Biblical Birds - the Quail
Pop-Up Included
In English and Hebrew

[never mind the press]
Golden, Alisa, book artist.
Birds of the Bible: Quail.
Berkeley: never mind the press, 2019.

Number 14 of 18 copies signed and numbered by the book artist. From the website of Alisa Golden's never mind press: "As a writer, printmaker, and letterpress printer, I work with words and images on paper and cloth. The bridge between writing and art has taken the form of books and prints since 1983, and expanded into felt and art quilts since the early 2000s. Additionally, I founded, edit and publish the art and literary magazine, Star 82 Review. For many years teaching was also a main part my life; workshops for all ages and semester-long courses as an adjunct professor around the San Francisco Bay Area. My work explores interaction and change, primarily the intersection between urban environments and natural settings, conversations and conflicts." She also wrote: "Book art can be made of many materials and take many forms: an interactive, touchable object that opens; a merging of words and images and structure; it can also be sculptural work that references reading or printing or the characteristics of a book. I'm interested in how each part adds to a whole tactile and sensory experience."

Alisa wrote about the grant she received from the Isaac Anolic Jewish Book Arts Award for this book, which she submitted: "I wrote up my proposal to do a project looking at birds in the Hebrew Bible. I had just read that before the dove was sent to check on the flooded world, Noah had sent out a raven, and I knew I wanted to explore that raven. I gave myself some room to wriggle and grow within the project because I knew that once I got started, the project would start defining itself. It was a competitive process, but I won the grant. After studying the Bible, the project evolved from one bird to three: raven, quail, and bearded vulture (an old world bird).

Bound in brown cloth with quail image to cover. The book's title page is letterpress printed on Somerset Velvet paper with handset metal and wood type. The wood type belonged to my grandfather, who owned a printing and publishing company. Skipping ahead to the center, I carved and printed 'selav,' the word for quail in Hebrew, and set Hebrew type for the Bible portion of Numbers 11.31. A reduction cut floats in the centerfold with hand stitching to frame it. An English translation of the portion is visible on the right. The righthand section opens up to stand as an accordion-folded tunnel with three quail: two male and one female. The images were based on California quail, which are similar to the migratory quail found in the Bible. Back to the first opening of the book: my fictional interpretation of the story, fleshed out, so to speak. In the Biblical passage, the Israelites are wandering in the desert and the 'riffraff' are complaining to Moses that there is nothing to eat but manna and they are sick of it and want meat, particularly the fish and leeks and cucumbers, and so forth that they ate when they were slaves in Egypt. The Creator sends the quail, but there are consequences. Housed in a blue cloth covered slipcase with a cream cloth spine." In fine condition. Measures 5 x 7.25 inches. (#37738)

Price: $650

Ursula Le Guin Short Story - Letterpress Printed & Finely Bound

[Prototype Press]
Le Guin, Ursula K.; Mark Sarigianis, printer and proprietor; Heather Bryant, artist.
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.
Tranquility, MD: Prototype Press, 2024.

Number 9 of 28 copies signed by the artist. The press proprietor, Mark Sarigianis, writes of this impressive and interesting production: " I came across The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas while reading The Unreal and the Real, a collection of short stories by Le Guin. Although the city it describes fits perfectly within her richly drawn universe, the story stands independently from her other work. William James, whom Le Guin credits at the start, originally posed the moral problem from which the story is based on. Is the happiness of many worth the intentional suffering of one? Such a timeless problem seemed worth the fine press treatment." From Wikipedia: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" is a 1973 short work of philosophical fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin. With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child. "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Fiction in 1974 and won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1974.

The artist, Heather Bryant-Warnalis, is inspired by sacred cosmologies and folklore. Her drawings, paintings, and collages capture intrinsic encounters of divergent forms that seem to be faced with the decision of accepting or rejecting each other. These other-worldly beings seek to capture the essence of primordial existence in interconnected environments that allude to where the origins of life began. The focus of her research is to investigate the boundaries of sentience and the struggle between vice and virtue, being in this world but not of this world. The striking black and white carvings that she created for this project explore texture to unite forms while also isolating them. This dualistic quality of carved line emphasizes the kindred experiences that we all share.

