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Best.-Nr. 332753New York: ACA Galleries 1999. First edition of this collaboration between artist Wendy Mark and poet Mark Strand specially bound issue limited to 20 copies signed by Wendy Mark and Mark Strand and with an original monoprint signed and dated by Wendy Mark. Colophon states: "This catalogue was published on occasion of the exhibition WENDY MARK 89 CLOUDS at ACA Galleries New York. November 6-27 1999. Catalogue design The Grenfell Press New York. Printing and binding by Stamperia Valdonega Verona". Cream-colored paper-covered boards publisher's printed paper spine label stamped in giltBoth the book and monoprint are in fine condition. First edition of this collaboration between artist Wendy Mark and poet Mark Strand specially bound issue limited to 20 copies signed by Wendy Mark and Mark Strand and with an original monoprint signed and dated by Wendy Mark. Colophon states: "This catalogue was published on occasion of the exhibition WENDY MARK 89 CLOUDS at ACA Galleries New York. November 6-27 1999. Catalogue design The Grenfell Press New York. Printing and binding by Stamperia Valdonega Verona". ACA Galleries unknown books
1964Best.-Nr. 190365Iowa City IA: Stone Wall Press 1964. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 53 pages. Number 109 from an edition of 225 copies printed by K.K. Merker from Romanee type on Curtis Rag paper. The first book from this acclaimed poet and writer who won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize award was the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress and won numerous other awards. A clean near fine copy in red cloth boards and in a supplied acetate dust jacket. Signed by Strand on the title page. A very nice copy of this debut collection of poems. Stone Wall Press unknown
1964Best.-Nr. 190365Iowa City IA: Stone Wall Press 1964. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 53 pages. Number 109 from an edition of 225 copies printed by K.K. Merker from Romanee type on Curtis Rag paper. The first book from this acclaimed poet and writer who won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize award was the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress and won numerous other awards. A clean near fine copy in red cloth boards and in a supplied acetate dust jacket. Signed by Strand on the title page. A very nice copy of this debut collection of poems. Stone Wall Press unknown books
Best.-Nr. 61548Iowa City: Windhover Press 1990. First edition limited to 251 copies this being copy no. 1 inscribed by Strand to the printer Kim Merker. Folio pp. 60 printed on Umbria paper on rectos only in black and blue title page in black gray and blue; 2 woodcuts in the text; a fine copy in original plain gray wrappers made by Tim Barrett. Inscribed by Strand on the half-title: "To Kim / Whose book this is from one whose book this is too - with continuous affection / Mark." Merker published Strand's first book Sleeping With One Eye Open in 1964 at the Stone Wall Press. Berger Printing and the Mind of Merker 97. Windhover Press unknown
Best.-Nr. 61548Iowa City: Windhover Press 1990. First edition limited to 251 copies this being copy no. 1 inscribed by Strand to the printer Kim Merker. Folio pp. 60 printed on Umbria paper on rectos only in black and blue title page in black gray and blue; 2 woodcuts in the text; a fine copy in original plain gray wrappers made by Tim Barrett. Inscribed by Strand on the half-title: "To Kim / Whose book this is from one whose book this is too - with continuous affection / Mark." Merker published Strand's first book Sleeping With One Eye Open in 1964 at the Stone Wall Press. Berger Printing and the Mind of Merker 97. Windhover Press unknown books
Best.-Nr. 142506Salt Lake City UT: Red Butte Press 1993. illustrated cloth-covered boards cloth-covered boards clamshell box. Red Butte Press. tall slim 4to. illustrated cloth-covered boards cloth-covered boards clamshell box. 17 leaves. Drawings by Bonnie Sucec. First edition limited to 75 copies of which this is one of 55 numbered copies signed by the author and the illustrator. Fine in fine clamshell box. Printed at the Red Butte Press University of Utah Marriott Library under the direction of Everett L. Cooley. Its publication was made possible through the generosity and support of Catherine B. and Claudius Y. Gates. Each of the drawings by Bonnie Sucec was individually painted by her. The book was designed set by hand and printed by Day Christensen. The type is 16 point Van Dijck and the handmade cotton rag paper is from the Twinrocker Paper Mill. It was printed damp on an 1846 Columbian handpress. The books were bound and boxed by BookLab. Red Butte Press unknown
