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Sonoma, California:: Eastside Editions,, 2004.. Edition of 20. 22 x 17"; 28 pages. Letterpress printed. Twelve multiple-plate color etchings with linocut borders. 11 text pages with decorative linocut border. Printed on handmade Abaca paper. Bound in cloth covered boards. Slipcased. Edition of 20: 10 portfolio sets; 10 book sets. Colophon: "Cyrano De Bergerac was the true life inspiration for the romantic figure of Edmond de Rostand's 19th century plan and one of the more curious thinkers in early modern Europe. He was a satirist, swordsmen, poet, and philosopher who indeed had a prodigious appendage. The book, excerpts of which are translated here under the title Journeys to the Moon and Sun, consist in equal parts of sci fi, philosophical speculation, metaphysical drama, theological humor, and freak show satire. The scales of the world are turned upside down and found to be wanting. " David Berona, Image & Narrative, "Art Hazelwood: A Graphic Witness of…
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by John Ashbery [Joan MITCHELL], Kenneth Koch [Alfred LESLIE], Frank O'Hara [Michael GOLDBERG], James Schuyler [Grace HARTIGAN]
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[Abstract Expressionism] The Poems - Permanently - Odes- Salute
by John Ashbery [Joan MITCHELL], Kenneth Koch [Alfred LESLIE], Frank O'Hara [Michael GOLDBERG], James Schuyler [Grace HARTIGAN]
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New York: Tiber Press, 1960. Limited to twenty-five reserved copies, I to XXV, and two hundred signed copies, 1 to 200 ...". Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An iconic, important work. Four unpaged hardcover volumes, each 46 cm. tall. Elephant Folios. Hardcovers. All four volumes bound in fine wove white cloth over boards; upper and lower covers with heavy paper stock over this cloth; spine and upper cover of each volume lettered in black and decorated with the first of five original color screenprints (upper cover, title page, 3 full page plates sans texte). From the colophon gracing each volume: "Limited to twenty-five reserved copies, I to XXV, and two hundred signed copies, 1 to 200. The paper was hand made by Hahnemühle in West Germany. The type is Walbaum-Antiqua, hand set and printed by Brüder Hartmann in West Berlin. The prints were made directly on the screens by the artist[s] at the Tiber Press in New York City, where they were printed in the fall of 1960. The books were bound by Russell-Rutter in New York. This is copy number 53 ". Book(s) condition: Fine. Dust Jacket(s) condition: Fine. Slipcase condition: Fine. A bright, pristine set. If not prettier than all other sets currently offered by the trade then certainly "AS" pretty. John Ashbery's "The Poems" with original prints by Joan Mitchell. Kenneth Koch's "Permanently" with original prints by Alfred Leslie. Frank O'Hara's "Odes" with original prints by Michael Goldberg. James Schuyler's "Salute" with original prints by Grace Hartigan.
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Journeys to the Moon and Sun: text by Cyrano De Bergerac translated by Timothy Hampton
by [Hazelwood, Art] Cyrano De Bergerac.
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Privacy [One of 35 Copies]
by FORD, Richard
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(n.p.): (Grenfell Press). (1999). A fine press limited edition: one of 35 copies of the first book publication of this story, which first appeared in the New Yorker and was later published in Ford's collection A Multitude of Sins, with several small changes to this text. An elaborate and elegant production by one of the premier fine presses in the country, with seven etchings by artist Jane Kent. This is Copy No. 21 of 35 copies, and is signed by both Ford and Kent. Unbound folios, 10-1/4" x 15-1/2", with tissue guards protecting each of the etchings, and all laid into the publisher's clamshell case, which was made by Claudia Cohen. A fine copy, offered at the publisher's price. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. No Binding. Fine.