This Prototype Press publication was printed in an edition of 28 copies. Five cases of 24pt Goudy Text were cast fresh for the project. The choice of blackletter, along with the type size and the layout, all aim to give the reader a sense of biblical reverence. The book is bound in full hot pink goat leather, made especially for the edition. Matched with the bright white handmade paper from Saint Armand, and the pitch black printed text and carvings, the hot pink leather is intended to be beautiful, visceral and unsettling, much like the city of Omelas. The book is housed in a hinged black book box with lock and key and is accompanied by instructions on how to carefully open the box. Unless a reader is visiting, it must always be kept locked. In fine condition. Measures 9 x 12.25 inches. 20 pages. (#37740)

Price: $1,500

Miniature Book on Learning Chess
In Russian (with English translation)

[Windhorse Press]
Shukhin, Tatiana.
Chess.
DC: Windhorse Press, 2011.

Number 4 of 8 copies, signed by the artist. In Russian. According to the book artist this "book recounts a story of a child learning to play chess with book pages numbered as chessboard squares. The child does not want to follow the game's rules by making two moves each turn, not allowing his pieces to be taken, etc. In the end the child removes all pieces from the board with only two kings remaining and proclaims that 'Kings walk slowly but always make quick decisions'". In the form of a dialogue, the text is based on personal experience from trying to teach chess to her son. The book is bound in black cloth with a small red paper square inset to the front cover. The images were printed using a carved plastic plate and the text was printed on a laser printer. Housed in a whimsical red cloth box which opens in an unusual manner. A miniature book measuring 1.75 x 2 inches in a box measuring 2.5 x 2.75 inches.

Born in Moscow, Tatiana has been interested in books and bookmaking since her childhood. She holds degrees from the Moscow University of Printing, the University of Maryland, and the Corcoran College of Art and Design. Her work is in collections nationwide and she has recently won an award for traditional illustration. She currently resides in Takoma Park, Maryland with her family. Unpaginated. Fine. (#31004)

Price: $250

Homage to Wood Engraver, Hilary Paynter

[Nomad Letterpress]
Paynter, Hilary, artist; Helen Hillman and Pat Randle, printers; Max Porter, preface.
Moving: A Collection of Thirty-Five Wood Engravings by Hilary Paynter.
Cheltenham, England: Nomad Letterpress, 2024.

Letter U of 26 lettered copies signed by the artist, It is bound in quarter leather by Roger Grech and is accompanied by a portfolio of engravings which sit alongside the book in a blue cloth covered Solander box. with a small blue leather title label to spine. There were also 130 numbered copies bound in printed papers by Roger Grech, and 8 copies marked I - VIII bound in full leather. From the Nomad Letterpress website: "Hillary Paynter has held several positions in the world of British printmaking, but the largest truth about her is simple — she saved wood engraving … none of us would have the courage, faith and imagination to have thought the impossible and brought the Society of Wood Engravers back into existence, as well as the endurance to keep it going, day by day, for nearly 50 years. So writes Simon Brett in Multiples 59 about Hilary Paynter MBE, whose life’s work was celebrated with a Bankside Gallery exhibition in early June 2024. Moving was planned for publication to coincide with this show.

About the Press from its website: "Nomad Letterpress is run by Pat Randle from the Whittington Press, Cheltenham, from where Pat co-publishes Double Dagger and prints Matrix (‘the finest periodical of the book arts of the 20th Century’). We run letterpress workshops throughout the year and specialise in high quality book work both for clients and under our own imprint. We believe that printing and designing using the third dimension–be it with wood, metal, lino or hardened plastics–cannot be surpassed for quality and character. If you want it printed yesterday try prontaprint. We believe in building relationships with those we work with where the creative possibilities of printing by letterpress are exploited in each project we undertake.

In this impressive and elegant book, each engraving was selected and introduced by Hilary, and is accompanied by a text that explains the thought process behind how each image, from drawing to engraving, was developed. The blocks have been printed by Helen Hillman and Pat Randle and the book provides a lasting tribute to five decades of wood engravings by one of the masters of this craft. This edition of 165 copies has been set in 14- and 16-point Bembo and printed under the supervision of Hilary Paynter by Helen Hillman and Pat Randle at Whittington on the last of the Zerkall ENE paper. In fine condition. Measures 350 x 280 mm. 88 pages. (#37716)

Price: $1,820

Losing Freedoms in America - Voting Rights, Reproductive Rights, Etc.
Letterpress Printed with Pochoir Illustrations

[Luminice Press]
Williams, Thomas Parker and Mary Agnes Williams.
American River.
Philadelphia: Luminice Press, 2022.

