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2007117061Newark New Jersey: The Newark Museum 2007. Softcover. VG- Ex-lib. labels at bottom left of front cover and top right of back cover label inside front cover. Color pictorial wraps; 48 pp.; 17 color plates; 47 color plates. From 2007 exhibition at The Newark Museum; Includes works by Sydney Hutter Thomas Patti Harvey Littleton Karen Lamonte Dale Chihuly Kazumi Ikemoto William Morris and more; Errata sheet laid in. The Newark Museum paperback books
198322971The Newark Museum 1983. Softcover. VG- Slight wear to covers including small tear at top of front cover pages are beginning to tan lightly and are nice. Black and color pictorial and stapled wraps. 63 pp. 54 bw plates. Title on cover: Century of Revivals: Nineteenth-Century American Furniture in The Newark Museum. Issued in conjunction with a 1982-1983 exhibition of this 19th-century American furnitute. With an introduction and by Ulysses G. Dietz. The annotated and illustrated catalogue presents 54 pieces. Uncommon. The Newark Museum unknown books
1982300656Watkins Glen: American Life Foundation 1982. paperback. very good. Well-illustrated throughout some in color. Slim oblong folio gilt-decorated blue paper covers with black cloth spine top 3 inches of both covers are sun-darkened else a fine copy. Watkins Glen New York: American Life Foundation 1982. first edition of this facsimile catalogue.<br/><br/> American Life Foundation unknown books
198430836Newark: The Newark Museum 1984. Softcover. VG some general shelf wear and wear to wraps. Light grey colo-illustrated wraps. 125 pp. Illustrated in B&W and color. Includes Biloxi Bybee Clewell Metal Art Dedham Fulper Hampshire Omar Khayyam Paul Revere Rookwood Roseville Volkmar Weller and many others. The Newark Museum unknown books
18652285Petersburg VA: Eden & McCreery 1865. First edition. framed. EXTREMELY RARE FIRST ISSUE OF "GRANT'S PETERSBURG PROGRESS" PRINTED BY UNION SOLDIERS ON A CONFEDERATE PRESS THE DAY PETERSBURG AND RICHMOND WERE SEIZED SIX DAYS BEFORE LEE'S SURRENDER. "When on that famous Monday the third of April 1865 the advance line of attack on Petersburg found the city evacuated by the Confederate troops almost the first Federal soldiers to enter her doors took possession of the office of the Express and before the day was over from its presses there issued number one volume one of Grant's Petersburg Progress. It was a single sheet twelve by twenty inches in size printed on one side of the paper. Its cry was 'We are here!' Major Eden 37th Wisconsin Volunteers was editor assisted by Captain Charles H. McCreery 8th Michigan Veteran Volunteers and Chaplain D. Heagle. They proposed 'to publish a live paper as ling as circumstances will permit; that is as long as we can steal the paper and get men detailed to set the type.' Ten cents was the price. 'We are not particular as to the medium of exchange; and will take Hardtack Greenbacks Cigars postage stamps and in fact most any available currency Confederate Bonds and Contrabands always excepted.'" Nellie P. Dunn "General Lee in Grant's Petersburg Progress" South Atlantic Quarterly vol. 12. This first issue from the day of the fall of Petersburg was followed by only four other issues April 5 7 10. <br /> <br /> The paper is full of joy and wit providing a wonderful window into the mood of the soldiers now that the end of the war was near. <br /> <br /> Some highlights from the text:<br /> <br /> "For nearly six months the army of the United States has kept watch and ward over the City of Petersburg. Since last June the roar of shells and the whistle of bullets have disturbed the silence of the woods in the vicinity and today the old flag waves from the Court House. The United States armies and U.S. Grant have foreclosed and entered in possession and Petersburg is ours. And throughout the length and breadth of the land the joyful tidings will spread that another deadly blow has been struck at the fast dying Southern Confederacy. Slowly and miserably it yet drags on a lingering existence but its days are numbered and the end is at hand. The bright rays of the sun and the pleasant fresh breeze of this fair spring morning kiss the folds of the stars and stripes as it waves from the tower and hill the streets wear a lovely and animated appearance thronged with soldiers and citizens the cause of Liberty and truth is triumphant."<br /> <br /> Under the heading "LATEST NEWS":<br /> <br /> "RICHMOND TAKEN. -Just as we are about going to press we are reliably informed that the city of Richmond came into the possession of the Union forces at a quarter past eight o'clock this morning."<br /> <br /> Under "WE US AND CO":<br /> <br /> "We believe in the UNITED STATES one and indivisible; in Abraham Lincoln our adopted Father; in U.S. GRANT Captain of the Host; and ourselves as the principle sojourners in the Army of the Potomac and the Freedom of the Contraband the speedy extinction of the Rebellion and the perdition of Jeff. Davis here and here after."