ot verse.
cummings, e.e.

Octavo. Printed buff covers, with a Japanese-style stab binding. [12]pp. Contains five cummings poems translated into Hungarian, each accompanied by a gate-fold illustration on the facing page. A Near Fine copy

Remembering Albert Sperisen.
Barlow, William P. Jr, et al.

Limited Edition. Small quarto. [i, 17]pp. Illustrations from photographs and line cut illustrations from Sperisen's Toyon Press studio-workshop. One of 1100 copies designed and printed at Yolla Bolly Press; a single-signature, sewn into a printed cover of Fabriano Tiziano paper. Very minor bumping to the corner, otherwise a Near Fine copy.

Softbound. Quarto. 48pp. Illustrated throughout with numerous illustrations in black & white. Pictorial wrappers, stapled; small bump to the lower corner near the spine; Near Fine. // A 'special issue' on 'The Intersections of Experimental Literature & Artists' Books' edited by Craig Dworkin and Kyle Schlesinger; features the essay 'Of Men and Mutations the Art of Reproduction in Flatland' by Susan Vanderborg; 'Highway 24 Unvisited: Reeling Between The Road and Artists' Books from Toledo to Kansas City' by Chris Burnett & Tate Shaw; 'Off the Road' by Alastair Johnson; and a piece on the 'Handmade-o-meter', a system/scale for measuring the 'handmadedness' of book, by Daniel Mellis (and with an actual 'Handmade-o-meter' within an envelope inside the rear cover.

Softbound. Quarto. 48pp. Illustrated throughout with numerous illustrations in black & white and color. Pictorial wrappers, stapled; small bump to the lower corner near the spine; Near Fine. // Features an essay on Kate T. Steinitz' manuscript for 'A Train Station for Billy'; Kyle Schlesinger on 'Letterpress in the Mimeo Revolution'; 'In Memory: An Examination of Tatana Kellner's Paired Artists' Books, Fifty Years of Silence' by Norah Harden Lind; 'Reading Outside the Lines: Paratextual Analysis and Artists' Books' by Jae Rossman, as well as book reviews

Softbound. Quarto. 40pp. Illustrated throughout with numerous black & white photo reproductions. Stapled, illustrated, letterpress printed paper wrappers; small bump to the lower corner near the spine; Near Fine. // Special Chicago Edition. Features in-depth coverage of the Action/Interaction: Book/Arts Conference held in June. Each issue has envelope titled 'JAB Sausages' inserted that includes a CD of the conference proceedings and an artist book and poster titled "The Chicago Stock Yards Project" by Brad Freeman & Elizabeth Long.

Softbound. Quarto. 43pp. Illustrated throughout with numerous black & white photo reproductions. Stapled white paper wrappers, small bump to the top corner, else Near Fine. // Includes an interview with Johanna Drucker by Tate Shaw, essay on Anselm Kiefer's books, an interview with Marshal Weber and other pieces

Small octavo. Unpaginated. Illustrated with architectural photographs. Red wraps. Near Fine.

[Prospectus] "Mother Goose"
Chamberlain, Sarah.

Single-sheet, approximately 10 x 16", folded. A prospectus for the author/artist's "Mother Goose", with an original seven-color linoleum block print on the facing page; about Fine.

By Chance: Serendipity and Randomness in Contemporary Artists' Books.
Price, Robin and Jae Jennifer Rossman.

Limited Edition. Small octavo. 29p. Printed wrappers, stitched; Fine. Published as Book Arts Essay 1. One in a limited edition of 300 numbered copies. // The first annual publication of the Book Arts Essay by 'the jenny-press'. The cover image is a "combinatory blind collaboration between the authors...each author creating an image knowing only that these would be screen-printed one on top of the other."

ABC The Artists' Books Conference. June 15-18, 2005. Keynote Addresses.
Rossman, Jae Jennifer, edited by.

Limited Edition. Small octavo. 55p. Color pictorial wrappers; Fine. Published as Book Arts Essay 2. One in a limited edition of 300 numbered copies. // With an introduction by Ruth Rogers & Richard Zauft; and essays by Betty Bright and Mark Dimunation

Yes, We Can Print That! 25 Years at Day Moon Press.
Kroupa, Sandra, essay by.

Octavo. Unpaginated (but ca. 16pp + illustrations). Letterpress printed light blue wrappers; Fine. Center section of color reproductions of some items from the exhibit. // Catalog for an exhibit of a wide variety of work from Maura Shapley & Jack leNoir's Day Moon Press. The exhibit highlights twenty-five years worth of work from the press, focusing on letterpress projects undertaken with and for a number of artists and book makers. Contributors include Maralyn Crosetto, C. Christopher Stern, Mare Blocker, Tina Hoggatt, Jenny Sapora, Jenny Craig and others. With a lengthy introductory essay by Sandra Kroupa, Librarian, Special Collections, University of Washington. Additional text by Maura Shapley.

