Search Results: Authors starting with S from SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS

Ditchling : S. Dominic’s Press, [1918]. 4pp. One sheet folded as issued. Slightly dusty with a few spots.|||

Ravenna: Pietro de Paoli e Gio. Battista Giovannelli, 1638. Second edition, being the first complete edition with both parts, the first part had been published on its own the year before. Woodcut arms of Cardinal Oorato Visconti, the dedicatee of the work on title page, 89 woodcut text diagrams and illustrations and woodcut historiated initials. [a1-6], A4 - V4{Q2 and Q3 have been bound in the wrong order}. 4to., bound in 19th century quarter leather with dark marbled boards and Gordon Craig’s monogrammed ownership label on the upper cover, and on the front pastedown, spine lettered in gilt with gilt rules. Spine rather rubbed, title page with a small paper restoration in blank margin and to woodcut, otherwise a good copy.||First complete edition of the first book exclusively devoted to stage design, stage architecture, machinery and special effects. The first part was first published the year before in 1637, the inaugural year of the Teatro di Sole in Pesaro, designed by Sabbattini. Sabbattini… Read More

Paris: Chez l’artiste, 16, rue Cassini, 1926. 2 volumes. No. 371 of 450 printed on papier vergé d’Arches, but this a rare hand-coloured copy. 33 engravings by Sylvain Sauvage, engraved in collaboration with Emile-Henri Feltesse, including an engraving on each wrapper, all expertly hand-coloured in gouache. Tall thin 8vo., loose in the original wrappers, each volume with its own maroon cloth backed chemise and both in the matching maroon cloth edged slipcase. Slipcase and chemises with a little wear or rubbing at edges, a little darkening to the wrappers but otherwise very good.||Sylvain Sauvage (1888-1948), whose real name was Felix Roy, was an illustrator and engraver who published his own artist’s books with the imprint of his home in Paris as well as creating illustrations for other publishers. Sauvage had originally intended to produce illustrations to the whole of the memoirs of Casanova but the task was too great so he settled on the erotic story of Casanova and the Nun of Murano - hence… Read More

Paris: A l’Image des trois colombes, 6, rue Cassini, pres L’Observatoire, 1926. This copy hors commerce, reserved and inscribed on the limitations page by Sylvain Sauvage for Pierre Bellanger and corresponding with the 10 copies on Japon with an original signed pencil and watercolour drawing an unused plate inspired by the drawing, a suite of progressive proofs, and a suite of the plates in sanguine and one in black, (the latter isn’t mentioned in the limitation) 25 delicately coloured copper engravings by Sauvage including 5 in the text. Sm. 4to., in the original wrappers with colour copper plate by Sauvage on upper cover, housed together with the suites in the original blue cloth backed, blue paper covered chemise and slipcase. Slipcase and chemise with a little rubbing to edges, title written in ink on the chemise, the book and plates are in splendid condition.||A beautiful example of Art Deco illustration, one of a very few printed on japon and this copy enriched with an unexpected extra… Read More

London: Folio Society, 1957. Engravings by Frank Martin. Printed in black and blue. 13.9 x 20.4 cms. Sm. 8vo, bound by Sayaka Fukada in full dark green morocco with and inlaid vellum cross over both sides and spine, with gilt and platinum tooling with tracks across both sides and spine and onto the dark green morocco and printed paper doublures with secondary patterned paper endpapers, speckled edges, housed in a complimentary structured solander box using the same patterned paper using feathered paper on the outside of the linen, platinum lettering on spine.||Sayaka Fukada began her artistic life as a professional photographer in Japan. She is a superb and much sought after conservator and her superb designer bindings are in collections in the UK and USA.|

1987. Complete set of 10 colour wood engravings printed by the artist. Signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Each image has different edition size of between 51 and 61 prints. Image Size 12.5 cm x 9 cm (5 x 3.5 ins). Paper Size Majority is 25.5 cm x 19 cm.||Engraved for a book ‘High Bridge’ printed and illustrated by Gaylord Schanilec and written by Clayton Schanilec, published in 1987.On February 24, 1985, 24,000 people gathered on the banks of the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, Minnesota to witness the demolition of a 97 year old bridge that connected their communities for generations. When it came down in a well-orchestrated collapse of steel, there was scattered applause and then silence. No one present had ever see this valley without the bridge.‘High Bridge’ documents the passing of the bridge, contrasting images of demolition with accounts of its construction. The images are a sequence of ten wood engravings printed in 5 to 7 colours. These compositions blend together in a… Read More

