Worthington Company, 1890. 8vo, black decorative stamped cloth, gilt titles, red edge stain, 184pp. Second English Edition. Mild rubbing to covers, corners bumped, fraying to spine ends, discreet ex-libris bookplate to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding firm. “The Apocryphal New Testament, Being all the Gospels, Epistles, and Other Pieces Now.....
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2000. Folio, black staple bound paper wrappers, gilt titles, 12pp. Wrappers faintly creased at corners. Prospectus for a fine binding of the Bible summarizing publisher specs and bibliographic details. Tipped in is a four page foldout with printed excerpts from Genesis, Psalms, Job and John, along.....
London & Boston: The Medici Society, 1928. 12mo, marbled paper boards with green titles, 30pp. Boards heavily worn, spine backstop appears to have disintegrated, corners bumped. Endpapers toned and rubbed. Contents clean, binding firm. A fine press gift edition in the beaux arts style, printing the text of the Song.....
The Catholic Press, 1954. 5 Volume Set. Crown 8vos (7 x 10), red cloth, gilt stamped titles, 435pp (Vol I), 838pp (Vol II), 1258pp (Vol III), 1617pp (Vol IIII), 515pp (Vol V). All volumes with minimal wear to spine edges and fading to boards. Contents clean, binding sharp and firm.....
Fr. Pustet & Co, 1862. 16mo (3 x 4.5), black embossed leather, gilt titles, all edge gilt, 255pp, 188pp [Epistles and Gospels]. Ownership gift inscription to front endpapers, rubbing to leather, crease to leather at rear hinge, front hinge marginally exposed. Pages age toned, binding firm though fragile. A rather.....
Sheed and Ward, 1955. 8vo, red buckram cloth, black titles, 173pp. First Edition. Unpriced dust jacket mildly worn to edges, a few small nicks and closed tears present to front panel, toning to flaps and rear panel. Corners lightly bumped, contents clean. A devotional guide to the traditional “Via Crucis”.....
Flemington, NJ: St Teresa’s Press, 1968. Tall 8vo, orange sewn paper wrappers, silver stamped titles, French folds, uncut page edges, 13pp, [2]. Limited gift edition of 100 copies, this copy numbered 30 to the colophon page. Nearly fine to extremities with the slightest wear to corners of wrappers. Tissue guards.....
Harper & Brothers, 1952. 8vo, quarter black paper over grey buckram cloth boards, silver titles, bevelled edges, 288pp. Stated First Edition with publisher’s code M-A to copyright statement. Unclipped dust jacket (3.50) shows fading to the orange letters on spine, mild toning to rear panel and flaps, faint shelf wear.....
The Fortune Press, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, black textured cloth with upside down gilt titles, 32pp. Orange dust wrapper with red titles, price of 6s to front flap, publisher's list to rear panel. The first state of the second bootleg edition of the author's first book, published by The.....
Random House, 1979. 8vo, dark burgundy cloth with silver titles, 151pp. Stated First Edition with number line ending in 2, according to Random House convention. Signed ‘Elizabeth Hardwick’ to the free front endpaper. Unclipped dust jacket (8.95) mildly creased and rubbed. Contents clean, binding sharp and firm. The third and.....
Ditchling: St. Dominic’s Press, 1919. 16mo, plain typographic sewn pamphlet, superfine paper, 24pp. Limited issue, unnumbered. Wrappers and pages show slight rippling and toning. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The third volume in the Welfare Handbook series by St. Dominic’s Press, printed and designed by Eric Gill. ‘Being extracts.....
London: Methuen & Co, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, flexible blue cloth with silver titles, 233pp. Unclipped dust jacket with list of titles from publishers catalog. Cloth shows light fading to spine and boards, ownership signature to front endpaper. Small spot of sticker residue to spine of dust jacket. A......
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1971. Square 8vo (9x9), white cloth with black and gilt blind stamped titles, black endpapers. 95pp plus 48 photographic plates. First edition with no other printings listed. Price clipped dust jacket mildly worn to panels, a few faint soil marks to front panel, creasing.....
Librarie Plon, 1925. 8vo, softcover wrappers, uncut page leaves, 282pp. First edition, the principal volume in the Roseau d’Or series by Plon. Ex-libris copy from the Jacques Maritain Center at Notre Dame University. Association copy, inscribed by the philosopher to Noemi Renan, daughter of Ernest Renan (1823-1892), French orientalist scholar.....
London: Burns & Oates. 8vo, blue-green cloth, gilt titles, green top stain, 449pp. First Edition in the Orchard Books series by Burns Oates. Unclipped dust jacket (18snet) mildly faded to panels, wear to edges. Contents clean, binding firm and sharp. Translation of the French devotional classic by Algar Thorold, edited.....
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864. 8vo, contemporary binding, 430pp plus 127p appendix. Bound in red calf over marbleized paper, gilt decorated spine with five raised bands, marbleized endpapers, all edges marbleized. First one volume edition, following the serial publication in seven separate tracts with the “Answer to.....
Harper & Row, 1986. 8vo, white buckram cloth over mustard yellow papered boards, gilt titles, 226pp. Stated First Edition with full number line. Price clipped dust jacket mildly creased and worn at edges, faint damp stain to lower corner of front panel. Contents clean, binding firm. Signed by Johnny Cash.....
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. 8vo, single stitch hand sewn blue paper wrappers, French folds, 10pp. #260 of an edition of 300 copies, signed and numbered to the colophon by Paul Bowles. Gathers nine short poems by Bowles, with a woodcut drawing by Henry Shire. Faintest of wear and.....
Benziger Brothers, 1909. 8vo (5.75x8.25), beige pictorial decorative cloth, 497pp plus eight pages of advertisements, black and white illustrated plates. Early printing, in a variant binding of beige cloth stamped with a variant image from the standard issue burgundy cloth. Corners bumped, spine edges slightly frayed. Binding firm and square.....
Pendle Hill Pamphlets, 1981. 12mo, sea blue staple bound wrappers, 32pp. Printed November 1981, edition of 3,500 copies. Wrappers faintly creased to edges. Two brief essays by Weil, including her “Draft for a Statement of Human Obligations” originally collected in Selected Essays 1934-1943. Published by the Pennsylvania Quaker study center.....
The University Press of Kentucky, 1989. Tall 8vo, black cloth, silver titles, 349pp. First edition. Unpriced dust jacket toned to outer edges. Faint toning to text block edges and endpapers. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. This hardcover facsimile anthology gathers the four mimeographic poetry and photo zines published by.....
Little, Brown and Company. 8vo, dark green cloth, silver titles, 385pp. Stated First Edition with full number line. Unclipped dust jacket (19.95) mildly toned to spine. Contents clean, binding sharp, square and crisp. The true first edition of Pynchon’s satirical novel of California radical politics and the inspiration for the.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. 8vo, black full cloth over chartreuse cloth spine, silver titles, 305pp. First American Edition, stated First printing. Dust jacket price clipped with stamped price of 3.00 to front flap, sunned to spine with moderate rubbing to panels, short closed tear to front panel at.....
Oyez; Black Sparrow Press; Doubelday, etc. 1935-1990. Eighteen books by the poet William Everson, including his first ever published pamphlet from 1935, a selection of his religious poetry under the Dominican name Brother Antoninus, and a variety of signed and limited fine press editions from Oyez and Black Sparrow, two.....