(Ditchling: 1931). Wood engraving on paper. One of ten copies, signed and numbered by Gill. From the Gospel of John, here Gill's engraving introduces a section with a bold "Then." Mingling among the letters are Jesus Christ and the Samarian woman, a figure of ill-repute in her community who meets..... More
Berkeley, CA: Pacific Film Archive, 1973. Broadside measuring 24 by 18 1/4 inches. One of 500 copies. Designed by California artist David Lance Goines and printed in 10 colors, this advertisement for a film series at the Pacific Film Archive features an image of Veronica, daughter of Solome, who took..... More
Oakland, CA: Karl Kardel Co., 1974. Broadside measuring 24 by 18 1/4 inches. One of 1,850 copies. Designed by California artist David Lance Goines and printed in 8 colors, this advertisement for Karl Kardel Co. features a bumblebee over an ochre background. The design was inspired by an unknown philosopher's..... More
(Stuttgart): Edition Domberger, 1975. Single sheet, measuring 11 3/4 by 9 7/16 inches, showing a butler in tails observing an empty display case that had previously held "the Lisping Elbow," an illustration from Edward Gorey's book The Other Statue. Signed by the author with a note in pencil stating that..... More
(Stuttgart): Edition Domberger, 1975. Single sheet, measuring 11 3/4 by 9 7/16 inches, showing the title figure dramatically dressing while eating candied violets "from an unknown admirer," an illustration from Edward Gorey's book The Blue Aspic. Signed by the author with a note in pencil stating that this is an..... More
(Stuttgart): Edition Domberger, 1975. Single sheet, measuring 11 3/4 by 9 7/16 inches, showing a party scene from Edward Gorey's book The Blue Aspic. Signed by the author with a note in pencil stating that this is an "Artist proof for Domberger." The print is one in a series of..... More
(Stuttgart): Edition Domberger, 1975. Single sheet, measuring 11 3/4 by 9 7/16 inches. An illustration from Edward Gorey's book The Blue Aspic showing a gentleman in a fur coat and goggles offering the titular emeralds to the prima donna of the story Caviglia. Signed by the author with a note..... More
(Stuttgart): Edition Domberger, 1975. Single sheet, measuring 11 3/4 by 9 7/16 inches, showing a couple dancing from Edward Gorey's book The Other Statue. Signed by the author with a note in pencil stating that this is an "Artist proof for Domberger." The print is one in a series of..... More
1993. Watercolor and ink on paper, measuring 7 by 6 inches. Matted and framed. This illustration appeared on page 21 of the July 19, 1993 issue of Sports Illustrated. The image served as the lead-in to the "Anniversary" section, and it depicts an obscure baseball moment from 1893, when former..... More
1980. Original artwork. Pen, ink, watercolor, graphite, and wash on stiff card. The bereaved gather around the deceased's coffin as the undertaker pulls back a veil to reveal a will, taped as a video message. The mourners are a typically Gorey-esque cast of characters, including a shrouded widow, a man..... More
(N.p. c. 1976). Sixteen engraved illustrations altered by hand in pen-and-ink on paper, designed by Gorey for his collaborative publication with Samuel Beckett of the latter's All Strange Away. The images each deliver on Gorey's signature penchant for the uneasy and uninterpretable. They bear shapes and features that are to..... More
London: 1990. Single sheet on glossy poster stock measuring 20 by 30 inches. Agatha Christie's name and her centenary dates (1890-1990) border a clever central motif of question marks circling a single point. Surrounding the central graphic are the autographs of various actors and contributors to Christie productions, among them..... More
c. 1970. Pen-and-ink on three leaves measuring 8 1/2 by 11 inches. The first sheet, on pale yellow stock folded into fourths, contains a panel of six roughed-out storyboards, a more detailed drawing of what became the cover of the published work, and in the upper left, a series of..... More
1992. One of 1,000 copies, advertising The Sylvia Davis Collection of the Work of Edward Gorey, on view in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collection at the University of Rochester. Dancers, a skeleton, the Black Doll, a cat, a dog, idle children, and men in large coats dot..... More
(N.p. n.d.). Original etching, signed by Edward Gorey. One of 95 copies, of which this is one of 20 printed during Gorey's lifetime. The image depicts a retrospective, and rather flexible, elephant. Elephants held special meaning for Gorey, who named his home Elephant House, after an elephant-shaped toilet he found..... More
Warsaw: Wydanictwo Prasa Wojskowa, 1950. Quarto. (8)ff., loose. Eight woodcuts depict various actions of the Gwardia Ludowa, or the People’s Guard, an underground Polish communist resistance force. Most of the Gwardia’s operations focused on sabotage, ambush, and other guerrilla tactics. These included disassembling train tracks, bombing German-frequented coffee houses, and..... More
(Vancouver, B.C.): Heavenly Monkey, 2010. Broadside measuring 22 by 15 inches. One of thirty copies—this copy marked "Position proof." Unsigned. With full-page illustration of a hermaphroditic figure, titled "The Botanist," and two smaller text figures of mushrooms, all from drawings by Atsushi Fukui. Sylvian was the former frontman for the..... More
(N.p. Golden Cockerel Press, 1981). One of three known copies of Josef Herman's lithographs, gathered as a suite and intended to illustrate the Golden Cockerel Press's final book. The book was never published and the lithographs languished until their discovery some twenty years later. Printed in blue and black, the..... More
(Boston: Godine Press, c. 1970). Framed etching measuring 11 by 8 inches. One of an unknown number of copies; the edition was probably no greater than 200. An image of an early flying machine crashed and abandoned in a field of clover, printed in green with a caption printed in..... More
1971. Four original illustrations capturing scenes of protest. Two focus on the central figure of a young Black man, one who is raising his fist in a timeless and insistent gesture of power and belief, and the other who is pointing with a posture that suggests purpose and urgency. Another..... More
(Salem: Colonial Society, 1939). First separate edition, which consisted of fewer than 100 copies. A single folded sheet with one page of type, printed by Dard Hunter II at the MIT Paper Museum Press. Inscribed by Frost to Martin K. Howes at foot of poem. Frost read this delightful piece..... More
Petrograd: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, (1920). Framed poster measuring 19 inches by 26 inches. This two-color lithograph was printed in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) by the Petrograd State Publishing House and shows a man and a woman reading books while a hammer rests against the man's leg and more books lay in..... More
(N.p. Janus Press, 1955; 1980. Small octavo. (vi), 45, (2)pp. Inscribed twice by the author. The first book of the Janus Press, with a frontispiece woodcut and two additional cuts by Claire Van Vliet, whose imagery adopts a classical motif to echo the highbrow sentiments of Theobald's verses. A promising..... More
1935-1938. Signed by the artist, Cherry Barr Jerry. This painting depicts a rosy-cheeked Santa Claus, his mittened-hands as much a part of his red-robed outfit as a staple feature of the puppet's design. Jerry was an artist who explored a variety of media throughout her career, developing from a position..... More
1935-1938. Signed by the artist, Cherry Barr Jerry. This painting depicts a rosy-cheeked young boy in a blue-collared shirt and patterned overalls. Jerry worked with a variety of media throughout her career, including embroidery, charcoal sketching, and other forms of decorative art. Her efforts grew out of her role as..... More
