viaLibri ~ Rare Books from 1995

Sammallahti, Pentti:
        SACRI - Photographs as Lithographs - Opus 29 - SIGNED COPY.
      Helsinki - Odense - Museet for Fotokunst, 1995. Tall 8vo portfolio (30,5 × 15,5 cm) in stiff wraps. 8 black and white photographs and 9 sample pictures illustrating the tone separation, the method and the effect of the printing paper. Text by the artist in English. Quattrotone offset print. Edition: 300 numbered copies. This copy has all 8 photos SIGNED IN HAND BY Pentti Sammallahti. Light wear to edges. Clean, very well preserved copy.. First edition of this very rare portfolio by Sammalahthi including eight panorama images from holy places around the world - 8 plates SIGNED in hand

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[ D'Ambrosio, Joseph ]. Poe, Edgar Allan
        Al Aaraaf
      [Sherman Oaks:] Livre d'Art by D'Ambrosio, 1995 One of fifty copies printed letterpress on Lana Royal Classic paper. Signed on the title-page by D'Ambrosio. Trapezoidal shape binding in quarter blue morocco and mirrored panel boards, housed with the original trapezoidal two-part display stand and cover with further mirrored paneling. . Octavo. Printed letterpress in black and purple with woodcut backgrounds in various colors, several pages with embossed margins. A fine copy. Based on the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe's discovery of what later would be termed a supernovaâ€”Al Aaraaf (a star that arose upon the night in a brilliant flash, stayed for a short while, and then disappeared), Edgar Allan Poe created this metaphysical communication of fleeting beauty. In it he juggles time and space between reality and fantasy. I had no recourse but to do the same. However, I did start with a basic premise, which is that when one passes a mirror, one can see one's image and the surrounding scene. Once past the mirror, one disappears from the view but the reflection of the surrounding scene continues: a visual presentation of the term 'evanescence.' During the period of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), all heavenly bodies were given Arabic names. The structure of the book, therefore, had to evoke that background, along with the spirit of a beautiful thing arising and then passing forever from view. Hence, I created a mirrored polybhedron with unintellible but real script that evokes Arabic writing (but not Arabic) banding its throatâ€¦" (Joseph D'Ambrosio in A Memoir of Book Design 1969-2000).

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COMDEN, Betty
        Off Stage
      Simon and Schuster New York: Simon and Schuster. (1995). First. First edition. A trifle foxed at the foredge and endpapers, near fine in a lightly soiled, near fine dustwrapper. Biography of the Broadway and Hollywood legend, half of the Comden and Green collaboration, writers of Singin' in the Rain and other great films and musicals. Very nicely Inscribed by the author to Gloria Jones, wife of the author James Jones: "To Gloria, my beautiful friend -- the first to read this and say she thoguht it was good -- With love, Betty January 1995." Gloria Jones is one of a few people mentioned in the acknowledgements (in terms similar to the inscription), and is pictured in the photos accompanying the text. A nice association. .

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Boeschoten, H. E., N. Vandamme and S. Tezcan, eds
        Al-Rabghuzi: The Stories of the Prophets. Qisas al-Anbiya', an Eastern Turkish Version
      Leiden, New York, Köln: E. J. Brill, 1995. First edition.. Hardcover. Ex-library. Yes. 2 volumes. Large 8vo. xxxv,(1),787;ix,(1),831pp. Red cloth, gilt. Volume I contains the introduction and the critical edition of the texts, using the British Library manuscript with additions and collations from two manuscripts in St. Petersburg; volume II contains the translation; into English. Extensive indices. Ex-library set with library markings and deacquisition stamps.

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Finot, Louis
        Le Temple D'Angkor Vat - Memoires Archeologiques Publies Par L'Ecole Francaise D'Extreme-Orient. Tome II. Les Editions G.Van Oes
      Bangkok::: SDI Publications,, 1995.. Reprint. Cloth. Brand new. A deluxe three volume, slipcase edition of this 1929 edition. Volume 1: L'Architecture. 196 pages, 50 plates, 2 fold-out plans. Volume 2: La Sculpture. 156 pages, 136 plates (2 fold-out) 2 fold-out plans. Volume 3: La Galerie des Bas-Reliefs. 144 pages, 322 plates & 9 plans ( 62 of which are fold-out ) French text. A superb title which shows the Angkor complex and sculpture as it was in the 1920's. Hardbound w/ dustjacket. Fine condition. This is a heavy, 15lb, book & will be shipped at cost.

