A reprint of two anti-slavery tracts issued by Leonard Baskin's Gehenna Press. With "An afterword on Woolman & Slavery" by Frederick B. Tolles. "Two hundred & fifty copies were printed at The Gehenna Press to memorialize the bicentennial of John Woolman's death in 1772. The texts follow the first editions.....

First edition. A broadside printing sayings attributed to Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, Elbert Hubbard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Juan Ramon Jimenez, W. Somerset Maugham ("People ask for criticism by they only want praise"), F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner and Ray Bradbury. Bradbury's contribution is , "I have not so much thought my.....

First Edition. An autobiographical essay about sixteen years Fisher spent living on 90 acres near Hemet, in southern California, beginning in 1940. Fisher is best known for her writings on cooking, like How to Cook a Wolf and Consider the Oyster. 21 pages. 7-3/4 by 11-1/2 inches. Published as no.....

First Edition. A separate printing of a short story about a boy who discovers 17th century love letters between two saints in his father's desk. He becomes fascinated with them and to keep his father from learning his discovery, he copies them out by hand. This edition was published by.....

First Edition. Two short excerpts from The Things They Carried printed letterpress and issued in an edition of 125 copies—99 in paper wrappers and 26 bound in boards, all signed by O'Brien and the illustrator, Fritz Scholder. Scholder, part Luseño, was an acclaimed Native American artist who incorporated Pop Art.....

23 leaves plus covers. 9-1/4 by 14-1/4 inches. An edition of 100 copies. One of the outstanding artist's books from Cuadernos Papiro. Poems, printed letterpress on various types of handmade paper, including leaves of recycled papers and papers dyed with tobacco. The text is interleaved with multimedia illustrations by Javier E. Díaz.....

44 pages. 8-1/4 by 12-1/4 inches. Published in an edition of 100 copies. A collection of patriotic poems printed letterpress on handmade paper and bound using silver cord. Some of the poems are printed over a linocut of a palm tree scene. The image, by Freddy García Azze, is repeated on.....

8 leaves plus covers. 8-1/4 by 12-1/2 inches. Edition of 100 copies. Poems by the noted Cuban writer, printed letterpress on handmade paper embedded with flower petals. Covers decorated with original intaglio prints by Freddy García Azze. OCLC: FQG VWM. A near fine copy. Numbered 45 of 60 on a printed.....

First Edition. This is one of an unspecified number signed by the author on a tipped in page. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author.

First Edition. A substantial and important colonial American book printed on the press of one of the country's founding fathers and its first great polymath (inventor, revolutionary, politician, diplomat, raconteur, writer, and entrepreneur), Benjamin Franklin. If Franklin had been nothing more than a printer, with his shop foreman, David Hall.....

13-1/2 by 17 inches. 12 leaves. An edition of 100 copies. Poems printed letterpress on one side of the paper only. Several types of paper are used, including sheets made from recycled Communist party newspapers. José Emilio Leyva Azze illustrates Coscia's poems with linocuts, blind embossed images, shaped newspaper collages.....

First Edition. This is one of 50 signed and numbered copies of Maya Quarto 7. Letterpress printed on handmade paper. A lovely example of Bay Area fine press printing from the late 1960s and early 1970s in a series edited by David Meltzer and Jack Shoemaker. [12] pages. First edition.....

First Edition. This is one of 50 signed and numbered copies of Maya Quarto 11. Letterpress printed on handmade paper. A lovely example of Bay Area fine press printing from the late 1960s and early 1970s in a series edited by David Meltzer and Jack Shoemaker. [12] pages. First edition.....