Second Edition. According to the introduction by Elena Poniatowska, this is the first book written, illustrated, and assembled by Mayans in more than 500 years ("es el primer libro escrito, ilustrado y confeccionado por el pueblo Mayo en más de 500 años..."). This historic book collects a hundred or so.....
Price: $650
A lovely, continuous bifolium (two connected leaves) on parchment from an illuminated manuscript of the Hours of the Virgin, likely French in origin, from the 15th century. This manuscript fragment is decorated with fourteen small initials decorated in gold, and several more in red and blue ink. The Latin text.....
Price: $300
First Edition. An exhibition catalog of a multimedia project by the South African artist, published in an edition of 100 signed, numbered copies. Her first book and her first major exhibition. "Handwork for Keeping the Home is an exhibition about curating an archive. The keeper/curator is the artist herself, the archive.....
Price: $250
Seventeen groups of leaves, each tied with a piece of string, laid into a handmade paper shoebox. Leaves, 11-3/8 by 5-1/4 inches; box 12 by 6 by 4 inches. An edition of 200 copies. Colección Aforos. This collection of short prose pieces on Cuban theater are printed on individual sheets assembled.....
Price: $850
![Con duro polvo de óleo [With the Hard Dust of Oil Paint]. Rolando Estévez](/pictures/thumb/306318.jpg?v=1607061826)
[11] pages. 7 by 10-1/2 inches, plus outcroppings on the cover. One of 50 copies. Colección Puente de la Plaza. A poem, inspired by the author's trip to Mexico, bound in cardboard with a handpainted portrait of the artist Frida Kahlo with added collage elements including cut-outs of painted flowers, a......
Price: $650
xcii (92), [3] leaves, printed rectos (front side) only. 8-1/2 by 11-1/2 inches. Published in an edition of 200 copies. Colección Venablos series. A mimeographed typescript printed on low-quality recycled paper. A substantial early book from the press, a critical consideration of St. John of the Cross by a noted Cuban.....
Price: $750
106 pages. 6-1/2 by 21 inches. Colección Puente de Hierro. One of 40 copies. The first publication of this book in Cuba, after several Latin American editions. Calderón is a Cuban poet and the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Design, illustrations, and calligraphy by Rolando Estévez. The book is printed on white.....
Price: $1,000
5 text sheets mounted to the inside front cover, plus a pocket in the form of a record album. 12 inches square. An edition of 60 copies. The text sheets, printed on both sides, are each progressively smaller than the previous one so that only one poem/song is visible at a......
Price: $300
72 pages. 6 by 8-1/2 inches. One of 200 numbered copies. Colección del San Juan. One of the more inventive book structures from Ediciones Vigía with three-dimensional and interactive features. Design and drawings by Giorje Michel Milián. A collection of poems with a voodoo theme. The book has covers and interior.....
Price: $250
This is a group of five serigraphed post-card-sized announcements for publications and events, printed by Taller Leñateros, a Mayan book-arts collective in Chiapas founded by the American-born Mexican poet Ambar Past. One of the pieces prints a poem. Another has an abstract alphabet design with pieces of letter-shaped macaroni pasted on.....
Price: $150
Poems published in an edition of 75 copies in cartonera format. 61 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive chapbooks and bind them with repurposed cardboard with hand-decorated covers. Frequently the covers are made by different people and seldom.....
Price: $30
Poems published in an edition of 125 copies in cartonera format. 44 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive chapbooks and bind them with repurposed cardboard with hand-decorated covers. Frequently the covers are made by different people and seldom.....
Price: $30
An anthology of texts of different types loosely focused on cartonera publishing. This is one of 30 copies of the second edition. The sheets are laid into the covers only; they are not bound. 46 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring.....
Price: $30
Poems in cartonera (cardboard) covers. 34 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive chapbooks and bind them with repurposed cardboard with hand-decorated covers. Frequently the covers are made by different people and seldom have a uniform design. While.....
Price: $30
Poems from a cartonera publisher but bound without any cardboard. This copy was issued in cloth wrappers, with sewn cover decorations. The flyleafs are newspaper and the section divider is a piece of printed cloth. An interesting adaptation of the cartonera principal of repurposing discarded materials. 57 pages. Cartonera is a......
Price: $95
Poems in cartonera (cardboard) covers. 34 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive chapbooks and bind them with repurposed cardboard with hand-decorated covers. Frequently the covers are made by different people and seldom have a uniform design. While cartonera.....
Price: $30
Poems in cartonera (cardboard) covers. 32 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive chapbooks and bind them with repurposed cardboard with hand-decorated covers. Frequently the covers are made by different people and seldom have a uniform design. While cartonera.....
Price: $30
A poetry anthology photocopied on white paper and sewn into cartonera (cardboard) covers. [2], 22 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive chapbooks and bind them with repurposed cardboard with hand-decorated covers. Frequently the covers are made by different.....
Price: $40
First Edition. 255 pages. A collection of columns for the British newspaper, the Independent, written by Self and illustrated by Steadman. This collection includes many partial page, full page, and double page illustrations. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed.....
Price: $95
20 by 28 inches, plus ties. This is an original artist's book / manuscript by Cisneros, handwritten in ink on a plain cloth apron. The text is the first half of the final chapter of her novel Caramelo (published five years later, in 2002, with the title "Pilon"). This text.....
Price: $3,000
First Edition. 320 pages. 12 by 9 inches (oblong). Introduction by Scott Brown. A catalog of Cuban artist's books, individually priced, from the three most prominent makers of these books. One page is devoted to each of the 302 books, with a description and one to three color photographs. The catalog.....
Price: $95
First Edition. An artist's book, designed like a book in the Time-Life series, with a cut-away silhouette of Australia on the cover and a number of inserted pieces, including facsimile or faux book pages and commercial advertisements. Other pages reproduce what purport to be newspaper excerpts and government reports. As.....
Price: $400
First Edition. A classic adventure story with the popular and vibrant illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. 413 pages plus nine color plates and a color title page. First edition (first printing with MCXX on the title page and "Published October, 1920" on the copyright page). A couple of gatherings were opened.....
Price: $200
First Edition. 31 leaves, accordion bound, in cloth covers, laid into a paper-and-cloth covered folding clamshell box. Envelope with printed card tipped on to the inside front cover of the book. 11-1/4 by 7 inches. A limited edition of 100 signed copies, printed letterpress with American Garamond and Poster Gothic.....
Price: $350
![Knowing Darkness: Artists Inspired by Stephen King [Traycased Edition]. Stephen King, George Beahm](/pictures/thumb/9245.jpg?v=1601938412)
First Edition. 448 pages plus an unpaginated volume of illustrations. 11-1/4 by 15 inches (book); 13-1/4 by 19-1/2 inches (separate illustration volume). A massive survey of more than three decades of illustration connected to Stephen King's work, including cover artists, interior spot illustrators, and artists who worked on limited editions.....
Price: $1,250
