16 Women Artists in Baltimore from the Late 1800s - Early 1900s

Abend, Allen C.
Baltimore's Forgotten Women: Painters and Printmakers of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries.
(Baltimore): Allen C. Abend, 2015.

Includes chapters on Baltimore as an art center, opportunities for women to study fine arts (both abroad and in Baltimore), exhibition opportunities for women artists (nationally and locally), biographies of sixteen Baltimore artists, and more. The artists covered include: Alice Worthington Ball, Camilia Whitehurst, Mary A. Kremelberg (Gibson), Josephine Granger Cochrane, Maude Drein (Bryant), Ruth A. Anderson (Temple), Mary de Ford Keller, Dora Louise Murdoch, Margaret Moffett Law, Florence MacKubin, Lilian Giffen, Rosalie Lorraine Gill, Gabrielle DeVeaux Clements, Louisa Wright Neilson (Ford), Mary Worthington Crummer, and M. Louisa Steuart.

Oblong, bound in black cloth boards. In white illustrated dust jacket with black title to spine panel. Pristine with numerous color illustrations. 123 pages. New / New. (#31788)

Price: $29.95

Three Generations of Women - in Russia, Mexico, and the U.S.A.
An Illustrated Family Tree

Akhmadeeva, Ioulia.
My Women.
Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico: ALTERnativa Ediciones, 2019.

One of 5 copies. According to the artist, this book "presents my reflection and the relationship between the women of my family. On the one hand we are paper boats in the sea of liquid time and on the other side it is a narrative map of some kind of genealogical tree."

An elephant folio accordion bound in red cloth boards with gilt title to front board. The interior includes a detailed copperplate etching of portraits of the artist and the women in her family on paper boats sailing across the sea. The verso is a silkscreen showing a descriptive family tree including the artist, her three daughters, her mother, twin sister, aunts, grandmother, etc. This collage-style illustration includes places, descriptive words, dates, photographs, and shows her family's immigration from Russia to Mexico. Text in Spanish with some English. Printed on Guarro Super Alfa 100% cotton paper. Housed in a matching red cloth covered clamshell box. Bumping to bottom corner of the box. Size: about 24 x 10 inches.

Ioulia Akhmadeeva (1971 - ) was born in Russia but has resided in Mexico for nearly 30 years. She is professor of Fine Arts at the Michoacan State University San Nicolás Hidalgo in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico. She has participated in many international exhibitions and won awards and grants for her work. Copies of this book are in the Special Collections of Stanford University. Five minute video about this book (in Spanish): https://youtu.be/pBPJvmBvp84. Fine. (#36425)

Price: $2,800

Biographical Stories from 10 American Women - a nun, S&M mistress, dog-sled racer, director, and more
Presentation Copy, Signed by Authors & Book Designer

Coman, Carolyn and Dater, Julie.
Body and Soul: Ten American Women.
Boston: Hill and Company, (1988).

Presentation Copy from both authors and designer, dated 31 March 1988. "A champion dog-sled racer, a solitary nun, an actress and director, a woman who has battled the terrors of illiteracy, an S & M mistress - these women and five others who appear in Body & Soul, span a vast range of age, experience, location, and point of view. In this ground-breaking collaboration among writer Carolyn Coman, photographer Judy Dater, and designer Lance Hidy, ten diverse and fascinating lives are made known through the joining of text and image. Each woman's life story is told, using her own words, culled from extensive interviews and shaped into a first-person narrative. More than 200 portraits appear in concert with the stories, as each unique drama unfolds" (jacket).

Near fine in black cloth backed lavender paper covered boards with blue title to spine. Minor fading to edges of boards. Interior is clean and bright with black and white photographic illustrations on every page. Blue illustrated dust jacket with yellow and purple title to front and spine panels. 134 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. (#1239)

Price: $35

Homage to Dancing Women
A Book of Papercuts and Watercolor

Coron, Béatrice, book artist; Andrea Arroyo, illustrator.
Let's Keep Dancing with Andrea Arroyo.
New York: Béatrice Coron, 2015.

