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A CRIME AGAINST CANIA
by Arthur Calder-Marshall
London: Golden Cockerel Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1934. First thus. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 66, [1] pages; Spine is sunned and has light wear at its ends, corners of covers slightly worn. Very good. #128 of 250 signed by Marshall. Morocco-backed decorated cloth. 4 engravings. ; Signed by Author .
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NZ$280.10
How Can It Be? A Rock & Roll Diary (Signed Genesis Limited Ed)
by Wood, Ronnie
Genesis Publications, 2015-09-29. 1st Ed. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 5x1x8. Signed. LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY RONNIE WOOD! A wonderful assortment of materials from Genesis Publications including a leatherbound diary signed by Ronnie. This is number 534 of only 1969 created. Condition is as new, opened only to photograph, all original packing materials included. A breathtaking work of art. Please note that the exceptional weight of this item will significantly increase shipping costs well above the original...
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NZ$1,583.60
An Infant's Library
by Society Of Private Printers
[Pinner]: Society of Private Printers (Private Libraries Association), 1980. First edition. Wrappers. Fine copy. 31 pamphlets. 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches. Preserved in a mahogany box with a sliding front and the engraving by Pam Reuter on the front. Limited to 70 sets. Engraving by Pam Reuter. A printers' exchange organized by the Private Libraries Association, comprising 30 booklets printed between 1975 and 1980 by various private press printers, chiefly in England and the U.S. An introductory booklet is...
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NZ$1,455.20
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF LON TINKLE
by [DALLAS] Sparkman, M.D., Robert S. editor
Dallas: Friends of the Dallas Public Library, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE. Limited edition of 500 copies of which this is copy number 442 SIGNED with editor's presentation. Designed and produced by Willaim R. Chiles, printed by off-set lithography on 80# Tweedweave Text, and printed recto. Tipped-in sepia portrait by Tom Lea, color photographs by the editor tipped-in. Folio crash linen boards and blue cloth spine. Proceeds to benefit the Dallas Public Library. Blue endpapers no names, clean...
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NZ$51.36
Finn's Hotel
by Joyce, James
First Edition; Numbered Issue. One of 140 copies printed on Fedrigoni Vellum (a 190gram, smooth and elegant Italian paper) and handstiched and handbound in hardcovers featuring the red and black letterpress printed paper designed by Elisabeth Hyder and black head- and tail bands. The front cover is impressed with a letterpress printed label. This issue is our 'standard': a collectible, modestly priced finepress first edition. Fine/New.
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NZ$685.28
The Hooded Fisherman
by George Mackay Brown
Handpress printed by Frances Cleverdon at the Trumpet Press in a limited edition of 205 copies. Illustrations by Brown's fellow Orcadian, Charles Shearer. Dove grey card covers with white title and author label to front, short story of eighteen pages. A nice example of fine press printing of a rare title.
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NZ$392.87
The Revelation of St John the Divine
New York: The Limited Editions Club. Near Fine. 1995. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Revelation was written at the height of Christians prosecution by the Romans and the book as inspired many past literary masterpieces by the likes of Dante and Milton. For this edition the great American artist Allan Rohan Crite was inspired to produce fifteen relief engravings for possibly the ultimate illustrated edition of the book of Revelations. Revelations passionately speak against the power of evil...
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NZ$3,073.04
An Introduction to The Press of the Nightowl Private Press of Dwight E. Agner
by AGNER, Swight E
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: The Press of the Nightowl, 1965. Staplebound. Fine. 9, [1] p. 22 X 14 cm. Staplebound card covers. "Of this first Nightown publication, about 120 copies were printed." - Colophon.
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NZ$111.28
Remembering Fritz Eichenberg: Friendship Celebrated
by Eichenberg, Fritz (Artist)
New York: Donnell Memorial Library, 1991. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Eichenberg, Fritz. Fritz Eichenberg (1901-1990) was a woodcut artist and educator and this volume was created in his memory. Published in an edition of 250 copies and although usually numbered, this copy is penciled "A.E." at the colophon. Printed at the Press of the Sea Turtle in Easthampton, MA, by Harold McGrath. A beautiful remembrance of an exceptional man. 31 pp. 4to. Gray paper boards with black ribbon binding in...