<br /> <br /> Under "FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS":<br /> <br /> "April 3d Gen. Grant and Staff and the Army of the Potomac generally."<br /> <br /> Under "AUCTION SALES":<br /> <br /> "To be sold very cheap if not badly sold already all the singularly ineligible and worthless property known as THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. For particulars apply to Jefferson Davis Richmond Va. N.B. Liberal terms to agents of Maximillian Louis Napoleon or Victoria."<br /> <br /> Petersburg VA: Eden & McCreery April 3 1865. Broadside printed on recto only approx. 12x19.5 inches. Framed to an overall size of 17x24 inches. Some small holes at folds and edges; a few words of bleed-through from hand-written ink on verso. A wonderfully evocative piece of Civil War history. SCARCE. Eden & McCreery unknown books
187877433Montbéliard: Paul Hoffmann 1878. contemporary half cloth with paper-covered boards leather spine label. large 12mo. contemporary half cloth with paper-covered boards leather spine label. 591. Separately printed reprint from Repertoire des sources historiques du moyen-age: Bio-Bibliographieby Chevalier Besterman 3267. Compact bibliography on the life of Jesus Christ. Titles from the eighteenth-century predominate but occasionally volumes as old as 1642 appear. From the libraries of Martin Bodmer with his shelfmark; and H.P. Kraus with his bookplate. Minor soiling on back page chipped title page. Paul Hoffmann unknown books
1960427669Kraus Reprint 1960. Hardcover. Very Good. Facsimile of an edition published ca. 1907. Two volume set. 8vo. Blue cloth. Text in French. Light shelfwear else very good no jackets. Kraus Reprint hardcover books
189416816Paris: Montbeliard 1894. First. hardcover. very good. Bio-Bibliographie. 3 vols. wood-pulp paper double column rebound in black cloth-backed marbled boards volume 3 in green cloth volume 1 with no lettering on spine. Paris: Montbeliard 1894-1903.<br/><br/> A source book of all European medieval history Besterman 2885-2886. With the small ownership label of art historian Meyer Schapiro.<br/><br/> Montbeliard unknown books
190776146Paris: Alphonse Picard et Fils 1907. half leather recased with original spine laid down five raised bands and gilt lettering paste paper boards. Small 4to. half leather recased with original spine laid down five raised bands and gilt lettering paste paper boards. iv22941; viii2298-4832 columns two per page. 2 volumes. New edition corrected and augmented printed in conjunction with the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. Printed in an edition limited to 2200 copies. Biography and bibliography of sources and personages of the middle ages. Although published in France this is a source book for all of European medieval history. Besterman 2885-2886. Loosely inserted is a commemorative book label which indicates that this set came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus purchased by Oak Knoll Books at the auction sale. Alphonse Picard et Fils unknown books
190076149Montbéliard: Société anonyme d'imprimerie montbéliardaise 1900. modern cloth leather spine labels. small 4to. modern cloth leather spine labels. iv 1592; iv 1593-3384 columns two per page. 2 volumes. First edition printed in an edition of 2000 copies. Indexes topographical locations for all of medieval Europe. Entries accompanied by bibliographic references. Besterman 2885-2886. Marginal sunning. Loosely inserted is a commemorative book label which indicates that this set came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus purchased by Oak Knoll Books at auction. Société anonyme d'imprimerie montbéliardaise unknown books
1990234752Bogota 1990. 194p. paperback very good Second edition. unknown books
7256Many black & white illus. Two large folded sheets 299 x 212 mm. folded unbound. Purmerend: Museum Waterland 1981.<br /> An uncommon exhibition flyer for a display of bookworks at the Museum Waterland. Co-curated by Ulises Carrion and Agius both included their own works along with those of François Bouillon Axel Heibel Diderick van Kleef Federico Sanguinetti Ben Sleeuwenhoek Ad Gerritsen J. H. Kocman Tom Ockerse Gèza Perneczky and Pawel Petasz. Several examples of each artist's work are pictured. All of the works displayed were drawn from Agius and Carrión's personal collections. This catalogue's text written by Alex A. M. de Vries is in parallel Dutch and English. <br /> De Vries pointedly notes "Two book-artists curated and arranged this exhibition in such a way that you will not see much of the usual mania for conservation which is being practised in most of the musea. This means that you will be able to take the books in your hands.This exhibition proves that artists' books deserve to be shown more often and on large scale. And in an adequate way. The actual treatment like that of conservators in musea who like to take care of books as if they were dealing with radio-active material does not satisfy. A book ought to be in the hand of the reader."<br /> Fine and fresh copy.<br /> ⧠U. Carrión Quant aux Livres 2008 p. 210. unknown books
