Search Results: Titles starting with H from Lux Mentis, Booksellers

Lake City, CO: Raven Press, 1974. Original Wraps. Fine. Original Wraps. Signed by Artist. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed paper covers, fold out cube structure, green medallions attached to top. 78x79x80mm. np. Numbered open edition, this being 17.

[Bisbee, AZ]: Pequeno Press, 1992. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Publisher. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Blue paper boards, modified accordion binding in the Japanese style, marbled endpapers, various cut and folded papers. 65x76mm. np. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 45 of 60.

1970. Broadside. Very Good+. Broadside. Theater production handbill for 1970s musical "Hair," illustrated using the modified "Lovers" tarot card from the major arcana deck designed by Pamela Colman Smith. Smith is one of the most recognized book designers and divination deck artists of the Occult Revival period. A seemingly scarce piece of ephemera, appropriating occult imagery. Single-sided full color handbill, illustrated, in very good condition, corners with slight wear, otherwise brilliantly colored. Approximately 6x11."

London/Portland: Wolfe Editions, 2017. Broadside. Fine. Broadside. "This 1800's print and poem titled, The Hairy Prospect or the Devil in a Fright by the English artist and caricaturist, Thomas Rowlandson, shows a woman standing by a bed to left, lifting her skirt up showing her scary hairy vagina; to right, a hairy and winged devil with a huge penis turns away, recoiling in horror at the sight; open door at right." The poem reads; Once on a time the Sire of evil In plainer English call'd the devil Some new experiment to try At Chloe cast a roguish eye But she who all his arts defied Pull'd up and shew'd her sexes pride A thing all shagg'd about with hair So much it made old Satan stare Who frightend at the grim display Takes to his heels and runs away. Letterpress printed by David Wolfe of Wolfe editions. Bright and clean. Printed in b/w. Unumbered limited edition.

Portland, ME: Red Howler Press/Wolfe Editions, 1998. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine.. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Printed by hand in letterpress and original woodblocks by David Wolfe. Limited edition of 30 copies, this being out of sequence (marked "a/p", publisher's copy). Signed by the author/artist. An exceptional collection of loose plates in pristine condition. Tight, bright and unmarred. Black cloth boards, black and grey ink lettering, paper onlay, grey endpages, grey drop-fold sleeve, printed tissueguards (red ink), each plate numbered (showing "a/p") named and signed in pencil by the artist, black ribbon ties. 4to. np. Illus. (b/w plates).

Portland, ME: Red Howler Press/Wolfe Editions, 1998. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Printed by hand in letterpress and original woodblocks by David Wolfe. Limited edition of 30 copies, this being out of sequence (marked "a/p", publisher's copy). Signed by the author/artist. An exceptional collection of loose plates in pristine condition. Tight, bright and unmarred. Black cloth boards, black and grey ink lettering, paper onlay, grey endpages, grey drop-fold sleeve, printed tissueguards (red ink), each plate numbered (showing "a/p") named and signed in pencil by the artist, black ribbon ties. 4to. np. Illus. (b/w plates).

New York: Tor, 1999. First Edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. Original Wraps. Harry Clement Stubbs, best known by his pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre. A near perfect copy of a rather scarce proof. Barest hint of sun at the spine, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Orange paper wraps, black ink letter. Small 8vo. 252pp.

Hallowell, ME: Hallowell Register Press, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. No DJ as Issued.. First Edition. Hardcover. Interestingly, while on the title page, the author is "H.K. Baker", on the front board it is "G.K. Baker". Overall, a handsome copy of this rather scarce work. Light shelf/edge wear, tips gently bumped, boards very lightly toned, else tight, bright and unmarred. Light grey boards, gilt lettering, decorative endpages, frontispiece. Small 8vo. 52pp. Illus. (b/w plates).

Alpignano, Italy: Alberto Tallone, 2022. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Archival Box. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Hamlet is one of my favourite Shakespearean plays. It is painful and difficult; full of melancholy, bloodshed and heartache." [artist statement]. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Full black leather tongue in slot binding with red feathered onlays on the spine, head is decorated with acrylic inks and the black endpapers and doublures with ‘blood spots' of crimson acrylic ink; housed in a black cloth drop-spine box, black leather spine label, blood red ink lettering. 4to. 220pp plus Index. Numbered lmited edition, this being 97 of 360.

