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A Winter by the Sea. Translated into Verse by Roger Kuin
by Holst, A. Roland. Roger Kuin, translator. Ian Jackson [RIP] designer-publisher
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- 2017
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- Paperback
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- 9781944769581
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$35.00
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Berkeley: Ian Jackson, 2017. Paperback. viii, 148p., illustrated with a fine frontis photoportrait, a ditto to rear cover, and a vignette of the translator. Softbound in 9x6 inch frenchfold cream wraps, titled in black & red and rubricated further within, original text reproduced in facsimile on tan versos of alkaline white stock, one of a run limited to 250cc.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Timon of Athens
by Shakespeare, William, edited and amended where obscure by Herbert Farjeon, illustrated with wood-engravings by George Buday
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- 1940
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$30.00
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New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940. Hardcover. 86p., with six plates from wood-engravings including frontis, 8.75x13 inches, one of 37 volumes of The Plays of William Shakespeare designed by Bruce Rogers, #702/1950 copies in decorative boards with oat cloth backstrip, faded gilt spine titles and top edge gilt. Shelfwear especially at corners. The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Illuminations: #3, Summer 1967
by Moser, Norman, editor and contributor, Pablo Neruda, Robert Bly [translation] Doug Blazek, Ruth Kraus, Judson Crews, Hadassah, Darryl Ponicsan, William Margolis, Judy Navas, et al.
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- 1967
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- Magazine
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$40.00
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San Francisco: Illuminations Press, 1967. Magazine. 60p., 9.25x12.25 inches, poetry, prose, illustrations, folded 12x18 inch broadside printed both sides with two poems inserted, very good stapled pictorial tan wraps with heavily rusted staples. Poetry and art journal founded by Moser at the Blue Unicorn Coffeehouse in the Haight-Ashbury in 1965. Very early appearance by Darryl Ponicsan whose novel "The… Read more about this item Item Price
$40.00
Bee-Stung Aviary
by Baus, Eric
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- 2010
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- Cardboard Covers
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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n.p.: further adventures chapbooks & pamphlets / book 3, 2010. Cardboard Covers. Nicely printed, unpaginated as intended (20p including blanks), expertly thread-tied. Most pages are occupied by a short nonsense paragraph with a title. Find a 5x5.5 inch textblock and shocking-pink divider leaves expertly thread-tied into 5.5x6 inch rough but alkaline cardstock wraps impressed with titling black and a… Read more about this item Item Price
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On generation and corruption
by Chiusano, Terrence
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- 2003
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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Buffalo, NY: Handwritten Press, 2003. Paperback. 50p., 8.5x11 inches, stiffboard wraps, 50 leaves, not bound; in very good condition. Includes signed letter from the editor with additional information on the history of the typography. Item Price
$25.00
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Tales of Hoffmann, stories. Translated out of the German by various hands, illustrated with lithographs by Hugo Steiner-Parg together with a prologue from the illustrator
by Hoffmann, E.T.A. [Hugo Steiner-Prag illustrations]
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- 1943
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$40.00
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New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1943. Hardcover. xxiv, 336p., illus., very good condition in a shelf worn slipcase with a faded spine label and a small splash stain on the front panel. This is no. 683 signed by Hugo Steiner-Prag and with an introductory essay by Arthur Ransome. Item Price
$40.00
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Once in 100 Years
by Abel, Hilde
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- 1934
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$45.00
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Athens, OH: Manuscript, 1934. Hardcover. 36p., boards. 10.25 x 7 in. Edition of 50. Signed by the author. Bound paper over boards, designed and printed in green and black. Corners bumped, soiled, toned. Good. Designed by John Rood. Short fiction. Item Price
$45.00
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A page from Bacon's "Essays" - set & printed for his friends at Christmas mcmlvi - 145 of 180 copies
by Bacon, Francis / Claude Fredericks, pressman
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- 1956
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- Ephemera
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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Pawlet VT: printer Fredericks the publisher, 1956. Ephemera. [2]p., sewn, letterpress on a single leaf of unwatermarked but splendid paper, paginated 96/97 (ergo, the essay was printed in toto, and each friend got a leaf of the result). Protected in the original matte-blue wraps bearing a printed paper label. Content fine, wrapper edgeworn with an inch long rip to… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.00
Native Son
by Wright, Richard
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- 1979
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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New York: Milestone Editions, 1979. Hardcover. 479p., text includes Wright's 1940 explanation how "Bigger" materialized. A sizable item, 9.5x6.2 inches and nearly 2 inches thick. Also, a rather pretty production, hardbound in gray cloth boards, maroon cloth backstrip with a painted-on gray label lettered and ruled gilt. A fine-press wannabe item, largely successful even without traditional mouldmade papers and… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
My Father's Last Song
by Cho, Theresa Jungohk & Heejoon Cho
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- 1999
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$50.00
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Philadelphia: The University of the Arts, 1999. Pamphlet. Handmade artist's book with centerfold reproduction of an abstract painting and a single page poem, printed on letterpress by Cho on Rives on a Vandercook press, Korean characters written by the artist's father Heejoon Cho, #3/11 copies sewn in black paper covers with blind stamp Korean writing. Apparently a school project… Read more about this item Item Price
$50.00
A Letter at Easter
by Dahlen, Beverly
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- 1976
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$30.00
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Emeryville, CA: Effie's Press, 1976. Pamphlet. [16]p., wraps. 7.75 x 7.25 in. Edition of 500. Author's presentation inscription on front free endpaper. Printed and designed by Bonnie L. Carpenter. Chapbook with a long poem. Dahlen was active in feminist poetry circles in the San Francisco Bay Area. Item Price
$30.00
In Memory & Recognition of Giovanni Giribone. The Modest Muralist of North Beach..
