F/s ILLUSTRATED & PRIVATE PRESS BOOKS A-W
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email your interest or write to Dan Redmon, P.O. Box 72, New York, N.Y.
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for each addition.
ALEXIEFF, Alexandre (SOUPAULT)-
Message De L'ile Deserte -
A.A. M. Stols, France 1947 -
Original frontispiece by Alexandre Alexieff and drawn by Edmond Rigal;
poem by Philippe Soupault; limited to 625 copies; "Compose en caracteres
Romanee", on Hollande Van Gelder paper; 26pp; tan cloth boards; some
tears to original dust jacket; in good condition $100
DALI, Slavador -
Salvador Dali -
Museum of Modern Art, N.Y. 1968 -
Boldly signed by Dali on title page; text by James Thrall Soby; 12,000
copies of this 2nd edition; 108 pp; offset printing process; in this
edition all the plates are in b&w ( there were 4 colored in 1st ed.); tan
cloth boards. $175
DE PALENCIA, Isabel -
Regional Costumes of Spain -
Voluntad, Madrid 1926-
Over b&w 241 plates of the earliest of Spainish costumes; text in
English; Index in the middle of the book; cloth boards with black
lettering; some bends to corners and spine; smooth paper; signed by Alice
Clark and Eric Myers of Santa Fe; a scarce book; in good condition. $150
DE POL, John -
Ascent of Mount Ventoux -
Petrarch Press, N.Y. 1989-
Signed by John De Pol who created one original wood engraving ( 6.5"x
9.5")for this book; this is #53 printed on Penshurst paper of a 180
copies; Petrarch describes in a letter to a friend his climb in 1336 of
Mount Ventoux in France; blue linen over boards with paper label title on
spine; in mint condition. $100
DE POL, John (HERBERT HOOVER) -
A Boyhood In Iowa -
Yellow Barn Press, Iowa 1986-
Wood engravings by John DePol; text by Herbert Hoover, forward by Will
Irwin; first illustrated edition (1931 first edition); 34pp; limited to
125 copies; pattern paper for the covers with cloth spine; small book,
with two ERRATAS; no d/j as issued, in good condition. $75
DE POL, John (SHEWRING) -
Late Verses and Earlier -
Yellow Barn Press, Iowa 1988-
Wood engravings by John DePol; poetry by Walter Shewring; 27pp; 150
copies; Curwen Press printed the "Harlequin"pattern paper used on teh
cover; cloth spine with lettered paper label; mint condition. $75
DE POL, John (Mott)
Old Printing Office -
Yellow Barn Press, Iowa 1985-
Wood engravings by John DePol; text by Frank Luther Mott; designed and
printed by Neil Shaver; limited to 125; 13pp; small book with cloth spine
and patterned paper over front board; back is plaine; no d/j as issued;
good condition $75
ELSTED, Crispin -
Utile Dulci: Barbarian Press 1977-1987 -
Barbarian Press, British Canada 1988 -
First Decade at Barbarian Press, 1977-1987. A History & Bibliography;
quarter cloth & De Pol patterned paperboards, 8vo, 64 pp; tipped-in
illustrations; limited to150 copies; in mint condition. $65
FLAGG, James Montgomery (Browne)-
A Liberty Loan Primer-
Liaberty Loan Committee, USA 1918-
With 20 b&w plates by James M. Flagg; with text by Porter Emerson Browne;
published by the Second Federal Reserve District to raise Liberty Bonds;
a fascinating look at Flagg's satirical cartoons; small paper back
booklet, 9x6", 40pp; browning, tears, and aging to brittle paper, but
plates and text OK. $40
FLINT, W.S (W.S. GILBERT)-
Yeomen of the Guard -
MacMillian & Co., London 1929-
Illustrated by W. S. Flink with 8 colored plates; drawings reproduced
from pen and ink drawings by Charles E. Brock; 1st ed. by Flink; 102pp;
no d/j; original gold stencling on red cloth boards in good condition;
small dent in back board and the few pages in back; plates and book in
good condition. $125
GIBBINGS, Robert -
A Portrait of Lady Hester-
Libanus Press, Marlborough Wiltshire 1987-
First time book has been produced as a whole with the type specimen using
Eothen as text; first produced in 1948 with 3 plates missing; limited
edition of 300; 31pp; oblong small book; black cloth spine and decorative
paper over boards; in mint condition. $80
KUPER, Mary-
Book of the Prophet Ezekiel -
Plantin Press Albion, L. A. 1972-
One large wood engraving (6'x 6") by Mary Kuper; printed in collaboration
of Saul Marks; 6 pages of text; 10"x13"; 26 copies printed in Berthold
Wolpe's Pagasus type; hand made paper with paperwrappers; in excellent
condition. $75
LANDACRE, Paul (RITCHIE)-
Some Books With Illustrations -
Santa Susana Press, CA 1978-
Compiled & designed by Ward Ritchie; 199 copies; 32pp; 18 reproduced b&w
engravings from Landacre's books; signed by Ritchie (this is author's
copy), Grant Dahlstrom - the printer, and norman Tanis - Direvtor of
University Libraries of CA State; gold pictorial cloth boards; no d/j.
