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Book 91

Book 91 by SMITH, Keith A.

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Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.
Title
Book 91
Author
SMITH, Keith A.
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
1982. Embossed title on first leaf. [24] leaves of thick Fabriano Rosaspina Avorio paper. Oblong folio (260 x 370 mm.), orig. cloth boards, linen cords strung through holes in paper. Barrytown: Space Heater Multiples, 1982. A book that commands it be read from beginning to end, then end to beginning. This is one of Smith’s masterpieces, also known as the “String Book”; from a numbered edition of 50 and signed by the artist, ours is “Copy D.” The book is noteworthy for its unique structure — thick paper linked by linen string — and interaction with light. Book 91 is not a printed book; one finds no ink within. Aside from the blind embossed title-page, the punched holes, which allow light through one leaf onto another, and the strings provide the only “text.” It was featured in two exhibitions of artists’ books: the first at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Keith Smith at Home (17 February-8 July 2018), the other, Artists and Their Books, Books and Their Artists, held at the Getty Research Institute (26 June-28 October 2018). Book 91 is one of the most highly sought-after American artists’ books and is found in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Getty, Harvard University, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the New York Public Library. In his auto-bibliography 200 Books (p. 149), Smith explains this book’s interplay with light: “This book deals with cast light and shadows. The light spots are caused by viewing the book with a single light source at a 45° angle and three feet to the left of the book. The opened book reveals punched holes with deep shadows. As each page is lifted, however, dark holes throw circular spots of light across the facing page and the close environment of the book. The focus of these spots varies according to the distance from the page to the surface upon which they are cast. Like my books containing photographic film transparencies the composition of each page is compounded and altered by the addition and the movement of the shadow forms across the page… “The sound, cast light and shadows and their focus and movement are not part of the physical book. They are physical but they only come into existence during the act of experiencing the book, that is, turning the page.” A fine copy. It was given by Smith to a student of his in the early 1980s. ❧ J. Drucker, The Century of Artists’ Books (2017), pp. 106-7. M. Reed & G. Phillips, Artists and Their Books, Books and Their Artists (2018), pp. 176-7.
Women Voters Vote Against Wilson He Opposes National Woman Suffrage

Women Voters Vote Against Wilson He Opposes National Woman Suffrage by Woodrow Wilson

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Seller: Max Rambod Inc.
Title
Women Voters Vote Against Wilson He Opposes National Woman Suffrage
Author
Woodrow Wilson
Seller
Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description
1916. Women Voters Vote Against Wilson He Opposes National Woman Suffrage, 1916, a political broadside issued by the National Woman's Party during the presidential election campaign urging enfranchised women in western states to leverage their ballots in support of a federal suffrage amendment. Addressed to the approximately four million women who had secured voting rights in states including Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Washington, California, Arizona, Kansas, Oregon, Montana, and Nevada, the text calls upon them to vote against President Woodrow Wilson, who "refused to support the federal amendment and declared his personal opposition to it." The broadside reflects the National Woman's Party's strategy of electoral pressure, transforming state level suffrage victories into national political leverage in advance of constitutional reform. Issued at a pivotal moment when women's voting power could influence a closely contested national election, the document captures the tactical escalation of suffrage activism from petition and persuasion to organized partisan opposition. Women Voters Vote Against Wilson He Opposes National Woman Suffrage. National Woman's Party. No place: 1916. Broadside. The appeal situates western women voters as agents of nationwide change, framing their ballots as instruments to secure equal political rights for women across the United States. Although Wilson won reelection in 1916, sustained political pressure by suffragists contributed to his public endorsement of woman suffrage in 1918, and the subsequent passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1919-1920 while he remained in office. As a campaign artifact produced in the heat of electoral contest, the broadside documents the intersection of gender, federal constitutional reform, and presidential politics during the final phase of the suffrage movement. Pencil notation "1916" in upper right corner not affecting text; otherwise clean and well preserved. Overall condition: near fine.
Ladia (Rook)

Ladia (Rook) by Chatskii, Leonid

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Seller: ZH BOOKS
Title
Ladia (Rook)
Author
Chatskii, Leonid
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Berlin: Izdatelstvo E. A. Gutnova, 1922. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 5 1/2 x 4; pp. [8], 11-58, [4]; light-brown wraps, printed and decorated in purple; several light spots to wraps; scattered foxing, mostly to first and last few leaves; in very good condition. Leonid Ivanovich Strakhovskii, writing under the pseudonym Leonid Chatskii (1898 - 1963) was the son of a Senator and Governor of three provinces in Imperial Russia. In 1918, he joined and became one of the inner circle of revolutionary, founder of "Union of the Reconstruction of Russia," and President of the Provisional Government of the Northern Region Nikolai Tchaikovsky (1851 - 1926) - taking active part in the insurrection against the Bolsheviks. After escaping, first to England, Leonid settled in Berlin, where in 1922 - together with Vladimir Nabokov and Gleb Struve - founded the literary circle "Brotherhood of the Round Table," where he often sketched caricatures of the other members, including two famous ones of Nabokov as a giraffe and a sea-horse, for he claimed the latter seemed to only move his long neck, while reading in public. Chatskii would eventually emigrate to the US and then Canada, where he would continue writing and would teach at Georgetown, University of Maryland, and the University of Toronto. "Rook" was his first published poetry collection.
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THE PAINTERLY PRINT; MONOTYPES FROM THE 17th TO THE 20th CENTURY by New York Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art

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Title
THE PAINTERLY PRINT; MONOTYPES FROM THE 17th TO THE 20th CENTURY
Author
New York Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art
Seller
J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
1981. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 158 illus., 26 in color.
Na Gira Do Exu: Invoking the Spirits of Brazilian Quimbanda

Na Gira Do Exu: Invoking the Spirits of Brazilian Quimbanda by dos Ventos, Mario

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Na Gira Do Exu: Invoking the Spirits of Brazilian Quimbanda
Author
dos Ventos, Mario
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
[n.p.]: Lulu Publishing, 2007. New Edition. Paperback. Fine. About Fine. Wraps faintly rubbed. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A presentation of more than 330 Pontos Cantados and over 150 Pontos Riscados for Exu and Pomba Gira.
Mrs Polly's Party

Mrs Polly's Party by Bromhall, Winifred

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Title
Mrs Polly's Party
Author
Bromhall, Winifred
Seller
E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good Minus
Description
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1949 PIctorial boards with green cloth spine, corenrs worn, edges rubbed, mild reading wear, previous owner's name and small scribble to endpaper, else clean and free of writing or marks. Mrs Polly throws a party for the children who come to visit her and makes "sugar snow" with the maple syrup the children help her collect. Charming illustrattions in color and b&w. Scarce title, even without the dust jacket.. Stated First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by Winifred Bromhall. 4to.
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Chilton's Repair & Tune-Up Guide: Omni Horizon 1978-80

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Title
Chilton's Repair & Tune-Up Guide: Omni Horizon 1978-80
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
PA: Chilton, 1979. Softcover. Very Good. Later. Very good paper back ex-library copy with stamps and envelope in creased and worn paper covers, clean text.