Search Results: Authors starting with I from SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS

Paris: Charles Meunier, 1940. One of 125 copies on vélin crème, this no. 64, of a very small total edition of 147 copies. 15 gently erotic colour aquatint engravings by Louis Icart. Each page with a gold border. Pp. [iv], 28. 4to., loose as issued in the original wrappers with original gold-printed glacine, housed in the original chemise and slipcase of gold highlighted marbled paper covered boards. A very good, bright copy, the slipcase is a little rubbed at the extremities and the chemise has very subtle reinforcing of the spine.||Chrysis forms the subject of Louys’s best known erotic book Aphrodite. Set in Alexandria the book follows the fortunes of the courtesan Chrysis who is known for her beauty and her skill at winning the devotion and servility of men and her ambition of love with the sculptor Demetrios. Louys was writing to espouse his philosophy that nudity, human sexuality and pleasure should all be embraced in the pursuit of perfect love. |Carteret, Tresor du Bibliophile Vol IV, p.252

France, 1912-1913. 17 pages of text all written out in black ink and elaborately illuminated in gilt and colour paints by Laure Waldner and each initialled and dated by her. Each painted and written page on recto only. 4to., in a later parchment backed patterned paper covered boards by Malica Lestang of Tours, spine lettered in gilt. Very handsome in excellent condition.||An glorious illuminated manuscript of Psalm 103 by a French female illuminator. |

Barre, Massachusetts: The Imprint Society, 1971. Limited to 1950 signed copies, this copy unnumbered. 10 wood engravings by Garrick Palmer. Printed in Monotype Bembo on Basingwerk Parchment. Pp. xiv 221 [1]. 8vo., [16 x 25 cms], bound by Mackay Binders in original black morocco-backed spine over green buckram, gilt design to upper cover, gilt titles to spine, in original green and grey illustrated slipcase. Spine rubbed with 6 cm tear to fore edge of page 211, otherwise a good copy.||Tomlinson’s popular account of the voyage of an English tramp steamer, from Swansea to Brazil and then along the Amazon, by way of Barbados and Jamaica, between 1909 and 1910. Dramatically illustrated with Garrick Palmer’s wood engravings.|

Oldham: Incline Press, 1995. No. 154 of 300 copies. 6 linocuts by Anthony Smith printed in red, 2 wood engravings by Anna Ravenscroft, vignette by Bernard Wolpe. 26 x 18 cms. Handbound by Graham Moss in half green cloth with marbled paper coverd boards, printed label on spine. A fine copy.|||

Oldham: Incline Press, 1996. Translated and introduced by Rosemary and Thorsten Sjolin. 24 illustrations by Gunnar Brusewitz printed in different colours, three stamps designed by Brusewitz tipped in at the rear. One of 75 special copies, this being one of 50 signed by the translators with the set of stamps. 8vo.,original red and brown cloth with illustration by Brusewitz stamped on upper cover, lettering in silver, housed in the original red and blue cloth slipcase. An extremely good copy.||Gunnar Brusewitz (1924-2004) was a Swedish writer, artist and cartoonist with a great interest in natural history as evinced by the illustrations in this book.| One of 50 special copies

Oldham: Incline Press, 1997. 3 hand coloured linocuts by Peter Allen. No. 91 of 200 copies signed by author and artist. Printed in Goudy type. 25.7 x 13.5 cms. Original printed red paper wrappers with linocut by Peter Allen on upper cover. A fine copy.||The first of an occasional series of short stories by modern authors. |

Oldham: Incline Press, 2002. No. 18 of 150 copies. Printed on Zerkall paper in Monotype Joanna type. CD with recording of music played by the pianist Andrew Wilde in a bound in envelope. Pp.11. 8vo., original Fabriano card wrappers. A fine copy of the eighth New Year booklet from Incline Press.||The CD is of Andrew Wilde playing Bach, Haydn and Chopin - music listened to whilst printing at the Incline Press.|