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J.R.R. Tolkien and Alex Lewis
        The Ruins of Osgiliath, Signed Limited Numbered Edition, #2 of 100, Full Leather Custom Clamshell Case
      Alexander Lewis, 1995. Signed Limited Numbered. Cloth. Alexander Lewis. Signed by Editor. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. An offering of the very hard to come by, The Ruins of Osgiliath. This copy was assembled and revised by Alexander Lewis in 1995. Limited to 100 copies, The Ruins of Osgiliath is Number 2 of 100 signed by the editor Alexander Lewis. This is one of the original copies published in 1995. This copy is in Near Fine/Very Good Plus condition. The cloth exterior shows no soiling, clean and bright. It does have a couple of bumped corners and a little rubbing to the edges. The interior is clean and bright, no previous owners names or any writing noted. Overall a Near Fine copy of this elusive title. The Ruins of Osgiliath, 1st printing, 1995. This is the one volume folio size hardback, Limited to 100 copies worldwide, and a beautiful companion to The Tale of Gondolin (50 copies worldwide). The Complete Tales of the First City of Gondor. This collection of stories drawn and blended from the fabric of Middle-Earth by JRR Tolkien was first issued in a series of 3 comprehensive booklets for members of the Tolkien Society in 1990. Now they have been expanded and beautifully bound. This book is individually hand tipped and signed by Alex Lewis. This is a beautifully bound large book, and sure to be a real investment. With only 100 copies ever produced most of these are in the hands of Tolkien Completist's and are very hard to find. This copy is numbered 2 of 100. This very scarce book is a once in a lifetime opportunity to acquire this very rare and elusive title. A custom clamshell case, full black leather with silver stamping to front, raised bands with silver stamping to spine, is included to protect and display this wonderful book. Digital photo's available, inquire if interested. Other Tolkien books available, include both the UK and US editions, original cloth bindings, custom fine bindings, and Signed/Numbered/Limited Editions. Near Fine / No Jacket, as Issued.

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SHAHN, Bernarda Bryson and Jake Milgram WIEN
        The Vanishing American Frontier: Bernarda Bryson Shahn and her historical lithographs created for the Resettlement Administration of FDR
      New York: Wien American, 1995. First Edition. Oblong quarto (23cm x 28cm). Pictorial wrappers; 11pp text; [44pp] illustrations and commentary. Together with the final manuscript "dummy" for the finished book, bound into vinyl wrappers with illustrations provided in xerox facsimile. Both volumes fine. Bernarda Shahn's own copies, unsigned but with Shahn estate labels tipped onto front pastedown of each volume. & & Bernarda Bryson Shahn was a prolific and talented artist and illustrator who contributed illustrations to no fewer than twenty published books during her long career. Her Depression-era lithographs, reproduced here, reveal her as both a skilled draftsman and a highly sensitive observer of the social landscape. This is the only full-length study of Bryson's work to appear in her lifetime, produced to accompany a traveling exhibit of her work in 1995.

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[Austen, Jane]. Thompson, Emma
        The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film
      New York: Newmarket Press, [1995] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j. Presentation copy, inscribed by Thompson on the title-page: "To SusanÑThanks for being so lovely! You're a peach. With lots of love from Emma." Laid in is a card in Emma Thompson's hand, address "To: Susan LevinÑMelanie SteeleÑ" with a drawing of an elephant. Thompson writes: "Dear all at publicityÑI'm so sorry my hotel bill is so high. I fear I am becoming profligate in my old age. Do let me know if you need me to cough up some dough. Here's to our wonderful movieÑthank you for sporting me! Love, Emma."

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FORD, Richard
        Independence Day
      London: Harvill. (1995). An advance copy of the first British edition, with printed text on the front cover that indicates that the "text is not the final version," and, in fact, this text does seem to be an earlier state than that of not only the British trade edition but the U.S. edition as well. The text does seem to match that of the British advance reading copy. Tapebound sheets in printed cardstock covers. Signed by the author. Approximately 8-3/8" x 11-3/4". Photoreproduced name on front cover; dusty rear cover; else fine. An uncommon view of an early state of the text of Ford's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. . First Edition. Softcover.

