100 Fine Books, Winter 2004

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Private Presses

Allen Press

Ashendene Press

Bird & Bull Press

Trianon Press

I.M. Imprimit

Doves Press

Essex House Press

Fleece Press

Fanfrolico Press

Flugblatt-Presse

Fulcrum Press

Gehenna Press

Golden Cockerel Press

Janus Press

Limited Editions Club

Melville Press

Perishable Press

Press at Ap pletree Alley

Press on Scroll Road

Stamperia del Santuccio

Wayzgoose Press

Whittington Press

Artists Books

Susan Allix

William Blake

Leonard Baskin

Laura Davidson

Mary Heebner

Paul Johnson

Ines v. Ketelhodt

Angela Lorenz

Red Charming

Carol Schwartzott

Ben Shahn

Vincent Torre

Literature & Poetry

Lewis Caroll

Geoffrey Chaucer

Robert Frost

Herman Melville

Henry Miller

John Milton

N. Scott Momad y

Rainer Mar ia Rilke

William Shakespeare

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mark Twain

Oscar Wilde

100 fine books

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Catalogue Twenty-Eight - Winter 2004

Promoting the Book Arts - text, image & structureArtists Archives; Artists Books; Books about Books; Calligrap hy; Mod ern Fine Bind ings; Fine Print ing

and Private Presses; Literatu re; Original Prints, Photograp hs & Portfolios; Papermak ing; Poetry.

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1. (Allen Press)Jonah, Judith, Ruth. Three stories from the Old Testament King James

authorized version. Illustrations by Michle Forgeois. Produ ced by hand at The Allen

Press. Greenbrae, California. MCMLXXXIV. [1984.] 49p. 11" x 7". Text printed in

Romane and display in Solemnis. The ancient language characters for d ecorating the

heads of text pages are those of countries and tribes in the Israel area when the Old

Testament was compiled: for Jonah, Sumerian; Judith, Jacobites of Syria; Ruth,

Hebrew. The all-rag paper handmade at The Twinrocker Mill and printed dampened

on an Albion handpress. Brown cover wrappers of handmade Fabriano Roma. Drop-back box of brown fabric imported from Paris especially for this edition and lined in

pu rp le cloth. Gilt title on both w rap pers and box. One in an edition of 140 copies. Fine.

[The Allen Press: 50] $395.00

2. (Ashendene Press) A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an

Angle by D ame Juliana Berners. Chelsea. 1903. 48p. 7.75" x

5.5". Set in type by St John Hornby and Meysey Turton

and printed by the first-nam ed in black, with red initial

'S'. Frontispiece illustration of fisherman as well as dia-

grams showing fishing equipment. Limp vellum covers

with gilt spine title. New brown cloth d ouble slipcase with

leather title label on outer cover. One of 125 copies of 150 for sale on paper. Near fine.

[The Ashendene Press: XVI] $1,500.00

Reprint of the 1496 edition, with illustrations copied from the woodcuts in the originaltreatise.

3. (Thomas Bew ick)Memorial Edition of Thomas Bewick' s Works. 5 Vol. Bernard Quaritch.

London. 1885. 10.25" x 6.75". Half brown morocco with brown cloth boards, gilt titling

and details on spine. Marbled en dp apers. t.e.g. No. 320 of 750 num bered sets, signed by

Berna rd Qu aritch in April 1885. Bookplates. Covers, spines, and corners scuffed and slightly worn , nevertheless a

good set. $1,200.00

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4. (Susan Al lix)A-Z Old Fashioned Rhymes. Alphabet book by Susan Allix. [Lond on. Repr inted 2003.] 43p. 5" x 6". The

26 rhymes, set in 18pt Bembo Italic, are accompanied by 13 colored lino-cuts. Printed

letterpress on Saunders paper, with colored ends and flyleaves. Red handmade paper

cover, with triangular onto tw o rhym es. Contained in a maroon folder. Not stated is that

the revised edition is of 30 unn um bered and signed by Allix. Fine. $150.00

A-Z Old Fashioned Rhymes is an alphabet book made for children, perhaps with adultsin mind . In 1985 a few copies were made, and then the lino-cuts w ere put aw ay and for-

gotten. Now more copies have been printed and the book re-issued. Last copy.

5. (Artists Books catalogue ) Autonomy of shadows. Exhibition catalogs as Works of Art.

Hosted by the Betty Rymer Gallery. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. February 21

- April 11, 2003. Approx. 11.5" x 6.5"; CD-ROM is presented at a 90 degree angle to the

written catalog, making the container w ider at the center. 7 shaped and double-folded

offset-printed sheets, all with a horizontal slit in the midd le to allow the CD to pass

through. Book and accompanying CD-ROM housed in a specifically designed and

vacuform ed acry lic box. First p rinting of 750 copies. Fine. $45.00

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Doro Boehme, Special Collections Librarian , Joan Flasch Artists Book Collections at the School of the Art Institu te of

Chicago and organizer of this exhibition, writes, "I [have selected] from a mu ltitud e of formats an d aesthetic approach-

es by artists, galleries, museum s, etc. who su ccessfully expand the common function of the catalog as m ere memor y

and inventory of a show into becoming its own, autonomou s work of art."

There are original contr ibutions by Ch ristian Boltanski, Mary Jan Jacob, Barbar a Moore, Anthony Elms, Alan Cravitz,

and Anne Dorothee Boehme.

Two early Bird & Bull titles inscribed by Lessing Ros enw ald6. (Bird & Bull Press ) Three Erfurt Tales 1497-1498. Translated into English by Dr. Arnold H. Price with an introduc-

tion by Lessing J. Rosenwald . 1962. 62p. iip. 7.5" x 5.25". With black and wh ite reprod uctions of the original w oodcu ts

throughout. Printed on Bird & Bull handmade paper and handset in Post Roman Bold types. Tan cloth boards with

gilt spine title and gilt front cover title. No. 155 of 310 copies. Inscribed and dated by Lessing Rosenwald. Front

endp apers su nned , else fine. Third book pr inted by th e Bird & Bull Press. $600.00

[See Twenty-one Years of Bird & Bull: A3, p.16.]

7. (Bird & Bull Press ) The Fortsas Catalogue. A Facsimile with an Introd uction by Lessing J. Rosenwald. Printed for the

Philobiblon Clu b. North Hills, PA. 1970. 13p. 4p . with tip-ons of facsimile.12" x 9.5". Small sew n 12p. facsimile of cat-

alogue inserted into pocket on rear board. Brown cloth spine, title in black; brown/ green marbled pap er boards. No.

IV of 25 copies for distr ibution by Mr. Rosenwald , in a tota l edition of 250 copies. Fine. $350.00

Inscribed and dated in green ink by Lessing Rosenwald as Grampsto grandchildren.

Second book printed by the Bird & Bull Press for others [See Twenty-one Years of Bird & Bull: B2, p.78.]

8. (Bird & Bul l Press)Henk Voorn to Henry Morris: Selected Correspondence June 1967-July 1981. Newtown, PA. 2003. 16

color illustrations tipped in, plus vignettes in red and a drawing of Voorn. 56p. 8" x 11". Printed in Garamond on

Zerka ll mould made p aper. Boun d in d eep red Japanese cloth in black cloth slipcase. No. 36 of 150 copies. Fine.$200.00

"Leonard Schlosser considered Henk Voorn to be the leading paper historian of his time, and Voorns name is well

known to all those interested in p aperm aking history. The earlier letters include p ersonal details and m uch informa-

tion concerning the planning and publication of Old Ream Wrappers (1969), ... first trip to the U.S. ... trips to IPH

Congresses ... and matters d ealing w ith pap ermaking h istory." - Prospectus.

9. (William Blake) The Art of William Blake - Bi-Centennial Exhibition. October 18th - December 1st, 1957. National Gallery

of Art. Smithsonian Institution . Washington. 1957. 45p. Bibliograph y. 10" x 7.5". Illustr ated color wrapp ers w ith title.

Essay by Elizabeth Mongan. Very good. $15.00

Four Trianon Press Blake facsimiles from the Rosenwald family collection

10. (William Blake) The Book of A hania. By William Blake. Facsimile produ ced and p ublished by the Trianon Press forthe William Blake Trus t. London . 1973. 6 plates. 8p. commen tary by Geoffrey Keynes w ith an other plate. 11.25" x 9.25".

Plates reproduced in Par is in the workshop s of the Trianon Press by the collotype and hand -stencil process. Black

leather spine w ith gilt title, blue marbled pap er boards. Matching blue m arbled p aper slipcase. No. 417 in an edition

of 808 copies. Fine. $325.00

11. (William Blake) The Song of Los. By

William Blake. Facsimile published by

The Trianon Press for the William Blake

Trust. London. 1975. 7 plates. 5p. com-

mentary by Geoffrey Keynes with an other

plate. 13" x 9.75". Plates reproduced in

Paris in the workshops of the Trianon

Press by the collotype and hand-stencil

process. Brown leather spine with gilttitle, brown marbled paper boards.

Matching brown marbled paper slipcase.

No. 274 in an edition of 400 copies thus in

a total edition of 458. Spine very slightly

sunn ed, else fine. $550.00

There is much color printing to these

plates and the book is a great technical

achievement.

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12. (William Blake) All Religions are

On e. Facsimile published by The

Trianon Press for the William Blake

Trust. London. 1970. Ten plates, 5p.

commentary by Geoffrey Keynes.

