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Edge of the Sea: Sketches of Downeast Maine

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A portfolio of woodcuts with the text devised as excerpts from a diary, inspired by a trip to Maine

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Little Ezukvuk

Third limited edition book produced at the Red Door Studio, inspired by the author's association with the King Island Eskimos in Nome, Alaska

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The Bear that Woke Too Soon

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"Second in a projected series of limited edition books printd by the Red Door Studio ... The illustrations for this edition were printed from the original woodcuts on a Gordon Platen Press. The text has been hand set in Spartan types and has been…

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Little No Name: Word and Picture

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"This book is about the petroglyphs on the cliffs at Vantage, Washington. It is not an attempt to tell why but how they were put there."

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Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, Under the Command of Commodore M. C. Perry, United States Navy, by Order of the Government of the United States

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Comp. from the original notes and journals of Commodore Perry and his officers, at his request, and under his supervision by Francis L. Hawks. With numerous illus. Pub. by order of the Congress of the United States.

Zwischen den Zeilen

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Gift of Henry Wend

Poems by Thomas Parnell, Selected by Lennox Robinson

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"Printed on paper made in Ireland, and published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats"--Colophon

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The Art of Love

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Translation of Ars Amatoria

Ovid's Metamorphoses, in Fifteen Books

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"The eleventh, in this Twenty-sixth Series of the fine books made for the members of this Club ... fifteen etchings to serve as half-titles to the fifteen books ... The type for the text is the twelve-point of Centaur, and the marginalia are set in…

Les Métamorphoses

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Facsim. of the 1931 ed., trans. and ed. by Georges Lafaye and published by Les Presses de Léon Pichon, Paris.

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