Buenos Aires: Raoul Veroni, 1976. Paperback. Number 36 of 36 copies, printed on Japan paper (4 copies), Arches (7 copies), Ingres (8 copies) and Extra Strong (17 copies). This copy is one of the 17 on Extra Strong. Printed in English and Spanish. Includes a prologue (in Spanish and English) about Poe, two illustrations, the poem in English - which is a lithographic facsimilie of original manuscript in Poe's handwriting, and a Spanish translation in letterpress with lithographed initials and decorations. Bound in stiff white paper wrappers with black title and red author to front panel. In the original glassine. A few small spots of foxing to glassine, rear wrapper, and interior, else clean. Printed in black, blue, green, and red. A lovely piece of presswork from Buenos Aires. [28 pages.] PRI/052623. Fine. More

Bushwood, MD: Robert E.T. Pogue, 1972. Hardcover. First Edition. Signed by the Author. "The entire book is sprinkled with humorous anecdotes ... It is essentially a narrative about interesting people, places, adn events of a slower-paced and now vanished era. Many well known Maryland landmarks are pictured and described, but the book's most interesting features are the heretofore unknown landmarks and people of this bygone time. Also it is filled with 250 photographs, many of them very rare" (jacket). Very good in maroon cloth boards with gilt title to spine and front board. Clean and bright. In cream and grey illustrated jacket with cream spine panel titled in dark blue. Minor browning and soiling to jacket. Minor wear to edges of jacket including short closed tears and a few small chips. Size: Quarto. 353 pages. MD/071923. Very Good / Very Good. More

Moscow: Emile Goozairow, 2020. Hardcover. Emile Goozairow is a Russian artist who paints and draws, produces movies, and creates exceptional miniature handmade books that are printed on rare types of paper and published in limited editions. His techniques create unique designs that often are made with natural materials alone or in combination with relief decorations made from metal or polymeric clay. He creates books that he describes as "pop up," “kinetic carousel," “liporello” or “3D origami.” He also writes fairy tales, stories and mystical scenes. This small open edition miniature book offers the poem "The Prophet" by the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, printed in both Russian and English. The poems are digitally printed on each side of a "two-way" book and accompanied by 17 striking illustrations. This three dimensional binding in the shape of a chevron is embellished with faces and patterns on both sides. It is painted in gilt, black, and red. Something inside mysteriously rattles. Size: 3 x 1.5 x 1.5 inches. A stunning book in fine condition. ARTB/052323. Fine. More

Dania Beach, FL: Claire Jeanine Satin, 2020. Softcover. A unique artist's book from Claire Jeanine Satin, a well known book artist, sculptor and designer of public art installations. Satin's work has been extensively exhibited and collected in the United States and in Europe, including at The Library of Congress, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Getty (CA), MOMA, and The Victoria and Albert Museum. She is known especially for her conceptual works in uenced by the ideas of her friend and mentor the composer/visual artist John Cage, and the conversion of ordinary industrial materials into environmental constructions and book works of layered transparent mass. This is one of a series of unique works by Satin. Each book is created with Cordenons paper, a fine paper that has been manufactured in Italy since 1630. This book uses a cream stock with various sized papers with images of past presidents and treasury officials as well as facsimiles of the five dollar bill, green and gold ornaments, crystals, beads and monofilament to create precise and inventive designs on the cover and each page. A green label is attached to a dangling monofilament with the artist's name, book title, and date. In a silver cloth bag. In fine condition. Measures 7 x 5 inches. Unpaginated [10 pages]. ARTISTSB/082323. Fine. More

Freeville, NY: Carol Schwartzott, 2020. Number 13 of 15 copies signed and numbered by the book artist. Each copy is bound in different paper. Carol has created this charming book as an homage to the glove. She describes what a glove is, names for gloves, glove materials, their place throughout history, their social aspects, and particular types of gloves like the gauntlet, the baseball glove, and knitted mittens and gloves. She includes a bibliography of works she consulted. At the close of her history she writes of gloves today: "Gloves continue to play an important role. They keep us warm in winter, they are necessary in many work places and are manufactured for very specific jobs. Gloves allow us to touch unclean surfaces without getting sick, and of course, gloves can make an amazing fashion statement....The outbreak of the Corona Virus in 2020 created a new and extensive need for protective disposable gloves." The text is accompanied by delightful hand-colored illlustrations. The book is ink jet printed with archival inks on Hammermuhle Photo/Text 180# paper using Palatino, Geometric 321, and Chopin Script types. Bound in lovely orange paste paper covered boards with title label to spine. The text pages are done with an accordion structure that allows the book to be read as a codex or opened to fan the pages out. Housed in a slip case covered in orange, black, and silver paste paper. In fine condition. Measures 4.25 x 5.5 inches. Unpaginated. ARTISTSB/051723. Fine. More

