[Rarebooks] MOSHER PRESS WANTS

[Philip Bishop]

MOSHER PRESS WANTS LIST
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If you come across this type of material related to Thomas Bird Mosher, 
particularly the WANTS AT A GLANCE, please quote me directly.

Mosher Press WANTS AT A GLANCE:
           -- 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.
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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:

 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

                         --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. (March 10, 2008)
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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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