Stromness, Orkney: Vintage Paper Co., 2022. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "The title is adapted from the 1892 book of almost the same name published by Andrew Tate." [prospectus title page] "Cyanotype prints made directly from original katagami decorative stencils from the collection of Vintage Paper Co., Stromness, Orkney. Katagami: These stencils.....
Price: $7,500.00
New England: nd [circa 1800]. Unique. Circa 1800 pictorial needlework, depicting a lady in mourning, marked "To the Memory of Mrs. Fran Marshall" with inked in "Died Nov 3rd, 1790, AE 30, this is inscribed by her daughter, FM", under eglomise glass and housed in a lemon gold rectangular frame.....
Price: $1,750.00
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Neat, professional repair to the inner joints and hinges by Sean Richards. Beginning in Chapter IX, "Natural Causes of Lycanthropy," an early owner has affixed old press clippings about child murders to approx. eight pages of text (in such a way.....
Price: $7,500.00
New York: Intima Press, 2021. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Hester . Emma . Sonia is a feminist reading of the three literary classics. The volume gives voice to the main female characters, Hester Prynne, Emma Bovary, and Sonia Marmeladov, and presents multiple voices in dialogue. The subtitle, Joni . Annie...
Price: $7,500.00
London: John Murray Ltd., 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Design depicts church arches and windows with the black curves and spires and church roof structure with the black ink lines. The colours used and onlays reference stained glass windows." [artist statement]. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Full transparent vellum over watercolour; Louise.....
Price: $4,250.00
New York: Russell Maret, 2022. First Edition. Russell Maret [printer, designer, and afterword]; Nina Schneider [bibliographic descriptions]; Carolee Campbell [commentary]; Harry Reese [foreword]; Annie Schlechter [photography]. One of the 77 numbered copies that includes tip-ins of original material. A lovely catalogue raisonné of the work of Carolee Campbell and the.....
Price: $4,250.00
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Binding is housed in a clamshell box covered in light grey buffalo skin and Hedgehog purple paper from Hook Pottery Paper. Leather spine embroidered in cutch/iron naturally-dyed cotton floss in binder’s handwriting. Trays covered in handmade paper in plum and lined.....
Price: $5,250.00
London, UK: Printed by Nicholas Okes, 1617. First Edition. Quarter calf. "To summarise briefly, Cooper was London born, attended Westminster School, then Christ Church, Oxford, taking his B.A. in 1590 and M.A. in 1593. He became vicar of Great Budworth in the north of Cheshire, then in 1604 moved to.....
Price: $9,500.00
1943. Unique. Hardcover. "To my Mother, December 1943". A beautifully executed hand-drawn album of nineteenth century dress. The album contains exceptional illustrations of various kinds of outfits, for men, women, and children, dated 1800-1900. In an attractive design binding of green and red lozenges, the volume demonstrates the artist's consummate.....
Price: $7,500.00
![Item #9385 Herbarum imagines vivae: Der Kreuter lebliche Contrafaytung. [Herbarum imagines vivae]...](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9385-0.jpeg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&v=1637102523)
Weiler im Allgau, W. Germany: Editions Medicina Rara, 1535 [1985]. Limited Edition. Slipcased. Colophon: "Twenty-eight hundred copies of the "Herbarum Imagines Vivae" were printed for the members of Editions Medicina Rara Ltd. at the presses of the Druckerei Holzer, Weiler im Allgau, West Germany, on a rag paper manufactered especially.....
Price: $375.00
![Item #11394 Angelique and the Pearl Necklace: An Homage to Sail [Design Binding]. Donald Glaister](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11394.jpeg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&v=1683662221)
Vashon Island, WA: Foolsgold Studio, 2007. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Angelique combines a two-part poem with studies of the materials used to make sail boats, and explorations of the spirit of sailing and the rhythm of the sea." [artist statement] "The artist tells us that this new book is inspired by.....
Price: $5,750.00
![Item #11170 Ornamental Calligraphy [Prison Art]. William H. Green](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11170.jpeg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&v=1683662166)
Mass: 1868. Unique. Framed Decorative Calligraphy by convicted wife-murderer Rev. William Harrison Green of West Cornwall, Connecticut, lech, polygamist, PT Barnum politician. He convicted of poisoning his second wife with strychnine for her money, sentenced to be hung Dec 4, 1868, a sentence reduced to life imprisonment in 1869, in.....
Price: $7,500.00
Portland, OR: Scantron Press, 2000. Limited Edition. "Words of bigotry and prejudice are woven into the fabric of this U.S. flag. The Equal Rights Amendment, first proposed in 1923, is still not part of the United States of America's constitution. The flag of the United States is a loaded symbol.....
