Fine Press
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Barbara Parsons, “Taking Flight,” Mayacamas Press, 1993
This is a special portfolio indeed and that is scarcely available to the trade. O.C.L.C. lists a total of six copies in toto, complete, three being located in California, two in Massachusetts, and one in Rhode Island. This is copy #53 of only 75 copies, comprised of 30 prints struck on only one side, and…
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Falk Wiesemann, The Esther Scroll, published by Benedikt Taschen, Koln, Germany, 2015.
New condition, straight from the publisher. Extremely scarce in the trade, there being currently only two copies available and beginning at $1,100. Esther was a real mensch. Spectacular books need spectacular homes and loving hands. The Book of Esther and the Song of Songs are the only two books of the Hebrew Bible that do…
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FOR MY PEOPLE
Margaret WALKER AND ELIZABETH CATLETT (Catlett, Elizabeth)illus. FOR MY PEOPLE by Margaret Walker. Limited Editions Club, NY, 1992. Edition of 400 signed by Walker and Catlett, and numbered 204 on the Justification page.. Large Folio, Red Japanese linen, with a leather label, clamshell box in black cloth, with a leather label, text and five color…
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MY SISTER-LIFE
Boris PASTERNAK Pasternak, Boris MY SISTER-LIFE. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1991. Edition of 250 copies, numbered and signed by Yuri Kuper on the Justification page. With etchings by Yuri Kuper. The book printed by Wild Carrot Letterpress using specially handmade papers incorporating pieces of Russian newspapers. Translated by Mark Rudman. Aldo Crommelynck printed the…
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NONESUCH PRESS. ; GOODEN. STEPHEN. Illustrates. THE HOLY BIBLE. Reprinted according to the Authorised version 1611. — With; The Apochrypha.
The Nonesuch Press. London. 1924-27 FIVE VOLUMES. Tall 4to. (12.3 x 8.3 inches). Limited edition. One of 1000 sets printed on Japon vellum (The Apochrypha is one of 1250 copies) from a total edition of 1075 copies. The typography was arranged by Frances Meynell. Each volume decorated with copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden, including the…
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Rahir, Édouard. La Collection Dutuit Livres et Manuscrits, 1899
Folio (47 x 31 cm). vii, 328 pp. 344/350. Text in French. Creme leather covers. Dark brown leather label to spine with gilt titles. Upper hinge splitting, 11cm to head and 5cm to tail. Wear to edges and corners. Text block (and illustrations ) tight and unmarked, foxing to first blank page from free endpaper…
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Milton, JohnParadise Lost, a Poem in XII Books. [AND] Paradise Regain’d, a Poem in IV Books (…) Doves Press, Hammersmith, 1902 & 1905
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A masterpiece by The Doves Press and a great example of contemporary typography and book design. Very attractive copies of 300 each printed on paper from a total edition of 322 copies (22 on vellum each). Description: Two volumes. Original full limp vellum with title in gilt on spine. Octavo: 24 × 17 cm; pp.…
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George, Stefan; Lechter, MelchiorEin achtblätteriger Lotus. Gebete der Nacht. Mit einem nirvanischen Vor- und Nachgesang von Melchior Lechter.Einhorn-Presse/Otto von Holten, Berlin, 1935
First edition of the seventh and final book published by Einhorn-Presse. No. 26 of a limited edition of 100 copies (total edition 150). Description: Vellum-backed blue boards, lettered in gilt; gilt title to spine. Quarto: 34 × 22 cm; unpaginated. Printed in black and blue on toned old handmade paper, the ornamental borders of endpapers…
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(Gill, Eric) Skelton, Christopher. ENGRAVINGS OF ERIC GILL.|THE.
Deluxe Edition. Two Volumes with Portfolio. Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton, 1983, thick 4to., quarter leather over cloth, cloth portfolio, cloth and paper-covered boards slipcase, all bound by Desmond Shaw of Cambridge. xxiv, 256, (3); (ii), 257-545, (2) pages; separate portfolio containing a title-page, exclamation page, and eight prints printed directly from the artist’s woodblocks. First edition,…
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(Golden Cockerel Press) FOUR GOSPELS OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO THE AUTHORIZED VERSION OF KING JAMES I. With Decorations by Eric Gill.
Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1931, small folio, original publisher’s half white pigskin gilt over maize cloth boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt spine with raised bands, top edge gilt, others uncut. (ii), 268, (6) pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies of which this is one of the 488 copies printed on…