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

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. |

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, 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

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.|

Stockholm, Wisconsin: Midnight Paper Sales, 2013. Colour wood engraving, one of an edition of 190, signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist. Image size 11.5 x 13.5 cm (4.5 x 5.5 ins). Paper Size 40.5 x 26 cm.||One of twelve wood engravings for the artist’s book Lac des Pleurs, printed and published by the artist under his imprint Midnight Paper Sales: a real magnum opus and an astonishing tribute to Lake Pepin by a modern day natural philosopher.The Hungry Mind is the artist’s boat, in which he undertook the seven year odyssey studying the 22-mile length of the upper Mississippi River known as Lake Pepin. This widest naturally occurring part of the river was dubbed the “Lake of Tears” by Louis Hennepin in 1680, inspired by the tears of Indian men whose desire to kill the Frenchman was frustrated by their chief. | The artist’s boat

[Stockholm, Wisconsin]: Midnight Paper Sales, 1999. No. 38 of 220 copies signed by the author and the artist. Double-page colour wood engraving and 3 colour wood engravings in the text by Gaylord Schanilec. Handset in Joanna Monotype with Delphian Open titling. Printed on Zerkall paper. Pp. 64. 12mo., original blue cloth backed Curwen patterned paper covered boards with wood engraved title label to upper cover and printed title label to spine, housed in the original blue cloth edged, red paper covered slipcase. A fine copy.||A book in three parts, the last of which is the story. The first two parts illustrate where the story comes from, and offer a unique insight into the process of writing fiction.Schanilec writes: “I printed a broadside for the Hungry Midnight Broadside Series with prose by novelist John Dufresne. The subject was Fluellon Fontana, whose job was making bottle trees. He collected empty bottles, dyed them wild indigo, and when the wind blew, you heard the captured spirits moaning… Read More

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.|

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.|

Wisconsin: Midnight Paper Sales, 2020. Colour wood engraving, one of an edition of only 45, 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. |

1989. Six colour wood engraving. One of the second edition print of 20, numbered, titled and initialled by the artist. Two blocks printed as a diptych. Image size 17.5 x 27 cm (7 x 10.5 ins). Paper size 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, Danny Norlock, with this two-panel wood engraving of his farm, in six colours using six separate end-grain maple blocks. |

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.|

1995. Broadside including a large original wood engraving, signed by the artist in pencil. The whole poster being handprinted for the occasion by Gaylord Schanilec at Midnight Paper Sales. Image size 28 x 21 cm. Paper size 45 x 61 cm.||Engraving is of Holmes’s London residence 221b Baker Street, London. Broadside handprinted for the Dedication of the John Bennett Shaw Library of Sherlock Holmes & Memorial Conference, October 13-15 1995 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. |

2006. One of an edition of 85, signed, titled and dated in pencil by the artist. Image size 25.4 x 39 cms (10.5 x 15.25 ins). Paper size 26.5 x 36.5 cms. ||Image originally engraved for Old Swayback by Jim Heynen. The engraving is of Patti & Lowell Moline's old barn, off County Road N. |