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
[Mission, British Columbia]: Barbarian Press, 1994. 1st and Limited Edition. Leather. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. 327 p. Signed by Artist and Bookmakers. Limited edition of 430 copies of which 300 are for sale; this no. IV of L specially bound in full leather, with a specially cut... More
San Francisco: The Colt Press / Printed by Lawton Kennedy, 1940. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. 36 p. Relatively scarce Colt Press (Jane Grabhorn) printing of three "lost" prayers believed to have been written by Jane Austen. This lovely, floral cloth-bound version is... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1994. Schanilec, Gaylord. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 145 of 150, with an extra suite of illustrations, quarto size, 103 pp. As Henry Morris so eloquently says in his Preface, "Mixing fantasy with reality must be one of the most difficult kinds of writing to do... 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
[Northampton, Mass.]: The Gehenna Press, 1976. Baskin, Leonard. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 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 and printer, he pursued multiple... 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
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: Enitharmon Press, 1974. Manning, Hugo. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. 25 p. Signed by Author, Translator, and Artist. Limited edition of 300 total, of which 50 were signed by the author and translator; an unspecified number were also signed by the artist, Hugo Manning... More
[London]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1956. Morgan, Gwenda. Limited Edition. Leather. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. 160 p. Signed by Illustrator(s). ONE OF 75 COPIES BOUND IN MOROCCO out of a total edition of 500, this copy SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, AND WITH ORIGINAL PROSPECTUS. Per the book's... More
[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press [2008], 2008. Onken, Michael. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 50 p. Signed by Artist. No. II of 10 of the Special Edition, with an original signed watercolour and a suite of four proofs of the prints from within the book... More
![To the Place of the Emerald Buddha, Images in Pochoir and Etching with Pages from a Thai Book [SUSAN ALLIX, No. 2 of 5]. Buddhist Text.](/pictures/thumb/CNJL1152_1.JPG?v=1496112648)
[London]: Susan Allix [2004], 2004. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. 35 p. Signed by Book Artist. Limited edition of only 5, this no. 2 of 4 offered for sale, signed by Susan Allix on the colophon page. Susan was inspired to create this book during... More
Seattle: Printed by Frank McCaffrey at his Dogwood Press [which is in Seattle] for the pleasure of the doing & as a Keepsake for the friends of Henry Lewis Bullen [1934], 1934. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 19 p. Inscribed by Printer. Henry Lewis Bullen (1857-1938) was... More
(Risbury, Herefordshire): The Whittington Press (2001), 2001. Limited Edition. Leather. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. 161 p. No. VII of forty of the deluxe version, out of a total edition of 350, bound in full Oasis leather with endpapers marbled by Christopher Rowlatt, with a separate portfolio of... More
(Risbury, Herefordshire): The Whittington Press (1992), 1992. Limited Edition. Leather. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 227 p. Signed by Author(s). Limited Edition of 350 copies total, this one of the 17 bound in inlaid Oasis leathers, stated no. vi; with a separate folio of specimens of the Press... More
San Francisco (Fairfax, California): 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... More
[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press, [2014]. d'Arbeloff, Natalie. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. V of X (total edition 160), Folio - over 12” to 15” tall, 44 pp., signed by translator and artist. Blaise Cendrars (nom de plume for Frederic-Louis Sauser, 1887-1961), the "heir of Rimbaud", greatly influenced the European Modernist... More
West Burke, Vermont: The Janus Press, 1971. Van Vliet, Claire. Limited Edition. Folio. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 24 p. Signed by Artist. Limited edition of 100 copies, this no. 48, SIGNED BY CLAIRE VAN VLIET. Note this work is presented as unbound sheets, with the lithographs printed... More
West Burke, Vermont: The Janus Press, 1975. Van Vliet, Claire. Limited Edition. Folio. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall Signed by Illustrator(s). Claire Van Vliet (b. 1933), the artist for this book, is also the founder of The Janus Press, which she started in San Diego in 1955. Van... More
![Muses [with prospectus]. Carol Cunningham, D'Ambrosio, Binder, Gene Holtan, Illustrator.](/pictures/thumb/17043108_1.JPG?v=1506473706)
Mill Valley, California: Sunflower Press, 1994. Holtan, Gene. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 11 of 25 deluxe copies specially bound by D'Ambrosio (total edition 60), octavo size, 22 unnumbered leaves, inscribed by the author and binder. Deluxe edition, number 11 of 25 specially bound and signed by D'Ambrosio. This copy inscribed... More
[Mill Valley, California]: Sunflower Press, 2008. Cunningham, Carol. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 18 of 30, octavo size, 29 unnumbered leaves, signed by Carol Cunningham. First (and thus far the only) edition of this stunning bibliography from the Sunflower Press, bound by Joe D'Ambrosio; this volume spans nearly 50... More
![La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri, In Italian & English [The Divine Comedy]. Dante Alighieri, Mario Casella, H F. Cary, Sandro Boticelli, Illustrations.](/pictures/thumb/CNJL510_1.JPG?v=1496113139)
[London]: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. Boticelli, Sandro. Limited Edition. Vellum. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. 331 p. Limited edition of 1475 copies for sale, this No. 723, wonderfully illustrated throughout with silverpoint designs by Sandro Boticelli (Alessandro de Mariano di Vanni Felipepi, 1445-1510); perhaps his best-known work is... More