$100
LASA, Jacinto -
IV Cenenario de La Imprenta En Mexico -
Asociacion de Libreros de Mexico 1939 -
Mexican books from 1539 to 1939; numerous illustrations of the books in
b&w and red, many are fold-out; text in Spainish; 611pp; limited to 700;
lots of nicks and rubbing to leather boards and gold-lettered spine;
interior in good condition. $100
LICHTENSTEIN, Roy (C.W. Glenn)-
Ceramic Sculpture -
Art Galleries, CSU, Long Beach 1977 -
Text by Constance W. Glenn, a conversation with Lichtenstein; inscribed by
Lichtenstein... "To Richard, Lichtenstein"; 63pp, numberous b&w photos
with 21 one in color; paper wrappers; catalogue of multiples sculpture,
maquettes, unfinished ceramic works; rubbing to wrapper, otherwise in good
condition. $100
LINDER, Richard (HOFFMANN)-
Tales of Hoffmann-
A.A. Wyn, N.Y. 1946-
An early work by Richard Linder; illustrated with 12 full pages in four
colors and sixteen in b & w b; edited by Christopher Lazare; 509pp, 7x10";
illustrations were reproduced by lithography by Duenewald Printing Corp.;
original purple cloth boards; rubbing to dustjacket with a small repaired
tear near spine; plates and pages in good condition. $300
MACGEGORY, Miriam (R.P. LISTER) -
Allotments -
Whittington Press, England 1985 -
Wood engravings by MacGegory; text & poems by R.P. Lister; signed by
author and artist in and edition of 335; 39 b&w engraving of which 3
full page; quarter-bound in buckram with printed paper sides; slipcase; in
mint condition. $125
MACGREGOR, Miriam-
Aspects of a Cotswold Village -
Whittington Press, England 1991-
With 34 b & w wood-engravings by Miriam MacGregor; a colored
frontispiece; text by artist; this is # 133 of a 350 edition signed by the
artist; Zerkall mould-made paper; 300 copies are bound in a paper wrapper
fold- out in color designed by the artist; cloth spine and hand made
paper over boards; with a wrap around paper clipcase; a lovely production
by the Whittington Press; in mint condition. $125
MARSH, Reginald (DREISER)-
Sister Carrie-
Limited Editions Club, N. Y. 1939-
Illustrated and signed by Reginald Marsh; text by Theodore Dreiser;
printed by the Spiral Press of N.Y.; no# 1037 of a 1,500 ed.; heavy tan
spine and dark brown boards; with s/case; small rub mark on front board
otherwise all in good condition. $150
MASEREEL, Frans-
Making of a Book at the Officina Bodoni-
Officina Bodoni, Verona 1973 -
Woodcuts by Masereel reissued to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the
Officina Bodoni Press; 300 copies; 12 full page b&w plates; first edition
was in 1929; stiff paper wrappers; issued in slipcase with red heavy cloth
over boards; 34pp; tall, 8 vo.; in mint condition. $150
MASEREEL, Frans (V. Hugo) -
Notre-Dame de Paris-
Limited Editions Club 1930-
Illustrated & signed by Masereel; translated by Jessie Baynes; printed by
R. Coulouma in Paris; 2 vols; 1,500 ed.; quarto; paper wraps; slipcase
cracking at edges with tape repair. $175
MASEREEL, Frans (V. Hugo) -
Notre-Dame de Paris -
Limited Editions Club 1930-
ANOTHER COPY; ollustrated & signed by Masereel; translated by Jessie
Baynes; printed by R. Coulouma in Paris; 2 vols; 1,500 ed.; quarto; paper
wraps; no s/c. $175
MUNNINGS, Sir Alfred -
An Artist's Life -
Theodore Brun, London 1950-
Limited to 250 copies; with 140 b & w illustrations by the author;
328pp; rubbing and tears to this deluxe red leather binding by G.A. Cramp
& Sons. $150
MURPHY, J. Francis (E. CLARK) -
J. Francis Murphy --
Privatedly Printed, N.Y. 1926 From the American Artists Series; text by
Eliot Clark; printed by Frederic F. Sherman; edition of 250; 63pp; with
descriptions on tissue guards; on Dutch handmade paper; dark cloth
boards with a leafage pattern with "Famous Artists" lettering on front
board. $150
NASH, John (EDWIN MARKHAM)-
The Man With The Hoe -
Book Club of California, S. F. 1916-
Printed by John Nash; portrait and decoration by Ray F. Coyle; this
special edition was published with Markham permission for the Club (1st
ed. 1899); 300 edition; with correction insert to be made in the Club's
edition by Markham; thin book; cloth spine and hand made paper over boards
in good condition. With a special photo reproduction of Millet's "The Man
with the Hoe" by Gabriel Moulin; the folded hand made paper around photo
