Search Results: Authors starting with N from Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC

Irvine, California:: Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli,, 2016.. Edition of 10, second printing. 8" diameter circular flexagon binding with magnet closure. 12 circular leaves with 2" diameter. Materials: Vellum, bristol, Mohab, Entrada, brass. Housed in white clamshell box with magnet closure and paper title label on lid. Blue paper wrapper with artist statement and colophon label adhered to interior of box. Flexagon laid inside wrapper. Signed and numbered by the artist on the colophon. Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli: "While watching clouds that were passing over the port of Genoa (Italy) I was inspired to create this artist's book. In the midst of thoughts about nature's forces and movements, tragic events in my life let me take stock of my existence. "The movement of the clouds creates an unpredictable and mysterious energy that colors our thoughts. In this atmospheric energy I found the strength to contemplate my past and imagine my future, I even glanced at my horoscope to… Read More

Corte Madera, CA:: Gingko Press,, 2005.. 226.25 x 170 mm; 38 pages with 74 color illustrations. Printed on 200 gsm Tintoretto paper. Double flap binding in Sirio cloth. With appendix and notes. Jean Holabird, introduction: "Vladimir Nabokov had the condition known as synesthesia ... It is a 'mixing of the senses' which manifested itself for the writer as .. colored hearing, the involuntary attribution of colors to the sounds of letters. The alphabet ... is my attempt at interpreting Vladimir Nabokov's delightful account of his own vivid version of the condition." Barbara Wyllie, review: "For all those readers who have often wondered what the 'dull green, combined somehow with violet' of Nabokov's W would look like, or tried to imagine the distinction between the 'light blue' of his C and the blend of 'azure and mother-of-pearl' of his S, Jean Holabird has done a great service. Her interpretation of Nabokov's alphabet offers for the… Read More

Ballybeg, Grange, Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland:: Coracle Books,, 2010.. [Edition of 1500]. 7.125 x 5.125"; 128 pages. Illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated paper covered boards. Editorial design by Simon Cutts. Layout design by Colin Sackett. Introduction: "The Book Remembers Everything developed as a result of a 2010 exhibition of the outstanding collection of Erica Van Horn's work in the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, including early works on paper, elaborately illustrated unique books, and printed and editioned works in a wide variety of formats. Like the exhibition, this book represents aspects of the artist's development over more than thirty years, exploring common elements throughout the extensive body of her work; it also extends the work of the exhibition by including new books and collaborations from Van Horn's recent work and additional examples of unique bookworks from early… Read More

Brooklyn, New York:: Bone Hollow Arts,, 2010.. Second edition. 9.5 x 8.5"; 4 pages. Accordion fold. Photocopy collage using two articles from The New York Times and a press photograph. A tribute to Anwar el-Sadat.  Louise Neaderland: "Created from multiple copies of a photograph of Sadat in front of the pyramids shortly before his assassination. The book opens with the empty desert, the pyramids appear, Sadat appears then slowly disappears, the pyramids disappear, and the desert remains."  The Egyptian president appears as a standing figure throughout the cinematic panorama until, at the end, his presence is a cut-out silhouette, an empty space where his likeness used to be.

Brooklyn, New York:: Louise Neaderland,, 1985.. Edition of 3. 12 x 6 x 1.5"; 11 leaves including title cover and back board. Photocopy pages dry mounted on boards set into an accordion binding. Louise Neaderland, catalog: "This form resembles a stepped pyramid, a memorial ... This book is about the artist's father. Each page shows him at a different stage in his life. The images of his driver's license grow larger and more important as he progresses from youth to old age. In his last years he refused to give up this iconic symbol of his independence. A shrunken old man now, he can barely see over the wheel of the car, but refuses to give up driving. He dies with that license in his wallet. In NY state, as long as an elderly person can read the eye chart, the State cannot refuse to renew his license regardless of his mental or physical condition."

Brooklyn, New York:: Bone Hollow Arts,, 1990.. 17 x 11"; 13 leaves. Spiral bound with illustrated cover and blank back cover. Louise Neaderland: "A monologue between one nesting doll and herself.  1. Face to face 2. Back to back 3. Side by side 4. Alone and in company 5. I confront myself 6. and take cold comfort 7. The dialogue between us 8. Like Chinese food 9. Fools then feeds 10. My hunger"Each page is the directly imaged doll with the exception of page 8 where there are two directly imaged Chinese food containers.

Brooklyn, New York:: Bone Hollow Arts,, 1992.. Edition of 12. 8.5 x 5.5"; 88 pages. Stab binding. 11x 15" folded map laid in. Louise Neaderland: "The artist was visiting a friend in St. Petersburg in August of 1991 at the time of the coup. She managed to take many photographs of what was happening on the streets and came across a series of picture post cards of 1914 St. Petersburg. This book documents the scene in St. Petersburg during the coup of August 9, 1991, contrasts it with the 1914 images, and adds news clippings, conspicuously not from Russian news media, which barely mentioned what was going on.

