A Tenant At Will
by Grant, C.F.
London: G. Tregear, 1831. Stiff Wraps. Orig. full color lithograph. Very good. 26.5 x 33 cm. Color etching, with two men standing at entry one noting, "It seems we shan't have much to carry." The seated fellow refuses to pay the Crown taxes, stating "Tell his aforesaid Majesty I shant pay a farthing Old cockalorum, [a little man who... Read More
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The Diary of Edward Thomas 1 January - 8 April 1917; With eight wood engravings by Hellmouth Weissenborn
by Myfanwy Thomas & Roland Grant
Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Two-toned red cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine in fine matching slipcase. 32 pages. 25.5 x 17 cm. Review copy [575 copies hand-set in Caslon on Arches mould-made paper]. A London poet who died who died one day after Easter Sunday on April 8, 1917. The diary covers his private... Read More
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Ariake
by Grant, Ron
Åmherst: Swamp Press, Nd. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. patterned boards bound Japanese style. Fine. 5 leaves. 9 x 9 cm. Ancient Japanese love lyrics on Frankkfort Cream paper, copy 43 of 50 signed by Grant.
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Graphic Arts Typebook
by Graphic Arts Typographers, Inc
New York: Reinhold, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Very good in worn dust wrappers. 2 vols. 442 pages. This was to be a series of six volumes. These first two which are here for sale -- Volume I (Machine Composition Serif Faces) and Volume II (Machine Composition Sans Serifs & Miscellany) -- are a result of... Read More
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Les Douze Mois
by Grasset, Eugene
Paris: G. De Malherbe, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter red cloth and marbled boards, black leather spine label printed in gilt. Near fine. 26.5 x 19 cm. Series of two suites of twelve color plates, one for each month, designed by the calendar of the Parisian department store of La Belle Jardiniere -- before type with... Read More
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Les Mois Douze Compositions D'Eugene Grasset graves fur bois & imprimes en chromotypographie
by Grasset, Eugene
Paris: G. De Malherbe, 1895. First edition. Hardcover. Housed in fine custom gilt lettered white cloth portfolio with silk ties.. 32 x 24.5 cm. Series of twelve color plates, one for each month, designed by the calendar of the Parisian department store of La Belle Jardiniere., image sheet size approximately 20 x 15.2 cm. In the early 1890's... Read More
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The Flounder Written And Illustrated By Gunter Grass; Translated By Ralph Manheim
by Grass, Gunter
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1985. Hardcover. Gray eelskin spine and gray cloth with front cover paper labels. Fine in fine matching gray cloth slipcase. 3 vols. Grass, Gunter. 530 pages. 26.5 x 28 cm. The history of women and cooking is Grass's subject mater. Etchings by Grass: each image was printed from two plates. One flatback-ground plate... Read More
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The Tin Drum; Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim
by Grass, Gunter
New York: Pantheon Books, 1962. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth front cover illustrated in black, lettered in gilt. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 592 pages. 22 x 15 cm. This work, his first novel has been translated into all major European languages, and its meaning implies we are all moral hunchbacks. Book jacket drawing by... Read More
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John Kemp's Wager A Ballad Opera
by Graves, Robert
Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1925. Hardcover. Orig. decorated paper over boards. Very good. 75 pages. 19 x 13 cm. The British Drama League Library of Modern British Drama, N0.11. Clean copy.
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Robert Graves Poems; Selected and Introduced by Elaine Kerrigan Illustrated by Paul Hogarth
by Graves, Robert
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1980. Hardcover. Publisher brown pebble grained backstrip lettered in gilt and decorated boards. Teg. Fine in fine matching slipcase. Paul Hogarth. 200 pages. 25 x 18 cm, Eight water colors by Paul Hogarth. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 2000 signed by Paul Hogarth and Freeman Keith who composed the typographic plans. Printed at... Read More
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Ten More Poems
by Graves, Robert
Paris: Hours Press, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter leather spine and decorated boards. Near fine. 17 pages. 29 x 20 cm. Limited edition, copy 74 of 200 signed in ink by Graves, printed on a hand press. Covers designed by Len Lye. The latter was a New Zealand artist was at the forefront of experimental film-making in... Read More
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An Elegy Written In A Country Church Yard
by Gray, Thomas
London: Sampson Low, Son & Co, 1858. leather_bound. Tan morocco, raised bands, covers decorated in gilt and blind. Aeg. Near fine. 26 pages. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Bound by the Monastery Hill Press, blind stamped by Kelliegram inside back cover. "The quatrain of ten syllables in which the Elegy was written had been used before, but never, perhaps... Read More
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Ode On the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude Left unfinished by Mr. Gray, and since completed. With an Introduction by Leonard Whibley
by Gray, Thomas
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1933. Hardcover. Orig. vellum spine and gray boards. Fine in fine chemise in matching near fine slipcase with moderate spotting. 2 vols. 9 pages in text. 30 x 22.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 95 of 200 printed on handmade paper by Nash. Frontispiece, color caricature of Gray by Rowlandson. "Compliments" slip of William... Read More
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Somebody Up There Likes Me; The Story Of My Life Until Today
by Graziano, Rocky with Rowland Barber
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white spine lettered in red and dark gray boards. Near fine in worn and chipped dust wrapper. 375 pages. 21.5 x 15 cm. Signed presentation copy by Graziano "To Frank Mastro the swell fellow" in blue ink. Frank Mastro boxed before he became a boxing reporter for the... Read More
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Official Catalogue Of The British Section; Part I.
