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(Center for Book Arts) Keene, John SEISMOSIS
New York Center for Book Arts 2003 8vo. blue Aurora covers with embossed design, hand sewn with inner edges of covers folded and caught inside between signatures (16) pages
Edition of 150 numbered copies signed by the author and the illustrator. Printed from photopolymer plates on Permalin Dove Gray and Vanilla Antique papers with Aurora covers. The text was set in Lucida. Drawings are by Christopher Stackhouse; lithography of images by David Lantow; letterpress printing by Sara Parkel with assistance by Roni Gross and CBA interns. Each of the three images was printed on a lighter color paper. The colophon is printed on the inner flap of the back cover.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 103159

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(Center for Book Arts) Kercheval, Jesse Lee FILM HISTORY AS TRAIN WRECK
(New York) Center for Book Arts 2006 8vo. hand sewn with red cord, heavy brown paper wrappers, title and author printed in white on black paper label that wraps across spine 27, (3) pages
Limited to an edition of 100 signed and numbered copies. This collection was the winner of the Center's 2006 Poetry Chapbook Competition judged by Albert Goldbarth and Sharon Dolin. Selections include "Mosjoukine in Exile" and "The Bicycle Thief." Designed and letterpress printed by Barbara Henry.
Price: $ 100.00 other currencies Order nr. 103161

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(Center for Book Arts) Krause, Stephanie L ANIMALS ON WHEELS.
(New York Center for Book Arts 1995) 8 x 6.5 inches hardcover accordion folded into 16 pages
Limited edition of 100 copies signed and numbered by the author. Krause provides an intriguing and amusing glimpse into the everyday operation of a roller skating rink for animals who must check their feet at the door in exchange for wheels. "One wheel per foot checked. Snakes, legless lizards and fish, being footless, will receive up to six (6) wheels of their choice upon checking equivalent collateral: skins, fins, etc." All of the rules, including NO Fighting, The Consumption of Other Skaters Will NOT Be Permitted, and Feet Will NOT Be Returned Without the Proper Claim Ticket, are illustrated in black and white with every NO and NOT hand lettered in red. A claim ticket with the series copy number on it has been attached to the front cover with a black cord. Letterpress printed on Arches 140-pound Satinée and hand-colored at The Center for Book Arts. Illustrations by the author.
Price: $ 500.00 other currencies Order nr. 103040

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(Center for Book Arts) Long, Alexander STILL LIFE
New York Center for Book Arts 2010 7.25 x 12.25 inches paperback 23 pages
Limited to 100 copies. A compilation of eight poems designed and printed by Barbara Henry. Poems include "Still Life without History, Still Life with Abraham Lincoln," "Twenty-Three Years before the Confederacy Shot Him, a Hundred Years before the Nazis Tried to Prove Him Wrong," "Still Life with Frederick Douglas Learning the Alphabet, Stopping for a Moment at O," "Flash Forward with The Amistad before Us in the Distance," "Malcolm X Transcribing the Dictionary in Slow Motion," "Still Life with Sisyphus Smiling," "Still Life with Paul Celan by the Seine," and "Still Life with Kafka Checking His Watch, Missing His Train." This book was printed on Vandercook SP-20 and won the 2010 Poetry Chapbook Competition at the Center for Book Arts. Limited to 100 copies.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 105206

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(Center for Book Arts) MAPPING CORRESPONDENCE: MAIL ART IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
(New York Center for Book Arts 2008) small 4to. stiff paper wrappers 32 pages.
This exhibition which was held in New York from April 11 to June 28, 2008, invited artists, who in turn invited additional participants, to submit work via the postal service, thus creating a network of communication that reflected the complex and varied meaning of the book, mapping, and social networking in the 21st century. The resulting exhibition was a visual explosion of work by over 200 artists. The catalogue features an extensive timeline dating back to the early 20th century. Includes essays by John Held, Jr. and Champe Smith. Digitally printed, illustrated in color.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 103178

