Search Results: Titles starting with A from Four Rivers Books, LLC

A lovely keepsake in honor of his mother Alice made by Francis Meynell was presented to the members of the AIGA after he had been unable to come in person for a speech (there are conflicting versions of this--see My Lives pp. 178-179 and Dreyfus 65a.) The booklet has an introduction by Meynell, several poems and small text pieces by Alice Meynell, as well as several short poems about her.

London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1923. GILL,ERIC. (SAINT DOMINIC'S PRESS) CORNFORD,FRANCIS. AUTUMN MIDNIGHT. London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1923, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, plain brown paper wrappers embossed and decorated elegantly in black, custom clamshell slipcase is half natural linen with marbled paper covered boards and black leather spine label stamped in gold, 24 pages. Illustrated with woodcuts by Eric Gill--the wood engraving Autumn Midnight is the frontispiece, a leaf ornament on the front cover, four small decorations, and 17 decorated initials. Printed at S. Dominic's Press, Ditchling. Very good plus condition, front and back cover pages are wrinkled, slight cracking to paper spine, slight aging to lower edges of some pages, slipcase in fine condition. Overall, an attractive copy. Evan Gill number 273, like the second copy described by Gill, but SIXPENCE is spelled correctly.

11 3/8 x 15 1/8 inches.Quarter cloth bound with decorated paper covered boards. Title in gold on the front cover and on the spine, double gold line runs along the seam of the cloth on the front and the back covers. Unpaginated. Each poem accompanies one of the engravings. All of the engravings and poems illlustrate scenes Kingsley saw and sketched in London and Bristol after the air raids. Cook has exhibited his work at many distinguished British associations, including the Society of Wood Engravers, the Royal Academy London, the Royal Scottish Academy, and the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. Cook printed the book on a Hopkinson and Cope 1842 Albion press. Fine, with a slight ding on the spine. This is the first production of his Centaur Press. Number 58 of 96 copies, signed by the artist, author, and printer. Prospectus enclosed.

A charming collection of essays closely related to books written by Powell over many years. Quarter bound in brown cloth with plaid-patterned paper covered boards. Printed paper shelf label. xii, 263 pages. 8 3/8 x 5 3/8 inches. Signed on the title page. Fine.

Moser's Alice joins the ranks of the earlier spectacular Alices: Tenniel, Rackham, Dali: not only do the 75 images dance and sprawl across the pages, but they reflect new visions of the text. These images range from marginalia to images merged into the text, to full page and on to two page spreads. The text is printed in black, with highlighted words in red or blue. Moser's signature is in purple, as is the limitation number, 157 of 350. The book is half bound in purple morocco with boards covered in a coordinating hand marbled paper, from the workshop of Gray Parrot. The type was cast and composed by Michael and Winifred Bixler. Further hand composition was done by Arthur Larson. Text and blocks were printed by Harold McGrath on Puligeum, a paper specially made for Pennyroyal by the Strathmore Paper Company. The clamshell case is quarter bound in morocco with cloth covered sides. The extra set of 75 prints, each signed by Moser, is enclosed in a matching cloth covered portfolio. A cover letter to… Read More

Generously loaded with images of Lawrence's work--tipped in samples, reproductions of prints, engravings, sample pages, and photographs, as well as a most thorough text on the history and work of the press. The guard album contains about 40 additional sample pieces, prints, page samples, and other ephemeral items Simon has been accumulating over the life of the Press. Simon intended this book to be the last publication of the Fleece Press, and he has ensured that the Press closes with a flourish!
One of 310 copies, of which it is one of 63 B copies which are accompanied by a guard album of 36 leaves. The guard album is quarter bound in fabric with Freya Scott's marbled paper covered boards.
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San Francisco: James Linden, 1986. Designed and printed by Peter Rutledge Koch on Arches Cover paper using Janson and Van Dijck types. There are four photographs by Michael Mundy of California's central coast, Big Sur, and the Merced River near Yosemite, dry-mounted on heavy boards, each titled and signed by Mundy. The fabric covered clamshell box was made by Klaus-Ullrich Roetzscher. Copy number 35 of 50. Unbound pages, the same size as the boards, 18" x 14". Sheets are fine in a near-fine box. Peter Koch Printer, number 39.

Splendid edition of Mahfouz's masterpiece, Arabian Nights and Days. The American publishing party for the book was in Washington, D.C. and sponsored by the Egyptian Embassy. The Cairo artist Nazli Madkour produced seven mixed-media paintings in glowing colors that provide her interpretation of Nahguib's characters. The Afterword was written by Mohamed Salmawy, editor-in-chief at the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram Hebdo, a close friend of Mahfouz, and husband of Madkour. The thirteen-inch square paintings were scanned and printed using the Giclee process by George Drexel. Michael and Winifred Bixler designed, set type by hand, and printed the text on imported hand-moulded papers. Noted calligrapher Mohamed Zakariya collaborated with the Bixlers to produce a superb bilingual title page. Winifred Bixler bound the book in fine tan linen, with a shelf label imprinted with the English title on the spine of the box, and the title in Aabic imprinted on a matching label on the front cover. The title page is… Read More