Finial press (42 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Small 4to. Wrappers. (2pp). Very good.Mild bit of soiling to outer wrappers (only). Titled simply "A newly set poem of the Finial Press by Christopher Brown, 1969" on the plain front wrapper, the inside left page features a simple abstract printed line drawing, the right page being the text of this 7-line free verse p…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Softcover. Stiff off-white covers with black lettering and blind stamping of runes on front cover. Title page and copyright page dated 1975. 63 pages. SIGNED on front free endpaper by author Haviland Ferris. Final page states that this is a copy of 200 copies numbered and signed by the author; this cop…

Wrappers. First Edition. Traditional quilt patterns by Kahiwahiwaokala Kakalia Of 500 copies, this is one of 100 numbered copies, signed by the author Wrappers just a little darkened at spine, otherwise a very nice copy. With the signed autograph presentation inscription of the book's printer/publisher, A. Doyle Moore, to Arthur…

Hardcover. Illustrations by Tom Kovacs. 8vo. Yellow cloth. (Ca. 75pp). Very good. Very minor cloth soiling, else tight and attractive. First U.S. edition, limited to 171 numbered copies (this #171 -- last of its kind!) signed by Johnson and Kovacs. Notes the title page, "These are poems made from Erik Satie's notes, in French, t…

hardcover. Zustand: Collectible-Very Good. DETAILS: very good blue cloth, but covers slightly faded by light. Limited edition of 220 copies but this copy NOT numbered (rear colophon). INSCRIBED over 5-lines in French and SIGNED by Paulène Aspel, Iowa City, mai 1957 - inscription to Holley Anne Corn (? Difficult to decipher the n…

Edition limited to 250 copies, 8vo, pp. [11], 8-41, [3]; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine and upper cover; fine. Like many in the edition, this copy unnumbered, but from the library of the printer, Kim Merker. Printed by hand from Spectrum types on Curtis Rag paper. Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 19: "The v…

Cloth Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. Signed and inscribed by Paulene Aspel to a named individual on the half title page. The pages are clean, crisp, and bright except for a bit of toning and light foxing on the page block edges. The first signature is nearly loose, but the binding remains otherwise tight. The blue clo…

map. Zustand: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompa…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Trade PB. 8vo. The Stone Wall Press & THe Finial Press, Iowa City, IA. 1963. 32 pgs. Two hundred and seventy copies have been printed on a Washington hand press by A. D. Moore and K. K. Merker. The type is Spectrum, and the paper is Curtis Rag. Wrappers worn with some…

3 blank sheets; 32 unnumbered pages with text and 4 (3 wholepage, 1 red) silkscreen prints, 3 blank sheet; all on yellowish large Rives-Paper. - Illustrated red cloth ''handbound by Mary Ellen Chapdu'' with olive silk marker ribbon; oblong-Folio (ca. 26 x 34 cm). *** [Letztmalig ERWEITERTER SOMMERVERKAUF / Ultimately EXPANDED SU…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Small quarto. 41pp. Blue cloth gilt. Slight sunning at the extremities, else a near fine copy. Translations by Aspel, Leigh DeNeef, Harry Duncan, Louis A. Haselmeyer, and Donald Justice. One of 220 numbered copies, this copy is unnumbered, but is the publisher Kim Merker's copy with his initials an…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. 16mo. Black leather-grain cloth, gilt rules on the front board, silk ribbon marker bound in. Fine. One of 250 copies. Nicely Inscribed by the author in 1973 to Dorothy Neal, an early and close friend, and benefactor of the author's partner, Jonathan Williams, the author, and the Jargon So…