A Bonsai-Shaped Mind and Postures of the Heart. Designed and co-published by David Pascoe of Nawakum Press and Richard Wagener of Mixolydian Editions.
by [ Wagener, Richard, illustrator and designer], Keene, Mark Peter
Petaluma, California and Gig Harbor, Washington]: 2024 One of thirty "slipcase edition" copies out of a total edition of 82 copies.This project is the fourth collaboration between Mixolydian Editions and Nawakum Press. The first section is titled "A Bonsai-Shaped Mind" and includes five short essays on bonsai from Marc Peter Keane. Keane describes bonsai as a living art which fosters connections between the artist and the natural world. The second section, "Postures of the Heart," consists of a short story... Read More
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The Sierra Nevada Suite. Thirty-One Wood Engravings..
by Wagener, Richard
San Francisco: Book Club of California 2013 One of 308 copies. Signed by the artist. This is a companion volume to Wagener's California in Relief, which was published by the Book Club of California in 2009 and went out of print immediately. Bound by John DeMerrit Bookbinding in black linen over green laid paper boards, with woodcut illustration on front over. Printed paper spine label. . Narrow folio (7 in. x 12 in.). With a [4] pp. introduction by Peter... Read More
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From Here and There
by Wagener, Richard
Petaluma, California: Mixolydian Editions, 2022 One of twenty-six deluxe copies in an edition of fifty-one, plus six hors commerce copies. Bound by Priscilla Spitler in red morocco over iridescent paste paper made by Claire Maziarczyk. Foil stamped with title on spine. . 7 x 12 in. . With twenty woodcut plates (including frontispiece), six in color, of plants observed in the wild and in botanical gardens internationally. With an explanatory paragraph for each woodcut. Printed by Richard Wagener in Aldus... Read More
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Exoticum: Twenty-five Desert Plants from the Huntington Gardens. Wood Engravings by Richard Wagener. Essay by Edwin Dobb.
by [ Wagener, Richard ]
[Petaluma, California:] Mixolydian Editions, 2017 One of sixty copies, signed by both Edwin Dobb and Richard Wagener. This is one of the twenty-six deluxe copies, featuring the extra signed prints. Quarter terra cotta morocco over marbled paper boards, gilt lettered spine. Laid in a clamshell box, along with five signed prints from the edition and a special printing of the bladderpod plant, which was the genesis of this suite of engravings. The suite of prints is in a green paper... Read More
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Zebra Noise with a flatted 7th
by Wagener, Richard
Berkeley: Peter Koch, 1998 One of seventy numbered copies, signed by Wagener. Designed and printed on Zerkall paper by Peter Koch and Richard Wagnener. Folio. 8 1/2 x 14 1/2." . Twenty-six full-page wood-engravings, one for each letter of the alphabet, with short prose statements on facing pages. Twenty-six smaller woodcut section titles in red. Fine in brown board chemise and red silk slipcase with printed paper label. This beautiful letterpress production is an alpha-bestiary, with woodcuts of animals to... Read More
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Nineteenth Century British Glass
by Wakefield, Hugh
New York: Thomas Yoseloff, [1961] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Four color plates, many black and white illustrations. MInor fading to edges of covers. Very good in very good, lightly edgeworn d.j.
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English Marbled Papers: A Documentary History.
by Wakeman, Geoffrey
[Loughborough, Leicestershire:] The Plough Press, [n.d., ca. 1977] One of 112 numbered copies. Quarter blue-green morocco over cloth boards, gilt spine. . Small quarto. Twenty-six mounted samples of marbled papers by Douglas Cockerell, Richard J. Wolfe, Michael Mitchell, Solveig Stone, and others. Title with vignette of a printing press in blue. A fine copy.
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Meissen Porcelain. Photographs by Ulrich Frewel and Klaus G. Beyer
by Walcha, Otto
New York: Putnams, [1981] First U.S. edition. Cloth. Quarto. With 259 illustrations, many in color. Fine in very good dust jacket with some light edgewear and three small tears.
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The Arkansas Testament
by Walcott, Derek
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, [1987] First edition. Clothbacked boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.
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Another Life
by Walcott, Derek
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1973] Blue-green cloth with gilt spine. Octavo. Fine in fine dj.
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Sequential Analysis
by Wald, Abraham
New York: Wiley & Sons, 1947 First edition. Original navy cloth. Octavo. Sixteen figures, seven tables. A very good copy. Abraham Wald pioneered the science of decision analysis and, in particular, that of sequential decision making. Before Wald, the traditional style of statistical decision was to posit a hypothesis, make a predetermined number of measurements, then make a decision whether to accept or reject the hypothesis. Wald realized that this procedure is quite wasteful, and that many measurements could be... Read More
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The Third Life of Grange Copeland. A novel.
by Walker, Alice
New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, [1970] First edition of the author's first novel. Original red cloth over charcoal boards, spine stamped in silver. Octavo. Top corners lightly bumped. Light shelfwear, top corners lightly bumped. Spine of jacket slightly browned, one of jacket slightly browned, quarter-inch tear in jacket. Very good plus, in like jacket. Inscribed by the author, "for Alice & Bob with great good wishes. Alice Walker 7/31/70."
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Sierra Nevada Sequence. A Series of Sonnets. Illustrated with Original, Signed Wood Engravings by Kirk Martin.
by Walker, Ardis Manley
[Kernville]: Sierra Trails Press, [1968] One of 107 copies, numbered in ink on the colophon. . Housed in a dark green cloth chemise with gilt-lettered spine and front board, handmade by Bela Blau. Folio (13" x 711"). . 35 folded sheets (unbound, as usual). Thirty-two tipped-in wood-engravings by Kirk Martin, a student of Paul Landacre, depicting the beauty and grandeur of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, each signed by the artist. Additionally inscribed by Walker on verso of table of contents,... Read More
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A Study of Frege
by Walker, Jeremy D.B
Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1965 First U.S. ed. Cloth. Octavo. Very good in price-clipped d.j.