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ROTH, Henry
        Call It Sleep
      San Francisco: Arion Press, 1995. Leather Bound. Fine. Call It Sleep is the most profound novel of Jewish life that I have ever read by an American& Alfred Kazin --- New York Review of Books& & ROTH, Henry. Call It Sleep. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1995. Limited Edition of 300 printed in 1995 and SIGNED BY ROTH. Quarter green morocco over green cloth boards printed with a brick tenement building design and housed in a matching slipcase. Illustrated with 48 photographs of New York City contemporary to the setting of the novel (1910). Fine Condition. & & Henry Roth (1906-1995) immigrated to New York City in 1907 with his parents from Austria-Hungary. His Yiddish speaking family lived in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn before moving to the Lower East Side in 1910, a virtual Jewish mini-state, as Roth later called it. During his college years at the City College of New York he began to write. Call It Sleep, published in 1934, records the six years in the life of a Jewish immigrant boy, David Schearl, in a New York ghetto just prior to World War I. The novel received moderate praise upon publication and then Roth, suffering from tremendous writers block did not publish again until 1994. Call It Sleep was rediscovered in the 1960s and finally recognized for the genre establishing breakthrough that it created.  no one has ever distilled such poetry and wit from the counterpoint between maimed English and the subtle Yiddish of the immigrant. No one has reproduced so sensitively the terror of family life in the imagination of a child caught between two cultures. (Leslie A. Fiedler)

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PRINCE, Richard
        Adult Comedy Action Drama
      (Zurich-Berlin-New York): (Scalo). (1995). Photographs by the renowned artist. Selected by Andrew Roth as one of the 101 seminal photographic books of the 20th century. Prince's photographs have been described by one writer as being "like projections from inside the vaults of the cultural unconscious." Signed by Prince. Quarto; upper corners tapped; else fine in a fine dust jacket. A nice copy, and scarce signed. . First Edition. Hardcover.

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(Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973)
        The (Pablo) PICASSO Project. Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue 1885-1973. 17 volumes
      San Francisco: Alan Wofsy/The Picasso Project, 1995-2008, 17 volumes, covering the years 1889-1973, all published to-date. About 6000 pages with over 22000 illustrations. 12.5 x 9.5 in., cloth in dust jackets, in new condition. Based on the legendary Zervos set, this collection contains a number of works that were not included in the Zervos, with titles in French and English and concordances to Zervos. This set includes: 1) Youth in Spain I 1889-1897; 2) Youth in Spain II 1897-1900; 3) From Cubism to Neoclassicism 1917-1919; 4-5) Neoclassicism 1920-1924 (2 vols); 6) Toward Surrealism 1925-1929; 7) Surrealism 1930-1936; 8) Spanish Civil War 1937-1939; 9) Europe at War 1939-1940; 10) Nazi Occupation 1940-1944; 11) Liberation and Post-War Years 1944-1949; 12-13) The Fifties 1950-1959 (2 vols); 14-16) The Sixties 1960-1969 (3 vols); 17) The Final Years 1970-1973.

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        RECOVERY: THE HOSPITAL DRAWINGS OF ALFONSO OSSORIO
      (New York: Center for Book Arts. 1995). 18 3/8" x 18 1/4", hardcover with clamshell. n.p.. First edition limited to 100 signed and numbered copies. Alfonso A. Ossorio (1916-1990) was an abstract expressionist artist who was born in Manila and produced a body of work that remained consistently international in scope. His early fascination with Surrealism gave way to Abstract Expressionism although he continued to be influenced by his native Philippine Catholic folk art as well as the modernist techniques of Informel and assemblage. Instead of completely abandoning one set of principles for another, he would continue to incorporate those features he most favored into his next series of compositions which resulted in complex and multifaceted works. In failing health, he was hospitalized from January 17 to February 8, 1989 and December 3 to 5, 1990. Given some markers and watercolor paper, he began a series of drawings that would become this striking collection of images. The publication was designed by Richard Minsky, with texts by Rose Slivka, Dr. Lewis Thomas and B.H. Friedman. Each print, mounted and matted on Stonehenge paper, was printed on Permalife paper and authenticated in the margin with the seal of the Ossorio Foundation. Letterpress printed at the Center for Book Arts. This volume is housed in a red cloth clamshell box. .