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(Center for Book Arts) MASTERS OF THE CRAFT: WORKS BY INSTRUCTORS OF BOOK ARTS.
New York Center for Book Arts 1994 square 12mo. stiff paper wrappers 24 pages.
This is a catalogue for an exhibition held in New York from January 14 to March 25, 1994, which contained the work of printers, bookbinders and papermakers who are all instructors of the book arts, as well as artists in their own right. Some of the participating artists were Marcia Ciro, Nadja Press, Peter and Donna Thomas, and Mary Phelan. Contemporary book artists have long appreciated the great value of learning bookmaking from an accomplished master of the form, yet recognized that the best teacher is not the one who merely has the technical expertise to create a well made object, but rather the artist who is able to reveal an original sensibility in his or her work. Though this exhibition affirmed a collective respect for the traditions of bookmaking among all whose book works are shown, it also demonstrated the power of the book to express the unique vision of each artist. These works were created by the craftspeople that link us to the history of the book as they inspire a new generation to define the book in their own time. Photocopied catalogue with translucent endpaper and blue paper covers.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 103179

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(Center for Book Arts) NEW YORK/PARIS DIALOGUE PARIS/NEW YORK.
(New York Center for Book Arts 2005) large square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, hand sewn stab binding 55, (1) pages
Held simultaneously in Paris in October and in New York from October to December, 2005, and organized by Maddy Rosenberg, independent curator, New York City, and Devorah Boxer, Vice President, Le Trait, Paris, this exhibition brings together works by eighteen American artists and eighteen French artists to highlight the role of the artist printmaker and the contrasts between the American and the French approach to the medium. The artwork spans printmaking from the traditional to the more unconventional, with techniques ranging from intaglio, lithography, and silkscreen to photo and digital processes. The full color catalogue is in English and French and includes curatorial essays by Maddy Rosenberg and Devorah Boxer. The catalogue cover was letterpress printed and the catalogue was hand bound by interns at the Center for Book Arts.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 103180

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(Center for Book Arts) Ostrom, Robert TO SHOW THE LIVING
New York Center for Book Arts 2008 large 8vo. dark blue stiff paper wrappers, page bottoms uncut, title and author printed in dull silver, hand sewn with navy string (12), 26, (6) pages
Limited to an edition of 100 numbered and signed copies. This collection was the winner of the Center's 2008 Poetry Chapbook Competition judged by Tomaz Salamun and Sharon Dolin. Selections include " How Do You Teach a Girl the Things She Should Know?" Tell What Happens to Widows" and "What Sort of Things Belong to a Family?" Designed, bound, and letterpress printed on Zerkall Book by Barbara Henry.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 103171

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(Center for Book Arts) Pankey, Eric OBJECTS AND MEMENTOS
New York Center for Book Arts 2007 large 8vo. grey blue heavy paper wrappers, hand sewn, title printed in black on lime green label that wraps around spine, some edges uncut (6), 32, (6) pages
Limited edition of 100 numbered and signed copies. This collection was the winner of the Center's 2007 Poetry Chapbook Competition judged by Jane Hirshfield and Sharon Dolin. Poems include "A Stone to Place on a Cairn,"Restless Ghost" and "The Last Word." Designed and letterpress printed on Johannot paper by Barbara Henry.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 103166

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(Center for Book Arts) PAPER, ART AND THE BOOK
New York Center for Book Arts 1996 large 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, hand sewn (36) pages
This exhibition, held in New York from September 28 to December 7, 1996, reveals the innovative ways artists utilize paper to express ideas conveyed in books and broadsides. Rather than viewing paper as merely a neutral substrate, many of these works employ unusual or evocative papers that integrate the medium's physical components, fiber, watermark, decorative elements, weight and texture with the final work's text and image, or even guide the structure and intent of the book itself. In all the works in this exhibition, paper is a form of tangible memory, and demonstrates human efforts to convert the products of the earth into a medium for expressing the thoughts of one person to another, one generation to those who will follow. Pamphlet stitched with letterpress printed covers, black and white illustrations.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 103181

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(Center for Book Arts) Pelizzon, V. Penelope HUMAN FIELD.
New York Center for Book Arts 2012 7.75 x 9.75 inches paperback 32 pages
This book won the 2012 Poetry Chapbook Competition at the Center for Book Arts, judged by Phillis Levin and Sharon Dolin.

