Search Results: Authors starting with J from Passages Bookshop

Portland, OR: Scantron Press, 2021. First printing. (32) pp., 12.5 x 12.5 inches. A digitally printed edition of 250 numbered, signed, handsewn copies, with covers printed letterpress, based on the fine-press edition, which was printed letterpress and illustrated throughout using myriad printmaking techniques, and published in an edition of forty numbered copies, handsewn and bound in boards covered with cloth silkscreened at Atelier Meridian. The text for the fine-press edition was handset in Weiss foundry type; the Rives endsheets eco-printed with plants found on Mt. Hood; animal habitats and landscape images created by pressure printing and reduction woodcuts; animal drawings in Sumi ink reproduced using solar etching plates; and the centerfold spread combined multiple techniques with monoprinting. New. Owed to The Mountain takes three forms: a sumptuous fine-press book, published in an edition of 40 copies; eight copies of a sculptural artistÂ’s book, each accompanied by a copy of the fine-press… Read More

Rhinebeck, NY: Station Hill, 1978. First printing. Staplebound. Very Good. Oblong 8vo, [14] pp., b/w illustrations. No. 499 of an edition of 750 copies. Wrappers faintly foxed, lightly edgeworn, corners lightly bumped; internally very good.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 68 pp. 8vo, cloth. Pages show some yellowing; binding slightly worn at head and heel of spine. In a somewhat scuffed dustjacket with several small chips and losses.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. Bump to lower corners of boards, with resultant faint crease to first few pages, otherwise a very good, bright copy in equally clean, bright jacket with small tears at corners. 8vo.

Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico: Artist, 2019. First printing. 6.5 x 10 inches (single panel), 39.5 x 10 inches (unfolded). Folded accordion, in sewn paper envelope. Edition of seventy signed and dated copies. New. The second silkscreened artist’s book by Bayrol Jimenez, immensely talented co-proprietor of the gallery La Garrapata de la Oveja in Oaxaca, Mexico, featuring many layers of imagery printed in half a dozen colors. Each six-panel side constitutes a single frieze or mural on paper, and each copy of the book is housed in a unique envelope with an original drawing in Japanese ink (see last photos).

Ithaca, NY: Stone-Marrow Press, 1974. Wrappers. First Edition (of 500 copies). 55 pp. Inscribed and signed to Michael Cuddihy, publisher of the author's first book. Wrappers a bit rubbed and edgeworn. 8vo.

Paris: Hachette, 1973. First printing. Wrappers. Very good. 206 pp., narrow 8vo. A biography of Edgard Varese by the wife of composer Andre Jolivet (who was Varese's student in Paris), illustrated with fifteen photographs. French text. Light age-toning and edge wear, otherwise about fine.

Seattle: The Windowpane Press, 2012. First printing. 13 x 10.5 inches, single sheet of handmade paper, with deckle on all four edges. Printed letterpress by Bonnie Thompson Norman, from calligraphy by Linda Lundy, in an edition of twenty-six press-lettered copies. As new. A travesty of a medieval indulgence, inspired by Caxton: "Jacobus Jones, quaestiarius of Washington, United States of America, by his own authority, with the sanction of Amituofuo, through the intercession of Quan Yin, and given a general understanding of the teachings of Pure Land Buddhism, does entirely remit all temporal punishment for wrongs previously committed by the person or persons named in this document . . . a plenary indulgence, equivalent to indulgences granted for a visit to Rome in a jubilee year or a pilgrimage on foot from Paris to Santiago de Compostela." Space has been left for the name of the penitent and the amount of their alms to be written in, as well as for the date of execution of the document. Wittily and… Read More

Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1993. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. 230 pp. 8vo, 1/4 cloth over boards. A touch of sunning to edges of boards; otherwise as new.

Portland, ME: Mosher Press, 1929. Paperback. Good +. First Edition (of 500 copies). [5] pp. Scarce pamphlet from the press; OCLC locates only one copy. Sewn in a single signature. Wrappers present but detached, and with chipped edges and two tiny stains; interior clean and unmarked. 16mo.

New York: University Galleries, 1969. First printing. Unbound portfolio. Very Good. 8vo. An issue of this initially monthly and later quarterly journal, published by Roger Peskin and edited by Paul Katz and Ward Jackson, consisting of unbound color reproductions (with captions) laid into a printed gatefold portfolio. The portfolio carries artists' biographies and statements, and each artist is represented by a reproduction of one work. Very light soiling to covers of portfolio, and very faint toning to reproductions, as usual, otherwise very good. In folded acetate sleeve (as issued?).

Budapest: Commission Nationale Hungroise pour l'Unesco, 1976. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. 179 pp. Wide 8vo, perfect-bound in self-wraps. Includes a feature on the Hungarian poet Attila Jószef, as well as a section of "New Hungarian Poetry" (1965-75). Texts in various languages, including Hungarian, French, English, Spanish, and Russian. Covers darkened and slightly worn; internally very good.