1981réf. 98299NY:: Hudson Hills Press Saint Louis Art Museum. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0933920148 . Illustrated with 67 color plates including 5 gatefolds and 100 black and white illustrations. Stated first edition. INSCRIBED to a previous owner and dated 1981 by Roy Lichtenstein on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. ; 176 pages . Hudson Hills Press (Saint Louis Art Museum), hardcover books
1957réf. 2220First Edition. 80 pp. letterpress lithography and woodcut on various stocks in stiff illustrated wrappers. Occasional illustrations throughout both original and reproductions. Small 4to. Very good. One small chip to foot of spine. Light offsetting from a few illustrations. 2220 Single issue of this attractive "journal of contemporary ideas" with contents including a symposium on intellectualism and academia various articles on arts and culture as well as original fiction poetry and graphic art. In the last area this issue especially notable for the inclusion of an early original woodcut by Roy Lichtenstein from his brief abstract expressionist period before the advent of pop art printed on thin mulberry paper and bound in. Press of the Times books
réf. B92766-1Oberlin Polemic Society of Western Reserve University 1959. 252 x 523 mm. 10 x 20 5/8 inches. The woodcut is the dust jacket for the issue printed in black on heavy uncut wove stock and continuing onto flaps under both covers; within the composition the title of the journal is printed in dark red. The issue itself is 134 2pp. with 10 original prints hors texte mostly in color or on colored stocks. 4to. Wraps. In her catalogue raisonné of Lichtensteins prints Mary Lee Corlett discusses the two woodcuts Lichtenstein made for Polemic in 1957 and 1959 hand-printed by a commercial printer on a letterpress. For a brief time in the late 1950s Lichtenstein was a latecomer to the abstract expressionist style. This is visible in his last two prints of that decade. Both were made for Polemic a literary-art journal published by the student council at Adelbert College Western Reserve University now part of Case Western Reserve in Cleveland Ohio. No edition size is stated but it is known that 2000 copies were printed of the 1958 issue. Woodcut slightly darkened at the spine of the dust jacket with small clean tear at foot; a fine copy quite superior to that illustrated in Corlett. Oberlin (Polemic Society of Western Reserve University), 1959. paperback books
1959réf. 43280Cleveland OH: Case Western University 1959. Very Good/Very Good. Cleveland OH: Polemic Society of Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University 1959. Magazine 25cm; 135pp. Lichtenstein’s woodcut dust jacket with wine text to front panel; stiff staple-bound wrappers. All ten woodcuts and relief etchings present. Jacket predictably bumped and toned especially along spine with surface-level scratches to front panel. Wrappers bumped at spine ends and lightly toned; otherwise clean. Binding sound. Textblock clean. Toning due to ink transfer on pp84; interior pages otherwise clean. A Very Good copy. A typed signed note from Lichtenstein is laid-in in its original envelope. Lichtenstein’s brief note dated 1990 confirms that the woodcut cover is the only piece he contributed to Polemic during the magazine’s run. Case Western University unknown books
1874réf. 223351London: Macmillan 1874. hardcover. fine. Extra illustrated with lithographs copper and steel engravings mainly portraits and numerous woodcuts throughout the text several fold out facsimlies. 2 volumes tall 8vo beautifully rebound in 3/4 brown morocco with black spine labels marbled boards t.e.g. London: Macmillan 1874. Fine. Macmillan unknown books
2002réf. 215962New York / Washington D.C.: Hudson Hills Press in association with The National Gallery of Art 2002. Second revised edition. Hardcover. 372 pages. A revised and expanded edition. Features a foreword by Earl A. Powell III and a special new introduction by Ruth E. Fine for this edition. A comprehensive look at the wide range of works by Lichtenstein from prints posters books announcements and other projects. Includes 389 color plates with an additional 60 black and white illustrations. A clean very near fine copy in cloth boards and in a very near fine dust jacket. A lovely copy of a somewhat elusive book that remains one of the best reference books on this important Pop artist. Hudson Hills Press in association with The National Gallery of Art unknown books
1875réf. ST18174London: Macmillan and Co 1875. Third Edition. 226 x 151 mm. 9 x 6". xx 370 pp. VERY PRETTY SCARLET CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT BY LUCIEN BROCA stamp-signed on front turn-in covers with decorative roll border and frame of gilt and blind rules central panel diapered in ogival compartments each containing a lily raised bands spine compartments gilt in a similar design gilt lettering densely gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. With eight steel-engraved plates including five folding manuscript facsimiles 88 wood engravings the majority head- and tailpieces but some full-page and EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 24 engraved portraits of artists whose work is represented in the house and notable personages who visited there all the added plates with tissue guards. Spine just slightly and evenly darkened a breath of rubbing to rear joint mild foxing to a few of the inserted plates but A VERY FINE COPY--the text clean and fresh and the most attractive binding with virtually no signs of wear. This is a handsomely bound and extra-illustrated history of one of England's most celebrated stately homes Holland House here minutely described with all its furnishings and grounds along with numerous anecdotes of its distinguished inhabitants. Located in Kensington which today has long been engulfed by greater London the mansion began life as Cope Castle built beginning in 1607 by Sir Walter Cope. From Sir Walter the manor passed to his daughter Isabel wife of Henry Rich who became the first Earl of Holland in 1624. Like the king to whom he was loyal Rich was beheaded in 1649. Later in the century Holland House was rented by William Penn and in 1767 it was bought by Henry Fox first Lord Holland 1705-74 who held the position of leader of the House of Commons. In its day Holland House hosted the leading lights of Europe including Byron and the future American president James Monroe. Our author Princess Marie Henriette Norberte of Liechtenstein 1843-1931 was motivated to write these memoirs by her friendship with the widow of the fourth Lord Holland. The very attractive binding is the work of French-born binder Lucien Broca 1829-1910 who immigrated to London in 1875. According to Tidcombe's "Women Bookbinders" Broca was a "superb trade finisher" who originally worked for Antoine Chatelin then went into partnership with German émigré Simon Kauffmann from 1876 to 1889. Tidcombe and Sarah Prideaux's former pupil Katherine Adams believe that most of the bindings attributed to Prideaux between 1890 and 1900--some 290 volumes--were actually done by Broca with Tidcombe giving the Frenchman credit for the "best Prideaux bindings." Prideaux never publicly acknowledged his work perhaps for fear of disappointing fans of the most famous woman bookbinder in England. Broca was in business for himself as an "Art Binder" in 1901 and our binding was probably done about that time. The beauty of the present design is dependent on his perfection of finish--crispness of line and solidity of impression were Broca's hallmarks. Macmillan and Co unknown books
