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Lot 166

Sale 5041 - Books & Manuscripts
Sep 26, 2013 6:00AM ET
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14 vols.


14 vols.
Fine 20th-Century Printing - Primarily Small & Private Press: (Riverside Press.) Theocritus. The Idyls. Boston, 1906. #113/330. 8vo, orig bds, cover label; light wear. Small dampstain at front endpapers & front matter bottom gutter. * (Amaithea Verlag.) Toth, Karl. Legenden von Heiligen Franz. Zurich, [1921]. #202/250. 24mo, orig pigskin & bds; slightly scuffed, a little dusty. Illus by Maximillian Libenwein. * Mackacka, S.K. Zenichove. Prague, 1926. #20/100. 12mo, contemp full brown pigskin, gilt; light wear. 3 engraved plates. * (Harbor Press.) Payne, Roger. Extracts From the Diary. New York, 1928. #155/175. 8vo, orig red bds, gilt; light edge wear. Prospectus inserted. * (Nonesuch Press.) Raymond, Jean Paul; Ricketts, Charles. Oscar Wilde. [London], 1932. #443/800. 8vo, orig gilt-pictorial white cloth; light wear. Free endpapers darkened. Some dampstaining to endpapers & back matter. * (Limited Editions Club of New York.) Dwiggins, W.A. Towards A Reform of The Paper Currency. 1932. #257/452, signed by Dwiggins. 4to, orig bds, paper label; scuffed, spine rubbed. Newspaper clippings mounted to back endpaper. George Nacy TLs & prospectus inserted. * (Walpole Printing Office for Dallas Pratt.) Swift, Jonathan. A True & Faithful Narrative... N.p., [1935]. 12mo, orig marbled bds, paper spine label; light edge wear. Uncut. * (Hawthorn House.) Thompson, Edmund B. A Printers Common-Place Book. Windham, [1937]. #219/350. 24mo, orig bds; light wear. * (Gregynog Press.) Guevara, Antonio de. The Praise and Happinesse of the Countrie-Life. Newtown, 1938. #111/400. 12mo, orig blind decorated brown morocco; slightly scuffed, extremities often rubbed,. Darkening to endpaper edges, a few text leaves slightly foxed. * (Broadside Press.) The Seven Voyages of Sinbad The Sailor. New York: Holiday House, 1939. 1/1500. 24mo, orig bds, paper spine label; light to moderate edge wear. Presentation copy initialed by the printer, Philip G. Reed. * (Rogers, Bruce.) Conrad, Joseph. The Tremolino. New York, 1942. 1/1000, signed by the illustrator. 8vo, orig blue bds; light wear, slipcase (head & foot panel starting to chip). * (Jonathan Edwards College Press, Yale.) Borman, Thomas. Moral Reflections on The Short Life of The Ephemeron. New Haven, 1967. 1/25. 8vo, orig white linen; slightly scuffed, a little dust soiled. * (Stiller, Gunther, illus.) Freudenfeuerwerk. Frankfurt am Main, 1962. 4to, orig colored pictorial wrappers; minor staining & foxing to wrapper, front & back matter. * (Smith, Tony, illus.) Windham, Donald. Tanaguill. Verona: [Valdonega], 1972. 1st ed. #242/250, signed by Donald Windham. 8vo, orig pictorial wrappers (signed by Tony Smith); light wear. Slipcase. * (Canson & Montgolfier, pub). 23 Examples of The Use of Color in Modern Advertising. New York, 1928. 8vo, orig pictorial black bds; spine ends chipped. Specimen sheets.

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