Oldham: Incline Press, 1995. No. 108 of 175 copies, signed by author and artist. 7 wood engravings by Anna Ravenscroft printed in several colours. Printed in Garamond type on Lana Royal Crown paper. Pp. 35. Tall thin 8vo., original red printed warppers. Very slight fading to wrappers, otherwise good.||Derek Barlow is one of the Highgate Poets.|

Oldham: Incline Press, 2001. No. 27 of 200 signed copies. 32 original linocuts by John Liddell printed in green, yellow, red, blue, brown and black, telling the story over time of a tree house. 23.5 x 18.5 cms. Sm. 4to., original brown cloth backed printed paper covered boards with design by John Liddell printed in brown on green. A fine copy in the original slipcase.||An enchanting graphic tale with no text telling the story in linocuts of a tree house over the years.|

Oldham: Incline Press, 1996. Frontispiece from a Rowlandson engraving. 5 woodcuts from 1890s blocks by Joseph Crawhall printed in red and black. No. 4 of 200 copies. Pp. 12. 8vo., original blue printed wrappers with a Crawhall woodcut on the upper cover in red. An extremely good copy. ||A great reproduction of an old broadside ballad in the original envelope from the Incline Press|

Oldham: Incline Press, 2003. Special edition, being one of 200 copies with 6 loose wood engravings by Ravilious printed from the block in a pocket at the rear. Wood engravings by Eric Ravilious the ones in the reprint of the notebook are prited from the oirginal blocks and the Ravilious illustrations in the essay are from magnesium blocks after the originals. Printed in red and black. 8vo., original blue cloth backed Ravilious patterned papers. Very mild fading to the spine, otherwise an extremely good copy.||A very attractive reprint of the Kynoch Press Notebook of 1933 with Ravilious’s vignettes printed from the original blocks. With two excellent essays by Harling and Archer.|

Oldham: Incline Press, 1993. No. 28 of 160 copies, being one of 50 signed by the artist Peter S. Carter. double page illustration on title by Peter S. Carter. Printed in Baskeville type. Pp. viii, 26. 19.4 x 15 cms. 8vo., original black and red cloth, printed paper label on spine. An extremely good copy.||One of Incline Press’s first books. A poem which has as much weight today as it did when it was published in 1770. It decries rural depopulation and the pursuit of excessive wealth.| “Ill fares the land”

Oldham: Incline Press, 2002. No. 27 of 230 copies. Illustration by Catherine Heaney, Seamus Heaney’s daughter, lino-cut decorations by Bert Eastman, title page calligraphy by Diana Wilson. Printed in Garamond on variously coloured Zerkall paper, designed, printed and bound by Graham Moss & Kathy Whalen. 8vo., original maroon cloth backed, Ann Muir marbled paper with printed paper labels on spine and upper cover. An extremely good copy with the original prospectus inserted loose.||An illustrious literary family, this book is to celebrate the meeting of the Devlins of Ardboe. Polly Devlin drew together this collection of poetry and prose by and about the family, spouses, children and grandchildren. The collection includes 10 poems by Seamus Heaney, who married Marie Devlin, plus a short extract from his translation of Beowulf, as well as work by Polly Devlin, her brother, the musician Barry, and Daisy Garnett.| 10 poems by Seamus Heaney

Paris: Nicolas, 1930-1932. Complete set of three important promotional publications for Nicolas, the wine merchant. 24 Art Deco illustrations in black and white by the artist Paul Iribe plus one in colour, single line border on each page in different colours for each issue. One of only 500 copies of each. Folios, in the original wrappers. Rubbing to extremities and inner joints of first volume starting, but generally very good.||Illustrated by one of the greatest 1930s French artists, Paul Iribe, this is a monument of its time and a great testament to French wine. The first album Blanc et Rouge lauds French wines int eh form of a dialogue between the new and old tradictions - American cocktails and the Jazz age versus wine and the traditional French pleasures. The remarkable images are full page black and white ‘30s illustrations of drinkers and wine.Rose et Noir, the second volume, has large full page plates printed in black and pink designed around photographic ideas showing, rather… Read More