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NZ$428.00
To Remember Albert M. (Micky) Bender. With an Appreciation by Elise S. Haas
by Lewis, Oscar; Haas, Elise S
San Franciscio, CA: Robert Grabhorn & Andrew Hoyem, 1973. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Frontispiece portrait of Albert Bender by Ansel Adams. A celebration of the life of noted San Francisco patron of the arts, Albert Bender. Printed by Grabhorn & Hoyem in an edition of 200 copies. 38 pp. Light brown buckram covered boards with paper title label pasted to spine. Light discoloration to cover boards around edges. Clean and crisp within. Beautifully produced with a red titling to title page as...
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NZ$68.48
Auggie Wren's Christmas Story
by Paul Auster
Fine quarter bound buckram and marbled hardcover boards. First edition. From a numbered edition of 450, 50 of which were bound in goatskin, 100 quarter bound in buckram, and 250 sewn into marbled papers, this copy is #70, numbered and signed by Paul Auster. Published by William Drenttel in New York, NY on Zerkall mould-made paper. A lovely and collectible item. The source material for Paul Auster's screenplay and the film Smoke.
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NZ$513.60
THE SCULPTURED GARLAND
by LANDOR, Walter Savage
London: Dropmore Press, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Some soiling and dampspotting to covers. Internally Fine. The darkened dustwrapper front panel is separated at the spine. Very Good. Ian Macnab. Quarto, bound in half morocco leather. Illustrated with 15 wood engravings by Ian Macnab. Copy #189 of 300 numbered copies of this lovely book.
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NZ$214.00
The Pickwick Papers: Some Bibliographical Remarks
by Bay, J. Christian
Chicago: Caxton Club, 1938. "An address delivered before the Caxton Club, January Sixteenth, 1937", discussing the illustrator Robert Seymour's share of the credit for creating Pickwick, and various states of text & one illustration in early issues of the book. Hardcover, full red cloth, gilt titling, blind-stamped decoration. One of 250 copies printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press in Boston. Light wear to corners; previous owner's name in pencil on front end sheet;...
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NZ$85.60
Storm Front, Dresden Files (Signed Easton Press Ltd Ed)
by Butcher, Jim
Easton Press, 2007. Limited Edition. hardcover. Fine/Fine. 6x1x9. Signed. SUMPTUOUS LEATHER BOUND EASTON PRESS EDITION SIGNED BY JIM BUTCHER. Brand new and still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Expedited shipping is welcome; signed by author.
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NZ$445.12
Phoenix 451: Limited Signed Numbered Edition
by Bradbury, Ray; Nahum-Albright, Elizabeth (Edited by)
Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2022. Limited Edition First Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bradbury, Ray. With each of their many Ray Bradbury titles, Gauntlet Press had extra tipsheets signed by Bradbury, and those that were unused were stored. Gauntlet are now using these 'classic' tipsheets on other Bradbury books. This copy of 'Phoenix 451' has a tipsheet for 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' that has been signed by Ray...
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NZ$477.81
Countdown: An Autobiography (Signed Easton Press)
by Borman, Frank
Sumptuous EASTON PRESS leatherbound edition SIGNED BY APOLLO 8 ASTRONAUT FRANK BORMAN. As-new inside and out but missing Easton COA. Expedited and international shipping are welcome. Signed by author.
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NZ$719.04
THE HOLY BIBLE. Reprinted according to the Authorised version 1611. -- With; The Apochrypha
by NONESUCH PRESS. ; GOODEN. STEPHEN. Illustrates
The Nonesuch Press. London. 1924-27. FIVE VOLUMES. Tall 4to. (12.3 x 8.3 inches). Limited edition. One of 1000 sets printed on Japon vellum (The Apochrypha is one of 1250 copies) from a total edition of 1075 copies. The typography was arranged by Frances Meynell. Each volume decorated with copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden, including the title pages. A lovely clean set finely bound in recent full black morocco, decorative gilt border to boards. Spines with raised bands, each with decorative gilt...
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NZ$5,839.90
The Cats of Copenhagen
by James Joyce
The first-ever appearance in print of James Joyce's Story for Children, THE CATS OF COPENHAGEN in a special limited edition of 200 copies.
