Press Books
Of the breath of
[San Francisco]: David Meltzer and Jack Shoemaker, November, 1970. Edition limited to 250 copies on Curtis paper, and 50 copies on Tovil paper; 4to, pp. [10]; near fine copy in original yellow wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover. This copy on Curtis paper and signed by Corman on the..... More
Three poems
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1985. Four-fold leaflet approx. 6" x 3" on olive green paper, printed at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts during its "Dirty Work" class. More
The pith helmet. Aphorisms
Omaha: The Cummington Press, 1992. Edition limited to 155 copies (this, no. 100) printed by Harry Duncan from Bembo and Goudy Open; 8vo, pp. 24; printed in red and black; fine copy in original black wrapperes, printed paper label printed in red and black on upper cover. From the library..... More
Coulette's first book
The license & the limit. Four poems...
Iowa City: privately printed, 1958. Edition limited to 25 copies signed by the poet (this one of 23 copies on Ticonderoga Text); 8vo, pp. [8]; text printed in red and black; fine copy in original printed cream wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker. "Printed by JC at the State..... More
The war of the secret agents and other poems
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1966]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 111, [1]; fine copy in original blue cloth lettered in black on spine, later state of the dust jacket (announcing the Lamont Prize) with some creases and minor breaks at the extremities. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy..... More
Printed by John Henry Nash
A bibliography of the history of California and the Pacific West 1510-1930
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1933. Edition limited to 650 copies, 3 volumes, folio, tan buckram-backed paper-covered boards, printed paper spine labels; untrimmed fore-edge and tail; title page of volume I with shadow from past insert; otherwise near fine. Standard work, with over 500 entries and chronological index. More
Anacreon done into English out of the original Greek by Abraham Cowley and S. B. 1683. Newly embellished with copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden...
Soho: Nonesuch Press, 1923. Edition limited to 725 copies (this no. 619), 8vo, pp. [20], 52, [4]; 7 engravings by Gooden including the engraved title-page; original parchment-backed paper-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine; small snag in the front joint, edges rubbed, marginal tear in leaf B3; all else very good..... More
Exile's return. A literary odyssey of the 1920's
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1981. Limited to 2000 copies (this, no. 727) signed by the author and photographer, Berenice Abbott; 8vo, pp. xx, [2], 281; black & white photographic illustrations; bookplate on front pastedown, top edge lightly spotted, else about fine in brown cloth-backed decorative boards, glassine wrapper..... More
My mighty journey: a waterfall's story. Words by John Coy and pictures by Gaylord Schanilec
Saint Paul: Midnight Paper Sales, 2018. Edition limited to 40 copies (actually 41), large oblong folio, 36 leaves, 16 color illustrations mounted on handmade paper, with text printed on verso, and interleaved with protective translucent blank sheets; printed colophon sheet mounted to final leaf of handmade paper; bound in suminagashi..... More
Gordon Craig's Paris diary 1932-1933. Edited with a prologue by Colin Franklin
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1982. Edition limited to 350 copies (this, copy no. 2), 8vo, pp. 154, [2]; title printed in purple and black; 4 facsimiles (2 double-page), 2 mounted facsimiles, chapter heading printed in green, blue, brown, and black; printed on Bugrabutten paper and bound in..... More
The locks of the Oxford canal. A journey from Oxford to Coventry. With fifty wood engravings by John Craig
[Andoversford, Gloucestershire]: Whittington Press, [1984]. Edition limited to 350 copies signed by Craig (this, no. 274), 8vo, pp. [12], x, [54]; title page printed in red and black, 50 wood engravings, one folding plate; pictorial endpapers; original full linen boards, spine and front cover paper labels, fine. Contact card for..... More
Proof copy, inscribed by Hamady
Divisions & other early poems
Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1968. Edition limited to 110 copies, 8vo, pp. [4], 19, [1]; unopened; original brown printed wrappers; fine. Printed on Shadwell, a paper handmade by Hamady. This copy out-of-series, but with a note on the wrapper flap: "This is a final proof copy. It is the..... More
Echoes
West Branch, Iowa: The Toothpaste Press, 1982. Edition limited to 2,200 copies, this no. 92 of 200 on Frankfurt White, and signed by Creeley, 12mo, pp. [20]; fine copy in bound in gray cloth-backed marbled boards, printed paper label on spine. Handset by David Duer, designed and printed by Allan..... More
The essayes or counsels civill and morall of Francis Lord Verulam Viscount St Alban
London: 1927. Large sheet approximately 30" x 20" folded twice to make 4 pages approximately 15" x 10"; printed in red and black, order form laid in; reproducing on the inside pages 14-15 of the book, and the back with specifics on publication; previous folds, old library rubberstamp at the..... More
The Spiral Press, 1926-1971: a bibliographical checklist
West New York, NJ: Mark Batty, 2002. Edition limited to 1000 copies, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 175, [1]; portrait frontispiece, 22 images (mostly facsimile pages), 4 specimens tipped in; original brown cloth, gilt title on spine, pressmark blindstamped on cover, fine. More
Memoirs. The Grand Kentucky Junction
St. Louis: Cave Books, 1984. 8vo, pp. 96, [2]; tan printed paper wrappers, fine. A collection of recollections of a caving trip to Q-87. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. More
The judge is fury
New York: The Swallow Press and William Morrow and Company, 1947. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 11-54, [2]; title page printed in red and black; original gray cloth lettered in red and spine; dust jacket. Jacket a bit toned along the spine and covers with a mild dampstain at the..... More
Mr. Dench's horse: or, Life in the antiquarian book trade
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1985. Edition limited to 300 copies, 8vo, pp. [20]; sewn in brown printed paper wrappers, fine. Designed by Abe Lerner. With a slip on the publisher's standing order policy laid in. 30 Years of Bird & Bull, A41. More
[Three promotional pamphlets.]
Newark, DE: Curtis Paper Co., 1957-1970. 3 volumes, 8vo, all designed and printed by Joseph Blumenthal at the Spriral Press, and all written by Earl Schenck Miers: Seed of Liberty: In Celebration of the Three Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of Jamestown, edited and with an introduction by..... More
Early American papermaking. Two treatises on manufacturing techniques reprinted from James Cutbush's American artists manual (1884) with an introduction by John Bidwell
New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1990. Edition limited to 180 copies, this the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy and out of series, and without the specimen leaf at p. 51; 8vo, pp. 90, [2]; pictorial title page printed in red and black; 14 watermarks, 2 wood engravings, 28 pages of facsimile..... More
Early American papermaking. Two treatises on manufacturing techniques reprinted from James Cutbush's American artist's manual (1814) with an introduction by John Bidwell
New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1990. Edition limited to 180 copies, this the issue of 10 copies lettered A-J with two extra specimen leaves, but being the bookbinder's copy, it is out-of-series, and without the leaves; the specimen leaf tipped in at p. 51 is present, however; 8vo (in a...... More