Number 3 of four copies. "Let's keep dancing if that's all there is!" This is a lively and engaging book that Andrea Arroyo and Béatrice Coron did in collaboration. It features Arroyo's color illustrations of dancers and Coron's paper-cuts of dancers and the brief. It was created using Arches paper. The book is housed in a red cloth folder with the silhouette of a dancer affix to the cover. The book slides into an interior sleeve within. In fine condition. It measures 6 x 30 inches when extended.

Andrea Arroyo is an award-winning artist working in a range of media including public art, painting, drawing, illustration and site-specific installation. Her work is exhibited widely and is in private, corporate and public collections around the world. Her artwork has been published extensively including in or on the cover of The New Yorker, The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune and The Nation and has been the subject of over two hundred features in the international media.

French born Béatrice Coron is a renowned artist whose work includes book arts, fine art, and public art. Her work can be found in major museum collections, libraries, as well as private collections. Her books are fascinating creations made through cutting images in paper or Tyvek. Cristina Favretto, Head of Special Collections at the University of Miami describes her work in Coron's "artfragments" portfolio: "There is a palpable joy in the work of Béatrice Coron, the kind of joy we felt as children in unwrapping a particularly enticing holiday gift. But...for Béatrice the gift is a sheet of Tyvek...or paper, and the stories to be unearthed and unleashed within and through the medium."

Coron describes her book work: "For the last 20 years, I have been exploring visual storytelling in artist books, paper cutting and public art. Collecting memories from individuals and communities, I stage narrative allegories in silhouette to create a dialogue with the viewer in playful fantasies. These visual chronicles record archetypal stories that transcend time and space. I have been fascinated by the relation of people to their space and the sense of belonging. Using papercutting where everything is cut from a single piece of Tyvek, the profusion of individual stories makes a coherent whole world." [From her website] Fine. (#34331)

Price: $800

Homage to Jeanne Baret - an early woman naturalist and the first woman to circumnavigate the globe
An Arists' Book - letterpress printed with maps and specimens

[Gazelle and Goat Press]
Ridley, Glynis, essays; Rhiannon Alpers. book artist and introduction.
Finding Her Place. Jeanne Baret: The Woman Behind the Naturalist.
San Francisco: Gazelle and Goat, 2018.

Number 39 of 40 copies. Signed and numbered by Rhiannon Alpers, the book artist. Rhiannon Alpers is a well-known and highly regarded book artist, papermaker, and letterpress printer. She has exhibited internationally, and her edition and one-of-a-kind artist books are produced under the Gazelle and Goat Press imprint. Rhiannon has taught academic courses at San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts (San Francisco), University of San Francisco, and Columbia College Chicago, Dominican University. She has also taught workshops for adult centers such as San Francisco Center for the Book, Penland School of Crafts, Guild of Bookworks, Book Arts LA, Focus on Book Arts, San Diego Book Arts, Center for Book and Paper in Chicago, and at her own studio in Denver. In 2015 and 2017 she received the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts Jurors' Recognition of Merit for her editioned artist books.

This beautifully designed and executed book is emblematic of Rhiannon's artistic interests and aesthetics. She writes of her book, which was inspired by author Glynis Ridley: "When Jeanne Baret stepped on-board the Etoile ship in 1766, she didn’t set out to be the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. Alongside her colleague, accomplice and lover, Philibert Commerson, she took on many roles during the expedition as a botanist, herb woman, nurse, and cataloger of the more than 630 specimens they brought aboard. This limited edition artist book traces the expedition of the first woman to circumnavigate the globe, through the lens of the botanical discoveries she made along the ship’s journey. Jeanne Baret was not able to document the expedition herself, due to the forbidden nature of her passage on this journey, but her legacy has inspired many, and spurred the creation of this book."

