(N.p. L'Union Internationale des Etudiants, c. 1980). Broadside, printed in black, red, and blue. The poster's statement is immediate and direct: end the fascist regime in Chile. It specifically refers to the Pinochet dictatorship, which terrorized the Chilean populace for much of the latter half of the twentieth century. The..... More
Santa Barbara: Simplemente Maria Press, 2008. One of twenty copies. With twenty pigment prints in triptych format by Mary Heebner. According to the artist, these prints began as collage paintings, created as an emotional response to the characters of Gertrude and Ophelia in Hamlet. Each triptych incorporates an image of..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Luminice Press, 2022. Oblong 16mo. (24)pp double-sided accordionfold. One of twelve copies, signed by both artists. When opened in one direction, the book displays a series of two-page spreads juxtaposing, at left, earlier legislative acts granting or ensuring progressive freedoms, regulations, and resposibilities, with, at right, recent bills..... More
NY: Furious Day Press, 2016. Small octavo. (8)ff accordionfold, printed on both sides. Each panel, save Turnbull's introduction and the colophon, presents the reader with a silkscreen investigating through collage and/or altered photographs the male body as artistic and historical object. The book is a collaboration between three Manhattan Graphics..... More
(Cambridge, MA: c. 2016). Oblong 16mo. (28)ff. One of an unidentified number copies of the second edition, though likely fewer than five. Signed by the artist at her Introduction, in which she states, "In making this book I wanted to portray each woman as a complex, intellectual being rather than..... More
La Plata, Argentina: 2015. 16mo. (v), (30)pp. One of seven copies. Apo's poetry, which meditates on loss, impermanence, and despair, appears on the versos, facing on the rectos Cecilia Blu Blau's woodcuts. Blu Blau is a tattoo artist and illustrator, and her images shine with the bold lines and black..... More
(France: c. 1900). (13)ff. An alphabet in bold sans serif type, with each letter accompanied by an alphabetically aligned flower. The flowers—irises and eglantines (or sweetbriar) and roses—have been etched in an Art Nouveau style, which, paired with the curvaceous typeface of the title, suggests publication at the turn of..... More
Alès, France: P.A.B, 1960. (6)ff. One of 40 copies signed by Benoit and Miró. Benoit's poem is illustrated with three original etchings by Miró of spirals and lines, one of which comprises the wrappers. The poet-publisher comissioned the most important painters of the twentieth century to illustrate his works, often..... More
(N.p.): PAB, 1959. (8)ff. One of 77 copies initialed by the publisher, P.A. Benoit. Contains one original serigraph illustration in two shades of blue by Braque, and a brief text in which Braque tells how it feels to make a painting. Fine in plain wrappers with printed dust wrapper. (2..... More
Iowa City, IA: Seamark Press, 1971. Quarto. (42)pp. One of an unspecified number of copies, though cataloging of other copies state an edition of fifty. Translated and printed by Howard Zimmon in red, ochre, and black. An exacting work of printing, especially so with Neruda's Spanish and Zimmon's English appearing..... More
Chicago: Women's Graphics Collective, 1974. Mulit-colored screenprint poster. Produced by the Women's Graphics Collective, a socialist feminist organization formed in the early 1970s, the poster advertises the 1974 Midwest Lesbian Conference and Music Festival taking place from May 17-19 in East Lansing, Michigan. At the foreground of the image are..... More
Haarlem, Antwerp: De Sleutel, (1949). Octavo. (28)pp. A child's alphabet, richly illustrated by Wiegman with images to match each letter. The main picture—lumberjacks, gnomes flying a kite, polar bears going for a swim—is surrounded by others in silhouette and a two-line rhyming text, thus creating for the young learner an..... More
Dourdan: Émile Thézard et Fils, (c. 1925). Folio. Title leaf + 24 plates. A particularly Art Deco installment in Thézard's series Bibliothéque du Peintre en Bâtiment, in which the architectural and interior designer Georges Léculier promotes an impressive array of highly stylized alphabets. The publisher and artist's architectural associations, as..... More
(Seattle, WA: 1932). 16mo. (44)ff. Throughout the text—likely a report published for distrubtion to a small number of political advocates and/or social workers—are tipped-in photographs and ephemera, and directly interleaved are illustrations and charts. The photographs show the city of Seattle as it was experienced by the houseless during the..... More
Evanston: Schori Press, (1963). 29pp. Ward Schori’s fourth miniature bears no limitation, but there were probably no more than 600 copies printed. May’s enduring holiday poem was written for the Montgomery Ward department store and was first published in 1939 as a store giveaway. Fine in red morocco with brown..... More
Uppsala: Almquist & Wikselle, 1959. 16ff. A short history of the fifth-century manuscript of the same title, printed in Swedish, English, French, and German. The original manuscript was important not only for its historic value, but also because it is the chief source of knowledge on the Gothic language. A...... More
Evanston, IL: Schori Press, 1963. (58)pp. One of 600 copies. Signed by Ward Schori. Printed in blue on silver-flecked paper with borders of wavy blue lines. The frontispiece drawing of a baby asleep on a crescent moon, which is repeated several times throughout the book, is also incorporated in the..... More
Franklin, NH: Hillside Press, 1962. 72pp. One of 350 copies. With five black & white illustrations from ukiyo-e prints. This is the second book published by the Hillside Press. Extremely fine in light green printed wrappers bound in the Japanese fashion with designs after Hokusai. (2 3/16 by 1 13/16;..... More
Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, 1940. 50pp. One of 475 copies printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Illustrated with original uncancelled postage stamps featuring portraits of the five poets under consideration in Auslander's text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, James Whitcomb Riley, Walt Whitman, and John..... More
Chicago: Le Petit Oiseau Press, 1963. 32pp. One of 150 copies. The Christmas story as told by St. Luke. The last book in a series of small, charming miniatures printed by Doris V. Welsh from her private Le Petit Oiseau Press. Bound in green cloth-backed paper boards. (Bradbury 3198). (1..... More
Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1961. (xvi), 32, (3)pp. One of 300 copies. Fine in gray leather with a gilt-stamped portrait of Lincoln on the front. A.e.g. (2 5/8 by 1 13/16; 66x48mm). More
Chicago: Black Cat Press, (1961). 30pp. One of "a limited edition printed for friends at Christmas," with just fifty copies offered for sale. Printed in black with orange printer's ornaments. This in a variant binding of full red calf with gilt spine title. Fine. A.e.g. (2 by 2 3/8; 51x35mm)..... More
Chicago: Black Cat Press, (1966). 76pp. One of 250 copies with photographic illustrations throughout. Born out of Norman Forgue's interest in trains, both small and large, and written by his daughter's father-in-law, this was the only miniature book on railroading at the time of its publication. Very fine in full..... More
(New Britain): Art Press, 1968. One of 250 copies. Designed, printed, and hand-colored by Robert E. Massman, this four-paneled peep-show displays drawings by C. Ernest Massman. The peep-show depicts Moby Dick rising out of the water in front of the Pequod. Slight bumps to corners and lacking chemise, else near..... More
Worcester: St. Onge, Achille J., 1953. 77pp. One of 2,000 copies. Printed at the Chiswick Press in red and black type. With a black & white frontispiece portrait of the Queen. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full red morocco, with gilt stamping to covers including double-rule borders. Paste-downs and..... More
