Private Press
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# 33007
LONEY, Alan and GIMBLETT, Max
Searchings. Selections from the artist’s journals
Auckland : The Holloway Press, 2005. Quarto, quarter buckram over blue lettered boards, unpaginated, illustrations by Gimblett, including double page original paintings. Limited to 80 copies of which 64 were for sale. This is a copy 58. “This book is the result of three years research and study of the Journals of one of the …
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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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# 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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# 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 …
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# 30219
LINDSAY, Jack
Lysistrata By Aristophanes
Done into English verse by Jack Lindsay with illustrations and decorations by Norman Lindsay. Sydney: Fanfrolico Press, 1925. Quarto, quarter white cloth over gilt-stamped boards (corners bumped), pp. [viii]; x; 48; [2], tipped-in plates by Norman Lindsay. Limited to 136 copies, signed by Jack Lindsay. A few minor marks, a very good copy. ‘The first title …
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# 30178
LINDSAY, Jack
Fauns and Ladies
Sydney: Hand–press of J. Kirtley, 1923. Folio, quarter-lambskin over papered boards. A fine copy, lacking the three signed Norman Lindsay woodcuts which were issued in the book. Limited to 210 copies, but not all were made up – about half the copies lack the woodcuts as they were lost in a fire. A fine example of …
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# 30522
MARTIN-SCHERRER, Frédérique; HEREL, Petr (1943 - ) (artist); JACKSON, Philip
Thierry Bouchard & Petr Herel : the shared book
Translated from French by Margot Jones. [Melbourne and Canberra] : Disquiet Press, 2018. Edition of 100 copies, each with an original signed and numbered frottage (73 x 52 mm) by Petr Herel tipped-in on the half title. Octavo, printed blue wrappers, pp 1-38 (history of the Labyrinth Press by Martin-Scherrer), [39-56] (colour illustrations), 57-59 (notes), …
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# 24734
Sahula, Isaac ben Solomon ibn Abi (1244-1282)
משל הקדמוני / יצחק בן שלמה בן סהולה [Mashal ha-Kadmoni]
Woodmere, N.Y. : Pardes Rimonim Press, 1987. Quarto, gilt-lettered quarter morocco over papered boards, fore- and lower edges uncut, pp 282, printed letterpress, woodcuts; text in Hebrew; housed in a matching slipcase. ‘Mashal Haqadamoni is a reprint of the Venetian 1546 edition with its 80 woodcuts some of which were recut for this edition. Printed …