Our November catalog features Chapbooks, Private Presses, and Limited Printings. Pictured is a chapbook honoring printer and type designer Fred Goudy.
New York: HarperCollins, 2000. Limited, Signed Edition. Staplebound. Octavo, pp. [3], 2-21, [1]. Five hundred copies were printed and numbered, and signed by Banks. This is number 47 and is signed on the title page. Staple-bound paperback. Russell Banks (1940-2023) was an internationally acclaimed American writer of fiction and poetry.....
New York: Book Arts Press, 1986. Limited Edition. Staplebound. Octavo, pp. [4], 5-44, [4]. One of 1,000 copies. Staple-bound paperback. Lightly tanned pages and edges. Bernard Hartmut Breslauer (1918-2004) was a German-born rare book dealer and book collector, who later lived in England and the United States. In 1992 the.....
Four Ducks, October 1974. Britton, Clark. Limited Edition. Staplebound. Octavo, pp. [24]. “Stagolee” had a print run of 100 copies, and this is number 23 and is signed by both Britton and Jackson. Staple-bound paperback. Very minor wear to covers. Clark V. Britton, Jr. (1930 - ) is a professor-emeritus.....
Prairie Village, KS: The Crabtree Press, 1963. Staplebound. Duodecimo, pp. [4], 5-17, [3]. Staple-bound paperback with minor cover wear. Christopher Columbus Brown (1834-1904) worked as an attorney in Illinois. Brown was acquainted with Abraham Lincoln from Lincoln’s lawyer days. In “Lincoln as Seen by C. C. Brown,” Brown relates several.....
Durham: Black Cygnet Press, 1998. Tournor, Sister Margaret. Limited Edition. Staplebound. Octavo, pp. [16]. One of 150 limited edition copies. Staple-bound paperback. Stain on title label on front cover; no other writing or marks observed. Alfred David Burnett (1937-2023) was a British poet and librarian. He was born in Edinburgh.....
Arcadia, CA: Raccoon Press, 1963. Limited Edition. Staplebound. Octavo, pp. [36]. One of 250 copies. Staple-bound paperback. Smudges noted on several pages (see example photo). All content is visible. Olive Constant Dougan was born Olive Constant McMicken in London in 1904. She earned a degree at the University of London.....
Candia, NH: LeBow, 1994. Knapp, Dina. Limited Edition. Staplebound. Octavo, pp. [16]. “Lethe, Cupid, Time, and Love” is published in an edition of 200 copies. This is number 146, and is signed by Dufresne. Staple-bound paperback. John Dufresne (1948 --) is an American author, born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He graduated from Worcester State.....
Atlanta: The Tinhorn Press, 1979. Staplebound. Duodecimo, pp. [28]. Staple-bound paperback with minor wear to covers. Eugene Vincent Ellis (1932-2015) was a poet and musician from Atlanta, Georgia. He was an architect by trade and was also a classical pianist and composer. He began writing poems while in his teens.....
Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press, 1949. Hardcover. Octavo, pp. [4], 5-30, [2]. Red and gray decorated boards with black spine; lightly bumped boards. Lightly tanned pages. Spine starting to separate at title page (see picture), but is still attached. With an introduction by Thomas Henry Foster. Privately printed for the.....
Torch Press, 1947. Hardcover. Octavo, pp. [4], 5-37, [1]. Green and brown decorated boards with bumping, particularly at fore-edge. Firm binding; no loose pages. Lightly tanned pages and very light foxing inside covers. Several pages near the back with light liquid staining. Privately printed for the friends of May and.....
Council Bluffs, IA: The Yellow Barn Press, 1992. De Pol, John. Limited Edition. Sextodecidmo, pp. [12]. Fine press limited edition; one of 320 copies. A Benjamin Franklin letter of July 31, 1786 to his friend Benjamin Vaughan, in which Franklin describes the effects of lead exposure he had personally observed.....
New York: The Typophiles, 1944. Staplebound. Duodecimo, pp. [8]. Staple-bound paperback. Wear to covers and edges, including a tear at bottom spine. Pages appear clean and unmarked. Frederic William Goudy (1865 – 1947) was a prolific American printer, artist and type designer, and whose self-named type continues to be a popular type.....
Unicorn Press, 1971. Staplebound. Octavo, pp. [12]. Staple-bound paperback with small bend on cover at back. “The Mirror” was published in 1971 by the Unicorn Press, using Hosho paper in a print run of 180 copies. Sixty of these were signed by Haines, and this copy is one of them.....
Roslyn, NY: The Stone House Press, 1985. Limited Edition. Paperback. Duodecimo, pp. [6], 11, [3]. One of 125 limited edition fine press copies. Signed by the author (no inscription). Very light wear to the edges. Dorothy Lebaker Hatch (1920-1998) was an American poet. “Waking to the Day: Selected Poems” includes.....
New York: The Mysterious Bookshop, 2008. Paperback. 12mo, pp. [2], 33, [5]. Covers and edges with minor wear, including small bends at the bottom edge of covers. John Lescroart (1948--) is known for his series of legal and crime novels featuring the characters Dismas Hardy, Abe Glitsky, and Wyatt Hunt. His novels.....
Moreton-in-Marsh, England: The Kit-Kat Press, 1986. Reeve, Colin. Limited Edition. Paperback. Duodecimo, pp. [12]. “Daphnis and Chloe,” believed to have been written by Marvell in the late 1640s, is printed here in an edition of 250 numbered copies by the Kit-Cat Press in Great Britain in 1988. This is number.....
Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1974. Limited Edition. Staplebound. Octavo, pp. [16]. Number 13 of 500 limited edition copies. Staple-bound paperback. Small bends at top of pages and covers at edge. Michael McClure (1932 – 2020) was an American poet, novelist, playwright and songwriter. As a young writer, he found fame as one.....
Portland, ME: The Mosher Press, 1928. Paperback. 16mo, pp. [12], 5-12, [12]. Lightly tanned pages; small tear on back cover. “Attic Twilights” was published in 1928 by the Mosher Press of Portland, Maine, in an edition of 500 copies. Several pages remain uncut. Edna May Worthley Underwood (1873 – 1961) was.....
Portland, ME: Mosher Press, 1940. Hardcover. 12mo, pp. [4], v-vi, 1-25, [1]. Orange boards covered with tan title label. Lightly tanned pages; some uncut at top edge. Missing the clear glassine cover originally issued.
Mindelheim, Germany: Three Kings Press, 1970. Limited Edition. Staplebound. Duodecimo, pp. 32 pages. Fine press copy 20 of a limited edition of 50 copies. Signed by the engraver under George Washington's linocut opposite the title page. Staple-bound paperback with minor wear to the covers. In 1783, General George Washington wrote.....
Portland: Trace Editions, 1983. Limited Edition. Staplebound. 16mo, pp. [16]. Staple-bound paperback. “Four Poems of Departure” was published in an edition of 500 copies, with ink drawings “from an anonymous suite entitled Pilgrims (after Michaux).” There is also an unattached bookplate signed by Wright. Charles Wright (1935 -- ) was.....