Les Fleurs du Mal by Labisse, Félix - Baudelaire, Charles - 1975

Guenrouet, France: Pre Nian Editions, 2005. First Edition. Loose Sheets. Near Fine/No. Attractive poet / artist book collaboration between Ferlinghetti and Bracaval. Translation provided by Eve Lerner. Loose leaves laid into wrapper and issued in a hand-made box designed by Jeanne Frere. Measures 37 x 39 cm. The edition was limited to only 35 copies plus 10 A. C., numbered and SIGNED by both the poet and the artist. A fine, as-new copy. Destined to be a real "stopper" for Ferlinghetti collectors. The delicate paper label on the front panel of the box has a tear, else this item is in fine condition.

Paris: Les Pas Perdus, 1951. Paperback. Very Good +. Picasso. References: Cramer 61, Bloch 690, Baer 889A Softcover Folio, sewn into original printed wrappers with tissue wrappers, as issued. The book is illustrated with halftone reproductions after collages by Valentine Penrose plus an original etching by Pablo Picasso. This is number 249 of 350 copies, sur Velin which includes the Picasso etching with the 2 bars, the cancellation mark. This etching shows the cancellation bars on the right upper corner, and is numbered 249/350 in pencil. Pablo Picasso especially made the etching for the book and is titled 'The Couple'. The full etching sheet measures approximately 13 inches X 10 inches. The actual etching plate measures approximately 6 5/8 X 8 1/2 inches. Sometimes the etching and the book become separated; rare to begin with, it is even more rare to find the etching and book still being offered together.The softcover book is in very good condition, with clean white pages. The first 2 pages,… Read More

Purchase, NY: Ear / Say, 1987.. [462]pp. Thick oblong octavo. Woven decorative cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label, ribbon tie. Illustrated in color throughout. Minute trace of rubbing to lower fore-tips, otherwise fine. First edition. With illustrative matter based on art weavings by Sandra Brownlee-Ramsdale, and with chants and stories by Dennis Bernstein. Copy #2 of fifteen numbered copies, specially bound with an original woven spine, signed by Lehrer, and with a swatch of weaving depicting an animal tipped to the front pastedown. There was also a trade issue of 635 ordinary copies in wrappers. "An extended visual fugue based on the long-forgotten but important [imaginary] animals of the earth ... this volume attempts to document the evolutionary and social patterns of these mytho-hysterical creatures." The book was printed via offset in a manner that "allowed for experimentation with translucent, opaque, and iridescent inks, split fountains, overprinting techniques and multiple plate… Read More

London: J. M. Dent, 1893. First edition, limited to 1,500 copies. Volume One only (Includes Books 1-9 as published), in extremely rare dust jacket. Published London: J. M. Dent, 1893. 4to., 8 1/2" x 10", lxiv + 455 pages, illustrated with full page plates, vignettes, borders, in-text decorations and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley's first major commission and a landmark of great illustrated books. Beardsley juxtaposed various traditional and contemporary styles with his own, and laid them down, side-by-side throughout the book. From elaborate and formal William Morris design elements to shocking eroticism and striking decadence - as in the case of the frontispiece plate of Arthur. Cream linen cloth with elaborate gilt design and fancy titles. Top edge gilting, 3-color ribbon marker bound in. Slight foxing to the cloth, endpapers toned along the perimeters, some wrinkling to the tissue guard at frontis, else very good, attractive; binding square and tight in a rare dust… Read More

New Jersey : Emanon Press & WSW. A clean, crisp, limited (50) edition dedicated the German artist Kurt Schwitters. Fine condition; pop-up format on handmade, BFK Rives Printmaking paper. In a fine clam-shell box. SIGNED by both Weier and Rothenberg. NOTE: Oversize volume; no priority or overseas Amazon orders. . Fine. Hardcover. 1985.

Pfullingen, Günther Neske, 1959). . Nr. 133 von 300 Exemplaren der Normalausgabe (GA: 333), im Druckvermerk von Hans Arp SIGNIERT. - Erste Ausgabe (WG 2, 28). - Der deutsch-französische Maler, Bildhauer u. Lyriker Hans (Peter Wilhelm) Arp (auch: Jean Arp, 1886-1966) gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Vertreter des Dadaismus u. Surrealismus. - Rücken schwach gebräunt; sonst gutes, sauberes Exemplar

London & New York: Clover Hilll Editions & Chilmark Press, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good +. Anthony Gross. (Ref: Herdman 7008) 4to, small folio. Two Volumes contained in a slip case, Limited edition, number 67 of 135 copies. The book is illustrated with 8 etchings by Anthony Gross, with another set of the eight etchings, all signed, printed on hand made paper, housed in a box, loose as issued . Both folios are bound in buff cloth with brown morocco spines and lettered in gilt. There is a slight circular indentation on the last blank leaf to the book, the odd brown fox mark, otherwise a very good copy.

Gainesville, Florida:: Crooked Letter Press,, 2021.. Edition of 40. Dimensions closed: 11” x 6.5” x 1.5”. Materials: colorplan 300 gsm paper, letterpress ink, tyvek, book cloth, metal brads and grommets. printed on and constructed from Colorplan paper, and letterpress printed from linoleum reduction blocks and photopolymer plates. Crooked Letter Press: "'Rule of Thumb' is a moveable book about the historical human obsession with ourselves and with approval from others. In the last 10 years, we have become obsessed with living online instead of actual living. We seem to only care about how many thumbs up, likes, or hearts we can accumulate on social media platforms. We practice a psychological social separation. We live virtual lives. Now, with the proliferation of the COVID-19 virus, we are living with the physical reality of social-distancing. How will we make it back? Can we make it back? 'Rule of Thumb' considers the ways in which humans have used our thumbs… Read More

The M Kimberely Press, 1991. Limited Edition. Artists' Book. One of 125 copies printed for the National Museum of Women in the Arts as the 1991 Library Fellows Artists' Book. Near Fine.Illustrated with color woodcuts, some folding.� A stunning production from the author of 'Geek Love' and one of the premier book artists of the Northwest. Signed by both. Scarce.

Harlequin Ladybird Reading Scheme/Dung Beetle Ltd, 2015. 3 vols. 8vo. Publisher's decorated boards in highly accurate pastiche of the British "Ladybird Books" series, a ubiquitous part of the reading experience of every British child born between the 1940's and the 1980's with their occasionally not so gentle introduction to some fairly adult themes, and some strange historical choices. The Ladybird Book of The Aztecs was a particular favourite, nothing like an introduction to casual human sacrifice and colonial massacres to brighten up primary school reading hour. Miriam Elia has taken this instantly recognisable format and subverted it relentlessly to artistic and comic effect. The first volume caused no little controversy upon appearance, and Ladybird Books took a very dim view of the themes and obvious parody, legal action was taken and the self published imprint needed a swift name change to "Dung Beetle Ltd." The first printing under the Harlequin Ladybird name therefore became extremely… Read More