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SW476-7247England 19th Century. Ephemera. Very Good. Highly skilled watercolor portrait of a seated woman 280 x 215 mm title in pencil at the lower margin but difficult to read appears to be "Lady Fanny Pomfret Now Lady Joley". A little dust-soiled otherwise fine. <br/><br/> unknown books
1847SW476-7250England 1847. Ephemera. Near Fine. Highly skilled watercolor landscape showing farm workers in a field; 180 x 290 mm; signed by Bryson and dated July 1847 in the lower left-hand corner. <br/><br/> unknown books
30484No Place: Other Wind Press No Date. First edition. Loose Sheets. Fine. Very large single sheet of thick yellow paperstock illustrated in black and red and printed in black. Measuring 16 x 24" tall a most handsome poetry broadside of a work by Artaud as translated into English by Eshleman and Bedor. With artwork by Spero. This is copy 47 of 150 hand-numbered copies and has been SIGNED BY ESHLEMAN AND SPERO as called for. Fine condition. Will be shipped in a sturdy mailing tube. Other Wind Press unknown books
1866SW476-7246England 1866. Ephemera. Fine. High skilled watercolor portrait of a seated woman in profile 330 x 245 mm initialed J. R. and dated 1866. <br/><br/> unknown books
1800SW476-7258Boston late 1800s. Hardcover. Very Good. Dark grey mottled cloth over boards backed in black leather "Sketch Book" stamped in gilt on upper board; oblong 140 x 94 mm; approx. pp. 100 a mix of pale blue pale grey and dark grey leaves. Contains 25 pencil sketches and 4 watercolors all landscapes -- mountains forests coastal towns. The front paste-down bears a sticker from Frost & Adams Artists Materials 37 Cornhill Boston. Also on the front paste-down the ownership signature and address of George E. Edward Niles 1837-1898 a lithographer and painter who kept a studio in Jackson New Hampshire where he exhibited the works of many other artists. His wife was the heiress Adams of the Nickel Bank of Boston and he was in no need of money so he rarely sold his paintings and rarely signed his works. He exhibited at the Boston Art Club from 1873 to 1877. SOLD WITH a small oil painting 108 x 73 mm of a sailboat at sunset initialed RC and very pretty. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1849SW476-7252England c. 1849-1886. Ephemera. Fine. Highly skilled watercolor landscape titled and signed on the verso; 370 x 260 mm; showing a ravine near Amalfi between Amalfi and Positano. <br/><br/> unknown books
SW476-7249England early 19th Century. Ephemera. Fine. Watercolor untitled scene outside a country manor with ladies in fancy day dress; 270 x 220 mm; signed in the lower right corner by Evelyn G. Pierce a member of the Royal Drawing Society. <br/><br/> unknown books
1945D7489likely Germany 1945. Paperback. Very Good. Heavy cardstock leaves oblong 325 x 250 mm bound with thin blue rope tassled along spine; pp. 54 with text handwritten in black ink in German and English with original illustrations in ink or ink and gouache both in text and full-page. Created from 32 leaves some of them glued together along the edges creating a new page when the author/illustrator wanted to change her lay-out text or illustration -- these have since become detached offering an interesting look at the author's creative process. Binding broken and leaves loose but in excellent condition suitable for display. The artwork is extraordinary -- showing cute little chicks as their adventure takes them from fields full of flowers to lakes brimming with colorful fish. It tells a story of 3 little chicks who find a mysterious blue egg which they are told not to play with but they do and learn some valuable lessons from the consequences. Though little is known about the author she appears in a tiny b/w photograph on the ultimate full-page illustration. More of her unrelated artwork is laid-in at rear including pastels of trees floral arrangements in gouache -- lovely suitable for framing. <br/><br/> paperback books
1930D7486England c. 1930. Ephemera. Very Good. Disbound broken text block only; 176 x 227 mm; 78 lined pages with text handwritten in black ink and fine illustrations in ink and/or gouache; plus a photo and a short article clipped from a newspaper and neatly tipped-on. This volume perhaps fell into the hands of a terrorist younger sibling as a few pages are scribbled on or have chips or scuffs where it appears that a tipped-on item has been removed. Still the surviving pages are remarkable and -- since the binding is already broken -- begging for display. Our author intials his artwork "L.C.S." and his thoughtful text reveals his age 16 years the names of his fellow scouts Cooles Adams Burchett Matthews Moore and scout leaders Sanders Ward and some details about activities in Gilwell Park and around Bournemouth. But L.C.S. is clearly more interested in honing his artistic skills than writing much down -- the bulk of this volume is given over to his impressively accomplished decorative borders full-page gouache landscapes and comical ink sketches. He provides maps of camp sites at Colyton and Upton; cartoons of sites being invaded by cows or bees; goache portraits of Native American Indians or animals or sweeping landscapes; portraits of scouts in uniform that illustrate the different uniforms used in Spain Czechoslovakia Iceland Denmark Sweden Norway Siam Poland Scotland and Hungary. He excells at embellishments ornate lettering and decorative borders and it happens frequently that he'll create an elaborate border for a page but then neglect to fill it. <br/><br/> unknown books
