![Item #23111601 Delia's Cooking: A Taosenãs Story [Cover Title]. Delia Mingenbach Archuleta,...](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/23111601_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1774734098)
[Taos?]: [Delia Archuleta], n.d. Limited Edition. Binder. One of 100 copies, octavo size, 54 pp., signed by the author on the title page. A charming story of a destitute family and how they survived during the Great Depression, with recollections by the author of her life growing up and living..... More
[Boston]: [The Merrymount Press (D. B. Updike)], [1904]. Hardcover. Octavo size, 98 pp., "Note on [the] New Type" loosely laid in. Michelagnolo (now spelled "Michelangelo") di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) has likely been the artist with the most pervasive influence on Western art. Not only his sculptures (the "Pieta" and..... More
Oakland, California: Georgia Loring Bamford, 1931. Hardcover. Octavo size, 255 pp. The life and work of Jack London (1876-1916) have been the subjects of many critical writings, and here Georgia Loring Bamford (1873-1966), a personal friend of London's, reminisces about London's life, his prominence in the literary circle in San..... More
San Francisco: The Windsor Press, 1929. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 10 of 60 copies, sixteenmo size, [11] pp. Poet and playwright George Sterling (1869-1926) was much acclaimed on the Pacific coast; a prolific poet, Sterling was part of the group of writers and artists in the San Francisco Bay Area..... More
Indianapolis, New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1940. Hardcover. Octavo size, 305 pp., with dust jacket. David Legge Brainard (1856-1946), a career military man, was appointed as the first sergeant for the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. Their destination was the most northern latitude americans had ever explored, with the expedition's goal..... More
Edinburgh: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813. Hardcover. 4 volumes (complete), octavo size, 1775 total pp. A cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish diaspora around the world, Robert Burns (1759-1796) is widely regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement; his poetry is known for using the Scots..... More
[Paris]: Éditions du Seuil, (2001). Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), octavo size, approx. 1530 pp., all text in French. Paul Celan (1920-1970) was born Paul Antschel in Romania to a German-speaking Jewish family, his surname was later spelled Ancel and he eventually adopted the anagram Celan as his nom de plume..... More
(New York): The Macmillan Company, (1970). First Edition. Hardcover. First U.S. edition, first printing, octavo size, 221 pp. signed by Maurice Chevalier. Perhaps one of the best-known French actors of the first half of the 20th century, Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972) was nominated for the Academy Award in 1930 for Best..... More
San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell, 1922. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. First edition in book form, octavo size, 405 pp., signed by Thomas Russell. This the first edition in book form of the letters of Dame Shirley, in which she recounts her experiences living in a mining camp in California..... More
(New York): American Council for Emigres in the Professions, Inc. [Mallette Dean], (1966). Dean, Mallette. Hardcover. Quarto size, [12] pp. A memorial tribute to humanitarian Else Staudinger (1889-1966), who founded and lead The American Council for Emigrés in the Professions, Inc., and worked tirelessly to rescue liberal scholars from Nazi..... More
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing in book form, octavo size, 212 pp., signed by Barbara Deming. Barbara Deming (1917-1984) tells, in this memoir, why and how she was jailed - not once, but twice - for participating in "an integrated cross-country peace walk" in Albany..... More
Privately Printed [at the Tragara Press], 1996. Limited Edition. Wraps. One of 100 numbered copies, octavo size, 45 pp., with a short ANS by Stephen Stuart-Smith. George Granville Barker (1913-1991), poet, was "partly associated with the New Apocalyptics movement, which reacted against 1930s realism with surrealistic and mythical themes. However..... More
![Item #25111102 As I Remember [Assocation Copy - Marion Morgan]; With One Hundred and Twelve...](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25111102_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781994725)
New York: A John Day Book, Reynal & Hitchcock, (1936). First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 copies, signed by Arnold Genthe, with a silver gelatin photograph of Marion Morgan attributed to Genthe, with an ANS by Morgan to "Dorothy", small quarto size, 304 pp., in slipcase. Arnold Genthe..... More
![Item #21083002 In Memoriam, Edwin Grabhorn, 1889-1968 [Roxburghe Club Keepsake]. Grabhorn Press,...](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21083002_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1657322427)
[San Francisco]: [Robert Grabhorn & Andrew Hoyem for the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, 1969], 1969. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 150 copies, elephant folio size, 22 pp. A tribute to the incomparable Edwin Grabhorn, who, with his brother Robert, created some of the loveliest of American private press books..... More
Llandogo: The Old Stile Press, 1992. Graham, Rigby. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Number 146 of 150 copies, elephant folio size, 58 pp. Rigby Graham (1931-2015) was a landscape and topographical artist, book illustrator and muralist who worked within the British Romantic tradition. His work is distinguished by bold lines, a...... More
London: Jonathan Cape, (1929). First Edition. Hardcover. First issue (see details below), octavo size, 448 pp., in publisher's dust jacket. Robert von Ranke Graves (1895-1985) was born into a literary family and showed literary genius from a young age. Although the horrors of "The Great War" and subsequent difficulties had..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Hardcover. "First and Second Printings Before Publication" Sterling Walter Hayden (1916-1986, born Sterling Relyea Walter) was a man of many parts: a decorated Marine Corps officer, a WWII spy, a Hollywood leading man whose career spanned decades including roles in "The Killing", "Dr. Strangelove"..... More
![Item #33331136 Napoleon Bonaparte [Empire Edition]. William Hazlitt, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de...](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33331136_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1765154101)
New York: The Grolier Society (The Colonial Press), n.d. Hardcover. Sixteen volumes (complete), quarto size, approx. 5500 total pp. This set a comprehensive look at the life of the still-famous French general, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821). It is a compilation of the work of the above three authors: Hazlitt authored "The..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed by Patrick Reagh], 2008. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 275 copies, quarto size, 228 pp., with prospectus. This publication by the Book Club of California is a biography of the life and work of notable San Francisco-based printer James Weld Towne (1829-1917);..... More
[Montagnola]: Officina Bodoni, [1924]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 225 copies, unnumbered, folio size, 24 pp., in French. Written by Frederick the Great (1712-1786), king of Prussia from 1740 until his death, this letter contemplates suicide as an alternative to surrendering in battle; the king had just experienced a devastating..... More
DeKalb / Ithica and London: NIU Press / Northern Illinois University Press, An Imprint of Cornell University Press, 2016, 2020. Hardcover. Two volumes (the third volume only recently published), both volumes the first printings, octavo size, approx. 540 pp. together. Professor Thomas Marullo has provided, in this trilogy, a "clear..... More
Berkeley: Ramparts Press, Inc., 1970. Hardcover. Octavo size, 263 pp., inscribed by Dave Meggyesy. Dave Meggyesy (b. 1941), a former American football player and coach, was deeply involved in the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA), a union for football players; he authored the memoir "Out of Their League", a...... More
Newton, Pennsylvania: Bird & Bull Press, 1995. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 200 copies, quarto size, 107 pp., with prospectus and related ephemera. "Recollections" is a memoir of the remarkable bookbinder, Bernard C. Middleton (1924-2019), a skilled binder as well as a prolific writer on the techniques of the craft;..... More
The Bronte Press, (2006). Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 30 of 35, miniature book, [30] pp., signed by Suzanne Smith Pruchnicki. Ballet experienced serious development as an art form in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russia, and art critic and ballet patron Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929) had a defining influence on..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club [printed by The Anthoensen Press], 1981. Hogarth, Paul. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 447 of 2000, quarto size, 245 pp., signed by Paul Hogarth, with slipcase. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), a poet and decorated soldier, is best known for his poetry describing his experiences in the..... More