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19939657New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Co 1993. Portfolio of etchings one of 25 copies each signed and numbered by the artist Judith Turner on the reverse all on BFK Rives paper and paper from Paul Wong Dieu Donne Papermill. Page size: 30 inches by 15 inches; 6 leaves. Bound: loose in green paper portfolio with the title in silver gilt on front panel by BookLab. The titlepage printing was letterpress by Daniel Keleher at Wild Carrot Letterpress with calligraphy by Jerry Kelly. Marjorie Van Dyke and Vincent FitzGerald accomplished the printing of the etchings. Twenty-four photographic images by noted architectural photographer Judith Turner were selected by the artist and laid out in horizontally on five rectangular sheets of paper. They were photoetched and produced images with softer lines than photogravure. The artist has noted that this process helps conceal the deterioration of the sculptures. The etchings were printed with black ink and then using chine colle color was added by adhering thin sheets of colored tissue paper onto the heavier larger sheets of paper. The effect is totally original and beautiful. The images float along the sheet of paper with the color calling attention to different aspects of these monumental pieces that are so essential to Western art. Vincent FitzGerald & Co unknown books
1964147167Los Angeles: Villa di Stefano Productions 1964. First Draft script for the 1964 television film which originally aired on CBS. With actor Martin Landau's copied annotations throughout. Included are a set of synopses for proposed episodes a shooting schedule a distributor's announcement booklet and various other documents related to production. <br/><br/>Also included is an original celluloid print of the film on a single reel in its original mailing case with cloth straps dated 2/18/65 addressed from director Joseph Stefano to Landau on the mailing label in holograph black ink and INSCRIBED by Stefano to Landau at the top left corner of the case in the same ink: "To Martin / Whose splendid brilliance and warmth put the special spark in this bright fire / Your grateful and admiring friend / Joe Stefano."<br/><br/>Fearful of being buried alive a woman installs a phone in the crypt in which she plans to be in case of emergencies. Months after her death the phone begins to ring presenting a new ghostly case for Landau's paranormal investigator. <br/><br/>The film was intended to be the pilot for a new paranormal thriller series tentatively titled "The Haunted" as titled on the front wrapper but the series wasn't picked up and the pilot was released as a television movie after additional footage was shot. <br/><br/>Black titled wrappers with credits for director-screenwriter Joseph Stefano noted as PILOT SCRIPT ONE. Title page present dated July 27 1964 noted as PILOT SCRIPT ONE with credits for director-screenwriter Joseph Stefano. 77 leaves with last page of text numbered 76. Early Xerox rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. <br/><br/>Film reel and film stock are unexamined. Villa di Stefano Productions unknown books
1939219271New York 1939. Half length portrait of the actress in costume. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 35.3 x 27.7 cm. Approximately 14 x 11 inches. Fine. Docketed on verso in pencil giving the subject of the photograph and the number of negative and print "XX 0 : 12". Small ding at right margin. Half length portrait of the actress in costume. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 35.3 x 27.7 cm. Approximately 14 x 11 inches. Dame Judith Anderson as Mother Mary. unknown books
1951219343New York 1951. Large bust portrait of the actress in costume. 1 vols. 33.9 x 24.7 cm. Approximately 13-3/8 x 9-5/8 inches. Fine. Docketed on verso in pencil giving the subject of the photograph the date of the session and the number of negative and print "XIV ee : 4". Large bust portrait of the actress in costume. 1 vols. 33.9 x 24.7 cm. Approximately 13-3/8 x 9-5/8 inches. unknown books
1939219276New York 1939. Large bust portrait of the actress in costume in the role of Mary mother of Jesus. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 35.3 x 27.7 cm. Approximately 14 x 11 inches. Fine. Docketed on verso in pencil giving the subject of the photograph and the number of negative and print "XX 0 : 18". Large bust portrait of the actress in costume in the role of Mary mother of Jesus. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 35.3 x 27.7 cm. Approximately 14 x 11 inches. unknown books
1939222425New York 1939. Large bust portrait of the actress in costume in the role of Mary mother of Jesus. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 25. x 20 cm. Approximately 10 x 8 inches. Fine. Photographer's blind stamp lower left docketed on verso in pencil giving the print reference "XX 0 : 19". Large bust portrait of the actress in costume in the role of Mary mother of Jesus. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 25. x 20 cm. Approximately 10 x 8 inches. Inscribed by Dame Judith Anderson to Mauriber on the image. Provenance: The estate of Saul Mauriber Van Vechten's assistant and executor of Van Vechten's photography estate and the compiler of PORTRAITS: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CARL VAN VECHTEN 1978 unknown books
