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"Blessed are the Peacemakers."
Skeptical Press.
El Cerrito, 2002.
Price: $35.00
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9 SEAFARING DREAMS.
Skeptical Press.
(El Cerrito) 1999.
Price: $300.00
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15 x 7. Thirty leaves: title, 2-page Preface by Pierre, 26 alphabet leaves with tissue guards, & colophon. Each word in spelled in Tovar's Surrealist alphabet (the common letters have several designs). They are lithographs hand colored by Tovar. Loose in black cloth box as issued. Box a bit faded, contents fine. Inscribed by the artist Tovar to the author.
ALPHABET-TOVAR.
Tovar, Ivan. José Pierre.
Clot, Bramsen et Georges, 1971.
Price: $1,500.00
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Two volumes. A-M and N-Z. Each is a 4 x 6 (closed) accordion-fold, stand-up alphabet die cut from Curtis Duplex Cover and hand assembled by the artist, tipped to Curtis covers. Fine in printed paper sleeve (brief tears).
ALPHABOOK 3.
McCarney, Scott L.
Rochester, 1986.
Price: $150.00
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6 x 8 1/4. (32) pages, french-fold, with 12 full color and 17 b/w illustrations. Pictorial boards. Top edge has some pinpoint foxing, else fine.
AN ALPHABET OF CIRCUS SKILLS.: Conceived and Drawn by Pamela Scott.
Inky Parrot Press.
(Hanborough), 1995.
Price: $185.00
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11 x 15. Engraved portrait, title, 26 leaves (4 fold-out) with tissue guards, & colophon on heavy Somerset paper. Each leaf bears a color etching of a mammal, color etched name of the mammal, and a letterpress paragraph of commentary. Bound by Gray Parrot in golden tan morocco and pastepaper boards. Fine.
AN ALPHABET OF EXTINCT MAMMALS.
Chevington Press. Wakefield, D. R.
Goole: Chevington Press, 2009.
Price: $3,000.00
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4 x 4 1/2. 30 French-fold leaves of wafer-thin vintage laid paper. Bound by Claudia in a vellum ms. fragment (probably 19th c.) of a Last Will & Testament. The vellum is ruled in red, and the book is sewn with red thread & red headbands. In a marbled cloth slipcase with hand-drawn label. Fine.
AN EDIBLE ALPHABET.
Cohen, Claudia.
(Seattle, 2010)
Price: $500.00
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15 x 11 3/4. 140 leaves: title, colophon, and 66 wood engravings, woodcuts, and linoleum cuts by Leonard Baskin printed one to a leaf on Troya, and interleaved with backing sheets, plus 5 blanks. Signed by Baskin in the colophon. An unbound binder's copy with 64 of the prints signed by Baskin. Housed in a handsome cloth && decorated paper traycase. Fine, with prospectus.
BIRDS & ANIMALS.
Baskin, Leonard.
Gehenna Press, 1974.
Price: $9,800.00
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10 1/2 x 15. 52 pages including 8 multi-colored linocuts and 4 full page pochoir illustrations; with two smaller pochoirs. Quarter cloth & cloth fore edges, the sides covered in a red & black linocut. Fine in slipcase, with colorful prospectus.
CIRCUS: The Artist as Saltimbanque. Illustrations by Walter Bachinski.
Shanty Bay Press.
Shanty Bay, 2011.
Price: $3,000.00
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CONUNDRUMS.
Skeptical Press.
El Cerrito, 2002.
Price: $200.00
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6 1/2 x 14 1/2 (opening to 70 inches in 3 overlapping sections). Accordion-folded paperwork landscape collage with five varying and irregular sized text pamphlets sewn into each of five openings. Pulp paper paintings throughout by Clarie Van Vliet. Housed in black cloth tray case with paper spine label. Front pocket holds a CD recording of the Opera, in chemise; rear pocket contains empty chemise for the owner's own CD. Fine copy of this colorful and exhuberant book.
DIDO AND AENEAS.: An Opera Perform'd at Mr Josias Priest's Boarding-School at Chelsey by Young Gentlewomen.
Janus Press. Tate, Nahum.
(West Burke), 1990.