The book contains the poems "Human Field," "Seven Psalms," "Self Portrait as Bronze," "Blood Memory," "Songs for the Boisterous Month," "To Certain Students," "Suspect," "Where the Arrows Fell," "Famously Beautiful City," and "Postscript."

Letterpress printed and bound at the Swamp Press in an edition of 100.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 112252

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(Center for Book Arts) Platt, Donald LEAP SECOND TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM
New York Center for Book Arts 1999 large 8vo. dark teal blue Bugra Bütten wrappers, hand sewn, two signatures individually attached, author and title printed in black on off-white paper label (8), 28, (4) pages
Limited to an edition of 100 signed and numbered copies. This collection was the winner of the Center's 1999 Poetry Chapbook Competition judged by Eavan Boland and Sharon Dolin. Selections include "White Iris" and "As Is." Letterpress printed on Arches Rivoli by Russell Maret and hand sewn by interns at the Center.
Price: $ 100.00 other currencies Order nr. 103165

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(Center for Book Arts) PRODUCTION, NOT REPRODUCTION: OFFSET PRINTED ARTIST BOOKS
New York Center for Book Arts 2007 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 35 pages
Held in New York from September 28 to December 8, 2007, this group exhibition was organized by Tony White, Head, Fine Arts Library, Indiana University, Bloomington. More than forty artists participated to create a visual experience that charts the rise and fall of offset printed artists' books. Includes a Genealogy In Progress of offset artists' books, an essay by the curator, and a glossary. Digitally printed with several color illustrations.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 103182

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(Center for Book Arts) RECOVERY: THE HOSPITAL DRAWINGS OF ALFONSO OSSORIO
(New York Center for Book Arts 1995) 17.625 x 16.875 hardcover Not paginated.
First edition limited to 100 signed and numbered copies. Alfonso A. Ossorio (1916-1990) was an abstract expressionist artist who was born in Manila and produced a body of work that remained consistently international in scope. His early fascination with Surrealism gave way to Abstract Expressionism although he continued to be influenced by his native Philippine Catholic folk art as well as the modernist techniques of Informel and assemblage. Instead of completely abandoning one set of principles for another, he would continue to incorporate those features he most favored into his next series of compositions which resulted in complex and multifaceted works.

In failing health, he was hospitalized from January 17 to February 8, 1989 and December 3 to 5, 1990. Given some markers and watercolor paper, he began a series of drawings that would become this striking collection of images. The publication was designed by Richard Minsky, with texts by Rose Slivka, Dr. Lewis Thomas and B.H. Friedman. Each print, mounted and matted on Stonehenge paper, was printed on Permalife paper and authenticated in the margin with the seal of the Ossorio Foundation.
Price: $ 3,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 103053

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(Center for Book Arts) RECOVERY: THE HOSPITAL DRAWINGS OF ALFONSO OSSORIO
(New York Center for Book Arts 1995) 18 3/8" x 18 1/4" hardcover with clamshell n.p.
First edition limited to 100 signed and numbered copies. Alfonso A. Ossorio (1916-1990) was an abstract expressionist artist who was born in Manila and produced a body of work that remained consistently international in scope. His early fascination with Surrealism gave way to Abstract Expressionism although he continued to be influenced by his native Philippine Catholic folk art as well as the modernist techniques of Informel and assemblage. Instead of completely abandoning one set of principles for another, he would continue to incorporate those features he most favored into his next series of compositions which resulted in complex and multifaceted works.

In failing health, he was hospitalized from January 17 to February 8, 1989 and December 3 to 5, 1990. Given some markers and watercolor paper, he began a series of drawings that would become this striking collection of images. The publication was designed by Richard Minsky, with texts by Rose Slivka, Dr. Lewis Thomas and B.H. Friedman. Each print, mounted and matted on Stonehenge paper, was printed on Permalife paper and authenticated in the margin with the seal of the Ossorio Foundation. Letterpress printed at the Center for Book Arts.

