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1951295971951. S.l. Les Cent Bibliophiles 1951 1952 au colophon. Un vol. au format in-4 338 x 258 mm de vi - 188 pp. en feuilles sous chemise titrÂŽe ˆ rabats rempliÂŽs et ÂŽtui-chemise de plein cartonnage dos lisse titre imprimÂŽ en noir. Tirage unique ˆ 130 exemplaires numÂŽrotÂŽs seulement ; sur Arches. Exemplaire imprimÂŽ nominativement pour EugÂne CarrÂŽ. Il s'agrÂŽmente - ici en premier tirage - de nombreuses lithographies originales in et hors-texte par Jacques Camus. ''Jacques Camus s'efforce ici de recomposer un Cotentin traditionnel o abondent coiffes normandes et paysans en blouse sur fond de paysages ÂŽvanescents''. in Centorame. ''Dans une atmosphÂre de campagne barbare o interviennent des p‰tres jeteurs de sorts et des vieilles femmes hantÂŽes par le souvenir de leurs dÂŽbauches Jeanne Le Hardouey une aristocrate claudÂŽlienne mÂŽsalliÂŽe d'‰me et de corps ˆ un acquÂŽreur de biens nationaux est ÇensorcelÂŽeÈ par un prÂtre l'abbÂŽ de La Croix-Jugan qui a tentÂŽ de se suicider par dÂŽsespoir de la cause perdue et dont le visage monstrueux porte la trace des tortures que lui ont fait subir les Bleus. ÇJ'ai t‰chÂŽ disait Barbey de faire du Shakespeare dans un fossÂŽ du Contentin.È Centorame Les Illustrateurs de l'oeuvre de Barbey p. 54 - BÂŽnÂŽzit II Dictionnaire des peintres p. 490 - Monod I Manuel de l'amateur de livres illustrÂŽs modernes 961. Etui-chemise prÂŽsentant un ÂŽclat lÂŽgÂrement altÂŽrÂŽ. Plats de la couverture papier lÂŽgÂrement brunis. Du reste trÂs belle condition. b42961 unknown
1954227421954. Paris Editions Pierre de Tartas 1954. Un fort vol. au format in-4 318 x 257 mm de 117 pp. en feuilles sous couverture lithographiÂŽe ˆ rabats rempliÂŽs et ÂŽtui-chemise de plein cartonnage dos lisse titre frappÂŽ ˆ l'oser noir. Edition originale. Tirage unique ˆ 160 exemplaires seulement ; tous sur vÂŽlin de Rives. Celui-ci comptant parmi les 15 numÂŽrotÂŽs du tirage sur vÂŽlin de Rives. Outre l'ensemble des illustrations qu'il se doit de contenir le prÂŽsent exemplaire renferme une suite des planches en noir ainsi qu'une suite sur vÂŽlin de Rives ainsi qu'une aquarelle originale ayant servi ˆ l'illustration signÂŽ de RenÂŽ Aubert. L'ouvrage s'agrÂŽmente par ailleurs d'un envoi autographe signÂŽ de l'auteur ainsi que de l'illustrateur identitÂŽ du dÂŽdicataire effacÂŽ. ''RenÂŽ Aubert fut l'ÂŽlÂve de Lucien Simon ˆ l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts et exposa aux artistes franÂais de 1926 ˆ 1942''. in BÂŽnÂŽzit. BÂŽnÂŽzit I Dictionnaire des peintres p. 310. Dos de la chemise et marges de l'ÂŽtui lÂŽgÂrement passÂŽ. Du reste trÂs belle condition. b42961 unknown
1956023106Paris: Maurice Darantiere 1956. First Edition . Printed Heavy Wrappers. Fine/Fine Slipcase. Loose Fasciles In Heavy Paper Covers In Slipcase As Issued. #27 Of A Limited Edition Of 200 Copies. This Copy Inscribed To Wine Expert Robert L. Balzer On The Occasion Of His Visit To A Temple On 10 July 1957. Balzer Became A Buddhist Monk In The 1950'S But Continued His Active Career As A Wine Expert Teaching University Level Courses Into The 1980'S And 1990'S. Balzer's Buddhist Ordination And Travels Are Described In His Book "Beyond Conflict"1963. Monireth Prime Minister After The Japanese Occupation In Wwii Was Not Supported By The French As He Was Too Independent For Characteristically Retarded French Colonial Policy. <br/> <br/> Maurice Darantiere unknown
