NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1985. Hand-pulled collograph, signed by Gorey. One of a stated fifty copies, though only forty were completed and signed before Gorey's death. A serene and ghostly image, after Gorey's telltale style, highlighting a cat framed in a window gazing at an enormous moon. Matted and framed.....

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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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(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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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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Glasgow: Bryce, David, & Son, (c. 1900-1905). Five miniature volumes. (127); (127); (240); (384); (127)pp. The volumes included are: Golden Thoughts from Great Authors; Witty, Humorous, and Merry Thoughts; Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect; The Smallest English Dictionary in the World; and Old English, Scotch, and Irish.....

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(Rockport, ME): Two Ponds Press, 2017. One of fifty deluxe copies, with an additional photograph printed on aluminum, a corrected manuscript proof of the poem, and in a special binding by Claudia Cohen. Twelve full-page photographs by Jacob Hessler, haunting and yet familiar in their barefaced juxtapositions of American suburban.....

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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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Buffalo: Breed & Lent, (1866). Daisy No. 1; Daisy No. 2; Daisy & Dot; Daisy's Kittens; Daisy's Death; Dot. Six volumes, complete. Each volume contains 64pp. In the first issue of The Miniature Book Collector, Ruth Adomeit devoted several pages to the series of books published by Breed and Butler.....

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West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1982. Illustrated with 75 wood engravings, some of which are full-page plates, while others are beautifully integrated into the layout. Accompanied by an additional suite of the wood engravings, with each print signed by Moser, in a linen-covered chemise. Printed in five colors on a......

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NY: Pynson Printers, 1936. One of 370 copies printed on Shogun paper and signed by the author and the publisher. Dard Hunter was granted access to even the most obscure papermaking locations, being one of the first foreigners many of the mills had ever encountered. This placed him on the.....

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Marlborough & Leominster, Herefordshire: Marlborough College Press & Whittington Press, 1949 & 1998. Here, an original out-of-series copy of the litany, which was printed in 1949 in an edition of seventy copies by the Marlborough College Press, has been reinvigorated and repackaged by John Randle of the Whittington Press. Randle.....

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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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