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Jones Dan; Design Museum
Fifty Men's Fashion Icons that Changed the World Design Museum Fifty
Conran. Hardcover. 1840917288 . New. 2016-11-01. Conran hardcover
Referência livreiro : Z1840917288ZN ISBN : 1840917288 9781840917284
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Marshak Samuil
Kak Rubanok Sdelal Rubanok : Skazka How a Plane Made a Plane : A Fairy Tale
Leningrad: Raduga 1927. Lebedev Vladimir Vasil'evich. Small quarto. 12pp. Bright color illustrations throughout. A rhyming Russian story for children in which a worn-out old carpenter's plane makes a new plane his "grandson" to carry on his work. The plane is aided in his work by fellow woodworking tools like the chisel mallet and saw. A collaborative work by writer translator and poet Samuil Marshak and painter and graphic artist Vladimir Lebedev. The pair worked together frequently and were important in the development of children's literature in Russia. In the 1920's Lebedev became known as "King of the Children's Book" and Maxim Gorky said of Marshak that he was "the founder of Russia's Soviet children's literature." Marshak published under Raduga Rainbow from 1922 to 1930 while he worked in Leningrad as the head of the Children's Literature Studio. Stapled into self-wrappers showing some wear at the spine and light staining. Near fine. Raduga unknown
Referência livreiro : 27525
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A Picture Book for Little Children
Philadelphia: Kimber and Conrad 1812. 24mo. 24pp. partially unopened. Illustrated with twenty-two half-page wood engravings each with a simple sentence underneath related to the image; also included is a full-page engraving on the title page. The woodcuts are all collected from other books. On the back of the title page are reference alphabets displaying roman and italic capitals and lower case letters as well as common ligatures. Bound in yellow wrappers now browned which are split to about halfway down the spine. Some wear to corners. Near fine. Rosenbach 466; cf. Welch. Kimber and Conrad unknown
Referência livreiro : 27526
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Ruyle John
A is for Adler: A New Sherlockian Alphabet
Berkeley: Pycroft and Doran 1987. Oblong 64mo. measuring 4 1/4 by 3 3/8 inches. 32pp. From an edition of 86 copies this is one of twenty-six lettered copies. Signed by the author. A Sherlock Holmes-themed alphabet with each letter represented by four rhyming lines such as "O is for Orange. / Beware of its pips / Or make sure you're ready / To cash in your chips" and "Q is Queen Anne Street / Where Watson sly fox / Took rooms when his marriages / Went on the rocks." Bound in blue and white patterned cloth over boards with a paper label to the spine. Fine. Pycroft and Doran unknown
Referência livreiro : 27513
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Barry Windsor-Smith & Robert Gould: Paintings and Drawings of the Romantic and Fantastic
Boston MA: Earthlight Gallery 1980. Windsor-Smith Barry. Poster for the exhibition of paintings and drawings by fantasy artists Barry Windsor-Smith and Robert Gould at the Earthlight Gallery in Boston. The exhibit was held from November 22 through December 31 1980. The exhibit poster features the illustration "The Head of Perseus" by Windsor-Smith. Barry Windsor-Smith was best known for his comic book art especially the 1970-1974 run of Conan the Barbarian. However he left comics at the peak of his popularity in 1974 to explore his own art. Robert Gould is best known for his fantasy book covers and illustration. Gould and Windsor-Smith along with artist Jeffrey Jones formed the New Romantic Brotherhood which promoted New Romanticism-a blend of Pre-Raphaelite and Art Nouveau design with modern sensibilities. Poster is inscribed by Gould to Anne and David Bromer. Some bumping to edges else near fine. 22 by 35 inches. Earthlight Gallery unknown
Referência livreiro : 27531
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Heaney Seamus
Ugolino
Dublin: Andrew Carpenter 1979. Le Brocquy Louis. First edition. From an edition of 125 this is one of 30 copies issued in black morocco and offered for sale. Illustrated with two lithographs by Louis Le Brocquy. Signed by Heaney Le Brocquy Liam Miller the designer and the publisher Andrew Carpenter. The book was printed at the Dolmen Press. Heaney's verse retelling of a section of Dante's Inferno is one of his scarcest books and is lacking from most Heaney collections. Small bump to spine foot else a fine copy in black blindstamped morocco housed in the publisher's black paper-covered slipcase with orange title label and contained within a green cloth folding case. Brandes & Durkan A19. Andrew Carpenter unknown
Referência livreiro : 27456
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Evolutionary Chess Set
