New York: The Limited Editions Club, (1985). Chandler, Bruce. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 1500, quarto size, 67 pp., signed by Bruce Chandler, with slipcase and LEC Club Letter. Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 1857-1924) was a Polish-British writer who, despite not being fluent in English until his..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, printed by The Grabhorn Press for The Colt Press, 1959. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 450 copies, quarto size, 47 pp. Two of Mark Twain's lesser-known (and we believe neglected) short stories about cats, for whose company he had a preference over that..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed by The Grabhorn Press], 1923. Lange, Dorothea; H. Von Schmidt. Limited Edition. Leather bound. One of 400 copies, quarto size, 140 pp., in a deluxe binding, with slipcase. A tribute to Oscar Weil (1839-1921), born in New York and educated as a...... More
London: Cresset Press [Printed by Bernard H. Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press], 1928. Gaskin, Joscelyne. Limited Edition. Vellum. One of 250 copies, folio size, 207 pp. The first book published by the philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Baron of Verulam and Viscount Saint Alban. This collection of essays..... More
(Malvern, Worcestershire): Belmont Hall, (2017). Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 50 copies, folio size, [102] pp., with linocuts by the artist-printer, Andrew Judd, in jacket and with slipcase. A lovely book by printer and artist Andrew Judd (1948-2024). He named his studio "Belmont Hall" wherein he produced limited editions which..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1947. 4th Printing. Hardcover. The fourth printing of the first edition, duodecimo size, 280 pp. Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (1904-1986), friend of both W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender, was living in Weimar Germany and witnessed the rise of Nazism. It was while there that we wrote..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club [printed by The Gallery Press], 1952. Ward, Lynd. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 1500 copies, folio size, 171 pp., with glassine, slipcase, and LEC Monthly Letter. Believed to be the earliest European vernacular epic poem, "Beowulf", although composed likely in the early 8th century CE..... More
Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, [1938]. Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 1450 copies, duodecimo size, 70 pp., in slipcase. This collection of fables contains ten stories from the Chinese fairy tale tradition, with myths and morals drawn from ancient legends. This volume is decorated and illustrated by Italian..... More
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, (1915). Enright, Maginel Wright. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 99 pp. With twelve charming colour plates and numerous line drawings, by Maginal Wright Enright Barney (1881-1966), the younger sibling of the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Enright studied at the School of the Art Institute..... More
[Oakland, California]: Littoral Press, 2002. Besold, Bobbe. Limited Edition. Accordion. One of 125 copies, quarto size, 28 pp., signed by Lisa Rappoport. As put forth on the first page of the book, " 'A Flame in the Heart' is dedicated to those we love with a blazing passion, to those..... More
![Item #CNJL2629 Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung [Works of Mae Zedong]. Central Committee of the...](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/CNJL2629_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1786494303)
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1967-1977. Hardcover. Five volumes (complete), small quarto size, approx. 2000 total pages, in cardboard slipcases. The founder of the People's Republic of China Mao Zedong (1893-1976), while transforming China into a world power, was the leader of a totalitarian regime which, through its policies and actions..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1947. Hardcover. Early printing with Tasha Tudor illustrations, octavo size, 119 pp., signed by Tasha Tudor. The diverse writings of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) encompass an array of subjects, from the duality of good and evil in "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"..... More
San Francisco: [Printed for The Book Club of California by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn], (1927). Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 copies, thirty-twomo size, [42] pp. The second edition of The Book of Ruth printed by the Grabhorns, the first being in a larger format and printed the..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [designed and produced by Peter Rutledge Koch], 2009. Wagener, Richard. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, folio size, 80 pp., signed by Richard Wagener. The fourth book by Wagener, wherein he captures the memories of his youth of the rural areas surrounding..... More
Stuttgart und Berline: J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger ["J.G. Cotta's Bookstore Successor"], n.d. Hardcover. Octavo size, 352 pp., all text in German. Homer (8th century BCE?) is arguably the most prominent of ancient Greek writers, with his epic poems "Iliad" and "Odyssey" still being read today. With the release of the..... More
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San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2005. Katz, Alex. Hardcover. The book is printed on one side of the sheet only, in the French-fold manner, where the folds at the top edge of the book remain uncut. The paper is thin white Ingres, a mouldmade paper from the Zerkall mill in..... More
Stevenage, Hertfortshire: Clarence Elliott Ltd., Six Hills Nursery [Printed by W.H. Smith & Son, The Arden Press, London], 1926. Nash, John. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. First and only edition of this annual catalogue, this one of 100 special edition copies signed and hand-coloured by John Nash, octavo size, 97..... More
(London): NLB, (1980). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 218 pp. Per the jacket flap, in this work "[t]he problems of base and superstructure in historical materialism, and of affiliation to values in the past, are reviewed...". A relevant work in today's politically charged environment. As of this writing..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, (1987). First Edition. Hardcover. First edition by this publisher, small quarto size, 418 pp. From the jacket flap: per an article by Sunil Khilnani, "this is Castoriadis's 'most important work to date' providing a theoretical argument (made from the Left) for breaking with Marxism and..... More
(Oxford): Oxford University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, small quarto size, 544 pp. Per the jacket flap: this book "sets out to change our view of the medieval world....[it] is a radical new examination of relations between rulers, nobles, and free men....[it] will revolutionize the way we think..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, (1993). First Edition. Hardcover. First edition in English, first printing, octavo size, 295 pp. This a collection of the author's short fiction, "from her early work in the sixties to the recently published title story, which was widely debated when it appeared in..... More
Seal Beach, California: Mel Kavin/Kater-Crafts Bookbinders, 1994. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, miniature book, 166 pp., signed by eight contributers to making the book. A stunning book which can indeed be judged by its cover...bound in full black leather, red and blue leather abstract designs cut in on..... More
Santa Cruz: [Good Book Press], 1988. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of four copies, miniature, 9 pp. This lovely miniature book was issued in an edition of only four copies, with the calligraphy done by ahd by Donna and with three watercolour illustrations. It is a version of Aesop's fable "The..... More
[San Francisco]: Seiko Tachibana, [1994]. First and Limited Edition. Accordion. One of 100 copies, small octavo size, 21 pp. A lovely and amazingly creative artist book which celebrates the sound of Japanese numbers through the use of visuals...or, as the colphon states, " 'Numbers' is a book dealing with phonetics."..... More
Shanghai: Hwa-Mei Book Concern, 1913. Hardcover. Sixteenmo size, 226 pp. China, in 1913, was only in its second year as a Republic. The section of this travel book titled "Historical Sketch" opens with a black-and-white half-tone of "President Yuan Shih K'ai". However, although the historical section takes up quite a...... More