Best.-Nr. 142506Salt Lake City UT: Red Butte Press 1993. illustrated cloth-covered boards cloth-covered boards clamshell box. Red Butte Press. tall slim 4to. illustrated cloth-covered boards cloth-covered boards clamshell box. 17 leaves. Drawings by Bonnie Sucec. First edition limited to 75 copies of which this is one of 55 numbered copies signed by the author and the illustrator. Fine in fine clamshell box. Printed at the Red Butte Press University of Utah Marriott Library under the direction of Everett L. Cooley. Its publication was made possible through the generosity and support of Catherine B. and Claudius Y. Gates. Each of the drawings by Bonnie Sucec was individually painted by her. The book was designed set by hand and printed by Day Christensen. The type is 16 point Van Dijck and the handmade cotton rag paper is from the Twinrocker Paper Mill. It was printed damp on an 1846 Columbian handpress. The books were bound and boxed by BookLab. Red Butte Press unknown books
Best.-Nr. 112522Millerton New York An Aperture Book 1972. . First edition number 42 of 100 signed copies; 2 vols 4to 304 x 248 mm 12 x 9¾ in; black-and-white photographs; tan endpapers burgundy cloth-covered boards titles to spines in gilt publisher's burgundy cloth-covered board slipcase lightly marked and worn fine in a very good slipcase; ii 152 4; ii 157-380 2pp. One of 100 signed and numbered copies bound in cloth. The regular edition was issued in two versions: a single volume to accompany a US touring retrospective exhibition and a two-volume version for general distribution. The first volume covers 1915-1946 the second 1950-1968. 'Photography is very easy' Strand writes in his introduction. 'The visible world is such an interesting place that it doesn't take much in the way of passion insight sensitivity or rigorous craft to make a picture worth looking at 07/08/2024 at least briefly. But photography is very difficult. The visible world is so harshly recalcitrant. It stays where it is in its own context. It takes the quickest eye the most penetrating insight and the most painstaking technique to make a photograph that is a felt comment bare of inessentials; a photograph that moves the viewer with an understanding of the meaning of what is photographed.' Millerton, New York, An Aperture Book, 1972. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 106543New York Museum of Modern Art 1945. . First edition inscribed by the photographer; 4to 26 x 19.8 cm; numerous black and white photographic illustrations; publisher's printed green cloth pictorial dust jacket small chip to top of spine and top of rear panel overall a very good copy; 32pp. One of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century Paul Strand 1890-1976 was born in New York City and went on to study under Lewis W. Hine before becoming a commercial photographer in 1912 following Alfred Stieglitz in his commitment to 'straight' photography. In 1933 he was appointed chief of photography and cinematography in the Secretariat of Education in Mexico. After 1942 he concentrated on still photography for his records of life in many parts of the world. This presentation copy is inscribed by the artist and musician Chenoweth Hall to Susan Thompson dated 1947 and further inscribed by Paul Strand 'with many warm memories of friendship'. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1945. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 12504New York: ACA Galleries 1999. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Square small quarto unpaginated. A fine copy in the publisher's cream-white boards with spine label. A few faint erasures to the front free endpaper else lovely. This is one of just 20 limited copies SIGNED by Wendy Mark and Mark Strand on the title page and with an original monoprint also signed and dated by Wendy Mark and laid-in to an envelope which is neatly pasted to the rear paste-down as issued. Per the colophon: "This catalogue was published on occasion of the exhibition WENDY MARK 89 CLOUDS at ACA Galleries New York. November 6-27 1999. Catalogue design The Grenfell Press New York. Printing and binding by Stamperia Valdonega Verona." A beautiful publication. ACA Galleries hardcover
Best.-Nr. 125421972. Near Fine. A warm gracious 2 pg. ALS from the photographer Paul Strand referencing --among other things-- an evening with Hart Crane. Strand is patiently responding from France to a Vietnam vet whose 2 letters are here included who asks if he and his wife might work for an aging Strand in any capacity. Strand's August 1972 8 1/4" x 10 1/2" letter in response is bright and clean and has held up nicely. His hand is strong and the ball-point ink completely legible. Also includes the original enevelope addressed in Strand's hand and postmarked "Yvesines" France. unknown
