Frankfort am Main: Johann Feyerabends, 1599. Small quarto. (iv), (148)ff. First and only edition. Brunet calls this compilation of 293 wood engravings "rare et fort curieux." Amman, whose career flourished after his move to Nuremburg in 1561, succeeded Virgil Solis as artist for the printer Carl Sigmund Feyerabends. Originally intended... More
(N.p., n.d.). An original linoleum block print measuring 8 by 10 inches, tastefully matted and framed. Valenti Angelo here employs bold use of line and cross-hatching to show the texture of these trees, which are in the foreground, set against a predominantly black backdrop. Inscribed by the artist to Henry... More
NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1977. Small square quarto. (14)ff. First edition, inscribed by Anno. Illustrated throughout with Anno’s delicate watercolors, this engaging counting book shows how numbers and mathematics are part of the everyday world around us. A former teacher who has become one of Japan’s leading illustrators, Anno... More
Lexington, KY: Anvil Press, 1978. Small quarto. (16)ff. One of 75 copies. Illustrated with four woodcuts by Thomas. These depict the brutal scenes of the story, including the children's refusal to bow before King Nebuchadnezzar's golden idol and the angel saving the children from burning. Above the story from the... More
Lexington, KY: Anvil Press, 1956. Tall octavo. (86)pp. One of 240 copies printed by Jacob Hammer at the Anvil Press. Set into American Uncial by Victor Hammer. Text follows the Praetorius facsimile edition from the copy of the First Quarto of 1609 in the British Library. Boundin brown cloth-covered boards... More
Lexington, KY: Anvil Press, 1993. Octavo. x,107pp. One of fewer than 40 in bindings hand-painted by Carolyn Hammer and Paul Holbrook, from an edition of 75 copies printed by Hammer, in Victor Hammer's American Uncial typeface, the rest of which (in marbled boards) were given away as gifts. With an... More
Northampton, MA: Apiary Press, 1964. Small quarto. (16)pp. One of twenty-five copies. Signed by the author and the printer. This scarce item was printed for the author by his friend Ronald Gordon, now the proprietor of the Oliphant Press in New York. With eight vignettes taken from wood engravings by... More
Northampton, MA: Apiary Press, 1957. Tall quarto. 16ff. One of 100 copies. The second book of the Press. Illustrated with twenty woodcuts, four of which are printed in two colors, engraved by Smith College students Judith Gustafson, Margaretta Kuhlthau, Gillian Lewis, and Mary Alice Taylor. Presentation inscription from Margaretta "Sis"... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1982. Folio. (64)pp. One of 150 copies signed by Jim Dine and by Andrew Hoyem, the printer. Dine's riveting expressionistic woodcuts depict objects and characters in Revelations, such as a skull, a cloud, the Beast, the serpent, or a two-page spread of angel's wings. The text... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2011. Octavo. 169pp. One of 300 copies. Signed by Albee and Holland at the colophon. With three watercolor illustrations by Holland reproduced here by inkjet. Albee's play centers on the anxieties and dysfunction of a group of upper-middle-class suburbanites. The play won the Pulitzer Prize for... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2017. Octavo. 431pp. One of 300 copies. Signed by the illustrator. Ten collages by Talbot, each with astonishing depth of field. Bound in green brocade over boards with leather spine label. Housed in green cloth slipcase. Fine. More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2003. Quarto. xxi, 101pp. From an edition of 400 copies, this is one of 200 copies with a photographic portrait of the author by Edmund Shea and a signed chromolithograph by Wayne Thiebaud. The portrait is printed here for the first time. Preface by Ron Loewinsohn... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1999. Folio. (164) pp. One of 200 copies signed by the artist. Illustrated with twelve images by Wayne Thiebaud reproduced on transparent mylar sheets using different ink colors. The ink colors are matched to the sheet underneath it so that the images are revealed only when... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2001. Quarto. 124pp. One of 350 copies, signed by both artists. Illustrated with six etchings by William T. Wiley and photographs by Karl Bissinger. Translated from the German by J. A. Underwood, with an Afterword by Ferdinand Protzman. A very fine copy in pictorial boards and... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2012. Octavo. 458, (3)pp. One of 300 copies, signed by the illustrator. With thirty-four scratchboard drawings, printed from photopolymer plates. Washburn's illustrations depict portraits of characters and the author, landscapes, and key scenes. Collins' tale was first published in 1868, though this publication uses the revised... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2007. Octavo. 149pp. One of 300 copies. The interspersed illustrations by Anderson are low-resolution cell phone photos of a room and its furnishings, printed on semi-translucent paper. De Maistre's text was produced during his forty-two-day confinement to his room in Turin as punishment for dueling. Bound... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2014. Octavo. 262pp. One of 300 copies. Illustrated with thirty-two photographs in color taken by Poletto, who took them on the set of the 1963 motion picture directed by Lucchino Visconti. The novel, translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun, grapples with the changes in Sicilian... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2005. Small quarto. 78pp. One of 400 copies. Pixelated portrait of Einstein as frontispiece. A centennial edition of Einstein's masterwork, which features his two papers published in 1905: "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" and "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on its Energy-Content?". With... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2007. Square quarto. 66pp. One of 300 copies. A deluxe edition of T. S. Eliot's poem, illustrated throughout with fragments of a painting by R. B. Kitaj. At the end of the poem, all of the pieces of the painting come together to reveal the entire... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2005. Folio. One of 300 copies, signed by the author, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and the illustrator, R. B. Kitaj. The volume opens with a frontispiece portrait of Ferlinghetti in profile, reproduced from a charcoal drawing on handmade paper. First published in 1958, this collection of poems contains... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1984. Octavo. 180pp. One of 400 copies signed by the illustrator. With 97 line illustrations by Michael Graves, a prize-winning, post-modern architect, of Gatsby's home, cars, gardens, furniture, cocktail set, etc. printed in red-brown ink. In cloth-backed gray paper boards printed with some of the drawings... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1992. Large quarto. 63pp. One of 200 numbered copies, each signed by the author, Allen Ginsberg, and the artist, Ronald Brooks Kitaj. Illustrated with lithographic portraits of the poet and his mother by Kitaj. Two other poems, "White Shroud" and "Black Shroud" are also included, as... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1987. Octavo. 356pp. One of 400 copies. Now first published, with etchings by Marcus Gheeraerts from Mythologia Ethica of Arnold Freitag (1579), the source in Latin for this translation. Transcribed and edited from the autograph manuscript (1586) in the Columbia University Library with an introduction, notes... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2010. Octavo. 296pp. One of 300 copies. Hamilton's humorous and off-hand drawings have been reproduced here by polymer plates on letterpress, with the protagonist's vacuum front and center. Bound in blue cloth over boards, depicting the cuban flag on upper and lower covers. Some foxing to... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1983. Octavo. x, 291pp., + (44)ff. One of 400 copies. This edition of Hammet's classic murder mystery, first published in 1938, is illustrated with 46 photographs of Sam Spade's San Francisco. Photographer Edmund Shea searched the photo-archives of the twenties for specific locations. Where none were... More
