The Jerusalem Windows: [including Two Original Lithographs, As Issued] Text And Notes By Jean Leymarie by Marc Chagall - 1962

Guenrouet, France: Pre Nian Editions, 2005. First Edition. Loose Sheets. Near Fine/No. Attractive poet / artist book collaboration between Ferlinghetti and Bracaval. Translation provided by Eve Lerner. Loose leaves laid into wrapper and issued in a hand-made box designed by Jeanne Frere. Measures 37 x 39 cm. The edition was limited to only 35 copies plus 10 A. C., numbered and SIGNED by both the poet and the artist. A fine, as-new copy. Destined to be a real "stopper" for Ferlinghetti collectors. The delicate paper label on the front panel of the box has a tear, else this item is in fine condition.

Paris: [Chez l'artiste], 1980. Livre. Illus. by Kamill Major. Bon. En Feuilles. Signé par L'auteur et L'illustrateur. Edition originale. In-folio. Paris, [Chez l'artiste], 1980. 38,5 x 39 cm, en feuilles, 30 ff. n. ch. en impression anopistographe, 12 sérigraphies en noir à pleine page, en feuilles sous couverture muette à rabats et coffret couvert de papier goudron portant le titre au premier plat et le nom des auteurs au dos. Edition originale. Bien complet de son disque vinyle 30 cm en impression monoface. Tirage à 70 exemplaires, dont 15 hors commerce, sur papier Marais. Celui-ci justifié épreuve d'artiste et signé par l'auteur, l'artiste et le compositeur, tous trois d'origine hongroise. A noter que la typographie est de Vera Székely et que les sérigraphies sont le résultat de travaux successifs sur un même écran. Petites usures au coffret..

New York: American Artists Group, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight foxing to half-title page. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. John Steuart Curry. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/4") bound in publisher's cloth. A critical study of Curry, illustrated with numerous drawings and illustrations, including 8 full-page color plates, by the artist. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper with his initials and SIGNED in full by the artist below a small ORIGINAL ink/watercolor of a landscape with sunrise.

[Neuchâtel]: Editions Media, March 1978.. Quarto (9.5 x 9.5"; 24 x 24 cm). Loose sheets, enclosed in plain stiff card envelope. Envelope a bit smudged, otherwise fine. First edition. A sequence of nine original serigraphs (some in color) with explanatory text by the artist. One of only fifty copies, with each serigraph signed and numbered in pencil on the verso by de Vries. OCLC locates only the copy at the BN. OCLC: 469670123.

Purchase, NY: Ear / Say, 1987.. [462]pp. Thick oblong octavo. Woven decorative cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label, ribbon tie. Illustrated in color throughout. Minute trace of rubbing to lower fore-tips, otherwise fine. First edition. With illustrative matter based on art weavings by Sandra Brownlee-Ramsdale, and with chants and stories by Dennis Bernstein. Copy #2 of fifteen numbered copies, specially bound with an original woven spine, signed by Lehrer, and with a swatch of weaving depicting an animal tipped to the front pastedown. There was also a trade issue of 635 ordinary copies in wrappers. "An extended visual fugue based on the long-forgotten but important [imaginary] animals of the earth ... this volume attempts to document the evolutionary and social patterns of these mytho-hysterical creatures." The book was printed via offset in a manner that "allowed for experimentation with translucent, opaque, and iridescent inks, split fountains, overprinting techniques and multiple plate… Read More

Los Angeles: Siglio Press, 2013. Limited Edition of 25 copies only. Hardcover. As New/As New. 186 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm. Publisher's original paper over boards. Book Condition: As new. Dust Jacket Condition: As new. This book has been handled just enough to photograph and is pristine. Signed and numbered to the title page by the author (#16 of 25). Included with this limited edition is an original, one-of-a-kind, collage by the author. This small intricately constructed work is enclosed in a glassine envelope attached to the first free endpaper; it is both initialed and authenticated with the artist's trademark fingerprint in red ink on the back of the work. The limited edition sold out very quickly in 2013 and hasn't been offered by the trade (that we've noticed) since then. Included with this offering is a Siglio Press Catalog for 2012/2013, a postcard announcing a reading by the author in New York City on May 31, 2013 at 192 Books (which, sadly, we missed), and finally "Siglio Ephemera #7" also… Read More

No Place (Chicago): Ann and Rainey Bennett Original accordion-fold artist's book designed and constructed by Ann bennett containing four original watercolors, image size each 3 1/8" x 2 1/4" , by noted Chicago artist Rainey Bennett. Simply inscribed at rear "to William A. Kittredge". Kittredge was the head of the department of design and typography for Lakeside Press under R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co.'s of Chicago from 1922 to 1945, Under Kittredge's direction, Lakeside produced work for Chicago's Caxton Club and the Limited Editions Club. Ann Bennett was a professional dancer and the wife of Rainey Bennett until her death in 1975. Rainey Bennett (1907-1998) was a highly regarded artist, illustrator and muralist whose works are held by the Metropolitan Museum, MOMA, Hirshorn Museum, the Smithsonian, and the Art Institute of Chicago. No date, circa 1922-1945, the years Kittredge was at Lakeside Press. Bound in decorative cloth, Near Fine, light soiling to cloth.… Read More

Munchen: Gina Kehayoff Verlag, 1994. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Stiff paper wrappers in illustrated dust jacket. Number 36 of a limited edition of 77 signed copies with an original gelatin silver print (23 x 12,5 cm.) loosely laid in. The book is signed and numbered by Christian Boltanski on the colophon page and on the verso of the print. Total edition was 2000 copies. Illustrated with black & white posters from the Red Cross with photographs and information on characteristics of children that were left displaced or homeless in post war Germany. Introduction by Boltanski in English, German ad French. 87 pp., 24 x 14,4 cm. Very fine copy in original, thin cardboard slipcase. .

Krefeld: Museum Haus Lange / Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, 1963. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Rare exhibition catalog containing 3 original silkscreens; one printed black & white on a transparent plexiglass sheet, one printed black & white on black cardboard, one printed white on black cardboard. Each 32 x 23.5 cm displaying striped patterns causing an intense optical effect. The artworks are loosely laid in a black folder, also containing a folded sheet with black & white plates (4 pp.) and a sheet with text by Paul Wember in German, French and Spanish (4 pp.). Catalog and silkscreens are in very fine/mint condition. Rare item by the Venezuelan-born Op and Kinetic artist Jesus Rafael Soto..

Paris: Andre Sauret, 1963. Limited/Numbered . Original Cardboard. Very Good. 4to. 183pp. EXEMPLAIRE SUR GRAND VELIN D'ARCHES. ONE OF 125 COPIES (THIS COPY 55) SIGNED BY ANDRE SAURET AT COLOPHONE. Cover is an original lithograph by BRAQUE. Missing the frontispice and the title page ( both were original lithographs) FINE PRINTING BY THE MOURLOT PRESS IN PARIS.SUPERB COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE WORKS OF BRAQUE. A VERY GOOD AND CLEAN COPY.