Cheney william m (24 résultats)

cloth. small 12mo. cloth. vi, 60, (4) pages. Second edition corrected, limited to an unspecified number of copies. Handset in 10 and 12 pt. Bembo types and printed on Warren's Olde Style paper with a Washington hand press. Foreword by Gordon Williams, with 2 line drawings as illustrations.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. Melrose Park, IL: Eda Casciani. 1967. First edition. Decorated/pictorial wrappers [about 5.75" x 9"], saddle-stapled, [45] pages [last numbered page is 41], illustrated. Poet Percival R. Roberts III has written his name ["PRRobertsIII"] to the first page. Very good with some edge creasing to the oversize cover] save for yellow hi-lighting to some of the names in the list of Contributors. See photos whb18E. …

Wraps. Etat : Fine. Cream printed wraps with stitch binding. Photographic frontispiece, presumably of author. B&w illustrations of cartoon style bookworms. 2.9" x 2.2".

Wraps. Etat : Fine. Cream printed wraps with stitch binding. Photographic frontispiece, presumably of author. B&w illustrations of cartoon style bookworms. 2.9" x 2.2".

Gilt decorated hard cover. Second edition, corrected. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. 60 pps.

Printed Wrappers. Etat : Very Good+. 11 unnumbered pages with illustrations, frontis / portrait - Written and drawn by William Cheney, about 1930, while working at Dawson's Book Shop, before his printing forays. Original drawings at William Andrews Clark Library, UCLA."--Page 7/ Hole punched through bottom right-hand corner of book. Original printed wrappers measuring 3 x 2 1/8 inches complete in 11 pages. Crisp, bright and illustrated. Illustrated by William Andrews (illustrateur).…

miniature book (5.5 x 4.0 cm). cloth, title gilt-stamped on spine. viii, 20 pages. Second edition but the first published by Dawson's (Bradbury, Dawson's 58). Introduction with text notes. H. Dickson Arkwright is H. Richard Archer and Dillstrim is Grant Dahlstrom, Barbatus Caesar is Edwin H. Carpenter, Orinda is Ted Freeman. cloth, title gilt-stamped on spine. Miniature Books (illustrateur). …

Hardcover. Etat : Near fine. Octavo. xii, 62pp. A candid recounting of the joys and pitfalls of presswork in southern California. Cheney revels in the identity of the "typesticker": a printer who fits "easily and naturally into the shop of any obscure printing office from the time of Gutenberg to the late Nineteenth Century" and who maintains a slight but significant place in twentieth-century presswork. Handwritten edits to page xi. Faint fading at edges, else near fine in quarter black cloth and near fine dust wrapper. Errata slips laid in. Inscribed by Cheney and by the author of the preface, H. Richard Archer.…

Features the work of Ettore "Ted" De Grazia (1909-1092), American impressionist, western pop painter, sculptor and lithographer, known for his pastel images of Native American children of the American Southwest and other Western sciences. 2 7/8" x 2 3/8." 9 pp., 10 ff., [2] pp. Color frontispiece, ten color illustrations mounted on the black leaves. Full orange cloth, gilt spine. Inner hinge broken at p. 3. Otherwise in excellent condition. Sold as is. One of 100 copies. Jones, A Los Angeles Typesticker, No. 93. …

2nd edition, corrected hardback in original cloth As New small octavo vi + 60pp., drwgs., appends., Cheney was typesticker by profession, philologist by nature, author by inclination. Foreword by Gordon Williams. Limited (unspecified) edition. Handset in 10 and 12 pt. Bembo types and printed on Warren's Olde Style paper with a Washington hand press.…

Paperback. Etat : Fine. Second and Revised Edition. INSCRIBED by author. 1968 Second edition, 16mo, pp. 51, [4]; illustrated, errata tipped in at rear; a fine copy in original cream printed stiff wrappers. Inscribed by Author(s).

Etat : Good. Publisher's Announcement and Prospectus. 64mo. [8 pp.] Letterpress on Laid Paper, Illustrated, folded sheets. Near Fine.Fine miniature books from the press of Glen and Mary Helen Dawson and family, from Dawson's Book Shop, 1962-1993.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Second edition, revised. 16 mo (4 3/4" x 3 1/4"). Original imitation vellum binding lettered in black; tipped-in errata on corrigenda page at end. Note by Jake Zeitlin on page 42 noting his knife was "lost." Laid in is a note by Cheney "This is one seven on cords - " Also laid in is Cheney's 25 line bookmark. Fine. 51 pages.…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Second edition, revised. 16 mo (4 3/4" x 3 1/4"). Original imitation vellum binding lettered in black; tipped-in errata on corrigenda page at end. Very good. 51 pages. Paul Jordan Smith's copy with his signature on front free endpaper, dated September 1968. With original mailing envelope from Cheney postmarked Aug 27, 1968. Stains from pressure-sensitive tape on envelope. Jones 71.…

Lyon : L'Arbalète, août 1944 - grand in-8 (19,4x28cm) broché sous couverture bleue illustrée, 315 pages - tirage à 2150 exemplaires sur papier pur fil Johannot à la forme (n°493) - exemplaire en bon état - Joint les feuillet d'annonces de Chants secrets de Jean Genet et Dessins, par Jean Martin - Numéro d'anthologie de littérature américaine en traductions inédites par Marcel Duhamel, Henri Fluchère, R.N. Raimbault, etc. Livres. …

LeatherBound. Etat : New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1950 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 36 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English. …

