300 copies, quarto size, 160 pp., inscribed by Kevin Starr to Edith Hamlin, with prospectus and contemporary review. Lafayette Maynard Dixon (1875-1946) is internationally known for his artwork, which..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2008. Lobdell, Frank. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 198 of 275 copies, quarto size, 96 pp., signed by Frank Lobdell, with signed print (number 19/20) and prospectus. Robert Duncan (1919-1988) was one of the most influential American poets of the second half of the twentieth century..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1932. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, quarto size, 53 pp., Number 4 in the Rare Americana Series. Philip Leget Edwards (1812-1869) was an educator, lawyer, and legislator, and was part of the Willamette Cattle Company. During his time there he wrote this diary documenting..... More
New York: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club [by Edna Beilenson], 1963. Manning, Wray. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500, quarto size, 492 pp., signed by Wray Manning, with Announcement and LEC Monthly Letter. One of the major figures of realism during the Victorian Era was..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, (1966). Karlin, Eugene. 2nd Printing. Leather bound. Octavo size, 93 pp. Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) was a Persian mathematician and astronomer, best known for his work on cubic equations and for designing the Jalali calendar; many poems are attributed to him (though with much skepticism..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1973. Neama, May. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500 copies, quarto size, 141 pp., signed by May Neama, with LEC Monthly Newsletter and Announcement. A master of letters and wit, French writer Francois-Marie Arouet, best known by his pen name Voltaire, wrote on..... 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
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1992. Kitaj, R.B. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 196 of 200, folio size, 63 pp., signed by Allen Ginsberg and R.B. Kitaj. Written three years after the death of his mother, Ginsberg focused on a cryptic note left to him by her, the mother who had..... More
Royal Oak, Michigan: Haffner Press, 1998. Arfstrom, Jon. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 93 of 300 copies of the special edition, octavo size, 235 pp. Edmond Moore Hamilton (1904-1977) is credited with writing, in 1936, the first hardcover compilation of what would come to be known as the science..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club [printed at The Wild Carrot Letterpress], (1982). Pearson, Henry. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. First edition (so stated), no. 117 of 2000 copies, signed by Seamus Heaney, Thomas Flanagan, and Henry Pearson, with LEC Monthly Letter. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) was an eminent Irish poet..... More
Bolinas, California: Bolinas Museum, 2002. Hobson, Charles. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 56 of 100 special edition copies with original artwork, duodecimo size, 55 pp., signed by the artist. Charles Hobson (b. 1943) is an artist and printmaker who constructs images for books and works on paper through monotype and printmaking;..... More
Westport, Connecticut: The Limited Editions Club, printed at the Harbor Press, 1977. Detaille, Edouard. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1600 copies, quarto size, [110] pp., with LEC Monthly Letter, signed by Drew Middleton. Victor Hugo's (1802-1885) rendition of the Battle of Waterloo, taken straight from the pages of his..... More
New York: [Printed by the De Vinne Press], 1904. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio size, one of 350 copies (unnumbered), presentation copy, inscribed in 1923 by Archer M. Huntington. Archer M[ilton] Huntington (1870-1955) was a lifelong friend of the arts and philanthropist; known for his scholarly works in..... More
Cambridge: Printed at the University Printing House for The Limited Editions Club, 1969. Nebel, Gustave. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500, duodecimo size, 112 pp. signed by Gustave Nebel, with prospectus and announcement. Henry James (1843-1916) was an American author who wrote in the genre of both literary realism..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1967. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 450 copies, folio size, [108] pp. The Christmas Publication for 1967, reproducing in colour twenty full-page lithographs from the celebrated San Francisco weekly, "The Wasp", which during the final decades of the nineteenth century alternately entertained and..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., [1980]. Klimt, Gustav. Hardcover. Elephant folio size, [92] pp., illustrated, in clamshell box with original shipping carton. A selection of erotic drawings by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), published from a private collection focused on the nude female form, most in frankly erotic poses. Klimt began..... More
(Leningrad): (Aurora Art Publishers), (1975). Konstantinov, Fiodor. First Edition. Hardcover. Miniature book, [116] pp. Unable to find much information online, we turn to the book's introduction for information about this superb woodcut Russian artist, Fiodor (or Fyodor) Konstantinov (or Konstantinoy). Born in 1910, Konstantinov began his career in the 1930s..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed by Mallette Dean], 1964. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 450 copies, quarto size, [131] pp., with original dust jacket, prospectus and order form. An expanded version of fourteen-year-old Carrie LeConte's Yosemite journal of 1878, rewritten and enhanced with pen and..... More
San Francisco: Linden Editions [printed by James Wehlage], (1992). Angelo, Valenti. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. IX of XII deluxe copies, folio size, 136 pp., with a separate folder containing special leaves and ephemera, with prospectus, signed by James Linden. Valenti Angelo (1897-1982) was a highly regarded designer, illuminator..... More