Cépages; Illustrations Extraites de "L'Ampelographie
by Viala, Pierre and Vermorel, Victor (Illustrations); Galant, Patrick and Cotencin, Regis (Text)
(Turin): Printed by Vincenzo Bona for Editions Glenat, 1991. Hardcover. Fine. Viala, Pierre; Vermorel, Victor. Folio size, 167 pp., in French. All oenophiles revel in the beauty not just of the wine sparkling in the glass, but in the delicate vines and glowing fruit; to be in a vineyard, surrounded by the lush vines, is a delight to the senses. Wine has been a source of joy since ancient times, with grapes and grapevines often being featured in... Read More
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Williwaw
by Vidal, Gore
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1996. Limited Edition. Hardcover. New/new. Octavo, 11 5/8" by 8 1/4", 132 pp. The types for the text are Hess Bold and Caslon Bold for italic, in Monotype composition by Mackenzie & Harris, with larger sizes of Hess handset for display. The photographs were printed by offset lithography and are tipped onto the pages. The paper is Schiller, a German mould-made sheet. The binding, done in-house, is machine-sewn and bound in full dark... Read More
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Sundry Ballades of Francois Villon
by Villon, Francois; Payne, John (Translator); Sinel, Joseph (Artist)
[San Francisco]: [The Grabhorn Press, 1922], 1922. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Sinel, Joseph. One of 210 copies, quarto size, [19] pp., inscribed by the printer Ed Grabhorn. Francois Villon (b. 1431, disappeared from view 1463), remains the best-known French poet of the late Middle Ages. Much of his life remains conjecture, but records show him involved in various forms of mayhem: murder, thievery, and other forms of criminal behavior. Many of the stories from these days have... Read More
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; or, Pearls Before Swine
by Vonnegut, Kurt
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2004. Leather bound. Fine. Large octavo size, 289 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.... Read More
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Richard Wagener, A Dialogue with Wood Engraving; Endgrain Editions Five
by Wagener, Richard; Elsted, Jan (Afterword)
Mission, British Columbia: Barbarian Press, 2019. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Wagener, Richard. One of 80 deluxe editions (total edition 130), folio size, [40] text pages plus 95 engravings, with a separate engravings of the second state plate of the frontis, this signed by Wagener, both in slipcase. Richard Wagener (b. 1944) is an American wood engraver who creates gorgeous and detailed landscape scenes as well as abstract engravings. He was been creating wood engravings for over... Read More
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Zebra Noise; with a flatted 7th
by Wagener, Richard (Author and Artist)
Berkeley: Peter Koch, Printer [designed by Peter Koch and Richard Wagener], 1978. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. New. Wagener, Richard. One of 70 copies, folio size, 60 text pp. with 26 plates, in chemise and slipcase, signed by Richard Wagener. Richard Wagener (b. 1944) is an American wood engraver who creates gorgeous and detailed landscape scenes as well as abstract engravings. He was been creating wood engravings for over fourty years, with his work being published not only... Read More
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Voices in the Dark; fifteen poems of the prison & the camp
by Wahl, Jean; Guenther, Charles (Translator, Introduction)
Kirkwood: The Printery [Kay Michael Kramer, printer], 1974. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 120 copies, oblong sixmo, 45 pp., signed by Charles Guenther, with prospectus. Written by the existentialist philosopher and French poet Jean Andre Wahl (1888-1974) during his time in La Sante prison under the German occupation during WWII, and then from the concentration camp at Drancy, near Paris. As Charles Guenther wrote in the Introduction, "Wahl...surely had an impact on philosophers and philosophy in his... Read More
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![To Storyland with Louis Wain [Title on front board: "In Storyland with Louis Wain"]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/096/356/1564356096.0.l.jpg)
To Storyland with Louis Wain [Title on front board: "In Storyland with Louis Wain"]
by Wain, Louis
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd, 1912. Hardcover. Good +. Folio size, [28] pp. English artist Louis Wain (1860-1939) is known for his trademark anthropomorphic cats, who live in a rich, vibrant world and display playful personalities amidst their alphabetised actions. According to H. G. Wells, "[Wain] has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are... Read More
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The Big ABC Book
by [Wain, Louis; Stewart, E.H.; et al]
London: Blackie & Son Ltd, 1921. Hardcover. Good +. Wain, Louis; Stewart, E.H.. Folio size, 62 pp. English artist Louis Wain (1860-1939) is known for his trademark anthropomorphic cats, who live in a rich, vibrant world and display playful personalities amidst their alphabetised actions. According to H. G. Wells, "[Wain] has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis... Read More
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Song Without Words; A Book of Engravings on Wood
by Ward, Lynd
New York: Random House, 1936. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. Ward, Lynd. One of 1250 copies, small quarto size, [48] pp., signed by Lynd Ward, in the publisher's slipcase. American artist Lynd Ward (1905-1985) demonstrates his masterful storytelling in "Song Without Words", a wordless novel made with wood engravings, depicting a woman's psychological journey after she conceives a child. Created when fascism was at its height in Europe, the book reflects Ward's own concerns about the birth... Read More
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God's Man
by Ward, Lynd
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1930. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Very good +. Octavo size, 150 pp., signed by Lynd Ward. American artist Lynd Ward (1905-1985) demonstrates his masterful storytelling in "God's Man", a wordless novel made with wood engravings which depicts a man's pact with the devil in exchange for a magical paintbrush which enabled him to gain fame as an artist; it progresses through 139 engraved woodblocks to show his downfall, temporary redemption, and ultimate... Read More
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Taliesin and the Mockers [DESIGN BINDING - Paul Delrue]
by Watkins, Vernon (1908-1967); Watkins, Gwen (Afterword); Cour, Glenys (Artist)
[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press, 2004. Limited Edition. Leather. Fine. Cour, Glenys. No. 195 of 225 copies, folio size, 56 pp., signed by Gwen Watkins, Glenys Cour, and Paul Delrue. This copy in a custom binding done in 2014 by Paul Delrue (b. 1944). Paul bound his first book at the age of 15 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... Read More
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Tony's Christmas
by Watson, Douglas S.
