Search Results: Titles starting with S from 20 Ants Fine Books, IOBA

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts (Boston). Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1961. Booklet. Light crease at the spine of the front cover. ; A humorous tale of a crow or raven who successively, page after page, drinks and drains numerous glasses of spirits until its view of the world blurs, it stands, then falls on its back. Told wordlessly, with drawings only, and the story line is obvious. The stylized head and beak of the bird reoccur in Steinlen's book illustrations of crows and vultures. Swiss-born, creative polymath Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923) was painter, fabric designer, sculptor, periodical publisher, printmaker, and illustrator. Renowned for his turn-of-the-century, Art Nouveau-style, Steinlen produced drawings of Parisian street life, depicting average working-class people, actors, vendors, prostitutes, the upper class out of their element, criminals, and families, all in the urban environment. He was equally known for his many drawings of cats in both natural… Read More

Private Printing. Very Good-. 1880s-1890s. Unique Copy. Hardcover. All extremities rubbed. Larger, rubbed area of the spine at the tail. Paper covers rubbed at corners. Overall foxing to the free endpapers. Joints cracked, but holding well. Very occasional, light pencil notations.; This is a Sammelband that assembles twenty-four articles about Victorian portrait painters and photographers, all articles removed from 1880s through 1890s English periodicals, then custom bound into a book. The article titles are Beauty, Portraits of Women; Famous Portrait Painters; Carolus Duran: A Painter of Fair Ladies; The Poet With the Mandolin; John March, Southerner; Thomas Gainsborough M. A.; Mary Moser, A Forgotten Royal Academician; John Singleton Copley R. A.; Cole's Old English Masters; Some Portraits of J. W. M. Turner; Concerning Painters in Little (miniature); Gilbert Stewart's Portraits of Women; How Celebrities Have Been Photographed; With Constable; Illustrated Interviews: Mr. T.… Read More

No Place Stated: The Golden Bough Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1930. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. The free endpapers have a slight curl, likely from the marbling process. Spine and joints slightly darker than the rest of the leather. Minor rubbing to the joints, cover paper abraded where it wraps under the tail edge of the rear board, corners bumped with wear through to the boards.; Daudet's novel of the personal failings and stumbling, lurching relationship of a young Southern French student Jean Gaussin and his older Parisian lover Fanny Legrand. Jean is troubled by Fanny's life of luxury from many profitable, personal relationships: an engineer, a poet, an engraver, and a sculptor who had her pose for his statue of Sappho. After their living in the country and his dalliance with a young woman, it all falls apart. In the end, Fanny leaves him with little but a letter and he's right to lament his "...broken, wasted life, all wrecked and tearful... From… Read More

New York: Privately Printed. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. 1930. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Slight abrasion to head edge of front pastedown. Slightest rubbing to spine ends. Ink stamp to rear endpaper. Lacks the publisher's slipcase. Dust jacket chipped at head and tail edges, split along spine, but together in a paper-backed mylar jacket.; This is Gaius Petronius Arbiter's classic satire of the extremes of amoral 'bro culture' in ancient Rome. Copy 625 of 1200 of this edition, "privately printed" during a time of US censorship. The origins of the text are vague, but are believed to be the work of Gaius Petronius Arbiter, Roman Emperor Nero's advisor on matters of taste, fashion, luxury, and extravagance. This book is his satirical retelling of the self-indulgent extremes of immoral living. The manuscript was fragmented, not contiguous, and there are only assumptions about what fragments may be missing and how they linked the known fragments. This… Read More

Cleveland: Fine Editions Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1946. Hardcover. The spine is sunned, but gilt lettering is strong and attractive. Nick at center of rear hinge. Wear and small spot to the edge of the spine head. 3/8" stray red ink mark at the head corner and tiny bump to the tail corner of the front cover. Slight offsetting to front endpaper. ; This classic work of American literature recounts the life of Hester Prynne in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1600s. Hester and a lover she refuses to name conceive a daughter, without being married, and Hester winds her way through a story of sin, guilt, societal recrimination, dignity, and redemption while raising her daughter Pearl. The scarlet letter is the letter "A,", in red, that she is forced to wear to brand her as an adulterer. One of the first mass-produced books in the United States, it remains a powerful statement about society, religion, and dignity. With an insightful Introduction of the work… Read More

No Place Stated: A. R. Tommasini. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1970. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Bump to head of spine, possibly in the making. Light toning to the very edges of the boards, common to this edition.; A selection of verse fragments from John Greenleaf Whittier's classic Snow-Bound : A Winter Idyl. Printer Tommy Tommasini chose fragments that described scenes that the family in this narrative poem would have witnessed. Whittier's poem, in total, describes a family's conversations inside a snowed-in New England farmhouse. The verse fragments are accompanied by the linoleum engravings of Czech-born artist George Kuthan. His Prague and Paris studies in graphic arts, printmaking, and painting served him in Canada where he taught printmaking at university level, and incorporated etching and both wood- and linoleum-engraving into his graphic arts and books. His works in this book are sympathetic to the verse fragments and are boldly styled. One of an unnumbered,… Read More