1975. Folk art chess set and table. This non-traditional chess set is based on the theory of evolution with dinosaurs facing off against mammals. The field is alternating squares of brown earth and green & blue ponds. The pawns on each side grow through the early evolutionary stages: the dinosaurs starts as a simple DNA double helix which progresses through aquatic creatures and early amphibians; the mammalian side begins with a small rat-like creature that ultimately evolves into early man. The larger pieces are in pairs though each member of the pair is posed differently so that the set comprises sixteen unique pieces. The dinosaurs are represented by stegosaurs pterodactyls and something similar to an iguanodon. The king and queen are appropriately a pair of tyrannosaurus rex; the queen wears a pretty necklace of shark teeth. Opposite are rhinoceroses saber-tooth tigers mammoths and a pair of modern humans as king and queen. The queen is a smartly dressed woman from Tokyo and the king is a farmer named Butch who bears an unfortunate resemblance to his pre-historic cousin in the row of pawns. The entire piece is a free-standing table with the board resting on four legs. Around the edges of the board a continuous landscape shows the gradual progression of life from the chaotic cosmos through to the modern day. The four legs of the table are painted in similar scenes with one leg each for early aquatic life dinosaurs early mammals and modern day. The Tokyo theme may point to a date of creation in the range of 1965-1975 the height of the Japanese Kaiju monster films craze. Pre-historic creatures though magnified to a gargantuan scale were common in these monster films and their size was often the result of science gone wrong. The top of the chessboard measures 33 inches square the base 36 inches square and it stands 34 inches tall not including pieces. A fascinating unique piece. unknown
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Le Joaillier Léon Devos
Bruxelles: Ets. Guy Onkelinx 1924. Devos Léon. Small quarto. 40pp. Illustrated with ten color plates of Art Deco jewelry design and six allegorical color plates a full-page black & white unattributed image and a small vignette by American artist Lawrence Sterne Stevens. The jewelry designs by Devos an important Belgian jeweler are elegantly styled to the Art Deco aesthetic and expertly rendered in the plates. The designs are divided into five sections by type of gem-diamonds pearls sapphires rubies and emeralds-and each section is prefaced with an illustration by Sterne Stevens of exotic foreign locales and beautiful women and men draped in jewels. Sterne Stevens was born in Michigan and worked as a cartoonist while taking night classes at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. By chance Alphonse Mucha visited his former teacher at the school and was introduced to Sterne Stevens; with Mucha's encouragement Sterne Stevens moved to Belgium in 1910 to study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Following the war he worked as a designer and illustrator from 1924 to 1937 before returning to the States to work as a freelance illustrator. This trade catalogue then would have been one of his earliest works during this period of production in Belgium. Bound in brown wrappers with decorative cord at the spine. The front is enhanced by an embossed design printed in dark brown and light blue. Typed letter on the company stationary signed by Devos laid in. The letter which would accompany the catalogue invites the recipient to visit the showroom at 63 rue de Namur where they could find "un assortiment vraiment unique." Fine. Ets. Guy Onkelinx unknown
Referência livreiro : 27464
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Sheringham H. T.
A Library in Miniature
London: Java Head Bookshop 1948. 79pp. One of 500 copies. Illustrated with plates reproducing pages from important miniature books in black & white including the Pickering Diamond Classics Odyssey. A concise history of miniature books from the 16th to 19th centuries and a tribute to the joys of collecting miniature books by Hugh Tempest Sheringham a novelist journalist passionate angler and collector of miniature books. The text was first published as a two-part essay in The Connoisseur in 1902. Printed at the Favil Press. Slipcase lightly toned else very fine. Bound in vellum gilt-stamped with the title to spine in a white paper slipcase. Welsh 6363. 2 3/4 by 2; 78x52mm. Java Head Bookshop unknown
Referência livreiro : 27484
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Heaney Seamus
Squarings
Dublin: Hieroglyph Editions Ltd 1991. Egan Felim. First edition. From an edition of 100 copies this is one of 60 that were offered for sale. Illustrated with four lithographs by Felim Egan who designed the book. Signed by Heaney and Egan. This is the first separate appearance of twelve poems from the 48-poem sequence collected in Seeing Things. The idea for the collaboration between Heaney and Egan took shape between 1986 and 1988 and after Heaney saw how well his sequence of poems fit with Egan's approach he described both as "an attempt to catch at something fleet and promising." The complete sequence of 48 poems was eventually published in 2003 by the Arion Press. This is a fine copy in the publisher's binding of natural calf with the cover title stamped in blind. Housed in the original cloth solander case which shows minor wear. Brandes & Durkan A51. Hieroglyph Editions Ltd unknown
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Amish Love: Adventures in a Puritan Cult
Florence Italy: Michael Angelino Press 1930. Blaine Mahlon. Small quarto. 264pp. With woodcut cover illustration and five erotic half-tone reproductions of paintings by Mahlon Blaine. This book is part of the swelling trend in the 1930s for "privately printed" erotic books which would often be published by anonymous or pseudonymous authors and illustrators and printed with fake publication information in order to protect the creators from public backlash. This erotic tale supposedly taken from a diary of an Amish woman telling of the scandalous sexual exploits of her mother is one such work. Blaine's stirring illustrations bring life to the text combining sensual lines with cunning details. Both the cover in Blaine's bold woodcut style and the illustrations with their broad washes over sketched lines have a raw quality to them a sense of hurried energy that echoes the excitement of the reader. Near fine in wrappers with spotting crease to front cover and scratch to back. Blaine whose most respectable and recognizable works were illustrations for Edgar Rice Burroughs John Steinbeck and the New Yorker published over two thousand drawings between 1917 and his death in 1969. An interesting work from this underappreciated master. Trenary "Mahlon Blaine One-Eyed Visionary" p. 59. Michael Angelino Press unknown