Softbound. Quarto. [32pp]. Illustrated throughout with black & white photo reproductions. Stiff stapled illustrated wrappers. Near Fine with a touch of rubbing to wrappers. Includes an article about Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop

First Edition. Softbound. Quarto. [32pp]. Illustrated throughout with black & white photo reproductions. Stiff sewn wrappers. Near Fine with a touch of rubbing to wrappers. Includes an interview with Jo Anne Pashcall and artists statements by Helen Douglas and Telfer Stokes

First Edition. Softbound. Quarto. [32pp]. Illustrated throughout with black & white photo reproductions. Stiff stapled illustrated wrappers. Near Fine with a touch of rubbing to wrappers. Includes an interview with Steve McCaffery with the cover design by Jules Remedios Faye

First Edition. Softbound. Quarto. [32pp]. Illustrated throughout with black & white photo reproductions. Stiff stapled illustrated wrappers. Near Fine with a touch of rubbing to wrappers. Includes an interview with Simon Cutts and Erica van Horn and an article by Johanna Drucker

Quarto. Unpaginated. Brown printed paper wraps. Illustrated throughout with black & white reproductions. As New

Marearcana.
Blocker, Mare.

Square octavo. Unpaginated. Single signature laid in loose. Illustrated throughout with four black & white reproductions from the exhibit. Hand-printed wraps with title in red on front cover, and printed end-sheets. As New

Octavo. Unpaginated. Illustrated stapled pink paper wraps. Illustrated throughout with collaged pictures. In Very Good+ condition

Lone Goose Press.
Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel.

Octavo. 12pp. Hand sewn in printed blue-gray paper wrappers. Catalogue for the exhibition at Wessel & Lieberman, from the seventh of July through the twenty-ninth of August 1998. Numerous black and white photographic illustrations alongside text and descriptions of early work, leather bindings, commissions, books, and broadsides. Includes Sandra Kroupa's essay 'The Magic of Sandy Tilcock' and 'Sandy Tilcock and the Lone Goose Press by Rummonds. Fine.

Short Octavo. Unpaginated. Hand sewn in black and white pictorial wrappers. Illustrated with drawings and printed in black on cream paper with linoleum stamp inside bottom wrapper. Fine.

Jim Koss: Insistent Clarity. Bookwork 1992-1996.
(Jim Koss) Introduction by Sandra Kroupa.

Exhibition catalog. Sewn brown printed paper wraps. Printed and illustrated orange endpapers. 20 items represented, 10 imaged. Fine

Softcover. 6.75 x 3.75. 136pp. Illustrations. Harrison's black & white video stills illustrate Warsh's text. Pictorial wraps. As New

Octavo. Photographic wraps. 75 pp. Illustrated with found images. Rough pencil marks to front flyleaf, else Fine.

Octavo. Card wrappers over text, accordion folded. With color photographs. Text in parallel French and English. Near Fine.

Small square. 5.25 x 5.25 inches. Printed glossy card wrappers, folded and stapled pages. With color reproductions. 1/200 copies. Fine.

Small square. 3 x 3 inches. Text and drawn illustrations imitate the style of a childrens' book. Printed on pale blue paper. 1/100 hand-numbered copies signed by the author. With original glassine envelope. Fine.

The Printed Performance: Brian Lane, Works 1966-99.
Lane, Brian. Edited by Martin Rogers and Simon Cutts.

First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 157pp. Illustrated. Extensive bibliography. Pictorial wraps. Fine. An "illustrated primer" on this noted small press publisher and performance artist.

Mimeo Mimeo #4.
Birmingham, Jed and Kyle Sclesinger (editors).

First Printing. Quarto. 90pp. Illustrated. Color illustrated wraps. Fine. Fourth issue of this periodical which centers around critical and cultural perspectives on Artist's Books, Typography & the Mimeo Revolution. The issue focuses on the poets, artists, printers, and publications of the British Poetry Revival, a particularly rich period of activity that ran roughly parallel to the New American Poetry of the post-WWII era.

The Mechanical Dreamer: A Fabulous Tale of Italian Dreams Told in Linoblocks Cut During the Perseid Meteor Showers.
Faye, Jules Remedios.

