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Exposition Universelle de 1867 Paris
Paris: Lemercier 1867. Faisandier A. Four panel accordion-folding peepshow of the 1867 Exposition Universelle held on the Champ-de-Mars in Paris. The front-face shows a bird's-eye view of the exposition complex as seen from the north bank of the Seine. Beneath the image the title is written in five languages along with the publisher information. Three small circular peep holes cross the center. The cut-out panels inside the peepshow depict the crowded interior of the circular Vestibule and Palace. The visitors of all shapes and sizes and wearing all manner of dress wander between the booths in the glass-ceilinged exhibition area. The booths themselves colored in rich warm tones represent a range of Eastern cultures lending the entire spectacle an air of the exotic. The back-scene shows the open garden at the center of the Palace. Curtained entrances ring the green labeled with the names and flags of the participating nations. These wonderfully detailed crowd scenes offer something new each time the viewer returns to them. The front and back boards are covered in a patterned purple cloth with a gold border along the edges of the front-face. Light wear to covers and two small segments of gold border missing else this rare peepshow is in fine working order. Lemercier unknown
Bookseller reference : 25994
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Chermayeff Ivan
Why Stamps
Cambridge MA: Kat Ran Press 2014. Octavo. 16pp. One of forty-five copies of the deluxe edition bound by Sarah Creighton in red and orange paste paper-covered boards and including two mint stamps designed by the author. Contains fourteen full-color reproductions of collages by Chermayeff -- faces with features crafted from envelopes and stamps. This title is one of the Kat Ran Essays in Philatelics and is in new condition. Kat Ran Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 25950
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Self portrait with green cat
1973. Baskin Leonard. Lithographic print 22 inches tall by 16 inches wide printed on Arches paper. One of fifty signed by the artist. Leonard Baskin was an American artist sculptor and printmaker. He founded the Gehenna Press while still a student at Yale and he taught at Smith College in Massachusetts from 1953 to 1974. Baskin received rewards for his work from the American Academy of Arts and Letters American Institute of Graphic Arts and the National Academy of Design. This piece a self portrait of the artist in profile is characteristic of Baskin's style with dark frenetic lines giving the shadows an uncomfortable energy. Baskin in brown seems to be crying out as a demon-like green cat looms behind him face shadowed and teeth bared. Baskin's own name curves across the bottom of the composition. This lithograph was part of a series created right before Baskin moved to England in 1974 and it was not officially editioned or distributed nor was it included in the catalogue raisonné of Baskin's work. Very fine. The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin: A catalogue Raisonné 1948-1983. unknown
Bookseller reference : 25971
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Two botanical prints of Amaryllis
1800. Kirchner F. Two hand-colored botanical prints showing members of the Amaryllis family. Each flower is beautifully rendered in full color with its scientific classification beside it. The reds oranges blues and pinks of the flowers pop against the deep greens of the foliage. Each is framed with blue-green marbled paper cream matting and a hand-painted frame with plants and flowers. A beautiful crossover between science and art in fine condition. Image size measures 13 by 8 inches 330x203mm; frame measures 27 by 21 inches 686x533mm. unknown
Bookseller reference : 25978
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Officer of Janizaries
N.p.: Thomas McLean 1810. D'Alvimart Octavien. Framed full-color plate of a Turkish warrior from John Heaviside Clark's The Military Costume of Turkey engraved by F. H. Clark from a drawing by Octavien D'Alvimart. This plate shows a subaltern officer of the janizaries or janissaries a division of the Turkish infantry forming the Sultan's guard. The mustached officer stands in a red and gold coat holding a short sword; atop his head is a distinctive feathered hat. Framed in cream matting and a red wooden frame. Fine. Image area 10 by 8 inches; frame 15 by 13 inches. (Thomas McLean unknown
Bookseller reference : 25980
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Esslemont David
Chili Recipe
Decorah Iowa: Solmentes Press 2013. Esslemont David. Folio. 39ff. From an edition of thirty copies this is one of ten deluxe copies in a stunning designer binding of full white pigskin. At the center of the spine extending over both covers sits an acrylic-painted bowl of chili garnished with spicy sour cream and peppers and sprinkled with gilt-stamped flecks. The covers have been blind-stamped in a crosshatch pattern to mimic a white linen table cloth and a spray of gray paint extending out from one side of the bowl evokes the shadow cast by the bowl's rim as the chili is enjoyed outside on a sunny summer day. Orange paste-paper flyleaves complete the spicy presentation. British artist David Esslemont works step-by-step through his award-winning chili recipe using thirty-nine multicolor woodcut images showing both ingredients and cooking methods. Every part of this gourmet dish is made from scratch from the ancho chili paste to the vegetable stock. The artist advises: "If you don't understand my pictogram instructions use your imagination. Good luck and let me now how it turns out." Prospectus and newspaper clipping announcing the artist's chili cook-off win laid in. As new in cloth drop-back case. Solmentes Press) unknown
Bookseller reference : 25879
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Fitzgerald F. Scott
Turkey Remains and How to Inter Them with Numerous Scarce Recipes
Nutley N.J.: Gianettino & Meredith Inc 1977. Schwarz Jill Karla. 12mo. 24pp. From an edition of 275 this is one of fifty lettered copies in a cloth binding signed by the artist Jill Karla Schwarz. This humorous holiday list of thirteen "recipes" for turkey was appropriately filed by the author under the heading "Nonsense and Stray Phrases" in his writing notebook. One such recipe is for "Turkey Mousse: Seed a large prone turkey being careful to remove the bones flesh fins gravy etc. Blow up with a bicycle pump. Mount in becoming style and hang in the front hall." Features four full-page illustrations of the finished "meals." Bound in gilt-titled brown buckram. Corners very slightly rubbed else fine. Gianettino & Meredith, Inc unknown
