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Buenos Aires: Ediciones Dos Amigos, 1991. One of 30 copies, all hors commerce, each numbered and signed by Samuel Cesar Palui, Ernesto Lowenstein and Ruben R. Lapolla, this copy #12, all on velin d'Arches paper. Page size: 15 x 11 inches; 14pp. Bound: loose as issued in original white paper wrappers, housed in publisher's red cloth clamshell box, with cork on front and back panels and spine title in black on spine, in red with author's name in black on front panel, fine. llustrated with four original etchings by Jorge Simes that were printed by Mirta Ripoll. The initials that open each chapter are designed by Amelia Rigon. The text was printed at the Artesanias Graficas Printing Plant by Ruben Lapolla with the supervision of Samuel Cesar Palui in 14 Aster. The literal translation of the Spanish title is "Eagle's Shadow." This is the first book written by the well-known Spanish writer, Artura Perez-Reverte - although it is not the first published. An historical novel, it centers on the Russian…
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Nacre. Six Poems by Ruth Fainlight. Eight Mezzotints by Judith Rothchild
by Verdigris Press. Ruth Fainlight
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Octon, France: Verdigris Press, 2010. First Edition, signed limited edition, one of 42 copies only, from a total edition of 50 (8 deluxe copies with one of the original copper plates) all on Hahnemulhe paper, each hand-numbered and signed by the author, Ruth Fainlight, and the artist, Judith Rothchild. Page size: 8-1/2 x 9-7/8 inches; 20pp. + colophon. Bound by Mark Lintott: leporello style with wrap-around boards of marbled paper made by Judith Rothchild over boards in grey with hints of deep pink and pale blue, raspberry-colored linen hinges, title, author, artist, and press printed in black in the spine, title on front panel, housed in custom-made matching grey paper over boards slipcase. The text has been hand set and printed letterpress in Vendome Romain on an Albion press of 1867 by Mark Lintott. The artist herself printed her mezzotints. The text has debossing on the title page with the title, NACRE, repeated twice in blind on either side of the printed title. The shaped colophon is debossed in the form of a cowrie shell. Noted American poet (living in London), Ruth Fainlight, has contributed six poems; the first "Pearls" has four sections; the fifth, "Clam Chowder" has two sections. Judith Rothchild has contributed eight mezzotints relating to or inspiring Ms. Fainlight's verse. The book was collaboration with each artist reacting and creating to her friend's work. The verse speculates on the beauty of the pearl and how it has been valued throughout the ages - reserved for the wealthy and powerful. Ms. Fainlight asks (in "Pearls") "Entire villages holding their breath: how many divers' lives lost in the oyster beds for a royal crown?" The first mezzotint certainly captures the mysterious, dark, lustrous glamour of this "crystalline substance iridescent nacre" and the interplay between text and image is set from this beginning. As Ms. Fainlight's text turns to the sensuous associations of love, oysters - with great subtlety - the images take on a sensuality of their own. A stunning book that is at once provocative, intimate, and philosophical and more than a bit Proustian. An object as simple as a cowrie shell button causes the author to recall her mother's treasured memory. The reader / viewer is compelled to join in this lovely remembrance - and perhaps recall something of one's own.
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La Sombra del Aguila [Napoleonic Age]
by Ediciones Dos Amigos. Perez-Reverte, Arturo
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Fifteen Maine Birds.
by Goodale, Rebecca.
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Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2002.. Edition of 10. 11 x 16.5" with three section compound binding. Hand colored silk-screen prints with collage. This book's pages are composed of portraits of the fifteen birds listed by the state of Maine as Threatened or Endangered.