20086070Upper Montclair/London: Temporary Culture and Wolfe Editions 2008. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. No DJ as Issued. Tight bright and unmarred. Hand-bound orange marbled paste-paper over boards frontispiece. 4to. np 4pp plus 9pp plates. Illus. color and b/w plates. Each etching signed by artist. Colophon signed by artist and author. Limited numbered edition this being "E" 30 copies total numbered 1-25 plus five copies lettered A-E reserved for the artist and author. <br/><br/>Letterpress work by David Wolfe of Wolfe Editions with aquatint etchings printed by the artist from the original plates two with added color. Joe Haldeman is author of the science fiction classic The Forever War 1975: recently optioned by Ridley Scott to be brought to film. The poem was originally published as “Endangered Species” in Vanishing Acts edited by Ellen Datlow St. Martin's Press 1999 and was also used as the epigram to his novel Forever Free Ace 1999. Judith Clute is a Canadian artist resident in London. Her work is held in collections throughout north America and Europe and was recently exhibited at Galleria Becker Jyväskylä Finland and in the Artichoke Printmaking show at Clifford Chance London. Since publication of Forever Peace a small format edition was published for distribution to members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and of the House of Commons in London and worldwide to promote peace. A pristine copy of this remarkly powerful work. Temporary Culture and Wolfe Editions hardcover books
2006CNJL1217Octon France: Verdigris 2006. Limited Edition. Japanese Stab Binding. Fine. Rothchild Judith. No. 6 of 10 deluxe copies total edition 50 with original copper plate and separate mezzotint oblong folio size 28 pp. signed by Judith Rothchild. Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop 1911-1979 wrote this poem in 1976 it being originally published in GEOGRAPHY III; she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1956 the National Book Award in 1970 and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976. Judith Rothchild has put images to Bishop's words in a parallel and parody of Colin Powell's address to the UN in 2003 regarding Iraq's weapons of mass destruction by highlighting the trivial items on her desk and magnifying them with her black and white mezzotints similar to how the Powell's black-and-white images were shown at the UN.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Japanese Stab binding with grey-green paper-covered boards the front cover has a silk-screen of a moon with khaki lettering below the spine is of a burgundy paper with black lettering end-papers are of the same red burgundy paper hinges of red cloth title page with black text and original mezzotint consecutive pages with text and eight images followed by a full-page mezzotint and finally the colophon; the edition of fifty was printed on Hahnemuhle paper the mezzotints and screen-prints on the cover and box were printed by the artist; hand-set and printed on an Albion press of 1867 by Mark Lintott who also made the binding and box; oblong folio approximately 12.25" tall x 18.5" wide; limited edition this number six of ten deluxe copies 50 total copies printed; signed by artist Judith Rothchild and printer/binder Mark Lintott. The deluxe editions include an original copper plate from the image titled "typed sheet" as well as an additional mezzotint signed titled and numbered by the artist in a separate envelope titled "just after twelve"; the book copper plate and additional mezzotint all encased in a clamshell box covered in the same grey-green paper and lined with bright blue paper the front of the box has the same silk-screen printed moon and lettering as the book the spine of burgundy cloth with a grey-green paper label with black lettering. With the prospectus a post-card shaped piece with colour photograph of the book on one side and a description of the book on the other.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume copper plate and the additional print are all in fine condition; the box is fine overall; very slightly bumped bottom corners else fine. The prospectus is fine clean without wear.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Due to weight additional postage will apply; we are happy to ship at cost for both domestic and international customers please inquire 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. Verdigris unknown books