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Plato, Aristotle, Berkeley, Kant, Locke, Descartes, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Hume, Nietzsche, Mill, Spinoza
        Great Philosophers: 12 Volume Collector's Set
      Easton Press, 1995. Hardcover. Like New - MINT. Easton Press: Norwalk, CT., 1995. Hardcover. As New. 1st Edition. Fine Condition. Full Leather with 22K gold gilt. The Great Philosophers. 12-volume matching set includes the writings of the following philosophers: Plato; Aristotle; Berkeley; Kant; Locke; Descartes; Hegel; Kierkegaard; Hume; Nietzsche; Mill; and Spinoza. Bound in full RED leather, extensive gilt decoration on spine and both boards boasting all the customary Easton Press trimmings. As always, hardbox packed for protection.

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Maurice Bernard Sendak
        SENDAK IN PHILADELPHIA ROSENBACH MUSEUM EXHIBIT LITHOGRAPH 18 X 24 SIGNED! [FROM SENDAK'S OWM ARCHIVE]
      For Rosenbach. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Print. Art; Sendak; Commercial lithography ; Elephant Folio 23" tall; 1 pages; Maurice Bernard Sendak (born June 10, 1928) is an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. He is best known for his book "Where the Wild Things Are," published in 1963. Sendak gained international acclaim after writing and illustrating "Where the Wild Things Are," a Caldecott Medal-winning picture book about a boy banished to his bedroom without his supper. He deals with his anger by imagining himself king of an island filled with enormous, frightening monsters. Critically acclaimed and controversial, Sendak is one of the first children's writers to deal frankly with the fears and anxieties of childhood. "Where the Wild Things Are" is the first in a trilogy, to be followed by "In the Night Kitchen" (1970) and "Outside over There" (1981) , which, in Sendak's words, are "all variations on the same theme: how children master various feelings--anger, boredom, fear, frustration, jealousy--and manage to come to grips with the realities of their lives." Mr. Sendak's original drawings are constantly in demand by museums, art galleries and collectors everywhere. Although most of his original work is archived at the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia, his pictures are represented in many major collections around the world. It understates his importance to simply call him a genius in his field: he has been called "the Picasso of Children's Books", and for more than a half-century his work has been critically praised, admired and emulated. Retrospective exhibitions have been held at the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, 1975) , the Pierpont Morgan library (New York, 1981) , the Indianapolis Museum of Art (1999) , the Brennan Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta (2001, a version of which went on national tour) , the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Books (November 2002) , Brandywine River Museum (2003) , and most recently a remarkable survey of his art at the Jewish Museum (New York, 2005) covering both his book work and sets/costumes for opera and ballet, subsequently extending the show to the Tampa Art Museum in Florida (2006). This is an original full-color poster for the installation of an interactive Sendak exhibition at the Please Touch Museum and a joint retrospective of Maurice Sendaks art with reference to his influences at the Rosenbach. This uncommon poster illustrates a Colonial-stylized Wild Thing William Penn standing atop City Hall flanked by Max and another Wild Thing. The work (Hanrahan C25) is in excellent condition, signed on the "dome" inside illustration. It should be noted that this Sendak poster comes directly from the artist's own archive. Red objects in the picture are positioning magnets. ; Signed by Illustrator .

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Pierce, Donna
        NEW WORLD SAINTS. A COLLECTION OF 25 HAND-COLORED PRINTS
      Santa Fe: The Press of the Palace of the Governors, 1995. Introductory text + 25 pochoir colored prints by Catherine Ferguson, tipped onto triptych portfolio leaves of text. Each leaf has an embossed and curved upper margin giving the effect of a small shrine. Folio, 15 x 9 1/2 inches. Elegantly housed in a cloth case executed by BookLab of Austin, Texas. In excellent condition. & Number 16 of 150 numbered copies, signed by Pierce, Ferguson and Pam Smith, designer and printer. Included is a prospectus (with tipped-in pochoir illustration) and a printed announcement for the initial book signing. A beautiful celebration of the Southwestern tradition of venerating Saints, each of the 3,900 hand-colored prints was meticulously executed by Bill Sneeberger and a staff of talented volunteers. The premier volume issued under the direction of Pam Smith for the Press of the Palace of the Governors, Museum of New Mexico.

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        Saint Dominic's Press: A Bibliography 1916-1937
      (Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 1995). Small quarto. 180pp. From an edition of 400 copies, this is one of 100 bound in quarter morocco and printed boards. A separate chemise includes a bifolium from Horae Beatae Virginis printed at Saint Dominic's Press. A facsimile of Daisy and Marguerite is also included. In all, there are three separate volumes in boards, with the bibliography backed in morocco. Compiled by Michael Taylor and Brocard Sewell, and printed at the Whittington Press. Signed by Taylor, Sewell, and the author of the memoir, Susan Falkner. Extremely fine in matching slipcase.