Best.-Nr. 125421972. Near Fine. A warm gracious 2 pg. ALS from the photographer Paul Strand referencing --among other things-- an evening with Hart Crane. Strand is patiently responding from France to a Vietnam vet whose 2 letters are here included who asks if he and his wife might work for an aging Strand in any capacity. Strand's August 1972 8 1/4" x 10 1/2" letter in response is bright and clean and has held up nicely. His hand is strong and the ball-point ink completely legible. Also includes the original enevelope addressed in Strand's hand and postmarked "Yvesines" France. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 63673Salt Lake City UT: Red Butte Press 1993. Limited Edition. Bonnie Sucec. SIGNED. 26pp. Folio 40 cm Gray cloth in matching clamshell. Near fine in a very good clamshell with light soiled marks and a thin moisture stain to the rear. Another charming production by Red Butte Press. Every page is for a different letter of the alphabet and is accompanied by an original illustration from Bonnie Sucec. Bonnie Sucec's work is included in the collections of the Salt Lake Art Center the Utah Arts Council and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Signed by the author and the illustrator on the limitation page. A limited edition with a very low limitation. Number 10 in an edition of 75 copies with an additional 20 copies hors commerce. "Mark Strand was recognized as one of the premier American poets of his generation as well as an accomplished editor translator and prose writer. The hallmarks of his style are precise language surreal imagery and the recurring theme of absence and negation; later collections investigate ideas of the self with pointed often urbane wit. Named the US poet laureate in 1990 Strand's career spanned five decades and he won numerous accolades from critics and a loyal following among readers. In 1999 he was awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection Blizzard of One." - Poetry Foundation. Red Butte Press unknown
1993Best.-Nr. RSTRPOE00FPRed Butte Press 1993. Fine. Strand Mark. A Poet's Alphabet of Influences. Sucec Bonnie. Salt Lake City UT: Red Butte Press 1993. copy #25 of 75. Illustrated. Tall narrow quarto. Brown cloth with painterly decorations in black. Signed by author. Book condition: Fine in very good taupe linen clamshell box with faint moisture stain at opening. Signed by Mark Strand and Bonnie Sucec on limitation page. Each poem headed with decorative hand-colored initials. Red Butte Press hardcover
Best.-Nr. 142476New York NY: Thornwillow Press Ltd 2004. quarter crushed tan morocco over paste-paper covered boards leather tips title in gilt on spine marbled endsheets cloth clamshell box with title in gilt on spine. Thornwillow Press. oblong 8vo. quarter crushed tan morocco over paste-paper covered boards leather tips title in gilt on spine marbled endsheets cloth clamshell box with title in gilt on spine. 34 pages. Monotypes by Wendy Mark. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is one of 50 copies bound thus. Signed by Mark Strand and Wendy Mark on the title page as well as with the signature of the printer Luke Ives Pontifell on the colophon. Fine in fine clamshell box. This facsimile edition of Candy: a Poem by Mark Strand 2004 is letterpress printed from the hand-written manuscript. Printed by Luke Ives Pontifell at his Thornwillow Press on handmade paper and bound at the press. From the artist: "This whimsical and beautiful poem by former U.S. Poet Laureate Mark Strand celebrates the many virtues joys and challenges of candy. The monotypes by Wendy Mark were made especially for this edition and were reproduced from her originals using offset lithography. Thornwillow Press, Ltd unknown
1990Best.-Nr. 689Iowa City: Windhover Press 1990. First edition. One of 26 specially bound lettered copies signed by Strand & Welliver with two separate prints laid in at the back; the only signed issue of this publication. As new. Folio original wrappers with Japanese style clasps. As new. Windhover Press unknown
Best.-Nr. 142476New York NY: Thornwillow Press Ltd 2004. quarter crushed tan morocco over paste-paper covered boards leather tips title in gilt on spine marbled endsheets cloth clamshell box with title in gilt on spine. Thornwillow Press. oblong 8vo. quarter crushed tan morocco over paste-paper covered boards leather tips title in gilt on spine marbled endsheets cloth clamshell box with title in gilt on spine. 34 pages. Monotypes by Wendy Mark. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is one of 50 copies bound thus. Signed by Mark Strand and Wendy Mark on the title page as well as with the signature of the printer Luke Ives Pontifell on the colophon. Fine in fine clamshell box. This facsimile edition of Candy: a Poem by Mark Strand 2004 is letterpress printed from the hand-written manuscript. Printed by Luke Ives Pontifell at his Thornwillow Press on handmade paper and bound at the press. From the artist: "This whimsical and beautiful poem by former U.S. Poet Laureate Mark Strand celebrates the many virtues joys and challenges of candy. The monotypes by Wendy Mark were made especially for this edition and were reproduced from her originals using offset lithography. Thornwillow Press, Ltd unknown books
