American Artists

Albuquerque: Mark Attwood, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+. 1st and only edition: "This book is no. 41 in a limited edition of 50. Printed from linocuts on Rives heavyweight paper, using a Dufa flat-bed offset press." On the next page, preceding the title page: "Another Day in Paradise is a collection of images by a group of people from different countries and backgrounds. Artists, printers, students, curators, a director and a doctor participated. Each person was invited to make a linocut on the theme of 'Another Day in Paradise'. No images were edited. One book was printed for each participant." The book is lg. 8vo, bound in coarse linen with no titles, untrimmed edges. Condition vg+; the binding has been slightly distorted by the laying in of a linocut, described below. No text in the book other than that quoted above.. Attwood, whose blindstamped chop-mark appears on the above-quoted limitation page, was certified a master printer by Albuquerque's… Read More

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886. Hardcover. Very Good. 30, [4] p.: hand-painted, water color floral illustrations on 13 pages; 29 cm. Original wide cream calf spine with gilt-stamped cover title; light green paper over remainder of boards, with gilt-stamped floral decoration running along leather-paper border. White moire endpapers. Lacking original slipcase. This is no. 47 of a limited edition of 100 copies, each numbered and signed by the artist, Alice Stewart. There are two or more binding variants. The illustrations vary in each of the 100 copies of this beautiful book. In Very Good Condition: edges are rubbed; binding lightly soiled; front free endpaper detached but present, lacking lower gutter corner; first blank leaf following front endpapers also detached but present; a few small spots of light discoloration (as is typical of this book); otherwise, clean and bright.

Pittsburg, PA: Providence Art Club, 1938 8 by 10 inches, oil on canvas board, 10 by 12 inches framed. Signed by Norwood MacGilvary near bottom left corner. Board edges rubbed, else very good condition.

Pittsburg, PA: Carnegie Institute, 1943 25 x 30 inches unframed, 28.5 x 33.5 framed; oil on canvas board. Signed by Norwood MacGilvary along with thumb print on the bottom left corner. In very good conditon.

Flack, Marjorie. Tim Tadpole and the Great Bullfrog. Copyright 1934, Doubleday & Company, Inc., First Edition. For Young Readers. Used. Good Condition/ Good- condition rare, unclipped $2.50 original dust jacket. . Garden City Park, New York, U.S.A. Beautifully illustrated. Please see our photos. The Story: "Tim Tadpole lived in a small pond at the edge of the wood. All around him the Peeper frogs sang, while the Great Bullfrog croaked and jumped. But Tim couldn't sing and he couldn't jump either. All he could do was to wriggle through the water until the day he made an exciting discovery!" RARE! We consider offers.

[Octon, France]:: Verdigris Press,, 2013.. Edition of 50. 4.75 x 12.5"; 17 pages. Accordion structure extending from back pastedown. Letterpress printed in Univers on an Adana 8 x 5 by Mark Lintott using chestnut-colored ink. Printed on Hahnemulhe paper. Three mezzotints by Judith Rothchild. Bound in screenprinted paper, shades of brown with chestnut leaves, over boards. Laid in matching clamshell box. Author and title printed in black on spine and box. Signed and numbered by printer and artist. Of the edition numbers 1 - 10 include an additional mezzotint and are in a clamshell box; 1 -4 also include one of the original copper plates. Copies 11-50 presented in slipcases. Neruda's text is accompanied with three mezzotints by Judith Rothchild. While the text presentation is sparse and clean the images are velvety and dense. They capture the essence of Neruda's words - "from bristly foliage" to "only a seed".

Condition: very good 1906. 121 pages. Soft leather with blind stamped decoration and lettering to front. Silk covered pastedown. Rough cut pages. Pages remain mostly clear with moderate tanning and foxing and some heavy occasional marking. Heavier tanning and foxing to endpapers. Ex-Libris plate to front paste-down. Soft leather covers have minor wear. Green Leather Cover

