Windhover Press (31 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Red crinkled Japanese paper over boards with exposed spine, cover label, landscape 12mo., (51) pages. Title calligraphed by hand by Glen Epstein. One of 250 copies designed by Kim Merker and printed from Bembo types at the Windhover Press on Rives mouldmade paper. Bound by William Anthony. Slight…

handmade stiff paper wrappers. small 4to. handmade stiff paper wrappers. (8) pages. First edition, limited to 275 copies. Windhover Press has reprinted Percival Stockdale's 1793 letter to Edward Jeringham in which he discusses the flaws in Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets. Printed in red and black from Bembo types on Windhove…

oblong 12mo. paper-covered boards, fore-edge uncut. (iv), 28 pages. Limited to 220 copies. Spine lightly sunned, else fine. Frontispiece portrait of Olson from an engraving by Edward Sullivan. Introductory comments by Cech, Ford, and Rittner. Printed on recto only. paper-covered boards, fore-edge uncut. Windhover Press (illustra…

stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. not paginated. Limited to 225 copies. Hand-printed from handset Bembo types on Rives Heavy paper. Slesinger's poetry is in the form of dictionary definitions. "All other text--actual dictionary entries fitting alphabetically in the correct order--is blind stamped; the blind-stampe…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Paperback. ONE OF 210 COPIES. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Near Fine in grey paper wrapper with title in black and illustration by Laurence Donovan in grey to front wrapper. Bound with white thread. One very small spot of discoloration to front free end page. 9 unnumbered pag…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Sewn grey printed wrappers, slender 4to., (12) pages. One of 300 copies printed from Spectrum and Centaur Display types by Kim Merker on Ingres and Windhover handmade paper. Printed with 200 copies as a keepsake for the joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe clubs. Light soft creases to the…

Faulkner's short story, originally published in French translation in the Algerian literary magazine, 'Fontaine', following a poor reception in America. One of 200 copies. Introduction by Carol de Saint Victor. Set in Romanà e type and printed on Johannot paper. Pp. 15. 8vo., original grey paper wrappers, black titles to spine.…

Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Set in Bembo and printed in black and yellow on Shogun handmade paper. One of 275 copies. Overlapping black wrappers, titled in silver. A fine copy. "This book was a disaster. The idea was to print on every page a rectangle in which the poems would appear . The problem was that I was using a cro…

One of 300 copies. A reprint of George Chapman's translation originally published in 1629. Text in Latin and English. Preface by William Kupersmith. Designed by Christy Morrill. Set in Romanà e type and printed on Rives Heavyweight paper. 8vo., original maroon cloth, printed title label to upper cover. Very slightly faded at spi…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Black cloth gilt, 8vo., (35) pages, etching of Johnson's death mask by John Thein. One of 250 copies printed from Bembo types on Rives Heavy mouldmade paper by K. K. Merker and apprentices. Bound by Elizabeth Kner. Merker felt this was one of the most successful books from the press. A clean, nea…

Frontispiece engraving by John Thein; his model was a mask made at the time of Johnson's death. One of 250 copies. Edited and with a preface by O.M. Brack. Set in Bembo types and printed on Rives paper. 8vo., original slightly rubbed black cloth, lettering in gilt to spine, small bookseller label to rear pastedown, a very good c…

First, Limited Edition. One of 250 copies. Inscribed, "For Bill, with warmest regards" and initialed, apparently by Shari Madsen who was one of the printers. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; unpaginated; printed throughout in red and black; frontispiece engraving by John Thein, after a death mask made after Johnson's death. Mild d…

stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. not paginated. (Berger p. 83). Limited to 210 copies, of which this particular copy is signed by the author. These poems are Justice's variations on the Robinson poems in the Weldon Kees book [#8]. Typed in Spectrum and Spectrum Italic types on handmade Japanese (Iyo Glazed) paper…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Romanee and Cancellaresca Bastarda. One of 350 copies printed in black, blue, red and grey on cream wove Umbria hand-made paper. Quarter-bound in naturall linen whith a white paper label printed in black on the spine, blue paste-patterned paper-covered boards. Slipcase covered in n…

8vo. cloth, top edge cut, other edges uncut. unpaginated. Translated by Mark Twain. Illustrated by Eleanor Simmons. Afterword by Paul Baender. Limited to 100 numbered copies printed by hand in Bembo types on Rives Heavy paper. In fine condition. A previously unpublished translation by Clemens of a portion of a popular German sto…

4to. cloth, paper spine label, top edge cut, other edges uncut. 69, (3) pages. Limited to 200 copies, signed by the author on half title. Additionally, this copy has been inscribed by Levine on the colophon. Table of contents. Binding by the Black Oak Bindery. A collection of poetry. A tight, bright, and unmarred copy. cloth, pa…

folio. original handmade paper wrappers with Japanese style binding, paper spine label, cords on fore-edge. unpaginated. Two Woodcuts by Neil Welliver. Limited to 225 numbered copies printed on Windhover paper (Berger 97), of which this is one of 26 deluxe lettered copies signed by Strand and Welliver. Two Woodcuts by Neil Welli…

small 4to. quarter leather, paste-paper covered boards, gilt lettering on spine. (viii), 58, (4) pages. One of 300 numbered copies, of which this is one of 25 deluxe copies hand-colored by the artist and bound by Pamela Spitzmueller. 14 wartime prose pieces by the modernist poet Hilda Doolittle. Finely printed on French mould-ma…