http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:07:44 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2500

Dianne L. Reeves — From Fiber to Paper

Nancy Culmone — Lunar List Three

Don Rash — PSALM 66

]]> ([tag]Sea Pen Press & Paper Mill[/tag]) Even Money.  [Poems by]Thomas Brush. Seattle. 1988. 24p, including endpapers. 10.5” x 13”. Weiss Initials Series 2 for the title page. The book editioned on a #4 Vandercook. Text in Monotype Janson on  paper handmade made by Neil Bonham, who also made the watermarked coverstock, using stencils, wax, and an epoxy matrix to shape the screen.  Colored illustrations from linoleum cuts, some of which were modified with acrylic gel medium by Suzanne Ferris. ‘Tickets’ cut from xeroxed images transferred to linoleum. Pictorial blue handmade paper wrappers, in linen-covered modified clamshell box, with blue trim. Box and binding designed and constructed by Judy Johnson. No.  91 in an edition of 100 copies, signed by the author. Fine. Seven poems about horse-racing and racetracks: Aksarben, Exhibition Park, Chalk, Closing Portland Meadows, Doo Dah, Wishes, and Golden Gate Park.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:03:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2498

Helmut Schulze — Inventory of my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre.

Gifts From Our Elders, artist’s book by Kerry McAleer-Keeler

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Huysmans, A Rebours. Kunstelische Gestaltung Helmut Schulze. Excerpts from text in French, with English translations to each page. edition offizin parvus. Berlin. 2011. 54p. 15.25” x 11.5”. Original illustrations with gouach, drawings, watercolors, and ink drawing. Text fragments in Scala Regular on Canson Bütten 250g. on an Epson Stylus Pro 3880.  Handbound by Christian Kluswe in maroon cloth; title in white on spine and label on front with title and illustration. Toning maroon  paper over board slipcase. No. 1 in an edition of only three copies, signed by Helmut Schulze in pencil. Fine.

“Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1848-1907. Huysmans’ work is remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, extensive vocabulary, detailed and sensuous descriptions, and biting, satirical wit. “... Huysmans’ most famous novel A rebours (Against the Grain or Against Nature or Wrong Way) (1884), which featured a single character, the aesthete des Esseintes, and decisively broke from Naturalism, becoming the ultimate example of “decadent” literature. The description of des Esseintes’ “alluring liaison” with a cherry-lipped youth influenced other writers of the decadent movement, including Oscar Wilde, and is considered an important step in the formation of “gay  literature”. A rebours won further notoriety as an exhibit in the trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895, during which the prosecutor referred to the novel as a “sodomitical” book. The book also appalled Zola, who felt it had dealt a “terrible blow” to Naturalism. “Huysmans was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in 1892, but only for his work with the civil service. In 1905, his admirers persuaded the french government to promote him to Officier de la Légion d’honneur for his literary achievements. In the same year, Huysmans, a cigarette-smoker, was diagnosed with cancer of the mouth. He died in 1907 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris.” [Huysmans’ style is “Barbaric in its profusion, violent in its emphasis, wearying in its splendor, it is - especially in regard to things seen - extraordinarily expressive, with all the shades of a painter’s palette. Elaborately and deliberately perverse, it is in its very perversity that Huysmans’ work - so fascinating, so repellent, so instinctively artificial - comes to represent, as the work of no other writer can be said to do, the main tendencies, the chief results, of the Decadent movement in literature. (Arthur Symons, “The Decadent Movement in Literature.”)  - Wikipedia.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:00:55 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2495

Helmut Schulze — Huysmans, A Rebours

Joan M. Soppe — Living Room

Press at Colorado College — The Waiting Room

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Inventory of  my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre. Nineteen selected texts frm [tag]Marie O’Kennedy[/tag] Inventaire de ma Chambre with original-paintings and texts by Helmut Schulze. Atelier Helmut Schulze. Berlin. 2011. 62p. 15.25” x 11.25”. Concept, design, illustrations, printing and calligraphy by Helmut Schulze. Original watercolors, gouaches, drawings and inkjet color prints with pigmented ink created by Helmut Schulze, as well as original engravings. Text fragments handwritten by the artist with india ink and also set in computer designed type - Scala Sans and Adobe Garamond. Printed on Canson Bütten paper and transparent paper. Bound in dark blue cloth with title and illustration in white, black and gold on front board; white title on spine. Salmon pink endpages. Pale gray paper board slipcase. Outer gray protective box with separate lid. No. 1 in an edition of 2 unique variants signed by Helmut Schulze. New.   Full English translation of the text included. This book is based on the first edition of Marie O’Kennedy’s Inventaire de ma Chambre, published by Librairie Sarlit, J. Bricon, Paris. At the end of the 19th century, Marie O’Kennedy was a well-known author in France. In this work she describes her room and reflects on it - as Xavier de Maistre did earlier in the same century. Schulze contrasts his own reality and English texts with the French text fragments and a view of the 19th century. Even with the occasional typos in the English text, this book is a rare delight! A true ‘Artist’s Book’ with each page a visual surprise.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:56:49 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2493

Ilse Schreiber Noll — The River

Ilse Schreiber Noll — Die Erste Elegie – The First Elegy

Ilse Schreiber Noll & Dennis Brutus — Poetry , fleeing – Poesie, fliehend

]]> ([tag]Ilse Schreiber-Noll[/tag]) Lost Cities. Unique Artist’s Book by Ilse Schreiber-Noll; with excerpts from  a poem by [tag]Walt Whitman[/tag]. Tarrytown. NY  2010. n.p. 9.75” x 13.25”. Painted cover with open spine and three linen strips. All pages of mixed media and collage on paper, with excerpts of Whitman’s poem printed letterpress on cream Arches  paper wrapper; wrapper also with printed title and pencil signature of artist. Laid in brown textured cloth over board dropback box with recessed title and image on front. Signed by the artist. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:29:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2486

Press at Colorado College — Printed Poem/The Poem as Print. Twenty-four Broadsides of American Poetry

Achille J. St. Onge — Remarks at the Dedication of the Wallace Library, Fitchburg, Massachusetts June 3rd, 1967. — By Archibald Macleish.

The Age of Partial Objects, by book artist Dean Dass

]]> ([tag]Mnemonic Press[/tag]) 13/14. Poem by Wallace Stevens. Artist's book by Harriet Bart. [Minneapolis. Minnesota. 2004.] 64p. 14” x 10”. Designed and printed in collaboration with Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press. Handset type printed in Delphin I and II, with Trump Mediaeval used for display, on Magnani Pescia. Figures and poem printed on rectos, stanza numbers on versos. The thirteen figures scanned and converted to polymer plate, from which they were then printed. Book printed in black, gunmetal blue and a fugitive gray. Bound with black goatskin spine and boards covered in iridescent blue/black cloth with a blackbird foil-stamped in matte black. Slipcase of grey cloth. No. 17 in an edition of 50 copies signed by the artist. Fine. Bart writes: "13/14 is a book of startling contrasts and exquisite beauty. It is the confluence of a poem and a puzzle, bringing together the fourteen polygonal forms of The Loculus of Archimedes and the poetic vision of the Wallace Stevens poem,  Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird. The book pairs disparate found objects, images, and texts to create unique contexts and give new meanings to everyday objects. Bart has inventively used the fourteen shapes that comprise the ancient puzzle to create dynamic silhouette figures for each of the thirteen stanzas of the poem.”.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:03:54 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2475

Shirley Jones — Impressions

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

Peter R. Jones — The Garden & Other Poems

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Five Flowers for My Father. A Portfolio by Shirley Jones. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1990. 18” x 13”. Seven mezzotints of wild flowers, including title page, and mezzotint of her father. Printed by her on Tervakoski handmade paper, enclosed in folders of gray Fabriano Roma printed with the text. The five narrative pieces, together with three of her poems, were set & printed by the artist in 24-point Baskerville type. Black cloth dropback box with black leather title on lid. No. 6 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by the artist. Prospectus laid in. Fine. The core of the book is a set of mezzotints of wild flowers juxtaposed with objects of significance in the life of Jones’s father, for whom she made the book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:01:35 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2473

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

Peter R. Jones — Aesop’s Fables for Modern Readers

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Impressions. By Shirley Jones. Eight poems and prose pieces writen by Jones about her first visit to the United States. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1984. 15” x 13”. Eight color aquatints. Printed on Barcham Green Waterleaf. Handset and printed by the artist throughout in 18-pt Baskerville. Bound in navy blue cloth-covered boards, gray morocco spine with dark blue markings, matching gray onlay on upper cover depicting a tall modern building on which the book’s title is inlaid in black leather elongated letters. Gray textured handmade endpapers. Matching navy blue dropback box, title label on spine. No. 32 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by Jones in pencil.  One of 15 copies formatted for fine binding. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:59:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2471

Janus Press — Helios. Drawing and text by Peter Schumann

Janus Press — The Janus Press – Fifty Years. Catalogue Raisonné for 1991-2005

Janus Press — Gone. Poems by Ellen McCulloch-Lovell

]]> ([tag]Janus Press[/tag]) Tatata, 24 cordells. Twenty-four chapbooks drawn and written by Peter Schumann. Newark. Vermont. 2011. Boxing - 10.5” x 10.25” x 1.5”. Booklet - 7” x 4”. The charcoal and ink drawings were scanned by Ellen Dorn Levit and printed using a Xerox Docucolor 700 with Judi Bourque at Silver Mountain Graphics, Vermont, on Mohawk Superfine eggshell white 100 lb text. The crayon cover drawings were scanned in New Hampshire and printed using an Epson Stylus NX515 on Mohawk Via cream linen 65lb cover by Andrew Miller-Brown who also did the letterpress printing. Chapbooks sewn in differenct color thread. Display pocket panels are Fabriano Miliani Ingress. Each booklet is 8p. plus illustrated wrappers. 6 booklets laid in colored envelope-type folder against the three colored sides of a strong 3-sided navy bookcloth folder with title on top side and colophon details on the inside.  Light tan bristol slipcase  printed with woodtype title. No. 89 in an edition of 120 copies, signed by Peter Schumann. Fine. Done in the spirit of the Latin American street-market cordells (books-on-a-string and sometimes in trays). “These booklets are a group Schumann drew for Christmas 2009 in the spirit and tradition of Hispanic Cordells. These are chapbooks made from one sheet of paper folded into eight pages plus a cover. They are hawked by poets in Latin American marketplaces strung up pinned on lines like laundry or arrayed on trays similar to those that were carried by cigarette girls. The subject traditionally cover a variety of subjects as do Peter’s; political, tales, ruminations, admonitions, kids’ stories and even the weather.” - Van Vliet.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:53:40 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2469

Eric Gill: His life and Art

Eugene O’Neill — Inscriptions: Eugene O’Neill to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill

Joe D’Ambrosio — The Twilight of Orthodoxy in New England. By William Nykamp.

]]> ([tag]Victor & Caroline Hammer[/tag]) Aratus. Phenomena. With Woodcuts from Erhard Ratdolt’s Poetica Astronomica MCCCCLXX. Translation by John Lamb. With Notes by Paul Q-Holbrook. King Library Press. University of Kentucky. 1975. Approx. 90 p. 10.5” x 8”. Victor and Carolyn Hammer designed this book for the Anvil Press, Nancy Lair was its printer with Carolina Kerry Hermandez and W. Gay Reading. The work was completed at the King Library Press, University of Kentucky with various assistants at the press. Printed in black and red Uncial type on handmade Tovil paper. With 50 woodcuts, also in black and red. Decorated paper-covered boards; paper title label on spine. Thick oatmeal handmade paper wrappers with embossed designed and title on front and back.  No. 70 in an edition of 75 copies. Errata slips laid in. Slight sunning to dust jacket, else fine. A Third Century BCE poem on astronomy, written in hexameters, containing a descripton of the constellations, the most important Circles in the Celestial Sphere, and the relationships of the constellations to the signs of the Zodiac.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:07:44 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2500

Dianne L. Reeves — From Fiber to Paper

Nancy Culmone — Lunar List Three

Don Rash — PSALM 66

]]> ([tag]Sea Pen Press & Paper Mill[/tag]) Even Money.  [Poems by]Thomas Brush. Seattle. 1988. 24p, including endpapers. 10.5” x 13”. Weiss Initials Series 2 for the title page. The book editioned on a #4 Vandercook. Text in Monotype Janson on  paper handmade made by Neil Bonham, who also made the watermarked coverstock, using stencils, wax, and an epoxy matrix to shape the screen.  Colored illustrations from linoleum cuts, some of which were modified with acrylic gel medium by Suzanne Ferris. ‘Tickets’ cut from xeroxed images transferred to linoleum. Pictorial blue handmade paper wrappers, in linen-covered modified clamshell box, with blue trim. Box and binding designed and constructed by Judy Johnson. No.  91 in an edition of 100 copies, signed by the author. Fine. Seven poems about horse-racing and racetracks: Aksarben, Exhibition Park, Chalk, Closing Portland Meadows, Doo Dah, Wishes, and Golden Gate Park.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:03:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2498

Helmut Schulze — Inventory of my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre.

Gifts From Our Elders, artist’s book by Kerry McAleer-Keeler

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Huysmans, A Rebours. Kunstelische Gestaltung Helmut Schulze. Excerpts from text in French, with English translations to each page. edition offizin parvus. Berlin. 2011. 54p. 15.25” x 11.5”. Original illustrations with gouach, drawings, watercolors, and ink drawing. Text fragments in Scala Regular on Canson Bütten 250g. on an Epson Stylus Pro 3880.  Handbound by Christian Kluswe in maroon cloth; title in white on spine and label on front with title and illustration. Toning maroon  paper over board slipcase. No. 1 in an edition of only three copies, signed by Helmut Schulze in pencil. Fine.

“Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1848-1907. Huysmans’ work is remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, extensive vocabulary, detailed and sensuous descriptions, and biting, satirical wit. “... Huysmans’ most famous novel A rebours (Against the Grain or Against Nature or Wrong Way) (1884), which featured a single character, the aesthete des Esseintes, and decisively broke from Naturalism, becoming the ultimate example of “decadent” literature. The description of des Esseintes’ “alluring liaison” with a cherry-lipped youth influenced other writers of the decadent movement, including Oscar Wilde, and is considered an important step in the formation of “gay  literature”. A rebours won further notoriety as an exhibit in the trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895, during which the prosecutor referred to the novel as a “sodomitical” book. The book also appalled Zola, who felt it had dealt a “terrible blow” to Naturalism. “Huysmans was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in 1892, but only for his work with the civil service. In 1905, his admirers persuaded the french government to promote him to Officier de la Légion d’honneur for his literary achievements. In the same year, Huysmans, a cigarette-smoker, was diagnosed with cancer of the mouth. He died in 1907 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris.” [Huysmans’ style is “Barbaric in its profusion, violent in its emphasis, wearying in its splendor, it is - especially in regard to things seen - extraordinarily expressive, with all the shades of a painter’s palette. Elaborately and deliberately perverse, it is in its very perversity that Huysmans’ work - so fascinating, so repellent, so instinctively artificial - comes to represent, as the work of no other writer can be said to do, the main tendencies, the chief results, of the Decadent movement in literature. (Arthur Symons, “The Decadent Movement in Literature.”)  - Wikipedia.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:00:55 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2495

Helmut Schulze — Huysmans, A Rebours

Joan M. Soppe — Living Room

Press at Colorado College — The Waiting Room

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Inventory of  my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre. Nineteen selected texts frm [tag]Marie O’Kennedy[/tag] Inventaire de ma Chambre with original-paintings and texts by Helmut Schulze. Atelier Helmut Schulze. Berlin. 2011. 62p. 15.25” x 11.25”. Concept, design, illustrations, printing and calligraphy by Helmut Schulze. Original watercolors, gouaches, drawings and inkjet color prints with pigmented ink created by Helmut Schulze, as well as original engravings. Text fragments handwritten by the artist with india ink and also set in computer designed type - Scala Sans and Adobe Garamond. Printed on Canson Bütten paper and transparent paper. Bound in dark blue cloth with title and illustration in white, black and gold on front board; white title on spine. Salmon pink endpages. Pale gray paper board slipcase. Outer gray protective box with separate lid. No. 1 in an edition of 2 unique variants signed by Helmut Schulze. New.   Full English translation of the text included. This book is based on the first edition of Marie O’Kennedy’s Inventaire de ma Chambre, published by Librairie Sarlit, J. Bricon, Paris. At the end of the 19th century, Marie O’Kennedy was a well-known author in France. In this work she describes her room and reflects on it - as Xavier de Maistre did earlier in the same century. Schulze contrasts his own reality and English texts with the French text fragments and a view of the 19th century. Even with the occasional typos in the English text, this book is a rare delight! A true ‘Artist’s Book’ with each page a visual surprise.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:56:49 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2493

Ilse Schreiber Noll — The River

Ilse Schreiber Noll — Die Erste Elegie – The First Elegy

Ilse Schreiber Noll & Dennis Brutus — Poetry , fleeing – Poesie, fliehend

]]> ([tag]Ilse Schreiber-Noll[/tag]) Lost Cities. Unique Artist’s Book by Ilse Schreiber-Noll; with excerpts from  a poem by [tag]Walt Whitman[/tag]. Tarrytown. NY  2010. n.p. 9.75” x 13.25”. Painted cover with open spine and three linen strips. All pages of mixed media and collage on paper, with excerpts of Whitman’s poem printed letterpress on cream Arches  paper wrapper; wrapper also with printed title and pencil signature of artist. Laid in brown textured cloth over board dropback box with recessed title and image on front. Signed by the artist. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:29:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2486

Press at Colorado College — Printed Poem/The Poem as Print. Twenty-four Broadsides of American Poetry

Achille J. St. Onge — Remarks at the Dedication of the Wallace Library, Fitchburg, Massachusetts June 3rd, 1967. — By Archibald Macleish.

