Oxford: The University Press, 1935. Two folio volumes. xix, 1216pp., continuous pagination. One of 200 copies printed on Batchelor's handmade paper in modified Centaur type. This copy includes the limitation leaf, which is often missing. Morison and Day note that "every book designed by Rogers was an individual accomplishment... The... More

Maastricht: Halcyon Press, 1931. Octavo. (256)pp. From an edition of 140, this is one of 125 copies on Pannekoek paper. All plates are signed by the illustrator, John Buckland Wright, and the publisher, A. A. M. Stols has signed on the colophon page. This is the third book bearing Buckland... More

(Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1895). Three octavo volumes. 399; 412; 421pp. One of 250 copies. Ornate wood-engraved double-page opening in Volume I and initials and borders throughout the three volumes by William Morris. In a letter to a friend in 1855, William Morris wrote that he had just been reading Shelley's... More

(NY: Purgatory Pie Press, 1983). 16mo. (58)pp. One of 100 copies signed by the designer, E. K. Smith and the printer, Dko Faust. An alphabet, letterpress printed in gray, in which each letter is presented in a different format. Unusually bound in a soft red leather chemise which wraps around... More

(N.p.): Quoin Press, 1975. (14)pp. One of 200 copies. Hunter's brief account of his dream of moving to an island in the South Pacific and using only native materials to print a book - his last edition, which would have been an autobiography. The final page, printed in blue, identifies... More

(Hamburg): Raamin-Presse, 1977. Quarto. 24pp. From an edition of 120 numbered copies signed by the artist/printer, Roswitha Quadflieg, this is one of forty copies printed in English, and from those forty, this is also one of ten with an extra signed etching. The text is from Adventures in the Skin... More

(Bremen, ME & NY): Red Angel Press, 2002. Octavo. (18)ff. One of 100 copies signed by the printer/illustrator, Ronald Keller, and by Betty Keller, who edited the text. It explores the notion of a correspondence between Hawthorne's and Dickinson's work by presenting these two texts in a single book. Keller's... More

Munich/Berlin: Rixdorfer Drucke, 1970. Quarto. 55pp., frenchfold. One of 300 copies signed by the four artist-printers of the press. A wild "adventure" illustrated with eight four-color, full-page woodcuts and 66 smaller black and white woodcuts. The front cover has a compass mounted in the center to "guide" the reader through... More

Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, (1936). Folio. Six color engravings illustrating Oscar Wilde's text, each signed by the artist and mounted on a 13 by 10-inch off-white matte. This suite of prints, one of only twenty sets, comprises the full set of the engravings that appeared in the edition of the... More

NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1988. First edition. One of twenty-six lettered copies, signed by Beckett and Gorey. The second and final collaboration between the author and the artist. Design and typography by Ronald Gordon and Dean Bornstein, and illustrated throughout with vignettes by Gorey. A fine copy in black boards... More

Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. Quarto. xl, 189pp. One of 375 copies. American issue. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press in Stratford-upon-Avon on Batchelor's Kelmscott handmade paper. Translated by William Caxton and printed from the manuscript in the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. In a handsome binding of... More

(Northampton, MA): Apiary Press, 1961. Oblong quarto. (10)ff., + single letterpress sheet laid in. One of twenty-five copies signed by the illustrator, Joyce Sills. This copy bears a presentation inscription from Sills to social-realist artist Ben Shahn and his wife, Bernarda. The colophon notes that the Shahns' son, Ezra, had... More

Bremer Presse: (Munich), (1926). Folio. (16)ff. Designer William Addison Dwiggins' copy, with the notation inside the portfolio case: "Presented by the publishers to WAD, and given by him to Edward A. Karr." A collection of titles and initials designed by Anna Simons for the Bremer Presse. Along with Graily Hewitt... More