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

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.|

Wisconsin: Midnight Paper Sales, 1994. One of 250 total copies signed by the author and artist, this no.243. 4 colour wood engravings and 1 vignette by Gaylord Schanilec. Composition-set in Walbaum Monotype by Michael Bixler, with hand-set Bodoni, Stradivarious, and Balle types. 8vo., bound in full cloth at the Campbell-Logan Bindery. ||A House in the Country contains four essays by Mary Logue which document the trials of renovating her old Swedish farmhouse, and her observations on life in a small town in rural America. Bats and plaster fill her life with chaos and charm. Four multi-color wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec capture several of the buildings in this small Mississippi river town.|

2005. Original colour wood engraving, one of an edition of 250, signed, numbered and titled by the artist in pencil. Image size 9 x 11 cm (3.25 x 4.5 ins). Paper size 23 x 15 cm. Printed on Monadnock paper.||Ephemerella subvaria, 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 guide. Instead, it is a study of mayflies by an artist....I have created 13 depictions of mayflies,… Read More

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.|

Wisconsin: Midnight Paper Sales, 2017. Colour wood engraving, one of an edition of only 80, signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist. Image size 9 x 7 cms. Paper size 21 x 14.7 cm.||From ‘Little Book of Birds’, part of Schanilec’s trilogy, the other two are his ‘Bokeh: A Little Book of Flowers’ and Ninja Press’s ‘Departures’.|

2011. Original colour wood engraving on Zerkall mould-made paper. One of an edition of 150, signed, numbered and titled in pencil by the artist. Image size 85 x 140 mm. Paper size 235 x 165 mm. ||Original wood engraving for The Bicycle Diaries; One New Yorker’s Journey through September 11th by Richard Goodman, which was illustrated and printed by Gaylord Schanilec at his press, Midnight Paper Sales, in Wisconsin. |

2005. Colour wood engraving hand printed by the artist, one of an edition of 125, signed, numbered and titled by the artist. Image size 24 x 23 cm (9.5 x 9 ins). Paper size 32 x 24 cm. Printed on Monadnock paper.||Hexagenia bilineata, the largest image 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 guide. Instead, it is a study of mayflies by an artist....“I have created… Read More

Wisconsin: Midnight Paper Sales, 2011.. One of 250 copies, signed by the artist and author. 7 colour wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec with one repeated on the upper cover. Printed in 12 point Emerson on Zerkal mouldmade paper. 8vo., original brown silk cloth by Campbell-Logan Bindery with a wood engraving on the upper cover and a printed paper spine label.||An extraordinary response to 9-11.Goodman writes, “I could set my position in time by that moment, like the frozen clock at Hiroshima.” For the next three months, Richard rode his bike almost every day from the Upper West Side to the World Trade Center disaster site, or as near as he could get to it. When he returned home, he wrote about what he had seen.On the morning of September 11 in 2001, Gaylord Schanilec sat at his engraving table in Wisconsin working on New York Revisited, a book celebrating the city at the turn of the 21st century. His reaction, like that of most Americans west of the Hudson, was to ask himself, “What can I… Read More

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press Espresso Editions, 1991. 5 colour wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec, with an extra suite loose in the book. No. 117 of 150 copies, signed by the author and artist. Designed by Allan Kornblum. Set in Walbaum type and printed on Rives Heavy paper. Pp. 31. Tall 8vo., [17 x 28.5 cms], bound by Jill Jevne in quarter goatskin over handmade grey and red striped paper boards, title lettering in red to spine, fore and lower edges uncut. Housed in the original grey and red striped paper slipcase. A handsome copy with a little rubbing to the very top edge.||| One of 150 copies, with an extra suite of the engravings

2005. Colour wood engraving printed by the artist, one of an edition of 200, signed, numbered and titled by the artist. Image size 6.5 x 6.5 cm (2.5 x 2.5 ins). Paper size 23 x 14 cm. Printed on Monadnock paper. ||Also known as Blue-winged Olive, 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 guide. Instead, it is a study of mayflies by an artist....I have created 13… Read More

Wisconsin: Midnight Paper Sales, 2020. Colour wood engraving, one of an edition of only 44, 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, 2000. One of 146 standard copies. 25 illustrations and ephemera including 7 colour wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec. Printed by Rachel Mellis and Gaylord Schanilec on Hahnemuhle mouldmade paper, text set in Poliphilus and Bembo Italic. Tall 4to., original cblue Ingres patterned paper covered boards with the Sumac Press logo, original brown linen spine with maroon morocco and gilt spine label, housed in the original slipcase. A very good copy.||Inserted loose are the original prospectus, and 2 pieces of ephemera:1. Bookplate of Emerson Gissel Wulling, 6 x 9.5 cms, with a quotation from Richard de Bury’s ‘Philobiblon’.2. ‘Give me a backrub, I like it. You let me loose in the shop, I like it’, Emerson G. Wulling. 2000. Broadside 15 x 33 cms. Wood engraving by Schanilec. One of 80 copies, printed at Midnight Paper Sales. Emerson Wulling was a printer in La Crosse Wisconsin who was 92 when he met Gaylord Schanilec - this is his story. The text takes the form… Read More

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.|

1987. Colour wood engraving printed by the artist. Edition of 58. Signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Image Size 12.5 cm x 9 cm (5 x 3.5 ins). Paper Size 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 cinemagraphic-like style, affording views of the bridge as if on a walk.|