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Untitled Original Manuscript Illustrated Artist's Book

Untitled Original Manuscript Illustrated Artist's Book by [Anonymous] "A.J."

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Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix
Title
Untitled Original Manuscript Illustrated Artist's Book
Author
[Anonymous] "A.J."
Seller
Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Near fine.
Description
n.p.: n.p., 1970. Near fine.. Enigmatic and disquieting collection of six short stories and one 90-page novella, neatly and distinctively handwritten and illustrated in brown ink. The material veers in tone from the parodic to the surreal to the philosophically melancholic; the style incorporates a recondite vocabulary ("the pyral tarantism of being in the world") and a single consistent, insistent voice, alternating long unpunctuated Joycean streams of frantic consciousness with brief and airless sentence fragments. A perpetual undercurrent of violent sexuality surfaces as much in the settings and scenery as in the events: a car crash; a game of human chess; a blazing furnace; a slaughterhouse. The table of contents gives titles for each work, but no author's name; the bookplate, with initials "A. J.," offer the only clue to the item's creator or owner. The authorial narration steps out of its queasy dreamtime now and then to comment on itself ("[I]t would appear that this is the whim of the authors") or to focus on a concrete and precisely dated image: "Week-end Traffic" catalogs automobile makes and models in obsessive, parodic, almost Ballardian detail - a 1931 Alfa-Romeo; a '28 Lombard, a Triumph Scorpion - and characters offer each other Passing Cloud cigarettes. But for the most part, settings are as hard to place as the book itself. Character names are almost, but not quite, real: Nish, Rogoze, Valetta, Fedor, Shad. Illustrated with line drawings in brown pen (presumably also by the writer), with occasional accents in black, and brief captions taken from the scenes they illustrate. The execution is skilled but careful, often quoting other artwork (as in the illustration to the final story, "Communication," whose subject is the Breughel painting Dulle Griet; we see a copy of Brueghel's scene through the latticework of a window). Other illustrations appear to be carefully composed from copies or multiple tracings, giving something of the effect of a Max Ernst collage - particularly the images of a horse-headed woman and a lion-headed man, perhaps an intentional quotation from Une Semaine de Bonte. A Piranesi-esque interior gives way to a crowned woman in 20th century corset and garter belt: the Queen. Although a precise date cannot be given, this book bears the stamp of a London bindery which operated as Bailey Bros. until a name-change in the 1970s, and references in the text place its composition after the 1930s; we estimate the date of production to be circa the late 1960s to early 1970s - though its private library feel perhaps hints at a possible earlier creation. Bizarre and unsettling, yet also the product of an original voice. In short: a singular artist's book of unique vision. Original red morocco, with raised bands and decorative gilt stamping to spine. Top edge gilt. Black and gold patterned endpapers. 205 pages. Bookplate taped to ffep; brown geometric design with designer [?] initials ACW at lower right and "Ex Libris AJ". Gilt stamping to lower edge of back cover below paste-down: "BOUND BY BAILEY BROS. LTD." Slight chipping to leather at inside rear hinge. Light edgewear and rubbing.
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GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE. VOL. XL. JANUARY-JUNE 1952

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Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA
Title
GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE. VOL. XL. JANUARY-JUNE 1952
Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Philadelphia, 1852. Hardcover. Octavo, 670 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is black with gold print. Boards half bound with black leather to spine and corners and grey cloth to boards; tears at bottom of spine with small portion torn away, corners worn and exposed, wear to hinges, rubbing/shelf wear to cloth. Text block has fading to tinted edges, occasional foxing throughout, tanning to a few pages. Illustrated: b&w engraved plates. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column R. 1397170. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Tic-Tac-Too: Round Table Stories and Pictures

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Seller: McBlain Books
Title
Tic-Tac-Too: Round Table Stories and Pictures
Seller
McBlain Books (United States)
Condition
Fair
Description
New York: F. M. Lupton Publishing Co, 1903. Hardcover. Fair. color frontis, b & w illustrations, unnumbered pages. 26cm. Printed on high acid paper which browned and rather brittle. Title-page creased and beginning to split along crease. Pictorial front cover spotted. Paper covering on back cover bubbled. in spots. No Jacket. Uncommon children's book.
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On and Off the Street by ADELMAN, Bob & HALL,Susan

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Seller: Argosy Book Store
Title
On and Off the Street
Author
ADELMAN, Bob & HALL,Susan
Seller
Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
near fine
Description
New York: Viking, 1970. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Bob Adelman. Slim 4to, black pictorial boards, d.w. New York: Viking, (1970). First Edition. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.
Orvieto

Orvieto

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Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Title
Orvieto
Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
Firenze: Ente Nazionale Industrie Turistiche, Ferrovie Dello Stato, 1930. Pamphlet. 15p., stapled wraps, 4.75x6.4 inches, illus., rubberstamp of the Italian Tourist Information Office in San Francisco on verso of front wrap, else very good condition.

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