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EHMCKE, F.H.
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160 Kennbilder. Eine Sammlung von Warenzeichen Geschftsverlags-und Buchersignets.
Munich
C.H. Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
1925
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Dylan Thomas’s first collection of poetry
FORTUNE PRESS. THOMAS, Dylan.
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18 Poems.
London
Fortune Press
[c.1942]
‘18 Poems’ was Thomas’s first collection of poetry, the winner of a contest sponsored by the ‘Sunday Referee’ in 1934. It contains the poem, ‘The…
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With the coronation medal for an Irish police officer from Kerry who provided security for the Crown Jewels for the Coronation
CORONATION OF EDWARD VII, 1902
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67 photographs of the Coronation Procession on August 9th 1902; together with a Silver Coronation Medal.
1902
Commemorative medals were issued in two sizes, 56 mm and 31 mm in diameter and in different metals, with the larger, as we have here,…
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CHAUNDY, Leslie.
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A Bibliography of the First Editions of the Works of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham.
London
Dulau & Co., Ltd.
1924
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STONE, Reynolds. JAMES, Philip (editor).
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A Butler’s Recipe Book [1719].
Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
1935
First printed edition of this selection of recipes from a 1719 manuscript of Thomas Newington, the butler to a household in Brighthelmstone.
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One of only 25 copies
PRESS IN TUSCANY ALLEY. KAFKA, Franz.
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A Chinese Puzzle.
San Francisco
Press in Tuscany Alley
1991
From Kafka’s story collection, ‘Parables and Paradoxes’, published by Schocken Books, New York, 1935.
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Beautiful circular copper engravings by Gibbings
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. GIBBINGS, Robert.
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A Circle of the Seasons. A Translation of the Ritu-Samhara of Kalidasa made from various European sources by E. Powys Mathers.
Waltham St. Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1929
The copper engravings are unexpected from Gibbings and incredibly beautiful.
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Bound by American bookbinder Laura Wait using her own handmade paste paper
THOMAS, Peter and Donna.
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A Collection of Paper Samples from Hand Papermills in the United States of America.
Santa Cruz
Peter & Donna Thomas
1993
27 papermakers are represented with samples each of which has a statement of their process and/or philosophy printed on a specific sample of their paper…
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Four titles from Sumac Press’s ‘A Comp’s Eye View’ series
SUMAC PRESS. WULLING, Emerson G.
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A Comp’s Eye View.
La Crosse
Sumac Press
1947; 1953; 1971; 1976
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WHITTINGTON PRESS. WEISSENBORN, Hellmuth.
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A Country Calendar.
Gloucestershire
Printed for Heal’s Books & Prints by The Whittington Press
1976
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. HUGHES-STANTON, Blair. CALDER-MARSHALL, Arthur.
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A Crime Against Cania.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1934
Calder-Marshall was very keen on the work of Blair Hughes-Stanton seeing him as the perfect illustrator and he certainly produces some excellent engravings for this…
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A classic of British buccaneering, an important Pacific voyage and the source book for Robinson Crusoe
ROGERS, Woodes.
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A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to the South-Seas, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and finish’d in 1711…containing a Journal of all the Remarkable Transactions…an Account of Alexander Selkirk’s Living Alone Four Years and Four Months on an Island….
London
Printed for A. Bell and B. Lintot
1712
Contemporary ownership inscription of R. Hopwood dated 1716.
First edition of one of the classics of British buccaneering, and an important Pacific voyage. Rogers went…
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HOFFMAN, Richard J.
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A Decorative Divertissement. The foundry and Monotype piece borders and ornaments as well as the Linotype border matrices and border matrix slides that have been accumulated over many years together with the first Supplement to A Gatthering of Types showing the printing types recently acquired by Richard J. Hoffman.
Van Nuys
Richard Hoffman: printer, finding pleasure in his printing office
1980
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GWASG GREGYNOG
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A Descriptive Catalogue of Printing at Gregynog, 1970-1990.
Newtown
Gwasg Gregynog
1990
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FLETCHER, Andrew of Saltoun.
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A Discourse of Government with Relation of Militia’s.
Edinburgh & London
1698-1702
All bound in contemporary calf with ‘Misc. R.’ on the spine label in gilt and with the booklabel of Thomas Foley of Great Witley Court…
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HASLEWOOD BOOKS. SAINSBURY, Hester.
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A Dog of War by John Taylor, the Water Poet.
London
Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald
1927
Tipped in is a publisher’s label for Humphrey Milford who presumably took over the distribution of the book.
John Taylor was a Thames waterman who rose…
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LEIGHTON, Clare.
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A Duck, a Rabbit and a Chick.
c.1940
Best known for her wood engravings illustrating rural landscapes and agricultural workers in England, Europe and the American South, Clare Leighton (1898-1989) illustrated at least…
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Adagio Press ephemera
ADAGIO PRESS. STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
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A Few Sentences from the Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Harper Woods, Michigan
Adagio: The Private Press of Leobard Bahr
1970
Together with 2 other pieces of Adagio Press ephemera:
1. ‘A Gathering of Typographic Odds and Ends rescued from sundry sources and now protected in the…
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. BATES, H.E. LAMB, Lynton.
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A German Idyll.
Waltham Saint Lawrence
printed by Robert and Moira Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press
1932
The pages are beautifully designed by the expert printer Robert Gibbings who has incorporated the wood engravings with the text just perfectly. He was a…
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SCHANILEC, Gaylord. MIDNIGHT PAPER SALES. LOGUE, Mary.
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A House in the Country.
Wisconsin
Midnight Paper Sales
1994
“A House in the Country” contains four essays by Mary Logue which document the trials of renovating her old Swedish farmhouse, and her observations on…
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