Michael Caine has printed this large-format letterpress edition with virtuoso skill, setting the text in a wondrously expressive array of original, early twentieth-century hand-cut Italian and French founts to capture the imagination of readers young and old. Casey Sorrow has brought to life Joyce's curious 'Københavnere' with ingeniously playful pen-and-ink... Read more about this item
Michael Caine has printed this large-format letterpress edition with virtuoso skill, setting the text in a wondrously expressive array of original, early twentieth-century hand-cut Italian and French founts to capture the imagination of readers young and old. Casey Sorrow has brought to life Joyce's curious 'Københavnere' with ingeniously playful pen-and-ink... Read more about this item
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NZ$822.33
The Compleet Molesworth
by Willans, Geoffrey
London: Folio Society, 2008. Collects the four books ostensibly by Molesworth, the cynical and orthographically challenged British prep school boy, as any fule kno. Introduction by Wendy Cope, drawings by the inimitable Searle, fresh off his St Trinian's satires; artist & author were friends before their collaboration. Attractively bound; the second Folio printing. Light wear to book & slipcase, minor bumps to spine ends, clean & unmarked. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket....
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NZ$102.72
Finnegans Wake
by Joyce, James
First Edition. New. One of 150 Numbered copies of the Special Issue. Copy No. 38, signed by the Editor and the Printer.Printed on Magnani Mouldmade 130g deckle-edged paper. Royal quarto. Bound in full black calfskin over boards, gilt-stamped on front cover and spine. Presented in a black cloth-covered slipcase with a companion volume of introductory essays hardbound in grey paper over boards. Dublin, Houyhnhnm Press. 2010.The first critically emended and completely reset edition of James Joyce's...
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NZ$5,482.20
THE POEMS. Printed after the Original Copies of Venus and Adonis, 1593; The Rape of Lucrece, 1594; Sonnets, 1609; The Lover's Complaint. Facsimile of the Kelmscott Press edition
by SHAKESPEARE. WILLIAM. - ( Kelmscott Press facsimile)
Paradine Publications. London. 1975. LIMITED EDITION. 8vo. (8.4 x 5.6 inches). This is copy number 78 of only 100 copies for sale (there were another 10 copies for presentation) initialled by the printer, Ridley Burnett. A fine bright copy which is a beautifully produced facsimile of the famous Kelmscott Press edition of 1893. Finely hound bound in full white limp vellum, lettered in gilt. Green silk ties which were specially woven for this edition by H. Caldicott of London. With a short booklet about...
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NZ$1,061.80
Cantico delle creature
by Francis (St. of Assissi)
Pawlet (Vermont): Claude Fredericks, 1957. First edition. Wrappers. Wrappers rather faded and rubbed. Two leaves laid into wrappers with a printed label on the front. 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. Text of poem in Italian on one leaf; translation into English on second. The initial letter on the Italian leaf has been hand applied. An exceptional item, and despite its less than ideal condition--it is very fragile--this is a most unusual keepsake from an interesting private press
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NZ$385.20
A SHROPSHIRE LAD.
by HOUSMAN. A. E
Printed by The Riccardi Press for Philip Lee Warner, publisher to the Medici Society. London. 1914. LIMITED EDITION. Small 4to. (9.1 x 6.6 inches). One of 1000 copies, this number 855, printed eleven point Riccardi fount, on handmade Riccardi paper. A fine and clean copy in a fine recent leather binding of full navy blue Morocco. Spine with two raised bands, the compartments ruled and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. A fine copy of this well printed volume in the Riccardi Press...
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NZ$1,008.71
Private Press Books
by Private Libraries Association
Pinner: Private Libraries Association. First edition. Paperback. Fine copy. A collection of 19 issues, including the years 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981-1984, 1985-1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991. 8vo. Wrappers. 22.2 x 14 cm. Edited by Roderick Cave, David Chambers, Peter Hoy et. al.
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NZ$299.60
My Sister Life
by Boris Pasternak
New York: The Limited Editions Club. Fine. 1990. Limited Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. My Sister Life was written in the summer before the 1917 October Revolution, it was very well received and established him as a genius of Russian poetry. The English translation was done by Mark Rudman. The acclaimed Russian born artist, Yuro Kuyper provides 6 etchings for the publication, printed on Hannemule paper in Paris. The paper used for the text was hand-made by H. M. P. Mill in Connecticut to...
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NZ$2,559.44
