New Arrivals
A Hymn to Hands. Reflections and Images by Jacqueline Thurston. Poems by Emily Dickinson.
Palo Alto, CA: 2017. Artist's book, one of six copies, all on Rives BFK paper and Cibachrome prints, each signed and numbered the artist, Jacqueline Thurston on the colophon. Page size, three differing page sizes as follows: 10 x 14-7/8, 11 x 14-7/8, and 3 gatefold pages (gatefold as verso..... More
Spider Woman A Story of Navajo Weavers & Chanters.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934. First edition. 287pp; + 28 half-tones photographs of the Navajo women at work and one double page full color image of a double sand painting; original red cloth stamped in gold gilt, buff jacket printed in title and author in red with traditional Navajo..... More
Quartet. Etchings by Joseph Goldyne.
Berkeley, CA: Pacific Editions, 1986. One of 165 copies all on Twinrocker handmade rag paper, each signed by the author and artist. Page size: 12 inches x 8-1/4 inches. Bound by Klaus-Ullrich Rotzscher: gilt stamped morocco and Twinrocker paper in custom clamshell box. Four of the five etchings accompany each..... More
Greek Tragedies. Extrapolations from works by Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles.
Serafina, NM: 2017. Artist's book, 1 of 3 copies, Rives BFK, various Japanese papers including Kozo Mulberry, Strathmore Printmaking inserts, each signed, numbered and dated by the artist on the hand-written colophon, also signed and numbered on the inside front cover. Page size (including covers and flyleaves): 15 x 10..... More
Coming Down to Earth.
[New York]: 2017. Unique artist's book, all on photo paper, acid free papers and adhesives. signed and dated by the artist on front cover and on lower interior spine. Page size: 12 x 10 inches; 23 pages featuring original artwork and text by Sandra Jackman as well as some collaged..... More
Change.
[New York, NY]: 2017. Artist's book, one of 10 copies, all on Somerset paper, all numbered and signed by the author / artist, Sarah Plimpton. Page size: 8-3/4 x 5-7/8 inches; 20pp. Bound: loose in original tan wrappers blind debossed with title and author / artist's name, housed in terracotta..... More
Brooklyn Bridge: A Love Song.
Cleveland, OH: Foolsgold Studio, 2002. One of 60 copies, each signed and numbered by the artist / author, Donald Glaister; 10 of which HC, all on 10 mil aluminum. Page size: 14 x 12"; 28pp. Bound: quarter leather grey Nigerian goatskin with aluminum onlays on front and back. The aluminum..... More
Monk at the Five Spot.
[Jay, NY]: Caliban Press, [2014]. First edition thus, 1 of 125 copies, all on machine and hand-made papers from La Paperterie Saint-Armand from Quebec and "Epistrophy" from India and Hosho from Japan, all signed and numbered by the printer / publisher / designer, Mark McMurray. Page size: 10.5 x 7..... More
Skyscrapers.
Serafina, NM: 2017. Artist's book, one of 6 copies, all on various papers, containing block prints in black and colored water-based inks, with building names hand-lettered in black Sumi ink with metal pen and the date of construction completion, signed by the artist on the colophon, Paul Maurer. Page size:6-1/4..... More
From Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon.
Serafina, NM: 2017. Artist's book, one of 4 copies, on various papers, hand lettered with metal pens and sumi ink, original block prints with water-based inks, signed by the artist on the colophon. Page size: 7.5 x 8.25 inches; 24pp; + colophon. Bound by the artist: hand-sewn in red linen..... More
The Cruel Sport, An Excerpt.
Serafina, NM: 2017. Artist's book, one of three copies only, all on various papers, signed by the artist, on the hand-written colophon. Page size: 9-1/2 x 9-7/8 inches; 22pp; + colophon and self-wrappers. Bound: hand sewn by the artist with red thread, turquoise wrappers with original block print in black..... More
Song of the Bear.
Palo Alto, CA: 1991. Artist's book, unique, poem on handmade paper and Cibachrome photograph, presented format of Russian icon in maple and ebony hinged box, signed by the author / artist on the back panel in black and dated. Size of box: 16 x 12-3/4 inches; opening to 15-1/4 x...... More
WarZone A Traveling Board Game with No Winners.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL: 2017. Artist's book, one of 10 copies, text and images designed as a board game with Spinner Board printed on stiff board, signed and numbered by the artist / author, Dorothy Krause, on the inside back sheet. Size: 10-3/8 x 12-7/8 x 1-1/2; instructions, game board, spinner..... More
Fresh Cut Christmas. A Well-Trimmed Survey of Holiday Plants.
