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Swingin Round the Cirkle; His Ideas of Men, Politics, and Things, as Set Forth in His Letters to...
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Swingin Round the Cirkle"; His Ideas of Men, Politics, and Things, as Set Forth in His Letters to the Public Press, During the Year 1866

by Nasby, Petroleum V. (pen name of David Ross Locke); Nast, Thomas (Illustrator)

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Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Nast, Thomas. Duodecimo size, 299 pp. The popular work of ironic fiction written by journalist and political commentator David Ross Locke (1833-1888). Locke's greatest influence was through his satirical writings as "Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby". The Nasby letters harshly ridiculed the plight of peoples in the Confederate states and the complicity of Northern politicians. Both Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant recognized Nasby as a significant source of support for their presidencies. Thomas Nast (1840-1902) eventually heightened the work with his illustrations, and was also credited by Lincoln for inspiring people to support the war effort. His work marked an important shift in shift in political cartoons, which had before relied mainly on text rather than imagery. "Swinging Round the Cirkle" is made up of some of the most weighted of Nasby's moral statements, especially concerning the plight of African Americans. The letters… Read More
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Queen of Hearts
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Queen of Hearts

by Nelson, Victoria

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[San Francisco]: The Greenwood Press, 1968. First and Limited Edition. Wraps. Near fine. One of 250 copies, quarto size, 35 pp., signed by Victoria Nelson, with prospectus and related ephemera. A short story about living in the Stinson Beach and Bolinas of the 1980s, "a tale of love and liberation" (n.b., from newspaper review). In the bibliography of The Greenwood Press, Stauffacher relates that "[i]t was in 1982 that I met Victorian Nelson. I read her 'Queen of Hearts' and immediately asked if I could publish this marvelous story about West Marin in the indulgent seventies. Our friendship grew from this experience" (p. 190). Included is the original prospectus and invoice (the latter to a collector who lived in Stinson Beach), and a contemporary newspaper review by John Grissim, which appeared in the "Point Reyes Light" on November 26, 1986. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in brown-grey wrappers with yapped edges, title in red on front wrap, photograph of sand dollars on front extending slightly onto the… Read More
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Shame
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Shame

by Newman, Randy

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Louisville: Contre Coup Press, 2000. Limited Edition. String Binding. Fine. One of 15 copies, unnumbered, twelvemo size, twelve printed pp. Award-winning musician Randall Stuart Newman (b. 1943) began his career as a songwriter at the young age of 17, and has gone on to not only write and perform his own songs and write for other well-known bands (such as Fleetwood Mac,etc.) but has composed the music for countless films including nine of the Disney animated films, and more. His award list is impressive, including nominations for twenty-two Academy Awards, the winner of three Emmy Awards and seven Grammy Awards (among others). He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002 and, in 2013, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Contre Coup Press of Louisville took the lyrics to Newman's song "Shame" (released on the album "Bad Love" in 1999) and created a lovely work whose delicacy and grace form a counterpoint to the heartfelt lines. Timothy Hawley's Contre Coup Press is the… Read More
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Be Still ...the response of friends; being a suite of fourteen relief prints created by seven...
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Be Still ...the response of friends; being a suite of fourteen relief prints created by seven artists at the invitation of Bill Garnett..

by Nicolas McDowall (Author, Printer); Bill Garnett (Introduction); John Abell, Natalie d'Arbeloff, Harry Brockway, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Ralph Kiggell, Angela Lemaire, Robert Macdonald (Artists)

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[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press, 2015. Limited Edition. Folio. Fine/as new. Abell, John; d'Arbeloff, Natalie; Brockway, Harry; Hicks-Jenkins, Clive; Kiggell, Ralph; Lemaire, Angela; Macdonald, Robert. Number 11 of 25, folio size, unpaginated, 14 folded leaves and 14 relief prints, each print is signed and numbered by the respective artist, signed at the colophon by Nicolas and Frances McDowell. A severely limited production of only 25 copies, of which "one [is reserved] for The Old Stile Press, one for each of the contributors and the remaining copies available for purchase". "Be Still ...the response of friends," is an artistic response to a miniature book written by Nicolas McDowall and published in 2000, "Be Still, twelve haiku from the valley of the Wye." A friend of the McDowalls, Bill Garnett (Director/Curator, Pomegranate Fine Art) was especially fond of that book and felt it demanded to be re-visited with illustration. Garnett charged the McDowalls with the retro-realization, and the… Read More
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Nietzsche Werke, Kritische Gesamtausgabe IX
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Nietzsche Werke, Kritische Gesamtausgabe IX

by Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Berlin: de Gruyter, 2015. Hardcover. Fine. Ten volumes, 3 octavo and 7 elephant folio volumes, approx. 2700 total pages, all text in German. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history (n.b., info from Wikipedia). This work the "Critical Complete Edition" published in Berlin by deGruyter. Per the publisher, "The publication of Section IX signifies the completion of the Critical Edition of Friedrich Nietzsche's Complete Works." This set is comprised of the first ten volumes: three octavo-size volumes (the third with a CD in a pocket at the rear pastedown), and seven elephant folio-size volumes (these also with a CD) numbered "IX 1" through "IX 10". The publishers has issued subsequent volumes, as of this writing the set encompasses fourteen volumes. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full gold cloth over boards, debossed blue… Read More
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Gnachos for Bishop Berkeley
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Gnachos for Bishop Berkeley

by Nisbet, Jim

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Berkeley, California: Transitional Face, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 100 copies, duodecimo size, 18 unnumbered pp. This collection of poems by Jim Nisbet (b. 1947) exemplifies his swerving experimental style, as he responds to the writings of George Berkeley (1685-1753), specifically "A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge", an excerpt of which is printed before the poems. Berkeley is known for his theory of immaterialism, and Nisbet's poems challenge the reader to look beyond what is merely visible, to dig in to what is rooted deeply in the human psyche. This particular edition was printed at the Univerisity of California, Berkeley, which takes its name from George Berkeley. A card reading "With the Authors' compliments" is slipped in. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter grey cloth with textured paper boards with abstract pattern, silver lettering on the spine; Bell type, duodecimo size (6.25" by 4.5"), pagination: 18 unnumbered pages, one of 100 copies, unnumbered.… Read More
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The Waternymph and the Boy
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The Waternymph and the Boy

by Noel, Roden; Pitts, J. Martin (Artist); Delrue, Paul (Design Binding)

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[Monmouthshire]: [The Old Stile Press], 1997. Limited Edition. Leather. Fine. Pitts, J. Martin. No. IX of X specially bound copies, folio size, [27] pp., signed by J. Martin Pitts and Paul Delrue, with prospectus. Paul Delrue (b. 1944) bound his first book at the age of fifteen in 1959, and knew he had discovered his calling. He became an apprentice at the University College, London from 1961-64 and worked there as a binder until 1971. He set up his own bindery in 1971 and in 1981 was elected a Fellow of the Society of Bookbinders, having founded and served as chairman of the Chester and North Wales branch in 1979. Paul has earned numerous awards and honours, including the Silver medal and three other awards in 1991 in The Bookbinding Competition. He was elected a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in the same year; the following year he was awarded two Bronze medals in the prestigious Prix Paul Bonet. Paul invented the lacunose style of binding which is masterfully shown in this work, although he… Read More
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A Gest of Robin Hood; Revived as the Forty-ninth Grove Play of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco...
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A Gest of Robin Hood; Revived as the Forty-ninth Grove Play of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco and Performed by its Members in the Bohemian Grove, Sonoma County, California, on the Thirty-first Night of July, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-four, Under the Direction of Fred Orin Harris

by Norris, Charles G.; Newell, Robert C. (Music); Harris, Fred Orin (Director)

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San Francisco: (Printed by the Grabhorn Press), 1954. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Berman, Eugene. One of 1100 copies, octavo size, 102 pp. "A Gest of Robin Hood" is one of the oldest surviving tales of Robin Hood, printed between 1492 and 1534. This edition was printed by the Grabhorn Press for the Bohemian Club of San Francisco; the Grabhorn Press, run by brothers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, was one of the most highly renowned private presses in America during the twentieth century. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter green cloth with light green paper boards decorated with green, red, and yellow pattern, yellow lettering on the spine, title page in red and black, paragraph marks in red; monotype Caslon, machine-made paper, octavo size (9.5" tall), 102 pp., one of 1100 copies, unnumbered, printed for the Bohemian Club of San Francisco. ___CONDITION: Volume is near fine, with clean boards, straight corners, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, and the interior is clean and bright; prior… Read More
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