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• Exhibition Program with Artist's Scarce Signature

  

  Sheeler, Charles

  A Retrospective Exhibition 1954

  $400.00

  The Accidental Bookseller

  Art Galleries, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA): 1954.  Foreword by William Carlos Williams. Signed boldly by Sheeler and scarce thus, as Sheeler’s signature is quite uncommon. Few creases, wear to spine, some loss of color.  Overall, very good in wrappers. Sheeler was a leading exponent of the innovative modernist style that arose after World War I in the United States and came to be known as Precisionism.  Artists associated with the movement fused a planar geometry developed from European Cubism with an interest in uniquely American subjects, often celebrating industry and a Machine Age aesthetic. Sheeler worked across artistic mediums and developed a versatile, complex practice in which his vision was expressed with equal artistic command and intellectual rigor, masterfully devising compositions of modern, geometric form from America’s burgeoning urban and industrial landscapes. (source: The Whitney Museum). less

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• Complete run of scarce literary and arts journal

  

  L Raven-Hill; Arnold Golsworthy (eds)

  THE BUTTERFLY A Humourous And Artistic Monthly [Complete Run 1893-1894, 1899-1900]

  $1,003.51 *
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  Dodman Books

  A complete run of The Butterfly in both its incarnations, the ten issues from May 1893 to February 1894 published by Walter Haddon, and the second twelve from March 1899 to February 1900 published from the offices of The Idler (Grant Richards). Bound in four volumes. Much of literary and artistic interest throughout with a roll-call of late Victorian contributors including Laurence Housman, Max Beerbohm, Joseph Pennell, H G Wells (anonymously) and Baron Corvo. First run is bound in two volumes in VG+, clean and bright internal order. Marbling to all edges of block. Paper covers and title pages for each issue bound to rear. Uniform red cloth with half red leather this well worn, with five raised bands and gilt titling to spine. End of volume two includes the best “we are ceasing publication” notice ever written. Second run bound in two non-matching volumes. Vol. one (iii) in VG+ clean and bright order bar some toning to endpapers. Single cover bound to rear. Smart pale brown cloth with bright gilt titling to spine. Vol. two (iv) more handsomely presented with attractive gilt decoration to front and spine of cream cloth, this lightly bumped and a little dulled. Again, all in VG+ internal order. A rare opportunity to obtain a complete run of this most interesting and engaging periodical. All 8vo, though i and ii narrower. i. 384pp + covers and titles; ii. 250pp + covers and titles; iii.278pp [2]; iv. 294pp  less

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• One of 15 Copies Bound in Full Morocco

  

  Hawkes, John (Author); Solien, T. L. (Artist).

  Innocence in Extremis

  $500.00

  The Accidental Bookseller

  New York: The Grenfell Press, 1985.   From the colophon: “118 copies have been printed & published at The Grenfell Press, New York City, in spring/summer 1985. Copies numbered 1-85 are printed on Saunders paper and bound in quarter morocco with the covers and frontispiece by T. L. Solien. Roman numeral copies I-XV are bound in full morocco hand-colored by the artist and contain a frontispiece. Lettered copies A-R are for the author and artist. Bindings are by Claudia Cohen; Michael Bixler has set the text in Dante. Each copy has been signed by John Hawkes and T. L. Solien.” Copy XIII of the Roman numeral edition. T. L. Solien’s work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions across the country and is included in public and private collections around the world.  Selected collections include: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Art Institute of Chicago; Milwaukee Art Museum; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art;  Minneapolis Institute of Art; Tate Gallery, London;  National Gallery of Australia; Singapore Art Museum, among others. (source: Tory Folliard Gallery). Near fine, slight uneven tanning to boards, small and shallow abrasion to rear cover.  In publisher’s plexiglass slipcase, one seam split as appears to be common to be this title, small chip and a couple of cracks, neither affecting the case’s integrity. less

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• First American edition

  

  Jules Verne

  A Floating City and the Blockade Runners

  $750.00

  Under The Covers Antique And Vintage Books

  New York; Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., 1874. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 8vo. Hardcover. Very good. Original green cloth covered boards with beautiful gilt and black title and illustrations to front board and spine. Minor bumping to corners and spine ends. Minor chipping to spine ends. Light rubbing to front board and minor rubbing to rear board. Ownership inscription to front free end paper. Minor foxing throughout though text and illustrations remain bright. Beautiful illustrations throughout. 286 pages + 8 pages of ads.  less

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