[Rarebooks] WANTS: Thomas Bird Mosher

[Philip R. Bishop]

Mosher Press Wants List

MOSHER BOOKS began in February 1991 as a retail book firm for selective antiquarian books of all kinds; however, we do also stock books from the firm's namesake -- the Portland, Maine publisher, Thomas Bird Mosher. The firm's owner maintains a personal collection of books from and related to the Mosher Press. The following list contains his collecting interests and the interests of a few clients, but we are certainly interested in purchasing other Mosher Press books in near-fine to fine condition depending on the title and limitation. (August 8, 2004)


Wants at a glance, please quote:

Mosher books in fine highly decorated full leather signed bindings

Books from Mosher's library with his bookplate or inscription

Letters to / from Thomas Bird Mosher

Mosher books printed on real vellum*

Extra-illustrated copies

More detailed list:


In addition to the books listed below, particularly interested in quotes of unusual Mosher book or related material. Unusual means: 

signed / inscribed copies books from Mosher's library letters to Mosher

limited editions of 50 or less books inscribed to Mosher boxed sets

fine bindings photographs / pictures home / office articles

original designer art work press pulls business forms or cards

ephemera / advertising book mock-ups printer's type ornaments 

manuscripts printer's dummies diaries / desk calendars

Roman vellum copies autograph letters signed notebooks / scrapbooks

extra-illustrated copies autograph notes signed Flora Lamb / Aimee Lenalie related


Also seeking a particular set of Bell's British Theatre, 34 vols. British Library / Strand, [1790-1799?]. 18mo.; bound in calf; each with the name "J--- Sonntag" written in it. Most likely in poor condition unless it was rebound after Mosher's death.

Specific titles still looking for:


THE BIBELOT Japan vellum edition only, including individual volumes from 1895-1915. 

HOMEWARD: SONGS BY THE WAY A. E. (Miscellaneous Series), 1895 (particularly Japan vellum copy, or a copy inscribed by Bruce Rogers).

IN MEASURED LANGUAGE E. C. Cummings (Privately Printed), 1899.

IN MEMORIAM [Jane Anne Bell] (Privately Printed for Arthur Sewall), 1917.


Kent, Rockwell, substituted a new title page with an original illustration for none other than a Mosher book. Find the copy of the Old World Series: Mosher Tristan and Iseult, 1923. Small octavo, the Mosher Press edition of 1922, with title page and binding removed, an inserted title page or colophon saying printed at the Lakeside Press under the supervision of Wm A. Kittredge, and bound there in full maroon niger and binding design by Kent stamped in gold. 


LIST OF BOOKS , MDCCCXCIV - List of Books Issued in Limited Editions, 1894.

LITTLE WILLIE Eugene Field (Boston: Privately Printed), 1904.


MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN Whitman (Miscellaneous Series) 1912. 1/10 on Roman vellum bound in classic vellum. 

PEARL: Rendered into Modern English Verse S. Weir Mitchell (Privately Printed), 1908.


VENETIAN SERIES Any Japan vellum except Siena, Wilde's The Sphinx, and A Masque of Dead Florentines unless in very fine condition. 

VERSES AND A DREAM Printed for Josephine B. Pressey (Privately Printed), 1922.

WORKS OF ARTHUR SYMONS: A Bibliographical Note T.B.M. (Privately Printed), 1912. 1/5 copies.


* Do not quote vellum copies from the Lyric Garland Series unless somehow VERY distinctive, e.g., inscribed, special binding.


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Philip R. Bishop
MOSHER BOOKS (member ABAA & ILAB, listed on ABE)
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