Poet Printer (22 results)

soft cover, unpaged, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 1st edition, very good + book condition, as new dust jacket condition, non-fiction,

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 48 pages. Illustrated. George Abrams "Abrams' Augereau" / David Chambers "Antoine Augereau" / Alan Tarling "The Poet & Printer Press" / Colin Banks "Enid Marx" / David Chambers "Buckland Wright & M B B Nijkerk" / Private Press Books.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 48 pages. Illustrated. Wilfried Onzea "Alain Anseeuw: Printer, Publisher, Poet, Painter" / Frank Broomhead "Patience Cockerell, Bookbinder" / A Checklist Of The Bindings Of Miss Patience Cockerell Part 1.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Handset in Monotype Fournier. One of about 350 copies printed in black on Basingwerk Parchment. Stapled into Cornwall Stone paper covers printed in olive on the front. A fine copy.

Condition: Very Good. one sheet folded twice to 4 pages; a holiday greeting publication inscribed at the front cover and best wishes from Harold Hugo ; very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original brick red and creamy white paper covered boards. 8vo. 9'' x 6½''. Contains 48 pp with 8 colour plates and 21 monochrome illustrations throughout. Very near Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with slight fading down the spine. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. BRITAIN IN PICTURES.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Stiff grey covers, printed in reddish-brown. A fine copy with a loosely inserted publisher's compliments slip.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. ZAUBERBERG PRESS OF COFFEYVILLE 1993 RUBAIYYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM NEAR FINE SIGNED. The Zauberberg Press was a specialty printing company operated by the poet Donald von R. Drenner in Coffeyville, Kansas. It was named after Thomas Mann s novel, Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain). At one time, it printed three books of Drenner s poetry but also published other well-known titles in short runs of custom printing & book-binding. This is an example (and I have another I am going to list now); Rubaiyyat of Ghiyathuddin Abulfath Omar bin Ibrahim al-Khayyami (ca. 1015-1123) . This book (6 ½ x 10 ½ inches, 101 pages with roman numerals plus the colophon) is as you would expect a small treasure of the art of book printing and publishing. This book is one of twenty copies printed by hand on The Perfidious Albion, an Iron and Steel Handpress. It was designed, printed and bound by D. v. R. Drenner. The poet/printer inscribed the book on the front endpaper. Condition: This book is in near fine condition. There are no signs of wear or blemish. Language: ENG.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original steel blue buckram covers, paper spine label. 8vo. 10½'' x 6½''. First edition of this most important and attractive specimen book printed in three colours, folding title page, folding capital letters leaf, and folding press devices. First Century Roman Inscription plate missing, spine sun faded and in Very Good clean condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. BOOKS (Binding, Collecting, Printing, Paper).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The first three handset in Poliphilus and Blado, the last in Bembo; respectively, one of 500, 350, 350 and 400 copies, so 350 constitutes the maximum possible number of sets. Cream paper folder, titled in violet. A fine copy. One Little-Press Year - a portfolio of work comprising the four pamphlets presented by the publishers to poets, their readers and students of poetry . and in this edition offered principally to bibliophiles .

First edition. Octavo. pp [24]. Wrappers. A collection of sample pages from the four books published by the press in the year in question. One of forty copies. Together with: first (and only) editions of all four books, to wit:WADE, John Stevens. Gallery. Illustrated by Tom Ricciardi. Octavo. Wrappers. Poems. 500 copies printed.SHAW, Robert. Private Time, Public Time. One drawing by Rigby Graham. Octavo. Wrappers. Poems. 400 copies printed.TEBB, Barry. Cross-Currents. Octavo. 28 pages. Wrappers. Poems.RITCHIE, Malcolm. Transmission 16469. Octavo. 20 pages. Wrappers. Prose poem with graphics.Portfolio: covers slightly creased. Overall near-fine to fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Handset in Blado and Poliphilus. About 230 copies printed in dark brown in Grosvenor Chater cream laid on an Adana 8 X 5 hand platen press. Quarter-bound in cream Elephant Hide with red, patterned Elephant Hide sides, printed in dark brown on spine and front. This, one of no more than 30 copies, out-of-series, not for sale, presented for acdemic purposes (this with a TLS, 28.iv.71 to Kenneth Hardacre) and a special presentation colophon. A fine copy. The poems in this collection were excluded from Hughes' Crow opus for "personal reasons." (A28 Sagar and Tabor).

