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Best.-Nr. 1002576France: no publisher no date early twentieth century. Striking hand-colored sheet of six "images d'Épinal." Inexpensive broadsides like these were hugely popular in France in the nineteenth century: naïve woodcuts brightly colored featuring images of Catholic saints Napoleonic battles and storybook characters. By the turn of the twentieth century lithography had emerged as the primary printing process and the range of subjects had greatly expanded but there was still a market for images printed in the old style a graphic tradition that influenced modernists from Henri Rousseau to Alfred Jarry. This group of six separate images printed from blocks on a sheet of Ingres d'Arches paper may be a publisher's proof. The domestic and religious subjects include a young woman reaching for a flower the devotional image of Christ in the winepress and an angel watching over the city gates. A fine example. Single sheet of six woodblock prints printed recto only and colored en pochoir measuring 14.75 x 19 inches. no publisher unknown books
1897Best.-Nr. 25091602Chicago: Way & Williams 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good . First printing small octavo size 351 pp. A fictitious story taking place in the ancient past with a striking binding design by William Henry Bradley 1868-1962. "Nicknamed the 'Dean of American Designers' by The Saturday Evening Post Bradley was the highest-paid American artist of the early 20th century" n.b. quote from Wiki. ___DESCRIPTION: Double-cover design by Bradley in red and deep gold on black cloth top edge gilt fore- and bottom edges uncut prior owner name in a vintage hand with the date "Feb 8/98" at the top of the front free endpaper frontispiece a map this the only plate in the book title page in red and black with publisher's logo prominently set forth the copyright page with the date of 1897 matching the date on the title page the colophon with the printing date of August 1897 no mention of subsequent printings; binding small octavo size 7 5/8" by 5" 351 pp. ___CONDITION: A bit better than very good the boards clean straight corners with light rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and in addition to the prior owner marking mentioned above another prior owner name at the top of the rear pastedown; some wear to the head and tail of the spine with the cloth at the head beginning to fray. ___CITATIONS: Bambace no. A31; Krause no. 44 which states that the plates other than the initial frontis map "were purchased in 1898 by Way & Williams and used in later printings.". ___POSTAGE: International customers please note the following: i additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs please inquire for details; and ii any taxes duty or tariffs charged by your country will of necessity be your responsibility. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Way & Williams hardcover books
1895Best.-Nr. 231128031London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co 1895. Hardcover. Very good. Thomson Hugh. Small octavo size 120 pp. A lovely collection of poems by Henry Austin Dobson 1840-1921 which speak of a simpler time. With illustrations throughout by Hugh Thomson 1860-1920; Irish by birth he lived most of his life in England and was known as "an instinctive artist with little formal training". His style which he founded is referred to as "The Cranford School" distinctive for its "nostalgic affectionate and slightly whimsical approach to historical themes." As such he was the perfect artist to illustrate "The Story of Rosina" as well as the works by Jane Austen among many others. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full red cloth this title was also issued in green cloth the front and spine lavishly decorated with gold after illustrations by Thomson top edge gilt Thomson's black-and-white line drawings throughout many being full-page others half-page others being chapter head-pieces; binding small octavo size 7 3/4" by 5 1/2" 120 pp. ___CONDITION: Very good the boards clean straight corners with light rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean with a few spots of foxing and entirely free of prior owner markings; light wear at the head and tail of the spine and the bottom edges of the boards the spine lightly sunned foxing to the text block edges and the volume slightly cocked; even with its few faults still a lovely copy. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note the following: i additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs please inquire for details; and ii any taxes duty or tariffs charged by your country will of necessity be your responsibility. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co hardcover books
1949Best.-Nr. 1414420London: The Grey Walls Press Ltd 1949. First British Edition Second Impression. Hardcover. Small Octavo 189 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine pictorial with red lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering price uncut: "8s. 6d." small chips missing to head and tail of spine light shelfwear and rubbing. Light toning to endpapers from glue. Shelved showcase. 1414420. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Grey Walls Press Ltd hardcover books
