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1926007159Paris 1926. LImited Edition. Full Decorated Crushed Morocco. Very Good. Example L of 20 containing the suite "en sanguine". These copies were reserved for Eduoard Champion. Beautiful pochoir coloring of illustrations contained in text. 4to. 26 by 17 cm. 141 3 pp. Beautiful decorated morocco by Princevel with floral onlays in corners of boards and on spine onlay bands around around perimeter crimson doublures with gilt ruling surrounds etc. Silk moire free endpapers marbled paper pastedown succeeding two pages. Condition: heavily rubbed along joints. Corners and edges also rubbed. Scattered foxing and at times quite conspicuous. unknown
016936London: Petersburg Press 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 2.75" x 4.25" SIGNED by Hockney to title page dated Oct '70. This edition c April 1970 first printed in 1969. Full navy leather. Unpaged 59 pp. 39 duotone etchings. Housed in custom black cloth clamshell with onlaid etching red spine label. Light creasing to joints light spotting to rear board. About fine overall. Contains extraordinary re imaginings of The Little Sea Hare Fundevogel Rapunzel The Boy Who Left Home to Learn Fear Old Rinkrank and Rumpelstilzchen illustrated by Hockney's distinctive custom etchings inspired by previous illustrators of the tales including Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac. Petersburg Press hardcover
1905005958Paris: Calmann-Lévy 1905. FIrst Limited Edition. Half Morocco. Marbled boards. Original wraps bound in. Very Good. A special copy given to Mary Jacobson who was France's fiancee at the time and thus outside the limitation of 300 with qualities straddling two of the limitation tranches. With an original pencil sketch of Jacobson by Chahine. Also all 28 illustrations are rendered hors-texte in two states one being the cancel. 4to. 28.5 by 21.5 cm. 186 pp. Followed by two states of plates. Calmann-Lévy unknown
70852Paris France: A. Ferroud Editeur; E. Benezit-Constant Editeur. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT PRISTINE & UNMARKED - Rare. ND Circa 1891 . NUMBERED COPY FROM LIMITED EDITION of 550 COPIES. 164 pages; text in French. Original etchings by Frederic Jacque. Description: "Grand in-4 broché 164 pages un portrait une vignette au titre 3 bandeaux 3 eaux-fortes 9 planches sous serpentes le tout gravé à l'eau-forte." -- with a bonus offer-- . A. Ferroud, Editeur; E. Benezit-Constant, Editeur paperback
1899007151Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son 1899. Limited Edition. Full Decorated Morocco. Custom Cloth Chemise. Buckram Slipcase. Near Fine. Magnificent copy once belonging to Adolph Zukor a founder of Paramount Studios. Containing a vertical fore-edge painting depicting Musette watering flowers based on the plate from Chapter 6. Also on a separate three sheet of blue stationary a manuscript in French of an original poem written by Murger himself and in his hand. This is copy number 4 of 5 from the Edition Magnifique of Chefs d'Oeuvres du Roman Contemporain this copy created for Warren R. Fales. 8vo. 21.5 by 14 cm. xx 463 pp. With ten etchings by Charles-Louis Courtry in four states: one on bistre on Japan paper with remarques one on papier de Chine mounted on plate paper one on India paper mounted to Japanese vellum and a final hand-colored set on Dutch paper all bound in lettered tissue guards. Fine Art Nouveau-infused binding by George Zabriskie in rose morocco with gilt floral borders and spine decoration decorative floral inner dentelles with colored onlays over patterned silk center panel and facing silk patterned endpapers. All edges gilt. Zabriskie was President of the New York Historical Society from 1939 to 1947 and honorary President thereafter until his death in 1954. Zabriskie inscribed this copy to C. G. Kraeger. Zabriskie was known as a fine bookbinder as well and he was especially noted for his hand-finishing and tooling. Condition: Spine darkened somewhat unevenly so. Joints moderately rubbed. Note that although this copy is from the most exclusive tranche in a limitation it does not contain the additional suite of plates finished in watercolors. George Barrie & Son unknown
015681Kalamazoo Michigan: Rarach Press 1989. Hardcover. Fine. No. 30 of 38 copies signed by the artist/publisher Ladislav Hanka. In a multi-textured binding by Jan Sobota stamp-signed on rear doublure covers of sueded calfskin printed with original etchings flat spine of brown catfish leather turn-ins and headbands covered in eel skin beige pigskin doublures covered with original etchings leather hinges. In an encapsulated pigskin slipcase covered with etchings beige linen pull-off spine with brown morocco label. With 16 etchings of flora and fauna by Ladislav Hanka. 333 x 248 mm. 13 1/8 x 9 3/4''. A fine copy. This is a handsomely-produced book arts collaboration celebrating the natural beauty of Kalamazoo County Michigan featuring a memorable binding by Czech master binder Jan Sobota. After studying with Karel Silinger in Pilsen and at the School for Applied Arts in Prague and then working in Switzerland Sobota came to the United States where hespend 15 years mostly working at Southern Methodist University. He returned to Loket Czech Republic in 1997 where he founded the Sobota family bookbinding studio and helped to organize the Society of Czech Bookbinders becoming its first president. He has won numerous awareds for his innovative and often whimsical work which has been exhibited worldwide. The present volume is equal parts inventiveness and elegance. Book artist and publisher Ladislav Hanka b. 1952 earned degrees in biology and zoology before receiving his MFA in printmaking and his background in the natural sciences obviously infuses his art which focuses on the flora and fauna of forest and lakes. This volume's collection of prose and poetry inspired by the natural landscape is enhanced by Hanka's dramatic etchings of twisted bare-limbed trees fossils and insects. The letterpress work was done by Amy Bollinger on heavy handmade paper. Rarach Press hardcover