The book has a removable magnetic spine binding that opens completely back-to-back, with a digitally produced specimen chart hidden within. Hahnemuhle Bugra Fawn folio maps are letterpress printed from polymer plates, adapted from French expedition maps from the published logs “Voyage Autour du Monde par la Frégate du rio la Boudeuse et la Fluté L’Etoile." Crane’s Lettra Ecru 90lb specimen folios letterpress printed from linoleum blocks and polymer plates. Plant outlines are laser cut and secured with Japanese tissue. Laser cut specimens were adapted from the original plant specimens collected by Commerson and Baret on the expedition, archived in the Museum of Natural History in Paris. Interleaved vellum sheets with macro photography by the artist laser printed on Neenah UV Ultra II. Spine bound with Gmund Bier Paper [colophon]. Accompanied by the prospectus. In fine condition. Measures 8.25 x 9.5 inches. Unpaginated. (#37649)

Price: $1,500

Moss, Lichen, and the Ladies of Lichenology
Letterpress Printed
Includes Vials with Samples of Lichens, Handmade Paper

[Gazelle and Goat]
Alpers, Rhiannon, book artist.
Lichen: Rambles in the Colorado Front Range.

Denver: Gazelle and Goat Press, 2024.

Number 6 of 20 copies signed by the book artist. An exploration of "the minuscule and often overlooked world of moss and lichen. The book artist writes: This project began with my own fascination with the textures, colors, and dynamic forms of these tiny species, and to delve into the microscopic wonders that typically escape casual observation. Through extensive field exploration and herbarium research, I became captivated by the seemingly simple exteriors of lichens and mosses, which fiercely guard their vascular intricacies and the minute details that differentiate each species.

The book is structured around three species: two lichens and a moss, each presented as a chapter. Each species chapter is documented through a series of nine pages featuring various perspectives and research methods. These pages include topographical maps, handmade paper, textural monoprints of scientific names, watercolor swatches, paper collage elements, and narratives about my journeys and research along the way. Each chapter begins with visual and tactile representations of the species and the specific environment within the Colorado Front Range where it can be found. Documenting these findings in a creative and meaningful way became both a narrative challenge and a discovery process for me. Utilizing letterpress, papermaking, and watercolor as my visual tools, I aimed to represent my findings in an engaging and scientifically accurate manner. The scientific names of the species are integrated into the story, highlighting their physical characteristics as well as their botanical significance.

The box includes small samples of lichen and moss preserved in glass vials and a magnification loupe for the viewer. The accompanying smaller book, entitled Ladies of Lichenology, chronicles four early women bryologists and their stories. The four women featured in the narrative are Mary Farnham Miller, Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton, Matilda Knowles, and Elizabeth C. Wright. The front side of the swing-panel accordion gives a brief poetic biography, and the back panels are layered letterpress imagery of the species the women researched and published work relating to.

Along the way, the contributions of contemporary and early women biologists and bryologists added new layers of narrative and connection to my environment in Colorado. As with many obscure projects of this nature, it was the intertwining of scientists' backstories and the species themselves that also became a new and fascinating component of the artist's book. The women who have and continue to research these fascinating species within the community also bring a groundbreaking dimension to the field—one that is continually evolving.

This project has deepened my understanding of lichens' interconnectedness to their surroundings, particularly within the Colorado Front Range landscape. It has revealed the complex ways in which these lichens interact chemically, biologically, and environmentally with their hosts. As an artist's book, the medium allows for multidimensional stories to take shape and be accessible to the viewer in both a sequential and spatial form. The process of going through this book should be a journey for the reader, engaging with the story visually, tactically, and creatively, interpreting the intertwining of my artistic explorations and the scientific discoveries of female naturalists. It is through the unfolding, unearthing, and untangling that we all come to discovery, which challenges and propels me to create these types of books." (artist's statement).