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The Sermon on the Mount from the Gospel of St. Matthew Chapters 5 6 7
Worcester: St. Onge Achille J. 1973. 55pp. From an edition of 1500 copies this is one of thirty-four in a special binding executed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Printed with large ornamental initials in red by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen. Tiny book label to rear paste-down else fine in burgundy morocco with gilt-stamped title and decorative rules. A.e.g. Massmann 41; Bradbury p. 255. 2 7/8 by 1 7/8; 73x48mm. St. Onge, Achille J. unknown
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La Guirlande album mensuel d'art et littérature
Paris: M. François Bernouard 1920. Barbier George. Small quarto. 11 fasicles each one of out of 800 copies. Complete with 60 hors-texte plates by George Barbier Umberto Brunelleschi Domergue Cadogan Bonnette Blanche A. Rome Cito Tacquoy Wegener Vallée and other leading Art Deco designers and illustrators. In addition to the plates there are extensive color illustrations throughout. The literary direction was coordinated by Jean Hermanovits artistic direction by Brunelleschi and pochoir coloring by Jean Saudé. Loose as issued in original printed wrappers. Browning to edges and spines spines chipping with one wrapper split at spine. Internally fine and bright. A rare complete copy of this Art Deco magazine. Colas 1362. M. François Bernouard unknown
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The Dandy's Toilet or How to be a Beau
England 1835. 4pp. 8ff. Original manuscript set of costume overlays depicting the evolution of a "Youth just ceased to grow" into a "Dandy quite complete." The Youth's ambition is to be a "Beau" and in each successive overlay he puts on more of the trappings of dandyism until his costume is in place with black velvet stock or cravat corset boots pantaloons coat whiskers mustache wig and hat. The overlays are hand-drawn and colored in a caricaturish style with a hole to show the Youth's face below and they are accompanied by a four-page hand-written account in rhyme of the Youth's transformation which builds on itself with each additional article of clothing. The hourglass shape of the Youth's frock coat and his pantaloons date the set to the period between 1825 and 1835. His coat is made by famous Savile Row tailors Henry Poole & Co. and once he has finished his transformation the Youth is ready to lounge on Regent Street. Minor wear to booklet and light spotting to overlays else fine. Housed in cloth chemise. Jane Austen's World; Regency Men's Fashion; Valsin Ellie Men's Fashion ca. 1830 Coats. unknown
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26 Etchings by Shelly Fink
Alford MA 1962. Fink Sheldon. Small quarto. 28ff. One of forty copies. Etched title page and twenty-six fine etchings by Fink ranging thematically from portraits to botany to insects. Many of Fink's etchings have a decidedly Baskinesque aesthetic but Fink's circle centered primarily in New York where he was friendly with Jack Levine and Raphael Soyer. For this collection Fink commissioned Royall Moore to create paper with a high linen count and this was the subject of a Popular Mechanics article in 1965. Moore who was described in the article as an "inventive Yankee" was a carpenter by trade and made all the equipment himself. The binding for this edition was executed by Arno Werner who bound it in full deerskin with a hubbed spine and decorations printed in black on the upper cover and spine. Werner also presumably made the marbled endpapers which also decorate the deerskin-backed folding case. Some minor wear to extremities of the box otherwise fine and bright. unknown
Referência livreiro : 27385
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ANTIC HAM cover and design et al
PAPER SOAP. #6 Collages and Friends
Sujak Seoul. 2010. . 8vo colour illustrations. A near fine staple-bound paperback copy. . Printed in 650 copies. Sujak, Seoul. 2010. paperback
Referência livreiro : 102466
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Zweig Stefan
The Invisible Collection
NY: Ursus Books 2007. Goldyne Joseph. 15pp. From an edition of 74 copies this is one of 50 numbered copies signed by the artist Joseph Goldyne and the designer Peter Rutledge Koch. Illustrated with a signed etching by Goldyne titled "As the Blind Remember" printed on seventeenth-century paper and tipped in as the frontispiece. Text designed and printed in two colors by Koch on Hahnemühle Biblio watermarked paper and bound by John DeMerritt in leather-backed paper-covered boards with title label. Fine. Ursus Books unknown
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De Bury Richard
Philobiblon
NY: Elston Press 1901. O'Kane H. M. Small quarto. xv 68pp. One of 485 copies on Holland hand-made paper in boards with vellum spine. Unopened. Decorated with initials by H. M. O'Kane floral devices and a printer's device on the title page. The text is a 1345 treatise on book collecting written by Richard de Bury and is considered to be one of the earliest works on library management. This is the 1832 translation from Latin into English by John Bellingham Inglis. Near fine with a stray pen mark and wear to head of spine one-inch tear to page 30 not affecting the text and browning from an acidic insert on title and facing page. Elston Press unknown
