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<DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT color=#800000 size=6>MOSHER BOOKS WANTS
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<DIV><BR><STRONG><EM>MOSHER BOOKS</EM></STRONG> <FONT size=2>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. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>(Feb. 13, 2004)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><BR><STRONG><FONT color=#800000 size=5><U>WANTS AT A GLANCE,
PLEASE QUOTE</U></FONT></STRONG></DIV><FONT color=#800000 size=5><FONT
color=#000000 size=3></FONT>
<DIV align=left><FONT color=#000000 size=3></FONT><BR></FONT><FONT color=#ff0000
size=4><STRONG>--> Mosher books in <FONT color=#000000>fine highly decorated
full leather signed bindings</FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT color=#ff0000 size=4><FONT color=#000000><FONT
size=2><STRONG> like
those presented at </STRONG><A
href="http://www.millersv.edu/~mosher/bindings/bindings.html">http://www.millersv.edu/~mosher/bindings/bindings.html</A></FONT> </FONT><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT color=#ff0000 size=4><STRONG></STRONG></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT color=#ff0000 size=4><STRONG>--> <FONT
color=#000000>Books from Mosher’s library</FONT> with his bookplate or
inscription</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT color=#ff0000 size=4><FONT color=#000000
size=2><STRONG> like
those listed</STRONG> <A
href="http://www.millersv.edu/~mosher/bishop/books_from_mosher_library.htm">http://www.millersv.edu/~mosher/bishop/books_from_mosher_library.htm</A></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT
color=#ff0000 size=4><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT>
<DIV align=left><FONT color=#000000><FONT
size=2><STRONG> w/ his bookplate,
example:</STRONG> <A
href="http://www.millersv.edu/~mosher/images/mosher_bookplate.jpg">http://www.millersv.edu/~mosher/images/mosher_bookplate.jpg</A> </FONT><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><STRONG>--> <FONT color=#000000>Letters to / from</FONT>
Thomas Bird Mosher</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT color=#000000><FONT
size=2><STRONG> like those in the
collection at</STRONG> <A
href="http://www.millersv.edu/~mosher/bishop/manuscripts.html">http://www.millersv.edu/~mosher/bishop/manuscripts.html</A><STRONG> </STRONG></FONT><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><STRONG>--> Mosher books printed on <FONT color=#000000>real
vellum</FONT>, not Japan vellum</STRONG></DIV>
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size=2> <STRONG>those already in
the collection:</STRONG> <A
href="http://www.millersv.edu/~mosher/bishop/real_vellum.html">http://www.millersv.edu/~mosher/bishop/real_vellum.html</A> </FONT></DIV><FONT
color=#000000 size=3></FONT>
<DIV align=left><FONT color=#000000 size=3></FONT><BR><STRONG>--> <FONT
color=#000000>Extra-illustrated copies</FONT> of the Mosher
books</STRONG></FONT><BR><FONT
size=2><STRONG> examples like
at</STRONG> <A
href="http://www.millersv.edu/~mosher/bindings/bindings/3.html">http://www.millersv.edu/~mosher/bindings/bindings/3.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<A href="http://www.millersv.edu/~mosher/bindings/bindings/ems.jpg"><FONT
size=2>http://www.millersv.edu/~mosher/bindings/bindings/ems.jpg</FONT></A></DIV>
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<A href="http://www.millersv.edu/~mosher/bindings/bindings/5.html"><FONT
size=2>http://www.millersv.edu/~mosher/bindings/bindings/5.html</FONT></A></DIV>
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align=left>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><FONT
color=#ff0000 size=4><STRONG>In addition to the books listed below, I'm
particularly interested in quotes on unusual Mosher book or related material.
