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(New York: Kurt H. Volk, 1944).
Small octavo. ff. (8). Copy no. 201 of "a very limited edition." Signed by typographer Kurt Volk, who designed and produced this little gem. Contains two color illustrations by Volk. The type is set in Freehand, a calligraphic face, with large red initials. Volk retouched the proofs "to give the feeling of calligraphy." The wide floral borders that adorn each page are decorated with green, blue, purple, and orange flowers, and per the colophon, "embellished with pure gold." Bound in full brown cloth bearing elaborate gilt decorations that repeat the border and illustrations inside. A leading mid-century typographer, Volk hand-produced... more information
Price: 100.00 USD
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library, 1943.
8vo. xvi, 91 pp. + 48 pp. containing 66 black and white illustrations. more information
Price: 95.00 USD
Richard Press Art Books
1831 F Street, Suite A
Sacramento, CA 95811
United States
Leicester: Dryad Handicrafts, c. 1950.
Octavo. pp. 15. Dryad Leaflet No. 150. A handy how-to pamphlet with information on mending paper tears, cleaning paper, reinforcing loose sections, rebacking, and other points of book repair. In illustrated wrappers, which are lighly creased and with faint overall foxing on the front cover. more information
Price: 12.00 USD
Akron, Ohio: Emily Davis Gallery, Myers School of Art, Univertsity of Akron, 1998.
4to. 240 pp. Profusely illustrated in black and white. more information
Price: 60.00 USD
Richard Press Art Books
1831 F Street, Suite A
Sacramento, CA 95811
United States
London: George Allen, 1895 -1897.
4to's, 6 volumes bound from parts. 1546 pp. Illustrated by Walter Crane. Engraved head and tail pieces. Elaborately designed title pages. 85 full page black and white plates with elaborate borders. Printed on handmade paper by Charles Whittingham of the Chiswick Press watermarked UNBLEACHED ARNOLD. more information
Price: 2100.00 USD
Richard Press Art Books
1831 F Street, Suite A
Sacramento, CA 95811
United States
Plauen: Verlag von Christian Stoll, 1907.
Folio, 48 x 33 cm. No text. Twenty-four plates printed recto only, color lithographs with a host of images per plate of textile designs made in the Atelier Haebler or by Fritz Herz -- myriad design variations in vibrant colors. Small owner stamp portfolio cover, slight bump to corners, small nicks head of title page, plates very clean and fresh. more information
Price: 2600.00 USD
Leipsig: Gilbers'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Eugen Twietmayer, 1900.
Folio, 44 x 34 cm. Title page with price list on verso. Illustrated title page in Jugendstil style lettering, sixteen full-page chromolithograph plates with multiple images per plate, Art Nouveau designs (Jugendstil) in a host of decorative styles incorporating floral and other plant-inspired motifs, as well as highly-styled curvilinear forms. OCLC lists one copy only. Plate six creased at fore-edge head with foxing in plate margin: image is clean. Balance of plates fresh, clean and bright. more information
Price: 2100.00 USD
London: George G. Harrap, 1936.
256 pages, 27 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 314 of 460 signed by Arthur Rackham. Twelve full-page plates with lettered tissue guards. Introduction by R. Farquharson Sharp, the translator who made a concerted effort to keep as closely to the original's meaning, doing so in unrhymed verse. Plates and text clean and fresh, decorated endpapers, front cover slightly bowed, front cover joint darkened at head. more information
Price: 1500.00 USD
Price: 125.00 USD
Richard Press Art Books
1831 F Street, Suite A
Sacramento, CA 95811
United States
Hamburg: Hoffmann Und Campe, [1922].
4to. 130 pp. Two original etchings signed and numbered by the artist, 1 b/w facsimile letter, 1 folding b/w plate, 1 tipped in b/w plate of Amalie Heine, 1 tipped in b/w plate of Therese Heine. more information
Price: 400.00 USD
Richard Press Art Books
1831 F Street, Suite A
Sacramento, CA 95811
United States
Austin, Texas: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983.
Folio 160 pp. 13 tipped in examples some in the original and some in facsimile. Profusely illustrated in bistre of designs and motifs of Adrian Wilson's work. Frontispiece photograph in black and white of Adrian Wilson. more information
Price: 550.00 USD
Richard Press Art Books
1831 F Street, Suite A
Sacramento, CA 95811
United States
Paris: Aux Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1919.