1894Best.-Nr. 013830Boston: Copeland and Day 1894. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. As stated on the colophon the first complete edition this one of 500 copies on French paper with lettering and decorations by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue in a custom inlay leather binding by Virginia Chester signed and dated 1911. Full dark green crushed morocco elaborately decorated front and rear covers and their versos aeg. Executed in Art Nouveau style perfectly appropriate to Goodhue's decorations. Signed by Chester with gilt pressed conjoined initials VC flanked by 19 and 11 for 1911 at the bottom of the rear inside cover. Spine moderately worn corners worn joints too more noticeably to front and shallow loss at spine ends more noticeably at top. Chester dropped out of university in Illinois in 1902 due to illness and took up bookbinding as a hobby. She never returned to college but continued professionally with bookbinding studying in Chicago with Gertrude Stiles in New York with Helen Haskell and in Paris with Henri Mulhae and Jules Domont. Around 1912 or so she returned to the Chicago and opened her own bookbinding studio in the Fine Arts Building. Penciled at the bottom of the fly leaf is perhaps her notes or a collector's: "Virgina Chester / Chicago/ 1024 Fine Arts Bldg/ code/ 11/28/13/ code". This binding appears to have been influenced by French design and technique. Copeland and Day hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. 013777Perishable Press 1972. First Edition Limited. Hardcover. Fine. Brown quarter-morocco over marbled boards title stamped in black on spine. Number 96 of 120 copies on Shadwell paper. Signed by J.V. Cunningham on leaf following title page. Walter Hamady 1940-2019 was an American artist book designer papermaker poet and teacher. He is especially known for his innovative efforts in letterpress printing bookbinding and papermaking. In the mid-1960s he founded The Perishable Press Limited and the Shadwell Papermill and soon after joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he taught for more than thirty years. Colophon states that the paper created for this book included bedsheets from the poet himself. Perishable Press hardcover books
1938Best.-Nr. 55160МоÑква Moscow: Музеиа-Ð’Ñ‹Ñтавки Охраны МатеринÑтва и МладенчеÑтва Museums and Exhibitions of Motherhood and Childhood Protection 1938. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg-. Folio. Unpaginated 113 double-sided leaves. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and yellow circular embossed bas-relief on the front cover designed by Anna Yuzhakova. Spine with blind-stamped illustration and lettering. Binding protected in modern mylar. Housed in its original blue cloth slipcase with a circular windowed cutout for the bas-relief. Photo-illustrated endpapers. The title page is a double-page spread with modernist typography and title text appearing in 10 additional languages including Ukrainian Belorussian Bulgarian Armenian Georgian Turkmen Azerbaijani Uzbek and others. Following the title page are four pages of introductory text and then a fold-out with woodcut illustrations in black by Nikolai Piskarev 1892-1959 showing images of the Russian revolution revealing photographic portraits of Lenin and Stalin when opened. The work is profusely illustrated throughout with countless photographic images beautifully printed in b/w and sepia-toned gravure. The book's overall design and layout was the work of Yakov Babushkin b.1907 which displays a wide variety of artistic and conceptual flourishes. Throughout the book are many smaller half-width multipage inserts artistic insets and fold-outs as well as extensive photomontages and large double-page spreads. Final leaf contains extensive contributor's credits. The publication features the work of a long list of contributors including noted photographers such as Olga Ignatovich 1905-1984 and Elizaveta Ignatovich 1903-1983 - both sister of pioneering Soviet photographer and photojournalist Boris Ignatovich cinematographer and filmmaker Alexander Frolov 1904-1962 and Solomon Tules among many others. This lavishly produced piece of Soviet photo-propaganda praising the state's maternity and child-care institutions and services. Published on the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the department for the Protection of Motherhood and Infancy Okhrana Materinstva i Mladenchestva or OMM the book showcases the state's initiatives to support mothers and and their young children in the and promote the importance of Motherhood as a vital role within Soviet society. Documented are women's centers hospitals early childhood education and summer camps among countless other state-controlled entities from across many different