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ALLEN PRESS. SOPHOCLES.
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Antigone. A tragedy.
Greenbrae, California
The Allen Press
1978
Part of the Allen Press series of Greek dramas. The Allens thought Antigone especially moving and an ideal text.
Original prospectus inserted loose.Booklabel of Clarence B.…More details Price: £280.00 -
HALCYON PRESS. MELVILLE, John.
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Batavia. A Poem by John Melville.
Maastricht
printed by A.A.M. Stols at the Halcyon Press
1931
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GRABHORN & GRABHORN-HOYEM PRESS.
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Bibliography of the Grabhorn & Grabhorn-Hoyem Press 1915-73 in Three Volumes:
San Francisco
Grabhorn Press & Andrew Hoyen
1940-1977
All with the booklabel of Clarence B. Hanson, Jr.More details Price: £2,000.00 -
OFFICINA BODONI. BÖHMER, Gunter. MONTANO, Lorenzo.
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Bishop San Zeno. Patron of Verona.
Verona
Officina Bodoni
1949
The English translation of a story about the life and miracles of Verona’s patron saint, based on the effigy of San Zeno in the Veronese…More details Price: £500.00 -
CRANACH PRESS. GILL, Eric.
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Canticum Canticorum Salomonis.
[Weimar
Cranach Presse
1931]
A superb copy. Inserted loose is a 4 page list of former publications of the Cranach Press, plus two prospectuses with an original Gill engraving,…More details Price: £3,600.00 -
BREMER PRESSE. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.
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Cato Der Ältere Über Das Greisenalter.
Munich
printed at Mandruck A.G. for Bremer Presse
1924
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…More details Price: £50.00 -
ERAGNY PRESS. PISSARRO, Lucien. COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor.
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Christabel, Kubla Khan, Fancy in Nubibus and Song from Zapolya.
London
Eragny Press
1904
With a presentation inscription by the printers and artist Esther and Lucien Pissarro on the first blank “To dear Sophie & Bethel Jacobs from Esther…More details Price: £1,400.00 -
S. DOMINIC'S PRESS. PEPLER, H.D & C.
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Christmas Card From H.D. & C. P., The Crank, Ditchling Common. Christmas 1925.
Ditchling
St. Dominic’s Press
1925
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ALLEN PRESS. KAZANTZAKIS, Nikos.
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Christopher Columbus.
Kentfield, California
The Allen Press
1972
Nikos Kazantzakis was the greatest Greek writer of the 20th Century. He died in 1957 and Christopher Columbus was one of several plays published posthumously…More details Price: £360.00 -
GILL, Eric. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.
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Clothing Without Cloth. An Essay on the Nude.
Waltham St. Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1931
The male nude here seen as the frontispiece is a perhaps exaggerated self-portrait of Gill originally intended to depict Lady Chatterley's gamekeeper lover.More details Price: £350.00 -
GREGYNOG PRESS. EDWARDS, Owen.
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Clych Atgof.
Newtown
Gregynog Press
1933
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GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. CHAMBERS, David & SANDFORD, Christopher.
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Cock-a-Hoop, a sequel to Chanticleer, Pertelote, and Cockalorum being a bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, September 1949-December 1961, with a list of Prospectuses 1920-62.
Pinner
Private Libraries Association for the Golden Cockerel Press
[1976]
The long awaited fourth volume of the Golden Cockerel Press Bibliography, being one of the 300 deluxe copies.
Booklabel of Clarence B. Hanson, Jr. on front…More details Price: £220.00 -
GREGYNOG PRESS. XENOPHON.
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Cyrupaedia: the institution and life of Cyrus, the first of that name, King of Persians. Eight bookes treating of noble education, of princely exercises, military discipline, warlike stratagems, perparations & expeditions: wirtten in Greeke by the sage Xenophon.
Newtown
Gregynog Press
1936
The English translation of Philemon Holland of Coventry taken from the 1632 edition printed for Robert Allot.More details Price: £1,000.00 -
BREMER PRESSE. BORCHARDT, Rudolf, translator.
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Die Grossen Trobadors.
Munich
printed at Mandruck A.G. for the Bremer Presse
1924
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…More details Price: £55.00 -
BREMER PRESSE. VOSSLER, Karl.
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Die Romanischen Kulturen und Der Deutsche Geist.
Munich
printed at Meisenbach, Riffarth & Co for the Bremer Presse
1926
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…More details Price: £50.00 -
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. NASH, John. SWIFT, Rev. Jonathan.
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Directions to Servants.
Waltham St. Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1925
Swift’s hilarious satirical advice to English servants which was unfinished when he died “redundancies in the text must be taken merely as an indication of…More details Price: £1,900.00 -
CRANACH PRESS. HOGARTH PRESS. SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita and Edward. RILKE, Rainer Maria. GILL, Eric.
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Duineser Elegien. Elegies from the Castle of Duino.
Weimar
printed at the Cranach Press for The Hogarth Press
1931
A fine translation by cousins Vita and Edward Sackville-West of Rilke’s great Elegies which he had begun in 1911-12 at the castle of Duino in…More details Price: £6,000.00 -
MORRIS, Jane. PARSONS, John R.
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Early 20th century print of the celebrated photograph of Jane Morris by John R. Parsons.
[1865 but printed c. 1900]
In 1865 Dante Gabriel Rossetti arranged a photo shoot with John R. Parsons of his muse, model and love interest Jane Morris, William Morris’s wife.…More details Price: £1,000.00 -
KELMSCOTT PRESS. HAMMERSMITH SOCIALIST SOCIETY. MORRIS, William.
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Early Hammersmith Socialist Archive.
1890s
Included is:
1) Original membership card of the Socialist League, Hammersmith Branch for Mrs Catterson Smith in 1899, signed by William Morris and Emery Walker as…More details Price: £2,500.00 -
COBDEN-SANDERSON, T.J. HAMMERSMITH PUBLISHING SOCIETY.
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Ecce Mundus. Industrial Ideals and The Book Beautiful by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson.
Hammersmith
printed at the Chiswick Press for the Hammersmith Publishing Society
1902
Two important texts by Cobden-Sanderson including his theory of The Book Beautiful “The Ideal Book or Book Beautiful is a composite thing made up of…More details Price: £250.00
