Our Lady of Mercy.
Skokie, IL: Black Cat Press, 1982. 43, (3)pp. One of 249 copies. Three-color head- and tail-pieces by Forgue. Bound in white paper over boards, gilt-stamped. Fine. (2 1/4 by 1 7/8; 58x46mm). More
Skokie, IL: Black Cat Press, 1982. 43, (3)pp. One of 249 copies. Three-color head- and tail-pieces by Forgue. Bound in white paper over boards, gilt-stamped. Fine. (2 1/4 by 1 7/8; 58x46mm). More
Skokie, IL: Black Cat Press, (1951). 46pp. One of 249 copies. Illustrated with a frontispiece in black & red. Trace exterior rubbing, else near fine in gilt-stamped red cloth. (2 3/8 by 1 3/4; 63x47mm). More
(N.p. Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective, 2023). Octavo. (19)pp. booklet + suite of three prints incorporating an impressive range of technical processes, including papermaking, letterpress, screenprinting, and relief printing. Each one is signed, titled, and dated by its artist: Tia Blassingame, Ben Blount, and Aimee Lee. The booklet situates the..... More
Chicago: Gráfica Studios, Charisma Chain, Inc., 1970. Four-color poster. Dynamically printed with a semi-silhouetted portrait of a Black man, the poster weaves together the threads of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s to the struggle for acknowledgement and implemented equality in the 1970s. "I Am Somebody" was..... More
(Havana, Cuba: OSPAAAL, 1967). Two-color poster. An OSPAAAL poster, among the few concerned with issues of injustice in the United States, here attending to the Civil Rights movement and police brutality. The Organization of Solidarity with Asia, Africa, and Latin America was founded in 1965 with an agenda of "total..... More
(N.p.): Limited Editions Club, (1994). Folio. (14)ff. One of 400 copies. Signed by the author and artist. Angelou requested that, for this first edition, her poem be illustrated by her favorite artist, John T. Biggers. Biggers' images are totemic, enshrining ancestral traditions in iconographic and dynamic drawings. Like Angelou's poetry..... More
Tuscon, AZ: Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., (c. 2017). Five-color letterpress poster on chipboard, exhibiting Kennedy's characteristic layering and use of eclectic and upcycled wood type. Douglass's quote originated in a speech he delivered on August 4, 1857, in Canandaigua, NY, at an address on West Indian Emancipation. A stamp at..... More
(N.p.): Limited Editions Club, (1996). Folio. (24)ff. One of 300 copies. Signed by the author and artist. Illustrated with five paintings by Lois Mailou Jones, including a frontispiece portrait of Senghor. Born in then-French West Africa, Léopold Senghor devoted his life to activism and poetry; in 1960 he was elected..... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, (2001). Oblong folio. 73pp. One of 300 copies. Signed by the artist. Illustrated with four aquatints by Wilson, printed at the Center Street Studio in Milton, Massachusetts by Jim Stroud. Typography and letterpress printing by David Wolfe of Portland, Maine. The restrained color palettes of John..... More
Los Angeles: Mariana Blau, 1993. 26pp. One of 90 copies issued as a keepsake for the Zamorano Club. A touching memorial to renowned miniature-binder Bela Blau upon his death. Published privately by his wife Mariana, who also bound the book and wrote the dedication. Eulogies by Francis Weber, Glen Dawson..... More
Los Angeles: Mariana Blau, 1993. 26pp. One of 90 copies issued as a keepsake for the Zamorano Club. A touching memorial to renowned miniature-binder Bela Blau upon his death. Published privately by his wife Mariana, who also bound the book and wrote the dedication. Eulogies by Francis Weber, Glen Dawson..... More
Los Angeles: Blau, Bela, 1965. 24pp. With a frontispiece portrait of Moses. Handset and printed by Blau. The Hebrew text is printed in tablet-shaped borders, followed by a 16-page English translation. Very fine in full leather with heavily gilt upper cover. An exquisite copy of this tiny masterpiece. (Bradbury, p...... More
