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Gold Rush: Twenty-Five Wood Engravings... on a Theme of the Discovery and Mining of Gold in America, Africa, & Australia by Barry Moser:
Los Angeles, 1985.
Twenty five original signed wood engravings by Barry Moser on a theme of the discovery and mining of gold in America, Africa, and Australia, with a note on these prints by the artist. Each print is signed by Moser in pencil.
The prints are encased in a deluxe, custom box covered in black silk.
The edition is limited to 350 copies (printed by Harold McGrath) and in addition to including the 25 signed original prints, each copy of the text is also signed by the artist on colophon.
Barry Moser is one of the world's leading illustrators of fine press books, including the Grabhorn-Hoyem MOBY DICK, the Pennryroyal ALICE IN WONDERLAND, and most recently a celebrated edition of the BIBLE.
Price $1200
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Karate Bride by Nicole Sarrocco
Karate Bride is Nicole Sarrocco's first full-length collection of poetry. She is a North Carolina native whose work reflects a family life that is at times familiar and at times eccentric. Flavored with events and memories from her home state, Ms. Sarrocco's work blends idiom and image in a straightforward manner sure to appeal to poetry lovers - and to surprise people who think they do not like poetry. Or the South.
Her screenplays Answers to Lucky and Motel Canterbury were selected for the final round of competition in the Sundance Feature Film Program for its labs in 2003 and 2004, respectively. Deflowered in the Attic, a satirical play based on several works of teenage gothic fiction, enjoyed several successful runs in Seattle and an off-off-Broadway New York preview. The play was honored with a Footlight Award from the Seattle Times as Best of the Fringe.
Varied travels and years of working a series of any odd or mundane jobs that might occasion the telling of a story have given her a deep appreciation of her roots, as well as an assortment of experiences, personalities, and curiosities to mine.
About the Author
Ms. Sarrocco recently received her PhD. in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, following Masters degrees in both English and Creative Writing. She now teaches in North Carolina. Her poems have appeared in journals, magazines, Seattle buses, gumball machines, and, reportedly, on Australian Public Radio, and have won awards including the Agnes Scott Writers' Festival Award and the Galway Kinnell Award.
Nicole is also the Senior Correspondent of our website. Click here to see Nicole's columns about life, love, literature, the arts, and the South.
Note: illustration shows the paperback edition, notable for the color reproduction of the "sandragraph print" by Harry Reese on wrappers. Book design by Gerald Lange of The Bieler Press.
Price:
Paperback $12.50
Hardcover signed limited: $75
Click here to order a copy of the paperback edition.
Click here to order a copy of the signed limited hardcover edition.
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The Gang of Eight by Tom Clark
Arundel Press, 2003.
After ninteeen years travail and delay this remarkable fine press title is finished. Begun in 1984, with a title page reading 1994, this work was finally issued in 2003!
This allegorical tale features Ezra Pound, his gang composed of six Modernists, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, William Butler Yeats, T. E. Hulme, Wyndham Lewis, Ford Madox Ford, and the noted American arch-criminal John Dillinger, united to steal... THE FUTURE.
Illustrated with 8 stunning Photogravure Plates By Jonathan Clark Interpreted from Paintings By Tom Clark. Each of these 8 prominent figures is reprsented by what can only be described as a monumental portrait in a dark sepia tone.
The plates are hand-fet gravures printed from steel-faced copper plates, and the text was printed letterpress in three colors from handset Goudy Modern types on heavy Rives Arches paper by Jonathan Clark at the Artichoke Press, this work is a typographic and pictorial monument to the late 1920's... with a few strange changes courtesy of Tom Clark's fevered imagination. Bound by Campbell Logan Bindery, this edition is limited to 450 copies.
We at Arundel Books consider this to visually be our most visually interesting book, and believe it has been well worth the wait.
Price $225
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Songs and Heroes by Robinson Jeffers:
Los Angeles, Arundel Press, 1988.
Selected early poems, PUBLISHED HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME, edited from the manuscripts by Robert J. Brophy, with his notes at end of text.