Freeville, NY: Carol Schwartzott, 2019. Paperback. Number 3 of 10 copies. Signed by the artist. Bound in an accordion structure with hand colored, collaged elements including palmistry diagrams on each page. Includes two pages of text, Nine illustrations, and colophon. Housed in a altered Altoid box that has been collaged with a map of Europe and other papers on both interior and exterior. The box is titled in gold on the front panel. The book and box both come in a handmade navy blue felt carrying case with pink ribbon pull ties. Unpaginated. [18 pages.] Size: book is about 3.5 x 2 inches; box is about 3.75 x 2.25 inches. ARTB/051023. Fine. More

Freeville, NY: Carol Schwartzott, 2022. Number 4 of 5 copies signed and numbered by the book artist. Carol Schwartzott has been creating artists' books for over twenty-five years. Her work appears in many museums, libraries, and private collections including the Smithsonian, the National Gallery of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. This marvelous work is an entirely new version of a book about quilts that Carol first produced in 1994. She says that this time she wanted to create a work using her original thought of each illustration being a handmade quilt. She writes: "I selected some interesting colors and began to cut and sew...learning very quickly how hard it is to sew tiny...Each part of the story needed variations on quilt design...patchwork, appliqué, crazy quilt, etc. Needless to say, I made a lot of quilts, choosing only the best eleven for the final illustrations. They are accompanied by descriptions of the quilting techniques on the facing page and protected by tissue papers. The book itself, proved a challenge. Because the quilts were dimensional, I needed pages that would allow for hat depth but also be part of the overall design. I decided to work with a binding style that I had used many years ago in a series of books on color. [She used] 2 ply archival cotton mat board, with cut windows to place the quilts. These panels were attached to the printed pages to form the spine and binding, with Japanese accordion folded paper as an interior hinge system. The text is printed with pigmented inks on Mohawk Vellum. The book block itself is hinged onto green cloth-covered boards, with printed color endpapers. Next came the cabinet....I wanted it to be a sort of 'a visual library of quilting materials'. I had this concept early on, so I started collecting materials that I might use. I had lots of old threads, fabrics, ribbons, beads, and I knew where and how to sort out items...old thimbles, scissors, interesting needle cases...I even made tiny pincushions." The various items are charmingly assembled on shelves and in compartments visible through the clear glasson the cabinet's top . "Little by little the actual cabinet took shape. I had collected old frames for years...luckily I found 5 that were just the right size...The glass cabinet is built into the picture frame, a shadow box of sorts...this is then hinged to the bottom, which forms the cradle that houses the book. The final curiosity cabinet [is a box that] presents itself either on a wall, or shelf, or lying on a surface....once opened it reveals the book." The green box is secured with a metal clasp. The book with a multicolored title label rests inside and there is a ribbon pull to lift it out. A beautiful and creative production in fine condition. Measures 8 x 10 x approximately 2 inches. Unpaginated. ARTB/051523. More

Freeville, NY: Carol Schwartzott, 2021. Hardcover. Number 5 of 12 copies signed and numbered by the book artist. The text from this beautiful book was extracted from Lure of the Garden written by Hildegarde Hawthorne in 1911. There are also quotes about gardens and nature from such writers as Shakespeare, Longfellow, Gertrude Jekyll, and Dickinson. The book includes eight lovely large graphite drawings by Carol of plants. There are also 18 smaller drawings, some of which are reduced versions of the larger ones. Each was later finalized with the addition of hand-coloring using a combination of watercolor, gouache and colored pencil. The text is Inkjet printed on archival Mohawk vellum in Cochin and Cinzel Decorative types. Bound in dark purple cloth with title label on front cover. Housed in a dark gray clamshell box with charmng multi-colored floral papers on the inside lid and box bottom and title label to spine panel. A wonderful celebration of the pleasures of the garden. In fine condition. Measures: 7.25 x 7.25 inches. 54 pages. ARTISTB/051723. Fine. More

