Venetians; (with painting on cover) by Chihuly, Dale - 1989

Twin Palms Pub, 1989-10-01. Hardcover. Good. 0.7000 14.0000 10.5000. Bottom of pages have light water damage but it doesnt affect reading quality.

Twin Palms Pub, 1989-10. Hardcover. Good.

Twin Palms Pub. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 094409208X . Light foxing to the exterior edge of pages only. Yellowing to pages. Great overall condition. Minor cosmetic wear. No noteworthy blemishes. No writing.; 0 X 0 X 0 millimeters; 1 pages .

Twin Palms Pub, 1989. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Color and B&W Illustration. Folio - over 12" - 15" Tall (small thin). In white jacket over ivory cloth, folio, [ca. 100] pages (including plates; unpaginated). Includes color reproductions of drawings, as well as works in imitation of forms in Venetian glassworks (but still in the uniquely Chihulian manner). Main text by Glowen; afterword by Chihuly, plus biographical chronology. (minor light soiling to outer jacket extremities).

Altadena, CA: Twin Palms Publishers. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. First Limited Edition. Hardcover. 094409208X . Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition. Book and unpriced dust jacket are in near fine condition, generally crisp, with tight binding and sharp corners. A bit of scuffing to cream-colored dust jacket. Folio. 291 pp. In protective Mylar. Heavy--will require additional postage if shipped outside the U. S. .

Twin Palms Pub, 1989-10-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 0.7000 14.0000 10.5000. First ed. SIGNED by artist on ffep. Minor shelf/dust wear. Pages/boards/jacket clean, binding sturdy.

Seattle, Washington: Portland Press, 1999. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Dale Chihuly. Signed by Illustrator. Stated Second Edition of this fine exemplar of the master glass-blower's best work, published first a decade prior, this edition being restricted to 1,500 copies. This copy signed at first free endpaper. Bound handsomely in a big, tall, folio format in brick-red cloth covers, gilt lettering in big, bold fashion to front cover, and three pasted on, tall, vertical illustrations, quite fine. The photographs are by Philip Amdal, Dick Busher, Morgan Rockhill, Roger Schreiber and Rob Vinnedge. The plates are printed in four-color format on matte (coated and uncoated) paper stocks with special fifth and sixth colors added to selected signatures. That long section is followed by a nearly as long section comprised of full-page, full-color drawings that preceded them. Artist statement and acknowledgments and an artist chronology follow. All in, a sumptuously… Read More

Altadena, CA: Twin Palms Publishers. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 094409208X . Hardcover in dust jacket. Folio. First printing, limited to 10, 000 copies. Book is As New, crisp and clean. Corners just barely bumped. Dust jacket has a quarter-sized spot of sticker scraping on front, else Fine. Stunning full-page photos of Chihuly's creations, followed by pages of his drawings for the work, followed by a three-page explication of the work by the artist, followed by a biography. Unpaginated. In protective Mylar. Heavy--may require additional postage if shipped other than domestic media mail. .

Altadena, CA: Twin Palms Publishers, 1998. First edition. Large hardcover. 124 pages. Features an introduction by Ron Glowen and an afterword by Chihuly. A collection of 95 color photographs of Chihuly's amazing glass works along with color images from his sketchbook. Includes a chronology, list of previous exhibitions, and lists of selected public and museum collections. A fine copy in cloth boards and in a fine dust jacket.

Twin Palms Pub, 1989-10. Hardcover. New. 0.7000 14.0000 10.5000. NEW! Factory sealed in shrinkwrap. Shrinkwrap has a tear across bottom edge, but book has never been opened or read.

Chatwin Books, 2018. Trade Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" New!

New York: Watson - Guptill, 1971. cloth, dust jacket. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 376 pages. First U.S. edition. Jacket lightly soiled, else a fine copy. Traces the development of the private press over the last 500 years. 83 figures in the text and 72 plates. Better printed than the second edition and containing some material not present in the first edition and thus still desirable.

Abattoir Editions, 1982. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. One of 150 numbered copies printed by Harry Duncan; this being #84. 9.25 X 12 inches. 40pp., bound in tan wraps with mounted cream printed paper label wrapping around the spine and front cover. Letterpress printed on Japanese Etching paper, from Poliphilus, Blado, and Fournier Ornate types; with 2 woodblock prints by Michael McCurdy. Faint dampstaining to the text margins of the fore-edge, else Very Good.

Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, 2006. Limited Edition. Wraps. Fine. [4]pp. Black & white frontispiece by Shinuske Minegishi, reproduced from the original engraving. One of 75 copies (from an edition of 100, signed and numbered by Minegishi). Designed by Rollin Milroy and printed by David Clifford at his Black Stone Press. Sewn into a Canson paper wraps. A Fine copy. // A previously unpublished essay by the artist, paying homage to a group of six Japanese wood engravers 'who were responsible for reviving the art form in that country'. Published to accompany the artist's first solo exhibition in the United States, at Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, November 2006.

Lincoln: Penmaen Press, 1978. First Edition, one of 500 copies printed. This copy SIGNED by McCurdy twice, at Title and Afterword. Woodcuts by McCurdy. Bibliographically describes all Penmaen Press books, broadsides and ephemera 1968-1978, with additional items. Includes 16 pp. of photographs of contributors: Peich, McCurdy, Lynd Ward, Allen Ginsberg and others. A demonstrable work of love. 9½ x 6½.. Near Fine original blue cloth-covered boards blind stamped with gilt lettering to spine in like dust jacket.

The Easton Press, The Collector's Library of Famous Editions, 1992 (1942). First Thus; Collector's Edition. Translated by Havelock Ellis. Illustrated by Berthold Mahn. Hardcover. Issued without dust jacket. Used - Fine, "Like New" condition. Appears unopened / unread. Binding and text block are tight, bright, and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Bound in full (genuine) leather with hubbed spine. All edges gilt. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints, silk moire fabric end leaves, and permanent satin ribbon marker. Notes From The Archives sheet laid in. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books. A gorgeous copy.

London: Orchard Books, September 1990. Hardcover. Signed Limited Edition. Quarter-bound in dark grey cloth with dove grey sides. Silver titles and top edge. Silver silk ribbon marker. Illustrated endpapers. Dove grey slipcase. Presentation copy of a Limited Edition of 250 copies. Flat-signed by illustrator Faith Jaques, the noted children's book author, illustrator, artist, and advocate. Fine book in a Near Fine slipcase. Not from a library. 88 pages. Profusely illustrated.

Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and… Read More

Philadelphia: [privately printed] Beck Engraving Company, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Small quarto, unpaginated. Hundreds of black and white halftone plates, depicting the various paintings. On the opposite leaves, printed in red ink, are the painting titles and artists. A front blank contains a tipped-in photograph of Schemm, surrounded by his bounty of paintings. A crisp, clean copy in the publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt. Very minor dust-soiling to the cloth, and an owner's name on the front free endpaper, else a rather crisp, sharp example; near fine. A very nice production.

Iowa City, Iowa: Qara Press, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine -. Baasch, Norman. [16] p.: 2 linoleum cuts; 27 cm. Original light blue paper over boards with white paper label on front board, printed in black. "Printed by Gerald M. Stevenson, Jr. on Curtis Rag paper with linoleum cuts by Norman Baasch. Of an edition limited to 190 cpies, this is copy 25." -- colophon. This poem first appeared in The Listener on Aug. 6, 1959. Major Claude R. Eatherly was one of the pilots involved in the atomic bombing of Japan in World War II. In Near Fine- Condition: cover lightly soiled; pages are clean and crisp.