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PUGILISTICA JUDAICA

PUGILISTICA JUDAICA by Wakefield, D. R.

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Seller: Type Punch Matrix
Title
PUGILISTICA JUDAICA
Author
Wakefield, D. R.
Seller
Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Fine in original clamshell.
Description
(Goole, East Yorkshire): The Chevington Press, 2006. First edition. Fine in original clamshell.. Striking limited edition artist's book that contrasts the violent world of prize fighting with the measured, clean format of a fine press book. Pulling from scanty historical sources about the identities of prize fighters in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, D. R. Wakefield presents brief biographical vignettes of 14 Jewish prize fighters during a 55-year period. Through the personal stories of the fighters, Wakefield also throws some light on the culture of prize fighting in the period; and through their heavy, deeply-embossed portraits, he almost simulates the impact of a blow. An enthralling production. 15'' x 10.5''. Original red quarter-goatskin binding with paste paper boards, paper title label to front board and gilt spine lettering. Etched frontispiece with 14 etched portraits and a number of smaller etchings throughout. [22] leaves. Signed by Wakefield to colophon, numbered 14 of 55. In original grey cloth clamshell box, with red spine label. Lower edge of spine label with a touch of rubbing. Clean and tight.
Blake and the youthful ancients: being portraits of William Blake and his followers engraved on wood by Leonard Baskin and with a biographical note by Bennett Schiff

Blake and the youthful ancients: being portraits of William Blake and his followers engraved on wood by Leonard Baskin and with a biographical note by Bennett Schiff by Blake, William. Baskin, Leonard. Gehenna Press

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Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller
Title
Blake and the youthful ancients: being portraits of William Blake and his followers engraved on wood by Leonard Baskin and with a biographical note by Bennett Schiff
Author
Blake, William. Baskin, Leonard. Gehenna Press
Seller
John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description
1956. Northampton, Mass.: Gehenna Press, 1956. Small 4to, [11 inc. the first blank]pp. 18 b/w plates printed on Japan vellum with a title-sheet printed in red on plain paper preceding each image. Stapled into wrappers, very good. § "Fifty copies of this book have been printed by Esther and Leonard Baskin at the Gehenna Press in Northampton Mass." This is copy number "X" which indicates a proof copy since the edition was issued in a quarter morocco binding and this copy is unbound. Six copies are recorded on WorldCat to which add Toronto (Fisher Library) and Essick (CA). Leonard Baskin's note, from the Bibliography: "This was the last book which was made with my hands, that cessation a benefaction since I was a compositor & pressman of no distinction. This book is an homage to Blake & the dear youths who plied him with honour in his late age. My increased skill in woodengraving is here made manifest & a pattern for a kind of Gehenna Press book makes its beginning here; an introduction succeeded by a series of prints. The title-page reveals the novice's poking into historical sources & exemplars.".
California as an Island: An Illustrated Essay...; With Twenty-five Plates & a Bibliographical Checklist of Maps showing California as an Island

California as an Island: An Illustrated Essay...; With Twenty-five Plates & a Bibliographical Checklist of Maps showing California as an Island by Leighly, John