Price: $800.00
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11 1/2 x 15. 42 leaves: fourteen poems printed letterpress and twenty-one etchings in color and b&w. Three of the images are large, foldout etchings; two of the images are repeated, making a total of 23 etchings. Binding suggests the former World Trade Towers: vertical raised surfaces are wrapped in gray Japanese paper with a silver, laid-screen design; collaged strips of blue & white paper produce the illusion of sky & building; exposed sewing along the spine; lower cover wrapped in gray metal-dried paper; in a steel-walled tray case.
FALLING TO EARTH.: A book of poems and intaglios.
Kuch, Michael. Double Elephant Press.
Northampton, 2002.
Price: $2,000.00
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12 x 15. Each essay, printed in brown, is preceded by a blind-embossed shell and followed by a sepia mezzotint. Mezzotints are interleaved with Japanese Unryushi. Quarter brown morocco & cloth by the Gwasg Gregynog bindery, with a brown morocco onlay of angel-wing shells. Fine in slicase, with prospectus.
FALLS THE SHADOW.: Six Essays.
Red Hen Press. Shirley Jones.
1995.
Price: $985.00
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15 x 13. Eight chapters each headed by a poem, and followed by five intaglios, "explore the inner landscape of memory, thought & dream." Each leaf suspends from lengths of twine attached to a copper-ribbed spine at the top of the book, which is cloth & handmade paper boards. One of the original etched copperplates is inlaid in upper cover An extra, signed print from this plate is laid in. Housed in tray case with engravings on spine and upper cover.
FOSSIL DIRIGIBLES.
Double Elephant Press. Michael Kuch.
Hadley, 2007.
Price: $3,500.00
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8 x 8 1/2. 48 pages illustrated throughout. Bound in "illusion" vinyl, exposed sewing on the spine. Near fine.
GEFN PRESS. Catalogue Raisonné 1977-2007.
Olsen, Redell; Katherine Meynell; Susan Johanknecht.
Baton Rouge & Burlington, 2007.
Price: $40.00
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8 1/4 x 9 1/2. Thirty-four leaves with 29 copper-plate etchings, those for Gluttons in shades of brown & rust; Angels in gold, green, and blue. Bound by Three Bear Trap Bindery, accordion-fold with leaves hinged on linen, olive green cloth boards with an original copper-plate laid into each cover. Housed in a cloth folding case with printed spine label. Fine.
GLUTTONS FOR RAPTURE/DEFECATING ANGELS.: Two Poems and Etchings by Michael Kuch.
Kuch, Michael. Double Elephant Press.
NY: Double Elephant Press, 1998.
Price: $1,000.00
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12 x 9 3/4. (18) leaves loose, as issued, in two-part wrappers of grey glaciers against a blue sky, with a coordinating slipcase by the Red Bone Bindery. The 12 initial letters of the Greenlandic alphabet are illustrated by 12 pochoir-colored prints of icebergs. Fine.
HOW TO SAY 'I LOVE YOU' IN GREENLANDIC. AN ARCTIC ALPHABET.
Campbell, Nancy.
Northumberland: Bird Editions, 2011.
Price: $775.00
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One-of-a-kind artist's book. Text, calligraphy, and binding by Suzanne Moore. One long sentence is calligraphed in ever changing colors on one long sheet accordion-folded (measures 2 3/4 when closed). Saffron yellow silk boards with thread ties. Fine. Signed by Moore.
HUH. (Title in liquid gold on first leaf). "Something Hazel taught me" is hand written in the colophon.
Moore, Suzanne.
Nd, np (Ashfield, Mass., 1980s).
Price: $800.00
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14 x 18. Sixteen broadsides laid into morocco and cloth tray case by Arno Werner. Typography and silkscreens by Edward Hill. Fine.
IN TIMES OF PERIL. 14 Poems & Images.
Pprome Press. Hill, Edward.
Northampton, (Massachsusetts), 1974.
Price: $300.00
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7 x 9. Nine french-fold leaves with nine relief images. Bound by the artist in Japanese paper dyed a saffron yellow, side stiched, titled with wood type and bearing a large color monotype; in a black cloth tray case topped by a small glass bee.
INFANTS OF THE SUN.
Randall, Karen Pava.
Easthampton: Propolis Press, 2001.
Price: $325.00
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