Los Angeles: Blau, Bela, 1965. 24pp. With a frontispiece portrait of Moses. Handset and printed by Blau. The Hebrew text is printed in tablet-shaped borders, followed by a 16-page English translation. Mild exterior rubbing, else near fine in alternate binding of full white leather with gilt outline of a tablet..... More
Los Angeles: Bela Blau, 1965. 47pp. One of 1,000 copies printed by Bela Blau. With a frontispiece portrait of Kennedy, and with each page handsomely printed within a gold-ruled frame. Very fine in gilt-stamped leather. (1 5/8 by 1 3/8; 42x34mm). More
(Los Angeles: Bela Blau, 1963). 21pp. One of 1000 numbered copies of the Centennial edition. Illustrated with a photograph of Lincoln before the famous speech. Gold borders to every page. Bound by Bela Blau in full red leather, gilt, with a blue star on the front cover. Trace rubbing else..... More
Los Angeles: Bela Blau, 1971. 28pp. Printed in green and red. Fine in red leather decorated in silver. (1 1/2 by 1 1/4; 38x32mm). More
(Los Angeles: 1984). 18pp. Printed by Patrick Reagh, and bound by Mariana Blau. A summary of Bela Blau's bookmaking career, on his 70th birthday. Rabbi Kalman Levitan's copy, with his bookplate to the front paste-down, and signed by all the makers, including the printer, binder, author, and by Bela Blau..... More
Los Angeles: Bela Blau, 1969. What Happened to Junipero Serra? by Msgr. Francis J. Weber. Los Angeles (ca. 1969). 25pp. One of 1,000 copies. The Mexican postage stamp used at frontispiece contains an error in identifying the subject, Fr. Junipero Serra, an early missionary to Mexico. Fine in dark green..... More
(Hamburg: Gunnar A. Kaldewey, 1976). Small quarto. (16)pp. One of thirty copies, this example printed on white Sheufelen paper. Signed by Gunnar Kaldewey on the colophon. The sole illustration is a relief-printed etching on the front cover showing the "Bibliothèque d'un Gourmand," taken from de la Reynière's almanacs. Franz Blei's..... More
Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press, 1995; 1994; 1991. Three volumes: 32mo., 24mo., and small 8vo. (7); (4); (12)pp. Caesarean is one of 120 copies, featuring the titular poem by Peter Fallon, who founded Ireland's Gallery Press. Signed by Blinn and Fallon. Bound in wrappers with paper label to upper cover. Night..... More
Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press, 1989; 1991; 1994; 1998. Four small 8vo volumes. 26; 35; 59; (14)pp. The War Zone is one of 50 copies, signed by Barr and the printer, Carol Blinn, and with an additional inscription from Blinn at the colophon. Bound in Japanese Chiri paper over boards. Natural..... More
(Easthampton, MA): Warwick Press, 1987. Quarto. (4)pp., accordion-fold. One of twenty copies signed by Carol Blinn, who wrote, illustrated, and printed this book. A poem by Blinn is accompanied by a watercolor illustration that extends across the central page spread, depicting three yellow balls floating on a cerulean pool surrounded..... More
Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press, 1989; 1978. One12mo. volume and one small 8vo volume. (68); 12pp. A Fowl Letter Book is one of 225 copies signed by the author/artist/printer, Carol J. Blinn. A Poultry Piece is one of 250 copies, likewise signed by Blinn, with four hand-watercolored line illustrations. The pair..... More
Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press, 1986; 1976. Two small octavo vols. 30; (13)pp. From Stripper to Publisher is one of 125 copies, signed by Blinn and the photographer, Robert Lyons, and with a special multi-colored colophon inscription stating, "A little extra color for Hugh's copy with lots of love from Carol."..... More
Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press, 1984-2003. Eight volumes. Variously paginated. All of different limitations, but the possibility of this full run is one of 45, designated by the edition for Book Eight. All books signed by Fitzenmeyer and Blinn. The continued collaboration between the two artists resulted in this happy series..... More