[Rarebooks] Mosher Press WANTS

[Phil Bishop]

                                               MOSHER PRESS WANTS LIST


WANTS AT A GLANCE, please quote:

-- Association copies
-- Letters to / from or about 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 to be 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.

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.

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.


                               OTHER ITEMS:

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

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

                                                     --- FINIS ---


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. You can read more about Bishop and the Mosher collection 
in the IOBA Standard at http://ioba.org/newsletter/index.html
fully devoted to Bishop's collection & book selling. The above 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.
(February 15, 2011)
____________________
Philip R. Bishop
MOSHER BOOKS   (member ABAA, ILAB, & IOBA)
P. O. Box 542
Ephrata, PA  17522-0542
717-733-1476
mosher at ptd.net
     Listed on ABE, ABAA, Biblio.com, Biblio.co.uk, and IOBAbooks.com
business website:
     www.stairway.org/mosher
scholarly website:
     http://marauder.millersville.edu/~mosher/index1.html