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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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Provo, UT: Tryst Press, 2011. Full Leather. Quarto. [32] pp., illus. Limited edition, one of 160 copies, this copy out of series. Bound by Katy Starr-Baum in tan goatskin; textblock is sewn on meeting guards with hand-embroidered silk endbands; binding with Hebrew lettering made up of hand-tooled gold dots which.....

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Provo, UT: Tryst Press, 2024. Unbound. 21" x 15." Limited to 12 variants. 27 leaves on handmade, cotton paper (title pages, path sheet, and instructions to 25 compositions) laid into a cloth portfolio with small paper illustration pasted to the front. The instructions and title page are made up of.....

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Warsaw, Poland | Tucson, AZ: [Beata Wehr], 2000-2001. Soft Cover. According fold. Approx 8" x 5". Limited edition, this is number 11 of 20 copies. Black canvas strip sewn to the covers with an rusted washer sew over the canvas to the front cover; the contents are a single accordion.....

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Monterey, KY: Larkspur Press, 1975. Hard Cover. Octavo. [8], 72, [4] pp., illus. Limited edition, number 96 of 200 copies bound in boards and signed by Taylor; an additional 300 copies were issued unsigned in wrappers. Blue cloth with printed paper title label on the spine; dust jacket. Top corners.....

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London: W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1774. Half Leather. Octavo. xvi, 144, [2 (adverts)] pp. First edition. In 19th century half speckled calf with corners and marbled papers over boards. Joints are moderately rubbed but sound; light shelfwear; a very few instances of early ink corrections or brief annotations in.....

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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.....

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