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First Edition; Limited Edition: Number 69 of 660 copies, numbered and signed by Luigi Serafini. The book condition, including all die-cuts and plates is as new. For defects and box & dust jacket details see the end of this listing. The price reflects a deep discount on this rare item and a rare opportunity to own a book of this quality from renowned Italian artist Luigi Serafini.The artist's tribute to Jules Renard's 1959 Histoires Naturelles is a whimsical book which reflect a botanical construction of die-cut and coloured leaves forming a forest of enchanted trees and fantastical plants. The tome constitutes Serafini's herbarium of imaginary plants. The book was published to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of Jules Renard's life. In traditional Serafini style, the story, and the flow of die cuts and plates, and text, letter pressed on the highest quality heavy paper, follows no rational order, despite being grouped into sections, so interpretation is left to the imagination of the reader.…
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by Picasso, Pablo; Armitage, Merle
2 Statements by Picasso. Also a Comment by Merle Armitage.
by Picasso, Pablo; Armitage, Merle
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New York & Los Angeles: Merle Armitage, 1936 Illustrated with a lithograph by Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano, executed by Lynton R. Kistler, signed in pencil by Napolitano. Limited edition, this being number 65 of 112 numbered copies. Publisher's yellow cloth, title stamped in black and brown to upper cover. Very good overall, covers slightly bowed, light soiling to cloth, light wear to spine tips, residue from sticker on spine, light soiling to front endpapers, interior otherwise clean and bright including the lithograph, tissue guard still present, binding slightly shaken. Overall, a pleasing copy of a scarce book, with the signed lithograph in fine condition. These two essays by Picasso were first published separately in The New York Times in 1923 and 1930. They appear here with an additional statement by its publisher, Merle Armitage. Armitage started his career in the arts as a set designer in New York City and became a tour manager and theatre producer in Los Angeles. He authored over 100 books about artists and musicians, and was an art collector, befriending many artists including Picasso, Kandinsky, Klee, and Chagall. After meeting artist Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano, Armitage wrote a book about his Modernist style. Napolitano studied many different forms of art, including painting, ceramics, and architectural design, and he executed many architectural murals for the WPA. He illustrated several books written by Armitage, and through their collaboration, Napolitano became involved in set and costume design, notably working on The King and I.. Signed by Illustrator. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.
- Bookseller B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (US)
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- Publisher New York & Los Angeles: Merle Armitage
- Date Published 1936
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Storie Naturali
by Serafini, Luigi
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Parma, Italy
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America, Guests Who Came to Dinner (and Stayed) #30 Miniature.
by Terry, Evelyn Patricia.
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Hoover, Alabama, United States
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Milwuakee, Wisconsin:: Evelyn Patricia Terry,, 2021.. Series Variant, each unique. 3 x 3"; 6 panels including book boards. Miniature altered book. Materials: intaglio prints, screen prints, pastel, thread, artist's hair, permanent ink. Includes collage and handwritten text. Signed by the arist. A miniature version of Terry's original serires "America, Guests Who Came to Dinner (and Stayed)." Evelyn Patricia Terry: "'America, Guests Who Came to Dinner (and Stayed)', an altered book series, transforms books with cut, torn, sewn and glued original prints, drawings and handmade paper produced during my 50-plus year printmaking and drawing career. The distinct group of books re-purposes my 1981 screen print edition of 68 black ink images on white Stonehenge paper for each book's interior pages. The book covers repurpose predominately, assorted etchings, colored screen prints and pastel markings and sometimes handmade paper. "Unchanging, this…
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Enigmas
by Harold Town
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Centreville, Virginia, United States
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Harold Town (illustrator). Limited Edition. Signed by Harold Town and numbered 6 of 175. In the original Near Fine slipcase. Slipcase has slight wear and a sun faded strip to the front. 13 x 15.5 in. Signed by Illustrator(s)
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Bough Down. [Signed limited edition w/ original artwork]
by Green, Karen
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New York, New York, United States
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Los Angeles: Siglio Press, 2013. Limited Edition of 25 copies only. Hardcover. As New/As New. 186 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm. Publisher's original paper over boards. Book Condition: As new. Dust Jacket Condition: As new. This book has been handled just enough to photograph and is pristine. Signed and numbered to the title page by the author (#16 of 25). Included with this limited edition is an original, one-of-a-kind, collage by the author. This small intricately constructed work is enclosed in a glassine envelope attached to the first free endpaper; it is both initialed and authenticated with the artist's trademark fingerprint in red ink on the back of the work. The limited edition sold out very quickly in 2013 and hasn't been offered by the trade (that we've noticed) since then. Included with this offering is a Siglio Press Catalog for 2012/2013, a postcard announcing a reading by the author in New York City on May 31, 2013 at 192 Books (which, sadly, we missed), and finally "Siglio Ephemera #7" also…
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Elsewhere: notes from a travelogue.