200910234New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Co 2009. Portfolio of ten chromogenic prints on metallic paper one of 20 copies only each print numbered and initialed in pencil on the reverse by the photographer Judith Turner who has also signed her name on the colophon in pencil. Page size: 4-15/16 x 4-15/16 inches 10 individual prints. Bound: loose as issued and housed in clear plastic box with front cover sliding out by Just Plastic. Titlepage / colophon page letterpress printed by Kelly-Winterton in black on gray paper. <br/>Judith Turner noted New York photographer took these haunting images over a period of six months. They were photographed under water chronicling the life and death of a plant. Noted for her images of architecture published in trade books since 1979 and by the private press Vincent FitzGerald & Co. since 1990 she brings a solidity of shape and concreteness to the transitory water lily. The use of Kodak's silver paper for these images presents an illusive shimmer to the plant in water - suggesting the play of sunlight that would occur in the plant's natural habitat.<br/>Ms. Turner's photography is held by many institutions including the Canadian Center for Architecture the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Japan Tel Aviv Museum Tel Aviv Israel and the International Center for Photography and the Brooklyn Museum among others. She has received numerous awards and grants including in 2007 a Star of Design Award in Photography by the Design Center of New York and in 1994 the American Institute of Architects Award. Vincent FitzGerald & Co unknown books
2000CNJL1258Octon France: Verdigris 2000. Limited Edition. Folio in a case. Fine. Rothchild Judith. Number 4 of 10 de luxe copies total edition 50 quarto size 16 pp. signed by Judith Rothchild with an additional print also signed in French. A single poem "L'Invitation au Voyage" is from the collection Les Fleurs du mal first published in 1857 penned by Charles Pierre Baudelaire 1821-1867 the French poet credited with influencing a whole generation of symbolist and modernist poets. "Les Fleurs du mal" deals with the changing landscape of Paris during the industrial revolution; his longing for the Paris of yore frames a retreat into an exotic fantasy world with his desire to make beauty from darkness. In the poem he invites his mistress to dream with him of a more sublime and tranquil natural world where they can live together. This piece lacks the exotic and often grotesque imagery so often associated with Les Fleurs du mal; instead Judith Rothchild's mezzotints illustrate the idyllic landscape dream world of the poem darkly obscuring it into small windows as if snipped from the imagination of the poet's mistress who struggles to dream of the prescribed world as so loftily presented by the enigmatic Baudelaire.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Loose concertina housed in stiff wrapper sirigraphed in shades of blue designed to resemble Moorish tile with title lettered in black to a dark-blue backstrip rough-cut edges title page with a single small circular mezzotint text in French eight additional mezzotints throughout the poem; Hahnemuhle paper quarto size 10.5" by 10.25" unpaginated with 16 pp. limited edition this number 4 of 10 de luxe copies from a total edition of 50 signed by Judith Rothchild. With one additional mezzotint numbered and signed by the artist in pencil with a poem by Baudelaire hand-written by Rothchild in French on the leaf surrounding the mezzotint encased in its own paper sleeve. Both are housed in a matching blue fall-down-back case.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine; crisp clean as new and free of prior owner markings; in a like case. The mezzotints are lush and deep and must be experienced in person to gain a full appreciation.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire 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. Verdigris unknown books
2008CNJL1264Octon France: Verdigris 2008. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Rothchild Judith. Number 6 of 10 de luxe editions total edition 50 oblong octavo size 14 pp. signed by the artist and author text in French. Frederic Jacques Temple b. 1921 French poet and author decided to pursue writing as a career following a meeting with Blaise Cendrars in 1949. This work by him is a collection of memories of the Aveyron River and surrounding area from childhood; his early memories influenced much of his work including "L'Enclos" which celebrated the "mythical" city of Montpelier where he attended the college of the Enclos Saint-Francois. <br/><br/>The accompanying intaglio prints by Judith Rothchild are a combination of mezzotint and dry point techniques for which she is well known with the type enjambed to lengthen the ripples of the riverbanks which extend borderless across double-page spreads; thus each page flows seamlessly into the next like the bends of a river. The words like the ripples and river stones are given an added dimension of meaning especially being fragments of a long-distant childhood. The lush woodlands and light filled waters of southern France are praised in this romantic accolade by two of its natives.