Fine Books & Manuscripts

[SMALL PRESS]. A group of 6 titles, including: MORRIS, William. Some Hints on Pattern Designing. London: [Printed at the Chiswick Press for] Longmans & Co., 1899. 8vo. Golden type designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press. Original cloth–backed drab boards lettered in black (covers toned at edges). –– DRAKE, Joseph Rodman. The Culprit Fay. New York: The Grolier Club, 1923. 8vo. 3 engravings with tissue–guards. Original cloth–backed boards. –– An Address Before the American Association of Advertising Agencies at Washington… by President Coolidge. San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1926. Folio. Original cloth–backed drab boards. LIMITED EDITION, one of 273 copies. –– RANDOLPH, Thomas. The Drinking Academy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1930. 8vo. 2 facsimiles from photographs. Original cloth–backed marbled boards. –– Mark Twain’s Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors. Introduction by Franklin J. Meine. Privately printed for the Mark Twain Society of Chicago, 1939. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece. Original linen, printed cover label gilt designed by Rex Cleveland. LIMITED EDITION, number 65 of 550 copies SIGNED BY MEINE. With a PRESENTATION INSCRIPTON FROM MEINE to H. Stuart Stone. –– NEWTON, A. Edward. Thomas Hardy, Novelist or Poet? Philadelphia: Edward Stern & Company, 1929. 4to. Illustrated with facsimiles. Original cloth–backed boards, printed spine and cover label; glassine; presentation box. LIMITED EDITION, one of 950 copies laid–in with prospectus. –– Together, 6 works in 6 volumes, condition generally very good.