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GROTTO [International] Symbolism wrought by Ida S. Darling, Albany, N.Y., c. 1898

DARLING, Ida S.
[EPHEMERA]. (7 7/8" x 5 7/8"); hand-drawn and colored design on free front end-paper removed from a book.
A folk-art style rendering of symbols relating to the Masonic affiliated organization named Grotto, drawn and colored by hand on what appears to be the free front paper of a book as it…
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A Sentimental Journey through France & Italy

Sterne, Laurence; Valenti Angelo (illus.)
NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1929. With an original drawing by Angelo. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. 253pp. Twelve full-page illustrations by Angelo depict some of the more comical moments in Sterne's novel. Accompanying this copy is Angelo's original drawing for the image at page 144, "And as…
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Wigmaking - A Comprehensive Hand Made Large Format Album complete with hair, mesh, weaving, knotting and instructions: [Wigmaking, Weaving, Knotting, Made by Hand, Hair]

1940. Large format folio with 35 leave. The index is divided in two sections - Weaving and Knotting. Includes actual hair, caps, weaves, etc. The topics includeWeavingBroadwork: Origin and useWeaving diagramsWeaving sampleMarteau diagramsMarteau samplePin curl diagramsPin curl sampleTwo stem…
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[MINIATURE SOVIET SAMIZDAT - EROTIC ART BRUT] Two hand-drawn illustrated miniature volumes, titled (in Latin script): "Reklama geroin sredstvo" [Advertising, heroin, remedy] AND "Seks kartini" [Sex paintings]

USSR: self-published, late 1980s. Hand-made miniature pamphlets measuring 36 × 22 mm and 38 × 24 mm respectively, made from lined notebook paper, one stapled and one hand sewn, with original drawings in ink and color crayon throughout; [16] and [20] pages. Very good.
Two one-of-a-kind…
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Archive of Children's Art from Two Young Students in the Bronx, c. 1937-1945

[Art - Juvenilia - History of Education - New York City] Legg, Joan Meredith; Winkelhoff, Adrian C.
The Bronx, New York, 1945. Approximately 120 drawings with one short school essay and one photograph, captioned verso. Drawings generally measuring 9 x 12 inches. Conditions vary; drawings generally fairly delicate with damage to margins. Overall very good to excellent.. A collection of…
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1787 Exceptional English Folk Art Cutwork Valentine: [Folk Valentine, Cut Paper, Love Token, Inscription]

England, 1787. Very good. Light toning, dust soiling. A couple small short tears, a small arm bent.. An exceptional example of an English hand-cut folk art valentine with an inscription dated 1787. Features an intricate design including sawtooth edges, heart and dove imagery, and pinpricking…
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[NEO-DADAISM AND SURREALISM] Les Réverbères. Nos. 1 to 5 (all published), with other related ephemera inserted, including a scarce folded broadside announcing one of the group's events

Tapié, Michel (editor)
Paris: self-published (Imprimerie des 2 Artisans), April 1938 to March 1939. Quartos (33 × 25.2 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 8 pp. each, and every issue with a full-page graphic print as well as four issues with a second print version (by Michel Tapié, Roger Sby, Pierre Minne,…
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[PORTFOLIO OF COMPUTER ART PIONEERS - INCUNABLE OF AI ART] Art Ex Machina: Six Original Computer Art Serigraphs

Moles, Abraham A. (preface), and Manuel Barbadillo, Hiroshi Kawano, Kenneth C. Knowlton, Manfred Mohr, Frieder Nake, and Georg Nees (artists)
Montreal: Editions Gilles Gheerbrant, 1972. Large folio (52.5 × 39.5 cm). Original printed cloth portfolio; title page, 2 leaves with the preface in English and French, six signed color screen prints on thicker paper, each with a glassine sheet and inserted in a bifolium, each printed on…
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[YUGOSLAV NEO-AVANT-GARDE - FLUXUS - CONCEPTUAL ART - HAPPENING - ARTIST'S BOOKS] Maj 75. 16 issues (of 17 published)

Stilinović, Mladen, Boris Demur, Željko Jerman, Zeljko Kipke, Sven Stilinović, Fedor Vučemilović, Vlado Martek, and others
Zagreb: self-published, 1978-1984. Quartos (ca. 30.5 × 21.5 cm). Original side-stapled, partially illustrated wrappers on various paper and card stock and in various media; ca. 14-34 leaves per issue of prints and individual artworks to rectos and versos, including drawings, photographs,…
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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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