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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Origina Copy. Original order form ordered from Pharmacy in Westwood, NJ. The handwritten order is for 4 tinctures of opium. Form measures 8 1/4x10 1/2. Signed by the pharmacist and his attorney. 1 fold. Photos on request. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback. 13 1/8" X 9 3/8". 62pp. Paper wraps show rather heavy edgewear, with tears to edges and extremities, chipping and tears to spine, dust ssoiling, and faint dampstains. Front hinge tender. Binding remains quite sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Blank order form, two Montgomery Ward postage paid envelopes, and typed letter concerning the catalog signed by H. D. Wolf, Manager of Baltimore House. A worn but solid and quite handsome copy of this 1941 trade catalog from Montgomery Ward & Company, with pages and pages of photographs of furniture and interior design. Signed.

HARDCOVER. 1st edition. 35pp octavo cloth. Bookplate from Great Council filled in in ink Great Sachem of "Oregon". 31st Flower Moon of G.S.D. 410 signed Wilson Brooks Great Chief of Records. spine and cover wear otherwise near good.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Slim grey illustrated paper folder containing two leaflets announcing Limited Edition books published by The Black Pennell Press in 1988. Also an introduction leaflet signed by the Publisherand three unused Order Forms (with Trade Discount information). Publications promoted are Cupid's guide to the Wedding Ring and Rules and Directions to be Observed in Printing-Houses. Each leaflet is illustrated. Together with three pieces of correspondence between Thomas Rae and the proprietor of The Lighthouse Bookshop, Bridport, Dorset (February to August 1988). Stamped addressed envelope included. All now protected in an archival envelope. Will adjust overseas shipping costs to reflect weight and size of these pieces of ephemera. Signed by Publisher.

Condition: Good. 11.75" x 9.12". Very good. Single sheet checklist and order form. Advertising works by Henry Miller, Leonora Carrington, Will Baker, Mustapha, Beverly Dubin, James D. Houston, George Nathan and more. Herb Yellin (1935-2014) was the highly respected publisher and founder of Lord John Press, considered by many to be one of the most important small presses of the 20th century. His close personal relationships with many significant writers resulted in an impressive number of unique, collectible,signed limited edition books. Working with some of modern literature's biggest names-Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, John Updike, Eudora Welty, and Joyce Carol Oates among them-and entertaining his personal fascination with Hollywood, Yellin was able to create a new realm for Lord John Press combining the two fields; several books, including The Lord John Film Festival, were the result.

Condition: Good. 4to. 295 pp. Softcovers. Color Plates. Very Good. Signed in ink by Frank [Gupp].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Unpaginated 12pp hard-back limited edition book. The first of a planned uniform series of occasional essays and poems of Anthony Burgess. Selected by Andrew Biswell with an introduction by Graham Foster. The edition is limited to 200 numbered copies, the first fifty of which were published as hard-backs. This is copy #14. Thread bound within black cloth covered boards. Silver lettering on front cover. Black end pages. Hint of rub marks on front cover - otherwise in fine condition. Laid in is a letter signed by Graham Moss and Kathy Whalen to subscribers concerning this and other recent publications. Also enclosed is an unused Order Form. Signed by Publisher.

Portfolio Box. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Hans Alexander Mueller (illustrator). 1st Edition. Includes an order form. This is the limited edition of 250 portfolio copies with plates printed only on one side of the sheet, and laid loose in a clam-shell case. The cover sheet confirms that it has all the pages of the bound book plus a signed proof of the artist's engraved self portrait. -Contents are fine. in a green buckram solander clam-shell box (poor - spine of clamshell is detached else VG with some rubbing noted and minor bumps). Due to size/weight expect extra shipping charges. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Printed folio form, completed in manuscript & signed by the magistrate R. Talbot, docket title crossed through. Old folds, sl. rubbed. 2pp + docket title. Sheldrake makes a mark at the end of the report of his examination, which only reveals his legal settlement under the Poor Law. He is to be conveyed by horse and cart. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT at 20%.

