Grenfell Press (14 results)

stiff paper wrappers. Grenfell Press (illustrator). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (12) pages. Limited to 450 copies. Includes nine publications, fiction and poetry.

Condition: Good. One printed card, [1] p. 7 x 5 inches. Near fine.

Condition: Good. One folded sheet, [4] pp. Also mentions works by Cleman Dowell, Guy Davenport and Ann Lauterbach. Very good. This is a prospectus for a book, not the book itself.

Condition: Good. PROSPECTUS. 12mo. 16 pp., Folded Page, Very Good+. Letterpress on rag. Includes list of other & forthcoming publications by Grenfell Press. Envelope present.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 12 pp. String-bound Wraps, Letterpress on Arches Laid Paper with deckled edges, VG.Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Thomas Parkinson Archive.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 12 pp. String-bound Wraps, Letterpress on Arches Laid Paper with deckled edges, VG.Provenance: Herb Yellin (1935-2014) was the highly respected publisher and founder of Lord John Press, considered by many to be one of the most important small presses of the 20th century.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Stiff grey folder printed in red enclosing two prospectuses: THE SILVER SWANNE, by Coleman Dowell, 4 pages, 4to., printed in brown, silver and black on Barcham Green's Chatham Vellum handmade paper; and THE BOWMEN OF SHU, by Guy Davenport, 4 pages, 4to., printed in sage, green and black on Chatham Vellum. Also included is the four-page prospectus for STATELY PROGRESS, by S. W. Brooke, printed in red and black on Japanese Etching paper, and an undated holiday greeting card from the press. Folder shows wear and browning at margins, prospectuses are near fine but for mild edgewear and spotting at upper and lower margins.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Quarter red cloth gilt with Curwen patterned-paper covered boards, DW, 8vo., 31, (1) pages. One of 250 copies printed from Metrolite type at the Grenfell Press on Lana Michelangelo all rag paper. Signed by Mailer. A fine copy in the fine original translucent DW, in archival mylar. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition, No. 53 of 111 copies. First Edition, No. 53 of 111 copies. Illustrations by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. Original patterned cloth, printed label on upper cover, fine Illustrations by the author. 1 vols. 8vo.

1 vols. Tall 8vo. First Edition, No. 91 of 115 copies, signed by the author on the colophon. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Original gray pictorial paper over boards, vellum spine, fine First Edition, No. 91 of 115 copies, signed by the author on the colophon. Signed.

8vo. Sewn in wrappers; dust wrapper with woodcut by Joel Shapiro. FIRST EDITION, number 13 of 150 copies signed by Cole and Shapiro. A fine copy with slightest of toning to edges of wrappers.

8vo. 3 leaves, 25 pages printed in black, blue, red, and green. Original limp linen. Number 29 of 85 copies printed for Easter 1980. The first book from the Grenfell Press, including a variety of typographic styles and designs. A fine copy with pale shadow on cloth from turn-ins.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Collected in large somewhat soiled oversized Grenfell envelope a collection of press samples/ announcements for Hawkes: Innocence (in its envelope); Catalogue 1985 (12p, cover, order postcard); Gass: Culp (in its envelope); Beehive; Burroughs: Cat Inside (owl illustration); House of Light; Sacred Weather (with order card, in its envelope), all in excellent condition, scarce items, together Language: English.

ONE OF 150 COPIES. 297 x 210 mm. (11 5/8 x 9 1/4"). [17] leaves. Quarter vellum over vintage Japanese paper boards by Claudia Cohen, original glassine dust jacket. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front flyleaf "For Kurt and Laure-Ann, / my golden oldies-- / love, Charlie / Feb 10, 1996 / Bow Lake, N. H.", SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on limitation page. A sale notice from New Directions laid in at front. As new. This attractive privately printed and strictly limited edition of Charles Simic's poetry is inscribed by the author to his "golden oldies." Winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and U.S. Poet Laureate for 2007-08, Simic (1938-2023) wrote moving, surrealistic poetry often based on his own experiences, particularly his traumatic childhood in what was then Yugoslavia. As the title suggests, the present collection of 24 poems touches on his experiences as a refugee, but it also touches on a variety of other everyday topics, in Simic's characteristically wry yet dreamy style. These poems were set in Joanna Monotype by Michael and Winifred Bixler and printed at the Grenfell Press, which was founded by Leslie Miller and focuses on high-quality hand press printing. The present volume is no exception, featuring sharply impressed type on creamy Arches paper. As the friendly inscription indicates, our copy is from the collection of Laure-Anne Bosselaar (b. 1943) and her husband Kurt Brown (1944-2013). Bosselaar is a Belgian-American poet, translator, and editor who has published numerous works of poetry in multiple languages, including five collections of her own works. She has received various prizes and recognitions (Pushcart, Isabella Gardner, Breadloaf) and was named Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara in 2019. Sometimes publishing jointly with Bosselaar, Brown was also a prolific poet and editor of anthologies, as well as the founder and first director of the Aspen Writer's Conference, playing a pivotal role in shaping its early vision and establishing Aspen as a literary center. It was through the Aspen Writer's Conference that Bosselaar and Brown became friends with Simic, when Brown invited Simic to speak at the conference in the early 1990s. Bosselaar, reminiscing on a friendship of over two decades, wrote that "Charlie (as he was known by his friends) and Kurt had a great friendship, and shared a common love for wine & poetry--so, often, the Simics would come to our house, and we'd have a 'good bottle' or two around a dinner I'd cook for them.".