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.....
Franco Maria Ricci. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Wide 4to (12 x 12), black cloth with gilt titles, decorative endpapers, custom clamshell slipcase, 280pp. Limited First Edition, Numbered 872/1000 copies to the colophon. Slipcase shows minor nicks to corners and edges, book is nearly pristine condition. A collection of images of the.....
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.....
Larkspur Press, 2002. 8vo, grey cloth, green titles, 62pp. First edition, limited to 700 copies and signed by McClanahan to to the title page. Review copy with tipped-in letter from the publisher soliciting a review. Unpriced dust jacket moderately toned and rubbed to panels. Contents clean, binding sharp and square.....
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.....
J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, yellow buckram cloth with gilt titles, 141pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (Seven & Sixpence). Dust jacket mildly rubbed and toned, sunning to spine. Foxing to top edge of text block. Firmly bound with clean contents. A collection of essays.....
Faber and Faber, 1929. 12mo, yellow pictorial wrappers with French folds, 3pp. First trade edition, following a signed and limited edition. Wrappers worn and rubbed, discreet tape mending to spine edge, ownership signature to reverse of fly leaf. A two page religious poem by Chesterton with a cover drawing and.....
Faber and Gwyer, 1927. 12mo, yellow pictorial wrappers with French folds, 4pp. First trade edition, following a limited numbered hardcover publication. Wrappers very faintly worn. Prints Chesterton’s celebrated nativity poem and chorus from an unfinished play, with a cover illustration and original woodcut by Eric Gill. Faber’s Ariel Poems Series.....
Westminster Press, 1961. Tall 8vo, beige buckram cloth, black titles, 126pp. First issue. Unclipped dust jacket (4.50) with large tape repaired closed tear to front panel. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A symbology key to various cross shapes throughout church history collected, drawn and described by letterer and illustrator.....
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1948. 12mo, quarter brick red burlap cloth over decorative paper boards, mounted titles, unpaginated. Limited edition of 400 copies, unnumbered. Boards faintly worn, endpapers toned. Prints an apocryphal chapter of the Book of Daniel (the story of his mother Susanna), taken from the King James Bible.....
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.....
Trappist, KY: Abbey of Gethsemani, 1959. 8vo, burgundy quarter cloth over decorative grey paper boards, gilt titles, 62pp. First Edition. A trace of fading to board edges, wear and tear to protective tissue guard. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. An essay by Merton prefacing five collected sermons for Advent.....
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.....