Shouten, Willem C.. John Smith, Simon Stevin, Francis Bacon

The English Experience: It's Record in Early Printed Books Published in Facsimile

Amsterdam and New York: Da Capo Press and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1968. Hard Cover. Thin 8vo. Near fine in red cloth covered boards with gilt and blue title on front board. Slight browning to end pages. Else is pristine. Facsimile. Unpaginated. English History. ENGHIS/031213. Near Fine.

Smith, Ernest

Fields of Adventure: Some Recollections of Forty Years of Newspaper Life

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1924. Hard Cover. 8vo. Purple cloth covered boards with gilt tilte to frontand spine panels. Minor soiling to exterior as well as minor fading and foxing to spine and bumping to spine ends. Sporadic foxing throughout though text remains clean and tight. Illustrations throughout. 319 pages. English Biography. ENGBIO/042413. Very Good.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

The Best Letters of Lord Chesterfield: Letters to his Son and to his Godson

Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Company, 1890. Hard Cover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt tilte and decoration to front board and gilt title to spine. Minor soiling to boards. Minor bumping to spine ends. Light browning to front free end page. Else is clean and bright. Tight binding. 302 pages. English Biography. ENGBIO/042613. Very Good.

Strong, L.A.G.

A Letter to W.B. Yeats. No. 6

London: Hogarth Press, 1932. Paperback. An essay by Strong on Yeats's poetry. Number six in a series of twelve. In beige paper wrappers with black title to front cover. A few spots of foxing to covers and interior. 31 pages. PRI/042513. Very Good.

Taunton, Ethelred L.

Thomas Wolsey

London and New York: John Lane, 1902. Hard Cover. Ex Libris with stamps to front free end page and to title page. Rubbing and bumping to exterior. Library number to foot of spine. Minor fading to spine and chipping to spine ends. Minor foxing to end pages. Cracks to interior hinges. Text is clean and bright. Index, 253 pages. English Biography. ENGBIO/042613. Very Good -.

[Triangular Press] Tetenbaum, Barbara; Willa Cather

Mining My Antonia

Portland, OR: Triangular Press, 2012. Hard Cover. Number 10 of 30 copies. Signed and numbered by the book artist. A fascinating and complex artist book from the highly regarded Barbara Tetenbaum. Barbara has created and printed books under the name Triangular Press since 1979. Her books can be found in public and private collections in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. In her book A Close Read: The Cather Projects, Barbara writes about how the book, along with two art installations, came about. She writes: "In the summer of 2010 I spent a month in the gallery at Reed College...listening to a recording of Willa Catherh's 1918 novel, My Antonia. I wanted to put myself in the position of a first-time reader and respond to the story however it moved me....I became amazed at the pure gorgeousness of Cather's writing - in particular her descriptions of the landscape and the sky. I surrendered myself to her words, retyping sentences and paragraphs onto many scraps of paper and pinning them to the walls...or suspending tem from fishing line for viewers to bump into. On the floor...I mapped out the novel using colored drafting and elecctrical tapes, assigning color or tape width to each character....the room was a kind of exploded view of the novel." The resulting book is a portfolio containing a soft, cloth-covered book held witing a hinged wooden frame. Housed behind the frame is a suite of five copperplate etchings made as automatic drawings in response to Cather's text. The book includes excerts from My Antonia and a large pullout print that maps the interior landscape of the novel. It is bound in patterned fabric and letterpress printed on Zerkall papers. In fine condition. Unpaginated. ARTISTSBOOKS/051413. Fine.

Trollope, Anthony

Phineas Redux. 2 volumes

London: Chapman and Hall, 1874. Hard Cover. First Ediion in book form. Bound in original blue publisher's cloth with black and gilt decoration to front boards and gilt titles to spines. Both volumes have been rebacked with new cloth visible along spine ends and hinges. Modern endpages. The original cloth spines are rubbed with a few chips along the edges and small open tear on volume one. The edges of both volumes are worn with bumping to corners. The interiors are bright and clean overall with just a few light spots of foxing. Volume two is slightly cocked. Illustrated with 24 wood engravings. 339 pages in volume 1; 329 pages in volume 2. May require extra shipping fee. LIT/032713. Very Good.

