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ADULTS ALPHABETS: examples of English press alphabet books from the last hundred years with an alphabetical description, copious illustrations and a checklist of press alphabet books
Edition: First edition.
Hanborough, Oxford, England: Hanborough Parrot Press, 1990. Colour printed cloth with spine and cover labels. pp 45, [3]. Well illustrated in black and white. #90 of 170 copies, this is one of 85 uncoloured copies. Only 25 copies were fully coloured & 60 partly coloured. David Jones, Enid Marx, Edward Burra, Leadenhall Press, William Nicholson, others. 56 books in the checklist. Front cover a bit (seasonally?) splayed, else fine.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48496More details Price: USD $175.00 -
ALPHABETICAL / COSMOLOGIES
Edition: First printing
Victoria, BC: Poppy Press, 2000. Two volumes, card covers in textured colour printed jackets in illustrated card slipcase, text printed on adjoining leaves Japanese style, colour letters in text printed from wooden type, original colour wood / linocut print at front signed in pencil beneath the image by the artist Alexander Lavdovsky. Edition of 500 copies, this is # 238. Inscribed by the author (signed "PK") to her good friends Connie and Leon Rooke. Book spines very lightly yellowed, else fine in fine slipcase. A handsome production of these books of poetry by one of Canada's leading poets.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 52937More details Price: USD $150.00 -
DEDICATORY PROGRAM. Baker Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, East Aurora, New York, September 2nd to 7th, 1918
Edition: First Edition
East Aurora, New York: 1918. Quarto, pp 32, string tied in tan card covers printed in green and red. Numerous photos (one in colour), vingette illustrations in light green in lower margins. Light foxing to first and last page; crease to upper outer corner throughout; VG clean & uworn copy otherwise. Though not stated, this was clearly printed by The Roycrofters. Scarce.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 41748More details Price: USD $50.00 -
EM LITERARY III/IV
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46475More details Price: USD $35.00 -
FELICTY: selected poems
(Dundas, Ontario): Aliquando Press, 2014. Octavo, 22.3 x 14 cm. Grey card covers with yapp fore edges, paper spine label, white strips threaded through covers, green endpapers, colour illustrations and title page, headers in gold. pp (36). + frontispiece and 9 full-page colour illustrations on five leaves; erratum at rear. "The text is based on the 1910 edition of POEMS OF FELICITY, retaining much of Traherne's idosyncratic spelling. This edition was designed, illustrated, printed, and bound by William Reuter at The Aliquando Press. Garamont type was printed on Hanemühle paper and the linocuts on handmade Udabon B paper. The book was bound with Zander Elephant Hide paper. Of 35 copies produced in November 2014, numbers 1 to 5 include an extra suite of signed printed. This is copy number 33". Fine copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45844More details Price: USD $250.00 -
MANIPULATIONS ON GREEK THEMES: poems. Wood engravings by Oswald Turner
Edition: First edition.
Toronto: Roger Ascham Press, 1986. Orange quarter morocco and orange and white batik illustrated cloth, brown endpapers and fly leaves, colour decorations. pp (12), (97). #43 of 120 numbered copies. A fine copy, lacking the slipcase."This book is printed by letter-press on damp hand made paper from Ferdinando Amatruda's Mill in Amalfi Italy. Wood engravings are hand cut on box wood and printed from the original blocks. The type face is Bruce Rogers' Centaur, handset for optical even spacing; The text is 12 on 15 points. The poem titles in 14 pt Arrighi Italic. Endpapers are Swedish Ingres, The binding is Oasis Goatskin with linen batik by Muriel McDonagh using traditional Greek motifs. Design, hand-printing and binding by George McDonagh."
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49813More details Price: USD $350.00 -
MICROPHONES IN THE TREES
Edition: First edition.
No place (Vancouver): Skyebound Press, 2008. pp [16], unpaged, sewn in black card covers with textured grey card jacket. Fine copy. #30 of an edition of 33 copies. Pencil note to the acknowledgements on the colophon page. This was Constance Rooke's copy, who is the first-named of the acknowledgments. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 52873More details Price: USD $40.00 -
READER , LOVER OF BOOKS, LOVER OF HEAVEN. A catalogue based on an exhibition of the book arts in Ontario complied by David B. Kotin with a checklist of Ontario private presses by Marilyn Rueter and an introduction by Doulas Lochhead
Edition: First edition
Willlowdale, ON: North York Public Library, 1978. Card covers. pp (111). B&w illustrations. Fine copy. A useful reference still, a survey of fine print in Canada. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 51797More details Price: USD $14.95 -
RETALIATION: a poem by Dr. Goldsmith, including epitaphs on the most distinguished wits of this metropolis
Westport, Connecticut: Richard W. Ellis, The Georgian Press, 1929. Quarto, tan boards with paper spine label. pp (4), (25), [3]. Fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. Bit of wear to spine ends, sticker scar in corner of front cover, slight wear to outer corners; VG externally, internally fine. #333 of an edition of 435 copies. The poem was first published London, 1774.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41843More details Price: USD $34.95 -
THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF SILVERDENE EMBLEM O'NEILL (BLEMIE'S WILL)
Edition: First of this edition
Toronto: David B. Kotin / The Nightshade Press, 1988. 24 x 14.5 cm, pp (16), sewn, in blue textured card covers. Fine copy, with prospectus leaf laid in. #62 of an edition of 100 copies, issued to mark the centenary of O'Neill's birth. Designed, typeset, and printed by Glenn Goluska at The Nightshade Press. Blemie was the O'Neills' beloved Dalmatian, who died of old age in Dec., 1940. O'Neill wrote the piece to comfort his grieving wife.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 50422More details Price: USD $100.00 -
THE SEASON OF THE ROSES: eighteen minnesongs selected and translated by Willem Campschreur
Edition: First edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49271More details Price: USD $275.00