Bookseller reference : 25931
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The Greenleaf Portfolio
Flansham: Greenleaf Press 1917. Guthrie Stuart Robin & John. 9ff. Small quarto. A portfolio of eight wood engravings in black & white with the title page printed in copper ink. The publication and illustrations were done by Stuart Robin and John Guthrie the sons of James Guthrie of the Pear Tree Press. The Greenleaf Press was established in 1915 by Guthrie for his sons while they were still children. Although it is an amateur publication it serves as evidence that the passion for printing was shared by the whole Guthrie family. In blue wrappers with printed paper label on upper cover; one engraving is tipped in and the last two are bound out of order as issued. This extremely rare item is in near fine condition with wrappers sunned label foxed and one corner bumped. This is the sole published issue of The Greenleaf Portfolio and only one other copy is known. Greenleaf Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 25902
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Guthrie Stuart
A Chapbook for Little Chaps
Flansham: Pear Tree Press 1920. Guthrie Stuart. Octavo. 25pp. This collection of short children's poems is heavily illustrated with wood engravings by Stuart Guthrie son of Pear Tree Press founder James Guthrie. The six full-page illustrations and fourteen smaller images used as head- and tailpieces are printed in four colors: blue green lilac and rust. In his Introduction Stuart Guthrie writes: "The setting and printing as well as the illustrations were an awful fag and I had continually to remind myself that it was undertaken in the spirit of fun." It is clear that a great deal of time and love went into the creation of this colorful piece. Fine copy in variant binding of paper wrappers printed with a light purple floral design. Wrappers detached from text block with some darkening and edgewear; interior is bright with occasional offsetting. Pear Tree Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 25903
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Guthrie S. R. and J.
A Nosegay of Verses
Flansham: Greenleaf Press 1915. Guthrie Stuart Robin & John. 16mo. 16pp. Inscribed "With best wishes from the folk at Flansham. Xmas 1915" and illustrated with nine tipped-in engravings. The publication and illustrations were done by Stuart Robin and John Guthrie the sons of James Guthrie of the Pear Tree Press. This is the first book from The Greenleaf Press which was established in 1915 by Guthrie for his sons while they were still children. About fine in original blue wrappers with paper label printed in green on upper cover. Soiling wear and chipping to wrappers and glue remnants on title page probably from a misplaced tip-in during printing. Greenleaf Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 25910
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Vaughn Rees; Catalog design.
Read Mullan Gallery of Western Art. Catalog design by Reese Vaughn Scottsdale Arizona. Photography by Arizona Photographic Associates Phoenix Arizona. Lithography by Universal Litho Phoenix Arizona.
Read Mullan 1964. Quarto full-color illus. boards hardcover unpaginated numerous plates. Near-Fine with very small neat former-owner stamp. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 168fdi
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Gill Eric and Hilary Pepler
In Petra being a sequel to 'Nisi Dominus'
Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press 1923. Jones David and Eric Gill. Octavo. vii 26pp. First edition. Printed in red and black with a preface and notes by Eric Gill and Hilary Pepler. Illustrated with three wood engravings by David Jones and six by Gill. This is the fortieth St. Dominic's Press publication and one of the few to be accurately dated by the printers. In a variant binding of gray cloth. Boards lightly soiled inner hinge starting before first signature else fine. Cleverdon 31; Gill 87; Taylor & Sewell A111. St. Dominic's Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 25809
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The Forest: Peep Show
London: Warren Editions 1981. Jones Harold. One of fifty copies. An enchanting peep show by the well-known children's author and illustrator Harold Jones. Comprised of six layered panels plus the illustrated front panel bearing the title and viewing aperture. Looking into the viewing aperture reveals a glimpse deep into a forest filled with deer squirrels and other animal life. In the background are a waterfall and mountain peaks with trees beginning to show autumnal hues. Printed by Christopher Skelton at Skelton's Press for Jonathan and Phillida Gili. In a slipcase covered with Curwen patterned paper and a hand-colored label numbered and signed by the artist. The project was initially begun in 1981 but the artist and publishers quickly became overwhelmed by orders and realized that they had underestimated the amount of time and work it would take to hand-color and assemble each copy. The edition was finally completed in 1993. One can easily understand the delay: the hand-coloring is precise and intricate and each of the panels is quite detailed. Measures approximately 7 by 6 1/4 inches and 22 inches when extended. Extremely fine. Warren Editions unknown
Bookseller reference : 25695
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Thomas Henry and Stanley Morison
The Writing Book of Andres Brun Calligrapher of Saragosse
Paris: Officina Bodoni for the Pegasus Press 1929. Brun Andres. Quarto. 30pp. 51ff. One of 175 copies printed at the Officina Bodoni. With an Introduction by Henry Thomas and descriptive notes by Stanley Morison. Following these are forty-nine facsimile leaves in collotype reproducing the surviving text and plates of Brun's two writing books which were originally published in 1583 and 1612. Very fine in cream cloth stamped with a decorative design in red. With original dust wrapper which is slightly toned to spine and has a short closed tear to the head of the spine. Housed in original slipcase. Printed note laid in informing the reader that the facsimile pages have been hand-numbered in pencil. Mardersteig 27. Officina Bodoni for the Pegasus Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 25689
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Muzeum Narodowe W Warszawie. National Academy Of Design U. S.