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original binding of blue paste paper over yellow paper affixed to both boards and the title letterpress printed to the upper board concertina or "leporello" style text in French 11 gravure mezzotints handset in Vendome Romain and printed on an Albion Press Hahnemuhle paper oblong octavo size 11.75" by 7.75" 14 pp. limited edition this number 6 of 10 de luxe copies from a total edition of 50 signed by the author and artist. Accompanied by one additional print signed and numbered by the artist with a handwritten poem by the author also signed and housed in a blue marbled paste paper portfolio; both items are housed in a matching fall-down-back box with marbled black and blue pastepaper guards.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine; crisp clean as new and free of prior owner markings; in a like case. A lovely collaboration between artists.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire 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. Verdigris hardcover books
201611255Octon France: Verdigris Press 2016. One of 7 deluxe copies with an original copperplate from a total edition of 12 all on BFK Rives tan paper. Page size: 9-7/8 x 6-1/4 inches; 16pp. Bound by Mark Lintott accordion style boards and Rothchild's hand-made pastepaper rose dots scattered on tan ground with occasional indigo dots; housed in custom-made paper over boards clamshell box with original copper laid into the inside front cover of box paper on box has more blue than that on panels of book; title artist author publisher on spine title repeated on front cover of box Hand set and printed in Vendome type on an 1867 Albion press by Mark Lintott. Ms. Rothchild's elegant dry point etchings were inspired the colophon reveals by her sketches of her model Monica. While a study of the female nude figure is a departure from her usual books Judith Rothchild succeeds admirably. The intimate views depicted here are a match for those of her more frequently-encountered still-life compositions. Verdigris Press unknown books
2006CNJL976Octon France: Verdigris Press 2006. Limited Edition. Folio. Fine. Rothchild Judith. Number 9 of 30 copies folio size 21 pp. signed by Marie Rouanet and Judith Rothchild all text in French. Magie Blanche White Magic is a feast for the senses an invitation to share twenty years of epicurean delight at the restaurant "Le Mimosa" in Languedoc a place of tangible emotion as translated in this book through a series of engravings and original texts. Judith Rothchild's eleven mezzotints elevate the subjects in their technical achievement. The sumptuous plates enclose in circles or squares the commonplace subjects: olives cheese langoustines wine bottles and mushrooms frozen in velvety black shadow and dappled light. <br/><br/>The colophon calls this the "fruit of a collaboration between creators of diverse origins sharing a deep love of Languedoc." Marie Rouanet's original French text is a poetic response to Rothchild's mezzotints and to the soulful history of the restaurant created by Bridget and David Pugh. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original loose leaves unbound in the French style in a fall-down-back box designed by Lisa Knoblauch with a silkscreen of green mimosa leaves on a yellow ground and with a printed paper label to upper board and backstrip 11 mezzotints on 10 full-page spreads embossed mimosa leaf vignette to title-page text in French; Vendome Romain type Hahnemuhle paper leaves are folio size 16" by 12" 1 2-21 pp first limited edition this number 9 of 30 copies signed by the author and illustrator to the colophon. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy; like new in a like case. Verdigris Press unknown books
201611256Octon France: Verdigris Press 2016. One of 5 copies from a total edition of 12 all on BFK Rives tan paper. Page size: 9-7/8 x 6-1/4 inches; 16pp. Bound by Mark Lintott accordion style boards and Rothchild's hand-made pastepaper rose dots scattered on tan ground with occasional indigo dots; housed in custom-made paper over boards clamshell box paper on box has more blue than that on panels of book; title artist author publisher on spine title repeated on front cover of box Hand set and printed in Vendome type on an 1867 Albion press by Mark Lintott. Ms. Rothchild's elegant drypoint etchings were inspired the colophon reveals by her sketches of her model Monica. While a study of the female nude figure is a departure from her usual books Judith Rothchild succeeds admirably. The intimate views depicted here are a match for those of her more frequently-encountered still-life compositions. Verdigris Press unknown books