1964Best.-Nr. 018479Iowa City: Stone Wall Press 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Sunning to the spine with just a touch of rubbing to the gilt lettering which is clear; contents bright and fresh. Near Fine. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's scarce first book copy #195 of only 225 numbered copies. Apparently issued with a glassine but not on any of the dozen or so copies we have seen. This copy has a mylar cover on it but we don't believe it to be original. Stone Wall Press hardcover books
1990Best.-Nr. 689Iowa City: Windhover Press 1990. First edition. One of 26 specially bound lettered copies signed by Strand & Welliver with two separate prints laid in at the back; the only signed issue of this publication. As new. Folio original wrappers with Japanese style clasps. As new. Windhover Press unknown books
Best.-Nr. 63673Salt Lake City UT: Red Butte Press 1993. Limited Edition. Bonnie Sucec. SIGNED. 26pp. Folio 40 cm Gray cloth in matching clamshell. Near fine in a very good clamshell with light soiled marks and a thin moisture stain to the rear. Another charming production by Red Butte Press. Every page is for a different letter of the alphabet and is accompanied by an original illustration from Bonnie Sucec. Bonnie Sucec's work is included in the collections of the Salt Lake Art Center the Utah Arts Council and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Signed by the author and the illustrator on the limitation page. A limited edition with a very low limitation. Number 10 in an edition of 75 copies with an additional 20 copies hors commerce. "Mark Strand was recognized as one of the premier American poets of his generation as well as an accomplished editor translator and prose writer. The hallmarks of his style are precise language surreal imagery and the recurring theme of absence and negation; later collections investigate ideas of the self with pointed often urbane wit. Named the US poet laureate in 1990 Strand's career spanned five decades and he won numerous accolades from critics and a loyal following among readers. In 1999 he was awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection Blizzard of One." - Poetry Foundation. Red Butte Press unknown books
1993Best.-Nr. RSTRPOE00FPRed Butte Press 1993. Fine. Strand Mark. A Poet's Alphabet of Influences. Sucec Bonnie. Salt Lake City UT: Red Butte Press 1993. copy #25 of 75. Illustrated. Tall narrow quarto. Brown cloth with painterly decorations in black. Signed by author. Book condition: Fine in very good taupe linen clamshell box with faint moisture stain at opening. Signed by Mark Strand and Bonnie Sucec on limitation page. Each poem headed with decorative hand-colored initials. Red Butte Press hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 8564New York. The Aperture Foundation. 1983. Plates laid loose into sand linen cloth Portfolio which is further encased in a like linen Solander box. Gilt titled morocco Title Label inset to front cover of box. Tall Folio. 17" x 21 This Edition Limited to 300 numbered copies of which this is #120. Portfolio is accompanied by a Text Folio by noted photography critic Ben Lifson and Michael E. Hoffman former Executive Director of Aperture and bears the stamp of the Paul Strand Archive and Limitation Colophon. Illustrated by 10 hand-pulled dust-grain photogravures by Paul Strand made from the original glass plates in 1973. Printed by master photogravure printer Jon Goodmanthese works were the subject of a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York in February 1998. The collection is comprised by : Still Life Pear and Bowls Twin Lakes Connecticut 1916 Paper Size 20" X 16" Image Size 10" X 11 1/4" Hudson River Pier New York 1914 Paper Size 20" X 16" Image Size 9 1/4" X 12 1/4" City Hall Park New York 1915 Paper Size 20" X 16" Image Size 13 1/8" X 6 1/4" Fifth Avenue New York 1915 Paper Size 20" X 16" Image Size 12 1/4" X 8" Yawning Woman New York 1916 Paper Size 20" X 16" Image Size 12 1/2" X 9 1/2" Man Five Points Square New York 1916 Paper Size 20" X 16" Image Size 9 1/2" X 10 1/4" From the Viaduct 125th Street New York 1915 Paper Size 20" X 16" Image Size 10" X 12 7/8" Railroad Sidings New York 1914 Paper Size 20" X 16" Image Size 12 1/2" X 9 1/2" From the El New York 1917 Paper Size 20" X 16" Image Size 12 3/4" X 9 1/8" Abstraction Porch Shadows Twin Lakes Connecticut 1916 Paper Size 20" X 16" Image Size 13" X 9 1/8" In the earlier years of his formidable career Paul Strand 18901976 was befriended and mentored by Alfred Stieglitz. A fierce proponent of modern art in America Stieglitzs infamous 291 Gallery on Fifth Avenue was the first to champion the avant-garde of European and American art and photography. His stewardship of Strand