Hockessin: The Holly Press, n.d. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, plastic spiral binding at top. Not paginated. Illustrations of mail boxes for Rural Free Delivery boxes. One page foreword by Sawin. READ MORE about RFD, COUNTRYSIDE ART
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 68699
Ravensburg: Otto Maier, 1969. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. ix, 421+(1) pages. Text in German. A collection of essays on book-art in western and central Europe and the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. Introduction by the editor. Black and white plates accompany each essay. Index. READ MORE about INTERNATIONALE BUCHKUNST IM 19. UM 20. JAHRHUNDERT
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 108197
2 Volumes
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. 9 x 12 inches. 2 volumes, hardcover with slipcase. 846 pages. 2 Volumes. A SIGNED COPY BY THE AUTHOR OF THIS LOVELY BOOK First edition. Frank E. Schoonover (1877-1972) is recognized as one of the foremost illustrators of his time. His prolific contribution to American illustration spanned more than 40 years and included more than 2200 illustrations. His work appeared in most of the popular periodicals in the..... READ MORE about FRANK E. SCHOONOVER CATALOGUE RAISONNE
Price: $195.00 Order nr. 133466
Kendall Park, NJ: Richard P. DeVictor, (1979). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (28) pages. Limited to 300 numbered copies and signed by DeVictor. Illustrated. A bookseller's catalogue. Signed by DeVictor. READ MORE about FRANK E. SCHOONOVER, A BIBLIOGRAPHY AND COLLECTION OF RELATED EPHEMERA
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 21030
2 Volumes
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. 9 x 12 inches. 2 volumes, hardcover with slipcase. 846 pages. 2 Volumes. First edition. Frank E. Schoonover (1877-1972) is recognized as one of the foremost illustrators of his time. His prolific contribution to American illustration spanned more than 40 years and included more than 2200 illustrations. His work appeared in most of the popular periodicals in the first half of the twentieth century, including Harpers, Scribner's, Saturday..... READ MORE about FRANK E. SCHOONOVER CATALOGUE RAISONNE
Price: $195.00 Order nr. 96681
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1917. large 8vo. cloth, gilt lettering and decoration, front pastedown, tissue guards. (iv), 332 pages. First edition. Eight color illustrations, a map, endpapers and front pastedown by Frank Schoonover. The story of the conquest of Mexico by the Spanish. Occasional foxing. Previous owner's name on free front endpaper. Lettering nearly worn off spine and upper part of the front board. READ MORE about WITH CORTES THE CONQUEROR
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 89498
(Middleton, CT and New York: Davison Art Center and Mary Ryan Gallery, 2006). olbong 8vo. fabric spine (to resemble dish cloth) with embossed boards. (viii), 52 pages. Introduction by Stephen Greenblatt. Illustrated in color. READ MORE about THE IMAGINARY LIFE OF ORDINARY THINGS, NEW WORK ON PAPER AND CANVAS BY DAVID SCHORR
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 100136
Portsmouth: Peter E. Randall Publisher, 1995. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 93 pages. First edition. Spine lightly soiled. Near fine. This copy contains the extra limitation page which was included in the 50 numbered copies edition, but this copy is considered 'out-of-series'. Presentation inscription by the author on the limitation page. An illustrated bibliographical guide to the works of this book illustrator. Well produced. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with..... READ MORE about WORKS OF MAURICE SENDAK, 1947-1994, A COLLECTION WITH COMMENTS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 138283
Drawing with light, Drawn from stone.
Santa Barbara, CA: Simplemente Maria Press, 2017. small folio. loose sheets, two accordian-style handmade paper-covered boards books, inserted into a large aluminum box. Unpaginated. Drawing with light, Drawn from stone. Limited to only numbered 20 copies signed by the artist, Mary Heebner. Instructions on handling and display loosely inserted. Fine in fine clamshell box. This is Mary Heebner's fourth book using watermarks, however, up until 2017, it was the most extensive. This book is a...... READ MORE about INTIMACY
Price: $7,600.00 Order nr. 139339
Invocations to a distressed planet in the form of prayers to EARTH. AIR. FIRE. WATER. AETHER.
