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Poems

by Ibsen, Henrik

NY: Vincent FitzGerald & Co, 1987. Welliver, Neil. Quarto. (17)ff. One of 75 copies, signed by the translator, Michael Feingold, and the artist, Neil Welliver, whose five color etchings and double-page fold-out lithograph were printed by Shigemitsu Tsukaguchi. The translator served as the lead drama critic for the Village Voice until it ceased operations, and he was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In the publisher's binding of hand-woven fabric crafted by fiber artist Sara Dochow and bound by... Read more about this item

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SGD 5,155.82

The Grapes of Wrath

by Steinbeck, John

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Benton, Thomas Hart. Two octavo volumes. xxii, 559 pp. numbered consecutively. One of 1146 copies signed by the artist. Illustrated throughout with two-color zinc lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton. With an introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson, then literary editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. In the publisher's binding of rawhide-backed grass cloth, with crest illustration to all four covers. According to the publisher, the binding was intended to impart to the... Read more about this item

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SGD 1,190.34

Quatre Poèmes - Four Songs, by Samuel Beckett

by Beckett, Samuel

Poestenkill, NY: Edition Kaldewey, 1986. Lam, Bun-Ching. Triangular small quarto. (28)pp. From an edition of 50 copies, this is one of thirty regular. Signed by Bun-Ching Lam, whose six etchings render into visual art her original set of musical compositions that accompanied Beckett's poems. The etchings are in unusual shapes, and sometimes extend over the edge of the page; the text, which was Beckett's last book during his lifetime, appears in similarly unbounded and ungrounded settings. The project... Read more about this item

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SGD 4,362.73

The High Embrace

by Everson, William and Leigh Wiener

Los Angeles: Dawsons Book Shop, 1986. First printing. (12) pp., 11 x 14 inches. 12 unbound leaves of Arches heavyweight paper, printed letterpress in Monotype Janson by Patrick Reagh, and five gelatin silver photographic prints mounted on archival rag boards, all housed in a buckram-covered folding box with printed cover and spine labels, in a clear acrylic slipcase. The text contains the title poem, a note on the poem by Everson, and a commentary on the photographs by Wiener. The five photographs... Read more about this item

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SGD 689.65

Grimod de la Reynière, by Franz Blei

by Blei, Franz

(Hamburg: Gunnar A. Kaldewey, 1976. Kaldewey, Gunnar. Small quarto. (16)pp. One of thirty copies, this example printed on white Sheufelen paper. Signed by Gunnar Kaldewey on the colophon. The sole illustration is a relief-printed etching on the front cover showing the "Bibliothèque d'un Gourmand," taken from de la Reynière's almanacs. Franz Blei's 1924 essay on the figure acknowledged as the first French food critic is the first book produced by Kaldewey, who came from a successful career in... Read more about this item

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SGD 8,724.07

Not a First, by John Ashbery

by Ashbery, John

Poestenkill, NY: Edition Kaldewey, 1987. Lasker, Jonathan. Oblong small quarto. (18)pp. One of forty-five regular copies. Signed by John Ashbery and Jonathan Lasker. Three original drawings by Lasker capture his real-time reactions of Ashbery's poem (and, presumably, the act of repetition with variation throughout an entire edition). Printed and executed on handmade paper, "Poestenkill leaves," which incorporates petals from Kaldewey's garden. The colophon claims that the deluxe edition would be bound... Read more about this item

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SGD 8,724.07

King Oedipus

by Sophocles

Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1968. Manzù, Giacomo. Folio. (96) (iv) pp. From an edition of 114 copies, this is one of 105 on Magnani paper, signed by the artist, Giacomo Manzù, on the colophon page. This copy also bears a contemporary inscription from Manzù on the front endpaper. Illustrated with seven full-page etchings by Manzù. Printed by Martino Mardersteig for the American art publisher, A.E. Racolin. Loose, as issued, in the publisher's binding of green morocco-backed vellum with a relief of the... Read more about this item

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SGD 9,517.17

Remembrance

by Colvin, Robert

(Melbourne): Masterthief, 2009. Lyssiotis, Peter and Theo Strasser. Folio. (44)pp. One of ten copies, signed by the artists, Peter Lyssiotis and Theo Strasser. An imposing work, monumental in many senses, Remembrance matches Robert Colvin's poetry with hand-painted pages and original screenprints to underscore the consequences of actions, especially those by the military. It demands a closer look at the language and politics of "liberation," questioning who truly benefits from acts of war. Colvin's... Read more about this item

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SGD 4,521.35

California Time, by Gunnar Kaldewey

by Kaldewey, Gunnar

(Postenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 1987. Kaldewey, Gunnar. Folio. (36)pp. One of forty-five copies in a plexiglass binding by Christian Zwang of Hamburg. Signed by the author/artist/printer, Gunnar Kaldewey. With numerous monochromatic and two-tone illustrations. Written, illustrated, designed, and printed by Gunnar Kaldewey as Volume 5 of the Kaldewey Press series. In 1977, Kaldewey printed New York, his first book about America. Ten years later, California Time was published as a counterpoint to that... Read more about this item