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original white vellum over boards, three red silk ties across the front and rear boards blocked in black to the front board, probably designed by Charles Ricketts, top edge gilt. 8vo. 8½'' x 7''. Hand written Number 9 of 50 Limited Edition numbered copies SIGNED by the author to the Limitation Leaf 'Gordon Bottomley'. Produced on Abbey Mills, Greenfield Crown Paper. Contains 6-(xiv), 60 printed pages of text. In very near Fine condition and housed in red cloth drop front box with clear acrylic glass lid. Light sun fading down the spine of the box. Extremely rare production. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original ivory cream buckram cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, symmetrical Venetian architectural interior design by Charles Ricketts to the upper panel, top edge gilt. Quarto. 9'' x 7''. Hand written Number 12 of 50 Limited Edition Numbered Copies SIGNED by the author to the Limitation Leaf 'Gordon Bottomley'. Produced on Abbey Mills, Greenfield Crown Paper. Contains [xiv] 58 printed pages of text. Superb monochrome relief bookplate belonging to D. R. H. Williams to the front paste down. Light foxing to the end papers and in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First editions. From the library of the poet, Cheryl Van Dyke. This lot of three items includes a likely unique calligraphic manuscript (executed and produced as a fine hand-made single-poem book), a chapbook with pre-publication design proofs, and an early Copper Canyon letterpress broadside. Together, these items trace a lovely collaboration between poet Cheryl Van Dyke and designer Tree Swenson during the most prolific years of Copper Canyon Press. -Item #1: DIANA. [Port Townsend, WA]: Winter Solstice, 1980. Original Calligraphic Manuscript. [12]pp. Quarto [32cm x 25cm / 12.5" x 9.75"]. Hand-sewn in original black fine paper wrappers. The front cover is embellished with a hand-drawn illustration of a stylized eclipse design in gold calligraphy. The internal text is calligraphed in white and gold on midnight-blue fine paper. Collation: [1-2] blank; [3] title page featuring the author's name, poem title, and a decorative illustration in white and gold; [4] blank; [5-10] poem text executed in white calligraphy; [11] blank; [12] colophon reading: "Calligraphy completed on the Winter Solstice of 1980 by Tree," accompanied by a small calligraphic square device (mark). In Near Fine condition with only minor sporadic spotting and light rubbing to covers. An exceptional, likely unique artifact. A significant, likely unique manuscript by Tree Swenson, co-founder and designer of Copper Canyon Press; produced for and presumably presented to the poet Cheryl Van Dyke. Swenson displays her mastery of a calligraphic hand in executing the poem, "Diana," by Cheryl Van Dyke. This manuscript, dated on the Winter Solstice of 1980, is a beautiful formal and thematic rendering of the poem. The use of black and midnight-blue papers with white and gold illumination suggests a thematic alignment with the solstice date of its completion as well as the astrological, constellational, and mythological references of the poem. While Swenson's typography defined the visual identity of the Pacific Northwest poetry renaissance of this period, this item represents a primary, hand-rendered document devoid of mechanical reproduction, making it an important piece of regional literary heritage, offering a unique counterpoint to the era's celebrated fine-press output. A beautiful and elegant work. -Item #2: CHEAT GRASS: A COPPERHEAD CHAPBOOK. [Port Townsend, WA]: Copper Canyon Press, 1975. First Edition. [24]pp. Quarto [25.5cm]. Original letterpress-printed wrappers, string-sewn. Colophon states: "Designed and printed by Tree Swenson and Sam Hamill at Copperhead. The text is 70 lb. Curtis Tweedweave. The type is hand-set 14 point Centaur. Illustrations by Cheryl Van Dyke." Unsigned/unnumbered, as issued. With the accompanying material: two folded sheets, laid in-presumably pre-publication design proofs; one of the illustration by itself, and another of the cover/title page (which are designed in exactly the same way). A Near Fine copy with only some light fading to the cover near the spine. An early and essential title from the foundational years of Copper Canyon Press in Port Townsend. Published as part of the "Copperhead" series. "Cheryl Van Dyke has had poems in Kayak, Paintbrush, Port Townsend Journal, and in other periodicals. Cheat Grass is her first published collection." -Item #3: KUHN SPIT. [Port Townsend, WA]: Copper Canyon Press, 1976. Broadside [36.5cm x 26cm / 14.5" x 10.25"]. Letterpress-printed in three colors on light brown paper. Comprising the title, thirty-three lines of verse in four stanzas, and a stylized printed illustration. Unsigned/unnumbered, as issued. Near Fine condition with a light bump and soft crease at the top right corner. This poetry broadside was published in 1976, shortly after the release of Van Dyke's chapbook Cheat Grass. Like most ephemeral productions from Copper Canyon Press during its early Port Townsend years, it was likely designed and printed by Tree Swenson and Sam Hamill. Clean, lovely letterpress work on high-quality paper. From the personal library of the poet Cheryl Van Dyke, a Pacific Northwest poet and artist whose early work, Cheat Grass, helped define the nascent literary landscape of Port Townsend's Copper Canyon Press in the 1970s. An integral figure in the region's fine press circle, she also managed The Imprint from the mid-1970s through the early 1980s-a bookstore that served as a vital social and literary hub for the burgeoning Pacific Northwest poetry community. Tree Swenson is a master typographer and calligrapher who co-founded Copper Canyon Press in 1972 (with Sam Hamill and others). Her rigorous design aesthetic and commitment to letterpress excellence established the visual identity of the press for decades. Copper Canyon Press is a nonprofit, independent poetry publisher that "believes poetry is vital to language and living." The press made its start in 1972 in Denver, CO, and moved to Port Townsend, WA in 1974. Fine Press Paperback Books & Broadside. Signed.