Limited Edition. Small octavo. Unpaginated. With a brief preface, and fifteen linoleum block cuts, printed on the rectos only. Quarter black cloth and decorative paste-paper over boards, printed paper spine label; a Fine copy. Published in an edition of one hundred twenty five copies numbered copies, signed by the artist/printer. Letterpress printed from Futura and Granby Inline types on Mohawk Molino paper

Fascicles, Volume One.
Going, Dale.

Octavo. Loose printed cards, held with a tied-string. A collection of poems by various authors, designed and printed by Dale Going. One of 146 hand-numbered copies. Fine. // Authors include saroi broner, Killarney Clary, Norma Cole, Beverly Dahlen, Renata Ewing, Kathleen Fraser, Dale Going, Susan Howe, Myung Mi Kim, Denise Lawson, Aife Murray, Denise Newman, Elena Rivera, Carol Snow, Lily Iona Souci.

Making Poetry Appear. Illustrated by Lois E. Hoover.
Michaelis, Catherine.

Limited Edition. Octavo. [20]pp. "Printed on Brilliant White Classic Laid text and sewn into white tissue endpapers (one small crease to the front tissue) and blue Mouchette covers. The type is Goudy Light. The press is an 1899 Chandler & Price... Illustrations were designed, cut into linoleum, and individually brushed with the color by Lois Hoover. Printing was done by Catherine Michaelis, Monica Damore and Sarah Perlman." One of two hundred numbered copies; a Fine copy.

Alphabook 3.
McCarney, Scott L.

Two volumes in printed vellum sleeve. Limited Edition. 4 x 6 in. closed. 26pp. Die cut from Curtis Duplex Cover and hand assembled by the artist. Accordion-fold. One of 300 copies. Volume 1 A-L; Volume 2 M-Z. Near Fine in Near Fine sleeve with a couple of closed tears to top edge. The letterforms are dependent upon the physicality of the book's space.

Dog Ear.
Baum, Erica.

First Edition, First Printing. 7.25 x 8.5 in. 72pp. Illustrated throughout with 24 plates. Essays by Kenneth Goldsmith and Béatrice Gross. Glossy wraps. Fine. "dog-eared pages of mass-market paperbacks are photographed to isolate the small diagonally bisected squares or rectangles of text."

War in a Cock's Egg.
Cox, Morris.

Limited Edition. Octavo. 36pp. One of only fifty numbered & signed copies printed in the first edition; illustrated with hand-impressed intaglio and surface offsets by Cox at his Private Press. Bound in a full red cloth over thin boards, printed vellum title label on the spine mounted on a black paper background; a Near Fine copy

Madam Pirate.
Gans, Lydia.

Limited Edition. 16mo. 24pp, Tan decorated boards. Near Fine. One of 300 copies printed. At her height in the early 19th century, Madam Ching commanded a crew of 70,000 pirates

Word and Image.
(Book Arts).

First Edition. Oblong octavo. 61pp. Illustrated. Spiral bound into printed wraps. Near Fine. The catalog of the Members Book exhibition held at the Civic Center Public Library in SF. Sections and essays on Fine Press Books, Artist's Books and Book Objects.

Sheets is a cycle of haiku by poet Dolores Connelly, each poem capturing a moment within a season. The haiku are excerpted with permission of the author from 'A Twisted Balance: One-Line Haiku and a Few Senryu', an unpublished collection of one hundred haiku dedicated to people forced from their homelands or houses. The text and ornaments are handset and letterpress printed on handmade abaca and housed in boxes made with Paper Studio's recycled cardboard box paper. Sheets was printed and bound by Jessica Spring in an edition of 30 at Springtide Press, 2010.

First Printing. One large sheet, printed and illustrated on both sides, folded into a 12.5" x 12.5" LP record sleeve. Cleverly produced cataloge of an exhibition held at the New York Center for the Book that "explore[s] the connection between sound and the written word, and the way these two can be interchanged" Includes work by Grace Jones, Marshall McLuhan and Vito Acconci among others.

First Thus. Reprints the revised second edition of 1972. Quarto. 232pp. Illustrated throughout. Cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1961. 324 items represented.

First Edition. Octavo. Eight parts inserted in illustrated wrapper. Housed in original illustrated cardboard box. Fine in Near Fine box. Parts include a broadside, chapbook, poems and stories and a 33 1/3 record. cold-drill is published annually by the MFA Department of Boise State University.

Beer Will Help Your Shake: The Recollections of a Ninety-two Year Old Papermaker.
Thomas, Peter.

Limited Edition. 12mo. 25pp. Jointly produced by the Alembic Press of Oxford, England and Peter & Donna Thomas of Santa Cruz, California. A limited, numbered edition of 114 copies have been set in twelve point Caslon by Solo-Type, printed on 150 gsm Pott, a handmade paper from the Wookey Hole Mill, using Arab Foolscap Folio, Albion Demy and Adana presses, at the Alembic Press. The text is by Peter Thomas. The illustrations are by Donna Thomas. The book has been bound by the printers using Peter's handmade paper and parchment

Book Power! Artist Books Exploring our Social, Political or Environmental World.
23 Sandy Gallery.