December 2006. One of ten sets assembled at Midnight Paper Sales in addition to one held at the University of Minnesota and another in private hands. Cover sheet printed and signed by Schanilec. 78 pieces of ephemera plus cover sheet printed by Schanilec. Housed in the original folio blue cloth covered clamshell box with printed paper spine label.||The ephemera designed, printed and often illustrated by Schanilec includes book prospectuses for Schanilec’s books, price lists, various iterations of Gaylord Schnailec’s business cards and headed paper, posters, leaflets and flyers and a catalogue for local events including several for Campos, Schanilec’s wedding invitation, printing for the Ampersand Club, wedding order of service, birth announcement, memorial card, invitations including for El Rancho Day and the Carp Rodeo, a Valentine card printed at Gregynog, a Christmas card, bookmarks and a couple of pieces of pure printing.| One of only 12 sets, extremely rare

2001. Original colour wood engraving on Zerkall mould-made paper. One of an edition of 100, signed, numbered and titled by the artist. Image size 77 x 38 mm. Paper size 290 x 175 mm.||One of 11 engravings for ‘New York Revisited’, written by Kenneth Auchincloss and published by the Grolier Club, 2002 - a truly beautiful book printed by Gaylord Schanilec at his press in Wisconsin, Midnight Paper Sales. A great tribute to New York and New Yorkers. The book was intended as a modern day reply to a Grolier Club book on New York printed in 1915 however, it took on a new importance as its publication coincided with the attack on New York in September 2001.|

1994. Colour wood engraving, one of an edition of 220, signed, numbered and dated in pencil by the artist. Image size 16 x 10.5 cm (4 x 6 ins). Paper Size 25 x 17 cm. ||Engraved for the book A House in the Country, printed and published by the artist under his imprint Midnight Paper Sales. The book is comprised of four essays by Mary Logue documenting the trials of renovating her old Swedish farmhouse, and her observations on small-town life in rural America.|

New York: The Grolier Club, 2002. 11 colour wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec. One of 200 copies signed by the artist and author, there were also 50 specials with a portfolio of wood engravings by Ruzicka printed for the club in 1915. Printed in 12 point Monotype Emerson. Tall thin 4to., bound at the Campbell-Logan Bindery in original grey silk covered boards with black and gilt spine label, housed in a grey silk covered slipcase. As new.||A great tribute to New York and New Yorkers. The book was intended as a modern day reply to a Grolier Club book on New York printed in 1915 with colour wood engravings by Rudolph Ruzicka, however, it took on a new importance as its publication coincided with the attack on New York in September 2001.A truly beautiful book printed by Gaylord Schanilec at his press in Wisconsin, Midnight Paper Sales.| 11 exciting colour wood engravings by the great Gaylord Schanilec for The Grolier Club

2001. Original colour wood engraving using black, yellow and pale blue ink on Zerkall mould-made paper. One of 140 prints, signed, numbered and titled by the artist. Image size 24.6 x 9 cms (3.5 x 10 ins). Paper size 36 x 21 cms. Framed||One of 11 engravings for ‘New York Revisited’, written by Kenneth Auchincloss and published by the Grolier Club, 2002 - a truly beautiful book printed by Gaylord Schanilec at his press in Wisconsin, Midnight Paper Sales. A great tribute to New York and New Yorkers. The book was intended as a modern day reply to a Grolier Club book on New York printed in 1915 however, it took on a new importance as its publication coincided with the attack on New York in September 2001.|

1994. 10 original wood engravings printed by the artist in blue and black ink. Each image is from an edition of between 23 and 30 copies, all signed, numbered and dated by the artist. Image sizes 17.5 x 12.5 cm. Paper sizes 25 x 20 cm. ||Engraved by the artist for ‘Five Short Stories’ by Marcel Aymé printed and published by Henry Morris’s Bird and Bull Press in 150 copies. The stories comprise: The State of Grace, The Dwarf, Rue de l’Evangile, Legend of Poldevia and The Seven-League Boots. |

Wisconsin: Midnight Paper Sales, 2020. Colour wood engraving, one of an edition of only 115, signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist. Image size 11.5 x 7.7 cms. Paper size 21 x 13 cm.||From ‘Bokeh: A Little Book of Flowers’, the third book in Schanilec’s trilogy, the other two are his Little Book of Birds and Ninja Press’s Departures. |

Wisconsin: Midnight Paper Sales, 2020. Colour wood engraving, one of an edition of only 90, signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist. Image size 25 x 15.7 cms. Paper size 29.5 x 21.6 cm.||From ‘Bokeh: A Little Book of Flowers’, used on the cover of both the deluxe and partially on the standard edition. An extraordinarily detailed, intense engraving.|

