THE BOOK OF JOB
by BIBLE
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1946. Hardcover. About Fine in a Very Good slipcase with some abrasion to the gold paper on the edges. Arthur Szyk. Small folio (8-1/2" x 12") bound in half white sheepskin leather with sheepskin corners, gilt-stamped, and gilt-decorated smooth vellum paper sides. Copy #1182 of 1950 copies illustrated with 8 busy and striking color plates by Arthur Szyk, each placed by hand in the book, and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon... Read More
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THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
by [BIBLE]
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Hardcover. Slight wear to the spine. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. Edgar Miller. Large octavo (8-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in full embossed lambskin. Text in both Hebrew and English, printed in red and black, from the Revised King James Version. Introduction by Kenneth Rexroth. Illustrated by Edgar Miller with color tempera paintings. Copy #887 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.
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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH IN THE KING JAMES VERSION
by [BIBLE]
(New York): Limited Editions Club, 1979. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Near Fine slipcase with some sunning. Chaim Gross. Large quarto (10" x 12-1/2") bound with a natural-color sheepskin spine with a smooth finish, stamped in genuine gold, and dark brown linen boards imported from the Netherlands. Printed at the Press of A. Colish. Introduction by Franklin H. Littell. Illustrated with 11 full-page water colors by Chaim Gross. Copy #1963 of 2000 SIGNED by the artist and... Read More
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THE BOOK OF JOB
by BIBLE
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1946. Hardcover. Sporadic foxing, occasionally heavy, not affecting the plates though the margins of three plates have varying degrees of foxing. The spine has very slight wear at the tips, much less than usually encountered with this title. Very Good in an intact, Good slipcase with abrasion and dryness to the gold paper. Arthur Szyk. Small folio (8-1/2" x 12") bound in half white sheepskin leather with sheepskin corners, gilt-stamped, and gilt-decorated smooth... Read More
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THE BOOK OF RUTH
by BIBLE
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. Hardcover. About Fine in a Very Good slipcase with some peeling to the backstrip. Arthur Szyk. Small folio (8-1/2" x 12") bound in half white sheepskin leather with sheepskin corners, gilt-stamped, and gilt-decorated smooth vellum paper sides. Copy #1628 of 1950 copies illustrated with 8 busy and striking color plates by Arthur Szyk, each placed by hand in the book, and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.
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THE BOOK OF JOB
by BIBLE
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1946. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good slipcase with typical mottling. Arthur Szyk. Small folio (8-1/2" x 12") bound in half white sheepskin leather with sheepskin corners, gilt-stamped, and gilt-decorated smooth vellum paper sides. Copy #1085 of 1950 copies illustrated with 8 busy and striking color plates by Arthur Szyk, each placed by hand in the book, and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH IN THE KING JAMES VERSION
by [BIBLE]
(New York): Limited Editions Club, 1979. Hardcover. Mild darkening to the sheepskin spine; small bump to top outer edge of slipcase. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with slight wear at the open edge. Chaim Gross. Large quarto (10" x 12-1/2") bound with a natural-color sheepskin spine with a smooth finish, stamped in genuine gold, and dark brown linen boards imported from the Netherlands. Printed at the Press of A. Colish. Introduction by Franklin H. Littell. Illustrated... Read More
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THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
by [BIBLE]
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown; slight wear to the spine tips. Near Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. Edgar Miller. Large octavo (8-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in full embossed lambskin. Text in both Hebrew and English, printed in red and black, from the Revised King James Version. Introduction by Kenneth Rexroth. Illustrated by Edgar Miller with color tempera paintings. Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon... Read More
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DAS NEUE TESTAMENT UNSERS HERRN UND HEILANDES JESU CHRISTI NACH DER DEUTSCHEN UEBERSETZUNG D. MARTIN LUTHERS, MIT KURZEM INHALT EINES JEDEN CAPITELS, UND VOLLSTÄNDIGER ANWEISUNG GLEICHER SCHRIFTSTELLEN, WIE AUCH ALLER SONN- UND FESTTÄGIGEN EVANGELIEN UND EPISTELN
by [FRAKTUR BOOKPLATE] BIBLE
Philadelphia: George W. Mentz, 1830. Hardcover. Foxing; rubbing to covers. Very Good with a bright, attractive fraktur bookplate. Duodecimo (4-1/4" x 7") bound in contemporary sheep leather with a gilt-lettered morocco spine label, gilt rules on the spine, and two metal clasps; vi, 7-504 pages with several full-page illustrations. With a stunning, colorful, elaborate fraktur bookplate by Elizabeth Lefewer dated 1832 in red, yellow, green and black depicting two birds (one with wings spread) perched on a flower... Read More
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PROPOSALS FOR ENGRAVING BY SUBSCRIPTION. THE BRITISH MONARCHY: OR, A NEW CHOROGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE DOMINIONS SUBJECT TO THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN... COMPREHENDING THE BRITISH ISLES, THE ELECTORAL STATES, THE AMERICAN COLONIES, THE AFRICAN SETTLEMENTS... THE RESPECTIVE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES...
