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

St. Petersburg: M.K. Publishers, 2007. One of 21 numbered copies, signed. 16 original colour lithographs by Mikhail Karasik on white Rives paper, all signed, 11 of which contain an image of Malevich’s The Black Square. Folio, 593 x 397 mm, all sheets loose and housed in a black box with a booklet in the form of a Black Square containing a red square in English, which is in turn housed in a box with red cloth sides.||Karasik’s celebration of two of the main inspiring figures in Russian Avant-Garde art, Malevich, and literature, Daniil Kharms. The main focus is on The Black Square as a theme which, like the poem, played a major role in Malevich’s burial cermony. All the lithographs combine Suprematist imagery with contemporary photographs in bold graphic style. Karasik has produced a highly dramatic and visually arresting homage to the Russian Avant Garde.| One of only 21 copies with 16 superb signed lithographs by Karasik

North Andover, Mass: Kat Ran Press, 1998. No. 4 of only 50 signed copies. 7 original lithographs by Sara Eichner printed on handmade Japanese paper, poems by Julia Alvarez. Printed on Velke Losiny paper, set in a Monotype cutting by the Bixlers of Eric Gill’s Perpetua. Pp. [60]. Folio [31 x 43 cms], bound at the Thistle Bindery in walnut brown handmade flax paper, gilt design on upper cover, housed in original green cloth clamshell box with flax paper spine label and inlaid board label on upper cover, both lettered in gilt. A fine copy, box faded at extremities.||With two copies of the prospectus laid in plus a tls from Michael Russem to Auchincloss with two pieces of ‘Seven Trees’ ephemera in the original envelope.The second publication by Kat Ran presents Julia Alvarez’s seven autobiographical poems, in which trees, both literally and allegorically, represent different stages of life and development. Exquisite lithographs by Sara Eichner accompany every poem. Each one is meticulously drawn… Read More

North Andover, Mass: Kat Ran Press, 1999. One of 75 signed copies. 4 drawings by Kate Sprengnether and Kurt Gohde. Text hand printed from Dante type. Pp. [16]. 20.5 x 10 cms. Crimson paper wrapper with title in gilt on upper cover. A fine copy.||Together with a group of 4 pieces of Kat Ran Press ephemera:1. ’A Specimen of Columna’. 2002. 4 pp, folded. 1 of 100 copies. Printed in red and black for the Veatches Art of the Book.2. Prospectus for ‘Overpass’. 4pp. folded with print by Jennifer Hill on upper cover. c.20013. An excerpt from Herman Melville’s Tartarus of Maids’ - keepsake for the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College. 4pp. folded, printed in Baskerville type on pre-War handmade paper. 20014. ‘Many Bottles of Champagne on the Floor’. 4pp. folded. New Year card consisting of original Kat Ran Champagne label - all that remained of the champagne they ordered from France as New Year gifts so the customer could “appreciate champagne... typographically”| One of 75 copies,this… Read More

Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1935. One of 250 copies. 11 illustrations by Dorothy Burroughes printed in colour at the head of each chapter, text printed in red and black. Sm. folio, bound by Kate Holland in full rust brown morocco with onlays representing a forest of citron and light green morocco on the spine and obth sides with gilt ruled highlights to one side of the lengths of green morocco, thre is a charming touch with the tail of a deer in gilt amongst the trees on the front cover, implying the deer is hiding in the forest, edges tinted yellow, yellow painted endpapers by the binder, housed in the original rust- brown and brown cloth velvet lined solander box with blind lettering along the entire length of the spine. In superb condition.||Fortescue’s book was a very interesting choice of text. It was written for the author’s 9 year old nephew and tells the story of a Red Deer on Exmoor from the aniimal’s point of view. The precursor to another famous Exmoor animal book, Williamson’s Tarka… Read More

Created in London: Otto, printed at Spike Island Printmakers, Bristol, 2007. No 36 of 100. 18pp. fully screen printed book by Otto the graphic artist and artists’ book maker, black whtie and metallic bronze screen printed wrappers. 24 x 29.5 cms. Sm. folio, bound by Kate Holland (signed with monogram on lower turn-in), black morocco spine with blue morocco sides with gold, orange morocco and black shiny paper onlays, ruled with a dynamic geometric design in gilt on both sides, going over the spine, black morocco doublures and handmade black paper free endpapers with large arrow designs on each, the doublures with ruled gilt arrow and the free endpapers with a mottled gold arrow, multiple coloured pages to reflect the orange and blue colours of the book which are used in the binding. Housed in the orignal black cloth, velvet lined solander box with black and gilt ruled spine label.||Kate Holland has been a Fellow of the Designer Bookbinders for some years and is much in demand for her design… Read More

New Rochelle: James L. Weil, Publisher, 2000. One of sixty copies. Printed from handset Garamond type at The Kelly Winterton Press. Pp. [2] 11 [7]. 130 x 195 mms. 12mo., original quarter blue cloth over marbled paper boards, paper spine label printed in black. A fine copy.||Printed to celebrate in memoriam the 205th birthday of John Keats. The text is based on the 1743 edition of The Iliad translated by Alexander Pope.Inserted loose is an inscribed card from the publisher James L. Weil to Kenneth Auchincloss: ‘For Ken – Happy Keats Birthday! Wishes, Jim’ dated October 31, 2000.| One of only 60 copies.

