Market Drayton: Tern Press, 1984. Octavo. (118)pp. From an edition of 310 copies this is one of ten with original drawings and an inlaid morocco binding. Signed by the translator, John Porter, and the artist, Parry, at colophon. Contains title decoration and thirteen pen and ink drawings. Bound in full... More
Frankfurt: Raamin-Presse, 1978. Quarto. (28)pp. One of 100 copies. Signed by the artist at the colophon. Five full-page color initials by Quadflieg. The page opposite each initial features decorative rules and at two smaller decorated initials. The volume feature's Holderlin's poem in its 1803 and later versions. Bound in blue... More
Munich: Bremer Presse, 1929. Quarto. 88pp. Of an edition of 530 copies, this is one of 250 printed on handmade paper for Random House. The title and eight two-color initials were designed by Anna Simons. A fine copy in quarter-vellum with marbled paper-covered boards. Housed in red paper slipcase. Spine... 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, 1994. Quarto. 284pp. One of 200 copies. Nabokov's novel, presented as a poem with commentary and an index, pushes the form of fiction and "metafiction", and has been widely praised as the best demonstration of his genius. Bound in purple silk with gold circular onlay and... More
Cornwall: Houyhnhnm, 2010. Quarto. 492, (3)pp. One of 176 copies. Edited by Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon. A weighty and noble printing of Joyce's enigmatic text. Bound in full black calfskin with gilt-stamped square to upper cover and titling to spine. Accompanied by bound booklet containing a note by Seamus... 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, 1998. Octavo. 121pp. Introduction by Thomas Pinney. One of 250 copies signed by the artist. Illustrated with 32 drawings by Vincent Perez, one facing each page of the story. A fine copy in sailcloth, housed in a very good mailing envelope with string-and-button tie. Prospectus laid in. 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
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1984. Square octavo. xxxii, 306pp. One of 1500 copies. Signed by the artist. Illustrated with 22 geometric black-and-white drawings by Lewitt, whose art, according to critic Robert Rosenblum, offers "a world of endlessly expanding mazes." Spine somewhat toned, else near fine in full black cowhide and matching black slipcase. More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1996. Octavo. xvi, 108pp. One of 250 copies, each signed by the artist. Illustrated with 16 photographs of western landscapes by Kenna. A fine copy in cork covered boards and cloth spine with cork label. Prospectus laid in. More
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1979. Small quarto. 120pp. One of 300 copies printed on handmade Bird & Bull "Nagashuzuki" paper. Illustrated with twenty-four drawings by Richard Flavin and fourteen 4" x 5" samples of paper. Fine in quarter-morocco and floral decorated Japanese paper. (Bird & Bull Bibliography A22). More
(Covelo, CA: Yolla Bolly Press, 1984). Quarto. xv, 194, (2)pp. With an Afterword by Herbert Gold and eight colored woodcuts by Bill Prochnow. One of 200 copies. Signed by Gold and Prochnow. The third in a series "California Writers of the Land," the book was designed by Carolyn and James... More
London: Verona Press, (1939). Quarto, (x), 315pp. One of 1,200 copies designed by Hans Mardersteig and printed at the Officina Bodoni. Illustrated with sixteen original color lithographs by Marie Laurencin. Bound in paste-paper-covered boards with a gilt-stamped cloth label on spine. Faintest scattered foxing, else near fine in printed dust... More
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1966. Quarto. 83pp. One of 200 copies. A variety of ancient writings, from the epic of Gilgamesh to the law-code of Hammurabi to business documents. The color illustrations, which are contemporary renderings of ancient Mesopotamian art, are by Harold Kimmelman. Some sunning and... More
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1986. Octavo. 124pp. One of 325 copies. With a Preface by Elaine Koretsky. Contains 40 paper samples of great variety and interest, collected by McClure, a botanist who lived in China from 1919 to 1941. These include brilliant dyed papers for ceremonial use, rough... More
(Flemington, NJ: St. Teresa's Press, 1966). Small quarto. 14pp. One of 150 copies. With a lovely hand-painted title page and decorative initials modeled after the Book of Kells. Letterpress printed in Solemnis and Palatino Italic on handmade English paper. A short-lived and very fine small press, St. Teresa's flourished in... More
Pownal, VT: Mason Hill Press, 1978. Small quarto. (162)pp. One of 175 copies. Text printed in black and rust. Richly illustrated throughout with calligraphic initials printed from wood engravings by Mark Livingston, printed in red, blue and green, and with two engraved endpieces. Each Psalm opens with Livingston's vibrantly colored... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1992. Quarto. 117pp. One of 400 copies signed by the author and the artist. Illustrated with five wood engravings, four of them full page, by Michael McCurdy. A fine copy in blue-green cloth with a ring of silver foil surrounding an actual buffalo-head nickel. Prospectus laid in. 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
NY: Grolier Club, 1923. Small octavo. 49pp. One of 300 copies designed and printed by Rogers. The text is elegantly framed in eighteenth-century type ornaments printed in sepia. The delicate balance of typography and ornament in this book has brought contemporaries such as Joseph Blumenthal to call this "one of... More
Mission, BC, Canada: Barbarian Press, 2015. 16mo. (74)pp. From an edition of 140 copies, this is one of 90 copies in the Regular state. Each ode begins with a woodcut by English. The volume contains all five of Keats' "Great Odes" and three others: "Ode: Bards of Passion", "Ode on... 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, 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, 2004. Octavo. 309pp. One of 300 copies. Signed by the illustrator, photographer Stephen Shore. Shore's photographs depict scenes from modern New York City: walkways, monuments, stoops, and balconies. These images bring the novel's Gilded Age characters into the present, suggesting that their whims and worries exist... More
