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Rosendale, New York:: Women's Studio Workshop,, 1997.. Edition of 100. 7 x 8.75 x .75"; 24 pages. Additional pages and enclosures sewn in. Accordion structure with end pages adhered to boards. Silkscreen printed on Mohawk Superfine, UV Ultra, and handmade abaca fiber paper. Bound in wooden covers with leather straps held with bullet casings. This was deigned and printed while Kalmbach and Kellner were visiting Artists-in-Residence at the University of Southern Maine with help from their students. WSW: "This accordion fold book examines the use of ordinary words in both botanical and military context. These definitions are juxtaposed with stories and statistics relating to farming and violence." Judith Klau, Books as Aesthetic Objects: "Pistol/Pistil: Botanical Ballistics is bound in wooden boards held by leather and bullet casings. This book plays graphically and etymologically with the language of agriculture and the language of ordnance. "The…
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Known Fables
by Frasconi, Antonio
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First edition. One of 500 numbered and signed copies, printed at the Spiral Press from the original blocks. Marbled paper over boards with printed cover label. Nine fables of Aesop, with full page woodcut illustrations on Goyu paper. Lower corners slightly rubbed, still a fine copy, with the original glassine, which has some chips and edgewear. In addition to Frasconi's signature on the colophon, he has inscribed this copy on the first blank leaf to Herman Cohen of the Chiswick Bookshop, dated December 1964.
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- Place of Publication South Norwalk, CT
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Pistol/Pistil: Botanical Ballistics
by [Women's Studio Workshop] Ann Kalmbach & Tatana Kellner.
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Hoover, Alabama, United States
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Venus and Adonis
by [William Shakespeare] Doebler, John (editor) and Introduction
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Tempe, AZ: Pyracantha Press, 1984. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited Edition. One of 30 numbered proof copies, signed by book designer, editor, and press director. The present copy is number 7. [8], 8, [60]pp. Based on Shakespeare's First Quarto, 1593, in the Bodleian Library. Hand made paper, illustrated with stone lithographs. Bound in three-quarter black calf over maroon cloth boards, spine lettering gilt. This copy was formally owned by the editor's wife and book dedicatee, with her signature on the front free endpaper.
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Mending: with poem by Hazel Hall
by [Transformer Press] Lise Melhorn-Boe.
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Kingston, Ontario, Canada:: Transformer Press,, 2018.. Edition of 10. Dimension varies according to size of pants for back and front covers; textile pages. Screen printed. Found and donated garments. Sewn binding. Signed, dated, and numbered by the artist. Lise Melhorn-Boe: "The text of 'Mending' is a poem by the American poet Hazel Hall. Hall was born in 1886, and lived for most of her life in Portland, Oregon. Following a bout of Scarlet Fever, at the age of 12, she was confined to a wheelchair. Hall took in sewing to help with the family finances, and 'Mending' is one of thirty-three poems she wrote about needlework. "The cover of each copy of the book is a pair of pants, or chorts, or, in one case, a short denim skirt. The first page is a collared shirt, the second a piece of household textile. Next follows a nightgown or pair of pyjama pants, and the last page is a T-shirt. Most of the garments came from friends and family.
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Studies for Studies.
by [Women's Studio Workshop] Catrin Morgan.
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Rosendale, New York:: Women's Studio Workshop / KaKe Art,, 2017.. Edition of 45. Fold out cover containing three items: book (80 unnumbered pages, 21 cm); booklet (16 unnumbered pages, color illustrations, 17 cm, stitched pamphlet); folded sheet (both sides, color illustrations; 42 x 59 cm folded to 14 x 12 cm). Papers: Gmund Bier, Gmund Action, Gmund Treasury, Marlmarque, Masa, French Papers. Printing methods: Laser print, photocopy, silkscreen. Typefaces: Fournier, Futura. Text by Max Porter and an essay written with Alex Bildsoe. Book design by Catrin Morgan. WSW: "St. Jerome is associated with kindness (removing a thorn from a lion's paw) and scholarship (translating the Bible into Latin). The studies found in paintings depicting St. Jerome are open to incursions from the natural world-they are neither outside nor inside and appear temporary, as though waiting to be folded up and taken away. 'Studies for Studies' is an exploration of Renaissance depictions of St. Jerome which…
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Pandemic Dreams.
by Gower, Mari Eckstein.