1895180743Tokyo.: Tokyo Toyodo. No Date. Ca1895. 10 double-page colour lithographs plus 8pp unpaginated text at the rear. Bound concertina style boards are detached with paper loss at the corners small area light damp staining at the lower left corner some light browning margins and central folds otherwise images are very good. Publisher's label removed from rear pastedown. The text relating to the last image in the book states that "when the war between Japan and China was at its height playing at soldiers was all the rage with boys." This suggests a publication date shortly after 1896 following the first Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and preceding the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. There were apparently different editions of this work with different covers and variant images. The first image in this edition is of two children one reading and one writing. The text states that "This picture takes us back to the days when education in Japan was for the mass of the people a matter of private effort the present extensive system of government schools subordinate to an Education Department dating only form 1871." The other images are: girls playing battledore and shuttlecock; boys flying kites; the Doll's festival; children playing kotoro kotoro in Ueno Park boys on bamboo stilts boys in a procession children playing in a stream; boys wrestling sumo. . Tokyo Toyodo hardcover
SKU1040961Day & Son. hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. Volume 3 only; London 1855; Idumea and Petra; title page is plate 88; includes plates 89-120 with text pages mixed in; plates 121-125 missing and possibly some text pages that accompany these plates; all edges tipped in gold; all pages are loose within blue colored cloth covered boards by The Library of Congress; pages foxed soiled toned; additional shipping charges may be required for International orders; 4to - over 9 3/4" - 12" Tall; pages unnumbered; Additional shipping charges may be requested Day & Son hardcover
192059016Philadelphia New York & Minneapolis: Kayser & Allman 1522 Chestnut St. 1920. Oblong folio. 13.5 x 10.25 in. 19 leaves unnumbered. colour lithograph illustrations throughout primarily on glossy clay-sized paper stock. Textured & embossed oatmeal coloured wallpapers yapp fore-edges black printing & decorative border on front cover stapled at gutter margin wear chipping & minor tears to the wallpaper covers occasional light toning & soiling to interior leaves still VG- copy. First edition thus of this very uncommon wallpaper sample catalogue presenting the lithographic friezes drawn from eminent artists works for illustrating the interiors of post-World War I era homes. These pictorial friezes include “The River Rhine†which could cover up to 35 feet without repeating or those such as “Child World†of children playing ‘The Monks†available with extension or “The Bermudian†a tropical forest scene repeating every 10 feet. Along with forests and mountain scenes the catalogue also includes hand-painted decorative scenes in 29 in. wide sections including “Jerusalem†“Views of Japan†“Views of China†and “The Orient.†Kayser & Allman was initially founded in 1871 by M.M. Kayser at Vine St. in Philadelphia and by 1888 the firm had become Kayser & Allman and after several moves resided at the 1522 Chestnut St. address by 1907. Worldcat locates 2 copies of this date & collation Henry Ford Cleveland Public. Kayser & Allman, 1522 Chestnut St., unknown
197055528New York NY: Maecenas Press / Random House 1970. Book. Illus. by Levine Jack. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. Limited Edition. Elephant Folio. Limited Edition of 2500 Signed copies of which this is copy no.2062. SIGNED twice by James A. Michener and Jack Levine on the inside of the clam shell box and on the colophon page leaf. Includes two portfolios: I. Text by James A. Michener original lithographs and woodcuts by Jack Levine. II. Sketchbook by Jack Levine. The four original lithographs signed in stone by the artist were pulled on Rives Paper. The text hand-set in Caslon de Corps 24 and the original woodcuts were printed on Arches Paper. The original "Hors-Texte" woodcut was pulled on Kawanaka Japanese Vellum paper. The fifty-four watercolors gouaches and drawings from the sketchbook by Jack Levine were printed by Phototypie and Pochoir processes on Ingres Paper. Minor shelfwear. Clamshell Box remains housed in original white carboard boxcase. Volume is in Near Fine condition. Maecenas Press / Random House Hardcover
