New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1966. Limited edition. Soft cover. 66p + ca. 32p of reproductions of books and ephemera. One of 1500 soft cover copies; there were also 400 clothbound copies. Exhibition catalogue of 60 Spiral Press books and ephemera from 1926 through 1966, with a long history by..... More
Minneapolis: Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, 1958. First edition. Soft cover. 28p, 21 ills. One of 1000 copies designed by Rob Roy Kelly. Back cover and last few pages dampstained along spine. Covers age soiled. Catalogue for a loan exhibition that aimed to assemble all the major Poussin paintings in..... More
Rennes: Compagnons du Sagittaire [printer], 2007. Limited edition. Soft cover. 264p, many black-and-white photos. In French. One of 700 copies. Very informative exhibition catalogue of more than 50 artist magazines from the US, Britain, and Europe that were published from 1962 on. The exhibition was held at three sites in..... More
Rome: Capitolium (Revista di Roma), 1968. First edition. Soft cover. Special issue of the journal Capitolium. Over 250p (some numbered separately), hundreds of photos + ca. 10 folding maps and plans in flat colors. Covers worn, outer pages dogeared, but text block is secure and sturdy. The maps are generally..... More
No place: No stated publisher, n.d. [1986?]. First edition. Paperbound. 16p, 18 large color ills. Light handling soil to covers. The text is titled "Hand-Werk zu Arbeiten von Peter Reichenberger." The oils on canvas or paper have a resemblance to color field painting. Can be sent outside the US for..... More
![Item #31511 New England Book Show 1974 [and] Directory 1974/75. Bookbuilders of Boston](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31511.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1683577742)
Boston: Bookbuilders of Boston, [1975?]. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vols., each n.p. Book Show catalogue has many ills. No jackets, as issued. In original slipcase. Once-annual catalogue of the best of New England "book design and manufacturing," this year judged in 4 categories: educational, general trade, children's, and other. The..... More
Boston: Bookbuilders of Boston, [1978]. First edition. Hardcover. 144p, many small ills. Erratum sheet laid in. No jacket, as issued. Once-annual presentation of the best of New England publishing in "all aspects of book making, manufacturing, and production techniques." One page is devoted to each winner in various categories for..... More
Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1986. Cortright, Steven. First edition. Soft cover (die-cut window on front). 20p, several ills., most in color. The fifth and final exhibition in the museum's series to showcase contemporary Southern California artists. Checklist of Cortright's altered bookworks, photo setups and fabricated books, and..... More
![Item #26593 Third Annual Dinner [menu printed on silk]. Boston Marketmen's Republican Club](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26593.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973484)
Boston: Elwell French (printer), 1891. First edition. Unbound folded sheet. The menu is printed on one piece of unhemmed yellow silk, originally tied with thread within stiff covers; the covers have now detached.. The sewing is still intact on the silk. The lettering on the cover, which surrounds an image..... More
Oostkamp: Stichting Kunstboek, 2002. Stockmans, Piet. First edition. Hardcover. 112p, many large photos, most in color. Photo is a little cropped. Handsome overview of Stockmans's varied work in porcelain and plaster--tableware, shapes based on the human body, and installations. Large; shipping/handling may be extra. Please keep this in mind when..... More
Sevres: Editions La Revue de la Ceramique et du Verre, 2010. Champy, Claude. First edition. Hardcover (boards). 168p, many large photos, most in color. No jacket, as issued. Texts by Bouiller, David Cameo, Christine Shimizu, and Christian Garcelon. In French; the main texts also in English. Survey of Champy's work..... More
Clermont: Typographie de Paul Hubler, 1861. First edition. Soft cover. 212p, no ills. Institutional library discard, minimally marked. Housed in card-stock folder. First edition of this catalogue and visitor's guide to the recently established provincial museum in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Short introduction, list of donors and subscribers, over 500 entries for..... More