Price: $7,500.00
![Item #11226 The Rambler [complete in two volumes]. Samuel Johnson](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11226.jpeg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&v=1683662186)
London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1750-52. First Edition. Hardcover. From the library of Oliver Sacks [sold to him by Eric Korn]. Plates and marks of interesting prior owners. Three plates are mounted: [Sir] J. W. H. Brydges [Irishman]; noted Cleveland businessman, author, and scholar Munson Aldrich Havens; and the.....
Price: $7,500.00
Rio De Janeiro: Departmento de Publicidade Rosa Cruz, 1935. First Edition Thus. Original Wraps. "The first edition of this uncommon work by Arnoldo Krumm-Heller (it was later published in German and Spanish). The title translates similarly as "From Incense to Osmotherapies: History and Contributions to a Healing System by Means.....
Price: $250.00
![Item #10995 MOON ARCHIVE [Artist Book]. Patricia Lagarde](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10995.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&v=1683661521)
Mexico City, Mex: Ediciones Escarabajo, 2022. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Complete in five volumes, housed in a custom slipcase. "This brief encyclopedia consists of a five-volume Moon Archive: a personal response to the idea of reaching the Moon, drawing on literature, geography, film, astronomy, and science. The book is rooted in.....
Price: $10,000.00
Stillwater, ME: Nancy Ruth Leavitt, 2019. Unique. Original Wraps. Painted in watercolor and gouache on Arches text wove and bound in Katie MacGregor’s handmade paper. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Painted sheets; matching dropspine box. fo. np (30 leaves). Illus. (hand colored). Signed by the artist.
Price: $5,500.00
Lausanne, Switzerland: c.1880-1912. Unique. Boards. A very illustrative and provocative manuscript songbook written by a Swiss / French regimental officer during World War I, named from the postcard citation, F. Mayor and that he signed it "Lausanne" suggesting he is writing, from, and/or stationed in Lausanne, Switzerland. The research on.....
Price: $6,500.00
London: Printed by R.J. for Ralph Smith, 1702. First Edition. Full Calf. Richard Mead (1673-1754) was an important figure in the development of medical science and toxicology. He wrote the first book in the English Language solely devoted to poisons, was an advocate for evidence-based medicine, advanced the social role.....
Price: $650.00
![Item #11222 Surplus Value Books: Catalogue Number 13 [deluxe edition] [together with] Surplus...](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11222.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&v=1683662185)
Santa Monica & Minneapolis: Danger! Books & Indulgence Press, 2004. Deluxe/Limited Editions. Various. Moody's short story, Surplus Value Books #13 is a comic parody of a bookseller's modern rare book catalogue. The story unfolds as the galley proofs of the involved book catalogue, where the prices accorded the items for.....
Price: $9,500.00
Tucson, AZ: 2022. Unique. Original Wraps. "A rich series of “portraits” of Q are created with prints of various kinds, hand-coloring, collage, debossing, original painting, leaf gilding and freehand tooling. Large “display” lettering of latin words relating to questions and questioning offer and contrast to the smaller textural lettering of.....
Price: $7,500.00
London: Cultural Traffic and Dashwood Books, 2020. Limited Edition. Wraps. Art Direction by Jamie Reid. Image and text by and about Margaret Thatcher, Honey Bane, Cosey Fanni Tutti, and Vi Subversa exploring and contextualizing their various efforts to disrupt the 1980s. "Violence Grows provides a forceful, wide-ranging look at four.....
Price: $275.00
![Item #11420 Anti-Tourism Guide [Artist Book]. Maysa O’Connor](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11420.jpeg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&v=1683662249)
Durham, ME: Self-published, 2019. Unique. Original Wraps. Four related books of varying sizes. Young, emerging book artist's first work. Completed during a semester program at the Oxbow School in Napa, CA (a competative program accepting 20 students across the country per year), it shows remarkable sophistication in concept and execution.....
Price: $1,250.00
London/New York: The Talfourd Press/Richard Minsky, 1990. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This book is based on Tom Phillips' 1988 collage work 'The Class of 47', as exhibited in London at the National Portrait Gallery. "Tom Phillips sent copies of the 31 images to American poet Heather McHugh, who wrote poems about.....
Price: $9,500.00
New York: The Grenfell Press, 2016/2021. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Fall is The poet and artist, Sarah Plimpton, uses the verbal and visual imagery of flocks of swallows migrating south in the fall to conjure up the human condition. These migratory songbirds are small – with long pointed wings, and long.....
Price: $5,500.00