Small quarto. Illustrated in color. Red pictorial wraps. Catalog of an exhibition held at the 23 Sandy Gallery in June of 2010 featuring more than 40 artists.

A Bag of Possibles.
Koss, Jim.

Limited Edition. Small square octavo, approximately 6-1/2 x 6-1/2". [40]pp. Printed, designed, illustrated, and bound by the author; printed at the Eucalyptus Press, Oakland California (Mills College) using Van Dijck types composed by Mackenzie-Harris; the paper is Gekkeikan, imported from Japan, and the book is printed on French-fold sheets. Issued in an edition of thirty-five signed and numbered copies, this copy is marked "variant V/V". The binding is comprised of two pieces of rawhide, stitched with a Japanese-style stab binding. A Fine copy. // A collection of more than a couple dozen poems, in several styles (including haiku). Laid-in is a small original illustration, a 1-1/2" diameter circular landscape drawing centered on a 4" square piece of black Arches paper, signed, numbered (also 'variant V/V) and dated on the verso.

J & J Stilkunde an Beispielen ein Lehrspiel.

Limited Edition of 330 machine-numbered copies, this being number 296. 12mo. Unpaginated. Text in German, French, and English. String-bound artist book in cardstock covers plus 40 numbered index cards, each illustrated on one side in color or black & white. Housed in a matte gray cardstock box with a white label printed in black mounted to the box lid. Light tanning, short closed tear and partial crease to box lid, partial corner crease to upper cover of book. Very Good+. // Exhibition catalog for a showing of postcards held at the Stadtischen Museum between March 28 and April 28, 1974. Together, the cards and book constitute a game in which card pairings are matched to their corresponding 'ism'. Featured artists include Marcel Duchamp, Robert Filiou, Gilbert & George, Christian Boltanski, Pablo Picasso, and Claes Oldenburg.

Paper Works.
Grimyser, Jenny .

Limited Edition. 11.25" x 14" Nine silkscreen prints laid in a gray linen-covered portfolio, which is illustrated. As New. One of 38 signed and numbered copies. "Grimyser examines the possibilities of a piece of paper. With a humorous tone and playful imagery the artist explores paper, its dimensional qualities, the vastness of a page and the interaction of writing and drawing.

Treasure.
Baldwin, Katie.

Limited Edition. 8" x 7.75" closed. Accordion-fold. Printed on handmade abaca paper with silkscreen and moku hanga (traditional Japanese woodblock method). Housed in linen-covered illustrated boards. One of 35 signed and numbered copies. As New."Treasure, a narrative poem about personal change, uses the images of Jiffy Pop popcorn (instructions in Japanese) as a metaphor for a turning point in a woman's life and suggests an imminent need for change everywhere."

Classification of a Spit Stain.
Ga, Ellie.

First Thus. Edition limited to 1000 unnumbered copies. Octavo. Unpaginated. Illustrations. Tan cloth over boards. As New. // Facsimile of the First Edition, with an expanded appendix.

First Edition. Octavo. Eight parts inserted in illustrated wrapper. Housed in original illustrated cardboard box. Fine in Near Fine box showing some scuffing from tape removal. Theme for wrapper and box illustration is Confections. Parts include a braodside, suite of photographs, poems and stories. cold-drill is published annually by the MFA Department of Boise State University.

Human House.
McGarry, Jean.

Folio. Single sheet (13 x 19-1/2"), laminated, folded twice to 13 x 6-1/2", menu-style. Art by Holton Rower, designed by A.S.C. Rower. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by the three contributors. Lightly worn, but Near Fine. // A single long poem, its lines arranged under different headings ('Terrain'; 'Retreat'; 'Old Time'; 'Works'; 'Growth'; 'Song') within the framework of a Chinese food menu. Another inventive work from the Flockophobic Press

Soma-Haoma 2 : Riddled Interiors.
Enslin, Theodore, Harvey Albert, Lee Bassett, Martha Boss et al.

Includes: "Riddled Interiros" anthology featuring 4 poets sewn illustrated wraps; 4 original photographs on matt board; "Even Thee is a Little Queer" broadside by Edward Darling; "Son of a Gun" by Lee Bassett, sewn in green printed wraps; and 6 other pieces (broadsides, illustrations, photo postcard etc. Housed in an illustrated mailing carton. Very Good+ to Near Fine