Milan: A.I.D.D.A., 1990. Paperback. 8vo. Black illustrated paper wrappers wirth white title to front wrapper and black title to white spine. Interior is clean and bright with full color illustrations throughout. Text in Italian. 76 pages. Art. ART100829. Near Fine. More
New York: H. Bittner & Company, 1944. Hardcover. 1 of 500 copies. With 21 hand colored woodcuts by Fritz Kredel. A collection of tales that was originally published in Spanish in 1874. This edition is the newly translated (into English) version. Mustard yellow cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Bump to foot of spine. Foxing to first and last few pages, else clean. Letterpress printed by Victor and Jacob Hammer at the Wells College Press in Aurora, NY. In off-white dust jacket with black title to spine and front panels. Minor browning to spine panel and edges of front and rear panels of jacket. Minor wear to edges including a few chips to spine ends of jacket. 151 pages. PRI/010422. Very Good / Very Good. More
New York: The Grolier Club, 1996. Hardcover. One of 1000 copies of which 100 include an original numbered woodcut by Antonio Frasconi and are specially bound. This is number 40 of 100 with an original hand numbered woodcut tipped in. Printed to accompany an exhibition at the Grolier Club 21 May through 31 July 1996 by the Stinehour Press in Vermont. Designed by Jerry Kelly. Features a selection of 68 items with color photographs and brief descriptions, as well as an introduction, essay, and brief chronology. Antoni Frasconi (1919 - 2013) was a Uraguayan-American artist best known for his woodcuts. A quarto bound in tan cloth boards with dark brown title to spine and paper title label to front board. Clean and bright. Housed in a light brown paper covered slipcase with minor sunning to spine and edge of slipcase. Unpaginated. BOB/102623. Fine. More
![Item #37819 Los que no se han ido... [Those who have not left...]. Antonio Guerra, book artist,...](https://kelmscottbookshop.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/37819_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1744226909)
Guerrero, Mexico: 2013. Hardcover. Number 9 of 10 copies signed and dated by the artistic director, Joel Rendón and by the artist, Antonio Guerra. There were ten copies numbered one through ten, with six additional copies going to the participants. This haunting book produced in Mexico was a collaborative effort, with vintage photographs by anonymous contributors, text and design by Antonio Guerra, binding by Ana Laura Rubio, and silkscreen printing by Jorge Matias. The book artist Antonio Guerra trained as an architect and also studied sculpture and graphics. In 2009 he began working in the book arts. His books are completely handmade in his workshop, either as unique pieces or in very limited series. They are impeccably produced and each one is signed and numbered.
This poignant poem in Spanish writes of the dead, saying they are not dead, and not just memories - and they cling to life as if there were no other. They walk among us, talk to us, and kiss us. The poem is accompanied by several pages of original old silver gelatin photographs of people posing for their portraits, but whose images have been altered with the addition of the heads and bones of skeletons. This was done by etching the bones on the negatives. Text (in Spanish) has been added to several of the photographs as well. The photographs are mounted on black paper using photo corners in what appears to be an old photo album; although, the binding was created specifically for this edition. Each copy was made by hand with a full black leather binding with the title printed in silver on the cover. The covers and edges of the boards show minor wear including rubbing and scuffing - to suggest age and the passing of time. The interior black pages are heavy Canson Mi-Teintes paper. The fore-edges are coated with silver. The text uses the Handwriting-Dakota type face. Includes 17 original photographs. A moving production in fine condition. Measures 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Unpaginated [16 pages using the versos only]. ARTB/022125. Fine. More
2025. Number 4 of 5 copies, signed by the artist in silver ink. An artists' book on the urban archaeology of water - its usage, disposal, conservation, and reuse - dedicated to the Mexican god of rain, Tláloc.
Artist's Statement: "In my daily walk I found drains, manholes, signs, and other elements of urban furniture that work perfectly as engraving matrices. They are witnesses of the years and keep the iconography of each city; so I started taking impressions, this led me to think: Where does the water we use, or the rainwater go? This is invisible to our eyes, but it is there, in the bowels of the earth, and we are responsible for it. How much of that water could and should we reuse? With this work dedicated to Tlaloc (Mexica god of rain), I want to share these questions, as well as the beauty of the objects found."
