NY: Simon and Schuster, 1971. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author and signed by the illustrator at the front flyleaf. A young-adult retelling of two fugitive slaves in the mid-19th century. The dedicatory statements after the title page elucidate the historical threads binding the author to the Crafts'..... More
Chicago: Sherwin Beach Press, 1993. Oblong octavo. 21pp. One of 200 copies. Four photographs by Mike Tappin depict people living on insubstantial government funds, the “safety net.” The text by Steve Bogira, originally published in 1983 in the Chicago Reader, details the lives of those hovering at the poverty line..... More
Seoul, South Korea: Datz Press, 2011. Folio. (74)pp. One of thirty copies, signed by the artist at the colophon. Seo opens the book with the Olympic motto, "Citius, Altius, Fortius," slanting boldly across three spreads, as if preparing the reader to witness the spectacle of human athletic achievement we have..... More
Santa Cruz, CA: Moving Parts Press, (1991). Quarto. (44)pp. One of 70 copies, signed by the author, Francisco X. Alarcón. Forty pen-and-ink drawings by Ray Rice, in his second collaboration with his daughter, Felicia Rice, printer and proprietor of Moving Parts Press, are at once abstract, fractural, and familiar. Literally..... More
Matanzas, Cuba: Ediciones Vigía, 2013. Octavo. 59pp. One of 200 copies. Nancy Balboa’s illustrations celebrate Cuba’s agriculture, and draw a parallel between its grassroots rural life and its heritage of grassroots revolution. Martí, considered by many the “patron saint” of Cuba, was at the forefront of such organic, popular activism..... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, 2003. Oblong folio. (9)ff, loose. One of 75 copies of this suite of etchings, each of which is signed and numbered by Mitchell. Each etching bears a title and subtitle, the latter usually naming the depicted figure's role in a musical quintet, the exception being a...... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, 2010. Folio. 37pp. One of 500 copies, signed by Frank and David Armitage, who contributed the Afterword. A single photogravure reproduction of Robert Frank's photograph "Jay, New York" (1954) adorns this edition of the United States Declaration of Independence. On its surface, the image captures the..... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1998. Folio. (i), 23ff. One of 300 copies. Signed by Maya Angelou and the artist, Phoebe Beasley. Illustrated with silkscreens of six collages by Beasley. This collection of poems by Langston Hughes was selected by Angelou, who also wrote the Introduction and Afterword. Although Hughes was..... More
Prague, Czechoslovakia and Vestal, NY: Robert Marx and Ivan Ruzicka, 1966. Octavo. (28)ff. One of twenty-five copies, signed by the artist, Robert Marx, and the translator and binder, Ivan Ruzicka, below the colophon, and initialled by Marx on the title page. Marx’s etched portraits of old women, all numbered and..... More
(San Francisco: Art Hazelwood, 2011). One of twenty copies. Screenprinted boards with cloth joints which open to create a theatrical stage that measures 28 inches in length, 12 inches in height, and 9 3/4 inches deep. Klaus-Ullrich Rötzscher designed the stage, and multi-disciplinary artist, Concord, Mass. native, and self-professed "instigator"..... More
Paris: Three Star Books, 2018. Square folio. (50)ff. One of forty copies, signed by the artist, A.A. Bronson. Fifty identical tearaway posters of “AIDS,” using an appropriative design based on Robert Indiana’s 1967 “LOVE.” The relation of AIDS to love, both conceptually and artistically, and its adaptation into a repetitive..... More
Oakland, CA: Inkworks, 1975. Three-color poster. Below the titular declaration of freedom is a string of figures holding hands, ascending a mountain; the lead figure holds aloft a banner that merges the symbol for woman with the flag of Vietnam. At the bottom of the poster is an inscription found..... More
Brooklyn, NY: Strike Three Press, 2012. Quarto. (36)pp. One of 68 copies, signed by Cahill and Klein. Klein's expressive linocuts—printed in black, two with colored backgrounds—capture the personalities of various animals rescued and housed by Sean Casey Animal Rescue, a Brooklyn no-kill shelter thrumming with activity. Among the animals featured..... More
(Minneapolis, MN): Mnemonic Press, 2022. Octavo. Title sheet, (11)pp. prologue, (31)ff, colophon sheet. One of 25 copies, signed by the artist. An experiment in diaristic format, recombinant structure, and mixed media illustration, Bart's response to the COVID-19 pandemic engages with and questions time as we knew it in that period..... More
Rosendale, NY: Women's Studio Workshop, 2022. 48mo. (10)pp. + two-page pop-up spread. One of 53 copies. Signed and numbered by the artist at the colophon. An intense, expressive, and paradoxically expansive in both structure and content interrogation of the Chinese cultural history and practice of binding girls' feet. Fu begins..... More
(Colorado Springs): Press at Colorado College, 2019. 32mo. (8)ff. One of an unspecified number of copies, though certainly quite limited based on its lack of archival trace. Printed in deep black on sponged multi-tone red, Kennedy here recounts in what appears a typographic grief and outrage the frightening outbreak of..... More
(N.p. Suze Woolf, 2020). Oblong altered live wood, with seventeen wood leaves. A remarkable structural production, Woolf's unique book intentionally takes up space in order to remind the viewer, spatially and metaphorically, of the importance of beetles to their ecosystems. As the climate heats up, beetle larvae no longer freeze..... More
Minneapolis, MN: Mnemonic Press, 2023. Octavo. (31)pp. One of thirty-five copies. Signed by the artist, Harriet Bart. Selvinsky's poem, translated by Maxim D. Shrayer, was the first poetically address the Holocaust, or Shoah. While serving as a journalist in the Soviet military, Selvinsky witnessed the massacre of thousands of Jews..... More
NY: Intima Press, 2023. Near-miniature. Two volumes, bound do-à-dos. (192); (150)pp. One of twenty-six copies, signed by the artist. Original drawings reproduced throughout. A significant archival and multimedia undertaking, Belloff's compilation sets back to back (or as a beast with two backs) the text of Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Othello..... More
(c. 1999). Two posters, one featuring an armed young man beneath the Vietnamese flag watching an American fighter plane crash, and the other depicting Ho Chi Minh amidst the flags for North Vietnam and the Viet Cong. Though reproductions, these posters mark a shift in post-war Vietnam, in which propaganda..... More
NY: Equinox Cooperative Press, 1935. Thirty lithographs by Ward illustrate Hicks’ biography of Reed, the author of Ten Days that Shook the World and the first American ambassador to the Soviet Union. Reed witnessed firsthand the Bolshevik Revolution, and through his articles in The Masses, transmitted his impressions to an..... More
NY: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, (1930). First edition, second printing. This is Ward's second woodcut novel, with the story told exclusively via woodcut illustrations. Through this dramatic and expressive non-verbal style, Ward communicated situations and emotions using nothing more than the woodcut's stark contrast of black and white. A...... More
1972. An original illustration capturing a moment of protest by the black community, showing a black man being dragged away by an armed police officer, with the expressions of other protestors in the background. Jarring in its continued relevancy, the illustration is finely executed in mixed media, including tempera, watercolor..... More
1971-72. An original illustration showing an ensemble of images emblematic of the early 1970s social movements: a hand forming a peace sign, various illicit drugs, a revolver labeled “Saturday Night Special,” a sign demanding “End the War,” a couple on a motorcycle, a white woman wearing a fierce expression gripping..... More
1971. An original illustration capturing a moment of protest by the black community. A Black man is depicted pointing, with a posture that suggests purpose and urgency. The illustration is finely executed in mixed media, including tempera, watercolor, conté crayon, pen, and ink over graphite on board. Dated with "AMR"..... More