Brooklyn, New York:: Bone Hollow Arts,, 1997.. [Edition of 200.]. 4.25 x 5.5"; 10 pages. Star carousel structure. Photocopy process. Louise Neaderland: "In open form the viewer can look into a black hole. By definition, a black hole cannot be seen, its presence must be detected through indirect evidence. Each page has different information about black holes with the cautionary note The search for the invisible requires sustained obsession.

Brooklyn, New York:: Louise Odes Neaderland,, 2017.. Edition of 24. 5.5 x 7.5" slider book consisting of a sleeve and two slide cards. Signed and numbered by the artist. Artist Louise Odes Neaderland responds to the Trump presidency: a cage-like sleeve provides frames for images of Trump, clowns, and wild animals as two interchangeable viewing cards slip through the structure.

Brooklyn, New York:: Louise Odes Neaderland,, 2014.. 9.75 x 8.25 x 2.25" box containing twelve books for various sizes and constructions. Edition size unstated. Twelve books by Louise Neaderland: The Case for Gun Control; 23 Sins; Hazardous Waste; The Vanishing Act; American Ballet Theatre; Artist At Work; Brokers Study Vast Hole in Space; Open Roads Empty Nests; The Stones Roll On; The Heart of Lightness; alphagami; Where is Home?

Brooklyn, New York:: Louise Neaderland,, 2013.. Edition of 14. 11.25 x 17”; 56 pages. Inkjet printed. Spiral bound with clear cover page and black back page. Signed and numbered by the artist on the recto side of the prologue page. Prologue: "Begun in 1995 and finally completed in 2013, these 52 inkjet prints began as ink drawings on 11 x 17” faux parchment. Over the years I made many revisions of the text and images and with the advent of inexpensive, large format, ink jet printers I was able to revisit this project and print a limited edition of 12 Folios, each containing 52 ledger size prints. This is a letter size version of that Folio.

Brooklyn, New York:: Louise Odes Neaderland,, 2017.. Edition of 17. 4.5 x 4.25 x 2" paper box containing 2 scrolls (36" each extended). Copier art. Signed and numbered by the artist. Artist Louise Neaderland responds to President Trump's campaign promise to build a wall on the US-Mexico border. When unrolled, the two scrolls - one in black-and-white, the other in color - become paper walls decorated by with images of Trump and clowns (referencing an earlier work by Neaderland - Trump Circus) plus barbed wired across the top and immigrants streaming across the bottom.

Brooklyn, New York:: Louise Neaderland,, 2013.. Edition of 12. 11.25 x 17"; 52 single sheets. Each signed and dated by the artist. Printed on an Epson WF7510 on acid free cover stock. Laid in paper portfolio. Title page: "Each folio contains 52 signed image and text prints, which explore the purpose and meaning of life. They were created over the period of 1995-2013, by the artist — founder and director of the International Society of Copier Artists." This folio represents the thoughts, reflections, paths, and detours of one woman's life. Part anecdote, part observation, part wail – a continuous quest, half-glimpsed but fully lived.

New York:: Heidi Neilson,, 2008.. Edition of 100. 7.5 x 7.5"; 16 pages. Digital-offset printed. Saddlestitch bound. Signed and numbered by Neilson. Heidi Neilson: "Home Planetarium Survey displays seven toy planetariums and photograms of the constellation Orion as projected by the planetariums." The seven home planetariums: Orbiter Motorized Planetarium and Talking Film Projector, model #ORPTS Oshizorakodu Planetarium Kit. Tomy Co. National Geograhic Society Star Planetarium. Uncle Milton Industries. Portable Junior Planetarium No. 6500. Harmonic Reed Corporation. Our amazing Home Planetarium. Educational Design, Inc. Haro Planetarium. Banpresto Co. Otona no Kagaku Planetarium Kit. Gakken Co.

New York:: Women's Studio Workshop,, 2010.. Edition of 70. 10.25 x 8"; 24 pages. Letterpress printed with screenprinted images. Text printed in Future on Rives heavyweight paper. Viewable in 3D with enclosed anaglyph glasses. Bound with aluminum clovers and black cloth spine. Heidi Neilson: "Orbital Debris Simulator describes the phenomena of ‘space junk’ in the earth’s orbit, showing points of interest between the moon and the earth such as geosynchronous orbit, medium earth orbit, and the International Space Station. Images of space toys – spaceships and action figures from various science fiction ‘universes’ as well as replicas of actual spacecraft – are used as stand-ins for the orbital debris itself."  Introduction: "Orbital debris consists of defunct objects in earth's orbit created by people in the process of space exploration, such as used rocket stages, defunct satellites, explosion and collision fragments, coolant… Read More