Kit Cat Press (24 results)

paper wrappers. Kit-Cat Press (illustrator). large 12mo. paper wrappers. (22) pages. Privately printed. A collection of poems by Edward Pine. Covers soiled with corners bumped.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Sewn red card wrappers printed in black, slender small 8vo., 9, (1) pages. Hand-set in Lutetia and printed by Kenneth Hardacre. A fine copy in archival mylar.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Handset in Palatino, display in Albertus; one of 400 copies printed in black and brown on Abbey Mills cream laid paper. Sewn into Abbey Mills paper covers, cut flush, with a drawing in brown. Dark brown endpapers. A fine copy. The first Kit-Cat Press book to be publisheed from the new address at Moreton-in-Marsh, Glocestershire.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Handset in Palatino. One of 120 copies printed in black on Abbey Mills paper. Sewn into Colorplan Citrine card covers, cut flush, printed in brown on the front. Spine just a little faded. A near fine copy.

Text set in Optima. One of 200 copies printed on Abbey Mills paper. Bound in white card covers with jade wrappers titled in black on the front. A fine copy. Printed at the former home of the Press, but published from Moreton-in-Marsh.

Text set in Melior. One of 200 copies printed on Abbey Mills paper. Bound in white card covers with deep blue wrappers. A fine copy. Printed at Hunton Bridge, but published from the new home of the Press at Moreton-in-Marsh.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Text set in Lutetia. One of about 450 copies printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. Sewn into blue Canson Mi-teintes cover paper titled in white on the front. A fine copy. Printed for the Wynkyn de Worde Society, the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, and friends of the printer.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. One of 150 copies with the text handset in Lutetia, printed on Basingwerk Parchment and bound in covers of Yamato Chiri dark toned laid Japanese paper. A fine copy. Printed for presentation to the Wynkyn de Worde Society.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Handset in Bembo. One of about 250 copies printed in black (title in green) on grey Basingwerk Parchment. Sewn into plain grey card covers and glued into dark green Swedish wrappers, with a grey paper label, printed in green, on the front. A fine copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Handset, text in Palatino, tile in Michelangelo. Number 159 of 200 copies printed in black (the drawing in green) on Mellotex. Sewn into light card covers. A fine copy. Reprinted in 1978.

Text set in Palatino. One of 160 copies printed on wove paper. Sewn into bright pink covers. A fine copy. Some copies distributed to members of the British Printing Society Publishing Group.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo. Original paper wrappers, with tissue dust-wrapper. Designed, handset & printed by Kenneth Hardacre, printed on Bassingwerk Parchment with covers of Yamato Chiri dark toned laid.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Handset, title in Sapphire, text in Bembo on various papers. Sewn into card covers, glued into Antique Laid wrappers, printed in Sapphire in turquoise green. Calligraphic book label of George Fleming. A fine copy. A booklet in its own right, but to be filed as No.19 of Kenneth Hardacre's occasional journal Christopher Cat's commentary.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Handset in Palatino. One of 200 copies printed in black (the drawings in green) on Mellotex paper. Sewn into white card covers cut flush, pasted into grey green Ingres paper wrappers printed on the front. A fine copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. One of 250 copies (this marked out-of-series) handset and printed in Lutetia with a linocut frontispiece by Colin Reeve. Strawberry Glastonbury cover boards with strawberry board wrappers printed in blue and black. A fine copy.

One of 150 copies handset in Palatino and printed on wove paper. Sewn into sage card covers, printed in black on the front. A fine copy. Printed for private distribution by Mrs Barbara Worthy and the printer.

Handset, text in Palatino, display in Sistina, Goudy Text and Dutch Initials. One of 170 copies printed in black (the device in brown) on Mellotex paper. Sewn into citrine card covers, cut flush, printed in black on the front, with an engraving in brown, russet antique laid endpapers. A fine copy. The first edition. It was subsequently reprinted on at least two occasions (1978 & 1984).The essay first appeared in The Times of 6 August 1975.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Handset, text in Palatino, display in Castellar. One of 200 copies printed in black on Basingwerk Parchment. Sewn into rust card covers, paper label. A fine copy. Loosely inserted presentation note from Kenneth Hardacre.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Number 90 of 185 copies printed in Stempel Palatino. Sewn into green card covers with a drawing by Colin Reeve on the front. A fine copy. With a printed compliments slip from Kenneth Hardacre on which he has written: "Many thanks, I like your floral letterheading!".

Handset in Optima and Albertus Titling. One of 300 copies printed in black (the drawing in stone-grey) on antque laid paper. Grey card covers, cut flus, printed in grey, slightly yellowed on the front panel. A very good copy.

Handset, text in Palatino, display in Castellar. One of 200 copies printed in black on Basingwerk Parchment. Sewn into rust card covers, paper label. A fine copy.

Handset in Bembo. Number 15 of 60 (160) numbered copies, signed by the author, sewn into amber Tre Kroner card covers, cut flush, printed in black on the front A fine copy. Subsequently reprinted in 1979. The unsigned copies are in blue paper covers.

144/320 COPIES, frontispiece illustration by Bawden printed in grey green, title printed in black and olive green, pp. 20, small 8vo, original card wrappers, cover lettered in olive green, edges slightly faded, very good. From the first of Austen's collected juvenilia editions, which she compiled at the age of 18, the manuscript, dedicated to Martha 'as a small testimony of the gratitude I feel for your late generosity to me in finishing my muslin Cloak', now housed in the Bodleian.

148/250 COPIES, title, half-title and text pages with highly decorative borders printed in green, pp. 17, [iii], small 8vo, original grey card wrappers, cover repeating green decorative border framing title printed in black, a few faint marks, slightly faded edges, very good. A 3-chaptered tale from the first of Austen's collected juvenilia editions, which she compiled at the age of 18 - country life, strained familial relations and love, '& retiring to her own room, [Emma] continued in tears the remainder of her Life.' 'It seems appropriate that a miniature press should reprint a minor work by a writer who modestly described even her masterpieces as 'the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.'' (Foreword).