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Poems
by O'Hara, Frank / Lithographs by Willem De Kooning
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New York: The Limited Editions Club LEC, 1988. Book. Illus. by Willem de Kooning. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Bound in black Nigerian goatskin. Covers stamped in 22 karat gold leaf. The book is set in a black fabric covered and lined clamshell case with gilt-lettered leather spine label. This is copy 57 of a limited edition of 550 copies with Willem de Kooning's facsimile, authorized signature taken from the handsigned Bon a Tirer proof. Contains 17 original lithographs by Willem de Kooning. The lithographs were originally created in 1967 as charcoal drawings on mylar sheets, to illustrate O'Hara's 'Ode to Willem de Kooning'. Only three of De Kooning's drawings were used in the MOMA publication. In this LEC publication the complete original suite of 17 drawings were printed for the first time to illustrate the Club's edition of the O'Hara poems. They are accompanied by thirteen poems by O'Hara. The text was set in English Monotype Bodoni at…
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A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press: Together with a Short Description of the Press by S.C. Cockerell, & an Annotated List of the Books Printed Thereat
by Morris, William (1834–1896); Cockerell, S.C
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London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1898. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine. 8 1/4" × 5 5/8" × 7/16" (21 × 14.3 × 1.1 cm) . Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. First Printing. Illustrated by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Printed by William Morris and sold by the Trustees of the late William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. 8vo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 525 [at ten shillings] paper copies (plus 12 [at two guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). [iv] + 70 + [1, colophon] + [1, blank] pp. Printed in black and red throughout with the Golden type designed by Morris for his press, with 5 pages in the Troy and Chaucer types he designed. Head-title and shoulder-notes in red. The frontispiece, "Psyche…
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Epitaph, A Poem. [Signed ltd edition]
by Dreiser, Theodore, and Robert Fawcett
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New York: Heron Press, 1929. Signed Limited Edition. Leather_bound. Near Fine. 59 unnumbered pages, frontispiece, illustrations. 31 cm. 4to. Hardcover. Full leather bound. Ttitle, author, and decoration in steel and gilt onlay to front cover. Book Condition: Near Fine with wear to the covers mostly along the spine, a very sound binding and pristine interior. This is copy number 200 of a total edition of 1100. Only the first 200 copies are printed on hand made Van Gelder paper and bound in full leather. Signed by the author and the illustrator; Theodore Dreiser and Robert Fawcett. A sharp copy of a lovely production. Theodore Dreiser was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature in 1930; though as it turned out, that was the year that the prize was awarded to Sinclair Lewis.
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Journeys to the Moon and Sun: text by Cyrano De Bergerac translated by Timothy Hampton
by [Hazelwood, Art] Cyrano De Bergerac.
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Sonoma, California:: Eastside Editions,, 2004.. Edition of 20. 22 x 17"; 28 pages. Letterpress printed. Twelve multiple-plate color etchings with linocut borders. 11 text pages with decorative linocut border. Printed on handmade Abaca paper. Bound in cloth covered boards. Slipcased. Edition of 20: 10 portfolio sets; 10 book sets. Colophon: "Cyrano De Bergerac was the true life inspiration for the romantic figure of Edmond de Rostand's 19th century plan and one of the more curious thinkers in early modern Europe. He was a satirist, swordsmen, poet, and philosopher who indeed had a prodigious appendage. The book, excerpts of which are translated here under the title Journeys to the Moon and Sun, consist in equal parts of sci fi, philosophical speculation, metaphysical drama, theological humor, and freak show satire. The scales of the world are turned upside down and found to be wanting. " David Berona, Image & Narrative, "Art Hazelwood: A Graphic Witness of…
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Privacy [One of 35 Copies]
by FORD, Richard
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(n.p.): (Grenfell Press). (1999). A fine press limited edition: one of 35 copies of the first book publication of this story, which first appeared in the New Yorker and was later published in Ford's collection A Multitude of Sins, with several small changes to this text. An elaborate and elegant production by one of the premier fine presses in the country, with seven etchings by artist Jane Kent. This is Copy No. 21 of 35 copies, and is signed by both Ford and Kent. Unbound folios, 10-1/4" x 15-1/2", with tissue guards protecting each of the etchings, and all laid into the publisher's clamshell case, which was made by Claudia Cohen. A fine copy, offered at the publisher's price. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. No Binding. Fine.