720940 photocopied pages incl. wrappers with many illus. stamp on upper wrapper. Small 4to 212 x 155 mm. orig. pictorial wrappers staple-bound. N.p.: 1978.<br /> The extremely rare fifth issue of Commonpress guest-edited by Ulises Carrion and devoted to boxing one of the artist's life-long passions. Based on floating editorship this mail art periodical comprised works contributed by fellow artists that were then photocopied. Carrión solicited projects from Klaus Groh Anna Banana Bill Gaglione Pawel Petasz Robin Crozier Silva Marcondes etc. On the inside of the lower wrapper Carrión writes: "The question now arises: has this anthology Primarily to do with art Or has it to do with box And this question is valid regardless of the plurality of meanings of the word 'box' which lead some participants to take it as meaning 'sport' and some others as 'receptacle'."<br /> A fine copy. Produced in an edition of 300 copies.<br /> ⧠Juan J. Agius ed. Ulises Carrión & The Big Monster 2014 p. 81. Guy Schraenen ed. Dear reader. Don't read. 2016 p. 218. U. Carrión Quant aux Livres 2008 p. 203. unknown books
7275Text illus. Four unnumbered leaves. Printed sheets 297 x 210 mm. orig. brown wrappers staple-bound. From the first page: Hou Denmark: Egmont Højskolen Feb. 1979.<br /> A very scarce exhibition catalogue crafted by Ulises Carrion. The artist also curated exhibitions on bookworks mail art and rubber stamp books in Emmastad Curaçao; Warsaw; Amsterdam; Rotterdam; Budapest; Alkmaar; Maastricht; Cambridge England etc. The present catalogue with text in English and Danish begins with Carrión thanking the artist Niels Lomholt. He then describes the exhibited materials: "Time pressures didn't allow for a wide research but I believe that the show includes most if not all the significant artists in this field. Some available catalogues and anthologies have been included because they possess a reasonable coherence in character theme or intentions. These criteria rather than dictionary definitions were also applied when deciding what was to be considered as being 'a book.' The show includes quite a number of unbound works; in all cases however they consist of a series of loose works that have been put between the same covers and under a common name. Many of the included items were lent by Aart van Barneveld from the Stempelpaats in Amsterdam."<br /> This exhibition featured the works of Anna Banana Luciano Bartolini Peter van Beveren Cozette de Charmoy Robert Jacks Ray di Palma Pawel Petasz Dieter Roth Ruedi Schill Gabor Toth Dick Walraven etc. A few of the pieces are illustrated.<br /> In excellent condition.<br /> ⧠U. Carrión Quant aux Livres / On Books 2008 p. 210. unknown books
713896 unnumbered pages. Thick 8vo 210 x 150 mm. semi-stiff printed wrappers. Geneva: Editions Héros-Limite 2005.<br /> <P> The scarce second edition of Ulises Carrion's famous Arguments 1st ed.: 1973 published by the Beau Geste Press. In the Getty Research Institute exhibition catalogue Artists and Their Books Books and Their Artists 2018 Zanna Gilbert writes about the first edition: "Carrión humorously interrogates the structure and content of books and the literary devices used by authors and playwrights. The titular exchanges in Arguments are indicated only by the names of the participants with no reference to the actual content of their disagreements. The distinctly Anglophone names are arranged in various configurations on each page of the book leaving the reader to wonder about the substance of the disputes."<br /> <P> As new. From an edition of 750 copies.<br /> <P> ⧠U. Carrión Quant aux Livres 2008 p. 202. unknown books
7512Large silk-screened poster 270 x 412 mm. printed on recto only median horizontal fold. Amsterdam: 1978.<br /> A rare poster in fine condition produced for Ulises Carrion's performance at Ecart gallery in Geneva. Artists John Armleder Patrick Lucchini and Claude Rychner all Geneva-based founded Ecart in 1969. By 1972 the group managed a space on 6 rue Plantamour as a bookshop and gallery where they hosted numerous artists for exhibitions and performances. For this event on 10 May 1978 Carrión performed a five-part program: 1. "Hamlet for 2 voices"; 2. "3 Spanish Lessons"; 3. "45 Revoluciones por minuto"; 4. "Videotape A Book"; and 5. "Clinch." Nos. 1 and 3 were featured on The Poet's Tongue a 1977 cassette tape recorded by Carrión. He was a lifelong aficionado of boxing and a number of his works refer to the sport.<br /> An excellent copy of a famous poster that links Carrión Other Books and So and Armleder Ecart who both spearheaded intrepid artist-run spaces in the 1970s. Designed by Tom Gravemaker who collaborated with Carrión on several occasions. Unknown edition size.<br /> ⧠Guy Schraenen ed. Dear reader. Don't read. 2016 p. 145. L. Bovier & C. Cherix eds. Ecart: Geneva 1969-1982 p. 101 pictured. unknown books