Number 11 of 12 copies. In this powerful new book from the Luminice Press, Thomas and Mary Agnes Williams present a scathing indictment of the erosion of democracy in the United States. The preface states:

"In America, we are losing our freedoms, one by one.
Clean Air – the freedom to breathe air not polluted with toxins Safety – the freedom to live without fear of deadly guns
Women’s Autonomy – the freedom to control their own bodies
Voting – the freedom to participate in our democracy
We are losing America."

The book's text juxtaposes the intent of four congressional acts that guaranteed American protections - clean air, gun control, reproductive rights, and voting rights - with text from the recent Supreme Court opinions that overturned or restricted these protections. The accordion structure of the book offers the text on one side of the pages with the other side offering six panels with striking abstract color illustrations of disappearing water representing democracy's erosion. Bound in a blue and black paper covered boards with a black Washi linen spine. The text is letterpress printed from polymer plates. The six illustrations are original images hand printed on folded panels with 41 pochoir mylar stencils. The book measures 7.25 x 9.25 inches. The illustrated panels are 7 x 17.75 inches unfolded and open to 106.5 inches. In fine condition. (#37695)

Price: $1,500

Story from Arabian Nights
Letterpress Printed with Hand Colored Pochoir Illustrations

[Foolscap Press]
Lane, Edward William, translator; Brian Bowes, illustrator.
The Story of the Fisherman.
Santa Cruz: Foolscap Press, 2015.

Number 80 of 117 copies of which 101 were for sale. Signed by the artist. This story is part of a much larger collection of folklore and literature popularly known as the Arabian Nights or The One Thousand and One Nights. This splendid edition from the Foolscap Press, started by Larry Van Velzer and Peggy Gotthold in 1990, presents both a story of words and a story told in graphic arts form. The accordion style binding allows the book to be opened to display the story in images and to discover the visual connections between the exuberant linked illustrations done by Santa Cruz illustrator Brian Bowes. There are eighteen illustrations that are hand colored using the pochoir technique. The yellow and blue cover design is based on an illuminated Koran leaf from 1313. Printed in Legend type on Lettre paper and handbound at the Press. Housed in a blue cloth box with a paper title label on the spine. The box’s front flap is held shut by a neodymium magnet. In fine condition. 9 1/8 x 8 5/16 inches. Unpaginated. [80 pages] (#37349)

Price: $875

Kuna Indians of Panama - and importance of the mola, a traditional garmet
Limited Edition Artists' Book
Includes Original Mola Textile Sample

Schwartzott, Carol, book artist.
Ola Mola: The Kuna of San Blas.
Freeville, NY: Carol Schwartzott, 2004.

Number 30 of 50 copies signed and numbered by the book 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. Carol describes this fascinating and informative book as a brief history of the Kuna Indians. It includes a discussion of the people, their language, their customs, and the importance of the mola, to their culture and economy.

From the Smithsonian Magazine, August 2022: "Panama is a nation full of colorful imagery, from the aquamarine seas lapping at the country’s coastlines to the deep green canopy of rain forests shrouding its interior. But perhaps the most iconic example of its vibrancy is a traditional garment known as a mola. For centuries, the Guna (previously known as Kuna), an Indigenous group residing in Panama and parts of neighboring Colombia, have been creating colorfully embroidered clothing. A mola, which translates to “shirt” in the Guna language, is a piece of traditional dress typically worn by women and known for its bright colors and intricate designs depicting flowers, birds, reptiles, animals and other emblems indicative of Mother Nature. The textile art began in the San Blas Islands, an archipelago off the northern coast of Panama that’s part of the Guna Yala Region, where many Guna people continue to live."