Nineteenth Century Polish Painting
National Museum in Warsaw; National Academy of Design 1988. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good Condition. Binding tight pages clean. Light wear to edges and corners. Very nice copy! National Museum in Warsaw; National Academy of Design paperback
Bookseller reference : 028134
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Sally Rockwell. PhD; Editor Doet Design; Illustrator na
Coping With Candida Cookbook
Diet Design 2008-06-01. Spiral-bound. Good. Paperback in very good condition. small stain on back cover. Faint surface scratching. Light surface and edge wear. binding weak. Sticker on front inside cover. Pages clean and binding tight. Diet Design unknown
Bookseller reference : 045133 ISBN : 0916575004 9780916575007
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Keats John
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Shaker Heights OH: Wind and Harlot Press 1986. Delrue Paul C. 12pp. One of twenty-three copies. Keats's ballad of a knight wooed by a beautiful and wild "faery's child" and then abandoned by her haggard and pale on the cold hillside. In a designer binding by Paul Delrue depicting the setting at the poem's beginning and end: the countryside after harvest has ended a barren and empty landscape with a sloping hill and the silhouettes of birds overhead. A rustic fence borders the pale green tan and brown fields all created using Delrue's signature "Lacunose artwork." In this technique Delrue covered the boards first with tan goatskin and then many layers of leather in autumnal hues some puckered and others flat were overlapped and alternately sanded down smooth and varnished with PVA to create various effects. The Lacunose panels are set onto the goatskin background intentionally askew echoing the knight's disorientation and bordered by blind-stamped circles. The endpapers are grey and violet paper handmade by the artist with flecks of gold and silver. In a handmade-paper chemise and a cloth and handmade paper-covered box with a gusseted pocket for the book. Extremely fine. 3 by 2 1/8; 77x53mm. Wind and Harlot Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 25741
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Leyda Jay
A House to Be Born In
Northampton MA: Gehenna Press 1958. Lockwood George. Small quarto. 12pp. One of 100 copies. Signed by George Lockwood who contributed the wood-engraved frontispiece. Leyda's poem about Emily Dickinson's Amherst Massachusetts home is interspersed with the words from the deed which are printed in red. An uncommon Gehenna title this copy shows some toning and faint spotting to the extremities of the blue wrappers few light marginal creases. Overall a nearly fine copy. Brook 16. Gehenna Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 25773
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Box Assemblage
Mt. Vernon NY 1979. Klebanow Hy. A mixed-media sculpture signed and dated by the artist. Inside a black-painted cigar box is a group of stubby pencils sharpened to different heights and painted black. The face of a clock moon-like is pasted above the pencils. Klebanow was born in Boston in 1915 and attended the Boston Museum School and the Massachusetts College of Art before pursuing a career in advertising and fine art. His first solo show was held at the Heller Gallery in New York City in 1981. According to Douglas Heller in the exhibition catalogue "Hy Klebanow's long time response and pleasure in the examination and collection of familiar objects leftovers parts of things the discards of our world are what his collages are about. Each piece is a statement of the past and a prologue to the future." Eyelet screws in the back of the box allow the piece to be hung on the wall. Very fine. unknown
Bookseller reference : 25697
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Twain Mark
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press 1985. Moser Barry. Folio. 50ff. From an edition of fifty copies printed on Rives paper this is one of twenty-five deluxe boxed sets with each print signed by the artist Barry Moser. Contains all forty-nine wood engravings for the Pennyroyal Press Huckleberry Finn printed in celebration of the centennial of the first edition. These high-contrast portraits and scenes showcase Moser's mastery playing to the strengths of his chosen medium. Heavy shadows rendered with subtle variations in line weight and spacing create a sense of drama and the flowing line work lends movement to the images. Loose as issued in a linen clamshell case backed in gilt-titled green morocco. Pennyroyal 40. Pennyroyal Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 25642
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Euripides
Hippolytos
Northampton MA: Gehenna Press 1969. Baskin Leonard. Folio. 70pp. From an edition of 200 copies this is an out-of-series printer's copy inscribed by Leonard Baskin to Arno Werner who bound the book. One of the major productions of Baskin's Gehenna Press. Illustrated with ten etchings by Baskin nine of which are signed by him and one that is inscribed "Werner" in Baskin's hand. Signed plates are not noted in the Brook bibliography. Bound in morocco-backed marbled boards the suite of etchings is housed in a chemise of marbled boards and the two laid into a box of morocco-backed marbled boards. Foxing to plates and to the inside of their chemise folding case shows some light wear to bottom edge and minor rubbing to box extremities. A fine copy with notable provenance. Brook 62. Gehenna Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 25643
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Kelso Erin Cover Design
Fantasy Art Journal
Ilex Gift 2012-03-15. Hardcover. Used:Good. Ilex Gift hardcover
Bookseller reference : DADAX1908150513 ISBN : 1908150513 9781908150516
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Jakobs Horst H. Editor; Picker Eduard Editor; Wilhelm Jan Editor; Kirchner E. Cover Design; Jakbobs HH. Contributor; Picker
Festgabe für Werner Flume: zum 90. Geburtstag German Edition
Springer 2012-10-16. Paperback. Used:Good. Springer paperback
Bookseller reference : DADAX364263804X ISBN : 364263804X 9783642638046
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Collin Marcie
Le Chien Guingan et le Chat Calicot
