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LX Commute: My Sentence

By: Ann Whipple

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Phoenix, AZ, D'Ambrosio: 1996

Seller ID: MM219-011

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies designed and typeset by Joseph D'Ambrosio (1934-2009) in 12-point Palatino. Small 8vo. 8 1/4 x 5 inches. [vi], 56, [4] pp. AC Transit Schedule for Line LX, Express Richmond - San Francisco mounted at the half-title, cityscape dingbats in the text; text clean, unmarked. Blue cloth with a specially designed 7-color illustration on the front cover, printed paper spine label; binding square and tight. INSCRIBED by Ann Whipple on the title page. SIGNED by the designer / illustrator, Joe D'Ambrosio, on the front cover. MM219-011. Fine. This book is a memoir, in poetry a...
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The Palette Knife

By: Christopher Morley (1890-1957)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Chelsea, NY, The Chocorua Press: 1929

Seller ID: RN620-003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Very Good

4to. 10 x 7 7/8 inches. Unpaginated. [16] pp. Half-title, hand-colored frontispiece in 5 colors, red highlights on the title page, 6 hand-painted color-illustrated plates with tissue guards, printer's device on the colophon highlighted in blue; text unmarked, occasional foxing, tissue guard of plate 3 with small spot of tacky substance can be separated by applying steady, gentle pressure. Brown cloth over boards with another layer of colored cloth with a painter's palette hole cut out of the outer cloth with several spots of the outer cloth cut out and laid down on the palette shape and letter...
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A Small Archive of 10 Joseph D'Ambrosio Ephemera, 1979-1994

By: Joseph D'Ambrosio (1934-2009)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Sherman Oaks, CA, Joseph D'Ambrosio: 1979-1994

Seller ID: PM1019-001

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Collectible: Very Good

This archive includes a poster from the California State Library, and 8 pieces of correspondence between Joseph D'Ambrosio and his personal friend of 15 years, Marion Ruth Pattenson (1921-2019). Marion Pattenson was born in Los Molinos, CA, attended high school in Santa Paula, CA, and graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Political Science. After meeting at Berkeley, Pattenson married her first husband, William Cox. After WWII she moved to Altadena, CA where she was active in civic activities and organizations. At age 50 Marion took a job at the Huntington Library and after retirement sh...
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Deluge.

By: Kitty Maryatt, et. al.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Claremont, CA:, Scripps College Press,: 2010

Seller ID: SCP111-001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Like New

LIMITED EDITION of 103 copies, this is number 72. Oblong Folio. 11 7/16 x 17 5/16 inches. [44] pp. The text presented in various typefaces with color illustrations and the pages presented as if they are layered windows open on a computer desktop. Full dark red cloth over boards, three holes in the top cover reveal red, green and blue dots. Fine. The Typography class was asked to develop a list of one hundred significant problems in America, and subsequently organized them into seven categories. After extensive in-class discussion, they decided to select addiction to media for their advoc...
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Intimacy: Drawing with Light, Drawn from Stone

By: Mary Heebner (b. 1951)

Price: $8,000.00

Publisher: Santa Barbara, CA, Simplemente Maria Press,: 2017

Seller ID: SMP819-001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Like New

Folio. Housed in a 15 x 16 7/8-inch anodized aluminum box fabricated at Neal Fray Co., with a hand-carved marble relief sculpture by Anders Johnson of an open, blank book affixed to the top cover. Housed within is a hinged, 3-part plexiglass viewing easel which fits within the base of the aluminum box, one of the panels of the plexiglass stand has openings to hold 2 books. 2 6 x 4 inch books are: Marmo and Schizzi; Marmo is an accordion-fold volume with 14 panels of color illustrations of nude figures and includes an original text about the nature of marble by Mary Heebner and an Italian trans...
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Island: Journal from Iceland, September 1995.

By: Mary Heebner (b. 1951).