a67649Verneuil en Halatte 1976. Copy No. 12 of 40. Poem in French. Folio. title page plus 14 pages poem in French by Petitgard illustrated with 6 original lithographs each signed and numbered by Meyer on bottom edge original printed wraps in custom-made folder. Strong bold images of swirling women etc. On fine onion skin paper with protective tissues with each lithograph. Also Inscribed presentation copy from Petitgard; signed by both Petitgard and Meyer on colophon. VG a few small tears on dust jacket and light cover wear. Later glassine cover in place of original glassine cover. Rare. Pictures available on request. . paperback
1952008730New York: Printed at The Spiral Press 1952. First edition. Paperback. This original Robert Frost 1952 Christmas Card is the first published appearance of this poem and is twice signed by Frost. 3875 copies were printed for 14 different names. This is one of 475 printed for the poet himself. And this particular copy is signed twice by Frost. On the title page in two lines directly below his printed name Frost wrote: Robert Frost your subject. A printed laid-in slip reads This Christmas poem though not isolationist is so dangerously near isolationist it was thought better to send it out for Independence Day instead of Christmas. Just below this print in two lines Frost initialed R. F. and dated July 4 53. <br /> <br />The binding is beige laid paper wrappers with flaps folded over thin card beneath fastened to the contents by two staples at the center fold. The covers feature a dark green printed underwater scene with six fishes invertebrates and plants. The contents printed in black and gray-green feature a frontispiece lithograph of ocean waves and a half-page lithograph of sea birds on rocks. Condition approaches near fine the binding clean tight and sharp cornered the binding staples intact and uncorroded the wraps showing just a few faint creases emanating from the spine. The contents are clean with no spotting or soiling. <br /> <br />With the permission of Frost and his publishers in 1929 The Spiral Press began printing an annual Robert Frost Christmas Card featuring one of his poems. The tradition continued until 1962 Frost's final Christmas. Each annual Christmas poem publication was printed with varying names on the title page to accommodate their being sent by various Frost publishers artists and important friends. This copy is one of those printed for Frost himself the imprint Holiday Greetings from Robert Frost printed on the title page. <br /> <br />By a full decade this is the first publication of the poem Does No One But Me at All Ever Feel This Way in the Least. The poem was not published in a Frost collection until his last In The Clearing published in 1962 when Frost was nearly 90 years old. Does No One But Me is seven stanzas of six lines each in iambic pentameter. It is a complaint about the lost possibilities of the sea exacerbated by American homesickness to function as a protective boundary that could have defined and ensured the promise of greatness of a New World. What comes across most powerfully in this poem is the coalition of forces both human and natural conspiring to prevent newness. <br /> <br />By late 1952 when this poem first appeared in his annual Christmas card and he inscribed this copy Robert Frost 1874-1963 was entering the final decade of his life as the most highly esteemed American poet of the twentieth century with an accumulating hoard of academic and civic honors. Nearly a decade had passed since he had won his still-to-this-day-unrivalled fourth Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. This is all the more remarkable given that he did not publish his first volume of poetry until he was nearly 40 years old. He would continue writing publishing and barding around his term until his end. Two years before his death he became the first poet to read in the program of a U.S. Presidential inauguration Kennedy January 1961. <br /> <br />References: Crane B24; Tuten and Zubizarreta; ANB <br/><br/> Printed at The Spiral Press paperback