The Age of Partial Objects, by book artist Dean Dass

]]> ([tag]Mnemonic Press[/tag]) 13/14. Poem by Wallace Stevens. Artist's book by Harriet Bart. [Minneapolis. Minnesota. 2004.] 64p. 14” x 10”. Designed and printed in collaboration with Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press. Handset type printed in Delphin I and II, with Trump Mediaeval used for display, on Magnani Pescia. Figures and poem printed on rectos, stanza numbers on versos. The thirteen figures scanned and converted to polymer plate, from which they were then printed. Book printed in black, gunmetal blue and a fugitive gray. Bound with black goatskin spine and boards covered in iridescent blue/black cloth with a blackbird foil-stamped in matte black. Slipcase of grey cloth. No. 17 in an edition of 50 copies signed by the artist. Fine. Bart writes: "13/14 is a book of startling contrasts and exquisite beauty. It is the confluence of a poem and a puzzle, bringing together the fourteen polygonal forms of The Loculus of Archimedes and the poetic vision of the Wallace Stevens poem,  Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird. The book pairs disparate found objects, images, and texts to create unique contexts and give new meanings to everyday objects. Bart has inventively used the fourteen shapes that comprise the ancient puzzle to create dynamic silhouette figures for each of the thirteen stanzas of the poem.”.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:03:54 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2475

Shirley Jones — Impressions

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

Peter R. Jones — The Garden & Other Poems

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Five Flowers for My Father. A Portfolio by Shirley Jones. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1990. 18” x 13”. Seven mezzotints of wild flowers, including title page, and mezzotint of her father. Printed by her on Tervakoski handmade paper, enclosed in folders of gray Fabriano Roma printed with the text. The five narrative pieces, together with three of her poems, were set & printed by the artist in 24-point Baskerville type. Black cloth dropback box with black leather title on lid. No. 6 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by the artist. Prospectus laid in. Fine. The core of the book is a set of mezzotints of wild flowers juxtaposed with objects of significance in the life of Jones’s father, for whom she made the book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:01:35 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2473

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

Peter R. Jones — Aesop’s Fables for Modern Readers

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Impressions. By Shirley Jones. Eight poems and prose pieces writen by Jones about her first visit to the United States. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1984. 15” x 13”. Eight color aquatints. Printed on Barcham Green Waterleaf. Handset and printed by the artist throughout in 18-pt Baskerville. Bound in navy blue cloth-covered boards, gray morocco spine with dark blue markings, matching gray onlay on upper cover depicting a tall modern building on which the book’s title is inlaid in black leather elongated letters. Gray textured handmade endpapers. Matching navy blue dropback box, title label on spine. No. 32 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by Jones in pencil.  One of 15 copies formatted for fine binding. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:59:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2471

Janus Press — Helios. Drawing and text by Peter Schumann

Janus Press — The Janus Press – Fifty Years. Catalogue Raisonné for 1991-2005

Janus Press — Gone. Poems by Ellen McCulloch-Lovell

]]> ([tag]Janus Press[/tag]) Tatata, 24 cordells. Twenty-four chapbooks drawn and written by Peter Schumann. Newark. Vermont. 2011. Boxing - 10.5” x 10.25” x 1.5”. Booklet - 7” x 4”. The charcoal and ink drawings were scanned by Ellen Dorn Levit and printed using a Xerox Docucolor 700 with Judi Bourque at Silver Mountain Graphics, Vermont, on Mohawk Superfine eggshell white 100 lb text. The crayon cover drawings were scanned in New Hampshire and printed using an Epson Stylus NX515 on Mohawk Via cream linen 65lb cover by Andrew Miller-Brown who also did the letterpress printing. Chapbooks sewn in differenct color thread. Display pocket panels are Fabriano Miliani Ingress. Each booklet is 8p. plus illustrated wrappers. 6 booklets laid in colored envelope-type folder against the three colored sides of a strong 3-sided navy bookcloth folder with title on top side and colophon details on the inside.  Light tan bristol slipcase  printed with woodtype title. No. 89 in an edition of 120 copies, signed by Peter Schumann. Fine. Done in the spirit of the Latin American street-market cordells (books-on-a-string and sometimes in trays). “These booklets are a group Schumann drew for Christmas 2009 in the spirit and tradition of Hispanic Cordells. These are chapbooks made from one sheet of paper folded into eight pages plus a cover. They are hawked by poets in Latin American marketplaces strung up pinned on lines like laundry or arrayed on trays similar to those that were carried by cigarette girls. The subject traditionally cover a variety of subjects as do Peter’s; political, tales, ruminations, admonitions, kids’ stories and even the weather.” - Van Vliet.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:53:40 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2469

Eric Gill: His life and Art

Eugene O’Neill — Inscriptions: Eugene O’Neill to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill

Joe D’Ambrosio — The Twilight of Orthodoxy in New England. By William Nykamp.

]]> ([tag]Victor & Caroline Hammer[/tag]) Aratus. Phenomena. With Woodcuts from Erhard Ratdolt’s Poetica Astronomica MCCCCLXX. Translation by John Lamb. With Notes by Paul Q-Holbrook. King Library Press. University of Kentucky. 1975. Approx. 90 p. 10.5” x 8”. Victor and Carolyn Hammer designed this book for the Anvil Press, Nancy Lair was its printer with Carolina Kerry Hermandez and W. Gay Reading. The work was completed at the King Library Press, University of Kentucky with various assistants at the press. Printed in black and red Uncial type on handmade Tovil paper. With 50 woodcuts, also in black and red. Decorated paper-covered boards; paper title label on spine. Thick oatmeal handmade paper wrappers with embossed designed and title on front and back.  No. 70 in an edition of 75 copies. Errata slips laid in. Slight sunning to dust jacket, else fine. A Third Century BCE poem on astronomy, written in hexameters, containing a descripton of the constellations, the most important Circles in the Celestial Sphere, and the relationships of the constellations to the signs of the Zodiac.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:07:44 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2500

Dianne L. Reeves — From Fiber to Paper

Nancy Culmone — Lunar List Three

Don Rash — PSALM 66

]]> ([tag]Sea Pen Press & Paper Mill[/tag]) Even Money.  [Poems by]Thomas Brush. Seattle. 1988. 24p, including endpapers. 10.5” x 13”. Weiss Initials Series 2 for the title page. The book editioned on a #4 Vandercook. Text in Monotype Janson on  paper handmade made by Neil Bonham, who also made the watermarked coverstock, using stencils, wax, and an epoxy matrix to shape the screen.  Colored illustrations from linoleum cuts, some of which were modified with acrylic gel medium by Suzanne Ferris. ‘Tickets’ cut from xeroxed images transferred to linoleum. Pictorial blue handmade paper wrappers, in linen-covered modified clamshell box, with blue trim. Box and binding designed and constructed by Judy Johnson. No.  91 in an edition of 100 copies, signed by the author. Fine. Seven poems about horse-racing and racetracks: Aksarben, Exhibition Park, Chalk, Closing Portland Meadows, Doo Dah, Wishes, and Golden Gate Park.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:07:44 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2500

Dianne L. Reeves — From Fiber to Paper

Nancy Culmone — Lunar List Three

Don Rash — PSALM 66

]]> ([tag]Sea Pen Press & Paper Mill[/tag]) Even Money.  [Poems by]Thomas Brush. Seattle. 1988. 24p, including endpapers. 10.5” x 13”. Weiss Initials Series 2 for the title page. The book editioned on a #4 Vandercook. Text in Monotype Janson on  paper handmade made by Neil Bonham, who also made the watermarked coverstock, using stencils, wax, and an epoxy matrix to shape the screen.  Colored illustrations from linoleum cuts, some of which were modified with acrylic gel medium by Suzanne Ferris. ‘Tickets’ cut from xeroxed images transferred to linoleum. Pictorial blue handmade paper wrappers, in linen-covered modified clamshell box, with blue trim. Box and binding designed and constructed by Judy Johnson. No.  91 in an edition of 100 copies, signed by the author. Fine. Seven poems about horse-racing and racetracks: Aksarben, Exhibition Park, Chalk, Closing Portland Meadows, Doo Dah, Wishes, and Golden Gate Park.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:03:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2498

Helmut Schulze — Inventory of my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre.

Gifts From Our Elders, artist’s book by Kerry McAleer-Keeler

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Huysmans, A Rebours. Kunstelische Gestaltung Helmut Schulze. Excerpts from text in French, with English translations to each page. edition offizin parvus. Berlin. 2011. 54p. 15.25” x 11.5”. Original illustrations with gouach, drawings, watercolors, and ink drawing. Text fragments in Scala Regular on Canson Bütten 250g. on an Epson Stylus Pro 3880.  Handbound by Christian Kluswe in maroon cloth; title in white on spine and label on front with title and illustration. Toning maroon  paper over board slipcase. No. 1 in an edition of only three copies, signed by Helmut Schulze in pencil. Fine.

“Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1848-1907. Huysmans’ work is remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, extensive vocabulary, detailed and sensuous descriptions, and biting, satirical wit. “... Huysmans’ most famous novel A rebours (Against the Grain or Against Nature or Wrong Way) (1884), which featured a single character, the aesthete des Esseintes, and decisively broke from Naturalism, becoming the ultimate example of “decadent” literature. The description of des Esseintes’ “alluring liaison” with a cherry-lipped youth influenced other writers of the decadent movement, including Oscar Wilde, and is considered an important step in the formation of “gay  literature”. A rebours won further notoriety as an exhibit in the trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895, during which the prosecutor referred to the novel as a “sodomitical” book. The book also appalled Zola, who felt it had dealt a “terrible blow” to Naturalism. “Huysmans was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in 1892, but only for his work with the civil service. In 1905, his admirers persuaded the french government to promote him to Officier de la Légion d’honneur for his literary achievements. In the same year, Huysmans, a cigarette-smoker, was diagnosed with cancer of the mouth. He died in 1907 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris.” [Huysmans’ style is “Barbaric in its profusion, violent in its emphasis, wearying in its splendor, it is - especially in regard to things seen - extraordinarily expressive, with all the shades of a painter’s palette. Elaborately and deliberately perverse, it is in its very perversity that Huysmans’ work - so fascinating, so repellent, so instinctively artificial - comes to represent, as the work of no other writer can be said to do, the main tendencies, the chief results, of the Decadent movement in literature. (Arthur Symons, “The Decadent Movement in Literature.”)  - Wikipedia.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:00:55 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2495

Helmut Schulze — Huysmans, A Rebours

Joan M. Soppe — Living Room

Press at Colorado College — The Waiting Room

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Inventory of  my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre. Nineteen selected texts frm [tag]Marie O’Kennedy[/tag] Inventaire de ma Chambre with original-paintings and texts by Helmut Schulze. Atelier Helmut Schulze. Berlin. 2011. 62p. 15.25” x 11.25”. Concept, design, illustrations, printing and calligraphy by Helmut Schulze. Original watercolors, gouaches, drawings and inkjet color prints with pigmented ink created by Helmut Schulze, as well as original engravings. Text fragments handwritten by the artist with india ink and also set in computer designed type - Scala Sans and Adobe Garamond. Printed on Canson Bütten paper and transparent paper. Bound in dark blue cloth with title and illustration in white, black and gold on front board; white title on spine. Salmon pink endpages. Pale gray paper board slipcase. Outer gray protective box with separate lid. No. 1 in an edition of 2 unique variants signed by Helmut Schulze. New.   Full English translation of the text included. This book is based on the first edition of Marie O’Kennedy’s Inventaire de ma Chambre, published by Librairie Sarlit, J. Bricon, Paris. At the end of the 19th century, Marie O’Kennedy was a well-known author in France. In this work she describes her room and reflects on it - as Xavier de Maistre did earlier in the same century. Schulze contrasts his own reality and English texts with the French text fragments and a view of the 19th century. Even with the occasional typos in the English text, this book is a rare delight! A true ‘Artist’s Book’ with each page a visual surprise.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:56:49 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2493

Ilse Schreiber Noll — The River

Ilse Schreiber Noll — Die Erste Elegie – The First Elegy

Ilse Schreiber Noll & Dennis Brutus — Poetry , fleeing – Poesie, fliehend

]]> ([tag]Ilse Schreiber-Noll[/tag]) Lost Cities. Unique Artist’s Book by Ilse Schreiber-Noll; with excerpts from  a poem by [tag]Walt Whitman[/tag]. Tarrytown. NY  2010. n.p. 9.75” x 13.25”. Painted cover with open spine and three linen strips. All pages of mixed media and collage on paper, with excerpts of Whitman’s poem printed letterpress on cream Arches  paper wrapper; wrapper also with printed title and pencil signature of artist. Laid in brown textured cloth over board dropback box with recessed title and image on front. Signed by the artist. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:29:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2486

Press at Colorado College — Printed Poem/The Poem as Print. Twenty-four Broadsides of American Poetry

Achille J. St. Onge — Remarks at the Dedication of the Wallace Library, Fitchburg, Massachusetts June 3rd, 1967. — By Archibald Macleish.

The Age of Partial Objects, by book artist Dean Dass

]]> ([tag]Mnemonic Press[/tag]) 13/14. Poem by Wallace Stevens. Artist's book by Harriet Bart. [Minneapolis. Minnesota. 2004.] 64p. 14” x 10”. Designed and printed in collaboration with Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press. Handset type printed in Delphin I and II, with Trump Mediaeval used for display, on Magnani Pescia. Figures and poem printed on rectos, stanza numbers on versos. The thirteen figures scanned and converted to polymer plate, from which they were then printed. Book printed in black, gunmetal blue and a fugitive gray. Bound with black goatskin spine and boards covered in iridescent blue/black cloth with a blackbird foil-stamped in matte black. Slipcase of grey cloth. No. 17 in an edition of 50 copies signed by the artist. Fine. Bart writes: "13/14 is a book of startling contrasts and exquisite beauty. It is the confluence of a poem and a puzzle, bringing together the fourteen polygonal forms of The Loculus of Archimedes and the poetic vision of the Wallace Stevens poem,  Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird. The book pairs disparate found objects, images, and texts to create unique contexts and give new meanings to everyday objects. Bart has inventively used the fourteen shapes that comprise the ancient puzzle to create dynamic silhouette figures for each of the thirteen stanzas of the poem.”.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:03:54 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2475

Shirley Jones — Impressions

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

Peter R. Jones — The Garden & Other Poems

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Five Flowers for My Father. A Portfolio by Shirley Jones. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1990. 18” x 13”. Seven mezzotints of wild flowers, including title page, and mezzotint of her father. Printed by her on Tervakoski handmade paper, enclosed in folders of gray Fabriano Roma printed with the text. The five narrative pieces, together with three of her poems, were set & printed by the artist in 24-point Baskerville type. Black cloth dropback box with black leather title on lid. No. 6 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by the artist. Prospectus laid in. Fine. The core of the book is a set of mezzotints of wild flowers juxtaposed with objects of significance in the life of Jones’s father, for whom she made the book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:01:35 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2473

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

Peter R. Jones — Aesop’s Fables for Modern Readers

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Impressions. By Shirley Jones. Eight poems and prose pieces writen by Jones about her first visit to the United States. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1984. 15” x 13”. Eight color aquatints. Printed on Barcham Green Waterleaf. Handset and printed by the artist throughout in 18-pt Baskerville. Bound in navy blue cloth-covered boards, gray morocco spine with dark blue markings, matching gray onlay on upper cover depicting a tall modern building on which the book’s title is inlaid in black leather elongated letters. Gray textured handmade endpapers. Matching navy blue dropback box, title label on spine. No. 32 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by Jones in pencil.  One of 15 copies formatted for fine binding. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:59:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2471

Janus Press — Helios. Drawing and text by Peter Schumann

Janus Press — The Janus Press – Fifty Years. Catalogue Raisonné for 1991-2005

Janus Press — Gone. Poems by Ellen McCulloch-Lovell

]]> ([tag]Janus Press[/tag]) Tatata, 24 cordells. Twenty-four chapbooks drawn and written by Peter Schumann. Newark. Vermont. 2011. Boxing - 10.5” x 10.25” x 1.5”. Booklet - 7” x 4”. The charcoal and ink drawings were scanned by Ellen Dorn Levit and printed using a Xerox Docucolor 700 with Judi Bourque at Silver Mountain Graphics, Vermont, on Mohawk Superfine eggshell white 100 lb text. The crayon cover drawings were scanned in New Hampshire and printed using an Epson Stylus NX515 on Mohawk Via cream linen 65lb cover by Andrew Miller-Brown who also did the letterpress printing. Chapbooks sewn in differenct color thread. Display pocket panels are Fabriano Miliani Ingress. Each booklet is 8p. plus illustrated wrappers. 6 booklets laid in colored envelope-type folder against the three colored sides of a strong 3-sided navy bookcloth folder with title on top side and colophon details on the inside.  Light tan bristol slipcase  printed with woodtype title. No. 89 in an edition of 120 copies, signed by Peter Schumann. Fine. Done in the spirit of the Latin American street-market cordells (books-on-a-string and sometimes in trays). “These booklets are a group Schumann drew for Christmas 2009 in the spirit and tradition of Hispanic Cordells. These are chapbooks made from one sheet of paper folded into eight pages plus a cover. They are hawked by poets in Latin American marketplaces strung up pinned on lines like laundry or arrayed on trays similar to those that were carried by cigarette girls. The subject traditionally cover a variety of subjects as do Peter’s; political, tales, ruminations, admonitions, kids’ stories and even the weather.” - Van Vliet.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:53:40 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2469

Eric Gill: His life and Art

Eugene O’Neill — Inscriptions: Eugene O’Neill to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill

Joe D’Ambrosio — The Twilight of Orthodoxy in New England. By William Nykamp.

