Hand Papermaking: Papermaking by Hand..
by [PERISHABLE PRESS] HAMADY, Walter
Minor Confluence, WI: Perishable Press, 1982. First edition. Limited to 200 copies printed on various handmade papers with title page typeface designed by Hermann Zapf. Fine copy of one of the most important books of the press.. Tall 8vo, illustrations by Jim Lee, original cloth. Fine copy of one of the most important books of the press.
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Neopostmodernism or, Gabberjab Number 6
by [PERISHABLE PRESS] HAMADY, Walter
(Mt. Horeb, WI): Perishable Press, 1988. First edition. Limited to 125 copies printed on various handmade papers. Signed by the binder, Marta Gomez, Hamady's assistant, Kent Kasuboske, & Hamady. Very fine copy. Oblong small 8vo, illustrated, original boards. Very fine copy.
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The Veteran. A Drama of the Street
by PHELPS, Elizabeth Stuart (Ward)
(No date). Inscribed: "Presented to Herbert F. Gunnison by his friend Irving Bacheller". With Gunnison's bookplate. A short play. Elizabeth Phelps Ward (1844-1911), born in Andover, MA, was a precocious writer, publishing stories from the age of thirteen. A popular feminist author, lecturer and activist, Phelps wrote topical fiction on a wide variety of subjects, including spiritualism, temperance, antivivisection, women's emancipation, as well as several Biblical romances that she wrote with her husband Herbert D. Ward. Her first major... Read More
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Uranian Memories
by PHILLIPS, Tom
Tom Phillips, 1972. The painting was a gift from the artist to the poet and publisher, Jonathan Williams, and came from the poet's house in Corn Close, Cumbria after his death. Stickers on the back of the painting attest to the provenance. Phillips and Williams collaborated on the book Imaginary Postcards which was published by the Trigram Press in 1975. The painting was exhibited at the Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, in 1975. The painting is in very good condition.. ... Read More
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Non, Je ne Regrette Rien, the 1961 LP recording of the most celebrated song sung by the great French chanteuse
by PIAF, Edith
Paris: Les Industries Musicales et Electriques Pathe Marconi, (1961). Signed by Piaf on an affixed "Bruxelles Music Bar" label from an April 1961 appearance. "No, I have no regrets" was composed by Charles Dumont, with lyrics by Michel Vaucaire, in 1956. Piaf dedicated her first recording of the song to the French Foreign Legion. In 1960 France was fighting the Algerian War and their 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment adopted the song when they fell to Algeria's civilian leadership. The... Read More
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Letters Censored, Shredded, Returned to Sender or Judged Unfit to Send
by [PIED OXEN PRESS] RICH, Adrienne
Hopewell, NJ: Pied Oxen Press, 2009. First separate edition. One of 85 numbered copies hand-set and printed in ATF Garamond types, the intaglio prints by Nancy Grossman were printed by Marjorie Van Dyke at Van Deb Editions in New York signed by the poet, artist and the printer, David Sellers. The entire edition consisted of 100 copies, of which 15 were hors commerce, and 85 for sale. As new, at publisher's price. Folio, illustrated with two intaglio copper-plate... Read More
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Sixty. Twelve Prose Poems
by [PIED OXEN PRESS] WILLIAMS, C. K.
Hopewell, NJ: Pied Oxen Printers, 2014. First edition. One of 50 numbered copies signed by the poet and the printer from an entire edition of 60 copies (10 are hors commerce). Designed, illustrated, printed letter-press on Zerkall Book paper, and bound by hand by David Sellers. As new, at publisher's price. 4to, illustrated with photo-etchings printed in red and black after an Edo period Zen Buddhist hanging scroll, original Japanese red book cloth flecked in gold over boards,... Read More
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The Mountain Spirit
by [PIED OXEN PRESS] SNYDER, Gary
Hopewell, NJ: Pied Oxen Printers, 2014. First separate edition. One of 50 numbered copies signed by the poet and the printer from an entire edition of 60 copies (10 of which are hors commerce). Design, illustrations, letter-press printing on Okawara washi and hand-scroll binding all by David Sellers. As new, at publisher's price. Illustrated with photo-etchings after Japanese sumi-ink scroll paintings, original red cedar hand-scroll with black walnut end knobs (10 1/2" end to end; the paper is... Read More
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Sixteen T'ang Poems
by [PIED OXEN PRESS] SNYDER, Gary
Hopewell, NJ: Pied Oxen Press, 1993. First edition. One of 74 numbered copies hand-set and printed with Stempel Palatino, Sistina and Michelangelo types, the color woodcut tipped-in as the frontispiece was printed in sixteen steps on kizuki-kozo, sarashi (made by Kazuo Yamaguchi), using ten shina plywood blocks and six colors of ink plus dilutions, each print numbered and signed by the late Bill Paden, the colophon signed by the poet and the printer. There were also 26 lettered copies... Read More