Bound in green cloth boards with five inlays to front board. Created using a combination of wood type, polymer plates, monoprinting, hand coloring, and laser cutting. Includes multiple hand made paper inclusions. Housed in a deluxe multi-level clamshell box that includes an additional book: "Fieldwork Ladies of Lichenology" (12 pages) along with a 10x magnification loop and 5 vials containing lichen / moss specimens. To ensure conservation, the tubes containing the specimens were collected and preserved according to current herbarium standards. Book Size: 6 x 10 inches. Unpaginated [with 76 pages].

Rhiannon Alpers is a well-known and highly regarded book artist, papermaker, and letterpress printer. She has exhibited internationally, and her edition and one-of-a-kind artist books are produced under the Gazelle and Goat Press imprint. Rhiannon has taught academic courses at San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts (San Francisco), University of San Francisco, and Columbia College Chicago, Dominican University. She has also taught workshops for adult centers such as San Francisco Center for the Book, Penland School of Crafts, Guild of Bookworks, Book Arts LA, Focus on Book Arts, San Diego Book Arts, Center for Book and Paper in Chicago, and at her own studio in Denver. In 2015 and 2017 she received the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts Jurors' Recognition of Merit for her editioned artist books. Fine. (#37732)

Price: $2,500

Mythical Story Celebrating the Power of Women, Cycles of Life, Traditional Medicine, Etc.
Mexican Folklore and Mexican Book Artist

Guerra, Antonio, book artist and author.
Nahualli.
Mexico: Antonio Guerra, 2022.

Number 44 of 50 copies, numbered and signed by the author in gold ink. This magical story is presented in both Spanish and English, illustrated with alluring drawings by the author. "'Nahualli' is a story about love, the power of women, the cycles of life, the forces of the universe, traditional medicine, the spiritual connection with ourselves, with nature and all living beings" (colophon).

This is a finely bound digitally produced facsimile edition of the original artists' book in which the illustrations were produced using photolithography and the text was screenprinted. According to the artist and author, this short story was "inspired by a belief of the indigenous peoples of Mexico. It is believed that when a person is born, they have a nahual or animal soul mate that accompanies them throughout their life, and they share similar emotions and characteristics in their personality. Nahuales are also spiritual humans capable of taking the form of an animal, plant or one of the elements." In this story the nahaulaes are xoloitzcuintle dogs, a hairless dog revered in Mexican culture.

The book is accordion bound in cream colored amate paper covered boards and embossed title to front board. It was bound by hand at Tinta Taller in Mexico City. Amante paper is a traditional Mexican paper handmade from tree bark. A black leather strap wraps around the book to hold it closed. The text and illustrations are digitally printed. It can be read as a traditional codex or it can be fully extended. Unpaginated. [10 pages.] Book Size: oblong, 8 x 10.5 inches, closed; 8 x over 100 inches, open.

The book artist Antonio Guerra trained as an architect and also studied sculpture and graphics. In 2009 he began working in the book arts. His books are completely handmade in his workshop, either as unique pieces or in very limited series. They are impeccably produced and each one is signed and numbered. His work is found in private and public collections worldwide. Fine.(#37825)

Price: $1,000

William Morris's Heroines and the Late-Victorian "New Woman"

Hodgson, Amanda.
The Witch in the Wood. William Morris's Romance Heroines & the Late-Victorian 'New Woman'.

London: William Morris Society, 2000.

The annual Kelmscott lecture of the William Morris Society given at the Art Workers' Guild on 7 November 1997. An examination of William Morris's portrayal of women in his writings as influenced by the concept of the "New Woman" in late Victorian times.

In side-stapled yellow paper wrappers with black title to front cover. Clean and bright with 6 illustrations. Staples are a little rusted. 32 pages. Fine. (#28515)

Price: $10

Excerpt from De Mulierbus - the first collection of biographies of women in Western literature
Letterpress Printed

[Incline Press]
Boccaccio, Giovanni; Rhiannon Daniels and Guyda Armstrong (edited with introduction).
Minerva, Mantone and Circes. Extracted from De Mulieribus Claris.
Oldham, England: Incline Press, [2013].