From the book's prospectus quoted in a catalog by bookseller Joshua Heller: "My book is an attempt to follow the scholarly study of the garment, from the earliest contact to recent critical feminist views. As an artist I tend to concentrate within the art and aesthetic areas of what I study. I collected my first Mola in 1970, and as a ‘sewer’ I have always been fascinated by their innovative and skillful construction, as well as the wonderfully simple, yet complex imagery. I wanted my little book to show their detail, the textures formed by layering and the lush and vibrant use of color. I began the illustrations by scanning fabric, then considered photographing them or using actual samples. At one point I had a wild notion of sewing my own.“

Designed and bound by Carol Schwartzott. This complex book is constructed in an accordion structure. Five stitched folios contain four double pages, and include text and fourteen black and white illustrations. The folios are connected with four double fold pages. Each black fold displays a colorful 5 layer, cut-paper illustration of a mola design. The black Japanese cloth binding contains an insert of an actual Mola textile sample - appliquéd cloth with embroidery. Housed in a black slipcase with red paper title label on spine. Printed at Blacks Corner Letterpress in black, gray and red on Zerkall Text. Type faces used are Miro, Skia and Geometric 231. In fine condition. Measures 5 x 7.25 inches. Unpaginated. (#37667)

Price: $500

Memory Loss - an artists' book

[Relay Replay Press]
Wang, Shu-Ju, book artist.
True as Earth, Strong as Water.
Portland, OR: Relay Replay Press, 2011.

Number 22 or 26 copies. Shu-Ju Wang founded the Relay Replay Press in 2008 after receiving a 2008 Regional Arts and Culture Council Grant, which she dedicated to working with the elderly suffering from various stages and forms of memory loss. She worked one-on-one with five seniors, meeting with each over a period of several months. This touching book about Arnold Metz was the 5th issued by the press.

Wang writes: "Arnie's life [was] always anchored around a farm or body of water. He was born and raised on a South Dakota farm and retired to an Oregon farm; in between, he fought in the Pacific during WWII and raised a family around the Great Lakes. [This book] is grounded in this connection to the land and to water....While he was not able to participate hands-on in creating this book, his physical presence can be found throughout. Included are his handwritten notes, drawings and letters, photographs supplied by friends and family, and the soil and water that touched his life....The book contains numerous silkscreen prints and five Solarplate etchings printed on custom paper made by Helen Hiebert containing soil from Arnie's [farms] and water from the Pacific Ocean, the Willamette and Columbia Rivers."

Bound in blue and green Nepal Heavyweight paper. Created using etching, Print Gocco in an accordion format with 9 leaves, including 5 gatefolds. The design on the back of the book was based on the melody of "San Antonio Rose" that Arnie used to play on the harmonica. A beautiful book in fine condition. Measures 4 3/4 x 8 1/8 inches. (#35076)

Price: $700

Letterpress Printed Poetry with Haunting Etchings
In English and Danish

[The Bird Press]
Laugesen, Peter; Thorsten Dennerline (illustrator and book artist); Susanne Jorn (translator).
TEACH ME STAR OF NIGHT! LAER MIG, NATTENS STJERNE!
Bennington, VT: The Bird Press, 2000.

Since 1997, The Bird Press has been an artist-run publishing project that has focused on hand printed artists’ books. All projects utilize some inherent aspect of the book and often take the form of open-ended collaborations with writers. Each project is a response to the last, both in form and content, in order for the work to continually evolve. Poetry, broadly defined, is a major inspiration for most of the work. Editions between 15-40 utilize various print media including: flatbed offset lithography, stone lithography, etching, letterpress, wood blocks, and digital pigment printing. Book artist Thorsten Dennerline creates paintings, drawings, and prints in addition to artists’ books. He has exhibited work across the U.S. as well as in Chile and Denmark. His work is represented in numerous collections including Yale University Library, the Library of Congress, UCLA, Stanford University, and the Kunstindustri Musset (Denmark).

Number 26 of 40 copies in the regular edition. There are also 10 special bindings and 5 unique artists proof bindings. Signed and numbered by the book artist. A collection of eight poems by Danish poet, typographer, art critic, and translator Peter Laugesen (1942 - ). He was awarded the Danish Critics Prize for Literature in 2003. These poems were written in Denmark in 1999 specifically for this collaborative project with artist Thorsten Dennerline. He describes his eight etchings in this book: “[They] are meant to be an accompaniment to the text that functions as a collaboration similar to the way musicians might play together.” Bound in quarter vellum over blue cloth boards, which are laced into a vellum covered spine with five strips of alum-tawed thongs. The endbands are buttonhole stitched with waxed yellow thread. The front cover is titled in black and the rear cover has a black star printed near the bottom edge. The text is in both Danish and English. The Danish text is printed on translucent Seikishu Japanese paper and the English translation is printed on a thicker stock. This allows the reader to view the poems in both languages mirroring each other through the transparent paper. Unpaginated. [50 pages.] Size: 9.75 x 10 inches. In fine condition. (#31048)

Price: $1,115

Presentation Copy Inscribed by Laurence Housman
Collection of 7 Fantasy Tales, Illustrated by Housman

Housman, Laurence.
All-Fellow. Seven Legends of Lower Redemption with Insets in Verse.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1896.

