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Lost Illusions
by Balzac, Honoré de
London: The Folio Society, 2009. pp. 584. Brown cloth spine over gilt-decorated silk. Light bump to top edge of front board, else very good+, in brown slipcase showing corresponding bump and light rubbing. Translated by Herbert J. Hunt. Introduced by Graham Robb. Illustrated by Francis Mosley.
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NZ$51.07
The Men of Baldfolk and Other Fanciful Tales
by Dunsany, Lord (Edward Plunkett)
Olympia, WA: Pegana Press, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Nine short stories, four previously unpublished and five never collected in book form, from the popular fantasy specialist fine press, Pegana Press. With a color frontispiece from artwork by S. H. Sime. This is one of 80 numbered copies. Printed from handset letterpress on sage green Hahnemühle laid and watermarked paper and handbound in decorative paper-covered boards. [8], 36 pages. 6-3/16 by 9-1/4 inches. First edition. A fine copy....
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NZ$817.06
All Too Human: A Political Education
by George Stephanopoulos
Easton Press, 1999. Unread. Near Fine. Signed Limited First Edition. Signed on a special publisher's page and numbered 1,120 of 1,200. Tight and straight with good corners and clean boards. Pin head-sized wear to middle front cover. Textblock clean. No writing, bookplate, embossed seal or marks. In brown leather with gold etching on the cover, hubbed spine accented in 22 KT gold, satin ribbon page marker, gilded page edges, and archival-quality, acid-neutral paper. Gilt has faint wear on top and side...
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NZ$212.78
Shirley; Jane Eyre; The Professor; & Villete by Charlotte & Wuthering Heights by Emily. Illustrated with coloured lithographs.
by BRONTE, CHARLOTTE & EMILY:
The Folio Society, London, 1964. Published between 1964 and 1970. 5 volumes 8vo (9 1/4 x 6 inches), publisher's quarter black calf gilt in individual slipcases. Very good. Heavy thus extra overses postage will be requested.
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NZ$106.48
Fifty Books Of The Year.
by Roxburghe Club of San Francisco; Hartley Everett Jackson; Carroll T. Harris
San Francisco, CA: Roxburghe Club, 1950.. Folio. Letterpress on French-Fold Sheet, Black Ink Printed on Cream Wove Paper with Deckled Edge. Very Good+. Decorative title bracket in red ink. Signed at end: Carroll T. Harris, Master of the Press, Roxburghe Club. Watermarked: Alexandra Japan.
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NZ$127.66
The Complete Entertainments in 6 volumes: A Gun for Sale; Our Man in Havana; The Third Man; The Ministry of fear; The Confidential Agent; & Stamboul Train. Illustrated by Geoff Grandfield.
by GREENE, GRAHAM:
The Folio Society, London, 1996. 6 volumes 8vo (9 x 6 inches), original pictorial blue cloth blocked in black & yellow. In a slipcase. The spines and slipcase horribly bleached in blotches. The covers and internally unaffected. Weight 3.5 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.
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NZ$76.66
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Wood engravings by Garrick Palmer.
by COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR:
Folio Society, London. 1994. First thus. 4to (10 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches), 50-pages, Original purple silk with inset panel. Excellent in partly faded slipcase.
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NZ$21.30
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The Phoenix [De Ave Phoenice]
by Lactantius [Lucius Caecilius Firmianus]; Eddie Flintoff (Translator); John McGuckin (Introduction); Peter Allen (Artist);
Bath: The Old School Press, 1995. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Allen, Peter. One of 150 copies, octavo size, [37] pp. A stunning re-telling of the legend of the Phoenix, "one of the great myths of mankind with all it tells us of our many deaths and re-births" (n.b., from translator's note on p. [13]). Published by The Old School Press, known for publishing texts "in limited editions with specially commissioned illustrations. We use traditional letterpress printing techniques - metal type...
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NZ$280.86
Sketches from the Dream Island of Birds Collection
by Van Sandwyk, Charles
Vancouver: The Fairy Press, 2005. 1st ed. Softcover. As New. van Sandwyk, Charles. Three part folder with color cover plate enclosing 15 lovely color drawings taken from van Sandwyk's book of the same name. Fine.
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NZ$255.33
THE HORNET'S NEST
by Carter, Jimmy
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2003. Collector's Edition. Leather Bound. Near Fine. Collector's Edition. Leather Bound. Octavo. 465pp. Brown leather, gilt stamped. SIGNED BY JIMMY CARTER, with signed Certificate of Authentication laid-in. One corner has mild bump, not effecting any pages.
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NZ$212.78
Travels with a Donkey
by Robert Louis Stevenson
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Limited ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 25.5 x 17.5 cm . Royal octavo. 154pp. Bound in grey cloth, spine label, paste-down illustraiton to front cover. Limited to 1500 copies of which this is copy 1048 signed by the illustrator Roger Duvoisin. Spine is faded. Lacking slipcase.
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NZ$59.58
Chartres: the making of a miracle
by Ward, C
Folio Society, 1986. Hard covers, slip case. V.g./No Jacket. Intact in slip case.
