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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1909). First Edition. Hardcover. Offset toning to flaps pastedowns and endpapers. Jacket with light soil evident on white backrounds; 3/4" closed tear a shalow crease and chip, bottom edge. Interesting gift inscription on second endpaper to "Ula May, 12/25/09, Fred." With a small Holiday Greeting card laid in also inscribed: "With lots of love, "Freddie" bids Ula "GoodBye and wishes her a merry and a Happy Christmas, 1909." ; Terra Cotta cloth lettered in gilt, in pictorial dust jacket. 20 full page color plates. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; (90) pages .

N.Y.: Harper & Bros.. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. 119 pp.; 8vo; red paper over boards, gilt stamped black cloth back; printed paper jacket. Ownership name in pencil under front jacket flap; jacket with tanning to spine, chips and tears edges, with loss at spine ends. Cover, dust-wrapper [jacket], back-bone, and the title-page designed by W. A. Dwiggins. "The Alphabets and decorative designs which compose this book are the work of the following notable American designers: Lucien Bernhard; Fred G. Cooper; Oswald Cooper; Harvey Hopkins Dunn; W. A. Dwiggins; Fred S. Foster; Frederic W. Goudy; Gustav Jensen; Guido and Lawrence Rosa; Joseph Sinel; Walter Dorwin Teague. Near fine, in Good Jacket, in protective mylar .

San Jose: Gallery One. Fine. 1975. Hardcover. Too: 118 leaves Two: 17 leaves; 11" x 8.5"; original printed white wrappers on coated stock on both catalogs which are bound into plastic over corrugated brown paper boards; brown paper spine over the plastic which causes a 'pocket' between plastic and corrugated where approximately 30 clipped words, printed white on black paper float freely, most now in a jumble at bottom edge. Front cover title "word works stew" in black, with portions of other stenciled words in black. Inside rear bound in wrapper is the torn remnant of what appears to be a parchment sheet perhaps used in the process adhering the binding. Originally issued as a portfolio of loose sheets. The series of exhibitions investigating the word in art started with Word Works, at Mount San Antonio College in Walnut, California in 1974, culminating with a focus on dimensional aspects of Word Art with Word Works Two. .

(New York): Russell Maret. Near Fine. 2001. Limited Edition. Softcover. Prospectus designed by Russell Maret and printed on Mohawk papers in and edition of 500 by Artale Graphics. 8 unnumbered pages in printed, stapled wrappers; 8vo; 3 tipped-in sheets showing letter forms; one full page reproduction of letter forms, with additional examples reproduced in margins. About two lines of text on rear cover, apparently an address for the publisher, crossed out. Laid in is a printed announcment for Book Art Object, published as a record of the first biennial CODEX Book Fair and Symposium, and a circular for Alphabet Festival, by Circle Press. Prospectus for manuscript calligraphic alphabet, for which the artist drew his inspiration from letter forms of the past 1700 years. Drawings were intended to portray the spirit of each letter at a particular historical moment of its life. .

Mexico: Ediciones de cultura poular. Good. 1979. Inscribed by the author. Hardcover. 293 pp., chiefly illustrations, some color; sq. 4to; black cloth with rubbing at edges & corners, spots of moderate soil. Text in Spanish. Inscribed " A mi amigo Fede Taso, cordialmente, Chavez Morado, 79 " underwhich is also written "un recuerdo tambien de Olga Costa." .

San Francisco, San Rafael, Petaluma: The North Bay Printers Alliance. Fine. 1990. First Edition. Softcover. Printed by Anchor & Acorn Press. 12 pp.; 8vo; gray wrappers. .

San Francisco: The Book Club of California. Fine. 2015. Limited Edition. Hardcover. #155 of 300 copies; 264 pp; 4to; dark gray cloth, in matching slipcase. Ernest Born (1898-1992) was an architect, designer, and artist based in California, worked in collaboration with his wife Esther Baum Born (1902-1987), a noted architectural photographer. Drawing from visual collections throughout North America and Europe, the publication is richly illustrated, including many full page reproductions of works from the Borns long and varied careers. .

