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MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, D.B. DICKENS, Charles.
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The Life of Our Lord; written during the years 1846-1849. By Charles Dickens for his children and now first published.
New York
Simon and Schuster
1934
Written around the time he was completing ‘David Copperfield’, Dickens wrote this extended letter – a simple account of the life of Jesus – to…More details Price: £80.00
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GREGYNOG PRESS.
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The Life of Saint David.
Newtown,
Gregynog Press
1927
The text is based upon the Latin Life by the 11th century Rhygyfarch and the charming engravings illustrate each short chapter in the Welsh patron…More details Price: £4,200.00
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STANBROOK ABBEY PRESS. RUSSELL FLINT, William.
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The Lisping Goddess.
A Figurehead Fantasy: Comments & conversations, Philosophical, Romantical, Facutal & Mendacious, Poetical & Impertinent by Loquacious Mariners, Discreetly Recounted & Advantageously Delineated by W R F. Worcester Private printed for William Russell Flint at the Stanbrook Abbey Press 1968A major piece of work by the Stanbrook Abbey Press where Russell Flint found the typographical marvel Dame Hildelith Cumming remarkably open minded about producing…More details Price: £600.00 -
NONESUCH PRESS. PLUTARCH. NORTH, Thomas.
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The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes compared together by that grave learned philosopher and historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea.
London
Nonesuch Press
1929
Thomas North’s translation of Amyot’s French version of Plutarch’s Lives printed from the first edition of 1579 with the addition of 15 lives from the…More details Price: £350.00
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NONESUCH PRESS. PLUTARCH. NORTH, Thomas.
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The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes compared together by that grave learned philosopher and historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea.
London
Nonesuch Press
1929
Thomas North’s translation of Amyot’s French version of Plutarch’s Lives printed from the first edition of 1579 with the addition of 15 lives from the…More details Price: £290.00
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STAMPERIA VALDONEGA. FIUME, Salvatore. SUETONIUS, Gaius.
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars.
Verona
Limited Editions Club
1963
With the Limited Editions Club monthly newsletter for August 1963 and original prospectus inserted loose.
Kenneth Auchincloss’s booklabel to front pastedown.More details Price: £60.00 -
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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SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS. TATIUS, Achilles.
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The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe.
New York
Shakespeare Head Press for Bernard Guilbert Guerney
1923
Achilles Tatius’s only surviving work, and one of the Greek prose romances that would go on to influence the development of the novel centuries later.More details Price: £60.00
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MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, Daniel Berkeley. HUTNER, Martin.
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The Making of The Book of Common Prayer of 1928.
Southbury, Connecticut
Chiswick Book Shop
1990
With the original prospectus loosely inserted. Warmly inscribed by Martin Hutner to “my fellow Grolierite” Ken Auchincloss on the first blank.
A chronicle of the production…More details Price: £400.00 -
YOLLA BOLLY PRESS. GLAD, Deanna. SCOTT, J.M. SMITH, Rod.
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The Man Who Made Wine.
Covelo, California
Yolla Bolly Press
1996
More details Price: £70.00
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ST. DOMINIC’S PRESS. JOHNSTON, Priscilla.
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The Mill Book.
[Hammersmith & Ditchling
Printed and published by Douglas Pepler, Hampshire House
1917
A lovely juvenile book, satisfying to the eye and enchanting to read.
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FANFROLICO PRESS. LINDSAY, Jack. HERONDAS.
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The Mimiambs of Herondas.
London
for subscribers to The Fanfrolico Press
1929
The first book hand-printed by Jack Lindsay after he moved to Hampstead: “the splendid Miniambs of Herondas, with powerful surreal designs by Alan Odle [was]…More details Price: £120.00
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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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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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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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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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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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COLT PRESS. STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
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The Old Pacific Capital. Robert Louis Stevenson's Story of Monterey.
San Francisco
Colt Press
1944
No. 1 of the California Classics series. The first separate printing of Stevenson’s classic description of Monterey from when he lived there in 1879.More details Price: £40.00