(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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British Columbia: Barbarian Press, 2015. One of forty-five copies of the deluxe edition, featuring a portfolio with strikes of the seven engravings appearing in the volume and an additional print. With the exception of the frontispiece, the engravings, fashioned after Roget's illustrations by the Brothers Dalziel of London, never appeared.....

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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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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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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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(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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(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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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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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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(Berkeley, CA): Foolscap Press, 2019. The tale of Mandeville's travels in search of the fabled Prester John is at once an ethnographic study, religious treatise, and heroic narrative. The pages feature elaborate borders of gilt vines and all manner of creatures and vessels: hippos, parrots, Eastern ships, giants, dwarfs, and.....

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(Paris: c. 1850). Twelve hand-colored lithographs decorate the twelve question cards included in this game, which quizzes children on the scope and purpose of subjects, such as grammar, geography, architecture, and astronomy. Each question card is followed by a response card, which gives the appropriate answer. History, for example, is.....

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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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