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Collinge & Clark (UK)
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List 63 111 items April - Private Press Books collingeandclark@aol.com
Knuf Rare Books (France)
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20 items 20 rare items under 300 euros info@fritsknuf.com
Ken Spelman Rare Books (UK)
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Cat.123
50 items
Manuscripts & Ephemera kenspelmanbooks@gmail.com


Catalogue: Pick of the Week

Collinge and Clark have issued the April 2024 book list 63, consisting almost entirely of private press books. There are over one hundred items in all. The cataloguer claims that if you want to see them there is no need to go to New York, the shop is easily accessible via Russell Square and King's Cross stations.

From Allen Press The Wreck of the Golden Mary: A Saga of the Californian Gold Rush, by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. The wood-engravings Have been completed by Blair Hughes-Stanton. The work was produced in 1956. The work was set in Bulmer with Commercial Script for display and printed in surf green and black on handmade Japanese vellum. This is one of 200 copies and is illustrated with seven wood-engravings. The French marbled paper-covered boards resemble storm tossed ocean water. The pink spine has white titling and acetate jacket. This copy with one of the fifteen sets of proof wood-engravings, by Blair Hughes-Stanton and is valued at £2,500. The text is the fictional story of the wreck of an English ship bound for California in 1851. The story is told in the first person throughout, with the captain speaking at the start, and the first mate taking over after he collapses. Some do finally make it to San Francisco and the gold Dickens and Collins wrote this tale specially for the Christmas, 1856, number of Household Words.

Another book with marble-covered boards is Buckland Wright’s Heart's Desire by Chrysilla von Dansdorf – with an introduction by E.D. Set in Paris for private circulation. This is one of seventy copies (a hole has been punched to eradicate the number) printed in maroon and black on good quality laid paper. There is a title-page engraving and seven full-page copper engravings by John Buckland Wright. This is listed as a “very good copy” and is priced at £4,250. This erotic of Buckland Wright's books is explained. It seems that Dansdorf is an anagram of Sandford and is no coincidence and he may be presumed to be the author. Furthermore, there are clear references within the 'introduction' both to Sandford's Golden Cockerel 'Golden Bed of Kydno' and the Golden Cockerel Press 'Greek Anthology'. The trouble has lain in identifying the printer of the text. (The quality of the printing of the plates is high, and this, when compared with the text, suggests that they were done by the artist

At £850 and from Heyeck Press is Marbling at the Heyeck Press, by Robin Heyeck and was produced in California, 1986. The book is handset in Centaur and Arrighi and printed in black and grey on Barcham Green handmade paper. This is number 97 of 150 copies with twenty-eight tipped-in samples of Robin Heyeck's marbled papers and signed by the author/marbler. One of the author's specialities is a flame-like marbling which sometimes decorates title-pages in her books. The book also contains a bibliography of all Heyeck books and private productions which employed marbling. This includes samples of the marbling together with bibliographic details of the work, the reason it was undertaken, and the conditions under which it was made.

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