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Redmond, Washington:: Mari Eckstein Gower,, 2021.. Edition of 15. 10.75 x 7 x 1.25" closed, extends to 97. Accordion fold with 7 spreads. Inkjet printed on superfine cover paper, with additional papers of Canson Mi-Teintes, Madeleine Durham paste paper, Japanese Kozuke paper with Kozo fiber. Housed in a 11 3/8 x 7 5/8 x 2" clamshell box. Signed and numbered by the artist. Paintings, text and design by Mari Eckstein Gower. Engineering and fabrication by Kat Gower. Mari Gower: "Early in 2020, when it seemed that the entire world was in lockdown because of a new virus, I chanced upon a news article about how pandemic first responders reported dreams with common patterns. Doctors, nurses & paramedics were connected not just by shared trauma, but by communal dreams as well. "Wondering if these patterns repeated in the general populace, I began collecting quotes from global news articles which chronicled reactions to the unique times we were sharing. While doing so, I began…
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Goethes Buch Suleika, gefolgt vom Schenkenbuch. Dem Westöstlichen Divan entliehen und mit ... Farblithographien versehen von Max Peiffer Watenphul. Ein Liebhaberbuch.
by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.
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Frankfurt am Main, Ars Librorum / Gotthard de Beauclair, ( 1966). . Nr. 175 von 370 Expl. im großzügigen Druck auf Velin d'Arches (GA: 380), im Druckvermerk vom Künstler und Buchgestalter signiert. Unteres Kapital ganz leicht sprenkelfleckig. Die Textfassung hält sich - bis auf die vorsichtig modernisierte Interpunktion - an die Große Weimarer Ausgabe von 1888. - "Goethes Buch Suleika" war das erste einer Reihe von Peiffer Watenphul und G. de Beauclair lang geplanten gemeinsamen künstlerischen Projekte, denen zwischen 1967 und 1969 noch drei lithographische Mappen folgen sollten. Das Gedicht "Gingo Biloba" mit eingelegtem Ginkgo-Blatt (leichter Abklasch, beidseitig im Bund). - Max Peiffer Watenphul (1896-1976), dt. Maler, von den Nationalsozialisten geächtet (siehe: Ausstellung "Entartete Kunst" in München). Sehr schönes Exemplar.
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Mending: with poem by Hazel Hall
by [Transformer Press] Lise Melhorn-Boe.
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Kingston, Ontario, Canada:: Transformer Press,, 2018.. Edition of 10. Dimension varies according to size of pants for back and front covers; textile pages. Screen printed. Found and donated garments. Sewn binding. Signed, dated, and numbered by the artist. Lise Melhorn-Boe: "The text of 'Mending' is a poem by the American poet Hazel Hall. Hall was born in 1886, and lived for most of her life in Portland, Oregon. Following a bout of Scarlet Fever, at the age of 12, she was confined to a wheelchair. Hall took in sewing to help with the family finances, and 'Mending' is one of thirty-three poems she wrote about needlework. "The cover of each copy of the book is a pair of pants, or chorts, or, in one case, a short denim skirt. The first page is a collared shirt, the second a piece of household textile. Next follows a nightgown or pair of pyjama pants, and the last page is a T-shirt. Most of the garments came from friends and family.
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Jones and Clarke’s writing copies, mercantile, small hand, latin apophthegms [sic], etc. Five works collected [collective title on front cover].
by (PENMANSHIP / CALLIGRAPHY).
