Cheney Will (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine copy, appears unread. No jacket as issued.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. As New in publisher's shrink wrap. No jacket as issued.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 359 pages. 9.21x6.30x0.79 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Stapled. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 78 pp. Original green staple-bound velvet covers, lightly soiled w/ sunning to edges. Small crease to top corner of front cover. Light soiling to endpapers. Illust. w/ b/w photos and drawings.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. In Fleecestreet's Greek in a Nutshell, Will Cheney once again assumes the character of Judge Jason Augustus Fleecestreet, the long-suffering scholar, classics teacher, and intellectual rival of CheneyÕs other alter ego Brigadier General Cyclops Stonebone. The character of Fleecestreet originated in Cheney's Pig Latin pamphlets and returned in FleecestreetÕs Improved Pig Latin Grammar (1963) to further criticize the shoddy scholarship of Gen. Stonebone. Miniature book (1 Ó x 2 Ó). 57 pp. With errata leaf laid in before colophon. Quarter brown calf over marbled paper boards. A fine copy. One of about 200 copies printed by Will Cheney in December 1972.

Miniature (3 x 2 Ó). 26 pp. Eight half-tone illustrations, including a series of five photographs of Will Cheney and Jake Zeitlin taken by Grant Dahlstrom in 1955 and a photo of Cheney and Dahlstrom taken by Zeitlin. The frontispiece is a photograph of a slate cut by David Kindersley in March of 1967. Lithography and paper by George Kinney of the Castle Press. Bound by Bela Blau in brown cloth with ÒAUKÓ stamped in black and gilt on spine. Black device of the Auk Press on the front cover. A fine copy. One of 190 copies printed by Cheney at the Auk Press. Bradbury, Twentieth Century United States Miniature Books, 682.

Some of the knife styles Cheney notes in A Treatise on Pocket Knives include the curved bistoury blade, used by surgeons and tailors alike and the seventeenth-century typesetterÕs coping blade (p. 32). He contextualizes the styles of knives by offering a history of their production and popularity. The Barlow knife, Cheney explains, was Òa medium-sized knife designed for cheapness and durability.Ó This pocketknife was Òthe knife Tom Sawyer had and was the characteristic boyÕs knife of the 19th and early 20th centuries,Ó (p. 12). 3 x 4." 36 pp. With decorative initials and 3 pages of illustrations of different varieties of pocketknives. Original orange-brown printed stiff paper wrappers lettered in black. Sewn with tan cord. Fore-edge untrimmed. With an unsigned note laid in: ÒThis one sewn on cords. Only one in the lot so sewn,Ó in contrast to the white thread used to sew other copies. A fine copy. First edition. Based on CheneyÕs usual limitations for similar items, he probably printed around 100 or 150 copies. He printed a second edition in 1968 (Los Angeles Typesticker, 71). The note included in the present item has been written on the blank verso of a stray page (24) from another copy of A Treatise on Pocket Knives; however, the page is printed on a different paper stock than the present item and, in addition, the verso of page 24 in the present item is printed with text. Thus, the note may be written on a proof page. A Los Angeles Typesticker, 57. See also: ÒWill Cheney at 90,Ó Clark Library exhibition catalogue, p. 22.

For Fleecestreet's Improved Pig Latin Grammar, Will Cheney took on the voice of Jason AugustusFleecestreet to add further critical commentary to A Pamphlet in the Four Basic Dialects of Pig Latin (1950) by Brigadier General Cyclops Stonebone. Fleecestreet, a long-suffering scholar and educator,writes, "the works of the late General Cyclops Stonebone (1870 - 1953), though nowadays largely discredited as linguistics, have lain so long on the shelves of our school libraries that his classifications and nomenclature have come to be accepted as classic," (pp. 3-4). This item is the final work on Pig Latin by Cheney and was printed a full thirteen years after Stonebone's Pamphlet introduced Southern California (and the world) to CheneyÕs Pig Latin scholarship. Miniature book, 2.5 inches by 1.75 inches 30, [4] pp. Title page printed within a ruled border.With bibliography and index. Quarter brown calf, marbled paper over boards, spine titled in gilt. A fine copy. One of 200 copies, letterpress printed by Cheney at the Clark Library. Bound by Bela Blau. ÒCheneyÕs typography stands out in his miniature books. "Of the fine printers of the Southern California Renaissance, Cheney is arguably the most unusual," wrote Bruce Whiteman. "He is devoted to type. His obsessions are thankfully tempered by a fine sense of irony, and he clearly knows very well that a life devoted to printing small editions of small books about recondite subjects (Pig Latin, pocket knives, Greek, etc.) is an odd life indeed, however fulfilling" (Bradbury, p. 47). Bradbury, 20th Century United States Miniature Books, 686.