Unusual means:</STRONG></FONT>
<BR>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>signed
/ inscribed copies <BR>books from Mosher's library <BR>letters to
Mosher<BR>books inscribed to Mosher <BR>boxed sets (already have eight, so check
with me first)<BR>EXTRA FINE BINDINGS on Mosher Books <BR>photographs / pictures
<BR>home / office articles<BR>original designer art work <BR>press pulls
<BR>book mock-ups <BR>printer's type ornaments <BR>manuscripts <BR>printer's
dummies <BR>diaries / desk calendars<BR>Roman vellum books (see
below)<BR>autograph letters signed <BR>notebooks /
scrapbooks<BR>extra-illustrated copies <BR>autograph notes signed Flora
Lamb<BR>anything related to Aimee Lenalie <BR></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4><FONT color=#ff0000>Also seeking T. B. Mosher's
personal set of <EM>Bell's British Theatre</EM>, 34 vols. British Library /
Strand, [1790-1799].</FONT> 18mo.; bound in calf; with the name "J. Sonntag"
written in it (I’m probably the only one who knows in what volumes the name
appears so I’ll know the authentic set when I see it).</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT color=#800000 size=4><STRONG><U>Here are the titles, in
alpha order, I'm still looking for</U>:</STRONG></FONT></DIV><STRONG><FONT
color=#800000 size=5></FONT></STRONG><STRONG><FONT color=#800000
size=5></FONT></STRONG>
<DIV><BR><EM><STRONG><FONT color=#800000>THE BIBELOT</FONT></STRONG></EM> <FONT
color=#ff0000>Japan vellum copies only</FONT>, <FONT size=2><FONT
size=3>including individual volumes from 1895-1915.</FONT> </FONT></DIV><FONT
size=2><FONT size=3></FONT>
<DIV><BR></FONT><EM><STRONG><FONT color=#800000>GOLDEN WINGS; SVEND AND HIS
BRETHERN</FONT></STRONG></EM> William Morris (Reprints from the Bibelot), 1900.
<FONT color=#ff0000>1/35 Japan vellum</FONT>.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><STRONG><EM><FONT color=#800000>HOMEWARD: SONGS BY THE
WAY</FONT></EM></STRONG> A. E. (Miscellaneous Series), 1895 (<FONT
color=#ff0000>Japan vellum copy only</FONT>).</DIV>
<DIV><BR><STRONG><FONT color=#800000>KENT, ROCKWELL</FONT></STRONG>, 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’s <EM><STRONG>Tristan and
Iseult</STRONG></EM>, 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.
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<DIV><BR><EM><STRONG><FONT color=#800000>LIST OF BOOKS,
MDCCCXCIV</FONT></STRONG></EM> - List of Books Issued in Limited Editions, 1894.
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<DIV><BR><STRONG><EM><FONT color=#800000>LITTLE WILLIE</FONT></EM></STRONG>
Eugene Field (Boston: Privately Printed), 1904. </DIV>
<DIV><BR><FONT color=#800000><STRONG><EM>IN MEASURED
LANGUAGE</EM></STRONG></FONT> E. C. Cummings (Privately Printed), 1899.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><STRONG><FONT color=#800000><EM>IN MEMORIAM</EM></FONT></STRONG> [Jane
Anne Bell] (Privately Printed for Arthur Sewall), 1917. </DIV>
<DIV><BR><STRONG><EM><FONT color=#800000>MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT
LINCOLN</FONT></EM></STRONG> Whitman (Miscellaneous Series) 1912. <FONT
color=#ff0000>1/10 on Roman vellum bound in classic vellum</FONT>. </DIV>
<DIV><BR><STRONG><EM><FONT color=#800000>PEARL: Rendered into Modern English
Verse</FONT></EM></STRONG> S. Weir Mitchell (Privately Printed), 1908.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><STRONG><EM><FONT color=#800000>RUBÁIYÁT</FONT></EM></STRONG>
(Privately Printed), 1899. <FONT color=#ff0000>1/10 on vellum</FONT>. </DIV>
<DIV><BR><STRONG><FONT color=#800000>VENETIAN SERIES</FONT></STRONG> Any Japan
vellum <U>except</U> <EM>Siena</EM>, Wilde’s <EM>The Sphinx</EM>, and <EM>A
Masque of Dead Florentines</EM> unless in very fine condition.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><STRONG><EM><FONT color=#800000>VERSES AND A DREAM</FONT></EM></STRONG>
Printed for Josephine B. Pressey (Privately Printed), 1922. 1/3 copies</DIV>
<DIV><BR><STRONG><EM><FONT color=#800000>WORKS OF ARTHUR SYMONS: A
Bibliographical Note</FONT></EM></STRONG> T.B.M. (Privately Printed), 1912. 1/5
copies.
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<DIV><BR><STRONG><U>PLEASE NOTE</U></STRONG>: Of the Mosher books printed on
animal vellum, I am NOT seeking any of those from what is called the "Lyric
Garland Series," unless it is somehow VERY distinctive.
<BR>__________________________________<BR>Philip R. Bishop<BR><EM><STRONG><FONT
color=#800000>MOSHER BOOKS</FONT></STRONG></EM>, member ABAA /
ILAB<BR>P. O. Box 111<BR>Millersville, PA
17551-0111
U.S.A.<BR>717-872-9209<BR><A
href="mailto:tbmosher@comcast.net">tbmosher@comcast.net</A><BR>----------
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