New York: Horizon, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 144 pages. Thirty-two color plates, the last is an extended gate-fold. Wright, not shy with hyperbole, waxes rapturous when describing his own experience with the Japanese print: "The print is more autobiographical than you can imagine. If Japanese prints were to be deducted..... More
London: Cresset Press, 1928. Hughes-Stanton, Blair. Hardcover. 174 & 162 pages. Large 4to, 36 x 25 cm, ten full-page wood-engraved plates: six by Blair Hughes-Stanton, and four by Gertrude Hermes. Printed by the Shakespeare Head Press under the direction of Bernard Newdigate. As Roderick Cave noted [see: THE PRIVATE PRESS..... More
New York: Pynson Printers, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. 148 [2] pages. 29 x 24 cm. Limited edition, copy 119 of 375 signed by Dard Hunter and Elmer Adler, the binding by Gerhard Gerlach -- the only limited edition of his works not published by him. Two line drawings, 66 gravure..... More
Munich & Liepzig: G. Hirth's Kunstverlag, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. 872 pages. 30 x 23 cm. Jugend (German: "Youth") (1896–1940) was an influential German arts magazine. Founded in Munich by Georg Hirth the weekly was originally intended to showcase German Arts and Crafts, but became famous for showcasing the German version of Art..... More
Munich & Leipzig: G. Hirth's Kunstverlag, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. 872 pages. 30 x 23 cm. Jugend (German: "Youth") (1896–1940) was an influential German arts magazine. Founded in Munich by Georg Hirth the weekly was originally intended to showcase German Arts and Crafts, but became famous for showcasing the German version of Art..... More
London: Cresset Press, Ltd, 1930. Blair Hughes-Stanton. Hardcover. 195 pages. 35 x 22 cm. Limited edition, copy 393 of 500 on mould-made paper, printed at the Shenval Press. Ten suggestive full page wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton printed recto only. Wide text margins, very bright and fresh copy. More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Covarrubias, Miguel. Hardcover. 294 pages. 27 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 622 of 1500 copies signed by Covarrubias in red ink. Introduction by Raymond weaver, illustrated with 16 full page lithographs by Covarrubias. Printed by the Harbor Press. Interior contents crisp and fresh..... More
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. The DeLuxe large paper printing -- Limited edition, copy 19 of 409 signed by Ward, printed by Aldus and bound by the Tapley Company. Ward's first woodcut novel. A remarkably fresh copy, almost as..... More
Paris: Editions Albert Levy, 1928. First edition. Boards. Folio, 49 x 38 cm. Title leaf: Twenty pochoir lithographs colored by Jean Saude after Benedictus with 86 Art Nouveau and Art Deco textile and wallpaper designs by an artist who was also a chemist who invented bullet proof glass. A stunning..... More
Paris: Editions Marcel Seheur, 1927. Vlaminck, Maurice. First edition. Hardcover. 208 pages. 29 x 24 cm. Limited edition, copy 135 of 325, illustrated with twenty-four original lithographs (with tissue guards) by Vlaminck, printed by Mourlot Brothers on Japon Shidzuoka paper. Original etching frontispiece. Pages 15-16 darkened from tissue guards, and..... More
New York: Viking, 1958. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 558 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Published June, 1938, one month previous to the English edition with $2.50 dust wrapper price. Backstrip slightly darkend, some rubbing to dust wrapper spine head and foot. Pinkie takes over the gang in this murder thriller..... More
Rome: Pietro Piale & Mariano de Romanis, 1824. Third edition. leather_bound. (2) xvi, xxxii, 256' vi, 238 pages. 27.9 x 20.3 cm. Engraved vignette on title-pages, engraved portrait following title, 2 engraved head-pieces, large engraved folding map, 68 engraved plates after Piranesi, Morel, Rinaldi. Ferrerri, Duflos and others. Complete with..... More
