Thoughts about Pots: Stout Vase. by [Hot Tomato Press] Erica Spitzer Rasmussen - 2023.

[Saint Paul, Minnesota]:: Hot Tomato Press,, 2021.. Edition of 100. 1.4 x 1"; 28 pages including pastedowns. Miniature. Double sided accordion. Mixed media with handmdae paper (cotton, human hair, gelatin size, shellac, and sun dried tomatoes). Handmade paper by the artist with hair contributed by a friend. Inkjet printed. Numbered. A poem by Erica Spitzer Rasmussen given life between boards of sun dried tomatoes.. Each word given its own miniature page. "Tomato Poem" was inspired by Erica's memory of her father telling her that eating tomatoes would make her "big, strong, and hairy-chested." "Tomatoes tomatoes tomatoes / Result in hairy chests / Hair may be fine/ on you sir / But not on my budding breasts

[Saint Paul, Minnesota]:: Hot Tomato Press,, 2023.. Open Edition. 3.25" w x 1.75" h x 3.25" d. Mixed media with handmade paper (cotton, acrylics, book rings, gelatin size, and ink). Handmade paper by the artist. Linocut printed, punched and strung. Erica Spitzer Rasmussen: "When I was little, my father told me that eating tomatoes would make me 'big, strong and hairy-chested.' When you're young, of course, it's difficult to separate truth from fiction. I believed my father and stopped eating tomatoes. My brother, who heard the same tall tale around the dinner table, continued to eat tomatoes and you should see how hairy he turned out. 'Hot Tomatoes' are representations of the ever-present ominous fruit from my childhood that animated the theater of my mind. They function as picture books and as sculptural objects.

[Saint Paul, Minnesota]:: Hot Tomato Press,, 2023.. Variable series, each unique. Mixed media with handmade paper (cotton, ink, nickel-plated steel, and Warren'sclay-covered overalls). Typewritten text. Punched and strung. Erica Spitzer Rasmussen: "'Thoughts About Pots' is an artists' book series that features quotes by my late stepfather, Warren MacKenzie. The series is a tribute to Warren, who taught ceramics at the University of Minnesota for thirty-seven years. Some quotes are humorous. Others are solemn. The handmade paper contains Warren's clay-covered overalls that were salvaged from his pottery after his death. The text includes references regarding Warren's first wife, Alix MacKenzie, and his mentors, Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada. Like Warren's pots, no two books are the same."

[Saint Paul, Minnesota]:: Hot Tomato Press,, 2023.. Edition of 20. 3"w x 2.5"h x 1"d; 24 pages. Mixed media with handmade paper. Materials: cotton, gelatin, acrylic ink, PVA, plastic, waxed linen thread, and Nepalese Lokta. Coptic and drum binding. Typewritten text. Button and string closure. Numbered. Erica Spitzer Rasmussen: " 'A Blessing and a Curse" is a typewritten book that documents the world-wide practices and developments in the story of menstruation. From the ingenious use of materials used to impede blood flow through modern patents for commercial markets, this artists' book explores the realities of a perfectly natural but taboo subject. The content is both universal and personal, in that the final page commemorates the author's reproductive cycle coming to an end. The pages emulate mini pads, dyed in crimson ink.

[Saint Paul, Minnesota]:: Hot Tomato Press,, 2023.. Variable series, each unique. Mixed media with handmade paper (cotton, ink, nickel-plated steel, and Warren'sclay-covered overalls). Typewritten text. Punched and strung. Erica Spitzer Rasmussen: "'Thoughts About Pots' is an artists' book series that features quotes by my late stepfather, Warren MacKenzie. The series is a tribute to Warren, who taught ceramics at the University of Minnesota for thirty-seven years. Some quotes are humorous. Others are solemn. The handmade paper contains Warren's clay-covered overalls that were salvaged from his pottery after his death. The text includes references regarding Warren's first wife, Alix MacKenzie, and his mentors, Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada. Like Warren's pots, no two books are the same."

NY: Pierpont Morgan Library. Good; Liftoff on rear cover, stain on front cover, splits starting at heel . and foot of spine, fore-edges stained.. 1976. Softcover. 114 plates. Preface by Charles Ryskamp. Includes an essay on the Memories of Collecting by John M. Crawford, Jr. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 140 pages .

"France XIe Siecle. Les Cavaliers de L'Apocalypse," 8.5 x 10.75 inches. Printed in Paris, 1858.Original chromolithograph illustration from Les Arts Somptuaires: Histoire du Costume et de l'Ameublement et des Arts et Industries qui s'y rattachent sous la Direction de Hangard-Mauge Dessins de Cl'us Ciappori by Charles Louandre. This is from a disbound copy of the rare plates volume, which featured hundreds of images in various subjects designed by Claudius Ciappori and printed by the master Hangard-Maugé in Paris, 1857-58.

