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One of 200 copies
SHERWIN BEACH PRESS. BROWN-WAGNER, Alice. LENEHAN, Michael.
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The Essence of Beeing.
Chicago
Sherwin Beach Press
1992
With the original prospectus for ‘The Essence of Beeing’ and ‘Within the Context of No Context’ inserted loose.
An account of two beekeepers, one with hives…
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PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE. CARY, Melbert B.
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The Estivation of Two Mao Tzu.
New York
Press of the Woolly Whale
1935
With the printed ‘Merry Christmas’ compliments slip from Mary and Melbert Cary, together with a hand written note from Harold Hugo, ‘To Clarence’, on his…
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Inscribed by Joseph Blumenthal
SPIRAL PRESS. FRASCONI, Antonio.
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The Fables of Aesop, Newly Narrated by Glenway Westcott.
New York
The Museum of Modern Art
1954
The first of a series of limited editions published by The Museum of Modern Art under the direction of Monroe Wheeler. The fables include The…
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FABLES. AESOP. HERRICK.
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The Fables of Aesop with a Life of the Author.
New York
printed at The Riverside Press for Hurd and Houghton
1865
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In the original publisher’s binding
FABLES. AESOP. STOCKDALE EDITION.
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The Fables of Aesop with a Life of the Author.
London
John Stockdale
1793
An excellent untrimmed copy pretty well preserved in the original binding of Stockdale’s well printed and deliciously illustrated Aesop. This is a true first of…
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ASHENDENE PRESS. SPENSER, Edmund.
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The Faerie Queene disposed into Twelve Books Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues. Together with: The Minor Poems of Edmund Spenser.
Chelsea
Ashendene Press
1923-1925
The paper for these volumes is larger in size than any used before at the Press and in the Bibliography Hornby begs any future binders…
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WILLIAMS, Kyffin (1918-2006)
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The Farmer, His Dog and His Cottage.
Kyffin Williams, RA, the noted Welsh landscape painter, worked with the Gregynog Press in Newtown, Wales on many occasions. He left them 6 original linocuts…
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“no one in our time has succeeded better than Clare Leighton in penetrating the breath of the life of the earth on a scale so grand” (Eric Gill)
LEIGHTON, Clare.
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The Farmer’s Year. A Calendar of English Husbandry.
London
Collins
1933
In words and spectacular large wood engravings, Leighton gives a monthly account of rural agricultural life in 1930s England from the perspective of farm workers.…
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. DE CHAIR, Somerset. WEBB, Clifford.
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The First Crusade, The Deeds of the Franks and other Jerusalemites.
Waltham St. Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1945
A sumptuous production of the first ever complete translation of a unique eye-witness account of the First Crusade. The deeds of the Crusaders done in…
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. DE CHAIR, Somerset. WEBB, Clifford.
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The First Crusade, The Deeds of the Franks and other Jerusalemites.
Waltham St. Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1945
A sumptuous production of the first ever complete translation of a unique eye-witness account of the First Crusade. The deeds of the Crusaders done in…
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. DE CHAIR, Somerset. WEBB, Clifford.
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The First Crusade, The Deeds of the Franks and other Jerusalemites.
Waltham St. Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1945
A sumptuous production of the first ever complete translation of a unique eye-witness account of the First Crusade. The deeds of the Crusaders done in…
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One of 150 copies, with an extra suite of the engravings
SCHANILEC, Gaylord. KINSELLA, W.A.
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The First & Last Annual Six Towns Area Old Timers' Baseball Game.
Minneapolis
Coffee House Press Espresso Editions
1991
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One of only 140 copies
TERN PRESS. CARR, J.L. PARRY, Nicholas & Mary.
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The First Saturday in May. An Echo of a Shropshire Lad.
Market Drayton, Shropshire
Tern Press
1993
A charming story about cricket by novelist J.L. Carr.
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A very handsome set in full white pigskin by W.H. Smith
ASHENDENE PRESS. CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de.
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The First/Second Part of the History of the Valorius and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha.
Chelsea
Ashendene Press
1927-8
The first Ashendene to be printed in Hornby's new Ptolemy type which was adpated from the type used by F. Holle of Ulm for the…
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CIRCLE PRESS. LEGGE, Willow. b. 1934
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The Flea.
London
Circle Press
1980
This print originates from Willow Legge’s work ‘The Flea’ with the Circle Press, founded by Ron King. She studied sculpture at Chelsea School of Art…
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PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE. KREDEL, Fritz. KLINEFELTER, Walter.
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The Fortsas Bibliohoax.
New York
Press of the Woolly Whale
1942
An amusing account of this famous 19th century Belgian book auction hoax.
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“A flower among the best products of English romantic genius” - a good, bright copy
GILL, Eric. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.
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The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Waltham St Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1931
Lavishly illustrated throughout by Eric Gill and using his perfect typography, the Golden Cockerel Press Four Gospels is one of the triumphs of twentieth century…
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KING, Ron, b. 1932
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The Friar, from The Canterbury Tales.
Circle Press
1978
Ron King’s first artists’ book, The Prologue, was printed in 1967 using text from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales’ accompanied by 20 silkscreen mask prints representing the…
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Bifolium with text
KING, Ron, b. 1932
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The Friar, from The Prologue of The Canterbury Tales.
Circle Press
1967
Ron King’s first artists’ book, The Prologue, was printed in 1967 using text from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales accompanied by 20 silkscreen mask-like prints representing the…
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One of only 125 copies, with two loose gatherings from another copy
GRABHORN PRESS. SUTRO, Oscar.
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The Friendship of Books.
San Francisco
The Grabhorn Press
1935
Sutro’s address to the San Francisco College for Women, February 1935.
From the the library of Robert Strong, with his Grabhorn booklabel to front pastedown.