Both editions are printed letterpress by Patrick Reagh and bound by Bela Blau. 33, [4] pages.
This body of work falls chronologically in Jeffers' oeuvre between Flagons and Apples and Californians, essential to any understanding of the poet's evolution from traditional verse forms to the long line format that defined his greatness.
Untitled:
I woud not in old days submit
To any manner of deceit,
Holding myself too free and proud
To follow the fallacious crowd,
Who are well content to take for truth
The cryings of any louder mouth.
Now, seeing with too clear an eye
The immeasurable vanity,
The ugly intolerable disgrace,
Of the unintelligent emptiness,
Imaginary heaven in vain
I storm with prayer that once again
I may win back, having believed,
The happiness of men deceived.
Regular edition, limited to 200 copies on Frankfurt paper,
Price $165
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Deluxe edition, limited to 50 copies on Gutenberg laid paper,
Price $300
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Kill Series by Lidsay Hill.
Los Angeles, Arundel Press, 1992
A remarkable series of 12 poems, inspired by the events in the First Persian Gulf War and its aftermath.
An unusual book, one of the earliest to employ digital type and polymer plates in a letterpress printed book. BOOKWAYS reviewed this work, and named it as the first book using digital type to embody the tradtions of the hand press book.
The drawings on the title page are original, by hand, and unique to each copy (by Gerald Lange and Robin Price). The cloth was dyed for this edition, the paste-paper for the boards was created for this edition (both by binder David Brock).
One of 225 numbered copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR LINDSAY HILL produced by Philip Bevis, designed by Gerald Lange, printed letterpress by Emily Mason Strayer at the Kutenai Press, South Willington, CT, and handbound by David Brock; signed by Hill in pencil on limitation page.
Last:
I have returned from the lake of origami boats
each holding a candle
It was not the tide that pulled them underneath
it was not the wind
It was not the tide that broke their paper backs
it was our hands
Price: Hardcover signed limited: $199.95
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The Art of Beauty / De Medicamine Faciei Feminae by Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso]
Los Angeles, 1990. Co-published with the Black-Letter Press of Jagtfeld, Germany.
A remarkably stunning edition of one of this classic ancient Roman text, one of the earliest surviving works related to feminine beauty. The text is presented in the original Latin, with a superb verse translation in English, printed on opposing pages (Latin left, English right). The English translation, once thought to be by Dryden, was first published by Tonson in 1709, and is very romantic and evocative:
Excerpt:
Your first preoccupations, my dears, should be your manners.
When a woman's manners are good, she never fails to attract.
Manners indeed are more than half the battle.
Time will lay waste your beauty, and your pretty face will be lined with wrinkles.
The day will come when you will be sorry you looked at yourself in the mirror,
and regret for your vanished beauty will give you still more wrinkles.
But a good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting,
the burdens of the years cannot depress it,
and love that is founded on it endures to the end.
Ovid also includes the recipes for actual Roman recipes for cosmetics and cleansing mixtures. Ovid (43 BC-AD 18), Latin poet of love poetry and other works, died after a long exile after he was rumored to be having an affair with the granddaughter of the Emperor.
The work is illustrated with six original wood-engravings by German artist Hans Ulrich, and are reminiscent of Alphonse Mucha, being in the Art Nouveau manner. Each illustration is printed from the original engraving. The text was printed letterpress by Jonathan Clark on Arches paper.
The 'regular' edition is bound with a natural vellum spine over pale grey handmade paper boards, and was limited to 140 copies (of a total edition of 150). Each copy is numbered, and is signed by the artist and by binder Ludwig Mohr.
Price: $349.95
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The deluxe edition is bound in full natural vellum, and is issued in a heavy slipcase covered with pale grey handmade paper, with neatly executed vellum tips. The deluxe edition is limited to only 10 numbered copies, and is signed by the artist and by binder Ludwig Mohr. It also includes a portfolio of original prints of the illustrations, each print signed and numbered by the artist.
Price: $799.95
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