1994. Colour wood engraving, one of an edition of 220, signed, numbered and dated in pencil by the artist. Image size 16 x 10.5 cm (4 x 6 ins). Paper Size 25 x 17 cm. ||Engraved for the book A House in the Country, printed and published by the artist under his imprint Midnight Paper Sales. The book is comprised of four essays by Mary Logue documenting the trials of renovating her old Swedish farmhouse, and her observations on small-town life in rural America.|

Stockholm, WI: Midnight Paper Sales, 2015. One of 100 copies, signed by Gaylord Schanilec. A remarkable large folding wood engraved map printed on Kraku Kozo handmade paper, 8 other large colour wood engravings printed on Zerkall paper by Gaylord Schanilec of fish, pelicans and river scenes plus 31 electrotype prints of fish in the text which is printed on Barcham Green Tovil and Wookey Hole Mill paper. Handprinted by the artist with the title page typeface made from type by Russell Maret after the 1499 Aldus Manutius Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Folio, bound and with a box by Craig and Leigh Ann Jensen using marbled paper by Jemma Lewis, original quarter cloth with marbled paper covered boards in blue leather backed maroon cloth clamshell box. As new.||A real magnum opus and an astonishing tribute to Lake Pepin, the widening of the Mississippi between St.Paul, Minnesota and La Crosse, Wisconsin. The book was nearly seven years in the making the book explores the landscape and natural history of the… Read More

2005. Colour wood engraving printed by the artist, one of an edition of 125, signed, numbered and titled by the artist. Image size 24.5 x 23 cm (5 x 7 ins). Paper size 32 x 24 cm. Printed on Monadnock paper.||An, as yet, unclassified mayfly, perhaps Stenonema or Heptagenia, as Schanilec notes” “keying of these specimens to family proceeds well because it is based on wing characteristics. Being females means they are impossible to key accurately to genus.” Also, “Two species could be eliminated from consideration, based on known ranges.... but this still leaves several species possible”. “’Dry Fly Entomology’ by Frederic M. Halford, published in London in 1897, was the inspiration for ‘Mayflies of the Driftless Region’. Halford, the Victorian innovator and popularizer of modern fly-fishing, scientifically described and surveyed the principal British mayflies of his time, but he did not claim his work as a comprehensive entomological treatise. Instead, ‘Dry Fly Entomology’… Read More

2005. Colour wood engraving printed by the artist, one of an edition of 235, signed, numbered and titled by the artist. Image size 15 x 12.5 cm (6 x 5 ins). Paper size 23 x 16 cm. Printed on Monadnock paper. One of the special edition of 42 printed on Gampi Torinoko paper is also available. ||Also known as Stenonema sp., engraved for ‘Mayflies of the Driftless Region’, written and hand printed by the artist in 2005.“’Dry Fly Entomology’ by Frederic M. Halford, published in London in 1897, was the inspiration for ‘Mayflies of the Driftless Region’. Halford, the Victorian innovator and popularizer of modern fly-fishing, scientifically described and surveyed the principal British mayflies of his time, but he did not claim his work as a comprehensive entomological treatise. Instead, ‘Dry Fly Entomology’ was aimed at providing anglers with a basic, working understanding of the nature of aquatic insects. ‘Mayflies of the Driftless Region’ can make no such claim: it is not a field… Read More

Los Angeles: Bieler Press, 1992. Title page with a 4 colour plexiglass engraving by Gaylord Schanilec. No. 98 of 200 copies, signed by the author and illustrator. Designed by Gerald Lange. Set in Garamond and Trump Medieval bold types and printed on Invicta English mould-made paper. Pp. [24]. 8vo., [17 x 27 cms], bound by Robin Price in original sewn Larroque black paper wrappers and Moriki black endpapers, lower edges uncut. Mild fading to spine and along upper edge of rear cover, otherwise a good copy.||This is Schanilec’s first colour engraving, created circa 1980, but not published until this book appeared.Very scarce.|Quarter to Midnight, A.113. One of 200 copies, with Schanilec’s first colour engraving

1989. Six colour wood engraving. One of the second edition of 50, numbered, titled and signed by the artist. A diptych, on two separate sheets. Image size (when two sheets placed together) 17.5 x 27 cm (7 x 10.5 ins). Paper size (of the two sheets together) 26.5 x 34 cm. ||Gaylord Schanilec saw farm life as a hazy, black and white image of chickens in the yard with an uncle and aunt waving from the porch. But when he set out with a camera and tape recorder to learn what farmers had to say about rural life, he heard a different story.His book ‘Farmers’ offers a revealing look into the lives and insights of four Midwestern American farmers—of their fight for survival on the fast changing landscape of rural America today. Schanilec sets the scene for his interview with farmer, Elaine Miller and her family, with a two-panel wood engraving of her farm, in six colours using six separate end-grain maple blocks. |