Rare catalog edition of the Fifth Annual Circuit Exhibition of the National Association of Portrait Painters, Inc. 1915-1916. New York: American Fine Arts Society, 1915. "November 6 to 28, 1915 at the galleries of the American Fine Arts Society, 215 West Fifty-seventh Street, New York". Published by Knoedler and Company Exhibition Catalogs, New York City. Listing portrait painters of 1915-1916, 61 pages, complete with plates of the 39 painters including Sargent. A very good+/fine copy of a rare edition of art catalog.

5956Ruskin The King of the Golden River, A Legend of Stiria. Publisher: Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1900. RARE. Original copyright 1841. BOUND IN SUEDE LEATHER. Used . Good- condition./ None Issued. A couple of top edges show bite-size area of loss. Does not effect text. Frontispiece black and white portrait of John Ruskin. Decorated title page and decorated initial letters by Samuel Warner. Colophon reads, printed in red, as follows: SO HERE ENDETH THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER, AS / WRITTEN BY JOHN RUSKIN: THE TITLE PAGE AND INITIALS / BEING DESIGNED BY SAMUEL WARNER, AND THE WHOLE / DONE INTO A BOOK BY THE ROYCROFTERS, AT THEIR SHOP, / IN EAST AURORA, NEW YORK, U.S.A., IN THE YEAR MCM. Roycroft logo with Elbert Hubbard printed in. handwritten gift inscription and signature on front free endpaper dates this item to the year 1900. Leather is in clean condition.

NY: A. Schram, 1974. Signed first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Abner Schram, 1974, first printing. 8vo., 234pp., illustrated with b/w photos. Signed on fly leaf by both authors: "With every good wish - Leona Rostenberg. Madeline B. Stern". Some dust foxing along top edge, else very good in very good dust jacket with a few short, closed tears along top edge. 2005 and 2007 NY Times obituary clippings of the authors laid in. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Davis, CA: Library Associates, University of California. Near Fine; Small nick at lower left corner of front cover.. 1979. Softcover. Edited and with an introduction Kirshenbaum. Exhibition catalogue for show held Feb. 22 - April 10, 1979 at the Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California at Davis. 8.5 x 11 inches. Black and white photographs of the work of five fine printers from northern California: Jack Stauffacher, Adrian Wilson, Richard Bigus, Andrew Hoyem, and William Everson. Contains statements from the artists. Laid in is promotional postcard for the exhibition, publisher press release for the catalogue, and several other promotional materials and lists of publications by Library Associates. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 47 pages .

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924. First Edition. hardcover. Good. 9 3/8" × 6 1/8" × 1" (23.8 × 15.6 × 2.5 cm) . First Printing. Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh. Tall 8vo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and paper title label. Uncut, deckled edges. [ix], [1], 176, [4] pp. Photogravure frontispiece portrait of Morris engraved by Emery Walker from a photograph by Sparling, with tissue guard present. Includes 16 plates and examples of types and illustrations from the Kelmscott Press. Henry Halliday Sparling (1860–1924) provides an informative history of William Morris's Press. Sparling was a former Kelmscott Press employee and as the husband of Morris's daughter, May Morris, from 1890–1898, was keenly familiar with Morris and his Press. Sparling provides a clear account of the day-to-day workings of the Press, as well as a close examination of Morris's intentions and printing achievements. Includes… Read More

Austin: Texas Writers Project, 2000. Original . Broadside. FINE. 24 x 36 inches, printed on high quality coated stock with metalic ink. Shipped- rolled in heavy tube. This fabulous poster was created especially for the featured author of Texas Writers Month in 2000 held in Austin, Texas by graphic designer Marc English. It is printed on heavy high quality coated stock in metalic inks: silver and bronze and laid over a duotone photograph of the rugged Big Bend country of West Texas. The poster quotes a long scene from McCarthy's BLOOD MERIDIAN with drops of bronze red blood for emphasis. This is a stunning visual and carries the impact of the original text depicting a scene of horror as the savages line up on horseback along the ridge their glass beads and painted bodies caught forever in the sun's hot glare as they anticipate the massacre that would follow. Only McCarthy could make this scene so vivid you might have to put the book down and never finish it.

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Comprehensive interviews with twelve recognized artists from the U.S. and Japan including Syl Labrot, Nathan Lyons, Ralph Gibson, Larry Clark, Keith Smith, Joan Lyons, Eikoh Hosoe, Bea Nettles, Duane Michals, Robert Adams, and Scott Hyde.

London: Edward Arnold, 1978. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine, in jacket with a miniscule touch of wear at spine top..