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Zuidwal/South Wall
by Waarsenburg, Hans van de
Banholt: In de Bonnefant, 1993. Limited private press edition. First edition. Paperback. Fine copy. 6 unnumbered leaves sewn into wrappers, cut flus. 20 cm square. 250 copies printed letterpress. Inscribed and signed by the principals. Illustrated by Jan van den Berg.
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NZ$76.60
A Life of Merlin
by Gohorry, John
San Francisco: Bullnettle Press, 1998. Limited private press edition. First edition. Ephemera. Fine copy. Two poems: "The Orchard" and "Guitar Music." Printed on card stock and laid in a folded prospectus. "Very few" on this were available. 11 x 7 inches. Evidently these poems, which were numbered v and vi, were included in a book printed in an edition of 95 copies. The book was hand-set and printed letterpress by Asa Peavy. The prospectus has an Author's Note.
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NZ$85.11
Manna from Heaven, Honey from a Rock
8vo sized spiral binding with acetate sheets over covers; 323 pages with color illustrated front cover and black and white decorations throughout. Recipes are signed with the name of contributors and there is a list of Recipe Contributors, but no index of contributors. Recipes include: Rhubarb Bread; Beer Bread; Baked Cheese Grits; Bandera Grits; Babootie; Polly's Meatloaf; Neiman Marcus Cookies; Toasted Almond Parfait; French Chocolate Silk Pie; Chocolate Layer Bars; Cranberry Chutney; Christmas...
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NZ$37.45
Precious Caskets: The Friendship Between T.E. Lawrence & William McCance
by Knowles, Richard Signed by the printer and author
Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, 2001. Book. Illus. by Parker, Agnes, Miller. Fine. Hardback. Signed by the Author. First Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A fine as new copy, signed on the colophon page by Simon Lawrence of the Fleece Press and the author. This is the intriguing story of the friendship between the wood-engraver, painter and typographer William McCance and the celebrated T.E. Lawrence. The book details the involvement of McCance in the choice of binders for the subscribers'...
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NZ$445.07
The Corvinus Press: A History and Bibliography
by Nash, Paul W; Flavell, A. J
Scolar Press, 1994. Hardback with dust-wrapper. 24 x 16cm. 245pp. Illustrated. Inscribed by A. J. [Jack] Flavell to the title page. Slight wear to d/w only. An excellent copy. . Inscribed By Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.
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NZ$212.95
Brideship and Gulls. Illustrated by Susan Weil
by FitzGerald & Co., Vincent. Joyce, James
New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 1991. One of 25 copies, text on Apta Royale Laid Richard de Bas paper (made in 1938), images on Musee paper, backed on custom-made papers by Paul Wong on Dieu Donne' Papermill. Page size: 16 inches x 16 inches. Bound by Zahra Partovi in Coptic-style mauve-grey silk over boards, box by David Bourbeau, Thistle Bindery, fine. Six original line etchings by Susan Weil are hand-painted in watercolor and gouache with gold-leafing throughout, each mounted on museum board....
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NZ$17,022.00
The Writing of Rebecca West
by Mosley, Diana
Francestown: Typographeum, 1986. Limited private press edition. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine copy. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. 48. With a new Afterword. 150 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. From 1953 to 1959 Diana Mosley edited a magazine called "The European" advocating the adherence of England to Europe. It included a series of articles, by various authors, on literature and politics. One of these articles, by Diana Mosley herself, was on the...
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NZ$110.64
A Folio Anthology of Poetry
by Duffy, Carol Ann - introduction
London: Folio Society, 2009. Hard Cover. near fine/vg. Bound in full blue cloth with gilt design and lettering to covers and spne. A beautiful coyp in slipcase.
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NZ$127.66
The Flyin' Machine
by Benkovitz, Miriam J
[Saratoga Springs]: Privately Printed, N.d.. First edition. Wrappers. Fine copy. 4 leaves stapled. 9 x 6 inches. Inscribed by the author.
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NZ$17.02
The Beginning and the End, Collected Poems
by Kershaw, Alister
Francestown: Typographeum, 1983. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated by Anthony Palliser and Alannah Coleman. 8vo. Burgundy cloth. Printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in). 96 pp. Illus. 100 numbered copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. Illustrated by Anthony Palliser and Alannah Coleman. Alister Kershaw was already regarded, at seventeen, as one of Australia's most interesting poets. However his...
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NZ$110.64
Bibliophiles at Oxford, A celebration of fifty years of the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles, 1951-2000 with descriptive notes on the term cards
by Nash, Paul W. and Justin Howes
Witney: Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. Small 8vo. Cloth. Pp. 224. Illustrated: including a fold-out frontispiece in color. Index of Printer and Designers. Index of Talks and Visits. Index of Officers. Foreword" by Paul W. Nash. "Beginnings" by Bent Juel-Jensen. "Memories of Meetings" by Giles G. Barber. "Bibliophilic Excursions" by Paul Morgan. 300 copies. Dust-jacket printed letterpress by Paul W. Nash. The...
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NZ$110.64
The Golden Reign: the Story of My Friendship with Lawrence of Arabia, with a New Introduction By Malcolm Brown, Newly Illustrated By Vintage Photographs
by Smith, Clare, Sydney
Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, 2004. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Fourth Edition, First Thus. Landscape. A fine new copy, a superb private press reissue with new material and illustrations of the book first published in 1940. This account tells in a moving manner of the friendship of T.E. Lawrence with the wife of the commander of the RAF station where he was in the late 1920s early 1930s. It shows a rather different aspect to the character of T.E. than the popular image. If you are interested in T.E. and have...
