Search Results: ORIGINAL ART from James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC

(Haverford, PA): Green Shade, 1999. First separate edition of this essay which was originally published in The American Scholar in 1998 & selected for inclusion in The Anthology of Best American Essays for 1999. One of 85 specially bound copies signed by Burroughs & Gill, with an original frontispiece etching by Bryan Nash Gill, out of a total edition of 500 copies printed under the supervision of Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy. Franklin Burroughs is the author of Billy Watson's Croker Sack & Horry & the Waccamaw. As new.. GILL, Bryan Nash.. 8vo, with an original frontispiece etching by Bryan Nash Gill, original blue cloth, slipcase. As new.

(N. Y.): Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1991. First edition. One of 160 copies printed on Hahnemuhle etching paper by Leslie Miller at The Grenfell Press and signed by Burroughs and Condo. As new.. CONDO, George.. Folio, with 3 original etchings & several tipped-in color illustrations, pictorial endpapers, black cloth, matching slipcase. As new.

Amherst: Shanachie Press, 1980. First edition. One of only 10 lettered copies reserved for the author and artist (this being copy "J") out of a total edition of 35 copies produced, of which 25 roman-numeraled copies were for sale; all copies were signed by the poet and the artist, with each of the original prints also numbered and signed in the margin by the artist. Presentation copy, inscribed by both Tate and Riley to Stanley Wiater, the man who brought the poet and artist together. Riley's inscription reads "For my friend Stan - fellow bibliophile, confidant, taster of the fantastic and esoteric, to whom in large part the very existence of this suite is due. With thanks - Stephen Riley / 1 September 1980." Tate's inscription reads: "For Stan, without whom it wouldn't have . . . because of whom it has. Horror of horror - with friendship, Jim Tate." Stephen Riley, who illustrated and published If It Would All Please Hurry was a young artist in his twenties, who died not long after the portfolio was… Read More

Calais, VT: Z Press, 1999. First edition. One of only 26 copies with the original seven-color engraving signed by the artist & the colophon signed by Ms. Guest out of a total edition of 226 copies printed in Bembo type on Zerkall & Fabriano paper by The Grenfell Press. In the regular issue, which is unsigned, the frontispiece is a reproduction. Half-inch closed tear in top-edge of front wrapper, otherwise a very fine copy. WINKFIELD, Trevor.. 8vo, frontispiece, original wrappers with printed label. Half-inch closed tear in top-edge of front wrapper, otherwise a very fine copy.

Invalided out of the Army after World War I, Ralph Chubb studied at the Slade School of Art between 1919-1922. "During the summer of 1921, however, he returned to his home in Curridge in the Berkshire countryside where he dressed as a gypsy and . . . spent some weeks living rough, among the Romanys, whom he sketched." - Anthony Reid, Ralph Chubb, The Unknown, [The Private Library, Autumn, 1970, p. 152]. Dated Nov. 1921, this delicately rendered self-portrait, which focuses on the body rather than the face (which is not even sketched in), & shows the artist dressed in gypsy costume, seems to be based on Chubb's persona of the previous summer. Ralph Chubb was an innovative & largely unappreciated artist & bookmaker, little known today beyond the homosexual community. During his life (1892-1960), his highly unconventional personal philosophy, which he expounded in his art & books, gained him more enemies than friends. Despite financial difficulties & critical hostility, Chubb, supported by his family,… Read More

Milano: Libreria Bocca, (1981). First edition. One of 100 numbered copies printed by the Officina Bodoni, with an original print by Enrico Baj, editioned & signed, as frontispiece. Fine copy in lightly rubbed slipcase. BAJ, Enrico. 8vo, quarter morocco & marbled boards, t.e.g., acetate dust jacket, matching marbled slipcase with leather tips. Fine copy in lightly rubbed slipcase.

N. Y.: Grove Press, (1956). First edition. One of only 15 copies, signed by Kallman, and containing an original drawing signed by Larry Rivers tipped-in as a frontispiece. Offsetting to title-page from the original drawing, otherwise a very good copy. Small 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, glassine dust jacket. Offsetting to title-page from the original drawing, otherwise a very good copy.

(London): Gogmagog Private Press, (1980). First edition. One of 35 numbered copies "designed, cut, modelled, hand-printed & bound" and signed by Cox. "Plates & text printed on Japanese Hosho & Kuzo-shi papers.... Binding material woven in Hong-Kong, supplied by Mr Corrie Guyt". Chambers 33. Presentation copy from Cox to Guyt, who supplied the binding materials, with Guyt's bookplate on the front paste-down and with an autographed note signed ("Xmas 1980, To Corrie - With best wishes & warm affection, Morris") and a typed note signed ("28 November 1980, My dear Corrie, You will see that this book of Studio samples and its Introduction is only for people who already know something about me and my work. And who better than you to be among the first to receive it! See letter by separate post. Yours ever, Morris") from Cox to Guyt, laid in. "This brilliant performance has the appearance of a retrospective exhibition of work across half a century, showing every technique of colour-printing which we have… Read More

(Frankfort, Kentucky): Gnomon Press, (2006). First edition, limited issue, one of 50 numbered copies signed by the photographer and with an original signed and numbered print ["Juana Paloma, 1998"] enclosed in a separate envelope and laid in. By the author of The Neugents (Jargon Society, 1993). As new. 4to, illustrated, original cloth, matching cloth slipcase. As new.

N. Y.: The Grenfell Press, 1988. First edition. One of only 15 specially bound, Roman-numeraled copies signed by Mathews and Winkfield, with an original four-color silkscreen print signed by Winkfield laid in, the binding and box bearing original colored silkscreen designs not used in the regular issue of this book, which was strictly black & white. Box lightly soiled, otherwise a fine copy. WINKFIELD, Trevor.. Oblong 4to, illustrations by Trevor Winkfield, color pictorial cloth, matching folding linen box with silkscreen design by the artist. Box lightly soiled, otherwise a fine copy.