n. p. Alliance Graphics, n. d. Limited Edition. No binding. No. 8 of 50 signed copies, broadside, signed by Eduardo Galeano. This broadside features text from Uruguayan journalist and novelist Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015), best known for his books "Open Veins of Latin America" and the "Memory of Fire" trilogy, from...
[Berkeley, California]: Okeanos Press, 1994. Limited Edition. No binding. One of 500 copies, broadside, signed by Carolyn Forché. "Elegy" is a poem from Carolyn Forché's collection "The Angel of History", which was selected for the Los Angeles Times Book Award; Forché has published numerous books of poetry as well as.....
Boston: James Loring, 1833. Hardcover. Sixteenmo size, 109 pp. Lowell Mason (1792-1872) was an influential figure in music education and church music in the United States during the nineteenth century. He composed many hymnal arrangements including those of "Joy to the World" and "Nearer, My God, to Thee", and wrote...
San Francisco: Reynard Press, ca. 1930. Hardcover. No. 127 of an unknown edition, quarto size, 316 pp. Reynard Press was established in San Francisco in 1910, located at 133 First Street, and was headed by Alfred Fox, Proprietor, about whom we find scant information online. The Press was still mentioned...
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 327 pp. 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 a non-English sensibility into English literature...
[San Francisco]: John Henry Nash, 1927. No binding. Elephant folio size, [4] pp., association copy - prior owner Carl I. Wheat. This toast, originally given by Edward H. Hamilton in 1919 at the Family Farm in the Valley of the Portola, California, was printed in 1927 by the estimable John...
Iowa City: Empyrean Press, 2016. Arlington, Viza. Limited Edition. No binding. No. 198 of 225 copies, broadside, signed by Marilynne Robinson. This broadside features an excerpt from Marilynne Robinson's (b. 1943) novel "Housekeeping", which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award for...
Ayuntamiento de Valencia, 1964. Soft cover. Folio size, 115 pp., in Spanish. A collection of facsimiles of the anatomical etchings of Crisostomo Martinez (1638-1694), an artist of Valencia known for his atlas of anatomy. ___DESCRIPTION: Thin cream paper boards, title page in crimson and black with illustration, seventeen black-and-white reproductions of...
Iowa City: Empyrean Press, 2012. Limited Edition. Broadside. No. 127 of 150, broadside, signed by Philip Levine. This broadside features a poem by Philip Levine (1928-2015), who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1995, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 1987, and was named the Poet Laureate of the...
San Francisco: Printed for Albert M. Bender's St. Patrick's Day Party [by the Grabhorn Press], 1939. Limited Edition. No binding. One of 100 copies, broadside printed in black, red and green. A scarce early bit of ephemera from the Grabhorn Press, a broadside printed for Albert Bender's "St. Patrick's Day...
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...
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed by the Grabhorn Press], 1965. Utamaro, Kitagawa. Hardcover. One of 450 copies, folio size, [36] pp., with original prospectus. The Book Club of California's publication for Christmas 1965. Presents the pictures of a Kitagawa Utamaro (1783-1806), an eighteenth-century Japanese artist that dealt...
San Francisco: The Abbott & Briggs Company, 1911. First Edition. Wraps. First printed appearance of the short story, folio size, 27 pp. Jack London (1876-1916), giant of early twentieth century literature, journalist, and social activist, is best known for his novels "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang" which...
New York: Peter Blum Edition [printed at Wild Carrot], 1987. Marden, Brice. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 940 copies, octavo size, approx. [120] pp. Writers during the San Francisco Renaissance and in the ensuing Beat movement were strongly influenced by Asian poets; Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982), considered by many to be...
[San Francisco]: The Book Club of California [Printed by the Grabhorn Press], [1946]. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 280 copies, folio size, 107 pp., with prospectus. Hernando de Soto (1495-1542), the hero of this story, was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition into...
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1993. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 40 copies of the deluxe edition (total edition 340), quarto size, 75 pp. Plain Wrapper Press was the imprint of Richard-Gabriel Rummonds, a leading handpress printer during the twentieth century, who printed many fine press editions of well-known authors such...
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, [1925]. Limited Edition. No binding. One of 50 copies printed for Emerson Knight (total edition 250), folio size, [4] pp. This publication by the inimitable Grabhorn Press is a holiday greeting from Emerson Knight (1882-1960), a landscape developer in Santa Barbara and parts of San...
[San Francisco]: [The Grabhorn Press], [1944]. Limited Edition. No binding. One of 100 copies printed, elephant folio size, broadside. Printed by the Grabhorn Press, this Christmas prayer was printed for the Andiron Club, an institution that promoted learning and friendship, and "Romantic Idealism over Naturalism and Realism"; these philosophies were...
[London]: [Macmillan & Co. Ltd. and Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society, A Riccardi Press Book], [1912]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 57 of 350 copies, octavo size, 125 pp. "The Revival of Printing" contains bibliographical entries for numerous well-known private English presses, including the Doves Press and Kelmscott...
London: Joseph Cundall, 1850. Cadogan, Lady Augusta. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 27 pp. This publication of the Book of Ruth is illustrated by Lady Augusta Sarah Cadogan (1811-1882), who was the daughter of the third Earl of Cadogan, and Lady-in-Waiting to the Duchess of Cambridge, to whom she dedicates...
Chicago: The Reilly and Britton Company, 1912. Cardboard covers. Duodecimo size, [95] pp., inscribed by Tiffany Blake (dedicatee). Bert Leston Taylor (1866-1921), humourist, poet, and columnist, writes this ode to the American wilderness, discerning not only the beauty and inspiration found in walking through the woods, but also that which...
San Francisco: The Lantern Press [Printed by the Grabhorn Press], 1927. Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Copy X of the 50 special edition copies, quarto size, 29 pp., signed on the colophon by Jake Zeitlin, Edwin Grabhorn, and Gelber-Lilienthal; additionally, inscribed by Zeitlin on the second front flyleaf; frontispiece numbered...
Erie, Pa: Chas. F. Adams, ca. 1885. Hardcover. Folio size, 894 pp., in German. This impressive Bible, printed prior to 1890, is replete with engravings and chromolithographs, illustrating the text throughout; the engravings have a wonderful depth and detail of line, exquisite renderings of the characters that populate the Old...
Netherlands: J. R. Levien, 1970. Leather bound. Miniature book, [21] pp. This miniature book contains a brief, humorous piece on smoking tobacco, with simple and delightful illustrations on every other page, by J. R. Levien, who created numerous miniature books, often less than two inches tall, on a variety of...
Chicago: Black Cat Press, ca. 1945. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of "a very limited edition", miniature book, 49 pp. Designed by Norman W. Fogue "and printed in a very limited edition", this miniature book contains a story of the leader of a medical unit during World War I who discovers...
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