Santa Barbara, CA: Simplemente Maria Press, 2020. large square 4to. flags sewn together with ribbon, journal spiral bound, housed in a handmade paper covering, loosely inserted into a acrylic slipcase. 22 pages. Invocations to a distressed planet in the form of prayers to EARTH. AIR. FIRE. WATER. AETHER. Limited to only numbered 20 copies signed by the artist, Mary Heebner. Instructions on handling loosely inserted. Fine in fine polished, beveled acrylic sleeve. Invocations of prayers..... READ MORE about PRAYER FLAGS & A TALE OF LONGING
Price: $2,800.00 Order nr. 139342
"Painter Mary Heebner calls 'Silent Faces / Angkor' an artist's book, but it helps to think of it as a many-layered treasure chest. It's a celebration of timeless artistry." -Joan Tapper
Santa Barbara, CA: Simplemente Maria Press, 2012-2013. folio (68 x 35 in). four scrolls nestled in niches beneath a bronzed metal tray holding the accordion book 'Apsara'; and the bound codex book 'Silent Faces / Angkor', all housed in a handcrafted wooden box. "Painter Mary Heebner calls 'Silent Faces / Angkor' an artist's book, but it helps to think of it as a many-layered treasure chest. It's a celebration of timeless artistry." -Joan Tapper. Limited..... READ MORE about SILENT FACES / ANGKOR
Price: $8,500.00 Order nr. 139341
A Poem, paintins and a sketchbook ... an excavation of images and impressions from Chilean Patagonia.
Santa Barbara, CA: Simplemente Maria Press, 2011. large square 4to. hand-painted boards, sliced stone, wooden box. A Poem, paintins and a sketchbook ... an excavation of images and impressions from Chilean Patagonia. Limited to only numbered 20 copies signed by the artist, Mary Heebner. A fine copy. "Six of us ride horses through whirlpools of dust, rain and wind to the summit of Sierra de los Baguales, in Patagonia, where Chile borders Argentian. In the..... READ MORE about UNEARTHED
Price: $3,000.00 Order nr. 139343
Santa Barbara, CA: Simplemente Maria Press, 2019. large square 4to (10 x 10 x 1 in). accordion fold, housed in zinc box. (14) pages. Limited to only numbered 25 copies signed by the author and the artist, Mary Heebner. A fine copy. "Cassandra is a major work, one that unites a complex understanding of the way perspective and diverse materials fracture time and space, while the hand and memory of the artist unite them. Heebner's..... READ MORE about CASSANDRA
Price: $4,000.00 Order nr. 139344
New York: Hallmark Gallery, (1966). oblong 8vo. paper wrappers. 32 pages. Exhibition showing this illustrator's work. READ MORE about ALBERT SKIRA, THE MAN AND HIS WORK
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 7613
Lock Haven: Privately printed, 1967. 8vo. boards. (46) pages. Limited to 2500 copies. A near fine copy. Contains 12 colored illustrations reproducing Sloan posters and previously unpublished autobiographical notes by Sloan. READ MORE about AMERICAN ART NOUVEAU, THE POSTER PERIOD OF JOHN SLOAN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 3263
Boston: Boston University, 1924. 12mo. cloth. (v), 14 pages. A short biography of this businessman. Smith and his brothers ran a lithographic printing firm for a period of time. Paper covering on spine chipped. Bookplate. READ MORE about BENJAMIN F. SMITH, A STORY OF ACHIEVEMENT
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 37779
Illustration and Calligraphy by David Esslemont.
