San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley, (1994). First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 75 copies (unnumbered), elephant folio size, 156 pp., with numerous specimens in a custom box, with prospectus and "El Paso keepsake", signed by James Linden. A tour de force of the ephemeral printing of the..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1884. First Edition. Full leather. First US printing, octavo size, 873 pp. Sir Byrom Bramwell (1847-1931) was a noted British neurologist and medical lecturer, he was at one time President of both The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and London and knighted by..... More
San Francisco: James Linden, Publisher [designed and printed by Peter Rutledge Koch], 1986. Mundy, Michael. First and Limited Edition. No binding. No. XIV of XV special edition copies, folio size, six separate leaves plus two photographs, all signed. Gary Snyder (b. 1930) is most often thought of in connection with..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1959). Hoff, Syd. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 64 pp. Syd Hoff (1912-2004) is probably best known for "Danny and the Dinosaur", published in 1958. He began illustrating at an early age, selling his first cartoon to "The New Yorker" at the age of 18..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1961). Hoff, Syd. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 32 pp. Syd Hoff (1912-2004) is probably best known for "Danny and the Dinosaur", published in 1958. He began illustrating at an early age, selling his first cartoon to "The New Yorker" at the age of 18..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, c. 1961. Hoff, Syd. Hardcover. Early reprint, octavo size, 64 pp. Syd Hoff (1912-2004) is probably best known for "Danny and the Dinosaur", published in 1958. He began illustrating at an early age, selling his first cartoon to "The New Yorker" at the age of..... More
San Francisco: James Linden, Publisher, 1987. Mundy, Michael. Limited Edition. No binding. One of 100 copies, the loose sheets and photographs in a solander box, the photographs signed by Michael Mundy, with the prospectus signed by James Linden. American poet Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) was a prolific writer of the twentieth..... More
San Francisco: James Linden, Publisher [designed and printed by Adrian Wilson at the Press in Tuscany Alley], 1987. First and Limited Edition. No binding. No. 36 of 60 copies, 48 pp., loose signatures in a drop-down box, signed by Adrian Wilson and Joyce Lancaster, with prospectus. Adrian Wilson (1923-1988) was..... More
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London: Constable and Co., Ltd. [Printed by R. & R. Clark Ltd.], (1924). Ricketts, C[harles]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 750 copies, unnumbered, elephant folio size, 190 pp., inscribed by Shaw to Antarctic explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was a renowned Irish playwright who exerted significant influence on..... More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 408 pp. Alan Charles Kors (b. 1943), Emeritus Professor of History at Penn, is well-known in scholarly circles for his research into and writings about the intellectual history of the 17th and 18th centuries, for which..... More
[San Francisco]: John Henry Nash, 1935. Limited Edition. No binding. One of 500 copies, elephant folio size, [4] pp. John Henry Nash (1871-1947), San Francisco-based printer of fine press books and numerous broadsides and ephemera, is known for superb typographical design and attention to materials, particularly the paper used for..... More
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San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1926. No binding. Folio size, [4] pp. John Henry Nash (1871-1947), San Francisco-based printer of fine press books and numerous broadsides and ephemera, is known for superb typographical design and attention to materials, particularly the paper used for printing and for his bindings. Nash worked for..... More
New York: The Fountain Press, 1929. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 88 of 600 copies, octavo size, 33 pp., signed by Yeats. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is acknowledged by many as "supreme among modern Irish poets". He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 (the first Irish to be..... More
San Francisco: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1940. Angelo, Valenti. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, octavo size, [52] pp. A collection of poems from David Herbert Lawrence's (1885-1930) New Mexico period, all written during his stay there; with the exception of..... More
[Boston]: [Published by Anne & David Bromer] Designed & Printed by R. Bigus - M. Carey, July 1980. Limited Edition. No binding. No. 11 of 100 copies on paper, signed by William Everson. A beautiful broadside poem by William Everson (1912-1994), also known as Brother Antoninus, a name he adopted..... More
London: Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. First printing, one of 1000 copies, octavo size, 168 pp. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), known for his lively wit and fashionable dress, became one of the best-known personalities in London, and his works are still read and performed today. He..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2001). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 320 pp., inscribed by Eric Seaborg. American chemist Glenn T. Seaborg (1912-1999) made monumental strides in the fields of physics and chemistry, and his career as a scientist and teacher has been much acclaimed; he was awarded the..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: S. Dominic's Press, 1922. Gill, Eric; Jones, David. Limited Edition. Wraps. One of 400 copies (unnumbered), duodecimo size, 115 pp., in a custom clamshell case. The Saint Dominic's Press, founded by Harry (Hilary) Douglas Clarke Pepler, flourished at Ditchling, Sussex, from 1916 to 1936. The first home of..... More
Ditchling: St Dominic's Press, 1929. Short, Mary Dudley. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 250 of 450 copies, twenty-fourmo size, [58] pp., numbered and initialled by HDCP. The Saint Dominic's Press, founded by Harry (Hilary) Douglas Clarke Pepler, flourished at Ditchling, Sussex, from 1916 to 1936. The first home of..... More
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[Shaker Heights, Ohio]: Wind & Harlot, 1991. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 52 of 74 copies, miniature book, [30] pp. Edward Lear (1812-1888), although being an artist and illustrator himself, is remembered mostly today for his nonsensical works, particularly his limericks. One of the most recognizable of these is "The Owl..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 304 pp., signed by Nicholas Mosley. Nicholas Mosley (1923-2017), 3rd Baron Ravensdale, 7th Baronet, was graced with Diana Mitford as step-mother at the age of nine. He developed a stammer and was treated by Lionel Logue - the..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 472 pp. From the summary on the dust jacket: "In these interconnected essays the late Geoffrey de Ste. Croix defends the institutions of the Athenian democracy, showing that they were much more practical, rational, and impartial than has..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 270 pp. Anne Carson (b. 1950) is one of today's most highly-regarded poets; a New York Times reviewer wrote: "In the small world of people who keep up with contemporary poetry...[Carson] has been cutting a large swath..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992-1994. First Edition. Hardcover. First printings, five volumes (complete), octavo size, 3200 approximate pp. From the dust jacket flap of the first volume we learn that "A History of Women" seeks "to understand women's place in society, their condition, the roles..... More
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(Frankfurt): Suhrkamp, 1997. paperback. Twenty volumes in twenty-three books (complete), duodecimo size, in slipcase, ALL TEXT IN GERMAN. Born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund (1901-1969), Adorno is acknowledged as "one of the most important philosophers and social critics in Germany after World War II...the most prominent challenger to both Sir Karl Popper's..... More