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The Miracles of Our Lord
by Humphreys, Henry Noel
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London: Longman & Co, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. iv,(1),31,(2)pp. Thirty-two pages are chromolithographed by Humphreys, in addition there is a leaf of the illuminator' s remarks and one comprising an index of the miracles. Bound in the original black papier-mache covers designed to look like carved ebony. The binding was based on one carved in ivory in the 12th Century and has medallions of the principal miracles intertwined with ornate decorations and the title. The front and rear covers are identical. The book is exuberantly illustrated using chromolithography on 32 pages alternating between hot bright colors and cool pages subtly tinted with various shades, the whole combining to make both a magnificent tribute to Medieval illustration and to the then new and novel technique of chromolithography. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Nicely rebacked in plain black leather;; a few small cracks in the binding, edges and corners neatly mended, but a very good copy. The Art of…
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Fragments of Light 5. Translation by Zahra Partovi. Sculpture by Linda Schrank
by FitzGerald & Co., Vincent. Rumi, Jalaluddin Mohammad
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New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 2010. Artist's book, one of 35 copies, all on clear acrylic tiles, each signed and numbered by the artist on the colophon page. Page size: 9-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches folding to 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches, 32 slats (tiles) for the text in English and Persian + 10 tiles for titlepage and colophon. Bound by Zahra Partovi: the tiles sewn with blue and saffron ties (fishing line) fastened at end with small plastic disc so that ladder of tiles can be unfolded from an acrylic rectangular base; the English text on one side, the Persian text on tiles with violet and saffron fishing line threads, the binding style based on the style of the Chinese slatbook, a 3,000 year-old form made modern with the use of contemporary materials. The colophon and titlepage unfold from each end of the center "platform" as well. All four unfolding sides are affixed to a garnet-colored rectangular of acrylic drilled with holes through which the threads are laced. Housed in black suede fold-over box by…
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The Doctors; A Satire in Four Seizures
by Hubbard, Elbert
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- first
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- Used - Very Good
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1909. Twelve illustrations in black and red on butcher's paper by Burt Barneson. Decorations by Dard Hunter, although not credited in the book. Very Good, quarter brown suede over grey paper covered boards with matching grey end papers, outer layer of suede peeling at top edge pf spine, rubbing to suede along spine, light wear to boards, title and following half-title pages are uncut, remainder of the book is cut, pages either side of illusttrations are uniformly toned. SCARCE in current commerce in collectible condition. . . First Edition. Quarter Suede . Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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La Sombra del Aguila [Napoleonic Age]
by Ediciones Dos Amigos. Perez-Reverte, Arturo
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Buenos Aires: Ediciones Dos Amigos, 1991. One of 30 copies, all hors commerce, each numbered and signed by Samuel Cesar Palui, Ernesto Lowenstein and Ruben R. Lapolla, this copy #12, all on velin d'Arches paper. Page size: 15 x 11 inches; 14pp. Bound: loose as issued in original white paper wrappers, housed in publisher's red cloth clamshell box, with cork on front and back panels and spine title in black on spine, in red with author's name in black on front panel, fine. llustrated with four original etchings by Jorge Simes that were printed by Mirta Ripoll. The initials that open each chapter are designed by Amelia Rigon. The text was printed at the Artesanias Graficas Printing Plant by Ruben Lapolla with the supervision of Samuel Cesar Palui in 14 Aster. The literal translation of the Spanish title is "Eagle's Shadow." This is the first book written by the well-known Spanish writer, Artura Perez-Reverte - although it is not the first published. An historical novel, it centers on the Russian…
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Fifteen Maine Birds.
by Goodale, Rebecca.
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Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2002.. Edition of 10. 11 x 16.5" with three section compound binding. Hand colored silk-screen prints with collage. This book's pages are composed of portraits of the fifteen birds listed by the state of Maine as Threatened or Endangered.
