The Undergrad. A Literary Magazine Which is Produced in the Autumn and Spring by the Students of University College in the University of Toronto. Autumn Issue
by Morley Wolfe, Willison Crichton, Joan Elizabeth Presant, Lucien Laureur, et. al
Toronto: University of Toronto, 1950. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Very good in side-stapled grey paper wrappers with the title on the front cover. Clean and bright with 4 short stories, several poems, and a few editorials. 36 pages. Literature Anthology. LITANT/071312.
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William Morris and the South Kensington Museum
by Morris, Barbara
London: William Morris Society, 1987. Paperback. Fine. Paperback. Kelmscott lecture 1985. Fine in orange paper wrappers with black title to front cover. Side-stapled with rust to staples. Clean and bright with illustrations. 24 pages. MOR/080515.
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Philosophical Aspects of Culture
by Morris, Bertram
Yellow Springs (OH.): The Antioch Press, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Vg in blue boards/8vo. Philosophy. PHI112201.
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Pragmatism and the Crisis of Democracy. Public Policy Pamphlet No. 12
by Morris, Charles
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1934. Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback. SCARCE. Review copy. 8vo. Brown side stapled paper wrappers with green title to front wrapper. Interior is clean and bright. 24 pages. AME/012020.
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Helt at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, New Series - Volume 54, Part 1, 1964: Rome and the City of God, An Essay on the Consitutional Relationshipsof Empire and Church in the Fourth Century
by Morrison, Karl Frederick
Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1964. Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback. 4to. Brown paper wrappers with black title to front wrapper. Light rubbing to front wrapper. Index, 55 pages. PHIL/020711.
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The Introductions to The Collected Works of William Morris. 2 volumes
by Morris, May; Joseph Riggs Dunlap (preface)
New York: Oriole Editions, 1973. Hardcover. New/New. Hardcover. "May Morris' 'Introductions' to each of the twenty-four volumes of the 'Collected Works of William Morris' have become classics in themselves as well as illuminating and informative guides to her father's unique place in the art, literature and public affairs of his time. Among many other things, the 'Introductions' contain... Read More
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Twenty-one Years of Bird & Bull. A Bibliography, 1958 - 1979
by [Bird & Bull Press] Taylor, W. Thomas; Henry Morris
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover. Number 16 of 350 copies. The handsome bibliography of this esteemed press lists all books issued by the press from its inception in 1958 through those printed in 1980. The press continued to publish books until its founder, Henry Morris, closed the press in 2013. The bibliography... Read More
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The After-Summer Seed. Reconsiderations of William Morris's The Story of Sigurd the Volsung
by [Morris, William]; John Hollow (edited with introduction)
New York and Londong: The William Morris Society, 1978. Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback. Includes introduction by John Hollow and five essays: "The Craft of Revision: Morris and Sigurd the Volsung" by Stuart Blersch; "The Victorian Skald: Old Icelandic and the Evolution of William Morris' Sigurd the Volsung" by Anthony Ugolnik; "Iceland and William Morris: In Search of the... Read More
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An Address Delivered by William Morris at the Distribution of Prizes to Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on February 21, 1894
by Morris, William
London: Longmans & Co, 1898. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover. This interesting address offered advice to the students by which Morris himself lived: “...make yourself sure that you have in you the essentials of an artist before you study Art as a handicraft by which to earn your bread. But, again, if you are able to do this, &... Read More
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The Relations of Art to Labour
by Morris, William; Alan Bacon and Lionel C Young (editors)
London: William Morris Society, 2004. Paperback. Fine. Paperback. Reprinted from the Co-operative Wholesale Societies Ltd England and Scotland Annual for 1890. This edition presents from the first time since 1890 the argument in the more powerful rhetorical tone that Morris felt appropriate for this original middle-class audience. It also contextualises the lecture by providing an appendix by Lional... Read More
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William Morris: The Collector as Creator. Handlist of a Centenary Exhibition Held at the Grolier Club of New York. 11 December 1996 to 15 February 1997
by [Morris, William]; Mark Samuels Lasner
New York: Grolier Club, 1996. Paperback. Fine. Paperback. Limited to 500 copies printed by The Stinehour Press. "Commemorating the centenary of Morris's death, the exhibition focused on the importance of books in his multifaceted life as poet, translator, designer, calligrapher, traveler, political reformer, and ultimately printer and typographer, founder of the Kelmscott Press. The considerable library Morris amassed... Read More
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The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems by William Morris; Edited by Robert Steele
by Morris, William
London: Alexander Moring Ltd, 1904. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover. From the illustrious Waugh family, with the bookplate of Evelyn and Alec's father, Arthur. The name "Alec Waugh, Xmas 1916" is written in pencil on a free front end page, so it is unclear who owned the book when. Bound in red cloth with the title embossed. Spine has... Read More
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Our Country Right or Wrong. A Critical Edition
by Morris, William; Florence S. Boos (editor)
William Morris Society, 2008. Paperback. Fine. Paperback. "In his prescient essay 'Our Country Right or Wrong' (1880), William Morris stringently criticized 'false patriotism' as the enabler as well as byproduct of 'National Vain-glory, which is both begotten of ignorance and begets it ...; its great office is for ever to cry out for war without knowing what war... Read More
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A Note By William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press. Together with a Short Description of the Press By S. C. Cockerell, & An Annotated List of the Book Printed Thereat
by Morris, William
New York: The Grolier Club, 1996. LIMITED EDITION. Hardcover. New. LIMITED EDITION. Hardcover. A beautiful limited edition of 750 copies published to note the centenary of Morris's death. Printed by the Stinehour Press. Bound in rust colored paper covered boards with a Morris design. Cream linen spine with gold title. An enlarged and corrected version, designed and typeset... Read More
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The Widow's House by the Great Water
by Morris, William; Helen A. Timo (edited with an introduction)
New York: William Morris Society in the United States, 1990. Paperback. Fine. Paperback. Limited to 200 copies. Fine in blue paisley paper wrappers with black title to front panel. Side-stapled. Clean and bright with a facsimilie of the first page of Morris's manuscript of The Widow's House. 64 pages. MOR/080415.
