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Lexington, KY: Anvil Press, 1956. Hard Cover. Small quarto. 18 pp. Limited edition, one of 200 copies (Holbrook notes, perhaps in error, that it was an edition of 250). Signed by Carolyn R. Hammer at the colophon. As issued, in paper over boards with title printed in black and red.....

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Eugene, OR: University of Oregon, John Henry Nash Fine Arts Press, 1933. Hard Cover. Quarto. [4], 12, [4] pp. Limited edition, number 8 of 50 copies. As issued, in marbled paper over boards with leather title label on the spine. Light rubbing to the edges; but generally a very well.....

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Tucson, AZ: Suzanne Moore, 2024. Original Wrappers. Folio. [26] pp., illus. Limited edition, one of 26 lettered variants. Lettered and signed by Moore. Bound in Cave paper wrappers with gold tooling, with an original piece of process art laid into a paper folder, all housed in clamshell. The latest in.....

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New York: Crown Publishers, 1976. Full Leather. Octavo. [160] pp., illus. First edition, first printing, thus. Full bound in burgundy morocco with blind-tooling, sanding, and dyed and acrylic-toned goat onlays. Top edge gilt with sgraffito designed. Hand-woven silk endbands. Housed in clamshell box. In this binding, Brenda Gallagher has drawn.....

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San Francisco: printed for William Randolph Hearst by John Henry Nash, 1928. Vellum Binding. Folio. [6], 155 pp., frontis, illus. errata. Limited edition, numbered 779 of 1000 copies. As issued if vellum over boards with small yapp edges; top edge gilt; title in gold on the spine and single gold.....

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Philadelphia: Paper Airplane Press, 1977. Original Wrappers. Octavo. [2], 12, [2] pp., illus. Limited edition, number 15 of 25 copies; there is another lettered edition (A-Y) that was for private distribution. In stiff wrappers with printed paper title label; offsetting from the adhesive is starting to tone the label; contents.....

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New York: Caliban Press, 2020. Full Leather. Tall octavo. [3 (blanks)], [44], [2 (prospectus)], [3 (blanks)] ll. Limited edition, number 5 of 100 copies, signed by McMurray. Originally issued by McMurray in a spiral binding with heavy printed wrappers; the printer notes that this was "[p]rinted on various scrap papers.....

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