Penmaen Press (39 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. NF/VG++. Afterword by Michael McCurdy. Hardcover, blue cloth, DJ, 34 pp text, 17 plates, light edgewear to jacket with sticker removed from upper corner, else a nice, clean and crisp copy.

cloth, dust jacket. Penmaen Press (illustrator). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. ix, (iii), 34, (2), xiii [sic], (4) pages, with 16 additional pages of plates. Edition limited to 500 unnumbered copies. Descriptive bibliography of the productions of the Penmaen Press. With an introduction by Peich, an afterword by the wood engraver and owner of the Press, Michael McCurdy, and four chapters: Books (12 entries), Broadsides (8 entries), Ephemera (14), and Plates (16 pages with 25 illustrations, including 4 photographs). Book entries give complete collations and describe various editions. Title page and chapter openings have wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. With half-title page and colophon devices (engraver unidentified). The full-page dust jacket design is also blind-stamped onto the front cover. Well preserved copy.

stiff paper wrappers. Penmaen Press (illustrator). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 70 pages. First edition. Limited to 1000 paperbound copies. Table of contents. A collection of poetry.

cloth, dust jacket. Penmaen Press (illustrator). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 70 pages. First edition, second printing. Table of contents. A collection of poetry.

cloth, dust jacket. Penmaen Press (illustrator). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 70, (2) pages. First edition. Limited to 200 hardbound, numbered copies, signed by the author on colophon, Presentation by the author on half title. Table of contents.

Penmaen Press (illustrator). 8vo. paper-covered boards with attached dust jacket. unpaginated. First edition. Limited to 326 numbered copies, signed by the author and illustrator Michael McCurdy on colophon. Three wood engravings by McCurdy. A collection of poetry. Author's note follows text. paper-covered boards with attached dust jacket.

cloth, dust jacket. Penmaen Press (illustrator). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 67, (3) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 750 copies of which this is one of 500 copies bound in wrappers. Includes a woodcut of the author by Michael McCurdy reproduced on the title page and the front cover. The Hungarian poet's first book in English, translated by Nicholas Kolumban. Sunning to the spine.

Penmaen Press (illustrator). 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper cover label, dust jacket. 24 pages. Limited to 326 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator (Peich 6A). Brennan (1950-73) was the author's student at Tufts University who committed suicide. A volume of poetry that explores about Kennedy's own feelings and the reactions of others. Three woodcut engravings by Michael McCurdy, a small one on the title page and two full page images. Binding by Robert Burlen & Son. This copy lacks the front label and the dust jacket. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper cover label, dust jacket.

Penmaen Press (illustrator). 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, label on front board. 69, (3) pages. Limited to 500 copies. A collection of poetry. Designed by Michael McCurdy and hand-printed by Gregory Graalfs. Table of contents. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, label on front board.

cloth, dust jacket. Penmaen Press (illustrator). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 47+(1) pages. Limited to 1000 copies, of which this is one of 850 copies. Penmaen fiction Series One/Number Three), A story of an aristocratic Russian woman growing old in America in a chaotic household of pets, aging friends and relatives. Wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. Loosely inserted is a folded list of books in print published by The Penmaen Press. Well preserved copy.

cloth. Penmaen Press (illustrator). 8vo. cloth. ix, (iii), 34, (2), xiii [sic], (4) pages, with 16 additional pages of plates. Edition limited to 500 unnumbered copies. Descriptive bibliography of the productions of the Penmaen Press. With an introduction by Peich, an afterword by the wood engraver and owner of the Press, Michael McCurdy, and four chapters: Books (12 entries), Broadsides (8 entries), Ephemera (14), and Plates (16 pages with 25 illustrations, including 4 photographs). Book entries give complete collations and describe various editions. Title page and chapter openings have wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. With half-title page and colophon devices (engraver unidentified). The full-page dust jacket design is also blind-stamped onto the front cover. Lacks dust jacket.

cloth, dust jacket. Penmaen Press (illustrator). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 53, (3) pages. Limited to 1000 copies. A novella edited by Michael Peich and designed by Michael McCurdy. Series One, Number Two in the "Penmaen Fiction" series. Wood engraving by Berta Gohlany.

cloth, dust jacket. Penmaen Press (illustrator). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. ix, (iii), 34, (2), xiii [sic], (4) pages, with 16 additional pages of plates. Edition limited to 500 unnumbered copies. Descriptive bibliography of the productions of the Penmaen Press. With an introduction by Peich, an afterword by the wood engraver and owner of the Press, Michael McCurdy, and four chapters: Books (12 entries), Broadsides (8 entries), Ephemera (14), and Plates (16 pages with 25 illustrations, including 4 photographs). Book entries give complete collations and describe various editions. Title page and chapter openings have wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. With half-title page and colophon devices (engraver unidentified). The full-page dust jacket design is also blind-stamped onto the front cover. Spine of jacket faded.

cloth. Penmaen Press (illustrator). 8vo. cloth. 35, (5) pages. Limited to 1000 copies, 300 hardbound, numbered and signed by the author and the artist (Peich 8B). Designed and printed with woodcut engravings by Michael McCurdy.This copy is signed by both but not numbered. Lacks clear acetate jacket.