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Poems
by O'Hara, Frank / Lithographs by Willem De Kooning
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New York: The Limited Editions Club LEC, 1988. Book. Illus. by Willem de Kooning. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Bound in black Nigerian goatskin. Covers stamped in 22 karat gold leaf. The book is set in a black fabric covered and lined clamshell case with gilt-lettered leather spine label. This is copy 57 of a limited edition of 550 copies with Willem de Kooning's facsimile, authorized signature taken from the handsigned Bon a Tirer proof. Contains 17 original lithographs by Willem de Kooning. The lithographs were originally created in 1967 as charcoal drawings on mylar sheets, to illustrate O'Hara's 'Ode to Willem de Kooning'. Only three of De Kooning's drawings were used in the MOMA publication. In this LEC publication the complete original suite of 17 drawings were printed for the first time to illustrate the Club's edition of the O'Hara poems. They are accompanied by thirteen poems by O'Hara. The text was set in English Monotype Bodoni at…
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A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press: Together with a Short Description of the Press by S.C. Cockerell, & an Annotated List of the Books Printed Thereat
by Morris, William (1834–1896); Cockerell, S.C
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London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1898. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine. 8 1/4" × 5 5/8" × 7/16" (21 × 14.3 × 1.1 cm) . Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. First Printing. Illustrated by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Printed by William Morris and sold by the Trustees of the late William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. 8vo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 525 [at ten shillings] paper copies (plus 12 [at two guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). [iv] + 70 + [1, colophon] + [1, blank] pp. Printed in black and red throughout with the Golden type designed by Morris for his press, with 5 pages in the Troy and Chaucer types he designed. Head-title and shoulder-notes in red. The frontispiece, "Psyche…
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Epitaph, A Poem. [Signed ltd edition]
by Dreiser, Theodore, and Robert Fawcett
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New York: Heron Press, 1929. Signed Limited Edition. Leather_bound. Near Fine. 59 unnumbered pages, frontispiece, illustrations. 31 cm. 4to. Hardcover. Full leather bound. Ttitle, author, and decoration in steel and gilt onlay to front cover. Book Condition: Near Fine with wear to the covers mostly along the spine, a very sound binding and pristine interior. This is copy number 200 of a total edition of 1100. Only the first 200 copies are printed on hand made Van Gelder paper and bound in full leather. Signed by the author and the illustrator; Theodore Dreiser and Robert Fawcett. A sharp copy of a lovely production. Theodore Dreiser was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature in 1930; though as it turned out, that was the year that the prize was awarded to Sinclair Lewis.
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Four Volume Set.
by ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM. ASHBERY, John, O'HARA, Frank, KOCH, Kenneth, SCHUYLER, James, MITCHELL, Joan, GOLDBERG, Michael, LESLIE, Alfred, HARTIGAN, Grace (contribute)
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Tiber Press, New York., 1960. First editions. Folio. The Poems by John Ashbery, illustrated by Joan Mitchell; Odes by Frank O'Hara, illustrated by Michael Goldberg; Permanently by Kenneth Koch, illustrated by Alfred Leslie; Salute by James Schuyler, illustrated by Grace Hartigan. Each volume has four screenprints by the respective artist and is one of 200 copies numbered in the press and signed by both the author and the artist. Cloth-backed illustrated boards. All the poets and artists were based in New York and had known each other for several years. The publisher left the choice of partners to the individuals themselves.A fine set in the original acetate dustwrappers and cloth slipcase.
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Abstract Expressionism
by Mitchell, Joan [Prints]; John Ashbery; Frank O'Hara; Michael Goldberg [Prints]; Kenneth Koch; Alfred Leslie [Prints]; James Schuyler; Grace Hartigan [Prints]
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New York: Tiber Press, 1960. First Edition. Fine. Complete in four folio volumes, each measuring 17½" x14¼". Each volume with three full-page color silkscreen prints and additional prints at title page and upper cover, original cloth-backed illustrated boards. First Edition. No. 47 of 200 copies. Each volume signed by the poet and artist on the limitation page. A Fine set, bright and sharp, in publisher's thick acetate jackets, housed in cloth slipcase with light shelf wear. A visionary collaboration between the leading lights of the New York School of poetry and four second generation abstract expressionist artists, produced at the height of their creative collective powers. A heady encapsulation of the New York literary and visual avant garde at the dawning of the '60s.
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Printing Digital Type on the Hand-Operated Flatbed Cylinder Press
by Lange, Gerald
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Chatwin Books, 2018. Trade Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" New!
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PRIVATE PRESS.|THE
by Cave, Roderick
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New York: Watson - Guptill, 1971. cloth, dust jacket. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 376 pages. First U.S. edition. Jacket lightly soiled, else a fine copy. Traces the development of the private press over the last 500 years. 83 figures in the text and 72 plates. Better printed than the second edition and containing some material not present in the first edition and thus still desirable.
