Search Results: Titles starting with I from W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera

[New York]: Uranian Press, 1962. First Edition. Broadside. Near fine. Baer, Dorothy [Tyler]. [ca. 1962]. Broadside, approximately 6½ x 5½ inches. Printed in red on green paper. Embossed with seal of Uranian Press in lower margin. Signatures of Dorothea Baer and Richard O. Tyler over rubber stamps of their monograms on verso. Faint toning at bottom edge, else fine. Small Uranian press broadside of the ancient Christian symbol of the fish, in a decorative border, signed in the print by Dorothea Baer Tyler with her "d.b.t." monogram. The caption prints, "ICHTHUS," the Greek word for fish, as an acronym for the Greek words for "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour." No date is provided for the print, but circa 1962 is likely; that year, "ichthus" was also printed on the cover of the Uranian Press's 1962 portfolio, 9 GNOSTIC TRACTS (there, in Greek letters), in red on green paper. Dorothea Baer Tyler frequently alternated, as she does here between the initials in the print and those in her monogram on the… Read More

New York: Midmarch Arts Press, 1991. Oriole Farb Feshbach. Quarto. x,86 pp. Publisher's pictorial wrappers. Signed by Oriole Farb Feshbach on title page. Corners lightly bumped, else near fine.

New York: The Albondocani Press, 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 5 inches. [34] pp., including 14 full-page illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers, stitched. Prospectus card laid in. Signed by the artist on the colophon. Fine. From a stated edition of 326 signed copies (300 numbered and for sale, 26 lettered and not for sale); the present copy is signed but out of series and unnumbered (one of ten additional copies beyond the order sent to Albondocani Press owner George Bixby by the printer). Edward Gorey's spoof - and near-verbatim recreation - of plates and captions in L. H. Bailey's 1910 MANUAL OF GARDENING : A PRACTICAL GUIDE ... . In BORN TO BE POSTHUMOUS : THE ECCENTRIC LIFE AND MYSTERIOUS GENIUS OF EDWARD GOREY, Mark Dery relates that Gorey was first introduced to Bailey's MANUAL by Judith Cressy of Parnassus Book Service near Gorey's home on Cape Cod. When Cressy encountered the book, Dery writes, she found its illustrations "beautifully limned ... but '_odd_. There'd be this… Read More

Bonn: J. F. Carthaus, 1963. First Edition. Broadside, approximately 61 x 43 cm. Artist's monogram in print in top-left corner (artist unkown). Original three folds for mailing. Mild wear and toning along folds, soft crease in lower-right corner, else near fine. A striking poster advertising Karl Magersuppe's Die Holzköppe puppet troupe's performance of Marcel Achard's MARLBOROUGH S'EN VA-T-EN GUERRE ("Marlborough Goes to War") in the 1953 Bonn International Puppet Festival. Karl Magersuppe (1900-1981) was a popular German puppeteer, whose troupe (translated as "The Woodenheads") has performed since 1949, initially as a traveling ensemble and, since 1955, at its own theater in Steinau an der Strasse, birthplace of the Brothers Grimm. We have located one institutional copy, at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Scarce, and in remarkably fine condition for the fragile, thin paper on which it is printed.