Plates reproduced in Paris in the

workshop s of the Trianon Press by

the collotype, with some water-colorwashes add ed by hand . Green leather

spine with gilt title, green marbled

paper boards. Matching green mar-

bled paper slipcase. No. 541 of 600

thu s, in an edition of 662 copies.

Spine sunned, else fine. $250.00

13. (William Blake) Milton: A Poem.

By William Blake. [A facsimile pu b-

lished by The Trianon Press for The

William Blake Trust. London. 1967.]

50 leaves of the facsimile. 9 leaves of

Description and Bibliographical Des-

cription by Geoffrey Keynes. 11" x 9". Printed on Arches rag paper made tomatch the pap er used by Blake. Each page is w atermarked with Blakes monogra m. Brown leather spine with gilt title,

brown marbled pap er boards. Matching brown marbled pap er board slipcase. No. 252 of 380 copies thus in a total edi-

tion of 426. Slight sun ning to sp ine, else fine. Inscribed by Edith and LessingRosenwald in green ink on the front

free endp aper. $950.0

14. (Bookbinding) The Anthony Dowd Collection of Modern Bindings. Compiled by Anthony Dowd w ith a Foreword by

Allen Freer. The John Ryland s Un iversity Librar y of Manchester. [2002.] 187p. 10" x 8.5". Full color catalogu e w ith fu ll

details of each binding with comm ents. Special ed ition bound in quarter red mo rocco, gilt title on spine. White cloth

boards with gilt Rylands Library device on front. White cloth slipcase. One in an edition of 100 specially hardbound

copies, signed an d n um bered by Anthony Dowd . Fine. A superb catalogue, giving enlargement details of many of the

bindings. $250.00

The Deluxe copy with a separate portfolio of original prints

15. (Lewis Carroll) The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony in Eight Fits. ByLewis Carroll. With Nine Illustrations by Henry Holiday. Macmillan

Publishers Limited. London. 1993. A Limited Edition printed from the

original wood blocks by Ian Mortimer. Introduction by Dr. Selwyn

Goodacre. 41p. 10.25" x 7.25". Text pr inted letterpress by I.M. Imprim it on

acid-free Zerkall mould-made paper. Red morocco with title in gilt on

spine. Includ es a separate portfolio of all the engravings bound w ith red

spine and gray Fabriano boards. Board slipcase of gray paper with red

cloth trim. No. 6 of 55 Deluxe copies, signed by Alexander Stockton and

Ian Mor timer, in a tota l edition of 430 copies. Fine. $1500.00Note: The original wood blocks for the printing of the illustrations were used for

the first time. The original blocks are in the Osborne Children's Collection in

Toronto and have been borrowed for this special printing. Ian Mortimer of I.M.

Imprimit is a superb printer and the qu ality of the illustrations is exceptional.

16. (Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson) The Journals of Thomas James

Cobden-Sanderson 1879-1922. [Published by] Richard Cobden-Sanderson.

London . 1926. Printed at the University Press, Cam bridge. 10" x 7". 2 vol.

340p, 437p. Black buckram board s with gilt title on spine. Edition of 1050

copies of which 1000 are numbered an for sale in Great Britain and

America, this being No. 405. Comp liments Slip of R. Cobden-Sander son

laid in with hand-written comment. Chipped photograph of Annie

Cobden-Sanderson, dated September 13 1925 laid in, as well as a photo-

graph of Stella Cobden-Sanderson. Slight offset on f.f.e. Dust jackets chipped with brow ned spines. Very good.

$350.00

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17. (Laura Davidson) Florence. Artists tunnel book by Laura Davidson.

[Boston. MA] 4.75" x 6.75". The images were painted on Muirheads Blue

Guides and Baedeker s travel guide p ages published in the 1920s. Images

were painted directly on guidebook pages, then offset printed an d bou nd

by hand. An edition of 500 signed copies. Fine. $35.00This charming tunnel book shows a view of the city of Florence from the steps of

the church of San Miniato al Monte. It is the first in a series of books that incorpo-

rates old travel guidebooks and m aps. Tunnel books date back to early peep showboxes from the 1600s. They held cutout cardboard panels to create many religious,

historical and mythical scenes. Davidson w rites that she chose this format to repro-

du ce an effect of real distance and space. "I have been buying old travel guidebooks

abou t Italy since I first visited there nea rly 20 years ago . In these books I have foun d

hand written itineraries, postage stamps, ticket stubs and restaurant receipts. They

represent the desire to travel, and the love that I have for Italian art, architect and

culture." - Davidson.

18. (Laura Davidson) Tunnel Vision. A handm ade 3-D book by Laura

Davidson. [Boston.] 2001. 4.375"x 7". Xeroxed images. A view of the Big

Dig in Boston from the artists studio window on the corner of "A" and

Wormw ood Streets in Boston. Signed an d dated by Laura David son. Fine.

A charming little tunnel book at a very good price. $35.00

19. (Laura Davidson) Fort Point Flora & Fauna. Artists book by Laura

Davidson. Boston. 2003. Accordion fold. 5" x 4". Printed in color on thinglossy card. Illustrations on one side, and details printed on the back. One

in an ed ition of 500 signed copies. New. $28.00

Davidson states: "At first glance, Bostons Fort Point is a gritty, urban

industrial neighborhood. Its inhabitants are m ainly artists who u se the loft

spaces for stud ios and postal workers w ho park here. There is a tiny new

park but, until recently, the only grass has been temp orary art installa-

tions of sod on bridges and benches. ... The pages of this book show

recent sightings, both common and unu sual.

20. (Isak Dinesen) Out of Africa. Random Hou se. New York. [1938.]

First U.S. edition. Black cloth sp ine with gilt title label and decorat ion,

tan cloth boards with illustration of flamingo at bottom right. Minor

wear to top and bottom of unclipp ed d ust jacket spine with .5 tear at

bottom of back; usual browned spine. Endpapers browned at spine.Very good . $300.00

Four fine examples of work from The Doves Press

21. (Doves Press) The Tragedy of Coriolanus. By William Shakespeare.

Ham mersmith . 1914. 155(1)p. 9.25" x 6.75". Printed in black w ith red by

T.J. Cobden -Sand erson from th e Text of the First Folio, first imp rinted in

1623. Bound in cream vellum with title in gilt on spine; binding stamped 'The Doves

Bindery' on inside back doublure. 200 copies on paper. [Tomkinson : 41] Fine. $675.00

22. (Doves Press) Paradise Lost: A Poem in XII books: the author John Milton. Hammersmith.

1902. 386(1)p, 9.25" x 6.75". Printed by T.J.Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker in black

with red. Limp vellum binding with gilt spine title, stamped 'The Doves Bindery' on back

doublure. 300 copies on paper. Hand-written letter dated 3.29.4 giving advice on how to

read the poetry laid in. Offset from removed bookplate on front doublure and free endpa-per. Foxing in last signature as usual, else very good.

Together with: Paradise Regain' d. A Poem in IV books to which are added Samson A gonistes &

Poems both En glish and Latin compos' d on several occasions: the A ut hor John M ilton .

Hammersmith. 1905. 343p. 9.25" x 6.75". Printed by T.J.Cobden-Sanderson and Emery

Walker in black with red. The Greek type used for this edition was designed by Selwyn

Image. Limp vellum binding w ith gilt spine title, stamped 'The Doves Bindery' on back dou-

blure. 300 copies on paper. Offset from removed bookplate on front doublure, slight foxing

to some pages as u sual, else very good. [Tomkinson : 5, 7]

The set in a new brown cloth d ouble slipcase; outer slipcase with leather title on spine.

$2,000.00

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23. (Doves Press) Areopagitica. A Speech by Mr. John Milton for The Liberty of

Unlicenc'd Printing, to The Parliament of England. Printed at The Doves Press by

T.J.Cobden-Sand erson and Emery Walker. Hamm ersmith. 1907. 73(1)p. 9.25" x

6.75". Original limp vellum with gilt title on spine; Doves Bindery stamp at bottom

of back doublure. 300 copies on paper. New brown cloth board slipcase. Fine.

[Tompkinson: 12] $900.00

24. (Doves Press)Note on a passage in Shelley's' Ode to Liberty '. Doves Press. 1914. 6p .

9.5" x 6.5". Original wr appers covered with new pap er wr appers and slipcase with

title on sp ine. Edition of abou t 300 copies. Very good . [Ransom: 42, p.253] $150.00

25. (William Dugdale) The Antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated; From Records,

Leiger-Books, M anuscripts, Charters, Evidences, Tombes, and Armes: Beautified With

Maps, Prospects, and Portraitures. By William Dugdale. Printed by Thomas Warren.

London . 1656. [16]826 [14]p.; 25 leaves of p lates illustra ting coats of arm s, genealog-

ical tables, maps, plans, ports. 13" x 9". Rebacked. Later brown leather decorated

boards. Marbled endp apers. Bookplate. Two sm aller pages tipp ed in, one giving list

of plates, by a previous owner, as well as two signatures of an earlier own er. Laid in

is a booklet, Warw ick Castle: A brief accoun t of the Earls of Warw ick, together with

a description of the Castle and some of the more notable works of art therein.

Pub lished by The Warw ick Castle Estate Office. 1953. $900.00

26. (Essex House) The Deserted Village. By Oliver Goldsmith. Campden. Gloucestershire. 1904.