201110486Octon France: Verdigris Press 2011. Artist's book one of 4 deluxe copies from a total issue of 40 all on Hahnemulhe paper each copy signed by the artist Judith Rothchild and initialed by the author in pencil as is the numbering. Page size: 6-1/4 x 8-1/4 inches; 20pp; printed on 5 folios. Bound: loose as issued housed in grey wrappers printed in black the whole in custom-made burgundy paper over boards clamshell box with black paper edges title author artist and press printed in black on spine with exposed grey cloth hinges. The deluxe edition contains one of the 4 four original copper plates used for the stunning mezzotints of interior scenes by Ms. Rothchild. Also included in the deluxe copy is an original pencil and ink wash drawing. This interior scene is mounted into the inside front cover of the clamshell box with the original copper plate mounted into the rear inside cover. Both are "framed" with hand marbled paper in deep grey with white inset. <br/>Seemingly a simple series of interiors accompanied by words about the spaces it is a very powerful "aide-memoire" - visualizing and verbalizing the power of rooms and the objects therein bathed in their own peculiar light - to elicit memories / sensations all but forgotten. The artist tells us that the images were made from drawings at a friend's apartment. The parents of her friend established a bilingual journal in Paris creating a literary circle with included Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell. Temple friendship with the publishers dates from this time and endures through an almost familial relationship with their daughter the artist's friend whose apartment is depicted.<br/>The original pencil and wash composition is of another location entirely. This is one of the public rooms in the Grand Hotel in Sete a port on the Mediterranean about one hour from Octon the home of Verdigris Press. <br/>The text is hand set in Vendome romain and printed letterpress by Mark Lintott who also made the clamshell boxes. Each of the folios has been marbled in a most subtle shade of blue - delicate and yet full of life with swirls compelling one to open the folio to the mezzotint on the verso. This is a very beautiful book - elegant and restrained - just what one has come to expect from Judith Rothchild and Mark Lintott. Verdigris Press unknown books
2005CNJL1266Octon France: Verdigris 2005. Limited Edition. Stiff wraps. Fine. Rothchild Judith. Number 4 of 10 de luxe copies total edition 50 oblong octavo size 22 pp. signed by the author and artist. James Sacre b. 1939 former professor at Smith College now residing in Montpellier is a French poet much of whose writing is concerned with literalism which rejects the poetic convention of lyricism. He wrote this series of poems in response to fellow French artist Judith Rothchild's four mezzotints. The four images can be viewed in sequence when folded out and displayed in a semicircle or read in page spreads side by side with the poems - the work builds on each other as in these lines: "ç'est visible que chacun / ressemble a ceux d'a cote / par un detail de forme ou bien / l'idee qu'il donne d'un lien" the mezzotints are so rich they look like they would feel like velvet to the touch; this work is a joy to behold on so many levels.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original black wrappers with serigraph print by Rothchild concertina or "leporello" style wrappers stamped with title and two rows of squares in black marbled black and gray pastepaper guards and endpapers four gravure mezzotints with tissue guards text in French; handset in Vendome Romain and printed on an Albion Press Hahnemuhle paper oblong octavo size 7.5" by 8.5" 22 pp. limited edition this number 4 of 10 de luxe copies from a total edition of 50 signed by the James Sacre and Judith Rothchild. Accompanied by a signed and numbered print number IV of X on the right-hand side of a single leaf on the left-hand side a handwritten and signed poem by the author also accompanied by the original etched copper plate used for one of the illustrations. All housed in a matching fall-down-back box lined with matching marbled black and gray paper covered with black paper with black-on-black designs on the front black-on-black lettering on the spine.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine; crisp clean as new and free of prior owner markings; the case overall fine a few light stray markings which are barely visible.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire 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. Verdigris unknown books
20101436662010. ROTHCHILD Judith. Nacre. Poems by Ruth Fainlight. 20 pp. Illustrated with 8 mezzotints by Judith Rothchild. Square 4to. 255 x 220 mm bound by Mark Lintott with wrap- around boards consisting of mauve-coloured paper over boards raspberry-coloued linen chemise with titled spine in matching grey paper over boards slipcase. Octon France: Verdigris Press 2010. First Edition limited to 42 copies with the mezzotints printed on Hahnemülhe paper colophon hand-numbered and signed by the author Ruth Fainlight and the artist Judith Rothchild. The text has been hand set and printed letterpress in Vendome Romain on an Albion press of 1867 by Mark Lintott. Rothchild designed and printed the mezzotints herself. Title-page and colophon with embossed text and/or imagery. "The magnificent pearls with their orient nacre were saved for queens and emperors. Entire villages holding their breath: how many diver's lives lost in the oyster beds for a royal crown" The poems by Fainlight are a perfect compliment to Rothchild's characteristically black-velvet mezzotints infused with sexual overtones of elegance and luxury offering the perfect medium for the mysteriously creative cradle of the pearl. As new. hardcover books
