Clara Tice Illustrator (4 results)
Published by The Pierre Louys Society, USA, 1927
- Hardcover
Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Russian Hill Bookstore
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. 407 pages, tall 8vo. No DJ. Limited Edition of 1250 copies, of which 960 are for America. This is copy no.907. Includes 12 full-page color illustrations, including frontis. Gold cloth boards with purple butterflies, black cloth spine with gilt lettering. Shelfwear: scuffing along… edges and cover boards, spine is tanned, rear spine hinge is cracked, page 105 has a 1-inch missing piece along outer edge, some of the tissue guards are creased. Overall, volume is in Very Good-minus condition. Tice, Clara (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by Private Printing At G. J. Theime, Nijmegan, Holland, 1929
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- Signed
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Crestline, CA, U.S.A.curtis paul books, inc.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Two volume set. Cloth/gilt. Limited edition #51B of 100 copies signed by Tice to the limitation plate; contains 12 original etchings hand colored by Tice. Spines sunned, trace insecting to cloth. Bookplate in each, front endsheets toned V1.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Signed by Aut…hor.
More imagesPublished by J. Enschedé en Zonen for the Bennett Libraries Inc, Haarlem / New York, 1927
Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC
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Add to basketCondition: Near fine. Limited Edition. 8vo, 9 x 5 3/4 inches (228 x 147 mm). 2 parts in 1 volume with continuous pagination: [10], 182 pp., (7) index, [10]; 10 etched plates by CLARA TICE, including hand-colored frontispiece, each with tissue guard with legends printed in red. Copy 541 of the limited edition of 1000 copies, set…by hand in Didot type and printed on 'papier à la cuve', t.e.g., one page unopened. Etching at p.54 with loss in the lower corner, not affecting the image, paper somewhat toned at edges and occasional small tears to some sheets, but copy is in near fine condition, paper supple. Half cloth binding with marbled boards; gilt title on spine, slightly rubbed, some bumping and wear at corners and edges, 2-inch crack to top of front hinge, but binding tight and square. All for the Best. This edition, enriched by Clara Tice's racy and whimsical illustrations, is an "Exact reprint of the earliest English text" and was printed in Holland by the Johann Enschedé en Zonen of Haarlem, founded in 1703. The verso of the title page states it was "set entirely by hand from type cast by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen from original Didot matrices." It bears amusing legends on the tissue guards, printed in red: "Their hands strayed"; "Cut off only one of the buttocks"; "Their veils dropt". Clara Tice (1888 - 1973) drew racy illustrations at a time when ladies did not engage in such things, and when Anthony Comstock's Society for the Suppression of Vice was very active. Tice attracted their unwanted attention for one of her early exhibitions at Polly's Restaurant in Greenwich Village in 1915, and it helped to jump-start her career. Vanity Fair dubbed Tice the "QUEEN OF GREENWICH VILLAGE". According to The New York Times (27 June 1920) she was the first woman in Greenwich village to bob her hair. Tice also created a cartoon strip and posters, and she is included in the New York Dada Movement. Clara Tice (1888 - 1973) (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by New York: Privately printed, 1926, 1926
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.David Brass Rare Books, Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerAphrodite in Color: Clara Tice at Her Most Seductive TICE, Clara, illustrator. LOU?S, Pierre. Aphrodite. Etchings by Clara Tice. [New York]: Privately printed, n.d. [ca. 1920]. Limited to 650 copies, this example no. 538, with the additional ink inscription beneath the limitation: "One of 110 copies colored by hand." Octavo (9 1…/4 x 6 1/4 inches; 235 x 159 mm.). xx, [1-2], 3-84 pp. Ten etched plates, each colored by hand by Clara Tice. Publisher's three-quarter orange morocco over decorative cloth boards, covers ruled in gilt, upper cover stamped in gilt with Aphrodite, spine with five raised bands elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt and black in compartments, pastel patterned endpapers, top edge gilt. With a striking and intellectually playful pictorial bookplate on the front pastedown, juxtaposing religious and symbolic imagery in a manner curiously - and perhaps deliberately - at odds with the erotic subject of the work. A superb copy. A highly desirable American private-press edition of Aphrodite, the scandalous first novel of Pierre Louÿs, originally published in 1896. Set in Hellenistic Alexandria, the novel traces the destructive and obsessive relationship between the courtesan Chrysis and the sculptor Démétrios, whose passion ultimately drives him to theft and murder. Upon publication, the work became an immediate sensation in France, reportedly running through dozens of printings within months, while its frank sensuality ensured controversy abroad; early English-language editions circulated privately and attracted the attention of American censors, remaining difficult to obtain in the United States for many years. This edition is distinguished by the etchings of Clara Tice, the so-called "Queen of Greenwich Village," whose witty and unabashedly sensual style brought her considerable notoriety and popularity in the 1920s. The present copy, one of the specially colored examples, represents the most desirable state of the edition, the hand-applied color heightening the immediacy and charm of Tice's distinctive interpretations. A particularly appealing example, combining the allure of a once-suppressed modern classic with the lively graphic work of one of America's most celebrated bohemian illustrators.
