San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1903. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. 70 p. "This little volume is to commemorate the presentation, at Stanford University, in April, 1902, of the Antigone of Sophocles, IN THE ORIGINAL GREEK, with Mendelssohn's choral music" (capital letters mine). The book opens... More
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1924. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. 75 p. Charles Stetson Wheeler (1863-1923), a California native who was a member of the Committee of Fifty following the earthquake of 1906, also serving as a Regent of the University of California. An... More
Winona, Minnesota: Sutton Hoo Press, 2005. Tio, Adrian. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 150 copies, octavo size, 37 unnumbered pp., signed by translator and artist. Delmira Agustini (1886-1914) was a Uruguayan poet whose work was at the forefront of the Modernismo tradition; Valerie Martinez writes of Agustini's poetic vision: "This... More
San Francisco: Lewis & Dorothy Allen at their home letterpress, 1940. Gaskin, William. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Number 91 of 100 copies, octavo size, 48 pp., signed by the author. The first limited edition from The Allen Press, written by Lewis Allen's father; the Allens chose this work as Mr... More
Greenbrae, California: The Allen Press, 1981. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 140 copies, folio size, approx. [100] pp., with original prospectus and an exhibition announcement from the press. The forty-sixth limited edition from The Allen Press, and a summation of forty-two years of the press's endeavors. "It contains... More
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
(Monmouthshire): The Old Stile Press, (2005). Adams, Susan. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 7 of 150 copies, folio, [56] pp., signed by John Lloyd Davies and Susan Adams. Many of us are at least vaguley familiar with the chilling story of Bluebeard. "The story of Bluebeard has a long history, from... More
Florence, Massachusetts: Kat Ran Press, [2001]. Schmidtmann, Jennifer. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited de luxe edition, number 3 of 4, octavo size, [24] pp., signed by the author and illustrator. First edition with these illustrations, number 3 of 4 de luxe copies in an edition of 65 total copies. Crow Calls... More
[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
[Northampton, Mass.]: The Gehenna Press, 1976. Baskin, Leonard. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 107 of 450 copies, 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. 42 p. Inscribed by Author(s). Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) was an artistic genius whose works almost defy categorization. Eminent in sculpting, illustration, printmaking and also as a typographer... More
New York / London: Blue Moon Books / John Calder (1988), 1988. le Brocquy, Louis. 1st and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 40 p. Signed by Author and Artist. First published appearance of Beckett's last prose work. Per the book's colophon, a total of 226... More
![Der Ausgestossene [L'expulse]. Samuel Beckett, Elmar Tophoven, Roswtha Quadflieg, Artist and Book Designer.](/pictures/thumb/CNJL505_1.JPG?v=1496113112)
Hamburg: Raamin-Presse, 1976. Quadflieg, Roswtha. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. 37 p. Signed by Artist. Limited edition of 170 signed/numbered copies, this no. 91, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST/BOOK DESIGNER, Roswtha Quadfleig (b. 1949). She founded the Raamin-press in 1973, publishing works of literature printed with... More
![Walking in the Footsteps of the Dead Man [Sounds of the Resurrected Dead Man's Footsteps]. Marvin Bell, Lisa Schoenfielder, Illustrations.](/pictures/thumb/CNJL311_1.JPG?v=1531703115)
La Crosse, Wisconsin: Sutton Hoo Press, 2000. Schoenfielder, Lisa. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 100 copies, folio size, 25 pp., signed by Marvin Bell. This collection of poems by American poet and critic Marvin Bell (b. 1937) is a provocative examination of the human psyche and how it relates to... More
New York: Printed by Andrew Hoyem for Frank Hallman, 1974. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies (unnumbered/out of series), octavo size, [14] unnumbered pp. Written by Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) for the Memoir Club, shorly after the death of her younger sister, author Virginia Woolf (1882-1941). Published here for... More
Newtown, Pennsylvania: Bird & Bull Press, 2002. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 99 of 150 copies, folio size, 100 pp., plus 32 pieces of press ephemera and specimens. Henry Morris' Bird & Bull Press is renowned for the beauty and precision of their printing, and their focus on papermaking and marbling... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [designed by Jack Werner Stauffacher of The Greenwood Press], 1983. Bewick, Thomas. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 518 copies, quarto size, 59 pp., with an original leaf from the first edition of Bewick's "The Fables of Aesop" (1818) tipped in. English engraver Thomas... More
Monmouthshire: The Old Stile Press, (2010). d'Arbeloff, Natalie. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 12 of 60 copies, folio size, [56] pp., signed by the artist. From the web site of The Old Stile Press: "These drawings were published almost half a century before the idea of publishing them in a book... More
![Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi [The Passion of the Lord Jesus Christ]; Being the 26th and 27th Chapters of Saint Matthew's Gospel from the Latin Text. Biblical Text, Eric Gill, Illustrations.](/pictures/thumb/18010201_1.JPG?v=1527106338)
Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press (printed by Robert Gibbings), 1926. Gill, Eric. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 91 of 250 copies, quarto size, 16 pp., in the original dust jacket. The Passions according to Saints Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, as read in the Roman Missal during Holy Week... More
Waltham St. Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Gill, Eric. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 86 of 750 copies. Bound in white buckram lettered in gilt to spine; printed in black 18 pt. Caslon with occasional red initials, on Batchelor handmade paper, printed by Robert Gibbings at The Golden Cockerel Press... More
London: The Haymarket Press, 1928. Flint, W. Russell. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 79 of 100, quarto size, 66 pp., signed by W. Russell Flint. The famous story of the headhunting heroine whose bold act has inspired painters, poets, sculptors and writers for centuries. This version finely printed by The Haymarket... More
New York: The Spiral Press, 1965. Shahn, Ben; Martin, Stefan. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Number 185 of 285, folio size, [36] unnumbered pp., signed by the artist, engraver, calligrapher and printer. "Ecclesiastes" is one of 24 books of the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible, where it is classified as one of... More
Berkeley, Ca: Printed by Wilder Bentley at the Archetype Press, 1939. Hoff, Hans; Hoff, Lloyd. Limited Edition. No binding. One of 50 copies, illustrated broadside. Harvey Wilder Bentley (1900-1990) was a well-known calligrapher, printer and poet in Berkeley, California. In the 1930s Bentley bought an Acorn press, and with the... More
San Francisco: John Henry Nash for The Book Club of California, 1922. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Number 135 of 415 copies, octavo size, [254] pp. This is the seventeenth publication of The Book Club of California, and the most important of their first decade, being a very ambitious project (aside... More
Llandogo, Monmouthshire: The Old Stile Press, (2002). Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 14 of 200 copies, quarto size, [64] pp., signed by the translators and the artist, with prospectus. The first collection of expressionist poetry by Romanian poet/philosopher Lucien Blaga (1895-1961), "one of the most important of Romanian poets". A man... More
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