by [Baugnet, Julie] Carter Clapsadle.
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Hoover, Alabama, United States
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St. Paul, Minnesota:: Bluestem Cottage Press,, 2021.. Edition of 13. 24 pages. Designed, bound, and letterpress printed using polymer plates. Artwork on verso pages include ink drawdowns for the first layer. Screen printed textures are superimposed. Typography: Minion Pro, main text is 10/14, letterpress using polymer plates. Paper: Rives BFK, white and grey. Slipcase: Cave paper, Duo bookcloth, endpapers are Neenah Metallic, gun metal grey. Numbered. Carter Clapsadle: "All together this collaborative book is comprised of 10 poems on the recto pages, and 10 screen printed images on the verso pages. These poems are part of an ongoing body of work inspired by travel. They are about experiences, observations, and memories that are triggered from traveling, eating, driving, swimming, and taking part in cultural exchanges. "Travel takes us from our routines and familiarities while at the same time reveals similarities we have with those places. Some poems are about a particular place…
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BLUESTEM
by Hanmer, Karen, and Henry Maron
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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Glenview, IL: The Artist, 2006.. Double-sided variation on an accordion flag book (20.5 x 25 cm folded). Fine, in folding card case with artist's imprint and limitation statement. Copy #11 of 25 numbered copies, signed by Hanmer. Pigment inkjet prints on polyester film, with central printed card spines, which, when unfolded and extended, stands on its own as a whole. The work derives its inspiration from a passage in Cather's MY ANTONIA, which is printed on the tail piece in company with the formal limitation and Hanmer's signature: "Everywhere, as far as the eye could reach, there was nothing but rough, shaggy, red grass ... And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running." When unfolded, the imagery and potential kinetics of the piece replicate that impression. Hanmer is an award- winning binder and book artist whose works have been included in scores of exhibitions.
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Heinz Mack Otto Piene. Countdown to Zero. DeLuxe edition signed by Heinz Mack
by Heinz Mack, Otto Piene / Karlyn de Jongh, Sarah Gold
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Veldhoven, Netherlands
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Leiden / 's-Hertogenbosch: Global Art Affairs Foundation / Luiscius Antiquarian Booksellers, 2015. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Silver cloth covered clamshell box (24 x 17,5 x 6 cm.) containing 3 items; 1: Silver cloth covered book. # 005 of the Deluxe edition of 50 copies signed by Heinz Mack. Illustrated with black & withe photographic plates. [160 pp.] 2: a CD housed in matching cloth covered cardboard holder and 3: an original photo between plexiglas of the 'entrance ticket' on the hand of Mack for the Zero-Party at Bahnhof Rolandseck in 1966. All items kept in 'shoebox style' white cardboard box. Personal Structures Art Project # 10. .