Full leather. This is an exquisite, finely bound, strikingly unconventionally illustrated edition of The Sonnets by poet, playwright, dramatist, and primus inter pares, William Shakespeare. 300 copies were produced thus of which this is number 44, signed on the colophon by Robert Graves (who contributes a substantive Preface), Edward Burrett (the book designer), and Clarke Hutton (the illustrator). A troika of features distinguish this copy. First is exceptional condition. Second, this copy is accompanied by the original publisher's prospectus and order form. Third, this is a designer's presentation copy, evidenced by a lengthy, signed, and dated 1975 gift inscription by Edward Burrett and his wife, Cecile, on the recto of the blank preceding the half title. Edward Burrett (1909-1995) was a noted specialist and connoisseur in book design, a founding member of the Society of Typographic Designers, and founding proprietor of the Penmiel Press.This large volume measures 10 x 14 inches (25.4 x 35.6 cm) bound in full Niger Morocco goatskin by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, the contents printed on laid paper with each of the one hundred and fifty-four Sonnets allocated a single page. The volume is housed in a felt-lined, purple and gold paper-covered slipcase featuring an interlocking pattern of swallows, which is mirrored on the pastedowns of the book. The Sonnets features 40 illustrations on various tinted papers by Clarke Hutton (1898-1984) "one of the most eminent and influential book illustrators of his time". Hutton adds something unique to Shakespeare's work, which so often comes accompanied by traditional engravings, rather than modernist line work. The colophon features the signatures of Robert Graves, Edward Burrett and Clarke Hutton below the limitation number "44". The signatures of the book designer, Edward Burrett, and his wife, Cecile, are also found beneath their autograph gift inscription. Laid in are the large and beautifully printed publisher's prospectus, featuring a specimen page and extensive information about the edition. Also laid in is the publisher's order form.The volume is in truly fine condition, with no appreciable wear or flaws to either the binding or contents. The slipcase remains bright and fully intact, with superficial overall scuffing. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) left a cultural and literary legacy whose continuing influence is difficult to overstate. His stature so dominates English letters that it verges on biblical proportion. To the point, Shakespeare is often assumed to have been born on 23 April, St. George's Day, so that England's national poet and her patron saint share the same day of celebration, akin to how Christ's birthday is asserted onto the winter solstice. Shakespeare's plays are the most conspicuous aspect of his literary legacy, but, as Robert Graves states in his Preface, "Shakespeare built up a double reputation in literature; as a classic English playwright and as author of the Sonnets, his profound meditations on love. In the plays we are frequently aware of Shakespeare the poet; in the Sonnets we recognize his role as dramatist. The author of the Sonnets became incomparably greater than his contemporaries precisely because he needed to see himself and his beloved in dramatic and human terms." Robert Graves (1895-1985) was an English poet, novelist, critic, and translator perhaps best known today as a pioneer and master of the historical fiction genre for his Claudius series, compellingly fictionalizing the Roman Emperor. Born to a middle-class family with an Irish Gaelic scholar father, Graves's early life shaped his love for myth and poetry, even as boxing shaped his repeatedly broken nose. In 1913 he received a scholarship to study classics at St John's College, Oxford. However, he did not take his place at the university until after WWI; in 1914 he enlisted almost immediately after the outbreak of war, joining a regiment which included fellow war poet Siegfried Sassoon.

Roy. 8vo., First Edition, title and text in red and black, with symbolic decorations in the text; splendidly bound in full straight-grain tan morocco BY ZAEHNSDORF, the upper board expertly inlaid in gilt and red as a facsimile of Geoffrey Clarke's Golden Cross, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, plain doublures, the boards lightly age-marked, lower board with three small (paint?) splashes else a near fine copy of a characteristically accomplished binding by a master craftsman. THE BINDING IS SIGNED AS IS USUAL ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO. IT IS LIKELY THAT THIS BINDING, COMMISSIONED AS IT WAS SPECIFICALLY FOR THE OCCASION, IS ONE OF A MERE HANDFUL OF COPIES, IF INDEED NOT UNIQUE. The splendid inlay on upper board is a skilful reinterpretation of Geoffrey Clarke's 'Golden Cross', commissioned by Basil Spence for the Cathedral Undercroft. Following its destruction in the Blitz of WWII, Coventry Cathedral was rebuilt between 1956 and 1962 to a design by Sir Basil Spence. Having achieved in the building a time-spanning fusion of 'arts & crafts' and modernism, Spence looked for artists to create his 'basket of jewels', a glittering procession of artworks reflecting the simple grandeur of the Cathedral as a whole. He settled first on two established masters: John Piper, for the glass for the Baptistry Window, and Graham Sutherland, who contributed 'Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph', reputedly the largest tapestry made in a single piece. To complement these and pieces by Epstein, Frink, Hutton and others, he then commissioned the young Geoffrey Clarke to design crosses for the High Altar and Undercroft. The latter piece emerged as the 'Golden Cross' - the focus of the present binding. AN EVOCATIVE AND RARE (POSSIBLY UNIQUE) EXAMPLE OF ZAEHSNSDORF'S CRAFTSMANSHIP.