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Cox Palmer
The Brownies and Prince Florimel; or Brownieland Fairyland and Demonland
NY: Century Co 1933. Cox Palmer. Octavo. x 246pp. Copiously illustrated by Palmer Cox. This was the first adventure of the Brownies written in prose and it is advertised as having "a detailed connected story with a beginning a middle and an end." A later issue with the text binding and dust jacket all produced at different times. The disparate dates are typical of this period as publishers contracted with different printers over time as they moved stock. Text block is the original 1918 first edition sheets. Bound in buff cloth with the title and author's name to both spine and upper cover in dark blue; publisher printed on tail of spine as "Appleton Century." The Century Company merged with D. Appleton & Company in 1933. In dust jacket lettered in dark blue with publisher as "The Century Co." The back of the dust jacket advertises Century Juveniles all of which were published in 1925 including the last of the original Brownie books "The Brownies in Fairyland." This copy is in fine condition with a short repaired tear to front flyleaf and scant foxing to edges of text block. Dust jacket shows only faint foxing infinitesimal chips to corners and four small tears each clean and less than half an inch in length. A remarkably fine copy of this later Brownie title rarely seen with a dust jacket in such fine condition. Century Co unknown
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Haberly Loyd
John Apostate; an Idyl of the Quays
Long Crendon Buckinghamshire: Seven Acres Press 1927. Haberly Loyd. Octavo. 10pp. One of 125 copies this copy out-of-series. With woodcut illustrations: architectural border on the title page six vignettes eleven initials and one tail-piece. First page printed in black and red. The binding of this copy although unsigned was done by Haberly himself as was his habit. Haberly operated the Seven Acres Press out of a building he built by hand with the goal of doing "everything in the printing and binding myself." Haberly went on to be appointed Controller of the Gregynog Press for two years where he supervised the production of Xenophon's Cyrupaedia Eros and Psyche by Robert Bridges and a collection of his own poetry entitled Anne Boleyn and Other Poems. Bound in full brick leather with gilt stamping and ruling. "Apostate" in gilt to the spine. Housed in a matching felt-lined cloth slipcase leather-trimmed at the opening edge. Darkening and some wear to spine and opening of slipcase else fine. Seven Acres Press unknown
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Landscape with Hay Wheels
Albany: Print Club of Albany 1989. Dallman Daniel. Broadside measuring 15 by 19 inches. One of 100 copies signed by the artist. The Print Club of Albany's Annual Print for 1988-1989 it's 55th Presentation Print. This lithograph is the last of a series of prints by Dallman that explores industrial and residential encroachment on rural areas of southern Pennsylvania. Prospectus included. Sandwiched in card folder that forms a mat with a protective piece of tissue over the print. A few tears to the card folder with the print in fine condition. Print Club of Albany) unknown
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Bright Picture Pages: Full of Stories
NY: E. P. Dutton and Company 1870. 16mo. 62pp. including illustrations and advertisements. Part of the "Our Boy's Little Library" series. Copiously illustrated with nearly forty black & white engravings and sixteen three-line initials. Artists include noted English engravers Kate Greenaway Robert Paterson William Luson Thomas and George Pearson. Short texts are provided describing each illustration and postulating on the events depicted. It covers a wide array of subjects that might be of interest to a young man such as sailing the military hunting and foreign locales like Turkey Africa and Japan. Bound in blue cloth stamped in black and with a color-illustrated paper label to the upper cover. Wear to covers some soiling to interior and splitting between signatures else a near fine copy. E. P. Dutton and Company unknown
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Vangelisti Paul
Gold Mountain: Tarnished Angels
N.p.: John McBride 2010. Broadside measuring 18 by 6 inches. The text is printed in a gradient from yellow to green. Printed for the joint Roxburghe/Zamorano meeting in 2010 with the compliments of Kathleen Burch and John McBride. Signed by McBride and the author Paul Vangelisti. Very fine. John McBride unknown
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Cesaire Aime
The Woman and the Knife
NY: Red Ozier Press 1981. Digby John. Broadside measuring 14 by 29 inches. One of 75 copies. Illustrated with a black & white collage by John Digby. Text printed in burgundy and black on gray paper. Fine. Peich 28. Red Ozier Press unknown
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Graves Robert
Queen-Mother to New Queen
San Francisco: Richard A. Gleeson Library 1970. Large quarto. French-folded single sheet. Sketch of the poet Robert Graves to the front cover. On the interior the printed text faces a facsimile of the original handwritten poem. Printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy and presented to the joint meeting of hte Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs in Los Angeles. Light tanning and wear to edges and slight trace of adhesive on the back else near fine. Richard A. Gleeson Library unknown
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Rosenberg LM. L. M.