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Title
California as an Island: An Illustrated Essay...; With Twenty-five Plates & a Bibliographical Checklist of Maps showing California as an Island
Author
Leighly, John
Seller
Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed at the press of Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem], 1972. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 450 copies, folio size, [156] pp., with prospectus and original sales receipt. The curious misconception that California was an island was recorded by a minimum of 170 maps, in many editions, and continued to 1785 even after the island theory had been disproved. Dr. John Leighly, Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of California Berkeley, was enlisted by The Book Club to write an essay on the history of California as an island, the cartography of the West Coast of America, and early exploration and navigation of the Pacific Coast. Dr. Leighly's essay is illustrated with reproductions of maps that trace the progression of California from peninsula to island and back again. A thorough bibliographical checklist and historical account unlike any done before, still highly regarded and the seminal research work in this field. The Book Club of California's 141st publication, and its Christmas book for 1972. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in quarter brown morocco, tan paper boards with a colour facsimile of one of the maps on the front board, lettering in gilt to backstrip, fore- and tail-edges uncut, map on title page in colour, opening initial in blue, green and yellow, colophon in red and black, twenty-five map plates (twenty double spreads and one fold-out), twelve facsimile map reproductions throughout text; Goudy California type both hand-set and monotype, handmade paper for text, machine made paper for plates, binding folio size (14" by 9"), [1-7] 8-154 [1 colophon] pp., limited first edition, one of 450 copies. Loosely laid in are: (i) the prospectus, and single sheet folded once to four pages (13 1/4" by 9" when open) and (ii) the original sales invoice on BCC letterhead, showing the price of $55.00, dated February 23, 1973. ___CONDITION: Fine overall, the boards clean and without wear, the leather spine smooth and supple, internally bright and clean, text block is tight with solid hinges; and entirely free of prior owner markings; backstrip with a hint of rubbing at head and tail, light offsetting to both hinges; otherwise a beautiful copy. The prospecuts also fine, clean and without wear, the only fold the original mailing fold; the sales receipt also near fine, also with only the original mailing fold. ___CITATIONS: BCC 200, no. 141; Harlan, Grabhorn-Hoyem Bibliography, no. 60. ___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an unusually large and heavy volume, therefore additional postage may apply; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
ALBUM PRIMAVERA. VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM

ALBUM PRIMAVERA. VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM by AMERICANA]

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ALBUM PRIMAVERA. VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
Author
AMERICANA]
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Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
T.J.S.S. & Co, 1890. A nearly Fine copy of the Album Primavera. Truly a gorgeous album parterre, with 12 leaves with elaborate chromolithographic borders, and a similar title page. The album is full, with 28 carte de visites and cabinet cards; there are no tears. The images are presumed British. Most tissue guards are present. Bound in padded leather with steel clasp.
Fine printing in Georgia, 1950s-1990. Six prize-winning private presses

Fine printing in Georgia, 1950s-1990. Six prize-winning private presses by Zachert, Martha Jane K.

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Fine printing in Georgia, 1950s-1990. Six prize-winning private presses
Author
Zachert, Martha Jane K.
Seller
Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
Athens, Ga: Press of the Nightowl, 1995. Edition limited to 340 copies signed by the author, this being one of 40 copies in quarter leather by Greg Campbell, Campbell-Logan Bindery, unnumbered, and not signed by the printer; 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 143, [3]; press mark illustrations; fine in quarter crimson morocco over paste-paper covered boards, gilt lettering on spine; fine. The presses are: Ashantilly Press, Pigeonhole Press, Beehive Press, Hillside Press, Tinhorn Press, and the Press of the Nightowl.
The story of the guides

The story of the guides by Younghusband, G. J., Col

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The story of the guides
Author
Younghusband, G. J., Col
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Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1908. Third printing, 8vo, pp. xvi, 207, [1]; portrait frontispiece and 15 plates from photographs; original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; front free endpaper excised, else a very good, sound, and clean copy. Yakushi Y39.
ST. MAWR. Together with The Princess

ST. MAWR. Together with The Princess by Lawrence, D.H.

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ST. MAWR. Together with The Princess
Author
Lawrence, D.H.
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Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description
1925. London: Martin Secker, (1925). Original brown cloth, with dust jacket. First Edition, in the usual primary state (chocolate-brown cloth, with the error on the Contents page); Knopf's American edition, published two weeks later, did not include "The Princess." The heroine of ST. MAWR abandons her husband and post-war England and moves to a ranch near Taos, New Mexico -- exactly as D.H. and Frieda Lawrence had done the year before. This volume is in fine condition except for slight damage to the front endpaper gutter; the dust jacket is near-fine, with a few speckles on the front panel and only very light edge-wear. Roberts A31a. Housed in a two-piece cloth slipcase with leather label.
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ELAINE by DORE, Gustave, illus

