Jane Freilicher (FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY JANE FREILICHER) by Kertess, Klaus; Ashbery, John (intro); Nozkowski, Thomas (note); Freilicher, Jane; [Esten, John] - 2004

Toronto: Merritt Publishing Company [0-920886-15-9] [1981], a numbered copy from a limited edition of 250. (Folio in slipcase) 133pp. Near fine. Signed and numbered by the artist, also signed with a warm inscription on the title page. Brown boards over green cloth spine. Includes portfolio in matching binding with two original serigraphs signed and numbered by the artist all enclosed in a cloth case with a color pastedown illustration. The book includes mounted color plates and chronology. The portfolio case is faded and stained. Introduction by Karen Keenlyside Mills. (Art--Canada, Artists--Canada).

Los Angeles: Pasquale G Napolitano / Lynton Kistler / Merle Armitage, 1936. 1st Edition . No Binding. Fine. Original Lithograph, Signed By The Artist Pasquale G Napolitano Below The Image. A Fine Impression With Good Variation In Intensity. The Same Lithographic Plate, With Image Trimmed At Top And Bottom, Was Used For The Frontispiece To The Limited Edition Book Edited By Merle Armitage, "21 Statements" , 1936, The First Book Printing Of Two Magazine Articles By Picasso. This Example Of The Full, Untrimmed Lithograph Is From Napolitano's Own Collection. Napolitano Studied At Chouinard And Otis To 1925, Worked With Herman Sachs And Later On His Own Doing Architectural Murals (Los Angeles City Hall, The Miami Beach Biltmore, And Many Prominent Buildings And Estates), Studied Ceramics In Ny And Painting In Germany, And After Returning To Los Angeles In 1933 Began Working In All Media, Including Many Murals For The Wpa, Where He Met Armitage, Who Published A Book About Him In 1935.

Stockholm:, nd [1920].. First edition. Near Fine. A fine large format original early twentieth century color-printed lithograph on paper mounted onto buckram. (67 x 99 cm). Near Fine condition. Minor edge tears and chipping. No lettering or printer's attribution. 'Made in Sweden' stamped on verso; lower right. Artist's tiny initials 'MRi' in stylized script tucked in below the roots. A beautifully rendered composition of two entire plants of Eriophorum angustifolium (Common cottongrass or cottonsedge): illustrating one in elegant and ephemeral blooming phase and one in seed phase, all surrounded by enlarged details of pods and, blossom.  single sheet

Collections Baur, Genève, 1994 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English and French text.; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket in slipcase).; Two volumes in slipcase; 23.5 x 29.5 x 8 cm; 5.2 Kg; With colour and black and white illustrations throughout.; Limited edition of 3100 copies, of which this is 448.; Used book in very good condition. Looks as new. Minor signs of wear on the slipcase.; "These two volumes include the Japanese prints collected by Alfred Baur over the forty or so years from 1909 to 1949. This art form, is known to have exerted a decisive influence on the development of Western painting, offering first to Impressionist painters and then to the Nabil (to mention only France) an example of a new type of compositions that can serve as an alternative to the grand tradition inherited from the Renaissance. Van Gogh and Monet had assembled collections of prints that are still very carefully preserved and the writer Edmond de Goncourt, himself a well-informed collector, had… Read More

Washington, D. C.: The Rappahannock Press, 1993. Signed on the half title page by Jacob Lawrence. First edition / First printing. Beige cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Toronto: Merritt Publishing Company [0-920886-15-9] [1981], a numbered copy from a limited edition of 250. (Folio in slipcase) 133pp. Near fine. Signed and numbered by the artist, also signed with a warm inscription on the title page. Brown boards over green cloth spine. Includes portfolio in matching binding with two original serigraphs signed and numbered by the artist all enclosed in a cloth case with a color pastedown illustration. The book includes mounted color plates and chronology. The portfolio case is faded and stained. Introduction by Karen Keenlyside Mills. (Art--Canada, Artists--Canada).

Los Angeles: Pasquale G Napolitano / Lynton Kistler / Merle Armitage, 1936. 1st Edition . No Binding. Fine. Original Lithograph, Signed By The Artist Pasquale G Napolitano Below The Image. A Fine Impression With Good Variation In Intensity. The Same Lithographic Plate, With Image Trimmed At Top And Bottom, Was Used For The Frontispiece To The Limited Edition Book Edited By Merle Armitage, "21 Statements" , 1936, The First Book Printing Of Two Magazine Articles By Picasso. This Example Of The Full, Untrimmed Lithograph Is From Napolitano's Own Collection. Napolitano Studied At Chouinard And Otis To 1925, Worked With Herman Sachs And Later On His Own Doing Architectural Murals (Los Angeles City Hall, The Miami Beach Biltmore, And Many Prominent Buildings And Estates), Studied Ceramics In Ny And Painting In Germany, And After Returning To Los Angeles In 1933 Began Working In All Media, Including Many Murals For The Wpa, Where He Met Armitage, Who Published A Book About Him In 1935.

Stockholm:, nd [1920].. First edition. Near Fine. A fine large format original early twentieth century color-printed lithograph on paper mounted onto buckram. (67 x 99 cm). Near Fine condition. Minor edge tears and chipping. No lettering or printer's attribution. 'Made in Sweden' stamped on verso; lower right. Artist's tiny initials 'MRi' in stylized script tucked in below the roots. A beautifully rendered composition of two entire plants of Eriophorum angustifolium (Common cottongrass or cottonsedge): illustrating one in elegant and ephemeral blooming phase and one in seed phase, all surrounded by enlarged details of pods and, blossom.  single sheet

Collections Baur, Genève, 1994 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English and French text.; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket in slipcase).; Two volumes in slipcase; 23.5 x 29.5 x 8 cm; 5.2 Kg; With colour and black and white illustrations throughout.; Limited edition of 3100 copies, of which this is 448.; Used book in very good condition. Looks as new. Minor signs of wear on the slipcase.; "These two volumes include the Japanese prints collected by Alfred Baur over the forty or so years from 1909 to 1949. This art form, is known to have exerted a decisive influence on the development of Western painting, offering first to Impressionist painters and then to the Nabil (to mention only France) an example of a new type of compositions that can serve as an alternative to the grand tradition inherited from the Renaissance. Van Gogh and Monet had assembled collections of prints that are still very carefully preserved and the writer Edmond de Goncourt, himself a well-informed collector, had… Read More

Washington, D. C.: The Rappahannock Press, 1993. Signed on the half title page by Jacob Lawrence. First edition / First printing. Beige cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.