Search Results: Titles starting with C from Honey & Wax Booksellers

New York: Lorenz and Ellen Gude, 1964. Summer 1964 number of Ted Berrigan's C: A Journal of Poetry, signed by contributor William S. Burroughs. In 1963, administrators at Columbia University pulled one of Berrigan's poems from The Columbia Review, objecting to his use of the word "fuck." In response, Berrigan and his friend Ron Padgett borrowed an off-campus mimeograph to print their own literary magazine, The Censored Review. That act of protest gave rise to C: A Journal of Poetry, a cornerstone of the Mimeo Revolution in New York City. Between 1963 and 1967, Berrigan published a freewheeling mix of New York School poets, Beat writers, and downtown artists; Andy Warhol's first experiments with silkscreened Polaroids serve as the covers of the September 1963 number. In addition to Berrigan and Padgett, contributors to this Summer 1964 number include John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, Barbara Guest, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, who has signed this copy. The issue contains two… Read More

Natick, MA: Picture Book Studio/Neugebauer Press, 1986. Illustrated edition of Oscar Wilde's 1887 ghost story, the first of his stories to be published. In this comic tale, a historic English country house ghost is demoralized by the arrival of an unspookable American family: "on one occasion, while dressed for the part of 'Black Isaac, or the Huntsman of Hogley Woods,' he met with a severe fall, through treading on a butter-slide, which the twins had constructed from the entrance of the Tapestry Chamber to the top of the oak staircase." In the end, through the intercession of the family's brave young daughter, the exhausted ghost is finally laid to rest. In 1990, illustrator Lisbeth Zwerger won the Hans Christian Andersen medal in recognition of her "lasting contribution to children's literature." A near-fine copy. Single volume, measuring 11.5 x 8.25 inches: [36]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, black linen spine, pale green coated endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket.… Read More

London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1913. Uniform edition of Henry David Thoreau's writings, illustrated with 165 photogravures after nature photographs by Clifton Johnson, who observes of Thoreau: "Each plant and tree had for him a story, though he was more attentive to the wild growths than to the cultivated." This set collects the two books published in the Concord Transcendentalist's lifetime, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) and Walden (1854), as well as three volumes published after his death: Excursions (1863), The Maine Woods (1864), and Cape Cod (1865). This set was issued in New York by Crowell and in London by Harrap. The New York edition features a different decorative binding by pioneering book designer Margaret Armstrong for each title, while this London edition is uniform, featuring Armstrong's design for the American edition of Walden on all five volumes. A stunning set. Five volumes, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: xii, 319, [1]; xiv, 423, [1]; xvi, 440; [4], xxii, 492;… Read More

No place: no publisher, 1933. Ephemeral promotional broadside produced in support of A.S.W. Rosenbach's Early American Children's Books. The broadside reprints Charles F. Heartman's favorable American Book Collector review of Rosenbach's book, praising "the Doctor" for the breadth of his vision: "he has succeeded in robbing the dreary religious aspect of most of the early publications of its unattractiveness by injecting humorous remarks and reverting to a philosophical treatment. Regardless if one is a collector of children's books or not this is a scholarly book about books that should have a place in every collector's library." Heartman notes that the foreword by American collector A. Edward Newton makes Rosenbach's book "a necessary item to any collection of Newtoniana" as well. One copy recorded, in the Charles F. Heartman Papers at the University of Southern Mississippi; we handled a second copy in 2015. A very good copy of a striking broadside. Color-printed pictorial broadside, measuring 17.5… Read More

Milan: Sergio Tosi Stampatore, 1969. First trade edition of this early livre d'artiste by Italian artist Fausta Squatriti, offered at the Museum of Modern Art in conjunction with her 1969 exhibition at New York's Kozmopolitan Gallery. Squatriti's abstract candy-colored lithographs are teamed with an account of her work by critic Gillo Dorfles, printed in both English and Italian, titled "Fausta Squatriti's 'Disquieting Objects.'" Dorfles argues that Squatriti's vibrantly colored, futuristic sculptures represent the "equivocal nature half-way between the biological and the mechanical," "the furnishings terrestrial astronauts have discovered in the dwellings of a remote galaxy." He concludes that Squatriti's pop art represents "the revenge of her femininity . . . the distortion and mockery of the rigour of constructivism." Both the signed limited edition of fifty copies and this trade edition, printed in an unknown limitation, are scarce on the market. A very good example of an uncommon livre… Read More

London: T. Cadell, 1778. First edition of this ambitious eighteenth-century traveler's guide, an alphabetical table of over two thousand European painters, giving the dates, birthplaces, favorite subjects, and influences of each, from Andrea Abate (a Neapolitan painter of fruit) to Lambert Zustrus (a disciple of Titian). The guide is intended "to instruct (as well as to assist the Memory of) those Gentlemen and Connoisseurs, who either travel Abroad for the Improvement of their Taste, or intend to view the curious Collections in their Kingdoms." A very good artifact of the glory days of the Grand Tour. Octavo in fours, measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: [124]. Nineteenth-century calf spine, marbled paper boards, raised bands, spine compartments ruled in gilt, grey morocco spine label lettered in gilt. One page of publisher's advertisements at rear. Light occasional foxing, heavier to final signatures; lightest shelfwear to binding.

Paris: Marcilly, 1825. Complete set of six illustrated tales for young readers, each featuring a different color in the title: The Red Fish (or goldfish, in English parlance), The Green Monkey, The Yellow Dwarf, The Grey Mouse, The White Rabbit, and The Bluebird. These highly decorative pocket storybooks were a specialty of publisher Marcilly, a luxury stationer known for miniature almanacs and gift books. Text in French; publisher's imprint located in Les Poissons Rouges. OCLC locates four examples, all in France. A bright fine set, doubly housed in the original publisher's box and a custom clamshell. Six twelvemo volumes, measuring 4.5 x 3 inches: 32. Original glazed white paper boards, upper boards elaborately stamped in gilt and titled in blue with hand-colored pictorial onlays. Hand-colored, tissue-guarded frontispiece in each volume. Occasional faint foxing to text. Housed in lightly shelfworn publisher's card box framed in gilt embossed paper, lid with hand-colored pictorial onlay (duplicating… Read More