Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1965. First Edition. Original Wraps. Preface by Martin S. Sadik. A relatively significant exhibition catalogue. Notable as Leonard Baskin designed the volume. Minor shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. Cream paper wraps, black ink lettering, red ink decorative element, b/w pictorial element.....
Price: $45.00
Napoli, Italy: Luigi Chiurazzi, 1892. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Fold-out score for: Inno Colombiano. A handsome copy of this very scare volume. Minor shelf/edge wear, minor toning/soiling, small pull in the fold-out score, catalogue description tipped in at ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. Halfbound, brown pebbled cloth spine and.....
Price: $145.00
Bruxelles: G.Van Oest, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Text in French. Widely considered the catalog raisonne for Bruegel's prints. 278 works illustrated and catalogued. Light shelf/edge wear, minor rubbing at the spine, tips through, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Halfbound, brown leather spine and tips, gilt lettering and decorative elements, marbled.....
Price: $75.00
New York & Amsterdam: Johnson Reprint Company/ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1973. Fascimile/Limited Edition. Hardcover. A handsome facsimile of the mid-1800s original...beautifully reproduced. Tight, bright, and unmarred; acetate DJ has closed tear, else unmarred. Mustard yellow cloth, gilt lettering. fo. 12pp plus np plates (40 plates plus a page of text.....
Price: $325.00
Portsmouth, NH: Peter E. Randall Publisher, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the Author. A very handsome copy of this rather uncommon and much sought after volume. Signed by author, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows minor shelf/edge wear, else bright and clean. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering and.....
Price: $145.00
Portland, ME: Wolfe Editions, 1998. First Edition/Limited Edition. Hardcover. Letterpress printed by David Wolfe. An exceptional production piece, with gilt onlay, cut-aways and burn-throughs. Very complex to print and bind. A pristine copy. Tight, bright and unmarred. Quarterbound, black cloth spine, mustard paper boards, paper onlay, black ink lettering and.....
Price: $450.00
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merill Company, 1903. Later Edition. Hardcover. With eight color plates and black and white illustrations throughout. Appears to be fourth/fifth edition, second state. A rather nice copy of this early edition. Light shelf/edge wear, spine lightly sun touched, head and heel rumpled, rear board shows unusual color shift.....
Price: $250.00
Portland, ME: Gorges Society, 1893. First Edition/Repaired. Stiff Wraps. The text of Levett's, "Voyage into New England" (London, 1628) is reprinted on pp.79-139 (includes a facsimile of the title-page). A very presentable copy of this well regarded edition. Original wraps (and endpages) were poor paper and are heavily toned/brittle and.....
Price: $125.00
London: Houlston and Wright, 1865. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Front leather gilt embossed with crest of Abington House, Northampton School. Prize inscription. Light shelf/edge wear, hint of foxing at end pages, light toning at board edges, else tight, bright and unmarred. Full red leather, 5 raised bands, gilt lettering and.....
Price: $245.00
London: Arc Editions, 2014. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Cash Fans is not just the story of money, but universal desire. Inspired by the story of a gang of car thieves who were caught posing with their cash on the internet: in one photo a boy holds a cash sandwich, his face.....
Price: $1,250.00
London: ARC Artists Editions, 2013. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Simple, clean, elegant...beautifully structured prose, overprinted for emphasis, a touch of concrete reductionism. Brilliant. "Victoria Bean’s work features self-generated prose and text and has been shown in a number of galleries including the Tate. Her work is about language and reduction. Saying.....
Price: $1,500.00
London: Hayward Publishing, 2016. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. "This sumptuously designed, colourful and beguiling anthology begins with a compendium of quotations on the nature of concrete poetry from poets past and present. The Bolivian poet, Eugen Gomringer, sums up the spirit of the early concrete movement: ‘The purpose of reduced.....
Price: $3,000.00
Portland, ME: Brown Thurston, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Though the boards show a bit of age/wear, the textblock is extremely nice and both the fold-out elements (advert for Bailey & Noyes Booksellers and map) are in Fine condition. Map ("Plan of Portland - 1863") is particularly lovely, being in "blueprint".....
Price: $175.00
Dublin: The Salvage Press, 2015. Limited Edition. "No trace anywhere of life, you say, pah, no difficulty there, imagination not dead yet, yes, dead, good, imagination dead imagine... So begins Beckett’s ‘Imagination Dead Imagine’, a short prose text first published in French in Les Lettres nouvelles in 1965. Its first.....
Price: $2,500.00
Paris: Piazza, [circa 1920]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Ownership inscription at ffep indicating the owner was at Vassar College. Overall, a handsome little copy. Light shelf/edge wear, light wear at joints and head, spine toned, ownership inscription at ffep, else tight, bright, and unmmarred. Quarterbound, red leather spine, five raised.....
Price: $75.00
New York: J.B. Ford and Company, 1874. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Overall, a very presentable copy of this signficant history. Light shelf/edge wear, spine lightly sunned, gift inscription on ffep, small private library plate on front pastedown, tear at rfep and 2pp of ads with large chip missing, else tight.....
Price: $35.00
Los Angeles, CA: Dawson's Book Shop, 1986. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Green morocco boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, printed endpapers. 45x40mm. 38pp. Limited edition of 100.
Price: $25.00
Mt. Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper, 1965. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Penciled bookseller notation on ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. Glassine dustjacket has several small tears and chips on spine. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt initials and gilt lettering on spine. Original glassine dustjacket. 12mo. 68pp. Red ink frontispiece. Limited edition of.....
Price: $75.00
Philadelphia, PA: Distaff Side, 1939. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Eight images of Goudy at the rear documenting various stages of his life. Minor shelf/edge wear, minor toning to spine, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Blue paper spine, paper labels, red ink lettering, frontispiece. 8vo. 58pp plus plates. Illus. (b/w plates). Limited.....
Price: $75.00
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Gulffort, MS: Gulfport Examiner, 1965-1967. First Edition. Staplebound. Belles-lettres, from the French, means writing that is fine or beautiful, crafted or polished. In this sense belles-lettres applies to all specifically literary work, including fiction, poetry and drama. Serial journal dedicated to literary writers and inspiration advocacy with features from Eudora.....
Price: $150.00
Baltimore: The Xavier Press, 1991. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Massmann Bookplate. Signed by Printer. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Red cloth boards, gilt lettering and design on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece, multiple fold-outs. 70x53mm. 25pp. Numbered limited edition, this being 10 of 200.
Price: $100.00
New York: Intima Press, 2018. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Includes one hundred original drawings and approximately two hundred press runs. Cotton rag papers in ivory, tan, and white, made at St. Armand Paperie, Canada. Letterpress printed from photopolymer plates produced at Boxcar Press, NY. "A Contemporary Illumination The Minotaur short story.....
Price: $6,500.00
New York: Intima Press, 2010. Limited Edition. Broadside. '“Setting the Declaration in type was enlightening in many ways, as my thoughts throughout the process were of Mary Katharine in her print shop during the cold month of January, not having 21st century amenities. I could not help but wonder how.....
Price: $3,200.00
Los Angeles, CA: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1972. First Edition thus. Glossy Pictorial Wraps. A collection of exceptional images captured by Soule during his time photographing the construction of Fort Sill, includes essays and well crafted image notes. A very handsome copy. Very minimal shelf/edge wear, soft crease near front.....
Price: $45.00
New York: Viking Press, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. A precursor to Hotel Splendide, essays and stories about wandering (and wining, if you will) around Europe. A very handsome copy of the first edition of this book paired with the author's own proof...a very special pair and a wonderful addition to.....
Price: $750.00