2003CNJL1250Octon: Verdigris Press 2003. Limited Edition. Folio in a case. Fine. Rothchild Judith. Number 10 of 50 copies quarto size 20 pp. signed by Judith Rothchild and the printer Mark Lintott. Wallace Stevens 1879-1955 was "one of America's most respected poets. He was a master stylist employing an extraordinary vocabulary and a rigorous precision in crafting his poems. But he was also a philosopher of aesthetics vigorously exploring the notion of poetry as the supreme fusion of the creative imagination and objective reality." N.B. from the web site of the Poetry Foundation. <br/><br/>"Study of Two Pears" was first published in 1954 in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens and is here translated into French by Bernard Noel. The title asserts itself as being concerned with visual arts and each stanza tugs at the tension between reality that is observed and imaginative reality the observer sees the pears but not as he wills language fails to adequately describe them as they are without the use of metaphor. There might be no more appropriate poem to illustrate than this as the speaker's desire to describe the pears without relating them to anything else is an act of reduction which ultimately expands the image by showing us the many things they do resemble. <br/><br/>Illustrated by Rothchild's velvety hyper-realistic mezzotints which follow the progress of the stanzas each print gradually growing brighter the pears illustrated from every possible angle becoming more definite and resolved along with the poem. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original wrappers screen-printed with a design of green brown and orange with the title letterpress printed to the backstrip and upper wrapper in dark green loose leporello deckled fore-edge nine mezzotints two blind-stamped sets of pears to fly-leaves text in English and French; handset type Hahnemuhle paper quarto size 11" by 11.75" unpaginated with 20 pp. limited edition this number 10 of 50 copies signed by printer Mark Lintott and Judith Rothchild. Housed in a heavy cardboard slipcase covered in green paper and similarly screen-printed in shades of green lined with plain green paper. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine; crisp clean; other than a hint of rubbing to the top corners and a small rubbed spot on the spine of the backstrip as new and free of prior owner markings; in a like case. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire 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. Verdigris Press unknown books
20019511London England: EMH Arts Eagle Gallery 2001. Artist's book one of 15 copies all on Velin Arches paper each signed by the artist Julia Farrer. Page size: 23-7/16 inches x 4-13/16 inches; 14 leaves printed and cut out. Bound: hand-sewn leporello style in original drab boards housed in white linen sleeve and slipcase all by Charles Gledhill fine. Illustrated with original intaglio prints hand-colored drypoints by Julia Farrer who also editioned the prints. The book has an architectural pierced structure where a folded geometric image reflects and counterpoints a single poem. The text is printed letter press by Phil Abel at Hand & Eye Letterpress. Judith Thurman and Julia Farrer have collaborated to produce this homage to the memory of their friend Kate Griffin. A visually stunning production from this collaboration of author and artist. Judith Thurman is the author of well-received biographies of Colette SECRETS OF THE FLESH and Isak Dinesen as well as contributions to "The New Yorker" magazine. Julia Farrer born in London in 1950 attended The Slade School from 1968-1972 and was a Harkness Fellow at the University of New Mexico and New York from 1974-1976. Her work is held in many important collections including the Arts Council of Great Britain the Ashmoleon Museum of Oxford University the Yale Center for British Art the Tate Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her recent work explores transformations of geometric compositions from two into three dimensions across the different media of painting monoprinting unique and small run artist's books. EMH Arts [Eagle Gallery] unknown books
