San Francisco: Gazelle and Goat Press, 2016. Number 17 of 30 copies. Signed and numbered by book artist and author Rhiannon Alpers. She is a papermaker, letterpress printer and book artist, with an MFA in Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago and a BA in Book Arts from UC Santa Barbara. In addition to creating books and providing custom commissions from her California studio, Rhiannon has taught book arts at numerous institutions and has been exhibited nationally. The artist says that "this book was inspired by sleep-deprived dreams as a new mother in the Summer of 2016. It explores an imagined journey, being carried through the comfort of one's dreams. A journey guided by a murmuration of a thousand starlings, undulating and wisping through the evening sky, their soft voices calming and cooing as they head into the unknown." She further states that the book abounds in metaphors and symbolism. This lovely work is letterpress printed with photopolymer plates and monotype, with an under layer of hand painted stars beneath, on Somerset Velvet Black. The endsheets are Fabriano Tiziano Anthracite and bound in Asahi Grey Crepe bookcloth. Foil stamped birds and title, this false accordion book is masquerading in a Secret Belgian binding with Italian film yarn. In fine condition. Unpaginated. ARTISTSBOOK/080417. Fine. More about A Thousand Starlings

San Francisco: Gazelle and Goat, 2018. Number 20 of 40 copies. Signed and numbered by Rhiannon Alpers, the book artist. Rhiannon has been a book artist, maker of paper, and bookbinder based in San Francisco for almost twenty years. She is fascinated by structures and boxes, and much of her work is focused on nature. This beautifully designed and executed book is emblematic of Rhiannon's artistic interests and aesthetics. She writes of her book, which was inspired by author Glynis Ridley: "When Jeanne Baret stepped on-board the Etoile ship in 1766, she didn’t set out to be the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. Alongside her colleague, accomplice and lover, Philibert Commerson, she took on many roles during the expedition as a botanist, herb woman, nurse, and cataloger of the more than 630 specimens they brought aboard. This limited edition artist book traces the expedition of the first woman to circumnavigate the globe, through the lens of the botanical discoveries she made along the ship’s journey. Jeanne Baret was not able to document the expedition herself, due to the forbidden nature of her passage on this journey, but her legacy has inspired many, and spurred the creation of this book." The book has a removable magnetic spine binding that opens completely back-to-back, with a digitally produced specimen chart hidden within. Hahnemuhle Bugra Fawn folio maps are letterpress printed from polymer plates, adapted from French expedition maps from the published logs “Voyage Autour du Monde par la Frégate du rio la Boudeuse et la Fluté L’Etoile.". Crane’s Lettra Ecru 90lb specimen folios letterpress printed from linoleum blocks and polymer plates. Plant outlines are laser cut and secured with Japanese tissue. Laser cut specimens were adapted from the original plant specimens collected by Commerson and Baret on the expedition, archived in the Museum of Natural History in Paris. Interleaved vellum sheets with macro photography by the artist laser printed on Neenah UV Ultra II. Spine bound with Gmund Bier Paper [colophon]. In fine condition. Measures 8.25 x 9.5 inches. Unpaginated. ARTISTSB/072419. More about Jeanne Baret: The Woman Behind the Naturalist

New York: The Viking Press, A Studio Book, (1981). First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine in near fine red and black illustrated dust jacket with white title to front panel and to black spine panel. Pristine interior with full color illustrations throughout. 153 pages. IND/053019. Fine / Near Fine. More about Gulbadan: Portrait of a Rose Princess at the Mughal Court

New York: The Johnny Gruelle Company, 1931. Hardcover. Illustrated paper covered boards with black spine panel titled in blue. Minor fading to edges of boards. Wear to paper along edges, corners, and hinges. Signed by the previous in pencil on the front free endpaper. In matching illustrated dust jacket with black spine panel titled in blue. Multiple tears, rubbing, creases, and chips to jacket. Tape repairs. Jacket is now in an archival plastic cover to prevent further damage. Clean. 95 pages plus one page of ads. CHILD/062619. Very Good / Very Good. More about Raggedy Ann in Cookie Land

Regina Combs Hammett, (1980). Hardcover. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 4to in red cloth covered boards with white title to front board and to spine. Small spot of soiling to bottom of front board. Minor browning and foxing to end pages, paste downs, and to edges of text block. Light spot to margins of several pages. Text is clean and bright. Red dust jacket with white title to front and spine panels. Wear to dust jacket includes rubbing, chipping to edges, and fading to spine panel. Index, 546 pages. MD/071219. Very Good / Very Good. More about History of St. Mary's County, Maryland