1858284741858. Paris Auguste Ghio s.d. 1858. Un vol. au format in-4 ˆ l'italienne 227 x 304 mm non paginÂŽ. Reliure d'ÂŽdition de plein cartonnage cerise ˆ l'imitation de chagrin filets gras et maigres ˆ froid encadrant les plats dos lisse ornÂŽ de filets dorÂŽs fleurons dorÂŽs titre dorÂŽ en long tranches dorÂŽes. Edition originale rare. Premier tirage des 8 sur 8 lithographies originales tirÂŽes sur fond crÂme de Victor Adam. ''Victor Adam possÂŽdait une imagination extraordinaire et les connaissances techniques que peut fournir l'enseignement classique. Comme beaucoup de peintres Victor Adam s'essaya dÂs 1824 ˆ la lithographie. DÂs lors l'artiste prit un tel gožt ˆ cette expression qu'il cessa de peindre.'' in BÂŽnÂŽzit. Table : Gorges de la Mahounah - Le cheval arabe - L'affžt - Lionne - Sanglier - Lion - Chacals - Vautour fauve - Gazelles - Autruche - PanthÂre - HÂŽrisson cygnes et liÂvres. ThiÂŽbaud Bibliographie des livres franÂais sur la chasse 157 - Souhart Bibliographie gÂŽnÂŽrale des ouvrages sur la chasse la vÂŽnerie et la fauconnerie 91. DiscrÂte perte de coloration au premier plat. Large marque d'eau au second. Gardes fendues. Rousseurs dans le corps d'ouvrage et cerne claire aux derniers feuillets. b42961 unknown
192038647München Munich: Georg Müller Verlag 1920. A gorgeous edition of Ovid's Art of Love and Remedy of Love in German translation illustrated with TEN ORIGINAL FULL-PAGE HORS-TEXTE LITHOGRAPHS and five vignettes BY HANS GÖTT. 2300 copies were printed: 2000 copies for the trade edition and 300 numbered copies printed by hand for the deluxe edition. Of those 300 copies only 30 were signed by Gött in the colophon. THIS IS AN EXTRAORDINARY COPY SIGNED BY GÖTT IN THE COLOPHON AND WITH EACH OF THE TEN LITHOGRAPHS INDIVIDUALLY SIGNED BY GÖTT. Printed on fine laid paper with the lithographs on fine wove paper. 4to. Bound in publisher's vellum and boards used only for the deluxe edition. Top edge gilt other edges uncut. A bit of wear to extremities of binding internally FINE AND BRIGHT. Extremely rare if not unique in this state. <br/><br/> Georg Müller Verlag hardcover
406849England 19th century. Wear to extremities shadow on front cover some foxing throughout. Suite of 73 lithographs including title signed with initials after drawings signed with initials including HL WS HB MES IF WM and others. Sheets 28 x 21.5 cm images 12 x 9.5 cm. Bound in 19th-century black roan-backed green muslin the front cover with black morocco lettering piece. A series of satirical emblematic lithographs depicting various qualities of wind. unknown
196343686Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret 1963. Limited first edition. Softcover. vg- to near fine. 1/4125. Small folio. 12.5x9.5". 183pp. 5. Tan paper-covered slipcase housing a softcover binding with a lithographically illustrated dust jacket over stiff white cardstock wrappers. Dj protected by mylar. This is #3838 from a total limited edition of 4125 copies. The publication is a complete catalogue raisonné of George Braque's lithographs containing 3 original lithographs covers frontispiece and title page and 146 lithographic reproductions in color and b/w. The lithograph's are arranged chronologically and date from 1921-1962. Each of the reproductions is protected by a coated waxpaper guard and contains physical and historical information about the work on the opposite page. Detailed list of works at the back of the book. Text in French. Slipcase with with some light rubbing to extremities and some light stains scratches and smudges. Dj with very minor foxing. Mylar with some small chips at corners. Interior with minor sporadic foxing to a few pages with images almost entirely unaffected clean and bright. Slipcase in very good- covers and interior in overall very good to near fine. Andre Sauret unknown