]]> ([tag]Victor & Caroline Hammer[/tag]) Aratus. Phenomena. With Woodcuts from Erhard Ratdolt’s Poetica Astronomica MCCCCLXX. Translation by John Lamb. With Notes by Paul Q-Holbrook. King Library Press. University of Kentucky. 1975. Approx. 90 p. 10.5” x 8”. Victor and Carolyn Hammer designed this book for the Anvil Press, Nancy Lair was its printer with Carolina Kerry Hermandez and W. Gay Reading. The work was completed at the King Library Press, University of Kentucky with various assistants at the press. Printed in black and red Uncial type on handmade Tovil paper. With 50 woodcuts, also in black and red. Decorated paper-covered boards; paper title label on spine. Thick oatmeal handmade paper wrappers with embossed designed and title on front and back.  No. 70 in an edition of 75 copies. Errata slips laid in. Slight sunning to dust jacket, else fine. A Third Century BCE poem on astronomy, written in hexameters, containing a descripton of the constellations, the most important Circles in the Celestial Sphere, and the relationships of the constellations to the signs of the Zodiac.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:03:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2498

Helmut Schulze — Inventory of my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre.

Gifts From Our Elders, artist’s book by Kerry McAleer-Keeler

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Huysmans, A Rebours. Kunstelische Gestaltung Helmut Schulze. Excerpts from text in French, with English translations to each page. edition offizin parvus. Berlin. 2011. 54p. 15.25” x 11.5”. Original illustrations with gouach, drawings, watercolors, and ink drawing. Text fragments in Scala Regular on Canson Bütten 250g. on an Epson Stylus Pro 3880.  Handbound by Christian Kluswe in maroon cloth; title in white on spine and label on front with title and illustration. Toning maroon  paper over board slipcase. No. 1 in an edition of only three copies, signed by Helmut Schulze in pencil. Fine.

“Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1848-1907. Huysmans’ work is remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, extensive vocabulary, detailed and sensuous descriptions, and biting, satirical wit. “... Huysmans’ most famous novel A rebours (Against the Grain or Against Nature or Wrong Way) (1884), which featured a single character, the aesthete des Esseintes, and decisively broke from Naturalism, becoming the ultimate example of “decadent” literature. The description of des Esseintes’ “alluring liaison” with a cherry-lipped youth influenced other writers of the decadent movement, including Oscar Wilde, and is considered an important step in the formation of “gay  literature”. A rebours won further notoriety as an exhibit in the trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895, during which the prosecutor referred to the novel as a “sodomitical” book. The book also appalled Zola, who felt it had dealt a “terrible blow” to Naturalism. “Huysmans was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in 1892, but only for his work with the civil service. In 1905, his admirers persuaded the french government to promote him to Officier de la Légion d’honneur for his literary achievements. In the same year, Huysmans, a cigarette-smoker, was diagnosed with cancer of the mouth. He died in 1907 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris.” [Huysmans’ style is “Barbaric in its profusion, violent in its emphasis, wearying in its splendor, it is - especially in regard to things seen - extraordinarily expressive, with all the shades of a painter’s palette. Elaborately and deliberately perverse, it is in its very perversity that Huysmans’ work - so fascinating, so repellent, so instinctively artificial - comes to represent, as the work of no other writer can be said to do, the main tendencies, the chief results, of the Decadent movement in literature. (Arthur Symons, “The Decadent Movement in Literature.”)  - Wikipedia.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:07:44 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2500

Dianne L. Reeves — From Fiber to Paper

Nancy Culmone — Lunar List Three

Don Rash — PSALM 66

]]> ([tag]Sea Pen Press & Paper Mill[/tag]) Even Money.  [Poems by]Thomas Brush. Seattle. 1988. 24p, including endpapers. 10.5” x 13”. Weiss Initials Series 2 for the title page. The book editioned on a #4 Vandercook. Text in Monotype Janson on  paper handmade made by Neil Bonham, who also made the watermarked coverstock, using stencils, wax, and an epoxy matrix to shape the screen.  Colored illustrations from linoleum cuts, some of which were modified with acrylic gel medium by Suzanne Ferris. ‘Tickets’ cut from xeroxed images transferred to linoleum. Pictorial blue handmade paper wrappers, in linen-covered modified clamshell box, with blue trim. Box and binding designed and constructed by Judy Johnson. No.  91 in an edition of 100 copies, signed by the author. Fine. Seven poems about horse-racing and racetracks: Aksarben, Exhibition Park, Chalk, Closing Portland Meadows, Doo Dah, Wishes, and Golden Gate Park.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:03:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2498

Helmut Schulze — Inventory of my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre.

Gifts From Our Elders, artist’s book by Kerry McAleer-Keeler

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Huysmans, A Rebours. Kunstelische Gestaltung Helmut Schulze. Excerpts from text in French, with English translations to each page. edition offizin parvus. Berlin. 2011. 54p. 15.25” x 11.5”. Original illustrations with gouach, drawings, watercolors, and ink drawing. Text fragments in Scala Regular on Canson Bütten 250g. on an Epson Stylus Pro 3880.  Handbound by Christian Kluswe in maroon cloth; title in white on spine and label on front with title and illustration. Toning maroon  paper over board slipcase. No. 1 in an edition of only three copies, signed by Helmut Schulze in pencil. Fine.

“Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1848-1907. Huysmans’ work is remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, extensive vocabulary, detailed and sensuous descriptions, and biting, satirical wit. “... Huysmans’ most famous novel A rebours (Against the Grain or Against Nature or Wrong Way) (1884), which featured a single character, the aesthete des Esseintes, and decisively broke from Naturalism, becoming the ultimate example of “decadent” literature. The description of des Esseintes’ “alluring liaison” with a cherry-lipped youth influenced other writers of the decadent movement, including Oscar Wilde, and is considered an important step in the formation of “gay  literature”. A rebours won further notoriety as an exhibit in the trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895, during which the prosecutor referred to the novel as a “sodomitical” book. The book also appalled Zola, who felt it had dealt a “terrible blow” to Naturalism. “Huysmans was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in 1892, but only for his work with the civil service. In 1905, his admirers persuaded the french government to promote him to Officier de la Légion d’honneur for his literary achievements. In the same year, Huysmans, a cigarette-smoker, was diagnosed with cancer of the mouth. He died in 1907 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris.” [Huysmans’ style is “Barbaric in its profusion, violent in its emphasis, wearying in its splendor, it is - especially in regard to things seen - extraordinarily expressive, with all the shades of a painter’s palette. Elaborately and deliberately perverse, it is in its very perversity that Huysmans’ work - so fascinating, so repellent, so instinctively artificial - comes to represent, as the work of no other writer can be said to do, the main tendencies, the chief results, of the Decadent movement in literature. (Arthur Symons, “The Decadent Movement in Literature.”)  - Wikipedia.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:00:55 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2495

Helmut Schulze — Huysmans, A Rebours

Joan M. Soppe — Living Room

Press at Colorado College — The Waiting Room

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Inventory of  my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre. Nineteen selected texts frm [tag]Marie O’Kennedy[/tag] Inventaire de ma Chambre with original-paintings and texts by Helmut Schulze. Atelier Helmut Schulze. Berlin. 2011. 62p. 15.25” x 11.25”. Concept, design, illustrations, printing and calligraphy by Helmut Schulze. Original watercolors, gouaches, drawings and inkjet color prints with pigmented ink created by Helmut Schulze, as well as original engravings. Text fragments handwritten by the artist with india ink and also set in computer designed type - Scala Sans and Adobe Garamond. Printed on Canson Bütten paper and transparent paper. Bound in dark blue cloth with title and illustration in white, black and gold on front board; white title on spine. Salmon pink endpages. Pale gray paper board slipcase. Outer gray protective box with separate lid. No. 1 in an edition of 2 unique variants signed by Helmut Schulze. New.   Full English translation of the text included. This book is based on the first edition of Marie O’Kennedy’s Inventaire de ma Chambre, published by Librairie Sarlit, J. Bricon, Paris. At the end of the 19th century, Marie O’Kennedy was a well-known author in France. In this work she describes her room and reflects on it - as Xavier de Maistre did earlier in the same century. Schulze contrasts his own reality and English texts with the French text fragments and a view of the 19th century. Even with the occasional typos in the English text, this book is a rare delight! A true ‘Artist’s Book’ with each page a visual surprise.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:56:49 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2493

Ilse Schreiber Noll — The River

Ilse Schreiber Noll — Die Erste Elegie – The First Elegy

Ilse Schreiber Noll & Dennis Brutus — Poetry , fleeing – Poesie, fliehend

]]> ([tag]Ilse Schreiber-Noll[/tag]) Lost Cities. Unique Artist’s Book by Ilse Schreiber-Noll; with excerpts from  a poem by [tag]Walt Whitman[/tag]. Tarrytown. NY  2010. n.p. 9.75” x 13.25”. Painted cover with open spine and three linen strips. All pages of mixed media and collage on paper, with excerpts of Whitman’s poem printed letterpress on cream Arches  paper wrapper; wrapper also with printed title and pencil signature of artist. Laid in brown textured cloth over board dropback box with recessed title and image on front. Signed by the artist. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:29:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2486

Press at Colorado College — Printed Poem/The Poem as Print. Twenty-four Broadsides of American Poetry

Achille J. St. Onge — Remarks at the Dedication of the Wallace Library, Fitchburg, Massachusetts June 3rd, 1967. — By Archibald Macleish.

The Age of Partial Objects, by book artist Dean Dass

]]> ([tag]Mnemonic Press[/tag]) 13/14. Poem by Wallace Stevens. Artist's book by Harriet Bart. [Minneapolis. Minnesota. 2004.] 64p. 14” x 10”. Designed and printed in collaboration with Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press. Handset type printed in Delphin I and II, with Trump Mediaeval used for display, on Magnani Pescia. Figures and poem printed on rectos, stanza numbers on versos. The thirteen figures scanned and converted to polymer plate, from which they were then printed. Book printed in black, gunmetal blue and a fugitive gray. Bound with black goatskin spine and boards covered in iridescent blue/black cloth with a blackbird foil-stamped in matte black. Slipcase of grey cloth. No. 17 in an edition of 50 copies signed by the artist. Fine. Bart writes: "13/14 is a book of startling contrasts and exquisite beauty. It is the confluence of a poem and a puzzle, bringing together the fourteen polygonal forms of The Loculus of Archimedes and the poetic vision of the Wallace Stevens poem,  Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird. The book pairs disparate found objects, images, and texts to create unique contexts and give new meanings to everyday objects. Bart has inventively used the fourteen shapes that comprise the ancient puzzle to create dynamic silhouette figures for each of the thirteen stanzas of the poem.”.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:03:54 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2475

Shirley Jones — Impressions

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

Peter R. Jones — The Garden & Other Poems

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Five Flowers for My Father. A Portfolio by Shirley Jones. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1990. 18” x 13”. Seven mezzotints of wild flowers, including title page, and mezzotint of her father. Printed by her on Tervakoski handmade paper, enclosed in folders of gray Fabriano Roma printed with the text. The five narrative pieces, together with three of her poems, were set & printed by the artist in 24-point Baskerville type. Black cloth dropback box with black leather title on lid. No. 6 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by the artist. Prospectus laid in. Fine. The core of the book is a set of mezzotints of wild flowers juxtaposed with objects of significance in the life of Jones’s father, for whom she made the book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:01:35 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2473

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

Peter R. Jones — Aesop’s Fables for Modern Readers

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Impressions. By Shirley Jones. Eight poems and prose pieces writen by Jones about her first visit to the United States. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1984. 15” x 13”. Eight color aquatints. Printed on Barcham Green Waterleaf. Handset and printed by the artist throughout in 18-pt Baskerville. Bound in navy blue cloth-covered boards, gray morocco spine with dark blue markings, matching gray onlay on upper cover depicting a tall modern building on which the book’s title is inlaid in black leather elongated letters. Gray textured handmade endpapers. Matching navy blue dropback box, title label on spine. No. 32 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by Jones in pencil.  One of 15 copies formatted for fine binding. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:59:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2471

Janus Press — Helios. Drawing and text by Peter Schumann

Janus Press — The Janus Press – Fifty Years. Catalogue Raisonné for 1991-2005

Janus Press — Gone. Poems by Ellen McCulloch-Lovell

]]> ([tag]Janus Press[/tag]) Tatata, 24 cordells. Twenty-four chapbooks drawn and written by Peter Schumann. Newark. Vermont. 2011. Boxing - 10.5” x 10.25” x 1.5”. Booklet - 7” x 4”. The charcoal and ink drawings were scanned by Ellen Dorn Levit and printed using a Xerox Docucolor 700 with Judi Bourque at Silver Mountain Graphics, Vermont, on Mohawk Superfine eggshell white 100 lb text. The crayon cover drawings were scanned in New Hampshire and printed using an Epson Stylus NX515 on Mohawk Via cream linen 65lb cover by Andrew Miller-Brown who also did the letterpress printing. Chapbooks sewn in differenct color thread. Display pocket panels are Fabriano Miliani Ingress. Each booklet is 8p. plus illustrated wrappers. 6 booklets laid in colored envelope-type folder against the three colored sides of a strong 3-sided navy bookcloth folder with title on top side and colophon details on the inside.  Light tan bristol slipcase  printed with woodtype title. No. 89 in an edition of 120 copies, signed by Peter Schumann. Fine. Done in the spirit of the Latin American street-market cordells (books-on-a-string and sometimes in trays). “These booklets are a group Schumann drew for Christmas 2009 in the spirit and tradition of Hispanic Cordells. These are chapbooks made from one sheet of paper folded into eight pages plus a cover. They are hawked by poets in Latin American marketplaces strung up pinned on lines like laundry or arrayed on trays similar to those that were carried by cigarette girls. The subject traditionally cover a variety of subjects as do Peter’s; political, tales, ruminations, admonitions, kids’ stories and even the weather.” - Van Vliet.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:53:40 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2469

Eric Gill: His life and Art

Eugene O’Neill — Inscriptions: Eugene O’Neill to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill

Joe D’Ambrosio — The Twilight of Orthodoxy in New England. By William Nykamp.

]]> ([tag]Victor & Caroline Hammer[/tag]) Aratus. Phenomena. With Woodcuts from Erhard Ratdolt’s Poetica Astronomica MCCCCLXX. Translation by John Lamb. With Notes by Paul Q-Holbrook. King Library Press. University of Kentucky. 1975. Approx. 90 p. 10.5” x 8”. Victor and Carolyn Hammer designed this book for the Anvil Press, Nancy Lair was its printer with Carolina Kerry Hermandez and W. Gay Reading. The work was completed at the King Library Press, University of Kentucky with various assistants at the press. Printed in black and red Uncial type on handmade Tovil paper. With 50 woodcuts, also in black and red. Decorated paper-covered boards; paper title label on spine. Thick oatmeal handmade paper wrappers with embossed designed and title on front and back.  No. 70 in an edition of 75 copies. Errata slips laid in. Slight sunning to dust jacket, else fine. A Third Century BCE poem on astronomy, written in hexameters, containing a descripton of the constellations, the most important Circles in the Celestial Sphere, and the relationships of the constellations to the signs of the Zodiac.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:00:55 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2495

Helmut Schulze — Huysmans, A Rebours

Joan M. Soppe — Living Room

Press at Colorado College — The Waiting Room

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Inventory of  my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre. Nineteen selected texts frm [tag]Marie O’Kennedy[/tag] Inventaire de ma Chambre with original-paintings and texts by Helmut Schulze. Atelier Helmut Schulze. Berlin. 2011. 62p. 15.25” x 11.25”. Concept, design, illustrations, printing and calligraphy by Helmut Schulze. Original watercolors, gouaches, drawings and inkjet color prints with pigmented ink created by Helmut Schulze, as well as original engravings. Text fragments handwritten by the artist with india ink and also set in computer designed type - Scala Sans and Adobe Garamond. Printed on Canson Bütten paper and transparent paper. Bound in dark blue cloth with title and illustration in white, black and gold on front board; white title on spine. Salmon pink endpages. Pale gray paper board slipcase. Outer gray protective box with separate lid. No. 1 in an edition of 2 unique variants signed by Helmut Schulze. New.   Full English translation of the text included. This book is based on the first edition of Marie O’Kennedy’s Inventaire de ma Chambre, published by Librairie Sarlit, J. Bricon, Paris. At the end of the 19th century, Marie O’Kennedy was a well-known author in France. In this work she describes her room and reflects on it - as Xavier de Maistre did earlier in the same century. Schulze contrasts his own reality and English texts with the French text fragments and a view of the 19th century. Even with the occasional typos in the English text, this book is a rare delight! A true ‘Artist’s Book’ with each page a visual surprise.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:07:44 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2500

Dianne L. Reeves — From Fiber to Paper

Nancy Culmone — Lunar List Three

Don Rash — PSALM 66

]]> ([tag]Sea Pen Press & Paper Mill[/tag]) Even Money.  [Poems by]Thomas Brush. Seattle. 1988. 24p, including endpapers. 10.5” x 13”. Weiss Initials Series 2 for the title page. The book editioned on a #4 Vandercook. Text in Monotype Janson on  paper handmade made by Neil Bonham, who also made the watermarked coverstock, using stencils, wax, and an epoxy matrix to shape the screen.  Colored illustrations from linoleum cuts, some of which were modified with acrylic gel medium by Suzanne Ferris. ‘Tickets’ cut from xeroxed images transferred to linoleum. Pictorial blue handmade paper wrappers, in linen-covered modified clamshell box, with blue trim. Box and binding designed and constructed by Judy Johnson. No.  91 in an edition of 100 copies, signed by the author. Fine. Seven poems about horse-racing and racetracks: Aksarben, Exhibition Park, Chalk, Closing Portland Meadows, Doo Dah, Wishes, and Golden Gate Park.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:03:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2498

Helmut Schulze — Inventory of my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre.