Unpaginated -- approx. 28 leaves -- each leaf illustrated. 34 x 33 cm. Born Edward Louis Warschawsky Leon, this his first book completed when he was eighteen years old, and the first children's book for the publisher NRF, with pochoir illustrations colored by hand by Jean Saude, and this work considered a milestone in the history of children's book illustration -- the vibrant art deco plates enchanting, and in today's terms, probably considered more an avanat-garde brake-through in the book arts. Calligraphic text. Text block reinforced with tengu-jo tissue, resewn on tapes backed with nishi-kaji paper, few small tears in... more information
Price: 1000.00 USD
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1940.
558 pages. 26 1/2 x 20 cm. Illustrated with lithographs -- full-page and chapter headings -- by Thomas Hart Benton: designed by George Macy. Limited edition, copy 393 of 1146 copes signed by Benton.This work amongst a handful of LEC publications were never part of the regular subscription series, and were produced for limited distribution to friends of the Club; some were issued as commemorative keepsakes and promotional pieces. NEWMAN & WICHE A-13. They also note, many of these [Special Publications] are increasingly elusive and of special interest "to the connoisseur of the literature of the book arts. With "About... more information
Price: 950.00 USD
Easthampton: Cheloniidae Press, 1985.
First printing of this edition. One of 15 deluxe "state proof" copies (this being No. 14) SIGNED by both the artist, Alan James Robinson and the binder, David Kelm on the colophon page. Bound in full alum tawed pigskin with an inset bas relief paper cast illustration to the front board. Illustrated with five drypoint etchings and seven wood engravings. The state proofs for both the etchings and the woodblock engravings are enclosed as is a drawing and an extra suite of prints. Both book and prints are enclosed in a specially designed oatmeal cloth covered fall back box. A... more information
Price: 2280.00 USD
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1992.
Unpaginated, Elephant Folio, 55 x 46 cm. Illustrated with five full-page color lithographs by Elizabeth Catlett. 1992 marked the 50th anniversary of Walker's poem published by the Yale University Press with a Foreword by Stephen Vincent Benet. Both author and illustrator, born in the South during the first twenty years of the 20th century endured the virulent discrimination against Black Americans. Both from well educated middle class families, their lives intersected at the State University of Iowa as roommates studying for a Master in Arts. Two powerful women combine to capture the African-American experience with poetry and visual imagery. Limited... more information
Price: 1775.00 USD
New York: Zucker Art Books, 2008.
First Edition. One of 19 numbered copies (this being No. 8), of which only 15 were offered for sale. The text is excerpted from "Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan" by Lafcadio Hearn (1894), and retells the poignant story of a brother and sister who, unable to pay rent after the death of their parents, are thrown out of their house in the middle of winter without even a blanket. Wrapped in their only remaining belongings, blue kimonos, they huddle together behind their house and become buried in the snow. The spirits of the children haunt the blanket that their landlord stole... more information
Price: 7800.00 USD
NY: Reinhold, 1967.
256 pages. Folio. With a special introduction and explanatory notes by Faber Birren. The text is based on the first English edition of 1854 as translated from the first French edition of 1839, "De La Loi du Contraste Simultane des Coulers." Lavishly illustrated; twenty-eight color plates, including fifteen plates adapted from the original French edition, and a multitude of black and white illustrations. Glossary. Birren shows how many of Chevreul's ideas in color harmony, contrast effects, optical mixtures, and legibility have been validated by modern scientific research. more information
Price: 250.00 USD
Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1895.
56 pages. Small 8vo, 14.5 x 11 cm, printed in Golden type in black and red. Wood-cut title page. This was the only book Morris printed for the American public, and the only Kelmscott book to bear the name of an American publisher. The English and American copies have a slightly different colophon. The shoulder-notes were added by Morris. Way became a personal disciple of Morris, and later visited England to see him at Kelmscott House, where he was told how Morris "wanted to make some nice books, but had no thought of developing such a business as has come... more information
Price: 2000.00 USD
London: R. Ackermann, 1821.
291 pages. 25 1/2 x 17 cm. 18 hand-colored aquatint plates. This, the first separate edition, appearing originally in Ackermann's "Repository of Arts" during the years 1817-1820; the latter containing seventeen plates only -- the extra plate, no.15 is listed in the Directions to the Binder, and as ABBEY LIFE pp.185 -186 notes, "Early impressions of the plates are clear and sharp, and compare well with the magazine issue," as are those in this copy. ABBEY TRAVEL 89. TOOLEY 415. Tall copy, plates generally clean and bright, some plate offsetting; light, occasional age-toning, bookplate, raised bands. more information
Price: 1150.00 USD
