Priscilla Juvelis - Rare Books Catalogue 67 – Contemporary Book Arts Tunnel Book mirror writing, spine smooth with two sets of tooled red and gold- 1. Caliban Press. Kumano Kodo. Prints by David West. Verse gilt vertical lines and one set of by Gusai. Canton, NY: Caliban Press, 2015. $150 horizontal lines (both spelling the word THE); cork endpapers, One of 45 copies, all on St. Armand and Nepali papers, in tunnel book format, blue and grey silk headbands, top signed by the artist, David West, and the printer / publisher, Mark McMurray, edge in palladium, original wrap- on the back panel of the wrap-around covers, lower right below Japanese pers bound in, signed in blind text. Page size: 8 x 10-½ inches opening to stamp on inside back cover with 2-½ inches when fully extended, 4 panels. date and gold dot, Donald Glaister Bound: tunnel format with wrappers that and dated 2013.” An ingenious binding perfectly executed and perfectly open to expose vista; housed in brown paper suiting this beautiful book. over boards lidded box with title on spine. The text is illustrated with woodcuts, gatefolds, a volvelle, pop-ups, The English text is set in Optima and Weiss. onlays, text printed on various papers in various shapes. This is a tour de The Japanese text is printed on the back of force from master bookmaker, Mark McMurray. Certainly this is one of his the wrapper, the title on the front. The most ambitious and satisfying books in his long and distinguished career. It English verse appears on either side of the vista printed on the flaps of the is quite wonderful and a worthy vehicle for the Bard. With the extraordinary cover. The KUMANO KODO is a series of pilgrimage routes crisscrossing binding by Donald Glaister is a treasure for any library. (10929) the Kii Peninsula in Japan that have been in use for over a thousand years. Sacred to both Buddhist and Shinto traditions, the three main shrines were registered as UNESCO World Heritage sites in 2004. They are notable for 3. Caliban Press. Shakespeare, their remoteness and undeveloped beauty. David West, who has created the William. The Tempest. Printed and woodcuts for this beautiful book, studied painting and printmaking at Designed by Mark McMurray. Camberwell School of Art. A full-time artist, he lives and works in Lyme Canton, NY: Caliban Press, 2001. Regis. His association with Japan began in the 1990's when he was asked $775 to hold workshops in various parts of that country. Not much is known about As above, but in publisher’s paper binding the Japanese poet, Gusai (1284-1376) who was a Zen monk writing in the and slipcase. (8837) format of the renga, or linked verse, style of poetry quite popular in the Late Medieval Age. He was teacher to Nijo Yoshimoto (1320-1388) who 4. Cheloniidae Press. Shakespeare, William. The Birds and received credit for compiling an imperially recognized anthology of renga Beasts of Shakespeare. Text by Arthur F. Kinney. Illustrated poetry. Designed and printed by Mark McMurray, who is Caliban Press, with Woodengravings by Alan James Robinson. Easthampton, and who has created over 30 titles to date. (10900) MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1990. $3,750 Bound by Donald Glaister One of 125 copies, all on Cheloniidae Rag paper, the first book of the press with Cheloniidae watermark, each signed by the artist, Alan James Robinson from a total issue of 155 copies. Page size: 10-3/8 x 15-7/8 inches - the size 2. Caliban Press. Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. of the first folio edition of Shakespeare - Dedication Page, Half-title, Printed and Designed by Mark McMurray. Canton, NY: Caliban engraved frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare in rondel surrounded by the Press, 2001. $8,250 animals, Titlepage, i-iii [iv-v] 1-87 [88-92]pp. Bound: loose sheets boxed. One of two copies in original designer binding by Donald Glaister, from an Illustrated with 54 woodengravings depicting the birds and beasts found in edition of 125 copies all on various handmade papers by Velma Bolyard, La Shakespeare’s plays and Papeterie St. Armand, and Barcham Green, with Arches, Frankfurt and poems, plus two portraits of Mexican amate paper. The text is set in 14pt. Dante by M & W Bixler; rain the Bard: one etching and cut by Greg Lago. The book was designed, printed and bound by Mark one woodengraving. The McMurray, using the text from the 1623 First Folio (with a few liberties). woodengravings were ac- Page size: 8 x 12 inches. Bound by Donald Glaister: full grey morocco with complished by Robinson on deep blue morocco onlay cutout to reveal underlay of aluminum with onlays end-grain English boxwood of mesh, copper, from T.N. Lawrence & mylar, painted in Sons of London. The type