22p. 7.625" x 5". Printed un der th e care of C.R. Ashbee and fron tispiece by him hand colored.Colophon page illustration hand colored. Printed on vellum in black with illuminated gold 'S'

at start of poem . Other verse initials in red, blue and green illuminated by hand by Miss

Kingsford and Miss Power. Cream vellum over boards, gilt title on sp ine and decoration in relief

on front cover. New cream cloth slipcase. No. 149 of 150 copies, all on vellum. Near fine.

[Ransom: 51, p.268] $825.00

27. (Fanfrolico Press) The Works of Cyril Tourneur. Edited by Allardyce Nicoll. With Decoration

by Frederick Carter. London . (1929.) 344p. 10.25" x 8". Printed on Pannekoek mould -mad e paper.

Green cloth spine with gilt spine title and gilt decoration on front cover. t.e.g. Deckle edges. No.

218 in an edition of 750 numbered copies. Both free endpapers slightly darkened; a very good

copy of the works of an Elizabethan d ramatist and poet. $250.00

28. (Robert Frost) West-Running Brook. Henry H olt and Comp any. New York. [1928.] First Editio n, First State, with-

out First Edition statement on copyright page. Printed at The Plimpton Press. Mass. 64p. 8.75 x 5.75. Black and

wh ite frontispiece, plu s three full-page illustrat ions by J.J. Lenke. Green cloth spine w ith gilt title, dark green Fabriano

board s with gilt illustration recessed on front board . Bookplate. Small booksellers label at base of back endp age. Spine

edges and corners slightly worn. Small owner s signature on ffe. Page edges slightly d arkened. One line w ith pencil

un der lining. No du st jacket. [Crane A10.] A nice copy. $65.00

29. (Golden Cockerel Press) The Trve Historie of Lvcian the Samosatenian . Translated from the Greek into English by

Francis Hickes with an Introduction by J.S. Phillimore M.A. LL.D together with the Greek and decorated with Wood

Engrav ings by Robert Gibbings. [Waltham Saint Lawren ce.] 1927. 44p. 12.75" x 9". The Greek was set w ith th e assis-

tance of the Oxford Un iversity Press from the Jacobitz edition of 1852; English from the first edition of 1634. Printed

by Gibbings on English hand mad e pap er. Quarter bou nd by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in brow n m orocco and linen over

board s. Spine with 5 raised ba nd s and title in gilt. T.e.g. No. 56 in an ed ition of 275 copies. With the Bookplate o f The

Golden Cockerel Press. Minor rubbing to spine, corners bumped, but still a very nice copy. [Chanticleer: 53] $750.00

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30. (FlugBlatt-Presse)Monochrome Bcher 1-6. Six artists books by Peter Malutzki. [Lahnstein 1993-95.] Illustra tions

are printed with polymer-plates, woodblock (No. 1), linocut (No. 4). Box - 13.5" x 10". All texts are handset with the

Bauer Bodoni. Each of the six volumes has its own size and all fit in a gray cardboard box, with title in relief on lid.

One of 50 sets, num bered and signed by Malutzki. Fine. $1100.00

No. 1: schwarz. 40p. 6.25" x 6.25". Printed black onto black kraftpaper, with black card boards with title and wood

engraving.

Text passage from Konrad Bayers Der Kopf d es Vitus Bering d ealing w ith the qu estion 'w here is the w orld (our

planet) situated. A wood engraving from the 19th centur y (showing a roun d p iece of an old machine) is printed on

every page, rotated by 30 degrees from p age to page. So the tool becomes a rotating p lanet. It is orbited by the typog-

raph y in opp osite direction.

No . 2: rot. Tatjana Tolstaja, "Saen au f golden en Stufen ..." 4p. 9.5" x 6.25". Printed red onto red kraftpaper. Red deco-

rated and titled p aper board covers. The collage illustrations (running over all pages) are mad e up of pictures from

magazines and newsp apers showing p eople and places in Russia. The Russian author w rites about her childhood in

Russia.

No . 3: grn. Poems about the four season s by Friedr ich Hlderlin. 96p. 8" x 6.5". Poems are prin ted onto a background

of leaves. Original leaves of four different trees (maple, ash, beech, oak) were used. They are printed green onto green

kraft paper.Green pr inted pap er over board with title and leaf illustrations all in green.

No. 4: gelb, isch. 48p. 13" x 9". . Printed yellow onto yellow kraft paper. Thin card covers with title and thick yellow

line across card. The volume takes rhym es with th e ending isch out of a German rhyming dictionary (Willy Steputat,

Deutsches Reimlexikon, Leipzig 1896) and set it in relation to colored sp aces printed with linocu ts. Cut-out sheets ad d

to the complexity of the design.

No . 5: blau - Eduard Mrike, Die Historie von der schnen Lau . 60p. With 17 illustrations. 9.75" x 7.125". Und erw ater

photograp hs by Malutzki. Printed blue onto blue kraft paper; with shaded blue paper board s, title on front and spine.

Bound by Ines v. Ketelhodt. Mrike is one of Germanys greatest lyric poets of the 19th century. His story tells about

a watern ymp h (the beautiful Lau) who could n ot get pregnant because she never laughed. Once she had laugh ed five

times, then she wou ld become pregnan t.

No. 6; wei. [Poems by] Rafael Alberti, Blanco/ Wei. 76p. 6.875" x 9.5". Printed wh ite onto wh ite w axpap er. Title in

white on translucent wax paper over thin board. 33

poems abou t the color wh ite (from the cycle A la pintu-

ra) in the Spanish original with a German translation.

The translucence of the paper allows the n ext page to be

viewed as though in shad ow.

This series of six monochrome books by Peter Malutzki

follows (concerning the chosen colors) the theory of col-

ors by Goethe who takes green also as a primary color

like red, yellow, and blue. They are put between the black

and white books.

A wonderful typographic feat! Peter Malutzki can do

impeccable letterpress pr inting on any kind of paper!

31. (Fleece Press) Leon Underwood: His Wood-engravings.

With an introduction by George Tute. Wakefield. 1986.

With the frontispiece Yucatas. n.p. 13.5" x 10.5". Title

page in red and black. Printed one side on ly on Barcham

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Green Sandwich paper. Green cloth spine, green

pastepap er over boards. Green cloth d rop-back box. One

of 188 thus in an edition of 200 copies. Fine. $375.00

32. (Fulcrum Press) Sonnets to Orpheus: Orpheus.

Eurydice, Hermes. [By] Rainer Maria Rilke. Translated

from the German by Patr icia Holburd H eidenheimer.

NC. MMI. Collagraph images hand-printed by PatriciaHolbu rd Heid enheim er. Accordion fold. 14" x 5.75". Text

letterpress-printed in Monotype Bembo Semibold by

Maureen Cum mins onto Hiromi Shiramine. Collagraphs

in pu rple overlaid with w hite to allow the black printed

text to be clearly visible. The text above the flowing illus-

tration is in grey. Grey endpapers and spine, with the

final fold easily movable out of a slot on the back board,

enabling the book to be viewed in one continuous piece.

Dark blue cloth boards w ith a repeat of the collagraph in

lighter blue along the top of the front board. Matching

blue slipcase with title on spine and profile illustration

on the front. Edition of 25 copies, signed by Heidenheimer. Fine. $800.00The sonnets included fromDie Sonette an Orpheus are Par t I: 1-11, 14, 26 and Par t II: 13, 29.

"Poetry goes through the ear. In these translations of selected poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, both sound and flow, no less than fideli-ty to the sense of the original German, is a central focus. Fifteen of the p oems are d rawn from the Sonnets to Orpheu s, written toward

the end of Rilkes lifework. Accompan ying them is the narra tive poem Orpheu s, Eurydice, Hermes from an earlier life period. The

sonnets and narrative connect in spirit with one another, affording greater illumination an d depth of feeling to each.

The connection between sonnet and narrative is further enhan ced by the books ph ysical format and imagery. Below is the da rk wine-

colored landscape of the Underw orld w here Eurydice is "already root", even as Orp heus attem pts to lead her back into life. The path

they and her escort, Hermes, follow through the Und erworld bears the legend of their journey. Floating like clouds above this land-

scape are the sonnets add ressed to Orpheu s, inhabitant of the "dual kingdoms" of life and death. A panoram ic view of the total land-

scape is afforded by book pages which can be either opened out or turn ed. " - Holburd H eidenheimer. A wond erful translation of

Rilkes great poetry.

33. (Gehenna Press) Titus Andronicus. [By] William Shakespeare. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin. Northampton, MA.

1973.] 12 etchings and 16 wood engravings. Unpaginated (131)p. 20" X 13.5". Printed on Gehenna-Shakespeare, a

paper made for the edition at the Strathmore mills. Etchings printed by Emiliano Sorini at the Bank Street Atelier.

Wood engravings, from the block, and the letterpress in Centaur types, printed by Harold McGrath. Bound in textured

cream linen with a sm all red leather title label on the spine. One in an edition of 250 copies of the regular edition, num-bered and signed by Leonard Baskin. Fine. $1000.00Volume One of the Gehenna Shakespeare Series. Text based on the Methuen Arden edition. The Gehenna Press The Work of Fifty Years

(1992) # 74; pp. 88-89. Bibliography states in p art: " [...] Add itional copies w ere later bo un d b y Gray Parrot in full cloth. The 150 spe-

cial copies referred to in th e colophon w ere never issu ed, but Kenn edy Ga lleries, New York, issued a n ed ition of 200 special portfo-

lios; these consisted of loose signatures & a second signed suite of the etchings laid into a cloth covered portfolio [...] The etchings

were not printed by Sorini, but by Bruce Chandler, Herb Fox, & others."