Gifts From Our Elders, artist’s book by Kerry McAleer-Keeler

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Huysmans, A Rebours. Kunstelische Gestaltung Helmut Schulze. Excerpts from text in French, with English translations to each page. edition offizin parvus. Berlin. 2011. 54p. 15.25” x 11.5”. Original illustrations with gouach, drawings, watercolors, and ink drawing. Text fragments in Scala Regular on Canson Bütten 250g. on an Epson Stylus Pro 3880.  Handbound by Christian Kluswe in maroon cloth; title in white on spine and label on front with title and illustration. Toning maroon  paper over board slipcase. No. 1 in an edition of only three copies, signed by Helmut Schulze in pencil. Fine.

“Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1848-1907. Huysmans’ work is remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, extensive vocabulary, detailed and sensuous descriptions, and biting, satirical wit. “... Huysmans’ most famous novel A rebours (Against the Grain or Against Nature or Wrong Way) (1884), which featured a single character, the aesthete des Esseintes, and decisively broke from Naturalism, becoming the ultimate example of “decadent” literature. The description of des Esseintes’ “alluring liaison” with a cherry-lipped youth influenced other writers of the decadent movement, including Oscar Wilde, and is considered an important step in the formation of “gay  literature”. A rebours won further notoriety as an exhibit in the trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895, during which the prosecutor referred to the novel as a “sodomitical” book. The book also appalled Zola, who felt it had dealt a “terrible blow” to Naturalism. “Huysmans was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in 1892, but only for his work with the civil service. In 1905, his admirers persuaded the french government to promote him to Officier de la Légion d’honneur for his literary achievements. In the same year, Huysmans, a cigarette-smoker, was diagnosed with cancer of the mouth. He died in 1907 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris.” [Huysmans’ style is “Barbaric in its profusion, violent in its emphasis, wearying in its splendor, it is - especially in regard to things seen - extraordinarily expressive, with all the shades of a painter’s palette. Elaborately and deliberately perverse, it is in its very perversity that Huysmans’ work - so fascinating, so repellent, so instinctively artificial - comes to represent, as the work of no other writer can be said to do, the main tendencies, the chief results, of the Decadent movement in literature. (Arthur Symons, “The Decadent Movement in Literature.”)  - Wikipedia.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:00:55 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2495

Helmut Schulze — Huysmans, A Rebours

Joan M. Soppe — Living Room

Press at Colorado College — The Waiting Room

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Inventory of  my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre. Nineteen selected texts frm [tag]Marie O’Kennedy[/tag] Inventaire de ma Chambre with original-paintings and texts by Helmut Schulze. Atelier Helmut Schulze. Berlin. 2011. 62p. 15.25” x 11.25”. Concept, design, illustrations, printing and calligraphy by Helmut Schulze. Original watercolors, gouaches, drawings and inkjet color prints with pigmented ink created by Helmut Schulze, as well as original engravings. Text fragments handwritten by the artist with india ink and also set in computer designed type - Scala Sans and Adobe Garamond. Printed on Canson Bütten paper and transparent paper. Bound in dark blue cloth with title and illustration in white, black and gold on front board; white title on spine. Salmon pink endpages. Pale gray paper board slipcase. Outer gray protective box with separate lid. No. 1 in an edition of 2 unique variants signed by Helmut Schulze. New.   Full English translation of the text included. This book is based on the first edition of Marie O’Kennedy’s Inventaire de ma Chambre, published by Librairie Sarlit, J. Bricon, Paris. At the end of the 19th century, Marie O’Kennedy was a well-known author in France. In this work she describes her room and reflects on it - as Xavier de Maistre did earlier in the same century. Schulze contrasts his own reality and English texts with the French text fragments and a view of the 19th century. Even with the occasional typos in the English text, this book is a rare delight! A true ‘Artist’s Book’ with each page a visual surprise.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:56:49 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2493

Ilse Schreiber Noll — The River

Ilse Schreiber Noll — Die Erste Elegie – The First Elegy

Ilse Schreiber Noll & Dennis Brutus — Poetry , fleeing – Poesie, fliehend

]]> ([tag]Ilse Schreiber-Noll[/tag]) Lost Cities. Unique Artist’s Book by Ilse Schreiber-Noll; with excerpts from  a poem by [tag]Walt Whitman[/tag]. Tarrytown. NY  2010. n.p. 9.75” x 13.25”. Painted cover with open spine and three linen strips. All pages of mixed media and collage on paper, with excerpts of Whitman’s poem printed letterpress on cream Arches  paper wrapper; wrapper also with printed title and pencil signature of artist. Laid in brown textured cloth over board dropback box with recessed title and image on front. Signed by the artist. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:29:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2486

Press at Colorado College — Printed Poem/The Poem as Print. Twenty-four Broadsides of American Poetry

Achille J. St. Onge — Remarks at the Dedication of the Wallace Library, Fitchburg, Massachusetts June 3rd, 1967. — By Archibald Macleish.

The Age of Partial Objects, by book artist Dean Dass

]]> ([tag]Mnemonic Press[/tag]) 13/14. Poem by Wallace Stevens. Artist's book by Harriet Bart. [Minneapolis. Minnesota. 2004.] 64p. 14” x 10”. Designed and printed in collaboration with Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press. Handset type printed in Delphin I and II, with Trump Mediaeval used for display, on Magnani Pescia. Figures and poem printed on rectos, stanza numbers on versos. The thirteen figures scanned and converted to polymer plate, from which they were then printed. Book printed in black, gunmetal blue and a fugitive gray. Bound with black goatskin spine and boards covered in iridescent blue/black cloth with a blackbird foil-stamped in matte black. Slipcase of grey cloth. No. 17 in an edition of 50 copies signed by the artist. Fine. Bart writes: "13/14 is a book of startling contrasts and exquisite beauty. It is the confluence of a poem and a puzzle, bringing together the fourteen polygonal forms of The Loculus of Archimedes and the poetic vision of the Wallace Stevens poem,  Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird. The book pairs disparate found objects, images, and texts to create unique contexts and give new meanings to everyday objects. Bart has inventively used the fourteen shapes that comprise the ancient puzzle to create dynamic silhouette figures for each of the thirteen stanzas of the poem.”.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:03:54 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2475

Shirley Jones — Impressions

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

Peter R. Jones — The Garden & Other Poems

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Five Flowers for My Father. A Portfolio by Shirley Jones. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1990. 18” x 13”. Seven mezzotints of wild flowers, including title page, and mezzotint of her father. Printed by her on Tervakoski handmade paper, enclosed in folders of gray Fabriano Roma printed with the text. The five narrative pieces, together with three of her poems, were set & printed by the artist in 24-point Baskerville type. Black cloth dropback box with black leather title on lid. No. 6 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by the artist. Prospectus laid in. Fine. The core of the book is a set of mezzotints of wild flowers juxtaposed with objects of significance in the life of Jones’s father, for whom she made the book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:01:35 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2473

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

Peter R. Jones — Aesop’s Fables for Modern Readers

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Impressions. By Shirley Jones. Eight poems and prose pieces writen by Jones about her first visit to the United States. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1984. 15” x 13”. Eight color aquatints. Printed on Barcham Green Waterleaf. Handset and printed by the artist throughout in 18-pt Baskerville. Bound in navy blue cloth-covered boards, gray morocco spine with dark blue markings, matching gray onlay on upper cover depicting a tall modern building on which the book’s title is inlaid in black leather elongated letters. Gray textured handmade endpapers. Matching navy blue dropback box, title label on spine. No. 32 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by Jones in pencil.  One of 15 copies formatted for fine binding. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:59:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2471

Janus Press — Helios. Drawing and text by Peter Schumann

Janus Press — The Janus Press – Fifty Years. Catalogue Raisonné for 1991-2005

Janus Press — Gone. Poems by Ellen McCulloch-Lovell

]]> ([tag]Janus Press[/tag]) Tatata, 24 cordells. Twenty-four chapbooks drawn and written by Peter Schumann. Newark. Vermont. 2011. Boxing - 10.5” x 10.25” x 1.5”. Booklet - 7” x 4”. The charcoal and ink drawings were scanned by Ellen Dorn Levit and printed using a Xerox Docucolor 700 with Judi Bourque at Silver Mountain Graphics, Vermont, on Mohawk Superfine eggshell white 100 lb text. The crayon cover drawings were scanned in New Hampshire and printed using an Epson Stylus NX515 on Mohawk Via cream linen 65lb cover by Andrew Miller-Brown who also did the letterpress printing. Chapbooks sewn in differenct color thread. Display pocket panels are Fabriano Miliani Ingress. Each booklet is 8p. plus illustrated wrappers. 6 booklets laid in colored envelope-type folder against the three colored sides of a strong 3-sided navy bookcloth folder with title on top side and colophon details on the inside.  Light tan bristol slipcase  printed with woodtype title. No. 89 in an edition of 120 copies, signed by Peter Schumann. Fine. Done in the spirit of the Latin American street-market cordells (books-on-a-string and sometimes in trays). “These booklets are a group Schumann drew for Christmas 2009 in the spirit and tradition of Hispanic Cordells. These are chapbooks made from one sheet of paper folded into eight pages plus a cover. They are hawked by poets in Latin American marketplaces strung up pinned on lines like laundry or arrayed on trays similar to those that were carried by cigarette girls. The subject traditionally cover a variety of subjects as do Peter’s; political, tales, ruminations, admonitions, kids’ stories and even the weather.” - Van Vliet.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:53:40 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2469

Eric Gill: His life and Art

Eugene O’Neill — Inscriptions: Eugene O’Neill to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill

Joe D’Ambrosio — The Twilight of Orthodoxy in New England. By William Nykamp.

]]> ([tag]Victor & Caroline Hammer[/tag]) Aratus. Phenomena. With Woodcuts from Erhard Ratdolt’s Poetica Astronomica MCCCCLXX. Translation by John Lamb. With Notes by Paul Q-Holbrook. King Library Press. University of Kentucky. 1975. Approx. 90 p. 10.5” x 8”. Victor and Carolyn Hammer designed this book for the Anvil Press, Nancy Lair was its printer with Carolina Kerry Hermandez and W. Gay Reading. The work was completed at the King Library Press, University of Kentucky with various assistants at the press. Printed in black and red Uncial type on handmade Tovil paper. With 50 woodcuts, also in black and red. Decorated paper-covered boards; paper title label on spine. Thick oatmeal handmade paper wrappers with embossed designed and title on front and back.  No. 70 in an edition of 75 copies. Errata slips laid in. Slight sunning to dust jacket, else fine. A Third Century BCE poem on astronomy, written in hexameters, containing a descripton of the constellations, the most important Circles in the Celestial Sphere, and the relationships of the constellations to the signs of the Zodiac.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:56:49 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2493

Ilse Schreiber Noll — The River

Ilse Schreiber Noll — Die Erste Elegie – The First Elegy

Ilse Schreiber Noll & Dennis Brutus — Poetry , fleeing – Poesie, fliehend

]]> ([tag]Ilse Schreiber-Noll[/tag]) Lost Cities. Unique Artist’s Book by Ilse Schreiber-Noll; with excerpts from  a poem by [tag]Walt Whitman[/tag]. Tarrytown. NY  2010. n.p. 9.75” x 13.25”. Painted cover with open spine and three linen strips. All pages of mixed media and collage on paper, with excerpts of Whitman’s poem printed letterpress on cream Arches  paper wrapper; wrapper also with printed title and pencil signature of artist. Laid in brown textured cloth over board dropback box with recessed title and image on front. Signed by the artist. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:07:44 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2500

Dianne L. Reeves — From Fiber to Paper

Nancy Culmone — Lunar List Three

Don Rash — PSALM 66

]]> ([tag]Sea Pen Press & Paper Mill[/tag]) Even Money.  [Poems by]Thomas Brush. Seattle. 1988. 24p, including endpapers. 10.5” x 13”. Weiss Initials Series 2 for the title page. The book editioned on a #4 Vandercook. Text in Monotype Janson on  paper handmade made by Neil Bonham, who also made the watermarked coverstock, using stencils, wax, and an epoxy matrix to shape the screen.  Colored illustrations from linoleum cuts, some of which were modified with acrylic gel medium by Suzanne Ferris. ‘Tickets’ cut from xeroxed images transferred to linoleum. Pictorial blue handmade paper wrappers, in linen-covered modified clamshell box, with blue trim. Box and binding designed and constructed by Judy Johnson. No.  91 in an edition of 100 copies, signed by the author. Fine. Seven poems about horse-racing and racetracks: Aksarben, Exhibition Park, Chalk, Closing Portland Meadows, Doo Dah, Wishes, and Golden Gate Park.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:03:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2498

Helmut Schulze — Inventory of my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre.

Gifts From Our Elders, artist’s book by Kerry McAleer-Keeler

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Huysmans, A Rebours. Kunstelische Gestaltung Helmut Schulze. Excerpts from text in French, with English translations to each page. edition offizin parvus. Berlin. 2011. 54p. 15.25” x 11.5”. Original illustrations with gouach, drawings, watercolors, and ink drawing. Text fragments in Scala Regular on Canson Bütten 250g. on an Epson Stylus Pro 3880.  Handbound by Christian Kluswe in maroon cloth; title in white on spine and label on front with title and illustration. Toning maroon  paper over board slipcase. No. 1 in an edition of only three copies, signed by Helmut Schulze in pencil. Fine.

“Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1848-1907. Huysmans’ work is remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, extensive vocabulary, detailed and sensuous descriptions, and biting, satirical wit. “... Huysmans’ most famous novel A rebours (Against the Grain or Against Nature or Wrong Way) (1884), which featured a single character, the aesthete des Esseintes, and decisively broke from Naturalism, becoming the ultimate example of “decadent” literature. The description of des Esseintes’ “alluring liaison” with a cherry-lipped youth influenced other writers of the decadent movement, including Oscar Wilde, and is considered an important step in the formation of “gay  literature”. A rebours won further notoriety as an exhibit in the trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895, during which the prosecutor referred to the novel as a “sodomitical” book. The book also appalled Zola, who felt it had dealt a “terrible blow” to Naturalism. “Huysmans was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in 1892, but only for his work with the civil service. In 1905, his admirers persuaded the french government to promote him to Officier de la Légion d’honneur for his literary achievements. In the same year, Huysmans, a cigarette-smoker, was diagnosed with cancer of the mouth. He died in 1907 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris.” [Huysmans’ style is “Barbaric in its profusion, violent in its emphasis, wearying in its splendor, it is - especially in regard to things seen - extraordinarily expressive, with all the shades of a painter’s palette. Elaborately and deliberately perverse, it is in its very perversity that Huysmans’ work - so fascinating, so repellent, so instinctively artificial - comes to represent, as the work of no other writer can be said to do, the main tendencies, the chief results, of the Decadent movement in literature. (Arthur Symons, “The Decadent Movement in Literature.”)  - Wikipedia.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:00:55 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2495

Helmut Schulze — Huysmans, A Rebours

Joan M. Soppe — Living Room

Press at Colorado College — The Waiting Room

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Inventory of  my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre. Nineteen selected texts frm [tag]Marie O’Kennedy[/tag] Inventaire de ma Chambre with original-paintings and texts by Helmut Schulze. Atelier Helmut Schulze. Berlin. 2011. 62p. 15.25” x 11.25”. Concept, design, illustrations, printing and calligraphy by Helmut Schulze. Original watercolors, gouaches, drawings and inkjet color prints with pigmented ink created by Helmut Schulze, as well as original engravings. Text fragments handwritten by the artist with india ink and also set in computer designed type - Scala Sans and Adobe Garamond. Printed on Canson Bütten paper and transparent paper. Bound in dark blue cloth with title and illustration in white, black and gold on front board; white title on spine. Salmon pink endpages. Pale gray paper board slipcase. Outer gray protective box with separate lid. No. 1 in an edition of 2 unique variants signed by Helmut Schulze. New.   Full English translation of the text included. This book is based on the first edition of Marie O’Kennedy’s Inventaire de ma Chambre, published by Librairie Sarlit, J. Bricon, Paris. At the end of the 19th century, Marie O’Kennedy was a well-known author in France. In this work she describes her room and reflects on it - as Xavier de Maistre did earlier in the same century. Schulze contrasts his own reality and English texts with the French text fragments and a view of the 19th century. Even with the occasional typos in the English text, this book is a rare delight! A true ‘Artist’s Book’ with each page a visual surprise.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:56:49 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2493

Ilse Schreiber Noll — The River

Ilse Schreiber Noll — Die Erste Elegie – The First Elegy

Ilse Schreiber Noll & Dennis Brutus — Poetry , fleeing – Poesie, fliehend

]]> ([tag]Ilse Schreiber-Noll[/tag]) Lost Cities. Unique Artist’s Book by Ilse Schreiber-Noll; with excerpts from  a poem by [tag]Walt Whitman[/tag]. Tarrytown. NY  2010. n.p. 9.75” x 13.25”. Painted cover with open spine and three linen strips. All pages of mixed media and collage on paper, with excerpts of Whitman’s poem printed letterpress on cream Arches  paper wrapper; wrapper also with printed title and pencil signature of artist. Laid in brown textured cloth over board dropback box with recessed title and image on front. Signed by the artist. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:29:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2486

Press at Colorado College — Printed Poem/The Poem as Print. Twenty-four Broadsides of American Poetry

Achille J. St. Onge — Remarks at the Dedication of the Wallace Library, Fitchburg, Massachusetts June 3rd, 1967. — By Archibald Macleish.

