Search Results: Titles starting with H from 20 Ants Fine Books, IOBA

Winston-Salem: Palaemon Press Limited. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1979. Signed, Limited Edition. Hardcover. The front board has some splay, as many, if not most, copies do.; Twelve previously unpublished "translations" of poems by other poets, selected by Dickey and each rewritten by him as an homage and to add his unique perspective to the retelling. Most poems are in a non-linear form: the formatting, word spacing, and line justification are varied and are as essential to the poem as the text. One of an unnumbered limited edition of 475 copies. Elaborately signed by author on the colophon. In polished gray buckram over boards, with title and author framed on a cream-colored paper label to front. No dust jacket, as-issued. In 1977, Stuart Wright founded the Palaemon Press Limited, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA to publish works by Southern authors. Most books are the first appearance, or first separate, printing, of the works. Clean inside and out, sharp cornered, and… Read More

Ipswich: Limited Editions Club. Fine with no dust jacket. 1961. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Hardcover. Slightest scuffing to bottom of slipcase.; Like much of Thackeray's work, Pendennis is a satire on the foibles of human nature and high society. Somewhat autobiographical, it reads like a farce with the frequently bewildered Pendennis climbing through London's upper crust from one doomed romance to another, gambling, and stumbling through social interaction. This author of Vanity Fair was able to take more time with this novel than the previous one and Pendennis was originally published in 20 periodical installments. This understated presentation by Limited Editions Club is in 2 slipcased volumes and is copy 817 of an edition of 1500. Signed on the colophon of Volume II by Charles W. Stewart who was commissioned to produce thirty illustrated plates in his characteristic ink and color wash. Stewart had a multi-faceted creative mind and was also a ballet dancer, costume… Read More

France: RVB Books. Fine with no dust jacket. 2022. Second Edition. Softcover. From the publisher: "Since the birth of the modern beehive in 1852, structural innovation in hive construction has entered a dormant period. By favouring the standardised (sic) box hive, beekeeping turns its back on 4,400 years of architectural diversity. This little book focuses on that period of history prior to homogenisation (sic), drawing from as far back as 2400 BCE. By rejecting a fixed narrative, linearity makes way for polymorphism, introducing graphic design, photography and writing to retell the story of beehives. The 375 images offer a glimpse into this proliferous history of architecture for non-humans." Indeed, 375 photographs of beehives dating from antiquity are packed into this thick, 6" high book. Some are the predecessors of the modern, wooden hives, but most are wicker, pottery, thatch, mud, wood, or metal. Some are built into walls, or figural, or freestanding structures… Read More

West Branch (Iowa): Toothpaste Press. Fine. 1983. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Softcover. Faint, small scuffing to the matte finished wraps.; This collaboration between author and artist has five short, non-rhyming poems by Ron Padgett, each with a facing page having an utterly quirky illustration by Trevor Winkfield. Yes, woodpeckers and woodpecker society are occasionally involved. This is copy 78 of a limited edition of 600 and signed on the colophon by both Padgett and Winkfield. Provenance: From the library and estate of Kenward Elmslie, prolific poet associated with the New York School of poetry, editor, performer, and founder of Z Magazine and Z press. A square 7" x 7" format. Unpaginated, 24 pp. Handset in Optima by assistant printer David Duer and printed on Curtis Ragston S-N paper by Allan Kornblum and David Duer. Saddle thread bound into black, French-flapped, Canson paper wrappers by "A.B." Title on a paper label on the front. The book has a spare, unembellished design, quite… Read More