Mill Valley CA: Sunflower Press 1977. Sheats Sonya. 16ff. From an edition of 250 copies illustrated in color by Marcie Collin and printed by Carol Cunningham this copy is in a designer binding by Sonya Sheats. Evoking the fierce battle between the Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat the artist envisioned "a tangle of lines tracing the tossing and tumbling" of the small beasts in the middle of the night" drawing sharp angular intersecting lines in red blue and gray enamel across the covers to map their struggle. This motion is set against a background of subtly textured and shaded natural dark parchment which Sheats notes "has a soft round and whole presence." The binding structure is an homage to the influential German bookbinder Otto Dorfner employing an open-joint style that he innovated. The spine is covered separately from the boards which are then connected with four bands of pale blue water snakeskin. The ends of the bands are hidden under half-moon onlays of the same natural parchment. For contrast the doublures are thin bright white parchment. The book slides into a parchment-covered box etched with the title on one side in a modern san-serif font. Elements of the design also hint at the influence of Brother Edgard Claes her most important bookbinding mentor including the sliding polycarbonate closure to the box which is painted with lustrous beige automotive paint. Sheats describes her work as part of the tradition of French fine bookbinding mixing traditional techniques with modern materials. Extremely fine protected in a blue microsuede pouch. 2 1/4 by 2 1/2; 57x64mm. Sunflower Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 25658
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Roscoe William
The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast
Watertown MA: Anne and David Bromer 1977. Kunikata-Cockram Midori. 24pp. The text is printed on Japanese paper with ornamentation in green. Wood engravings by Sarah Chamberlain as her first miniature book commission. This is the first miniature book published by the Bromers. Midori Kunikata-Cockram captures the whimsical nature of the text which was the first English poem for children intended for sheer amusement. The front and rear boards of her designer binding are covered with parchment on which the artist has hand-drawn the insects and small animals attending the feast amongst a pattern of vines and flowers in crimson ink. Delicate onlays of black morocco create the silhouette of a vine climbing up the book's burgundy morocco spine. Inside endpapers printed with oak leaves and cut-out leaves with hand-drawn shading in pastel reference the oak tree in the poem beneath which the revels were held. Housed in a suede-lined box the exterior of which is covered with paper hand-tooled in a foliate pattern and gilt-titled to the morocco spine. A parchment tab painted with a butterfly on one side and a grasshopper on the reverse helps to lift the book out of the box. With the binder's blind-stamped mark to the penultimate endleaf and signed by Chamberlain to the colophon. Extremely fine. Bromer pp. 11-16. 2 1/2 by 2 1/8; 63x53mm. Anne and David Bromer unknown
Bookseller reference : 25333
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Twain Mark
The Old-time Printer
Baltimore: Xavier Press 1988. Taddeo Paolo. vi 18pp. Samuel Clemens's account of his formative time spent as a printer's apprentice presented as a speech at a dinner for New York printers. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Clemens and a vignette depicting a compositor setting type. This copy is in a designer binding by the Italian-British bookbinder Paolo Taddeo. Onlays of salmon grey and black morocco form the shape of a piece of lead type outlined in palladium-leaf tooling creating a symmetrical design on each of the covers. The artist chose the letter H for his design citing the letter's visual stability and steadiness "with both feet firmly planted on the ground." As someone whose first language is Italian he also notes that his selection of the letter H is "controversial" since it is not pronounced in his native language and gives him difficulty in spoken English. However he writes "in my mother tongue it's a letter of vital importance in the way that it changes the sounds of the consonants it attaches to." Housed in a clamshell box that contains a drawer for the two pieces of seven- and ten-point type included with the book. Taddeo was elected a Licentiate of Designer Bookbinders in 2013 and has twice won the Arthur Johnson Award in the organization's annual competition. 2 1/2 by 2; 65x53mm. Xavier Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 25567
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Love
Dallas: Somesuch Press 1983. Oliver Nicky. 24pp. Inscribed by Stanley Marcus noted miniature book collector and proprietor of the Somesuch Press to his friend and fellow microbibliophile Donn Sanford. A collection of love poems by Shakespeare Chaucer and Browning illustrated with two United States "Love" stamps and a British stamp in honor of St. Valentine's Day. Printed by the Feathered Serpent Press in black with vignettes and ornaments in bright red. This copy features a romantic designer binding by the British bookbinder Nicky Oliver. Inspired by the hints of red small illustrations and swirling floral motifs in the text Oliver bound the book in fair goatskin that she painted and printed with pieces of floral lace dipped in coral-hued leather dye. The covers have a subtle sheen and in the artist's statement she notes that "Gold foil was stenciled onto the surface of the leather and distressed to highlight the lace design." Gilt-tooled dots also trace some of the lines of the pattern and decorate all three pink edges of the book. Pieces of lace and oil-based inks were used to relief-print the pink leather-jointed endpapers which were also accented with subtle gilt-tooling. Housed in a handsome black quarter-morocco box adorned with decorated leather strips matching the binding and a gilt-titled pink lettering piece to the spine. Oliver's artistic background is in illustration and design and she seeks to incorporate elements of these into her bindings. She was named a Licentiate of Designer Bookbinders in 2010 and has won several awards in their recent competitions. These achievements include "the Silver Triple" in the 2010 competition with first prize for set book open choice book and the Edgar Mansfield Medal for best book. Extremely fine. 2 7/8 by 2 5/8; 73x67mm. Somesuch Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 25537
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The Sermon on the Mount from the Gospel of St. Matthew Chapters 5 6 7
