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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. LIMITED TO 225 COPIES SIGNED THIS IS NUMBER 156 (illustrator). 1ST. BOXED.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. 26 unnumbered pages : illustrations. 67 x 59 mm. An alphabet book that showcases exceptional letterpress skill, wit, and typographic experimentation. It is a 32-panel, accordion-fold book produced in a limited edition of 240 copies. Each letter of the alphabet is somehow engaging in the word associated with it. The book features 26 imaginative unions of letters, decorative type, and images where Bodoni type "acts out" specific words or charades. McDowall utilizes the specific characteristics of the Bodoni typeface to create visual puns, such as lowercase 'g' descenders that appear to hang off the edge of the page, a lowercase 'i' with a dot that looks like a dripping icicle, and a lowercase 'j' that shares its jester's cap bobble with an uppercase 'J'. M, for example, is mountaineering and a small printed lowercase M is placed on a large printed uppercase M, offering the appearance that the small M is climbing over the peaks of the large M. In H, hanging, an uppercase H seemingly hangs from an upside down lowercase H. The 32-panel accordion is attached to the front and back covers in a way that discourages stretching it out fully, encouraging the reader to turn the pages codex-style to savor the jokes two at a time. It is considered a demonstration of high-quality letterpress, showing the tactile and visual precision of the Old Stile Press, which often blends traditional techniques with modern, inventive design. The book is a notable example of a "typographic conceit" by Nicolas McDowall, a respected figure in private press publishing known for his focus on the relationship between words and images. Signed by Nicolas McDowell and numbered by him 9/240. "Conceived in the early 70's, forgotten in a drawer for 20 years, designed, made & printed in 1995 by Nicolar McDowall by way of recreations and diversion from work on more weighty volumes (in every sense)." OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 34850784. WorldCat records 18 copies worldwide, 5 of them in the UK. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1.

HC. B&W illustrations (illustrator). 45pp Copy 59 of 330, with worn original tissue jacket. good, pictorial boards (hardcover) with worn orig tissue jacket.

Spiral Binding Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. Includes a number of copies from Book So the Text Remains Clean. (illustrator). binding tight, clean, D8.

ANDERSON, Sherwood Alice and the Lost Novel London: Elkin Mathews and Marrot, 1929. Limited edition, this is number 43 of 530 copies. Pictorial blue papercovered boards. Spine and edges lightly tanned, small chip at the foot of the spine, else near (illustrator). Near fine in decorated paper-covered boards. With a couple of corners lightly bumped. A handsome copy. First Edition and signed limited edition: No. 215/530 copies signed in full.

Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Full leather. Condition: Near fine. The deluxe leather edition of Illinois: Land of Lincoln by Allan Carpenter, this being number 1 from a limited edition of 500 copies. (illustrator). Deluxe Leather Edition. Octavo, 208pp. Full blue morocco, title in gilt on spine, raised bands, state seal of Illinois in gilt on cover. All edges gilt, silk endpapers. Housed in publisher's blue cloth slipcase, lined in felt. Previous ownership inscription on second free endpaper. This is copy #1 of 500, and the only known copy bound in full morocco.

