Northridge: Santa Susana Press, 1984. Small folio (33.5 x 25.5 cm). Loose sheets, laid into plain wrapper. Three plates. Fine in cloth portfolio with printed label (bookplate inside front panel of portfolio). First edition. Illustrated with three original color linoleum block prints by Hans Burkhardt. One of sixty numbered copies.....
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1900. 23,[1]pp. plus insert. Decorative printed wrappers. Printed in red and black. Extreme blank lower fore-tip of upper wrapper chipped, a couple small nicks, otherwise about fine. Even if without an explicit credit line, heavily influenced by the Bradley style. The upper wrapper bears.....
[Newburyport: Towle Mfg. Co., 1908]. 74pp. Large octavo. Decorated wrappers, printed in red and black, derived from a design by Will Bradley. Heavily illustrated. Surface loss to spine toward toe, with neat repairs to upper joint; still, a very good, clean copy. Fifth edition. The design of both the wrapper.....
[Jersey City]: American Type Founders Co., New Year's 1905. I:5. 12mo. Decorated wrappers. Typographic decorations throughout. Fine. First edition, wrapperbound issue. Design and illustrative matter by Will Bradley, with an essay by him on "The Abuse of Custom.". A total of 12 numbers appeared.
Newcastle & Boston: Oak Knoll / Thomas G. Boss. 1995. Quarto. Cloth. Photographs. Fine. First edition, trade issue. The highly useful chief reference on the work of the influential American book designer, illustrator and graphic artist. "Will H. Bradley (1868-1962) is widely regarded as one of the masters of design.....
Newcastle & Boston: Oak Knoll / Thomas G. Boss. 1995. Quarto. Quarter calf and decorated paper over boards, gilt label. Photographs. Fine. First edition. One of fifty numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the compiler. Some of these deluxe copies were issued in a slipcase, in company with a......
Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1895. Large octavo. Linen and printed pictorial boards, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Endsheets and margins foxed, spine extremities darkened, otherwise a very good copy. First edition thus. One of 600 numbered copies, printed on handmade paper. Copiously illustrated and decorated with plates, initials and decorative borders.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1898]. 32pp. plus plates. Narrow small quarto. Decorative printed wrappers. Printed in red and black. Corners a bit bumped, with shallow chips at overlap edges of wrappers, and a bit more from the upper forecorners, otherwise very good. "Arranged and Printed ... by Will Bradley at.....
[New York: Dodd, Mead, 1899]. 30,[2]pp. plus plates and portraits. Decorative printed wrappers. Printed in red and black. Heavily illustrated and decorated. Extreme blank fore-tips of upper wrapper chipped, spine has a partial hairline split, otherwise very good. "Arranged and Printed ... by Will Bradley at the University Press...."
[ Concord, MA: Will Bradley...the Sign of the Vine, ca. 1903]. Small octavo. Grey boards, printed label. Faint dust soiling to label and boards, otherwise a near fine copy. First edition in this format, designed, set- up and decorated with rubricated title and initials in red by Bradley, the whole.....
[Concord, MA: Will Bradley...the Sign of the Vine, ca. 1903]. Small octavo. Grey boards, printed label. A fine copy. First edition in this format, designed, set- up and decorated with rubricated title and initials in red by Bradley, the whole printed on handmade paper at the Heintzeman Press. One of.....
[Concord, MA: At the Sign of the Vine, 1903]. 12mo. Pale gray-blue boards, printed label. Frontis and decorations. Very near fine. First edition in this format, designed and printed by Will Bradley. With David Magee's signed pencil note on the front pastedown: "This is one of Will Bradley's own copies.....
Chicago: The Dial Press, 1894. Ornately gilt decorated green cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Decorative title-page. Some light spotting to lower portion of upper board, lower fore-tip bruised, otherwise near fine. First edition, this being the primary binding. One of two hundred copies only. Bambace suggests the binding design is "probably".....
Chicago: The Dial Press, 1894. Ornately gilt decorated green cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Decorative title-page. Some light spotting to lower portion of upper board, lower fore-tip bruised, otherwise near fine. First edition, this being the primary binding. One of two hundred copies only. Bambace suggests the binding design is "probably".....
Chicago: The Dial Press, 1894. Ornately gilt decorated green cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Decorative title-page. About fine, in oversize half morocco clamshell box. First edition, this being the primary binding. One of two hundred copies only. Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet: "To my dear sister Mollie.....
Chicago: The Dial Press, 1894. Tan cloth, decorated in blue. Decorative title-page. Binding darkened and a bit soiled, internally very good. First edition, this being the secondary binding. One of two hundred copies only. Inscribed on the front endsheet by Smith's son to his daughter ("...this book of her grandfather's.....
San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1951. 27,[3]pp. Printed wrappers. Frontis portrait and illustrations. Light use and creasing at overlap wrapper edges, internally fine. First edition. One of 1000 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom. Essay "The Gay Nineties" by Bradley, introduction by Robert O. Schad.
New York: Targ Editions, [1979]. Large octavo. Cloth. First edition. One of 350 copies, printed at the Tideline Press, and signed by the author. Cloth a trace dulled, but a nice copy in bit tanned and frayed glassine.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, [1982]. Quarto. Black cloth, stamped in gilt. Original lithographed frontis and illustrations by Jack Levine. Bookplate affixed to front pastedown, else fine in slipcase (small label shadow on one panel). relevant publisher's newsletter laid in. First edition in this format of Desmond Vesey's translation.....
New York: Didymus Press, 2000. Quarto. Linen, printed spine label. Illustrated with five original color woodcuts by Donald Baechler, printed from the block. New, with prospectus laid in. First edition of the poet's first book. One of 330 numbered copies (of 360) printed after a design by Thomas Whitridge by.....
Wymondham: Sycamore Press, 1984. Quarto. Gilt blue cloth. Portrait, plates, drawings and photographs. First edition. One of 120 numbered copies. Endsheets a bit spotted, a few faint stray marks to cloth, otherwise a nice copy. Includes a bibliography as well as appreciations.
[ London: At the Sign of the Dolphin, ca. 1931]. Quarto. Cloth and printed boards. Photogravure portrait and facsimile. First edition in this format. Very good.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1929. Octavo. Faux parchment boards, decorated in blind, lettered in gilt. First edition, ordinary issue. Slight dust darkening at extreme edges, faint foxing to endsheets, otherwise about fine (with the [4]pp. terminal insert) in lightly nicked and moderately tanned dust jacket.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1930. Small quarto. Cloth and boards. First American edition in this format. One of 250 copies printed by Rudge. Pencil inscription, else fine in slightly chipped glassine wrapper.
[ Northampton: Printed by the Kraushar Press, for the Friends of the Cummington School], 1939. Printed wrappers. Fine, as usual. First edition of this prelude to the founding of the Cummington Press. Three hundred copies were printed, of which only one hundred were originally for sale. Two poems by William.....
