Ecouen: Office de Tourisme d'Ecouen, 2012. Limited edition (1 of 1000 copies). Soft cover. 152p, many ills., many in color. In French. Trace of old price sticker on front cover. Very comprehensive survey of the French, British, and American painters and printmakers who frequented this lesser-known artists' colony just north..... More
![Item #32567 The Illustration of Books [Charles Peter Alford copy]. David Bland](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32567.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742843585)
London: Faber and Faber, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. 160p, over 40 ills., 1 in color. Front panel of jacket has split away. With the bookplate of Charles Peter Alford. Later extensively enlarged, but this first edition is still a useful little introduction to the history and techniques of printed book..... More
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
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
Geneva: Galerie Engelberts, 1968. Georges, Claude. First edition. Soft cover (die-cut cover). [22]p, 18 small ills. and 4 plates. Ex-lib. (ink stamp and name on front cover). In French. One of 700 copies. With a chronology, list of collections, and checklist of the 18 paintings shown. Can be sent outside..... More
![Item #32598 Here & Now; An Exhibition of Thirteen Artists [annotated] + symposium...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32598.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1747078459)
St. Louis: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1969. First edition. Soft cover. [18]p, many ills. "The first exhibition sponsored by Steinberg Art Gallery Associates (SAGA)." Ex-museum-lib. (bookplate and ink stamp). This exhibition brought together for the first time many up and coming young artists, mostly in their 20s: Peter Alexander..... 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=1615215867)
N.p. [England]: Tracey Bush, 1999. Bush, Tracey. Limited edition. One folded sheet. Artist 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
![Item #31967 Raoul Dufy [1 of 375]. Pierre Courthion](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31967.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1710197466)
Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1929. Dufy, Raoul. Limited edition. Hardcover. [36]p. many line ills. + 40 pls., 2 in color pochoir (Leda and the Swan, "Carnaval"). In original glassine jacket. Within poor original board covers (spine gone, much of original silver foil covering is scraped away). No. 216 of 375..... More
New York: Century Co., 1901. First edition. Hardcover (original cloth). 476p, no ills. Handwritten compliments slip from De Vinne tipped in. The first of several editions, catnip for all typesetting, proofreading, and copyediting nerds! Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
![Item #30248 LeR DLa CaNpaNe paR DUBUFe J [1 of 165; Alfonso Ossorio association]. Jean Dubuffet](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30248.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1630956882)
Paris: L'Art Brut, 1948 (Noel). Dubuffet, Jean. Limited edition. Stapled soft cover. [18]p, 3 linoleum cuts and 3 woodcuts. Given by Alfonso Ossorio, Dubuffet's longtime friend, fellow Art Brut artist, and collector, to an American art historian friend. The owner noted the gift on the front cover. Light edge wear..... More
Normal, IL: American Blake Foundation at Illinois State University, 1972. Blake, William. Limited edition, signed. Hardcover. 55p + many plates. No jacket (as issued?). Copy B out of a total of 3000 paperbck copies, 100 hardcover copies, and 26 hardcover publisher's copies numbered A-Z for the Directors of the American..... More
![Item #30332 Brian D. Cohen: Emblems [1 of 200]. Nancy Eddy, Brian D. Cohen, Chard diNiord](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30332.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1629410985)
Westmoreland, NH: Bridge Press, 2016. Cohen, Brian D. Limited edition (200 signed copies). Soft cover. N.p., 25 pls. "Reproduces the first twenty-five etchings of the Emblem series," accompanying an exhibition in Brattleboro, VT. Inspired by Renaissance emblem books, Cohen depicts "mostly things I like, encounter, or dream of. They are..... More
![Item #26138 Louis-Auguste Brun [1 of 1000]; Peintre de Marie-Antoinette 1758-1814....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26138.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1632502346)
Paris: Goupil, 1911. Brun, Louis Auguste. Limited edition. Hardcover (buckram with leather label, original wrappers bound in). 150p, many ills. No. 73 of 1000 copies. Focuses on Brun's early career--portraits, landscapes, and a chapter of interesting studies of horsemen and horsewomen astride and aside. More