1938LD5809Paris: Editions Lidis 1938-1949. Limited Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Printed wraps; 4to; with full-color original lithographs by Walter Spitzer. From a limited edition of 4000 copies "sur velin vercors" with the watermarked signature of Jean-Paul Sartre. Only the first volume is numbered 4887. Complete limitation with variations is 5012 copies. Covers faintly rubbed; spine tips and corners gently bumped; VG presents nicely in clear acetate dust jackets. Internally bright and clean. <br/><br/> Editions Lidis paperback
344942The Verona Press 1939. LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION #857/1200 IN SLIPCASE- ARCHIVAL REPAIRS imperial octavo illus heavy boards gilt lettering to sm title plate to spine deckled page edges unpaginated prelims 316pp illus VG light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps sl water staining to fore-edge of prelims sl foxing to prelims & terminals in d/w VG moderate tanning & light staining to spine light soiling in slipcase VG- moderate soiling heavy cracking to joins with archival tape repairs The Verona Press 1939 hardcover
51-3310Paris: Maeght 1964. . Folio. 38 x 28cm. page size. Original pictorial boards. Fine condition. Original lithographs by GiacomettiWoman in profile Buste de femme regardant à gauche Kornfeld 410 and Miró The Bow Cramer 89; Mourlot 420. Lithographs by Mourlot and Maeght after Braque Chagall et al. DLM édité en juillet 1964 pour l'ouverture de la Fondation Maeght à Saint Paul. Texte de Henri Maldiney. 70 pages reliées. 2 lithographies originales originales de Giacometti et Mirò. 2 lithographies en couleurs d'après les maquettes pour la Fondation Maeght d'œuvres de Braque Chagall Ubac et Tal Coat. 55 photographies des salles et de l'architecture. Tirage original. Paris: Maeght, 1964. hardcover
16-6280Paris: Editions de la Revue Verve 1939. Small foliio. 26.5 x 36cm. Original wraps. Very good. Cover Aristide Maillol Constantine Guys Georges Braque Georges Rouault Andre Derain Fernand Leger Pierre Bonnard Henri Matisse Paul Klee All Lithographs printed by Mourlot and the Heliogravures by Draeger Frères. Paris: Editions de la Revue Verve, 1939 paperback
189529628HBDJ CIRCA 1895 1ST EDITION THUS IN GLASSINE DUSTJACKET MAY HAVE BEEN CUT AT BTM LITTLE SHORT small Tears 34 pages full-color illus. in VINTAGE ORIGINAL brown Antique BOX with edge Rub & Small Tears & TITLE LABEL SMALL MARBLELIZED LIKE WITH TITLE ON FRONT WITH GOLD GILT CLOTH CVR WITH PAPER LABEL ON SPINE CVR WITH TINY EXTREMITIES CHIPS WEAR The Hayes Lithographing Company BUFFALO NY hardcover
1961314203PARIS: IMPRIMERIE NATIONALE. 1961. First Edition. Publisher's prospectus for the six volumes in-quarto 21 X 27 Showcases 6 original color lithographs by Francesco Bores Jules Cavailles Alexandre Garbell Paul Guiramand Orlando Pelayo & Andre Masson. Selections accompanying the original artwork are sample excerpts from Camus' writings which include "La Peste" "Les Mythe De Sisyphe" "L'Homme Revolte" "Actuelles II". Text in French. Fine in oversize printed wrappers protected by plain tissue overlay. Chip at base of front cover in unprinted tissue with tears to tissue on inside flap. Handsomely produced prospectus. Not the complete six-volume production. B . IMPRIMERIE NATIONALE. unknown
20139775Newark VT: Janus Press 2013. Original Wrappers. Fine binding. 