by Great Britian, Executive Commission, Philadelphia Exhibition, (1876)
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Black buckram, Very good. 424 pages. 23 x 19 cm. Exhibitors' commercial guide. Ex-library, dampstains at head, not affecting text, lacks title page, clean copy.
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Maurice Prendergast Art of Impulse and Color
by Green, Eleanor
College Park: Univ. of Maryland, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Prendergast, Maurice. 173 pages. More than 100 illustrations in color and black and white cover the 108 entries. Exhibitions 17 October 1976 - 15 April 1977. Catalogue of the Exhibition.
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May We Borrow Your Husband; And Other Comedies of the Sexual Life
by Greene, Graham
New York: Viking, 1967. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. two-toned cloth. Very good in worn dust wrapper. 183 pages. The third collection of his short stories, twelve in all.
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Brighton Rock An Entertainment
by Greene, Graham
New York: Viking, 1958. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth two toned cloth. Very good in rubbed dust wrapper. 558 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Published June, 1938, one month previous to the English edition with $2.50 dust wrapper price. Backstrip slightly darkend, some rubbing to dust wrapper spine head and foot. Pinkie takes over the gang in... Read More
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Kate Greenaway's Almanack For 1891
by Greenaway, Kate
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1890. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. white leather lettered and decorated in gilt. Aeg. Near fine. Unpaginated, 12 leaves. 10 x 7 1/2 cm. Twenty-two color illustrations printed by Edmund Evans. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very... Read More
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Kate Greenaway's Almanack For 1925
by Greenaway, Kate
London: Frederick Warne, 1924. Boards. Orig. illustrated white boards printed in colors. Very good. Unpaginated, 12 leaves. 8 x 10 1/2 cm. in landscape format. Twenty-two color illustrations. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me.GORDON N. RAY, p.157. Interior... Read More
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A Day In A Child's Life; Engraved & Printed by Edmund Evans
by Greenaway, Kate (Illustrator)
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1881. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated and laminated light green boards. Very good. 29 pages. 25 x 21 cm. Music by Myles B. Foster. Owner inscriptions front endpapers and one on half-title dated 1884. There are three leaves decorated in color prior to title page. Cover lightly soiled, nicks to front cover fore-edge... Read More
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Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes
by Greenaway, Kate (Illustrator)
London & New York: Frederick Warne And Co, 1890. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth spine, illustrated and laminated front board cover in a myriad of colors, lettered in black. Very good. 52 pages. 16 x 10.5 cm. Color printing by Edmund Evans in his three color process. Decorated endpapers. Wear to corners and backstrip extremities.
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Kate Greenaway's Almanack For 1891
by Greenaway, Kate
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white decorated and illustrated boards. Very good. Unpaginated, 12 leaves. 10 x 7 1/2 cm. Twenty-two color illustrations printed by Edmund Evans. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me.... Read More
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Calendar For 1884
by Greenaway, Kate
London & New York: George Routledge & Sons, 1884. Hardcover. Illustrated boards. Very good. Greenaway. 19 x 25.5 cm. Color printed on card stock with adhesions to the verso . The entire year for 1884 with rather tiny type detailing a notable activity for each day. Right margin browned and nicked at corners. Assume hole at top margin... Read More
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Kate Greenaway's Almanack For 1881
by Greenaway, Kate
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1822. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white decorated and illustrated boards. Very good. Unpaginated, 10 leaves. 13 x 9 cm. Twenty-two color illustrations printed by Edmund Evans. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me. GORDON... Read More
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