Private Press
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# 33891
HEARN, Patrick Lafcadio (Koizumi Yakumo, 小泉 八雲); (1850 - 1904)
Gibbeted: Execution of a youthful murderer. Shocking tragedy at Dayton. A broken rope and a double hanging. Sickening scenes behind the scaffold-screen
By Lafcadio Hearn, and with a foreword by P. D. Perkins. Los Angeles: John Murray, 1933. Octavo, binding by Eunice Murray of black cloth, printed label to spine, pp. 32. Limited to 200 numbered copies. A gruesome story written by Hearn while a reporter at the Cincinnati “Commercial” in 1876. ‘Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was a British …
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# 34434
McHUGH, Vincent (1904 - 1983); ADAMS, Tate (1922 - 2018)
Alpha : the mutabilities
Poems by Vincent McHugh ; with wood engravings by Tate Adams.San Francisco : The Porpoise Bookshop, 1958. Folio, letterpress wrappers (lightly handling wear), stringbound, pp. [16], letterpress text by McHugh and wood engravings by Adams. A very good copy. Poems & Pictures series number eleven. 137 copies printed by Henry Evans at the Peregrine Press. …
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# 34342
LURIE, Morris; HICKEY, Dale
Three stories / Morris Lurie; & ten drawings, plus one original / by Dale Hickey
Melbourne : Grossman Press, 1987. Edition limited to 200 numbered copies signed by the author and artist, with an original coloured illustration (of a condom) by Hickey. Quarto, decorated boards with glassine dustjacket as issued. Fine. Pithy and pornographic.
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# 34067
ARISTOPHANES; LINDSAY, Jack; LINDSAY, Norman
Women in parliament by Aristophanes
done into English by Jack Lindsay with illustrations by Norman Lindsay and a foreword by Edgell Rickword. London : The Fanfrolico Press, 1929. Folio, half blue morocco over gilt-lettered cloth (edges lightly rubbed), spine very lightly sunned, top edge gilt, others uncut, pp. [xvi]; 60, full page plates after Norman Lindsay. Limited to 500 copies …
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# 33528
[LINDSAY, Lionel]. BRENNAN, Christopher.
The Burden of Tyre. Fifteen poems by Christopher Brennan. Etchings by Lionel Lindsay.
Sydney: privately printed by Harry Chaplin, 1953. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth (marked), dustjacket (light water stains), unpaginated, tipped-in etched portrait of Brennan by Lionel Lindsay, signed and numbered, text in letterpress and reproduction of manuscript, tipped-in plate. Limited to 300 copies signed by Harry Chaplin.
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# 32730
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Creative effort : an essay in affirmation (deluxe edition)
Sydney : published for the author by Art in Australia, 1920. First edition. Octavo, quarter cloth over papered boards, spine lettered in gilt (marked); offsetting to endpapers (previous owner’s name to front pastedown), original signed etching by Norman Lindsay tipped-in (lightly foxed), errata slip, pp 292; a very good copy. Limited to 120 copies, of …
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# 32780
COMMÈRE, Pascal; HEREL, Petr (artist) (1943 - )
Prévision de passage d’un dix cors au lieu-dit Goulet du maquis
/ Pascal Commère ; dessins de Petr Herel. Large octavo (210 x 155 mm), publisher’s printed wrappers, 113 pp; poems by Commère illustrated with 6 full-page reproductions of etchings by Australian artist Petr Herel; text in French; ex-library copy with deaccession stamp of the Médiathèque Chalette-sur-Loing (plus usual library markings) else a good, clean copy. Trove …
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# 32727
MACARTNEY, Frederick T. (1887 - 1980)
Hard light and other verses
Surrey Hills, Vic. : The Galleon Press, 1934. Square octavo, green cloth boards with pictorial paper onlay to front featuring a linocut by the poet; 43 pp, illustrated with a further 6 tipped-in linocuts by Macartney; lightly marked, a very good copy. Presentation inscription to a previous owner pasted on a small card on the …
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# 32617
GUTENBERG, Johannes (c. 1398 - 1468)
A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible
[Mainz : Johannes Gutenberg, circa 1454-55]. Single folio leaf. 371 x 300 mm, printed on recto and verso, black gothic lettering of forty-two lines in double columns, large two-line initial letters rubricated in red; light foxing and very small edge chips, remnants of binding along one edge with tiny fragments of manuscript binder’s waste (presumably from …
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# 31318
HUBBARD, Elbert (1856 - 1915)
These pages recount little journeys made to the homes of Ruskin and Turner.