The Age of Partial Objects, by book artist Dean Dass

]]> ([tag]Mnemonic Press[/tag]) 13/14. Poem by Wallace Stevens. Artist's book by Harriet Bart. [Minneapolis. Minnesota. 2004.] 64p. 14” x 10”. Designed and printed in collaboration with Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press. Handset type printed in Delphin I and II, with Trump Mediaeval used for display, on Magnani Pescia. Figures and poem printed on rectos, stanza numbers on versos. The thirteen figures scanned and converted to polymer plate, from which they were then printed. Book printed in black, gunmetal blue and a fugitive gray. Bound with black goatskin spine and boards covered in iridescent blue/black cloth with a blackbird foil-stamped in matte black. Slipcase of grey cloth. No. 17 in an edition of 50 copies signed by the artist. Fine. Bart writes: "13/14 is a book of startling contrasts and exquisite beauty. It is the confluence of a poem and a puzzle, bringing together the fourteen polygonal forms of The Loculus of Archimedes and the poetic vision of the Wallace Stevens poem,  Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird. The book pairs disparate found objects, images, and texts to create unique contexts and give new meanings to everyday objects. Bart has inventively used the fourteen shapes that comprise the ancient puzzle to create dynamic silhouette figures for each of the thirteen stanzas of the poem.”.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:03:54 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2475

Shirley Jones — Impressions

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

Peter R. Jones — The Garden & Other Poems

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Five Flowers for My Father. A Portfolio by Shirley Jones. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1990. 18” x 13”. Seven mezzotints of wild flowers, including title page, and mezzotint of her father. Printed by her on Tervakoski handmade paper, enclosed in folders of gray Fabriano Roma printed with the text. The five narrative pieces, together with three of her poems, were set & printed by the artist in 24-point Baskerville type. Black cloth dropback box with black leather title on lid. No. 6 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by the artist. Prospectus laid in. Fine. The core of the book is a set of mezzotints of wild flowers juxtaposed with objects of significance in the life of Jones’s father, for whom she made the book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:01:35 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2473

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

Peter R. Jones — Aesop’s Fables for Modern Readers

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Impressions. By Shirley Jones. Eight poems and prose pieces writen by Jones about her first visit to the United States. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1984. 15” x 13”. Eight color aquatints. Printed on Barcham Green Waterleaf. Handset and printed by the artist throughout in 18-pt Baskerville. Bound in navy blue cloth-covered boards, gray morocco spine with dark blue markings, matching gray onlay on upper cover depicting a tall modern building on which the book’s title is inlaid in black leather elongated letters. Gray textured handmade endpapers. Matching navy blue dropback box, title label on spine. No. 32 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by Jones in pencil.  One of 15 copies formatted for fine binding. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:59:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2471

Janus Press — Helios. Drawing and text by Peter Schumann

Janus Press — The Janus Press – Fifty Years. Catalogue Raisonné for 1991-2005

Janus Press — Gone. Poems by Ellen McCulloch-Lovell

]]> ([tag]Janus Press[/tag]) Tatata, 24 cordells. Twenty-four chapbooks drawn and written by Peter Schumann. Newark. Vermont. 2011. Boxing - 10.5” x 10.25” x 1.5”. Booklet - 7” x 4”. The charcoal and ink drawings were scanned by Ellen Dorn Levit and printed using a Xerox Docucolor 700 with Judi Bourque at Silver Mountain Graphics, Vermont, on Mohawk Superfine eggshell white 100 lb text. The crayon cover drawings were scanned in New Hampshire and printed using an Epson Stylus NX515 on Mohawk Via cream linen 65lb cover by Andrew Miller-Brown who also did the letterpress printing. Chapbooks sewn in differenct color thread. Display pocket panels are Fabriano Miliani Ingress. Each booklet is 8p. plus illustrated wrappers. 6 booklets laid in colored envelope-type folder against the three colored sides of a strong 3-sided navy bookcloth folder with title on top side and colophon details on the inside.  Light tan bristol slipcase  printed with woodtype title. No. 89 in an edition of 120 copies, signed by Peter Schumann. Fine. Done in the spirit of the Latin American street-market cordells (books-on-a-string and sometimes in trays). “These booklets are a group Schumann drew for Christmas 2009 in the spirit and tradition of Hispanic Cordells. These are chapbooks made from one sheet of paper folded into eight pages plus a cover. They are hawked by poets in Latin American marketplaces strung up pinned on lines like laundry or arrayed on trays similar to those that were carried by cigarette girls. The subject traditionally cover a variety of subjects as do Peter’s; political, tales, ruminations, admonitions, kids’ stories and even the weather.” - Van Vliet.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:53:40 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2469

Eric Gill: His life and Art

Eugene O’Neill — Inscriptions: Eugene O’Neill to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill

Joe D’Ambrosio — The Twilight of Orthodoxy in New England. By William Nykamp.

]]> ([tag]Victor & Caroline Hammer[/tag]) Aratus. Phenomena. With Woodcuts from Erhard Ratdolt’s Poetica Astronomica MCCCCLXX. Translation by John Lamb. With Notes by Paul Q-Holbrook. King Library Press. University of Kentucky. 1975. Approx. 90 p. 10.5” x 8”. Victor and Carolyn Hammer designed this book for the Anvil Press, Nancy Lair was its printer with Carolina Kerry Hermandez and W. Gay Reading. The work was completed at the King Library Press, University of Kentucky with various assistants at the press. Printed in black and red Uncial type on handmade Tovil paper. With 50 woodcuts, also in black and red. Decorated paper-covered boards; paper title label on spine. Thick oatmeal handmade paper wrappers with embossed designed and title on front and back.  No. 70 in an edition of 75 copies. Errata slips laid in. Slight sunning to dust jacket, else fine. A Third Century BCE poem on astronomy, written in hexameters, containing a descripton of the constellations, the most important Circles in the Celestial Sphere, and the relationships of the constellations to the signs of the Zodiac.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:29:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2486

Press at Colorado College — Printed Poem/The Poem as Print. Twenty-four Broadsides of American Poetry

Achille J. St. Onge — Remarks at the Dedication of the Wallace Library, Fitchburg, Massachusetts June 3rd, 1967. — By Archibald Macleish.

The Age of Partial Objects, by book artist Dean Dass

]]> ([tag]Mnemonic Press[/tag]) 13/14. Poem by Wallace Stevens. Artist's book by Harriet Bart. [Minneapolis. Minnesota. 2004.] 64p. 14” x 10”. Designed and printed in collaboration with Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press. Handset type printed in Delphin I and II, with Trump Mediaeval used for display, on Magnani Pescia. Figures and poem printed on rectos, stanza numbers on versos. The thirteen figures scanned and converted to polymer plate, from which they were then printed. Book printed in black, gunmetal blue and a fugitive gray. Bound with black goatskin spine and boards covered in iridescent blue/black cloth with a blackbird foil-stamped in matte black. Slipcase of grey cloth. No. 17 in an edition of 50 copies signed by the artist. Fine. Bart writes: "13/14 is a book of startling contrasts and exquisite beauty. It is the confluence of a poem and a puzzle, bringing together the fourteen polygonal forms of The Loculus of Archimedes and the poetic vision of the Wallace Stevens poem,  Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird. The book pairs disparate found objects, images, and texts to create unique contexts and give new meanings to everyday objects. Bart has inventively used the fourteen shapes that comprise the ancient puzzle to create dynamic silhouette figures for each of the thirteen stanzas of the poem.”.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:07:44 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2500

Dianne L. Reeves — From Fiber to Paper

Nancy Culmone — Lunar List Three

Don Rash — PSALM 66

]]> ([tag]Sea Pen Press & Paper Mill[/tag]) Even Money.  [Poems by]Thomas Brush. Seattle. 1988. 24p, including endpapers. 10.5” x 13”. Weiss Initials Series 2 for the title page. The book editioned on a #4 Vandercook. Text in Monotype Janson on  paper handmade made by Neil Bonham, who also made the watermarked coverstock, using stencils, wax, and an epoxy matrix to shape the screen.  Colored illustrations from linoleum cuts, some of which were modified with acrylic gel medium by Suzanne Ferris. ‘Tickets’ cut from xeroxed images transferred to linoleum. Pictorial blue handmade paper wrappers, in linen-covered modified clamshell box, with blue trim. Box and binding designed and constructed by Judy Johnson. No.  91 in an edition of 100 copies, signed by the author. Fine. Seven poems about horse-racing and racetracks: Aksarben, Exhibition Park, Chalk, Closing Portland Meadows, Doo Dah, Wishes, and Golden Gate Park.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:03:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2498

Helmut Schulze — Inventory of my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre.

Gifts From Our Elders, artist’s book by Kerry McAleer-Keeler

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Huysmans, A Rebours. Kunstelische Gestaltung Helmut Schulze. Excerpts from text in French, with English translations to each page. edition offizin parvus. Berlin. 2011. 54p. 15.25” x 11.5”. Original illustrations with gouach, drawings, watercolors, and ink drawing. Text fragments in Scala Regular on Canson Bütten 250g. on an Epson Stylus Pro 3880.  Handbound by Christian Kluswe in maroon cloth; title in white on spine and label on front with title and illustration. Toning maroon  paper over board slipcase. No. 1 in an edition of only three copies, signed by Helmut Schulze in pencil. Fine.

“Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1848-1907. Huysmans’ work is remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, extensive vocabulary, detailed and sensuous descriptions, and biting, satirical wit. “... Huysmans’ most famous novel A rebours (Against the Grain or Against Nature or Wrong Way) (1884), which featured a single character, the aesthete des Esseintes, and decisively broke from Naturalism, becoming the ultimate example of “decadent” literature. The description of des Esseintes’ “alluring liaison” with a cherry-lipped youth influenced other writers of the decadent movement, including Oscar Wilde, and is considered an important step in the formation of “gay  literature”. A rebours won further notoriety as an exhibit in the trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895, during which the prosecutor referred to the novel as a “sodomitical” book. The book also appalled Zola, who felt it had dealt a “terrible blow” to Naturalism. “Huysmans was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in 1892, but only for his work with the civil service. In 1905, his admirers persuaded the french government to promote him to Officier de la Légion d’honneur for his literary achievements. In the same year, Huysmans, a cigarette-smoker, was diagnosed with cancer of the mouth. He died in 1907 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris.” [Huysmans’ style is “Barbaric in its profusion, violent in its emphasis, wearying in its splendor, it is - especially in regard to things seen - extraordinarily expressive, with all the shades of a painter’s palette. Elaborately and deliberately perverse, it is in its very perversity that Huysmans’ work - so fascinating, so repellent, so instinctively artificial - comes to represent, as the work of no other writer can be said to do, the main tendencies, the chief results, of the Decadent movement in literature. (Arthur Symons, “The Decadent Movement in Literature.”)  - Wikipedia.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:00:55 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2495

Helmut Schulze — Huysmans, A Rebours

Joan M. Soppe — Living Room

Press at Colorado College — The Waiting Room

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Inventory of  my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre. Nineteen selected texts frm [tag]Marie O’Kennedy[/tag] Inventaire de ma Chambre with original-paintings and texts by Helmut Schulze. Atelier Helmut Schulze. Berlin. 2011. 62p. 15.25” x 11.25”. Concept, design, illustrations, printing and calligraphy by Helmut Schulze. Original watercolors, gouaches, drawings and inkjet color prints with pigmented ink created by Helmut Schulze, as well as original engravings. Text fragments handwritten by the artist with india ink and also set in computer designed type - Scala Sans and Adobe Garamond. Printed on Canson Bütten paper and transparent paper. Bound in dark blue cloth with title and illustration in white, black and gold on front board; white title on spine. Salmon pink endpages. Pale gray paper board slipcase. Outer gray protective box with separate lid. No. 1 in an edition of 2 unique variants signed by Helmut Schulze. New.   Full English translation of the text included. This book is based on the first edition of Marie O’Kennedy’s Inventaire de ma Chambre, published by Librairie Sarlit, J. Bricon, Paris. At the end of the 19th century, Marie O’Kennedy was a well-known author in France. In this work she describes her room and reflects on it - as Xavier de Maistre did earlier in the same century. Schulze contrasts his own reality and English texts with the French text fragments and a view of the 19th century. Even with the occasional typos in the English text, this book is a rare delight! A true ‘Artist’s Book’ with each page a visual surprise.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:56:49 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2493

Ilse Schreiber Noll — The River

Ilse Schreiber Noll — Die Erste Elegie – The First Elegy

Ilse Schreiber Noll & Dennis Brutus — Poetry , fleeing – Poesie, fliehend

]]> ([tag]Ilse Schreiber-Noll[/tag]) Lost Cities. Unique Artist’s Book by Ilse Schreiber-Noll; with excerpts from  a poem by [tag]Walt Whitman[/tag]. Tarrytown. NY  2010. n.p. 9.75” x 13.25”. Painted cover with open spine and three linen strips. All pages of mixed media and collage on paper, with excerpts of Whitman’s poem printed letterpress on cream Arches  paper wrapper; wrapper also with printed title and pencil signature of artist. Laid in brown textured cloth over board dropback box with recessed title and image on front. Signed by the artist. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:29:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2486

Press at Colorado College — Printed Poem/The Poem as Print. Twenty-four Broadsides of American Poetry

Achille J. St. Onge — Remarks at the Dedication of the Wallace Library, Fitchburg, Massachusetts June 3rd, 1967. — By Archibald Macleish.

The Age of Partial Objects, by book artist Dean Dass

]]> ([tag]Mnemonic Press[/tag]) 13/14. Poem by Wallace Stevens. Artist's book by Harriet Bart. [Minneapolis. Minnesota. 2004.] 64p. 14” x 10”. Designed and printed in collaboration with Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press. Handset type printed in Delphin I and II, with Trump Mediaeval used for display, on Magnani Pescia. Figures and poem printed on rectos, stanza numbers on versos. The thirteen figures scanned and converted to polymer plate, from which they were then printed. Book printed in black, gunmetal blue and a fugitive gray. Bound with black goatskin spine and boards covered in iridescent blue/black cloth with a blackbird foil-stamped in matte black. Slipcase of grey cloth. No. 17 in an edition of 50 copies signed by the artist. Fine. Bart writes: "13/14 is a book of startling contrasts and exquisite beauty. It is the confluence of a poem and a puzzle, bringing together the fourteen polygonal forms of The Loculus of Archimedes and the poetic vision of the Wallace Stevens poem,  Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird. The book pairs disparate found objects, images, and texts to create unique contexts and give new meanings to everyday objects. Bart has inventively used the fourteen shapes that comprise the ancient puzzle to create dynamic silhouette figures for each of the thirteen stanzas of the poem.”.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:03:54 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2475

Shirley Jones — Impressions

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

Peter R. Jones — The Garden & Other Poems

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Five Flowers for My Father. A Portfolio by Shirley Jones. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1990. 18” x 13”. Seven mezzotints of wild flowers, including title page, and mezzotint of her father. Printed by her on Tervakoski handmade paper, enclosed in folders of gray Fabriano Roma printed with the text. The five narrative pieces, together with three of her poems, were set & printed by the artist in 24-point Baskerville type. Black cloth dropback box with black leather title on lid. No. 6 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by the artist. Prospectus laid in. Fine. The core of the book is a set of mezzotints of wild flowers juxtaposed with objects of significance in the life of Jones’s father, for whom she made the book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:01:35 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2473

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

Peter R. Jones — Aesop’s Fables for Modern Readers

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Impressions. By Shirley Jones. Eight poems and prose pieces writen by Jones about her first visit to the United States. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1984. 15” x 13”. Eight color aquatints. Printed on Barcham Green Waterleaf. Handset and printed by the artist throughout in 18-pt Baskerville. Bound in navy blue cloth-covered boards, gray morocco spine with dark blue markings, matching gray onlay on upper cover depicting a tall modern building on which the book’s title is inlaid in black leather elongated letters. Gray textured handmade endpapers. Matching navy blue dropback box, title label on spine. No. 32 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by Jones in pencil.  One of 15 copies formatted for fine binding. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:59:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2471

Janus Press — Helios. Drawing and text by Peter Schumann

Janus Press — The Janus Press – Fifty Years. Catalogue Raisonné for 1991-2005

Janus Press — Gone. Poems by Ellen McCulloch-Lovell

]]> ([tag]Janus Press[/tag]) Tatata, 24 cordells. Twenty-four chapbooks drawn and written by Peter Schumann. Newark. Vermont. 2011. Boxing - 10.5” x 10.25” x 1.5”. Booklet - 7” x 4”. The charcoal and ink drawings were scanned by Ellen Dorn Levit and printed using a Xerox Docucolor 700 with Judi Bourque at Silver Mountain Graphics, Vermont, on Mohawk Superfine eggshell white 100 lb text. The crayon cover drawings were scanned in New Hampshire and printed using an Epson Stylus NX515 on Mohawk Via cream linen 65lb cover by Andrew Miller-Brown who also did the letterpress printing. Chapbooks sewn in differenct color thread. Display pocket panels are Fabriano Miliani Ingress. Each booklet is 8p. plus illustrated wrappers. 6 booklets laid in colored envelope-type folder against the three colored sides of a strong 3-sided navy bookcloth folder with title on top side and colophon details on the inside.  Light tan bristol slipcase  printed with woodtype title. No. 89 in an edition of 120 copies, signed by Peter Schumann. Fine. Done in the spirit of the Latin American street-market cordells (books-on-a-string and sometimes in trays). “These booklets are a group Schumann drew for Christmas 2009 in the spirit and tradition of Hispanic Cordells. These are chapbooks made from one sheet of paper folded into eight pages plus a cover. They are hawked by poets in Latin American marketplaces strung up pinned on lines like laundry or arrayed on trays similar to those that were carried by cigarette girls. The subject traditionally cover a variety of subjects as do Peter’s; political, tales, ruminations, admonitions, kids’ stories and even the weather.” - Van Vliet.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:53:40 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2469

Eric Gill: His life and Art

Eugene O’Neill — Inscriptions: Eugene O’Neill to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill

Joe D’Ambrosio — The Twilight of Orthodoxy in New England. By William Nykamp.

