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WALKER, David [Poems]. Thomas Cornell [Etchings]Biblio.com

Voiceprints

réf. 499380Maine: Romulus Editions 1989. Hardcover. Fine. First edition deluxe issue. Poems by David Walker. Etchings by Thomas Cornell. Quarto. 38pp. Quarter blue morocco stamped in gold paper-covered boards. printed on handmade Barcham Green Langley paper illustrated with five original etchings by Thomas Cornell. The spine cover and title page reproduce a "voiceprint" from a recording of the poet pronouncing the vowels and consonants of the book's title on a precision oscilloscope. Copy letter "h" of 24 lettered copies along with an extra separate suite of etchings "the first pulled from these plates" each limited to 24 lettered copies signed by David Walker and Thomas Cornell all within a box made by Jeffrey Haste. A fine copy beautifully printed and illustrated in about fine clamshell case with the topedge faintly sunned and a bit of very faint spotting along the spine edge. Beautifully printed and designed by George Benington the multi-color etchings printed by James Cambronne. Two of the etchings are individual portraits of Franz Kafka and Charles Ives. Striking etchings by the artist Thomas Cornell who had a one-man show at the G.W. Einstein Company in New York. Thomas Cornell is the Bowdoin College Richard Steele Professor of Studio Art. "A graduate of Amherst College Cornell studied for a year at Yale School of Art and Architecture. In addition to Bowdoin he has taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara and at Princeton University. He has received many awards including a Fulbright Grant the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship in 1966. He was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1983. His work is present in art books most notably Rizzoli's Post-Modernism The New Classicism in Art and Architecture by Charles Jencks. He has had five one-man exhibitions in New York City and seven major museum exhibitons including a Bowdoin College Museum of Art exhibition in 1990 with a catalogue essay by Martica Sawin" cf Bowdoin College Visual Arts Department Website. Romulus Editions hardcover

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WALKER, David [Poems]. Thomas Cornell [Etchings]ABAA

Voiceprints

Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA · États-Unis4 500,00 $US≈ 4 020,37 €

Wilde, Oscar; Rudolf Stuckert (etchings); Guido Moriell (ed)Biblio.com

Der glückliche Prinz SIGNED

réf. 41901Berlin: Guido Moriell 1991. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine condition. Signed by the artist on each etching and colophon. A15/50. Small Folio. 55 1pp. Original hand bound blue Morocco with geometric cover design by bookbinder Guido Moriell and black-stamped lettering on spine housed in blue cloth clamshell box with gilt lettering on spine. Every binding of the deluxe edition is a unique design. Includes the video documenting the production of this anniversary edition housed in separate compartment of clamshell box as issued. Bibliophile edition on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the bookbinder Guido Moriell Radolfzell released in two Deluxe Editions A and B of 50 copies each and a standard edition of 100. This is No. 15 of the deluxe edition A printed on handmade paper. With 10 signed and hand colored original etchings by Rudolf Stuckert printed on the hand press of the artist. Top edge blue. Blue shaded endpapers. Blue initials. Text revised by John Loram based on the translation by Wilhelm Cremer 1922. Beautiful hand press production on firm handmade paper by the Steinort paper mill. An artistic masterpiece of modern hand press printing and bookbinding. Rudolf Stuckert 1912-2002 was a German painter and gallerist. He studied at the Academies in Kassel and Düsseldorf and was a master student of Oskar Moll. Stuckert opened his first gallery in 1936 in Düsseldorf with an exhibitions of Bruno Goller. In 1949 Stuckert became a cofounder of the New Rhine Secession Neue Rheinische Sezession in Düsseldorf. He had moved to Lake Constance in 1947 where he became a cofounder of the artist group "Der kleine Kreis" and was considered one of the so-called Höri-Painters. His paintings are an interplay of figurative and abstract elements. Landscapes ballplayers and acrobats are his favorite motifs. Guido Moriell is a film enthusiast and bookbinder in Radolfzell Lake Constance. In 2008 his work as a bookbinder was featured in the prestigious exhibition "Kunst des Bucheinbandes Art of Bookbinding" at the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar. Emphasis of the exhibition was the bookbinding in historic fashion showing a video of Guido Moriell at work as an example of traditional bookbinding. Guido Moriell hardcover