East Aurora: Roycroft Printing Shop, 1896. Quarto, quarter-cloth over gilt-lettered papered boards (marked, boards rubbed), pp. 54, 12 photographure plates with tissue guards, letterpress printed in red and black, extensive marginal ornamentation coloured in inks and gold, all edges uncut, internally fine. Limited to 473 copies signed and numbered by the author. Elbert Hubbard was …
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# 27437
EIGNER, Larry; KING, Ronald (illustrator)
earth birds : forty six poems written between May 1964 and June 1972
Circle Press : Guildford, 1981. Quarto (290 mm), publisher’s quarter brown cloth over papered boards, [42] pp, with 6 plates by Ronald King (blind intaglio abstract designs); internally pristine, a fine copy. Deluxe issue, one of 50 copies on pure rag-made paper with 6 plates printed blind intaglio; although these should be numbered I-L this …
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# 30640
"HUGH STONE" (pseud. of Edward McDONNELL)
Men and memories. (Presentation copy inscribed by the author for the artist E. J. Turner)
/ by “Hugh Stone” (E. McDonnell). [Newcastle, Australia : Printed by R. C. Pogonoski Pty. Ltd.], 1941. “One hundred copies of this Book have been printed … for Private Circulation only, of which this is Number Eight (8)“ (colophon). Octavo (220 x 142 mm), original blind blocked black cloth over boards with gilt-stamped lettering to …
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# 30636
W & G. Baird Ltd.
In memoriam Sir Robert Baird
Belfast : Privately printed, 1934. Royal octavo (220 x 170 mm), original black calf with gilt-stamped lettering to upper board (rubbed, spine ends scuffed), all edges gilt, 75 pp, with two tipped-in sepia tone photographic portraits; offsetting at edges of preliminary and last leaves, else internally clean and bright, a very good copy; loosely enclosed …
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# 30886
LINDSAY, Lionel (1874-1961)
Discobolus and other verse (Margaret Coen’s copy)
Melbourne : F.W. Cheshire [printed at The Hawthorn Press], 1959. Edition limited to 350 copies (this marked ‘Review copy’). Small quarto, olive cloth boards (small stain), spine with gilt lettering, pp 68, [1], numerous reproductions of Lionel Lindsay wood-engravings, a very good copy in slipcase. Margaret Coen’s copy, close friend of Norman Lindsay and wife …
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# 30559
FERLINGHETTi, Lawrence (1919-2021)
Moscow in the wilderness, Segovia in the snow
San Francisco, CA : Beach Books, 1967. First edition. Large folio sheet (445 x 570 mm), printed recto and verso, folded to form an octavo-sized pamphlet; Ferlinghetti’s poem, illustrated with a guitar case, was printed by Vortex Printers (Charley D. and Pamela Plymell), San Francisco, and distributed by Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Bookstore; browning and mild silverfishing …
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# 30224
LINDSAY, Lionel (1874 - 1961)
A book of woodcuts
Sydney : Art in Australia, 1922. Quarto, cloth covered boards, title inlay, all edges uncut, unpaginated, signed woodcut frontispiece printed from colour blocks, foreword by Lindsay with woodcut decoration, a further twenty original woodcuts tipped-in. The deluxe edition, limited to 35 copies, hand printed by Percy Green on Japanese vellum, the woodblocks hand printed by …