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[Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Verde Imprenta], 1976 One of about fifty copies printed on an Albion hand press. The introductory essay is signed by Lawrence Clark Powell. Ritchie has signed his essay on Quince, with all his various pseudonyms: Davie Dicher, James Beattie Pitwood, Betsey Ann Bristol, Peter Lum Quince, and Peter Mallory, plus his own name. Original marbled wrappers with printed paper label. . Octavo. Seven woodcut illustrations from designs by Paul Landacre. Title-page in green, salmon and light green. Wrappers lightly browned around the edges, possibly a flaw in the manufacturing, as we've seen this in other copies. Otherwise a fine, fresh copy. This book gives a thorough chronicle of Ritchie's various pseudonyms, detailing when each was used. It is followed by Ritchie's poem, "A Smattering of Quince."

Woodside, California: The Heyeck Press, 1995 One of ninety copies, designed and printed by Robin Heyeck in Centaur and Arrighi type on Barcham Green's handmade Cambersand paper. Signed by the author. Full marbled silk in shades of gray, golden brown, and ochre, by Robin Heyeck. Pale yellow slipcase with printed paper label. . Folio. Five illustrations from drawings by Corinne Okada. A fine copy. beautiful production of the Heyeck Press, featuring Mayes' poems inspired by a trip to Italy. Mayes (1940- ), born in Georgia and educated at the University of Florida and San Francisco State, is chair of the Department of Creative Writing at San Francisco State. She has published several volumes of poetry, including Climbing Aconcagua (1977), Sunday in Another Country (1977), After Such Pleasures (1979), The Arts of Fire (1982), Hours (1984), and Ex Voto (1995). In 1996 she published Undere the Tuscan Sun, a memoir of her buying and renovating an abandoned villa in rural Cortona in Tuscany. It was number one… Ler mais

Parma: Ex Regio Typographeo, 1798 First Bodoni edition. Bodoni also produced a large paper issue. Contemporary full stiff vellum with gilt-ruled and gilt-lettered red and brown morocco spine labels. . Quarto. Boards lightly soiled and spine labels slightly faded. Very minor foxing and the occassional small chip or tear. Bottom corners torn on pp. ;xxxi-ii and 65-6, not affecting text. Engraved bookplate of Charles Holte Bracerbridge (1799-1872), English man of letters and friend of Florence Nightingale, on front pastedown. A very good copy.

New York: Dial Press, 1942/ First edition, presentation copy. Original beige cloth stamped in black. . Octavo. With over a hundred diagrams, drawings, and charts (six full-page). Slight rubbing. Some toning to endpapers, otherwise clean throughout. Inscribed by Lee de Forest to Dr. A.J. Lieberman (February 6, 1957). In the original dust jacket, printed in blue (some chipping to extremities and some toning). A very good, bright copy of this work by the inventor of the foundational technology for the field of electronics. Lee de Forest (1873 – 1961) was an inventor who pioneered broadcasting technology. His dissertation at Yale, "Reflections of Electric Waves of Very High Frequencies at the Ends of Parallel Wires," may have been the earliest American dissertation based on Hertzian waves — an experimental form of what became known as wireless. "De Forest's most important invention came in 1906, when he developed his "Audion," a three-element (triode) vacuum tube detector, on which later development… Ler mais

[Pasadena: The Weather Bird Press, 1993 One of about a hundred copies, twenty of which are deluxe. Signed on the colophon by Gerry. The colophon states that a hundred copies were printed, while entry #77 in the present catalogue (which is for the catalogue itself) states that it was printed in an edition of 125 copies. Bound by Mariana Blau in patterned paper boards with blue cloth spine. In the original off-white paper dustjacket printed in light brown. Octavo. Title-page printed in terra cotta and black with a cityscape vignette. With thirteen illustrations (woodcuts, linocuts, and etc.), some in color; four mounted samples (of patterned paper and small illustrations); and two plates, one with a pochoir illustration from Dan Strehl's The Spanish Cook and the other a fold-out plate with a line drawing by Ednest Lindner. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Catalogue of seventy-seven items printed by Vance Gerry between 1967 and 1993 at his Peach Pit Press and Weather Bird Press, beginning with… Ler mais

[Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Verde Imprenta], 1976 One of about fifty copies printed on an Albion hand press. The introductory essay is signed by Lawrence Clark Powell. Ritchie has signed his essay on Quince, with all his various pseudonyms: Davie Dicher, James Beattie Pitwood, Betsey Ann Bristol, Peter Lum Quince, and Peter Mallory, plus his own name. Original marbled wrappers with printed paper label. . Octavo. Seven woodcut illustrations from designs by Paul Landacre. Title-page in green, salmon and light green. Wrappers lightly browned around the edges, possibly a flaw in the manufacturing, as we've seen this in other copies. Otherwise a fine, fresh copy. This book gives a thorough chronicle of Ritchie's various pseudonyms, detailing when each was used. It is followed by Ritchie's poem, "A Smattering of Quince."

Woodside, California: The Heyeck Press, 1995 One of ninety copies, designed and printed by Robin Heyeck in Centaur and Arrighi type on Barcham Green's handmade Cambersand paper. Signed by the author. Full marbled silk in shades of gray, golden brown, and ochre, by Robin Heyeck. Pale yellow slipcase with printed paper label. . Folio. Five illustrations from drawings by Corinne Okada. A fine copy. beautiful production of the Heyeck Press, featuring Mayes' poems inspired by a trip to Italy. Mayes (1940- ), born in Georgia and educated at the University of Florida and San Francisco State, is chair of the Department of Creative Writing at San Francisco State. She has published several volumes of poetry, including Climbing Aconcagua (1977), Sunday in Another Country (1977), After Such Pleasures (1979), The Arts of Fire (1982), Hours (1984), and Ex Voto (1995). In 1996 she published Undere the Tuscan Sun, a memoir of her buying and renovating an abandoned villa in rural Cortona in Tuscany. It was number one… Ler mais

Parma: Ex Regio Typographeo, 1798 First Bodoni edition. Bodoni also produced a large paper issue. Contemporary full stiff vellum with gilt-ruled and gilt-lettered red and brown morocco spine labels. . Quarto. Boards lightly soiled and spine labels slightly faded. Very minor foxing and the occassional small chip or tear. Bottom corners torn on pp. ;xxxi-ii and 65-6, not affecting text. Engraved bookplate of Charles Holte Bracerbridge (1799-1872), English man of letters and friend of Florence Nightingale, on front pastedown. A very good copy.

New York: Dial Press, 1942/ First edition, presentation copy. Original beige cloth stamped in black. . Octavo. With over a hundred diagrams, drawings, and charts (six full-page). Slight rubbing. Some toning to endpapers, otherwise clean throughout. Inscribed by Lee de Forest to Dr. A.J. Lieberman (February 6, 1957). In the original dust jacket, printed in blue (some chipping to extremities and some toning). A very good, bright copy of this work by the inventor of the foundational technology for the field of electronics. Lee de Forest (1873 – 1961) was an inventor who pioneered broadcasting technology. His dissertation at Yale, "Reflections of Electric Waves of Very High Frequencies at the Ends of Parallel Wires," may have been the earliest American dissertation based on Hertzian waves — an experimental form of what became known as wireless. "De Forest's most important invention came in 1906, when he developed his "Audion," a three-element (triode) vacuum tube detector, on which later development… Ler mais

[Pasadena: The Weather Bird Press, 1993 One of about a hundred copies, twenty of which are deluxe. Signed on the colophon by Gerry. The colophon states that a hundred copies were printed, while entry #77 in the present catalogue (which is for the catalogue itself) states that it was printed in an edition of 125 copies. Bound by Mariana Blau in patterned paper boards with blue cloth spine. In the original off-white paper dustjacket printed in light brown. Octavo. Title-page printed in terra cotta and black with a cityscape vignette. With thirteen illustrations (woodcuts, linocuts, and etc.), some in color; four mounted samples (of patterned paper and small illustrations); and two plates, one with a pochoir illustration from Dan Strehl's The Spanish Cook and the other a fold-out plate with a line drawing by Ednest Lindner. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Catalogue of seventy-seven items printed by Vance Gerry between 1967 and 1993 at his Peach Pit Press and Weather Bird Press, beginning with… Ler mais