199229131No Place: No Publisher 1992. No Edition. Loose Sheets. Very Good . Orignal watercolour painting by Fluxus artist Geoffrey Hendricks. 11" wide x 7 1/4" tall. On semi-stiff paper. Signed and dated by the artist in 1992. With handprinted caption " A Cape Breton New Moon For Anne and Jackson On Gay Pride Weekend 27 June 1992 Love Geoffrey" Attractive piece suitable for framing. No Publisher unknown books
1619D52751916-1960. Paperback. Fine. 16 loose leaves folded once to create 64 pages each page about 7-by-9 inches; contains 25 extraordinary drawings of aardvarks and ant-eaters rendered in bright blue or black ink frequently in an etched or cross-hatched style reminiscent of woodcuts. With handwritten captions in Russian Latvian English and German and dated from 1916-1960. Studies of the animals in the wild or captivity drawn perhaps from life but also from other images such as "The young ant-bear or aardvark and its foster-parent. The illustrated London News Sept. 5 1936." The foster parent by the way is a human. All drawings are remarkably bold and adept the bright blue in particular lends an air of pop or modern art while others are more formal or refined. Unique and simply wonderful. <br/><br/> paperback books
D11080perhaps Huddersfield England early- or mid-20th century. Hardcover. Near Fine. Buckram over boards 256 x 318 mm; 30 pale grey leaves with artwork tipped to the recto of every page. Includes works in pencil ink pastel and watercolor; decorative designs letterheads landscapes including a few urban and garden design trees and flowers people a face figures hands a moth. Some foxing here and there but overall bright and clean. Two letterheads for Carruthers Advertising or Carruthers Commercial Artist of Huddersfield Technical College. Perhaps the work of a student but highly accomplished usually one piece per page but sometimes as many as 6 for a grand total of 40 works. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1931D45551931. Paperback. Very Good. A sweet little hand-made volume illustrated in full-color throughout; about 4.5-by-6 inches 20 pages including front and rear cover alternately bound with staples or glue. This joyful ode to Christmas booty as in presents features a Schnauzer in holly and red bow bounding through an alphabet of potential gifts as though through a store. Perhaps created as a mock-up story board or even a potential magazine lay-out it begins with Shophound sitting in his Vogue office on Christmas Eve most illustrations are drawn hastily though nonetheless legible and pleasing in colored pencil with two tipped-on illustrations cut from an unidentified source likely a Tiffany's catalogue. A little finger-smudged with graphite and with faint editorial notes in the margins buttressing the possibility that this is an early draft of a larger project. <br/><br/> paperback books
19606333Isle of Man 1960. Small quarto 18 x 23.5 cm. 90 pages; unpaginated. Forty-five pen and ink drawings some hand-colored on rectos only. Images are labeled on the pages with additional caption text on cards 6 x 19 cm. laid-in. An ownership label on the front paste-down states "Miss L.S. Garrad Rose Cottage Cronk Road Union Mills Isle of Man". Molluscs pictured include in common names the artist has employed Latin names throughout: mussels clams periwinkles snails scallops oysters and more. Larch S. Garrad 1936-2005 was Assistant Keeper at the Manx Museum on the Isle of Man and author of "The Naturalist in the Isle of Man" "Industrial Archaeology of the Isle of Man" and "A History of Manx Gardens." She was also the author of The Non-marine Molluscs of the Isle of Man published in three parts 1968 1972 1973 the first survey of Manx molluscs since Forbes' Malacologia Momensis 1838. We have not determined if these drawings were used in any of Garrard's illustrations or if the molluscs depicted were specific to the Isle of Man or more generally to Britain. A bit of bowing to the boards of the blue cloth binding otherwise fine. hardcover books