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NZ$161.84
Sonnets and Verses
by Enid Clay
Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. 1st Edition. Very Good. Eric Gill. With eight engravings by Eric Gill. In original blue boards with cloth spine. Paper label solidly attached to spine with title and author. General wear to boards and some ageing and soiling to cloth spine. Complete with multiple endpapers at front and back. This book is number 218 of 450. No signatures. Sticker from old (maybe original) bookstore it was sold at. Interior is clean and clear with rough...
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NZ$625.56
The Days Before Rock 'n' Roll
by Waarsenburg, Hans van de
Banholt: In de Bonnefant, 2001. Limited private press edition. First edition. Paperback. Fine copy. 4 leaves sewn into wrappers, cut flush. About 9 x 6 inches. Signed by the poet and printer (Hans van Eijk). Laid in a two leaf translation of the poem into English by Peter Boreas.
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NZ$42.56
A List of Books, Booklets, Hand Coloured Prints and Ballad Sheets
by Cuala Press
Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1979. First edition. Ephemera. Fine copy. 4 leaves stapled into wrappers. About 8 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches. Laid in a printed colder with a hand-colored pressmark on the front. One price corrected in ink. The pressmark on the folder, "Lone tree in Irish landscape", was drawn by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and first used in 1925. The pressmark on the booklet, "Lady Emer and tree", was engraved by Elinor Monsell and first used in 1907.
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NZ$76.60
The New Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly: Volume II, Part 6, June 1949
by Various Authors
Bristol: Hildreth Press , 1949. Hardback, pictorial front board. 27.5cm x 20cm. Pp. 107-189. Illus. A little wear to binding. A very pleasing copy. (bs35a). Hard Cover. Very Good.
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NZ$29.81
An Introduction to Léon Daudet, With Selections From His Memoirs
by Daudet, Léon and Alister Kershaw
Francestown: Typographeum, 1988. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. New. Frontispiece portrait by Couneus. 8vo. Blue cloth. Printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in). 76 pp. 210 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. Frontispiece portrait by Couneus. Léon Daudet (1867-1942) was a polymath writer whose work was respected even by those who disliked his right-wing views. This book contains a number of his provocative essays.
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NZ$102.13
The Book of Common Praryer; and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of thbe Church according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as they are to be sung of said in churches
by Sir Patrick Cormack, foreword
London: The Folio Society, 2004. Hardcover. near fine/fine. Marbled boards with green leather spine. Gilt lettering and design to spine.Woodcuts by Hans Holben, Durer and others. Ties. Lovely copy in slipcase.
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NZ$102.13
A First List of books printed and published by The Banyan Press
by (Banyan Press), Claude Fredericks and Milton Saul
(New York): Banyan Press, 1948. First edition. Ephemera. Fine copy. 8 unnumbered leaves sewn into paper wrappers. 4 3/8 x 6 5/8 inches. One of 2000 copies printed letterpress accouncing the publication of new books by Stephen Spender, Gertrude Stein and others. Also, includes a later prospectus.
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NZ$85.11
The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest (Vol. 20, No. 1-6)
by Elbert Hubbard
East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1905. Pamphlet. Very Good. 15 x 11.5 cm. 16 mo. Saddle-stitched pamphlets. Light rubbing to edges. No. 3 has a slightly losse cover. December 1904 to May 1905. Complete 6 book set. Volume 20.
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NZ$85.11
Empty Rooms
by Kershaw, Alister
Francestown: Typographeum, 1990. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Olive cloth with printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in). 32 unnumbered pages. 75 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. This volume includes 16 poems written many years earlier but here published for the first time.
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NZ$71.49
The Man Versus the State
by Spencer,Herbert
New York: Classics of Liberty Library, 1996. Special Edition. Hardcover. nf. Octavo. 9 1/6" x 6". Red leather spine over red boards. 113pp.
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NZ$51.07
Hermes & Magdalen 43, Poems and Etchings
by Moat, John
Francestown: Typographeum, 2004. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. 92. Illustrated: frontispiece and 19 plates tipped in. Hand-set and printed letterpress by R. T. Risk. The main edition was of 150 copies hand-bound by the printer, but there was an additional 13 copies, of which this is number 3 of 10 signed by the poet, with one original etching, specially bound and preserved in a slip-case. The slip-case is about 15 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches.
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NZ$3,149.07
To the Nightingale by William Blake, with a statement by Geoffrey Keynes Kt.
by Blake, William & Keynes, Geoffrey
Isle of Ely: Waterside Press, 1981. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine copy of Number 34 of just 100 copies. Specially bound by Leslie G. Hill of Worcester in green cloth with gilt title to front board, retaining original card covers. Signed by Geoffrey Keynes. Obituary of Keynes from The Times August 16 1982 pasted to rear endpapers of binding..
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NZ$91.04
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 "Oxford" Text. Full Cloth, Limited, Numbered Edition.
by Lawrence, T. E
Fordingbridge: Castle Hill Press /J & N Wilson, 2003. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine, as new copy of this one volume edition of the original text of T. E. Lawrence's acclaimed account of his part in the First World War. Published in an accessible and attractive numbered, limited edition, this copy being number 399. Bound in original brown cloth with top edge gilt. Retains the original tissue dust-wrapper in good condition and...
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NZ$525.99