[San Francisco]: Printed [by the Grabhorn Press] for Members of The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, 1932. Limited Edition. Wraps. Near fine. One of 100 copies, small quarto size, 15 pp. A charming story of a young boy's Christmas morning in San Francisco, and a promise he made to the Christ child in the church's creche - a promise which required a bit of explanation to the parish Priest... In "Chronology of Twenty-Five Years, The Roxburghe Club... Read More
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The Lays of the Pharisee, Being a Volume of Verses Together With Poems in Blank Verse, Telling of the Things that are in the Modern Life of To-Day: Critical: Satirical: Political
by W.E.C.
London: J. Mulvy Ouseley & Son / Ye Olde Royaltie Booke Publishers, 1913. Leather. Fine. Oldfield, Zoffany. Octavo size, 150 pp. Written in the form of comic/satirical verse, a collection of 23 "essays" remarking upon hypocrisy seen in England of the day - many, if not most or all, of which can still be seen in most lands today. Of special note to us, as pet-owners, was an accusation brought in a court of law by a dog... Read More
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The Lulu Plays ["Earth-Spirit" and "Pandora's Box"]
by Wedekind, Frank; Kentridge, William (Artist)
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2015. Hardcover. New. Kentridge, William. 400 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, 176 pages, quarto format, 13-1/2" x 10", printed by letterpress in black and in red, with 67 images bound into the book, hand bound, with a slipcase. Arion Press announces "The Lulu Plays" with esteemed South African artist William Kentridge for September 2015. One of Arion’s most ambitious artist books, this limited edition contains 67 drawings by William Kentridge bound... Read More
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![The Lulu Plays ["Earth-Spirit" and "Pandora's Box"] [with separate suite of linoleum block prints]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/004/354/1592354004.0.m.jpg)
The Lulu Plays ["Earth-Spirit" and "Pandora's Box"] [with separate suite of linoleum block prints]
by Wedekind, Frank; Kentridge, William (Artist)
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2015. Hardcover. New. Kentridge, William. 400 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, 176 pages, quarto format, 13-1/2" x 10", printed by letterpress in black and in red, with 67 images bound into the book, hand bound, with a slipcase. 40 copies, 24-3/4" x 19-1/4", four linoleum block prints, cut and printed in Johannesburg, South Africa, signed and numbered, in a cloth-covered portfolio, sold here with the book. Arion Press announces "The Lulu... Read More
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Letter to Carl Sandburg (SIGNED BY JOHN WEIGEL AND JAKE ZEITLIN); After Reading His Autobiography "Always the Young Strangers" Published on His 75th Birthday, January 6, 1953
by Weigel, John C.; Dean, Mallette (Artist and Printer)
New York: Joseph Halle Schaffner (Mallette Dean, printer), 1968. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Number 31 of 50 numbered copies, quarto size, [44] pp. Carl August Sandburg (1878-1967), poet, writer, editor, and winner of three Pulitzer Prizes was (and still is) considered a "major figure in contemporary literature" (per Wiki). This book is a sort of "shared memory", being a lengthy letter to Sandburg in which the author, John Conrad Weigel, recounts his own boyhood memories which were... Read More
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![La Presqu'ile du Sinai, Etude de Geographie et d'Histoire [The Sinai Peninsula, Study of Geography and History]; Bibliotheque de l'Ecole, Des Hautes Etudes, Publiee Sous les Auspices Du Ministere de l'Instruction Publique, Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, Cent Soixante et Onzieme Fascicule](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/962/352/1201352962.0.l.jpg)
La Presqu'ile du Sinai, Etude de Geographie et d'Histoire [The Sinai Peninsula, Study of Geography and History]; Bibliotheque de l'Ecole, Des Hautes Etudes, Publiee Sous les Auspices Du Ministere de l'Instruction Publique, Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, Cent Soixante et Onzieme Fascicule
by Weill, Raymond
Paris: Librairie Honore Champion, 1908. Hardcover. Near fine. Quarto size, 390 pp., in French, with folding maps. This volume comprises a geographic study of the Sinai Peninsula, in Egypt, written by French archaeologist and Egyptologist Raymond Weill; it is a thorough examination of the topography and climate of the region, and their effects on the locality and development of civilisation there, aided by detailed maps throughout. Although it is part of a series, this book is a stand-alone;... Read More
