Essays from 20 Ants Fine Books, IOBA

Norwich, New York: Private Printing. Very Good. 1939. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Hardcover. Some splay to the front cover and a slight roll to the spine. The title label was applied at a slight angle. The glassine wrapper has a couple of nicks. The box is darkened with wear to the extremities.; In 1897, young Virginia O’Hanlon wrote… Read more about this item

Westport: Privately Printed. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1929. Limited Edition. Softcover. Faintest sunning to the edges of the wraps. Tail corner of front wrap has tiny, light crease.; The author's essay on why limited editions should exist in the wide world of publishing, reading, and collecting. "Why do the heathen so furiously rage against limited… Read more about this item

Helsington, York: Redbeck Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1986. Limited Edition. Stiff wraps. Very slightly thumbed at corners.; A collection of Chandler's characteristic, tiny, seemingly random prose paragraphs, 89 in total, some as short as a single sentence. Examples: "A gathering of albinos. / Who now dares to ask, Where are the snows of yesteryear?"… Read more about this item

Redondo Beach, CA: 2.13.61. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1985. Second Printing. Softcover. Light crease at the spine, from head to tail. Very slightly thumbed.; Quasi-beat, brief musings and blurtings out, taken from the author's notes and journals. Henry Rollins, lead singer of innovative punk bands Black Flag and Rollins Band, writes off-center, dramatic, drastic, profane,… Read more about this item

Toronto, ON: House of Anansi Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Tiny, closed tear to the publisher's paper band.; Thirty, tiny, quirky essays from this frequent contributor to McSweeny's. The essays span a mermaid in a jar, newly created fairy tales, a frog that gives relationship advice to a plumber, love,… Read more about this item

Lunenburg, Vermont: The Stinehour Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1963. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Letters written from France and England in 1960, these describe John R. Nash's encounters and visits with engravers, book printers, and job printers in their own establishments. They form an engaging essay with sufficient detail to interest those who appreciate private press work… Read more about this item

New York: G. K. Hall & Company. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Stray, small, white marks at the tail of the rear cover. ; Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning American author James Merrill wrote lyric poetry, Divine Comedies is an example and longer narrative work like The Charged Light… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1926. Limited Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Slight wear to tips and head and tail edges of the covers. The dust jacket is sunned and has slight chipping at the rear head edge and the head and tail at the spine. ; Fourteen humorous… Read more about this item

East Aurora, New York: The Roycroft Printing Shop. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1896. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. A light mark to the front cover, spine tail slightly bumped, bruise or dent to the head edge of the rear cover. Occasional, foxing to the pages, some pages foxed in the gutter at the head. ; In a periodical,… Read more about this item