Valentine's Day at Johns Hopkins Hospital
Richard Bigus 1978. Bigus Richard. Broadside measuring 21 3/8 by 14 3/4 inches. From an edition of 200 copies this is a proof copy signed by Richard Bigus. Designed and printed by Bigus in two colors. Fine. Richard Bigus unknown
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Dobie J. Frank
Some Part of Myself
Austin: Book Club of Texas 1993. Avini Teresa. Broadside measuring 14 by 20 inches. Printed by the Wind River Press. Includes a quotation from J. Frank Dobie's "Some Part of Myself" 1967 and an illustration by Teresa Avini. The main image printed in a dark purple shows cowboys silhouetted against a night sky. The image is framed with a border of barbed wire printed in gray. Fine. Book Club of Texas unknown
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The Model
O'Connor Thom. Broadside measuring 12 1/2 by 16 3/4 inches. One of 250 copies signed by the artist. Inscribed to Arno and Mimi Elkard. Housed in a card mat and protected by a sheet of tissue. Mat showing some tanning and tape attaching mat to rear card has come loose. Print is in fine condition. unknown
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The First Encounter 1492
Albany: Print Club of Albany 1992. Serra-Badué Daniel F. Broadside measuring 16 1/2 by 21 inches. One of 125 copies signed by the artist. The Print Club of Albany's Annual Print for 1991-1992. This lithograph is in honor of the 500th anniversary of Columbus's voyage to the New World. Prospectus included with very short tear to upper edge. Print is in fine condition. Print Club of Albany) unknown
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Para un Molinero de Vientos
N.p.: Ferguson William n.d. Ferguson William. Print measuring 10 1/4 by 13 inches. One of 76 copies. A windmill design in green and brown with the words "arena" "monte" "cielo" and "nieve" on the four blades. SIgned by the artist. Fine. Ferguson, William unknown
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Strouse Norman H.
The Passionate Pirate
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press 1964. Octavo. 91pp. One of 200 copies. A biography on the life and work of Thomas Bird Mosher the remarkable New England publisher and literary pirate. The Passionate Pirate is one of Henry Morris's earlier titles. In making it he was plagued with both papermaking and printing problems since he had recently acquired a new papermaking beater and a new printing press. The first bindings on the books were disastrous and the entire edition had to be rebound. This copy is inscribed by Morris "For my good friend Remy Green" and dated 11/15/64. Remy John Barcham Green worked for and later ran J. Barcham Green Ltd. which operated the Hayle Mill in Kent England. Morris was in frequent contact with Remy and his father Jack John Barcham Green II when he first began his papermaking journey in the 1950s. Morris says of his initial correspondence with Jack Green: "I really sent a barrage of questions and I must say that Mr. Green was extremely kind as he not only answered them all but to this day continues to give help and advice." When Jack was ill in August 1957 Remy replied to one of Morris's letters and afterwards they became "good friends" meeting several times when Remy visited the United States. In addition to the inscription this copy has a J. Barcham Green Ltd. stamp to the front flyleaf dated 1 December 1964. One of the Press's more desirable pieces with an interesting association considering the issues Morris had in creating it. A fine copy in morocco-backed decorated paper boards housed in a drop-back box with leather spine label. Bird & Bull Bibliography A5; Omnibus pp. 38 43-49. Bird & Bull Press unknown
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Diario Ecclesiastico para o Reino de Portugal Principalmente para a Cidade de Lisboa para o Anno de 1813
Lisbon 1813. 32mo. 157pp. folding map. An elegant embroidered hand-calendar giving Feast Days a Court Calendar phases of the moon eclipses lists of kings bishops cardinals and more. Includes the lineage of the Royal Family. Frontispiece is an engraved hand-colored folding map of Portugal. In a white satin embroidered binding with gold threads sequins and silver wire. Both front and back covers are bordered with open floral interlace. In the center of the front is the coat of arms of the Portuguese royal family surmounted by a crown. On the back is a diminutive scene showing the Tower of Belém. The Tower still standing today played an important role in the Age of Discovery and is a shining example of Manueline architecture in Lisbon. Behind the tower a flock of birds flies above a three-masted ship. The spine is decorated with a sequined interlace. Marbled endpapers and yellow ribbon bookmark attached. Housed in a gilt-decorated leather pull-off case with the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom and another crest showing two crossed trumpets wreathed and surmounted with a lyre. Lower edge of upper part of the case is slightly worn and turned up on itself one loose thread on spine and slight fraying to edges. A.e.g. An about fine copy of this rare Portuguese almanac. unknown
