Toronto: Shaw Street Press [printed by Glenn Goluska at the Nightshade Press], [1986]. Octavo, 23.5 x 15 cm. Cased in blue batik paper covered boards, with blue cloth spine strip, and printed paper label to the spine. Unpaginated [24 pp.]. A fine copy. Printed in Linotype Optima, with foundry Stencil..... More
London: Eugrammia Press, 1962. Folio. Bound in original quarter red leather, with black cloth covered boards decorated with the opening text of Chapter II, spine lettered in gilt, and top-edge gilt. A Fine copy. This facsimile of the 1561 Lyon edition of Duvet’s L’Apocalypse was printed by collotype by L...... More
High Wycombe: Hague and Gill, for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1933. Eric Gill. Octavo. Bound in original full brown pigskin by Bayntun-Riviere, blind-stamped front and back after designs by Eric Gill, spine titled in blind. The cover depicts ‘The Ghost’, and the back Hague and Gill’s “Tree..... More
[Toronto]: [The Aliquando Press], [1973]. Trigesimo-secundo (32mo), 10.7 x 7.5 cm. Sewn into beige paper wrappers, with printed title in green and line cut reproduction of a wood engraving by Jost Amman in brown to the upper cover. Unpaginated [pp. 8]. A fine copy. The text, which is excerpted from..... More
[Vernon, B.C.]: Greenboathouse Press, 2010. Octavo, 19.7 x 15 cm. Cased in cream paper over boards, with matching endpapers, title printed in blue to the spine, and the letters ‘Z’ and ‘A’ printed from polymer plates to the lower and upper covers respectively; the covering and end-papers were handmade by..... More
London: Eragny Press, 1900. Sextodecimo. Bound in original quarter cream cloth, with blue Michallet boards, and printed paper label on the upper left cover. [iii], 4-92 pp. [ix]. Cloth split at outer joint with the upper board, some mild soiling to the covers, but internally clean and bright. Printed in..... More
Huddersfield: Fleece Press, 2000. Quarto. Bound in original quarter burnt orange cloth, with faux wood veneer paper covered boards, small gilt stamped monogram (T.N.L., for T.N. Lawrence, manufacturer of engravers’ boxwood blocks) to the upper cover, and printed paper label to the spine. [iv], 5-50, [iv + colophon] pp. A...... More
[Lahnstein]: FlugBlatt-Presse, 1984. Tall Octavo. In original perfect bound paper boards, with printed lettering to the upper cover, quarter cloth spine-strip, and fore-edge folded pages. Unpaginated [52pp.]. 1cm. tear to the top of p. 9, else a Fine copy. Each spread is illustrated with a wood-cut, printed in red, by..... More
s.l. [Stratford, Ontario:]: Gerard Brender à Brandis, s.a. Wood engraving printed from the original block. Single sheet, printed on the recto only. A fine copy. One of 125 copies, this being number 57. Numbered, titled, and signed in pencil by Gerard Brender à Brandis. More
s.l. [Stratford, Ontario:]: Gerard Brender à Brandis, s.a. Wood engraving printed from the original block. Single sheet, 19 x 26.5 cm, printed on the recto only. A fine copy. One of 125 copies, this being number 57. Numbered, titled, and signed in pencil by Gerard Brender à Brandis. More
s.l. [Stratford, Ontario:]: Gerard Brender à Brandis, s.a. Wood engraving printed from the original block. Single sheet, printed on the recto only. A fine copy. One of 200 copies, this being number 76. Numbered, titled, and signed in pencil by Gerard Brender à Brandis. More
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Eric Gill. Quarto. Bound in original white buckram, with spine titled in gilt. Edges uncut. Lacking dust-jacket. 43pp. Printed in red and black in Caslon Old Face type on Batchelor handmade paper. Small spots, free endpapers browned, a little soiled and marked; loose..... More
[Toronto]: Lumiere Press, 1989. Octavo, 23.7 x 16.1 cm. Cased in quarter natural linen and dark moss green Canson paper over boards; printed paper label to the spine and device printed in black to the upper cover. pp. [7] 8-44, [4]. A fine copy. The text was set in Linotype..... More