1 of fewer than 240 copies printed of which only 50 (including this one) were bound for subscribers. This book was produced to commemorate Boccaccio's 700th anniversary in 2013 for the international conference and exhibition 'Locating Boccacio in 2013,' held at the John Rylands University Library and Town Hall in Manchester. This is an excerpt from De Mulierbus, the first collection of biographies of women in Western literature.

Fine in beige paper covered boards with red cloth spine. The text is printed on blue paper with Poliphilus type. Includes woodcut frontispiece illustration of Joanna, Queen of Jerusalem and Sicily (1541), initials, and head and tailpieces. In a fine tan dust jacket with red title to spine panel. 22 pages. Fine / Fine.(#27065)

Price: $95

A Unique Artists' Book Celebrating the Goddess in Every Woman

Krause, Dorothy Simpson, book artist.
Channeling Athena.
Athens: Dorothy Simpson Krause, 2021.

A unique book with original watercolors. Dorothy Krause is a painter, collage artist and printmaker who incorporates digital mixed media into her art. Her work is exhibited regularly in galleries and museums and featured in numerous current periodicals and books. In her artist's statement she says: "My work includes large scale mixed media pieces, artist books and book-like objects that bridge between these two forms. It embeds archetypal symbols and fragments of image and text in multiple layers of texture and meaning. It combines the humblest of materials, plaster, tar, wax and pigment, with the latest in technology to evoke the past and herald the future. My art-making is an integrated mode of inquiry that links concept and media in an ongoing dialogue – a visible means of exploring meaning.

In 2019, when the artist was in Athens, she began a book with watercolors of the landscape and collaged images of Athena. Returning home, she decided to explore her relation to the archetype and wrote a narrative, contrasting her comments with excerpts from Jean Shinoda Bolen’s Goddesses in Everywoman. Because she felt it presumptuous to compare herself to Athena, she printed narrative from Bolen's book on 4 vellum sheets and "hid" them by inserting them between the drum-leaf pages. Channeling Athena has 10 watercolor and collaged pages, and the 4 vellum inserts in a drum-leaf binding with a cover of vintage white leather over board. Affixed to the cover is a cream colored plaster medallion with a raised profile of a Greek head and the letters AOE ("Of the Athenians"). A lovely book in fine condition. Measures 7.5 x 6" inches. Unpaginated. (#36598)

Price: $1,800

Homage to Sisi - Empress of Austria and her tragic life
An Artists' Book

Krause, Dorothy Simpson, book artist.
Sisi: Empress of Austria.
Vienna: Dorothy Simpson Krause, 2018.

Number 4 of four copies signed by the book artist. Dorothy Krause is a painter, collage artist and printmaker who incorporates digital mixed media into her art. Her work is exhibited regularly in galleries and museums and featured in numerous current periodicals and books. In her artist's statement she says: "My work includes large scale mixed media pieces, artist books and book-like objects that bridge between these two forms. It embeds archetypal symbols and fragments of image and text in multiple layers of texture and meaning. It combines the humblest of materials, plaster, tar, wax and pigment, with the latest in technology to evoke the past and herald the future. My art-making is an integrated mode of inquiry that links concept and media in an ongoing dialogue – a visible means of exploring meaning.

In this poignant book, Krause recounts the mostly sorrowful life of the beautiful Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, nicknamed Sisi. At the age of 15, Sisi was married to her cousin the Hapsburg Emperor Franz Joseph. Stifled by the protocol of the court, she wrote in her diary, “I have awakened in a dungeon, with chains on my hands.” An especially beautiful, unhappy woman and a restless, obsessive traveler, she carried a hypodermic for cocaine, threatened suicide and, at the age of 61, and was stabbed by an anarchist in Geneva in 1898 and died. The book presents the sad details of her tragic life, with the text in a handwritten font printed in black on orange paper. With six color images of Sisi taken from photographs and paintings. It has a drum leaf binding with the cover of black watered silk over board. Housed in a black paper covered box with a title label on the cover and the title in orange on the spine. In fine condition. Measures 7.25 x 5.25 x .25 inches. Unpaginated [10 pages.] (#36593)