Freeport, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2022.. Edition of 3. Artist's book with mixed media silkscreen prints with collage, cloth bound accordion book, edition of 3 , 11.25 h x 7.75w x 1.75 d closed book, open 11.25h x 88 w x 7d in inches Rebecca Goodale: "Wolfe's Neck in Freeport, Maine is home to Wolfe's Neck State Park, several parcels of land preserved by the Freeport Conservation Trust, and also Wolfe's Neck Farm (aka Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment). All of this land is open to the public for walks in the woods, fields, and along the shoreline.  "In the spring of 2020 when I was adjusting to a world without Yoga classes or an indoor pool at the Y I began a regime of walking and running the dirt roads in and around the farm. As the warm spring unfolded ahead of the biting insects I began to develop a more intimate relationship with this pastoral spot. "The bright landscape was punctuated with farm equipment holding steady,… Read More

Boston: Houghton Osgood / Houghton, Mifflin, 1879. First edition. Hard cover. 2 volume matching set. Published Boston: Houghton Osgood / Houghton, Mifflin, 1879, 1880. 8vo., lxxxvii+386pp.+43pp. index; lviii+373pp.+43pp. index. Dark maroon cloth with gilt spine titles and cover design, beveled boards with black endpapers, all edges tinted red. Volume one has the 1879 imprint of Houghton Osgood on title page; volume two has 1880 imprint of Houghton, Mifflin. Some wear to the cloth at spine ends, bit or rub to cloth in a few spots, previous owner name on title page of volume one, else a fine, clean, crisp set. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo.

SIGNED by Ruscha on title page. One of 3000 unnumbered copies.Very well-preserved and archived copy. Original glassine wrapper has a tiny fold in upper left corner, and minor tanning on edges due to age, as shown in picture.I purchased this copy in 1982 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, when they hosted Ed Ruscha's first major museum retrospective.

San Francisco, California:: Salt Point Press,, 2022.. Edition of 20. 5.5 x 7" closed, extends to 10 meter (64"); 80 pages. Accordion structure. Letterpress printed in Cochin. With illustrated paper wrapper. Archival pigment prints are on Canson Infinity Aquarelle. Letterpress pages at the beginning and end of the book are printed on Rives BFK with mulberry hinges. Housed in 8 x 8.25 x 3.25" clamshell box constructed of archival book board covered with pigment prints on Moenkopi kozo. Signed and numbered by the artist. Each box contains a unique piece of seaweed from the Pacific coastline in northern California. Salt Point Press: "'Copepodilia Collectanea' presents an imaginary menagerie of copepods - minuscule aquatic crustaceans - created using seaweed pressings. High resolution pigment prints of the pressings retain the textures and dimensionality of the original pressings. "Text by Melanie Stiassny, ichthyologist at the American Museum of Natural History,… Read More

New York: Vito Hannibal Acconci / 0 to 9 Books, 1968. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 4to, 74pp, stapled wrappers. The rare second artist's book by Vito Acconci, published by his and Bernadette Mayer's 0 to 9 Press at the same time as its seminal magazine. This copy from the collection of Opal Louis Nations. Front wrapper is in printed black and white and is detached from the top staple. Original UK price lightly penciled on cover (else unmarked). A sound copy of a rare survival with a significant provenance, some wear and resonant evidences of material experience.

New York: Vito Acconci, 1969. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 128pp, stapled plain wrappers. The rare final issue of Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer's seminal 1960s mimeo revolution magazine of experimental writing and art. Includes many works by first-rank avant-garde artists and their scribbling confreres. This copy from the collection of Opal Louis Nations. Unmarked copy of a rare survival with a significant provenance, light wear and minor evidences of material experience.

New York: Vito Acconci, 1969. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, ~80pp, stapled front wrapper. The rare Street Works Supplement to the final issue of Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer's seminal 1960s mimeo revolution magazine of experimental writing and art. Documents municipal gestures executed at the beginning of the end of the 1960s. This copy from the collection of Opal Louis Nations. Unmarked copy of a rare survival with a significant provenance, light wear and minor evidences of material experience (including a small tear to the last page, the reverse of Hannah Weiner's Street Works III).

New York: Vito Hannibal Acconci, 1968. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 120pp, stapled wrappers (incorporating the dustwrapper of the copy of American Murder Ballads in Acconci and Mayer's library). The rare fourth issue of Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer's seminal 1960s mimeo revolution magazine of experimental writing and art. Includes works by central figures of the literary avant-garde. This copy from the collection of Opal Louis Nations. Original UK and US prices written on first interior page (else unmarked). A sound copy of a rare survival with a stellar cover (each copy is unique) and significant provenance, light wear (the book jacket appears to have been worn before being dragooned) and minor evidences of material experience.