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Tono-Bungay
by Wells, H. G.; Washburn, Stan (Artist)
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2008. Hardcover. New. Stan Washburn. The type, Plantin, in Monotype composition, and the polymer plates, printed by letterpress on Mohawk Via laid paper, in large octavo format, 9-1/8 by 6 inches. The book, consisting of 372 pages, is bound in full cloth, with titling labels on spine and front cover, the latter in the shape of a bottle, in slipcase. Included with the book in the slipcase is a booklet reprinting the informative... Read More
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Entropic Oscillations, A Weather Story
by Westerman, Donna Day
Orinda, California: Donna Day Westerman, N.D.. Limited Edition. Stiff wraps. fine. Westerman, Donna Day. Number 16 of 20, tall, thin quarto size, five folded leaves, signed by the artist. Limited edition, number 16 of 20. Donna Day Westerman is a printmaker and painter in the Bay Area of California. [She is] "interested in traditional and historical media — particularly, woodcuts, wood-engravings and egg tempera — used in a contemporary manner. Working from close observation, and occasionally referring to... Read More
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ch'anel
by Westerman, Donna Day
Orinda, California: Donna Day Westerman, N.D.. Limited and Signed Edition. Stiff wraps. Fine. Westerman, Donna Day. No. 13 of 20 (book edition; there are another 20 in a fine print edition), tall, thin quarto size, single wood engraving on four folded leaves, signed by the artist. Donna Day Westerman is a printmaker, painter and book artist in the Bay Area of California. [She is] "interested in traditional and historical media — particularly, woodcuts, wood-engravings and egg tempera —... Read More
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The Day of the Locust
by West, Nathanael; Thomson, David (Introduction); Gray, Lucy (Photographer)
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2013. Hardcover. New. Lucy Gray. 9-3/4 by 7 inches, with 180 numbered pages plus twenty unnumbered pages for the photographs. The paper is Italian mouldmade Magnani Velata, in two weights, lighter for the text and heavier for photographs which are tipped into die-stamped recesses. The text and photograph captions were printed by letterpress from Monotype Bodoni Book. The photographs were printed in duotone over a metallic silver ground, overlaid with varnish. The binding... Read More
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Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science
by Weyl, Hermann; Helmer, Olaf (Translation used for revision and augmentation)
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949. Hardcover. Near fine/good +. Small quarto size, 311 pp., in dust jacket. Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl (1885-1955) "had major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines such as number theory. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century, and an important member of the Institute for Advanced Study during its early years" (n.b., per Wiki). This a revised and augmented edition, with new appendices... Read More
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A Tribute to W. H. Auden
by W.H. Auden; Alan Brownjohn, Charles Causley, Kevin Crossley-Holland, D.J. Enright, Roy Fuller, James Kirkup, George MacBeth, Peter Porter, Peter Redgrove, Jon Silkin
Menston, Yorkshire, England: Ilkey Literature Festival [printed by The Scolar Press], 1973. Folio in a case. Near fine. Folio size, 19 unnumbered pages, with facsimiles of the manuscripts of each poem. Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) was an English-American poet, known for his variety of styles and subject matter, including politics, love, and religion; this collection of poems by various poets serves as a tribute to Auden's profound influence on the contemporary literature of the time and a celebration... Read More
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[Prospectus Only] Lady From Yesterday
by Whitfield, Christopher; Sandford, Lettice (Artist)
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1939. No binding. Near fine. Sandford, Lettice. Octavo size, [4] pp. Prospectus only for "Lady From Yesterday", with two wood-engravings by Lettice Sandford. ___DESCRIPTION: A single sheet folded once to four pages, announces publication "in October" at 30s. for the signed/numbered edition and 8s.6d. for the "unlimited" edition; octavo size (8.5" by 6"), [4] pp., 2000 copies printed. ___CONDITION: Near fine, clean and free of edgewear, with one horizontal crease, one small... Read More
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