Artists' Books

Atlantic Beach, Florida:: Linda Broadfoot,, 2014.. Edition of 30. Box 6.5 x 7 x 9.5" containing ten 5 x 7.5 x .5" double-sided panels. Poems letterpress printed on Hahnemühle Ingres paper using Perpetua type cast by Michael & Winifred Bixler. Text overprinted with a transparent honeycomb pattern. Archival pigment print images on Hahnemühle Photo Silk Baryta paper. Images and poems mounted on Russian birch plywood, foreedges coated with beeswax, and encased within a fabricated one-half scale maple Langstroth beehive box structure. Title and bee image engraved on the cover. Title page mounted on the interior side of the lid. Signed and numbered. Hive was produced over the course of two years and contains nine poems from The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy with images and design by Linda Broadfoot. Linda Broadfoot: "Hive was created to reveal the wonder of sunlit bees in the air and the mystery of the hive. The images and the physical structure of the book came from my… Read More

Sydney: Art in Australia, 1920. A beautiful copy of Lindsay's famous work covering the meaning of life and art, drawing on philosophical concepts. Signed on front endpaper by Lindsay with a full page original etching tipped in "All who would examine the problem of Life must first remove from it the problem of Existence. It is the confusion between these two things that has confused all human morality. By Existence one comprehends the body, and all that serves to supply its needs, to keep its machinery active. By Life one understands all that goes beyond the body, the impulse that we vaguely call the mind, the soul, the intellectual process. The body is the poor relation of the mind, the servant, the vehicle. In serving its needs, one supplies movement; in servings its senses, one supplies material for the intellectual process. Between these functions, high and low, one must seek a direction for Man's destiny. To find that direction is to find the High Morality. In short, to find the direction of… Read More

Salzburg: Verlag Galerie Welz. 320pp, 104 color plates. 1st Ed. German text. Cloth, orig. glassine protector. Lrg. thick 4to. Small chip on the external spine hinge. Near Fine condition in partly faded, chipped board slipcase. Rare.
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Ridinghouse, 2012. Hardcover. New condition. Still sealed in shrinkwrap. Photo is of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

Die Zeichnungen Caspar David Friedrichs, vorrangig Natur- und Landschaftsstudien, faszinieren durch die Feinheit und Akribie ihrer Ausführung. Berühmte Ölbilder wie "Kreidefelsen auf Rügen" werden in beeindruckender Weise durch filigran ausgearbeitete Bleistiftzeichnungen und Aquarelle vorbereitet. Der zweibändige, opulent ausgestattete Katalog sämtlicher Zeichnungen Friedrichs ermöglicht erstmals einen fundierten chronologischen Überblick über die zugeschriebenen Werke. Die Katalognummern verzeichnen jeweils sämtliche technische Daten sowie die wichtigen Angaben zu Provenienz, Ausstellungen, Literatur und Verbleib. Im Anhang werden schließlich Fehlzuschreibungen bzw. nicht nachweisbare Arbeiten aufgelistet. Das ansprechende Layout und extra große Format machen das Werk zu einem ästhetisch besonders eindrucksvollen Buch-Ereignis. (C.H. Beck) Please contact for International Shipping charges.

NY: Reynal & Company, 1970. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published NY: Reynal & Company, 1970. Folio, 11" x 14 3/4", 701pp. plus 2pp. errata/addenda, 2000 black and white and 56 color illustrations. Light gray cloth with gilt tiles, dark blue endpapers. Catalogue raisonné with bibliography and index, originally published in 1928, revised and updated. Near Fine. For International orders additional shipping charges.

Taschen, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Folio. 672 pages. This is the original large format edition: 17.5 x 11.75 inches and 2.5 inches thick and weighing in at nearly 20 lbs, not the smaller 2019 edition (10 x 15 inches and 18 inches thick and 9lbs packed according to Amazon). Tan cloth in dust jacket. A massive work filled with beautifully reproduced images, many double page fold outs. For International Orders, please contact for additional shipping charges.

New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection Ltd, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New. Dust jacket as new and comes in slip case. Folio in publisher's original grey cloth with title and credits in gilt to spine, also embossed on front panel. 194 pages including introduction, 99 plates, 48 in full colour.

New Haven: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Yale University Press, 2010. Two volume complete set. cloth, hard covers in dust jackets in pictorial slipcase. Large, heavy set., 640pp. over 2 vols., illustrated throughout, mostly in color. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Will require additional shipping.