2003CNJL1112Octon France: Verdigris Press 2003. Limited Edition. Stiff wraps. Fine. Rothchild Judith. Number 8 of 35 quarto size 22 pp. signed by Judith Rothchild text in French. Charles Cros 1842-1888 was a French poet and scientific inventor. His proposals and theories about color photography and the phonograph were published almost simultaneously with those of Louis Ducos du Hauron and Thomas Edison. Cros did not devotedly belong to any fixed group or school but was friends with poets such as Verlaine and Rimbaud and frequented the salons of both the Symbolists and the Décadents. <br/><br/>In 1874 he published Le Fleuve a long poem in alexandrine verse illustrated with watercolors by Édouard Manet. His bohemian lifestyle and lifelong devotion to absinthe helped to degrade his health and at the time of his death in 1888 most of his work remained unpublished. The four poems of Les Quatre Saisons were first published in Le Coffret de Santal in 1873 and earned the poet the Juglar Prize one of the few points of recognition Cros received during his lifetime. <br/><br/>Judith Rothchild's four mezzotints appropriately illustrate the emotion of the artist while also emphasizing the "season" both of nature and of the heart expressed in each poem; asparagus buds for spring "wheat" that appears wind blown for summer a split chestnut for autumn and a "flame" for winter.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original black Somerset Velvet paper wrappers silk screened by the artist in shades of green and brown title and author blind-embossed to the spine matching design in blind to endpapers housed in a green paper slipcase with similar silk screened design of black and blue signatures loose as issued four mezzotints please note that all text is in French; Vendome Romaine type Hahnemuhle paper quarto size 10 5/16" by 8 1/2" unpaginated with 22 pp. limited edition this number 8 of 35 signed by Judith Rothchild.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine overall the in a fine slipcase.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire 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. Verdigris Press unknown books
1968138257N.p.: N.p. 1968. Collection of three single weight and one double weight vintage photographs and an original program from the 1968 premiere of The Living Theatre's experimental theatre piece "Paradise Now" performed on July 24 at a Carmelite cloister as part of the 22nd Avignon Festival in Avignon France. <br/><br/>Three of the photographs with stamps of the Gamma photo agency or photographers on the verso two with holograph annotations regarding the production on the verso. <br/><br/>The program published by Walter Swennen contains the text of "Let Us Talk about Counterrevolution" from the play in both French and English. <br/><br/>After a dispute with the IRS led to the closing of their New York City theater in 1963 Julian Beck and Judith Malina moved The Living Theatre to Europe where they toured almost exclusively refining the group's vision of improvisational collaborative and participatory leftist theatre. In 1968 they debuted what would become their signature piece "Paradise Now" at the Avignon Festival where at the conclusion of the piece both performers and audience members took to the streets in a combination demonstration and parade that caused controversy among the residents of the town. <br/><br/>Program: 4.25 x 10.5 inches 30 pages saddle stapled in wrappers. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Photographs: Variously sized between 7.75 x 5.75 inches and 12 x 7.75 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
2009CNJL1292Octon France: Verdigris 2009. Limited Edition. Stiff wraps. Fine. Rothchild Judith. Number 7 of 15 quarto size unpaginated 40 pp. signed by Judith Rothchild. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci were compiled edited and translated by Jean Paul Richter in 1883 they include hundreds of pages of notes written by the mysterious Renaissance master including sketches lists of books he read and financial records. Much of his notes are detailed studies and astute observations of the natural world including the flight of birds mechanics the flow of rivers architecture astronomy anatomy et al. His notes on light and shadow are both scientific and philosophic in nature beautifully complimented Judith Rothchild's six shadow studies both the text and prints imply evidence of a curious and vigilant eye. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original brown paper portfolio with embossed geometric shapes and inlaid printed title to upper wrapper lettering in blind to backstrip housed in an illustrated blue paper slipcase off-white flyleaves embossed with geometric shapes six plates in mezzotint rocker roulette and dry point the copper plates embossments and screen prints are printed by the artist all with original tissue guards Vendôme Romain type 9.25" by 12.25" unpaginated leaves folded once 40 pp. limited edition signed by Judith Rothchild to the colophon and to each plate. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine in a like slipcase. <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. Verdigris unknown books