![Item #32609 Der Zeichner Henri Cartier-Bresson [cover reads: Henri Cartier-Bresson Zeichnungen]....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32609.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1747690232)
Zurich: Galerie Bischofberger, 1985. Cartier-Bresson. German-language edition. Soft cover. [32]p, 29 plates. Inscribed by Cartier-Bresson "a Van Deren tres cordialement Henri." Ex-museum-lib. with source noted (gift of photo historian Van Deren Coke). Cartier-Bresson's drawings of Paris, Provence, portraits, and skeletons in the Paris natural history museum. A nice association copy..... More
Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1998. First paperback edition (1st pub. 1997). Soft cover. 112p, no ills. "Signed by the author" label on front cover; bookstore price sticker on back cover. Boldly signed by Graham on title page. Graham had recently won the Pulitzer Prize; this was her seventh book of..... More
New York: H.P. Kraus, 1991. Limited edition (1 of 800 copies). Hardcover. 218p, many large ills., many in color. Designed by Jerry Kelly, printed by The Stinehour Press. Unpriced (missing separate price list, if issued). No jacket, as issued. Sumptuous bookseller catalogue with detailed entries for 100 illuminated and text..... More
Worcester, MA: Black Ice Publishers, 1983. McCurdy, Michael. Limited edition. Soft cover. [28]p, many ills. by Michael McCurdy. Signed by the author and artist. A family searches for the perfect tree. "Two hundred copies of this book were hand-printed at Penmaen Press in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, during the autumn of..... More
Ludwigshafen: Galerie Lore Dauer, n.d. [1966]. Krieger, Margarethe. First edition. Soft cover. [36]p, 16 large pls. Signed by Krieger. Exhibition catalogue of powerful expressionistic woodcuts illustrating works by Berthold Brecht. One of Krieger's early publications. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate... More
Athens: Institut Francais d'Athenes, 1981. de Stael, Nicolas. Limited edition. Soft cover. 32p, several ills. by Nicolas de Stael and others. Cover ill. from a collage by de Stael. No. 249 of 300 copies on papier d'Arches. Exhibition catalogue of 26 books, plus much documentation on Lecuire's career. Includes a...... More
![Item #32172 Catalogue 6: Cahiers celestes [1 of 33]. Librairie Oh 7e Ciel](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32172.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1720473318)
Lausanne: Oh 7e Ciel, 2012. Gindrat, Louis. Limited edition. Soft cover. 24p, many color ills. Laid in: reproduced line drawing by Louis Gindrat, with creased glassine cover sheet. No. 21 of 33 numbered copies in this edition "de petit luxe," reserved for friends of the house. (7 copies "de grand..... More
Oxford: Museum of Modern Art, 1984. Michals, Duane. Stated first edition. Soft cover. 117p, many ills., 2 in color. Inscribed by Michals "For Jim & Kate & Leigh with Big Love." Cover shows self-portrait titled "Duane Duck." Catalogue for Michals's first solo exhibition in the UK, including writings by him...... More
![Item #25240 Bayard [1 of 1590 copies]. Lo Duca](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25240.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633528231)
Paris: Prisma, 1943. First edition. Hardcover (original boards). 30p + 49 pls. followed by fold-out captions. No. 715 of 1590 copies. Ink name of previous owner, a Boston-area photographer. No d.j. (as issued?). The first book on Hippolyte Bayard, the early French photographer of the 1840s. Reproduces his portraits (including..... More
Cambridge, MA: Menhaden Press; distributed by Stationarius, 1977. Lockwood, Jim. Limited edition. Sewn soft cover. [20]p, 1 color woodcut by Jim Lockwood. Typeset and printed by N.K. Kelley and F.W. Hegeman. No. 46 of 90 numbered copies (80 for sale). A special association copy. Laid in: publisher's sheet announcing this..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1974. First edition. Hardcover (boards). 133p + 8p of photos. Lacks original glassine jacket. Presentation from art historian Carl Nordenfalk. On the surface, was there ever a less likely pair of correspondents than the plainspoken Midwestern novelist and the erudite German emigre art historian? "What..... More
N.p. [North Brookfield, MA]: Boston Public Library, 1996. Limited edition (1 of 600 copies). Unbound sheet. "In honor of David McCord on his ninety-ninth birthday, November 15, 1996, the Boston Public Library reprints as a broadside his poem from One at a Time, published by Little, Brown. Six hundred copies..... More
