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RACKHAM - ZADKINE
185) RACKHAM, Arthur The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie
Heinemann,
London 1910. Signed by Rackham; deluxe edition of 1,150; 34 tipped-in
color
plates and numberous line drawings; 4to, 160pp; original full stiff
vellum
lettered & decorated in gilt on spine & boards; missing the ties;
covers
soiled; lightly foxed and browning to endpapers, otherwise internally a
very
nice copy. $900
186) REID, James The Son of Songs Farrar & Rinehart,
N.Y.1931.
Woodcuts by James Reid; Bible subjects; 1st edition; narrow 8vo; aging
to
boards and spine otherwise in good condition. $50
187) REYNOLDS, Frank (DICKENS) Mr.Pickwick Hodder &
Stoucghton1919. Illustrations by Frank Reynolds; pages from the
Pickwick
Papers; in good condition; tipped in illustrations. $190
188) REMINGTON, Frederic Crooked Trails Harper & Brothers, N.Y. &
London1899 Second printing(1st was 1898); 151pp; no d/j; soiled and
rubbing
to corners of boards; pictorial boards ; interior in good condition.
$100
189) RIGHI, Federico Ovid "The Art of Love" Ferdinand Roten,
Maryland 1970. Signed deluxe edition; 27 loose lithographs; 25 are in
three
colors; hand made paper from Milano plates:133/4 x171/2"; one plate is
signed
and also signed on title page; #47 of the150 edition; pictured paper
wraps;
rubbing to extremities; otherwise in excellent condition.
$650
190) RITCHIE, Ward A Bowl of Quince Santa Susana
Press,
CA 1977 Signed by Ward Ritchie and the artist Irving Block in the
colophon;
with one loose color plate in light blue 6 x7.5" signed by Irving
Block; 5
are full page in gold & white, text and small vingettes; 21pp, thin
8vo;
edition of 199, printed on Curtis Rag paper; blue cloth boards with
pictorial
embossed boards with title in gold lettering on front board; a little
rubbing to corners otherwise in good condition. $150
191)RIVERS, Larry Art and the Artist Marlborough Gallery,
N.Y.
1993 Signed by Larry Rivers on title page; 43 colored plates of the
paintings exhibited at Marlborough Gallery March 3-27, 1993, many are
full
page; forward by John Ashbery; 64pp, 9 3/4"x11 3/4"; pictorial paper
covers;
as new $50
192) RIVIERE, Henri Farfadets A. Quantin, Paris 1886.
Plates are by Henri Riviere; text in French and by A. Melandri;
profusily
illustrated, six double page plates that are not attached to spine
accept
from back of each plate; beautiful pictorial plates with text; each
plate
colored in reddish, blue, or brown ink; 36pp, 8x10"; pictured boards
have
lots of rubbing and aging; new spine; browning to paper; plates are in
fine
condition considering the typical aging of smooth paper used at the
time; a
lovely Bonnardish mixture of text and pictures.
$400
193) ROBINSON, Alan James (POE, Edgar Allan) Black Cat Cheloniidae
Press,
Mass. 1984. Wood engravings (11) by Alan James Robinson; printed by
Harold McGrath; #127 of the 250 copies; signed by artist; black
hand-made
paper wrappers; with prospectus; in excellent condition. $400
194) ROBINSON, Alan James (POE) The Raven Cheloniidae Press,
Mass
1986. A Deluxe edition of Edgar Allan Poe, 50 copies with an
additional
suite of all prints (each signed) in a chemise in a tray-case bound in
quater-leather by C. Cohen, 91/2 x 61/2"; prospectus and a hand signed
letter
by Robinson enclosed. $575
195) ROBINSON, Alan James (LAWRENCE) Tortoises Cheloniidae
Press,
Mass. 1983. Signed by Robinson and the printer Harold McGrath; text by
D.H.
Lawrence with 6 of his poems, 8 wood engravings; 64 pp, in an edition of
200;
quarter vellum binding and tan paper over boards by Parrot. $325
196) ROBINSON, Alan James (TWAIN) The Jumping Frog
Cheloniidae
Press, Easthampton1985. Alan James Robinson illustrated the book with 15
wood
engraving; 81/2x51/2; 64 pp; hand sown into illustrated olive wrappers;
limited to 325 ( this #114) signed by the printer Harold McGrath and
artist;
as new. $225
197) ROESCH, Kurt Love Poems Golden Eagle Press, M. Vernon,
N.Y.