Glenview, IL: Karen Hamner, 2003. Number 16 of 20 copies. Signed and numbered by the book artist. An engaging tunnel book by Karen Hamner who is well known for her expertise with various book structures. "Her artist-made books are physical manifestations of personal essays intertwining history, culture, politics, science and technology. She utilizes both traditional and contemporary book structures, and the work is often playful in content or format" (from online biography). For this playful work she created paper cut-outs of the letters of the alphabet that were colored using pigment inkjet prints to run through the color spectrum and back. Book is 5 x 5 x 18 inches when expanded; 5 x 5 x 1 inch when closed. Housed in an archival square grey box with title label giving book artist address and number of this copy. In fine condition. ARTISTSBOOK/080119. Fine. More about The Spectrum A to Z

Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2018). Hardcover. 8vo. Fine in fine illustrated black dust jacket with yellow and white title to front panel and yellow title to spine. Pristine interior. Illustrated. Index, 453 pages. WWI/050919. Fine / Fine. More about The Last Battle: Victory, Defeat, and the End of World War I

Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins Press, (1971). First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Pristine interior. Orange illustrated price clipped dust jacket with white title to front and spine panels. Minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket as well as minor fading to spine panel. Index, 211 pages. IND/053019. Fine / Very Good. More about America Encounters India, 1941-1947

Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, (1987). First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Very good + in illustrated beige dust jacket with dark blue and orange title to front panel and dark blue title to spine. Minor fading to spine panel and edgewear to dust jacket. Interior is clean and bright with illustrations throughout. Index, 347 pages. MD/071219. Very Good / Very Good. More about Steamboat on the Chesapeake: Emma Giles and the Tolchester Line

Benjamin Iluzada, 2017. Hardcover. Number 5 of 15 copies. Signed and numbered by the book artist. A collection of memories from the author about the places he's lived and his experiences ranging from a tarantula on his head when he was a child to adventures in sledding to noisy neighbors making love in the apartment above him. While each memory is very personal, anyone reading it can immediately relate to this nostalgic memoir. Letterpress printed with linoleum cuts, Resingrave engravings, pressure plates, and polymer plates on Fabriano Rospina paper. Created and printed for Sarah Nicolls' MFA Letterpress class at the University of the Arts, in Philadelphia, PA. Benjamin Iluzada is an up and coming printmaker currently working on his MFA at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Size: 5 x 5.25 inches. PRI/070219. Fine. More about The House on the Hill

Oakland, CA: In Cahoots Press, 2017. Hardcover. Number 14 of 40 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. "With quotes from 'A Thousand and One Nights', 'Meanwhile' celebrates the importance of stories over time and across cultures. A series of organic imagery flows from page to page, overlapping and echoing the quality of A Thousand and One Nights as one story leads to another and another. The quoted text is set in shaped text blocks and clusters of letters, like flocks of birds floating amidst the shapes. A few larger lines of text per page guide the viewer through the book, describing Sceherazade's experience of telling stories and, as a result, saving herself from execution by the King," Macy Chadwick. Accordion bound in blue cloth boards with dark blue title to front cover. The images are printed from linoleum cuts and the text is letterpress printed from polymer plates. Housed in a green cloth covered clamshell box with dark blue title to front panel. Size: 10 x 10 inches, closed; 10 x 156 inches, fully extended. ARTB/051019. Fine. More about Meanwhile [A Thousand and One Nights

Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013. Hardcover. "The history of Nazism, shows Ingrao, is also a history of beliefs in which a powerful military machine was driven by personal experiences, fervour, anguish, utopianism, and cruelty" (jacket). Black paper covered boards with silver title to spine. In white illustrated dust jacket with black title to spine and front panels. Clean and bright. 399 pages. GER/052819. Fine. More about Believe and Destroy: Intellectuals in the SS War Machine

New York: Sheldon and Company, 1872. Hardcover. Includes 2 articles by Henry James, chapters from Trollope's 'The Eustace Diamonds', Correspondence by Turgenoff, 'Romance of the Negro' by Pollard, and "About Barbers" by Mark Twain (page 283). Ex-library from Peoria. Rear board detached but present. Black leather spine and corners over dark green marbled paper covered boards. Gilt title to spine. Heavy wear and chipping to spine and edges of boards. Clean interior with red pen to title page. A good reading copy only. 882 pages. PER/052119. Good. More about The Galaxy: A Magazine of Entertaining Reading. Volume XII (12). June 1871 - January 1872