[Chicago, IL]: Paperboy Press, 2017. Artist's book, one of 50 copies, all on commercial cover stock, each copy signed and numbered in pencil by the artist, Shawn Sheehy. Page size: 4-1/2 x 6-3/8 inches; 28pp; with Table of Contents, two-page essay on the use of botanicals to decorate for the..... More
Triumph of the Will. Illustrated by Arthur Thrall and Walter Hamady.
Mt. Horeb, WI: The Perishable Press, 1976. Unique copy with one-of-a-kind full blue-gray morocco designer binding by Samuel Feinstein, the book one of 150 copies on Frankfurt & Frankfurt Cream paper, signed by the author, Armand Schwerner, on the penultimate page. Page size: 8 x 7.5 inches and 5-3/4 x...... More
3 in Search of the Universe: Rumi, Walt Whitman and the Voyager Spacecrafts Wonder at the Quest.
Vashon, WA: Foolsgold Studio, 2016. Artist's book, one of 10 copies, from a total edition of 12 for sale, 10 regular, 2 deluxe (Sold Out), pages on polyester film and various metals and binders board, each copy signed by the artist, Donald Glaister, on the colophon. Page size 14 x...... More
Vessel.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL: 2015. Artist's book, unique, on handmade paper, by Dorothy Krause, text is Emily Dickinson's poem, "Where ships of purple gently toss," signed in copper ink by the artist, Dorothy Krause, on the colophon. Page size: 7.5 x 5.5 inches; 30pp. Bound by the artist: hand-sewn into dark..... More
Book Talk. Essays on Books, Booksellers, Collection, and Special Collections.
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2006. First Edition. 260pp; 6 x 9 inches, new in decorated dust jacket. Following in the tradition of John Carter, Graham Pollard, and Michael Sadleir, this book takes the reader on a tour of the major ideas and controversies now current in the rare..... More
Le Pelerinage de Charlemagne Publie Avec Un Glossaire Par Cooper Introduction de Felix Klein.
Paris: A. Lahure, 1925. First and only edition. 8vo; xvi, 99pp; + acheve d'imprimer page, index included, frontis portrait of Charlemagne by Durer; text in old and modern French verse on facing pages; gray-green printed wrappers, part of spine to light brown with some additional fading to edges of wrappers..... More
Yes, We Can. A Scrapbook of the 2008 Presidential Campaign.
Pasadena, MD: 2008. Unique artist's book, on Arches Text Wove paper, signed and dated by the artist / author, Elizabeth McKee on the colophon. Page size: 10-1/8 x 6-3/16 inches; 22pp. + hand-painted and lettered endpapers. Bound: by the artist, Elizabeth McKee, exposed sewing on open spine, black imitation leather..... More
Wanderlust.
Boston, MA: 2017. Artist's book, one of 18 copies, all on Magnani Pescia paper, signed by the artist. Page size: 2-inch circle; 18pp. Bound: by the artist, tied with ribbon, housed in hand-made box covered in paper with print on lid; bottom of box is a copy of a farthing..... More
Les Jardins Disparus Illustrated by Judith Rothchild.
Octon, France: Verdigris, 2000. One of eight deluxe copies from a limited edition of 50 copies, signed and numbered by author and illustrator. Deluxe copies accompanied by an original copper plate, all on Hahnemulhe paper. Page size: 8 1/2 x 6 3/4". 12 pages. Rouanet's imaginative story about "Lost Gardens"..... More
Les Fruits Defendus (Forbidden Fruit). Ten poems and Ten Mezzotints by Judith Rothchild.
[Octon, France]: Verdigris Press, 2016. One of 10 regular copies, from a total edition of 20 copies, all 20 on Hahnemuhle paper for the mezzotints and Rives BFK for the text. Page size: 15 x 13-3/4 inches; plate size: 7-3/4 inches square; 20pp. + colophon and titlepage, dedication by the..... More