Worcester, MA: St. Onge, Achille J., 1959. 38pp. One of 2,000 copies. With a one-cent stamp of Lincoln tipped in as a frontispiece. Very fine in full rust-colored morocco lettered and decorated in gilt on the front cover. A.e.g. (Bromer and Edison, pp. 156-158; Bradbury, p. 253; Massmann 16). (2..... More
Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge, 1964. 61pp. One of 500 copies. Brief poems, including several haikus, by Thomas Burnett Swann, a writer known primarily for his science fiction and fantasy novels, including the Minotaur and Latium trilogies. Fine in gilt-stamped blue calf, with small spot to back cover. A.e.g...... More
Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge, 1961. 63pp. One of 2,000 copies. This copy signed by St. Onge. With seven illustrations symbolic of the Jewish holidays. Very fine in gilt-stamped blue calf. A.e.g. (Bradbury, p. 253; Massmann 18). (2 5/8 by 1 7/8; 73x54mm). More
Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, 1954. 33pp. One of 1000 copies. The text of the inaugural speech by the 34th president of the United States, printed at the Chiswick Press. Includes a photographic portrait of Eisenhower as the frontispiece. A very fine copy in a handsome, gilt-stamped morocco binding by..... More
Chicago: Black Cat Press, (1961). 23, (3)pp., frenchfold. One of 300 copies. From the German by Albert Henry Allen. In quarter blue leather, with light blue handmade paper over boards. This is one of a few with the incorrect title stamped on the spine: "Return of the Lost Book." A...... More
Chicago: Black Cat Press, (1961). 51pp., frenchfold. One of 300 copies. The fourth book of the Press is a collection of poetry by Frank Marshall Davis, an African-American poet. This copy is one of twenty-one sets of original sheets bound in 1975 in black morocco, with gold lettering and decorated..... More
Los Angeles: Press in the Gatehouse, 1963. 32pp. One of 200 copies. A very technical treatise on the mechanics and dialects of pig latin. Fine in brown leather-backed marbled boards with gilt-stamping to the spine by Bela Blau. (2 7/16 by 1 5/8; 62x42mm). More
Coulommiers, France: Brotau, (c. 1920). Octavo. (6), 65, (5), 74, (4), 88, (6), 105, (5), 20pp. A robust typographic manual, organized according to the increasing complexity of various uses and the evolving modernity of types. Thus it begins with the basics of typography and book design grounded in Didot, and..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2014. Small folio. (156)pp. One of 275 copies. With an Introduction by Helen Vendler. For the one hundredth publication of the Arion Press, Andrew Hoyem pays homage to his mentors, Edwin and Robert Grabhorn - whose 1930 edition of Whitman's seminal text is echoed in the..... More
Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Bros. 1926. Octavo. (96)pp. One of one thousand copies of the "limited autograph edition," and thusly signed by the author. A delightful collection of rhymes for children, accompanied throughout by Sturges' fanciful illustrations as chromolithographs, with one unfortunate example of a racist depiction of a Black person..... More
(Northampton, MA): Apiary Press, 1961. 16mo. (10)ff. One of fifty copies, signed by the artist. Eight etched portraits of Hemingway, all in different sizes and some in color. Heimburg's hand reflects, as do many such acolytes, the instruction and style of her mentor, Leonard Baskin. As preface to the portraits..... More
(N.p.): 1837. Silk threads of many colors embroidered on woven linen. Within a frame of continuous vines are, at top, various executions of the alphabet, in upper and lower cases. Sarah Shaw then attributes her work to herself and dates it, and includes four lines from Hymn 43 by Isaac..... More
East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1907. Octavo. (vii), 67, (2)pp. One of 203 copies, signed by Hubbard. Frontispiece reproduction of a bas relief portrait of William Morris, executed by Jerome Conner. Between pages 20 and 21 is inserted a two-page facsimile of a letter written by Morris. A laudatory project by..... More
(N.p. c. 1850). Octavo. (32)pp. Printed and hand-decorated with gold throughout, and with a highly ornamentally painted double-page opening spread, this primer teaches a speaker of Modern Arabic the grammatical and syntactical rules of Quranic Arabic. Quranic Arabic, hailing from the Classical period when the Qu'ran was originally revealed, is..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1987. Octavo. 63pp. One of 500 copies. With a preface by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and an Introduction by the Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin. Printed in the very readable Deepdene type designed by Frederic Goudy, handset on handmade Twinrocker paper. The initial letters..... More
NP: Studio D'Ambrosio, 1997. One of 50 copies, signed by the publisher. A series of five boxes bound together between two covers with linking text, printed letterpress. Each box is unique and contains objects such as sea shells, pearls, coral, turquoise, silver, dried and silk flowers, and exotic papers. One..... More
Ogdensburg, NY: Caliban Press, 2010 (but 2022). 16mo. (7)pp., accordionfold. One of fifty copies, completed in conjunction with Floating World Press. Signed by the printer, Mark Murray. Caliban Press's ever-resourceful paperwork here represents the topography of a mountain range spread of the long landscape of the accordion. Printed along the..... More
(London: 1942-1946). Three oblong quarto volumes; 25; 27; 21ff. Two are Whatman series A30 sketch books, originally containing 30 leaves, and have been titled "Girls in Undress" and "Figures" by Buckland Wright; the third is a Reeves branded book which also formerly contained 30 leaves. All are bound in the..... More
NY: Red Angel Press, 1974. Square octavo. (16)ff. One of 152 copies, designed, illustrated, and signed by Ronald Keller. Longfellow's poem, printed in red and black, tells the story of a New England town determined to exterminate all birds in the countryside. Illustrated with four pages of woodcut illustrations, printed..... More
NY: Henry Holt, 1947. First edition. One of 751 copies, signed by Frost. Title-page decoration by Loren MacIver. In a review in the June 1, 1947 issue of the New York Times, Randall Jarrell singles out “Directive,” an early poem in Frost’s penultimate collection, for possessing “so much longing, tenderness..... More
(Newburgh, NY): Thornwillow Press, 2008. Small octavo. 38, (3)pp. One of 250 copies. Signed at the colophon by the designer and printer, Luke Ives Pontifell. Frontispiece and final image are full-page and colored, while throughout are festive line-drawings by John Hutton. Bound in half green cloth with paste-paper covers. Fine..... More
(Portland, OR): Chamberlain Press, 1987. Small quarto. (28)pp. One of 200 copies, signed by Sarah Chamberlain. Beautifully illustrated with color linoleum cuts by Chamberlain, many of which cover three-quarters of a page. All are printed with the rhymes within a color decorated border. Very fine in blue cloth-backed boards. More
(Northampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1974). Folio. (8)ff. One of forty copies signed by the artist, Sarah Chamberlain. Contains five tipped-in original etchings illustrating this amusing tale. According to Barry Moser, Chamberlain was a student at Hampshire College at the time, and while taking a figure drawing class with him became..... More
Mt. Carmel, CT: Ives Street Press, 1985. 16mo. (iv), 10, (3)pp. One of 110 copies. Prefaced by R. Buckminster Fuller is Chief Seattle's 1851 plea for the United States government to respect the lands of Indigenous tribes (which it subsequently did not, in the slightest, do). Fuller's preface underscores Seattle's..... More
Madrid: Torreblanca Impresores, 2005. xxiii, 111, (4)pp. One of 1000 copies. Inscribed by the printer and editor to Anne and David Bromer at the limitation statement. Fourteen unnumbered leaves with plates punctuate this compilation of some of the most memorable, and occasionally useful, aphorisms from Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's seminal..... More