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34. (Eric Gill) Troilus and Crisyde. A Love Poem in Five books. Englished Anew by George Philip Krapp. with wood

Engrav ings by Eric Gill. Literary Guild . New York. 1932. {Random H ouse.] 309p. 9.5 x 7. Cream pap er sp ine; blue

cloth boards with gilt decorative device on bottom right. Bookplate. Spine darkened, some light marks to boards;

slight fading to end pap ers, internally fine. No d ust jacket. $25.00

35. (Eric Gill) The Life of Eric Gill. By Robert Speaigh t. P.J. Kened y & Sons. New York . [1966. First Edition.] 323p.

includ ing Ind ex. 9.5" x 6.25". Photog rap hs an d illustrations. Black cloth. Price clipp ed du st jacket. Very good . $17.50

36. (Mary Heebner) Full Lotus. Artists

book with text and illustrations by Mary

Heebner. [Santa Barbara.] 2003.

Accordion fold. 5" x 5.25".

Reproduced from two-sided sketches

with an Epson 7600 printer, using Ultra

Chrome archival ink pigments. After

printing, the artist hand touched all

prints with watercolor and graphite.

Two accordion folded panels of the

paintings and sketches printed on

Somerset Photo Enhanced Velvet 100%

rag paper, plus an accordion folded

booklet of journal n otes and images that

are printed letterpress on handmade Bhutanese Daphne paper. Booklet printed at Lumino Press, Santa Barbara.

Sections held together w ith a gray p aper ban d w ith the impr int of the title, artists signature, and d ate, as well as the

press logo and edition num ber. Laid in a black card slipcase with black and sepia illustration on th e side. One in an

edition of 50 signed cop ies. Fine. $550.00Based on sketches Heebner did at the ruins of Ayutthaya, Thailand, in August, 2002. "The lotus figures in many religions as a sym-

bol of purity, harm ony, beauty, longevity, and the transcendent nature of hum anity." - Text. The prints are intended to stand as

sculpture.

The first illustrated edition.

37. (James Hilton) Good-bye Mr. Chips. By James Hilton. Illustra tions by H .M. Brock. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book.

Little, Brow n an d Comp any. 1935. 132p. 8.5" x 6". BIRTHDAY EDITION: pr inted on all-rag p aper from th e plates of

the new Illustrated Edition and bou nd w ith vellum spine with gilt title and brown pap er boards. Glassine wrapp ers.

Dust jacket. Slipcase. No. 357 of 600 numbered copies, signed by both the author and the artist. Bookplate. Top of

slipcase and spine browned . Discoloration at joint of front and back pastedown s and free endpap ers, but generally a

near fine copy with the original glassine wrap pers. $275.00

38. (Linda Hoffman) Winter Air: A Journal. Text and prints by Linda Hoffman. 2001. Nine archival digital prints by

Linda Hoffman. Printed letterpress in Monotype Bembo on Cave paper of 100% flax. Text printed at Wolfe Editions,

Maine. Twenty loose folded sheets with text and images laid in a cream double thickness paper folder with a d eco-

rative blue strip down the front. Matching cream drop-back box with blue paper strip incorporating silver title on

spine m ade by Praxis Binder y. One in an edition of 200 copies signed by Linda H offman. Fine. $500.00This book is a journal Hoffman "began one winter when [she]

walked da ily on an uninhabited island in the middle of the Nashua

River. [Her] mother, a well-known anthropologist, was fighting

cancer that year and [she] began to add the intertwining nature of

our lives into the journal. In particular, [she] moved from [her]

island on the N ashua River to the Trobri and Islands in Papu a, New

Guinea where [she lived with her [mother] while she was doing

fieldwork."

Linda Hoffmans mother started her academic career late in life;she taught at several universities, advancing her positions con-

stantly until her became th e Dean of the Gradu ate School of Arts

and Science at New York Univer sity. Here she h eld the David B.

Kriser Distinguished Professorship in Anthropology from 1984

until her d eath in 1997. Her pu blications were m any, as were h er

honors, including receiving the American Anthropological

Associations distinguished Service Award.

Not only are the images v ery beautiful, but the text is simple and

straightforward, moving as only good prose or poetry can be, in

this wonderful journey of tribute to an outstanding woman and

scholar - Hoffmans mother.

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39. (Janus Press)Rise: Governors Bay Sept/Nov 2000. [Poem] by Alan Loney. Newark. Vermont. 2003. 16p. 6" x 7.25".

Photograph of Governors Bay in New Zealand was taken by Claire Van Vliet, prepared in Photoshop and p rinted on

Hahnemhle Digital paper. Text handset in Trump Mediaeval printed on Barcham Greens Chatham, with their

Renaissance II used for the binding strips. Pages open on opposite sides alternatively with two open sewn spines.

Transparen t brown pap er front wrapp er allows the title to show through. Beige non-adhesive cover wrap pers with

title in silver on front. Head and tail flaps slip in at th e back behind th e digital image. Laid in a gray p aper slipcase

with silver title against beige paper spine label. One in an edition of 150 numbered copies. Fine. $150.00An exciting new book structure by Claire Van Vliet. The poet has ind icated a sequence for the poem with pa ge num bers - although

the poem can be read at random.

The creative and colorful po p-ups of Paul Johns on

40. (Paul Johnson) Small unique book. Artists book by Pau l Johnson. [Manchester. 2003.] 3.5" x 2". Han d-painted book

designed and mad e by Paul Johnson. Hand assembled with painted p aper over boards. Black card slipcase with paint-

ed cord. Signed by Johnson. Fine. Prices vary - $35.00-$45.00Paul Johnson, the British artist, writer, researcher and book artist trav-

els around the world d ividing his time between researching the book

arts in education, running the Book Art Project in England and pro-

ducing his own work. His published work includes: A Book of One's

Own, 1993; Pop-up Paper Engineering, 1992; Literacy Through the Book

Arts, 1993; and Books Searching for A uthors, 1994. [See Pau l Johnson's

article, The movable, three-dimensional, multi-experimental Book, in The

New Bookbinder, Vol. 16, 1996.]

His personal work em braces the areas of paper sculpture, paper envi-

ronments, books and p aper furniture. He has exhibited at major one-

man and group exhibitions of work in paper in England, Europe and

Japan. He w as elected to the Crafts Council index of selected m akers in

1989 and in the same year profiled on BBC TV's 'Handmade' series on

British Crafts. Johnson's work is in public and private collections inter-

nationally.

Johnson thinks of his books as 'interior architecture' - because they can be op ened u p an d experienced as th ree-dimensional forms.

He feels that pap er is by far the m ost versatile of all art materials. His use of a brilliant and glowing color palette makes his w ork a

visual treat.

41. (Paul Johnson) The Tree House of Time. Pop-u p book by Pau l Johnson. [Manchester. 2003.] 7.5 x 9.75 Han d-paint-

ed pop -up book designed and m ade by Paul Johnson. Laser printed on mou ldmad e 90lb Hahnem uhle Aquarell. Hand

assembled and hand bound on mould-made hand dyed red Waterford paper over board. Maroon spine. Edition 1.

One in a first edition of 10 signed copies. Fine. $195.00

42. (Paul Johnson) Sailing to the Dance of Day. Pop-up book by Paul

Johnson. [Manchester. 2003.] 7 x 9.5 Hand-painted pop-up book

designed and made by Paul Johnson. Laser printed on mouldmade 90lb

Hahnemuh le Aquarell. Hand assembled and hand bound on mould-made

hand dyed red Waterford pap er over board. Maroon spine. Edition 1. One

in a first ed ition of 10 signed copies. Fine. $175.00

43. (Paul Johnson) Dreaming of Flying. Pop-up book by Paul Johnson.

[Manchester. 2003.] 2.75" x 2". Hand-painted pop-up book designed and

made by Paul Johnson. Laser printed on mouldmade 90lb Hahnemhle

Aquarell. Hand assembled with painted wrappers. Slipcase. Edition 1.

One in a first edition of 20 signed copies. Fine. $25.00

44. (Paul Johnson) Silently, the Earths Heart W atches. Pop-up book by Paul

Johnson. [Manchester. 2003.] 3.5" x 2". Hand -painted pop -up book d esigned and made by Paul Johnson. Laser pr int-

ed on m ouldm ade 90lb Hahn emh le Aquarell. Hand assembled with pa inted wrap pers. Slipcase. Edition 1. A firstedition of 20 signed cop ies. Fine. $20.00

45. (Nikos Kazantzakis)Zorba the Greek. Translated by Carl Wildman . Simon and Schu ster. New York. 1953. First U.S.

edition. Green cloth spine w ith black title label, yellow pap er boards. Bright dust jacket with minor wear to top and

tail of spine, else very good. $200.00

The American edition has a different translation to the British edition.

46. (Ines v. Ketelhodt) Variation 2. Artists book by Ines v. Ketelhod t. [Unica T. Oberu rsel. 1993.] Black & wh ite ph o-

tograp hs. 32p. 6" x 5.5". Phototype-set, handset, offset and letterpress in cream, black, and gr ay on w hite. Images pr int-

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ed onto opaque and transparent offset material with 24

Cicero wood en typ e letters in letterpress. Bound with thick

card and covered with printed transparent paper. One of

100 signed copies. Fine. $95.00The originals are prints from the book project "architektur /

baukun st" with the quote from Le Corbusier. Although the w hite

typeface is format-filling in size, the effect is light and translucent.

