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London: G. Delgado, Ltd, 1935. Wraps. Very good. Robinson, W. Heath. Quarto size, complete. William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) was an exemplary book illustrator and cartoonist, "the only British illustrator to become a 'household name' " (Houfe), a contemporary of acclaimed illustrators Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, best known for his cartoons portraying elaborate and whimsical machinary made to complete simple tasks. In fact, his fame was such that the term "Heath Robinson" was used in the United Kingdom to refer to such machinery, much as the term "Rube Goldberg" was used in the United States. This somewhat uncommon calendar (as of this writing, we find one copy in OCLC for this 1935 edition, and none online) presents Robinson's illustrations in a weekly calendar format with the illustrations often geared towards the season; June has several illustrations set on the beaches, December for Christmas and New Year's. ___DESCRIPTION: The individual pages bound between a cardstock "wrapper", the… Leer más

San Francisco: The Book Club of California [designed and typeset by Patrick Reagh], 2005. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 450 copies, folio size, 135 pp., with Errata sheet, prospectus, and related ephemera. The Federal Art Project, instigated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, was created to employ thousands of artists across the country; this publication from the Book Club of California encompases printmakers working in California, and features a diversity of style and methods. Elizabeth Seaton writes in detail about each artist, as well as the historical context in which the works were made. This volume was printed at the shop of Patrick Reagh (b. 1948), son of Los Angeles photographer William Reagh, who has printed numerous fine press editions under his own imprint. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter black cloth with blue cloth boards, geometric design in black on the front board, yellow lettering on the spine, black endpapers, title page in red, yellow, blue, and… Leer más

New York: H.M. Caldwell Company, n.d.. Hardcover. Very good +. Three volumes (complete), octavo size, approx. 2230 total pp. Three volumes with an forlorn, almost eerie cover design depicting the "wandering Jew" holding a long staff, outlined in white against a backdrop of green cloth and a section in gilt, with falling oak leaves against both. While not signed, the cover design by the DD (Decorative Designers) firm, per noted collected John A. Lehner. While a few individual volumes of this design are online, currently we see no complete sets with this cover design. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full green cloth with design as described above on all three volumes, spine with gilt lettering, top edges gilt, fore- and bottom edges uncut, each volume with a tissue-guarded frontispiece, each volume with an additional five illustrations throughout, title pages in red and black; octavo size (8 1/2" by 5 3/4"), pagination: Vol. I, Part I, 365 pp. and Part II, 375 pp.; Vol. II, Part I, 373 pp. and Part II,… Leer más

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Bukowski, Charles. One of 126 signed/numbered hardcover copies with original artwork, octavo size, 283 pp. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) was "a prolific underground writer who used his poetry and prose to depict the depravity of urban life and the downtrodden in American society. A cult hero, Bukowski relied on experience, emotion, and imagination in his work, using direct language and violent and sexual imagery" (n.b., from the web site of the Poetry Foundation). As much as he achieved popular acclaim during his lifetime, his reputation and following have only increased after his death. In addition to being an author, Bukowski was also an artist: he painted on 6" by 9" paper "with thick layers of acrylics, oil paint, watercolors, pastels, crayons, pens - whatever was at hand. They were sent to Black Sparrow [whose editor, John Martin, was a friend of Bukowski's] where they were bound into special hardcover first… Leer más

Hamburg: Hirundo Press, 2005. Limited Edition. Softcover. Fine. Saltzwedel, Caroline. Number 28 of 150 copies, folio size, 18 unnumbered pp., signed by Kevin Perryman and Caroline Saltzwedel, in German. Caroline Saltzwedel, born in England, has lived in Hamburg since 1995 as a graphic artist and painter. She studied German at the Universities of Durham, Oxford and Bonn, and printed graphics at the Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford. In 1998 she founded the Hirundo Press for artists' books in small editions; her works are in numerous public and private collections, including the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the British Library, the Bodleian Library, Stanford University, and the Widener Library (Harvard), among many others. Caroline's works are often paired with original, new works of poetry such as this, "Was Wellen betrifft". Written by Kevin Perryman, a poet and translator, founder of the translation journal BABEL, who writes in both German and English (n. b., info from the Hirundo Press website).… Leer más