Trollope, Anthony; J.E. Millais (illustrator)

Orley Farm. 2 volumes

London: Chapman and Hall, 1862. Millais, J.E. Hard Cover. First edition in book form. Illustrated by the Pre-Raphaelite artist, John Everett Millais (1829 - 1896). Includes 40 illustrations. In original brown publishers cloth with blind stamped designs to boards and decorated gilt titles to spines. Both volumes have been expertly rebacked with new material showing along the spine ends and hinges of both spines. Modern endpages. Wear to the edges and corners of both volumes with fraying and chipping along the edges of the remnants of the original spines. Minor foxing to plates and to pages facing the plates including the title page; the rest of the interior is clean. 320 pages in volume one; 384 pages in volume two. May require extra shipping fee. LIT/032713. Very Good.

Verlaine, Paul, Pierre Bonnard

Parallelement

Geneva: Edito Service, 1977. Hard Cover. Number 1160 of 1900 copies.A high quality facsimilie reproduction of this landmark book printed on papiers de Casteljoux in near full size. A collection of Verlaine's poems which express the spiritual and corporal aspects of love and sensuality. Ambrose Vollard had the ambition to create the first modern livre d'artiste, offsetting Verlaine's poetry with the lithographs of Pierre Bonnard. The design of the book was not revolutionary as the French publishing world had experimented with text placement, evocative layout, and other such devices for years; but it became widely known and appreciated as a perfect marriage of text and image. The original edition was limited to about 200 copies. It has been reproduced several times in facsimilie; however, this is the only edition that compares to the original in size and quality. It is loose in paper wrappers as issued. Printed in black with lithographs reproduced in red and woodcuts in black. Housed in a beige paper covered slipcase with brown leatherette spine panel titled in gilt. The top edges of the slipcase are beginning to split and there is a crease along the top panel. 140 pages. ARTB/032213. Fine.

Walpole, Hugh

A Letter to a Modern Novelist. No. 9

London: Hogarth Press, 1932. Paperback. An essay on the deficiencies of modern writing styled as a letter to a young novelist. Number 9 in a series of 12. In beige paper wrappers with black title to front cover. Rubbing / markings to rear cover. Clean interior. 29 pages. PRI/042513. Very Good.

[Whittington Press]

Matrix 31: A Review for Printers & Bibliophiles

Stiff Wraps. 1 of 660 copies. This fine annual production from the Whittington Press is an important compilation of articles, illustrations, paper and typography samples, and book reviews that is eagerly awaited for each year. The Whittington Press was founded in 1971 by John and Rosalind Randle to print and publish books by letterpress.  Since its beginnings, they have printed some 200 books, included the renowned Matrix, an annual review for printers and bibliophiles.  The Press has received numerous awards for its printing and publishing, most recently in 2009 from the American Printing History Association.  This issue includes "Last Hurrah of Hot Metal," "Wood-engraving & Block-making," "A New Generation of Private Presses in Australia," and many more interesting articles. There is a review of private press books published in 2010 and reviews of books about books. In light blue stiff paper wraps. In fine condition. 127 pages. BOB/050613. Fine in wraps.

Woolf, Virginia

A Letter to a Young Poet. No. 8

London: The Hogarth Press, 1932. Wraps. The Hogarth Letters No. 8. The Hogarth Press published several series of pamphlets on various subjects. They were attractive and affordablel. For this series, the Woolfs asked twelve writers to compose letters to whomever they wished, whether real or fictional. Virginia Woolf's letter was written to John Lehmann. In cream wraps with green and black design by John Banting on front cover. Light aging to paper but very good condition. Book label of Harrison Hayford affixed to ffep. 28 pages. LIT/041613. Very Good in Wraps.