(Madison), 1979. 7 x 9. (14) pages. Each page has a blind etched frame (or edges) which cannot contain the fragmentary etchings, collages, and mounted thought bubbles. Both endpapers present the artist's statement. Mustard cloth. Fine. Torn, fragmented, floating, hidden under an overlay with peep holes the words and images..... More
(Delvan, NY, 1927). 8 x 11. 96 pages. Printed wrapps. Good. Almost entirely pictorial "cuts" and decorative material. More
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1967. 6 x 10. 200 pages. Quarter light blue morocco, top edge gilt. Spine evenly faded, all else fine in slipcase. One of 165 copies. The 19th century translation into Italian is by Giacomo Leopardi. Handsomely printed in Centaur types, with some Greek key borders in blue..... More
Nürnberg: Johann Andreä Endters, 1721 (actually 1731). First edition, later printing. 9 3/4 x 7 1/2. 30 leaves, 140 pages, 11 leaves. Most text printed in double columns, within a black border. A full page frontis of Ernesti's printing shop is followed by short histories of 8 famous printers from..... More
San Francisco: The Porpoise Bookshop, 1950s-1961. Mostly 8vo in size; most multi-paged; many illustrated. Two are typed "form letters" signed by Evans. Two are large broadsides folded--one with a large botanical color woodcut signed by Evans. Fine. Henry Evans was a printer, an artist, and an antiquarian bookseller. From his..... More
San Francisco, 1957. Broadside 19 x 12 1/2. Seven of the 10 inks are printed. Previously folded twice for mailing, some light creases; reverse side has some toning to paper. A good example. One of 250 copies hand printed by Evans at his Peregrine Press. Evans was known for his..... More
Verona: Officina Bodoni, (1960). 6 x 9. 140 pages, 5 plates (one double). Mardersteig's 60-page introduction is followed by the first treatise on the construction of Roman letters (ca. 1460). The 25 letters are hand-colored in two colors (after the original manuscript) with corresponding construction grid on facing verso. Full..... More
(Natick): Alphabet Press, 1983. 8vo. 64 pages, profusely illustrated in color & b/w. Cloth with color print on upper cover. Pinpoint foxing on top edges, all else fine. Very good copy. More
(Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1968). 4 1/2 x 3 1/2. (24) pages. Calligraphic initials from Vicentino's 1523 writing book are printed in blue. Vellum paper boards, paper slipcase. Fine copy of this pretty little piece. Laid in blank card is signed by Giovanni Mardersteig, One of 60 copies privately printed by..... More
(Vienna: Fiedler, 1972). 9 x 12. 81 pages + approx. 80 leaves of prints. The prints are tipped (or mounted) to black craft paper labeled with the technique. The facing text page gives its history, usage, commercial value, distinguishing features, and what other technique it might be mistaken for. Glassines..... More
Lexington: Stamperia del Santuccio, 1951. 5 1/2 x 8. 180, (2) pages. Original cloth boards, with spine label. Light extremity wear, deckles are browned. Good copy. One of 152 copies, not numbered, on Hosho paper, printed in black and red in American Uncial. This is Varia 9 and the same..... More
Fort Lauderdale: Bienes Center, 2001. 6 x 9. Pop-up frontis, 64 pages illustrated throughout in black & white. Paperbound with volvelle on upper cover. Crease along spine, and lower corner of front cover. Very good. One of 650 copies. Catalogue of 96 items; indices. More
Cambridge & Somerville, 1990-2008. Six broadsides (one in a printed folder) & 5 smaller keepsakes. The largest broadside is 15 x 13 inches; the smallest measure 9 x 6. All fine. The broadsides are: a selection from Augustine's "Confessions," Walt Whitman "A Font of Type," "Psalm 102 for Rocky Stinehour."..... More
1992. 6 1/2 x 5. Mounted inside a mat. Very good. More
Woolley,1987. 5 x 7 1/2. 12 leaves. Wraps marbled by Iris Nevins. Fine. One of 330 copies. More
1991, 1992, 1994, 1995. Wraps. Fine. All finely printed by Simon Lawrence. More
Santa Cruz, 2002. A scroll book 11 inches high, opening to 25 feet. The scroll opens with a flap of papyrus. The end of the scroll is secured to a brass rod with finial. The illustrations are reproductions of the first accurate images of the Tower of the Winds (James..... More
Soncino Press, 1930. 5 x 7. xxxvii, (3), 323 pages, 16 double spread plates. Red cloth. Spine faded as usual, cloth bubbled; contents very good. No. 176 of 260 copies, printed at the Curwen Press. More
Baltimore Museum of Art, 1963. 6 x 9. Original signed color woodcut "Self-portrait after Hieronymous Bosch" is tipped in as a frontis. (34) pages illustrated. Bound in wraps which are another original woodcut "Summer Flowers," printed from the woodblock. This wraps around the covers and onto the flaps. Near fine..... More
1958. 11 x 8. 15 leaves Frenchfold with ten fullpage woodcuts of South American birds. Each hand colored bird faces a paragraph of text. Blue boards printed across both covers with a woodcut of migrating birds in flight. The binding (fragile & most often found in shabby condition) is here..... More
NY: Grolier Club, 1996. 9 x 12. An original signed & numbered woodcut of a sunflower behind barbed wire tipped in, (94) pages illustrated. Oatmeal cloth, titled in brown on the spine, paper label on upper cover. Blue boards slipcase with Frasconi's red AF monogram. Fine. An artist's copy (AC)..... More
NY: Harcourt, 1968. 2 1/2 x 5 1/2 accordion-fold opening to 130 inches. The end panels are attached to lavender cloth boards, in slipcase with large printed label. Very faint spotting to rear board, but a fine copy. An autobiographical compendium of woodcut images, in color and in black. Printed..... More
(South Norwalk, 1967). 15 x 21 1/2. 36 leaves, with the architectural woodcuts printed on French-fold leaves. Printed in black, red, green, blue, purple, silver, & gold. Green cloth spine, boards covered in architectural woodcut printed in green on green marbled paper by the artist, marbled endpapers, cover title printed..... More
(South Norwalk, Winter 1994-1995). 9 1/2 x 12. Twelve leaves of color woodcuts and xylographic text in brown. A full page portrait (head) of a native American in earth tones faces a full page owl in purple & black, followed by seven double-spreads of a poem and an owl, concluding..... More
(South Norwalk, 1969). 9 1/2 x 13. Twelve fascicules in cloth tray case covered with paper marbled by the artist. There are 10 color woodcuts: two are double spread on full sheets folded twice; 8 are smaller woodcuts mounted on the larger sheet. The double-spread of Isola di San Giorgio..... More
