Search Results: Titles starting with M from Priscilla Juvelis

Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud - F. Ferroud, successeur, 1923. First Edition, limited, numbered and paraphed by the publisher, one of 1200 on velin teinte d'Arches from a total edition of 1520. Page size: 4-3/4 x 7 inches; 57pp. Bound: handsomely rebound in 3/4 navy blue morocco and blue and green paste-paper boards with gilt fillet, spine smooth, gilt decorated with mosaic onlays, title gilt, top edge gilt, original wrappres bound in, joints and spine ends rubbed, half-title foxed, else very good. Illustrated with titlecut and frontispiece etching in black plus four color etchings hors-texte plus 13 decorated capitals after pen and watercolor drawings by Leon Lebegue. A handsome little book.

[Paris]: aux depens de l'auteur, 1952. First Edition, one of 3863 on velin, from a total issue of 3988. Handsomely rebound in 3/4 maroon morocco and marbled paper boards, spine with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., original wrappers and backstrip bound in; rear hinge cracked, very good. Illustrated with 12 half-titles, 29 illustrations hors-texte, and 198 in-texte after various artists' drawings, paintings, and engravings as well as photographs and documents. "Maisons closes" refers to the French bordello and the photographs and illustrations herein were taken from the records of the Musee Carnavalet.

San Francisco, CA: Pacific Editions, 2005. First Edition thus, one of 48 copies, all on BFK Rives paper, signed by the author, Barry Lopez, and the artist / designer / publisher, Charles Hobson, in pencil and numbered by Hobson. Page size: 11 inches x 12 inches. Bound: with original USGS maps for the concertina binding, which, when opened, creates its own vista of mountains and valleys representing the maps that figure so prominently in the Lopez story, covers made of paper over boards, paper reproducing a 1911 map of Bogotá from the collection of the Library of Congress, publisher's slipcase of wood-grained paper over boards with brass-toned metal label holder attached to spine of box holding white paper label with title and author in black, all suggesting a map cabinet which plays a pivotal role in Lopez's story, further housed in tan corrugated paper board slipcase, slipcase and board covers made by John DeMerrit with the assistance of Kris Langan, new. The book opens with images of hands… Read More

Toronto: Lake Galleries, 1991. First Edition thus, one of 35 copies all on stonehenge paper, each copy signed on the portfolio by Grund, consisting of three sheets of accordion folds to make nine pages, hand-numbered on the colophon and hand numbered and signed by the artist on each of the three sheets. Page size: 20 inches x 17 inches , when folded. Bound: gray paper portfolio with title in gold and relief etching by Grund on front cover, fine. Dieter Grund is a well-known Canadian artist (born in Germany, educated in Canada and now residing there) whose work is in many important Canadian collections. He has chosen three poems by the well-known Canadian poet, Gwendolyn MacEwen. The three poems selected are from her 1982 publication, THE T. E. LAWRENCE POEMS. Grund has executed six mixed media relief prints which include stenciling and hand coloring. The Sabon type and relief prints were editioned by the artist at Presswork Editions. MacEwen's poetry is well served by Grund's imposing relief prints.

Boston: Richardson, Lord & Holbrook, Hartford: H. & F. J. Huntington, 1831. First Edition thus. 8vo; 72pp; rebound in ¼ tan leather with black gilt-stamped label on spine and marbled paper over boards; words and music throughout; text age-toned, large dampstain on first 6 pages, first blank with early scribbling in ink, second blank with owner's name in pencil in a childish hand, "Lizzie Jenkins", about very good. Housed in a brown cloth folding box with gilt-stamped black leather label. This is the first appearance of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" set to music (p. 61). The Juvenile Lyre was edited by Lowell Mason and E. Ives, Jr. (musical educators and hymn-writers). Although the music to "Mary's Lamb" is not the tune familiar to us today, Sarah Josepha Hale's poem is exceedingly familiar. These famous lines first appeared in the periodical The Juvenile Miscellany, Sept.-Oct., 1830; the first edition in a book was in Hale's own collection POEMS FOR OUR CHILDREN, 1830. Johnson, You Know These Lines, pp.… Read More

[Herefordshire, UK: Whittington Press, 2005. Deluxe copy, one of 80 copies, hand numbered in the colophon, from a total issue of 760: 80 copies bound in quarter Oasis leather and paper marbled by Christopher Rowlatt with additional material laid in accompanying portfolio, housed in publisher's slipcase (this copy) and 680 regular copies. Letterpress printed in in Caslon, Poliphuilus and Neo-Didot types and printed by Whittington on Sommerville Laid, Losin hand-madke, Zerkall mould-made and Hahnemuhle Bugra-Butten papers. The Color and tritone plates were printed by CTD Printers. Folio, 198pp, fine. With articles by Gaylord Schanilec, Sebastian Carter, Carolee Campbell, Jerry Kelly among others and an essay by Rosalinde Randle on 25 years of MATRIX.