Worcester MA: Achille J. St. Onge 1973. Conway Stephen. 55pp. The text is printed with large ornamental initials in red by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen. In a striking designer binding by Stephen Conway evoking ancient wood and stone. Conway writes that his bindings "have a tactile quality in keeping with the three dimensional qualities of the book" and "a sort of earthy minimalist look hinting at the content." The central panel of the covers is comprised of a plinth with three steps covered in parchment stained with tones of copper and bronze. In the center is a cross cut from vellum. The four surrounding panels are covered with hand-painted paste-paper patterned with wood grain and sealed with a matte wax finish. The panels are slightly separated revealing underlays of black text between them. Conway also painted the endpapers with textural shades of brown and black giving them the appearance of wood and bark. The spine is gilt-titled mahogany morocco. Following his belief that the box in which a book is housed is part of the overall work and serves to enhance the viewer's experience the book sits in a felt-lined compartment between the steps of a larger three-level plinth covered in hand-painted parchment. Conway was named a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in 2000 and his work is held in collections worldwide including the National Library of Scotland and the British Library. Extremely fine. 2 1/2 by 1 3/4; 64x43mm. Achille J. St. Onge unknown
Bookseller reference : 25350
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Capote Truman
The White Rose
Newton IA: Tamazunchale Press 1987. McEwan Tom. 31pp. Truman Capote's essay describes his first meeting with French author Colette during which she gave him a crystal paperweight and inspired him to start collecting the objects for himself. The book has been specially bound by Tom McEwan to reflect the world in miniature found in paperweights. In his artist's statement McEwan explained that his intention was to create "a contemplative enigmatic design something which invites the viewer to interpret examine and explore." Using goatskin hand-dyed to evoke the "dazzling patterns frozen forever" in crystal McEwan created swirls of blue green pink and yellow that are transected by shafts of rippling gilt tooling much as light shines through a paperweight. The design continues onto the doublures and the flyleaves are hand-colored with acrylic ink to match. Images of statues emerge from within the patterns on the flyleaves their forms highlighted by more shafts of light in the form of gilt tooling. The technique of incorporating image transfer into the binding is a signature of McEwan's design style. The page edges have been decorated with acrylic ink and rippling gold. The motif continues onto the buckram box which is decorated with more hand-dyed goatskin arranged in an abstract pattern and surrounded by gilt-tooled rippling lines. Tom McEwan was elected a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in 2014 and in 2013 won first in three of the major categories in the Designer Bookbinders Annual Competition including the Mansfield Medal for the Best Book. He studied fine bookbinding at Glasgow Metropolitan College under Jim Vallance and was the winner of National Library of Scotland's competition in 2008. 2 1/2 by 1 3/4; 63x44mm. Tamazunchale Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 25456
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Pushkin Aleksandr Sergeevich
Car Nikita: Pohádka Tsar Nikita: A Fairy Tale
Prague: Kamilla Neumannová 1928. Sirotský R. Octavo. One of 100 hand-colored copies. Pushkin's bawdy and satirical fairy tale about Tsar Nikita and his forty daughters has been translated into Czech by Lala Gallová and is illustrated throughout with bright hand-colored illustrations by R. Sirotský. The images are done in a bold folkloric Egyptian-inspired style. Bound in white wrappers printed in red. Stitching is beginning to loosen slightly else very fine. Cotsen 9031. Kamilla Neumannová unknown
Bookseller reference : 25558
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Weissenborn Hellmuth
Hellmuth Weissenborn: Engraver
Gloucestershire UK: Whittington Press & Acorn Press 1983. Weissenborn Hellmuth. Folio. xvi 68pp. One of 200 copies. Illustrated with a large photographic frontispiece depicting the artist at work and with an autobiographical introduction. The book consists primarily of examples of Weissenborn's engravings followed by a catalogue. Bound in tan buckram with an engraving to the front cover and housed in a slipcase. Very fine. Whittington Press & Acorn Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 25554
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Papier en Vuur / Fire and Paper
Rijswijk Netherlands: Gentenaar & Torley 1998. Oblong small quarto. 255pp. Together with a smaller "child" book containing seventeen artistic paper samples measuring 2 3/4 inches square nested within the center of the "parent" book. Published on the occasion of the second Holland Paper Biennial in the Rijswijk Museum in 1998 the text presented in both Dutch and English explores the history of papermaking as an art form and craft. The first part is a collection of statements by paper artists from Europe North America and Japan discussing their work accompanied by striking illustrations. The second section focuses on the relationship between fire and paper. A fine copy in exposed boards embossed with a flame design and backed in silver-stamped blue cloth. Gentenaar & Torley unknown
Bookseller reference : 25549
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Leon Underwood: His Wood Engravings
Wakefield Yorkshire: Fleece Press 1986. Underwood Leon. Large quarto. 10pp. 19ff. One of 200 copies printed from the original blocks on handmade paper. Illustrated with twenty wood engravings by Underwood that were cut in the 1920s and 1930s. Underwood's Brook Green School produced a great many accomplished wood engravers among them Blair Hughes-Stanton Nora Unwin and Henry Moore. With an introduction by George Tute. Extremely fine in green morocco-backed paste-paper boards with cloth dropback box. Rogerson 12. Fleece Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 25551
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Butterfield Jean
Stone Soup
Oakland: Eucalyptus Press 1989. Butterfield Jean. Folio. 6ff. One of seventeen copies. Illustrated throughout with linoleum block prints altered so that the images in each book are slightly different. One two-page spread depicts the foolish villagers peeking over the edge of the soup pot with surprised expressions on their faces. Printed illustrated and written by Jean Butterfield. The tale was adapted from the children's book Stone Soup by Marcia Brown and in the colophon Butterfield notes that "This story is about a basic lesson most of us learn in childhood from the wise women who are our mothers." The Eucalyptus Press was founded in 1930 by Miss Rosalind A. Keep who was Editor of Publications and a professor of printing and English at Mills College. The Press continues to operate today as part of the college's book arts program. Very fine in boards covered with gray speckled handmade paper evoking stone and a linoleum-cut title label. Eucalyptus Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 25514