Full Calf. Condition: Fine. Second Edition. Second Edition in English of a primary source on the Falkland Islands. 4to: [4],xvii,[1],294pp, with 16 copper engraved charts (three folding), maps (one folding), and plates (three folding) of native inhabitants and fauna. Period-style speckled calf, spine in six compartments between raised bands ruled in gilt, red morocco lettering piece gilt. The Ingleton Copy (Geoffrey and Nan, with their book plate on front paste-down), formerly the property of Admiral Phillip P. King (with his initialed annotation on p. 273 and penciled marginalia in his hand, including a slip of notations on laid paper tipped in following p. 264. Geoffrey Ingleton was a bibliophile and amateur etcher, mainly of historical marine subjects. King, 1791-1856, was an early explorer of the Australian and Patagonian coasts.) An exemplary, wide-margined example in a handsome binding, occasional foxing, a few sporadic stains, else fresh and bright, the charts, maps and plates in fine impressions, properly folded and free of tears. Hill 1328. Sabin 6870. Palau 222526. Translated from the French and reissued from the first English edition sheets of 1771 with new title page (Sabin). Both English issues are considered superior to the French octavo editions of 1769 (Berlin) and 1770 (Paris), and include new charts and plans. After the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1763 ending the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War), Louis Antoine de Bougainville set sail from the port of Saint Malo in northwestern France on the English Channel with a crew of a hundred and fifty people, one of whom, the Benedictine naturalist Antoine-Joseph Pernety, was on board to chronicle the expedition. Bougainville's intent was to establish a colony on the Falklands for the French Canadians (the "Arcadians") who had been expelled from Canada during the French and Indian War and to secure a strategic position for France near the Straits of Magellan on the sea route to the Pacific. (Because his ships and crew originated from St. Malo, Bougainville named the islands the Malouines and planted the French flag at Fort St. Louis on the eastern island in 1764.) At the time, the islands were almost unknown, and Bougainville must have been unaware that the Englishman John Strong had made the first landing in 1690, naming Falkland Sound in honor of Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount of Falkland, Treasurer of the British Navy. Pernety also described a subsequent expedition, in 1765, during which the French encountered a British squadron under John Byron, who reasserted possession of the Falklands on behalf of Britain, nearly sparking the outbreak of war between Great Britain and Spain, which claimed the archipelago as part of Spanish Patagonia. And so began the Falklands controversy. By the time Pernety's account was first published in 1769, Bougainville had dismantled the French colony during his circumnavigation of 1766-1769 in response to Spanish protests. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Condition: Good. Single piece of paper, 5x6 inches with original manuscript entries. Signed by Eliazer Walis and Oliver Wolcott, Jr. (Wolcott was later member of Washington's cabinet.) Good, folded in half.

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper, "For Burt, very sincerely, Manly P. Hall". The book reproduces a Latin "instruction book" of Rosicrucianism, dated to the late 1770s, which Hall (1901-1990), an American writer and mystic, bought in London in 1935. His library, "one of the world's leading collections of alchemy, esoterica, and hermetica", was acquired by the Getty in 1995. Folio. With 4 plates, 2 colour and one folding, black and white illustrations in text. Title page printed in orange and black, initial letters in orange, manuscript reproduced in orange alongside English translation in black by Marie Bauer and Martha Schweikert. Original red quarter skiver, spine lettered in gilt, red cloth sides. Spine ends a little worn, contents clean: a very good copy.