[Monmouthshire]: [The Old Stile Press], 1997. Limited Edition. Leather. Fine. Pitts, J. Martin. No. IX of X specially bound copies, folio size, [27] pp., signed by J. Martin Pitts and Paul Delrue, with prospectus. Paul Delrue (b. 1944) bound his first book at the age of fifteen in 1959, and knew he had discovered his calling. He became an apprentice at the University College, London from 1961-64 and worked there as a binder until 1971. He set up his own bindery in 1971 and in 1981 was elected a Fellow of the Society of Bookbinders, having founded and served as chairman of the Chester and North Wales branch in 1979. Paul has earned numerous awards and honours, including the Silver medal and three other awards in 1991 in The Bookbinding Competition. He was elected a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in the same year; the following year he was awarded two Bronze medals in the prestigious Prix Paul Bonet. Paul invented the lacunose style of binding which is masterfully shown in this work, although he… Leer más

(Westerham, Kent): Westerham Press Limited, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Dulac, Edmund. First (and only) printing, octavo size, 66 pp., inscribed by Barbara Hutton. Barbara Woolworth Hutton (1912-1979) achieved fame - or notoriety - due to the immense wealth into which she was born, coupled with a "troubled private life" (n.b., quote from Wiki). Married seven times (one of her husbands being Cary Grant), losing her only son in a plane crash, she died at age 66 on the verge of becoming bankrupt. She became known as "the poor little rich girl" and her life has been portrayed in film several times. This slender volume of poetry tells us some of the places Hutton visited (the Taj Mahal, Thebes, etc.) and people she knew, but mostly are poems of of yearning. Inscribed by Hutton on the front free endpaper, "To dearest Mrs Hill / with all [?] of love, / Barbara" (undated). With a frontis portrait of the author by the well-known Edmund Dulac (1882-1953), the only illustrator of his day on a par… Leer más

[Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1923. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. White, Ethelbert. One of 350 copies (on paper), duodecimo size, 49 pp. Edmund Spenser (1552/3 to 1599) is probably best known for his epic poem "The Faerie Queene", an ode to Elizabeth I. Even today he is considered one of the greatest poets of the English language. This work, "The Wedding Songs", is a publication uniting two works which were published a year apart, both dealing with love and romance. According to "Chanticleer", this is the first work of the Press to be illustrated with wood-engravings; however, they go on to state that "[t]here is no great feeling of harmony between the engravings and the type" (p. 16). We find the three wood-engravings charming; Ethelbert White (1892-1972) was a founding member of the English Wood Engraving Society, beginning his career with water colour but being introduced to wood-engraving in 1920. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter linen, white paper spine label… Leer más

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2004. Leather bound. Fine. Large octavo size, 349 pp., signed by Vonnegut. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) wrote across a broad spectrum; from "widely satirical novels" to fantasy and science fiction, Vonnegut had a message to deliver: the "horrors and ironies of 20th-century civilization" (n.b., quotes from the online Encyclopedia Britannica). His career spanned more than five decades, during which he would write fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works. This work, "Welcome to the Monkey House", is "a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as 'The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction' and 'The Atlantic Monthly', these superb stories share Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision" (n.b., quote from the web site of Worlds Without End). One of the Collector's Edition publications by The Easton Press, signed by Vonnegut on… Leer más

Berlin: Ullstein & Co, 1910. Hardcover. Good +. Six volumes (complete), quarto size, in German. German historian Julius von Pflugk-Harttung (1848-1919), best known as an authority on Papal and mediaeval history, wrote this expansive six-volume set on the history of art around the world, copiously illustrated with photographs, maps, and facsimiles, some in colour and some in black-and-white, throughout each volume; a gorgeous set expounding the author's interpretations of significant world events, art, and architecture. The set includes: "Altertum" (ca. 1909), "Mittelalter" (1909), "Der Orient" (1910), "Neuzeit 1500-1650" (ca. 1909), "Neuzeit, Das Politische Zerialter 1650-1815" (ca. 1908), "Neusiz seit 1815" (ca. 1908). ___DESCRIPTION: Full white cloth, illustration in black with gilt lettering, ruled borders, and stars on the front board, gilt lettering on the spine, all edges stained black, dark blue endpapers with all-over star pattern in gilt, title page in orange and black, all volumes with… Leer más

