Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA

[cover title] The Colt Springs High for 1940

[Colt Press] Grabhorn, Jane

San Francisco: Colt Press, [1940]. Original Wrappers. Small octavo. [16] pp. As issued, stapled into self wrappers. Lengthy introduction in Grabhorn's inimitable prose as well as upcoming books for 1940. Final leaf is a perforated order from. Soiling to the covers, but largely a clean, bright copy of an early.....

The Three Admirable Accidents of Andrea de Piero; from the First Englyshed Edition of the. Gravesend Press, John | Boccaccio, Fritz Kredel.

The Three Admirable Accidents of Andrea de Piero; from the First Englyshed Edition of the Decameron [with Prospectus]

[Gravesend Press] Boccaccio, John | engravings by Fritz Kredel

Lexington, KY: Gravesend Press, 1954. Vellum Binding. 18mo. [10], 48, [4] pp., illus. Limited edition, number 9 of 200 copies. As issued, in vellum-backed patterned-paper over boards. Lacking the slipcase. A handsome copy with only light toning to the perimeters of the boards; contents clean. This copy with 4-page prospectus.....

Chinese Figures (Second Series)

[Perishable Press] Merwin, W. S.

Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1971. Original Wrappers. Tall octavo. [12] pp. Limited edition, one of 120 copies, of which 75 were for sale. As issued, sewn into handmade wrappers. Spine is a trifle sunned, otherwise, Fine. A wonderful printing of the work of one of the great American poets.....

English Binding Before 1500

[Books on Books] Hobson, G. D.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1929. Hard Cover. Folio. [12], 58, [2] pp., plates, illus. First edition, one of 500 copies. This copy initialed and presented by Hobson on the half title. In publisher's cloth; top edge gilt. 58 plates, all present; numerous in-text illustrations. Lacking the dust jacket. Only light.....

In Sight of Blue Mounds

[Perishable Press] Hamady, Walter | illustration by Ellen Lanyon

Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1972. Unbound. Oblong octavo. [4], 20, [1] ff. Limited edition, press numbered 87 of 125 copies. As issued, printed on one side of 25 different shades of handmade Shadwell paper, all laid into a portfolio backed in cloth with autumnal marbled paper sides; all in.....

Calyban's Wood Type Whimsy. Volume 1: Numerology of Wood Type

[Design Binding] [Glaister, Donald] McMurray, Mark (ed.)

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.....

Of the Most Holy Miracle of Saint Francis in Taming the Fierce Wolf of Gubbio

Angelo, Valenti

New York: Valenti Angelo, 1949. Hard Cover. Octavo. [14] pp., illus. Limited edition, one of 75 copies. Signed by Angelo. In later marbled paper over boards with the board edges and turn-ins exquisitely trimmed in black morocco. A very clean, bright copy in cloth clamshell. An elegant production printed by.....

The Fragments of Parmenides & an English Translation by Robert Bringhurst

[Design Binding] [Botelho, Camille] Parmenides | Bringhurst, Robert (trans.); wood...

Berkeley, CA: Editions Koch, 2003. Full Leather. Folio. [44] pp., frontis, plates. Limited edition, one of 120 copies, this copy out of series; there are also 26 lettered, deluxe copies with a suite of 10 engravings. All are signed by Bringhurst, Wagener, and Peter Koch at the colophon. Bound by.....

Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA

[cover title] The Colt Springs High for 1940

The Three Admirable Accidents of Andrea de Piero; from the First Englyshed Edition of the Decameron [with Prospectus]

Chinese Figures (Second Series)

English Binding Before 1500

In Sight of Blue Mounds

Calyban's Wood Type Whimsy. Volume 1: Numerology of Wood Type

Of the Most Holy Miracle of Saint Francis in Taming the Fierce Wolf of Gubbio

The Fragments of Parmenides & an English Translation by Robert Bringhurst

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