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The Murders In the Rue Morgue
by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been claimed as the first detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ". Similar works predate Poe's stories, including Das Fräulein von Scuderi (1819) by E.T.A. Hoffmann and Zadig (1748) by Voltaire. C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mysterious brutal murder of two women.
For Jean Grolier & His Friends 125 Years Of Grolier Club Exhibitions and Publications 1884-2009
by George and Holzenberg, Eric Ong
Quarter To Midnight Gaylord Schanilec &Midnight Paper Sales a Discursive Bibliography
by Robert Rulon-Miller
Who's Minding the Store Pressbook 1963 Jerry Lewis, Jill St John, Ray Walston
by Jill St John, Ray Walston Directed By Frank Tashlin / Starring Jerry Lewis
Mogambo Pressbook 1953 Clark Gable, Ava Gardner
by Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner Directed By John Ford / Starring Clark Gable
Tarzan and The Valley Of Gold
by Jan Murray, Manuel Padilla Jr Directed By Robert Day / Starring Mike Henry
Get Carter Pressbook 1971 Michael Caine, Ian Hendry
by Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland Directed By Michael Hodges / Starring Michael Caine
Paris Underground Pressbook 1945 Constance Bennett, Gracie Fields, George Rigaud
by Gracie Fields, George Rigaud, Kurt Kreuger, and Leslie Vincent Directed By George Ratoff / Starring Constance Bennett
"The Flowers Of Evil, Tanslated Into English Verse By Various Hands Edited, With an Introduction and Notes, By James Laver and Illustrated With Engravings By Pierre-Yves Tr�Mois
by Charles Baudelaire
The Longest Day Program Book 1962 John Wayne, Richard Burton, Sean Connery
by Richard Burton, Red Buttons, Sean Connery, Fabian, Mel Ferrer, Henry Fonda, Curd Jurgens, Peter Lawford, Dewey Martin, Roddy McDowall, Sal Mineo, Robert Mitchum, Edmond O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Directed By Ken Annakin and Andrew Marton / Starring John Wayne
Censorship Books & Ephemera
Matrix 11
by Randle, John, & Rosalind Randle
Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press, Winter, 1991. Edition limited to 955 copies, 4to, pp. [6], 207; numerous illustrations throughout, including may tip-ins, some in color, largely of a typographic nature; fine copy in paper-covered boards and dust jacket. Printed at the Whittington Press. Contributions by illustrators, scholars and printers, including Brooke Crutchley, Sebastian Carter, James Mosley, John Dreyfus, and Jan Van Krimpen.
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NZ$225.12
On the fritz: living with hot flashes...With explanatory mouse drawings by the author
by Blinn, Carol J
[Easthampton]: Warwick Press, 2010. First edition, 8vo, pp. 36, [6]; 15 color illustrations; original pictorial wrappers; fine. "Illustrated, designed, typeset, and hand sewn into paper wrappers" by Blinn. "The line drawings were originally drawn pen & ink, the watercolored, scanned into an iMac, & carefully cleaned up in photoshop so no hairs would be out of place on the mice." Digitally printed. Laid in is an illustrated bookplate with text, "This book belongs to a hot woman!"
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NZ$117.45
Three Constitutions
by Maret, Russell
[New York: Russell Maret, 2021. Over the past five years, the content of my printing has steadily changed. Despite my past aversion to overtly political artists' books, the social and political upheavals that have riven this country into splinters have slowly seeped into my work. The outrage that has been building inside of me for decades has attained a level of urgency that I can no longer ignore - from the criminal policies of Bush's war on terror, to Obama's enthusiastic embrace of drone...
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NZ$10,277.03
![V Beloi Vengrii [At the White Hungary]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/857/095/918095857.0.b.jpg)
V Beloi Vengrii [At the White Hungary]
by Rakosh Franz
One of 15 000 copies printed. The book was published by International Red Aid (MOPR) for the protection of Hungarian communist and a well-known fig - ure in the international communist movement Mátyás Rákosi. He was arrested in Hungary and faced the death penalty in that time. As a result of the campaign he was sentenced to prison. The Hungarian authorities released him in 1940 in exchange of some trophy regimental standards from the rimes of the Hungarian war of independence that was kept in Russia....
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NZ$425.55
Quarter to Midnight. Gaylord Schanilec & Midnight Paper Sales. A discursive bibliography
by Rulon-Miller, Robert
Saint Paul: Rulon-Miller Books, 2011. Edition limited to 450 copies, this one of 400 copies constituting the trade edition (there is also an edition of 50 special copies which are numbered and contained a signed wood engraving by Gaylord Schanilec, plus a suite of 12 trial sheets and proofs), 8vo, pp. [8], 134, [1]; illustrated throughout; original midnight blue cloth, printed paper label on the spine. Design and typography by Jerry Kelly. Gaylord Schanilec is widely considered to be the finest color...
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NZ$146.81
A liberal education
by Huxley, Thomas Henry
Minneapolis: The Attic House, 1932. 14 x 11 cm, pp. [16]; self-wrappers, colophon states edition size was "about 90", fine. Rulon-Miller, Wulling 17.