]]> ([tag]Victor & Caroline Hammer[/tag]) Aratus. Phenomena. With Woodcuts from Erhard Ratdolt’s Poetica Astronomica MCCCCLXX. Translation by John Lamb. With Notes by Paul Q-Holbrook. King Library Press. University of Kentucky. 1975. Approx. 90 p. 10.5” x 8”. Victor and Carolyn Hammer designed this book for the Anvil Press, Nancy Lair was its printer with Carolina Kerry Hermandez and W. Gay Reading. The work was completed at the King Library Press, University of Kentucky with various assistants at the press. Printed in black and red Uncial type on handmade Tovil paper. With 50 woodcuts, also in black and red. Decorated paper-covered boards; paper title label on spine. Thick oatmeal handmade paper wrappers with embossed designed and title on front and back.  No. 70 in an edition of 75 copies. Errata slips laid in. Slight sunning to dust jacket, else fine. A Third Century BCE poem on astronomy, written in hexameters, containing a descripton of the constellations, the most important Circles in the Celestial Sphere, and the relationships of the constellations to the signs of the Zodiac.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:03:54 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2475

Shirley Jones — Impressions

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

Peter R. Jones — The Garden & Other Poems

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Five Flowers for My Father. A Portfolio by Shirley Jones. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1990. 18” x 13”. Seven mezzotints of wild flowers, including title page, and mezzotint of her father. Printed by her on Tervakoski handmade paper, enclosed in folders of gray Fabriano Roma printed with the text. The five narrative pieces, together with three of her poems, were set & printed by the artist in 24-point Baskerville type. Black cloth dropback box with black leather title on lid. No. 6 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by the artist. Prospectus laid in. Fine. The core of the book is a set of mezzotints of wild flowers juxtaposed with objects of significance in the life of Jones’s father, for whom she made the book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:07:44 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2500

Dianne L. Reeves — From Fiber to Paper

Nancy Culmone — Lunar List Three

Don Rash — PSALM 66

]]> ([tag]Sea Pen Press & Paper Mill[/tag]) Even Money.  [Poems by]Thomas Brush. Seattle. 1988. 24p, including endpapers. 10.5” x 13”. Weiss Initials Series 2 for the title page. The book editioned on a #4 Vandercook. Text in Monotype Janson on  paper handmade made by Neil Bonham, who also made the watermarked coverstock, using stencils, wax, and an epoxy matrix to shape the screen.  Colored illustrations from linoleum cuts, some of which were modified with acrylic gel medium by Suzanne Ferris. ‘Tickets’ cut from xeroxed images transferred to linoleum. Pictorial blue handmade paper wrappers, in linen-covered modified clamshell box, with blue trim. Box and binding designed and constructed by Judy Johnson. No.  91 in an edition of 100 copies, signed by the author. Fine. Seven poems about horse-racing and racetracks: Aksarben, Exhibition Park, Chalk, Closing Portland Meadows, Doo Dah, Wishes, and Golden Gate Park.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:03:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2498

Helmut Schulze — Inventory of my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre.

Gifts From Our Elders, artist’s book by Kerry McAleer-Keeler

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Huysmans, A Rebours. Kunstelische Gestaltung Helmut Schulze. Excerpts from text in French, with English translations to each page. edition offizin parvus. Berlin. 2011. 54p. 15.25” x 11.5”. Original illustrations with gouach, drawings, watercolors, and ink drawing. Text fragments in Scala Regular on Canson Bütten 250g. on an Epson Stylus Pro 3880.  Handbound by Christian Kluswe in maroon cloth; title in white on spine and label on front with title and illustration. Toning maroon  paper over board slipcase. No. 1 in an edition of only three copies, signed by Helmut Schulze in pencil. Fine.

“Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1848-1907. Huysmans’ work is remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, extensive vocabulary, detailed and sensuous descriptions, and biting, satirical wit. “... Huysmans’ most famous novel A rebours (Against the Grain or Against Nature or Wrong Way) (1884), which featured a single character, the aesthete des Esseintes, and decisively broke from Naturalism, becoming the ultimate example of “decadent” literature. The description of des Esseintes’ “alluring liaison” with a cherry-lipped youth influenced other writers of the decadent movement, including Oscar Wilde, and is considered an important step in the formation of “gay  literature”. A rebours won further notoriety as an exhibit in the trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895, during which the prosecutor referred to the novel as a “sodomitical” book. The book also appalled Zola, who felt it had dealt a “terrible blow” to Naturalism. “Huysmans was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in 1892, but only for his work with the civil service. In 1905, his admirers persuaded the french government to promote him to Officier de la Légion d’honneur for his literary achievements. In the same year, Huysmans, a cigarette-smoker, was diagnosed with cancer of the mouth. He died in 1907 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris.” [Huysmans’ style is “Barbaric in its profusion, violent in its emphasis, wearying in its splendor, it is - especially in regard to things seen - extraordinarily expressive, with all the shades of a painter’s palette. Elaborately and deliberately perverse, it is in its very perversity that Huysmans’ work - so fascinating, so repellent, so instinctively artificial - comes to represent, as the work of no other writer can be said to do, the main tendencies, the chief results, of the Decadent movement in literature. (Arthur Symons, “The Decadent Movement in Literature.”)  - Wikipedia.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:00:55 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2495

Helmut Schulze — Huysmans, A Rebours

Joan M. Soppe — Living Room

Press at Colorado College — The Waiting Room

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Inventory of  my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre. Nineteen selected texts frm [tag]Marie O’Kennedy[/tag] Inventaire de ma Chambre with original-paintings and texts by Helmut Schulze. Atelier Helmut Schulze. Berlin. 2011. 62p. 15.25” x 11.25”. Concept, design, illustrations, printing and calligraphy by Helmut Schulze. Original watercolors, gouaches, drawings and inkjet color prints with pigmented ink created by Helmut Schulze, as well as original engravings. Text fragments handwritten by the artist with india ink and also set in computer designed type - Scala Sans and Adobe Garamond. Printed on Canson Bütten paper and transparent paper. Bound in dark blue cloth with title and illustration in white, black and gold on front board; white title on spine. Salmon pink endpages. Pale gray paper board slipcase. Outer gray protective box with separate lid. No. 1 in an edition of 2 unique variants signed by Helmut Schulze. New.   Full English translation of the text included. This book is based on the first edition of Marie O’Kennedy’s Inventaire de ma Chambre, published by Librairie Sarlit, J. Bricon, Paris. At the end of the 19th century, Marie O’Kennedy was a well-known author in France. In this work she describes her room and reflects on it - as Xavier de Maistre did earlier in the same century. Schulze contrasts his own reality and English texts with the French text fragments and a view of the 19th century. Even with the occasional typos in the English text, this book is a rare delight! A true ‘Artist’s Book’ with each page a visual surprise.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:56:49 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2493

Ilse Schreiber Noll — The River

Ilse Schreiber Noll — Die Erste Elegie – The First Elegy

Ilse Schreiber Noll & Dennis Brutus — Poetry , fleeing – Poesie, fliehend

]]> ([tag]Ilse Schreiber-Noll[/tag]) Lost Cities. Unique Artist’s Book by Ilse Schreiber-Noll; with excerpts from  a poem by [tag]Walt Whitman[/tag]. Tarrytown. NY  2010. n.p. 9.75” x 13.25”. Painted cover with open spine and three linen strips. All pages of mixed media and collage on paper, with excerpts of Whitman’s poem printed letterpress on cream Arches  paper wrapper; wrapper also with printed title and pencil signature of artist. Laid in brown textured cloth over board dropback box with recessed title and image on front. Signed by the artist. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:29:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2486

Press at Colorado College — Printed Poem/The Poem as Print. Twenty-four Broadsides of American Poetry

Achille J. St. Onge — Remarks at the Dedication of the Wallace Library, Fitchburg, Massachusetts June 3rd, 1967. — By Archibald Macleish.

The Age of Partial Objects, by book artist Dean Dass

]]> ([tag]Mnemonic Press[/tag]) 13/14. Poem by Wallace Stevens. Artist's book by Harriet Bart. [Minneapolis. Minnesota. 2004.] 64p. 14” x 10”. Designed and printed in collaboration with Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press. Handset type printed in Delphin I and II, with Trump Mediaeval used for display, on Magnani Pescia. Figures and poem printed on rectos, stanza numbers on versos. The thirteen figures scanned and converted to polymer plate, from which they were then printed. Book printed in black, gunmetal blue and a fugitive gray. Bound with black goatskin spine and boards covered in iridescent blue/black cloth with a blackbird foil-stamped in matte black. Slipcase of grey cloth. No. 17 in an edition of 50 copies signed by the artist. Fine. Bart writes: "13/14 is a book of startling contrasts and exquisite beauty. It is the confluence of a poem and a puzzle, bringing together the fourteen polygonal forms of The Loculus of Archimedes and the poetic vision of the Wallace Stevens poem,  Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird. The book pairs disparate found objects, images, and texts to create unique contexts and give new meanings to everyday objects. Bart has inventively used the fourteen shapes that comprise the ancient puzzle to create dynamic silhouette figures for each of the thirteen stanzas of the poem.”.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:03:54 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2475

Shirley Jones — Impressions

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

Peter R. Jones — The Garden & Other Poems

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Five Flowers for My Father. A Portfolio by Shirley Jones. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1990. 18” x 13”. Seven mezzotints of wild flowers, including title page, and mezzotint of her father. Printed by her on Tervakoski handmade paper, enclosed in folders of gray Fabriano Roma printed with the text. The five narrative pieces, together with three of her poems, were set & printed by the artist in 24-point Baskerville type. Black cloth dropback box with black leather title on lid. No. 6 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by the artist. Prospectus laid in. Fine. The core of the book is a set of mezzotints of wild flowers juxtaposed with objects of significance in the life of Jones’s father, for whom she made the book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:01:35 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2473

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

Peter R. Jones — Aesop’s Fables for Modern Readers

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Impressions. By Shirley Jones. Eight poems and prose pieces writen by Jones about her first visit to the United States. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1984. 15” x 13”. Eight color aquatints. Printed on Barcham Green Waterleaf. Handset and printed by the artist throughout in 18-pt Baskerville. Bound in navy blue cloth-covered boards, gray morocco spine with dark blue markings, matching gray onlay on upper cover depicting a tall modern building on which the book’s title is inlaid in black leather elongated letters. Gray textured handmade endpapers. Matching navy blue dropback box, title label on spine. No. 32 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by Jones in pencil.  One of 15 copies formatted for fine binding. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:59:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2471

Janus Press — Helios. Drawing and text by Peter Schumann

Janus Press — The Janus Press – Fifty Years. Catalogue Raisonné for 1991-2005

Janus Press — Gone. Poems by Ellen McCulloch-Lovell

]]> ([tag]Janus Press[/tag]) Tatata, 24 cordells. Twenty-four chapbooks drawn and written by Peter Schumann. Newark. Vermont. 2011. Boxing - 10.5” x 10.25” x 1.5”. Booklet - 7” x 4”. The charcoal and ink drawings were scanned by Ellen Dorn Levit and printed using a Xerox Docucolor 700 with Judi Bourque at Silver Mountain Graphics, Vermont, on Mohawk Superfine eggshell white 100 lb text. The crayon cover drawings were scanned in New Hampshire and printed using an Epson Stylus NX515 on Mohawk Via cream linen 65lb cover by Andrew Miller-Brown who also did the letterpress printing. Chapbooks sewn in differenct color thread. Display pocket panels are Fabriano Miliani Ingress. Each booklet is 8p. plus illustrated wrappers. 6 booklets laid in colored envelope-type folder against the three colored sides of a strong 3-sided navy bookcloth folder with title on top side and colophon details on the inside.  Light tan bristol slipcase  printed with woodtype title. No. 89 in an edition of 120 copies, signed by Peter Schumann. Fine. Done in the spirit of the Latin American street-market cordells (books-on-a-string and sometimes in trays). “These booklets are a group Schumann drew for Christmas 2009 in the spirit and tradition of Hispanic Cordells. These are chapbooks made from one sheet of paper folded into eight pages plus a cover. They are hawked by poets in Latin American marketplaces strung up pinned on lines like laundry or arrayed on trays similar to those that were carried by cigarette girls. The subject traditionally cover a variety of subjects as do Peter’s; political, tales, ruminations, admonitions, kids’ stories and even the weather.” - Van Vliet.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:53:40 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2469

Eric Gill: His life and Art

Eugene O’Neill — Inscriptions: Eugene O’Neill to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill

Joe D’Ambrosio — The Twilight of Orthodoxy in New England. By William Nykamp.

]]> ([tag]Victor & Caroline Hammer[/tag]) Aratus. Phenomena. With Woodcuts from Erhard Ratdolt’s Poetica Astronomica MCCCCLXX. Translation by John Lamb. With Notes by Paul Q-Holbrook. King Library Press. University of Kentucky. 1975. Approx. 90 p. 10.5” x 8”. Victor and Carolyn Hammer designed this book for the Anvil Press, Nancy Lair was its printer with Carolina Kerry Hermandez and W. Gay Reading. The work was completed at the King Library Press, University of Kentucky with various assistants at the press. Printed in black and red Uncial type on handmade Tovil paper. With 50 woodcuts, also in black and red. Decorated paper-covered boards; paper title label on spine. Thick oatmeal handmade paper wrappers with embossed designed and title on front and back.  No. 70 in an edition of 75 copies. Errata slips laid in. Slight sunning to dust jacket, else fine. A Third Century BCE poem on astronomy, written in hexameters, containing a descripton of the constellations, the most important Circles in the Celestial Sphere, and the relationships of the constellations to the signs of the Zodiac.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:01:35 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2473

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

Peter R. Jones — Aesop’s Fables for Modern Readers

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Impressions. By Shirley Jones. Eight poems and prose pieces writen by Jones about her first visit to the United States. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1984. 15” x 13”. Eight color aquatints. Printed on Barcham Green Waterleaf. Handset and printed by the artist throughout in 18-pt Baskerville. Bound in navy blue cloth-covered boards, gray morocco spine with dark blue markings, matching gray onlay on upper cover depicting a tall modern building on which the book’s title is inlaid in black leather elongated letters. Gray textured handmade endpapers. Matching navy blue dropback box, title label on spine. No. 32 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by Jones in pencil.  One of 15 copies formatted for fine binding. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:07:44 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2500

Dianne L. Reeves — From Fiber to Paper

Nancy Culmone — Lunar List Three

Don Rash — PSALM 66

]]> ([tag]Sea Pen Press & Paper Mill[/tag]) Even Money.  [Poems by]Thomas Brush. Seattle. 1988. 24p, including endpapers. 10.5” x 13”. Weiss Initials Series 2 for the title page. The book editioned on a #4 Vandercook. Text in Monotype Janson on  paper handmade made by Neil Bonham, who also made the watermarked coverstock, using stencils, wax, and an epoxy matrix to shape the screen.  Colored illustrations from linoleum cuts, some of which were modified with acrylic gel medium by Suzanne Ferris. ‘Tickets’ cut from xeroxed images transferred to linoleum. Pictorial blue handmade paper wrappers, in linen-covered modified clamshell box, with blue trim. Box and binding designed and constructed by Judy Johnson. No.  91 in an edition of 100 copies, signed by the author. Fine. Seven poems about horse-racing and racetracks: Aksarben, Exhibition Park, Chalk, Closing Portland Meadows, Doo Dah, Wishes, and Golden Gate Park.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:03:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2498

Helmut Schulze — Inventory of my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre.

Gifts From Our Elders, artist’s book by Kerry McAleer-Keeler

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Huysmans, A Rebours. Kunstelische Gestaltung Helmut Schulze. Excerpts from text in French, with English translations to each page. edition offizin parvus. Berlin. 2011. 54p. 15.25” x 11.5”. Original illustrations with gouach, drawings, watercolors, and ink drawing. Text fragments in Scala Regular on Canson Bütten 250g. on an Epson Stylus Pro 3880.  Handbound by Christian Kluswe in maroon cloth; title in white on spine and label on front with title and illustration. Toning maroon  paper over board slipcase. No. 1 in an edition of only three copies, signed by Helmut Schulze in pencil. Fine.

“Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1848-1907. Huysmans’ work is remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, extensive vocabulary, detailed and sensuous descriptions, and biting, satirical wit. “... Huysmans’ most famous novel A rebours (Against the Grain or Against Nature or Wrong Way) (1884), which featured a single character, the aesthete des Esseintes, and decisively broke from Naturalism, becoming the ultimate example of “decadent” literature. The description of des Esseintes’ “alluring liaison” with a cherry-lipped youth influenced other writers of the decadent movement, including Oscar Wilde, and is considered an important step in the formation of “gay  literature”. A rebours won further notoriety as an exhibit in the trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895, during which the prosecutor referred to the novel as a “sodomitical” book. The book also appalled Zola, who felt it had dealt a “terrible blow” to Naturalism. “Huysmans was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in 1892, but only for his work with the civil service. In 1905, his admirers persuaded the french government to promote him to Officier de la Légion d’honneur for his literary achievements. In the same year, Huysmans, a cigarette-smoker, was diagnosed with cancer of the mouth. He died in 1907 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris.” [Huysmans’ style is “Barbaric in its profusion, violent in its emphasis, wearying in its splendor, it is - especially in regard to things seen - extraordinarily expressive, with all the shades of a painter’s palette. Elaborately and deliberately perverse, it is in its very perversity that Huysmans’ work - so fascinating, so repellent, so instinctively artificial - comes to represent, as the work of no other writer can be said to do, the main tendencies, the chief results, of the Decadent movement in literature. (Arthur Symons, “The Decadent Movement in Literature.”)  - Wikipedia.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:00:55 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2495

Helmut Schulze — Huysmans, A Rebours

Joan M. Soppe — Living Room

Press at Colorado College — The Waiting Room

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Inventory of  my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre. Nineteen selected texts frm [tag]Marie O’Kennedy[/tag] Inventaire de ma Chambre with original-paintings and texts by Helmut Schulze. Atelier Helmut Schulze. Berlin. 2011. 62p. 15.25” x 11.25”. Concept, design, illustrations, printing and calligraphy by Helmut Schulze. Original watercolors, gouaches, drawings and inkjet color prints with pigmented ink created by Helmut Schulze, as well as original engravings. Text fragments handwritten by the artist with india ink and also set in computer designed type - Scala Sans and Adobe Garamond. Printed on Canson Bütten paper and transparent paper. Bound in dark blue cloth with title and illustration in white, black and gold on front board; white title on spine. Salmon pink endpages. Pale gray paper board slipcase. Outer gray protective box with separate lid. No. 1 in an edition of 2 unique variants signed by Helmut Schulze. New.   Full English translation of the text included. This book is based on the first edition of Marie O’Kennedy’s Inventaire de ma Chambre, published by Librairie Sarlit, J. Bricon, Paris. At the end of the 19th century, Marie O’Kennedy was a well-known author in France. In this work she describes her room and reflects on it - as Xavier de Maistre did earlier in the same century. Schulze contrasts his own reality and English texts with the French text fragments and a view of the 19th century. Even with the occasional typos in the English text, this book is a rare delight! A true ‘Artist’s Book’ with each page a visual surprise.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:56:49 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2493

Ilse Schreiber Noll — The River

Ilse Schreiber Noll — Die Erste Elegie – The First Elegy

Ilse Schreiber Noll & Dennis Brutus — Poetry , fleeing – Poesie, fliehend

]]> ([tag]Ilse Schreiber-Noll[/tag]) Lost Cities. Unique Artist’s Book by Ilse Schreiber-Noll; with excerpts from  a poem by [tag]Walt Whitman[/tag]. Tarrytown. NY  2010. n.p. 9.75” x 13.25”. Painted cover with open spine and three linen strips. All pages of mixed media and collage on paper, with excerpts of Whitman’s poem printed letterpress on cream Arches  paper wrapper; wrapper also with printed title and pencil signature of artist. Laid in brown textured cloth over board dropback box with recessed title and image on front. Signed by the artist. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:29:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2486

Press at Colorado College — Printed Poem/The Poem as Print. Twenty-four Broadsides of American Poetry

Achille J. St. Onge — Remarks at the Dedication of the Wallace Library, Fitchburg, Massachusetts June 3rd, 1967. — By Archibald Macleish.