1819D4304France late 18th to early 19th century. Hardcover. Very Good. Mottled cloth over boards approx. 16-by-12 inches; contains 5 original pencil drawings the first a taxonomy of 11 tress then 4 landscapes average size about 11-by-8 inches with handwritten labels in the wide margins in blue ink in French. Artist's name pencilled lightly in the images appears to be "A. Borrel." Scuffing along spine and edges of boards. Drawings are lovely and accomplished rich in texture and tone with intricate details and white highlights -- features a castle cottage lake and train station with small human figures in the wide landscape. Some very faint rubbing else fine suitable for display. <br/><br/> hardcover books
19601327541Cairo: Egyptian State Tourism Department c. 1960. Artwork by M. Azmy; printed in Egypt by Institut Graphique Egyptien. Issued by the Egyptian State Tourism Department. Condition: Very Good. Slight age toning; one small tear which does not interfere with the image visible in upper right margin. Not examined out of frame. Dimensions<br /> 29.5 x 41.25 inches. 1327541. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Egyptian State Tourism Department unknown books
196430340New York: Lorenz and Ellen Gude 1964. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. True first edition of Berrigan's first major book. Cover design by Joe Brainard. Edited by Ron Padgett. One of 300 copies. This one unnumbered like most copies we have handled. A clean very good copy in stapled wrappers. Paper loss to rear blank cover in one corner. Important New York School debut. Lorenz and Ellen Gude paperback books
1940D7485n.p. but England c. 1940. Hardcover. Very Good. Original grey cloth over boards decorative paste-downs; 195 x 260 mm; pp. 47 with tipped-on typed text some handwritten annotations and underlines. Extra illustrated with clippings postcards original drawings ephemera and one photograph. Dedicated to Gertrude Alison Densler. Uniformly toned at edges; gently worn; minor tears. <br/><br/>Book commences with the popular Italian tale "Fagiolino" by Elisa Amati translated by Alan C. Dunn. Containing 26 clipped illustration pasted to leaves and hand-colored pen and ink drawings depicting characters from the story. After which book includes typed poems by William Blake William Shakespeare Walter de la Mare Carl Sandburg; and other original works by the poet are clipped and pasted-in. An original hand-drawn paper doll with original hats and clothes are secured by decorative pockets. A charming "book of favorites" and a sophisticated compilation; sketches and poems collaged into this album offer a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a young artist and poet. hardcover books
1875D6816likely England c. 1875. Hardcover. Very Good. Full black morocco ornate border and initials "S. M. B." gilt-stamped on boards details gilt-stamped in spine compartments 5 raised bands; square 8vo 7.5 x 8.75 inches; contains 24 tipped-on reproductions of famous portraits and scenes usually religious printed in sepia or b/w and surrounded by original watercolors beautifully accomplished botanical borders in full-color. Corners and spine tips gently scuffed; faint waterstain at the very top edge of a few leaves small trimmable. A lovely variety -- bluebells snowdrops lily of the valley branches ivy and more. <br/><br/> hardcover books
198644327Washington DC: Mage Publishers Inc 1986. First Trade Edition. Quarto 28.75cm; full black cloth with titling and artist's facsimile signature stamped in white on spine and front cover; illustrated endpapers; dustjacket; 1431pp; illus; text is in French and English. Inscribed by the artist to Broadway star Sondra Lee on the first blank page "Pour Sondra / trés amicalement / Franta / April 87" beneath a full-page mixed media illustration of two nude figures sitting cross-legged opposite each other. Fine in a lightly shelfworn Near Fine dustjacket. Laid into this copy is an invitation for the 2001 exhibition Franta: "oeuvres choisies" signed by the artist in teal marker with two other signed invitations send to Sondra Lee laid in. The first monograph of Franta's work tracing "his development from the 1960s when he first arrived in France a refugee from Czechoslovakia up to his recent exhibitions in New York and Paris." A bilingual edition with 109 illustrations 50 of them in color. A distinguished copy with a masterful full-page work of art. Provenance: From the library of Sondra Lee. Mage Publishers, Inc unknown books