The length of the quote d etermines the num ber of pages.

47. (Ines v. Ketelhodt) Variation 3. Artists book by Ines v.

Ketelhodt. [Oberursel. 1994.] Black & white photograph by

v. Ketelhodt. 44p. 10.75" x 4.375". Phototype-set, hand set,

offset and letterpress. Printed in 10 Cicero wooden type let-

ters in letterpress onto the offset material. In their wide

expanses of black, the text blocks cover the p ages to the ed ge, barring from view the p rint-

ed backdrop. Black cloth spine, linen board flush-cover with image and title printed by off-

set and letterpress. One of 45 numbered an d signed copies. Fine. $95.00A passage from th e text of Marguerite Duras. The originals are prints from the book p roject Atlantik

Mann. The nar row format of the book only permits three or four of the large wood letters per line, so

that words are separated into parts (not syllables). Reading becomes more difficult.

48. (Ines v. Ketelhodt) Friederika Mayrcker - Brancusi"D er Kusz" (Kalkstein): Goethe - Meine

Ruh ist hin. Artists book by Ines v. Ketelhod t. [Oberu rsel.] 1994. Accordion fold book . 15.5"

x 5.75". 20 black-and-white photographs printed from polymer-clichs. Handset with three-

colored letterpress and printed in red and silver Palatino on one side. Light gray cloth

boards, each with the a different title. In a black paper-covered slipcase with a lid; red deco-

rative double triangle on one side and a gray on the other, which can be turned so that it

seems to be a 'meeting of the triangles - or lips, following the idea of Brancusis 'The Kiss.

One of 50 copies, signed by the a rtist. Fine. Last copy. $450.00"The background is composed of 20 photographs of kissing scenes out of Hollywood films, taken from

a television screen. Their arrangement in the form of a concertina is suggestive of a film strip. Guiseppe

Tornatores film Cinema Paradiso provided the inspiration. The idea for the slipcase with lid

came from Brancusis sculpture The Kiss. "The Mayrcker text and the quote from Goethes

Faust are m ounted in opposite directions, each beginning at the opp osite end s of the book; i.e.

each text begins where the other one end s. To read Goethes text the book should be held hor-

izontally. - Ines v. Ketelhod t.

Already in the collections of The Rochester Institute of Technology, The Un iversity of Alberta atEdm onton, The Arth ur & Mata Jaffe Collection at Florida Atlan tic University, Boca Raton, the

Jack Ginsberg Collection, Johannesbu rg, and the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC.

49. (Library of Congress) The Dance of Death Prin ted at Paris in 1490. A Reproduction

made from the copy in the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress.

Printed by the United States

Government Printing Office,

Washington, D.C., and published

by the Rare Books Division of the

Library of Congress. [1945.] x,(1)p.,

16 leaves. 12" x 9". 24 black and

white woodcuts. Cream paper

board s, gilt spine title. Grey cloth

chemise and slipcase. An edition of

200 copies. Slipcase faded, elsefine. $150.00

A facsimile of one of only 6 copies

of the book still in existence.

50. (Library of Congress) Le

Chevalier Dlibr. By Olivier De La

Marche. Print ed a t Par is in 1488. A

reproduction made from the copy

in the Lessing J. Rosenwald

Collection, Library of Congress.

1946. Second Printing. xix, n.p. Cream cloth spine with gilt title, blue cloth boards.

Fine. $15.00

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51. (Library of Congress) The 19th Book Tesoro De Poveri. Lessing J. Rosenwald . Published for the Library of Congress.

1961. 123p. 10.25" x 7". Plates of rep rodu ctions. Tan cloth board s, with brow n sp ine. Fine. A textual stu dy of a 15th cen-

tury Florentine work. Fine. $25.00

52. (Nancy Lev-Alexander)Heaven on Earth: Explorations into the Wilderness Set Forth by John Muir. Wood engravings

by Charles D. Jones. Press Intermezzo. Austin. Texas. 1998. 141p, 8" x 6.25". Printed by Randolph Bertin of Press

Interm ezzo. One in an ed ition of 30 un-nu mbered copies. Drop-back box. Exhibition catalogue laid in. Fine. $1,500.00

Unique binding by Nancy Lev-Alexander and signed by her on free back endpap er. Tan goat spine an d corner tips.

Sides covered with stained wood veneer ad hered to painted mar bled paper to form a design of trees. Painted grass

paper doublures. Endleaves made with toned Japanesetissue. Sewn on linen tapes laced into boards. Cream and

brown silk head bands sewn on linen core. Box and spine label are on toned Japanese tissue, with brow n silk cloth

spine. Lettering label painted w ith metallic gouache by bind er. A fine binding wh ich beau tifully complements the con-

tents of this book.

Limited Editions Club - 1933-1935

53. Quarto-Millenary: The First 250 Publications and the First 25 years 1929-1954 of the Limited Editions Club. A Critique; a

Conspectus; a Bibliography; Indexes. The Limited Editions Club. New York. 1959. 295p. 12.5" x 9.75'. Illustrated in

color and black and white throu ghout. Printed on Arches wh ite specially mad e for this edition by th e Curtis PaperCompany. Designed by Robert Lothard. Black leather spine with red leather title label, red cloth boards with circular

black design on front . In a total ed ition of 2250 copies, this is No . 111 of 1500 made for distribu tion to th e mem bers of

The Limited Editions Club. Prospectus and letter from the pu blisher laid in. Spine ends slightly worn , boards lightly

marked , else fine. $175.00

54. The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe. By Longus. Done into English, with an Introduction, by George Moore.

Illustrated with Etchings by Ruth Reeves. New York. 1934. 160p. 11.5" x 8.25". Designed by Port er Garnett an d p rint-

ed under his direction on the handpress at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Hand-set in Lutetia type, revised by Mr.

Garnett (first use) on Bishopstoke handm ade p aper. Bound in full natur al lambskin, gold-stamp ed embossed m edal-

lion, gilt title on spine, and decorative Greek edging

design on front and back. T.e.g. Cream board slipcase. No.

730 in an edition of 1500 copies signed by Ruth Reeves.

Bookplate. A very good copy w ith slight streak marks to

leather and darkening of spine. Good original slipcase col-

ored to tone with binding. $150.00

55. Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus. By Mary

Wollstonecraft Shelley. Printed with An Introduction by

Edmund Lester Pearson and Illustrations by Everett

Henry. New York. 1934. 257p. 10.5" x 7.5". Printed at the

Walpole Printing Office to a design by Frederic W.

Goudy, set by hand by Bertha M. Goudy in Goethe type

designed by Mr. Goudy (first use) on Worthy special

paper. Red leather spine with gilt title and decoration,

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striped patterned cloth boards. Slipcase. No. 730 in an edition of 1500 copies signed by Everett Henry. Bookplate.

Slight darkening at pasted own joints, spine leather w ith some scuffing. Slipcase with faded sp ine and top, slight w ear

and paint mar k at edges. Generally very good. $150.00

56. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer rendered into modern English verse by Frank Ernest Hill. Printed for TheLimited Editions Club. London. 1934. 2 vol. 330p. 331-670p. 12.5" x 8". Desig ned, printed and bound by G eorge W.

Jones at The Sign of The Dolphin, London. Printed in Linotype Granjon designed by Jones on Malling Mills special

pap er. The frontispiece is a rep roduction of the Framp ton m arble bust of Chaucer in th e Guildhall Library, from a p en-

cil draw ing by Dorothy Woollard. The Chau cer Signature is re-cut from the only one know n, wh ich is in The Public

Record O ffice, London . Cream bu ckram board s with black title, grey pap er boards with h eraldic device of Chaucer's

arm s in color. Slipcase. No. 730 in an ed ition of 1500 copies, signed by George W. Jones. Bookplates. Slipcase lightly

marked and worn at top of spine; book spines slightly browned, else fine. A lovely set. $250.00

" Those who w ant to read [Chaucer] in a m odern translation will find h im m ost exciting in this tran slation, I think,

over which Mr. Hill slaved for years - at great expense to himself and to this Club." - Macy, Quarto-Millenary , p.246.

57. Typee: A Romance of the South Seas. By H erman Melville. With an Introduction by Raymon d Weaver and Illustrations

by Migu el Covarrubias. N ew York. 1935. 409p. 9.5" x 6.5". Designed by John S. Fass and pr inted at The H arbor Press,

New York. Set in intertype Garam ond on Worthy special paper. Cream tappa pap er boards w ith decorative title on

spine. Slipcase covered in paper design with colors to match book spine. No. 730 of 1500 copies, signed by MiguelCovarrubias. Bookplate. Slipcase spine darkened and with paint m arks. A few small marks on front board, spine d ark-

ened. A near fine copy. $250.00

58. The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. By Laurence Sterns. With an Introduction by Christopher Morley an d

Illustrations by T.M. Cleland. New York. 1935. 2 vols. 401p, 419-790p. 8.5" x 6". Printed at the press of A. Colish, New

York. Designed by T.M. Cleland. Set in monotype Caslon and printed on Worthy special laid paper. Dark blue buck-

ram spine with paper title label, blue patterned paper boards made by Mr. Cleland, who also laid the famous 'mar-

bled p age' directly on the page. Blue p aper board slipcase. T.e. pat terned blue. Bookplate. N o. 730 of 1500 copies,

signed by the designer and illustrator Tom M. Cleland. Fine two volume set in slightly worn slipcase with faded

spine. $275.00"It seems curious that Mr. Cleland sh ould h ave been so famous a s a book-artist despite the fact that this w as his first completely-

illustrated book. And w hat a beau ty it is!" - Macy, Quarto-Millenary , p .247.

