Paris: L'Esprit Frappeur / Purple Books, 1999. 6 x 4.25 inches. 64 pages. Black-and-white photographs. Printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, with an original color Polaroid laid-in (4.25 x 3.5 inches), signed by Borthwick on the back. Borthwick spent the early 1990s in Paris, where he owned a nightclub and photographed for.....

Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 1855. 8vo. 216 pp. Lithographed folding frontispiece map. Modern green gilt-lettered cloth. Map a bit worn at edges, otherwise very good internally. FIRST EDITION of the second book on the Kansas Territory, and the first made from first-hand observation. The work includes a voyage.....

Bensenville, IL: Open Skull Press, 1966. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Mimeographed. [28] pages. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers reproducing a drawing by Bukowski, pale yellow plain endleaves. FIRST EDITION, one of "no more than 400 copies." One of Bukowski's earliest prose works. Krumhansl 23.

Venice: Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. Folio (29.1 x 19.4 cm). Roman type, occasional Greek and Hebrew type. 170 fine woodcuts (9 full-page), printer's device on title, repeated on verso of final leaf. 5- to 9-line initial spaces with guide-letters. Later vellum preserving earlier morocco spine label. Provenance: some occasional.....

Paris: Jules Meynal, 1920. Letterpress title and 36 wood-engravings loose as issued in four cloth portfolios, each print with Schmied’s chopmark and numbered in pencil “2/25”, tipped to mount and matted. Overall 475 x 328 mm. SCARCE LIMITED EDITION, number 2 of 25 copies on Chine monté (there were also.....

Paris: Michael Woolworth Publications, 2016. Folio (16 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches). 19 linocuts, including the original wrapper; printed slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 18 of 40 copies signed by Dine (there were also 8 artist's proofs and 7 printer's proofs). Designed by Dine and Michael Woolworth. The linocuts were hand-printed.....

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, [1886]. 8vo. 456 pages. Portrait frontispiece of the author; one-page publisher's advertisement at end, with this work listed first and priced $1.50. Publisher's tan cloth stamped in maroon and gilt. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, an unusually fine copy of a scarce book commonly found in worn.....

Milwaukee: Casanova Press, 1932. Tall 8vo. 53, [1] pp. Photographic portrait of Faulkner mounted as frontispiece. Original printed wrappers, the rear wrapper printing Ernest Hemingway's poem "Ultimately"; publisher's board slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 483 of 525 numbered copies. This was the first book issued by Milwaukee’s Casanova Press.....

New York: William Edwin Ridge, 1927. 8vo. Original black cloth-backed orange boards; dust jacket (present but worn, chipped and separated along all joints). One of 750 copies, INSCRIBED by Ford on the half-title to Jane Dransfield "for Xmas 1927." Dransfield (1875-1957) was a playwright, poet, and lecturer on theater...

Northampton, MA: The Apiary Press, 1964. 8vo. [15] pages. Wood-engravings by Thomas Bewick in text. Hand-bound in marbled wrappers over stiff card. Scarce first book designed and printed by Ronald Gordon, whose future Oliphant Press would print many celebrated fine press books of the 1970s-90s. One of only 25 copies.....

New York: The Grenfell Press, 1986. 8vo. Sewn in wrappers; dust wrapper with woodcut by Joel Shapiro. FIRST EDITION, number 13 of 150 copies signed by Cole and Shapiro.

Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon for the Fanfare Press, 1929. 4to (315 x 248 mm; 12 1/4 x 10 inches). 10 copper-engraved plates by Jones. Original quarter gilt-lettered cream cloth, green boards. Spine slightly soiled, light wear at extremities. LIMITED EDITION, number 265 of 480 total copies. Coleridge’s poem had haunted Jones.....