First Edition. A Presentation Copy, inscribed "To W.B. Blaikie with sincere regards from Laurence Housman Feb. 18th 1897." Blaikie was a master printer and the head of the Edinburgh firm of T. and A. Constable, which produced several of Housman's books. This was an early work by Housman (1865-1959), the renowned English writer, illustrator, and playwright. Each of these seven Christian fantasy tales for adults is preceded by a lovely engraving by Housman and followed the verse "inset." Housman also did the cover design, title-page, and initial letters.

In original green publisher's cloth, with bumping, fading, and sunning to spine. Interior pages are very nice, with light browning to margins and deckled edges. In very good condition. 138 pages plus five pages of review comments for two other Housman books. (#27812)

Price: $250

Original Pencil Drawing by William Rothenstein

Rothenstein, William.
Alice Rothenstein. Original pencil drawing.
ca. 1890s.

English artist, Sir William Rothenstein (1872 - 1945), was highly regarded for his portraits of authors, royalty, and other famous persons. He was also an official war artist during both world wars and served as the Principal of the Royal College of Art between the wars. This is a nice pencil drawing on paper of the artist's wife, Alice. The drawing is from the collection of the Rothensteins' daughter, Betty Holiday. The study measures 38.7 x 22.2 cm. In very good condition with some light spots to the paper. In an archival mat and protected by sheet of tissue paper. (#29665)

Price: $1,000

Thomas Jefferson - and his time in Paris
Evocative Photographic Illustrations by Michael Kenna
Letterpress Printed

[Arion Press]
Ketcham, Diana; Michael Kenna, photographs.
Thomas Jefferson's Paris Walks.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2012.

Number 24 of 400 numbered copies for sale with 26 lettered copies for complimentary distribution. Signed by the photographer on the colophon. From the prospectus: "Jefferson, that remarkable man, was unusual in his love of walking in the city. The city in question was Paris, where he served as United States Minister from 1784-1789...before his term as third president.....The story of Jefferson's five years in France unfolds as we trace his steps through today's Paris." The forty-six black and white photographs were commissioned by the press from Michael Kenna. Kenna is one of the most acclaimed and widely collected photographers working today. He is particularly well-known for his photographs taken in France. The author, Diana Ketcham, has written extensively on architecture. She had been a senior editor at the Arion Press before she retired. In addition to the photographs there are reproductions of two beautiful maps from the period of Jefferson's residence in Paris.

Elegantly bound in a light green cloth with black titling to spine and front cover. Printed in digital Fournier on Centura Silk paper. Housed in a brown paper covered slipcase with a green paper spine with black titling. Accompanied by the prospectus, which has some creasing and folds. The book is in fine condition in a very good slipcase. Measures 8.5 x 12.5 inches. 208 pages. (#37642)

Price: $600

The Odyssey - Finely Printed and Bound
Created by Sir Emery Walker and Bruce Rogers

Homer; T.E. Shaw, translator [T.E. Lawrence].
The Odyssey of Homer.
[London], England: Sir Emery Walker, Wilfred Merton, and Bruce Rogers, 1932. 

One 500 copies offered for sale of 530 copies of this monumental edition of Homer's Odyssey. The book was printed at the works of Emery Walker, Ltd., under the supervision of Bruce Rogers. Walker and Rogers were two of the most influential figures in the world of books, design, and printing in the late 19th and early 20th century. Emery Walker (1851-1933) was an English engraver, photographer and printer. Walker took an active role in many organizations that were at the heart of the Arts and Crafts movement, including the Art Workers Guild, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, and the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. He also was a key figure in the world of design, typography and printing, in the teaching and dissemination of those crafts, and in the cultural landscape of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain. Bruce Rogers (1870 – 1957) was an American typographer and type designer, acclaimed by some as among the greatest book designers of the twentieth century. Rogers was known for his "allusive" typography, rejecting modernism, seldom using asymmetrical arrangements, rarely using sans serif type faces, often favoring faces such as Bell (at the time known only as Brimmer), Caslon, his own Montaigne, a Jensonian precursor to his masterpiece of type design Centaur. His books can fetch high sums at auction. [Wikipedia]