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Ross Clifford and Karen Wilkin
The World of Edward Gorey
NY: Abrams 1996. Gorey Edward. First edition. Contains an interview with Gorey analysis by art critic Karen Wilkin and 200 illustrations. Very fine in illustrated dust wrapper. Abrams unknown
Bookseller reference : 25516
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H. D. C. P. Pepler Hilary
Concerning Dragons
Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press 1929. A. E. R. G. Gill Eric. 32mo. 5pp. With a cover illustration dragon headpiece and four square vignettes by Eric Gill depicting a child's encounter with night-time fears. In this poem by Press founder Hilary Pepler a boy asks his nurse if dragons ghosts and goblins exist as he is tucked into bed. A fine copy of this ephemeral pamphlet bound in printed off-white self-wrappers. St. Dominic's Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 25526
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Vánocní Betlém Bethlehem Christmas
1968. Kubasta Vojtech. An uncommon die-cut pop-up card depicting a nativity scene set in ancient Bethlehem beneath palm trees and a starry night sky. Cattle goats sheep and an elephant surround the manger as the magi and others bring gifts. Presiding over the scene is an angel carrying a banner proclaiming "Gloria in Excelsis Deo." Kubasta's clever technique interlocks two brightly-colored accordion-fold illustrations to create a three-dimensional panorama. Two additional interlocking pieces with cherubs lambs and a Christmas tree are designed to be placed in front of the display. In a recent New York Times feature on Kubasta paper engineer Robert Sabuda who was inspired by Kubasta's books at an early age described Kubasta's work as unusual in that he was able to create astonishingly complex detailed scenes with a single sheet of paper. His pop-up books are also known for their bold rich color and were printed in Czechoslovakia on special pre-war presses at the state-run publishing house Artia. Measures approximately six inches 15cm tall. Angel's wings are slightly bent else a fine example of Kubasta's creative work. Grimes William "Wizard Who Made Art Jump Off the Page" New York Times Jan. 31 2014. unknown
Bookseller reference : 25468
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Japan Package Design Association
Package Design in Japan: No. 9
Nippon Shuppan Hanbai Deutschland GmbH 2001-07-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Hard to tell from new. Minor rubbing on the dust jacket. Interior is pristine. Book is in both English and Japanese lavishly illustrated. Listing uses a somewhat truncated title it is: Package Design from Japan Biennial 2001 Vol. 9 Nippon Shuppan Hanbai Deutschland GmbH hardcover
Bookseller reference : HH-042214-AA ISBN : 4897374081 9784897374086
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Set of three catalogues for the Lincoln Zephyr V12
Paris: Draeger 1938. A set of three tri-fold full-color catalogues in French advertising the 1939 Lincoln Zephyr V12. Each is lavishly illustrated in Art Deco style with extensive use of metallic inks. The front covers of each depict the ornamented grills of the luxury cars with the slogan "pour l'élite" while the rear covers showcase Lincoln's flathead V12 engines and provides specifications. One catalogue has three full-color posters laid in portraying the vehicle's elegant and streamlined aesthetics as a "masterpiece of the present times." The Zephyr was in fact the first successful streamlined car to come to market. Another poster compares the four-door sedan to the Winged Victory of Samothrace and another to the ornate naval ships sailed under the Sun King Louis XIV. On the reverse of each poster in black & white are additional images of the car's interior and exterior. In France the automobiles were sold by Matford a partnership between automakers Mathis and Ford. A fine set of deluxe automobilia produced by the noted Parisian printer Draeger. Draeger unknown
Bookseller reference : 25485
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Panhard & Levassor catalogue for 1922
Paris: Illustra E. Vidal 1922. Dorival Georges. Oblong folio. 11ff. A deluxe catalogue for the French automaker Panhard & Levassor illustrated with bright color plates depicting their latest models mounted on pages of heavy tan card. On the facing pages are dramatic views of famous French locales by Georges Dorival the renowned poster artist. Dorival is best known for his travel posters and in the same fashion these illustrations are meant to inspire the viewer to tour the coastal highways of Provence or the mountain passes of the Pyrenees in the luxurious new Panhard & Levassor automobile. A full-page spread in yellow and sepia depicts the chassis and engine of a vehicle with classical columns and vines in the background and another sepia image shows a celebratory drive on the Champs-Élysées in the very first Panhard & Levassor which was built in 1891. Among the first automobile producers in the world Panhard & Levassor is credited with developing the front-engine rear-drive layout that was copied and used in auto manufacturing for many decades. The pages are tied with a gold cord and bound in illustrated boards with columns the company's logo and a landscape printed in gold and black ink across the covers. In the original printed mailing enclosure. A very fine example of a highspot of trade catalogue design. (Illustra E. Vidal unknown
Bookseller reference : 25487
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Advertising Poster for Mathis Cars
Strasbourg: Mathis 1933. Jacquelin Jean. 1ff. folded into sixths. Printed in bright color on both sides the poster depicts a variety of four- and six-cylinder cars available from the French automaker Mathis for the 1934 model year. These include the EMY4 and EMY6 available in the convertible St. Moritz Deauville coupe and four-door Dynamic. The text touts new "Quadruflex" independent suspension for safety and comfort. On the covers when the poster is folded are two bold stylish Art Deco illustrations: a red convertible filled with five passengers touring a country road and a sleek yellow sedan speeding along a coastal highway. Laid in is a sheet with the technical specifications for each model. The company founded by Émile Mathis produced automobiles in Strasbourg Alsace between 1910 and 1950. After the first World War Mathis was the number four automaker in France competing directly with Citroën. A remarkably fine piece of ephemeral automobilia. Mathis unknown
