Llandogo, Monmouthshire: The Old Stile Press, 1988. Brockway, Harry. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 167 of 225 copies, quarto size, [56] pp., signed by the artist. "The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia" is a long or "epic" prose poem by Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), written in the sixteenth-century. It remains to this..... More
![Item #CNJL1298 Jubilate Agno / Rejoice in the Lamb [Number VI of X special edition]; Written,...](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/CNJL1298_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1515027216)
[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press, 2012. Lemaire, Angela. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number VI of X special editions (total edition 110), folio size, [72] pp., signed by Angela Lemaire. A breathtakingly lovely work with hand-colouring by the artist in this, one of the ten deluxe copies. Christopher Smart (1722-1771) was a...... More
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..... More
San Francisco: James Linden, Publisher [designed and printed by Peter Rutledge Koch], 1986. Mundy, Michael. First and Limited Edition. No binding. No. 34 of 100 copies, folio size, six separate leaves plus two photographs, signed by Gary Snyder and Michael Mundy. Gary Snyder (b. 1930) is most often thought of..... More
[Covelo, California]: The Yolla Bolly Press, (2000). Schumaker, Ward. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 200 copies, square quarto, 112 pp., signed by George Plimpton and Ward Schumaker. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), one of the most important figures in the Modernist movements in both literature and art, has given us a charming..... More
[Covelo, California]: Carolyn and James Robertson, The Yolla Bolly Press, (1984). Wikstrom, Karin. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Copy "M", folio size, 60 pp., signed by Wallace Stegner and Karin Wikstrom. John Steinbeck (1902-1968), considered "a giant of American letters", was best known for his portrayals of families in California, often exploring..... More
Kentfield, California: The L-D Allen Press, 1954. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 175 copies, quarto size, 146 pp. Marie-Henri Beyle (1783-1842) is likely best remembered today for his novels "Le Rouge et le Noir" and "La Chartreuse de Parme", and is considered one of the earliest authors of..... More
St. Helena, California: (James E. Beard), 1965. Dean, Mallette. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 22 pp. A chapter from the "Silverado Squatters" first published in 1883, this version with relief-cut illustrations and initials by Mallette Dean (1907-1975), and a frontis portrait of R.L.S. at the office of the St. Helena Star, 1880..... More
New York: Doxey's, At the Sign of the Lark, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Sixmo size, 79 pp. One of only a few books published by Howard V. Sutherland, much of this slim volume is comprised of an epic poem, "Jacinta", and includes approximately 20 shorter poems at the end, many..... More
Berkeley, California: The Hart Press, (1974). Anderson, Victor R. Limited Edition. Wraps. Limitation not stated (140 copies printed), quarto size, [8] pp., with a presentation card from the publisher. The annual Christmas publication issued by Ruth and James D. Hart, to friends in a limited edition. James D. Hart (1911-1990)..... More
The Allen Press, 1966 - 1992. No binding. 17 pieces of ephemera of varying sizes, in original mailing envelope, many with hand-written notes from the Allens. Ethel Crockett-Aldridge was a prominent librarian in California. She (alone at first, and subsequently) with her second husband Jack Aldridge, were devoted collectors of..... More
[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press, [2004]. Lemaire, Angela. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Letter B of 26 copies of the special edition, quarto size, [44] pp., signed by Angela Lemaire. The writings of Thomas Traherne (ca. 1636 - ca. 1674) were largely ignored for two centuries after his death, until two of..... More
San Francisco: Didymus Press [printed at The Press in Tuscany Alley], 1974. Arnold, Ann. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, quarto size, [51] pp. The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (Märchen or Das Märchen) is a fairy tale by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), first published in 1795..... More
(Wakefield, West Yorkshire): Fleece Press (Simon Lawrence), (1985). Reddick, Peter. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 copies, twelvemo size, 29 pp. Per the "Publisher's Note", "Vyvyan Richards' essay was first printed in 1937 and is the personal story of his friendship with T.E. Lawrence, with whom he planned to set..... More
Kirkwood: The Printery [Kay Michael Kramer, printer], 1974. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 120 copies, oblong sixmo, 45 pp., signed by Charles Guenther, with prospectus. Written by the existentialist philosopher and French poet Jean Andre Wahl (1888-1974) during his time in La Sante prison under the German occupation during WWII..... More
Llandogo, Monmouthshire: The Old Stile Press, (2006). Kiggell, Ralph. Limited Edition. Stiff wraps. Number VI of X of the Special Edition, folio size, [56] pp., signed by Ralph Kiggell, together with a suite of four signed prints. A selection of Chinese poems from "170 Chinese Poems" 1918, and "Chinese Poems"..... More
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[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press, [2004]. Cour, Glenys. Limited Edition. Leather. No. 195 of 225 copies, folio size, 56 pp., signed by Gwen Watkins, Glenys Cour, and Paul Delrue. This copy in a custom binding done in 2014 by Paul Delrue (b. 1944). Paul bound his first book at the..... More
![Item #CNJL1136 Taliesin and the Mockers [Lettered copy A of the Special Edition]. Vernon...](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/CNJL1136_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1511990785)
Monmouthshire: The Old Stile Press, (2004). Cour, Glenys. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Copy A of the special edition, folio size, [56] pp., signed by Gwen Watkins and Glenys Cour, with prospectus. In his commendation, written to be printed in this book, Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, says "the intensely disciplined beauty..... More
New York: Joseph Halle Schaffner (Mallette Dean, printer), 1968. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 31 of 50 numbered copies, quarto size, [44] pp. Carl August Sandburg (1878-1967), poet, writer, editor, and winner of three Pulitzer Prizes was (and still is) considered a "major figure in contemporary literature" (per Wiki). This book..... More
Monmouthshire: The Old Stile Press, 2014. Abell, John. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Special Edition, number II of XII, of a total edition of 150, oblong elephant folio, [64] unnumbered pp., signed by John Abell, with a separate suite of prints and an actual linocut block. The only book published by English..... More
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Kentfield, California: The Allen Press, 1975. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 140 copies, folio size, 130 pp., with prospectus. The forty-first limited edition from The Allen Press, featuring four hand-picked, provocative stories by Edith Newbold Jones Wharton (1862-1937). Wharton "produced fourteen novels, nine novelettes, eleven volumes of short stories, volumes..... More
Chicago [New Rochelle, New York]: Walter M. Hill [Printed at The Elston Press], 1904. [O'Kane, Helen Marguerite]. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, octavo size, 89 pp., inscribed by Charles Erskine Scott Wood twice, with MSS errata list. The first published work of literature by Charles Erskine..... More