Merle armitage designer (13 risultati)

Paperback. vi, 102p., foreword by Armitage, preface by Mary Comfort, line illustrations, softbound in 9x6 inch plain printed orange wraps. Slightest edgewear and sunning to covers, entirely sound, clean and unmarked within. Originally designed by Merle Armitage and published by Pinon in 1961. The 1973 reprint was re-designed by Douglas J. Houston who provided item with a b&w photographic cover and an index, and who dropped the Armitage foreword.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good + Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. 75 Poems, Numbered On Left, Poem On Right. #310 Of 500 Copies Signed By Thomajan And Armitage, This Copy Additionally Inscribed " For Evalyn And Glenn- This Absurd And Impossible Book, Whose Parents Were Cognac + Bourbon. With Friendship Merle Armitage 1969 Translation This Absurd And Impossible Book Whose Parents Were Cognac And Burbon (Sic)". Fine In Green Dust Jacket With Touches Of Wear At Corners And Slight Fading To Spine Panel. Signed by Author(s).…

Wraps. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 44 pp. 4to. Light tan heavy paper wraps with a string binding, mnor sunning line along top edge. Clean within. [Purcell 61]. A catalog for an exhibition that would to five museums along the West Coast: deYoung Memorial Museum, Pasadena Art Institute, Portland Art Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Seattle Art Museum. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Book Has a Dust Jacket. Limited Ed of 1000, This is #841. -----------------Maroon covers with black lettering, hardcover 11" x 9". Format-- first 28 pages text, followed by 47 plates, then letters on pages 29-53, with lovely paper used for the text.------VERY GOOD CONDITION, tiny sign of wear to edge of cover only, under the dust jacket. The dust jacket is unusually stiff paper and we have also protected it now with new clear mylar cover.---------Limited edition of 1000 copies of this book, designed by Merle Armitage, etc----- this is # 841, signed by Russell Cowles on the page across from his photo.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Exhibition catalogue documenting the groundbreaking career of legendary American modernist book designer, typographer, and impresario Merle Armitage, published by the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas in Austin in 1963 (one of 1,500 copies printed). The volume details Armitage's influential books, manifestos on typography, principles of modern book production, and features photographs of his bookshelves by Isabelle Armitage alongside layout designs by Kim Taylor. Clean softcover pictorial wrappers featuring photographs of Armitage's bookshelves, with crisp edges and minimal shelf wear. Stapled/perfect binding is secure. Interior pages are bright and clean. The preliminary page features a clear blind-stamped Ex Libris Nathaniel Tarn seal.…

Early printing. [6], 73 pages plus covers. Large paperback; H 30.5cm x L 22.75cm. Tan dust jacket with front panel decorative motif by famed book designer Merle Armitage; dj top edge trimmed fractionally shorter than the book's paper covers. Mild soiling and staining to dj front and rear panels with nicks and short tears along top edges, spine paper toned with head chipped and heel nicked. Brown paper covers with heel nicked. Past owner's personal bookplate on front cover's blank verso. Some foxing and toning on initial and terminal leaves; occasional light soiling and foxing at fore-edge margins of interior leaves with stray ink mark on page 47. Old white cloth tape strips applied along front and rear hinges reinforcing otherwise strong binding. Text inclusive to page 20 with one figure illustration; pages 21-73 feature twenty-six plates of which most are b/w but with three in color. Although this copy has a 1943 imprint corresponding to the publication's first printing, bibliographer Robert M. Purcell states that the Merle Armitage dj was added to a 1946 second printing in order to spur sales (see "Merle Armitage Was Here! A Retrospective of a 20th Century Renaissance Man"). A very good copy in a very good- dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Limited Edition. iii, 203 pp. 8vo. Age toning to the dust jacket with a split halfway down the hinge at the rear panel, losses and chipping at edges, very brittle and now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards with gold blue embossed titling that matches the dust jacket, gold stars across the head of the front and rear boards, blue stars across the foot of the rear board, some age toning at edges of boards. Very clean and tight within. [Purcell 39]. Published in an edition of 1,000 copies.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: good. Limited Edition. 53 pp. 4to. Dust jacket has toning from age, front hinge splitting 2/3 of the way down the spine, small chips at edges, now in mylar cover. Red boards with black titling to cove that matches dust jacket. Spine cloth split along front hinge, binding still tight. Toning to edges of interior pages due to time and quality of paper. [Purcell 58]. A classic Merle Armitage production on the artist, Russell Cowles (1887-1979). Produced in an edition of 1,000 copies, this is #252 and signed by both Cowles and Bear on the colophon. Also inscribed by Bear, "Howe/from/D. Bear" in pencil on the first first free endpaper.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Fair Plus. First Edition. 124pp. "A clown is a poet in action," Henry Miller states. The book text was written for Fernand Leger to accompany a series of illustrations on clowns and circuses. Miller's insights about our clown parsonas are thought-provoking. Minor edge and corner wear. Jacket has a few tears of about an inch in length, also some chips and curling at top and bottome. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Armitage, Merle: Designer (illustratore).…

