Holger Cahill Ed (7 results)

Condition: Fair. None. 162 pages. B&W and color illustrations throughout. Red boards with extensive sun-fading, especially to spine. Extensive water marking to back cover and throughout book. Pages wrinkled. Record # 850460.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. Octavo. Brown boards in dust jacket. 25 pp of text followed by 24 plates with titles on the verso. Gutter cracked near center of book. Jacket is chipped and with a large piece missing from its rear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. (no dust jacket, possibly as issued) [modest shelfwear, black mark along bottom edge of front cover, small pencil check-marks next to some catalog entries]. (B&W art reproductions) A nicely-produced catalogue of works by this Illinois-born painter and watercolorist (1868-1933), who was well-regarded in his day. The introduction, although stated on the title page as "by Holger Cahill," is largely comprised of Hart's own comments on his life and work, apparently derived from an interview, although the 17-page piece is edited in a strange way (without quotation marks to set off his words from the third-person observations of Cahill). This is followed by a "Catalogue of Prints," which lists 82 individual works, although only 24 are reproduced in the next and final section of the book, each on its own page. The limitation statement reads: "Of this edition, containing an original lithograph, 250 copies have been printed on Normandy vellum, specially bound, numbered and signed by the artist"; below this is written "#229 / Pop Hart / Holger Cahill." (The original lithograph, the book's frontispiece, is protected by a tissue guard, and is entitled "The Champion, Mexico, 1928"; it depicts the aftermath of a cockfight, with a group of spectators observing one bird picking at the corpse of the other.) Signed by Artist.…

Hardcover. Boards covered in brown paper with silver lettering; cream dj with brown lettering; 25 pp. text followed by 24 bw images. Includes a listing of Hart's works, in chronological order and tells the museums which own collections of his prints and watercolors. He is known for drypoint, etchings, aquatints, lithographs and photo-lithographs. Cahill writes an extensive essay about Hart. VG interior with several pp. uncut; dj chipped at top and with a one-inch piece missing from top of spine. …

Hardcover. Boards covered in brown paper with silver lettering; cream dj with brown lettering; 25 pp. text followed by 24 bw images. THIS COPY one of 250 copies with a pencil-signed original lithograph for a frontis, and also signed by the artist and Holger Cahill on the back of title-page. Includes a listing of Hart's works, in chronological order and tells the museums which own collections of his prints and watercolors. He is known for drypoint, etchings, aquatints, lithographs and photo-lithographs. Cahill writes an extensive essay about Hart. Very nice copy, one of only 250 copies of this edition with an original signed lithograph. NOT SIGNED or numbered by the artist or author on the back of the title-age, as other copies are. VG, an as new but aged copy from old stock slight damage to thin cardboard soine interior VG+.…

Hardcover. Boards covered in brown paper with silver lettering; cream dj with brown lettering; 25 pp. text followed by 24 bw images. THIS COPY one of 250 copies with a pencil-signed original lithograph for a frontis, and also signed by the artist and Holger Cahill on the back of title-page. Includes a listing of Hart's works, in chronological order and tells the museums which own collections of his prints and watercolors. He is known for drypoint, etchings, aquatints, lithographs and photo-lithographs. Cahill writes an extensive essay about Hart. Very nice copy, one of only 250 copies of this edition with a signed lithograph and autograph of the artist and essayist. VG, an as new but aged copy from old stock sligh5t damage to thin cardboard soine interior VG+.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Limited Edition signed by both the artist and the editor. Number 184 out of 250 copies. Tanned spine, otherwise fine. Shipped from the Calico Cat Bookshop, a brick and mortar bookshop established in 1975. Size: Octavo. Book.