1948. Ten drawing in blue by Kurt Roesch; 1st edition; poems by the
17th
century British poet Richard Lovelace ( covering his famous poems
LUCASTA ET
CETERA ); limited to 1,960 copies; small book 5x9", 23pp; embossed
picture on
front boards, tan paper cover hard boards; on Enfield paper, in good
condition; a beautiful book with Roesch's drawings. $350
198) ROSENTHAL, Mark Artists at Gemini G.E.L. Abrams, N.Y. 1992.
Twenty-fifth anniversary issue of the work produced by the Los Angeles
press. Signed by seven of the fifteen artist represented in the book
and the
photographer Sidney Felsen on Nov 16, 1993 at a book signing. Artist
that
signed: Rauschenberg, Ellsworth Kelly, Malcolm Morley, Jasper Johns,
Mark di
Suvero, Jonathan Borofsky and Lichtenstein. In excellent condition..
$450
199) ROTHENSTEIN, Will Six Portraits of Sir R. Tagore MacMillan &
Co.,
London 1915. Inscribed by Rothenstein to Lennox Robinson on front end
paper;
six 11x15" pictures of Tagore; prefactory note by Max Beerbohm; rubbing
to
tan cloth spine & corners; browning to paper boards; mylar jacket; in
good
condition. $400
200) ROTHENSTEIN, Will Oxford Characters R.H. Russell &
Son,
N.Y. 1896 Twenty -four lithographs in b&w; # 37 of 50 for America
signed by
R.H. Russell ( total 200 for England & America); with text by F.Y.
Powell &
others; 12x18"; some foxing to endpapers; rubbing to edges & browning to
tan
cloth boards otherwise in good condition. $500
201) ROUAULT, George. La Politique Coloniale Du Pere Ubu.
Georges Cres , Paris & Zurich. 1919. With a b&w woodcut on
the
cover and the frontispiece; copyright by Ambroise Vollard; 29pp, paper
wrappers, small vol. 6'x9.5" ; 2 nd Edition written on top of front
paper
board. $150
202) ROUAULT, George. Carnets De Gilbert. NRF, Paris 1931.
Text by
Marcel Arland; Rouault did one original lithograph, signed in ink in the
margin (frontispiece), & 8 original soft ground etchings (5 full-page in
color); small 4to, 59 (7) pp.; original boards ; this is #132 of 180
numbered
copies on velin D'Arches, from a 260 copies in all; original spine,
lettering, and paper boards in tacked with a small repair to spine;
entire
book in excellent condition.
"The single black lithograph and the etching on the title-page
demonstrates
Rouault's mastery of black as a positive color value"(The Artist and the
Book
269); The full-page color etchings are especially lush. Skira 314; Rauch
151,; Stern 98; Wheeler p. 109 $3,000
203) ROWLANDSON, Thomas Medical Caricatures Medicina Rara,
N.Y.
1971. Foreword by Morris H. Saffron; 12 color reproductions; folio,
text and
plates (each matted) loose in cloth folding case, as issued; limited
edition
LXXII of 300 Roman numbered copies with a double suite of plates of a
total
edition of 2800 $200
204) SAMARAS, Lucas Samaras Album Whitney & Pace Ed., N.Y.1971
First
edition; hundreds of reproductions of "autopolaroids", many in color;
4to. 12
x 9 1/2 printed cloth; 104 pp.; edition of 2,000; mint condition.
$400
205) SENDAK, Maurice Outside Over There Harper & Row,
N.Y.
1981 Signed by the author on bookplate; oblong quarto; few small tears
to
edges of dust wrapper; red cloth boards & interior in excellent
condition.
$100
206) SHAKESPEARE Complete Series of Plays Limited Editions
Club
1939 All of the Shakespeares plays produced by Bruce Rogers with the
most
renowned artist of the time; conditions vary but each are sold
individually;
price vary according to condition and the artist.
$20-
$100
207) SMITH, F. Hopkinson American Illustrators C. Schribner,
N.Y.
1892. Nine plates of the originally 15; large loose folio; 68 pp of
text by
F. H. Smith; artists: color plates -Reinhart, A.B. Frost, Smedley, C. D.
Gibson, W.H. Low, K. Cox, Zogbaum, Kingsley and a Heliotype by Winslow
Homer.
