art Woodcuts

Hardcover. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, reprint, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 53 pages with beautiful woodcut illustrations throughout by Gibbings, First published in 1935. The wood engraver, writer and publisher Robert Gibbings 1889-1958 owned the Golden Cockerell Press from 1924 to 1933 and illustrated over 50 books, including 17 with text by himself.Dust jacket price-clipped, clean copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, Zephyr Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. Illustrated with nearly 100 color plates of various carousel animals, as well as other color and black/white photographs. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, dust jacket shows some rubbing and slight curling at the edges. Shows horses and menagerie animals carved out of wood for American and European carousels, traces the history of carousel rides, and looks at some prominent manufacturers.

Hardcover. Owings Mills, Stemmer House Publishers, Inc., 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated black and white woodprints and full color drawings. Clean unmarked text. Illustrated dust jacket with moderate edgewear. Unclipped.

Hardcover. Owings Mills, Stemmer House Publishers, Inc., 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated black and white woodprints and full color drawings. Clean unmarked text. Illustrated dust jacket with moderate edgewear, short closed tears. Unclipped.

Hardcover. New York, Prestel, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 10 x 13", 207 pages. Color and b&w images. Widely considered one of the major works of Expressionist printmaking, this series of spectacular woodcuts by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is presented for the first time in a comprehensive study, specifically designed to allow readers a full understanding of the artist's achievement. No dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 2nd Ed., 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 109 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Vibrant color illustrations throughout. This retrospective volume is not intended to illustrate a particular story, but to display the full range of her abilities, and it is arranged according to the seasons she celebrates in her art. There are fifty of her hand-colored woodcuts in full color and an equal number in black and white. The book is large format because that is the way she works and that's what does her work justice. The text, written by her friend Lilias Hart, discusses not only her work, but also what life is like in the rigorous reaches of Northern Vermont.

Hardcover. Antwerp/Paris, Fonds Mercador/Alpin Michel, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 318 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Slipcased. Text in Dutch. Original illustrated dustjacket over white quarter paper and black cloth with gilt-stamped lettering on spine and initials on cover. Black illustrated endpapers. Two frontispieces, a Masereel woodcut and 1923 self-portrait woodcut. Sound monograph profusely illustrated with 284 mostly b/w Masereel woodcuts and drawings, two fold-outs and 7 color plates. Includes indices with Masereel's published artwork, partly with b/w thumbnail reproductions and list of illustrations.

Hardcover. Kent, U.K., Midas Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 407 pages, with b&w illustrations throughout. Very slight foxing on top edge and minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Softcover. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Tape repair on top spine. Previous owner's bokplate on inside front wrapper. Tight copy. Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. Rutland, Vermont, Charles E. Tuttle Co, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages. Huge survey of Japanese prints, with many tipped-in and folding plates. 257 plates including 55 tipped-in full color plates, acetate protected color dust jacket, cloth bound cover with gilt lettering on spine, pattern of oriental woman on fabric sewn into cover. Price-clipped, slight chipping to top of dust jacket spine; a tight, attractive copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Hampton, NH, Portsmouth Marine Society/Peter E. Randall, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Biographical and artistic account of John Haley Bellamy and his renowned woodcarving skills. 103 pages with 65 black/white illustrations and 4 color plates. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, no internal marks; dust jacket is in very good condition, some creasing near the spine.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, June 12, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 458 pages, b&w illustrations. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Lovely copy. Like new.

Hardcover. Jaffrey, N.H., David R. Godine, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 125 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Illustrated end papers and fly leafs. Gilt lettering on spine and cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 318 pages. In Origins of the Chinese Avant-Garde, Xiaobing Tang studies the art and art theories of the first half of the twentieth century, when modern Chinese art and literature emerged. He argues that the most consequential expression of the avant-garde was the modern woodcut movement that thrived in China in the 1930s. In this innovative study--also the first comprehensive account of this Chinese movement available in English--Tang examines the aesthetic, intellectual, and social appeal of the modern woodcut and places the movement at the intersection of historical events, individual efforts, and competing discourses on art. He also shows how the woodcut movement drew upon international inspiration--from German Expressionism, Soviet wood engravings, and Japanese creative prints.

Hardcover. New York , Prestel, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 160 pages. Color illustration to front cover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Universally revered as one of the founding fathers of modern painting, Paul Gauguin was also an accomplished printer. Working mostly in woodcuts, he translated his fascination with life in the South Seas into pieces of extraordinary beauty and simplicity. This volume presents the three print series that Gauguin created: a dozen zinc etchings made in 1889; his most famous series, the partially hand-tinted woodcuts created for his famed book Noa Noa, which were made after Gauguin's first trip to Tahiti; and a third series of woodcuts completed during his second stay on the island. This small printed oeuvre demonstrates how the medium was an ideal outlet for Gauguin's experimental and audacious artistry.

Softcover. New York, Tudor Publishing, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 104 pages, 24 color and 76 b&w plates. The first 4 pages, including the paper wrapper, have a crease down the center. Otherwise a very good copy of this scarce book.

Hardcover. US, The Mainstone Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A stunning example of how a digital process, overseen by a keen and aesthetic team, can rejuvenate an artist's work. This as new first edition thus reveals the wonderful craft of Ravilious as if he had just completed the blocks. A great tribute to a fine engraver.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Santa Susana Press, Ltd. Ed., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, unnumbered, one of 198. 32 pages, one hundred ninety-nine copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom. Designed by Ward Ritchie. Navy blue cloth with gilt stamping. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, The Nonesuch Press, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. In patterned paper covered boards, printed title label to spine, 8vo, 38 pages + proofs of Blake's blocks in their original state and sixteen of Blake's designs for the wood-engravings. No. 969 of a limited edition of 1000 copies printed at the Curwen Press. Inserted into a pocket at the rear of the book in a blue paper folder are 17 wood-engravings taken direct from electrotypes of the wood blocks and printed on Japon paper. Small inscription on inside front cover, light wear yo top of spine. Otherwise very good.

Hardcover. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket that has been price-clipped. Miniature studies of bird and animal life with lovely wood engravings by Brian Hope-Taylor. Translated from the Russian by W.L. Goodman. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 3rd pr., 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Tojiro, a nine-year-old orphan, sells rice cakes on the streets of 19th-century Edo, the bustling city we now call Tokyo. One of his customers is the grumpy, eccentric octogenarian Hokusai. The old man takes a liking to Tojiro, and soon employs him as his assistant. The boy's ignorance provides a convenient vehicle for introducing the artist's life and work. Much of the dialogue and action is written for the purpose of conveying information about Hokusai, as well as the technique of woodblock printing and the social customs of Edo. The book's greatest strength is not the text, but the art that enlivens every page. A combination of the author's watercolors and reproductions of Hokusai's drawings and woodblock prints, the illustrations are arranged in enticing and varied page designs.

Hardcover. London, Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, reprint, undated/c1880, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. History of the art of engraving within a European context. Undated, published c1880. Illustrated with 34 black/white reproductions of engravings. Good condition; pages have gilt edges, cloth bound book has some wear to the edges and introductory pages lightly spotted from age.

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Boards are lightly faded. Slight wear to dust jacket due to age. Clean inside. This book marks the first time that examples of Eichenberg's work have been collected together in one volume.

Hardcover. London/NY, The Studio Ltd., 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with white stamping. 192 pages, 150 beautiful b&w woodcuts from the era. Review slip laid in, former copy of American illustrator Aldren Watson with his stamp on half-title page. Minor fraying to top of cloth spine.Otherwise a tight, clean copy. No dust jacket.