(N.p. Golden Cockerel Press, 1981). One of three known copies of Josef Herman's lithographs, gathered as a suite and intended to illustrate the Golden Cockerel Press's final book. The book was never published and the lithographs languished until their discovery some twenty years later. Printed in blue and black, the.....

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(Brewster, MA: Atelier Emily Trevor). Original etching, signed by Edward Gorey. One of 50 copies, of which this is one of 20 printed during Gorey's lifetime. The image shows a large and ominous-looking skull overshadowing an elephant, which walks calmly by. Elephants held special meaning for Gorey, who named his.....

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London: Petersburg Press, 1974. One of 150 copies printed and bound as edition (A) for Europe. Henry Moore's lithographs illustrate each of the thirteen poems, as well as the dedication and the frontispiece. They dominate the landscape of the page, setting off Auden's complex verses with introspective and psychological imagery.....

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Isleworth: Smallberry Green Secondary Modern School, 1958. Illustrated with linocuts, both colored and plain. According to the Foreword, this book was produced by "4th year A, B and C boys" as a thematic companion to two other illustrated works also having to do with animals. Each animal treated here is.....

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Vienna: 1978. Brimming with original illustrations in various media, including pen and ink, graphite, engraving, and watercolor, some signed and colored, plus a mounted copper plate. The illustrations are then presented as reproductions in tandem with text descriptions, thus providing a unique work explicating different reproduction techniques. Fielder covers well-known.....

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Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1976. From an edition of 400, this is one of only thirty-five bound in full leather and printed on Amatruda Amalfi paper. Illustrated with five small wood engravings by Phillida Gili, the daughter of Reynolds Stone. A comforting account of the endurance of Christmas and its.....

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Esslingen: J. F. Schreiber, 1920. An unusual unused booklet with "magic leaves," which reveal a picture when lightly passed over with a pencil. For obvious reasons, it is especially rare to find such as this with a clean interior. Oblong 32mo. (8)ff. Bound in pictorial wrappers featuring an old-fashioned horse.....

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NY: Oxford University Press, 1966. Octavo. First American edition. One of 1,000 copies comprised of sheets from the first edition with a new title page. This is Heaney's first commercially produced verse collection, preceded by Eleven Poems, a pamphlet published by Queen's University in Belfast. The future Nobel Laureate's richly.....

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Paris: Nouvelle Librairie de la Jeunesse, (c. 1900). Quarto panorama of six chromolithographed pop-up scenes. They carry the reader through an exotic hunt, in which cowboys and local turbaned attendants pursue and slay lions and tigers, and eventually overcome an ambush by native tribespeople. The book's three-dimensional structure adds to.....

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(Philadelphia): Alice Austin, 2019. Tunnel book consisting of six panels connected with illustrated accordion-folded side panels. The three-dimensional scene revealed when the book is expanded shows the beauty and chaos of Venice's Grand Canal, from the natural world, to the built environment, and the life that inhabits the shared space.....

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Paris: Impie. Lender, 1866. Set of paper dolls, containing two figures, two wooden stands, twelve double-sided outfits, and four hairstyles, all printed lithographically. "Psyché", created in 1835, was one of the very first paper dolls included in the eponymous magazine. It was also sold as a paper toy in its.....

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Flemington, NJ: St. Teresa's Press, 1969. One of 100 copies. Contains four stories: "The Child Jesus" by Kahlil Gibran; "Camp Ksar es Souk" by Rev. Gereon Goldmann; "A Sailor's Christmas Gift" by Bill Lederer; and "Miracle at the Berlin Wall" by Taylor Caldwell. Each story begins with an elegant hand-calligraphed.....

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