This artists' book includes a collection of three large fold-out images silkscreen printed from manhole covers in the Mexico City and Miami, Florida. The original images were taken during walks by the artist via frottage - or rubbings. The prints are housed in a grey cloth covered portfolio with a silkscreened Aztec glyph of the Mexican rain god, Tlaloc and embossed title to front panel. The signed colophon with an explanation of this project is printed in Spanish inside the front cover. A pocket containing the folded prints is pasted down to the rear panel. Grey ribbons hold the portfolio closed. Paper size: about 30 x 20 inches, open. Portfolio size: 16.5 x 11 inches. ARTB/022725. Fine. More
![Item #37821 Trazos / Sentimientos [Traces / Feelings]. Antonio Guerra, book artist and author](https://kelmscottbookshop.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/37821_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1744216585)
Mexico: Antonio Guerra, 2024. Number 3 of 5 copies. A sumptious collection of three original erotic poems (in Spanish) illustrated with twelve engravings of nude figures of both male and female forms. According to the artist: The "text and images are closely linked ... [in this piece, I] describe the deepest human feelings, with a subtle touch of eroticism. The reader, in a game-like way, must build [their] own story with the moving nudes and the texts presented by the author."
English translations of the three poems follow:
"There is never darkness in the night
when our bodies
burning the sheets they melt
tireless fire and light."
"last night I dreamed of you...
between fire your skin and mine
burned with our humidity."
"Sink into my hummingbird flower of a thousand colors
and use your tongue to drink the honey
that causes your fluttering between my legs"
The unbound sheets including 12 linocut engravings, 3 poems, and colophon are housed in a beautifully crafted folding box. The box is covered in grey cloth with interior panels lined in floral patterned silk. The poems were hand typed on a typewriter. The small-format linocuts are printed in black ink on Hanemuhle fine art paper. Box size: 8.25 x 11.5 inches. Page Size: about 8 x 10.5 inches.
The book artist Antonio Guerra trained as an architect and also studied sculpture and graphics. In 2009 he began working in the book arts. His books are completely handmade in his workshop, either as unique pieces or in very limited series. They are impeccably produced and each one is signed and numbered. His work is found in private and public collections worldwide. ARTB/022725. Fine. More
Brazil: Ministerio da Educacao e Cultura, 1965. Paperback. Number 12 of 200 copies numbered and signed by the author. An additional 800 unsigned copies were printed. Elephant folio. A collection of 50 poems by Stella Leonardos illustrated with 3 lithographs by Pedro. Portuguese author and painter Antonio Pedro (1909 - 1966) helped introduce Surrealism into Portuguese painting during the 1930s. Bound in white and green paper wrappers with green title to front cover. Minor browning to spine and edges of wrappers and a few small closed tears to edges of wrappers. The interior is clean overall with minor browning to edges of pages. Some light foxing / light soiling to margins of some pages. Small closed tear to margin of one of the prints, which does not effect the image. Includes a postcard on the letterhead of the Brazilian minister of education and culture dated 7/6/65 with a brief handwritten note in Portuguese. Unbound as issued in large folded sheets. 91 pages plus plates, notes, and index. IN PORTUGUESE. POE/010715. Very Good. More
Edizioni dello Zibaldone, 1951. Paperback. Number 72 of 100 copies. Grey paper wrappers with green title to front panel and "10 / Madonizza" to spine. Browning to spine and to edges of wrapers. Minor dampstain to spine / bottom edge of wrappers. Clean and bright interior with unopened pages. 160 pages. ITA/041119. Very Good. More
Rome: Tipografia Delle Belle Arti, 1837, 1848. Hardcover. Mixed state. Two volumes are from the first edition of 1837, with the third volume stating it is the second edition dated 1848. The new edition is numbered Volume I on the spine, while the two volumes from the first edition are numbered Volume II and Volume III on the spines.
Antonio Nibby (1792 – 1839) was an Italian archaeologist and topographer. He was an expert on the topography of Rome and its environs. He was a professor of archaeology in the University of Rome and in the French Academy in Rome. For a few years Nibby worked together with the British archaeologist William Gell and together they published a study on the walls of Rome in 1820. They had plans of publishing a study on the topography of the Roman Campagna, but they ended up publishing separately [Wikipedia].
Bound in half vellum with paper marbled boards. Red and brown leather spine labels with title and volume number. Vellum is stained, rubbed, and bumped with fraying and small tears to spine edges. The paper boards are scraped, abraded, and worn along the edges. Volumes II and III have light damp stains to page edges generally not affecting the text. All of the volumes have scattered browning and foxing. The called for map by Gell is not present. Still a nice readable set in good plus condition. Small quartos. Volume I: 555 pages.;Volume II: 759 pages; Volume III: 678 pages; ARCHE/090722. Good +. More
Madrid: Instituto Diego Velazquez, Del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1954. Hardcover. 8vo. Very Good hardcover with slightly soiled and chipped white dustjacket with black title to front and spine panels. Several black and white reproductions. In Spanish. Spanish Art. ART/7192. Very Good / Very Good. More