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NZ$58.73
The Editor, the Bluenose and the Prostitute, H.L. Mencken's History of the "Hatrack" Censorship Case
by Bode, Carl (editor)
Boulder, CO; (1988): Roberts Rinehart. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 174 pages. Limited signed edition (No. 49 of 250 copies).Carl Bode who wrote an important biography of H.L. Mencken knew of the eight thick bound volumes in the Enoch Pratt Free Library all labelled "The Hatrack Case". Included here are newspaper and magazine clippings and other sources about one of the most sensational court cases of the 1920's, the attempt to get the April 1926 issue of the American Mercury off the...
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NZ$127.66
The book typography of Hermann Zapf: the article which first appeared in Fine Print volume ten, number four, now published in its original version with more illustrations
by Kelly, Jerry
New York: Typophiles, 1984. Edition limited to 480 copies, 8vo, pp. 13, [3]; 12 facsimiles on 4 leaves; original beige printed wrappers; fine. Designed by Jerry Kelly and printed at the Press of A. Colish. A Typophiles Monograph. From the library of Kim Merker.
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NZ$39.15
Submarine bells. A selection of nine poems...with etchings by David Rathman
by Rathman, David, & Russell Edson
Minneapolis: Red Egypt Press, 1994. Edition limited to 20 copies plus 3 artist's proofs (this, copy no. 19), signed by David Rathman; 4to; 13 double leaves, illustrated with 9 three-color "intaglios printed from relief plates and lift-ground etchings with aquatint created and printed by Rathman; typography and letterpress printing by Philip Gallo at the Hermetic Press; the text is set in Studio and printed on Rives BFK; bound in grey cloth boards in exposed wire-binding by Jill Jevne after the...
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NZ$8,808.88
The Golden Convolvulus
by Moyse, Arthur, ed
Blackburn, Lancastershire, UK: Screeches Press, 1965. Second printing. 4to, unpaginated, mimeographed from typescript and side-stapled into covers illustrated by the editor. An anthology of erotic texts and poetry from the Mimeograph Revolution. This "second printing" was issued after the first was subject to a 3 day trial and judged indecent, meaning that it couldn't be distributed through the UK mail system, as described in the foreword by the editor. With contributions from Tuli Kupferberg (Love is...
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NZ$76.60
I Am Type!
by Goudy, Frederic W
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1990. 7¼" x 9¾" letterpress broadside, printed by Coffee House Press at Guild Books, 1986 for MCBA 'Dirty Works' on hand-made paper.
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NZ$23.49
Frost and flower: my life with manic depression so far
by Gibbons, Kaye
Decatur, GA: Wisteria Press, 1995. First edition, limited to 297 copies, this being one of 32 copies on Twinrocker handmade paper; the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery, and out-of-series; 8vo, pp. [8], 20, [4]; frontispiece engraving by Barry Moser; patterned paper-covered boards backed in green morocco, fore edges also in morocco, and spine stamped in silver. Signed by Gibbons and Moser. Without the publisher's box, else fine. The author's autobiographical account of her struggle...
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NZ$293.63
Poor Little Rich Girl; The Life and Times of Barbara Hutton (the Suppressed edition)
by Heymann, C. David
New York; (1983): Random House. First Edition. Octavo. First printing, 399pp. When the attorney for Dr. Edward A. Kantor for the claim that he had supplied the drugs that began to cause Barbara Hutton's rapid decline, when, in fact, Dr. Kantor was only 14 in 1943. Random House recalled 58,000 copies to be pulped. Each Bookshop was instructed to return the copies or else be liable for a lawsuit from Dr. Kantor's attorney. This copy has the original Western Union Mailgram dated December 20, 1983 laid in...
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NZ$229.80
North American miniatures. Twenty photographs
by Tiegreen, Mary
Iowa City, Iowa: Polyeidus Press, 1975. Edition limited to 30 copies, 16mo (5" x 4¼"), pp. [6] plus 20 original photographs in mounts (each approx. 1¼" x 2"); original white linen over boards stamped in black on upper cover; some spotting of the binding, but otherwise fine. From the library of Kim Merker. "Acknowledgements go to ... K. K. Merker, Kay Amert, and Lissa Lunning ... without whose support and encouragement none of this would have been necessary." Tiegreen graduated from Iowa with a degree...
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NZ$1,174.52
Ars anatomica. A medical fantasia. Thirteen drawings
by Baskin, Leonard
New York: printed at the Curwen Press for Editions Medicina Rara, Ltd, 1972. Edition limited to 2800 copies, this one of 300 (no. CVIII) of the roman numeral copies of the "double suite," issue, signed by Baskin, and printed on specially made paper bearing the watermark of Editions Medicina Rara; large folio, pp. 6 plus 13 biofolia [i.e. 26, as each is present here in duplicate], each with a fantastical anatomical drawing by Baskin; title page printed in red and black; publisher's blue cloth slipcase,...