silver, gold, red, was set at M & H Type and black, the cut- Foundry of San Francisco outs, while seem- and printed by Harold Patrick McGrath in black within a caramel-colored ingly abstract, rule on each page with Shakespeare’s own words in caramel ink. This book spell out the title uses Shakespeare’s original texts addressing the natural history, folklore, of the book, and mythology of the birds and beasts in his plays. The text was written by TEMPEST, on Arthur F. Kinney, Thomas W. Copeland Professor Literary History at the the front panel University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Certainly one of the most and the same on ambitious and most beautiful books of the Press, published to mark their the back panel - tenth anniversary. (10394) but in reverse Priscilla Juvelis, Inc. (207) 967-0909 [email protected] 5. Davidson, Laura. Culinaria. [Boston, MA]: 2009. $1,250 7. Ediciones Dos Amigos. Borges, Jorge Luis. Ficciones Artist’s book, one of 10 copies only, all on magnani pescia paper throughout, (Fictions). Buenos Aires: Ediciones Dos Amigos, 1987. $6,000 each signed and numbered by the artist, Laura Davidson, in pencil on the Artist’s book, one of 40 copies, all on velin d’Arches paper from a total issue colophon page. Page size: 5 x 6 inches, 20pp. Bound by the artist: stainless of 42: 40 on velin steel covers with a red and green floral print retro fabric recalling vintage d’Arches and 2 apron or kitchen cur- on Japan paper, tains on spine, copper all signed on the grommets, with brass colophon by pub- spatula ingeniously lisher, Samuel held on by magnets Cesar Palui. decorating the front Page size: 13-1/16 panel; endpapers are x 10 inches; [i] original linoleum prints [1-10] 11-175 in pink and white [176-180] pp. check, with forks, Bound: loose in knives, spoons, and original pink measuring cups within the checks. The book is comprised of 10 dry points wrappers, author’s name engraved in dark with ink wash of well-designed and useful kitchen tools, such as the egg- blue, title in light green, dark green, and gray beater, strainer, scoop, whisk, and masher. The humble objects - grater, large wood-type letters; housed in buff paper spatulas, corkscrew - have their own elegance which is highlighted in and red cloth box with red silk lining, title Davidson’s masterful prints. A must for any culinary collection. (10200) printed in black on front cover and on spine. Illustrated with 18 full-page engravings as 6. Ediciones Dos Amigos. Borges, Jorge Luis. El Aleph. follows: 3 by Gabriela Aberstury, 3 by Julio Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones Dos Amigos, 1997. Pagano, 3 by Mirta Ripoll, 8 by Alicia Scavino, $35,000 and a portrait of the artist by Raul Russo. Hand One of 25 copies, but each copy unique, all printed on cream Velin d’Arches set in 14pt. Bodoni by Ruben Raul Lapolla and paper. Etchings and aquatints by Gabriela Aberastury, this copy one of the printed under the supervision of Samuel Cesar publisher’s copies, unnumbered, but signed in white pencil by the artist, Palui in three colors. The text is in black, page Gabriela Aberastury, the printer, Rubin Lapolla, and one of the publishers, numbers in red, and highlights and title page in blue and black. The book was Samuel Cesar Palui. Page size: 13-¼ x 10 inches; 176pp; each page an started in 1984 and was not published until 1987. This elaborate edition is one original print - and many times several different print processes. Bound: of the most beautiful of the press and, in my opinion, the most beautiful loose in original black wrappers with Hebrew letter (Aleph) engraved in edition of Borges’ great collection of short stories. The images so capture silver gilt on front panel and spine, housed in gray cloth over boards clamshell the author’s imagination, particularly the engravings for “El Acercamiento a Almotasim” and “Las Ruinas Circulares.” (9779) Bound by Donald Glaister 8. FitzGerald & Co., Vincent. Beard, Mark. Manhattan Third Year Reader. New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 1984. $12,000 First Edition, one of an edition of only 30 copies, this copy in unique binding, the edition on 28 different papers, each copy signed by the artist / author, Mark Beard. Page size: 15 x 11 inches; 16 signatures. Bound: unique binding by Donald Glaister, his third on this work from Beard and FitzGerald, red and black morocco, with onlays of goat skin and laminated mylar and gold and painted tooling, composed to render a view of the urban landscape, featuring obscured subway cars, altered grid paper imagery and a corrugated leather keystone shape that traverses the spine and extends to both boards. Doublures of painted cork, top edge gilt with eccentric gold shapes echoing shapes found on the covers.