The Age of Partial Objects, by book artist Dean Dass

]]> ([tag]Mnemonic Press[/tag]) 13/14. Poem by Wallace Stevens. Artist's book by Harriet Bart. [Minneapolis. Minnesota. 2004.] 64p. 14” x 10”. Designed and printed in collaboration with Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press. Handset type printed in Delphin I and II, with Trump Mediaeval used for display, on Magnani Pescia. Figures and poem printed on rectos, stanza numbers on versos. The thirteen figures scanned and converted to polymer plate, from which they were then printed. Book printed in black, gunmetal blue and a fugitive gray. Bound with black goatskin spine and boards covered in iridescent blue/black cloth with a blackbird foil-stamped in matte black. Slipcase of grey cloth. No. 17 in an edition of 50 copies signed by the artist. Fine. Bart writes: "13/14 is a book of startling contrasts and exquisite beauty. It is the confluence of a poem and a puzzle, bringing together the fourteen polygonal forms of The Loculus of Archimedes and the poetic vision of the Wallace Stevens poem,  Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird. The book pairs disparate found objects, images, and texts to create unique contexts and give new meanings to everyday objects. Bart has inventively used the fourteen shapes that comprise the ancient puzzle to create dynamic silhouette figures for each of the thirteen stanzas of the poem.”.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:03:54 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2475

Shirley Jones — Impressions

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

Peter R. Jones — The Garden & Other Poems

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Five Flowers for My Father. A Portfolio by Shirley Jones. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1990. 18” x 13”. Seven mezzotints of wild flowers, including title page, and mezzotint of her father. Printed by her on Tervakoski handmade paper, enclosed in folders of gray Fabriano Roma printed with the text. The five narrative pieces, together with three of her poems, were set & printed by the artist in 24-point Baskerville type. Black cloth dropback box with black leather title on lid. No. 6 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by the artist. Prospectus laid in. Fine. The core of the book is a set of mezzotints of wild flowers juxtaposed with objects of significance in the life of Jones’s father, for whom she made the book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:01:35 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2473

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

Peter R. Jones — Aesop’s Fables for Modern Readers

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Impressions. By Shirley Jones. Eight poems and prose pieces writen by Jones about her first visit to the United States. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1984. 15” x 13”. Eight color aquatints. Printed on Barcham Green Waterleaf. Handset and printed by the artist throughout in 18-pt Baskerville. Bound in navy blue cloth-covered boards, gray morocco spine with dark blue markings, matching gray onlay on upper cover depicting a tall modern building on which the book’s title is inlaid in black leather elongated letters. Gray textured handmade endpapers. Matching navy blue dropback box, title label on spine. No. 32 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by Jones in pencil.  One of 15 copies formatted for fine binding. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:59:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2471

Janus Press — Helios. Drawing and text by Peter Schumann

Janus Press — The Janus Press – Fifty Years. Catalogue Raisonné for 1991-2005

Janus Press — Gone. Poems by Ellen McCulloch-Lovell

]]> ([tag]Janus Press[/tag]) Tatata, 24 cordells. Twenty-four chapbooks drawn and written by Peter Schumann. Newark. Vermont. 2011. Boxing - 10.5” x 10.25” x 1.5”. Booklet - 7” x 4”. The charcoal and ink drawings were scanned by Ellen Dorn Levit and printed using a Xerox Docucolor 700 with Judi Bourque at Silver Mountain Graphics, Vermont, on Mohawk Superfine eggshell white 100 lb text. The crayon cover drawings were scanned in New Hampshire and printed using an Epson Stylus NX515 on Mohawk Via cream linen 65lb cover by Andrew Miller-Brown who also did the letterpress printing. Chapbooks sewn in differenct color thread. Display pocket panels are Fabriano Miliani Ingress. Each booklet is 8p. plus illustrated wrappers. 6 booklets laid in colored envelope-type folder against the three colored sides of a strong 3-sided navy bookcloth folder with title on top side and colophon details on the inside.  Light tan bristol slipcase  printed with woodtype title. No. 89 in an edition of 120 copies, signed by Peter Schumann. Fine. Done in the spirit of the Latin American street-market cordells (books-on-a-string and sometimes in trays). “These booklets are a group Schumann drew for Christmas 2009 in the spirit and tradition of Hispanic Cordells. These are chapbooks made from one sheet of paper folded into eight pages plus a cover. They are hawked by poets in Latin American marketplaces strung up pinned on lines like laundry or arrayed on trays similar to those that were carried by cigarette girls. The subject traditionally cover a variety of subjects as do Peter’s; political, tales, ruminations, admonitions, kids’ stories and even the weather.” - Van Vliet.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:53:40 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2469

Eric Gill: His life and Art

Eugene O’Neill — Inscriptions: Eugene O’Neill to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill

Joe D’Ambrosio — The Twilight of Orthodoxy in New England. By William Nykamp.

]]> ([tag]Victor & Caroline Hammer[/tag]) Aratus. Phenomena. With Woodcuts from Erhard Ratdolt’s Poetica Astronomica MCCCCLXX. Translation by John Lamb. With Notes by Paul Q-Holbrook. King Library Press. University of Kentucky. 1975. Approx. 90 p. 10.5” x 8”. Victor and Carolyn Hammer designed this book for the Anvil Press, Nancy Lair was its printer with Carolina Kerry Hermandez and W. Gay Reading. The work was completed at the King Library Press, University of Kentucky with various assistants at the press. Printed in black and red Uncial type on handmade Tovil paper. With 50 woodcuts, also in black and red. Decorated paper-covered boards; paper title label on spine. Thick oatmeal handmade paper wrappers with embossed designed and title on front and back.  No. 70 in an edition of 75 copies. Errata slips laid in. Slight sunning to dust jacket, else fine. A Third Century BCE poem on astronomy, written in hexameters, containing a descripton of the constellations, the most important Circles in the Celestial Sphere, and the relationships of the constellations to the signs of the Zodiac.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:59:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2471

Janus Press — Helios. Drawing and text by Peter Schumann

Janus Press — The Janus Press – Fifty Years. Catalogue Raisonné for 1991-2005

Janus Press — Gone. Poems by Ellen McCulloch-Lovell

]]> ([tag]Janus Press[/tag]) Tatata, 24 cordells. Twenty-four chapbooks drawn and written by Peter Schumann. Newark. Vermont. 2011. Boxing - 10.5” x 10.25” x 1.5”. Booklet - 7” x 4”. The charcoal and ink drawings were scanned by Ellen Dorn Levit and printed using a Xerox Docucolor 700 with Judi Bourque at Silver Mountain Graphics, Vermont, on Mohawk Superfine eggshell white 100 lb text. The crayon cover drawings were scanned in New Hampshire and printed using an Epson Stylus NX515 on Mohawk Via cream linen 65lb cover by Andrew Miller-Brown who also did the letterpress printing. Chapbooks sewn in differenct color thread. Display pocket panels are Fabriano Miliani Ingress. Each booklet is 8p. plus illustrated wrappers. 6 booklets laid in colored envelope-type folder against the three colored sides of a strong 3-sided navy bookcloth folder with title on top side and colophon details on the inside.  Light tan bristol slipcase  printed with woodtype title. No. 89 in an edition of 120 copies, signed by Peter Schumann. Fine. Done in the spirit of the Latin American street-market cordells (books-on-a-string and sometimes in trays). “These booklets are a group Schumann drew for Christmas 2009 in the spirit and tradition of Hispanic Cordells. These are chapbooks made from one sheet of paper folded into eight pages plus a cover. They are hawked by poets in Latin American marketplaces strung up pinned on lines like laundry or arrayed on trays similar to those that were carried by cigarette girls. The subject traditionally cover a variety of subjects as do Peter’s; political, tales, ruminations, admonitions, kids’ stories and even the weather.” - Van Vliet.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:07:44 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2500

Dianne L. Reeves — From Fiber to Paper

Nancy Culmone — Lunar List Three

Don Rash — PSALM 66

]]> ([tag]Sea Pen Press & Paper Mill[/tag]) Even Money.  [Poems by]Thomas Brush. Seattle. 1988. 24p, including endpapers. 10.5” x 13”. Weiss Initials Series 2 for the title page. The book editioned on a #4 Vandercook. Text in Monotype Janson on  paper handmade made by Neil Bonham, who also made the watermarked coverstock, using stencils, wax, and an epoxy matrix to shape the screen.  Colored illustrations from linoleum cuts, some of which were modified with acrylic gel medium by Suzanne Ferris. ‘Tickets’ cut from xeroxed images transferred to linoleum. Pictorial blue handmade paper wrappers, in linen-covered modified clamshell box, with blue trim. Box and binding designed and constructed by Judy Johnson. No.  91 in an edition of 100 copies, signed by the author. Fine. Seven poems about horse-racing and racetracks: Aksarben, Exhibition Park, Chalk, Closing Portland Meadows, Doo Dah, Wishes, and Golden Gate Park.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:03:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2498

Helmut Schulze — Inventory of my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre.

Gifts From Our Elders, artist’s book by Kerry McAleer-Keeler

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Huysmans, A Rebours. Kunstelische Gestaltung Helmut Schulze. Excerpts from text in French, with English translations to each page. edition offizin parvus. Berlin. 2011. 54p. 15.25” x 11.5”. Original illustrations with gouach, drawings, watercolors, and ink drawing. Text fragments in Scala Regular on Canson Bütten 250g. on an Epson Stylus Pro 3880.  Handbound by Christian Kluswe in maroon cloth; title in white on spine and label on front with title and illustration. Toning maroon  paper over board slipcase. No. 1 in an edition of only three copies, signed by Helmut Schulze in pencil. Fine.

“Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1848-1907. Huysmans’ work is remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, extensive vocabulary, detailed and sensuous descriptions, and biting, satirical wit. “... Huysmans’ most famous novel A rebours (Against the Grain or Against Nature or Wrong Way) (1884), which featured a single character, the aesthete des Esseintes, and decisively broke from Naturalism, becoming the ultimate example of “decadent” literature. The description of des Esseintes’ “alluring liaison” with a cherry-lipped youth influenced other writers of the decadent movement, including Oscar Wilde, and is considered an important step in the formation of “gay  literature”. A rebours won further notoriety as an exhibit in the trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895, during which the prosecutor referred to the novel as a “sodomitical” book. The book also appalled Zola, who felt it had dealt a “terrible blow” to Naturalism. “Huysmans was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in 1892, but only for his work with the civil service. In 1905, his admirers persuaded the french government to promote him to Officier de la Légion d’honneur for his literary achievements. In the same year, Huysmans, a cigarette-smoker, was diagnosed with cancer of the mouth. He died in 1907 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris.” [Huysmans’ style is “Barbaric in its profusion, violent in its emphasis, wearying in its splendor, it is - especially in regard to things seen - extraordinarily expressive, with all the shades of a painter’s palette. Elaborately and deliberately perverse, it is in its very perversity that Huysmans’ work - so fascinating, so repellent, so instinctively artificial - comes to represent, as the work of no other writer can be said to do, the main tendencies, the chief results, of the Decadent movement in literature. (Arthur Symons, “The Decadent Movement in Literature.”)  - Wikipedia.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:00:55 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2495

Helmut Schulze — Huysmans, A Rebours

Joan M. Soppe — Living Room

Press at Colorado College — The Waiting Room

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Inventory of  my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre. Nineteen selected texts frm [tag]Marie O’Kennedy[/tag] Inventaire de ma Chambre with original-paintings and texts by Helmut Schulze. Atelier Helmut Schulze. Berlin. 2011. 62p. 15.25” x 11.25”. Concept, design, illustrations, printing and calligraphy by Helmut Schulze. Original watercolors, gouaches, drawings and inkjet color prints with pigmented ink created by Helmut Schulze, as well as original engravings. Text fragments handwritten by the artist with india ink and also set in computer designed type - Scala Sans and Adobe Garamond. Printed on Canson Bütten paper and transparent paper. Bound in dark blue cloth with title and illustration in white, black and gold on front board; white title on spine. Salmon pink endpages. Pale gray paper board slipcase. Outer gray protective box with separate lid. No. 1 in an edition of 2 unique variants signed by Helmut Schulze. New.   Full English translation of the text included. This book is based on the first edition of Marie O’Kennedy’s Inventaire de ma Chambre, published by Librairie Sarlit, J. Bricon, Paris. At the end of the 19th century, Marie O’Kennedy was a well-known author in France. In this work she describes her room and reflects on it - as Xavier de Maistre did earlier in the same century. Schulze contrasts his own reality and English texts with the French text fragments and a view of the 19th century. Even with the occasional typos in the English text, this book is a rare delight! A true ‘Artist’s Book’ with each page a visual surprise.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:56:49 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2493

Ilse Schreiber Noll — The River

Ilse Schreiber Noll — Die Erste Elegie – The First Elegy

Ilse Schreiber Noll & Dennis Brutus — Poetry , fleeing – Poesie, fliehend

]]> ([tag]Ilse Schreiber-Noll[/tag]) Lost Cities. Unique Artist’s Book by Ilse Schreiber-Noll; with excerpts from  a poem by [tag]Walt Whitman[/tag]. Tarrytown. NY  2010. n.p. 9.75” x 13.25”. Painted cover with open spine and three linen strips. All pages of mixed media and collage on paper, with excerpts of Whitman’s poem printed letterpress on cream Arches  paper wrapper; wrapper also with printed title and pencil signature of artist. Laid in brown textured cloth over board dropback box with recessed title and image on front. Signed by the artist. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:29:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2486

Press at Colorado College — Printed Poem/The Poem as Print. Twenty-four Broadsides of American Poetry

Achille J. St. Onge — Remarks at the Dedication of the Wallace Library, Fitchburg, Massachusetts June 3rd, 1967. — By Archibald Macleish.

