Michael Peich Editor (8 results)

cloth. 8vo. cloth. ix, (iii), 34, (2), xiii [sic], (4) pages, with 16 additional pages of plates. Edition limited to 500 unnumbered copies. Descriptive bibliography of the productions of the Penmaen Press. With an introduction by Peich, an afterword by the wood engraver and owner of the Press, Michael McCurdy, and four chapters: Books (12 entries), Broadsides (8 entries), Ephemera (14), and Plates (16 pages with 25 illustrations, including 4 photographs). Book entries give complete collations and describe various editions. Title page and chapter openings have wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. With half-title page and colophon devices (engraver unidentified). The full-page dust jacket design is also blind-stamped onto the front cover. Lacks dust jacket. Penmaen Press (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Stated First Edition. From the Penmaen Fiction Series, No. 3. Slight rubbing and browning to jacket (chiefly to edges); else a near fine copy internally. 47, [2] pages. Short story concerning an aging Russian emigree in America; notable for the book design as well as the title page woodcut illustration by Michael McCurdy. One of 850 copies (of a total edition of 1000) printed letterpress by John Kristensen at the Penmaen Press, Lincoln, Massachusetts, in the winter of 1981. With additional publisher's printed broadside ('Penmaen Press Books in Print'; thin folio sheet, printed recto and verso, folded vertically, dated April 1981) present.…

cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. ix, (iii), 34, (2), xiii [sic], (4) pages, with 16 additional pages of plates. Edition limited to 500 unnumbered copies. Descriptive bibliography of the productions of the Penmaen Press. With an introduction by Peich, an afterword by the wood engraver and owner of the Press, Michael McCurdy, and four chapters: Books (12 entries), Broadsides (8 entries), Ephemera (14), and Plates (16 pages with 25 illustrations, including 4 photographs). Book entries give complete collations and describe various editions. Title page and chapter openings have wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. With half-title page and colophon devices (engraver unidentified). The full-page dust jacket design is also blind-stamped onto the front cover. Well preserved copy. Penmaen Press (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Blue cloth gilt and stamped in blind, DW, 8vo., ix, (iii), 34, 17 plates, (7) pages. One of 500 copies (there were also 100 deluxe copies). This copy signed by Michael McCurdy, the founder of the press, at the title page. Four page prospectus laid in. Enclosed within a supplied decorated paper-covered portfolio are eight-page Autumn lists for 1975, 1976 and 1979; a folded broadside lists for 1976 and Spring 1977; two different undated broadside lists folded twice and prospectuses for "Charlie in the House of Rue" and "An Act or Two of Foolish Kindness". A fine copy in a near fine DW very lightly toned at the spine, in archival mylar. Signed by the Printer.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Number 193 of 300 copies specially bound, numbered, and signed by the author and artist. There were also 700 regular copies printed. A "Chaplin-esque" short story with wood engravings by Jerome Kaplan. Set in Caledonia type on Mohawk Superfine paper. Bound in three quarter blue cloth with patterned paper covered boards and gilt title to spine. Pristine. 44 pages. PRI/052411. Signed.…

Hardcover. First Edition. Embossed blue cloth. Copy #21 of only 100 numbered copies of the deluxe edition (from a total edition of 600) SIGNED on the colophon page by Peich, Michael McCurdy, and four others associated with the press. Illustrated with 4 wood engravings by McCurdy as well as facsimiles and photo reproductions. Allen Ginsberg is depicted in two photographs. Lacking the loose wood engraving by McCurdy. Spine a bit sunned. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Michael McCurdy (illustrator).…

Unbound. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1 of 200 copies in Limited Edition; 29 contributing presses; in as new clamshell box as issued; without defects; folio.

Hardcover. First Edition. Embossed blue cloth. Copy #43 of only 100 numbered copies of the deluxe edition (from a total edition of 600) SIGNED on the colophon page by Peich, Michael McCurdy, and four others associated with the press. Illustrated with 4 wood engravings by McCurdy as well as facsimiles and photo reproductions. Allen Ginsberg is depicted in two photographs. Laid in is a SIGNED wood engraving by McCurdy limited to 100 numbered copies. Prospectus laid in. Fine in a partly sunned slipcase, complete with the loose wood engraving often found lacking. Michael McCurdy (illustrator).…