republics of the Soviet Union Russia Ukraine Belarus Georgia Azerbaijan Armenia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The work one of 5 notable Soviet photo-books issued between 1933 and 1938 focussing on women and women's issues in the USSR. Binding with light bumping and rubbing to extremities including some light abrading to the very bottom of the front cover. Interior with starting at the interior front cover. Sporadic light staining to the endpapers and interior covers. Persistent light stain along the bottom of the book block visibly affecting the bottom of most pages throughout. Images are otherwise still mostly clean and vibrant. Binding fairly tight overall. Binding and interior in good to very good- condition overall. Scarce. Bibliographic reference: Heiting and Karasik The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941 p. 380. A scarce work with only 6 known copies woldwide on OCLC. Музеиа-Ð’Ñ‹Ñтавки Охраны МатеринÑтва и МладенчеÑтва (Museums and Exhibitions of Mother hardcover books
2010Best.-Nr. 71588Created using the Blurb creative publishing service 2010. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED. Short oblong quarto 21 cm x 25 cm Black cloth over boards. In the dust jacket with general moderate wear. Inscribed by John Hawkins the author and founder of Salt Lake City's Intermountain Guitar and Banjo on the front free endpaper: "To___ / Thanks for all the great / guitars and teaching me / about vintage guitars and the / vintage market. To a great / friend. / June 2010 / John Hawkins." Inscription also very faintly visible on title page. Created using the Blurb creative publishing service hardcover books
1965Best.-Nr. 013433Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Catalog of Warhol's first museum show with the compliments card of Sam Green who curated it. 8vo illustrated stiff covers black cloth backstrip perfect bound 27 full page illustrations. Housed in a phase box with an enameled medallion - with the Warhol image of Campbell soup cans similar to the cover of the catalog - in a round silver mount on the front slot designed and crafted by Wesley Tanner. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania hardcover books
1947Best.-Nr. 95140New York: Soviet Russia Today 1947. Pamphlet. 48p. staplebound pamphlet evenly toned light ink smudge on back cover otherwise very good condition 4.75x7.25 inches. Cover designed by Lynd Ward. Soviet Russia Today unknown books
1968Best.-Nr. 27772New York: Friendly Local Press 1968. Very Good. New York: Friendly Local Press 1968. First Edition. Signed at colophon by Rowan. Quarto. Stapled wraps with tape strip to spine though bottom strip lacking. Rubbing to edges. Binding holding by the single tape strip. Dedication to introductory page in Rowan's hand "For the Hornicles- ". Very Good and scarce. Friendly Local Press unknown books
1982Best.-Nr. 268418New York: Metro Museum of Art/Abrams 1982. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good Hardcover in Like New Dustwrapper Some light spotty fading on brown cloth covers otherwise in excellent condition. Metro Museum of Art/Abrams hardcover books
1986Best.-Nr. 25926Trumansburg NY: The Crossing Press 1986. 67p. very good first trade paperback edition in decorative wraps. Feminist Series. The Crossing Press unknown books
1953Best.-Nr. 1411313Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo xi 207 pages. In Good condition with a Fair plus dust jacket. Spine is illustrated white print. Dust jacket in mylar; edgewear with short tears at spine ends and flap corners mild shelf wear. Price unclipped: “$2.00”. Boards in brown cloth; light wear to spine caps and corners light shelf wear. Text block has spotting to top edge light tanning to endpapers. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column BB. 1411313. FP New Rockville Stock. The John C. Winston Company hardcover books
1969Best.-Nr. 345627Natoma Productions 1969. 28p includes covers 8.5x11 inches biographical notes scenes from various productions including LA NYC Stockholm Munich historical background some lyrics colorful psychedelic design to stapled covers in good condition. Natoma Productions unknown books
Best.-Nr. B306525-1London n.d. 28pp. Figs. 12mo. Dec. boards 1/4 cloth. Keepsake designed by Pentagram. London, n.d. hardcover books
1986Best.-Nr. 17297New York: Raw Books & Graphics 1986. Pictorial Boards. 36p. boards rubbed extremities quite worn else very good condition. Raw one-shot #6. Coe based her wild confident illustrations and outspoken poetry on Malcolm X's critique of American society creating a powerful indictment of American society in the Reagan years. Raw Books & Graphics unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 42884Ames IA: Iowa State Univ. 1973. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy with numeral and gallery stamp on front wrapper. Unpaged 32 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. Sm. Obl. 4to. Held at the Memorial Union Gallery. Iowa State Univ. unknown books