by BICKHAM, George
London: Benj. Dodd, August 1743. First Edition. Hardcover. Four vignettes partially hand-colored, browning and occasional moderate waterstaining, final leaf trimmed, a few contemporary marginal notes. A Very Good, attractive example, nearly complete but for the missing half of the table, of this uncommon early title with much on the American colonies. George Bickham. Folio (7-1/2" x 12-1/2") bound in contemporary marbled boards rebacked with a modern calf spine and a maroon gilt-lettered leather spine label. Engraved frontispiece of... Read More
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THE BOOK OF THE BODY
by BIDART, Frank
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1977). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a tiny closed tear at the top rear. Bidart's second book.
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GOLDEN STATE
by BIDART, Frank
New York: George Braziller, (1973). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. With a note by Richard Howard. One of 500 copies printed of the poet's first book. This copy is INSCRIBED to the poet William Meredith vertically on the front endpaper: "To William Meredith--/with affection, and admiration--/and happy memories of Milgate Park/last summer--/Frank/July 10, 1973."
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THE MONK AND THE HANGMAN'S DAUGHTER
by BIERCE, Ambrose
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Hardcover. Fine in lightly worn glassine and Fine chemise and a Fine slipcase. Michael Circy. Tall octavo (7-1/4" x 10-3/4") bound in heavy buckram. Translated from the German of Richard Voss by Gustav Adolf Danziger and adapted by Ambrose Bierce. With an introduction by Maurice Valency and watercolor illustrations by Michael Circy. Copy #970 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY
by BIERCE, Ambrose
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1972. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Near Fine slipcase with a mildly sunned backstrip. Fritz Kredel. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 11-1/4") bound in red cowhide-backed black linen gold-stamped with an ornament by Fritz Kredel; 256 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press. With an introduction by Louis Kronenberger and illustrations by Fritz Kredel including 20 part-page woodcuts hand-colored by pochoir at the Walter Fischer Studio. Copy #1390 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist... Read More
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THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY
by BIERCE, Ambrose
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1972. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. Fritz Kredel. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 11-1/4") bound in red cowhide-backed black linen gold-stamped with an ornament by Fritz Kredel; 256 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press. With an introduction by Louis Kronenberger and illustrations by Fritz Kredel including 20 part-page woodcuts hand-colored by pochoir at the Walter Fischer Studio. Copy #751 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
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THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY
by BIERCE, Ambrose
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1972. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with a sunned backstrip. Fritz Kredel. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 11-1/4") bound in red cowhide-backed black linen gold-stamped with an ornament by Fritz Kredel; 256 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press. With an introduction by Louis Kronenberger and illustrations by Fritz Kredel including 20 part-page woodcuts hand-colored by pochoir at the Walter Fischer Studio. Copy #1027 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon... Read More
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TALES OF SOLDIERS & CIVILIANS
by BIERCE, Ambrose (Paul LANDACRE)
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. Hardcover. Ink name on front free endpaper. Slipcase with several archival tape repairs. About Fine in Good chemise and slipcase. Paul Landacre. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") imaginatively bound with a decorated linen center panel flanked by gilt-decorated dark sheepskin panels. Edited with an introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson. Copy #665 of 1500 illustrated with original wood engravings by Paul Landacre printed directly from the blocks and SIGNED by the artist on... Read More