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Autograph Letter to Aglaia Coronio
by Morris, William
[London]: n.p., 1873. Very Good. This is a particularly personal letter from the great 19th century artist, writer, designer, and Socialist William Morris. Morris wrote this four-page letter to Aglaia Coronio in 1873 when he was thirty-nine years old [See Kelvin's Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume I, letter 183]. Aglaia Coronio (1834 - 1906), was a British... Read More
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Kunst en Maatschappij
by [Morris, William] M. Hugenholtz-zeeven en van een Levensschets (translators); Henri Polak
Amsterdam: A.B. Soep, 1903. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. In Dutch. Includes chapters on the life of Morris, his craft art, art in Socialism, and more. Bound in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine and front board. Decorative gilt floral border to front board. Minor wear to edges of boards and spine ends. A few... Read More
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The Life and Death of Jason: A Poem
by Morris, William
New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1897. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good in black cloth covered boards with beige title label to spine. Minor rubbing to boards and minor bumping to corners and spine ends, Minor browning and rubbing to title label. Light foxing to end pages and light browning to edges of pages.... Read More
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The Story of Cupid and Psyche: Psyche Looking into the Cupboard. PRINT
by Morris, William; Edward Burne-Jones
London: Clover Hill Editions at the Rampart Lions Press, 1974. Unbound. Fine. Burne-Jones, Edward. Burne-Jones, Edward. Unbound. Prints (sold individually) of Burne-Jones’s illustrations, which were originally designed to accompany The Story of Cupid and Psyche in a Kelmscott version of Morris’s The Earthly Paradise. The book was never completed. The original woodblocks, carved mostly by William Morris, were... Read More
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Outlanders, Whence Come Ye Last
by Morris, William
New York: n.p., 1927. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover. One of 245 copies privately printed for George A. Nelson as a Christmas keepsake. This George Nelson may be the American socialist who was the 1936 Socialist candidate for Vice-President of the United States, here reprinting a poem by famed British Socialist William Morris. Bound in blue paper boards with... Read More
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William Morris's Socialist Diary
by Morris, William; Florence Boos (edited and annotated by)
London and New York: Journeyman / London History Workshop Centre, 1985. Paperback. Fine. Paperback. "William Morris was the most prominent Victorian artist to embrace the new socialist movement of the 1880s, and his socialist diary one of the only two extended diaries he kept. The diary provides us with a highly accessible introduction to his political activities, and... Read More
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A Bibliography of the Writings of Wyndham Lewis
by Morrow, Bradford and Lafourcade, Bernard and [Lewis, Wyndham]
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. Ex libris. 8vo. Very good in very good off-white dust jacket with orange title to front panel and black title to spine. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Faint library stamp to front free end page. Else is clean and bright. Index, 373 pages. Books on Books BOB209191.... Read More
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Projection Control
by Mortensen, William
San Fransisco: Camera Craft Publishing Company, 1938, 1938. Second Edition, Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Second Edition, Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Very good in a good dust jacket. Jacket is chipped in numerous places along edges, but is not worn. Instructions on how to manipulate film in order to achieve heightened effects. Photography. PHOT/8202.
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The New Projection Control
by Mortensen, William
San Francisco: Camera Craft Publishing Company, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Very good. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with black stamping. A basics manual for photography. Illustrated throughout with examples. 124 pp. Photography. PHOT/8202.
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John Gould Fletcher, a bibliography
by Morton, Bruce
[Kent]: Kent State University Press, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Serif series, Number 37. First edition. Library of Congress surplus duplicate copy with stamps on front endpaper of copyright page. Green cloth boards with black title to spine. Lower corners lightly bumped, spine sunned, without dust jacket, as issued. 203 pages. BOB/111716.
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