Private Press
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# 37992
HERRICK, Robert; FLINT, William Russell (1880-1969) (illustrator)
One hundred and eleven poems by Robert Herrick.
Selected, arranged and illustrated by Sir William Russell Flint. London : The Golden Cockerel Press, 1955. Small quarto, 275 x 190 mm; number 341 of 445 (of a total of 550) copies bound in cream parchment over blue cloth boards (bright and unrubbed), spine titled in gilt, upper board blocked in gilt, top-edge gilt; pp. …
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# 37823
BOSS, Martha
Building Poems.
Dennis, Massachussetts.: Salt Works Press, 1977. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. [28], colour frontispiece by the author. Printed in an edition of 335 copies.
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# 37820
KING, Scott
The hills
Illustrated by Clarisse Parrette. [Northfield, MN]: Thistlewords Press, 2005. Folio, illustrated handmade paper wrappers, pp. [16], illustrated. Limited to 25 copies printed letterpress.
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# 37826
LONEY, Alan
A little book of epigraphs.
Auckland, N.Z. : Pear Tree Press, 2008. Duodecimo, plain cards, lettered dustjacket, pp. [36], letterpress, printed in an edition of 50 copies. “Designed, printed & bound by Tara Mcleod at the Pear Tree Press, Auckland, New Zealand. Composed in handset metal types & printed on a Littlejohn cylinder proofing press”–Colophon.
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# 37685
[LINDSAY, Norman]. McCRAE, Hugh
Satyrs and Sunlight (prospectus)
Being the collected poetry of Hugh McCrae. Illustrated and decorated by Norman Lindsay, with an introduction by Thomas Earp. London : The Fanfrolico Press, 1928. Quarto, 228 x 145 mm, insert sheet of specimen illustrations by Norman Lindsay, insert subscription form, a very good copy of the prospectus for the compendium of poetry first published …
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# 37684
LINDSAY, Jack; LINDSAY, Norman
The complete works of Gaius Petronius (prospectus)
Done into English by Jack Lindsay with one hundred illustrations by Norman Lindsay. Comprising the Satyricon and Poems. London : Fanfrolico Press, [1927]. Quarto, 320 x 235 mm, folded sheet, two specimen illustrations by Norman Lindsay loosely inserted, edges a little creased, a very good copy. Arnold P8.
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# 37024
SIBLEY, Irena (1943-2009)
William the wizard who wasn’t
Albert Park, Vic. : Lilly Pilly Books, 1986. ‘The first edition … is limited to six copies only (and two Artist proofs). This edition is hand written on hand made paper and hand bound. The book is illustrated with forty-three original Lino prints, that are hand-coloured by the artist. This book is copy No. 5’. …
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# 35767
[THEVENET FAMILY]
[NEW CALEDONIA] Privately printed mourning letter sheet memorialising the death of Pierre-Auguste Thevenet at Nouméa, on 5 November 1917.
[Nouméa] : [printer unknown], 1917. Letter sheet with black mourning borders; bifolium, folding to 130 x 200 mm (260 x 400 mm when opened); first side with lithographically printed notice of the death of Pierre-Auguste Thevenet on 5 November 1917, and his burial on 6 November, with above it a list of the bereaved family …
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# 35929
SIBLEY, Irena (1944 - 2009)
Rainbow. 20 original hand coloured lino-cuts.
Melbourne : Gryphon Books, 1980. First edition. Folio (545 x 380 mm), quarter-morocco over silver-lettered buckram, title label to spine, 20 original hand coloured lino-cuts (each signed and numbered), additional lino-cut title page, three additional proof linocuts loosely enclose. Limited to 67 signed copies of which 60 were for sale, this is copy number 4. …
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# 30224
LINDSAY, Lionel (1874 - 1961)
A book of woodcuts. (Deluxe edition)
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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# 35984
SIBLEY, Irena (1943-2009); SIBLEY, Andrew (1933- )
The calming of Harry
Albert Park, Vic. : Lilly Pilly Books, 1987. ONE OF ONLY TWELVE. ‘The first edition of “The calming of Harry” is limited to ten numbered copies and two artist’s proof copies. This edition is handwritten on French “lana” paper and the illustrations which are hand printed on Japanese mulberry paper are each individually coloured by …
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# 35983
SIBLEY, Irena (1943-2009)
When the sun took the colour away. (Richard Griffin’s copy)
Albert Park, Vic. : Lilly Pilly Books, 1987. ‘The first edition … is limited to fifteen numbered copies. The text and illustrations were cut and hand-coloured by Irena Sibley and printed by Benedict Sibley. This book is copy No. fourteen [signed in pen] Irena Sibley, 1987.’ Folio, bound by Richard Griffin in contrasting red and …
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# 35604
DUENSING, Paul Hayden
25 : A quarter-century of triumphs and disasters in the microcosm of the private press & typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing
Kalamazoo, MI: The Private Press & Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing, 1976. Quarto, illustrated cloth, offsetting to endpapers, pp. [40], illustrated with examples of type. Limited to 250 copies.
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# 35594
LYE, Len
Happy moments. Text & images by Len Lye
Edited & with an afterword by Roger Horrocks. Auckland : The Holloway Press, 2002. Folio, lettered papered boards (lightly marked), cloth spine with paper title label, pp. 48, illustrations. Original prospectus enclosed. ‘Happy Moments is the first complete publication of Len Lye’s remarkable autobiographical texts written in New York in the 1960s. The 21 texts …
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# 35506
[The Fanfrolico Press]
Fanfrolicana : June 1928
: being a statement of the aims of the Fanfrolico Press both typographical and aesthetic with a complete bibliography and specimen passages and illustrations from the books. London : The Fanfrolico Press, 1928. Octavo, original wrappers, with illustration by Norman Lindsay (faint crease to fore edge), the standard edition, 36 pp, illustrated, including title page …
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# 35223
MACARTNEY, Frederick T. (1887 - 1980)
Gaily the troubadour (signed presentation copy)
Satires in the fixed forms of verse. Melbourne : The Anvil Press, 1946. Octavo, quarter-cloth over papered boards with original linocut design by the author, pp. 30. Signed presentation copy from the author to Kenneth Gifford.