Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press, 1959. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —The Dolmen Press is universally recognized as the savior of modern Irish fine printing. Founded by architect-turned-publisher Liam Miller, the press created a dedicated venue for Irish writers and artists when mainstream commercial publishers ignored aesthetic book arts.This 1959 printing of Cap with.....
![Item #21316 Adventures in New Guinea [Pacific Exploration; Missionary Travel]. James Chalmers](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21316.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1763826900)
London: The Religious Tract Society, 1889. James Chalmers (1841–1901) was a Scottish missionary whose work in the Pacific made him one of the most active and widely traveled observers of New Guinea in the late nineteenth century. After sailing to Australia aboard the missionary vessel John Williams in 1866, Chalmers.....
![Item #21735 The John Collier Reader [Definitive Collection] [1972]. John Collier, Anthony Burgess](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21735.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1773684524)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —The publication of the Reader in 1972 marked a critical 'Collier Renaissance'. After years of his stories floating in disparate collections and magazines, this Knopf production solidified his status as a writer's writer. Collier’s work—part sophisticated fairy tale, part biting cynical commentary—laid.....
Boston: Crown Publishers, 1971. Good in a Good Dust Jacket. Francis Van Wyck Mason was an American historian and novelist. He had a long and prolific career as a writer spanning 50 years and including 65 published novels.
![Item #21930 Ebb and Flood [Author's Personal Copy from the Raeburn Archive]. James Hanley](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21930.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1777314037)
London: Nicholson & Watson, 1944. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —James Hanley was a monumental figure in the literature of the sea and the working man, often compared to Faulkner and Conrad for his psychological depth. Ebb and Flood is a primary example of his ability to weave the physical grime of the.....
![Item #21925 An End and a Beginning [Furys Saga]. James Hanley](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21925.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1776770451)
New York: Horizon Press, 1958. First American Edition. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —James Hanley was a writer’s writer, famously described by Henry Miller as a giant of 20th-century literature. His Furys Saga remains one of the most significant explorations of the Irish working-class experience in Liverpool and beyond.The publication of this finale.....
![Item #21927 The Face of Winter [Signed Limited Edition] [Irish Realism]. James Hanley](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21927.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1776623556)
Loughton, Essex: K.A. Ward, The Perfecta Press, 1969. Limited Edition. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE --The illustrations by Liam Hanley contribute materially to the significance of the work, transforming the volume from a conventional literary production into a collaborative artistic exchange between father and son. His stark, atmospheric landscapes and shadowed imagery visually.....
![Item #21926 Herman Melville: A Man in the Customs House [Signed Limited Edition]. James Hanley](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21926.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1776616527)
The Dud Noman Press, Loughton, Essex:, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE --James Hanley frequently returned to the theme of the sea as a place of both labor and profound existential crisis. This 1971 essay represents a late-career conversation between two giants of maritime literature.The Aesthetic Device: The whale.....
![Item #21933 No Directions [Inscribed with ALS to Ben Raeburn]. James Hanley](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21933.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1776721190)
London: Faber and Faber, 1943. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —No Directions is among James Hanley’s most powerful wartime novels, a claustrophobic and fragmented portrait of life during the Blitz.The significance of this copy lies in its span: the 1943 volume marks Hanley’s contemporary reception in London, while the accompanying 1970 letter reflects.....
![Item #21775 The Voices of Silence [Art and Aesthetics]. André Malraux](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21775.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1774351677)
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —André Malraux was a towering figure in French intellectual life, a man of action who fought in the Spanish Civil War and the French Resistance before becoming a chief cultural architect under Charles de Gaulle. 'The Voices of Silence' is his.....
Dayton, OH: United Brethern Publishing House, 1899. Illustrations by A. Packard. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Background Information:Jonathan Weaver was a 19th-century bishop of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ and employed by Otterbein College. “As a preacher he excelled. The pulpit was his throne, and when once.....
Haarlem, Holland, Harrison of Paris, 1932. Limited Edition. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - Glenway Wescott was a vital voice in the American expatriate community in France, and this work is often cited as his most successful blending of scholarly wit and modernist prose. Tchelitchew’s involvement underscores the deep ties between the press and.....