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 252 Pp. First Edition, Trade Issue: Covers Printed With Red And Yellow Background [Limited Edition Is Black And Yellow, Later Issues Are All Red]; Title Page Black Printing Slightly Higher Than Later Printings, With Text "Painting By Siqueros" On Title Page Touching The Illustration Above [ Alignment Corrected In Most Copies Of The Trade Edition And Later Printings]; Lacking The Colophon Page At End, Which Is Represented Only By A Stub Which Does Not Appear To Have Been Trimmed [A Defect Also Found In Some Copies In The Limited Edition Binding]. Merle Armitage's Well-Designed And Edited Collection Of Tributes To George Gershwin From Luminaries Including His Brother Ira, Oscar Hammerstein Ii, Paul Whiteman, Walter Damrosch, Dubose Heyward, Irving Berlin, Arnold Schoenberg, Serge Koussevitzky, And Jerome Kern. Near Fine, Rubbing Along Bottom Edge. Dj With Moderate Wear, A Few Very Small Chips, Light Soiling To Front And Rear Panels With Browning To Spine Panel. Not Price-Clipped. The Book Is Not Uncommon, But Usually Found Only In The Later All-Red Binding (With Corrected Title Page Alignment). 16 Reproductions Of Paintings By George Gershwin, Sixteen Portraits, Painting By Alfaro Siqueiros, Caricatures By Peggy Bacon And Miguel Covarrubias, Endpapers By Carlos Dyer, Hand Lettered Title Page By William Stutz (illustratore).…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good + DJ. First Edition. 252 Pp. Red And Yellow Cloth [First Binding], With Yellow Dj Printed In Red And Black. Correct Alignment Of Black Printing On Tile Page ("Painting By Siqueiros" Does Not Touch The Illustration, But Does In The Limited Editon). Inscribed By The Dedicatee, Ira Gershwin, And Signed, With His Characteristic Drawing Of Himself Bowing, Dated In 1953, As A Gift From Ira Gershwin To A Friend Of His Then-Archivist Lawrence Stewart, And With A George Gershwin Signed Personal Check, 1934, Laid In Loosely As An Additional Personal Gift From Ira Gershwin. Merle Armitage's Well-Designed And Edited Collection Of Tributes To George Gershwin From Luminaries Including His Brother Ira, Oscar Hammerstein Ii, Paul Whiteman, Walter Damrosch, Dubose Heyward, Irving Berlin, Arnold Schoenberg, Serge Koussevitzky, And Jerome Kern. Book Is Very Good +, Light Wear At Corners; Dj Very Bright Yellow, Very Clean, Without The Usual Browning To Spine, Light Wear, Short Corner Tears, And Tiny Losses At Corners. Photographs And Reproductions (illustratore). Signed by Author(s).…

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce / A Merle Armitage Book, [1938]. First Edition, Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 4. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in yellow decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($5); [12],270pp. Dust-soiled jacket quite worn and toned along margins, significant splitting along front flap fold, spine panel darkened and chipped at spine crown, boards rubbed with brief exposure at corners, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy in a Good only example of the jacket. Signed by the author on limitation page on p. [iv]. …

Wraps. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 128 pp. 8vo. Black paper wraps over heavy paper boards. Light wear and minor chipping at edges but quite tight and clean given its age and construction. No dust jacket as issued. [Purcell 47]. A fitting overview by friends and colleagues of Armitage's work up to 1938. Armitage's portrait by Edward Weston is reproduced at p. 108. A scarce volume.…