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SGD 4,758.58

The Four Seasons. An Impression of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter: a Landscape Panorama

London: Gogmagog Press, 1965. Cox, Morris. Four small octavo volumes, each (26)pp. One of 100 copies printed on Hosho paper, signed by the artist/printer Morris Cox. Each volume contains a colorful panorama of nature printed from heavily textured blocks, which give the offset prints an embossed effect. The changing seasons appear in a flowing image with delicate natural forms and subtle hues. Colin Franklin says that the group is "reckoned as the peak of his achievement as a printer." The texture of the... Read more about this item

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SGD 3,172.39

ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF PAINTINGS BY "THE MEN OF 1830" FORMING THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF MR. H. S. HENRY, PHILADELPHIA [1907] ---Together With-- De Luxe Illustrated Catalogue of TWENTY-ONE MASTERPIECES COLLECTED BY... MR. H.S. HENRY OF PHILA [1910]

by Henry, H.S

Philadelphia: Privately Printed. First Editions. FINE TO NEAR-FINE CONDITION - First title is LIMITED TO ONLY 50 COPIES printed on Japan vellum in 1907. The second "De Luxe" title is the "SUBSCRIBER'S COPY No. 1" of 125 copies printed on Japan vellum in 1910. ________ BINDINGS: Both copies bound in FULLL GREEN MOROCCO with raised bands by the OLDACH COMPANY of Philadelphia, titles in gilt on front covers, gILT rules around board perimeters; top page edges gilt; morocco... Read more about this item

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SGD 1,172.40

CHOIX D'ORNEMENTS EXTRAITS DU MUSEE DES MONUMENTS FRANCAIS

by LENOIR Alexandre

Paris: 1856 Paris Librairie de LEVY FILS, 1856. Hardcover. Good. 25,3 x 26,5 cm - VI+(2)+56 gravures sur cuivre - couverture d'éditeur: demi-cuir, premier plat avec rectangle entouré de feuillage, au millieu medaillon avec titre et auteur estampés en or - premières et dernières pages beaucoup de rouille, dernières pages faible trace d'eau - dos à 5 faux nerfs, mors et coiffes frotées,mors supérieure fendu en bas - photo sur demande

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SGD 205.70

Black Gouaches

by Sol LeWitt

n.pl.: 1992 n.pl (Paris) Les Nouvelles Editions Séguier, 1992. Hardcover. Fine. n° 312 des 1000 numéro de la tirage normale (+100 ex H.C.) - 36,5 x 29,8 cm - one sheet folded in 32 pages - in editors cartonage, in black slipcase - fine copy

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SGD 719.96

La Méthode

by Pleynet, Marcelin

Colombes, France: Collectif Génération, 1990. Rousseau, Florent. Square octavo. (15)ff. One of 60 copies, signed by the author, Marcelin Pleynet, and the illustrator, Bertrand Dorny. With imaginative engraved and blind-stamped illustrations throughout, to accompany Pleynet's modernist text. Many of the pages fold out to give the reader the feeling of discovery and thorough study. Bound in 2015 by Florent Rousseau, one of the few European binders with consistent mastery of unique materials. The volume... Read more about this item

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SGD 10,707.51

Original Unbound Sheets [from the Ashendene Press], 1923-1935

(Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1961. Small folio portfolio. One of seventeen portfolios distributed by Dawson's Book Shop. Contains Dawson's contents sheet, plus 20 leaves of proof, trial, and discarded sheets, which were purchased from the daughter of C. H. St. John Hornby. These are: an eight-page signature from The Faerie Queen (1923); eight pages from The Golden Asse of Apuleius (1924); two sheets of eight pages each from The Wisdom of Jesus, Son of Sirach (1932); eight pages from Daphnis and... Read more about this item

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SGD 5,948.92

Tiresias

by Tennyson, Alfred, Lord

Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1970. Baskin, Leonard. Small octavo. (28)pp. One of fifty copies, signed by the artist, Leonard Baskin. Illustrated with a frontispiece etched portrait of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, by Baskin and four additional etchings that accompany Tennyson's poem. The title is cut in wood and printed in red from the block. Baskin first became interested in Tiresias, the blind prophet of Thebes, after creating a series of sculptures of mythological figures. According to the notes from the... Read more about this item

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SGD 3,172.39

Viente Poemas de Amor y Una Canción Desesperada, by Pablo Neruda

by Neruda, Pablo

Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 1989. Keever, Kim. Oblong folio. 106pp. One of twenty deluxe copies printed on papier de Chine and bound in flexible blue textured leather by Christian Zwang. With twenty-five linoleum cuts in several colors by Kim Keever. Signed by the artist. Keever's linocuts draw directly from the theme of love, with imagery of women and men and handwritten text. These are displayed to greatest effect in this deluxe edition, as the translucent Chinese paper allows the text and images... Read more about this item