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The Miracles of Our Lord
by Humphreys, Henry Noel
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London: Longman & Co, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. iv,(1),31,(2)pp. Thirty-two pages are chromolithographed by Humphreys, in addition there is a leaf of the illuminator' s remarks and one comprising an index of the miracles. Bound in the original black papier-mache covers designed to look like carved ebony. The binding was based on one carved in ivory in the 12th Century and has medallions of the principal miracles intertwined with ornate decorations and the title. The front and rear covers are identical. The book is exuberantly illustrated using chromolithography on 32 pages alternating between hot bright colors and cool pages subtly tinted with various shades, the whole combining to make both a magnificent tribute to Medieval illustration and to the then new and novel technique of chromolithography. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Nicely rebacked in plain black leather;; a few small cracks in the binding, edges and corners neatly mended, but a very good copy. The Art of…
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Fragments of Light 5. Translation by Zahra Partovi. Sculpture by Linda Schrank
by FitzGerald & Co., Vincent. Rumi, Jalaluddin Mohammad
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Kennebunkport, Maine, United States
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New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 2010. Artist's book, one of 35 copies, all on clear acrylic tiles, each signed and numbered by the artist on the colophon page. Page size: 9-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches folding to 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches, 32 slats (tiles) for the text in English and Persian + 10 tiles for titlepage and colophon. Bound by Zahra Partovi: the tiles sewn with blue and saffron ties (fishing line) fastened at end with small plastic disc so that ladder of tiles can be unfolded from an acrylic rectangular base; the English text on one side, the Persian text on tiles with violet and saffron fishing line threads, the binding style based on the style of the Chinese slatbook, a 3,000 year-old form made modern with the use of contemporary materials. The colophon and titlepage unfold from each end of the center "platform" as well. All four unfolding sides are affixed to a garnet-colored rectangular of acrylic drilled with holes through which the threads are laced. Housed in black suede fold-over box by…
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The Doctors; A Satire in Four Seizures
by Hubbard, Elbert
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1909. Twelve illustrations in black and red on butcher's paper by Burt Barneson. Decorations by Dard Hunter, although not credited in the book. Very Good, quarter brown suede over grey paper covered boards with matching grey end papers, outer layer of suede peeling at top edge pf spine, rubbing to suede along spine, light wear to boards, title and following half-title pages are uncut, remainder of the book is cut, pages either side of illusttrations are uniformly toned. SCARCE in current commerce in collectible condition. . . First Edition. Quarter Suede . Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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William Morris and the Art of the Book: With Essays on William Morris, As Book Collector by Paul Needham, As Calligrapher by Joseph Dunlap, and As Typographer by John Dreyfus
by Needham, Paul
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- Used - Good; Liftoff on rear cover, stain on front cover, splits starting at heel and foot of spine, fore-edges stained.
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NY: Pierpont Morgan Library. Good; Liftoff on rear cover, stain on front cover, splits starting at heel . and foot of spine, fore-edges stained.. 1976. Softcover. 114 plates. Preface by Charles Ryskamp. Includes an essay on the Memories of Collecting by John M. Crawford, Jr. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 140 pages .
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Les Cavaliers de L'Apocalypse
by [1858 chromolithograph]
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"France XIe Siecle. Les Cavaliers de L'Apocalypse," 8.5 x 10.75 inches. Printed in Paris, 1858.Original chromolithograph illustration from Les Arts Somptuaires: Histoire du Costume et de l'Ameublement et des Arts et Industries qui s'y rattachent sous la Direction de Hangard-Mauge Dessins de Cl'us Ciappori by Charles Louandre. This is from a disbound copy of the rare plates volume, which featured hundreds of images in various subjects designed by Claudius Ciappori and printed by the master Hangard-Maugé in Paris, 1857-58.
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Old & Rare: Thirty Years in the Book Business (Signed)
by Leona Rostenberg (Firm);Stern, Madeleine B
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- 9780839001300
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- 0839001304
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Granville, New York, United States
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NY: A. Schram, 1974. Signed first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Abner Schram, 1974, first printing. 8vo., 234pp., illustrated with b/w photos. Signed on fly leaf by both authors: "With every good wish - Leona Rostenberg. Madeline B. Stern". Some dust foxing along top edge, else very good in very good dust jacket with a few short, closed tears along top edge. 2005 and 2007 NY Times obituary clippings of the authors laid in. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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Five Fine Printers: Jack Stauffacher, Adrian Wilson, Richard Bigus, Andrew Hoyem, William Everson
by Kirshenbaum, Sandra
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Davis, CA: Library Associates, University of California. Near Fine; Small nick at lower left corner of front cover.. 1979. Softcover. Edited and with an introduction Kirshenbaum. Exhibition catalogue for show held Feb. 22 - April 10, 1979 at the Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California at Davis. 8.5 x 11 inches. Black and white photographs of the work of five fine printers from northern California: Jack Stauffacher, Adrian Wilson, Richard Bigus, Andrew Hoyem, and William Everson. Contains statements from the artists. Laid in is promotional postcard for the exhibition, publisher press release for the catalogue, and several other promotional materials and lists of publications by Library Associates. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 47 pages .