2015Best.-Nr. 41561Berlin: Edition Société 2015. Near Fine. Berlin: Edition Société 2015. Stated second printing; numbered 30 of 300. Slim quarto 26x19cm; unpaginated. Publisher’s glossy photographic wrappers; staple-bound. Color photographs throughout. Boards clean with sharp corners. Binding sound. Textblock endsheets and interior pages clean. Near Fine. Volume of editorial photographs interspersed with quotes in English by Zenkei Shibayama Chuang Tzu and others. Published to accompany the exhibition by the same name at Carl Kostyal Gallery in London. Premier Machinic Funerary Part II is the second installment a series the artist describes as “depicting a form of hyper-commercial ancestral worship.” Don’t ask us what that means. As of April 2026 we locate two copies in OCLC at MoMA and the Whitney both described as second printings. However OCLC notes the presence of a metallic orange envelope with “peace” sticker which this copy lacks. Edition Société unknown books
2004Best.-Nr. 202117National Academy of Design 2004. Staplebound. VG: A book in excellent condition with clean pages and solid binding. A matte staplebound paperback book with a full-color pictorial front cover and a full-color illustration on a blue back cover. Both inside covers are yellow. The front inside cover also has a lilac pocket holding a foldout of information on the exhibition. Pages: 2 3-16. Contains twelve full-color photographs. Published in conjunction with an exhibition from February 6 - April 18 2004. National Academy of Design unknown books
Best.-Nr. 202125London: Academy Editions 1900. Softcover. VG: A book in excellent condition with clean pages and tight binding. A white matte softcover book featuring a full-color illustration on the front cover. The title is printed in red text across the front cover and down the spine. The back cover also features a full-color illustration. The inside front cover has a full-color illustration and the first page is a tear-out with a full-color graphic. The inside back cover is also illustrated in color. Pages: 7 6-96. Profusely illustrated with both full-color and black-and-white illustrations. Academy Editions paperback books
1894Best.-Nr. 1992731894. Softcover. VG- small area of chipping at base of spine. Illustrated stapled and glued wraps. 44 pp. plus 21 full-page photographic plates and one line engraving plus ads at beginning and end. Catalogue lists 607 works many of which are reproduced by line engraving. Includes names and adresses along with numbered catalogue entries for each artist at rear. Rare. paperback books
1930Best.-Nr. 199580Providence RI: Ackerman-Standard Co. 1930. Paperback. Good Ex-Library indicated by stamps stickers and marginalia to front cover; wraps are toned/edgeworn/bumped/scuffed/smudged; covers are starting; interior is clean with light toning. Yellow stapled wraps with black lettering and design; 20 unnumbered pp. Created on the occasion of an exhibition at the Rhode Island School of Design March 11th - 31st 1930. [Ackerman-Standard Co.] paperback books
1968Best.-Nr. 197280Brooklyn N.Y.: Pratt Adlib Press 1968. One of 500 produced. Hardcover. Good Portfolio case is worn/scuffed/smudged; case is warped a bit; bottom portion of the case has been detached at perforations and unattached to access materials by design but is present; leaves are clean and clear; mounted title card on information sheet has light scuffing/smudge. Black and brown folio case with white illustration and mounted color title card; 1 folded informational sheet; four folded leaves of plates two in protective sheets. From informational sheet: "This small box of exploding images of self and world Adlib Number 16 is issued in conjunction with an exhibition of Theater Graphics held in the Amsterdam Gallery of the Library and Museum of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center during the summer and fall of 1968.Adlib Number 16 has been printed in an edition of 500 copies by James Lanier Master Printer and Allen Lanier. Cleopatra poster by David Palladini; mechanical for poster by Frances Yamashita; Cinegraphics signature by Kenneth Tisa and Anna Pomaska; Experimental photo by Marjorie Wood; Photomontage by Lee Newbury; Xerox-Pantomime by Todd Smith." This is the final edition of the Adlib series to be produced. Pratt Adlib Press hardcover books
1969Best.-Nr. 197985New York: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 1969. Paperback. Good Wraps are lightly toned/scuffed/smudged/foxed; textblock edges are lightly toned/foxed; interiors are clean; bindings are solid. White stapled wraps with b&w photo and black lettering; richly illustrated; various paginations. Issues include: "Seventieth Anniversary Members Exhibition Dec 3rd through 19th 1967"; "Seventy-first Annual Members Exhibition November 30 through Dec 17th 1968"; "Seventy-third Annual Exhibition December 3rd through December 20th 1970" and "Seventy-third Open Exhibition December 4th through December 21st 1969." [Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club] paperback books