New Rochelle: James L. Weil Publisher, 2001. One of only 60 copies. Printed in Caslon type by Jerry Kelly. Pp. 10 [4]. 8vo., original brown paper boards, paper title label to spine, fore and lower edges uncut. A fine copy.||Stillinger prepared this text for the occasion from his article ‘Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Shaggy Dog: The Novelty of Lyrical Ballads (1798)’.Together with 4 other publications from The Kelly-Winterton Press:1. ‘The Shepherd and the Sea’, Jean de La Fontaine, 1988. 16mo., printed in Garamond and Zapf Civilité types on English handmade paper. One of 90 copies. 2. ‘The Fife’, William Bronk, 2002. 16mo., printed from Walbaum and Bodoni types to celebrate in memoriam the poet’s 84th birthday. One of 50 copies.3. ‘The Odes to Nea’, Thomas Moore, 1985. 12mo., printed from Garamond types on Fabriano Ingres. One of 108 copies.4. ‘Places’, Kenneth A. Lohf, 1992. 8vo., printed in DeRoos type on English handmade paper. One of 100 copies.| One of only 60 copies,… Read More

New York: Kelly Winterton Press, 1992-2001. Second printing of ‘Something Given’, the other 3 titles each one of 176 copies. Designed by Jerry Kelly and printed at the Stinehour Press & by Michael & Winifred Bixler in Bembo type. 4 volumes 8vo., original paper wrappers. Fine copies.||Each volume warmly inscribed by Jim L. Weil to Ken Auchincloss on the ffeps or limitation page.With original order forms loosely inserted in the latter 3 volumes.James Weil (1929-2006) was a distinguished American poet and publisher. Having been a businessman, in the 1960s he founded the Elizabeth Press which becaem one of the most important publishers of 1960s and 1970s American poetry. He later published his and otehr work under the James L. Weil imprint useing the Officina Bodoni and latter the Kelly-Winterton Presses to design and print the books.| A collection of 4 Kelly-Winterton Press poetry books by James Weil, each one inscribed by the author to Kenneth Auchincloss

Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1892. One of 500 copies printed on paper, there were no vellum copies. 20 architectural line-block figures in text. Border on the first page of the text, 111 six- and, mainly, ten-line initial letters, all by William Morris, engraved on wood by W.H. Hooper et al, the initial letters then being electroplated. Press device printed in two places at the end of the table of contents and on the colophon. Printed in black and red Golden type on hand-made Batchelor Flower paper, with decorated initials, numbers, titles and side notes printed in red throughout. Sm. 4to., original stiff vellum with brown silk ties, yapp edges, spine lettered in gilt, fore- and lower edges untrimmed. A very good tight copy without the usual bowing and with all the ties, vellum with some marks and a little darkening to the edges.||The chapter from his Stones of Venice which Ruskin always believed to be the most important and which was first printed separately in 1854 as a sixpenny pamphlet. Morris… Read More

Basel: Benno Schwabe & Co., 1942. With 24 examples of historical initial letters plus 3 examples of each initial from A to Z by the typographer Imre Reiner. Oblong 8vo., original boards in a very worn original dust jacket. The boards and jacket are rather darkened. |||

Wellingborough: David Kindersley and Christopher Skelton, 1969. One of 500 copies. 18 different alphabets printed in different colours on French-fold variously coloured Strathmore Artlaid and Plan 8 paper. The typeface in Monotype Walbaum. 8vo., original printed wrappers over printed limp boards. Wrappers little crinkled, book block split.||The alphabets are from original 30 x 22 inch drawings printed in black line and individually painted, now in the collections of universities, museums and galleries. Kindersley’s aim was to make these named alphabets and his incredible calligraphic skills accessible to all.|

Cambridge: Cardozo Kindersley Editions, 1990. Pp. xii, 24. 26 pages of illustrations. 12mo., original printed wrappers, spine faded. |||