Decorah, IA: Solmentes Press, 2022. 4to. illustrated paper covered boards, cloth clamshell box. unpaginated. Illustration and Calligraphy by David Esslemont. Limited to 30 numbered copies signed by the artist / printer. The typefaces used were created by designers with a connection to Ukraine. The front cover, title: Bifur - Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, digitized by Richard Kegler; the front cover, author: Arsenal - Andrij Shevchenko, Berdyansk; poem and colophon: Genau - Aleksey Popovtsev, Kyiv; and production..... READ MORE about RESISTANCE
Price: $800.00 Order nr. 138229
Decorah, IA: Solmentes Press, 2020. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. pastepaper boards, with a leather spine, presented in a cloth-covered drop-back box. 60 pages. First edition limited to 35 copies (although '40 copies' is stated on the limitation page), of which this is one of thirty regular copies. The book comes with a metallic paper inserted into a paper folder which is used to help read the poem. In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, Alice..... READ MORE about JABBERWOCKY
Price: $1,500.00 Order nr. 134751
(Brattleboro, VT): McPherson, 1983. large 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (v), 89+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 750 copies in lusterkote covers. Designed by Bruce McPherson and printed on Mohawk Superfine paper. Founded and operated from 1964 to 1974 by Richard C. (Dick) Higgins, a member of the Fluxus group in New York and a student of John Cage, this was one of the first publishing houses to devote itself to "artists' books"--integral artworks..... READ MORE about SOMETHING ELSE PRESS, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $80.00 Order nr. 64110
San Francisco: Paul Elder, (1911). large 12mo. decorated paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (vi), 26, (2) pages. First edition. A fine copy in near fine jacket. Printed at the Tomoye press under the direction of John Henry Nash. Head-piece and decorations by Jean Oliver. Illustrated with three tipped-in halftone photographs, including one as frontispiece. An Indian legend about Tahquitch Mountain in the San Jacinto range. READ MORE about THE TAHQUITCH MAIDEN
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 70610
N.P. n.p., 1940-1950. 8vo. unbound. variously paginated. A collection of brochures relating to exhibitions relating to graphic artist and teacher Hugo Steiner-Prag. Includes: 1. Biographical sketch by Renata von Stoephasius (two copies). 2. Lecture invitation March 8, 1944. 3. Brochures relating to exhibition at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 10-26 May, 1940 (xeroxed). 4. Brochure relating to an exhibition at Natiionalmuseum, Stockholm, 26 April-18 May, 1941 (xeroxed). 5. Brochure relating to exhibition at Klingspor Museum, Offenbach am Main..... READ MORE about Brochures about exhibitions relating to Hugo Steiner-Prag
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 108228
(Philadelphia: Edward Stern & Co., n.d. 32mo. cards. unpaginated. A selection of four specimen/trade cards released by Philadelphia printing firm Edward Stern & Co. Include illustrations by Alfred Hutty (1877-1954), Troy Kinney (1871-1938), John Taylor Arms (1887-1953) and one anonymous. Edward Stern & Co. was established by brothers Edward, Harry F. and Simon in 1871 (Library Company of Philadelphia catalogue entry). Each card mentions the artist's name (when known) and the statement "SPECIMEN Reduced Size,"..... READ MORE about SPECIMEN/TRADE CARDS FOR BOOK OF ETCHINGS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 109428
Roslyn, NY: Stone House Press, (1985). 8vo. quarter cloth with printed paper-covered boards. xvi, 105+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 165 copies, signed by Jon Cornin. (Brody, pp. 76-77). With wood engravings by Zena Kavin. READ MORE about PAINTER'S CREDO, SELECTED NOTES. WITH SKETCHES BY THE AUTHOR
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 62054
With an introduction by M. A. Gelfand.
New York: Stone House Press, 1988. 8vo. quarter cloth with patterned paper over boards. (viii), 127 pages. With an introduction by M. A. Gelfand. Limited to 200 signed and numbered copies, of which this is one of the 155 copies for sale. This copy is signed by the Digbys, DePol, and Gelfand. Contains sixty wood engravings executed by DePol since 1982 for the books, broadsides, keepsakes and other ephemera produced by the Stone House Press..... READ MORE about JOHN DEPOL, FROM DARK TO LIGHT, WOOD ENGRAVINGS FOR THE STONE HOUSE PRESS
Price: $162.50 Order nr. 23770
Illustrated by John De Pol.
New York: Stone House Press, The, 1986. 8vo. quarter cloth with patterned papers over boards. xv, 109 pages. Illustrated by John De Pol. Limited to 185 signed and numbered copies, of which 140 copies are for sale. Prospectus loosely inserted. A fine copy. Contains essays and poems about Bryant by twenty present day American poets. Illustrated with 17 De Pol wood engravings. READ MORE about UNDER OPEN SKY, POETS ON WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
Price: $115.00 Order nr. 23778