In his book, "Paragraphs on Printing" on pages 148-160, Rogers recounted the four year creation of the Odyssey, from his asking Lawrence to translate the work, to creating the perfect paper and making ink, and the special gold and seven-step printing operation of the rondels. It was widely recognized that Rogers had created a masterpiece (see Blumenthal, Art of the Printed Book). Rogers had been inspired by his reading of "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" to persuade Lawrence to undertake this new translation. Lawrence began his work in 1928, and after some years produced a translation of the classic using his personal experience in the fog of war as well as faithfulness to the text as his guidelines.

Bound in full black Niger morocco with gilt toes and lettering on the spine in gold. Printed on special paper made by J. Barcham Greem & Son in 16-point Monotype Centaur. There are 26 decorations of Homeric figures from Greek vase-paintings that are printed in black on roundels of gold leaf that at the head of each Book and on the title page. There is a two inch long ink line on the front free endpaper and the usual discoloration from the leather turns. Otherwise a fine copy. Accompanied by the prospectus. Not in original slipcase. Now housed in a very good fleece lined black clamshell box with a leather spine and black cloth covers. With a bit of scuffing and signs of handling. With an unusual Velcro closure. Measures 8.25 - 11.5 inches. Unpaginated [358 pages]. Fine. (#37494)

Price: $10,000

A Piece of Pulp Fiction - South of Heaven
Letterpress printed with illustrations by Raymond Pettibon

[Arion Press]
Thompson, Jim; Arnold Hano, introduction; Raymond Pettibon, illustrator.
South of Heaven.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2010.

Number 59 of 400 numbered copies for sale with 26 lettered copies for complimentary distribution. Signed by Raymond Pettibon, the artist. From the prospectus: "Arion Press is known for publishing titles that are unusual among deluxe limited edition books: not just 'chestnuts of literature' but masterpieces from overlooked genres....Take for example our series of dramatic works, plays by distinguished contemporary playwrights such as David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Tom Stoppard. ....In the 1980s we began to publish hard-boiled detective fiction with Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler....This fall we have turned to 'pulp fiction,' named from works published in magazines and paperbacks on cheap paper....Pulp was a term of denigration. Jim Thompson (1906 - 1977) may be called 'The King of Pulp,' yet he was a writer of the first rank." They continue to say that they chose Raymond Pettibon (1957 - ), one of the hottest contemporary American artists whose lurid images have attracted collectors and curators ever since he burst onto the scene in the late eighties. The prospectus provides a biography of Thompson and a description of this novel.

Bound in black cloth with red and black papers with an explosive star shaped design. in black. Red title label to spine. The text is printed on German mouldmade Schiller paper, with the type Pabst Old Style, designed by Frederic Goudy in 1902-03 based on lettering he had done for ads for the Pabst Brewing Company. For the italics Bookman Old Style type was used. The illustrations are printed on red sheets from the French Paper Company. In a fine acetate wrapper. Accompanied by the prospectus and laid in is press bookmark for subscribers in red paper with this book's title. In fine condition. Measures 9 x 12 inches. 183 pages plus colophon and Pettibon's unnumbered illustrations. (#37635)

Price: $500

Melville's Encantadas - Letterpress Printed by the Grabhorn Press

[Grabhorn Press]
Melville, Herman; Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen, introduction, epilogue and bibliographical notes; Mallette Dean, illustrator.
The Encantadas: Or Enchanted Isles.
Burlingame, CA: William P. Wreden, 1940.

One of 550 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press of San Francisco. The publisher, William P. Wreden was born in 1910 and died in 1995. He attended Stanford University and graduated in 1934. He owned and operated an antiquarian book business and was himself a major book collector. This is a beautiful book with Melville's tale that was first published serially then gathered in Piazza Tales, written three years after Moby Dick. Critics have now recognized that this is among the best of his writings, although this was not true at the time of publication.

