Blackamore Press (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Number 348 of 350 (410) copies printed at the Coulouma Press, Argenteuil, on Rives vellum watermarked `Blackamore'. Quarter vellum, gilt, with gilt spine lettering, t.e.g., blue cloth sides. Some preliminary leaves lightly freckled, but generally a very good copy indeed. Printed under the artistic direction of J.E. Pouterman.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Number 194 of 325 (385) copies printed on specially watermarked Rives vellum at the Coulouma Press, Argenteuil. Illustrated with 12 full-page wood engravings in colours by RENE BEN SUSSAN.Blue cloth boards, vellum back lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Printed dust-jacket faded on spine, slipcase distressed. A very good copy.

Half vellum gilt. 4to, c.pp124 t.e.g., others uncut, as usual some light spotting of text [typical of this thick card-like paper], excellent copy. 350 copies [& 25 Specials] printed by the Coulouma Press in Paris. Very attractive & subtle colour illustrations : one of only a handful of 1920s-30s English books to use coloured woodcuts. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.

306/500 COPIES (from an edition of 550 copies), printed on mouldmade paper, frontispiece and 3 further dry-point etchings, a few leaves at rear with faint spot to fore-margin, pp. 33, [4, Notes], 8vo, original bevel-edged cream silk, lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip, the lustre of the silk lost through it vulnerability to soiling, very faint spotting along joints, t.e.g., others untrimmed, faintest of spotting to margins of endpapers, good. Waley's translation, in an attractive edition by the short-lived Blackamore Press of Flora Solomon, of an anonymous story of the twelfth-century (his Note conjectures), which exists only in incomplete form. (Johns A18).

187 x 254 mm. (7 3/8 x 10"). 120 pp, [2] leaves.Translated from the French by C. Bruerton. Original blue buckram backed with vellum, smooth spine. With the dust jacket and slipcase. With 12 wood engravings in color by René Ben Sussan. Inscribed in ink on limitations page: "pour Charles Peignot / amicalement / J. E. Pouterman." âVellum a little soiled, buckram lightened by glue along edge of vellum, a little rubbed at extremities, but the binding entirely satisfactory, and fine internally. This attractively printed and illustrated volume is the result of an international effort. A mystery told from several points of view and set in the U.S. state of Virginia, it was written--originally in French--by an American who was the first non-French national elected to the Académie Française; it was printed for a short-lived British private press at a French press known for luxury and bibliophilic editions; and it was illustrated by a Greek-born artist who primarily did work for the American Limited Editions Club. Julian (or Julien) Green (1900-98) was born in Paris to American parents, and spent most of his life in France, apart from attending the University of Virginia and working for the Voice of America during WWII. He was fascinated by his mother's Southern heritage, and set a number of his works, written in French, in the American South. Our copy was presented by book designer J. E. Pouterman to typographer Charles Peignot (1897-1983), director of the Deberny & Peignot type foundry in Paris for nearly 50 years and the founder, in 1957, of the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI). First Edition in English. No. 245 OF 375 COPIES for sale, 25 of these on Japanese vellum, and 35 hors commerce.

216/225 COPIES (from an edition of 285 copies), printed on Rives Vellum paper, title-vignette and frontispiece, 6 tail-pieces and 9 larger wood-engravings printed in a variety of colours, pp. 110, 4to, original quarter vellum and black buckram, lettered in gilt to backstrip and upper board, some natural discolouration to the vellum, slight lean to pine and minor rubbing at extremities, t.e.g., others untrimmed, very good. The colophon identifies this as the first edition to present a 'full English version of the original text', a translation undertaken by J.E. Pouterman and C. Bruerton. The wonderful wood-engravings are by the Russian artist and filmmaker Alexandre Alexeieff, based in Paris; in the 1930s, he made notable experiments in animated film, including with his invention of the écran d'épingles (pinscreen). In these, as in his book-illustration, which included an edition of Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher', he evinces an ability to handle dark themes. The first book of the short-lived Blackamore Press, which produced sumptuous editions of works in translation, amounting to eight title in the two years of its existence; it was founded by the wealthy Russian emigrée Flora Solomon (née Benenson) - who would later play a significant role in shaping Marks & Spencer's human resource policies and had links to Kim Philby - with her countrymen Pouterman and Mirsky as business manager and literary editor respectively.

No. 20 of 25 copies on Japan vellum from a total of 275 copies, with an additional 35 copies not for sale. 11 Full page coloured wood engravings by Alexandre Alexeieff with a further four wood engraved devices, also including an additional set of 15 prints on Japan vellum. Large 8vo. sized, 18.5 x 25.5cm, 112pp. Original publishers full dark purple vellum, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, housed in paper slipcase, additional suite of prints housed in a glassine wrapper, now perished. London, Blackamore Press. Bookplate of Ralph Smith on pastedown, corners very slightly rubbed but overall fine, some of the additional plates have suffered from wrinkling as a result of the glassine wrapper shrinking over time. .

12 wood engravings in colour by Rene Ben Sussan. Translated by C. Bruerton. Pp. 124(last colophon, verso blank), coloured frontispiece and 11 plates, the title page printed in blue & black; narrow cr. 4to; full navy morocco, spine and upper board lettered in gilt, the boards slightly sprung and flecked, with a few tiny surface grazes; t.e.g.; small stain to fore-edge margin page 60; The Blackamore Press, London, 1929. One of 25 numbered copies printed on Japan vellum and with an extra set of the engravings (of a total edition of 410). Ridler 4. *Printed at the Coulourna Press, Argenteuil, France. The extra suite of plates (loose within a lightly soiled paper folder) are all signed in pencil by the artist. Ridler calls for the extra plates without stating that they were signed. Born in America, Julian Green wrote primarily in French and was the first non-French national to be elected to the Academie francaise.