Safe & Sound. Illustrated by Frances Butler
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1988. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt, not issued in dust jacket. Fine. One of 200 hardbound copies, typeset by the author, with tipped-in color illustrations. More
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Safe & Sound. Illustrated by Frances Butler
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1988. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt, not issued in dust jacket. Fine. One of 200 hardbound copies, typeset by the author, with tipped-in color illustrations. Contemporary inscription from the author. More
The Reardon Poems
Madison, Wis. The Perishable Press, 1967. First edition. Boards, fine. One of 40 hardbound copies printed on Chauke Heavy paper, from a total edition of 143. Fine. More
Guillem de Poitou. His eleven extant poems translated by Paul Blackburn
Mt. Horeb, Wisc. The Perishable Press, 1970. First edition. Boards covered with marbled paper, leather spine and tips, pamphlet with notes in pocket on back endpaper. One of thirty copies for patns of the press, printed on their own white Shadwell paper, using Sabon Antiqua type, from a total edition..... More
The Tapestry
London: Privately Printed, 1925. First edition. Marbled boards, spine label, 43 pp. Instead of the usual black slipcase, the slipcase on this copy is covered with the same marbled paper as the book. A fine copy of this fragile book. One of 150 copies, designed by Stanley Morison and Frederic..... More
Songs from Robert Burns. Selected by A.E. Coppard, with Wood Engravings by Mabel Annesley
Waltham St. Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Mabel Annesley. First edition. Cloth backed boards; covers faded, interior fine. One of 450 copies. More
Singular Pleasures
The Grenfell Press, 1988. Clemente, Francesco. First edition. One of 26 specially bound copies containing a signed original watercolor. From an edition of 350 copies, signed by author and artist, 152 pages, 67 duotone lithographs by Clemente accompanying Mathews’s text. Printed on Kozo/Gampi. The lithographs were printed by Joe Petruzzelli..... More
Elegie. Change
No place: 1965. Broadside, folio: 43 x 35 cm; Caslon Old Style; 75 copies printed by Walter S. Hamady at Robert E. Runser's Rob Run Press, on the printer's handmade paper. Fine condition. More
On Printing. Edited by Peter Rutledge Koch
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1993. First edition. Red cloth, spine label, fine. One of 400 copies printed; much of the edition was lost in shipping. More
A Printer's Dozen. Poems. Engraving by Gaylord Schanilec
Los Angeles: The Bieler Press, 1995. First edition. Original wrappers, spine slightly faded, else fine. One of 200, signed by the author and illustrator. More
The Pattern Poems of George Herbert, With an introduction by Nick Page
Marcham: The Alembic Press, 1997. Quarto, wrappers 12 " x 8 ". 60pp. Hand set in 14pt Grotesque and printed on Zerkall paper, with a non-adhesive binding with red decorative sewing in a heavy grey cover paper from the Schoolmeester wind papermill. 120 copies, printed (including 20 deluxe)... More
Secretum Iter et Fallentis Semita Vita
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1983. First edition. Unprinted brown wrappers. 8 unnumbered leaves, folded along the fore edge, each with portions of the recto cut out to partially reveal the hidden page beneath. Typeset and printed by the author. One of an edition of five copies, this marked "proof". OCLC locates..... More
Unser[e] englische Reise
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1975. First edition. Wrappers, near fine. 22 unnumbered pages. Poetry and printing by Alastair Johnson; calligraphy by Arne Wolf. One of 75 copies. More
D. H. Lawrence's Unpublished Foreword to "Women in Love" 1919
San Francisco: Gelber, Lilienthal, 1936. Grabhorn Press. First edition. Orange boards, cover label. Slightly marked, narrow damp stain along top edge of the sheets; a very good copy of a fragile book. This essay, with a preface by Nathan Van Patten, Director of Stanford University Libraries, who own the manuscript..... More
D. H. Lawrence's Unpublished Foreword to "Women in Love" 1919
San Francisco: Gelber, Lilienthal, 1936. Grabhorn Press. First edition. Orange boards, cover label. Lighter than usual offset on the endpapers, but a fine copy of this fragile book, in a matching linen folding case with printed spine label, on the face of it apparently supplied by the publisher, though not..... More
Apophorètes. Traduit du latin par Jean François Peyret. Quarante deux bois gravés de Valentina La Rocca
Theatre Typographiques, 1996. La Rocca, Valentina. One of 270 copies, this one of 100 signed by translator and artistr. Six sewn fascicles in a chemise covered with Bugra paper and slipcase. 33 x 13 cm. The woodcuts are printed in one or two of four colors. More
Logbook by Tom Raworth, Illustrations by Frances Butler
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, (1976). first edition. Wrappers, 15 unnumbered leaves. Slight fading. Colophon: "One hundred coloured copies have been printed on the Poltroon Vandercook & five hundred copies offset at the West Coast Print Centre, Berkeley." This copy is the offset printing. Kit Robinson (in Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol..... More
Gedichte. Übertragen durch Rainer Maria Rilke
Leipzig: Insel, 1925. GILL, Eric. First edition. Quarto, original paste paper boards with vellum spine and corners, fine. Title page in red. Handsomely printed at the Cranach Press, with initials by Eric Gill. One of 400 copies on Bütten paper, from a total edition of 450. More
The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra. With illustrations by Mary Grabhorn
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1960. Folio, white boards, slightly soiled, one of 185 copies, printed on handmade paper. More
Letter to Carl Sandburg.; After reading his autobiography "Always the Young Strangers" published on his 75th birthday January 6, 1953.
New York: Joseph Hall Schaffner, 1968. 1968. Dean, Mallette. First edition. Cloth backed boards, fine. First edition, one of fifty copies on handmade Tovil paper, from an edition of 250, designed and printed by Mallette Dean. Signed by Weigel. Frontispiece portrait of Sandburg after Steichen. More
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