Private Press
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# 19903
JOHANKNECHT, Susan
Baring antebellum & Bishopsgate within. CITY A.M.
London : Gefn Press, 2010. Octavo (28 x 21cm), publisher’s brown-marbled ledger wrappers, sewn binding, housed in a cream card document folder, 38pp, with red and blue line decorations; ink jet printed onto Zerkall paper, internally pristine, a fine copy. One of 100 copies. “Text derived from research at the Baring Archive, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Marble …
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# 20051
GREGORY, Brian
“Le tour de chance” : a cycle of limericks
Auckland : Pear Tree Press, 2015. Octavo, publisher’s brown illustrated stiff paper wrappers, unpaginated, with 6 original illustrations by Barry Lett, Nigel Brown, Richard McWhannell, and Denis O’Connor; internally very clean, a fine copy. No. 33 of 40 copies.
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# 20415
LONEY, Alan; CAMPBELL, Marion May; MORRIS, Miriam
if not in paint
Melbourne : Electio Editions, 2011. Octavo, publisher’s paper wrapper, simple stab binding, housed in a yellow cloth covered folding clamshell box, 24 pp., with numerous illustrations; internally pristine, a fine copy. Number 7 of 40 copies. Poetry by Marion May Campbell, with drawings by Miriam Morris. “Electio Editions is delighted to present the second book …
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# 20052
LONEY, Alan; KERR, Donald
Open sky : a homage to Ruth Dallas
Dunedin : Otakou Press, 2008. Quarto, publisher’s silver-lettered blue cloth, with yellow buckram spine, [28] pp, printed decorations; internally clean, a good copy. No. 4 of 90 copies for sale, signed by Alan Loney. Foreword by Donald Kerr.
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# 8180
WALLACE-CRABBE, Chris; LETI, Bruno
Camaldulensis
Melbourne : the artist, 2011. Quarto, decorated boards, bound by Wolfgang Schaefer, [36] pp., decorated endpapers, housed in a perspex slipcase. ‘Camaldulensis was designed by Bruno Leti using his own paintings and photographs. Chris Wallace-Crabbe responded to these images with a series of pastoral lyrics and essay. The printing was executed by the artist, and …
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# 19791
LOWRY, Martin
Venetian printing : Nicolas Jenson and the rise of the Roman letterform
Herning : Poul Kristensen, 1989. Folio, publisher’s stiff wrappers with gilt lettering, gilt to spine (slight wear), 104, [8] pp., with 8 coloured plates; three light water marks to front free endpaper, otherwise internally very clean, a good copy. One of 850 copies. Text in English and Danish. The two essays, from slightly differing viewpoints, both …
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# 19786
BRINKS, John Dieter
The book as a work of art : the Cranch Press of Count Harry Kessler
Laubach, Berlin, Williamstown : Triton Verlag, Laubach and Berlin & Williams College, 2005. Second English edition. Quarto, publisher’s gilt decorated red cloth over boards in black paper-covered slipcase, 453 pp., fully illustrated in colour; internally pristine, a fine copy. The Cranach Press, though located in Germany, was inspired by and became an integral product of …
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# 19718
GREEN, Tony; LONEY, Alan
Sourdough
Melbourne : Electio Editions, 2011. Octavo, publisher’s orange Zerkall Nideggen mouldmade paper wrapper, housed in a red cloth covered folding clamshell box, 17 pp., with numerous illustrations; internally pristine, a fine copy. Signed and numbered by the poet. Number 4 of 26 copies. The Alphabeta series is a set of books of poems, each of a set number …
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# 15889
SHAPCOTT, Thomas W.
[POETRY] Fingers at air : experimental poems 1969
Ipswich, Qld : [printed privately], 1969. Edition limited to 200 signed copies (no. 169). Octavo, printed brown wrappers, previous owner’s name on half-title, unpaginated [48 pp]. An excellent copy. Scarce edition of poems by Queensland poet Thomas Shapcott AO.
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# 18317
[SKELTON, John; BINDER, Pearl]
[FANFROLICO PRESS] The tunning of Elynour Rumming (prospectus)
1928. Single sheet folded into 4 pp quarto (274 x 188 mm), pp 1 [title]; [2-3], specimens (text from pages 9 and 10, colour illustrations from page [13]); lacking subscription form; some light marks to the front lower left margin; mild creasing lower right corners and upper edge. Arnold P25.