Cambridge: Chilford Hall Press & David Kindersley Workshop, 1983. 12 alphabet prints plus a title page printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. No.94 of 150 copies. 44.5 x 34.5 cms. Loose as issued. A very good set with a certificate of authentication signed by Kindersley’s widow Lida Lopes Cardozo.||From the Curwen Press archive sale|

Circle Press, 1978. Original silkscreen print, loose in a folder. The folder has been printed by the artist in letterpress with the title and a Chaucer-inspired poem, ‘The Squire’ by Kevin Power. One of 50 copies, monogrammed in pencil by the artist. Image size 290 x 200 mm. Paper size 382 x 255 mm. In addition there is a special print, reproducing Ron King’s original designs for each colour used in the screen print. ||Ron King’s first artists’ book, The Prologue, was printed in 1967 using Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales’ text accompanied by 20 silkscreen mask-like prints representing the major characters in The Tales. He printed a second edition in 1978 and, at the same time, produced 50 sets of the prints, each housed in its own folder, with texts by poets such as Kevin Power inspired by Chaucer’s character. There were 20 folders with loose prints, numbered I to XX, and all the prints were signed by the artist. Ron King is probably the most important book artist working in Britain… Read More

Circle Press, 1978. Original silkscreen print. Titled and monogrammed by the artist in pencil. This print was done for the 1978 second edition, which differed in size from the first, being rather smaller but still printed by the artist’s hand. Image size 297 x 202 mm. Paper size 397 x 275 mm.||Ron King’s first artists’ book, The Prologue, was printed in 1967 using text from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales’ accompanied by 20 silkscreen mask prints representing the major characters in the work. This print was done for the 1978 second edition, which differed in size from the first, being rather smaller but still printed by the artist’s hand. Ron King is probably the most important book artist working in Britain today and continues to produce outstanding, innovative work, leading the way in this art form. |

1970. Original silk screen print in four colours - silver, green, magenta, black. Artist’s Proof (book size), titled and signed by the artist in pencil. Image size 395 x 260 mm. Paper size 513 x 360 mm. ||One of of an important series of 10 silk screen mask prints of characters in Macbeth, created by Ron King for his great Circle Press Macbeth published in 150 copies in 1970. It remains one of the great British artists’ books and the prints look as fresh and relevant as the day they were printed.Ron King is probably the most important book artist working in Britain today and continues to produce outstanding, innovative work. |

Circle Press, 1967. Original silkscreen print. Edition of 50, this an Artist’s Proof numbered, titled and signed by the artist in pencil. Image size 266 x 272 mm. Paper size 527 x 327 mm. ||Ron King’s first artists’ book, The Prologue, was printed in 1967 using Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales’ text accompanied by 20 silkscreen mask-like prints representing the major characters in The Tales. Ron King is probably the most important book artist working in Britain today and continues to produce outstanding, innovative work, leading the way in this art form. |

1970. Original silk screen print in five colours - red, purple, cream, brown and tan. One of 20, numbered, titled and signed by the artist in pencil. Image size 380 x 260 mm. Paper size 590 x 395 mm. ||One of of an important series of 10 silk screen mask prints of characters in Macbeth, created by Ron King for his great Circle Press Macbeth published in 150 copies in 1970. It remains one of the great British artists’ books and the prints look as fresh and relevant as the day they were printed.Ron King is probably the most important book artist working in Britain today and continues to produce outstanding, innovative work. |

Circle Press, 1978 . Original silkscreen print, loose in a folder. The folder has been printed by the artist in letterpress with the title and a Chaucer-inspired poem, ‘Cook’ by Roy Fisher. One of 50 copies, monogrammed in pencil by the artist. Image size 125 x 231 mm. Paper size 378 x 260 mm. ||Ron King’s first artists’ book, The Prologue, was printed in 1967 using Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales’ text accompanied by 20 silkscreen mask-like prints representing the major characters in The Tales. He printed a second edition in 1978 and, at the same time, produced 50 sets of the prints, each housed in its own folder, with texts by poets such as Roy Fisher inspired by Chaucer’s character. There were 20 folders with loose prints, numbered I to XX, and all the prints were signed by the artist. Roy Fisher (1930-2017) is among the most admired of British poets, who frequently worked with Ron King.Ron King is probably the most important book artist working in Britain today and continues to produce… Read More

Circle Press, 1967. Original silkscreen print. First edition of 50, this an Artist’s Proof numbered, titled and signed by the artist in pencil. Image size 370 x 215. Paper size 570 x 395 mm. ||Ron King’s first artists’ book, The Prologue, was printed in 1967 using Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales’ text accompanied by 20 silkscreen mask-like prints representing the major characters in The Tales. Ron King is probably the most important book artist working in Britain today and continues to produce outstanding, innovative work, leading the way in this art form. |