Martin Lesinski, 2017. A book woven into being through the trials of military service, Beyond the Reach of Reason presents itself as a living thing. Lesinski’s poetry draws upon his experience as a combat veteran, a disabled veteran, and a disabled person living in American society. There is a heartbeat..... More
London: Methuen, (1927). First edition. Number two of 200 copies, printed on handmade paper and signed by A.A. Milne and Ernest H. Shepard. This famous collection of children's verses, featuring Milne's son Christopher Robin and his bear, is illustrated throughout with Shepard's whimsical drawings. Bound in quarter cloth with orange..... More
Colorado Springs: Press at Colorado College, 2019. The images found in Curb are rubbings taken from sidewalks and curbs, created by hammering damp sheets onto the surfaces with brushes, then rolling them with screen-printing ink. The text, printed letterpress in two colors, attempts to contextualize the murders of three South-Asian..... More
Barcelona: José Porter, 1945. Octavo. xvi, 96pp + 50 plates. One of 330 copies. Brugalla's treatise on bookbinding, illustrated with both in-text figural drawings and color plates of bindings, offers an educated and thorough historical and technical analysis of the craft. Brugalla demonstrates his own skill on this copy's binding..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1980. Tall quarto. Unpaginated. One of 275 copies, signed by Andrew Hoyem, the printer, and by Ray Bradbury, who wrote the Introduction. A strikingly visual presentation of this science fiction classic. Illustrated with die cutouts of geometric shapes, all of which have been hand-colored. Bound concertina-style..... More
(London): Doves Press, (1908). Two large octavo volumes. 192; 200pp. One of 250 copies. Printed in red and black by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker. This collection of Browning's poems explores the many aspects of love between men and women. The colophon is beautifully inscribed in red "Flourished by..... More
Hammersmith: Doves Press, 1916. Octavo. 96pp. One of 150 copies. This is Cobden-Sanderson's third, and final catalogue raisonné, which not only describes the entire printed oeuvre from the Doves Press, but also reprints all the minor pieces—known as Parerga—in their entirety. Those minor pieces include "Salve Aeternum Aeternumque Vale," which..... More
Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1931. Octavo. (10), 25, (3)pp. From an edition of 250 copies, this is one of twenty-five printed on Japanese vellum and bound after a design by Blair Hughes-Stanton himself. It marks Hughes-Stanton's first contribution to the Press' run of special bindings, and the advent of a shift..... More
Stamford, Connecticut: Overbrook Press, 1939. Folio. 231pp. One of 150 copies. The text is taken from the Complete Works, edited by George Lyman Kittredge of Harvard University. Approximately a third of the edition was left in sheets and never bound, but this copy is a delightful example of the original..... More
(Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893). Octavo. (vi), 216pp. One of 500 copies. Borders and initials by William Morris. Printed in Golden type in two colors. Peterson cites Sidney Cockerell's observation that this title was "one of the rarest books issued from the Press because of its popularity"; despite its relatively large..... More
London: J. Murray, 1778. Octavo. xlv, 256pp. This copy is extra-illustrated with four inserted plates by Bartolozzi, which are printed in bistre. Bound in full vellum by Edwards of Halifax. Both covers are underpainted in black, with a bucolic scene of a couple courting beneath a tree in a park..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1987. Printed in the very readable Deepdene type designed by Frederic Goudy and handset on handmade Twinrocker paper, the initial letters drawn and illuminated in red and blue with gold stars by calligrapher Thomas Ingmire. With a preface by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and an..... More
Salem, MA. Parker Brothers Inc., (1933). Board game, which has a playing board with colorful spaces, a bifold instruction booklet, a yellow cloth bag containing tokens in colors matching those of the board spaces, and four player pieces representing Pooh, Piglet, Rabbit, and Christopher Robin. The game abides by simple..... More
(N.p. c. 1976). Sixteen engraved illustrations altered by hand in pen-and-ink on paper, designed by Gorey for his collaborative publication with Samuel Beckett of the latter's All Strange Away. The images each deliver on Gorey's signature penchant for the uneasy and uninterpretable. They bear shapes and features that are to..... More
California: Vernon Kilns, (c. 1938-1940). A coffee pot, featuring brown and maroon transfer-print illustration of the ship, the Pequod, from Moby Dick on a cream background. Produced by the Los Angeles-based Vernon Kilns between 1938 and 1940, this coffee pot was part of a dinnerware series inspired by Herman Melville's..... More
California: Vernon Kilns, 1938-1940. A nine-inch bowl showing an overhead view of 1930s Manhattan from the "Our America" series designed by Kent for Vernon Kilns. The piece is decorated in a lustrous cream and brown transfer print. "Our America" had the largest number of images of any series that Kent..... More
Vancouver, B.C. Heavenly Monkey, 2019. Tall quarto. 18, (10) pp., + two tipped-in leaves. From an edition of 55 copies, this is one of twenty comprising the "Written" issue, featuring original calligraphy by Martin Jackson on the printed pages. Signed by Jackson on the colophon page. Reprints Pollard's essay, which..... More
London: Rock & Co., (1845). (32)ff. Each page, including frontispiece and title page, illustrated with an amorous engraving. The images devoted to lovers, singly or together, provide especial insight into the fashions of Victorian England, with one image bearing a striking resemblance to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert themselves. Around..... More
London: Company of Stationers, 1795. (26)pp. Opens with an engraving of the Drury Lane Theatre, spanning four pages. The almanac's calendar records the times of sunrise and sunset, as well as various saints' days and term times for academic institutions. The volume also provides a table of the reigns of..... More
NY: Knopf, 1929. Quarto. First illustrated edition. One of 170 copies signed by Cather. Illustrated with full-page chapter headings, head- and tailpieces from drawings by Harold von Schmidt. This is the first illustrated edition of Cather's most significant novel. Spine faintly sunned, else a fine copy in full limp vellum..... More
Berlin: Einhorn-Presse, 1927. Tall quarto. (24)pp. From an edition of 600 copies, this is one of only five printed on vellum and with text calligraphed by Melchior Lechter. In addition to writing the text, Lechter also designed the book, including initial letters of gold backed with green leather and onlaid..... More
