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DE NERVAL, Gerard. CLOUZOT, Marianne. DESMULES, R.
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Sylvie.
Paris
Marcel Lubineau
1944
Semi-autobiographical, Nerval’s story is of three lost loves. Proust style (in fact Proust was a great fan of the book), a paragraph in the newspaper…More details Price: £1,200.00
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STEPHEN CONWAY, designer bookbinder. DUNNING, John & POE, Edgar Allan.
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The Bookman's Wake; with the Raven.
New York & London
Scribner & Folio Society
1995
The Bookman’s Wake is a murder mystery set in the world of Private Presses and printers. The story revolves around the search for a very…More details Price: £2,500.00
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BINDING SAMPLE BOOK FOR THE BIBLE.
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The Holy Bible. According to the Authorized Version, with the marginal readings and parallel references, printed at length and the Commentaries of Henry and Scott, condensed by the Rev. John McFalane LLD.
Glasgow, Edinburgh & London
William Collins, Sons & Company
c.1871
A remarkable survival and fascinating insight into the importance of choosing a family Bible and how the options were presented to the plentiful customers.More details Price: £3,600.00
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ROGER POWELL, bookbinder. OSTLER, George.
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The Little Oxford Dictionary of Current English.
Oxford
Clarendon Press
1957
Together with the two original metal blocks used to blind-tool the letters A and Z.
The binding is unsigned but comes with a letter from The…More details Price: £2,500.00 -
GREGYNOG PRESS. HARTZENBUSCH, Juan.
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The Lovers of Teruel, A Drama in Four Acts in Prose and Verse. Translated from the Spanish by Henry Thomas.
Newtown
Gregynog Press
1938
A really good binding design: "there are no records extant which mention the origin of the binding design, but its character suggests that it was…More details Price: £400.00
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GIANNINI, Giuseppe.
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The Masterpieces of Van Dyck.
London & Glasgow
Gowans & Gray
1908
A classic of the genre of bindings produced by the famous Giuseppe Giannini of Florence for the English tourist trade.More details Price: £390.00
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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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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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JILL PROLE, designer bookbinder.
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The Periodic Table by Primo Levi.
London
Folio Society
2011
A very accomplished bookbinding by Jill Prole which won the J. Hewit & Sons prize in the 2012 Designer Bookbinding Competition. It was exhibited in…More details Price: £2,400.00
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PETER JONES, designer bookbinder. DINE, Jim. APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume.
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The Poet Assassinated.
London
Rupert Hart-Davies
1968
More details Price: £1,250.00
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[DOVES BINDERY]. RUSKIN, John.
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture.
Sunnyside, Orpington
George Allen
1898
Reputedly the copy belonging to Cobden-Sanderson’s son Richard hence why it is in an unsigned Doves binding.More details Price: £900.00
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CEDRIC CHIVERS. GRANVILLE FELL, Herbert.
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The Song of Solomon.
London
Chapman and Hall
1897
Inscription on front blank from Halsway Manor in Somerset for Easter 1928.
Cedric Chivers of Bath had patented his ‘vellucent’ binding method in 1898 which involved…More details Price: £25,000.00 -
GREGYNOG PRESS. HUGHES-STANTON, Blair. DE VEGA, Lope.
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The Star of Seville. A Drama in Three Acts and in Verse.
Newtown
Gregynog Press
1935
Published in time for the tercentenary of Lope De Vega’s death, although this was a rather curious text being a rather stilted seventeenth century Spanish…More details Price: £500.00
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ESSLEMONT, David. GENTLEMAN, David.
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The Wood Engravings of David Gentleman.
Montgomery
David Esslemont
2000
With an introduction by Fiona Maccarthy.
Inserted loose is a letter from David Esslemont presenting this first special copy which describes his binding process:
“My design is…More details Price: £2,500.00 -
HANNAH BROWN, designer binding. TORMIS, Veljo.
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The Word Was Sung/Lauldad Sona.
Tallinn
published for the Estonian Designer Bookbinders by Trukikoda Folger Art
2008
Printed in both Estonian and English, transcribed using recordings and notes by Urve Lippus.
Hannah Brown is a Fellow of the Designer Bookbinders and a…More details Price: £4,000.00 -
ERI FUNAZAKI & DANNY FLYNN, book artists.
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Theatre Dog.
ff [Flynn & Funazaki]
2013
The text is an excerpt from a play involving two dogs having a heated conversation about their daily life (ie waiting to be told where…More details Price: £1,200.00
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CAPON, Lester. MILLER-PARKER, Agnes. BATES H.E.
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Through the Woods.
London
Victor Gollancz
1936
More details Price: £2,500.00
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GERALDY, Paul. LEPAPE, Georges. Bound by H. BERTHAUX.
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Toi et Moi [You and Me].
Paris
Editions de l’Ile de France
1947
Paul Geraldy’s beautiful, ‘naive’ poems following the course of a love affair first appeared in 1912.More details Price: £950.00
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GILL, Eric.
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Toilet.
1923
After a drawing by Norval Gray whose initials are engraved in the block.
Extremely scarce thus - no edition is recorded by Physick.More details Price: £1,200.00 -
SUSAN ALLIX
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Trees. A short and random collection of words on trees; with prints.
London
Susan Allix
2000
The text includes thoughts on the cherry by A.E. Housman from ‘A Shropshire Lad’, Browning's ‘Home-thoughts from Abroad’ about the elm - "O to be…More details Price: £2,200.00