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ELAINE
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DORE, Gustave, illus
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Boston Book Company (United States)
Description
1867. (DORE, Gustave, illus.) TENNYSON, Alfred. ELAINE. London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1867. 9 steel engravings. [3], 84 pp. Folio, maroon half morocco, gilt-stamped title to spine, marbled boards, with matching endpapers. Ex library; the title-page and each plate has a small, discreet ink stamp; there are library bookplates and a pocket to ffep. and rear endpapers. The text leaves and illustrations are clean and crisp. The leather is very worn and rubbed, but the binding is still sound. This is a large format edition whose condition is generally quite good; however, due the presence of the library markings, it is offered with all faults.
Baby Doll The Script For The Film; Incorporating The Two One-Act Plays Which Suggested It -- 27 Wagons Full of Cotton & The Long Stay Cut Short/or/The Unsatisfactory Supper

Baby Doll The Script For The Film; Incorporating The Two One-Act Plays Which Suggested It -- 27 Wagons Full of Cotton & The Long Stay Cut Short/or/The Unsatisfactory Supper by Williams, Tennessee

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Title
Baby Doll The Script For The Film; Incorporating The Two One-Act Plays Which Suggested It -- 27 Wagons Full of Cotton & The Long Stay Cut Short/or/The Unsatisfactory Supper
Author
Williams, Tennessee
Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Orig. yellow cloth. Very good in nicked and worn dust wrapper
Description
New York: New Directions, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. yellow cloth. Very good in nicked and worn dust wrapper. 208 pages. 20.4 x 13.5 cm. Clean, bright copy with $3.00 priceddust jacket, owner label free front endpaper.
The French Lieutenant's Woman

The French Lieutenant's Woman by Fowles, John

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Title
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Author
Fowles, John
Seller
Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Solid Stated "First Edition", tight, solid and clean throughout. A bit of shelf-wear, particularly to spine ends but very light. Edges toning. Unclipped wrapper, ($7.95), has chipping to tips, top edge and spine ends. A couple of short closed tears and a tear in the rear hinge. Still complete and nothing to impact the cover image. Protected with an archival-quality mylar cover. A decent collectable copy priced right.
Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem [*SIGNED*]

Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem [*SIGNED*] by Ackroyd, Peter

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Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem [*SIGNED*]
Author
Ackroyd, Peter
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ReadInk (United States)
Condition
Near Fine in Fine dj
Description
London: Sinclair-Stevenson. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Fine dj. [very light foxing to edges of text block, but no other sigificant wear; the jacket is flawless] SIGNED by the author on the title page. Murder mystery set in Victorian London, more particularly in "the world of late-Victorian music hall and pantomime," as a famous music hall comedian gets involved in the case of a serial killer known as the "Limehouse Golem." Basis for the 2016 British film of the same name, starring Bill Nighy and Olivia Cooke, which had only a limited 2017 release in the U.S. Author . Signed by Author .
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Selected Poems. by AKHMATOVA, Anna.

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Title
Selected Poems.
Author
AKHMATOVA, Anna.
Seller
Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description
London: Penguin, (1969).. First paperback printing.. 111 pp w/index of poems, cycles and first lines. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Translations by Richard McKane, with his introduction. Essay by Andrei Sinyavsky.
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Selected Works of Djuna Barnes by Barnes, Djuna

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Title
Selected Works of Djuna Barnes
Author
Barnes, Djuna
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Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: Faber and Faber, 1982. Cloth backed boards, fine in dust jacket. First English edition, from U.S. sheets.
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WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE by Wylie, Philip & Balmer, Edust-wrapper in

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WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
Author
Wylie, Philip & Balmer, Edust-wrapper in
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THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, Dell Publishing Company Inc., 1952, first paperback edition, some very slight creasing to the upper right corner tip, else a fine copy in full color pictorial wraps. From the library of "Doc" Smith, letter of provenance available upon request.

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