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- 1995
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- Handbill
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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[San Francisco?]: [Jack W. Stauffacher], 1995. Handbill. 11 x 8.5 inch handbill. Two horizontal folds, otherwise very Good. A memorial for the Italian-American muralist whose works "have been defaced in the summer of 1996 by" the then-present proprietor of the buildings Giribone's works decorated. Issued by the master printer Jack Stauffacher, produced on his laser printer. Item Price
$15.00
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I'd Rather Be a Phoenix!
by Hiemstra, Marvin R.
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- 1976
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$250.00
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San Francisco: Juniper Von Phitzer Press, 1976. Hardcover. iii, 32 loose leaves sandwiched between wood-patterned boards, tied together with a thin black rope. Minor foxing in one quadrant of the exterior boards, interior pages clean and crisp. Numbered 168 of 200 examples, signed by Hiemstra. Cover design depicting a phoenix chick hatching from an egg is added in pen… Read more about this item Item Price
$250.00
The story of a story & three stories; number 30 in the series of keepsakes issued by the friends of the Bancroft Library
by West, Jessamyn
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- 1982
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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Berkeley: University of California at Berkeley, 1982. Paperback. 67p., yellow printed wraps, special edition, find at p.50 a foldout facsimile of a page of West's manuscript. Slight edgewear, a bright unmarked copy. Item Price
$15.00
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Looking for Kafka [talk by Felstiner, Dept English]
by Felstiner, John, speaker; Franz Kafta, subject. Diana Auger, chair, annual meeting of Associates
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- 1990
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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Stanford, CA: Cecil H. Green Library, Stanford CA, 1990. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, twelve pages, a finepress item (with all bells & whistles of luxury presswork) designed by Peter Koch and limited to 700 copies. Textured coverstock titled in black and cinnamon-brown, 10x6 inches. An unblemished exemplar with a cover letter by Auger. Find much detail on the production, proofing, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Notes on Ammunition of the American Civil War 1861-1865. This precis, with comprehensive tables and authentic drawings, is the second in a series [&c &c] ..text was prepared by Colonel Berkeley R. Lewis, Ordnance Corps, United States Army (Retired), author of](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/963/439/1579439963.0.m.jpg)
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Notes on Ammunition of the American Civil War 1861-1865. This precis, with comprehensive tables and authentic drawings, is the second in a series [&c &c] ..text was prepared by Colonel Berkeley R. Lewis, Ordnance Corps, United States Army (Retired), author of "Small Arms and Ammunition in the United States Service.
by Lewis, Col. Berkeley R.
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- 1959
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$22.00
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Washington DC: The American Ordnance Association, 1959. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about 32 pages, illustrated with diagrammatic or line-drawn plates each showing an abundance of related ammo outlines (startlingly various). Softbound, title page in blue and black, a fine-press treatment on splendid paperstock (staplebound, but so be it), untrimmed text leaves, cover of dark-blue textured stock with titling in silver-foil. Handsome… Read more about this item Item Price
$22.00
Notes on Cavalry Weapons of the American Civil War 1861-1865. This precis, with authentic illustrations and tabular data.. was prepared by Colonel Berkeley R. Lewis, Ordnance Corps, United States Army (Retired), author of "Small Arms and Ammunition in the United States Service." He is also the author of the second precis of this commemorative series, "Notes on Ammunition of the American Civil War," published in December 1959
by Lewis, Col. Berkeley R.
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- 1961
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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Washington DC: The American Ordnance Association, 1961. Pamphlet. 31p., a fine-press treatment on splendid paperstock (staplebound, but so be it), rubricated titlepage, pamphlet format; features seven plates each displaying numerous edged weapons (no lances, sorry), rifles and amazing pistols, some with author's personal experience of handling. A rather pedestrian-looking revolver is his favorite. Booklet has a lower-corner-tip bump, remarkably… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Book Club of California: Its Purposes, Membership and List of Publications
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- 1928
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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San Francisco: the club, 1928. Paperback. Unpaginated, about eleven printed pages, handset type on watermarked paper and softbound in 10x7 inch blue-grey wraps covering cheap grey cardstock. A bit edgeworn, else sound, clean and unmarked. Compiler unknown to us but knowable; ditto the press responsible. Our guess is Taylor & Taylor. Item Price
$25.00
The Yarns of Sir Peter Schwiveliivitski and His Crew. First Batch More to Follow
by Shorey, Samuel Fernald
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- 1913
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$175.00
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Potlatch City, WA: S.F. Shorey, 1913. Paperback. [3], 46, [3]p., illustrations, portrait, wraps. 7 x 5.5 in. On semi-translucent vellum-like pages, closed at the fore-edge. Printed in red and black. Very Good. Satirical fiction. Writings attributed to a wealthy Carnegie-like figure while on a doomed expedition to the North Pole which he was duped into financing. Humorous running titles… Read more about this item Item Price
$175.00
The Pink House
by McDonald, Barry
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- 1972
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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Lincoln, NE: Best Cellar Press, 1972. Pamphlet. [20]p., wraps. 8.75 x 5.5 in. Very Good. Poems, the author's first book, published while a sophomore at the University of Nebraska. Item Price
$20.00
