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41pp. One of 200 copies. The text of President Lincoln's letter to Miss Fanny McCullough is reproduced on a foldout at the center of the book. Preceding the letter is an introduction by Ralph Geoffrey Newman, and following it are his notes. Fine in gilt-stamped black morocco. (Bradbury, p. 255).... more

Price: $125.00

(48)pp. This is the smallest of all the 18th century books known to us, printed in 5-point black-letter type across the spread, with pages pasted together and set into the binding. A collection of poems on the kings of the House of Orange, this book was printed during the reign... more

Price: $10,500.00

(12)ff. Twelve engravings of animals, labeled in German, including "Wildschwein" (wild pig) and "Stinkthier" (skunk). Hand-colored in naïve folk-art style. Printed on one side only. A few of the blank pages show contemporary child's writing. In blue and orange patterned wrappers, with some wear. A rare survival. (1 7/8 by... more

Price: $350.00

(110)pp. This Islamic devotional text is calligraphed in black and red and accented with blue and burnished gold. Illuminated with a hand-colored calligraphic frontispiece illustration in gold, blue, green, and purple ink. One section of the text opens with a decorative headpiece in green, and another page has a lovely... more

Price: $5,250.00

40pp. One of 100 copies. With frontispiece in black & white and ornaments in red. Some wear to spine ends and a few slight scratches to covers, else fine in red leather, gilt. A.e.g. (Bradbury p. 21). (2 11/16 by 1 15/16; 69x49mm). ... more

Price: $200.00

Six volumes, each (28)pp. One of 100 numbered copies. Titles include: Old Style Italic Type Designers, Playbill Type Faces, Round Serif Typefounders, Sans Condensed Typographic Words, Winchester Type Casting, and Sans Bold Italic Parts of the Press. Each little book highlights a different type face, featuring associated words with the... more

Price: $225.00

(30)ff. The famous verse from "A Apple Pie, B Bit It, C Cut It," etc. is illustrated with large calligraphic-style letters in this micro-miniature book. It is the smallest book printed in California. Printed by William Cheney for Dawson's Book Shop and bound by Bela Blau. A very fine copy... more

Price: $250.00

38 pp. One of 2000 copies. The sequicentennial address by Carl Sandburg before the United States Congress. With a one cent stamp of Lincoln tipped-in as a frontispiece. Bound in full rust-colored morocco lettered and decorated in gilt on the front cover. Back cover slightly bent at the top corner,... more

Price: $75.00

(20)ff. One of 299 copies signed by the author. A lengthy narrative poem about Lincoln's funeral. With tailpiece and portrait frontispiece in black and red. Fine in gilt blue leather. (2 1/8 by 2 7/8; 55x74mm). ... more

Price: $85.00

64pp. One of 1,500 copies printed in Haarlem, The Netherlands by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen. Contains anecdotes and an essay on Lincoln's taste in music, a man who wept at patriotic hymns. Mint in green leather with gilt-stamped Lincoln portrait to front board. Bookplate. (2 15/16 by 2 1/8; 75x55mm).... more

Price: $95.00

(44)ff. One of 250 copies. Stevenson's delightfully amusing reasons for vetoing a bill passed by the Illinois State Legislature that would have required cats to be leashed. Printed from the calligraphy of Alice Garman and illustrated by her. Garman was a renowned artist and the wife of Dr. Horodisch, the... more

Price: $200.00

(44)pp. From an edition of 250 copies, this is one of thirty copies handcolored by Alice Garman. Signed by Garman. Adlai Stevenson's delightfully amusing reasons for vetoing a bill passed by the Illinois State Legislature that would have required cats to be leashed. "I cannot agree that it should be... more

Price: $375.00

(3)ff., plus (2)ff. ads. One of 350 copies. Illustrated with a frontispiece depicting a slot machine. Very fine in tan printed wrappers. (2 3/8 by 1 7/8; 61x46mm). ... more

Price: $25.00

Quarto. 19, (32)pp. One of 150 copies. The plates for each of the five years is reproduced as originally engraved, with all 64 pages. Following each full sheet is a fifty per cent enlargement of the pages. At the end of the book is a single sheet printed directly from... more

Price: $175.00

(15)ff. An oblong, miniature manuscript album of thirteen tiny watercolor paintings, followed by two pages of music, titled "Etude," written in a miniscule hand. Although done on such a small scale, the illustrations are detailed and colored with delicate precision. Depicted are whimsical subjects, including branches of flowers, ducklings on... more

Price: $2,250.00

(28)ff. One of 100 copies signed and numbered by the printer, Tim Sheppard. Illustrated with thirteen woodcuts from the fifteenth century detailing everyday life, each hand colored by Sheppard. The text and arrangement is based on the earliest printed almanac, published in 1493. Extremely fine in brown morocco, stamped in... more

Price: $350.00

(64)ff., frenchfold. One of 26 lettered copies, signed by the artist. Each letter is illustrated with two pages of etchings by Righi: one bearing an abstract shape, and another with decorative, hand-etched text. An alphabet book in French, featuring comically nonsensical definitions of words that begin with each letter. Printed... more

Price: $650.00

19pp. One of 200 copies signed by the author, Msgr. Francis J. Weber. Illustrated with a black & white fold-out photograph of the Angeles Flight railway in Los Angeles and two large, decorative initials printed in blue. With a ticket from the railway held in place on the rear pastedown.... more

Price: $50.00