Price: $950

Important Women in the French Court - Marie Antoinette, Empress Josephine, & Empress Marie Louise

[Marie Antoinette, Empress Josephine, Empress Marie Louise]
Imbert De Saint-Amand;.
Famous Women of the French Court in 12 Volumes, Including 3 Volumes on Marie Antoinette, 3 Volumes on the Empress Josephine, 4 Volumes on the Empress Marie Louise, and 2 Volumes on the Duchess of Angouleme.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891.

A worn but attractive set bound in three quarter tan leather over marbled paper covered boards. Red title and black author labels to the spines of all volumes. One volume (about Marie Antoinette) is cocked and the rear hinge has been repaired. Minor wear and rubbing to leather on spines, hinges, labels, and corners. Small chips to edges of some labels and pull to leather on some volumes. The interiors are bright and clean overall; however, one volume has damp staining to the first few pages and another has a very small, light dampstain to the top edges of a few pages. Each volume has a frontispiece portrait. Top edges gilt and marbled endpapers. Each volume has an index. Very Good. (#33655)

Price: $450

Homage to Reiko Sudo, Japanese Textile Designer
Includes Autobiography, Scarves, Textile Collages, Tools, Raw Materials, and Samples

[Marquand Editions]
Birnbaum, Alfred, texts; Matilda McQuaid, foreword; Ed Marquand and Reiko Sudo, book designers.
The Nuno Box. Textiles of Reiko Sudo.

Seattle: Marquand Editions, 2017. 1 of 50 copies signed by Reiko, Marquand, and Birnbaum. There were also five lettered hors de commerce. This splendid production honors the achievements of Reiko Sudo, considered one of the great textile designers of our time, the renowned "weaver of new ideas." Sudo and Ed Marquand of Marquand Editions worked together to design and produce this artists' book that offers an in-depth exploration of Sudo's textiles, techniques, materials and more.

Over 140 distinct textiles are represented in four bento box-style book-objects: they include three scarves, a notebook of cloth samples and collages assembled by Sudo. The first box has two booklets, one with Sudo's autobiography and the other a detailed guide to the boxes including the colophon, and three beautiful scarves. Box two has the textile collages that demonstrate techniques and materials. Box three is the Nuno Compendium - a notebook of cloth samples. Box four contains tools and raw materials she uses in her practice. Each of the boxes is covered by lovely examples of Nuno textiles. The top box also has a fabric lid.

Reiko Sudo is co-founder, current CEO, and design director of Nuno Corporation of Tokyo, universally recognized as one of the world’s most innovative textile companies. Her company takes the techniques, materials and aesthetics of traditional textiles and reinterprets them with cutting-edge technologies. Sudo and her design team, together with the company’s skilled weavers and dyers, have greatly broadened the parameters of contemporary design in the industry, experimenting with an eclectic array of materials, ranging from silk, cotton and polyester to hand-made paper and aluminum, and finishing methods that include salt-shrinking, rust-dyeing and caustic burning. The results are distinctive, intriguing and indisputably remarkable. Her works are represented in the permanent collections of many institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art; the Victoria & Albert Museum; and the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art Craft Gallery [Nuno website]. Boxes measure 1.25 x 10.25 x 10.5 inches. In fine condition. (#36811)

Price: $6,750

A Play Re-envisioning the Founding of America - but by Women
Written in Baltimore at a Women's College (Goucher) for an All-Woman Cast

Montley, Patricia.
Four Scores for the Founding Mothers: A Comedy in Four Scenes for an All-Woman Cast.
Towson, MD: By the author, (1976).