$900
208) SOLOMON, Bernard A. Zaddick Christ (Suite of Wood Engravings) Attic
Press, South Carolina 1973. Deluxe edition signed by the artist; #77 of
a
1,000 edition; text opposite 18 full page b&w wood engravings
-10x131/4";
white cloth spine and blue cloth boards in good condition; pictured
parchment
wrappers have lots of tears and about 1/4 of back wrapper is gone;
interior
is excellent condition. $250
209) STEINBECK, John Red Pony Viking Press, N.Y. 1945 First
illustrated edition by Wesley Dennis; 131 pp; original tan coarse clothe
boards; a very small tear to top of spine; original pictured slip case
corners have tears and spotting; boards and interior in very good
condition.
$50
210) STRAND, Mark The Famous Scene Logan Elm Press & Papermill,
Ohio1988.
This folio is one of a continuing series of keepsakes produced at the
Press,
each of which contains a short text and a portrait of the author;
frontispiece is a signed four-color woodcut by Sidney Chafetz; ed. of
100
signed by author and artist; paper of cotton, linen and abaca fibers.
$125
211) THIEBAUD, Wayne Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove: A preliminary
report,
1865 Yosemite Association, CA 1993 First Edition. xx, 33pp;5
1/4x9
1/4''. Gray paper covers boards with an olive cloth spine. One of 100
copies
(this is #92) signed by Wayne Thiebaud and Victoria Post Ranney (Ass.
Editor). Thiebaud did 3 (one in gray, black & orange) drawings
reproduced
especially for this book. $475
212) TREMBECKI, Stanislas Sophiowka, Poeme Polonais Anton
Strauss, Vienna 1815. Six beautiful aquatint plates printed in
sanguine;
stipple-engraved portrait of the translator, the Come de Lagarde; Polish
text, followed by French translation and commentary; 4to, contemporary
1/2
calf, loose in binding; scattered foxing and minor stains; old stamps on
title otherwise in good condition. $475
213) VAN DORN, Marion Vathek Nonesuch Press; England.1929.
Illustrated by Marion V. Dorn; text by William Beckford; Curwen Press;
edition of 1050 ( this is #226); wear to edges and spine is missing
letters;
body in good condition. $75
214) WALTON, Izaak (GORSLINE) Compleat Angler Limited
Editions
Club, N.Y. 1948 Illustrated & signed by Douglas W. Gorsline; 316pp,
paper
covers hard boards; no dj, with prospectus; spine is browned & cracked
from
sun, interior in good condition. $60
215) WARNE Picture Natural History - Fish, Insects & Reptiles.
Frederiack Warne, London 1890c. Printed in Kronheim's oil colorers
(225
plates)128pp; small brown cloth pictured boards 41/2 x 6"; National
Nursery
Library edition; tears, browning & foxing to pages; the plates are still
beautifully colored and worth seeing. A lovely bookplates inscribed as
follows: Moulin School Board. Awarded to (written in hand) Helen Ann
Finlay,
For Deiligience & Progress . During session 1891-92. (Signed in hand )
Alex
Robertson. Head Master. 30th June, 1892 $50
216) WATTS, Isaac Divine and Moral Songs Hurd & Houghton, N.Y.
1866
Over 100 engravings, many full pages ( with poetry on the plates) &
vignettes; some of the artist that contributed original work: Kennedy,
W.J.
Allen, W. Small, Hugh Cameron, T. Kennedy; small ocatavo; 116 pps;
beautiful
lettering & vignette stenciling on full tan leather boards; raised bands
on
nicely repaired spine; few marks on end papers otherwise in good
condition.
$300
217) WEBB, Clifford Ana The Runner The Golden Cockerel Press 1937.
Engraving by Clifford Webb; inscribed by the author Patrick Miller "via
Maggie to Enid, Remembering your que deune in New York. Christmas:1938";
this
is the unlimited edition; jacket has some tears; boards and spine have
normal
aging. $100
218) WEBER, Max Max Weber Downtown Gallery, N.Y. 1930 Text
by
Loger Cahill; #95 of a 250 edition; a signed frontispiece lithograph by
Weber; 32 reproductions; med. folio; dark brown cloth boards has a small
rub
across it; spine ends rubbed; tissue guards; book in good condition.
$700
219) WEBER, Max Max Weber Exhibition New Art Circle,
N.Y.
1927 Inscribed by Weber on front of catalogue- "With compliments and
best
wishes from your friend- Max Weber"; 16pp, 13 b&w plates, 8vo; pictured
paper
wrappers, some rubbing to front & back wrappers otherwise in good
condition
$100
220) WEGENER, Gerda & Eric ALLATINI Contes de Mon Pere Le Jars
Lucien de Matteis of Paris 1919.Illustrated by Gerda Wegener;
limited to
650 ( this copy is #197); beautiful tipped in plates; with leather spine
and
corners in good condition. $225
221) WEHR, Julian (LAURENT, Lise) Blanche Neige (Snow White) J.