Geyserville, CA: Sun Moon Bear Editions. Fine with no dust jacket. 1992. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Softcover. Several poems from this former antiquarian bookseller and author of at least 8 books of poetry. In his characteristic style, most poems are in short 5-line verses. From Silent Crow: "gold december / in the room / and breaking a light sweat / you whisper / totally worth it" From Seeking the Hills: "there's no universe / there's just things / -a moth wing transparent / & strong enough for two universes / flips over in the wind" Copy 41 of a limited edition of 75, signed and numbered by the author. Some poems first appeared in the Sun Moon Bear Editions chapbooks Pocket Poems and Silent Crow. Monochrome cover illustration by Lee Perron. The vertical cover illustration is replicated horizontally on the title page. Printed offset by Amoruso Printing, Healdsburg, CA. Printed on fine, stiff paper. Darkish-gray, mould made endpapers. In off-white,… Read More

London: The Folio Society. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2014. Hardcover. Overall shallow wrinkling to the leaf of pages 131-132. The slipcase has a tiny dent on the head edge and small, faint abrasions on one side.; This volume includes 49 poems that are representative of this brilliant, self-destructive Welsh poet. Editors Walford Davies and Ralph Maud selected these from Thomas's most significant books: 18 Poems, Twenty-Five Poems, The Map of Love, Deaths and Entrances, and In Country Sleep. The frontis and 6 plates reproduce photos of Thomas, his family, and the countryside of Wales. Contains the editors' Notes and an Index of Titles and First Lines. Typeset in Garamond by The Folio Society. Printed on fine paper and bound by Legatoria Editoriale Giovanni Olivotto (L.E.G.O.), Vicenza, Italy. Printed endpapers reproduce Dylan's manuscript notes for Prologue. In boards with black cloth across the rear board and wrapping around the spine to present 1/4 cloth on the… Read More

Oneonta, NY: Round House Press. Fine with no dust jacket. c.1987. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Print. Seven art prints from blocks and plates, some with letterpress text over-printed on the image. All are from Round House Press, the imprint of the collegiate printing lab of Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY. Founded in the 1980s, the press issues letterpress books, broadsides, and art prints from wood block, linoleum block, and intaglio collagraphy. The seven prints are as follows: Print 1. Quotation about war, by Dalton Trumbo, noted screenwriter who was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. From Dalton's Johnny Got His Gun, written in 1939: "To fight that war they would need men and if men saw the future they wouldn't fight. So they were masking the future they were keeping the future a soft quiet secret. They knew that if all the little guys saw the future they would begin to ask questions. They would ask questions and they would find answers."… Read More

Dublin Ireland: Cuala Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1942. Limited/Numbered Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Endpapers are wrinkled where they meet the gutter. Dark speck on front cover. Light, 1/2" long impression at the head edge of the front cover and a similar, very faint impression to the head edge of the back cover. Lower corners of the boards are bumped at the fore edge. Lacks the ephemeral tissue wrapper.; This compelling memoir recounts the author's childhood views of living in Dublin Ireland during seven consecutive winters, her summers being spent in County Cork. The memories are detailed and evoke both the chilled, gray days and the beauty of Dublin. Founded and operated by women, entirely, the Cuala Press was focused on new works in the emerging Irish Literary Revival. One of only two titles published by the press in 1942, as the entire press operation was moved to a different location in that year. This is copy 448 of an edition of 450 "finished in… Read More

Ann Arbor, Michigan: Roger Jackson. Fine with no dust jacket. 1995. Limited/Lettered Signed Edition; First Edition. Broadside. The publisher's 8 1/2" x 11" letter is folded once. ; The 14 "vignettes" are the briefest essays about the author's real and imagined sexual encounters, all these vignettes being printed on unbound, small sheets. These encounters seem to be loveless and purely sexual. They are a.) Laundromat, b.) Being Single, c.) My Indifference, d.) Small Breast, e.) Lover's Nuts, f.) Blowsy Tart, g.) Older Lady, h.) Cotton Underpants, i.) Japanese Businesswoman, j.) Femme Fatale, k.) Active Sex Life, l.) Being Naked, m.) Suntan Lotion and Whisky, n.) Three Emancipated Women. Includes both the limited and trade editions housed in the publisher's folder. Limited edition of 26 lettered copies, this one being copy W and signed by the author on the special bifolium. This special inclusion is a brief essay about a writer who wanted Saunders to have… Read More

