William Blake Book Illustrator: Volume I.
Easson, Roger R. And Essick, Robert N. Normal, Illinois: The American Blake Foundation, 1972. 4to, xv, 55 pp, with XI plates comprising 63 pages of monochrome illustrations of engravings at various states. Good in original illustrated wrappers. § Vol. 1 (of two), complete in itself and covering only book illustrations both designed and engraved by Blake, is an essential reference tool not replaced by any later work by Essick or indeed anyone else. Bentley, BB, 709: "this important work".- $35
- $35
Two Letters from Edwin Grabhorn to Haywood Hunt.
Grabhorn, Edwin. San Francisco: Printed by Andrew Hoyem, 1977. Royal 8vo, [11]pp. Printed in black and red. Original orange printed wrappers, thread bound. Very light staining and creasing to wrappers, very good. § One of 125 copies. Presented to members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco on the occasion of their meeting January 18, 1977. The letters reproduced are in the Grabhorn Press records in the Bancroft Library.- $50
- $50
The Trial of Mrs Leigh Perrot.
[Austen, Jane]. Ives, Sidney. Boston: The Steinhour Press for the Club of Odd Volumes, 1980. 8vo, 37 pp. Original papered boards with printed label on backstrip. Boards lightly spotted, else fine. Original prospectus laid in. § One of 200 copies. Sidney Ives' lively work on the mysterious affair of the trial of Jane Austen's aunt, Mrs Leigh Perrot, for shoplifting in 1800. The work includes part of a letter from Jane Austen that is printed for the first time.- $75
- $75
The Trial of Mrs Leigh Perrot.
[Austen, Jane]. Ives, Sidney. Boston: The Steinhour Press for the Club of Odd Volumes, 1980. 8vo, 37 pp. Original papered boards with printed label on backstrip. Boards and endpapers lightly toned, else fine. § One of 200 copies. Sidney Ives' lively work on the mysterious affair of the trial of Jane Austen's aunt, Mrs Leigh Perrot, for shoplifting in 1800. The work includes part of a letter from Jane Austen that is printed for the first time.- $50
- $50
Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm.
[Grimms' Fairy Tales]. Offenbach, Germany: Printed for members of the Limited Editions Club by Wilh. Gerstung, 1931. 8vo, XI, 96 pp. Illustrated with hand-colored woodcuts by Fritz Kredel. Brown cloth, gilt monogram on upper board, gilt lettering on backstrip. Backstrip slightly faded otherwise a very good copy in a slightly worn slipcase. § Edition of 1500 copies, signed by the book designer Rudolf Koch and the illustrator Fritz Kredel. Introduction by Harry Hansen.- $250
- $250
Return: An Unpublished Poem.
[Grabhorn Press]. Jeffers, Robinson. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. Royal 8vo, [4]pp. Original orange wrappers over cardboard. Very slight chipping of top and bottom edge of wrappers, small stain at top right corner of front wrapper, else fine. § One of 250 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press for Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc., December 1934. Copy No. 128.- $125
- $125
The Crock of Gold.
Stephens, James. Lawson, Robert (illustrator). New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1942. 4to, 163 pp. Illustrations in black and white throughout. Green cloth with round, green pictorial inlay to upper cover illustrated in gilt, gilt lettering to backstrip. A near fine copy with a few marks of former tape to the endpapers in the original, slightly worn slipcase. § Edition of 1500 copies, signed by Lawson. A lovely LEC title, distinguished by the excellent illustrations by Robert Lawson. A comic novel written by Irish author James Stephens, first published in 1912.- $175
- $175
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Illustrated by Edward A. Wilson.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. (Wilson, Edward, illus.) New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945. Sm. 4to, 70 pp. Hand-colored illustrations. Full ostrich skin, backstrip lettered in gilt, original slipcase. A near fine copy with very slight rubbing to the board corners, in the worn and chipped card slipcase. § Edition limited to 1500 copies signed by the illustrator. The introduction reproduces Chapter XVI of The Road to Xanadu by John Livingston Lowes. Printed at the Yale University Press.- $200
- $200
The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe.
Longus. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. 4to, 131 pp. Full sheep with Greek key border in blind and gold embossed medallion on upper cover, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Near fine copy, backstrip faintly sunned, light wear to board tips, in the worn and stained original slipcase. § Edition of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator. Translated into English by George Moore. Illustrated with etchings by Ruth Reeves. Designed by Porter Garnett and printed under his direction on the hand-press at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.- $200
- $200
The Man without a Country. Illustrated by Edward A. Wilson.
Hale, Edward Everett. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. 8vo, x, 55 pp. Full calf, upper board embossed with map design, backstrip lettered in gilt. Backstrip faded, some toning from the binding glue on pastedowns and in the page gutters, original slipcase a little faded and worn. § Limited to 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator Edward Wilson on the colophon. The illustrations are hand colored with stencils. Designed by Edward Alonzo Miller and printed at the Marchbanks Press in New York City.- $100
- $100