Peiresc & His Books
Boston: David R. Godine, 1970. 8vo. Printed wrappers. One of 1000 copies.
Fine Press
A Sense of Direction Selected Poems (1935-1990)
N.p. Juxtaposition Press for the Author, 1992. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, edges untrimmed, by Carolyn Chadwick and Kiki Bourneuf; printed acetate jacket. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, one of 50 copies printed by Jennifer Magee-McGovern, this copy unnumbered out-of-series. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to Charlotte Ricks "In memory of words and.....
Songs & Poems
Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1924. Quarto. Printed in red and black. Musical illustrations by Gladys Evans, engraved on wood by W.M.R. Quick; decorations engraved on wood by Robert Gibbings. Original vellum-backed boards, gilt-lettered on spine (vellum mottled, some light wear and toning to boards, engraved bookplate on pastedown). LIMITED.....
Dust of the Road. A Play in One Act
Seal Harbor, ME: High Loft, 1983. Tall narrow 8vo. 45, [4] pages. Woodcuts by Karen MacDonald. Original canvas backed blue boards, printed paper spine label. Number 33 of 50 copies for sale, from an edition of 150. Designed, illustrated, and put through the press by Karen MacDonald.
Prospectus for Homage to Ingres
Boston: Impressions Workshop Inc., ca. 1965. 7 x 8 inches. 8 pages. Four prints and loose price sheet loose in flap-pocket of inner rear wrapper. Die-cut green wrappers revealing title.
The Grenfell Press Typefaces &c.
New York: Grenfell Press, in association with The X Press, 1980. 8vo. 3 leaves, 25 pages printed in black, blue, red, and green. Original limp linen. Number 29 of 85 copies printed for Easter 1980. The first book from the Grenfell Press, including a variety of typographic styles and designs.....
Sacred Weather
[New York]: Grenfell Press, 1984. Tall 8vo. Title design drawn by Louisa Chase. Original cloth, printed paper label on spine. FIRST EDITION, number 13 of 115 copies signed by Lauterbach and Chase from an edition of 130.
"The Grenfell Press is Pleased to Announce the Publication of Two Limited Edition Books"
[New York]: The Grenfell Press, 1983. Two bifolia announcing the publication of Coleman Dowell's 'The Silver Swanne," and Guy Davenport's "The Bowmen of Shu." Laid loose as issued in pritned folder with the stapled business card of the Press. With the original printed mailing envelope from the press. The blurbs.....
Rift
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.
A Christmas Sermon
Seal Harbor, ME: High Loft Press, 1985. 12mo. [12] pages. Three woodcuts by Karen MacDonald. Sewn in original printed wrappers. One of 150 copies of this keepsake, inscribed "August Heckscher & thanks!"
In a City Bus
Seal Harbor, ME: High Loft Press, 1984. Tall narrow 8vo. [4] pages. Original grey wrappers, printed paper title label on front cover. One of 150 copies. With printed slip laid-in by Heckscher, explaining the origins of this keepsake, and inscribed by him "to a favorite patron!"
Notes on a Country Library
Seal Harbor, ME: High Loft, Christmas 1981. 8vo. viii, [1] pages. Woodcuts by Nancy McCormick. Original printed wrappers. One of 150 copies, with a presentation note by Heckscher laid-in. First printed in The Christian Science Monitor, September 1974.
The Wreck of the Deutschland
Boston: Godine, 1971. Tall 8vo. Decorated paper boards. Number 919 of 1250 copies printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem. Typography by Bram de Does.
The Guest. Author unknown. 17th Century Christ Church Manuscript
West Burke, Vermont: The Janus Press, Christmas 1976. 8vo. Woodcuts by Helen Siegl. Quarter cloth, decorated paper over boards. With the extra suite of plates in cloth chemise. Slipcase. Number 31 of 50 copies casebound and with the extra set of prints, signed by Siegl, from an edition of 300.....
Maud. A Melodrama
Hammersmith, London: The Kelmscott Press for Macmillan Co., 1893. One of 500 copies on paper (with five on vellum not for sale), and the first of the octavo-format Kelmscotts with a woodcut title. This is the first issue, with the uncorrected text. Peterson A17. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4.....
Hand and Soul
Hammersmith, London and Chicago: Kelmscott Press, "sold by Way and Williams, Chicago" 24 October 1895. 16mo (14.3 x 10.4 cm). Golden type. Title and first leaf within woodcut borders (15a and 15), four- and six-line initials. Epigraph, title on b1r, shoulder notes, footnote on e1v, and first paragraph of colophon.....
Proof Sheets for spine label and cover title for "The Sundering Flood"
Hammersmith, London: Kelmscott Press, [1897]. A single proof sheet printed on watermarked onion skin paper with five repeating labels: "The / Sundering / Flood/ By / William / Morris." Together with a single sheet cover page for "The Sundering Flood," printed in black type on original gray laid paper used.....
The Kelmscott Press and William Morris Master Craftsman
London: Macmillan, 1924. 8vo. Portrait frontispiece of Morris by Emery Walker, 16 plates. Original linen-backed blue holland boards, printed paper spine label. A fine copy. First edition, and a fine copy of this excellent study of the operation and history of the Kelmscott Press. The author was the son-in-law of.....
Gothic Architecture
Hammersmith, London: Kelmscott Press, 1893. 16mo. Full crushed tan morocco with arabesque scrollwork border leaving attractive negative space on both covers by Riviére and Son, spine in six compartments, with five raised bands, four panels ornately gilt and with gilt '1893' at foot of spine, ornate gilt dentelles, light blue.....
The Rubaiyat
New York: Godfrey A. S. Wieners, 1902. 4to. Title-page and decorative borders are by Louis B. Coley. Original cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered; glassine; publisher's slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 numbered copies on Brown's hand-made paper.
The Journal of Madam Knight
Boston: David R. Godine, 1972. 8vo. 39 pages. Wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. Quarter red morocco, gilt-lettered on spine, marbled paper boards. One of 100 deluxe copies printed on Rives and bound in quarter leather, signed by McCurdy. This is number 6. There were 1900 copies of the trade edition.....
Whatever Happens
West Burke, VT: The Janus Press, 1975. 8vo. Color relief print by Claire Van Vliet. Grey cloth, printed paper spine label. Number 227 of 250 copies signed by the author and artist. Handset by Nancy Southworth, printed on Mohawk Superfine by Susan Johanknecht, bound by James Bicknell.
The Ballads of Robin Hood
Cambridge: The University Press for The Limited Editions Club, 1977. Limited edition, number 605 of 1600 copies signed by the illustrator. Tall octavo. Illustrated by David Gentleman. Original green cloth-backed decorated boards; publisher's board slipcase. Edited and introduced by Jim Lees.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club 1929-1985
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1985. Limited edition, number 322 of 800 copies. Folio. Original Nigerian goatskin-backed marbled boards, goatskin facings on the boards, gilt-lettered on spine, bound by Denis Gouey; publisher's slipcase. Designed by Harry Milliken, Ben Shiff and David Wolfe. Presswork by The Anthoensen Press, Heritage Printers.....
The Sermon on the Mount; Introduction, parallel texts, and commentaries by Rowan A. Greer.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1977. Limited edition, number 605 of 1600 copies. Folio. Original black morocco-backed patterned boards; original glassine; publisher's slipcase.