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The Eye of Heaven: a Narrative Poem
by Efird, Susan
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Abattoir Editions, 1982. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. One of 150 numbered copies printed by Harry Duncan; this being #84. 9.25 X 12 inches. 40pp., bound in tan wraps with mounted cream printed paper label wrapping around the spine and front cover. Letterpress printed on Japanese Etching paper, from Poliphilus, Blado, and Fournier Ornate types; with 2 woodblock prints by Michael McCurdy. Faint dampstaining to the text margins of the fore-edge, else Very Good.
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Nomi no Kai
by Minegishi, Shinsuke
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Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, 2006. Limited Edition. Wraps. Fine. [4]pp. Black & white frontispiece by Shinuske Minegishi, reproduced from the original engraving. One of 75 copies (from an edition of 100, signed and numbered by Minegishi). Designed by Rollin Milroy and printed by David Clifford at his Black Stone Press. Sewn into a Canson paper wraps. A Fine copy. // A previously unpublished essay by the artist, paying homage to a group of six Japanese wood engravers 'who were responsible for reviving the art form in that country'. Published to accompany the artist's first solo exhibition in the United States, at Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, November 2006.
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The First Ten: A Penmaen Press Bibliography
by Peich, Michael; Michael McCurdy
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Lincoln: Penmaen Press, 1978. First Edition, one of 500 copies printed. This copy SIGNED by McCurdy twice, at Title and Afterword. Woodcuts by McCurdy. Bibliographically describes all Penmaen Press books, broadsides and ephemera 1968-1978, with additional items. Includes 16 pp. of photographs of contributors: Peich, McCurdy, Lynd Ward, Allen Ginsberg and others. A demonstrable work of love. 9½ x 6½.. Near Fine original blue cloth-covered boards blind stamped with gilt lettering to spine in like dust jacket.
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Germinal
by Emile Zola
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The Easton Press, The Collector's Library of Famous Editions, 1992 (1942). First Thus; Collector's Edition. Translated by Havelock Ellis. Illustrated by Berthold Mahn. Hardcover. Issued without dust jacket. Used - Fine, "Like New" condition. Appears unopened / unread. Binding and text block are tight, bright, and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Bound in full (genuine) leather with hubbed spine. All edges gilt. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints, silk moire fabric end leaves, and permanent satin ribbon marker. Notes From The Archives sheet laid in. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books. A gorgeous copy.
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The Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes (Signed, Limited Edition in Slipcase)
by Faith Jaques; Zena Sutherland
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London: Orchard Books, September 1990. Hardcover. Signed Limited Edition. Quarter-bound in dark grey cloth with dove grey sides. Silver titles and top edge. Silver silk ribbon marker. Illustrated endpapers. Dove grey slipcase. Presentation copy of a Limited Edition of 250 copies. Flat-signed by illustrator Faith Jaques, the noted children's book author, illustrator, artist, and advocate. Fine book in a Near Fine slipcase. Not from a library. 88 pages. Profusely illustrated.
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Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands, 1800-1804: With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.-A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France
by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur; Nicolas-Martin Petit; Jacqueline Bonnemains (ed); Elliott Forsyth (ed); Bernard Smith (ed)
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Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and…
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Catalogue of the Private Collection of Paintings Belonging to Peter A. Schemm Philadelphia, PA
by [SCHEMM, Peter A.]
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Philadelphia: [privately printed] Beck Engraving Company, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Small quarto, unpaginated. Hundreds of black and white halftone plates, depicting the various paintings. On the opposite leaves, printed in red ink, are the painting titles and artists. A front blank contains a tipped-in photograph of Schemm, surrounded by his bounty of paintings. A crisp, clean copy in the publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt. Very minor dust-soiling to the cloth, and an owner's name on the front free endpaper, else a rather crisp, sharp example; near fine. A very nice production.
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A Song About Major Eatherly
by Wain, John
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Iowa City, Iowa: Qara Press, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine -. Baasch, Norman. [16] p.: 2 linoleum cuts; 27 cm. Original light blue paper over boards with white paper label on front board, printed in black. "Printed by Gerald M. Stevenson, Jr. on Curtis Rag paper with linoleum cuts by Norman Baasch. Of an edition limited to 190 cpies, this is copy 25." -- colophon. This poem first appeared in The Listener on Aug. 6, 1959. Major Claude R. Eatherly was one of the pilots involved in the atomic bombing of Japan in World War II. In Near Fine- Condition: cover lightly soiled; pages are clean and crisp.
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