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Multipels en andere Multipels
by Schraenen, Guy
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Veldhoven, Netherlands
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Turnhout: De Warande, 1991. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Illustrated cardboard slipcase printed to look like a photo camera, containing two catalogs, designed as photo albums. Published on the occasion of an exhibition of multiples from the collection of the Archive for Small Press & Communication, edited by Guy and Anne Schraenen. Includes a list and black and white images of works by John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars, Hanne Darboven, Robert Filliou, Lucio Fontana, Jenny Holzer, Sol LeWitt, George Maciunas, Hermann Nitsch, Panamarenko, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell and others. Very light wear to slipcase. Rare..
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Sun (2): a creative philosophy
by Trevor Wishart, & Friends
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Thornton Heath, United Kingdom
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"Scores are interspersed with essays on creativity"Highly graphic content. Mostly hand written by Wishart in minute script (cf Cardew)
If you are interested please ask for inside views.
A rare insight into the art activity of the time were performance art, avant garde music, landscape art and community art are in spectacular collision. Involves well-know English performance art people like Roland Miller and Shriley Cameron, Al Beach, Mick Banks, Martin Mayes etc
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Cassell’s Dore Gallery
by DORE, Gustave
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1890 RARE 43v Dore Gallery ART Dante Bible Milton Fontaine Quixote Atala FOLIOS"The most popular and successful French book illustrator of the mid-19th century!"
Famous French artist, Gustave Doré was most known for his incredible woodcut engravings. Doré's romantic style of illustration, supremely imaginative and richly detailed, was ideally suited to literary subjects. Artists and art lovers will find in these pages' superb examples of the illustrator's art! This collection of 50 individual magazine parts features artwork from Dore's "Bible", "Paradise Lost", "Dante", "Atala", "Don Quixote", and still others!
Item number: #23100
Price: $950
DORE, Gustave
Cassell's Dore Gallery
London/New York: Cassell & Company, ©1890.
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· Collation: 43 individual parts (of 50)
o 220 full-page, Gustave Doré engravings
o Wanting Parts 7, 8, 12, 20, 22, 26, and 45 (5 plates per part)
· Language: English
· Binding: Softcover; secure
· Size: ~12.75in X 9.75in (32.5cm x 24.5cm)
· EXCEEDINGLY rare to… Read More
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C Kelly Lohr's Woman!: The Exhibition - The Artist
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Ansley, Nebraska, United States
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7 pics-NOT XLIB; clean & sharp with light shelf wear & a few very light spots to exterior; spine uncreased; binding tight; pages clean
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Schwarz-Weiss-Kunst.
by Bitterlich, Roswitha
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Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States
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Innsbruch Felizian Rauch [?], 1936, hardcover. No publication date given: 1936? -- Black-and-white reproductions of the art done when she was 5 to 15 years old. Texts in GERMAN, English and French. 143 pages, 9.5x11 inches. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good minus (cover has soil, spine lettering rubbed, but pages are clean and bright).
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Rebecca's Pride
by Donald McNutt Douglass
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Littlerock, California, United States
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NZ$62.88
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London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good minus. Hardback with Dust Jacket which has some edge wear, small rip, faint price on back
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Hockney's Alphabet
by David Hockney, Various Authors, Stephen Spender, Ed
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- 2nd Edition
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- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780679417668 / 0679417664
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San Rafael, California, United States
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This fine, 2nd edition of David Hockney's 'alphabet' drawings with short poems and essays by various authors (Joyce Carol Oates, Arthur Miller, John Updike, Iris Murdock, Susan Sontag, Seamus Heaney, etc.) was an AIDS fundraiser. The book is in fine condition with no flaws and the Dust Jacket has only a small crease on the front dust jacket bottom and the inside front panel price clipped (see photos.) Priced to sell!All proceeds benefit The Friends of the San Anselmo Library. No expedited shipping outside of the United States.
