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Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey, 2009. Octavo. (11)pp. One of twenty-five copies. Frontispiece of a couple on a bench hand-pulled, signed, dated, and numbered by Mariko Ando. Created as a celebration of twenty years of marriage, the book reproduces the fifth "Knee Play" from Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's celebrated opera.....

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Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey, 2010. Quarto. (20)pp., + 6 plates. The printer's copy, outside an edition of twenty-six lettered copies. A bibliography of works published from 2000-2010 by Rollin Milroy's two printing ventures, Heavenly Monkey and A Lone Press. Sample sheet from six Heavenly Monkey books append the volume. Printed.....

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Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey, 2012. Quarto. (28)pp. From an edition of fifty copies, this is one of forty that comprise the regular edition. Frontispiece wood engraving by Minegishi depicts "Mr. Milroy's Gate to a Wonder World". An impressive, comprehensive specimen book displaying the nine roman and eleven italic types that.....

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(Vancouver, BC): Heavenly Monkey, 2013. Small quarto. (18), (8)ff. One of twenty copies comprising the regular edition. This work celebrates the many varieties of metal type "purchased for, adopted by, & abandoned at Heavenly Monkey during the studio's first fifteen years" and is printed on a selection of nine different.....

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(Vancouver): HM Editions, 2019. Square octavo. (64)ff. One of six A.P. copies, signed by Hodgson and Cohen at the colophon. An astonishing compilation of designs representing a study of patterns as individual specimens. Conceived as a successor to Hodgson and Cohen's other productions, including Decorating Paper (2015) and Folding Paper.....

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(Vancouver): Heavenly Monkey Editions, 2007. Small quarto. (14)ff. One of twenty-five copies signed by the artist, Reg Lissel. A specimen book of eleven different paste papers, of varying color and design. The paper is made from cotton blotters with a small amount of hemp bast and cotton rag added. The.....

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(Dublin): Dolmen Press, 1954. Tall octavo. 32pp. One of 225 copies. Printed in black with red initials and with a decorative title-page spread, two full-page illustrations, and six pictorial headpieces by Mia Cranwill. The tragic myth of Deirdre and the sons of Usnech, who were slain by the jealous Conchobor.....

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Vancouver, British Columbia: Heavenly Monkey, 2016. Small quarto. 52, (iv)pp., + 12 plates. First edition, deluxe issue. One of fifty copies. Signed by the author, Harold Budd, and the artist, Jane Maru. Introduction by David Sylvian. Maru's silk batik paintings are interleaved throughout the book in twelve plates, which have.....

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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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Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey, (2013). (20)ff. One of twenty-six lettered copies. A miniature book made from off-cuts of paper samples that were used for Heavenly Monkey's book Paper Should Not Always Be White. In keeping with that book's theme, the papers included are shades of white, tan, blue, and green.....

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Boston & Vancouver: Bromer Booksellers & HM Editions, 2015. 72pp. From an edition of 120, this is one of 85 copies that make up the regular edition. Designed and printed at Heavenly Monkey, this lovely miniature memoir and bibliography contains stories of pleasure, coincidence, and difficulty for each of the.....

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(Vancouver, BC): Heavenly Monkey, 2020. Octavo. 112, (2) + 8 proofs bound-in at rear. One of fifteen deluxe copies, bound by Claudia Cohen in full limp vellum, with a matching box and the addended proofs. Initials throughout are simplified variations of Griffo's type for Ottaviano Petrucci's 1513 Paulina de recta.....

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