is bent. $150
PHIZ (SMEDLEY) -
Lewis Arudndel or Railroad of Life -
George Routledge & Sons, London -
With 42 hand-colored illustrations by Phiz; reddish brown cloth boards
and spine; browning and a few tears to spine with a small rip over the
publisher's name at bottom of spine; a few small bends to edges of boards;
browning to the endpapers otherwise the interior is in very good
condition. $150
POWELL, Ace ( J.M. MOYNAHAN) -
Big Sky Art of Ace Powell -
Private 1971-
With an original watercolor of an American Indian tent and blue sky
(3x4"); signed by Powell and the author J.M. Moynahan; limited to 150
copies; 10 pp text; cloth boards and spine; 44 b&w reproductions of
Poweel's sculpture and paintings, 5 b&w photos of Powell; 102 pp. $200
PYLE, Howard (JOHNSON)-
Book of Pirates -
Harper Bros., N.Y. 1921-
Compiled & signed by Merle Johnson; special deluxe printed on Japan
Vellum, 50 copies; profusely illus. with 36 mounted plated + text illus.
designed by Howard Pyle; first edition, with the publisher's code "D-V"
below copyright notice; small folio, xvii[i] 247 pp untrimmed; soiled,
rubbing, & scares to original grey lettered boards & edges; scares to
coloured pictorial label centered on front board; small tears & soiling
to white linen spine gilt-stamped; water marks at the top of about the
first 33 pages- but not touching the plates; browning to the endpps.
With a full page colored ink drawing after front endpaper of a pirate
ship; a captain throwing a "mate" off the ship to a small island; a monkey
in palm tree and quote above ..."oldest inhabitant"; a shark in the water
with a quote above..."ill git im when he tries to swim off", & dated Feb
2, '26 and signed Merle Johnson. $500
REMINGTON, Frederic -
Crooked Trails -
Harper & Brothers, N.Y. & London 1899-
Second printing(1st was 1898); 151pp; no d/j; soiled and rubbing to
corners of boards; pictorial boards ; interior in good condition. $100
SOMERVILLE, E. OE & M. ROSS -
Some Experiences of An Irish R.M. -
Derrydale Press, N.Y. 1927 -
Signed by the author in vol. 1 of this 7 vols.; number #54 of the 500
sets; Hitchcock Edition; photographs and profusely illustrated by the
author; forword by Harry W. Smith; black leather labels on spine; all the
green cloth boards have pigment pulling from touching otherwise in good
condition; emboised gold pictorial picture on front boards; in good
condition. $300
SOUTHERN PINE ASST.-
Homes For Workmen -
Southern Pine Ass., New Orleans 1919-
A presentation of leading examples of Industrial Community Develpment of
the late 1919s; numberous photos, floor plans and drawings of homes;
250pp.; 9x12"; describes were to build in different develpments in a
number of U.S. states, discussions of methods of constrution, best house
for the small wage earner of the period, planning and financing ;
embosied lettering and pictorial paper hard boards and cloth spine; some
rubbing to corners and boards; "The purpose of this publication is to
present certain general and specific facts concerning industrial housing
which may be of value in directing those interested in arriving at correct
conclusions as to how best to solve this problem in their own
communities." $150
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
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
WOMEN'S BIBLE SCHOOL-
Temple Hill Cut-Outs -
Presbyterian Mission, Chefdd China - Date unknown but Contemporary- Eight
cut-outs by the Temple Hill Mission of China; b&w silhouette cut-outs of
figures of humans, animals, plants, and landscapes laid on handmade paper,
with descriptive story tissue-guards; a beautiful colored fabric landscape
design of a China village for the back and front boards, 9"x7"; with a
description of steps in making the stencil patterns inserted; green cloth
covered slipcase; exellent condition. $90
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
WYETH, N.C.-
Robin Hood -
David McKay, Phila. 1917-
Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth; 362pp; rubbing to boards; a lovely inscription
on front endpaper..."Son. someday we shall visit Sherwood Forest together
and see where Robin Hood lived - Daddy ..... Christmas 1949" $25
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