499380Maine: Romulus Editions 1989. Hardcover. Fine. First edition deluxe issue. Poems by David Walker. Etchings by Thomas Cornell. Quarto. 38pp. Quarter blue morocco stamped in gold paper-covered boards. printed on handmade Barcham Green Langley paper illustrated with five original etchings by Thomas Cornell. The spine cover and title page reproduce a "voiceprint" from a recording of the poet pronouncing the vowels and consonants of the book's title on a precision oscilloscope. Copy letter "h" of 24 lettered copies along with an extra separate suite of etchings "the first pulled from these plates" each limited to 24 lettered copies signed by David Walker and Thomas Cornell all within a box made by Jeffrey Haste. A fine copy beautifully printed and illustrated in about fine clamshell case with the topedge faintly sunned and a bit of very faint spotting along the spine edge. <br /> <br /> Beautifully printed and designed by George Benington the multi-color etchings printed by James Cambronne. Two of the etchings are individual portraits of Franz Kafka and Charles Ives. Striking etchings by the artist Thomas Cornell who had a one-man show at the G.W. Einstein Company in New York.<br /> <br /> Thomas Cornell is the Bowdoin College Richard Steele Professor of Studio Art. "A graduate of Amherst College Cornell studied for a year at Yale School of Art and Architecture. In addition to Bowdoin he has taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara and at Princeton University. He has received many awards including a Fulbright Grant the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship in 1966. He was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1983. His work is present in art books most notably Rizzoli's Post-Modernism The New Classicism in Art and Architecture by Charles Jencks. He has had five one-man exhibitions in New York City and seven major museum exhibitons including a Bowdoin College Museum of Art exhibition in 1990 with a catalogue essay by Martica Sawin" cf Bowdoin College Visual Arts Department Website. Romulus Editions hardcover
1940003000Paris: L.I. Louis Icart 1940. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Pierre Louys adaptation of the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan. One of only 4 copies on Japon with extra suites of the 1st state proofs and the 2nd state proofs and the original copper plate used for the etching on page 7. Numbered from II to V. This is copy number IV. From a total edition of 147. With 16 drypoint engravings printed in blue by Louis Icart of which 5 full page and 11 in-text. The etchings were printed by French masterprinter Manuel Robbe. The 32 full page 1st and 2nd state proofs are printed in black. All prints protected by tissue guards. Loose folded sheets in wrappers with silver title. In publishers marbled chemise and slipcase. 23 text pages. Sheets measure 29 x 215 cm. Extremely rare copy with the extra suites and the original copper plate. Spine of chemise a bit sun faded lightest wear to corner tips of slipcase. A very fine copy in collectors condition. . L.I. (Louis Icart) Hardcover
41901Berlin: Guido Moriell 1991. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine condition. Signed by the artist on each etching and colophon. A15/50. Small Folio. 55 1pp. Original hand bound blue Morocco with geometric cover design by bookbinder Guido Moriell and black-stamped lettering on spine housed in blue cloth clamshell box with gilt lettering on spine. Every binding of the deluxe edition is a unique copy. Includes the video documenting the production of this anniversary edition housed in separate compartment of clamshell box as issued. <br /> <br /> Bibliophile edition on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the bookbinder Guido Moriell Radolfzell released in two Deluxe Editions A and B of 50 copies each and a standard edition of 100. This is No. 15 of the deluxe edition A printed on handmade paper. With 10 signed and hand colored original etchings by Rudolf Stuckert printed on the hand press of the artist. Top edge blue. Blue shaded endpapers. Blue initials. Text revised by John Loram based on the translation by Wilhelm Cremer 1922. Beautiful hand press production on firm handmade paper by the Steinort paper mill. An artistic masterpiece of modern hand press printing and bookbinding. Rudolf Stuckert 1912–2002 was a German painter and gallerist. He studied at the Academies in Kassel and Düsseldorf and was a master student of Oskar Moll. Stuckert opened his first gallery in 1936 in Düsseldorf with an exhibitions of Bruno Goller. In 1949 Stuckert became a cofounder of the New Rhine Secession Neue Rheinische Sezession in Düsseldorf. He had moved to Lake Constance in 1947 where he became a cofounder of the artist group "Der kleine Kreis" and was considered one of the so-called Höri-Painters. His paintings are an interplay of figurative and abstract elements. Landscapes ballplayers and acrobats are his favorite motifs.<br /> <br /> Guido Moriell is a film enthusiast and bookbinder in Radolfzell Lake Constance. In 2008 his work as a bookbinder was featured in the prestigious exhibition "Kunst des Bucheinbandes Art of Bookbinding" at the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar. Emphasis of the exhibition was the bookbinding in historic fashion showing a video of Guido Moriell at work as an example of traditional bookbinding. Guido Moriell hardcover
6294Minneapolis: Red Egypt Press 1994. Limited Edition. One of 20 copies plus three Artist's Proofs specially bound and signed by Rathman this being copy no.20. Quarto 33.5cm; text is letterpress printed on Rives BFK wire-bound into grey cloth-covered boards with pictorial label inset on front cover; publisher's matching cloth slipcase; 26pp; illustrated with 9 three-color engravings from relief prints and etchings by David Rathman. Fine in a Fine slipcase. An elaborate production pairing the poetry of Russell Edson 1935-2014 with the artwork of Minneapolis-based visual artist David Rathman. Edson a Guggenheim Fellow has been called the "godfather of the prose poem in America." Uncommon evidently sold out prior to publication; OCLC notes 8 holdings. Red Egypt Press unknown