7582Many illus. Unpaginated. 8vo stiff pictorial boards cloth spine. Mexico City: Alias 2013.<br /> <P> First edition an uncommon book examining Carrión's De Diefstal van het Jaar "exhibition" at the Drents Museum in 1982. This show entailed Ulises Carrion 1941-89 displaying a large diamond in a small and dark room of the museum without any visible security or restrictions as a social experiment. In the last decade of his life Carrión's practice involved similar investigations of societal norms and the dissemination of information. The previous year the artist had delved into the spread of gossip and rumors through social networks in the performance piece Gossip Scandal and Good Manners in which he concocted rumors about himself to observe how they spread.<br /> <P> Pairing new essays presented in Spanish & English by Martha Hellion and Paulo Silveira with Claudio Goulart's original photography documenting the exhibition this work reveals new details about Carrión's intentions and the execution of this daring show. This publication is part of Alias's AntÃtesis series no. 3.<br /> <P> As new. The very rare flyer promoting De Diefstal van het Jaar is reproduced on the cover. hardcover books
7210Five black & white illus. 18 pp. incl. inside of both wrappers. 8vo 210 x 150 mm. orig. semi-stiff pictorial wrappers staple-bound. From inside of lower wrapper: Amsterdam: Stichting de Appel 1984.<br /> The very rare program for Ulises Carrion's film festival celebrating the Mexican movie star Lilia Prado a famous actor from his childhood. Prado 1928-2006 starred in a number of Mexican films as well as several directed by Luis Buñuel in the 1950s. Carrión organized a festival screening four of her movies in four Dutch cities in 1984 which was attended by Prado herself. He conceived of this film festival as an "opportunity for viewers to examine their own cultural values and to reflect upon assumptions about the mythology created by the mass media in this case the film industry and its cultural-economic implications. In Carrión's eyes for example Prado could have been marketed as well as Marilyn had if post-World War II Mexico had been more economically dominant."-Ulises Carrión: ¿Mundos personales o estrategias culturales 2003 p. 76.<br /> This volume contains text in Dutch about Carrión by the curator Saskia Bos and the four movies to be shown and an interview between Prado and Carrión that took place earlier that year in Mexico City. Carrión's curriculum vitae is printed on the inside of the lower wrapper. This became one of the artist's most well-known projects. Pages 11-12 reproduce excerpts from the travel journal of "S.C. Macfarlane" who followed Carrión on his journey to Mexico in the spring of 1984.<br /> In fine condition. With a pictorial postcard listing the schedule and other events.<br /> ⧠U. Carrión Quant aux Livres 2008 p. 204. Ulises Carrión: ¿Mundos personales o estrategias culturales 2003 pp. 74-77. Ulises Carrión "We have won! Haven't we" ed. Guy Schraenen pp. 78-79 depicting the upper wrapper of the present work. unknown books
7516Large illustrated poster 424 x 300 mm. unfolded offset-printed in violet printed on recto only median horizontal fold. Lund Sweden: 1979.<br /> An iconic poster promoting Ulises Carrion's two lectures at Jean Sellem's Galerie S:t Petri Archive of Experimental and Marginal Art in Lund. It depicts a King Kong-like gorilla facing a city while a bird with a letter secured in its beak flies above.<br /> The first of these lectures "Mail Art and the Big Monster"one of the artist's most celebrated essays was delivered on 14 February 1979. This paper was originally prepared for the April 1978 Artists' Meeting at the Remont Gallery in Warsaw and was eventually republished from Brazil to the United States to Serbia in several languages. The following night Carrión presented "Names and Addresses: Write Clear" related to his 1978 bookwork and exhibition of the same name.<br /> In near fine condition; faint browning to the edges and small creases to the corners. Designed by Tom Gravemaker who collaborated with Carrión on several occasions. Unknown edition size.<br /> ⧠Juan J. Agius Ulises Carrión & the Big Monster 2014 pp. 57-61 where the text of "Mail Art and the Big Monster" is reproduced. A detail from this poster is used for the cover. unknown books