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NZ$12.78
The Complaint of Christmas
by Taylor, John; Anderson, Victor R. (Illustrator)
Berkeley, California: The Hart Press, 1974. Limited Edition. Wraps. Fine. Anderson, Victor R.. Limitation not stated (140 copies printed), quarto size, [8] pp., with a presentation card from the publisher. The annual Christmas publication issued by Ruth and James D. Hart, to friends in a limited edition. James D. Hart (1911-1990) was an American literary scholar and professor at UC Berkeley for fifty-four years; he is perhaps best known for his work "The Oxford Companion to American Literature". This...
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NZ$141.28
Bukowski - A Descriptive Bibliography of the Primary Publications of Charles Bukowski - with a previously unpublished broadside poem by Bukowski
by Aaron Krumhansl
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1999. No 277 of the De Luxe edition limited to 376 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray each containing a previously unpublished broadside poem by Bukowski. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Black Sparrow Press 1999, First Edition. Sharp copy of the definitive bibliography of Bukowski's work from 1946-1999. Limited Issue, No 277 of the De Luxe edition limited to 376 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray, each containing the previously unpublished broadside poem "Crime and...
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NZ$383.00
Your Poems
by WEIL, James L. (1929-2006)
Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press, 1990. 8vo. [16]pp. Original printed batik wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 125 copies signed by Weil and the designer, printer, and binder Carol J. Blinn. Dedicated to William Bronk.
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NZ$76.60
Seven Secrets
by FitzGerald & Company, Vincent. Weil, Susan
New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 2006. One of 10 copies only, on J.B. Green paper, each signed and numbered in pencil on the colophon by the artist, Susan Weil. Page size: irregular but about 7 inches x 9 inches; 7 individual collages each hand water colored, cut out, and assembled by the artist, Susan Weil, and the publisher, Vincent FitzGerald. On the reverse of each individual work of art is a "secret" hand written by the artist. Because they are secrets, the reader / viewer can see words but...
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NZ$5,957.70
The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis & Chloe Done into English by George Moore
by Longus; English translation by George Moore
London: The Folio Society. 1955. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Good condition. No Slipcase. Boards light rubbed at corners. Page edges a little age-toned. Bookplate to the preliminary pages. Illustrated with black & white etchings by Marcel Vertes. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 95 pages. . 2nd Impression. Hardback.
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NZ$22.25
Red Jungle
by HARRINGTON, Kent
Tucson: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2004. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper and fine slipcase. Limited lettered edition Signed by the author; this is letter K. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn.
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NZ$238.31
Themes in My Poems
by Jeffers, Robinson; Lehman, B. H. (Preface); Dean, Mallette (Illustrator)
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, printed and decorated with woodcuts by Mallette Dean, 1956. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. Dean, Mallette. One of 350 copies, quarto size, 58 pp., with prospectus. The only published prose work by Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), with a preface by Professor B. H. Lehman, who had also introduced the Book Club of California's earlier, 1928 work of Jeffers, entitled simply "Poems", this volume is the transcript of a lecture Jeffers gave at the...
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NZ$468.10
Sappho
by Daudet, Alphonse, [Majeska, illustrator]
No Place Stated: The Golden Bough Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1930. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. The free endpapers have a slight curl, likely from the marbling process. Spine and joints slightly darker than the rest of the leather. Minor rubbing to the joints, cover paper abraded where it wraps under the tail edge of the rear board, corners bumped with wear through to the boards.; Daudet's novel of the personal failings and stumbling, lurching relationship of a young Southern...
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NZ$340.44
Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad; Illustrator-Lynn Ward; Introduction-Nicholas Montsarrat
Easton Press, 1977. Leather Bound. Fine. Connecticut: Easton Press, 1977. Conrad's fourth novel tells the story of a former seaman haunted by his dereliction of duty. Illustrated by Lynd Ward.Bound in Easton's signature style, full leather with all edges gilt and moire endpapers. Endpapers faded around the edges. Near Fine.
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NZ$51.07NZ$35.75
Speaker for the Dead
by Orson Scott Card
The Easton Press, The Masterpieces of Science Fiction, 1990. First Thus; Collector's Edition. Issued without dust jacket. Used - Fine, "as new" condition. Appears unopened / unread. Bound in full (genuine) leather with hubbed spine. Text block is tight and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper. All edges gilt. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints and permanent...
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NZ$161.71
Under Milk Wood, a Play for Voices. Lithographs by Ceri Richards.
by THOMAS, DYLAN:
Folio Society, London, 1997. 2nd printing. 8vo (10 x 6 1/4 inches), 93-pages. Original decorated cloth. Very good in a marked slipcase.
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NZ$31.94
The Letters of Heaven
by Lopez, Barry; etchings by Robin Eschner
Eugene, OR: Knight Library Press, 2000. First Edition. Fine. A separate printing of a short story about a boy who discovers 17th century love letters between two saints in his father's desk. He becomes fascinated with them and to keep his father from learning his discovery, he copies them out by hand. This edition was published by the University of Oregon's fine press. Printed letterpress on Heine paper using Bembo types. The five illustrations (5-1/4 by 3-1/2 inches) are tipped-in engravings,...
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NZ$1,021.32
