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Octavo, a single signature of 14 pages, with the letter, translated by Robert Samuel Rogers, a note on the letter by Elizabeth Frances Rogers, a folded copy of the manuscript letter tipped in, and a tipped-in portrait of Sir Thomas More by Holbein as frontispiece. "Hand set in Centaur type and two hundred and fifty copies printed by hand on Archer paper by Arthur and Edna Rushmore at the Golden HInd Press in Madison, New Jersey. The illustrations in collotype are by The Meriden Gravure Company of Meriden, Connecticut. Finished in December 1949". Sewn into wrappers made of Douglas Cockerell marbled paper, with a paste-on paper title label. Fine.
A LETTER FROM SIR THOMAS MORE TO CONRAD GOCLENIUS / London (c. November 1522).
More, Sir Thomas.
Madison, New Jersey: 1949.
Price: $35.00
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12mo, 27pp., an edition of 200 copies, with lovely small decorations by Ray Holden, printed in green on many pages.. Triangular mild paper crease on leaf 5-6, possibly a paper fault, and faint foxing top the endpapers, else very good and quarter bound in striated green pastepaper on boards, and tan linen, corners slightly rubbed. The verses first appeared in a book issued for Windham's bicentennial in 1892, and recound the story of a frog fight at a local pond in 1754. The present edition was honored aa one of the 50 books of the year in 1935.
BATTLE OF THE FROGS / A DISCOVERY OF THE RARE & SINGULAR DISTURBANCES OF AN HISTORIC NIGHT; WITH OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF MOMENT COMPRISING THE EPIC OF WINDHAM.
Brown, Theron.
Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House, 1934.
Price: $45.00
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BROOKE RUSSELL ASTOR / A BIRTHDAY FOR BROOKE.
Gill, Brendan.
New York: 1992.
Price: $75.00
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One leaf, french-folded to 9 "x 12", with the Latin and English texts on the verso and recto pages, with two printed papyrus pop-ups hinged at the fold. The colophon states: "Pumice stone was used to polish surfaces and edges of papyrus rolls. Hand-set in Dante, illustrated, & printed by Catherine A. Baker, The Legacy Press, Tuscaloosa, Spring, 1998. In an edition of 50, this is number 8. The colophon is signed by Catherine A Baker. Very fine, as issued.
Carmen I: A thought on the longevity of the written word and the book
Gaius Catullus and Michie, James, translator.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The Legacy Press, 1998.
Price: $75.00
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12mo, unpaged (12pp.) A note on the copyright page mentions that "these "Meditations" are selected from those used at The Community Church in Summit, New Jersey", a Unitarian church where Trapp had been the minister from 1945 to 1970. No limitation noted, but the booklet was "hand set in Cloister Oldstyle type and hand printed on dampened Ruysdael all-rag paper".Fine, sewn into tan wrappers with a small b/w title label.
MEDITATIONS WRITTEN OR ARRANGED BY JACOB TRAPP.
Trapp, Jacob.
Madison, New Jersey: Golden HInd Press, 1954.
Price: $35.00
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Small octavo (8 3/8" x 5 1/2"), unpaged (16pp.), number 144 of 300 copies, sewn into grey wrappers with a paste-on white title label. Very fine.
ON HAND PRINTING / 2 LETTERS FROM WILLIAM EVERSON.
Everson, William.
Berkeley, California: Anacapa Books, 1980.
Price: $30.00
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small octavo, 27pp., with the title page printed in orange and black, and with 7 b/w sketches, including the colophon, by the author. who visited printing offices in Paris, Mantignac and Aix-en-Provence in France, and in Westerham, Plaistow and London in England (including the Curwen Press). A genial, delightful read. Stinehour bibliography # 196. The colophon reads: Of 500 copies 100 are sent to friends of the press at Christmas MCMLXIII." Very fine in heavy orange wrappers.
OUR DEVIL TAKES A HOLIDAY / letters and sketches sent back to the shop, written and drawn by John R. Nash.
Nash, John R..
Lunenberg, Vermont: The Stinehour Press, 1963.
Price: $25.00
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Large octavo, 15, (13)pp., with a text by the editor followed by pages of typographical quotes and ornaments printed in several colors. This is #73 of approximately 325 copies printed at the Adagio Press and signed by Leonard Bahr. Very fine in heavy wrappers.
TypoGraphia 1.
Bahr, Leonard F., editor.
Harper Woods, Michigan: The Adagio Press, 1976.
Price: $40.00
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Large octavo, unpaged (28pp.), being a collection of poems by 25 authors, all of whom have, in some respect, an essential bond to western Massachusetts. including a cover illustration by Michael McCurdy. Sewn into heavy Rives BFK wrappers. Fine.
UNDER ONE ROOF/ A GATHERING OF POEMS.
Sternlieb, Barry and Maureen, editors and designers.
Richmond, Massachusetts: Mad River Press, 1992.
Price: $20.00
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