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Sixteen Drawing & Something to Read to Someone [Signed Limited Edition of 43 Copy from the Horizon Press Estate]

Holst, Spencer (1926-2001) ; Author | Wheeler, Beate (b. 1940) ; Artist
Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued. The premier deluxe state of this magnificent avant-garde collaboration, being one of only 43 copies signed by both Spencer Holst and Beate Wheeler from a total first printing of 2000 with laid-in ephemera.
FOUND INSIDE BEN RAEBURN'S COPYOriginating from the…
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Spring in the Time of ROE

Daiber, Steven
Florence, MA: Red Trillium Press, 2022. One of four copies, signed and numbered by Daiber. Softcover. Very fine. Oblong quarto. (6)ff + colophon sheet laid in. In 2022, Daiber found spring in New England to be a conflicted one: the overturning of the Roe decision, continued school shooting,…
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[Rojo's first book] Macbeth, o el Asesino del Sueño. Paráfrasis de la Tragedia de Shakespeare [anti-authoritarian reinterpretation; first edition]

León Felipe, cover drawing and typesetting by Vicente Rojo
Mexico City: Librería Madero, 1954. In wraps. 46 pp. 12 ¼ x 8 in. Very good. The first book cover designed by Vicente Rojo, who would go on to reinvent the visual style of Mexican book design and create the now famous cover of the first edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude. This is the…
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Journey to the Mid-East

Ayers, Gay
1996. A unique calligraphic manuscript.. No binding. Fine. Folio. (101)ff. All but the final leaf feature original calligraphic work by Ayers and nearly all bear at least one mounted photograph. A tremendous travelogue, Ayers situates her own recollections among excerpts from various other…
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Varsha

Shettar, Ranjani
NY: Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art, 2012. One of 150 copies. Signed by the artist. Hardcover. Fine. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated, accordionfold. An homage to India and the monsoon season, Shettar's book recreates the comings and goings of heavy rains and vegetation in a range of…
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Enveloppe-moi

Messager, Annette and Jean-Philippe Toussaint
NY: Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art, 2013. One of 110 copies, signed by the artists. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. 10ff photocollages + 30 postcards + facsimile letter + additional color photograph. Messager and Toussaint conceived the work as a secret archive of correspondence, and…
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Reading and a Study

Blake, William; Barbara Fahrner and Philip Gallo (illus.)
NY: Granary Books, 1993. One of forty-one copies. Signed by Fahrner and Gallo.. Hardcover. Fine. Square quarto. (50)pp. Mysticality, typography, and abstraction here combine to evoke the high style, and even higher spiritual aspirations, of Blake's poetry. Fahrner's illustrations throughout…
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Imageries (6 volumes)

Lavater, Warja [Artist Book - Fairy Tales] [Leporello]
Paris: Adrien Maeght Editeur [printed on the presses of Ateliers Arte Paris], 1982. Multi-lingual editions (***the key to La Fable du Hasard is only in French). Very Good. Six accordion-folding artist's books composed of cloth boards with color paper cover label and folding color…
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The Memory Bank

Truck, Fred
171, vii pp. dot-matrix-printed catalog, illustrated profusely throughout. Quarto (10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches). Printed white self-wrappers, vertical leporello of conjoined sheets of computer paper. First few pages detached, last blank page also loose, otherwise excellent condition. Signed by…
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The Island of Rota

Sacks, Oliver; Abelardo Morell (illus.)
NY: Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art, 2010. One of 135 copies. Signed by Sacks, Morell, and designer Ted Muehling. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. (56)pp. Sacks's disquisitions on the plant life of the Micronesian island is excerpted from his book, The Island of the Colorblind, in which…
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The Vai Syllabary of Africa

Ayers, Gay
1997. Unique, signed by the artist.. Softcover. Near fine. Octavo. (16)ff. Calligraphic work on pastepaper. Ayers here presents the Vai syllabary, a writing system developed in the 1830s for the Vai language of Liberia by Momolu Duwale Bukele. It remains well in use, especially after the…
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Advice on Marriage

Franklin, Benjamin; Clara Tice (illus.)
Brooklyn: Tice-Cunningham Press, 1925. One of fifty copies. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. (14)ff. Franklin's sagacious cares and cautions on marriage are rendered in a series of engraved plates, designed, etched, and colored by Tice and then engraved and printed by Harry Cunningham. Tice's…
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