Bookseller reference : 25483
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Salmson S4D
Paris: Société des Moteurs Salmson 1934. Neuzerer H. Quarto. 8ff. Catalogue promoting the Salmson S4D from French automaker Société des Moteurs Salmson illustrated throughout with black & white photographs depicting the interior exterior motor and chassis of the vehicle. At the center of the booklet are five loose color posters with illustrations in a bold Art Deco style. The posters proclaim the merits of each body style of the S4D: for example the "Précision" of the Cabriolet roadster which is depicted alongside a jet engine and the "Élégance" of the Demi-Berline sedan. Bound in bright violet printed wrappers bearing the name "Salmson S4D" in tall letters and a depiction of the sleek "Faux-Cabriolet." Advertising postcard and price list bearing dealership stamp laid in. Founded as a manufacturer of heavy-duty components for the military and railway Salmson did not enter into automobile production until after World War One. Technically innovative the models promoted in this brochure boasted independent front suspensions and an electro-mechanical gearbox. A few slight spots of rubbing to covers else fine. Société des Moteurs Salmson unknown
Bookseller reference : 25486
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Parri Mario Graziano
Effleurage
Leeds MA: Gehenna Press 1989. Bartolini Anna Maria. Quarto. 13pp 25ff. One of thirty-eight copies. A collection of etchings of cats by the Italian artist Anna Maria Bartolini some of which are printed on pink mulberry paper and tipped in. All are signed by the artist in graphite. Some of the cats are anthropomorphized and others abstracted into bold lines. Bartolini's cats are expressive with individual personalities and characteristics: one with long eyelashes gazes wide-eyed at a winged insect while another narrows its eyes hungrily at a fish dangling from a hook. The etchings were printed in Florence Italy. In the Introduction the Florentine poet and novelist Mario Graziano Parri explores the roles and symbolism of cats throughout history. He writes of Bartolini "The Author of the engravings which are the reason for this book does not love cats. She is attracted rather by their mystery." Although not called for this copy has been inscribed on the colophon by Leonard Baskin to a well known collector of cat books. About fine in gray patterned paper over flexible boards with a gilt-titled gray morocco lettering piece to the spine. Housed in a matching darker gray box covered with patterned paper which shows some rubbing to extremities. A scarce title from the Gehenna Press. Gehenna Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 25440
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Original Unbound Sheets 1923-1935
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop 1961. Small folio portfolio. One of seventeen portfolios distributed by Dawson's Book Shop. Contains Dawson's contents sheet plus 20 leaves of proof trial and discarded sheets which were purchased from the daughter of C. H. St. John Hornby. These are: an eight-page signature from The Faerie Queen 1923; eight pages from The Golden Asse of Apuleius 1924; two sheets of eight pages each from The Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach 1932; eight pages from Daphnis and Chloe with a single woodcut by Gwen Raverat; twelve pages from Spenser's Minor Poems 1925 partly printed in red and blue; and four pages from the Ashendene bibliography 1935 showing specimen pages from Un Mazzetto Scelto di Certi Fioretti . di San Francesco with a woodcut in red the Purgatorio of Dante the Horace and A Treatyse of Fysshinge with an Angle. In addition this copy which is from the library of Muir Dawson contains two extra leaves not called for in the contents sheet: a single leaf of the opening text page of Le Morte D'Arthur printed on glossy paper on the recto only. There is a penciled note on the upper right margin indicating that this is a proof. Also included is a two-page ALs from Hornby to Graily Hewitt on a single sheet of Shelley House stationery. The letter which is undated discusses pages that were ready for lettering specifically pages 28 and 29 of the Horace and page 7 of the Virgil. The content of the letter and selection of the pages indicate that Hornby was working on the Bibliography at this time. Some wear to spine foot of portfolio slight rubbing to corners minor dampstain to corners of several leaves. A near fine example of a scarce collection of leaves. Housed in a red cloth folio-size portfolio with leather label. Dawson's Book Shop unknown
Bookseller reference : 25424
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Shakespeare William
Hamlet
Rome: Delfino 1985. Moore Henry. Folio. 106pp. According to the colophon this is one of 1200 copies. Illustrated with ten color lithographs after drawings by Henry Moore. The editor Dr. Stanley Wells notes in the Foreword that this work reveals an "unsuspected spiritual kinship between one of the greatest visual artists of the twentieth century and the enduring genius of Shakespeare" who shared a "mythical quality shunning literalism" and connected with the collective unconscious in their art. Bound in brick red morocco over thick beveled boards with a rectangular gilt-metal bas relief by Moore titled "Hamlet's Dilemma" mounted to the front cover. The book fits into a vertical sculptural stand covered with red suede. Covers lightly sunned along the lines of the stand else fine. Because only three institutional copies of this monumental work are recorded and given the paucity of copies in commerce it is not difficult to conclude that the edition was not completed. Delfino unknown
Bookseller reference : 25423
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Original pencil drawing of three cats executed with the artist's toes
