The Club of Odd Volumes, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition of 500. A presentation copy from Adams to the collector George Fitch, with a laid in Christmas card (from the Pierpont Morgan Library) to "George and Muriel" from "Betty and Fred". Fine in slipcase. $75.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Lavishly produced limited edition of 100, of which this is no. 45, of the socialite and singer Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller's memoir of her travels through Italy. Printed on large paper by the De Vinne Press and lavishly illustrated, with the caption.....
Chapman & Hall, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Volume 1, no.1-4, of the literary magazine edited by Clifford Bax and Austin Osman Spare, bound the publisher's boards. While the boards show a century of wear, they have protected the interior wonderfully, including the original front wrappers of each number and the.....
Jonathan Williams, 1958. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 'This is copy 126 of 'Letters' by Robert Duncan, with five drawings by the author of the ideal reader; set & printed by Claude Fredericks in Pawletl (Vermont); published by Jonathan Williams in Highlands (N.C.) as Jargon fourteen; copyright by the author mcmlviii.'.....
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1940. Hardcover. Limited edition signed by the author, number 282 of 300. Gaudy begins his chapter on "Fine Printing" with the declaration that "Print, the medium by which the thoughts of men are made visible and through which all literature finds expression.....
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2014. Lethbridge, Julian. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Publication number 101 of the Arion Press, collecting 55 poems by Jorie Graham, with an introduction by Helen Vendler and 16 prints by Julian Lethbridge. 'The edition is limited to three hundred numbered copies for sale and twenty-six lettered copies.....
London: Old Bourne Press, 1902. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The complete second series of the Elf magazine, written, illustrated and printed by James Guthrie, using the 'Myrtle' type he would later use in his Pear Tree Press books. Four small quarto volumes, all numbered 250 (of 250), printed rectos only in.....
The Book Club of California, 1931. Special Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies. Folio, natural morocco backstrip with four raised bands, stamped in blind, tan cloth boards. Seven small drawings, sixteen full-page drawings, and two folding maps. Also includes the one-page letter announcing the publication of volume in.....
San Francisco: Eastside Editions, 2001. Limited Edition. Hardcover. A large accordion book of prints by Art Hazelwood, inspired by Francois Rabelais, in a signed limited edition of twenty-five, of which this is no. 1. The ten prints form a continuous image measuring 18" x 288". They are accompanied by the.....
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Parnassian Press, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A slim book of poetry. The limitation page declares: "This book is put forth in the Moon of the Falling Leaf, Nineteen Hundred & Thirty-Secen. From the Parnassian Press of Maurice Taylor. With Fronticepiece & Embellishments by Marceil Taylor, in an.....
The Book Club of California, 1957. Hardcover. This is a limited edition (1 in 400 copies) of a selection of Mark Twain's letters to the Territorial Enterprise from 1855-1856. Edited by Henry Nash Smith and Frederick Anderson. Outer cover is has pale orange and blue floral print with title in.....
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2015. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12" x 9". Richly illustrated and beautifully printed, bound in grey cloth in a matching slipcase. This is #172 of 300 copies. The grey cloth covering the slipcase shows very minor wear.
Los Altos: P'Nye Press, 2005. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Frederica Postman and Bonnie Stone's handmade mixed media statement on fashion, incorporating stories, histories, fabrics, tassels, ribbons and much else. Comb binding in case/purse with leather glove. Number 32 of 60 copies, signed by Postman and Stone. Minor wear to the edges.....
Berkeley, California: Saint Heironymous Press [sic], 1970. Goines, David Lance. Soft cover. Stated second printing of the early collaboration between Waters and Goines, printed shortly after the founding of St. Hieronymus Press in 1968 and shortly before the opening of Chez Panisse in 1971. 30 loose illustrated recipes of various.....