Penmaen Press (illustrator). 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper cover label, dust jacket. 24 pages. Limited to 326 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator (Peich 6A). Brennan (1950-73) was the author's student at Tufts University who committed suicide. A volume of poetry that explores about Kennedy's own feelings and the reactions of others. Three woodcut engravings by Michael McCurdy, a small one on the title page and two full page images. Binding by Robert Burlen & Son. This copy lacks the dust jacket. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper cover label, dust jacket.

limp boards. Penmaen Press (illustrator). 8vo. limp boards. 35, (5) pages. Limited to 1000 copies. With engravings by Michael McCurdy. A series of poems written for 14 different poets by Eberhart.

Penmaen Press (illustrator). 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper cover label, dust jacket. 24 pages. Limited to 326 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator (Peich 6A). Brennan (1950-73) was the author's student at Tufts University who committed suicide. A volume of poetry that explores about Kennedy's own feelings and the reactions of others. Three woodcut engravings by Michael McCurdy, a small one on the title page and two full page images. Binding by Robert Burlen & Son. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper cover label, dust jacket.

cloth, dust jacket. Penmaen Press (illustrator). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 63+(1) pages. Limited to 2000 copies. Translated by Howard Norman; illustrated by Norman LaLiberté. Barton (1916-1974) was born in Haiti, and this work is a collection of Caribbean folk tales. Well preserved copy.

cloth, dust jacket. Penmaen Press (illustrator). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 73, (3) pages. Printed letterpress by Dede Cummings in an edition limited to 900 copies, of which this copy is signed by the translators and illustrator. Illustrated with original woodengravings by Michael McCurdy. This first English edition was translated by Lewis Hyde and David Ungar.

Condition: Good. Press Release on both sides of letter sized sheet, Illustrated, VG.

Condition: Good. 12mo. Folded Page, Very Good with minor creasing, sun-fading, rubbing. Cover only, engraving missing.

Condition: Good. 8vo. One folded sheet, [4] pp., illus., with Penmaen News and envelope loosely inserted. Lists works by Sandor CsooriLynne Sharon Schwartz, Anthony Hecht, and Philip Dacy. Very good.

Condition: Good. 8vo. One folded sheet measuring 19 x 6 inches when unfolded. Lists titles by William Saroyan, Richard Eberhart, Gerard Melanga, William Ferguson, et al. Very good.

Penmaen Press (illustrator). 8vo. cloth, clear acetate dust jacket. 35, (5) pages. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is one of the 300 numbered copies bound thus and signed by McCurdy and Eberhart (Peich 8B). This copy is inscribed by Eberhart and McCurdy. With engravings by Michael McCurdy. A series of poems written for 14 different poets by Eberhart. cloth, clear acetate dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Number 193 of 300 copies specially bound, numbered, and signed by the author and artist. There were also 700 regular copies printed. A "Chaplin-esque" short story with wood engravings by Jerome Kaplan. Set in Caledonia type on Mohawk Superfine paper. Bound in three quarter blue cloth with patterned paper covered boards and gilt title to spine. Pristine. 44 pages. PRI/052411. Signed.

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. Illus. by MICHAEL McCURDY; HOWARD PHIPPS (illustrator). Four items of publishing ephemera, comprising: [1] - printed Post Card (for customers to order book catalogues) issued by Blackwell's of Broad St., Oxford; not dated (circa mid-1900s); unused; [2] - 'Books for Sportsmen: Fishing, Golfing, Shooting, Bowling, Cricket, Winter Sport' (concise catalogue of books pub. by A. & C. Black, Soho Square, London); not dated (circa mid-1900s); folded leaflet, [4]pp; printed in two cols.; illus. monochrome drawing; [3] - 'Penmaen Press, Great Barrington, Massachusettes' (catalogue of titles available); printed March, 1983; folded leaflet; illus. repro. of bw. engraving by Michael McCurdy; [4] - 'Journeyman by Walter Partridge; a printer's impressions through eighty years in a rapidly changing world' (prospectus for Partridge's autobiography pub. by Perdix Press, The Close, Salisbury); pub. 1991; folded leaflet[ [4]pp.; illus. bw. photo., and bw. repro. of wood engraving by Howard Phipps. No inscriptions. All items very clean/crisp/bright. Lightweight items, hence overseas customers will have SHIPPING CHARGES REDUCED subsequent to ordering. All items in Near Fine condition. PRICE INCLUDES UK POSTAGE & PACKING. Ephemera.

Condition: Good. 8vo. Single Page, Very Good+. Illustrated.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 8 pp. Stapled wraps. Very Good. B&W illustrations and photography. From the estate of Herb Yellin (1935 - 2014), the publisher of the Lord John Press.

Condition: Good. Typed letter signed on letter-sized paper, with Penmaen Press letterhead, VG.Provenance: Herb Yellin (1935-2014) was the highly respected publisher and founder of Lord John Press.

Condition: Good. Typed letter signed on letter-sized paper, with Penmaen Press letterhead, VG.Provenance: Herb Yellin (1935-2014) was the highly respected publisher and founder of Lord John Press.