Below is a short list of some of our more interesting titles. This list is updated regularly.
Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1984. Hard Cover. An uncommon bibliographical reference. An ex-library copy with a label to the spine, and a couple of stamps inside; no pockets or other excresences.
Andoversford: Whittington Press, 1989. Of an edition of 350, this is number XXVI of 50 deluxe copies quarter-bound in Nigerian Goatskin over patterned paper boards, Signed by the author and illustrated. With a paper-covered portfolio containing a suite of initialled.....
![Item #296059 [POETRY] [SPECIAL PRESS] IN THE CEMETERY HIGH ABOVE SHILLINGTON: A POEM. John Updike...](/pictures/thumb/296059.jpg?v=1662498187)
Concord, New Hampshire: William B. Ewart, Publisher, 1995. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Quarto (10 1/4” x 7 1/4”); in printed blue laid-paper covered boards, backed in navy blue cloth; [16] pages, with illustrations by Barry Moser; with title page printed.....
Paris: J.-B. Dumoulin, 1856. Hard Cover. Avec Deux Plans De La Ville Et Cinq Planches Lithographiees; No pencil or ink markings in text. One quarter green leather spine and paper-covered boards. Rubbing and scraping at top of spine with leather.....
![Item #296507 [SPECIAL PRESS] SAMSON: SELECTIONS FROM A CONTEMPLATION ON AN HISTORICAL PASSAGE IN...](/pictures/thumb/296507.jpg?v=1672092190)
Lexington, Kentucky: Stamperia del Santuccio, 1972. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Signed. Quarto; in morocco backed marbled boards with the title lettered in gilt on the spine; a-c, xix pages followed by the colophon; printed in an edition of 60 copies.....
London: Daedalus Press for the Enitharmon Press, 1974. Folio. Hard Cover. First Edition, 85/200 copies. With Julian Trevelyan’s frontispiece and 17 additional plates. Backed in a heavy cream colored burlap with marbled paper over boards; bottom of the spine is.....
![Item #291564 [SPECIAL PRESS] CHECKLIST OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF GEHENNA PRESS; [PROOFS] ROMEYN DE...](/pictures/thumb/291564.jpg?v=1591220548)
A gathering of Gehenna Press sheets, proofs and prospectuses, in a custom clamshell box with a leather label stamped in blind: “Ephemera. Baskin.” There are 17 folded sheets from A Check List of the Publications of Thomas Bird Mosher of.....
London: T. and J. Allman, 1823. 16mo. Full Leather. The set complete in 45 16mo. volumes, bound in green straight-grained morocco, with double rules with elaborate gilt and blind stamping at the perimeter; raised bands with decorations and lettering gilt.....
Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1912. Octavo. Hard Cover. First Edition, octavo, in quarter cream linen over blue-gray paper-covered boards. with titling in black to the upper board. The binding is soiled, with darkening to the spine. There is a......
Paris: Chez D’Authereau, 1827. 32mo. Full Leather. Mme. Sophie Cottin’s romance set in the Crusades. A charming little set in five volumes; full leather in rose straight grained morocco, double ruled at the perimeter; spine with decorations in gilt, gilt.....
![Item #259162 [Aldus Press] De Philosophia volumen secundum De natura deorum, De divinatione, De...](/pictures/thumb/259162.jpg?v=1591215799)
Venice: Apud Paulum Manutium, 1555. Octavo. Vellum Binding. The second volume of Cicero’s Philosophy, this volume “On the Nature of the Gods, etc.” Full contemporary limp vellum; with relatively significant worming to preliminary and final leaves (as well as the.....
Hanna’s, Thaxted, Essex: The Workshop Press, 1983. Limited Edition. This edition limited to 80 copies, numbered and signed by the author, of which this is #25. Bound in marbled papers boards backed in brown cloth, with a pastedown title label;.....
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1833. Hard Cover. First American Edition. First American Edition. A clean copy of Volume II only of the first novel by Jane Austen. Bound in the original publisher’s drab boards with a cloth spine. Lacking label.....
![Item #296420 [SPECIAL PRESS] [SLIPCASE] SALOME: A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACT. Oscar Wilde, Valenti...](/pictures/thumb/296420.jpg?v=1670198629)
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1927. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Signed. Quarto; in decorated paper-covered boards backed in blue cloth, with the publisher’s gray-blue paper-covered slipcase; with frontispiece and marginal decorations from woodblocks designed, cut and colored by Valenti Angelo; signed.....
London: The Whittington Press & William Heinemann, 1979. Illustrated by: Sally Scott. Folio. Full Leather. Limited Edition, numbered XIII of XXV from a larger limitation of 200. Signed by Sally Scott and Grant on the colophon. Bound as issued in.....
London: Printed for John Walker, 1794, 1796. Full Leather. The Works of Peter Pindar, in Three Volumes, published by John Walker, to which was added a Volume IV in 1796, and a fifth in 1801. With Vols. I-IV, four volumes.....
London: G. and W. Nicol, et al. 1813. Royal Octavo. Three Quarters Leather. Second Edition. The advertisement for the Third Edition of Massinger’s Plays has these encouraging words for the prospective purchaser: “In Lowndes’ Bibliographer’s Manual, it is stated, speaking.....
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1987. This set being a Special Edition limited to 40 copies with the limitation noted in roman numerals, this being IV; signed on the limitation page by Roland Gant and Howard Phipps. The second volume being.....
Northampton, Mass. Gehenna Press, 1971. Hard Cover. Signed. “One hundred copies printed at the Gehenna Press during the summer of 1971...The great R was made by John E. Benson of Newport. The portrait of Romeyn de Hooghe was engraved by.....
![Item #281583 FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS] MODERN PAINTERS (2 Volumes; Set). John Ruskin](/pictures/thumb/281583.jpg?v=1591216769)
Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, 1885. 12mo. Hard Cover. FINE BINDINGS WITH FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS; 2 Volumes in full blue leather with school prize decoration stamped on each front board; one Fore-edge painting of Beddgelert Bridge in Snowdonia, Wales; the other.....
London: Samuel Bagster, 1828. Full Leather. A most attractive Bagster Bible in a signed binding of embossed dark green morocco; raised bands with titling in gilt; dentelle turn-ins; printed on “Bible paper” with all edges gilt. Bagster’s monumental “Biblia Sacra.....
Seal Harbor, ME: Printed and Sold at High Loft, 1982. Folio. Hard Cover. Limited Edition, numbered 63 of 200. Backed in linen with paper over boards and printed spine label; a very crisp copy; glassine jacket has been titled in.....
![Item #276553 GRAPHIC SAYINGS [DELUXE COPY]. SPECIAL PRESS David Kindersley](/pictures/thumb/276553.jpg?v=1591216310)
Wellingborough, Northamptonshire: Skelton’s Press, [1972]. The Deluxe Edition limited to 130 copies of which this is #61, signed by both David Kindersley and Christopher Skelton. Printed on different colored paper stock, with an extra suite of 16 plates printed on.....
Manchester Center, Vermont: Press of Elfriede Abbe, 1984. Printed by Elfriede Martha Abbe --sculptor, wood engraver and illustrator -- at her press in Manchester Center. One of 180 copies signed by Elfriede Abbe, of which this is #76. In black.....
Del Mar, California: [Ettan Press], 1980. Portfolio with the text of a 19th century Sufi story from “Tales of the Dervishes”, translated from the Arabic by Idries Shah, and accompanied by three signed and numbered color etchings by Cornelia von.....