Freeville, NY: Carol Schwartzott, 2021. Hardcover. Number 20 of 25 copies signed and numbered by the book artist. A collection of seven love poems originally from the book "India's Love Lyrics" compiled and translated by Laurence Hope. It includes the original illustrations that have been reworked from Carol's earlier book, "King Zada's Song" (1995). The interior of the book "follows a simple flutter style / accordian format, with each of the six hand-cut arched windows folding out to create tiny theaters displaying illustrations reminiscent of classic Indian miniatures" (artist statement). Bound in paper covered boards with title label to front cover. Digitally printed on Mohawk Superfine Vellum with additions of hand coloring. Housed in a handmade box covered in a variety of papers with title label to spine panel. In fine condition. Measures 3 x 2 inches in a box that is 4.25 x 2.5 inches. Unpaginated. [46 pages.] ARTISTSB/051723. Fine. More

London: Jacob Tonson, 1734. Hardcover. Jacob Tonson (1656? - 1736) was one of the most influential publishers in England. and the premier publisher of his age. In 1709, he famously purchased the “copyright” to Shakespeare. Tonson and his family over the next fifty years went on to publish some of the most significant editions of the collected works of Shakespeare, edited by the likes of Nicholas Rowe, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson. This volume of Timon of Athens is one of the many plays that Tonson published in 1734. The several titles were the first of Shakespeare's plays to be published individually rather than in the folios or Tonson's multi-volume sets of Shakespeare in 1709. Tonson entered into a feud in 1734 with another bookseller over the rights to see copies of Shakespeare's plays. Due to the Copyright Act of 1709, any “rights” that the firm previously held expired in 1731. Regardless of the law, the Tonsons and the other proprietors continued to hold claim to the rights and they actively intimidated their competitors from trying their publishing luck with the Bard. When in 1734 a small-time London bookseller named Robert Walker began to produce inexpensive editions of the individual plays, Tonson threatened Walker with litigation to cease production. Undeterred by Tonson’s threats, and eventual bribery, Walker called his bluff and continued to sell the plays, offering volume title pages for the plays to be bound in seven volumes, if desired. Realizing that he did not have any lawful recourse, Tonson counter-produced his own editions of the individual plays, to eventually be bound in eight volumes, publishing more copies, at a lower cost than Walker’s. While trying to out-sell each other, the two booksellers took to issuing “advertisements” with their publications, in an attempt to defame the othe [Folger Shakespeare Library]. This copy of Timon has one of these advertisements, printed on the verso of the title page under the list of characters. Bound in modern black pebbled cloth with title and year published in gilt to front cover. Slight rubbing and bumping. Marbled red endpapers. The text pages are browned and have occasional spots but are still quite nice and readable. With a frontispiece illustration by Paul Fourdrinier, the 18th century engraver. Very good condition. Measures 4 x 6.5 inches. 72 pages. Very Good. More

Rutland, VT: Carolyn Shattuck, n.d. Carolyn Shattuck is a noted printmaker, using monotype, dry point, painting, stencils and mixed media. In addition to her printmaking skills, Shattuck is architectural in the way she executes the intricate constructions for her artist's books, which highlight her interest in social and environmental causes. Her books have been collected by a number of special collections libraries at universities throughout the country. The inspiration for this inventive book came from a bar in Key West where the walls were lined with license plates from all over the U.S. The combinations of symbols, letters, and numbers presented a word puzzle communicating in a unique language. This book is an open edition that is a "magic star" construction that allows the work to be opened to reveal the interior pages. In stiff black paper covers with title label and image of a Tennessee license plate with the letters DBL TRBL. Affixed to each folded page is an image of a different state license plate, all with vanity words instead of numbers. Printed on Red River paper and Hemptone from Paperworks. In fine condition. Measures 4 x 4 x 2 inches. ARTB/082323. Fine. More

Rutland, VT: Carolyn Shattuck, n.d. Open edition of this beautifully crafted open edition origami-designed book. This collaborative book was made to commemorate Carolyn's experience living in Okinawa for three years. The folds of the book reflect traditional patterns from Edo craftsmen. These fine patterns represent the distinguishing tastes of Edo including stylishness, sophistication and refinement. The haiku created by Victoria describe their reverence for our home and harbour, Earth (from colophon). Digitally printed on Epson Matte and Japanese Washi paper. The boards are covered in lovely Genji cloth with paper title label, with black ribbons to close the book or to hold the pages open. 4.5 x 4.5 x 1 inches. In fine condition. ARTISTS/082123. Fine. More