201110487Octon France: Verdigris Press 2011. Artist's book one of 36 copies from a total issue of 40 4 deluxe all on Hahnemulhe paper each copy signed by the artist Judith Rothchild and initialed by the author in pencil as is the numbering. Page size: 6-1/4 x 8-1/4 inches; 20pp; printed on 5 folios. Bound: loose as issued housed in grey wrappers printed in black the whole in custom-made burgundy paper over boards sleeve and slipcase title author artist and press printed in black on spine. Each copy of this lovely book as four interior scenes printed as mezzotints by Ms. Rothchild. <br/>Seemingly a simple series of interiors accompanied by words about the spaces it is a very powerful "aide-memoire" - visualizing and verbalizing the power of rooms and the objects therein bathed in their own peculiar light - to elicit memories / sensations all but forgotten. The artist tells us that the images were made from drawings at a friend's apartment. The parents of her friend established a bilingual journal in Paris creating a literary circle with included Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell. The poet Frederique Temple developed a friendship with the publishers from this time and it endures through an almost familial relationship with their daughter the artist's friend whose apartment is depicted.<br/>The text is hand set in Vendome romain and printed letterpress by Mark Lintott who also made the clamshell boxes. Each of the folios has been marbled in a most subtle shade of grey - delicate and yet full of life with swirls compelling one to open the folio to the mezzotint on the verso. This is a very beautiful book - elegant and restrained - just what one has come to expect from Judith Rothchild and Mark Lintott. Verdigris Press unknown books
2007CNJL969Octon France: Verdigris Press 2007. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Rothchild Judith. No. 18 of 45 copies octavo size 12 pp. signed by Judith Rothchild with a gravure en maniere noire. Based on an open letter written by Victor Hugo on December 2 1859 that was published by the press on both sides of the Atlantic with a plea to the citizens of the American republic not to put to death the abolitionist John Brown. <br/><br/>Judith Rothchild has taken the text of the letter bound it leporello concertina style with two short accordion folds on each board with the French language on the left and English on the right; in the middle is a masterful maniere noire a form of aquatint depicting the shackled feet of a hanged man.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Brown marbled paper boards with the title blind-embossed on the front black cloth spine and fore-edges paper spine label contents designed leporello style as described above text on Rives BFK paper the gravure on Hahnemuhle; small octavo size just under 8" tall with six leaves on each side of the book the double-page gravure in the middle; limited edition of 45 copies this no. 18 signed by Judith Rothchild on the colophon page with a gravure en maniere noire by the artist. Enclosed in a slipcase covered in lighter brown marbled paper lined with black paper.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine in a fine slipcase.<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. Verdigris Press hardcover books
2007CNJL474Octon France: Verdigris 2007. Limited Edition. Accordion. Fine. Rothchild Judith. Number 2 of 33 copies forty-eightmo size 9 pp. signed by printer Mark Lintott and Judith Rothchild text in French. This poem by Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867 was intended as an epigraph for the second edition of "Le Fleurs du mal" The Flowers of Evil first published in 1857 and a major work of both the symbolism and modernist movements. Upon its publication Baudelaire was prosecuted by the Second Regime in France and fined 300 francs and six poems were suppressed for their erotic content the ban on these poems was not lifted in France until nearly one hundred years later in 1949 n. b. info from Wikipedia. "Epigraphe" was never used in the second edition but was inserted into the third edition of "Le Fleurs du mal" and the poem is printed here as an accordion book inside a case.<br/><br/>This edition is heightened by rich prints by Judith Rothchild b. 1950 with heavy drypoint marks surrounding the text of the poem and mezzotints at the beginning and end of the accordion. The darkly haloed eyes on either end of the poem evoke the challenge presented by Baudelaire: "Ton oeil sait plonger dans les gouffres. . .Your eye knows how to dive into the chasms. . .".<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Accordion book in a case with quarter grey cloth with marbled paper covered boards title in black on the front board grey paper spine lable with black lettering green paste-down endpapers accordion with green paper front board with title in black attached to the back board of the case by the last page title page with black-and-white mezzotint of a closed eye by Judith Rothchild black-and-white prints by Rothchild throughout; Vendome Romain type Hahnemuhle paper forty-eightmo size 3.75" by 3.5" 9 unnumbered pages one of 33 copies this number 2 signed by Mark Lintott and Judith Rothchild on the colophon. Please note that the text is in French. In a slipcase covered in grey paper with a dark blue abstract pattern. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy; the covers clean the corners straight and unrubbed the binding tight with solid hinges the interior clean and bright and free of prior owner markings; clean crisp as new. The slipcase is fine also strong and sturdy clean without wear.<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. Verdigris unknown books
