Mill House Press (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Handset and printed on hand-made paper. Stitched into wrappers. A fine copy. The decoration on the title was designed and cut by Mr. Reynolds Stone, after an 18th century binding ornament, a favourite device of Logan Pearsall Smith's, who had it stamped on many of his books.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Baskerville and printed on good quality antique laid paper with a tipped-in portrait frontispiece. No statement of limitation given, but more than 100 copies was unusual for this Press. Self-wrappered and sewn. A fine copy. Presentation inscription: "For Janet & Reynolds [Stone] from Bob & Kyrle". Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Set in Baskerville and printed on Dutch mould-made paper watermarked 'Pannekoek'. Wood-engraved title vignette (? from an eighteenth-century block). Number 32 of 125 (129) copies. Bound in full green linen with gilt spine titling. Endpapers just a little browned. A very good copy indeed.

First edition. Quarto. pp [iv], 12, [4]. Poems, some or all being translations. Sewn wrappers. 34 copies were printed on Dutch mould-made paper (Ridler 36).Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the first blank: ''Mary & Bow from Bob . Feb: 1961''.Fine.

First edition. Octavo. 24 pages. Red cloth. Poems. One of 50 copies.Head of spine slightly scuffed. Some mottling to covers. Very good. Not issued in dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Handset in Baskerville and printed in blue, red and black. This one of 100 (107) copies on hand-made paper. Full bound in red linen with gilt pine titling. A fine copy.

All in stitched paper wrappers four of which are illustrated with woodcuts. All inscribed to Michael Sadleir from 'Bob G-H'. The five keepsakes are: 1. 'Gabriel in the North: A Carol: Translated from the Old Icelandic'. 1947. Pp.4 in English and Latin. Translated from the original Icelandic text in 'Islenzk Mithaldkvaethi' published in Copenhagen, 1938. The woodcut on the upper cover is a reproduction of the 16th century Icelandic image. 2. 'The Holy Night after the Spanish of Fray Ambrosio Montesino', Christmas 1948. 1 folded leaf. Woodcut borders on front and page 3. 3. 'A Miracle of Saint Magnus Earl of Orkney', Christmas 1949, New Year 1950. Pp.4. Translated from the Icelandic Saga of Saint Magnus, from its first edition, edited by Jonas Jonsson, Copenhagen 1780. Rather dark Bewick-like woodcut on upper cover. 4. 'Song of the Virgin on the Flight into Egypt', Xmas 1950, New Year 1951. Pp.4. Translated from the Spanish of Fray Ambrosio Montesino. Engraving on upper cover is reproduced from a sixteenth century Icelandic woodcut. 5. 'The Story of Thithrandi', Xmas 1952, New Year 1953. Pp.8, partially unopened, errata slip tipped in at rear. Ornamental border round title. A saga taken from the 'Flateyjarbok' written in Iceland in the 13th century.

First edition, sole printing, one of only 45 copies; single quire sewn into original white wrappers printed in black, rather dusty and a little tanned. Very good. Printed by the author and Kyrle Leng in an edition of just 45 copies for private circulation. Very uncommon.

First edition. 12mo. 4 pp. Leaflet, very good. (61675). 1 of 30 copies on mould-made paper.

First edition. Folded sheet. An eight-line poem printed as a Christmas and New Year's greeting.Presentation copy from the author/publisher, inscribed: ''Mary & Bow with love from Bob & Kyrle''.Small marks to front. Near fine.

First edition. Folded sheet printed with a four-stanza poem and issued as a seasonal greeting.Inscribed by the author/publisher: ''Mary & Bow from Bob - When I was an undergraduate I had a [?] etching of a horse by Blampied. I thought it wonderful, but later changed my mind.''Traces of abrasion to front. A bit of creasing. Very good.

Number 174 of 'Two hundred numbered copies [.] printed by hand on mould-made paper.' 8vo: [ii] + 9 pp. Stitched pamphlet of twelve leaves, with four vignettes giving it a distinct chap-book feel. COPAC only lists copies at the British Library and Oxford. Prefatory note by 'E. G-H.' [Eddie Gathorne-Hardy]. Extremely funny collection of double entendres by 'authors who occupy a distinguished position in English literature.' The following example from 'Martin Chuzzlewit' is pretty typical: 'She touched his organ; and from that bright epoch, even it, the old companion of his happiest hours, incapable, as he had thought, of elevation, began a new and deified existence.'.