New York: Jaap Rietman, 1976. Andre, Carl. First edition. Soft cover. 88p, many black-and-white ills. Covers lightly soiled overall, foxed. Published on the occasion of a traveling exhibition. More
New York: Rosa Esman Gallery, 1978. First edition. Soft cover. [16]p, several ills. Outer pages foxed; covers soiled. Catalogue of 42 works on paper and books by Malevich, Exter, Goncharova, Larionov, El Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, and others. Published on the centenary of Malevich's birth. Can be sent outside the US..... More
New York: Princeton Architectural Press for New York Chapter/American Institute of Architects, 1987. Rodchenko, Alexander. First edition. Soft cover. [32]p, many black-and-and white ills. Exhibition catalogue. Texts by Bowlt, Alexander Lavrentjev, and Vieri Quilici on Rodchenko's photographs and graphic design, architectural language, and constructivist theory. Can be sent outside the..... More
Helsinki: Museum of Art and Design, 1999. Higby, Wayne. First edition. Soft cover. 54p, many large color ills. In English. Exhibition of 15 works embodying "memory-traces" of canyons, rocks, the sea, etc. Short artist's statement. Long bibliography and biography by Helen W. Drutt English (who lent the works) and Huron..... More
N.p. [New York?]: Brentano's, 1949. Williams, Gluyas. First edition. Soft cover. 12p, many small ills. including author photos, book jackets, and Gluyas Williams cartoon on cover (from Father of the Bride). Advertising pamphlet for the "top current books" of June 1949 from Brentano's, "booksellers to the world." Among the featured..... More
London: Routledge, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 654p,many tables, + many ills. Over 20 essays by specialists on 17th- and 18th-century material culture in Britain, Europe, and America. Their interpretations help shape "a new historical landscape based on the consumption of goods and services." The parts are: Problems, Methods and Concepts;..... More
Euclid, OH: Saturday's Book Arts Gallery, 1988. Rennie, Silvia; Sobota, Jan. First edition. Unbound. One dos-a-dos accordion-folded sheet, 22 color ills. of bindings. Photo is slightly cropped. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Designed by Jan Sobota. More
New York: New York Public Library, 1958. Limited reprint edition. Soft cover. 39p, several line ills. + 4 plates. Decorations printed in red. One of 1000 copies, reprinted from the library's Bulletin. Just what the title says, on typography, production, and illustration from Pope to Bewick and Blake. Can be..... More
Cambridge, MA: Privately printed (Harvard University), June 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 176p, no ills. Photo-duplicated typescript, printed on rectos. Tipped in: "This report is confidential and not for distribution or publication until permission has been granted by the Present of Harvard University." Covers lightly shelf-rubbed. A mid-century needs and opportunities..... More
Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1975. Uelsmann, Jerry. First edition. Hardcover. N.p., 146 large photos. Lightly rippled throughout; slight foxing to last few bottom margins; else clean. Comprehensive selection of Uelsmann's work, chiefly his multiple images of the natural world that "possess an often eerie vision of the extra-sensory..... More
New York: Baker & Taylor, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. 280p + 33 plates, 22 in color. Withdrawn ex-lib., with usual marks. One 4-page gathering of the preface is detached. No jacket, if issued. Very thorough account of color printing in books and prints from the 15th century through photomechanical reproduction--chiaroscuro..... More
![Item #25738 Cygnea Cantio: Swan Song [no. 2 of 50, signed]. Tracey Bush](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25738.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973461)
N.p. [England]: Tracey Bush, 1999. Bush, Tracey. Limited edition. One folded sheet. Artist's book consisting of one stiff leaf of tan paper, folded in thirds, within blue cloth covers with ties. Very faint ghost of an old small label on back cover, which could easily be removed. Folded, 6 x...... More
Geneva: Christian Braillard (printer), 1983. First edition. Soft cover. [48]p, many color ills. Poetic text by Butor and an explanation of the series and its production by Pretre. One of 1500 trade copies. In French. Catalogue for two exhibitions of Jean-Claude Pretre's Offenbach series held in Basel, 1983 (including..... More
