Search Results: Titles starting with G from Priscilla Juvelis

New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 1999. Artist's book, signed, limited edition, one of 50 copies all on hand-made paper by Paul Wong at Dieu Donne Papermill, hand-numbered and signed in pencil by the translator, Zahra Partovi and initialed by the artist, Aleksandar Duravcevic. Page size: 9-5/8 inches x 6-1/2 inches; 16 separate leaves, + 4 leaves with two overlays, lithograph and etching on each over lithograph. The etchings were accomplished by the artist at D2 Press and the lithographs by Kelly Driscoll at D2 Press. The text is set in Bauer Bodoni and Feliciano and printed letterpress by Daniel Keleher at Wild Carrot Letterpress. Bound by Zahra Partovi in leporello style fold-out with wood panels at each end, housed in custom-made black cloth clamshell box by Priscilla Spitler, Hands On Bookbinding, title printed on gray label on front of box in red and black, fine. The text is printed 3 times: in black, in blind, and in gray, on three different papers. The images are also repeated on 3… Read More

Buenos Aires: Ediciones Dos Amigos, 2001. One of 40 copies, all on Velin d'Arches paper, signed by Alicia Scavino in pencil on the last print in GENESIS. Page size: 12-3/4 inches x 9-3/4 inches; 84pp; and 72pp; respectively. Bound: each book loose in original drab wrappers, GENESIS with an original engraving consisting of green, ochre, brown arabesques with title in black on front and back panels; EXODO with the title printed in red on front panel and in Hebrew in buff above the Spanish, housed in tan paper over boards clamshell box with title in black on spine, fine. Etchings and aquatints in GENESIS by Alicia Scavino, signed by the artist on the final plate of GENESIS. Etchings and aquatints in EXODO by Mirta Kupferminc. Hand set and printed letterpress in 12pt. Electra by Ruben R. Lapolla, the edition was supervised by Samuel Cesar Palui and Ernesto Lowenstein. These two companion volumes are extremely beautiful and evocative of the creation and deliverance stories. These books were featured in an… Read More

Ashuelot: Trois Fontaines [Golgonooza Letter Foundry], 1997. One of 80 regular copies from a total issue of 109 copies (80 numbered copies, 26 lettered copies, and 3 Artist's Proof copies), all on Arches paper, each signed and numbered or lettered by the author and type designer, punch cutter and printer, Dan Carr, and the artist and binder, Julia Ferrari. The 80 numbered copies have one etching and three duotone reproductions by Julia Ferrari, who has also written an "Artist Afterword" and designed the beautiful shaped colophon. As an example of contemporary book arts, this may well be unique, I can think of no other book of contemporary verse where the author / printer has designed and cut a unique type face for his book. Page size: 12-1/2 inches x 9-1/4 inches; 72pp. Bound by Julia Ferrari: handmade green pastepaper with black and brown overall abstract design, corresponding to the frontispiece etching, title in black on white label on spine. All the numbered edition copies correspond to one… Read More

Canton, NY: Caliban Press, 2007. One of 40 copies, all on handmade papers from La Papeterie St-Armand, Montreal Quebec, each hand numbered and signed by the photographer, Mellon, and the designer / printer / poet, Mark McMurray. Page size: 9-1/2 x 7 inches opening to 21 inches; triptych opening to three pages with two pages of text bound in. Bound by Mark McMurray: splatter-dyed handmade Nepalese paper over boards. In keeping with Ginsberg's lifelong practice of Tibetan Buddhism, the two outer panels contain images of two Tibetan Buddhist protector deities taken from a damaged wood block found in Kyoto, Japan. The block was originally cut and printed for the Dali Lama's library at the Potola temple complex in Lhasa, Tibet. Housed in brown paper portfolio with colophon printed and signed on inside back cover; with wood spine cut with recess to hold glass vial of dirt from Ginsberg's Farm. Text is printed letterpress in 14 point Goudy Old Style by Mark McMurray. In the late summer of 1973 the… Read More

Madrid: Espasa-Colpe, S.A., 1974. Facsimile reproduction of the original 1564 text which included wood-engraved initials and one illustrations of the Virgin Mary and Child. Unnumbered copy from a total issue of 3000. Large 8vo; handsomely bound in 1/4 black morocco and marbled paste-paper boards, marbled endpapers, original printed wrappers bound in, fine. Jorge Manrique (1440-1479), was a soldier and poet whose poetry was in the courtly tradition. His most famous work is "Las Coplas de Jorge Manrique por la muerte de su padre," written in 1476 and first published in Seville in 1494.

Monaco: Editions du Rocher, 1954. First Edition, one of 900 on Aussedat Roto blanc, from a total issue of 1000. Page size: 5-1/4 x 7-1/4 inches; 135pp; + portrait frontis of author. Bound: handsomely bound in 3/4 red morocco and marbled boards, spine with author and title in gilt top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in, largely unopened, fine.