59. (Angela Lorenz) Maxims by the yard: Some in meter. Spools of Knowledge. Vol. 1. Artists book by Angela Lorenz.

[Bologna. 2003.] Roll of ribbon. 5.5 in diameter. Roll of red/ pink r ibbon w ith maxims in red on th e pink side of thefabric. Card holder with title in red on on e side and edition num ber in pen cil on the back side. Laid in a thin card box

with a p iece of ribbon, with a ma xim, on the sp ine, knotted on each end. One of 100 copies. Fine. $375.00

Angela Lorenz n ever ceases to amaze and instruct with her clever concepts for her creative bookworks.

60. (Matrix)Matrix 2: Reprint. A Review for Printers and Bibliophiles. The Whittington Press. And oversford . 1986. 11.25"

x 8". Half-tones, wood-engrav ings, tip-ins, diagrams. One of 435 in wrapp ers, total edition of 475 copies. Fine. $250.00

61. (Matrix)Matrix 7: A Review for Printers & Bibliophiles. The Wh ittington Press. And oversford . 1987. 11.25" x 8". H alf-

tones, wood-engravings, tip-ins, diagrams. On e of 850 copies in w rapp ers. Fine. $225.00

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62.Matrix 8:A Review for Printers & Bibliophiles. Winter 1988. Andoversford . One of 800 copies in stiff Vance Gerry pat-

terned p aper card in a tot al edition of 900. Beige wr app ers. Two text pages in facsimile, else fine. (p. 134-135.)$225.00

63.Matrix 10.A Review for Printers & Bibliophiles.The Whittington Press. And oversford . 1990. 11.25 x 8. Half-tones,

wood-engravings, tip-ins, diagrams. Wrappers. One of 820 thus in a total edition of 925 copies. Fine. $210.00

64. (Anton Marc) The Thread of Meaning. Written and illustrated by Anton Marc. Atelier Editions. [Waltham.

Massachu setts. 2000.] Accordion fold. 3.75 x 5. Extend s to 12 feet. Colored photo rep rodu ctions of chairs are linked

by handsewn black thread.Printed offset lithography on archival Mohawk Superfine paper. Handbound by LindaLembke in mottled Japanese pap er over board with recessed wh ite paper title label on front cover. paper slip cover.

Edition of 500 numbered copies. Fine. The threads linking th e chairs dr aw the reader on a lyrical journey . $85.00

65. (Melville Press) The Owl and the Pussycat. By Edward Lear. Artist Cather ine Kanner. Pacific Palisades. 2003.

Accordion fold tu nnel book . 6.25" x 7". Poem on insid e front cover. Printed inkjet with archiva l inks on Somerset Velvet

100% cotton p aper in Weiss type. Designed, p rinted, bound and illustrated by the artist. In an illustrated slipcase of

the same pap er tied with a green ribbon. 75 copies, numbered and signed by Catherine Kanner Fine. $95.00Edward Lears The Owl and the Pussycatwas originally published in 1871 and is, as he described it nonsense, pure and absolute. ...

This edition includes a fragment from an u nfinished sequel to The Ow l and the Pussycat, published posthum ously." - Colophon.

66. (Henry Miller) The Colossus of Maroussi. The Colt Press. San Francisco. 1941. First American edition. 244p.

Bookplate on pastedow n. Slightly dar kened d ust jacket, which has had minor tears an d chips p rofessionally repaired,

lined w ith Japanese tissue to strengthen. Fine. [Shifreen & Jackson: A26b.] $300.00

67. (N. Scott Momaday)House made of Dawn . Harp er & Row, Pub lishers. New York. 1968. First ed ition. Auth or s first

book. Inscribed by the author to the previous owner in ink on the ffe . Price clipped d ust jacket. First issue dust jack-

et inside front flap with 0668 at bottom. 1969 Pulitzer Pr ize Novel overp rinted in black on inside front flap of du st

jacket [presumably on copies not yet sold]. Small tear to dust jacket, else fine. $350.00

The first book of the first Native American writer to w in the Pu litzer Prize.

68. (Mondavi Winery) Soul of the Vine: Wine in Literature. A Selection. Edited by N ina Wemyss. Illustrated by Margrit

Biever. Robert Mondavi Winery. Oakville. 1990. Second edition of 1000

copies printed by Peter Koch. Grey cloth spine, brown p aper board s;

pap er title label on spine and front board. Inscribed to a distinguish ed

book collector and scholar by the illustrator, and w ith a hand colored

illustration on a front free end pap er. Fine. $100.00

69. (Papermaking) From Fiber to Paper. Text and samples by Dianne L.

Reeves. Houston. Texas. 1991. n.p. 7" x 9.5". Designed and printed byW. Thomas Taylor in Austin, Texas. Printed in N ideggan m ouldm ade

paper, with title page calligraphy by Jeff Jeffries. Stab-sewn binding

made from Ogura natural Japanese handmade paper by BookLab in

Aust in. An ed ition of 200 copies. Fine. $175.0030 different sam ples of paper mad e from various na tural fibers such as hibis-

cus, banana, ginger & gladiolus leaves, cornhu sks, rice straw and blue jeans.

Information and basic recipes are given for the making of the p apers, as w ell as

detailed specifications for the making of the 30 different samples shown.

Reeves states: "... this book shou ld serve a s a guid e for all persons interested in

the process of ... handm ade p aper from n atural fibers."

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70. (Perishable Press) The Perishable Press Limited: A Retrospective Exhibition (1964-2003) February 18-April 26, 2003.

Cur ated by Dr. Robert J. Bertholf, Cura tor of The Poetry/ Rare Books Collection, University at Buffalo. Checklist by

Kyle Schlesinger. The Grolier Club. N ew York. 2003. 67p. " x 8". Illustr ated colored w rap pers. Black and wh ite self-por -

trait of Hamady on the colophon page. An edition of 500 copies. Fine. $17.50

71. (Press o f Appletree Alley)Naming the Moons. By Colette Inez . Illustr ations by Florence Putter man. 1994. 52p. 9.5"

x 6.5". Designed and printed by Barnard Taylor. Handset in Spectrum and printed on mouldmade Frankfurt laid

pap er. Original watercolor illustrations rendered into colored linoleum engravings by Colleen Shannon. Plum cloth

spine with gilt title; toning pink p aper board s. One in an ed ition of 125 copies, signed by Inez and Putterman . Num ber

rubbed out and re-written, else fine. $150.00Born in Belgium , Colette Inez emigra ted to the Un ited States just before the outbr eak of World War II. A grad uate of Hu nter College,

she ha s taugh t at many prestigious institutions,also receiving fellowships from the Guggenh eim and Rockefeller Foundations, the

National Endowm ent for the Arts, and other honors. She has p ublished seven books.

Florence Putterman is a m ember of the N ational Association of Women Artists, and h er w ork may be found at the MetropolitanMuseum of New York, the Brooklyn Mu seum, the Ph iladelphia Mu seum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and ma ny other p ublic

and private collections across the United States.

72. (Press of Appletree Alley) The Distance. [By] Bruce Smith. Wood Engraving by Michael McCurdy [Lewisburg.

PA]1996. 45p. 9.625" x 6.5". Handset in Spectrum and printed on Somerset mouldmade; frontispiece printed directly

from the block. Designed, set and printed by Bernard Taylor with assistance. Bound by Don Rash an d Nicolyn Rosen

with black cloth and original red/ black paste p aper over boards, title in silver on sp ine. One in an edition of 125

copies, signed by the poet. Fine. $150.00Bruce Smith w as Poet-in-Residen ce at Bucknell University in 1995. He h as held tea ching app ointmen ts at several un iversities, includ-

ing Farleigh-Dickinson, Harvard and Tufts, and has published three volum es of poetry; his poems have ap peared in various antholo-

gies, such as The Nation, Paris Review, and The Times Literary Supplement.

Michael McCurdy is well known for his illustrations of children's and fine press books, some p ublished by his ow n Penm aen Press

and others in many fine publications. He received his degrees at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and at Tufts.

Bob Baris and his Press on Scroll RoadWe are pleased to introduce the fine printing work of Bob Baris for the first time on these

pages. Besides printing on his beautiful Ostrander Seymour Washington Press, Bob lives

an idyllic pastoral life in the m id-west, raising his sheep and enjoying the hu nt for beau-

tiful texts to print, well away from the hurley-burley of city life. Several fine examples of

his printing are offered below.

73. (Press on Scroll Road)Bookselling by Colin Franklin: A memoir from 1980. [Carrollton.

Ohio.] 1999. 23p. 7.5" x 5.5". Bob Baris designed and composed the book in De Roos typ es.

Printed by Baris and Patric Holland in an iron handpress on deckle-edge Twinrocker

pap er. Green cloth boards w ith paper title label on front and spine. Gray endpap ers. One

in an edition of 145 copies. Fine. $60.00

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74. (Press on Scroll Road) Colin Franklins Beekeeping Diary of Early Su mmer. Engravings by Abigail Rorer. [Carrollton.