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POTTER,BEATRIX
        TALE OF PETER RABBIT
      1995. 1. POTTER,BEATRIX. THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT. Battledore Books 1995. This is a magnificnet Portfolio of prints from the original blocks with an appreciation signed by Maurice Sendak. The original first printing of Peter Rabbit was produced in 1901 by Potter herself after efforts at finding a publisher failed. She privately printed 250 copies of Peter Rabbit with a color frontispiece and 42 black line illustrations (including the cover). The blocks for this printing were only used one other time (for the second printing of 200 copies). Now, after nearly a century, the publisher has located 34 of these original blocks and has produced this wonderfully elaborate portfolio, LIMITED TO 250 NUMBERED SETS. Each illustration is printed on fine acid free paper and each has its own enclosure printed with the caption. All are housed in a cloth clamshell case with a leather label. The images are remarkably sharp and clean. Featured before the prints is a 20 page ESSAY BY MAURICE SENDAK - an appreciation of Beatrix Potter. Sendak's admiration for Potter is longstanding and having the association between Sendak - the greatest contemporary author/illustrator and children's book, and Potter - author of one of the greatest literary works for children, couldn't be more significant. It has been printed by letterpress and SIGNED BY SENDAK! Included with this portfolio is a wonderful block print by Potter made from the original zinc line-cut. It is previously unpublished and is a charming woodcut entitled "Come dance a jig, to my Granny's Pig. The print is housed in a printed folder and is accompanied by a descriptive commentary by Ann Hobbs (Curator and the V&A). This is altogether a most wonderful item for anyone who appreciates Beatrix Potter.

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Pasmore, Victor:
        Burning Waters Second Version. Visual and Poetic Images. Signed with two original etchings also signed
      London Enitharmon Press 36 St George's Avenue & Marlborough Graphics Ltd 6 Albermarle Street. 1995. 4to. The special binding with grey cloth boards and black cloth spines. Unpaginated. Title, Contents, (28pp), Illustrated throughout in colour and b/w. The text was typeset in 14 and 15pt Perpetua by BAS Printers ltd and printed by them on 240gsm Rivoli Blanc. The books were bound by Hunter and Foulis Ltd, Edinburgh. This is one of the special edition of 75 copies with the etchings contained in two bound in folders, one at the front and the other at the rear. This book is number 9/.75 The images are superb Fine

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Pasmore, Victor::
        The Man Within, a poem and essay with visual images. Signed by the author and with a signed etching
      London Enitharmon Press 36 St George's Avenue & Marlborough Graphics Ltd 6 Albermarle Street. 1995. 4to. The special binding with grey cloth boards and black cloth spines. Unpaginated. Title, Contents, (14pp), Illustrated throughout in colour and b/w. The text was typeset in 14 and 15pt Perpetua by BAS Printers ltd and printed by them on 240gsm Rivoli Blanc. The books were bound by Hunter and Foulis Ltd, Edinburgh. This is one of the special edition of 75 copies with the etching contained in a bound in folder at the rear. This book is number 9/.75 The images are superb.

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Pullman, Philip
        The Firework-Maker's Daughter - 1st Edition/1st Printing
      Doubleday London: Doubleday. Fine; Signed by Author. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385405278 . A most handsome unread First Edition/First Printing in Fine condition. Pictorial boards without dustjacket, as issued. SIGNED by author Philip Pullman directly on the title page; A thousand miles ago and very far away there lived a firework-maker named Lalchand and his daughter Lila whose desire to follow in her father's footsteps as a firework-maker takes her on a quest up and into a volcano in search of the secrets of fire. She enlists the help of her friend Chulak, the personal servant to the king's talking white elephant named Hamlet. They set off, ready to face unknown adventures ; B&W Illustrations .

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Roth, Philip
        Sabbath's Theater - 1st Edition/1st Printing
      Houghton Mifflin Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Signed by Author. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0395739829 . A most handsome First Edition/First Printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author Philip Roth directly on the title page; Once an inventive puppeteer, Mickey Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time mistress - an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring exceeds even his own - Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, besieged by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him most, he contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction (From the cover) .

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