First Edition. Paperback. First Edition. SCARCE. The author was a drama professor at Goucher College in Towson, MD (an all woman college) when this was written. A play written to be acted by 4 to 15 women actresses. "Ten score and even more years ago, our mothers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberation, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, and all women, superior. All men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. The wrongs they develop on their own. All women are endowed with equally certain and inalienable rights. Among these are life, laughter, and the pursuit of their true place in the history books of these United States. It is to secure this place that we are gathered here tonight - that our foremothers may not have striven in vain, and that the record of their womanly deeds may not perish from the earth" (prologue).

Light blue side stapled paper wrappers with black title to front wrapper. Minor fading to edges. Interior is clean and bright. 60 pages. Very Good+. (#28306)

Price: $25

Unique Hand Calligraphed Artists' Book
Homage to Emily Dickinson (ok ... and also a man ... Walt Whitman too)

Owen, Jan.
Words to the World Walt & Emily.
Belfast, ME: Jan Owen Art, 2024.

A splendid unique book by the celebrated calligrapher, Jan Owen and signed by her. On her website she states: "I was born in New York City, grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York and loved to draw and read as a child. Now I live in Belfast on the coast of Maine with long winters to write and beautiful summers. I walk to the beach to watch the sun rise and the tide come in. My day begins with brushstrokes to music, on to lettering and then to the words. I played string bass with a symphony orchestra for many years and the music always kept moving forward. I wanted my art to be still and include brush strokes and layers of words all visible at once. Now I like planning the pacing and arrangement of pages, words and images." She says on her website about her calligraphy: "The page is silent until I mark it, a line is abstract until I make a letter. The letters become words; ideas, poems and history. In this transitional age of digital communication we still need touch and movement, metaphor and music. The hand, eye and brain work together turning the pages of a book. I write with brushes and metal dip pens using inks and acrylic. The words might be layered like a palimpsest, weaving added for touch, colors and patterns for the eyes and binary code for transliteration. I choose texts by various authors and more often now, add how the words resonate with me as marginalia."

About this marvelous work Jan writes "I was inspired that both Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson lived during the Civil War in a divided US like now, and still wrote about nature and the universe." The complex and beautiful production that resulted is a masterly tribute to two of America's most important poets. Their words are interwoven through out, sometimes as an entire poem, and at other times a few lines or stanzas. They are written in Jan's exquisite calligraphy on paper of various sizes and colors, with calligraphic designs and small gilt metal bolt ornaments. Jan has also inserted several small translucent papers with charming personal notes to one or both poets. In her first note she says " Dear Walt and Emily, I love your words but I've kept you in separate pockets - big full-voiced Walt in one and quiet yet vast Emily in another. I take you out depending on my day." In another she asks Walt "of what would you sing today?" And to Emily: "Your poems - mostly short - are not simple."

The book is bound in cream colored paper boards with the title in black, and light orange titles of several poems are listed along the left edge of the front cover. In a Coptic binding sewn with brown thread. The pages are in three signatures with inserts and wraps in each. The text is hand lettered in ink and acrylic on handmade papers by Cave Paper, Hark Handmade Paper, FairChild Paper, and others from unknown sources. Painted and woven Tyvek. The book is accompanied by two printed copies of the text, one on a cream paper cover. All are housed in a white cloth covered box with a yellow title label affixed to both the front cover and spine. With four black thread ties. In very fine condition. Measures 11 x 14.5 inches. Box is 12 x 15.25 inches. Unpaginated. (#37411)

Price: $4,750

Phillips Coles's Illustrations of Women Using Negative Space
A Miniature Book

[Rebecca Press]
Phillips, Coles.
Fadeaway Girls: A Small Gallery.

Hyattsville, MD: Rebecca Press, 2016. Hardcover. Limited to "between 75 and 100 copies." Created for the Miniature Book Society Conclave of 2016, which was held in Texas. An homage to Coles Phillips (1880 - 1927), an American illustrator known for his stylized illustrations of women which utilize negative space. This star book can be held open by tying the attached ribbons. Includes four folded panels making 15 pages. Printed in full color with illustrations by Phillips. Size: 2.5 x 2.5 inches. Fine. (#37751)

Price: $95

Homage to Women Dancers
A (Nearly) Miniature Book

Schwartzott, Carol, book artist.
Dancers.

