e 076 (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 16mo. Published by Nonesuch Press, London, UK. 1930. 93 pgs. Printed on Auvergne hand-made paper. #708 of a limited edition of 950 copies. Slipcased in paper covered boards. Bound in green cloth boards with leather label with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A list of imaginary books ascribed to real authors EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Leather. 12mo. Published by The Golden Cockerel Press, Berkshire, UK. 1930. Iv, 41 pgs. #303 from a limited edition of 500. Bound in 1/2 vellum and illustrated paper covered boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. An eighteenth-century scientific hoax by `Sir' John Hill, purporting to show with incontestable evidence, drawn from Reason and Practice, that a woman may conceive and be brought to bed without any commerce with Man." The Text is reprinted from the edition of 1750. E-076; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by W F Roberts, Washington, DC. 1923. 74 pgs. Illustrated with black and white photos. Wrappers worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present (wrappers are lightly scuffed and worn to the extremities). Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In December 1920, New York Congressman and World War I veteran Hamilton Fish Jr. Proposed legislation that provided for the interment of one unknown American soldier at a special tomb to be built in Arlington National Cemetery. The purpose of the legislation was "to bring home the body of an unknown American warrior who in himself represents no section, creed, or race in the late war and who typifies, moreover, the soul of America and the supreme sacrifice of her heroic dead." In October 1921, four bodies of unidentified U. S. Military personnel were exhumed from different American military cemeteries in France. On October 23, 1921, the four caskets arrived at the city hall of Ch'lons-sur-Marne (now called Ch'lons-en-Champagne) , France. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo. Published by Saint Dominic's Press, Ditchling, Sussex, 1923. 41 pgs. Printed in Caslon Old Face type on Batchelor handmade paper. First collective edition of these two essays, with revisions. No. 21 of St. Dominic's Press publications. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "This book comprises two esays previously published separately." a preface about God and 'Stone-Cutting'; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Leather. 8vo. Published by Gregynog Press, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, UK. 1939. Xi, 188 pgs. #175 of a limited to 300 numbered copies. Frontispiece portrait of Shaw by John Farleigh. Printed in Baskerville type on very pale green hand-made Arnold and Foster paper. Bound in full dark green morocco has a design, by Paul Nash, of orange morocco inlays, some of which are based on stylised versions of the author's initials. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Gregynog Press, also known as Gwasg Gregynog, is a printing press and charity located at Gregynog Hall near Newtown in Powys, Wales. Founded in 1922 by the sisters and art patrons Margaret and Gwendoline Davies, guided by Thomas Jones, the press was named after their mansion Gregynog Hall. Jones remained its chairman throughout its existence. It rose to prominence in the pre-war era as among the more important private presses, publishing limited edition books, primarily on a Victoria platen printing press. Much of the printing work from 1927 to 1936 was carried out by the skilled printer Herbert John Hodgson, who had previously worked on the 1926 edition of the T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. The American poet and printer Loyd Haberly was briefly the controller of the press. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. Leather. 12mo. Printed At the Oracle Office for the Author, Portsmouth NH, 1810. Xi, 148 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in full calf leather with spine title label present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are lightly scuffed and worn). No ownership marks present. Foxing present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. First edition of the first American book of aphorisms. The first volume is dedicated To all my Enemies; the second, To Critics of every description; this poem, a delicious morceau for their malicious appetites, is respectfully offered, by one, who expects, yet does not fear their censure. Bartlett was born in Plymouth, Mass. , 1762, and took a Master's Degree at Harvard in 1786, led an adventurous career in England, served in Shay's Rebellion, opened a law office in Woburn, Mass. , which he painted black and named The Coffin. His satirical poem, Physiognomy, in which the principal men of the day were figured, was delivered before the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa. He died in 1827. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Trade PB. 4to. Editions de la Revue Verve/ Draeger Frères, Paris, France. 1939-40. Three volume set in slipcase. Contains, lithographs, drawings, and paintings by Matis, Bonnard, Rouault. Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry Calendar. Brassai, Bronte, Goya, Bonnard, and others. Issued with an illustrated paper covered box which is present, but foxed at the edges. Issue #7 glassine DJ is half present with a large piece missing from the front wrapper. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Verve was a modernist Parisian art magazine published by Teriade between 1937 and 1960. It published 38 issues in 10 volumes including lithographs by the most prominent artists of the Parisian Art scene of the first half of the 20th century. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo. Printed by Hague and Gill for Sheed & Ward, Pigotts, London, UK. 1931. Iv, 121 pgs. Limited edition of one of 500 signed by Eric Gill and Rene Hague. Illustrated with twenty-five figures, including ten type specimens and four illustrations from wood engravings by Gill. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Eric Gill's opinionated manifesto on typography argues that 'a good piece of lettering is as beautiful a thing to see as any sculpture or painted picture'. This essay explores the place of typography in culture and is also a moral treatise celebrating the role of craftsmanship in an industrial age. Gill, a sculptor, engraver, printmaker and creator of many classic typefaces that can be seen around us today, fused art, history and polemic in a visionary work which has been hugely influential on modern graphic design. E-076; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa. 1901. Illustrated with black and white photos. Bound in red and green cloth boards with titles present to the front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are scuffed and worn). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Contains the normal information of yearbooks of this era ---- classes, faculty, activities, sports and as well as the insider humorous articles having to do with campus life. T were no Greek fraternities. The college was founded in 1846 and through 1908 was known as Iowa College; first located in Davenport and later in Grinnell. So in 1893 the school was still known as Iowa college and its campus was at Grinnell. Though yearbooks of this era did not have a lot of photographs, this one has a good number with mini photos of the juniors, non of the underclassment, but several of faculty. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.