6-1/2" x 7." Limited edition one of 120 copies. Accordion fold with 8 panels 4 of them are fold-down pages. Each of the four page-spreads include letterpress text in various typefaces and colors which fold-down expanding the canvas of words sayings and accusations including a catalog of U.S. Senators and Representatives of the 111th Congress who became lobbyists—a list that fills the fold-down page in a small font; these opposite a lithograph by Van Vliet each lithograph is titled by the top word on the opposite page: Propagandist Lobbyist Banker Joe Public. Bound in gold paper repeated printed with the word "Greed" and all housed in gold slipcase. A fine copy. <br /> <br /> In a contemporary newspaper article in the Burlington Free Press Candace Page relates an interview with Van Vliet: "She picks up dummy of GREED a slim volume that will sit inside a glittery cover of gold paper. It opens like an accordion to display four Van Vliet black-and-white lithographs of distorted faces: A banker a lobbyist a newscaster she says 'and this one on the end the sap John Q. Public us.'" <br /> <br /> Van Vliet continues in the Page interview: "The word 'greed' will be printed multiple times on the cover in heavy unevenly inked type as though it were printed contemptuously by some greedy person with no respect for the written word. The paper is not handmade — that would be too good for the book. Instead it is 'slick nasty machine-made paper' she says. The edges of the gold cover will be sharp 'because greed is not a comfortable subject.'" There is a wonderful irony that the lithographs employed in Greed were originally drawn for an edition of Kafka decades before that just weren't quite right for the project. Here they are perfect! <br /> <br /> This is a striking book a political book one might say an angry and defiant book. Van Vliet's politics being informed by the McCarthy era during which she was a student she admits to having distrusted the powerful ever since. This edition sold out very quickly and is now rare in commerce. A book that was is and will always be relevant. Janus Press unknown
39196Wien: Burgverlag/Richter & Zollner 1922. . 4to. unpaginated cloth-backed patterned pictorial boards 14 lithographic colour plates each preceded by a text-leaf pictorial endpapers; gutter slightly visible between leaves occasional slight creasing to upper corners light wear to extremities including small tears to cloth at head and foot of spine and wear to paper along edges a very good copy of this scarce Christmas volume which is illustrated with artwork by the Youth Art Class at the Austrian School of Arts and Crafts at the Ostreiche Museum in Vienna. Wien: Burgverlag/Richter & Zollner, 1922. hardcover
1974321021974. Paris / BiÂvres Pierre de Tartas 1974. Un vol. au format in-folio 378 x 278 mm non paginÂŽ en feuilles sous couverture lithographiÂŽe ˆ rabats rempliÂŽs et coffret en plexiglass titrÂŽe or sur une des tranches. Tirage unique ˆ 250 exemplaires seulement. Celui-ci un des 150 exemplaires du tirage numÂŽrotÂŽ sur grand vÂŽlin d'Arches comportant ˆ ce titre ''l'ÂŽtat dÂŽfinitif des illustrations ; dont quatre planches doubles en couleurs signÂŽes par l'artiste''. Exemplaire agrÂŽmentÂŽ au colophon des signatures autographes de l'ÂŽditeur ainsi que de l'artiste.Superbe rÂŽalisation elle comporte 28 lithographies en couleurs d'Alain Bonnefoit ; dont 4 sur double-page revÂtues de la signature autographe d'Alain Bonnefoit ˆ la mine de plomb. "Peintre des VÂŽnus" selon HervÂŽ Bazin Alain Bonnefoit est aujourd'hui avec plus de 200 expositions personnelles ˆ travers le monde un des plus illustres reprÂŽsentants de lՃcole de Paris un artiste aux talents multiplesÊdessinateur peintre graveur lithographe sculpteur et de renommÂŽe mondiale pour la qualitÂŽ et le raffinement de ses Ãuvres sur son thÂme favoriÊ: le nu fÂŽminin. Il ne se lasse effet pas des courbes pleines et dÂŽliÂŽes que lui offre le corps fÂŽmininÊsans jamais dÂŽvoiler ses secrets et cÂŽlÂbre ainsi la Femme le Nu la BeautÂŽ et la VoluptÂŽ avec un tel talent qu'il en est devenu la rÂŽfÂŽrence depuis quarante ans.Ê ''Ces vers me font l'effet d'avoir ÂŽtÂŽ ÂŽcrits par un autre moi-mÂme que je rencontre encore de temps en temps dans certains quartiers de Paris o il m'arrive d'errer en quÂte de ma jeunesse perdue''. TrÂs belle condition. b42961 unknown