Poynette Wisconsin 1903. Smith Kathryn M. R. Pencil drawing on paper by Kathryn Kittie M. R. Smith measuring 9 by 11 3/4 inches in a contemporary frame with a faux wood-grain finish. Two images share a single sheet: on the left is a cat peeking out of a shoe and on the right are two anthropomorphic cats courting over a picket fence. At the top of the page is affixed a card signed by Smith and inscribed "Poynette Wisconsin. Written & drawn with her toes. 1903." The drawing is reproduced in the accompanying booklet "My Life Story" a 32pp. autobiography first published in 1906. This is a later edition and it includes numerous examples of Smith's artwork and black & white photographs showing the artist combing her hair building furniture out of wood and writing at her desk all with her toes. Also included is an undated photograph probably from the 1940s depicting the artist late in life sitting with a woman labeled Marie Van Atta. Smith was born in 1882 into a poor Chicago family and lost her mother to illness when she was nine years old. The following year Smith's father who was an abusive alcoholic held her hands and arms against a lit stove burning them so severely that they had to be amputated. Her father was prosecuted but found not guilty by a jury and Smith herself was inconsistent in recounting the events refusing to speak ill of her father. After her hospitalization she became a ward of the Children's Home Society of Illinois and spent four years at the Home for Destitute Crippled Children where she attended school and learned to write and sew with her feet. In 1896 she moved to Poynette Wisconsin where she lived with a foster family for eight years. Smith was an entirely self-taught artist who traveled and gave demonstrations and lectures about her life. Her autobiography reveals a cheerful and persevering mentality. Smith worked with several organizations to support children with disabilities and established the Kittie Smith Company wanting to serve as a role model. In 1913 she became the first woman to vote in Chicago casting her ballot with her feet. By the 1930s Smith performed as "The Armless Dynamo" at Coney Island and with Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey and John Robinson's Circuses. Booklet shows some light soiling along the top edge of the cover and the drawing has the faintest marginal dampstaining else fine. unknown
Bookseller reference : 25447
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A Hebrew Alphabet
London: Jo Bird 2009. Bird Jo. 48mo. 22pp. accordion-fold. A one-of-a-kind artist's book signed by the artist printer and binder Jo Bird. Folding out from right to left the leporello is comprised of twenty-two linocuts depicting the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Each calligraphic letter is printed in black ink onto swaths of gold leaf so that the gold illuminates the letterforms and gives texture and depth to the prints. Bound in deep yellow morocco with Aleph and Tav the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet carbon-tooled to the covers with short varied impressions. Bird was elected a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in 2006 after earning the Mansfield Medal and first prize at the annual Designer Bookbinders competition in 2005. She finds inspiration for her art in text and intends her binding designs to become a natural extension of the written word. In an artist's statement she writes "It is important for me to bind a given book with great respect for the contents. My aim is to entice and excite the reader into the book and to achieve harmony between design and function." Housed in an elegant gray cloth-covered box lined with printed paper. Book measures 4 by 3 3/8 inches 104x85mm. When unfolded the panorama measures 68 3/4 inches in length. Jo Bird unknown
Bookseller reference : 25422
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Loti Pierre Louis Marie Julien Viaud
Lives of Two Cats
Boston: Riverside Press 1900. Allen C.E. Octavo. iv 92pp. Although not stated this is one of 250 copies printed of which 150 were for sale. Number 32 in the Young of Heart series translated from the original French by Mary B. Richards. Illustrated with black & white images of the titular two cats by C. E. Allen. Laid into this copy are the original pen-and-ink drawings for all eight illustrations and the cover in addition to proofs for all illustrations except the cover. Not much is known about Allen whose illustrations show great technical competence. A touch of offsetting to title page else a remarkably fine and bright copy in publisher's green cloth gilt and with the original glassine dust wrapper. T.e.g. Riverside Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 25366
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Pontificalis. Trial sheets on vellum for an unpublished edition
Paris: Didot Firmin 1870. Huyot Jules Jean Marie Joseph. Folio. 72ff. consisting of the first 24 gatherings repeated three times. With fine steel engravings by Jules Jean Marie Joseph Huyot. Printed on vellum in red and black. It appears this work a late collaboration between Ambroise Firmin Didot and Huyot was never published and that this copy may have been a sample drawn up of trial sheets in order to give prospective buyers a sense for the size and weight of the finished work. A magnificent specimen of printing by Didot with text printed in two columns engraved tendril borders six-line initial capitals and all printed on rich vellum. Bound in brown cloth with a straight-grain pattern and a subtle blind-stamped rule on the covers; title in gilt on spine. Some spotting to front cover minor bumps to corners. Didot, Firmin unknown
Bookseller reference : 24606
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Parker Robert Andrew
Ein Deutsches Wörterbuch A German Dictionary
Cornwall CT: Robert Andrew Parker 2011. Parker Robert Andrew. 12mo. 28ff. From an edition of ten copies this is an artist's proof signed by the artist and printer Robert Andrew Parker and with twenty-eight illustrations hand-colored by him. This unsettling book depicts often strange examples of German words for each letter of the alphabet. Essen stands in for the letter "E" and the city is shown with billowing clouds rising from the factories looming behind the cityscape. The letter "Z" is represented by "Zahnarzt" or dentist and is illustrated by a rather ominous-looking dentist's chair. Robert Andrew Parker is a prolific fine artist and illustrator with work in the collections of leading contemporary art museums. His illustrations have appeared in hundreds of books and magazines including Pop Corn and Ma Goodness by Edna Mitchell Preston which was a Caldecott honoree. Parker is especially interested in depicting images of war gaining national attention after his illustrations of imaginary battlefields were printed in Esquire in 1960. This fascination is also evident in Ein Deutsches Wörterbuch where "J" is for "Junkers C21" "T" is for "Toten Kopf-Husaren" Death's Head Hussars and "Y" stands for "Yperit" mustard gas. Leaves unbound as issued and housed in a cardboard and wood box fabricated by the artist and stenciled with "Wörterbuch" on the front cover. Fine. Michael Dooley "Robert Andrew Parker on Life and Illustration" Print Magazine 4/15/2013. Robert Andrew Parker unknown
Bookseller reference : 25309
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