Ohio.] 2002. 3 wood engr avings. n.p. 10" x 7.25". Designed an d comp osed in De Roos types an d p rinted on Z erkall

pap er in an iron hand press. Initial letter by Myrlin von Glahn. Illustrations pr inted from the blocks. Carolyn Whitesel

prepared the decorated binding papers. Bound by Campbell Logan with brown cloth spine; honeycomb and bee

tan/ brown d ecorated p aper board s, and p aper title label. An edition of 102 copies. Fine. A delightful book. $140.00

75. (Press on Scroll Road) The Man W ho Created Paradise. A Fable based on true events. [By] Gene Logsdon. Cleveland.

1998. Illustrations by Luz Aveleyra. 54p. 6.25" x 5". Designed and composed in Bembo type, printed on Twinrocker

pap er in an Ostrand er Seymour han d p ress by Bob Baris, with assistance from Frederica Scott and Patrick Holland.

Illustrations printed from photoengravings of line drawings. Bound by Craig Jensen in cream textured cloth with

pap er title label on sp ine. One in an edition of 119 copies. Fine. $65.00

This was the first book printed on Bob Baris own iron hand press, and has since been issued in a trad e edition by Oh io University.

76. (Press on Scroll Road) Thinking Like A Prairie. By Maurice Telleen. With a Foreword by Wendell Berry and

Illustrations by Marv Smith. [Carrollton. Ohio. 2001.] Title page illustration plus 4 full-page botanical illustrations in

green. xii,35p. 9.75" x 6.5" Design, composition & presswork by Bob Baris. Handset in Cloister Lightface type with

Centaur display. Printed on an iron hand press on specially prepared Not Quite White paper made by Twinrocher

Hand mad e Paper. Illustrations printed from photoengravings of line drawings. Bound by the Campbell Logan

Bindery in gray cloth with paper title label on spine. One in an edition of 100 copies. Fine. $100.00

"The essays are a conversation between friends, between reader and author, the former silent but engaged , the latter

a storyteller an d thinker of charm and intelligence. Tellen d isarms w ith his cracker barrel wit and simplicity, and then

slips in a m etaphysical speculation that leaves you gasping to keep u p. ..."Thinking Like a Prairie is a model of wha t a fine press book should be: a marriage of form and content, style and thou ght. ... There

are many finely made press books, but few so completely unself-conscious and comfortable in itself as this Bob Baris production. ...

In the context of the spirit and words of the text, Thinking Like a Prairie as a book is just right." - Parenthesis 7.

77. (Press on Scroll Road)Window

Poems. [By] Wendell Berry.

Foreword by James Baker Hall.

[Carrollton. Ohio. 2003.] Wood

engravings by Wesley Bates in

red . 58p. 9.5" x 6.25". Design, com -

position and presswork by Bob

Baris. Handset in CloisterLightface and printed on hand-

made Gampi Torinoko paper in a

Washington handpress. Bound in

cream Japanese linen by Craig

Jensen and Sabina Daly at book-

Lab II. One in an edition of 100

copies. Numbered in the press

and signed by Wendell Berry and

Wesley Bates. Fine. $185.00

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78. (Red Charming) Walking Middletown. Artists photographic book by Emily Larned.

Brooklyn, N ew York. 2002. 3.25" x 3.25". Color photocopies of 24 Polaroid s. Images m oun ted on

Black Mulberry-covered 2-ply m useum board, and hinged w ith the sam e Mulberry. The front

title and back colophon are printed letterpress on handmade brown St. Marmand paper. The

blue sleeve is also printed letterpress in two colors on hand mad e blue Khadi paper. One in an

edition of 50 num bered and signed copies. Fine. $200.00Polaroid imag es taken in 1998 show v arious close-ups of one of the 14 Midd letown s in the USA. (It happ ens

to be Connecticut, but the sad shabbiness of the sagging porches, peeling paint, innocuous architecture,abandoned factories, and gu tted cars could be anyw here.

Slipped out of the sleeve th e book open s in man y different directions, so that u nfolded to 18" x 36" on a flat

surface it takes the shap e of a towns geography w ith its blocks and d ead-ends.

79. (Cyrus Redding) A History and

Description of Modern Wines. Second

Edition w ith considerable add itions,

and a new preface developing the

system of the Port wine trade.

Printed for Whittaker & Co. London.

1836. Printed by Gilbert & Rivington,

Printers, London. 423p. 9 x 6.

Copper engraved head and tailpiece

vignettes. Rebound in maroon bu ck-ram with gilt Redding on Wine

stamped on title. Green buckram

strip at both inner spines. Label of

bookbind ers Edw ard F. Gruv er Co. ...

Washington. D.C. at base of back endpaper. Previous

owner s bookplate incorporated in both front and back end-

pap ers, as well as on a separate page boun d in between pages 290 and 291. Some slight soiling but generally in very

nice condition, particularly internally. $250.00Glued in at the front (and now coming loose) is a 16 page list of New Books Published or Preparing for Publication by Whittaker

and Co., dated January 1836. One of the first comprehensive English works on this subject.

A handsome Riviere binding on a beautifully illustrated text

80. (Riviere/Bookbinding) The Latin Year. [A collection of Hymns for the Seasons of the Church selected from Mediaeval and

modern authors.] Comp iled by th e Rev. W. J. Loftie. Basil Montagu Pickering. London . 1873. With illustrat ions byRobert Bateman. 343p. 7" x 4.75". Printed at the Chiswick Press. Black and white reproductions of early woodcuts

throughou t. Bound by Riviere in brown leather; gold-tooled; dou ble rectangle and lozenge of curved interlaced strap-

work with p ointill and vines; title in central panel on front and back covers; title within a d arker brown leather panel

on floriated spine; turn-ins ruled in gilt; a..e.g. Binder's stamp on front turn-in. In fine condition. $1,250.00

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81. (A.S.W. Rosenbach) Books and Bidders. The Adventures of a Bibliophile. By A.S.W. Rosenbach. Little, Brown, and

Comp any. Boston. 1927. Reprin ted Novem ber 1927. Illustr ations in the text and plates. 311p. includes Index. 9" x 6.25".

Brow n cloth. Bookplate & sm all Booksellers label on front p asted own . Very good . $20.00

82. (Carol Schwartzott) Kimono/Kisode: A

Decorative Study of the Kimono. Artists book by

Carol Schwartzott. [2001.] Designed and bound

by Carol Schwartzott. 6 double fold-outspreads. 9.75" x 5.5". Printed by Blacks Corner

Letterpress in Monotype Gill Sans Light cast by

Bixler Press & Letterfoundry. Archival boards

and Japanese Chiyogami papers with a piano

hinge binding design by Hedi Kyle. Seven

wooden rods held together with strips of vari-

ous mu lti-colored Japanese papers form the

binding. Title on front board. Heavy board slip-

case covered in various Japanese papers with

paper title label on spine. An edition of 125

signed and numbered copies. Created for and

supported by the Library Fellows of the

National Museum of Women in the Arts,

Washington DC. Fine. $425.00Each fold-out spread has a cut-out in a kimono shape

which allows the different Japanese papers which line the back sections of the fold-out to show through. Text on the history of the

kimon o is on the back of the first fold. A mar vellous informative, colorful and tactile visual book.

83. (Ben Shahn)November Twenty Six N ineteen Hun dred Sixty Three.

Poem by Wend ell Berry. Drawings by Ben Shahn . George Braziller.

New York. 1964. 15 leaves. Lettering and illustrations by Ben

Shahn. Printed at The Meriden Gravure Comp any on Italian hand -

mad e Fabriano pap er. One tipped-in color illustration. Cream cloth

board s with title on spine and front board in black. Black cloth slip-

case with pa per title label. Limited ed ition signed by Wendell Berry

and Ben Shahn . Slipcase a little marked , else fine. $225.00

The poemNovember 26, 1963 originally appeared in The Nation and

is reprinted w ith the perm ission of the editors of that magazine.

84. (Philip Smith) The Book: Art & Object. By Philip Smith.

Merstham, Surrey. 1982. 68p. 11.75" x 8.25". Illustrated throughout

with black and white and color photographs. Illustrated w rapp ers.

Signed by the author in the year of pub lication in Montreal on the

Contents page. Very good. $65.00

85. (Stamperia Del Santuccio) Three Fragments from the Postumous

Papers of Conrad Fiedler. MDCCCXLI-MDCCCXCV. Translated from the German by Thornton

Sinclair together with Victor Hammer who also has contributed an Introduction. At the

Stamperia Del Santuccio. Printed in Lexington, Kentucky under the auspices of Transylvania

University. MCMLI. 182p. 9.25" x 6.5". Printed in black and red American Uncial on Magnani

pap er. This copy is bound by Ellen Stone of the Stone Bindery in full brown leather w ith two

simp le relief rectangles on front an d back board s; black title label on sp ine. No. 48 of 51 copiesnumbered at the press. There was also a variant edition in 1951. Scarce. Fine. $800.00

86. (Vincent Torre) Verse & Fables. Written and illustrated by Vincent Torre. The Inkwell Press.

New York. 1993. 118p, 11" x 8.5". Decorative title page. Eighteen color illustrations cut in wood

and p rinted from the blocks. Printed on American etching paper in han d set Garamond . Hand

bound in blue cloth spine with title in black; decorative pap er boards. One in an ed ition of 150

copies, numbered and signed by Vincent Torre. Fine. $300.00

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87. (Mark Twain)A Dogs Tale. Illustrat ed by W.T. Smed ley. Harp er & Brother s, Publish-

ers. New York and London. 1904. 36p. 8 x 5.375. Four color plates, including fron-

tispiece. Red cloth binding, with title on spine and front cover as well as black ad white

illustration of a d og and pup py. Bookplate. Previous ow ner s stamp on f.f.e. Spine w orn,

boards with lighter wear and m arkings. Front hinge going, stain round bookplate; else

very good internally with original glassine between frontispiece and title page. $125.00The National Anti-Vivisection Society edition, the first edition in book form, published in the same

year, was a p amp hlet in buff printed wrapp ers.

