Search Results: Titles starting with D from Honey & Wax Booksellers

Neuallschwil/Basel: Heuwinkel, 1961. First edition of this illustrated storybook, featuring two magical tales: "The Carousel Horse and the Blue Flower" and "The Fairy and the Wall." In the first, a carousel horse escapes the fairground to join the child who hoped to ride him; in the second, a runaway fairy transforms a village wall under cover of night. The vibrant linocuts are the work of Swiss artist Claude Schaub-Filliol, noted for her work in ceramics and sculpture as well as graphic design. Text in German. A very good copy. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 8.5 inches: [28]. Original brown cloth spine, glossy color pictorial paper boards. Text and illustrations printed on board, featuring thirteen full-page color linocuts. Faint foxing to pastedowns, binding slightly bowed, staples rusted.

Madison, Wisconsin: Screen Art Company, 1948. First edition of this vibrant portfolio celebrating Wisconsin decorative traditions, "designs from handicraft articles either brought to Wisconsin or made here by the early settlers, or by members of the three largest native Indian tribes." Included are examples of Chippewa beading, Norwegian baskets, Polish Easter eggs, Winnebago blankets, German embroidery, and everyday objects like boot jacks and butter molds created by nineteenth-century Wisconsin residents. A near-fine example. Fifteen loose color serigraph plates on heavy stock, accompanied by a four-page illustrated introduction, measuring 13.75 x 10.75. All housed in original color pictorial portfolio with blue cloth spine. Light shelfwear to portfolio, faint foxing to introduction, plates lightly toned.

[Neuallschwil/Basel]: Heuwinkel, 1963. First edition of this stunning circus-themed picture book, featuring a sparrow who flutters in and finally out of the spectacular world of the big top: "Du bist frei." The vibrant linocuts are the work of Swiss artist Claude Schaub-Filliol, noted for her work in ceramics and sculpture as well as graphic design. Text in German. A near-fine copy. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 8.5 inches: [28]. Original ivory cloth spine, color pictorial paper boards. Text and illustrations printed on board, featuring nineteen full-page color linocuts, including three folding triptychs. Publisher's information ("Ein Farbiges Heuwinkel Bilderbuch, im Pharos-Verlag") on printed label affixed to final blank. Light soiling to edge of upper board.

France: no publisher, 1950. Commercially produced graph paper workbook for French design students, with striking blue wrappers lettered "Dessin." A fine example of an ephemeral midcentury classroom aid, never used. Side-stitched design workbook, measuring 8.5 x 6.75 inches: [16]. Original deep blue wrappers lettered in black, sewn with white thread; leaves printed with a grid pattern.