cheney william m (7 Ergebnisse)

Printed Wrappers. Zustand: Very Good+. Illustrated by William Andrews (illustrator). 11 unnumbered pages with illustrations, frontis / portrait - Written and drawn by William Cheney, about 1930, while working at Dawson's Book Shop, before his printing forays. Original drawings at William Andrews Clark Library, UCLA."--Page 7/ Hole punched through bottom right-hand corner of book. Original printed wrappers measuring 3 x 2 1/8 inches complete in 11 pages. Crisp, bright and illustrated.

Zustand: Good. Publisher's Announcement and Prospectus. 64mo. [8 pp.] Letterpress on Laid Paper, Illustrated, folded sheets. Near Fine.Fine miniature books from the press of Glen and Mary Helen Dawson and family, from Dawson's Book Shop, 1962-1993.

1 vols. 12mo. Limited to 350 copies. Printed by Richard J. Hoffman, Van Nuys, Calif. 1 vols. 12mo. Bound in red cloth and decorated paper by Bela Blau. Fine Limited to 350 copies. Printed by Richard J. Hoffman, Van Nuys, Calif.

Lyon : L'Arbalète, août 1944 - grand in-8 (19,4x28cm) broché sous couverture bleue illustrée, 315 pages - tirage à 2150 exemplaires sur papier pur fil Johannot à la forme (n°493) - exemplaire en bon état - Joint les feuillet d'annonces de Chants secrets de Jean Genet et Dessins, par Jean Martin - Numéro d'anthologie de littérature américaine en traductions inédites par Marcel Duhamel, Henri Fluchère, R.N. Raimbault, etc. Livres.

Stiff Wrappers. Zustand: Fine. First Printing. First Edition of this paean to the pocket knife, enumerating its benefits, shortcomings, and types (including the curved bistoury blade used by surgeons and the seventeenth-century typesetter's coping blade). Foolscap 8vo (101 x 67mm): 36pp, with three full-page plates, decorative initials, and three supplement leaves printed one side only, neatly folded and tipped in at rear. Publisher's burnt orange stiff wrappers printed in black, fore-edge untrimmed. No limitation given, but probably fewer than 150 copies printed, based on Cheney's usual edition sizes for similar items. A fine copy, virtually pristine, of this scarce near-miniature book. Will Cheney at 90 (Clark Library), p. 22. Cheney printed an expanded second edition in 1968, incorporating the information from the first-edition supplements, including, from the Third Supplement, notes on the jackleg knife, which Cheney says was a favorite of wood engraver Thomas Bewick, who "says in his memoirs that returning from a late card game one night he met the devil on a lonely moor. On Bewick flourishing his 'Jackleg' knife, the devil stepped aside and let him pass." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Small 8vo, pp. [2], 19, [3]; creme printed paper wrappers; near fine. William M. Cheney was an "erudite, self-taught printer who takes great interest in words, phrases, and learning that are generally considered obsolete. His reasoning ability can leave readers behind him -- but that is not Cheney's fault. He writes mainly to please himself and as a result often produces printing that only a few close friends can understand. Not all of Cheney's writings are obscure -- although most of his printed pieces are hard to locate" (Muir Dawson).

Edition originale tirée pur fil sur Johannot à 2150 exemplaires (N°1530). Au sommaire de ce numéro consacré aux écrivains américains : Gertrude Stein : Langage et littérature américains - Dorothy Baker : Le jeune homme à la trompette - Erskine Caldwell : L'homme de Dieu - Donald Henderson Clarke : Autobiographie de frank Tarbeaux - Peter Cheney : La Môme vert-de-gris - Ernest Hemingway : C'est aujourd'hui vendredi - Horace Mac Coy : On achève bien les chevaux ? - Walter Edmonds : La résurection de Solly Moon - William Faulkner : Wash - Norah Zeale Hurston : La calebasse de Jonas - Henry Miller : Mona - Damon Runyon : Lily de Saint-Pierre - William Saroyan : Amour, amour. ; Moi sur la terre ; Chère Greta Garbo ; Comme le soleil - Nathanael West : Miss Lonelyhearts - Thorton Wilder : Le ciel est ma gare d'arrivée - Thomas Wolfe : Point de porte - Richard Wright : Le départ de "Big Boy". Plusieurs textes originaux proviennent de la bibliothèque de Sylvia Beach. On trouvera encarté à la fin de l'ouvrage 6 prospectus pour des publications de chez Marc Barbezat, imprimés en 2 couleurs (1 pour des oeuvres de Jean Genet, 1 pour Franz Kafka, 1 pour Dessins de Jean Martin, 1 pour Arthur Rimbaud, 1 pour Federico Garcia Lorca et 1 pour Henri Michaux illustré d'un de ses dessins).