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[Minneapolis]: printed for friends of Coffee House Press, 1991. 9½" x 12½" poetry broadside printed alongside a relief print, artist unknown, on pink paper. More
[Minneapolis]: printed for friends of Coffee House Press, 1991. 9½" x 12½" poetry broadside printed alongside a relief print, artist unknown, on pink paper. More
Iowa City, Iowa: Green River Press, 1976. Edition limited to 10 copies (this, no. 4); square 8vo, pp. [16]; 6 wood engravings; very good in original black cloth. From the library of Kim Merker. In this copy there are at least 8 corrections in ink to typographical errors in the..... More
N.p. 1823. Broadside approx. 9" x 7", seven numbered stanzas in double column beneath a running head; typographical border; previous folds and several short splits; good. Ownership signature at the bottom, "L. Kinsman." Not in American Imprints but 4 in OCLC. More
New York: printed and sold by Mahlon Day, at the new Juvenile Book-store, no. 376, Pearl-Street, stereotyped by James Conner, n.d., [ca. 1830]. 32mo (approx. 3¾" x 2¼"), pp. 16; 15 small woodcuts; original pictorial yellow wrappers, in drab outer wrappers; wrappers a little spotted, corners curled; all else very..... More
[West Chester, Pennsylvania]: Green Library Press, West Chester University, 1992. Edition limited to 170 copies, 8vo, pp. [20]; title page printed in red and black; original mauve wrappers; fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker. "IX poems is the second anthology designed, printed and produced by the graduate class..... More
Phila., Pa. Posters, Inc, n.d., [ca. 1943]. Large one-sheet movie poster approx. 41" x 27", previous folds in eighths, 2 very small breaks at the intersections, else very good. Jack London, also known as The Story of Jack London, was a 1943 American biographical film made by Samuel Bronston Productions..... More
Garden City, NY: Country Life Press, 1929. First edition, 16mo, pp. 15, [1]; printed paper self-wrappers; light soiling to wrappers, internally fine. More
Iowa City: Windhover Press, [1970]. Edition limited to 250 copies, 8vo, pp. [48]; original black cloth-backed blue paper-covered boards lettered in gilt on the upper cover; some fading at the bottom of the upper boards, else near fine. From the library of Kim Merker. The last paragraph of Murray's Foreword..... More
Iowa City: Windhover Press, [1970]. Edition limited to 250 copies, 8vo, pp. [48]; original black cloth-backed blue paper-covered boards lettered in gilt on the upper cover; fine. From the library of Kim Merker. In most (all?) copies the last paragraph of Murray's Foreword on p. [9] has been excised as..... More
Iowa City: Windhover Press, [1970]. Edition limited to 250 copies, 8vo, pp. [48]; original black cloth-backed blue paper-covered boards lettered in gilt on the upper cover; fine. From the library of Kim Merker. The last paragraph of Murray's Foreword on p. [9] has been excised as the result of a...... More
[Lincoln. Mass.]: Penmaen Press, [1979]. First trade edition, 8vo, pp. x, 11-43, [5]; title page in red and black, frontispiece and 5 wood engravings by McCurdy; small spot on the front panel of the dust jacket, else fine throughout. More
New York: Burdick & Scoville, No. 8 Spruce Street, n.d., [ca. 1860s]. 8vo, pp. iv, [1], 10-208; [1], 10-212;; 12 steel engravings, 4 hand-colored botanical plates; contemporary full brown morocco, gilt spine worn, but the binding is sound. Faxon, p. 42 notes that this is not an annual, but rather..... More
Cummington, Massachusetts: [1949]. Edition limited to 500 copies, 16mo, pp. [12]; with 2 woodcuts by Wightman Williams, from The Hovering Fly; printed in Poliphilus and Blado, hand-set by Harry Duncan and printed on domestic wove paper; fine in original printed gray wrappers. Printed at The Kraushar Press, Northampton, Massachusetts. Richmond..... More
New York: American Art Association. 1915. 8vo, pp. [4], 99, [1]; original cream paper covered limp boards, tape repair to upper joint, spine chipped; a good copy. More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1997. 11" x 15" broadside with a relief print printed in honor of Jim Sitter's contributions to the literary field during his tenure at CLMP. More
New York: printed and sold by C. Brown, n.d., [ca. 1822]. Broadside, approx. 8" x 9", wrinkled, with loss and tears at all margins (no loss of letterpress); 9-stanza poem in double column beneath a running head. Not found in OCLC. More
[Middleborough, MA: Slote, Woodman & Co., 1881-1883]. 4to, pp. [4], 76; original green blindstamped cloth, gilt title on spine, scrapbook trademark label on upper pastedown; hinges split, pages completely full of clippings and scrap material, mostly witticisms, jokes, trivia, the occasional puzzle, and marriage and death notices that locate the..... More
New York: Random House / Ridge Press, [1966]. First edition, 4to, pp. [158]; illustrated with photographs throughout, some in color; perfect copy in the dust jacket, original publisher's brown paper wrapper with "Mirror of Venus" stamped in purple on the bottom edge. Hasselblad, The Open Book, pp. 224-5. More
[New York: New Directions, c1957. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 264; original bright red cloth, title on spine in white, some wear to extremities and browning to acidic pages, else very good in torn, tattered, and creased dust jacket. Contains Henry Miller's "Obscenity in Literature" and an excerpt from Jack..... More
[New York: publisher not identified], 1852. Tall narrow broadside approx. 22" x 5½". Display type; some toning and wrinkling, else very good. Not found in OCLC. More
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 1992. Edition limited to 125 copies signed by the author and the illustrator (one in the same), 8vo, pp. [24]; hand-colored vignette title page and 11 hand-colored text illustrations by Carol Blinn; white paper-covered boards, hand-colored label on upper cover and spine, fine. Signed by author and..... More
New York: The Players, 1965. Broadside invitation, 17 x 9.25 in.; illustrated by O. G. Estes; shallow tears at folds, else very good. A double-header invitation for a Buffet Dinner at The Players, NY to members, followed by showings of The Bells, and Moby-Dick, "A presentation of John Griggs' Bijou-Dream..... More
Large advertising broadside printed in blue and red, approx. 20" x 14" showing an illustration of the 1885 America's Cup yacht Puritan skipped by John Malcolm Forbes, after her victory over the British yacht Genesta. Also with an illustration of the African-American, Paw Ducket with his captured coon. Previous folds..... More
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, primarily 1970s and 80s. From folio size to business cards, including Poltroon catalogues, prospectuses, invitations, announcements, advertising material, etc., in broadside, broadsheet, bifoliate, and chapbook formats. Forty-one pieces in all, as collected by Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. More
Boston: Gardner A. Fuller, 1862. First edition, 8vo, pp. [5], 5-296, [4] ads; original pebble-grained purple cloth; engraved frontispiece depicting an assassination attempt on a street corner; gilt lettering on the spine; publisher's monogram blind-stamped on the covers; spine faded, extremities lightly chipped; otherwise very good. A satirical novel about..... More