88. (Voltaire) Candide. By Jean Francois Mar ie Arouet d e Voltaire. Illustr ated by Rockwell

Kent. Random House. 1975. Reprint of the 1928 edition to celebrate the fiftieth anniver-

sary of Random Hou se. Printed on Strath more Artlaid. 112p. 11.5" x 7.75". Black and wh ite

illustrations throughout. Brown cloth boards; title on spine, decoration on front cover.

Decorated end pap ers. Light tan slipcase with illustration and title on one side, and details

about the edition on the other. Slightly faded slipcase, else fine. $17.50

89. (Wayzgoose Press) Private Impressions (No. 5-8). Plus Introduction . Written by Mike

Hudson & Jadwiga Jarvis. Katoomba. NSW Australia. 2000-2001 n.p. 11.75" x 8.25". Each

20 page monograph was written by Mike Hudson & Jadwiga Jarvis. Illustrated with

appropriate examples of printing from the periods under discussion, hand set & printed

letterpress in several colors on Mohawk Superfine 148 gsm. and stitched into stiff printed

wrap pers. No. 48 in edition of 60 signed and n um bered copies. Fine. $450.00Introduction by Mike Hud son & Jadw iga Jarvis.

No. 5:Evolution ( includingIntroduction.) Jun e 2000. Tells the story of the ea rly Greek con -

vention of aural reading from p apyrus rolls, through the Dark Ages and the mon astic

traditions. The invention of the Carolingian manuscript style and the rise of secular,

silent reading practices in the early Renaissance.

No. 6:Revolution. Presents the Gutenberg Bible as the beginning not just of a new tech-

nological age but as the start of the compromise work practices that mass production

activities encourage.

No. 7 discusses the fits and starts of the book trade an d th e drive for rationalization of

techniques at the expense of the creative potentials of authorship through out the 20th

century. The value of Stanley Morisons & Beatrice Wardes sobering influence is exam -

ined and questioned. No. 8: Re-evaluation. Weighs the benefits to text and reader of an

individual and creative approach to book design, typography and illustration against

the losses inflicted by mass production principles.

Two early Whittington Press po sters

90. (Whittington Press) London in the Blitz. Broadside. Linocuts by Hellmuth

Weissenborn. Shown in the exhibition "Artists in Exile", Schloss Charlottenburg,

Berlin. January 1986. Poster. 30" x 22". Brown linocut on cream Jim Dine hand-

made paper. An edition of 45 copies. Fine. $350.00

91. (Whittington Press) Verse by Omar Khayyam. Translated by Iftikhar Azmi.

From 'The Mirror and the Eye illustrated by Richard Kennedy. Printed for the

Whittington Summ er Show, 1st Septem ber 1984. Poster. 30" x 22". Set in 14 and 72

pt Garamond type and printed on Arches Crme mouldmade paper. Kennedy

illustration h andcolored by Sylvia Stokeld in p urp le, blue, pink and turqu oise. An

edition of 90 copies. Minor creasing and small tears, else very good. $300.00

92. (Whittington Press) A Folding Screen. Selected Chinese Lyrics from Tang to

Mao Tse-tung. Rendered into verse by Alan Ayling from the translations of the

Chinese by Duncan Mackintosh in collaboration with Tung Ping-Cheng.

Calligraphy by Cheng Hsan. Illustrations by Fei Cheng Wu. [Gloucestershire.

1974.] 94p. 11.5" x 7.75". Printed by John & Rosalind Rand le and Char les Lownd es

at Whittington Court, Gloucestershire on Columbian Press no. 1275, made in

1848. The type is 12-pt Caslon sup plied by Steph enson Blake & Co., and the pap er

is English Hand Made from St. Cuthberts Mill, Wookey Hole. Bound by Hunter

& Foulis Ltd, Edinburgh, u sing colored cloth decorated w ith birds, animals and

flowers. T.e.g. Paper title label on spine. Endpapers specially marbled by the Compton Press. Blue paper slipcase. One

in an edition of 200 copies, signed by Alan Ayling and Duncan Mackintosh. Fine. $465.00

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93. (Whittington Press) Arcadian Ballads. By James Reeves. Freely adapted from Ovids Metamorphoses. With illus-

trations by Edward Ardizzone. Gloucestershire. November 1977. Frontispiece, ix, [1], 48p. 11.25" x 8". Set in Caslon,

printed in black on Arches paper. With th e title-page and illustrations in p urp le. Bound by Weatherby Woolnough in

Laura Ash ley patterned cloth over board s, paper oval label on the front cover ; t.e.g. Slipcase. One of 200 in an ed ition

of 250 copies (mistakenly identified in th e colophon as 200) signed by Reeves and Ardizzone. Fine. $395.00

Both the p oet and the artist died shortly after this collaboration.

94. (Whittington Press) Twins. By John OConnor. Gloucestershire. 1991. n.p . 10.75" x 7.5". Three-color wood eng rav -

ings by John OConnor. Brown and tan patterned paper over boards. 350 copies signed by John OConnor. Fine.$95.00

95. (Whittington Press) Diary of an Apple Tree. [Twelve wood-engravings and text by] Miriam Macgregor. Risbury,

Hereford shire. [1997.] 48p. 7.5" x 10.5". Printed in brown on Z erkall mou ld made paper. Boun d in tan and brow nprinted app le tree patterned p aper; paper title label on spine. Brown paper board slipcase. In an ed ition of 385 copies,

this is one of 300 num bered copies thus. Fine. The twelve engravings record the various guises the app le tree assumes

as the year p rogresses. $150.00


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96. (Whittington Press) Index to Matrix 1 - 21. Compiled by David Butcher. Matrix. The Whittington Press. [Risbury.

2003.] xiv, 72p. 11.5" x 7.5". Printed on Con queror laid pap ers. Thin green board s with toning du st jacket. Jacket with

title and Helmuth Weissenborn engraving. One of 500 copies thus in a total edition of 610 copies. New. $150.00

Index to Matrix 1-21 is an invalu able key to any search of the series. It also contains a list of contents of each issue, and

an introdu ction by the ind exer d escribing the development of the series, which has on th e face of it remained remark-

ably consistent d uring its twenty-two year history.

TheIndex is uniform w ith the series. The format and binding style will be asMatrix 1 to 21, and the extent w ill be aboutthe same as Matrix 1. It sits happily on the shelf with the rest of the series, and is an indispensable part of it.

Typograp hically, it will follow the layout of the Index to Matrix 11-15 which app eared in Matrix 15.

97. (Oscar Wilde) The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C.3.3. Brentanos. New York. 1906. 39p. 6.25 x 4. Pale grey paper

boards with title label on spine and front. Printed on recto only. Bookplate. Stamp of previous owner on ffe. Boards

browned and worn; spine label worn but read able. Front label intact. Front end pap ers marked . Internally very good.

An early edition of Wildes famous p rison poem, issued before it was printed und er his own name. $25.00

98. (Oscar Wilde) Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde. With a Preface by Robert Ross. Methuen & Co. Ltd. London . 1914. 160p.

7 x 4.5. Green cloth with gilt title and decoration. T.e.g. Bookplate. Endpapers darkened. Previous owners signa-

ture, place, and d ate - Jun e 1919 - on ffe. Very good condition. $100.00

99. The Greatness and Decline of Rome. By Guglielmo Ferrero. Translated by Alfred E. Zimm ern. M.A. ... and Rev. H.J.

Chaya tor, M.A. ... G.P. Putn ams Sons. New York. [n.d.] [Preface to the Am erican Edition by Ferrer ro d ated 1909.]

Studen ts Edition. 5 vols. (Complete.) Vol. I - The Emp ire-Builder s; Vol. II - Julius Caesar ; Vol. III - The Fall of anAristocracy; Vol. IV - Rome and Egypt; Vol. V - The Repu blic of Augu stus. Dark b lue cloth boa rds. Bookplate. Some

wear to top an d bottom of spines, generally very good. $150.00

100. The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' entertainments. A New Translation

from the Arabic, with Copious N otes. By Edward William Lane Illustrated by m any H und red Engravings on Wood

from original designs by William Harvey. A New Edition, from a copy an notated by the Translator, edited by his

nephew, Edward Stanley Poole, with a Preface by Stanley Lane-Poole. In Three Volumes. (Complete.) Chatto and

Windus, Piccadilly. London. MDCCCLXXXIII. (1883.) Vol. 1 - Vol. 2 - 578p. Vol. 3 - 701p. 9" x 6". Printed by William

Clowes and Sons, Limited. London. Bound in half red m orocco with title and decorative gilt spine w ith 5 raised band s;

red marbled pap er board s. Matching red marbled endp apers. T.e.g. Bookplates. Sporad ic light foxing, nevertheless a

hand somely bound very good set, with bindings professionally refurbished. $425.00Interesting letter laid in from the Acting Chief Bibliographer to the Librarian of Congress dated January 17, 1935, to the previous

owner, discussing this tran slation and the reasons for the omission ofAladdin and Ali Baba, obviously in answer to his query.


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