New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1854. Disbound Plates. Very Good to Fine. Disbound Plates. $20 each or the entire collection for $250. Hand colored floral plates. Most are clean, a handful have light foxing.

Privately Printed, 1920. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good in Wraps. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. "Eleven Vivid Illustrations", which is an interesting statement, as there are dozens of plates. Illustrations are mostly spanking and flagellation, but also some male corset wearing, etc. Most illustrations reproduce sketches or engravings, there are a handful of photographic reproductions. Minor shelf/edge wear, wear at head and tail, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Limited edition of 1000 copies.

Providence, RI: The Akerman-Standard Company, 1935. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good+ in Wraps. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Light wear at edges (less than typically found), minor toning on spine, small water stain at top right corner, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Brown overlapped paper wraps with printed decorative elements. 8vo. 68pp. Index. Illus. (b/w plates). Signed by author. Numbered limited edition, this being 241 of 500.

Boston, MA: Crosby and Ainsworth, 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. First Edition. Hardcover. W.J. Rolfe and J.A. Gillet, teachers in the high school, Cambridge, Mass. General astronomy book for all education levels. Color spectrum frontispiece. Light shelf/edge wear, loss at head and tail, rear board cracked and repaired, very minor foxing at preliminaries, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Bound in black cloth with a black leather spine, color frontispiece. Small 8vo. 224pp plus 17 plates at rear with various constellations on a black field. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Appendix. Questions for students. Index.

New York: Scribner's & Sons, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes 24 illustrations and 8 maps. Large color map in rear pocket. Smith lists this and a London edition as both first printings. [Smith 3824] A very handsome copy. Light shelf/edge wear, minor toning to spine, small spot at bottom of rear hinge, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Brown ruled cloth boards, gilt lettering, frontispiece, tissueguards. 8vo. 280pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Index. Map in rear pocket.

United Kingdom: Unicorn Press, 1972. Reprint. Original Wraps. Near Fine in Wraps. Reprint. Original Wraps. "Although the rear covers have the imprint "Unicorn: Seattle" the booklets were actually produced by the avante-garde Unicorn Bookshop of Brighton, England, who were also the ones behind the piratical "'Booklegger Albion" imprint ['Booklegger" = "Bootlegger", "Albion" = "England" in other words published by an English Pirate of Books."--Weiser. "Geomancy is an Art of Divination, wherby the judgement may be rendred by lot, or destiny, to every question of every thing whatsoever, but the Art hereof consisteth especially in certain points where of certain figures are deducted according to the reason or rule of equality of inequality, likenesse or unlikenesse,; which Figures are also reduced to the Coelestiall Figures, assuming their natures and proprieties, according to the course and forms of the Signes and Planets...according to Agrippa. Near fine. Pamphlet in staplebound wraps with blue ink.

Wenatchee, WA: Mystical Places Press, 1998. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Two volumes, yellow and pink boards, green slipcase, unfolding pictures of flowers, designed to hang from ribbons. 66x52mm. np. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 7 of 22.

Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 1996. Second Printing. Hardcover. Fine in Fine DJ. Second Printing. Hardcover. A remarkable first novel (though fourth book). A pristine copy. Tight, bright and unmarred. DJ bright and clean. Quarterbound, black cloth spine, black paper boards, silver gilt lettering, map endpages. 8vo. 245pp.

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1926. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine in Good+ DJ.. Reprint. Hardcover. A handsome copy of this early reprint, compete with rather uncommon DJ. Minor shelf wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, minor chipping (focused at head, heel and tips, several small, closed tears, partial pull with some text loss in the book list at rear, else bright and clean. Black cloth boards, gilt lettering, color pictorial onlay, color pictorial endpages, frontispiece. 8vo. 380pp. Illus. (color plates).

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. Wonderful biography of this noted publisher. Light shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Full black leather binding, gilt lettering, marbled endpages, silk ribbon bound in, teg. 8vo. 222pp. Numbered limited edition, this being 59 of 100.

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Minor shelf/edge wear, touch of toning to spine and board edges, light toning at preliminaries, owner bookplate at front pastedown, else tight, bright, and umarred. Quarterbound, beige buckram spine, blue cloth boards, blue leather spine label, gilt lettering, frontispiece. 8vo. 240pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 533 of 1250.