St. Paul, Minnesota:: Strong Silent Type Press,, 2021.. Edition of 15. 14 x 19.5"; 26 pages including pastedowns. Printed in relief from laser cut blocks. Verdana font. Annigoni paper. Drum leaf binding. Bound in illustrated boards with cloth spine. Signed and numbered by the artist. Fred Hagstrom: "'Pipeline' documents the ongoing protests against the construction of the Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline that will take tar sands oil from Canada to Superior Wisconsin. It is actually a new line along a new route, leaving the old pipeline in the ground. The line crosses land that is held by tribes without honoring treaty rights. It is seen as a threat to the sources of water in northern Minnesota, including the Mississippi and numerous wetlands and streams in the Lake Superior watershed. Tribes are also concerned about the effects of possible spills on wild rice beds. The oil from this line will greatly add to emissions."

Milwuakee, Wisconsin:: Evelyn Patricia Terry,, 2021.. Series Variant, each unique. 3 x 3"; 6 panels including book boards. Miniature altered book. Materials: intaglio prints, screen prints, pastel, thread, artist's hair, permanent ink. Includes collage and handwritten text. Signed by the arist. A miniature version of Terry's original serires "America, Guests Who Came to Dinner (and Stayed)." Evelyn Patricia Terry: "'America, Guests Who Came to Dinner (and Stayed)', an altered book series, transforms books with cut, torn, sewn and glued original prints, drawings and handmade paper produced during my 50-plus year printmaking and drawing career. The distinct group of books re-purposes my 1981 screen print edition of 68 black ink images on white Stonehenge paper for each book's interior pages. The book covers repurpose predominately, assorted etchings, colored screen prints and pastel markings and sometimes handmade paper.  "Unchanging, this… Read More

RARE OCTOBER, 1908 HARPER & BROTHERS. UNEXPURGATED FIRST EDITION. INCLUDES THE WATERMELON PAGE. COLOUR PRINTS. ILLUSTRATED BY PETER NEWELL. HOLE-DRILLED. ANTIQUARIAN. Good USED condition/ No DJ Included. USED. Front paper paste-down is scuffed. Binding is tight and all plates look in good shape. Finger marks noted. 7 3/8 X 8 7/8. This is so much fun! Like watching animation go by one frame at a time. And we're off, like a shot!

Mulford,Clarence Edward: Bar-20, 1907 First Edition, The Outing Publishing Company, New York. Title page states MCMVII. HOPALONG CASSIDY #1. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth and F.E. Schoonover. Used. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Red boards with Large gilt titles. Black titling on spine. Hinges cracked. N.C. Wyeth Illustration at center front shows Hopalong "Hoppy" Cassidy sitting on a barn wall. Plot summary: "In Bar-20, the first Hopalong Cassidy novel by Clarence E. Mulford, Cassidy could fan a gun like a Billy the Kid... Six rounds in three seconds was his slowest time. No one in the state of Texas could beat him. Until he met Slim Travennes, head of the Sandy Creek Vigilante Committee. Slim was snake-fast. No man could go up against him and live. No man. Hoppy could stand or die. He had no other choice. None at all".

Flack, Marjorie. Tim Tadpole and the Great Bullfrog. Copyright 1934, Doubleday & Company, Inc., First Edition. For Young Readers. Used. Good Condition/ Good- condition rare, unclipped $2.50 original dust jacket. . Garden City Park, New York, U.S.A. Beautifully illustrated. Please see our photos. The Story: "Tim Tadpole lived in a small pond at the edge of the wood. All around him the Peeper frogs sang, while the Great Bullfrog croaked and jumped. But Tim couldn't sing and he couldn't jump either. All he could do was to wriggle through the water until the day he made an exciting discovery!" RARE! We consider offers.

Harlequin Ladybird Reading Scheme/Dung Beetle Ltd, 2015. 3 vols. 8vo. Publisher's decorated boards in highly accurate pastiche of the British "Ladybird Books" series, a ubiquitous part of the reading experience of every British child born between the 1940's and the 1980's with their occasionally not so gentle introduction to some fairly adult themes, and some strange historical choices. The Ladybird Book of The Aztecs was a particular favourite, nothing like an introduction to casual human sacrifice and colonial massacres to brighten up primary school reading hour. Miriam Elia has taken this instantly recognisable format and subverted it relentlessly to artistic and comic effect. The first volume caused no little controversy upon appearance, and Ladybird Books took a very dim view of the themes and obvious parody, legal action was taken and the self published imprint needed a swift name change to "Dung Beetle Ltd." The first printing under the Harlequin Ladybird name therefore became extremely… Read More