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Morris Henry
Omnibus
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press 1967. Millard Jean. Octavo. 121pp. From an edition of 500 copies this is an out-of-series copy in a 1968 trial binding by Jean Millard. According to a penciled note on the front endpaper there were two copies bound thus and the note mentioned that "L. Schlosser has the other." This copy is also inscribed by Morris on the colophon page to Herb Frankel dated 1/7/73. The text is a compilation of instructions for amateur papermakers with observations on private presses book printing and some of the people involved. Printed on a variety of handmade papers with sample colored and watermarked papers bound in. Three engraved sheets laid in with text in Dutch two showing an engraver "Plaatsnyder" and one showing a papermaker "De Papiermaaker". Two small scuffs to spine and browning to paper edges else fine in full buff morocco with raised spine bands and gilt spine lettering and turn-ins. Bird & Bull Press unknown
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Silhouetten und Verse: Der Liebe und Freundschaft Gewidmet
Offenbach am Main: Gebr. Klingspor 1930. Oblong 32mo. 24pp. frenchfold. Illustrated with elegant silhouettes of men and women dressed in the height of fashion each framed by a colorful border. Facing each silhouette or pair of silhouettes is a passage of German verse. This particular copy is specially bound as a gift for Hugo Steiner-Prag's 50th birthday. Bound in pink silk with a hand-painted and gilt-stamped "50" on the upper cover. Housed in a box decorated with patterned paper. A printed sheet is laid in to the box with the dedication to Steiner-Prag from Karl Klingspor dated December 12 1930. Both Klingspor and Steiner-Prag moved in the same circles of German book design and production in the early nineteenth century. Klingspor together with his brother Wilhelm operated the type foundry Gebrüder Klingspor in Offenbach am Main. Steiner-Prag was an illustrator and designer serving as a professor of graphics at the Staatlichen Akademie für Graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe in Leipzig from 1907 to 1933. He also designed three typefaces including the self-named Steiner-Prag-Schrift. This pretty item pairing the finely detailed silhouettes and the traditional Gothic type is therefore a fitting gift for the designer. A fine copy. Gebr. Klingspor unknown
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Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum
Saint Paul MN: Blinc Publishing 2008. Broadside measuring 19 by 12 1/2 inches. One of 150 numbered copies signed by the printer Bill Moran. Printed on the occasion of APHA's 33rd Annual Conference October 10-12 2008 this broadside is decorated with wood type printed in various fonts sizes and colors to form an abstract design. Fine. Blinc Publishing unknown
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van Sandwyk Charles
The Simple Line
Vancouver: Heavenly Monkey 2007. van Sandwyk Charles. Quarto. 5ff. One of fifty copies signed by the contemporary Canadian artist Charles van Sandwyk. With six tipped-in plates five of which are from the artist's earliest etchings and one etching executed for this work. A brief essay about etching by van Sandwyk accompanies the artwork. Printed on sumptuous cream-colored paper and bound in buff cloth. Paper label to spine. A beautifully executed work in fine condition. Heavenly Monkey unknown
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Karl Kardel Co.: Builders Painters Decorators
Oakland CA: Karl Kardel Co 1974. Goines David Lance. Broadside measuring 24 by 18 1/4 inches. One of 1850 copies. Designed by California artist David Lance Goines and printed in 8 colors this advertisement for Karl Kardel Co. features a bumblebee over an ochre background. The design was inspired by an unknown philosopher's take on Isaac Watts "How doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour Well how doth it indeed By working. All things cometh to him that waiteth providing he worketh like hell while he waiteth." The image appeared in several publications including Print September/October 1974 and Images of an Era: The American Poster 1945-1975 Smithsonian Institution 1975. A few minor creases else fine. Goines #34. Karl Kardel Co unknown
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Impeachment
N.p. 1970. Silkscreen broadside. The image shows Richard Nixon printed in blue with his arm raised and two fingers extended in his trademark salute under the red word "Impeachment." Nixon's form is cleverly constructed from various post office stamps including "Void" taking the shape of his mouth "Cancelled" standing in for his two fingers and "Hold for Identification" outlining his face and arm. The print is signed simply "Diana." Fine. Measures 20 3/8 by 16 in.; 518x406mm. unknown
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Images Médiévales