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FIVE LITHOGRAPHS for OUR GRANDMOTHERS
by BIGGERS, John [ANGELOU, Maya]
[New York]: [Limited Editions Club], [1994]. First Edition. Original Art. Fine in a Fine cloth clamshell box. John Biggers. Large folio consisting of 5 ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS and the title and colophon pages. For her favorite poem, originally published in I SHALL NOT BE MOVED, Angelou chose the internationally acclaimed African-American printmaker John Biggers to illustrate a book published by the Limited Editions Club in an edition of only 400 numbered copies signed by both the author and the... Read More
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THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH. Episode One. Gilgamesh & Enkidu
by [ARTIST'S BINDING]
(Shropshire, UK): The Tern Press, 1992. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine clamshell box. Nicholas Parry. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/2") bound in a spectacular artist's binding signed "MC" at the bottom of the rear pastedown and housed in a felt-lined black cloth clamshell box with a lettered red morocco spine label. Full red morocco leather with red and black morocco onlays and small red and black leather straps. Illustrated with 9 color woodcuts by Nicholas Parry. Copy #33 of... Read More
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ENGLISH LYRICS FROM SPENSER TO MILTON
by [KELLIEGRAM BINDING]
London & New York: George Bell & Sons, 1898. New Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Robert Anning Bell. Lovely Kelliegram binding (5-1/2" x 8-3/4") by Kelly & Sons in full dark green levant morocco leather with dark brown leave inlays on the covers and spine which is also gilt-lettered with five raised bands, gilt-decorated dentelles, silked endpapers, top edge gilt. With the gilt-stamped "Kelliegram Binding" on the bottom of the rear inside cover. Copy #26 of 125 on Japanese vellum... Read More
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A LIFE OF WALT WHITMAN
by BINNS, Henry Bryan
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., (1905). First Edition. Hardcover. Mild wear. Near Fine. Original green cloth. With 33 illustrations.
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PRINTING AND DEMOCRACY
by BIRLEY, Robert
London: Monotype Corp, 1964. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Printed wraps; 29 pages and 9 plates. Prined by the University Press, Oxford. Preface by Frank Francis, Stanley Morison, and John Carter. The text of a lecture on the exhibition Printing and the Mind of Man whose subject was the contribution of print to public debate as an essential preliminary to the formation of democratic public policy. This copy INSCRIBED by Carter on the front endpaper: "for E. A.... Read More
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POEM
by BISHOP, Elizabeth
New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1973. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Original string-tied marbled stiff wrappers with a printed paper label on the front cover. Copy #88 of 100 numbered copies (out of a total edition of 126) SIGNED by the author on the colophon page. From the publisher's archives with two partially erased and faint blue pencil annotations on facing pages, matching the limitation number color pencil and likely done by Bob Wilson, publisher and owner of... Read More
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POEMS BY SAMUEL GREENBERG
by [BISHOP, Elizabeth] GREENBERG, Samuel
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. The cloth was damaged by water at some point with the result that it is discolored. There is only slight water damage to the dustwrapper. Still Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper. Preface by Allen Tate. Elizabeth Bishop's copy SIGNED by her on the front endpaper. In a letter to Robert Lowell dated 27 June 1950 Bishop writes of THIS book: "I spent most of the weekend... Read More
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CLASSICS AND COMMERCIALS. A LITERARY CHRONICLE OF THE FORTIES
by [BISHOP, Elizabeth] WILSON, Edmund
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, (1950). First Edition. Hardcover. Light spotting to endpapers. Near Fine in a price-clipped, Near Fine dustwrapper. Elizabeth Bishop's copy SIGNED by her on the front endpaper. Wilson was an early champion of Bishop's poetry, recommending her for the 1944 Houghton Mifflin Poetry Prize Fellowship.
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