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A Sampler of Leaves from Plain Wrapper Press and Ex Ophidia Books. Essays by Richard Gabriel-Rummonds, Decherd Turner, Michael and Winifred Bixler, Golda Laurens, Bradley Hutchinson, Alessandro Zanella, Guido Trevisani, and Craig Jenssen
by [PLAIN WRAPPER PRESS] RUMMONDS, Richard Gabriel
(No place: Richard-Gabriel Rummonds, 1996). First edition. Limited to 40 copies signed by Rummonds. The Sampler includes a checklist of books produced by Rummonds at the Plain Wrapper Press and at Ex Ophidia. "This edition . . . was composed in Monotype Dante by Michael and Winifred Bixler. Golda Laurens lettered the title. Bradley Hutchinson printed the front and back matter on Magnani mouldmade paper and the wrappers on Fabriano Ingres mouldmade paper. The signatures and sections in the... Read More
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A Winter Ship
by PLATH, Sylvia
Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1960. First edition of Plath's first "book". In a letter to the publisher, Alan Anderson, dated June 11th, 1960, Plath wrote: "I am writing on my own behalf to say how delighted my husband and I were with the proofs of ‘A Winter Ship'. I'm sending back the one we like best, with the border round it. We thought we'd like the date, place and press in upright letters, as on the other proof, and... Read More
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The Colossus. Poems
by PLATH, Sylvia
London: Heinemann, (1960). First edition of Plath's first regularly published book. Presentation copy, inscribed by Plath on the front free endpaper: "For Luke & Cynthia / with love - / Sylvia / April 13, 1961." A highly important association copy, rich in personal interest and history: E. Lucas (Luke) Myers, an aspiring writer from Tennessee, was intimately connected to Ted Hughes and Plath. Plath met Luke Myers at Cambridge, where she and Myers were studying, and admired his poetry... Read More
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Certain Noble Plays of Japan: From the Manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa, Chosen and Finished by Ezra Pound, with an Introduction by William Butler Yeats
by POUND, Ezra
Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1916. First edition. One of 350 numbered copies. Gallup A12. Wade 269. Bookplate & bookseller's label on front paste-down, corners a little bumped, otherwise a fine copy. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. Bookplate & bookseller's label on front paste-down, corners a little bumped, otherwise a fine copy.
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A complete run of the Albondocani Press publications
by [ALBONDOCANI PRESS]
(N. Y.: Albondocani Press, 1968-1991). First editions. A complete run of the publications of George Bixby's superb private press, including holiday greeting cards, from 1968 to 1991, all numbered 52 and many signed by the authors, who include Denise Levertov, Gertrude Stein, Joyce Carol Oates, Reynolds Price, Edward Gorey, Marianne Moore, Eudora Welty, Thom Gunn, John Updike, E. M. Forster, Saul Bellow, William Styron, Flannery O'Connor, Richard Wilbur, Alfred Corn, Tennessee Williams, David Plante, Ellen Gilchrist, among many others.... Read More
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Herball, from The Dialogues Of Creatures Moralised. Appliable and edifying to every merry and jocund matter, & right profitable to the governance of men. First printed in latin by Gerard Leeu in Gouda in 1480 & in english in 1535. Eleven dialogues illustrated with woodcuts by Helen Siegl
by [JANUS PRESS]
West Burke, VT: The Janus Press, 1979. First edition. One of 150 numbered copies (the entire edition) printed on Barcham Green deWint paper, signed by Helen Siegl, with the woodcuts hand-colored by the artist. Very fine copy of Siegl's most beautiful book, and certainly one of the most beautiful books from the Janus press. Scarce. (SIEGL, Helen).. 4to, illustrated with hand-colored woodcuts, original cloth, printed paper spine label. Very fine copy of Siegl's most beautiful book, and certainly... Read More
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Original drypoint etching (Giraffes), 33 x 45 cm, 22.5 x 30.3 cm printed area, on cream wove paper, signed, (no date, but 1949)
by RAUSCHENBERG, Robert
One of Rauschenberg's earliest prints, depicting several stylized giraffes amidst trees and tall grass. In addition to the drypoint, Rauschenberg employs strips of burlap, which were soaked in acid and laid on the plate, creating a highly textured surface. The effect hints at the overlay process for which he was to become famous. The giraffe motif was used again recently in work in the 1990's. The etching is signed "RAUSCHENBERG" in the plate and additionally inscribed in pencil on... Read More
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Thou Shalt Not Kill: A Memorial for Dylan Thomas
by REXROTH, Kenneth
Sunnyvale, CA: Horace Schwartz, (1955). First edition, the only editioni in book form of the complete poem. The present copy is bound upside down. Perron A12. Presentation copy, inscribed by Rexroth to the poet and publisher Jonathan Williams on the top of the titel-page. Rexroth's prefatory note states: "This Poem was written in one sitting, a few hours after a phone call came from New York with the news that Dylan Thomas had died. It was circulated widely, mimeo'd,... Read More