[Newtown, Pennsylvania]: Bird & Bull Press, 2000. Limited Edition. Folio. Fine. Bates, Wesley W.. First printing, limited to 150 copies, 14 pp. Wesley W. Bates (b. 1952) is an artist whose work is held in private collections in Canada, the United States, England, Ireland, Australia, Spain, Japan and China. Known as one of Canada's most accomplished wood engravers, Bates has since ventured into book illustration. William Morris (of Bird & Bull), when planning for the book "The Foresters" (a poem descriptive of a 1300 mile trek from philadelphia to niagara falls in 1804) had originally intended for Gaylord Schenilac to provide the engravings; however, he was so pleased with Bates' work that he obtained permission to print and offer them as an independent set (n.b., from Wesley Bates' online CV and Biodiversity Heritage library). ___DESCRIPTION: Thirteen complete wood engravings plus engraved title sheet, encased in a plain paper wallet; sheets measure (8 1/2" x 11"), images range in length from 6… Leer más

(London): Gingko, 2019. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo size, 637 pp., text in both German and English. Per the publisher's statement on the front pastedown, " 'The West-Eastern Divan' is one of the major works of world literature and as Eric Ormsby says in his introduction, 'It represented nothing less than a decisive reconfiguration of German, and indeed European, Poetry.' " ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full blue cloth over boards, dark blue decoration and lettering on the front board, white lettering on both boards and the spine, illustrated front end-paper with publisher's blurb, short author bio on back endpaper, bilingual in German and English, small barcoded label from publisher on back board; octavo size (9 7/16" by 6 1/8"), pagination: [i-xiii] xiv-xlii [1-3] 4-595. ___CONDITION: Volume overall fine, with clean boards, straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; a very light smudge to… Leer más

(San Francisco): (Printed by Edwin Grabhorn) [Privately for James Rorty], 1922. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Sinel, Joseph. One of 150 copies, ocatvo size, 12 pp. This long-form poem is by journalist, poet, and life-long social activist James Hancock Rorty (1890-1973); during WWI he served as a stretcher-bearer on the Argonne front, which (understandably) led to him becoming a pacifist. He afterwards moved to San Francisco, where he would have met Edwin Grabhorn when looking for a printer for this poem. The poem can, and has been, interpreted in various ways; our reading leads us to believe Rorty is crying out against an inhuman and uncaring God/universe - the "Census-taker" who counts "the young of the field mouse" and "the seeds of the milk-weed". This "Census-taker" apparently cares nothing for humanity and wrongs done throughout the ages, recounting the inhuman acts done to great men (by Rorty's standards) by other men; among others, he recounts the Crucifixion, the martyrdom of John… Leer más

Stockton, Minnesota: Sutton Hoo Press, 2005. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 136 copies, folio size, 78 pp., signed by Peter Everwine. This volume is Peter Everwine's (1930-2018) translation of Aztec poetry from the Nahuatl language; Everwine worked with various poets and translated poetry from the Hebrew and Aztec languages, as well as writing his own poetry. "Everwine was the recipient of multiple awards and honors, including a Pushcart Prize, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among others. His poetry was featured in the Paris Review, the American Poetry Review, and others" (n.b., from the web site of the Poetry Foundation). The poems here contain a gentleness and subtlety in their descriptions of beauty; they are a lovely selection of Aztec poetry and illuminate the values and spirituality of the culture. Printed by the Sutton Hoo Press, this fine press publication has the poems printed in Everwine's English translation with the Nahuatl… Leer más

San Francisco: Printed for John F. Newbegin by John Henry Nash, 1916. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. One of 2000 copies, duodecimo size, 82 pp. A charming fable of a young girl's adventures with the birds found in her grandmother's orchard, this book is an early publication from John Henry Nash (1871-1947) under his own imprint; a San Francisco-based printer of fine press books and numerous broadsides and ephemera, Nash worked for Stanley-Taylor Co. until 1901 and Tomoye Press from 1903 to 1911, before founding his own firm in 1916, which remained in business until 1938. Nash's work is known for superb typographical design and attention to materials, particularly the paper used for binding and printing. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter light green cloth with grey-green paper boards, floral border, lettering, and ornament in dark green on the front board, frontispiece a black-and-white illustration of a bird in a tree inside a floral border, title page with same floral border in black,… Leer más

