Search Results: Titles starting with F from Priscilla Juvelis

Paris: Henri Lefebvre, 1953. One of 1000 on velin from a total issue of 1020. 8vo; handsomely bound in 3/4 dark green morocco and pastepaper boards with gilt fillet, spine paneled, title gilt, original wrapper bound in, fine.

Sacramento, CA, 2008. Portfolio of two selenium-toned silver gelatin prints, "Burga" and "Valentine" signed and numbered by the artist, "3/5 William T. Vollmann" on the hand-written colophon page (also the titlepage) with a brief history of the image in his hand and dated "5/2008" also in his hand. This hand-written sheet is inserted in a paper "pocket" affixed to the inside back of the clamshell box. Each photograph, taken by Mr. Vollmann and printed by him, is 14 x 9-1/2 inches, matted to 20-1/2 x 16 inches. Housed in custom-made buff cloth clamshell box with 2 white paper labels bearing title which is lettered and signed above a painting by Mr. Vollmann on front cover, title and limitation lettered by Mr. Vollmann on spine label on white paper with black ink. Limited to a total of 5 copies, this portfolio contains one image drawn from the author's / artist's image appearing in POOR PEOPLE; the other is previously unpublished.

Paris: Editions de la Pleiade, 1927. First Edition, one of 2,500 on velin du Marais, from a total issue of 2600. 8vo; handsomely bound in 1/4 brown morocco and marbled paste-paper boards, spine with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., original brown printed wrappers and backstrip bound in, fine. This volume is the second in the collection "Les Ecrits intimes" published under the direction of Charles du Bos.

Buenos Aires: Ediciones Dos Amigos, 1987. Copy no. 21, one of 40 copies, all on velin d'Arches paper from a total issue of 42: 40 on velin d'Arches and 2 on Japan paper, all signed on the colophon by publisher, Samuel Cesar Palui. Page size: 13-1/16 x 10 inches; [i] [1-10] 11-175 [176-180] pp. Bound: loose in original grey wrappers, author's name engraved in dark blue, title in light green, dark green, and gray large wood-type letters; housed in buff paper and grey cloth box with blue cloth onlay on front of box, title printed in black on front cover and on spine. Illustrated with 18 full-page engravings as follows: 3 by Gabriela Aberstury, 3 by Julio Pagano, 3 by Mirta Ripoll, 8 by Alicia Scavino, and a portrait of the artist by Raul Russo. Hand set in 14pt. Bodoni by Ruben Raul Lapolla and printed under the supervision of Samuel Cesar Palui in three colors. The text is in black, page numbers in red, and highlights and title page in blue and black. The book was started in 1984 and was not published… Read More

New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Co, 1997. One of 20 copies, all on Antique JB Green and Japanese Gampi paper, signed and numbered by the artist in pencil on each of the 5 etchings. The names of the subject of each portrait is etched in the plate itself. The authors are: Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Franz Kafka and Virginia Woolf. The artist is, of course, Matisse. Each etching measures 12-1/4 inches x 17 inches, fine. The etchings were printed by Lothar Osterburg and Vincent FitzGerald. Susan Weil's aesthetic predecessors are portrayed in these blind-drawn etchings created around the same time as BLIND MAN'S BLUFF. She has captured the key element in the features of each.

[NP but Buenos Aires, Argentina: Les Indifferents, 1936. One of at least 63 copies (no. of this copy) for "les Indifferents" not to be sold, all on Holland paper. Page size: 6.5 x 8.5 inches; 47pp. including colophon and 4 full-page drypoints by Mariette Lydis, 2 in black and each repeated in sanguine. Handsomely rebound in 3/4 red morocco and blue and red pastepaper, spine paneled and author and title stamped in gold, teg, original wrappers bound in with title printed in sanguine, "UNE JEUNE PUCELETTE", minor rubbing to extremities else fine.

[New York, 2008. Artist's book, one of 15 copies, all on Fabriano Tiepolo paper, each copy signed and numbered by the poet / artist / printer, Sarah Plimpton. Page size: 8-3/4 x 11-3/4 inches; 20pp. Bound: loose as issued, in cinnamon-colored wrappers, black label title printed in gold on spine housed in brick-colored cloth custom-made clamshell box, black leather label with title and author in gold gilt on spine, made by Claudia Cohen. Ms. Plimpton's poem reads, "one eye / drawing circles / with fingers tightened / round like an hour / left / on the paper / for now". The text is set in Dante and printed with the help of Brad Ewing at The Grenfell Press in New York. Each page is an original aquatint on an ochre colored ground with the exception of the middle double page spread with is on a pale moss green ground with deeper green forms. Extremely organic, each page of images surround the word / words, almost devouring them (think Pac-man). The textures achieved in the aquatints belie their… Read More

[Boston: P.G. Fowler, 1848. Dress Pattern in form of broadside. 23" x 16 1/2"; white heavy stock paper with black lined diagrams for patterns, keyed to a 16 lettered scale (A-P) and numbers on white paper; bit frayed at a few edges, matted and framed, very good. A copyrighted dress-maker's pattern and system of making blouses, with variations for high neck, half high, low, breast measurement, starting point, hook and eye line. A highly unusual broadside. Not in OCLC.