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Vom lieben Gott und Anderes. An Grosse für Kinder erzählt von Rainer Maria Rilke. Geschmücht von E. R. Weiss
by RILKE, Rainer Maria
Berlin und Leipzig: Imm Insel-Verlag bein Schuster & Loeffler, 1900. First edition of this early collection of stories about a God who is a sculptor resembling Rodin, for whom Rilke served as secretary. Von Mises 11. Presentation copy, inscribed by Rilke on the first blank to his cousin Paula: “Meiner lieber Cousine und Fründin, meiner lieber hilfreichen Paula. René. Weinachten 1900.” In English, “My dear cousin and friend, my dear helpful Paula. René. Christmas 1900.” Paula von Rilke was... Read More
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Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge
by RILKE, Rainer Maria
Leipzig: Im Insel-Verlag, 1914. Fourth (and fifth) printings of Rilke’s prose masterpiece, his inspirational novel about a young poet. Presentation copy, inscribed by Rilke on the second blank leaf of the first volume: “Lil & Vara, danke für deine schoenen ‘Londener Spaziergänge’ durch die Foliantenwand vom nachbarlichen Schreibtish hineubergereicht, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wein, Kriegs-Archiv, April 1916.” In English, the inscription reads in part: “Thank you for the lovely London walks . . .”. The rarest of Rilke’s works to... Read More
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Geschichten. Vom Lieben Gott
by RILKE, Rainer Maria
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1904. First edition. Von Mises 13. Presentation copy, inscribed by Rilke to his cousin on the first blank leaf in the year of publication: “Meinem lieber [name] in freundlichen gedanken Rainer Maria Rilke, Borgeby gard, im August 1904.” Translated, the inscription reads: “my dear . . . in friendly thoughts.” In August of 1904, Rilke was staying in Borgeby Gard, Sweden. From which some of his “Letters to a Young Poet” are dated. Offsetting from laid in... Read More
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Gedichte. Übertragen durch Rainer Maria Rilke
by [RILKE, Rainer Maria] VALERY, Paul
Leipzig: Im Insel Verlag, 1925. First edition, hand-printed at the Cranach Presse by Harry Kessler for the Insel Verlag, with initials by Eric Gill, this being copy number XVII of 20 copies “fur den Handel Bestimmten Exemplaren”. Von Mises 172. Although the colophon states that the first fifty copies were printed on Japan, the roman-numeraled copies, or at least this one, was printed on laid büttenpapier. Presentation copy, inscribed on the second blank leaf by Rilke “À Monsieur et... Read More
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Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge
by RILKE, Rainer Maria
Leipzig: Im Insel-Verlag, 1910. First edition. Von Mises 76. Covers somewhat soiled but still a very good set, preserved in a full brown morocco clamshell box. 2 volumes, 8vo, original publisher’s green cloth with paper labels on spines. Covers somewhat soiled but still a very good set, preserved in a full brown morocco clamshell box.
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Neue Gedichte
by RILKE, Rainer Maria
Leipzig: Im Insel Verlag, 1907. First edition. Von Mises 61. Presentation copy, with a full-page inscription on the second leaf, including an eight-line poem: “Wüsshen mir um welcher Dinge willen mir die Tage so und so die Nächte aft verbringen – keener dächte Heimlich seinen Schmer zu stillen; jeder wollte, dass er einem Schrei aus dem Leiden immen in sich forme, drin das eingenommene Enorme wie in Vogel, Rufe gültig sei. Lia Rosen forzlief von R. M. R. Obermenland... Read More
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Leben und Lieder. Bilder und Tagebuchblatter von Rene Maria Rilke (Life and Songs. Pictures and Pages from a Journal by Rene Maria Rilke)
by RILKE, Rainer Maria
Strassburg & Leipzig: G. K. Kattentidt, Jung Deutschlands Verlag, (1894). First edition of Rilke's extremely rare first book, one of only seven copies known to be extant. Published when Rilke was eighteen, Leben und Lieder was "blatantly sentimental, at once simplistic and unmannered, but it nonetheless developed some of the major issues that moved him. Many of its poems were, of course, manufactured to serve his career, but others were deeply felt. Amateurish as they were, they expose a... Read More
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Die Liebe Der Magdalena, Ein Französischer Sermon / Gezogen durch Den Abbé Joseph Bonnet aus dem Manuskript Q I 14 Der Kaiserlichen Bibliothek zu St. Petersburg, übertragung durch Rainer Maria Rilke
by RILKE, Rainer Maria
Leipzig: Im Insel-Verlag, 1912. First edition, presumed deluxe issue. Von Mises 163. A very fine copy, preserved in a full brown morocco clamshell box. . 8vo, original full brown leather, gilt, dust jacket. A very fine copy, preserved in a full brown morocco clamshell box.
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