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Of Education. Especially of Young Gentlemen. In Two Parts. The Second Impression with additions.
by [ Walker, Obadiah].
Oxford: At the Theatre Ann, 1673 Contemporary mottled calf, burgundy morocco spine label. . Twelvemo. Large engraving of the University arms on title-page, partly colored in a contemporary hand. With the errata leaf. Joints a bit worn. Armorial bookplate of genealogist and antiquary Evelyn Philip Shirley (1812-1882). A very good copy, clean and crisp. Obadiah Walker (1616-1699), a noted bibliophile, was the senior fellow and later the Master at University College, Oxford. Of Education is a distillation of his teaching... Read More
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Glass in the Old World.
by Wallace-Dunlop, M.A
London: Field & Tuer, Ye Leadenhalle Presse…[et al.], [n.d., 1883] First edition. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and black. . Octavo. One inch tear along back joint, spine ends lightly frayed. Some light foxing, affecting some plates. Armorial bookplate, pencil signature dated January 1897. A good, bright copy. An interesting history of early glass, based on the collection at the present-day Victoria and Albert Museum. The book is nicely printed by the Leadenhall Press—best known for... Read More
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Essai sur La Différence du nombre des Hommes dan les Tems Anciens et Modernes, Dans lequel on établit qu'il étoit plus considérable dan l'Antiquité. Traduit de l'Anglois de M. R. Wallace, Chapelain de S. M. B. & Membre de Societé Philosophique d'Edimbourg. Par M. de Joncourt, Professeur de Langues Etrangeres à Paris.
by Wallace, [Robert]
A Londres: 1754 First French translation. Contemporary French sheepskin, spine ornately gilt in compartments to a thistle motif, morocco label. Edges stained red. Octavo. Front joint slightly wormed and worn at base, corners lightly worn. Still, a handsome copy. This work opposed Hume's views on the population issue and contributed to the European debate in which Montesquieu (whose influence on Wallace is evident in his Persian Letters and The Spirit of Laws) championed the greater populousness of the... Read More
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An Answer to the Latter Part of Lord Bolingbroke's Letters on the Study of History. By the late Lord Walpole of Woolterton. In a Series of Letters to a Noble Lord.
by Walpole, [Baron Horatio]
London: Printed by W. Richardson and S. Clark… 1763 First octavo edition, following a quarto edition the previous year. . Contemporary marbled boards with newer calf backstrip. Gilt-ruled spine with gilt red morocco label. Octavo. A little light dampstaining at bottom margin, a little light foxing. A very good, uncut copy. Armorial bookplate of George Cavendish, old ink signature ("Marcus Gage") on title-page, old ink notations on front endpapers. In this posthumous work Lord Walpole (1678-1757), the brother... Read More
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The Duchess of Portland's Museum. Introduction by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis.
by Walpole, Horace.
New York: Grolier Club, 1936 First edition, one of 450 copies, printed for the members by Edmund Burke Thompson at Hawthorne House, Windham, Connecticut. Number 11 in the club's Miscellaneous Antiquities series,. Apple green cloth over tan patterned boards, gilt spine. . Octavo. A fine copy, with publisher's note laid in.
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Journal of the Printing-Office at Strawberry Hill. Now first printed from the MS. of Horace Walpole. With notes by Paget Toynbee
by Walpole, Horace
[London:] Printed at The Chiswick Press for Constable and Company and Houghton Mifflin, 1923 Deluxe edition, limited to 650 copies. Original tan calf with gilt black morocco label. . Quarto. Photogravure frontispiece, and eleven other plates in heliotype or photogravure, including tipped in facsimile plates. Spine a trifle faded, but a very good, clean copy.
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A Catalogue of Horace Walpole's Library.
by [ Walpole, Horace ]. Hazen, Allen T
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969 First edition. Cloth. Three volumes, large octavo. Fine in price-clipped, very good dust jackets.
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Reason and Experience
by Walsh, W.H
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Spine slightly faded. Very good.
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Jesuit Relations and Other Americana in the Library of James F. Bell: A Catalogue
by Walter, Frnk K., and Virginia Doneghy
Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, [1950] First edition. Cloth. Large octavo. Frontisportrait. Very good.
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Incunabula Typographica: A Descriptive Catalogue of the books printed in the Fifteenth Century (1460-1500) in the Library of Henry Walters.
by [ Walters, Henry ]
Baltimore: 1906 First edition. Brown leather boards with front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Bound in the style of a fifteenth century book with raised dummy bands on spine and raised fleur-de-lis shaped bands on front and rear boards. . Color frontispiece, plates, text illustrations. Printed in red and black. on laid, watermarked paper Spine faded, with one chip at head. A few light brown spots on both covers. A very good copy. Henry Walters' preface is in English,... Read More
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The Life of Isaac Walton; Including Notices of his Contemporaries.
by [Walton, Isaac]. Zouch, Thomas
London: Septimus Prowett, 1823 First separate ediotion. The illustrations are identical with those used by Gosden in his 1822 edition of The Compleat Angler. Contemporary black calf over marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt with fish vignettes, gilt burgundy morocco label. . Octavo. Engraved frontispiece, thirteen engraved plates, including portraits of Walton and Cotton. Engraved title-page vignette, and several woodcuts in text. Joints lightly rubbed, edges lightly foxed, plates with occasional soiling. Bookplate. and foxing. A very... Read More
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