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[Winston-Salem, N.C.]: Palaemon Press, 1979-1980. First Editions. Wraps. Editor, publisher, and translator Stuart Wright founded the Palaemon Press Limited in Winston Salem, North Carolina, in 1977. The press published books, pamphlets and broadsides, primarily by Southern authors, and in most cases offering the first printing or first separate appearance of..... More
Salem: Peabody Museum, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 88 pages. 26 x 18 cm. Limited edition, copy 23 of 60 on Laverstoke rag paper. Folding map. Laid-in four page publisher publication notice and four page advert of the Peabody Museum of available publications. Bright and fresh copy, almost as new. A...... More
London: Nonesuch Press, 1926. Kauffer, E. McKnight. Hardcover. 123 pages. 30.5 x 20.5 cm. Illustrated with pochior plates by E. McKnight Kauffer. Limited edition, copy 126 of 1650. This edition reproduced from that of the first (1856) edition of 'Piazza Tales'. Printed in the Walbaum type on Van Gelder paper..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. Hardcover. 199 pages. 29.5 x 23.5 cm. Illustrated with twelve water colors (collotype process) by Sylvan Savage. Limited edition, copy 405 of 1500. Signed by Savage. The English version by Brian Hooker, with a new introduction by him. Laid-in and dated August 10, 1936..... More
New York: Random House, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 111 pages. 29 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 527 of 1470 copies signed by Rockwell Kent. It is also the first book with the Random House imprint. Printed on all rag French paper and 95 coloured in the studios of the..... More
Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1895. leather_bound. Folio, vi, 119 pages. 29.4 x 21.5 cm. Limited edition, of 300 copies printed on paper, 8 on vellum. Printed in Troy type (text) and Chaucer type (side notes etc.), woodcut title page, woodcut foliate initials and borders by Hooper after Morris, section..... More
London: James Round, Jacob Tonson and William Taylor, 1716. leather_bound. 783 (5), 381 (7), 390 (6) pages. Folio, 36 x 24 cm. Vol. II, the 4th edition corrected and Vol. III, the 3rd edition corrected. In 1660 Barrow was ordained and appointed to the Regius Professorship of Greek at Cambridge. In 1662 he was..... More
Nd: Np, Sunday. Wraps. 4 leaves, 23 x 15 cm. Letterhead: Newport House And Cottages, Bar Harbor, Maine -- Thomas P. Jones Proprietor. an undated ALS noted "Sunday." Manship discusses his stay in Maine was to arrange an exhibition of his works, and an offer to visit Mrs. Abbott with..... More
London & New York: Field & Tuer, Scribner & Welford, 1889. Hardcover. 31 pages. 20 x 15.5 cm. Nine hand colored plates. Bright, very fresh copy, wide text margins. Lamb's fairy tale in verse for children. Small owner inscription free front endpaper. More
London: Joseph Cundall, 1845. First edition. Hardcover. 32 pages. 18.5 x 13 cm. First edition of the first of Joseph Cundall's illuminated gift books, with decoration by John Brandard printed in chromolithography by Hanhart. Purportedly the first Christmas book printed in chromolithography. The borders in the book were copied from..... More
Paris: Printed for the author, 1930. First edition. Wraps. 94 pages. Folio, 34 x 25.5. Limited edition copy 63 of 70 on Hollande van Gelder on the presses of Vernant under the direction of Brunel. Illustrated with 25 full-page etchings (including text leaves and the title-page) printed recto only. The..... More
Winston-Salem, N.C. Privately Printed, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 18 pages. 23.5 x 15 cm. Limited edition copy 5 of 250 signed by Styron. Designed by Stuart Wright. printed by Heritage Printers. and bound by Richard Murdoch with Frontispiece photograph of Gabriel Penn Warren. More
[Winston-Salem, N.C.]: Privately Printed, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 32 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 2 of 15 privately printed for Stuart Wright on the occasion of the eightieth birthday of Robert Penn Warren, and signed by Warren in blue ink. Slight glue bleed to inside pastedown covers..... More