One of 26 deluxe lettered copies with additional progressive proofs of the engraving Pasque plus an original print of the large Bokeh key block. 8 colour wood engravings. Poems set in Polipholis, Bembo and Blado types. 8vo., original vellum backed specially made marbled paper covered boards by Pamela Smith, the progressive proofs of the engraving Pasque bound into Arches paper with a key block impression on the upper cover, with Blue Japanese paper outer cover allowing the engraving to show through. Housed in a brown cloth covered clamshell box with the Bokeh engraving mounted and set into the inside of the lid and with a inkjet print of the Bokeh block on the upper cover. As new. The third book in Schanilec's trilogy documenting his journey or struggle with the reality of growing old (the other two are his Little Book of Birds and Ninja Press's Departures. After a quarter of a century living in the rural midwest, Schanilec moved to the city where he observes the isolation of urban life and the tenacious existence of the plants, birds and animals living there. A remarkable book examining life and the beauty in decay.

First Edition. First edition, limited issue. First separate appearance of Everson's poem. Number 55 of 100 numbered copies SIGNED BY EVERSON, WIENER, & REAGH on colophon leaf (the first 10 copies were not for sale). Illustrated with five mounted black-and-white photographs of Everson - EACH ONE SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY WIENER. Eleven loose leaves of text in total, including the introduction by Everson on 2 leaves, the poem itself on 3 leaves, dedication leaf (".to Mel Smith who brought together poet & photographer"), and leaf with Wiener's descriptions of each of the photos. Housed together in publisher's folio green cloth-covered folding case with white, printed labels on front and spine. ALSO INCLUDES a copy of the original prospectus and TLS FROM MEL SMITH, a friend and admirer of Everson who reportedly funded the book. The letter, to the collector, Allen K. Mears, describes the genesis of the book (" . Leigh Wiener and I spent three days with Everson in Santa Cruz and at his home in Davenport in 1980.") and, referring to an academic program he attended, quotes from a letter in his collection ("In my collection of letters there is one by JOHN STEINBECK in which he writes, 'After the drives for survival and procreation, man's strongest instinct is to bore. He is a success when people will sit still for it.'") Altogether fine. Signed.

Four pamphlets slotted into paper sleeves, all within an outer wrapper. Brief introductory text and colophon at front. All are in fine condition. All but Five Quiet Shouters contain complimentary slips from the publisher. They are: 1) Redgrove (Peter). THE SERMON. One of 500. 2) Logue (Christopher), THE WORDS OF THE ESTABLISHMENT SONGS ETCETERA. One of 350. 3) Tebb (Barry) -editor. FIVE QUIET SHOUTERS. One of 350. 4) Hughes (Ted), SCAPEGOATS AND RABIES. One of 400. The outer wrapper is somewhat bumped, with light edge wear, but the contents are fine.