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The King of the Golden River
by Ruskin, John
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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5956Ruskin The King of the Golden River, A Legend of Stiria. Publisher: Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1900. RARE. Original copyright 1841. BOUND IN SUEDE LEATHER. Used . Good- condition./ None Issued. A couple of top edges show bite-size area of loss. Does not effect text. Frontispiece black and white portrait of John Ruskin. Decorated title page and decorated initial letters by Samuel Warner. Colophon reads, printed in red, as follows: SO HERE ENDETH THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER, AS / WRITTEN BY JOHN RUSKIN: THE TITLE PAGE AND INITIALS / BEING DESIGNED BY SAMUEL WARNER, AND THE WHOLE / DONE INTO A BOOK BY THE ROYCROFTERS, AT THEIR SHOP, / IN EAST AURORA, NEW YORK, U.S.A., IN THE YEAR MCM. Roycroft logo with Elbert Hubbard printed in. handwritten gift inscription and signature on front free endpaper dates this item to the year 1900. Leather is in clean condition.
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Blood Meridian featured on Poster for Texas Writers Month.
by McCarthy, Cormac
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Austin: Texas Writers Project, 2000. Original . Broadside. FINE. 24 x 36 inches, printed on high quality coated stock with metalic ink. Shipped- rolled in heavy tube. This fabulous poster was created especially for the featured author of Texas Writers Month in 2000 held in Austin, Texas by graphic designer Marc English. It is printed on heavy high quality coated stock in metalic inks: silver and bronze and laid over a duotone photograph of the rugged Big Bend country of West Texas. The poster quotes a long scene from McCarthy's BLOOD MERIDIAN with drops of bronze red blood for emphasis. This is a stunning visual and carries the impact of the original text depicting a scene of horror as the savages line up on horseback along the ridge their glass beads and painted bodies caught forever in the sun's hot glare as they anticipate the massacre that would follow. Only McCarthy could make this scene so vivid you might have to put the book down and never finish it.
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Loba Part II
by Di Prima, Diane
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Lukeville , Arizona, United States
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Pt. Reyes CA & Kathmandu, Eidolon Editions, 1976, center-stapled trade paperback (10" x 7.25"), 16 pp. printed on one side only, First Edition, First Printing, limited to 550 copies, Very Good condition in illustrated wraps. Straight, tight and clean, light foxing to covers and text block edge, tiny nicks to top corner of front cover. Printed on handmade paper this small collection continues Di Prima's exploration of Loba, the she-wolf, as mythic mother of the world. Monochrome illustrations by Josie Grant.
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Thrillers: Genesis and Structure of a Popular Genre
by Palmer, Jerry
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- 9780713161427
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- 0713161426
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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London: Edward Arnold, 1978. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine, in jacket with a miniscule touch of wear at spine top..
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Photography Between Covers
by Thomas Dugan
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- 9780879920128
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- 0879920122
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Martinez, California, United States
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Stated first printing.Book cover like new, very slight shelf wear - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine solid and undamaged.
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Comprehensive interviews with twelve recognized artists from the U.S. and Japan including Syl Labrot, Nathan Lyons, Ralph Gibson, Larry Clark, Keith Smith, Joan Lyons, Eikoh Hosoe, Bea Nettles, Duane Michals, Robert Adams, and Scott Hyde.
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Arasmanes or The Seeker.
by E Bulwer Lytton
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Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom
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Bulwer Lytton, E. Arasmanes or The Seeker. London, Maclaren an Co. nd Ca 1905. 12mo. Marbled paper design slipcase. Paper covers with title in black to front and spine, red letter device to front and printers black devise to verso. With armorial bookplate of Geoffrey Drew Wood on front pastedown. Illustrated frontis. pp66. Slip cases is age soiled, covers age toned where not protected by slipcase. All pages in fine condition, the frontis print, strong and bright with good plate indent. A scarce book.
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