Minneapolis: Walker Art Center. Fine. 1993. Softcover.

San Rafael: Mt. Tam Press. Fine. 1998. Reprint Edition. Softcover. 16 pp.; 4to; green wrappers. .

Taschen. Fine. 2005. Softcover. Square 8vo; illustrated wrappers; color reproductions throughout. .

Thames & Hudson. As New. Softcover. 0500283532 . 320 pp.; 4to; illustrated gold wrappers; illustrations throughout. Still in original shrinkwrap. "This book still stands as the most comprehensive survey on the dynamic graphic design in the three decades before World War II, when economic and political upheaval mixed with a wild pursuit of gaiety, luxury, modernism and elegance to produce a style known variously as Modern, Skyscraper, Jazz Style and, eventually, Art Deco. Patricia Frantz Kery covers in depth the style's sources and explores the decorative 'fine arts' that formed a bridge between the radical modern movements and Deco commercial art. There are chapters on posters, magazines, commercial design, books, and fashion and costume, each with an illustrated introductory text followed by a portfolio of stunning illustrations of works that range from the established masterpieces of Art Deco to never-before-reproduced pieces found in Europe, Latin America, the… Leer más

San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Fine. 1989. Magazine. 3 sheets printed on both sides, folded once to form 10 pages of text; folded once more for mailing. Includes black and white photographs of artists, artwork, scenes to accompany descriptive texts, announcements, news. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 10 pages .

Paris: Futuropolis. Fine. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 33 pp.; 16mo; black & white cartoon illustrations throughout. Raunchy, guaranteed to excite or offend, or both. Blurbs by Burroughs & Buk. .

Berkeley: University Of California Press. Fine. 1990. Hardcover. 0520068416 . 231 pp.; folio; cloth in pictorial jacket; color reproductions throughout; photographs. This copy signed on the title page by three artists prominently feature in the book: Theophilus Brown, Bruce McGaw, and Paul Wonner. A third signature, more cryptic may be by the author under her printed name on title page, with a circular flourish and arrow pointing to the written word 'Me'. This book served as the catalog for an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Bay Area began to stage personal, dramatic defections from the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism, creating what would come to be known as Bay Area Figurative Art. This study of the movement as a whole offers an account of the careers and interactions of ten Bay Area artists. Fine , with protective mylar wrap; Signed by Author(s) .

Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda. Fine. 2002. Softcover. 2884430695 . Exhibition Catalog. 463pp.; 4to; pictorial black wrappers; 158 illustrations, chiefly in color. TEXT IN FRENCH. .

North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press. Fine. 1977. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 227 of 250 copies. Also a note from Henry Morris to collector John Urabec, M. D., "John - this copy picked at random - not #22, but has 22 in it - , Henry 10/3/77." 86 pp.; 4to., quarter light brown Oasis leather spine lettered in gilt, green pastepaper-covered boards. Printed by hand by Morris on dampened handmade Bird & Bull paper. Seven articles including an autobiographical sketch and the first English translation of sections of Jacob Christian Schaeffers famous 18th-century text on papermaking. The latter contains four tinted plates showing raw material for paper. Prospectus laid in. .

North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press. Very Good. 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 25 of 140 copies. 72 pp.; oblong 8vo.; white parchment spine over paste paper-covered boards. Prospectus laid in. Front cover spots of silverfishing, else fine. Information on papermaking and printing on dampened paper with power presses. Scarce. .

N.Y. & London: Whitney Museum W. W. Norton (1984). Fine. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 0393019357 . 160 pp.; includes bibliography, chronology; 4to; cloth in red jacket; b&w photos and other reproductions throughout. Published in connection with an exhibition held at the Whitney in 1984. Fine , with protective mylar wrap .

San Francisco: Lawton and Alfred Kennedy no date (c 1960-). Fine. 1960. Broadside: 13" x 9.5". "The following list may be found of interest in spite of the fact that its accuracy cannot in all respects be vouched for." .

San Francisco: The Book Club of California. Fine. 1963. Single sheet folded to 14" x 10" to form four printed pages in black & red. Printed by Lawton Kennedy. .