First edition. Octavo. The four pamphlets are slotted into sleeves, the whole contained in an outer wrapper. They are prefaced with an "Explanation" and "Introduction to the Press". 1) REDGROVE, Peter. The Sermon - A prose-poem. 1966. 500 copies printed.2) LOGUE, Christopher. The Words of the Establishment Songs etcetera. 1966. 350 copies printed.3) TEBB, Barry (edits). Five Quiet Shouters. 1966. 350 copies printed. Poems by Peter Redgrove, Wendy Oliver, John Cotton, Angela Carter and Michael Holmes.4) HUGHES, Ted. Scapegoats and Rabies. 1967. 400 copies printed. Staples of first pamphlet a little rusted, otherwise fine in very good indeed folder a little marked and with a small split at head of spine.

Dunn was a teacher (presumably at Dulwich College), Sussex naturalist and poet. Around 1984 he published his own poem 'Death of a Scarecrow' at his Poet and Printer press, Hatch End. The present collection, from the Christopher Fry papers, is in good condition, lightly aged. ONE: Autograph Letter Signed ('Ruby Dunn') to Christopher Fry. 1p, 12mo. She begins by asking him to accept a 'small token' of her thanks 'for a memorable occasion', presumably a memorial reading of Dunn's poems in which Fry was involved. She continues: 'I can think of no greater pleasure for me, Peter's widow. He wrote his last poems laboriously - too weak to type them.' She explains that the poems in the selection 'move backwards in time, and span a period of 45 to 50 years. Choosing and rereading them has proved a nostalgic and sad experience; and they represent a minute quantity of his full output over those years.' The process has 'strengthened' her in her 'determination to publish more, on his behalf.' Clearly angling, she appeals for help, 'as I am not the best judge, but trust it may come some day'. She signs off with 'best wishes and affection'. TWO: Fifteen pages of photocopies of Dunn poems. Each page printed on a separate leaf of yellow, green and blue paper. Five of the pages duplicate pp.2-11 of Dunn's 'Selection from Flowering Grasses' ('Printed by The College Press | Dulwich Village' [1956]), reproducing fourteen of his poems. Another six pages carry copies of a poem apiece in typescripts, some with duplication of manuscript emendation. The poems are: 'Convulvulus' (October/September 1957); 'Badger in the Suburbs' from November 1957; ''The Blackbird: on Easter Saturday' (Winning Poem, Sussex Poet of the Year Competition, 1984); 'For Derrick, born September 2nd. 1903' ('?1995'); 'From Shri Krishna in England. | Shyama dresses to meet Radha in early springtime' (undated); and 'Jackdaws at Beachy Head' (undated). The last four pages carry copies of manuscript poems: 'So no more tears' ('?1995'); 'Called In Feb 1998'; 'The Request' (April 1998); untitled, beginning 'One day | One of us | Will not be here | or there | or anywhere' (1998).

1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged, with stub from mount adhering along one edge. From the celebrated manuscript collection of Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton). In 1787 Didot published Florian's 'Mélanges de poésie et de littérature'. A courtly and characteristic response to a request for information, reading: 'Mr. de florian a l'honneur de souhaiter le bon jour a monsieur Firmin. [a contemporary hand glosses this as 'Didot'] il arrive de la Campagne, et ne peut lui donner aucun détail sur cequ'il [sic] demande. demain il s'en informera, ou priera qu'on s'en informe. aussitot qu'il saura quelque chose, il en instruira monsieur firmin. un pressentiment lui dit que le véritable homo [last word underlined] est lui.'.

1p, 4to. On recto of first leaf of bifolium, the verso of the last leaf of which is addressed by Daru 'à monsieur | F. Didot père & fils | rue jacob No 24 | Paris'. In good condition, lightly aged, with stub from mount adhering. Sixteen lines of text. The text is in French, and concerns 'la Copie des vers que j'ai lus à l'institut pour imprimés avec les autres pièces lues a cette place', which he discussed with 'M Raynouard' (François Just Marie Raynouard) the night before.