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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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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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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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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. FIELDING, Henry. TEGETMEIER, Denis.
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A Journey from this World to the Next.
Waltham Saint Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1930
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UPHILL PRESS. ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey.
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A Letter: from Thomas Bailey Aldrich to Bayard Taylor. Auburn, N.Y. August 20, 1865.
New York
Uphill Press
1967
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“A pleasantly witty discussion of divorce”
![A Letter to a Young Lady on her approaching Marriage [and divorce]. by NONESUCH PRESS. HOOPINGTON, Ambrose.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/8236---200.jpg?v=1727437123)
NONESUCH PRESS. HOOPINGTON, Ambrose.
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A Letter to a Young Lady on her approaching Marriage [and divorce].
London
Nonesuch Press
1934
Written under the pseudonym of ‘Ambrose Hoopington’ by Cecil Binney, a practising barrister and the founder of ‘Cherwell’ magazine. He also published a popular manual…
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CRESSET PRESS. BRETON, Nicholas.
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A Mad World, My Masters.
London
Cresset Press
1929
An excellent printing of Nicholas Breton’s prose work first published in 1603.
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The first published poetry of the Uranian poet Francis Edwin Murray who apparently provided source material for Uncle Monty in Withnail and I - one of only 6 copies on vellum
![A Minor Poet Sings. by [MURRAY, Francis Edwin]](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/9713---200.jpg?v=1727436984)
[MURRAY, Francis Edwin]
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A Minor Poet Sings.
London
Murray & Co., 180 Brompton Road in the Royal Borough of Kensington
1907
21 poems by a ‘Minor Poet’ who dedicates the book “to my father, who stands sponsor for it, I dedicate this, the first child of…
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One of only 12 sets, extremely rare
SCHANILEC, Gaylord. MIDNIGHT PAPER SALES.
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A Miscellany of Ephemera produced by Gaylord Schanilec 1978-2003
December 2006
The ephemera designed, printed and often illustrated by Schanilec includes book prospectuses for Schanilec’s books, price lists, various iterations of Gaylord Schnailec’s business cards and…
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One of only 65 copies with an extra suite of engravings, signed with a quote from the book by Philip Pullman
![À Outrance. [His Dark Materials]. This Book Tells of the Great Fight between the Bear Kings, as chronicled in Northern Lights. by PULLMAN, Philip. OAK TREE FINE PRESS.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/7265---200.jpg?v=1727436930)
PULLMAN, Philip. OAK TREE FINE PRESS.
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À Outrance. [His Dark Materials]. This Book Tells of the Great Fight between the Bear Kings, as chronicled in Northern Lights.
Fyfield, Oxfordshire
Oak Tree Press
2009
A stunning production, signed by Philip Pullman who has also written out a quotation from the book in pencil.
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WHITTINGTON PRESS. WEISSENBORN, Hellmuth. BONHAM-CARTER, Victor.
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A Posy of Wild Flowers Gathered in the Countryside of English Literature.
London and Dulverton
Acorn Press and Exmoor Press
1983
Weissenborn’s charming wild flower illustrations, except in a few cases, are printed from the original wood engravings.
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WEISSENBORN, Hellmuth. BONHAM-CARTER, Victor.
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A Posy of Wildflowers.
London
Allan Wingate
1946
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One of 200 copies, with Schanilec’s first colour engraving
SCHANILEC, Gaylord. GALLO, Philip.
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A Printer's Dozen.
Los Angeles
Bieler Press
1992
This is Schanilec’s first colour engraving, created circa 1980, but not published until this book appeared.
Very scarce.
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ROLLINS, Carl Purington.
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A Printer's Solutions of Some Printer's Problems.
New Haven
Yale University Press
1955
One of 500 copies printed as a keepsake in celebration of Rollins’s 75th birthday, with a list of 55 of the printer’s favourite books produced…
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ROGERS, Bruce. GARGAZ, Pierre-André. EDDY, George Simpson.
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A Project of Universal and Perpetual Peace Written by a former Galley-Slave and Printed by Benjamin Franklin at Passy in the Year 1782.
New York
George Simpson Eddy
1922
A gift from the publisher George Simpson Eddy to the New Jersey Historical Society, with the society’s book label and Eddy’s printed ‘with compliments’ slip…
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Rogers’s first use of a trial font of the Montaigne typeface and the first Riverside Press book printed on a hand press.
![A Report of the Truth Concerning the Last Sea-Fight of the Revenge. by [ROGERS, Bruce]. RALEIGH, Walter.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/9028---200.jpg?v=1727454739)
[ROGERS, Bruce]. RALEIGH, Walter.
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A Report of the Truth Concerning the Last Sea-Fight of the Revenge.
Cambridge
Riverside Press
1902
Inserted loose is a prospectus for Shakespearean scholar Mark Liddell’s series, ‘The Elizabethan Shakespeare’, including specimen pages and a small printed biographical note on Liddell.
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SCHANILEC, Gaylord, 1955.
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A Robin’s Reach.
Wisconsin
Midnight Paper Sales
2017
From ‘Little Book of Birds’, part of Schanilec’s trilogy, the other two are his ‘Bokeh: A Little Book of Flowers’ and Ninja Press’s ‘Departures’.
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. LABOUREUR, J.E. STERNE, Laurence.
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.
Waltham St. Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1928
![A Letter to a Young Lady on her approaching Marriage [and divorce]. by NONESUCH PRESS. HOOPINGTON, Ambrose.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/8236---800.jpg?v=1727437123)
![A Minor Poet Sings. by [MURRAY, Francis Edwin]](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/9713---800.jpg?v=1727436984)
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![Another image of A Minor Poet Sings. by [MURRAY, Francis Edwin]](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/9713_4---800.jpg?v=1727436980)
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![À Outrance. [His Dark Materials]. This Book Tells of the Great Fight between the Bear Kings, as chronicled in Northern Lights. by PULLMAN, Philip. OAK TREE FINE PRESS.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/7265---800.jpg?v=1727436930)
![Another image of À Outrance. [His Dark Materials]. This Book Tells of the Great Fight between the Bear Kings, as chronicled in Northern Lights. by PULLMAN, Philip. OAK TREE FINE PRESS.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/7265_2---800.jpg?v=1727436929)
![A Report of the Truth Concerning the Last Sea-Fight of the Revenge. by [ROGERS, Bruce]. RALEIGH, Walter.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/9028---800.jpg?v=1727454739)
![Another image of A Report of the Truth Concerning the Last Sea-Fight of the Revenge. by [ROGERS, Bruce]. RALEIGH, Walter.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/9028_2---800.jpg?v=1727454740)
