Search Results: Titles starting with U from W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera

Paris: Les Cent-Une : Société de Femmes Bibliophiles, 1961. Folio. [2],140,[3] pp. including 10 original etchings by André Masson: 9 double-page aquatints in colors and one single-page aquatint printed 9 times, each in a different tint and section heading. Signed by the artist and by the president and vice president of the Société de Femmes Bibliophiles. Loose signatures in original printed wrappers, portfolio (maroon cloth and paper over boards, silver spine title), and clamshell case (blue cloth, printed paper spine label, colored patterned endpapers). Light toning at edges of wrappers, minor stains (not exceeding 1/4 inch) at foot of front wrapper panel, portfolio lightly scuffed, case lightly rubbed. Internally near fine, untrimmed. The twenty-first book published by the elite international society of women bibliophiles, Les Cent-Une, printed in 140 copies on large Rives paper, numbered I-CI for members of the society and 1-39 for collaborators in the project. This is copy VIII, printed for… Read More

New York: Hand set & printed by Michael Martin & Conrad Skalba at Uranian Press, 1960. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Tyler, Richard. 1959-1960. Bifolium, 12 inches. [4] pp., with 4 inserted leaves (2 broadsides, and 2 leaves, printed recto and verso, of contemporary xerographic reproductions of three articles from LIFE magazine and THE VILLAGE VOICE), as issued. Printed in black on brown paper, illustration on first page, logo on last. Wrinkled, especially at upper and lower edges, inserts worn and light chipped at outer edges. Very good. The brief first and only known catalogue of the Uranian Press, printed two years after its founding by the visionary artist Richard Oviet Tyler in the basement of a tenement on the Lower East Side. Under the Uranian imprint, Tyler, his wife, Dorothea Baer, and friends and apprentices produced chapbooks, broadsides, and artist's books through the mid-1960s; later, they would produce photocopied flyers and zines as the Uranian Tract Society and Uranian… Read More