[Herefordshire, UK: Whittington Press, 2004. One of 720 copies from a total issue of 800 set in Caslon, Poliphuilus and Neo-Didot types and printed by Whittington on Sommerville Laid, Losin hand-madke, Zerkall mould-made and Hahnemuhle Bugra-Butten papers. The Color and tritone plates were printed by CTD Printers. Bound in stiff wrappers (80 copies bound in quarter Oasis and leather and paper marbled by Christopher, wih a portfolio of additional material) by The Fine Bindery. Pink dust jacket printed in blue and green with list of articles and authors, fine. Interesting articles by American book artists Charles Hobson and Jerry Kelly.

Boston: T. R. Marvin, 1846. First Edition. Original black blind stamped cloth boards with binder's title in gilt. Tips and edges of spine chipped, corners bumped and rubbed else very good. Luther Dimmick (1790-1860), clergyman and writer, was born in Shaftsbury, Vermont, graduated from Harvard Divinity School, and served as the pastor of North Church in Newburyport, Massachusetts. As a writer, he focused on religious topics, publishing many of his sermons given at North Church. His published sermons covered a range of topics and themes, from funeral eulogies and reflections on Christian scholarship and daily life to essays on the moral aspects of temperance. Although it too has a religious theme, his MEMOIR OF MRS. CATHARINE M. DIMMICK is a departure from his other work. It was never a sermon, written instead as a spiritual biography of and a memorial to his late wife Catharine Mather Marvin Dimmick (1793-1844). Mrs. Dimmick was born in Norwich, Connecticut into a prominent family with colonial… Read More

New York: Didier, 1942. First Ediiton, one of 1000 copies. Handsomely bound in 1/2 red morocco and marbled boards, spine paneled, title gilt, top edge gilt., original covers bound in. A stirring message of hope in the first dark years of World War II, addressed to the free countries of Europe, many of which were already overrun by the Third Reich.

Monte-Carlo: Aux Editions du Livre, 1949. One of 5000 on grand velin crevecoeur. Bound by LEPRETRE: 3/4 black morocco and paste-paper boards in vertical bands with semi-circular repeat stamped in pink and blue, spine smooth, title gilt, top edge gilt (stamped in front blank: Lepretre), fine. Frontispiece and 23 lithographs hors-texte printed in color after drawings by Albert Dubout, plus 18 lithograhs in black in-texte. Dubout's boisterous humor and the absurd cartoonery of his drawing in strong colors gives zest to this comical satire of the office employee, the bureaucrat and the workaholic. Printed under the direction of Andre Sauret on the presses of l'Imprimerie Central, Lausanne. The lithographs of Dubout printed on the presses of Mourlot Freres in Paris.

Buenos Aires: Ediciones Dos Amigos, 1992. One of 17 copies, the total edition, 15 on cream Richard de Bas paper and 2 on white Richard de Bas paper, all signed by the artist, Mirta Ripoll, the publisher, Samuel Cesar Palui, and the printer, Ruben R. Lapolla on the colophon page. Page size: 15-1/4 inches x 11-1/4 inches; 64pp. Bound: loose in original wrappers as issued with etching by Aida Barballo on the front wrapper, housed in publisher's brown cloth over boards clamshell box with cork paper on front and spine reverse printed with title and author, artists, and publisher's names on front and author's and artists name on spine (author in large type descending down spine), fine. The text is printed in 20pt. Erasmus in a soft brown; the initial letters designed by Mirta Ripoll are in an elegant blue with title of each poem letterpress printed in the same blue; the title page is printed in black as are the dedication, table of contents, and colophon. There are 12 original full-page etchings printed in… Read More

London: The Hogarth Press, 1921. First Edition, one of 1,000 copies. 8vo; 91pp; + one page of ads for other books by The Hogarth Press. Black and white illustration on front panel, white panel on back, brick-colored cloth spine. Some minor rubbing to black and white illustration on front panel, endpapers browned, some offsetting from woodcuts to text page opposite as usual (and even so noted in Kunitz & Haycraft, p. 1549), else fine, housed in brick-colored cloth with brown morocco spine clamshell box. Illustrated with four original woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. Hand set and letterpress printed by McDermott at The Prompt Press, Richmond. A lovely fresh copy. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), English novelist, essayist and critic, married the political theorist Leonard Woolf in 1912, with whom she established the Hogarth Press. MONDAY OR TUESDAY was the first Hogarth Press title to be included in the Annals of English Literature, 1475-1950. It was Woolf's "break out" book and it was noted that with this… Read More

Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1956. First trade edition, handsomely bound in 3/4 dark green morocco and marbled paste-paper boards, spine with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., original powder blue wrappers and backstrip, printed in black and purple, bound in, near fine. llustrated with nine full-page color reproductions of original lithographs by Pierre Mac Orlan.

Paris: Editions Ch. Vandamme, 1955. First edition. Page size: 6-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches; 98pp. Bound: 3/4 green morocco with gilt filets and green marbled paper over boards, author and title in gilt on spine, teg, original buff wrappers printed in black bound in, near fine. llustrated with 23 reproductions, including four double-page, of original black and white photographs by Marcel Amson and 24 reproductions, including six double-page, of photographs by Pierre Jahan, all celebrating the female nude. Page design by Pierre Jahan. The photographs are accompanied by very short quotations from French literature which were chosen by Oberle who also wrote the preface.

Paris: Collections des Arts", G. Cres & Cie, 1927. One of 300 numbered copies on papier de Rives a la forme from a total issue of 350. 4to, bound in half black morocco and paste-paper over boards, original covers bound in, matching chemise and slipcase, fine. Illustrated with 48 etchings by Maurice Asselin.

Philadelphia: E. Ferrett & Co, 1845. First American Edition of this translation, the first book by Sand published in the United States, translated by Elizabeth A. Ashurst and published in London in 1844. 16mo; drab paper over boards, original brown cloth spine, label with title on spine, despite some wear to edges and some foxing, this is a very good copy of this bookPublished in France in 1838 as Spiridion and described as a "mystical hotchpotch" the novel falls into the period when Sand was fascinated by various "isms," including Christian mysticism. . NUC lists only one location: LC. Scarce.

New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 1987. Artist's book, one of 100 copies only, each signed by the artist, Mark Beard, and the translator, Zahra Partovi, all on Moulin de Gue paper. Containing 10 dry-point soft-ground aquatints, the 10 plates connect to form a 10-foot long accordion text / image. Bound: black silk boards, housed in red Japanese paper box. Page size: 10-l/2 x 6-1/2 inches. Printed letterpress by Dan Keleher at the Wild Carrot Press, set by Michael Bixler.

[Sacramento, CA], 2008. Artist's book, one of 4 copies only, each containing a suite of 10 silver gelatin prints, the prints on doubleweight fiber base Bergger developing out paper, as well as a commentary of about 1000 words, printed on Mohawk Superfine paper, both the photographs and commentary by William T. Vollmann. Each print is signed and numbered in pencil on the reverse by the artist / author. The original text written by the author / artist for this portfolio, is printed letterpress, and signed by him on the Colophon. Page size: 16 x 20-1/8 inches (matted photographs) and 8-1/2 x 11 inches (text and captions) totalling 17pp.which includes the titlepage, 10 gelatin prints, colophon, and five pages of captions housed in envelope on inside back over of clamshell box. The titlepage is hand-lettered by Mr. Vollmann. The colophon / artist's statement plus 5 pages of captions, one for each image, are printed letterpress by David Ward of The Applecart Press, Brunswick, Maine. Bound: loose as issued… Read More

New York: Vincent FitzGerald &Co, 2002. First Edition, one of 35 copies only, all on hand-made papers including Magnani, Japanese Gampi and special paper by Dieu Donne Papermill. Signed by the artist, Aleksandar Duravcevic with his initials on the colophon. Page size: 14-1/5 x 9-1/2 inches, 38pp. Bound by Zahra Partovi: hand sewn with exposed spine and stitching covers of brushed stianless steel, with title etched in black on front, housed in heavy felt case, fine. The type was set in Century Schoolbook and printed letterpress by Daniel Keleher's Wild Carrot Letterpress. The 9 etched pages, comprising various flowers, are by Aleksandar Duravcevic and were editioned by D2 Press. Harry Kondoleon, a graduate of Yale Drama School, won an Obie in 1983. His death from AIDS in 1994 left a void in an American theatre but he had, by his death at age 39, created 17 long and short plays as well as poetry. These posthumously published poems, written by the dying Kondoleon, are particularly moving meditations on… Read More