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SGD 7,137.88

The Poems of William Shakespeare, Printed after the Original Copies of Venus and Adonis, 1593. The Rape of Lucrece, 1594. Sonnets, 1609. The Lover's Complaint

by Shakespeare, William

(Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. Morris, William. Octavo. (vi), 216pp. One of 500 copies. Borders and initials by William Morris. Printed in Golden type in two colors. Peterson cites Sidney Cockerell's observation that this title was "one of the rarest books issued from the Press because of its popularity"; despite its relatively large edition size, copies of the Kelmscott Shakespeare remain elusive on the market even today, furthering Cockerell's declaration. This is the Garden copy, with leather... Read more about this item

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SGD 11,896.46

Pizza from Scratch

by Esslemont, David

Decorah, IA: Solmentes Press, 2017. Esslemont, David. Oblong small quarto. (68)pp. From an edition of forty copies, this is one of five deluxe copies. Signed by artist at colophon. Thirty-six woodcut and linocut images together with separate blueprint for a pizza oven. Together, the illustrations create a visual narrative of how Esslemont grew a pizza, at every step, on his farm in rural Iowa. He grows wheat, garlic, tomatoes, and basil, designs and builds a clay oven, gives instructions on how to make... Read more about this item

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SGD 7,535.12

ABC, by Gunnar Kaldewey

by Kaldewey, Gunnar

Poestenskill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 1983. Kaldewey, Gunnar. Tall quarto. 29ff. From an edition of forty-two copies, this is one of seven printed on pink paper. This marks the very first book printed in Poestenkill, an event commemorated with a loose transparency of the tower of Poestenkill, the site of the press, before the title page. It is also one of the few Kaldewey books that do not use Helvetica, and the only book from the press employing more than one typeface. Each page represents an experimental... Read more about this item

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SGD 7,137.88

The Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York

by Defoe, Daniel

London: Basilisk Press, 1979. Craig, Edward Gordon. Quarto. 180pp., + (10)ff. From an edition of 500 copies, this is one of twenty-five with ten original wood engravings bound-in subsequent to the text, five of which are signed by the book's illustrator, Edward Gordon Craig. For decades, Craig nurtured an interest in Daniel Defoe's story about the castaway Robinson Crusoe. Craig's copy of the book was well-read and heavily annotated, with the phrase "My beloved book" written by him on one of the pages,... Read more about this item

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SGD 6,107.54

New York 1977, by Gunnar Kaldewey

by Kaldewey, Gunnar

Hamburg: Kaldewey Press, 1978. Kaldewey, Gunnar. Folio. One of fifty copies of Kaldewey's second artist's book and the first book bearing the Kaldewey Press imprint. This copy warmly inscribed from Kaldewey to "friends of the Kaldewey Press for many years" on the colophon page and dated "15/6/95." Illustrated with color Xerox copies, color mylar overlays, and found art to document Kaldewey's first trip to New York. While there, Kaldewey shot an 8mm movie, stills of which are shown here as Xerox... Read more about this item

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SGD 7,137.88

Giacomo Joyce, by James Joyce

by Joyce, James

NY: Vincent FitzGerald & Co, 1989. Brown, Hannah. Folio. (32)pp. One of fifty copies, signed by the artist, Susan Weil. Throughout the text are scattered collages, cut papers, and etchings that work together to create an interactive, multimedia experience for the reader, who thus physically engages with the work in a manner reflective of reading Joyce's stream-of-consciousness literature. The book most obviously and completely points toward this characteristic freedom in a prepublication sampling of The... Read more about this item

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SGD 15,068.85

Watermark

by Brodsky, Joseph

Venice: Peter Koch, Printer, 2006. Morgan, Robert. Small folio. 25ff., + 7 plates. From an edition of fifty copies, this is one of thirty bound in Venetian red stiff wrappers. Signed by the printer, Peter Koch, and photographer Robert Morgan. Produced during Koch's term as artist-in-residence at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia, Brodsky's text consists of lyrical fragments that offer up a view of the city through the eyes of an exiled Russian poet. Brodsky dedicated the work, first published... Read more about this item

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SGD 7,137.88

Campo Santos

by Maurer, Paul

Albuquerque, NM: Passages Bookshop, 1995. First printing. 18.5 x 13 inches. Letterpress plus collage and hand coloring, in an edition of seventy-five numbered copies. Printed at the Salient Seedling Press by Katherine Kuehn -- who, along with Nancy Culmone, also assisted in the collaging and coloring. As new. For many years Paul Maurer documented the handmade memorials in the campo santos (the local cemeteries) across rural New Mexico, through photography, drawing, and rubbings, which he incorporated... Read more about this item