Brighton: Beehive Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Seven leaves. 38 x 28.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 7 of 30 signed by Jane Launchberry. Images are black and white lithographs printed on cream 12 cartridge Somerset paper. In lay terms, very heavy, thick paper. More
Eastbourne, Sussex: Snake River Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 46 pages. 39 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 33 of 70. Book designed by Geoffrey Trenaman on Arches Pur Chiffon Creme 350 grams. Elegant production, very wide text margins. Woods' designs are black and white lithographs. Sisson's modernism was in..... More
Stratford-Upon-Avon: The Celandine Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 20 pages. 25 x 18 cm. Limited edition, copy 72 of 82 signed by Wain and Athur Keene the illustrator. Total run was 175, of which 85 were quarter bound (our copy) and 90 on paper boards. Wain was one of Britain's'..... More
Berkeley: Oyez, 1868. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 33 x 25.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 146 of 200, signed by the author, designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh. An as new copy. More
Market Drayton, Salop: Tern Press, 1977. Parry, Nicholas. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 14 leaves. 24 x 16 cm. "Meadow Thoughts was first printed in Graphic and included in The Life of the fields in 1884." "Printed in 12 pt. Centaur on Maidstone paper and bound by Nicholas and Mary Parry. No..... More
San Francisco: Grace Hoper Press, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 32 pages. 33 x 23 cm. Limited edition one of 75 copies. Title page printed in red and black, remainder of text printed in a variety of colors and type faces. Backstrip label chipped. More
San Francisco: Grace Hoper Press, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 38 pages. 33 x 23 cm. Limited edition one of 75 copies. Title page printed in red and black, remainder of text printed in a variety of colors and type faces. More
Np: Nd, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Limited edition, one of 270 copies printed for the Pacific Coast Chapter of the American Association of Advertising Agencies. Three were printed on vellum. The italic chosen is a new cutting of Morris Fuller Benton's. Slight stain front cover at lower margin. Not in..... More
Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 40 pages. With facsimile of Hardy's letters. Newton's proceeds from the printing of this monograph went to erect "a suitable monument of Thomas Hardy, either on Egdon Heath or elsewhere." Newton ranked "The Return of the Native" as Hardy's finest novel. Beautifully printed..... More
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. [xxv] 64 pages. 25 x 17,5 cm. Two photographic facsimiles. Extensive Index and Word List. Edited critically for the first time from the holograph ms. in the Henry E. Huntington Library. Besides the introduction signed by the editors, Samuel A. Tannenbaum and..... More
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Chicago: Mark Twain Society of Chicago, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 80 pages. 25,5 x 18 cm. Twain's "Who done it," Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth entertains a serious conversation with a distinguished audience concerning a prodigious fart. Signed presentation copy by Meine to H. Stuart Stone dated April 1939. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. Woodroffe, Paul. First edition. Hardcover. 105 pages. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 160 of 160 signed by Housman and Woodroffe on Kelmscott hand-made paper. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press. Drawing by Paul Woodroffe engraved on wood by Clemence Housman. An early 13th-century..... More
London: Philip Lee Warner, 1921. Nicholson, William. Hardcover. 144 pages. 23 x 16.5 cm. Printed in the Riccardi Press fount at the Chiswick Press. A clean, fresh copy, owner inscription free front endpaper, tiny nick backstrip back cover. More
Hurst, Berskshire: Peacocks Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 20 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Limited edition, one of 350 copies on Barcham Green "Medway" paper. Lecture by the author at an American university approximately 15 years prior to this publication. Owner inscription free front endpaper. More
Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Hardcover. 81 pages. 22.5 x 15 cm. An early Gibbings effort at the helm of the Golden Cockerel Press. Limited edition, copy 383 of 500. Partly unopened, uncut, nick to spine labe. CHANTICLEER:I 24. More
Np: Tintern Press, 1935. Marshall, Sylvia. First edition. Hardcover. 47 pages. 26 x 17 cm. This is the first collection of these poems in a Limited edition, one of 150, this copy not numbered. Series of wood engravings by Sylvia Marshall, hand printed by Vincent Stuart at Brockweir, Cheptow, Monmouthshire..... More
London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1790. Second edition. Hardcover. 36 pages. 21 x 13 cm. Interior contents clean, title page very slightly toned. An Old Whig opposed to the James Fox faction of the party, and supported the war against French revolutionary forces. More
London: Beaumont Press, 1918. First edition. leather_bound. 38 Pages. 23 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 19 of 22 on Japanese vellum signed by the author. The third book of the Press, the cover designed by Pickford Waller, the binding is by F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe. Printed in red..... More
London: Dropmore Press, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 10 leaves. 22.5 x 17.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 65 of 81 signed by Popham on J. Whatman hand made paper, watermarked 1852. From his obituary: "Perhaps the only British poet of stature to reflect the experience of young flyers in the..... More
Cambridge: Baskerville & B. Dod, 1762. Third edition. leather_bound. Unpaginated. 17.5 x 11 cm. Three works in one volume. Title page and contents toned, lacks free front endpaper, some minor chipping at lower fore-edge, no loss of text. Handsome Cambridge style contemporary binding, raised bands, head of spine nicked, back..... More
London: Dropmore Press, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. 84 pages. 26.5 x 20 cm. Limited edition, copy 1 of 25 signed by Bryant, printed on a hand press on paper hand made by Portals of Whitechurch. The author, an English historian and one time columnist for the Illustrated London News was..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1889. Hardcover. 465 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 111 o 150. 15 "Embellishments," full page tipped-in plates with tissue guards. 74 engravings on wood. General Index. Fresh, clean copy. Raised bands, spine panels with decorative gilt angling designs. More
Boston: Ticknor And Fields, 1860. First American edition. leather_bound. 283, 284. 18 x 12. First issue with 16 pps. of adverts dated March 1860. An unsigned elegant binding, raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt, cover border panels in interlocking floral motifs, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. The London and Boston..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Nd. Hardcover. 610, 610, 565, 600, 565 pages. 21 x 15.5 cm. Extensive Index. Handsomely bound, all volumes with clean and bright interiors. Standard work on the subject. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt in floral motifs. More
London: Np, 1648/1649. First editions. leather_bound. 174, [8] 255, 61 pages. 19 x 15 cm. The author, a 17th century politician better known by the pseudonym Theodore Verax presents treatises to outline fallacies and myths of religious factionalism in England most of which pertain to the English Civil War. The..... More