Bringhurst Richard (10 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good - Cash. Minor rubbing and edge wear to cover, with light reader wear to pages. Still great condition. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. expanded edition. 160 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Printer Wrapper. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Signed and dated by Peter Koch. Illlustrated (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Octavo. (56)pp. Engravings throughout by Wagener, including as frontispiece, are printed in black and glimmering red. Wagener's ability to translate the splashing, fluid form of calligraphy to the geometrical impositions of wood engraving is a remarkable feat and altogether fitting for Bringhurst's poems on the gestures of language. They dovetail especially well with his works that incorporate Japanese kanji. Bound in half black leather with gray paper edged in red over boards and with gilt-stamped leather label to spine. Extra engraving held in paper folio, and this housed together with the book in a slipcase. Fine. One of thirty copies of "State B," bound in half leather with an extra leaf signed by the artist and the poet.…

Full Leather. Condition: Fine binding. First Edition. Folio. [44] pp., frontis, plates. Limited edition, one of 120 copies, this copy out of series; there are also 26 lettered, deluxe copies with a suite of 10 engravings. All are signed by Bringhurst, Wagener, and Peter Koch at the colophon. Bound by Camille Botelho in black box calf with inlays and onlays of dyed calf, vinyl snakeskin, painted paper mylar laminates, and a porcupine quill; hand embroidered endbands; vinyl snakeskin doublures. A fine copy in clamshell box. True to form, Peter Koch has produced a marvelous edition of what remains of Parmenides's poem, "On Nature." The fragments of the poem are rendered in this opposite page, bilingual edition with the Greek on the left and Bringhurst's English translation on the right. The poetry is brilliantly accompanied by Wagner's striking engravings, a frontispiece and 4 additional wood engravings in red and orange. Given it survives only in fragments, there is some debate as to the "meaning" of the symbolism of Parmenides's poem, making it a work ripe for interpretation. But at base, his view of reality is one of stasis, unchangeable. And while that enduring Greek logic marks the work, Wagener introduces remarkably abstract and kinetic illustrations printed in an urgent deep red and orange-projecting anything but stasis. It is the discord between the logical understanding or reality and the emotional understanding of it that spoke to Botelho and informed her design of this incredible binding. She writes: "In the design I thought of Parmenides looking out past shadowy arches from within a dark room to find total chaos beyond. The curve of the Mylar inlay and the curve of the porcupine quill mimic a column, marking a threshold beyond which is uncontrolled noise and movement and mess. I wanted the disparity between the smoothness of the box calf and the chaos of the inlays and yellow foiling to be a comment on how frightening examining one's reality can be." Magnificently achieved, Botelho has created an exceptional binding, that bridges Parmenides and Wagener, giving voice to the paradox she sees in this metaphysical conversation on the nature of reality. Signed.…

First Edition. First edition. The Center for Book Art's innovative 30th-anniversary publication. Number 3 of 75 copies SIGNED BY BRINGHURST (poet), HENRY (printer), KYLE (designer), and RICHARD MINSKY, The Center's founder and the project's coordinator. THIS COPY ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY BRINGHURST, "for Allen Mears,/ who may appreciate/ more than most not only/ the poetry but also/ Barbara's and Hedi's/ magnificent engineering." Four 4to volumes bound in heavy cardstock -- three with Bringhurst's polyphonic poetry meant to be read by 3 people at once; and the last with Bringhurst's afterword describing the evolution of both poem and project, the subscribers list (Mear's name is 3rd on the list), and the colophon leaf. HOUSED IN ORIGINAL BOX WHICH WAS AVAILABLE TO BE PURCHASED SEPARATELY. Box measures approximately 17.25 x 17.25 x 4" and holds the elaborately constructed fold-out lecterns -- one for each book. As Bringhurst characterized the overall structure, this is "a wonderfully complex piece of biblio-engineering made to behave as if it were simple." TOGETHER WITH the original prospectus, various pre-publication announcements, and extensive correspondence (in the form of printed emails and typed, signed letters) between collector Allen Mears, Bringhurst and The Center, INCLUDING A SIX-PAGE TYPED LETTER SIGNED BY BRINGHURST discussing the genesis of the project, his hopes for it, a 2004 performance of the poem, etc., with a copy of his 2-page design notes with drawings "submitted to Hedi Kyle and Richard Minsky a couple of years ago." Altogether fine. Signed.…