The Age of Partial Objects, by book artist Dean Dass

]]> ([tag]Mnemonic Press[/tag]) 13/14. Poem by Wallace Stevens. Artist's book by Harriet Bart. [Minneapolis. Minnesota. 2004.] 64p. 14” x 10”. Designed and printed in collaboration with Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press. Handset type printed in Delphin I and II, with Trump Mediaeval used for display, on Magnani Pescia. Figures and poem printed on rectos, stanza numbers on versos. The thirteen figures scanned and converted to polymer plate, from which they were then printed. Book printed in black, gunmetal blue and a fugitive gray. Bound with black goatskin spine and boards covered in iridescent blue/black cloth with a blackbird foil-stamped in matte black. Slipcase of grey cloth. No. 17 in an edition of 50 copies signed by the artist. Fine. Bart writes: "13/14 is a book of startling contrasts and exquisite beauty. It is the confluence of a poem and a puzzle, bringing together the fourteen polygonal forms of The Loculus of Archimedes and the poetic vision of the Wallace Stevens poem,  Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird. The book pairs disparate found objects, images, and texts to create unique contexts and give new meanings to everyday objects. Bart has inventively used the fourteen shapes that comprise the ancient puzzle to create dynamic silhouette figures for each of the thirteen stanzas of the poem.”.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:03:54 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2475

Shirley Jones — Impressions

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

Peter R. Jones — The Garden & Other Poems

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Five Flowers for My Father. A Portfolio by Shirley Jones. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1990. 18” x 13”. Seven mezzotints of wild flowers, including title page, and mezzotint of her father. Printed by her on Tervakoski handmade paper, enclosed in folders of gray Fabriano Roma printed with the text. The five narrative pieces, together with three of her poems, were set & printed by the artist in 24-point Baskerville type. Black cloth dropback box with black leather title on lid. No. 6 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by the artist. Prospectus laid in. Fine. The core of the book is a set of mezzotints of wild flowers juxtaposed with objects of significance in the life of Jones’s father, for whom she made the book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:01:35 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2473

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

Peter R. Jones — Aesop’s Fables for Modern Readers

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Impressions. By Shirley Jones. Eight poems and prose pieces writen by Jones about her first visit to the United States. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1984. 15” x 13”. Eight color aquatints. Printed on Barcham Green Waterleaf. Handset and printed by the artist throughout in 18-pt Baskerville. Bound in navy blue cloth-covered boards, gray morocco spine with dark blue markings, matching gray onlay on upper cover depicting a tall modern building on which the book’s title is inlaid in black leather elongated letters. Gray textured handmade endpapers. Matching navy blue dropback box, title label on spine. No. 32 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by Jones in pencil.  One of 15 copies formatted for fine binding. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:59:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2471

Janus Press — Helios. Drawing and text by Peter Schumann

Janus Press — The Janus Press – Fifty Years. Catalogue Raisonné for 1991-2005

Janus Press — Gone. Poems by Ellen McCulloch-Lovell

]]> ([tag]Janus Press[/tag]) Tatata, 24 cordells. Twenty-four chapbooks drawn and written by Peter Schumann. Newark. Vermont. 2011. Boxing - 10.5” x 10.25” x 1.5”. Booklet - 7” x 4”. The charcoal and ink drawings were scanned by Ellen Dorn Levit and printed using a Xerox Docucolor 700 with Judi Bourque at Silver Mountain Graphics, Vermont, on Mohawk Superfine eggshell white 100 lb text. The crayon cover drawings were scanned in New Hampshire and printed using an Epson Stylus NX515 on Mohawk Via cream linen 65lb cover by Andrew Miller-Brown who also did the letterpress printing. Chapbooks sewn in differenct color thread. Display pocket panels are Fabriano Miliani Ingress. Each booklet is 8p. plus illustrated wrappers. 6 booklets laid in colored envelope-type folder against the three colored sides of a strong 3-sided navy bookcloth folder with title on top side and colophon details on the inside.  Light tan bristol slipcase  printed with woodtype title. No. 89 in an edition of 120 copies, signed by Peter Schumann. Fine. Done in the spirit of the Latin American street-market cordells (books-on-a-string and sometimes in trays). “These booklets are a group Schumann drew for Christmas 2009 in the spirit and tradition of Hispanic Cordells. These are chapbooks made from one sheet of paper folded into eight pages plus a cover. They are hawked by poets in Latin American marketplaces strung up pinned on lines like laundry or arrayed on trays similar to those that were carried by cigarette girls. The subject traditionally cover a variety of subjects as do Peter’s; political, tales, ruminations, admonitions, kids’ stories and even the weather.” - Van Vliet.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:53:40 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2469

Eric Gill: His life and Art

Eugene O’Neill — Inscriptions: Eugene O’Neill to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill

Joe D’Ambrosio — The Twilight of Orthodoxy in New England. By William Nykamp.

]]> ([tag]Victor & Caroline Hammer[/tag]) Aratus. Phenomena. With Woodcuts from Erhard Ratdolt’s Poetica Astronomica MCCCCLXX. Translation by John Lamb. With Notes by Paul Q-Holbrook. King Library Press. University of Kentucky. 1975. Approx. 90 p. 10.5” x 8”. Victor and Carolyn Hammer designed this book for the Anvil Press, Nancy Lair was its printer with Carolina Kerry Hermandez and W. Gay Reading. The work was completed at the King Library Press, University of Kentucky with various assistants at the press. Printed in black and red Uncial type on handmade Tovil paper. With 50 woodcuts, also in black and red. Decorated paper-covered boards; paper title label on spine. Thick oatmeal handmade paper wrappers with embossed designed and title on front and back.  No. 70 in an edition of 75 copies. Errata slips laid in. Slight sunning to dust jacket, else fine. A Third Century BCE poem on astronomy, written in hexameters, containing a descripton of the constellations, the most important Circles in the Celestial Sphere, and the relationships of the constellations to the signs of the Zodiac.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:53:40 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2469

Eric Gill: His life and Art

Eugene O’Neill — Inscriptions: Eugene O’Neill to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill

Joe D’Ambrosio — The Twilight of Orthodoxy in New England. By William Nykamp.

]]> ([tag]Victor & Caroline Hammer[/tag]) Aratus. Phenomena. With Woodcuts from Erhard Ratdolt’s Poetica Astronomica MCCCCLXX. Translation by John Lamb. With Notes by Paul Q-Holbrook. King Library Press. University of Kentucky. 1975. Approx. 90 p. 10.5” x 8”. Victor and Carolyn Hammer designed this book for the Anvil Press, Nancy Lair was its printer with Carolina Kerry Hermandez and W. Gay Reading. The work was completed at the King Library Press, University of Kentucky with various assistants at the press. Printed in black and red Uncial type on handmade Tovil paper. With 50 woodcuts, also in black and red. Decorated paper-covered boards; paper title label on spine. Thick oatmeal handmade paper wrappers with embossed designed and title on front and back.  No. 70 in an edition of 75 copies. Errata slips laid in. Slight sunning to dust jacket, else fine. A Third Century BCE poem on astronomy, written in hexameters, containing a descripton of the constellations, the most important Circles in the Celestial Sphere, and the relationships of the constellations to the signs of the Zodiac.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:07:44 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2500

Dianne L. Reeves — From Fiber to Paper

Nancy Culmone — Lunar List Three

Don Rash — PSALM 66

]]> ([tag]Sea Pen Press & Paper Mill[/tag]) Even Money.  [Poems by]Thomas Brush. Seattle. 1988. 24p, including endpapers. 10.5” x 13”. Weiss Initials Series 2 for the title page. The book editioned on a #4 Vandercook. Text in Monotype Janson on  paper handmade made by Neil Bonham, who also made the watermarked coverstock, using stencils, wax, and an epoxy matrix to shape the screen.  Colored illustrations from linoleum cuts, some of which were modified with acrylic gel medium by Suzanne Ferris. ‘Tickets’ cut from xeroxed images transferred to linoleum. Pictorial blue handmade paper wrappers, in linen-covered modified clamshell box, with blue trim. Box and binding designed and constructed by Judy Johnson. No.  91 in an edition of 100 copies, signed by the author. Fine. Seven poems about horse-racing and racetracks: Aksarben, Exhibition Park, Chalk, Closing Portland Meadows, Doo Dah, Wishes, and Golden Gate Park.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/sea-pen-press-paper-mill-even-money/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:03:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2498

Helmut Schulze — Inventory of my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre.

Gifts From Our Elders, artist’s book by Kerry McAleer-Keeler

Tern Press — Il Penseroso — [By] John Milton

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Huysmans, A Rebours. Kunstelische Gestaltung Helmut Schulze. Excerpts from text in French, with English translations to each page. edition offizin parvus. Berlin. 2011. 54p. 15.25” x 11.5”. Original illustrations with gouach, drawings, watercolors, and ink drawing. Text fragments in Scala Regular on Canson Bütten 250g. on an Epson Stylus Pro 3880.  Handbound by Christian Kluswe in maroon cloth; title in white on spine and label on front with title and illustration. Toning maroon  paper over board slipcase. No. 1 in an edition of only three copies, signed by Helmut Schulze in pencil. Fine.

“Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1848-1907. Huysmans’ work is remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, extensive vocabulary, detailed and sensuous descriptions, and biting, satirical wit. “... Huysmans’ most famous novel A rebours (Against the Grain or Against Nature or Wrong Way) (1884), which featured a single character, the aesthete des Esseintes, and decisively broke from Naturalism, becoming the ultimate example of “decadent” literature. The description of des Esseintes’ “alluring liaison” with a cherry-lipped youth influenced other writers of the decadent movement, including Oscar Wilde, and is considered an important step in the formation of “gay  literature”. A rebours won further notoriety as an exhibit in the trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895, during which the prosecutor referred to the novel as a “sodomitical” book. The book also appalled Zola, who felt it had dealt a “terrible blow” to Naturalism. “Huysmans was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in 1892, but only for his work with the civil service. In 1905, his admirers persuaded the french government to promote him to Officier de la Légion d’honneur for his literary achievements. In the same year, Huysmans, a cigarette-smoker, was diagnosed with cancer of the mouth. He died in 1907 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris.” [Huysmans’ style is “Barbaric in its profusion, violent in its emphasis, wearying in its splendor, it is - especially in regard to things seen - extraordinarily expressive, with all the shades of a painter’s palette. Elaborately and deliberately perverse, it is in its very perversity that Huysmans’ work - so fascinating, so repellent, so instinctively artificial - comes to represent, as the work of no other writer can be said to do, the main tendencies, the chief results, of the Decadent movement in literature. (Arthur Symons, “The Decadent Movement in Literature.”)  - Wikipedia.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-huysmans-a-rebours/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:00:55 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2495

Helmut Schulze — Huysmans, A Rebours

Joan M. Soppe — Living Room

Press at Colorado College — The Waiting Room

]]> ([tag]Helmut Schulze[/tag] - artist) Inventory of  my Room/Invantaire de ma Chambre. Nineteen selected texts frm [tag]Marie O’Kennedy[/tag] Inventaire de ma Chambre with original-paintings and texts by Helmut Schulze. Atelier Helmut Schulze. Berlin. 2011. 62p. 15.25” x 11.25”. Concept, design, illustrations, printing and calligraphy by Helmut Schulze. Original watercolors, gouaches, drawings and inkjet color prints with pigmented ink created by Helmut Schulze, as well as original engravings. Text fragments handwritten by the artist with india ink and also set in computer designed type - Scala Sans and Adobe Garamond. Printed on Canson Bütten paper and transparent paper. Bound in dark blue cloth with title and illustration in white, black and gold on front board; white title on spine. Salmon pink endpages. Pale gray paper board slipcase. Outer gray protective box with separate lid. No. 1 in an edition of 2 unique variants signed by Helmut Schulze. New.   Full English translation of the text included. This book is based on the first edition of Marie O’Kennedy’s Inventaire de ma Chambre, published by Librairie Sarlit, J. Bricon, Paris. At the end of the 19th century, Marie O’Kennedy was a well-known author in France. In this work she describes her room and reflects on it - as Xavier de Maistre did earlier in the same century. Schulze contrasts his own reality and English texts with the French text fragments and a view of the 19th century. Even with the occasional typos in the English text, this book is a rare delight! A true ‘Artist’s Book’ with each page a visual surprise.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/helmut-schulze-inventory-of-my-roominvantaire-de-ma-chambre/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:56:49 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2493

Ilse Schreiber Noll — The River

Ilse Schreiber Noll — Die Erste Elegie – The First Elegy

Ilse Schreiber Noll & Dennis Brutus — Poetry , fleeing – Poesie, fliehend

]]> ([tag]Ilse Schreiber-Noll[/tag]) Lost Cities. Unique Artist’s Book by Ilse Schreiber-Noll; with excerpts from  a poem by [tag]Walt Whitman[/tag]. Tarrytown. NY  2010. n.p. 9.75” x 13.25”. Painted cover with open spine and three linen strips. All pages of mixed media and collage on paper, with excerpts of Whitman’s poem printed letterpress on cream Arches  paper wrapper; wrapper also with printed title and pencil signature of artist. Laid in brown textured cloth over board dropback box with recessed title and image on front. Signed by the artist. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/ilse-schreiber-noll-lost-cities/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:29:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2486

Press at Colorado College — Printed Poem/The Poem as Print. Twenty-four Broadsides of American Poetry

Achille J. St. Onge — Remarks at the Dedication of the Wallace Library, Fitchburg, Massachusetts June 3rd, 1967. — By Archibald Macleish.

The Age of Partial Objects, by book artist Dean Dass

]]> ([tag]Mnemonic Press[/tag]) 13/14. Poem by Wallace Stevens. Artist's book by Harriet Bart. [Minneapolis. Minnesota. 2004.] 64p. 14” x 10”. Designed and printed in collaboration with Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press. Handset type printed in Delphin I and II, with Trump Mediaeval used for display, on Magnani Pescia. Figures and poem printed on rectos, stanza numbers on versos. The thirteen figures scanned and converted to polymer plate, from which they were then printed. Book printed in black, gunmetal blue and a fugitive gray. Bound with black goatskin spine and boards covered in iridescent blue/black cloth with a blackbird foil-stamped in matte black. Slipcase of grey cloth. No. 17 in an edition of 50 copies signed by the artist. Fine. Bart writes: "13/14 is a book of startling contrasts and exquisite beauty. It is the confluence of a poem and a puzzle, bringing together the fourteen polygonal forms of The Loculus of Archimedes and the poetic vision of the Wallace Stevens poem,  Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird. The book pairs disparate found objects, images, and texts to create unique contexts and give new meanings to everyday objects. Bart has inventively used the fourteen shapes that comprise the ancient puzzle to create dynamic silhouette figures for each of the thirteen stanzas of the poem.”.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mnemonic-press-1314-poem-by-wallace-stevens-artists-book-by-harriet-bart/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:03:54 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2475

Shirley Jones — Impressions

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

Peter R. Jones — The Garden & Other Poems

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Five Flowers for My Father. A Portfolio by Shirley Jones. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1990. 18” x 13”. Seven mezzotints of wild flowers, including title page, and mezzotint of her father. Printed by her on Tervakoski handmade paper, enclosed in folders of gray Fabriano Roma printed with the text. The five narrative pieces, together with three of her poems, were set & printed by the artist in 24-point Baskerville type. Black cloth dropback box with black leather title on lid. No. 6 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by the artist. Prospectus laid in. Fine. The core of the book is a set of mezzotints of wild flowers juxtaposed with objects of significance in the life of Jones’s father, for whom she made the book.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-five-flowers-for-my-father/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:01:35 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2473

Shirley Jones — Five Flowers for My Father

Peter R. Jones — Aesop’s Fables for Modern Readers

Peter R. Jones — Men at Work

]]> ([tag]Shirley Jones[/tag]) Impressions. By Shirley Jones. Eight poems and prose pieces writen by Jones about her first visit to the United States. Red Hen Press. [London.] 1984. 15” x 13”. Eight color aquatints. Printed on Barcham Green Waterleaf. Handset and printed by the artist throughout in 18-pt Baskerville. Bound in navy blue cloth-covered boards, gray morocco spine with dark blue markings, matching gray onlay on upper cover depicting a tall modern building on which the book’s title is inlaid in black leather elongated letters. Gray textured handmade endpapers. Matching navy blue dropback box, title label on spine. No. 32 in an edition of 40 copies, signed and dated by Jones in pencil.  One of 15 copies formatted for fine binding. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/shirley-jones-impressions/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:59:09 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2471

Janus Press — Helios. Drawing and text by Peter Schumann

Janus Press — The Janus Press – Fifty Years. Catalogue Raisonné for 1991-2005

Janus Press — Gone. Poems by Ellen McCulloch-Lovell

]]> ([tag]Janus Press[/tag]) Tatata, 24 cordells. Twenty-four chapbooks drawn and written by Peter Schumann. Newark. Vermont. 2011. Boxing - 10.5” x 10.25” x 1.5”. Booklet - 7” x 4”. The charcoal and ink drawings were scanned by Ellen Dorn Levit and printed using a Xerox Docucolor 700 with Judi Bourque at Silver Mountain Graphics, Vermont, on Mohawk Superfine eggshell white 100 lb text. The crayon cover drawings were scanned in New Hampshire and printed using an Epson Stylus NX515 on Mohawk Via cream linen 65lb cover by Andrew Miller-Brown who also did the letterpress printing. Chapbooks sewn in differenct color thread. Display pocket panels are Fabriano Miliani Ingress. Each booklet is 8p. plus illustrated wrappers. 6 booklets laid in colored envelope-type folder against the three colored sides of a strong 3-sided navy bookcloth folder with title on top side and colophon details on the inside.  Light tan bristol slipcase  printed with woodtype title. No. 89 in an edition of 120 copies, signed by Peter Schumann. Fine. Done in the spirit of the Latin American street-market cordells (books-on-a-string and sometimes in trays). “These booklets are a group Schumann drew for Christmas 2009 in the spirit and tradition of Hispanic Cordells. These are chapbooks made from one sheet of paper folded into eight pages plus a cover. They are hawked by poets in Latin American marketplaces strung up pinned on lines like laundry or arrayed on trays similar to those that were carried by cigarette girls. The subject traditionally cover a variety of subjects as do Peter’s; political, tales, ruminations, admonitions, kids’ stories and even the weather.” - Van Vliet.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/janus-press-tatata-24-cordells/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:53:40 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2469

Eric Gill: His life and Art

Eugene O’Neill — Inscriptions: Eugene O’Neill to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill

Joe D’Ambrosio — The Twilight of Orthodoxy in New England. By William Nykamp.

]]> ([tag]Victor & Caroline Hammer[/tag]) Aratus. Phenomena. With Woodcuts from Erhard Ratdolt’s Poetica Astronomica MCCCCLXX. Translation by John Lamb. With Notes by Paul Q-Holbrook. King Library Press. University of Kentucky. 1975. Approx. 90 p. 10.5” x 8”. Victor and Carolyn Hammer designed this book for the Anvil Press, Nancy Lair was its printer with Carolina Kerry Hermandez and W. Gay Reading. The work was completed at the King Library Press, University of Kentucky with various assistants at the press. Printed in black and red Uncial type on handmade Tovil paper. With 50 woodcuts, also in black and red. Decorated paper-covered boards; paper title label on spine. Thick oatmeal handmade paper wrappers with embossed designed and title on front and back.  No. 70 in an edition of 75 copies. Errata slips laid in. Slight sunning to dust jacket, else fine. A Third Century BCE poem on astronomy, written in hexameters, containing a descripton of the constellations, the most important Circles in the Celestial Sphere, and the relationships of the constellations to the signs of the Zodiac.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/victor-caroline-hammer-aratus-phenomena/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/paul-johnson-small-book http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/paul-johnson-small-book#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:51:02 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2467

Paul Johnson — Journey to the quiet centre of the kingdom of dreams

Paul Johnson — Journey into Time Past

Broaddus, John Eric – Seasons of the Pine

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