New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 2003. Artist's book, signed, limited edition, one of 35 copies, each copy consisting of 7 plates of Depp Glass, each plate with a laser etch of the English translation of the verse of thirteenth-century Sufi philosopher and poet, Rumi. There is, as well, a laser etch of the original Persian verse. Laser etching accomplished by Laser Edge Designs. Each plate of glass is 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches. The concept and design for this book sculpture is by Kelly Driscoll. The type for the English translation is Diotima. The calligraphy is by Jerry Kelly. The printed colophon is by Wild Carrot Letterpress. Housed in a pale sea-green suede box with fall-down sides and held together by magnets imbedded in the box sides. This is an extraordinarily beautiful book with the laser etch on each tablet visible through to the bottom from the top. The subtlety of the designs created by this assemblage is breathtaking, and the play of light through the glass captivating. Of course, the… Read More

New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 2009. Artist's book, signed, limited edition, one of 35 copies, all on hand-made linen paper by Dieu Donne Papermill and Mylar, each numbered and signed and dated by the artist, Fran Siegel, and signed in Persian by the translator, Zahra Partovi. Page size: 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches; 26 leaves. Bound: as desk calendar on stainless steel base, made by Milgo Bufkin, four screws fastening the two "rings" that hold the pages of the book, housed in custom-made grey cloth over boards clamshell box, box by BookLab II. The titlepage and colophon are printed by Jerry Kelly in black and silver with Kelly's own calligraphy. Ms. Siegal's lithographs were printed in silver on the white transparent linen by Kelly Driscoll. Each page of linen is followed by a silver Mylar page. Each etching was not re-inked when repeated on the silver Mylar page resulting in a shadow image. The text is laser cut. It appears first in Ms. Partovi's elegant Persian calligraphy at the top and bottom… Read More

New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 2010. Artist's book, one of 35 copies, all on clear acrylic tiles, each signed and numbered by the artist on the colophon page. Page size: 9-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches folding to 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches, 32 slats (tiles) for the text in English and Persian + 10 tiles for titlepage and colophon. Bound by Zahra Partovi: the tiles sewn with blue and saffron ties (fishing line) fastened at end with small plastic disc so that ladder of tiles can be unfolded from an acrylic rectangular base; the English text on one side, the Persian text on tiles with violet and saffron fishing line threads, the binding style based on the style of the Chinese slatbook, a 3,000 year-old form made modern with the use of contemporary materials. The colophon and titlepage unfold from each end of the center "platform" as well. All four unfolding sides are affixed to a garnet-colored rectangular of acrylic drilled with holes through which the threads are laced. Housed in black suede fold-over box by… Read More

Paris: Editions Emile-Paul Freres, 1929. First French edition. One of 25 on Japon imperial, from a total issue of 675. 8vo; 203pp; containing 15 prose pieces; handsomely bound in full vellum with green and brown morocco spine labels, t.e.g., original green printed wrappers and backstrip bound in, with original wrappers showing some wear else fine.

NP, ND. Five pages hand-written manuscript, each leaf measuring 9" x 7", of a discourse given before the Society of the History of the Revolution. This is a cut-and-paste effort by France, with emendations, cross-outs, etc., showing how carefully he worked and reworked his speech. Each leaf mounted on tabs and bound in 3/4 red morocco by Stroubants, binding worn but manuscript fine. Inserted is a hand-written notation that this manuscript is from the Library of Mrs. Rita Lydis of Washington Square Village, sold at Anderson Galleries in 1920. France, a Nobel Laureate (1921), used his scholarship and knowledge of the French Revolution to create one of the best novels about the Revolution, LES DIEUX ONT SOIFS, published in 1912.

Paris: Galerie de la Cible, 1920. One of 1040 on veige teinte, from a limited total issue of 1100 copies. 8vo. Handsomely bound in 3/4 dark red morocco and marbled paste-paper boards, gilt fillets, four raised bands on spine, author and title gilt, top edge gilt, marbled paste-paper doublures, original wrappers bound in, fine. A critical biography of the celebrated Dadaist artist who joined forces with the Surrealist group in Paris in the 1920's. Illustrated throughout with tipped-in reproductions of Picabia's work, with a pen-and-ink self-portrait as frontispiece.

New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Co, 1984. One of 130 copies on Rives paper, printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress by Daniel Keleher. Page size: 10 inches x 8-1/2 inches, fine. Illustrated by Koren with one original etching, signed and numbered in pencil by the artist and four plates after drawings by Koren done for this book. The etching was pulled by Lynn Rogan of the Printmaking Workshop. The four additional illustrations were printed on Misu paper at The Meriden Gravure Company. The title page calligraphy is by Jerry Kelly. All copies were signed by both Mamet and Koren on the colophon. Bound in orange cloth stamped in frog-green, hand-made endpapers by Gerard Charriere. Mamet, a leading American playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner, has given the reader a witty and touching play which is perfectly represented by Koren's familiar hairy monster people usually gracing the pages of "The New Yorker Magazine.

London: [ NdA Editions, 1990. First Edition, one of 10 deluxe copies only all on J. Green, Rives, and Arches paper from a total issue of 35, all signed by the author and artist. Page size: 12-1/8 inches x 5-1/8 inches. Bound: blue cloth over boards hand-printed in black by d'Arbeloff, binding executed by Jen Lindsay, collograph endpapers by d'Arbeloff. Housed in a hinged triptych "stage-box" designed by d'Arbeloff and executed by Dorset Bookbinding Co., covered in mulberry Japanese paper with decorated side panels containing the book and cassette recording of the play. The box opens to an original etching, framed by the box, by d'Arbeloff with the title, author and artist. Box size when folded: 13-3/16 inches x 11-15/16 inches x 2-1/16 inches. The 40-page text is handwritten in red and black calligraphy by Sally Johnson, printed by photo litho by Atelier Rosenstiel The images within the book were printed by d'Arbeloff from collograph plates with relief and intaglio images over text.. There are six… Read More