Colchester: Gemini Press, 1934 [issued by Basilisk Press, 1980]. Two volumes, with laid in prospectus. Quartos. Bound in original Winterstroke Tudor Brick paper covered boards, with top and bottom edges finished with a band of dark brown morocco, and gilt titled morocco label to the spine; accompanied by a pamphlet..... More
[Vernon, B.C.]: Greenboathouse Press, 2016 [2016-17 ]. Quarto, 29.2 x 21 cm. Cased in quarter blue leather, with leather corner tips, tan paper over boards, and printed title label to the spine; all edges trimmed. Housed in a matching paper covered slipcase. pp. 56. A fine copy. Again, Jason says..... More
Henley-on-Thames: Gresham Books, 1985. Folio. Bound in original quarter brown morocco, with ochre cloth covered boards, Farleigh’s monogram gilt stamped to the upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, and housed in publisher’s cloth covered slipcase, with printed paper spinestrip. [x], 5-137, [ + colophon] pp. Two abrasions to p. 29..... More
Toronto: Roger Ascham Press, [1986]. Small quarto, 27.7 x 18 cm. Cased in quarter orange Oasis goatskin, with orange and yellow linen covered boards, Batiked after Greek motifs by Muriel McDonagh, spine lettered in gilt, and Swedish Ingres endpapers; top-edges cut and trimmed, others untrimmed. pp. [12], 3-95, [3]. Some..... More
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. Folio. Bound in original half dark orange cape morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, with maize buckram covered boards, gilt stamped device after Braby to front cover, and spine lettered in gilt; top edge gilt, others uncut. 266pp. Corners slightly bumped, minor soiling to the covers..... More
[Dundas]: The Aliquando Press, [2006]. Oblong octavo, 12.4 x 21.8 cm. Cased in blue mizu momi paper over boards; printed title label inset within a blind ruled border to the upper cover; blue sume sora endpapers. pp. [4], 11, [3], on double-leaves. A fine copy. The text was set in..... More
Boston: David R. Godine, 1978. Second Revised Edition. Oblong Octavo. Bound in original ochre cloth, with gilt lettering to the spine and gilt decorated upper cover. In very good decorated paper dust jacket. 64pp. Dust jacket is price-clipped, and bears a small price sticker to the front flap, else a...... More
London: Faber and Faber, for the Aids Crisis Trust, 1991. Folio. Bound in original yellow buckram, with spine titled in gilt within a dyed blue vertical band, and housed in publisher’s grey cloth covered slipcase. Unpaginated. A Fine copy. Printed on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper. Illustrated with reproductions of..... More
Stratford, Ontario: [Gerard Brender à Brandis], 1997. mall folio, 27.1 x 19.7 cm. Cased in boards covered in pale silk, decorated with a repeating floriated pattern; the pattern has been further accented with a hand-painted floral design by Laurie Richardson. Grey and blue flecked endpapers; edges opened but untrimmed. Housed..... More
Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1991. Quarto. Bound in original quarter black morocco, with black cloth covered boards, and spine lettered in gilt; housed in publisher’s black cloth covered slipcase. xii, 183, [+ colophon, 8] pp. A Fine copy. This book contains a personal biography of BHS written by his daughter..... More
[Mission, B.C.]: Barbarian Press, 2015. Octavo, 18.3 x 14.5 cm. Cased in quarter green silk, with cream paper covered boards, patterned with alternating columns of printers’ rules and fleurons in red and green, printed green paper title label to the spine, and matching green endpapers; top-edges cut, others uncut. Unpaginated..... More
Toronto: imprimerie dromadaire, [1978]. Small squarish Quarto, 25 x 22 cm. In pamphlet stitched red Tweedweave paper wrappers, with lettering handset and printed in black to both covers; the lower cover features a glossary of neologisms used or generated by Khlebnikov in Zangezi (see below). Unpaginated [16 pp.]. A fine..... More
