[Rarebooks] MOSHER PRESS WANTS for RARE BOOKS

[Philip Bishop]

MOSHER PRESS WANTS LIST
      for RARE BOOKS

If you come across this type of material related to Thomas Bird Mosher, 
especially the WANTS AT A GLANCE, please quote me directly. Thanks!

MOSHER PRESS WANTS LIST
Wants at a glance, please quote:

-- Association copies
-- Letters to / from Thomas Bird Mosher
-- Mosher books printed on real vellum
-- Illuminated copies of the Mosher Books
-- Mosher books in fine highly decorated full leather signed bindings
-- Important books from Mosher's library with his bookplate or inscription

-- Also seeking a particular set of Bell's British Theatre, 34 vols. British 
Library / Strand, [1790-1797]. 18mo.; bound in calf; with the name "J---  
Sonntag" written in particular volumes. Likely in poor condition unless 
rebound after Mosher's death.


                    Specific titles still being sought:

--THE BIBELOT  Japan vellum edition only, including individual volumes from 
1895-1915;  of course if set is nicely bound in leather I'm interested.

--HOMEWARD: SONGS BY THE WAY by A. E. (Misc. Series), 1895 (Jap vellum copy, 
or 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.

--LITTLE WILLIE  by Eugene Field (Boston: Privately Printed), 1904. 
<--Doesn't mention Mosher or Mosher Press

--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.



And feel free to quote anything like:
                   ... unusual Mosher books or related material. Unusual 
means:

signed / inscribed copies / books from Mosher's library / letters to Mosher
books inscribed to Mosher / boxed sets
fine bindings / photographs / pictures of 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

* See http://marauder.millersville.edu/~mosher/bishop/real_vellum.html for 
copies already procured.

The End

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. (April 24, 2008)
__________________________________
Philip R. Bishop
MOSHER BOOKS         (member ABAA & ILAB, listed on ABE)
P. O. Box 542
Ephrata, PA 17522-0542       U.S.A.

717-733-1476
mosher at ptd.net

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