Berkeley CA: Pacific Film Archive 1973. Goines David Lance. Broadside measuring 24 by 18 1/4 inches. One of 500 copies. Designed by California artist David Lance Goines and printed in 10 colors this advertisement for a film series at the Pacific Film Archive features an image of Veronica daughter of Solome who took pity on Jesus as he carried the cross on the Via Dolorosa and wiped his face with a cloth. In Goines's rendering Veronica graced with a halo holds up the cloth which bears an impression of Jesus's face. Veronica stands in front of a landscape framed by columns and the whole resembles a triptych altarpiece. The design was inspired by Medieval illuminated manuscripts and woodcuts by Albrecht Durer. Some toning to right edge else fine. Goines #33. Pacific Film Archive unknown
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Gray Thomas
On a Favourite Cat
Shaker Heights OH: Wind & Harlot Press 1991. Baris Bonnie. 24pp. frenchfold. One of 52 copies. A lovely presentation of the classic poem printed on Japanese paper. With sweetly colored illustrations by Bonnie Baris showing the cat as she is beguiled by the gold fish that ultimately leads to her doom. Mint in blue-gray boards with a paper spine label and marbled endpapers. A handsomely executed miniature book. Bookplate. Bradbury p. 324. 2 1/2 by 2; 63x50mm. Wind & Harlot Press unknown
Referência livreiro : 27243
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Coptographische Groepon
Amsterdam: Wed. G. A. Diederichs en Zoon and Mindermann 1820. Four paper packets with thirty-six paper figures. The figures are cut from laid paper so that a lantern shining through the cut-out portions would project the image onto a wall or sheet. The largest packet containing six sheets was professionally produced and contains intricate multi-figure images of chess players musicians a school master with his pupils Don Quixote and Sancho Panza dames at a tea table and a noble family. The other three packets containing twelve twelve and six figures respectively look to have been homemade supplements to the original set. These additional figures are very finely done and include a variety of historic figures such as Queen Elizabeth I the prophet Muhammad Diogenes Homer Minerva the Apostles Paul and Peter and King Francis I of France. The set also includes a few generic figures from different professions and ethnicities. Each is carefully numbered and labeled and a handwritten list is included in each packet. Shadow theater which has a long tradition in the East did not gain popularity in Europe until the eighteenth century. This set of cut paper silhouettes is an extremely rare early example of this form of European entertainment. A very interesting and unique set complete and in fine condition. Wed. G. A. Diederichs en Zoon and Mindermann unknown
Referência livreiro : 27239
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Alpha Beta
Rheinbach Germany: John Gerard 2005. Gerard John. Small quarto. 40pp. One of twenty copies signed by the artist. Each letter of this alphabet is scrawled in black over and over to fill the text area defined by Tschichold's canon of page construction which is printed in red on every page. An interesting juxtaposition of the mathematically precise canon with the messy organic handwritten letters. Chain-stitched in boards with a paper label to the upper cover showing the red lines of the canon that cross the text area. Housed in a paper four-flap enclosure. Minor wear to enclosure else fine. John Gerard unknown
Referência livreiro : 27250
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Thomas Dylan
Poem in October
Poiano Italy: Franco Riva 1979. Treccani Ernesto. Folio. 6ff. One of 120 copies. Illustrated with a frontispiece etching by Italian artist Ernesto Treccani with his signature in pencil below. A translation of Dylan Thomas' poem into Italian by Anna Maria Faccini. Part of the "Lectura Dominica" series issued by Franco Riva. Leaves loose as issued and laid into a blue paper-covered box which shows very minor edgewear. Fine. Franco Riva unknown
Referência livreiro : 27271
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Shakespeare William
Program from Max Reinhardt's Production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream
NY: Hollywood Theater 1935. Quarto. 2ff. A program from a screening of Max Reinhardt's 1935 film production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" held at the Hollywood Theater in New York City. The movie was based on Reinhardt's stage production of the previous year and featured the music of Felix Mendelssohn backing Shakespeare's story. The film starred Ian Hunter James Cagney Mickey Rooney Dick Powell and Olivia de Havilland in her debut role. The playbill contains information about all aspects of the production beautifully printed on laid paper with decorations in brown. An ink notation on the front reads "Estelle Close and I - Oct. 28th 1935" presumably marking the occasion at which the program was received. A magazine clipping is laid in and shows an image of James Cagney in his role as Bottom along with Dewey Robinson as Snug and another character. A bit of wrinkling to paper and minute closed tear to front fore-edge else near fine. Hollywood Theater unknown
Referência livreiro : 27272
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Richards Laura E.