This volume is housed in a red cloth clamshell box.
Price: $ 4,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 103054

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(Center for Book Arts) Rinehart, Benjamin D. TICKET LICKET
New York Center for Book Arts 2001 10.25 x 5.75 inches portfolio, six woodcut images printed on both sides six woodcut images printed on both sides
Limited to an edition of 40 signed and numbered by the author. Comprised of six reductive woodcut images, Ticket Licket focuses on the single life of the artist as a gay male. The raffle ticket format reflects the element of chance that is part of any life. Ben Rinehart, whose socially charged work has been shown throughout the US, specializes in multimedia images with a strong focus on printmaking and book constructions. The six prints are encased in a printed bound portfolio that also uses raffle ticket images for title on the front cover and the stub on the back cover.
Price: $ 1,250.00 other currencies Order nr. 103059

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(Center for Book Arts) Salamun, Tomaz FLOWER
(New York Center for Book Arts 2008) small 4to. paper case make of black Plike, folded French butcher paper sheets n.p.
Limited to an edition of 100 signed and numbered copies. This collection was printed to honor the author's contribution as a judge in the Center's 2008 Poetry Chapbook Competition. Presented in the original Slovenian with an English translation, five poems were printed on three broadsides and folded twice to fit inside the folder. There is an original woodcut on the inside of the back cover. Designed and letterpress printed by Amber McMillan.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 103162

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(Center for Book Arts) Schlesinger, Kyle POEMS & PICTURES: A RENAISSANCE IN THE ART OF THE BOOK (1946-1981).
New York Center for Book Arts 2010 7.5 x 9.75 inches paperback 110 pages
This collection brings together the art and combination of image and language. Poems and Pictures was organized by guest curator Kyle Schlesinger and examines the relationship between seeing and reading, and language and visual art. Featuring 90 artworks from presses in operation between 1945 and 1981, the work is committed to provocative writings with equally inspiring imagery. In order to provide example for the transformation of this sort of art a featured selection of contemporary work from the 1990s to present is also presented. A bibliography, checklist of exhibition, and index are included.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 105200

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(Center for Book Arts) Shaw, Joyce Cutler THREE CAGES
(New York Center for Book Arts 1993) 5.75 x 5.75 x 8.25 inches card stock covers accodion folded into 14 pages
Edition is limited to 250 signed and numbered copies. The text is typeset first in the Alphabet of Bones, an original calligraphy based on the hollow bones of birds, then in Malibu italic, on alternating pages. The paper is 100% cotton fiber Clearprint. Paper engineering was done by Allwyn Bookbinder with silhouettes of a bird skeleton and of a cage as front and back endpages.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 103058

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(Center for Book Arts) Skinner, Jeffrey SALT MOTHER, ANIMAL DAD
New York Center for Book Arts 2004 8vo. tan Canford paper cover with image of bear, hand sewn (12), 22, (10) pages
Limited edition of 100 numbered and signed copies. This collection was the winner of the Center's 2004 Poetry Chapbook Competition judged by C. K. Williams and Sharon Dolin. Letterpress printed on Magnani Velata and hand bound by Nancy Loeber. Poems include "Reading the Bay," "Widow's Walk" and "The Long Marriage."
Price: $ 100.00 other currencies Order nr. 103167

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(Center for Book Arts) SKIPPING THE PAGE.
(New York) Center for Book Arts 2008 square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 32 pages
Held in New York from January 18 to March 28, 2008 and organized by independent curator, Graham Parker, this show featured work that invokes the idea of rhythm in a multitude of forms, including the breakdown, confusion, acceleration, deceleration, and disruption of tempo. Examining both the printed page and multimedia interpretations, Parker provides extensive and insightful commentary on diverse explorations of tempo in the book arts. Digitally printed with both color and black and white illustrations.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 103183