New York: New York University Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1971. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. University library withdrawal stamp in ink on the front pastedown, library withdrawal stamp in ink to the head edge of the text block. Evidence of removal of a label at the upper left of front cover. Spine tail a bit rubbed. Lacks the dust jacket.; Thackeray's humorous farce that satirizes relationships and proper society: as applicable today, as then. This novel was never fully developed or completed, but ends at a logical point in the story. Includes the Author's brief explanation of why the work was left unfinished. Each chapter begins with an engraved cut illustration that functions as a dropped capital and incorporates the appropriate alphabetic letter. Various engraved cuts throughout. Text reproduced as-typeset in the 1879 edition by Smith, Elder & Co., London. Printed by The Scolar Press, Ltd., Menston, Yorkshire, England on laid, watermarked, Abby Mill paper.… Read More

Kirkwood, Missouri: The Printery. Fine with no dust jacket. 1975. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Slightest rubbing to tail corners.; "Vincent Starrett was one of the most civilized and versatile literary figures of the twentieth century. Upon his death on January 4, 1974, Michael Murphy collected these 15 distinguished tributes to Starrett’s life and work. Contributors include Carl Sandburg, Christopher Morley, Charles Honce, and August Derleth. Robert G. Little’s charcoal portrait of Starrett, the last portrait taken from life, is reproduced as a frontispiece." In total, 15 contributions and entries. Frontis printed in green. Paginated 42,[2],[2 blank]. Number 221B of 225 copies, all copies being numbered 221B, the address of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson on Baker Street, London. Vincent Starrett was an avid enthusiast of Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes and Watson characters. Starrett was a prominent member of the Baker Street Irregulars, the world's first… Read More

Van Nuys, California: Richard J. Hoffman. Fine with no dust jacket. 1986. 3-ring binder. This is a concise, concentrated essay on all aspects of proper book design and the benefits of thoughtful design. So straightforward that the lay reader can readily understand his points. "A commentary written and printed by Richard J. Hoffman at his printing office in Van Nuys, California for members of Columbian 415 Chappel and other friends of the press 1986" One of the world class California printers, Hoffman was an academic printer, press manager, and teacher of printing at colleges from 1933 to 1979. From that point he operated his private press in conjunction with former students, his cumulative output of 66 years being approximately 50,000 printed items. Printed both for and with the assistance of Columbian 415 Chappel, the cadre of accomplished printing students who continued working with him after his retirement from academic printing. Unpaginated, but [1][blank][10][1]. In quarter,… Read More

New York: Private Printing. Fine with no dust jacket. 1976. Limited Signed Edition. Softcover. The artist's abstract and quite varied series of 43 drawings of flags, all printed monochrome on the recto of pages. Kingsley Parker has been exhibiting and represented by galleries since the mid-1970s and has a work in the collection of the Museum Of Modern Art in New York, NY. The artist is quite active with new works. Signed in ink "K. Parker/1976 ©" in the front matter where Parker explains his motivation for drawing the series of abstract flags. Copy 158 of a limited edition of 600, numbered in the colophon. Approximately 44 pages, unpaginated. Printed on fine, machine-made paper in brown wraps. The title and a flag drawing are framed on the front cover. In absolutely clean, Fine condition. ; Drawings; Square 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 44 pages; Signed by Artist .

Williamsburg, Virginia: Printing Office Of The Williamsburg Foundation. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. Softcover. Written as a tract to inform Delegates to the Continental Congress, the Summary View impressed some Delegates sufficiently that they had it printed as a pamphlet by Clementina Rind, the only woman printer in Williamsburg. In this tract, Jefferson's eloquently expressed grievances against King George III and Parliament showed his compositional skill and were instrumental in his being selected to write the Declaration of Independence. This facsimile edition was set in Caslon type and letterpress printed and bound by the Printing and Post Office, Williamsburg, Virginia. On fine, cream paper. As with other copies we've handled, the type was deeply struck by an enthusiastic printer. Comprised of three gathers, side stitched with what appears to be flax twine or cord. In overall Fine condition.; Narrow 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 23 pages .

No Place Stated: Black Swan Letterpress Printing and Graphic Design. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1995. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Short, tight split to the wrap at the tail of the spine.; One woman's journey in letterpress and graphic design, from unloading machinery in her driveway, to the tedious business of book and job printing, to the "Swan Song" of her Black Swan press years later. More than storytelling, it's rendered as an artist's book with text printed over illustrated leaves. Some pages have two story lines interspaced together in different text colors. One of a limited edition of 500. No place of publication stated, but likely Providence, RI where Black resided at the time of publication. 12 pages, but unpaginated. Black says of her two presses: "It might take me several hours to get the make-ready just right. The thing about C&P's (sic) is that the first impression always looks like shit. Even after three years I have to steel myself for… Read More