[Rarebooks] MOSHER PRESS WANTS
Phil Bishop
mosher at ptd.net
Wed Jan 5 13:17:06 EST 2011
Here is my wants list should anything like this come within your purview. As
you can see, the list has gotten much smaller. Material is out there, but it
has to be something special / unique.
Best of the new year to you all,
Philip R. Bishop
MOSHER BOOKS
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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 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
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. 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.
(January 5, 2011)
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Philip R. Bishop
MOSHER BOOKS (Member ABAA, ILAB, IOBA)
P. O. Box 542
Ephrata, PA 17522-0542 U.S.A.
717-733-1476
mosher at ptd.net
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