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One of only 50 copies printed for friends and patrons of the press
THREE KINGS PRESS. ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. MITTL, M.W. ~ Twelve by the Mail. Mindelheim, Bavaria Three Kings Press 1966
With the original prepublication announcement for the German Drei Könige Drucken (Three Kings Press), 1966, with the text in English and German, inserted loose.

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With the rare little hand-printed card giving the limitation of the book (66 copies), a previously unknown quantity
HAMMER CREEK PRESS. FASS, John S. ~ Type and Stick at The Hammer Creek Press. New York At the Sign of the Turtle, printed by John S. Fass at The Hammer Creek Press 1951
A spectacular display of Fass’s decorative designs, printer’s ornaments and gentle humour.
John Strobble Fass (1890-1973) was a graphic designer and printer of fine press books…
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ADAGIO PRESS. ~ Typographic Embellishers. Some Specimens from the collection used at the Adagio Press. Harper Woods Adagio Press, the Private press of Leonard F. Bahr 1968
Beautifully printed specimen book of typographic ornaments collected by the Adagio Press for use in its publications.
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With the scarce glacine dust jacket designed by Marion Dorn and with a loose pencil drawing reputedly of Ruby Lindsay on glacine paper
NONESUCH PRESS. GOODEN, Stephen. DORN, Marion. MOORE, George. ~ Ulick and Soracha. London Nonesuch Press 1926
Loosely inserted in the book is a pencil drawing on glacine paper reputed to be an image of the Australian graphic designer Ruby Lindsay, sister…
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One of 300 copies
GILL, Eric. POWYS, T.F. CLEVERDON, Douglas. ~ Uncle Dottery, A Christmas Story. Bristol Douglas Cleverdon 1930
The two wood engraved vignettes by Gill are Physick numbers 385 & 386. Cleverdon writes that these blocks were originally engraved by Gill in 1926…
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One of 300 copies
GILL, Eric. POWYS, T.F. CLEVERDON, Douglas. ~ Uncle Dottery, A Christmas Story. Bristol Douglas Cleverdon 1930
The two wood engraved vignettes by Gill are Physick numbers 385 & 386. Cleverdon writes that these blocks were originally engraved by Gill in 1926…
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BREMER PRESSE. HOFMANNSTHAL, Hugo von. ~ Versuch Über Victor Hugo. Munich printed at Mandruck A.G. for the Bremer Presse 1925
One of the series of “Werkdrucke” issued commercially by the Bremer Presse between 1923 and 1930. The books were designed in the Press’s workshop using…

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A classic of Welsh literature beautifully printed in Welsh and English in a striking binding by George Fisher
GREGYNOG PRESS. WYNNE, Ellis. ~ Visions of the Sleeping Bard. Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc. Newtown Gregynog Press 1940
The penultimate book printed at the Gregynog Press with, as Harrop remarks, “one of the most pleasing...bindings”
Ellis Wynne (1671-1734) was a Welsh cleric whose Visions…
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“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...”
O’CONNOR, John. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. RUTTER, Owen. ~ We Happy Few. An Anthology by Owen Rutter. I. Britain at War; II. Britain at Sea; III. Britain in the Air. London Golden Cockerel Press 1946
A celebration of the end of the War and the last book to be prepared by Rutter before he died. John O’Connor completed all the…
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[RAMPANT LIONS PRESS]. CARTER, Will. TARLING, Alan. ~ Will Carter, Printer. London The Galahad Press 1968

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PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE. ~ Willi’s Wishful Thinking. New York Press of the Woolly Whale 1938
The original postcards, some of them in colour, are held at the Bibliothéque et Musée de la Guerre at the Chateau de Vincennes.

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FANFROLICO PRESS. ARISTOPHANES. ~ Women in Parliament by Aristophanes, done into English by Jack Lindsay. London printed at the Chiswick Press for the Fanfrolico Press, for sale to subscribers only 1929
Lindsay’s gently erotic and witty illustrations compliment this finely printed edition of Ecclesiazusae.
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TIDELINE PRESS. STAFFORD, William. ~ Wyoming Circuit. Tideline Press 1980
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An exceptional display of wood engraving by Scottish artist Agnes Miller Parker
GREGYNOG PRESS. MILLER PARKER, Agnes. ~ XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk Tales, collected by John Sampson. Newtown Gregynog Press 1933
John Sampson was an Irish linguist and scholar, best known for The Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales (1926) and for his examination of Welsh…
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An important association copy, given by Hornby to his partner in W H Smith, Freddy Smith, second Viscount Hambleden, and his wife Esther. Specially bound at the W.H. Smith bindery.
ASHENDENE PRESS. TODHUNTER, John. ~ Ye Minutes of Ye CLXXVIIth Meeting of ye Sette of Odd Volumes, extracted from the Diary of Samuel Pepys Esq., M.A., F.R.S., transcribed by Bro. Todhunter, Playwright to ye Sette. Bayford, Herts. Ashendene Press: ‘Privately printed by command of His Oddshippe and ye Odd Councillors for Ye Sette by Ye Hand of their well-beloved Brother Ye Chapman. Not to be had of any of Ye Tribe of Booksellers’ 1896
Of the 154 copies, 97 were for the Brethren of the Sette and their archive, 20 for John Todhunter who wrote it and his friends…
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Chapbook 1 from the press
PRESS OF APPLETREE ALLEY. PATTEN, Karl. SHANNON, Colleen. ~ Yes, Of Course, But No. Pennsylvania Press of Appletree Alley 1997
With the original folded 4 pp prospectus inserted loose.
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