Barbe Editeur; Lyon, Paris 1948 Illustrated by Julian Wehr; text by Lise
Laurent in French; five of the colored illustration have moving parts
with a
sliding handle; parts of dust jacket have small tears on back otherwise
book
is in good condition. $90
222) WELLS, Margaret Wood Engravings Fleece Press, West
Yorkshire
1985 Fifteen b&w wood engravings by Wells; 200 copies on dampened
Arches
paper by Simon Lawrence; 7"x11", 15 pp; yellow cloth boards and spine;
no
d/j; small wood engraved label on front boards; paper lettering label on
spine; mint condition. $100
223) WEST, Michael ( E. PAUL ) Clair De Lune Brentano's,
New
York
1918. Illustrated by Evelyn Paul; published around 1918 by Cheylesmore
press;
academic rebinding in brown ; colored laid in plates; body of book in
good
condition. $125
224) WHISTLER, James A.M. Swan and Iris Fine Art Society,
London
1883. An original etching (paper size 7 x 9"- image size 4X7") by
Whistler
with full margins bound into CEIL LAWSON A MEMOIR by Edmund Gosse;
(K.241) 2
large etchings by H. Herkomer (14X18") & tipped in woodcuts by Lawson
within
the text; large folio 15X19"; cover boards are scuffed, soiled &
stained;
interior in good condition. $1,000
225) WILSON, Edward Full and by Being Doubleday & Page, N.Y.
1925
First edition; #58 of a 200 edition;154 pp.; one colored fold out page
is
signed by Wilson; most of the full pp. are in color in this deluxe issue
on
rag wove paper; also signed by Don Marquis, Christ. Morley, Cameron
Rogers, &
E. Wilson in colophon.; in original repaired box; 1/4 of spine is
missing &
repaired; interior is in good condition. $500
226) WILSON, Joyce Lancaster The Ark of Noah Tuscany Alley, S.F.
1975
Signed by the artist and writer Joyce L. Wilson; hand bound with paper
wrappers in a 300 edition; printed by Adrian Wilson; 10 colored wood
engraving inspired by the 15th century woodcuts, 6 of which are full
page;
10" x 12.5", 9 pages of text; with prospectus; in excellent condition.
$50
227) WILSON, Claggett War Paintings of Claggett Wilson J.H.
Sears &
Co., N.Y. 1928. Twenty-four brightly colored plates (12 1/4 x10 1/2")
printed in France; 1st edition; appreciations by H. McBride Alex.
Woollcott; actual size of tan cloth boards and pages 16x141/2"; rubbing
to
extremities. & endpps.; all plates are in excellent condition except one
that
has corners torn; disturbing & haunting images of W War I; a very
scarce
book.
Preface by Alexander Woolcotts and Henry McBride. Wilson was a young
instructor in painting at Columbia University during 1917. As a French
interpreter during the War he was in the trenches and painted these for
the
war Dept. and exhibited his work in Europe and America.
$1,500
228) WYANT, Alexander H. (Clark) Sixty Paintings by A. H. Wyant
Privately Printed, N.Y. 1920 Desribed by Eliot Clark for the AMERICAN
ARTIST
SERIES; 145pp, 7.5"x10.5"; limited to 250 copies on Dutch hand-made
paper;
printed by Frederiv Fiarchild Sherman; 60 b&w plates with tissue guards;
brown cloth spine with brown paper over boards; some rubbing to edges of
boards and spine otherwise in good condition. $100
229) WYETH, N.C. (STEVENSON) Treasure Island Charles Scribner's
Sons, N.Y. 1911 Published Sept. 1911; illustrated by N.C. Wyeth; small
rubbing to corners of cloth boards; pictorial label on front board and
interior in good condition. $175
230) ZADKINE, Ossip. Lespuge. Chez Marcel Sautier, Paris. 1966.
Signed
by both the poet Robert Ganzo and artist Ossip Zadkine; edited by
Marcel
Sautier (Strachan 218); illustrated with 6 original etchings by
Zadkine;
small folio, 76pp; limited to 200, with this one of 175 on Grand Papier
d'Auvergne; original wrappers, loose as issued in publisher's wrappers &
slipcase.
In this interesting book Zadkine has been able to achieve the feeling
of
monumentality despite the small scale demanded by the page. The artist
is one
of many sculptors who has adapted beautifully to illustrating books.
$1,000
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