![Godot: An Imaginary Staging by William T. Wiley of Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett [with] En...](/pictures/thumb/18052111_1.JPG?v=1530840466)
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
London: The Haymarket Press, 1928. Flint, W. Russell. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 642 of 875 copies of the Ordinary Edition, quarto size, 66 pp. 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
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
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
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
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 laid in. An edition of this Christmas poem by Canadian poet Louis Frechette (1839-1908) the poet-laureate..... More
![Fore-and-Afters [WITH ORIGINAL BOX]. B. B. Crowninshield, Charles Francis Adams, Introduction](/pictures/thumb/13091013_1.JPG?v=1504050938)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 120 pp., with publisher's box. As the author wrote in his preface in May of 1940, from his home in Marblehead, Massachusetts, "White sails no longer dot the horizon on all our coasts where only twenty-five years ago they formed..... 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
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
[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
New York: The Limited Editions Club [Printed by The Spiral Press], 1939. Marsh, Reginald. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 113 of 1500, quarto size, 404 pp., signed by Reginald March. Dreiser is considered one of American's greatest naturalists for his movement away from the emphasis on the morals of the Victorian..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2008. Lobdell, Frank. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 68 of 275, quarto size, 96 pp., signed by Frank Lobdell, with prospectus and etching signed by Lobdell. Robert Duncan (1919-1988) was one of the most influential American poets of the second half of the twentieth century: two..... 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
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1936. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 550 copies, octavo size, 309 pp. This diary, written by the young Lewis H. Garrard, includes contemporary descriptions of Native Americans, traders, mountain men, with their dress, behavior, and speech, and also includes legendary characters such as..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1972. Nash, John. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500, quarto size, 276 pp., signed by John Nash, with LEC Monthly Newsletter and Announcement. A collection of letters written by naturalist Gilbert White (1720-1793), this volume details the plant and animal life in the..... 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
![The True Historie of Lucian The Samosatenian [The Trve Historie of Lvcian]; Translated from the...](/pictures/thumb/18041709_1.JPG?v=1528325984)
[Waltham Saint Lawrence]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. Gibbings, Robert. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 96 of 275 copies, folio size, [49] pp. Lucian of Samosata (ca. 125 AD - ca. 180 AD) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist and rhetorician whose works were quite popular in his time, and survive in..... More
London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd., 1925. Beardsley, Aubrey. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, quarto size, 193 pp. Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), a well-known and beloved illustrator during the Aesthetic movement, created work in black ink with a strong Japanese woodblock influence, and his illustrations are known for their sense..... 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
London: The Folio Society, 2008. Limited Edition. Leather. No. 487 of 1750 copies, quarto size, 1128 pp. A fine production of French poet, novelist, and dramatist Victor Hugo's (1802-1885) masterpiece, a historical novel first published in 1862; "Les Miserables" is considered the greatest novel of the nineteenth-century, and is here..... More
![Notre-Dame de Paris [The Hunchback of Notre Dame]. Victor Hugo, Jessie Haynes, Andrew Lang,...](/pictures/thumb/17032424_1.JPG?v=1539825299)
Paris: The Limited Editions Club, Printed by R. Coulouma, 1930. Masereel, Frans. Limited Edition. Wraps. No. 714 of 1500 copies, quarto size, 724 pp., signed by Franz Masereel, two volumes (complete) with original chemise and slipcase. Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885) remains a household name today; he was a prolific author..... 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