[San Francisco]: Privately Printed by Cecil and James Johnson, The Windsor Press, 1930. Adams, Ansel. Limited Edition. Leather. No. 57 of 60, quarto size, 27 pp., frontispiece signed by Ansel Adams. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) is best known for his works of fiction such as "Treasure Island", "Strange Case of... More about The Enchanted Galleon
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1931. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 350 copies, folio size, 26 pp. "The Fate of Virgil" is an imagined conversation between Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), an acclaimed English writer and poet, and Willard Fiske (1831-1904), an American scholar and librarian. Landor is known himself for... More about The Fate of Virgil, As Conceived by Dante, A Dialogue of the Dead and the Living Between Walter...
St. Louis: Published by the Author, 1892. 5th Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 458 pp. "The Life of a Book Agent" is the autobiography of the bookseller Annie Nelles, telling of her escapades and travels as she tries to make a living peddling books; although there is some dispute as to... More about The Life of a Book Agent
St. Petersburg: [Dmitry Sayenko], 2018. Sayenko, Dmitry. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 6 of 20, folio size, 56 pp., signed by James J. Owens and Dmitry Sayenko, with softcover volume. Dmitry Sayenko (b. 1965) is a Russian printmaker and book artist; in 1995, he graduated from the Mukhina Art School in... More about The Wedding of Sir Gawain
Kentfield: The L D Allen Press, 1953. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 160 copies, octavo size, 55 pp. The thirteenth publication from The Allen Press, this story by Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was originally titled "Maitre Cornelius" and first appeared in 1831 in the "Revue de Paris"; it... More about The Hidden Treasures; or, The Adventures of Maitre Cornelius
[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press, 2001. Hicks-Jenkins, Clive. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 34 of 300 copies, oblong quarto, [48] pp., signed by Clive Hicks-Jenkins. Richard Barnfield (1574-1620) was an English poet, probably best known for his association with William Shakespeare. These twenty sonnets were published in 1595, a year later... More about Sonnets
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 250 pp., inscribed by J.M. Barrie. Inscribed first edition of Barrie's second book. These tales were told to Barrie by his mother, the "daughter of a local stonemason who was one of the most fanatical upholders of that... More about Auld Licht Idylls
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1972. Kredel, Fritz. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500, quarto size, 253 pp., signed by Fritz Kredel, with LEC Monthly Newsletter and Announcement. Journalist and fiction writer Ambrose Bierce (1842- ca. 1914) was a prolific and diverse writer, often drawing from his experiences... More about The Devil's Dictionary
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. 196 p. William Black (1841-1898) was, in his day, immensely popular and his work was compared favourably with that of Anthony Trollope; sadly, his fame has not lasted into the 21st century and he has now... More about Three Feathers, A Novel
Hertfordshire, England: [The Taurus Press]. Piech, Paul Peter. Limited Edition. Stapled (Wraps). No. 23 of 200, octavo size, 11 unnumbered pages. Paul Peter Piech (1920-1996) was an American artist and printer who produced captivating prints on a myriad of social, political, and literary themes; this book takes the text of... More about London
London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust, 1958. Blake, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 322 of 480, quarto size, unpaginated (27 leaves of plates with 5 pp. of explanatory text). "The Book of Urizen" contains the first part of Blake's conception of the... More about The Book of Urizen
London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust, 1976. Blake, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 113 of 480, quarto size, unpaginated [5 plates and 5 pp. of commentary]. "The Book of Los" published in 1795, is one of Blake's prophetic books, a sort of... More about The Book of Los
London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust, 1967. Blake, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 368 of 380, quarto size, unpaginated [51 plates, 13] pp. of printed text. "Milton" is a long mystical poem, one of Blake's prophetic works written c. 1804-1808. The fairly... More about Milton, A Poem
London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust, 1970. Blake, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 381 of 600, folio size, unpaginated [28] pp. "William Blake's early tractate, 'All Religions are One', consists of ten small etched plates averaging in size only about 5.5 x.... More about All Religions Are One
London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust, 1972. Blake, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes, number 522 of 540, folio and octavo sizes, unpaginated [21 plates and 10 pp. of commentary]. "There is No Natural Religion" is a series of gnomic aphorisms written... More about There Is No Natural Religion
London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust, 1959. Blake, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 of regular editions (446 copies total), folio size, unpaginated [11 plates and 4 pp. of commentary]. "Visions of the Daughters of Albion" published in 1793, is one... More about Visions of the Daughters of Albion
London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust, 1973. Blake, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 340 of 750, quarto size, unpaginated. "The Book of Ahania" is one of Blake's lesser-known works, and is generally agreed to be a continuation of "The Book of Urizen"... More about The Book of Ahania
London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust, 1969. Blake, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 313 of 480, folio size, unpaginated [17 plates and 6 pp. of commentary]. "Europe, A Prophecy" was printed in Lambeth before and during 1795, and is one of Blake's... More about Europe, A Prophecy
London: Printed at the Trianon Press for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust, 1965. Blake, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 301 of 380, quarto size, unpaginated [8 plates and 5 pp. of commentary]. "The Book of Thel" is an unrhymed verse poem, and the first of the symbolic Illuminated... More about The Book of Thel
London: Designed and printed by Linda Anne Landers at Spoon Print Press, 1998. Landers, Linda Anne. Limited Edition. Pamphlet. Number 77 of 100 copies, duodecimo size, [12] unnumbered pp., signed by Linda Anne Landers. A lovely hand-printed edition of William Blake's "The Lamb," first published in "Songs of Innocence" in... More about The Lamb
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London: George Bell and Sons, 1884. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 46 of 104 large paper sets, 5 vols., quarto size, approx. 2,612 pp., signed by printer Charles Whittingham & Co. The quintessential writings, and authoritative texts on Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1709-1784), whom the OED describes as "arguably the most distinguished... More about The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. [together with] Johnsoniana; Together with the Journal of a Tour...
New York: The Limited Editions Club, [1993]. Balthus. Limited Edition. Leather. No. 177 of 300, folio size, 208 pp., signed by Balthus, with LEC Monthly Letter. "What could they have in common --Count Balthazar Klossowski de Rola and Mistress Emily Bronte--the Paris-born modern artist who has filled scores of canvases with... More about Wuthering Heights
Alexandria: Cottom and Stewart, 1801. Leather. Volume I ONLY, duodecimo size, 256 pp. Volume I only of Jane West's (1758-1852) work considered anti-Jacobin; many of West's writings were praised for advocating "improvement", and they often had political and feminist themes, as West, even though broadly conservative, advocated better education for... More about A Tale of the Times
Toronto: The Copp, Clark Company Limited, 1908. Kimball, Alonzo. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the Toronto imprint, duodecimo size, 412 pp. The designs of Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944), utilising the Art Nouveau style and floral patterns, were a sensation in the publishing business; Armstrong created over 270 book designs, often... More about Kincaid's Battery
San Francisco: The Book Club of California (printed by Vivien & Mallette Dean), 1953. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 325 copies, quarto size, 76 pp. A perfectly lovely retelling of the old legends. Fifty-four illustrations, including those on the title page and half-title, were all drawn and hand-coloured... More about Physiologus, The Very Ancient Book of Beasts, Plants and Stones; Translated from Greek and Other...