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PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE. CARY, Melbert B.
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The Missing Gutenberg Wood Blocks.
New York
Press of the Woolly Whale
1940
Inserted loose in a bookmark cut in the shape of a chimney with a printed Christmas greeting from Mary and Melbert Cary.More details Price: £40.00
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KING, Ron, b. 1932
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The Monk, VI from The Prologue of The Canterbury Tales.
Circle Press
1978
Ron King’s first artists’ book, The Prologue, was printed in 1967 using Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales’ text accompanied by 20 silkscreen mask-like prints representing the major…More details Price: £90.00
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WYATT, Leo. SHELLEY.
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The More We Study We the More Discover Our Ignorance.
Newcastle upon Tyne
c.1973-76
Leo Wyatt’s trade was to design and engraved steel dies and copper plates. In his late fifties, challenged by the assertion that famed English wood…More details Price: £120.00
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PIPER, John. STONE, Reynolds. THOMAS, R.S.
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The Mountains.
New York
Chilmark Press
1968
10 line poem and 15 page prose piece accomapnied by Piper’s wonderful images, perfectly engraved by Stone.More details Price: £750.00
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LEIGHTON, Clare.
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The Musical Box.
London
printed by the Fanfare Press for Gollancz
[1936]
More details Price: £300.00
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HAEIN SONG, designer bookbinder. CAMUS, Albert.
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays.
London
Hamish Hamilton
1971
Camus' philosophical essay compares the absurdity of man's life with the Sisyphus, a figure of Greek mythology, who was condemned to repeat forever the same…More details Price: £1,700.00
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[WHITE, Gilbert].
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The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton.
London
printed by T. Bensley for B. White & Son
1789
Frontispiece with slight tear to very right hand side where it is bound in affecting only the very edge of the image, plate IV trimmed…More details Price: £3,800.00
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MACGILLIVRAY, William.
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The Natural History of Dee Side and Braemar.
London
printed for private circulation [by command of Queen Victoria, who had purchased the manuscript after MacGillivray’s premature death]
1859
There is an elaborate printed presentation note pasted to the front free endpaper ‘This work, printed by command of the Queen, is presented to The…More details Price: £2,000.00
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KELMSCOTT PRESS. RUSKIN, John.
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The Nature of Gothic. A Chapter of the Stones of Venice.
Hammersmith
Kelmscott Press
1892
The chapter from his Stones of Venice which Ruskin always believed to be the most important and which was first printed separately in 1854 as…More details Price: £3,200.00
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HEWITT, Graily, NESBIT, Edith., JACKSON, F. Ernest, PRYSE, Spenser.
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The Neolith. Nos I-IV
London
printed by Thomas Kell, published quarterly at Royalty Chambers, Dean Street, Soho, London W.
November 1907 - August 1908
The Neolith was an artistic literary periodical published quarterly in London from 1907-1908 under the direction of Edith Nesbit, Graily Hewitt, F. Ernest Jackson and…More details Price: £600.00
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PHILIP SMITH, bookbinder.
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The New English Bible. New Testament.
Oxford & Cambridge University Presses, printed under Brooke Crutchley at the CUP,
1961
From the library of Lord Wardington sold at Sotheby’s 12th July 2006, Lot 210. Since then in a private collection. A remarkably good and rather…More details Price: £5,500.00
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. JOHNSON, Samuel. MACKENZIE-GRIEVE, Averil.
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The New London Letter Writer containing the compleat Art of Corresponding with Ease, Elegance, and Perspiciuity as is now practised by all Persons of Respectability.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1948
The marbled paper was specially done for Sandford by the famous marbler Sidney Cockerell. A rare eighteenth century book, well reprinted and illustrated.
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. JOHNSON, Samuel.
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The New London Letter Writer containing the compleat Art of Corresponding with Ease, Elegance, and Perspiciuity as is now practised by all Persons of Respectability.
London
Golden Cockerel Press
1948
The marbled paper was specially done for Sandford by the famous Sidney Cockerell.
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TSCHICHOLD, Jan. McLEAN, Ruari.
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The New Typography. A Handbook for Modern Designers.
Berkeley
University of California Press
1995
More details Price: £30.00
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NONESUCH PRESS. SYMONS, A.J.A., FLOWER, Desmond & MEYNELL, Francis.
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The Nonesuch Century. An Appraisal, a Personal Note and a Bibliography of the first hundred books issued by the Press 1923-1934.
London
Nonesuch Press
1936
A wonderful, elaborate overview of the first 100 books and roughly the first 10 years of the Nonesuch Press.
Booklabel of Clarence B. Hanson, Jr.More details Price: £600.00 -
NONESUCH PRESS. DICKENS, Charles.
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The Nonesuch Dickens.
London
Nonesuch Press
1937-1938
The original engraved steel-plate by “Phiz” is a good one being from Little Dorrit: “Visitors at the Works” and comes with the original letter of…More details Price: £7,500.00
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KING, Ron, b. 1932
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The Nonne, V from The Prologue of The Canterbury Tales.
Circle Press
1978
Ron King’s first artists’ book, The Prologue, was printed in 1967 using Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales’ text accompanied by 20 silkscreen mask-like prints representing the major…More details Price: £90.00
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PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE. WROTH, Lawrence C. CARY, Melbert B.
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The Oath of a Free-man.
New York
Press of the Woolly Whale
1939
More details Price: £25.00
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HARTLEY, Dorothy.
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The Old Book. A Mediaeval Anthology.
London
Alfred A. Knopf
1930
A collection of Mediaeval stories and poems, arranged by people, land, household, travel, science, beasts, ghosts and curses.More details Price: £50.00
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ROGERS, Bruce. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel.
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The Old Manse.
Boston
Printed at the Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin and Company
1904
With the book label of Charles W. Pilgrim.More details Price: £30.00