Stiff Wrappers. Etat : Fine. First Printing. First Edition of this paean to the pocket knife, enumerating its benefits, shortcomings, and types (including the curved bistoury blade used by surgeons and the seventeenth-century typesetter's coping blade). Foolscap 8vo (101 x 67mm): 36pp, with three full-page plates, decorative initials, and three supplement leaves printed one side only, neatly folded and tipped in at rear. Publisher's burnt orange stiff wrappers printed in black, fore-edge untrimmed. No limitation given, but probably fewer than 150 copies printed, based on Cheney's usual edition sizes for similar items. A fine copy, virtually pristine, of this scarce near-miniature book. Will Cheney at 90 (Clark Library), p. 22. Cheney printed an expanded second edition in 1968, incorporating the information from the first-edition supplements, including, from the Third Supplement, notes on the jackleg knife, which Cheney says was a favorite of wood engraver Thomas Bewick, who "says in his memoirs that returning from a late card game one night he met the devil on a lonely moor. On Bewick flourishing his 'Jackleg' knife, the devil stepped aside and let him pass." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).…

LeatherBound. Etat : New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 86. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1960 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 86. …

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. 4 1/8" x 2 ¾". Tan boards. With: Rectifications & Additions to a Treatise on Pocket Knives, Supplement to the Rectification Sheet, Third Supplement, Fourth Supplement and Final One. Very good. 36 pages. Supplements are all a single page. The Third Supplement has a note by Cheney: "The rain came in through the window on to my stack of these sheets." The Supplements in an envelope addressed to Paul Jordan-Smith, postmarked 25 June 1965. The book is signed by Paul Jordan-Smith and dated 1964, and in an envelope from Cheney postmarked 24 June 1964. Jones 57. Provenance: Estate of Peggy Christian - Bookseller.…

Edition originale tirée pur fil sur Johannot à 2150 exemplaires (N°1530). Au sommaire de ce numéro consacré aux écrivains américains : Gertrude Stein : Langage et littérature américains - Dorothy Baker : Le jeune homme à la trompette - Erskine Caldwell : L'homme de Dieu - Donald Henderson Clarke : Autobiographie de frank Tarbeaux - Peter Cheney : La Môme vert-de-gris - Ernest Hemingway : C'est aujourd'hui vendredi - Horace Mac Coy : On achève bien les chevaux ? - Walter Edmonds : La résurection de Solly Moon - William Faulkner : Wash - Norah Zeale Hurston : La calebasse de Jonas - Henry Miller : Mona - Damon Runyon : Lily de Saint-Pierre - William Saroyan : Amour, amour. ; Moi sur la terre ; Chère Greta Garbo ; Comme le soleil - Nathanael West : Miss Lonelyhearts - Thorton Wilder : Le ciel est ma gare d'arrivée - Thomas Wolfe : Point de porte - Richard Wright : Le départ de "Big Boy". Plusieurs textes originaux proviennent de la bibliothèque de Sylvia Beach. On trouvera encarté à la fin de l'ouvrage 6 prospectus pour des publications de chez Marc Barbezat, imprimés en 2 couleurs (1 pour des oeuvres de Jean Genet, 1 pour Franz Kafka, 1 pour Dessins de Jean Martin, 1 pour Arthur Rimbaud, 1 pour Federico Garcia Lorca et 1 pour Henri Michaux illustré d'un de ses dessins). …

Small 8vo, pp. [2], 19, [3]; creme printed paper wrappers; near fine. William M. Cheney was an "erudite, self-taught printer who takes great interest in words, phrases, and learning that are generally considered obsolete. His reasoning ability can leave readers behind him -- but that is not Cheney's fault. He writes mainly to please himself and as a result often produces printing that only a few close friends can understand. Not all of Cheney's writings are obscure -- although most of his printed pieces are hard to locate" (Muir Dawson).…

A Lyon chez Marc Barbezat, 9 automne 1944. In-4 ; 266 pp, broché, couverture avec une composition photographique, à rabats grise et illustrée d'un dessin de Jean Martin. Numéro spécial consacré à la littérature américaine et contenant 22 contes et nouvelles traduits en français. Tirage limité à 2.150 ex et numérotés sur pur fil Johannot à la forme, n ° 218. Textes de : Gertrude Stein : Langage et Littérature américains. - Dorothy Parker : Le jeune homme à la trompette. - Erskine Caldwell : L'homme de Dieu. - Donald Henderson Clarke : Autobiographie de Frank Tarbeaux. - Peter Cheney : La môme vert-de-gris. - Ernest Hemingway : C'est aujourd'hui Vendredi. - Horace Mac Coy : on achève bien les chevaux .- Walter Edmonds : La résurrection de Solly Moon. - William Faulkner: Wash. - Norah Zeale Hurston : La calebasse de Jonas. - Henry Miller : Mona. - Damon Runyon : Lily de Saint-Pierre. - William Sorayan : Amour, amour, parmi les pauvres déjà tombés amoureux d'une naine ? Moi sur la terre chère Gréta Garrbo - Comme le soleil. - Nathanael West : Miss Lonelyhearts. - Thorton Wilder : Le ciel est ma gare d'arrivée. - Thomas Wolfe : Point de porte. - Rchard Wright : Le départ de "Big Boy". Traductions de Marcel Duhamel, Georges Magnane, R.-N. Raimbault, Jean de Frotté, Marcelle Sibon, Henri Fluchère, R.-L. Istre. Plusieurs textes originaux proviennent de la bibliothèque de Sylvia Beach. Bel exemplaire. Livres.…

LeatheBound. Etat : New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1960 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 86 Language: English Pages: 86.…

Leather Bound. Etat : New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1960. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages:- 86, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 86 86.…