1885125381New York: Henry-Bonnard Bronze Co. c. 1885. Attractive bronze bust of of Ulysses S. Grant as General of the Army by famed American sculptor Henry Kirke Bush-Brown. The adopted nephew of sculptor Henry Kirke Brown Henry Kirke Bush-Brown was revered for his accurate realist sculptures illustrating American history. He produced three equestrian bronze sculptures erected at the Gettysburg battlefield depicting General George Mead the victor at Gettysburg General John F. Reynolds killed in action July 1 1863 and General John Sedgwick the senior most Union casualty of the American Civil War. In addition Bush-Brown made a bust of Abraham Lincoln dedicated in 1912 as part of the Lincoln Speech Memorial commemorating Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Mounted on a bronze base the entire piece measures 7.75 inches in height. In fine condition. Following the close of the American Civil War Congress revisited the idea of a superior General rank initially intended for bestowal upon George Washington who held the rank of "General and Commander-in-Chief" which was a grade senior to all American major generals and brigadier generals from the American Revolutionary War but only entitled him to the three-star insignia of an Army lieutenant general. On July 25 1866 Congress enacted legislation authorizing the grade of General of the Army and on that same date the new grade was conferred on Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant as a reward for saving the Union in the American Civil War. The grade was recognized and continued in various acts until the Act of July 15 1870 which contained the requirement that "the offices of general and lieutenant general shall continue until a vacancy shall exist in the same and no longer and when such vacancy shall occur in either of said offices shall become inoperative and shall by virtue of this act from thence forward be held to be repealed. Henry-Bonnard Bronze Co. unknown books
190963517Columbia SC: State Co 1909. First edition. 8vo. 591 pp. Illustrated from photographs plates portraits. Matthew C. Butler 1836-1909 earned command of the 2nd South Carolina cavalry in August 1862 but soon after commanded a brigade and then a division under both Stuart and Hampton; following the war he served as a U.S. Senator from south Carolina 1877-1895. Nevins I p. 64: "Eulogies recollections and testimonies from comrades form a hodgepodge of unbalanced information on a South Carolina cavalry regiment." Not in Dornbusch. Turnbull V p. 54. Nicholson p. 108. Still a very good copy. Original gilt-stamped gray cloth rubbed somewhat soiled. 9946. <br/><br/> State Co hardcover books
19121342227Columbia: The State Company 1912. Hardcover. Octavo; G; Hardcover; Spine brown with gold print; Boards in brown cloth with gold print wear to spine caps and corners bump to bottom corners spot stains on front else light shelfwear; Text block has light spotting to edges name in ink on front flyleaf light tanning to endpapers slight occasional foxing within else clean and tight; 410 pages frontispiece port. illustrated b&w plates. 1342227. FP New Rockville Stock. The State Company hardcover books
2015126795Berkeley California: CODEX Foundation 2015. paperback pamphlet. 5.5 x 7.75 inches. paperback pamphlet. 28 pages. Number eleven of the CODEX1 Monograph Series. Number eleven of the CODEX1 Monograph Series. The Timeless Art of Allowing Books to Thrive is a dialogue between two theoretically and existentially divergent proponents of reading-executed in the manner of a conversation. Ulises Carrion's ground-breaking 1975 manifesto "The new art of making books" is here presented with interleaved remarks composed 40 years later by internationally renowned scholar poet and typographer Robert Bringhurst.<BR><br /> <BR><br /> "Carrion's kind of art has not lacked for proponents and exponents in the academy or in the art world but much that has been written along these lines is intellectually murky and burdened with pompous jargon. Carrion himself by contrast was plain-spoken and full of real ideas. My own predilections are different from his and so we disagree on many fronts yet he is lucid and articulate - and therefore someone I can talk to dead or alive." <BR><br /> - from the preface by Robert Bringhurst<BR><br /> <BR><br /> This limited edition of 500 copies was designed and printed by Peter Koch with the assistance of Jonathan Gerken. CODEX Foundation unknown books
198549416NY:: Schocken Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 0805239731 . With 60 black and white photographs. First printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Schocken Books, hardcover books
2001175415Cambridge MA: The MIT Press 2001. Softcover. 118 pages. Text by Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. Author Clayton Eshleman's copy with his ownership signature to the title page and with some of his notes and underlining throughtout. Otherwise a very good plus copy in wrappers. An interesting copy. The MIT Press unknown books