Saint Paul, MN: Blinc Publishing, 2008. Broadside measuring 19 by 12 1/2 inches. One of 150 numbered copies, signed by the printer, Bill Moran. Printed on the occasion of APHA's 33rd Annual Conference, October 10-12, 2008, this broadside is decorated with wood type printed in various fonts, sizes, and colors..... More
Mapplewood, NJ: Hammond Incorporated, 1981. Broadside measuring 25 by 18 3/4 inches. A map showing the different parts of a book, illustrated with three black & white photographs showing a hardcover book, softcover book, and a book's interior. The photographs are labeled with every aspect of book structure, from the..... More
(N.p. n.d.). Color woodcut by Lynd Ward, portraying a cherub hovering over a cannon. Signed by Ward and inscribed to "DBJ"—presumably Dan Burne Jones, who was working on a bibliography of Ward's work alongside one of Rockwell Kent's. Although the latter reached publication, the former apparently did not. Fine. Matted..... More
(Vienna: c. 1810). Single folio sheet, on which is printed twenty rebus cards, to be cut out. Each card has a very fine hand-colored stipple engraving. A few examples are: a man bowing before a statue of Cupid, a sunset, three children sledding, and Napoleon sitting on an upper-case “B.”..... More
NY: Red Ozier Press, 1981. Broadside measuring 14 by 29 inches. One of 75 copies. Illustrated with a black & white collage by John Digby. Text printed in burgundy and black on gray paper. Fine. (Peich 28). More
(N.p. Rebecca Press, c. 1985). Oblong broadside. One of nineteen copies. Signed by the artist, Alan James Robinson. A printing of all six woodcuts featured in the miniature Rebecca Press publication, Nightingale and the Rose, showing the story from the nightingale taking flight to its fall on the thorn of..... More
1942. Original painting, measuring 29 3/4 by 21 1/2 inches, matted and framed. The subject of the painting is the text of the Atlantic Charter, a joint declaration made by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 that provided a framework for U.S...... More
(Albany: Print Club of Albany), 1992. Broadside measuring 16 1/2 by 21 inches. One of 125 copies, signed by the artist. The Print Club of Albany's Annual Print for 1991-1992. This lithograph is in honor of the 500th anniversary of Columbus's voyage to the New World. Prospectus included, with very..... More
(N.p. n.d.). Slender broadside. Inscribed "Happy Pesach/Ben Shahn." Shahn's stylized header, showing hands embracing Hebrew text, leads into Edward Taylor's poem, "Infinity." In this Jewish and religious context, the choice to use a poem from Taylor, a colonial American poet and pastor, may seem odd, but an analysis of the..... 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
London: Warren Editions, 1982. 16mo. One of 75 copies. Twenty-four engravings, individually matted and loose. Nineteen of the engravings were originally printed in Boxwood, the Monotype Corporation's 1957 type specimen for Dante. The rest of the currently present images were added to the initial nineteen in the Boxwood reprint issued..... More
Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1938. Small octavo. xv, 37pp. One of 400 copies. With an introduction by Henry Thomas and seven wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. A comfortable treatise on the pleasures of pastoralism. Lacks original dust wrapper, traces of edgewear, and faint foxing to a few leaves, else near fine..... More
N.p., ca. 1940-45. 11 1/4 by 16 1/4 inches. Finely executed in gouache or tempera with a multicolored border, and with the forged signature of Arthur Szyk. The image is titled in Hebrew in the bottom border and is typical of Szyk's style, with much detail and exaggerated facial expressions..... More
NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1945. Original gouache illustration of Thumbelina from Arthur Szyk's illustrated edition of Andersen's Fairy Tales, signed and dated by the artist. In the illustration, Thumbelina, nestled in her walnut shell, shrinks away from a fat toad. In the story, the toad's mother had kidnapped Thumbelina as..... More
Original artwork, signed by the artist, Tony Tallarico. Depicting the letters A, B, and C against an orange background, this vibrant piece juxtaposes the realistic style of the letter examples (an apple, a ball, and a cat) with the playful style of the letters themselves, which have been enhanced by..... More
1925. A humorous cartoon measuring 10 by 8 1/2 inches. Celebrated playwright Henrik Ibsen, shown in caricature with a wild beard and hair, is depicted surrounded by four of his heroines, including Hedda Gabler and Nora from A Doll's House. Not all seem very happy to see him: Hedda points..... More
(London): Theatre Royal, 1829. Broadside playbill for Wednesday, Jan. 21, 1829 at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, advertising "a musical piece called The Sublime & Beautiful," followed by "The Farce of the Invincibles," and a "New Comic Pantomime" called "Harlequin and Little Red Riding Hood; or the Wizard and the..... More
(Cranberry Isles, Maine: Tidal Press, c. 1975). Broadside. Signed by the author. A poem and an illustration of a chickadee, both by Charles Wadsworth, who along with his wife, Jean Howard, was proprietor of Tidal Press. Fine. More
(c. 1970). Six posters, each depicting a unique and iconic scene from Iran, including the Shah Mosque, the Zurkhaneh sports club, and the Shrine of Shah Nematollah Vali. Some edgewear to each, minor creasing to few. (Each measures 39 by 26 1/2 in.; 991x673mm). More
(c. 1970). Three posters, each depicting a unique and iconic scene from Iran: a Persian painting, the Shah Mosque, and the Shrine of Shah Nematollah Vali. Some edgewear to each, plus minor creasing. (Each mreasures 39 by 26 1/2 in.; 991x673mm). More
(NY: n.d.). Portrait measures 7 3/4 by 6 inches, printed on a 11 by 7 1/4 inch sheet. The etching shows Clemens with his head resting on the the backs of both hands, and is printed in brown. It has an unfinished quality to it, as though it were a...... More
Firenze: A. Pini, (c. 1935). Quarto. A set of twelve sheets, unbound as issued, showing a variety of ornamental alphabets. Printed in numerous colors including red, blue, green, and gold. Several of the sheets appear to be printed by chromolithography, with exquisitely rendered colors. Includes the original parchment paper chemise..... More
Framed artwork measuring 13 by 11 3/4 inches. This piece replicates an original engraving first published in 1869 as the frontispiece to the second volume of Evert Duyckinck's History of the World from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. The image depicts in rich color an imagined scene of..... More
(N.p. John McBride, 2010). Broadside, measuring 18 by 6 inches. The text is printed in a gradient from yellow to green. Printed for the joint Roxburghe/Zamorano meeting in 2010 with the compliments of Kathleen Burch and John McBride. Signed by McBride and the author, Paul Vangelisti. Very fine. More
(c. 1942). Five pen-and-ink drawings, completed across the fronts and backs of two pieces of stationery. The first, and most recognizable, is a preliminary sketch for "The Safe Return," an oil-on-canvas painting which later appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and as an illustration for Sugarfoot, by Clarence Budington Kelland..... More