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Contents: Mercantile precedents for the use of commercial schools. Engraved and published by Jones & Compy. ... London; Select passages by Wm. Jones (with imprint: J. Souter, London, 1838); Clarke's Latin apothegms [by Joseph Clarke?]; Jones' small hand, historical (with imprint: J. Souter, London, 1838); Latin examples, for the use of classical schools. Engraved and published by John Souter ... London.Printing: engraved throughout by Jones and Co. and John Souter, some after William Jones. Oblong. (8.8 x 24.7 cm) [6], [12], [1], [8], [6]fol. Half cloth, black spine and green gauffred wrappers. (sl. dam.). Lower margins cut short. Rare little booklet (I have only found one copy in Worldcat) showing different kinds of commercial writing. [not in Bonacini].
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Studies for Studies.
by [Women's Studio Workshop] Catrin Morgan.
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Rosendale, New York:: Women's Studio Workshop / KaKe Art,, 2017.. Edition of 45. Fold out cover containing three items: book (80 unnumbered pages, 21 cm); booklet (16 unnumbered pages, color illustrations, 17 cm, stitched pamphlet); folded sheet (both sides, color illustrations; 42 x 59 cm folded to 14 x 12 cm). Papers: Gmund Bier, Gmund Action, Gmund Treasury, Marlmarque, Masa, French Papers. Printing methods: Laser print, photocopy, silkscreen. Typefaces: Fournier, Futura. Text by Max Porter and an essay written with Alex Bildsoe. Book design by Catrin Morgan. WSW: "St. Jerome is associated with kindness (removing a thorn from a lion's paw) and scholarship (translating the Bible into Latin). The studies found in paintings depicting St. Jerome are open to incursions from the natural world-they are neither outside nor inside and appear temporary, as though waiting to be folded up and taken away. 'Studies for Studies' is an exploration of Renaissance depictions of St. Jerome which…
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Pandemic Dreams.
by Gower, Mari Eckstein.
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Redmond, Washington:: Mari Eckstein Gower,, 2021.. Edition of 15. 10.75 x 7 x 1.25" closed, extends to 97. Accordion fold with 7 spreads. Inkjet printed on superfine cover paper, with additional papers of Canson Mi-Teintes, Madeleine Durham paste paper, Japanese Kozuke paper with Kozo fiber. Housed in a 11 3/8 x 7 5/8 x 2" clamshell box. Signed and numbered by the artist. Paintings, text and design by Mari Eckstein Gower. Engineering and fabrication by Kat Gower. Mari Gower: "Early in 2020, when it seemed that the entire world was in lockdown because of a new virus, I chanced upon a news article about how pandemic first responders reported dreams with common patterns. Doctors, nurses & paramedics were connected not just by shared trauma, but by communal dreams as well. "Wondering if these patterns repeated in the general populace, I began collecting quotes from global news articles which chronicled reactions to the unique times we were sharing. While doing so, I began…
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Known Fables
by FRASCONI, Antonio
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New York: Spiral Press, (1964). No. 359 of 500 signed copies. 12mo. Nine woodblock prints by Fransconi, printed from the original blocks on Goyu paper, text printed in red and black. Publisher's marbled paper boards, printed label, and glassine jacket (chipped) The text of the nine fables are from the Newcastle edition of 1820 with illustrations by Bewick
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Printing Digital Type on the Hand-Operated Flatbed Cylinder Press
by Lange, Gerald
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- 9781633980709 / 1633980707
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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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Seattle, Washington, United States
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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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Seattle, Washington, United States
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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
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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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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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Choice of Churches
by Michael Harrison
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In addition to writing the introduction, the author also assembled the text by various authors: Peter Porter, D.H. Lawrence, Father Bernard Walke, Jack Clemo, John Whitworth, Thomas Hardy, Charles Causley, Canon Hawker, Patricia Beer, and Sabine Baring-Gould. Lavishly illustrated with scraperboard drawings by Alan Richards. These drawings range from quarter-page images to two-page spreads. The boards are covered in a paper printed with another scraperboard drawing by the artist. 12 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches. 48 pages. Number 128 of an edition of 326 copies (36 of which were hand-colored under the direction of the artist). Signed by Richards and Harrison.
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