Tuscaloosa: Legacy Press, (2000). 5 1/2 x 10. x, 154 pages plus 5 original patterned paper specimens mounted. Quarter black cloth, black & white patterned boards by Gray Parrot. Fine. "Beginning in the 1950s, the American master of wood engraving, John DePol (1913–2004), cut small, endgrain blocks featuring subjects from..... More
(Beltsville): Hand Papermaking, 2010. 8 1/2 x 11. Fourteen delightful examples of paper engineering: pop-ups and other moveables, constructed from handmade paper, each in a printed folder. Many are signed by the artists. With a 40-page book. Fine in clamshell case. Twenty-eight book artists & papermakers collaborated to construct these..... More
Red Hen Press, 1995. 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. Slipcase is..... More
(Llanhamlach: The Red Hen Press, 1990). Folio (12 1/2 x 18). Seven folded folios + colophon leaf, with 7 mezzotints (5 in color). Five mezzotints of wild flowers "juxtaposed with objects significant in the life of Shirley Jones's father" are printed on Tervakoski handmade paper. Each is enclosed in a...... More
Previous Parrot Press, 1996. 7 1/2 x 14. 74 pages with 30 wood engravings by Frank Martin. Bound by the Gwasg Gregynog Bindery in full morocco: navy spine, dark aqua sides with gilt engraving on upper cover. Eight of the wood engravings are separately printed, titled & signed by Martin..... More
(Kentfield): Allen Press, 1962. Folio (11 x 16). 98 leaves. Unbound as issued in 5 sections, each with printed wraps. In blue felt-lined cloth chemise & cloth slipcase. Fine. One of 130 copies printed on a handpress on dampened Rives, in Goudy Modern and Cochin Italic. Subtle color marginal decorations..... More
Petersham: Lone Oak Press, 2005. 10 x 8. 89 pages. Including 31 relief engravings (4 full page, 3 with touches of hand coloring) by Abigail Rorer. Quarter russet morocco & morocco edges, marbled board sides. With an extra suite of the engravings numbered & signed and an original engraved block..... More
NY, (1920s). 13 x 15. (ii), 397 pages + 12 subscripted pages. Indexed. Bolted between heavy leather-like boards measuring 14 x 17. Covers unevenly faded; page edges toned. Very good. The specimen has four parts: Standard Types; The New Types; Miscellaneous Types & Initials; Borders, Ornaments, & Rules. Each type..... More
London, 1923. 6 1/2 x 10. Collotype frontis, title in border of type ornaments printed in red, xxiii, 91 pages. Full russet vellum, Italian patterned endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Stuart W. Jackson. Tips & spine ends lightly rubbed, but fine in custom cloth chemise & quarter leather slipcase. With the..... More
London: Primrose Academy, (1997). 7 x 10. (vii), 31 wood engravings printed on rectos only. Cloth & patterned boards. Fine in slipcase. One of 135 copies signed by the artist, printed at Rampant Lions Press from the original blocks. "The Engraver's Cut" series. More
(Nuremberg, early c19). A diamond pattern (12 1/2 x 11) of simple flowers, grapes, & pomegranates embossed and gilt on a blue paste ground (15 1/2 x 13 1/4) is signed in the design. There is a central fold line, as these papers were traditionally stored folded by the papermakers..... More
NY: Khelcom New York, 2010. 8 x 10. Twenty-eight French-fold leaves: 4 pages of text, 3 photogravures (2 double spread) of pilgrimages, 21 fullpage color woodcuts. There are 2 smaller woodcuts within the text. Bound by Gray Parrot in stiff vellum wraps, in cloth traycase with vellum label. Fine. Bogardus..... More
Tours, 1867. 10 1/2 x 15 1/2. Sixteen-page history + 7 engravings (one double) by Pannemaker of this publisher's printshop, bindery, and bookshop. Followed by 53 pages of plates, many with tissue guards, showing their principal publications. Publisher's red morocco-grained cloth gilt, all edges gilt. Occasional foxing, corners & spine..... More
Lunenberg: Stinehour Press, 1982. Two posters, intended as a pair. 30 x 10. Offset lithography (Meriden) and letterpress (Stinehour. Stephen Stinehour is the model in the Meriden poster; John McCormack models for Stinehour. Stephen Harvard did the lettering and the alphabet. Fine. Alan Fern, "Lance Hidy's Posters" pages 48 &..... More
(Northampton, 2002). Color etching of two angels on ladders. One angel is ascending and one descending; one is seen from the rear and one from the front. Printed in yellow & ochre on a single sheet of translucent abaca measuring 29 x 10 1/2 ; folded in the middle. Signed..... More
Hadley: Double Elephant Press, 2007. 15 x 13. 53 leaves. Eight poems on white St.-Armand paper are printed letterpress along with a blind-embossed image. Each poem is followed by five intaglios (2 folding out) on variously colored St.-Armand papers. They are tipped to linen which has a thin copper "spine,"..... More
Hadley: Double Elephant Press, 2006. 17 x 12. Poetry, lithographs, and etchings by Michael Kuch retell the Biblical story of Samson from Delilah's point of view. The book's images refer to and play upon well-known works of art. The upper cover has a collage of a temple with marbled paper..... More
Asparagus Valley (Hadley): Double Elephant Press, 2004. 7 1/2 x 10. 16 leaves, 6 of which fold out plus a coded spinning wheel. Printed throughout with wood type & chiaroscuro woodcuts in several colors on Japanese handmade paper. Bound by Mark Tomlinson in Shannon Brock's flax fiber wraps printed with..... More
Northampton: Double Elephant Press, 2004. 18 x 14. 24 leaves. A satiric "natural history." Ten plates (13 1/2 x 9 1/2) are etched with images of the beasts, their common names & binomial nomenclature. The etchings are hand colored by Kuch, in the tradition of natural history books. A description..... More
NY: Double Elephant Press, 1998. 8 1/4 x 9 1/2. A double accordion-fold of 34 leaves: 17 leaves for Gluttons and 17 for Angels, mounted back--to-back and hinged with linen. There are 29 copper-plate etchings: those for Gluttons in shades of brown & rust; Angels in gold, green, and blue..... More
Double Elephant Press, (Northampton), 2000. Broadside 9 x 19 1/2. An etching (5 x 6) of a male figure whose arms & head metamorphose into tree branches where sits (Athena's) owl, surmounts Michael's poem to Baskin. Fine. No. 65 of 75 signed copies, none for sale. Poem, etching, and presswork..... More
Northampton: Double Elephant Press, 2002. Two volumes. 11 1/2 x 15. 42 leaves: fourteen poems printed letterpress and twenty-one etchings, mostly in color. Three of the images are large, foldout etchings; two of the images are repeated, making a total of 23 etchings. The binding suggests the former World Trade..... More
2002. 23 x 16 1/2. Accomplished in yellows, gold, orange, green, and blue. Dated and signed. Fine condition. A study for an etching in Falling to Earth. When planning illustrations for his books, Michael often begins with a watercolor. More
Northampton: Double Elephant Press, 2002. 11 1/2 x 15. 42 leaves: fourteen poems printed letterpress and twenty-one etchings, mostly in color. Three of the images are large, foldout etchings; two of the images are repeated, making a total of 23 etchings. The binding suggests the former World Trade Towers on..... More
(Northampton), 1999. A figure seated within a large clockwork mechanism is drawn by two buffalo reaping wheat. The colors are ochre, orange, vermillion, blues, greens, and purple. Pastel measures 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 and is tipped to a larger mat. Signed "Kuch 1999." Fine. Kuch creates his book images..... More