Drawings by Kate Greenaway Verses by Laura E. Richards. From Ladies' Home Journal 1895 and 1896
Berkeley: Rasmussen Press 1974. Greenaway Kate. 81pp. One of 200 copies this one being an unnumbered gift edition inscribed "To Doris- In memory of K.G." Illustrated with five sets of verses and drawings compiled by Lucile Rasmussen from those published in the Ladies' Home Journal which were never published in book form. Though not noted on the colophon or in Bradbury this copy is beautifully hand-colored throughout. The verses were written by Laura E. Richards the daughter of Julia Ward Howe who penned the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Very fine in flowered cloth with a gilt-stamped paper label. Bradbury p. 229. 2 7/8 by 2 1/2; 74x64mm. Rasmussen Press unknown
Referência livreiro : 27274
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Weygand James Lamar
The Bookplates of Philip Hagreen
Nappanee: Private Press of the Indiana Kid 1982. Hagreen Philip. Octavo. 71pp. One of 65 copies written printed and bound by James Lamar Weygand. Hagreen who worked between 1918 and 1959 was a fine wood engraver who studied with Eric Gill. Illustrated with 118 bookplates designed by Hagreen and printed in a variety of colors. The Introduction by John Bennett Shaw is printed underneath the reproductions of Hagreen's bookplates and thus runs throughout the entirety of the book. Top edge of front cover a bit faded and the slightest wear to extremities else fine in cloth-backed patterned boards with errata slip laid-in. Private Press of the Indiana Kid unknown
Referência livreiro : 3058
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The Song of Songs
Poestenkill NY: Kaldewey Press 1990. Tall folio. 32pp. From an edition of 55 this is one of twenty deluxe copies. Illustrated with ten paper pulp images of Jewish symbols such as the Star of David the Torah pointer and the shofar. The text of the Song of Songs is printed in the original Hebrew using Frank-Ruehl Hebrew type. Typical of Kaldewey's work the text is arranged freely on the page to complement the images. The chapter numbers are printed in dark purple which complements the yellow violet green and turquoise used in the illustrations. The English translation is printed in red on architect's vellum-a slick contrast to the textured handmade paper on which the Hebrew is printed. This deluxe edition is bound by Christian Zwang of Hamburg in red painted leather with a title plaque made of etched sterling silver. Housed in a gray cloth box gilt-titled to spine. Very fine. Von Lucius pp. 188-189. Kaldewey Press unknown
Referência livreiro : 27185
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Baker Marion A.
An Alliterative Alphabeastiary: Animals Activities Names and Nonsense
Los Angeles: Printmaker Press 1988. Baker Marion A. Octavo. 57pp. One of 135 copies. Printed and illustrated by Marion A. Baker with twenty-eight linocuts printed in red. Each letter of this alphabet is accompanied by an example sentence and an impressive list of alliterative words divided into three sections: animals names and additional nouns. The illustrations for each animal are also alliteratively captioned. Fine in printed wrappers showing minor wear to edges. Printmaker Press unknown
Referência livreiro : 27232
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Small World Alphabet
Seattle: Grey Spider Press 1992. Dal Cerro Michael. Oblong octavo. 26ff. One of 75 copies signed by the artist Michael Dal Cerro. An illustrated alphabet with woodcuts by Dal Cerro. The words and images chosen are nature-themed and carry a strong environmentalist message. Printed and bound by Chris Stern in green cloth with paper labels to upper cover and spine. Cloth lightly faded to spine else fine. Grey Spider Press unknown
Referência livreiro : 27235
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Frost Robert
Several Short Poems
NY: Henry Holt 1924. Lankes J.J. Single sheet folded once to make a four-page pamphlet. First edition. One of 2000 copies printed for distribution at Frost lectures at East Coast colleges. With two woodcut vignettes by J.J. Lankes. Signed by Frost below "The Pasture" which appears on the first page. Paper evenly toned else a fine copy of a "give-away" Frost item; therefore quite scarce and ephemeral. Crane A8. Henry Holt unknown
Referência livreiro : 27229
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