Hardcover. Pound, Ezra The Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti; With Translations and an Introduction by Ezra Pound Small, Maynard and Company, Boston, 1912. 8vo, 119pp; gray boards with imitation vellum spine and tips. One of an unknown number of copies, (illustrator). Bound in gray boards with imitation vellum spine and tips. One of an unknown number of copies, preceding the English edition, handsomely printed on laid paper. While the interior is unmarked axmnd clean and tight throughout, the front boards are soiled and the rear boards are bubbly, having been exposed to moisture. A good plus copy of a common book. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 19171962).[1] Pound's contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with his role in developing Imagism, a movement stressing precision and economy of language. Working in London as foreign editor of several American literary magazines, he helped discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and James Joyce. He was responsible for the 1914 serialization of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the 1915 publication of Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", and the serialization from 1918 of Joyce's Ulysses. Hemingway wrote in 1932 that, for poets born in the late 19th or early 20th century, not to be influenced by Pound would be "like passing through a great blizzard and not feeling its cold."[a] Angered by the carnage of World War I, Pound blamed the war on finance capitalism, which he called "usury".[3] He moved to Italy in 1924 and through the 1930s and 1940s promoted an economic theory known as social credit, wrote for publications owned by the British fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, embraced Benito Mussolini's fascism, and expressed support for Adolf Hitler. During World War II, Pound recorded hundreds of paid radio propaganda broadcasts for the Italian government, including in German-occupied Italy, in which he attacked the United States Federal Government, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Great Britain, international finance, munitions makers, arms dealers, Jews, and others, as abettors and prolongers of the war. He also praised both Eugenics and the Holocaust in Italy, while urging American GIs to throw down their rifles and surrender. In 1945, Pound was captured by the Italian Resistance and handed over to the U.S. Army's Counterintelligence Corps, who held him pending extradition and prosecution based on an indictment for treason. He spent months in a U.S. military detention camp near Pisa, including three weeks in an outdoor steel cage. Ruled mentally unfit to stand trial, Pound was incarcerated for over 12 years at St. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C., whose doctors viewed Pound as a narcissist and a psychopath, but otherwise completely sane. (Wikipedia) First American edition with matching title page and copyright page dates of 1917. And with "Published October, 1917" on the copyright page. 1st Edition:With 1912 on the copyright page.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 2.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 2.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Limited Edition. Superb SIGNED limited edition, number 7 of only 100 copies. That makes thie RARE. Also signed by the cover artist, Wayne Miller. Any fans of LOVECRAFT will relish this special collection. NEW & UNREAD. Perfect book in a perfect jacket. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Limited Edition. Superb SIGNED limited edition, number 7 of only 100 copies. That makes thie RARE. Also signed by the cover artist, Wayne Miller. Any fans of LOVECRAFT will relish this special collection. NEW & UNREAD. Perfect book in a perfect jacket. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Very rare indeed. This was published in a private limited edition of only thirty copies. This is number nine. It was issued as 'NOT FOR RESALE' and it is much coveted. The author has signed and numbered this on the front cover. Signed by Author.

Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 3 books.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated Edition. Grundsätze der höhern Kriegskunst und Beispiele ihrer zweckmässigen Anwendung für die Generale der österreichischen Armee. Vienna, Imperial and Royal Court and State Press, 1808. Folio. [2]f + 169p. text and with 25 multi-folding engraved maps and plans by Johann Renard, Kilian Ponheimer, and Anton & Hieronymus Benedict, all in contemporary colour. Six plates have hand-coloured engraved movable flaps. Publisher's marbled boards;moroco spine with label. First illustrated edition of the author's strategic guide lines for advanced warfare issued in a very limited number of copies for presentation only to general officers. We offer the personal copy of General Franz Baron von Cordon (1796-1869), later Austrian War Minister (until 1849). The original text, first published in 1806, is here enlarged and enriched with 25 fine hand-coloured engraved maps and plans accompanied by explanatory texts; moveable flaps have been added to plates 7, 12, 14, 18, and 21 to illustrate changes in battle line and tactics during the campaign; plate 8 demonstrates square formations attacking Turkish positions; plates 9 11 represent troop movements to protect convoys. Archduke Karl (1771-1848), Austrian commander-in-chief from 1806, carried through far-reaching army reforms in line with the changes in warfare experienced during the early Napoleonic campaigns, where the Austrian army has been defeated.His memoranda treat the principles of offensive and defensive warfare, fortresses, winter campaigns, the formation of arsenals, marching orders, tactical defence positions, the defensive crossing of rivers, the protection of supply lines by convoys, skirmishing, the Turkish campaign, and recent army reforms. In the year following publication, the archduke succeeded in defeating Napoleon in the battle of Aspern-Esslingen. The present work was highly recommended by Marshal Marmont, one of the author's distinguished French opponents, who discussed it in his Esprit des Institutions Militaires (1845). The Archduke's instructions for infantry and light cavalry written in 1798 remain unpublished. A fresh large-paper copy with contemporary ownership manuscript ink entry 'General Major und Brigadier Baron Cordon' inside frontcover; a 3 line manuscript entry below neatly blocked out. An early bookseller's note on verso of last blank leaf pointing out the rarity of the impression, privately published and not for sale. Holzmann-Bohatta II, 8150; Hamann 219f; Wurzbach VI, 372ff (378).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. SCHAEFFER, Albrecht. Die Wand. Dramatische Phantasmorgie in einem Aufzug. Berlin, Otto von Holten, privately printed for Gotthard Laske, May 1922. 4to. 67 + [1] pages of text + colophon leaf with author s autograph signature in ink. First word of the title and the name of the recipient on colophon leaf printed in blue letters. Original publisher s half morocco binding with author s name and title in gilt lettering on spine; lightly worn. This dramatization of an interlude in Goethe's Italian journey is the first book privately printed for the noted Berlin bibliophile Gotthard Laske (1882-1936), a wealthy outfitter, who acted as a generous patron to authors, and commissioned a number of publications. Unique edition, beautifully printed in the New Elzevir type on hand-made paper, limited to 100 copies only: the present copy, number 10, was printed for Lilli Wolff, a member of a Berlin music publishing family. The subject of the play, written in 1919 by the wellknown German writer Albrecht Schaeffer (1855-1950), is Goethe s visit to his friend Heinrich Meyer at Stäfa on the Lake of Zürich in 1797 as part of his celebrated Italian journey. The action is set at the Alte Krone Inn, the main characters being Goethe, Meyer, and a young lady also lodging at the inn. Meyer, Privatdrucke von und für Gotthard Laske no 1; Katalog der Sammlung Kippenberg I,143; Wilpert & Gühring, Erstausgaben deutscher Dichtung 1600-1960, 36; for Laske, see Homeyer, Deutsche Juden als Bibliophilen und Antiquare, p.50. Signed by Author(s).

Limited edition of 800 copies this number 434 (illustrator). Limited edition of 800 copies this number 434. The French Tax Code with Witty Illustrations by Hemard Hemard, Joseph [1880-1961], Illustrator. Code General des Impots Directs et Taxes Assimilees. Texte Integral des Lois, Decrets, Decrets-Lois, Decret de Codification, Suivi d'un Formulaire Administratif. Paris: Editions Litteraires et Artistiques/Librairie "Le Triptyque", [1944]. x, 332 pp. Color pochoir caption and text illustrations. Quarto (9-1/4" x 6-1/4"). Illustrated stiff color wrappers bound into contemporary three-quarter sheep over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt title and ornaments to spine, top-edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Moderate rubbing to extremities, boards beginning to separate, but still secure. Light toning to interior, faint spotting to a few leaves, images vivid. $1,250. * From an edition limited to 800 copies, this number 434. Hemard presents the official text of the French Tax Code with witty, and often racy, illustrations colored (au pochoir) by E. Charpentier. It followed his Code Civil: Livre Premier, Des Personnes (1925) and Code Penal: Commentaires Images (c.1940). Hemard, a prolific artist, illustrator, designer and author, is best-known for his humorously illustrated editions of serious non-fiction books. The Code General was issued in several forms. The first 145 copies of the 800-copy edition included an original sheet of text illustrations and a sheet of their original sketches. There is also a signed and numbered edition of 160 printed on Arches paper (papier velin), 60 portfolios of the images alone, an edition of 40 non-commercial copies intended for friends and associates, (hors commerce) and a non-limited trade edition, which has fewer illustrations in color.