1932D37241932. Hardcover. Fine. Half brown cloth and morocco with gilt-stamped lettering on spine. Fine. Contains 21 grey heavy cardstock leaves each with a tipped-on drawing 6-by-7-inches colored by hand usually in watercolor and pencil. Osborn holds forth in 19 cartoons on the subjects of hair and California. Also includes 2 more serious drawings both concerned with landscape and the human figure. <br/><br/>Early original cartoons by the noted caricaturist cartoonist and satiric commentator Robert Osborn who died in 1994 at age 90. Educated at the University of Wisconsin and Yale University where he was art editor of the Yale Record Osborn studied painting in Rome and Paris before returning to teach art and philosophy at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville Connecticut. At the outbreak of World War II he enlisted in the Navy with the hope of becoming an aviator. He was assigned to an information unit under the command of the photographer Edward Steichen. As a Navy officer he learned the art of speed drawing and over his military career produced some 40000 drawings for training manuals -- many of them featuring a cartoon character named Dilbert a blunderer who violated rules of military safety. In 1946 he achieved his first public recognition for "War Is No Damn Good" said to be the first antiwar book of the nuclear age. He went on to draw for Harper's Fortune Life and Look and became a regular contributor to The New Republic. Garry Trudeau creator of the "Doonesbury" strip called Mr. Osborn "one of the very few masters of illustrative cartooning." hardcover books
1850D4292c. 1850. Fine. Half leather and marbled paper over boards 9-by-11 inches; approx. pp. 200 different color papers. Includes 11 beautiful hand-colored landscapes on heavy cardstock 7-by-10.5 inches; and 14 pencil sketches on lighter gauge paper studies of the human form seemingly with Greek and Roman statues of men and women as their inspiration. A lovely collection of original drawings and paintings. The landscapes include castles from the Isle of Man and Rudesheim Germany as well as mountain scenes lake scenes bridges and more. All artwork is easily removed from the book and suitable for framing. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1920D6746Europe late-19th or early 20th century. Ephemera. Near Fine. A collection of original artwork possibly all by the same artist though only one of the three groups is signed E. H. Holmes. The collection includes: 2 pencil sketches heightened in white 5x6.5 inches both dated 1852 showing a part of the Berry Pomeroy castle and Marldon Church in Devon; 14 pencil sketches 5.25x8.25 inches of Greek and Roman men and women likely drawn from statues; 11 beautiful landscapes each in pencil and gouache and heightened in white oval-shaped on heavy cardstock white leaves 10.5x7 inches some of them identified in the lower margin Ardennes Tower of Refuge at the Isle of Man Baltimore Head and more. All works are nicely accomplished and loose suitable for framing. The occasional graphite finger-smudge else fine. <br/><br/> unknown books
35309Ca early-to-mid 1920s. Painting matted and housed in a gilded wooden frame. A Nr Fine exemplar. Frame: 23" x 20". Painting to matte: 16-1/2" x 13-1/2" <br/><br/>Picture depicts an elevated view of the harbor from the hills to the South-SouthEast. unknown books
1846SW476-7257England 1846-1891. Hardcover. Near Fine. Contemporary full dark green morocco lavishly stamped in blind and gilt on boards and spine; 4to 210 x 265 mm; approx. pp. 200 nearly full with handwritten poetry and prose original artwork albumen photographs and ephemera -- sometimes adhered to the page direct on the page or loosely inserted via corner slots. A little scuffing along spine and edges of boards else fine. A varied collection of highly skilled original artwork including 6 paintings en brunelle 12 in watercolor or gouache and 7 in black ink wash; plus 11 pencil drawings 4 sepia albumen photographs mounted direct to the page ranging in size from 122x85 to 132x195 mm about a dozen handwritten contributions of prose and poetry including one in Spanish and more than 50 pieces of ephemera. Decades in the making and with contributions from numerous hands this is a rich and remarkably accomplished volume -- one wonders if it was perhaps created by a circle of artists. Landscapes and landmarks of England appear in the original artwork such as a finely detailed drawing of the house where Sir Isaac Newton was born and photographs St. Mary's Church; New College from the Gardens as well as the ephemera numerous engraved illustrations of castles neatly clipped from unknown sources. Far-flung locales are also represented: View on the Medina River pencil drawing Martaban at Sunrise beautiful watercolor of Burma an architectural drawing that suggests India. Prose and poetry contributions mostly original offer religious sentiments thoughts on love and friendship and a bit of humor in particular a piece entitled "Georgy on Shakespeare" argues that the Bard is greatly over-rated. Ephemera includes holiday greetings numerous illustrations extracted from unknown sources and the occasional die-cut. Landscapes birds flowers -- all the hallmarks of a typical album of the period -- though this one is particularly nice. <br/><br/> hardcover books