had a profound effect cultivating in Strand one of the greatest modernist photographers of the era. Aperture has drawn some of his most notable images for this portfolio from the Paul Strand Archive; they include City Hall Park New York 1915; From the El New York 1917; and Yawning Woman New York 1916. Describing Strands oeuvre Stieglitz said: In the history of photography there are but few photographers who from the point of view of expression have really done much work of any importance. And by importance we mean work that has some relatively lasting quality that element which gives all art its real significance. . . . The work is brutally direct. Devoid of any flim-flams; devoid of trickery and any ism devoid of any attempt to mystify an ignorant public. A Very Fine Pristine As New copy. The Aperture Foundation. hardcover
1950Best.-Nr. 201919New York: Oxford University Press 1950. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 248 pages. Features forewords by Newhall and Strand along with text selected and edited by Nancy Newhall. A beautiful selection of Strand's black and white photographs. A near fine copy in cloth boards with a crease to the top corner of the first seven pages and in very good plus dust jacket with some minor wear. Signed and inscribed by Nancy Newhall on the front free endpaper in the year of publication and additionally signed by Paul Strand as well. Very uncommon as such. Oxford University Press unknown
Best.-Nr. 8564New York. The Aperture Foundation. 1983. Plates laid loose into sand linen cloth Portfolio which is further encased in a like linen Solander box. Gilt titled morocco Title Label inset to front cover of box. Tall Folio. 17" x 21 This Edition Limited to 300 numbered copies of which this is #120. Portfolio is accompanied by a Text Folio by noted photography critic Ben Lifson and Michael E. Hoffman former Executive Director of Aperture and bears the stamp of the Paul Strand Archive and Limitation Colophon. Illustrated by 10 hand-pulled dust-grain photogravures by Paul Strand made from the original glass plates in 1973. Printed by master photogravure printer Jon Goodmanthese works were the subject of a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York in February 1998. The collection is comprised by : Still Life Pear and Bowls Twin Lakes Connecticut 1916 Paper Size 20" X 16" Image Size 10" X 11 1/4" Hudson River Pier New York 1914 Paper Size 20" X 16" Image Size 9 1/4" X 12 1/4" City Hall Park New York 1915 Paper Size 20" X 16" Image Size 13 1/8" X 6 1/4" Fifth Avenue New York 1915 Paper Size 20" X 16" Image Size 12 1/4" X 8" Yawning Woman New York 1916 Paper Size 20" X 16" Image Size 12 1/2" X 9 1/2" Man Five Points Square New York 1916 Paper Size 20" X 16" Image Size 9 1/2" X 10 1/4" From the Viaduct 125th Street New York 1915 Paper Size 20" X 16" Image Size 10" X 12 7/8" Railroad Sidings New York 1914 Paper Size 20" X 16" Image Size 12 1/2" X 9 1/2" From the El New York 1917 Paper Size 20" X 16" Image Size 12 3/4" X 9 1/8" Abstraction Porch Shadows Twin Lakes Connecticut 1916 Paper Size 20" X 16" Image Size 13" X 9 1/8" In the earlier years of his formidable career Paul Strand 18901976 was befriended and mentored by Alfred Stieglitz. A fierce proponent of modern art in America Stieglitzs infamous 291 Gallery on Fifth Avenue was the first to champion the avant-garde of European and American art and photography. His stewardship of Strand had a profound effect cultivating in Strand one of the greatest modernist photographers of the era. Aperture has drawn some of his most notable images for this portfolio from the Paul Strand Archive; they include City Hall Park New York 1915; From the El New York 1917; and Yawning Woman New York 1916. Describing Strands oeuvre Stieglitz said: In the history of photography there are but few photographers who from the point of view of expression have really done much work of any importance. And by importance we mean work that has some relatively lasting quality that element which gives all art its real significance. . . . The work is brutally direct. Devoid of any flim-flams; devoid of trickery and any ism devoid of any attempt to mystify an ignorant public. A Very Fine Pristine As New copy. The Aperture Foundation. hardcover books
1950Best.-Nr. 201919New York: Oxford University Press 1950. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 248 pages. Features forewords by Newhall and Strand along with text selected and edited by Nancy Newhall. A beautiful selection of Strand's black and white photographs. A near fine copy in cloth boards with a crease to the top corner of the first seven pages and in very good plus dust jacket with some minor wear. Signed and inscribed by Nancy Newhall on the front free endpaper in the year of publication and additionally signed by Paul Strand as well. Very uncommon as such. Oxford University Press unknown books