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NZ$978.76
Eleven western presses: an account of how the first printing press came to each of the eleven western states
by Wentz, Roby
Los Angeles: printed for members of the 37th annual convention of the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen, 1956. Only edition, slim folio, pp. [2], 57, [2]; fine in original black cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards; fine. Design and composition by Richard Hoffman and printed letterpress by Walter James and Grimmon McDonald of Cole-Holmquist Press in a limited edition of an unspecified number.
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NZ$78.30
Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius
by De Grazia, Edward
NY: Random House Inc. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. Stated First Edition. 1. Hard Cover. 039457611X . First Printing. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over gray boards, silver lettering on spine, embossed bronze decoration on cover. Thick 8vo. xiv, 814, (1) pp. Former owner's name on ffep, else fine. The unclipped dust jacket is only very slightly shelf-worn, else as new. NEAR FINE/FINE.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .
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NZ$42.47
The work and play of Adrian Wilson. A bibliography with commentary. Edited by Joyce Lancaster Wilson
by [Wilson, Adrian.]
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. Edition ltd. to 325 copies, folio, pp.[3]-158, [1]; printed in red and black throughout, mounted photographic frontispiece portrait by Ansel Adams, 2 other mounted photographs in the text, 14 facsimiles of Wilson's design work inserted, some in color, some multi-paged, woodcut decorations and illustrations throughout; printed on Barcham Green hand-made paper in Centaur, Arrighi, and Palatino types; designed by Adrian Wilson and printed at the Press in Tuscany Alley; fine...
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NZ$880.89
The engravings of Eric Gill
by Gill, Eric
Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton, 1983. Edition limited to 1435 copies, this one of 1350 on Mohawk Superfine, large 4to, pp. xxiv, 545, [3]; contains reproductions of 1074 of Gill's wood engravings, 3 folding plates, some of the illustrations are in color; fine copy in original cream shelf-backed black cloth boards embossed with a Gill image of three nudes, publisher's slipcase. A virtually complete catalogue of all Gill's wood engravings, notes by the publisher, and "Eric Gill: A Personal Record by...
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NZ$685.14
A comp's-eye view of paper
by Wulling, Emerson
La Crosse, 1971. Edition limited to 170 copies, this 1/144 in Nancy M. Storm's paste-paper wrappers; 12mo, pp. [11]; printed in red, black and blue; woodcut vignette on title; fine. Press Preterite no. 123.
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NZ$29.36
Spanish proverb: Books hinder ignorance
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1990. 6½" x 9½" letterpress broadside printed for Minnesota Center for Book Arts.
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NZ$19.58
Citizen Cohn (Original screenplay for the 1992 film)
by Frank Pierson (director); David Franzoni, Mitch Booker (screenwriters); James Woods, Joe Don Baker (starring)
Santa Monica, CA: HBO, 1992. Shooting script for the 1992 television film, with lines and phrases highlighted in yellow throughout. Included with the script are three separate sets of color revision pages (blue, pink, and yellow), dated between 2/7/92 and 2/11/92. Based on the true story of Joseph McCarthy's chief council Roy Cohn, who acted as one of the head proponents of the Senate investigations of suspected communists and homosexuals in the 1950s, and who later served as Donald Trump's mentor and...
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NZ$161.71
She wears him fancy in her night braid. Poem and drawings
by Kicknosway, Faye
West Branch, IA: Toothpaste Press, 1983. Edition limited to 1475 copies (this, no. 50 of just 75 copies signed and numbered), slim 4to, pp. [48]; 6 full-page text illustrations; original brown and tan cloth over boards, paper spine label; 2 small tape residues on endpapers, else fine. Signed by the author on the half-title. A poem of sex and passion, illustrated with slightly morbid, slightly surreal images of colonial women. A trade paperback was published simultaneously. The Toothpaste Press published...
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NZ$146.81
![[VONNEGUT IN POLISH SAMIZDAT] Matka noc [Mother Night]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/099/427/1599427099.0.b.jpg)
[VONNEGUT IN POLISH SAMIZDAT] Matka noc [Mother Night]
by Vonnegut, Kurt and Lech JÄczmyk (translator)
First Polish translation of Kurt Vonnegut's "Mother Night", published with a preface Vonnegut wrote especially for this Polish publication. Vonnegut later claimed that he first heard about the underground NOWA publication when he was asked to write an introduction for this edition and that he was "flattered that someone was prepared to take risks" in order to publish what he wrote. A year after this publication Vonnegut traveled to Poland to meet with dissident Polish writers, as well as with Lech...
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NZ$638.33
![Ob elektrifikatsii [About electrification]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/626/517/897517626.0.b.jpg)
Ob elektrifikatsii [About electrification]
by Lenin V.I
The fifteenth anniversary edition for GOELRO plan (*State Commission for Electrification of Russia*). The Plan included construction of a network of 30 regional power plants, including ten large hydroelectric power plants, and numerous electric-powered large industrial enterprises. Two folded plates are facsimile of Lenin's letters.The book looks like other important Stalinist editions: stamped hardback, folded plates etc. Construction of Lenin's cult of personality began while he was still alive. It is...
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NZ$1,617.09
