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197022784Santa Fe: Ancient City Press 1970. Paperback. 46p.5.5x8.5 inches preface introduction map illustrations selected bibliography very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Ancient City Press paperback books
1984156031Lewiston ID: Blue Moon and Confluence Press 1984. Paperback. 119p. frontis illustration illustrated with drawings gift inscription otherwise very good first trade paper edition in pictorial wraps. 1984 Western States Book Award winner in short fiction. Blue Moon and Confluence Press paperback books
19341332280Oxford: The Limited Editions Club 1934. 1158/1500. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 423; G; dark reddish orange spine with black text to paper label; no jacket; limited numbered copies; this is no. 1158 of 1500; patterned slipcase; slipcase exterior slightly sunned; some chipping to edges; panels intact; cloth wrapped in patterned paper; exterior housed in HB sleeve; sleeve partially detached at joints; some wear to sleeve exterior; mildly rubbed edges; wrapper has paper label to front; some wear to edges; sturdy boards; text block has light foxing to exterior edges; endpapers modestly foxed; mild foxing toward interior edges; deckled edges; bookplate to ffep; good binding; illustrated; signed by illustrator. 1332280. FP New Rockville Stock. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1970232973Santa Fe: Ancient City Press 1970. Paperback. 46p.5.5x8.5 inches preface introduction map illustrations selected bibliography very good first printing booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Ancient City Press paperback books
1982203823New York: Art Direction Book Co 1982. Hardcover. xiv 96p. illustrations personal inscription to poet/activist George Oppen signed by Haberman light foxing on covers and slightly heavier foxing on jacket otherwise a very good first edition in cloth and unclipped dj. George Oppen the inscribee was a poet who was influential in getting Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams published. He was also a member of the Communist Party USA was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge fled the US to Mexico in the 1950s to avoid being called before HUAC and upon his return to California won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969. He died in 1984. Art Direction Book Co hardcover books
1981230672Langlois OR: Diaspora Distribution 1981. Paperback. 61p. very good limited hand-printed paperback of 550 copies this copy personally inscribed and signed as Elana by the author on front endpaper red wraps decorated in silver. Poetry "for lesbians only Diaspora Distribution paperback books
19259013300Paris: Le Groupy 1925. paperback. Very good condition. One of 575 numbered soft cover copies loose bound with an original etching on the front cover stamped in black and red. Chips and closed tears to the extremities of the wrapper. Interior is clean. <br/><br/> Le Groupy paperback books
197041932New York: Associated American Artists 1970. First Edition. Limited Issue one of 150 numbered copies printed on Rives paper and signed by the artist this being copy no.137. Loose signatures each consisting of a poem facing a numbered and signed etching by the artist all housed in a letterpress printed card chemise and gray linen slipcase. Contents Fine; slipcase showing some light wear and a few tiny scuffs and stains; Near Fine. Elegant fine press production of these seven poems originally published between 1916-1956 and presented here with masterful etchings by Gregory Masurovsky. Associated American Artists unknown books
192721012501New York: The Bennett Libraries Inc 1927. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Near Fine. Tice Clara. No. 89 of 250 special copies octavo size 189 pp. Clara Tice 1888-1973 avante-garde illustrator and artist spent most of her life in New York City; due to her provocative art she was seen as representative of bohemian Greenwich Village. Her fame actually increased when the Society for the Suppression of Vice remember this was 1915 tried to confiscate her art; this naturally drew more attention to her art which was thereafter published in works such as Vanity Fair. Looking at the etchings in this book might cause comment even today; they lavishly celebrate the feminine figure and are rampant with sexual innuendo. <br/><br/>This one of the 250 special edition copies bound in full morocco by Whitman Bennett N.Y. and printed on special deckle-edge Pannekoek paper. The text according to the title page an exact copy of the "Earliest English Text Printed in Holland by Joh. Enschede en Zonen". <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Red leather binding by Whitman Bennett N.Y. with their stamp on the verso of the front free endpaper with two female seated nudes depicted in gilt on the front corners four raised bands on the spine gilt rules decorations and lettering on the spine with "Special Issue" at the tail top edge gilt other edges uncut gilt rules on the turn-ins decorative endpapers limitation statement on the verso of the half-title page two separate title pages for each Part in red and black Part II title page being on page 121 of the book with ten full-colour etchings by Tice each etching with its tissue guard Table of Contents at the end; octavo size 9 1/8" by 6 1/4" pagination: 1-182 Table of Contents 183-189; limited edition this no. 89 of 250 special copies total edition 1000. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Near fine; the leather binding smooth and supple a strong square text block with solid hinges the text pages clean and bright all of the etchings with their tissue guards present and the book is entirely free of prior owner markings; we are grading near fine due to a few very light marks to the leather on the back board a few pages roughly opened one leaf with a short closed fore-edge tear pp. 173-174 and the black ink on the etchings has powdered slightly; still a near fine example of Tice's outstanding nudes. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Bennett Libraries Inc unknown books
2000CNJL795Baltimore Maryland: Dolphin Press / Maryland Institute College of Art 2000. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Lorenz Hilary. No. 7 of 40 copies of the deluxe edition total edition 100 elephant folio size 40 pp. signed by Albert Mobilio and Hilary Lorenz. "The Handbook of Phrenology" is a collaboration between artist Hilary Lorenz an artist and printmaker whose work has been exhibited throughout the United States Europe and Asia and the co-founder of the Dolphin Press and writer Albert Mobilio a poet and literary critic whose work has appeared in The Village Voice Harper's Fortune and The New York Times Book Review n. b. artist bios from the book. <br/><br/>The book is a collection of five prose fiction pieces that revolved around the nineteenth-century science of phrenology or "the reading of one's head shape to determine personality" n. b. from website of Hilary Lorenz and is a provocative examination of what is now recognised as a pseudoscience.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full black Japanese Asahi cloth gilt vignette and lettering on the front board hand-marbled paste-down endpapers hand-sewn binding six etchings interspersed throughout the text both etchings and text printed on the rectos only; Dante monotype on Rives Heavyweight elephant folio in size 16" by 13.5" unpaginated with 20 leaves excluding front and back blank leaves per the colophon page a limited edition of 100 copies this being number 7 per the web site for Hilary Lorenz numbers 10-100 were for sale signed by Albert Mobilio and Hilary Lorenz on the colophon. The slipcase is covered in matching cloth gilt vignette and lettering on the front which mirrors the book lined with maroon paper. With a sheet with a description of the book serving as the prospectus one sheet printed on one side.<br/> <br/>___CONDITION: Volume is fine with a strong square text block solid hinges perfectly straight corners with no rubbing the interior is clean and bright and it is entirely free of prior owner markings - crisp as new. Slipcase is also fine strong and sturdy clean without wear. The prospectus sheet is near fine clean with very light toning to the edges and light wear to the corners else fine.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an oversize book and additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Dolphin Press / Maryland Institute, College of Art hardcover books
19231315451Berlin: Euphorian Verlag 1923. Limited Edition #52/100. Hardcover. Folio unpaginated; G; bound in publisher's vellum blue lettering on cover and spine; mild soiling to boards moderate bowing; interior clean; Binding signed by Euphorion Einband in Berlin on rear pastedown; slight offsetting to front endpapers from vellum; text in German; shelved case 11. One of 100 copies with each etching signed by the artist of which this is number 52. Collection of 21 poems on Italy by Hermann Hesse splendidly illustrated throughout with 20 etchings by Hermann Struck. Each etching is signed in pencil by Struck.;. 1315451. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Euphorian Verlag hardcover books
1927D10945Paris: Editions d'Art de l'Intermediaire du Bibliophile 1927. Limited Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Printed wraps with aquatint vignette on front cover; folio 286 x 380 mm; contains 12 loose color etchings of prostitutes of Marseille each one signed in the plate and numbered in the lower margin. Number 47 from a limited edition of 100 copies on Rives paper. Glassine and tissue-guards wrinkled chipped and torn; portfolio lightly rubbed and wrinkled along the edges. Auction records suggest that this copy may be missing a slipcase box or "board portfolio" -- difficult to say. Nonetheless contents are fine suitable for display. A lovely item. <br/><br/> Editions d'Art de l'Intermediaire du Bibliophile paperback books