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John McCutcheon's Book
by McCutcheon, Meine, & Merryweather
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Bethel, Connecticut, United States
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NEAR FINE Limited edition (1000 copies printed). Gray cloth exteriors with blue lettering and his signature dog on the cover. No dustjacket. Light shelfwear to cover corners and edges. Crisp, clean, unmarked interior pages. Satire. 287 pages, 9.5" X 12.25X X 1.5" John T. McCutcheon was an American political cartoonist, war correspondent, combat artist, and author . This covers the full breadth of his career, and reproduces his newspaper work from a 40 year career, including his Pulitzer Prize winning cartoon from 1931 "a Wise Economist Asks a Question". Includes some of his earliest work in the Purdue university paper "Debris" and stories, cartoons, and reporting from The Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Daily News, the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Cosmopolitan, as well as sketches from the Art Institute of Chicago. Political cartoons (no index and some pages with multiples), probably more illustrations than pages.
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Freddy And Mr. Camphor
by Brooks, Walter R
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Freddy And Mr. Camphor. By Walter R. Brooks. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Used. Good Condition/No Dust jacket included. Alfred A. Knopf 1944 Stated First Edition. A solid copy. Spine is sunned. Please see our photos. Summary: In Freddy and Mr. Camphor, Freddy is in need of a change and finds an opportunity for one as a caretaker on Mr. Camphor's houseboat. Of course, things never go as Freddy expects and a series of strange, amusing, and sometimes alarming adventures ensue. Please also see our Freddy The Pig catalogue.
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The Carrot Seed
by Ruth Krauss & Crockett Johnson
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Ruth Krauss. The Carrot Seed. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson, author, illustrator of the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. 1945, Harper & Brothers First Edition. States 1945 on the title page. QUITE RARE. EXLIB. Good Condition/ no dust jacket is included. A nice solid copy. "Ruth Krauss's book about a little boy who stands his ground and grows a carrot in the face of doubt from his parents brings up themes of individuality, standing one's ground, and what it is to know something (the basis of knowledge)" Not an easy find.
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Making Faces By Norman Messenger
by Messenger, Norman
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- 9780863189975 / 0863189970
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Messenger, Norman: Making Faces By Norman Messenger. Doring Kindersley Publishers, Ltd., 1992. ISBN9780863189975. LARGE FORMAT. 8 ¼ X 14. Summary: Starting with eight basic characters, Norman Messenger offers the possibility of making an astonishing variety of different faces in this fascinating contemplation of human uniqueness. By mixing and matching foreheads, eyes, noses, mouths and chins, thousands of individual faces can be created. A stimulating and amazing book. 65,000 different combinations are available. WOW. For all ages. USED. VG CONDITION.
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N.C WYETH: The Collections of Paintings, Illustrations, & Murals
by Allen, Douglas & Allen Jt., Douglas
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- 9780517183359 / 0517183358
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This book is new. Never opened or used. Excellent condition. This book is dedicated to the memory of two departed friends- Helen L. Card and E. Walter Latendorf."In the words of the authors: They devoted themselves to the advancement of American Illustration as a great art. Their like will never be seen again."
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Sho Fukumoto Sketchbook 1986: Leda (Boxed Set)
by Sho Fukumoto
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Prescott, Arizona, United States
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N. Nomura & Co., Ltd., 1986. Book. Like New. Boxed Set. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A hardcover book and a softcover book in a cloth-covered box, all in like-new condition. Clamshell box is covered in natural-covered linen with brown lettering to spine and brown facsimile signature on top. Hardcover with three-quarter charcoal-gray cloth with blue marbled (faux) boards; no text other than a tipped-in plate with title, etc. in English; pages are facsimile reproductions of the sketched art--b&w and color of Leda and Swan; no title on binding. Softcover is staplebound with blue cardstock cover with title etc. in English on front; approx. 27 pages; b&w photo frontispiece of artist; 7 plates of art; text in Japanese. Books are about 9-1/2" by 6-1/4". Box is 10-1/2" by 6-3/4"..
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