Freeville, NY: Carol Schwartzott, 2019. Paperback. Number 4 of 10 copies. Signed by the artist. Carol Schwartzott has been creating artists' books for over twenty-five years. Her work appears in many museums, libraries, and private collections including the Smithsonian, the National Gallery of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

This spritely and engaging work is bound in an accordion structure with hand colored, collaged elements including decorative papers and images of dancers on each page. Includes ten illustrations of dancers, a page of text, and colophon. Housed in an altered Altoid box that has been collaged with decorative paper of designs and maps on both interior and exterior. The box is titled in black on the front panel. The book and box both come in a handmade yellow felt carrying case with pink ribbon pull ties. Unpaginated. [13 pages.] Size: book is about 3.5 x 2 inches; box is about 3.75 x 2.25 inches. Fine. (#37274)

Price: $150

African American Women's Quilts - made in Gee's Bend, Alabama
Magic Star Construction

Shattuck, Carolyn, book artist.
Quilts of Gee's Bend: Vol. 111.
Rutland, VT: Carolyn Shattuck, (2024)

Number 3 of 20 copies. A striking book with a "magic star" construction that allows the work to be opened to reveal the interior pages. Gee's Bend, Alabama is famous for the quilts created there by African American women The expertly crafted Gee's Bend quilts are known for their bold and improvisational use of color, geometry, and mixed materials. Every Gee's Bend quilt is unique yet belongs to the same aesthetic family. Their quilt making tradition dates back four generations. The goal was to improvise upon designs that had already been made in order to create a truly unique composition. Materials such as old clothes, cornmeal sacks, corduroy, denim jeans including the inside pockets for darker colors and any fabric that fit the color palette were used. This work was created by the book artist to honor these quilters.

Bound in stiff black paper covers with title label and orange decorated paper. Affixed to each folded page is a replica of a bright and colorful quilt design. Printed on Red River paper and Hemptone from Paperworks. In fine condition. Measures 4.5 x 4.5 x 1 inches. (#37499)

Price: $500

Book Artist Barbara Tetenbaum's Catalogue Raisonné - Celebrating 25 Years!

[Triangular Press]
Tetenbaum, Barbara.
Half-Life. 25 Years of Books by Barbara Tetenbaum and Triangular Press.

Portland, OR: Triangular Press, 2005. Hardcover. One of 1000 copies printed on the occasion of an exhibition of Tetenbaum's 25 years of books held at the Collins Gallery at the Multnomah County Library in Portland Oregon in December 2005. The book includes a chronology of events in the artistic life of Tetenbaum, new pages from Gymnopaedia No. 4 and a catalogue raisonné for the years 1978-2005, and a catalog of advertising cuts from the Triangular Press collection.

Fine in blue cloth over exposed boards with paper title label to spine and front board. Pristine with color images on every page. Quarto. 48 pages. Fine. (#24936)

Price: $75

Gertrude Stein's Memoir
Yolla Bolly Press Edition - letterpress printed with illustrations by Ward Schumaker

[Yolla Bolly Press]
Stein, Gertrude; Ward Schumaker, illustrations; George Plimpton, afterword.
Paris, France.
Covelo, CA: Yolla Bolly Press, 2000.

Number 80 of 200 copies, signed by George Plimpton and Ward Schumaker on the colophon. In his afterword, Plimpton muses about Gertrude Stein's writing and what he learned from this, her memoir. Schumaker provided light-hearted and witty illustrations.

Bound in light brown cloth with a tan illustrated image of Stein. The binding was designed by the Press and the artist and was excited by Cardoza-James Binding Company. Composed in the Gill Sans types and printed on mouldmade Somerset paper from England. Housed in a brown paper covered slipcase with titling to spine with light sunning and a few random marks. In fine condition in a very good slipcase. Unpaginated. Fine. (#37640)

Price: $200