Bound in patterned multi-colored paper with a fish design, with a cream cloth spine with title label. Some spotting to spine. Very slight offsetting to free front and rear endpapers. Text pages are clean and bright with handsome color engravings by noted artist Mallette Dean. Very good plus condition. Measures 7.25 x 10.5 inches. 119 pages. (#37609)

Price: $275

First Edition of Early Book by Ed Ruscha

Ruscha, Ed; Jerry McMillan, photographer.
Records.
Hollywood, CA: Heavy Industry Publications, 1971.

First Edition. This is an important early book from acclaimed American artist Ed Ruscha. Edward Joseph Ruscha IV (1937 - ) is an American artist associated with the pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. He is also noted for creating several artist's books. Ruscha lives and works in Culver City, California. [Wikipedia]

This book comprises sixty-one black and white illustrations of the covers of 30 popular records and of the actual LP. There are photos of albums by The Velvet Underground, Leon Russell, James Taylor, Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, and Lesley Gore among many others. The records were from Rusha's own collection. It is bound as issued with red paper wrappers with the title in black on the cover. It is offset printed in black and white on Lithofact paper. There were supposedly 2000 copies printed of this book. In fine condition save for signs of light handling to front cover. Measures 5.5 x 7 inches. Unpaginated. (#37456)

Price: $900

Ninja Press Bibliography - with tipped-in examples of presswork

[Ninja Press]
Maret, Russell, printer, book artist and afterword; Nina Schneider, bibliographic descriptions; Carolee Campbell, commentary; Harry Reese, foreword; Annie Schlechter, photography.
Dispatches From The Lizard Brain: A Descriptive Bibliography of Ninja Press.
New York: Russell Maret, 2022.

Number 37 of 102 copies, signed by the authors and craftspeople involved in making the book. This is one of the 77 numbered copies that includes tip-ins of original material. This magnificent production documents the life and work of Carolee Campbell, founder of Ninja Press and one of the country's most noted book artists. The foreword and afterword beautifully describe Campbell's ethos as an artist and bookmaker that has informed her work since she began making books in 1984. Russell Maret writes of her: "It takes a special kind of person to know that what one is working on is not ready to be discussed. It takes someone...who unhurriedly allows her books to germinate in her lizard brain until they are ready to be dispatched into the world. With each new book Carolee teaches the rest of us how it should be done - not how to make books like hers , but like her, to make books the way the books want to be made."

The extensive annotated bibliography of the works produced by the press includes books, broadsides, commissions and collaborations, ephemera, and writing, reviews, criticism. The annotations include comments by Carolee on the making of each book or broadside. There is also a section describing the Ninja Press type collection and an index. There are beautiful vintage paper tip-ins throughout of papers used, and pages from some of the books and broadsides. Accompanied by a booklet reprinting two essays by Carolee.

Dispatches from the Lizard Brain was designed and edited by Russell Maret, and printed by him and Sarah Moody. The primary text face, Carolee, was designed by Maret and printed from photopolymer plates on Twinrocker Handmade Paper. The titles are set by Felix Titling. The cover design was design was adapted from an ornament by Campbell. The blue green binding with a leather spine was designed and executed by Amy Borezo at Shelter Bookworks. The book is housed in a handsome brownish orange cloth covered portfolio with a white title label. In fine condition. Folio measuring 15 x 9 inches. 128 pages. (#35604)

Price: $4,000

Papermaking Processes in India and Nepal - with paper samples

Macfarlane, Nigel.
A Paper Journey: Travels among the Village Papermakers of India and Nepal.
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1993.

Number 71 of 210 copies. A fascinating account by papermaker and historian Nigel Macfarlane of his travels to visit papermakers and paper mills throughout India and Nepal. He describes their processes and products and includes several photographs of papermaking in North India. The text is followed by 20 beautiful paper samples. He includes a papermaking chronology for the two countries and a short bibliography.

Bound in a red and cream paper with a n intricate design, with cream linen spine with a leather title label. The book was composed in Dante types by Golgonooza Letter Foundry and printed on Arches Mouldmade paper at the Bird & Bull Press. Bound by the Campbell-Logan Binder. In fine condition. Measures 6 x 9.25 inches. 103 pages. (#34322)

Price: $190

Homage to Textile Designer - Reiko Sudo
Includes Textile Samples, Collages, Scarves, Autobiography, and More

[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