51-4518Lyon: Cercle Lyonnais du Livre 1953. 4to. 19 x 28 cm. 82 14pp. Sheets loose as issued in wraps buckram chemise and slipcase; vellum spine. 50 lithographs by Derain. Edition of 200 on Rives this one of 70 in Roman Numerals printed for Pierre Lemerre. Last book with original prints published during the artist's lifetime.Monod no. 237 with wrong date. Fequet et Baudier pour la typographie Mourlot Frères pour la lithographie 1953 ; in-8 en feuilles sous chemise crème rempliée imprimée chemise dos vélin ivoire titre doré à la japonaise étui beige emboitage éditeur ; 3 ff. blancs 80 81 1 bl. 12 pp. 3 ff. blancs 50 lithographies par André Derain 7 à pleines pages..Tirage total à 200 exemplaires sur vélin pur fil BFK de Rives. Lyon: Cercle Lyonnais du Livre, 1953. paperback
194339461Saigon Vietnam now Ho Chi Minh City: SILI Société des Imprimeries et Librairies Indochinoises 1943. Saint-Maur. ONE OF ONLY 70 COPIES PRINTED ON VIETNAMESE PAPER OF THIS EXTREMELY RARE LIVRE D'ARTISTE PRINTED IN VIETNAM DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR. X 11-78 pp. FOUR FULL-PAGE HORS-TEXTE ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS BY SAINT-MAUR. From a total edition of 570 numbered copies this is ONE OF ONLY 70 COPIES PRINTED ON EXTREMELY FINE HANDMADE VIETNAMESE PAPER. Each leaf is printed on one side only tipped onto thick rustic handmade paper. Folio. FINE AND BRIGHT in the original cloth chemise and paper-covered board slipcase. A MOST UNUSUAL SURVIVAL: OF THE GREATEST RARITY. <br/><br/> SILI (Société des Imprimeries et Librairies Indochinoises) hardcover
199018112301New York: The Limited Editions Club printed by Heritage Printers Inc. 1990. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Fine. Hejduk John. No. 122 of 375 copies quarto size 193 pp. signed by John Hejduk with LEC Monthly Letter. German writer Thomas Mann 1875-1955 a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 is best known for his novels and short stories employing symbolism and examining the psyche of those in intellectual circles most famously in his works "Buddenbooks" and "Death in Venice". He wrote "The Black Swan" in 1954 and the novella revolves around an aging woman who must deal with her changing body and the expectations of an uncaring society that values youth over old age. <br /> <br /> Noted for being one of the first works to utilise hard medicine in the narrative "The Black Swan" is here published by the Limited Editions Club with lithographs by celebrated architect and artist John Hejduk 1929-2000 who brings an architect's eye for symmetry and simplicity in his geometric imagery. <br /> <br /> This edition includes an afterword by David Shapiro b. 1947 a prolific poet and literary critic whose first book was published when he was eighteen; offering insight and a sympathetic view of the brutality and bluntness often found in Mann's prose he writes "A master of X-ray Mann leads us to the master montage of disease itself. And to the possible health of love."<br /> <br /> ___DESCRIPTION: Full brown leather title in black on the front board black endpapers lithographs printed in two colours by John Hejduk throughout; Monotype Gill Sans mouldmade Rives Buff Text paper quarto size 12" by 9.25" pagination: i-vi 1-183 184-186 1 colophon one of 375 copies this number 122 signed by John Hejduk on the colophon. With LEC Monthly Letter a thirteen-page softcover booklet with two staples at the spine. In a slipcase covered in black cloth.<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; spine is very slightly sunned else fine. The LEC Monthly Letter is near fine clean overall with a few stray marks the text block is sturdy without wear except at the corners and a small nick on the top edge of the rear cover. The slipcase is near fine strong and sturdy clean with some minor fraying to the cloth otherwise free of wear.<br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: Please note that this is a large and heavy book and additional postage may apply; 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. The Limited Editions Club (printed by Heritage Printers, Inc.) unknown