Price: $1,800.00

Publisher: Santa Barbara, CA:, Simplemente Maria Press,: 1999

Seller ID: OU417-001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

LIMITED EDITION of 60 copies, this is number 44, numbered and SIGNED by Mary Heebner, each illustration is hand-touched with watercolors. Folio. 13 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches. Title-page printed on hand-made Abaca paper with introduction, 12 original watercolor monotypes scanned to produce a suite of giclee prints on Somerset rag paper, each print inserted into a hand-made Abaca paper folio created by Rie Hachiyanagi, and letterpress printed from photo polymer plates by Lucy Brown in Galliard types, colophon also printed on an Abaca paper folio; text clean, unmarked. All housed in a chemise wrap d...
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An ABECEDARIUM For The Makers of Artist's Books.

By: Nancy Trottier.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Deep River, Ontario:, Ducks in a Row Press: 2009

Seller ID: AK314-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Like New

LIMITED EDITION of 26 copies (plus 4 proof copies), this is copy number 19, printed in Caledonia and Bulmer types set at the Firefly Press in Boston by John Kristensen, Massachusetts and printed by Nancy Trottier in her studio in Cambridge, MA. Designed, printed, and hand-bound at Trottier Studios, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Handmade Artist's Book. 5 3/4 x 2 3/8 inches. Unpaginated. [59, 1 blank] pp. Asian-style rubber stamp on the title page, colophon with 2 asian-style rubber stamps, linoleum Ducks in a Row Press printer's mark, mounted "In My Soul I Am Free" calligraphy opposit...
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A Visit to Cross Creek. With an Essay by John Cutrone

By: Paula Marie Gourley and John Cutrone

Price: $950.00

Publisher: Eugene, OR; Boca Raton, FL, Lillyhouse Studio Editions; Minerva, the Press at Wimberly: 2013

Seller ID: LHE220-001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Very Good

Oblong 4to. 8 x 8 1/4 inches. Unpaginated. [106] pp. Color pochoir illustration on title page frames the title, 79 photographic illustrations (most color, 3 double-page), Cutrone's essay, "Searching for Marjorie," receives a double-page treatment with title printed in colors using wood type, several pages highlighted with color pochoir accents; text clean, unmarked. Quarter tan linen, printed rustic blue paper over boards, decorative end-papers, presentation cardboard folding box printed letter-press and tied with cotton string, plain wax-paper wrapper over all; binding square and tigh...
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Remembering Japanese Numbers

By: Seiko Tachibana (b. 1964)

Price: $500.00

Publisher: San Francisco, CA, SFAI Printmaking Studio: 1994

Seller ID: BC220-001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Very Good

8vo-sized Accordion-Fold. 8 x 5 3/8 inches. [22] pp. 10 color silk-screen prints; text clean, unmarked. The text is printed on a continuous strip of Japanese paper and attached inside the rear cover of the binding which is covered in checkered Japanese paper, green end-papers, small window in the front cover reveals the word "numbers" on the title page printed on couched-on green paper pulp, the whole is laid in a clam-shell box with red edges and another, slightly larger window in the front cover so that the word "numbers" on the title page is visible when the book is enclosed...
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Thomas McKnight's World: A Vision of Earthly Happiness.

By: Thomas McKnight.

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: New York:, Abbeville Press,: 1987

Seller ID: STV-6b

ISBN: 0896597814

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Like New

SCARCE! LIMITED to 950 copies, this is number 681. This specially bound and signed edition of Thomas NcKnight's World is accompanied by the original serigraph suite, The Four Seasons. The individual pieces within the suite are titled Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Each of The Four Seasons is 10 3/8 inches high and 11 1/2 inches wide, printed by Willco Fine Art, New York, on Coventry Rag Soft White Paper and signed and numbered by the artist. After the edition was completed, the screens were destroyed. Folio. 199 pp. Preface & Commentaries by Thomas McKnight, Introduction by Ronny Co...
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