[Mount Vernon, NY]: Editions, 2003. Accordion. Fine. 32mo size, 10 pp., signed by Ed Hutchins. Book Artist Edward H. Hutchins believes that: everyone has a story to tell; that the best books are not mass-produced; and that when one let's one's imagination soar, the most amazing creations are possible utilizing, often, fairly inexpensive materials. Thus was born - Guerilla Bookmaking. Ed Hutchins has produced at least over eighty books between the years 1968 and 2005 (perhaps more - gleaned from several sources). Always creative and frequently carrying a social justice message, Ed's books charm and delight. His own web site offers a few books which are still in print; this volume, presenting "a reminder that choices made in the present, both personal and national, have long term consequences" - is out of print and we are pleased to offer it here (n.b., quote from the insert accompanying the volume). ___DESCRIPTION: Accordion structure which was taped forming a french-fold binding style of heavy… Leer más

Norfolk, Conn: New Directions, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Each book the first printing, octavo size, 303 and 382 pp. respectively, "In the Money" inscribed by Williams. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), although a medical doctor by profession, was likely one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. A leading poet of the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and H.D., an inspiration to the beats and the San Francico Renaissance, he "was known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry" (n.b., quote from the web site of the Poetry Foundation). "The White Mule" is the first novel in what would become a trilogy, following the Stecher family; although a trilogy, each book is a complete novel by itself. While WCW is primarily thought of as a poet, his "novels are of great interest. They are important books in their own right, because they present with a poet's insight, and in a prose style of striking originality, aspects of… Leer más

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. First printing, octavo size, 240 pp. David Joseph Bohm (1917-1992) was "one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century...who contributed unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, neuropsychology and the philosophy of mind. Among his many contributions to physics is his causal and deterministic interpretation of quantum theory known as De Broglie-Bohm theory" (n.b., per Wiki). In this volume, Bohm "develops a theory of quantum physics which treats the totality of existence, including matter and consciousness, as an unbroken whole" (n.b., from jacket flap). ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full purple cloth over boards, silver lettering stamped onto the spine, the text with some scattered equations throughout; octavo size (8 5/8" by 5 1/2"), pagination: [i-v] vi-xv [1, blank] [1] 2-224. In the publisher's dust jacket with summary of the book on the front flap, short author bio on back flap, publisher's… Leer más

Bolinas, California: Bolinas Museum, 2002. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Hobson, Charles. No. 56 of 100 special edition copies with original artwork, duodecimo size, 55 pp., signed by the artist. Charles Hobson (b. 1943) is an artist and printmaker who constructs images for books and works on paper through monotype and printmaking; he has published more than forty contemporary artists' books under the imprint of Pacific Editions since 1986. Often utilizing literary or historical themes, his work addresses such diverse topics as famous couples who met in Paris and Mark Twain's imaginary diaries of Adam and Eve. His work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the New York Public Library; the Whitney Museum, New York; and the National Gallery, Washington, D.C. (n. b., info from SFAI website). This volume describes Hobson's work in printmaking and book arts; it is a fascinating account in the artist's voice of his love for bookmaking and his development of the image and the… Leer más

[Carrollton, Ohio]: Press on Scroll Road, 2003. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Bates, Wesley. One of 100 numbered copies, large octavo size, [54] pp., signed by Wendell Berry, Wesley Bates, and James Baker Hall, with prospectus. Wendell Erdman Berry (b. 1934) was the first living writer to be inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame (in 2015). The winner of numerous awards and a prolific author, his writing "is grounded in the notion that one's work ought to be rooted in and responsive to one's place" (n.b., per Wiki). This work, "Window Poems", contains twenty-seven poems which reflect the author's thoughts, grounded at the "Camp" with a many-paned window which, as Hall says in the Foreword: is "a grid with more than two dimensions, a way to measure & to frame anything of his choosing....What we've been witnessing is the transforming power of the presiding image, from random thought & perception in to picture, from time into timelessness..." Originally published in "Collected Poems:… Leer más