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Freeport, ME: Rebecca Goodale, 2021. Hard Cover. 5-3/4" x 6-3/4." 18 pp. (including pastedowns), illus. Limited edition, number 3 of 9 copies. Signed by Goodale and Merrill. Vertically oriented accordion binding with gray cloth over boards and title stamped in silver on the upper cover; all housed in clamshell with.....

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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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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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Henry Evans, c. 1963. Broadside. Broadside. 14.75" x 11." Signed by Evans at the bottom right. Advertisement printed in black with pink illustration as a background. Old folds with minor creases at two corners, else fine. Henry Evans (1918-1990), a Bay Area bookseller and owner of Porpoise Books starting printing.....

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Lexington, KY: Privately Printed for the Friends of the Gravesend Press at Pickering Press (Maple Shade, NJ), 1960. Original Wrappers. Octavo. 19, [1] pp., illus. Limited edition, one of 500 copies. As issued, sewn in printed wrappers with printed paper label on the front wrapper. Light toning to the extremities;.....

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Stillwater, ME: Nancy Ruth Leavitt, 2018. 14-1/2" x 10-7/8." Numbered 1 of 2 variants, and signed by Leavitt. A full cloth box with recessed manuscript paper label on the front; the box opens into a diptych with batik fabric as a background to both sides. Recessed into the right side.....

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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.....

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