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...
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...
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1977. Buonpastore, Tony. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1600, quarto size, 254 pp., signed by Tony Buonpastore. Jane Austen (1775-1817) is one of the most popular female authors from the past two centuries, and is known as the English writer who first gave...
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...
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...
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...
(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;...
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...
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...
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, quarto size, 28 leaves, signed and inscribed on the colophon by Amanda Blanco to Norman Tanis...
[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...
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...
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...
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...
Paris: Promodis, 1983-1986. Hardcover. 4to - over 9.75" to 12" tall. 2436 pgs. All text in French. An in-depth look at the history of the book in France, from the Middle Ages through the year 1950. Volume I, Le livre conquerant, covers the Middle Ages through the 17th century; Volume...
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...
The Kanthos Press, 1963. Lebrun, Rico. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 2000 copies, elephant folio size, approximately [80] pp., with four original lithographs. Dante's epic poem "Divine Comedy", and its best-known section "Inferno" has inspired many works of art, but the drawings of Rico Lebrun (1900-1964) are some of the...
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...
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...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 120 pp. 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 an almost never-ending...
New York: John Lane Company, 1918. Hardcover. Although a reprint, we offer this book for the binding which is simple yet effective. Bound in brown cloth, the front board has a gilt rectangle with gilt lettering and a depiction of a gatling gun, also in gilt; the spine has gilt...
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...
London: The Folio Society, 2006. Hardcover. Three volumes (compete), octavo size, 1278 total pp. French essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Lord of Montaigne (1533-1592) popularised the essay as a form of literature during the French Renaissance; his work uses autobiography and anecdote to expound his philosophical ideas on a variety...
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...
[Lincoln, Massachusetts]: Penmaen Press, 1977. Ward, Lynd. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. XXXVIII of 100 of the deluxe edition, quarto size, 35 pp., signed by Anthony Hecht, Arthur Wilson, and Lynd Ward. Francois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), known by his pen name Voltaire, was a prolific writer, self-described "innkeeper of Europe", who wrote...
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