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

American War Information Unit, 1945. Pp.32 printed on newspaper quality paper. 44 photogravures of images. An untrimmed copy. Some creasing to very edges, a little spotting on the rear wrapper and some trace of a fold down the middle but an incredibly good, untrimmed copy of a very delicate and rare item.||A very important and extremely scarce publication produced shortly after the end of the war to be distributed in Germany by the Americans to show ordinary German people the horrors of the Concentration Camps (KZ being an abbreviation of the German Konzentrationslagern). Problems with distribution meant that it was not as widely seen as was intended and its delicate nature, along with its challenging subject matter, mean that very few survive and it is not known how many were produced. This coverage of Belsen, Buchenwald, Gardelegen, Nordhausen and Ohrduf is seen as one of most important uses of documentary photography in the 20th century and this book, together with some later photographs, provided… Read More

Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1922. One of 1375 copies. 8vo., original yellow cloth backed boards with printed paper label on spine. Boards faded, spine a little rubbed at head and tail, slight browning to endpapers.||The fifth book from the press and although the presswork is lacking rather, a good enough read.|Chanticleer: Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 5

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1922. Illustrations by George Illian. Printed by Frederic and Bertha Goudy, Bruce Rogers and others at Rudge’s Mount Vernon studio. 8vo., original pink paper covered boards, printed title label to upper cover. Strong fading to edges of boards, spine detached, but clean and bright internally.|||

San Francisco: Bullnettle Press, 1994. One of 70 copies printed as a Christmas card, this being one of only 35 printed on handmade Velke Losiny paper. Printed in red and black in Goudy Modern and Tudor Black type with grey/green decorations, designed and printed by Asa Peavy. Large 4to., original grey wrappers with title printed in red on the upper cover. ||A very good printing of Hawker’s privately published poem from The Quest of the Sangreal (1864).|

London: Vale Press, 1903. Edited by Robert Steele. Printed in red and black in a special font designed by Charles Ricketts, ‘The King’s Fount’. One of 260 copies. 8vo., a really fresh and crisp copy in the original quarter linen with blue paper covered boards, printed paper label on upper cover. Very slight speckling to endpapers and edges as usual, otherwise a very good untrimmed copy. ||A more elaborate illustrated edition had been planned but it was abandoned in favour or the rather charming simplicity of this version in Rickett’s extraordinary typeface. The three planned illustrations appeared later in ‘The Dial’ (no.4 & 5). |Watry, The Vale Press, B42 A superb copy printed in a specially designed typeface by Ricketts

Circle Press, 1978. Original silkscreen print. Titled and monogrammed by the artist in pencil. Second edition, smaller in size than the first and printed in larger numbers. Image size 275 x 165 mm. Paper size 385 x 273 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. |

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 Knight’s Horse’ by Andrew Crozier. One of 50 copies, monogrammed in pencil by the artist. Image size 235 x 170 mm. Paper size 380 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 Andrew Crozier 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. Andrew Crozier (1943-2008) was a leading poet, a radicalist presence in The British Poetry Revival and an energiser of other poets’ work.Ron King is probably the most important… Read More

Newtown: Gwasg Gregynog, 2007. Edited and with a Preface by Derec Llwyd Morgan & a foreword by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. 20 linocuts in blue and black and linocut endpapers by Kyffin Williams. One of 300 copies. Tall 8vo., original black morocco backed green cloth with image of a shepherd sleeping by Kyffin Williams printed in black on the upper cover, in the original green buckram slipcase, gilt lettering on spine, uncut. With a Gwasg Gregynog printed device tipped onto the ffep. Very good.||Collection of 12 writings specially commissioned before his death to celebrate the life and work of the great Welsh artist Sir Kyffin Williams, he died a few weeks after its commission.| With 20 linocuts by Kyffin Williams

Newtown: Gwasg Gregynog, 2007. 1 of 50 copies for the Designer Bookbinders of a total edition of 360 copies. Linocut illustrations by Sir Kyffin Williams. Printed in Monotype Bembo on mould-made paper. Large 8vo., bound by Mark Cockram in 2007 in a hand-dyed full leather binding with hand-printed vellum with gilt tooling, hand-printed vellum endpapers and suede turn-ins with gilt tooling. Housed in the original grey cloth velvet lined box. ||Mark Cockram is a renowned British artist and binder who works on Artists’ Books, Book Arts and Private Press Books. He executes fine design bindings but also prints and illustrates his own works. His practice focuses on exploring the sculptural nature of the book, different formats and use of materials.Cockram opened his first studio in Lincoln in 1992 and established ‘Studio Five’ in London in 2003. Has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1991, with work being represented in public and private collections in the UK, USA, Japan, Europe and… Read More