Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Priscilla Juvelis

Berkeley, CA: Pacific Editions, 1986. One of 165 copies all on Twinrocker handmade rag paper, each signed by the author and artist. Page size: 12 inches x 8-1/4 inches. Bound by Klaus-Ullrich Rotzscher: gilt stamped morocco and Twinrocker paper in custom clamshell box. Four of the five etchings accompany each of the four essays by Thomas and a fifth, For Quartet, weaves visual metaphors of the themes of the four essays. The etchings incorporate a variety of graphic techniques, including aquatint, spitbite, drypoint, and hard and soft ground methods. They were proofed by Kay Bradner at Katherine Lincoln Press and the edition was printed by Robert Townsend and Kate Hanlon. The text is handset in 16 point Bembo and Centaur and printed letterpress at the Arif Press by Wesley B. Tanner who also designed the book. Title calligraphy is by John Prestianni. This is a real collaborative effort among artists and the result encompasses Thomas' central themes: the dominant role of symbiosis in life on our planet;… Read More

Stonington, CT: Wequetequock Cove Editions, 2012. Artist's book, poetry by James Sacre in English and French, in a unique binding by Coleen Curry, one of 30 copies with text printed on Velin d'Arche, the original watercolor that is the frontispiece is on Sekishu Japan paper, as are the four copperplate engravings, all copies signed by the artist, the author, and his translator, Joshua Watsky, who is also the publisher. Page size: 12.8 x 9.8 x 1/2 inches; 32pp. Bound by Coleen Curry: full goat cerulean blue leather binding with laced on boards with magenta buffalo leather edge to edge doublures; inlays of hand dyed, embossed, and painted goat and calf leathers with painted incisions; title, author, and artist hand tooled in turquoise metallic foil; top edge painted with acrylic, polychrome silk end bands, Green Mokuba backed with blue Lotka paper fly leaves; original wrappers bound in; signed on rear inside cover with binder's device and stamp; housed in magenta / grey cloth over boards clamshell box… Read More

Stonington, CT: Wequetequock Cove Editions, 2012. Artist's book, one of 30 copies with text printed on Velin d'Arche, the original watercolor that is the frontispiece is on Sekishu Japan paper, as are the four copperplate engravings, all copies signed by the artist, the author, and his translator, Joshua Watsky, who is also the publisher. Page size: 12.8 x 9.8 x 1/2 inches; 32pp. Bound: loose as issued by the publisher in hand water-colored Arches wrappers by Baltazar, sky blue ground with white negative space, lighter and darker blue and mauve lines extending horizontally across the wrappers, title printed in black letterpress on front panel and on spine, housed in custom-made black cloth clamshell box with white label printed in black with title, author, artist, and translator. There are 8 gatherings of 4 pages each of this bi-lingual edition. The text is set in 12pt. Helvetica by Francois Huin and printed letterpress. The 4 copperplate etchings were editioned at Atelier Alain Piroir in Montreal.… Read More

Geneva: Jacques T. Quentin, 1989. First Edition, one of 110 copies, 85 of which for sale, all on Rives with eight lithographs by Jean Bazaine, signed by the author and artist, fine. Page size: 12-9/16 inches x 9-7/8 inches. Set in 18pt Baskerville by Jean Hofer and printed in Paris, the lithographs were editioned by Arte. This is an elegant book from one of Europe's distinguished publishers.