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(Center for Book Arts) SPIN ½, BOOKS, PAINTINGS, AND MEMORABILIA BY JOHN ERIC BROADDUS.
New York Center for Book Arts 1990 4 x 6 inches brown paper wrappers, die cut pages, hand sewn, black paper envelope 16 pages
Limited to an edition of 400 numbered pamphlets. This catalogue, for an exhibit held June 7 to August 31, 1990 and curated by Ruth A. Ely, contains multi-colored silkscreen images on die cut pages with an introduction by Jan van der Wateren, Keeper and Chief Librarian of the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Includes listings of works as well as listings of collectors of Broaddus.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 103184

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(Center for Book Arts) Williams, C. K. INTERROGATION II
New York Center for Book Arts 2004 oblong 8vo. dark grey and teal green Nepali paper cover, various color Nepali paper pages, hand sewn n.p.
Limited to an edition of 150 signed and numbered copies. This collection was printed to commemorate the author's contribution as a judge in the Center's 2004 Poetry Chapbook Competition. Created after the painting Interrogation by Leon Golub, this work seeks to represent "four interrogators; a victim, bound and hooded; red walls, a ladderlike device with chain; a chair." Letterpress printed on Nepali paper and hand bound by Roni Gross,
Price: $ 100.00 other currencies Order nr. 103164

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Cloud, Gerald W. JOHN RODKER'S OVID PRESS: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2010 7 x 10 inches hardcover, dust jacket 152 pages
This book is primarily a bibliographical study of all the known works printed and published by John Rodker (1894-1955) at the Ovid Press, London, 1919-1922, and the associated projects connected to his second imprint, the Casanova Society. The Ovid Press's output was not prolific - 17 known items were produced - but the nature of the works and the context in which they were created reveals a great deal about both Rodker and several central figures of modernist literature and art, including T.S. Eliot, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Edward Wadsworth.

The book's introduction includes a biographical account of Rodker's life, focusing especially on his early life and his printing activities at the Ovid Press, which he operated with some participation from his then wife, the British novelist Mary Butts (1890-1937). Relying heavily on correspondence and other archival sources, such as Rodker's personal and professional papers and his diary, the introduction documents the production of many of the Ovid Press titles and Rodker's interaction with his authors.

The descriptive bibliography, which follows the introductory matter, includes full collations, detailed, copy-specific notes on each item, institutional locations for Ovid Press publications, and attempts to reconcile the discrepancies between Rodker's colophon statements and the books he actually printed-based on careful analysis of extant copies of Ovid Press titles. The book accounts for a number of unrecorded bibliographical details in these works and clarifies Rodker's role in the production of Ezra Pound's "Bel Esprit" and the errata sheets for Joyce's Ulysses (Egoist Press/John Rodker, 1922).

Gerald W. Cloud is Curator for Literature in Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library and Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia where he teaches Bibliography and the History of the Book. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Delaware (2005) and has served as a lab instructor for "Introduction to the Principles of Bibliographical Description" at Rare Book School, University of Virginia since 2004.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 104083

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(Cranach Press) Brinks, John Dieter (editor) THE BOOK AS A WORK OF ART, THE CRANACH PRESS OF COUNT HARRY KESSLER.
Berlin and Williamstown, MA Triton Verlag and the Chapin Library, Williams College 2005 4to. cloth, slipcase 456 pages.
First edition in English (from the 2004 German edition). The Cranach Press, though located in Germany, was inspired by and became an integral product of the English private press movement. Following advice from Emery Walker, new typefaces were drawn by Edward Johnston and cut by Edward Prince and George Friend; then Harry Gage-Cole was called in as pressman to print the wood-engravings of Gordon Craig, Eric Gill, and Aristide Maillol. Their work is recorded in this lavishly illustrated book. The Book as a Work of Art includes Essays by John Dreyfus, Anne Hyde Greet, Gunnar Kaldewey, J.D. Brinks, Renate Müller-Krumbach, Lindsay Newman, among others, with extensive documentation and a new and illustrated bibliography of the Cranach Press. Designed by Sabine Golde and John Dieter Brinks, in a black slip-case.

Distributed for Triton Verlag, Berlin, Germany and Chapin Library of the Williams College, Williamstown, MA.
Price: $ 290.00 other currencies Order nr. 88729

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