Jan Sobota (19 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelving wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Softcover, unpaginated, as new condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. (Brown spine with tree branch image). Foreign shipping may be extra.

24p, illustrated wraps, illustrated, very good. Introduction by Pavel Rezny.

Saddle-stapled wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A near fine copy of the first edition in original wraps (slight edge wear). Illustrated in color and b/w.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st edition. Signed by Author. #68/350 10 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Books on Books; Signed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 742.

Unbound. Condition: Very good (covers soiled). Rennie, Silvia; Sobota, Jan (illustrator). First edition. One dos-a-dos accordion-folded sheet, 22 color ills. of bindings. Photo is slightly cropped. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Designed by Jan Sobota.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The Bridwell Fine Binding Series Number 6. A Catalogue of an exhibition in the Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Galleries. Oblong 24mo, 14 x 21.5cm, [32]pp. Color printed wrappers, illustrations, some in color. Signed by both Jan and Jamila Sobota and in fine condition. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall.

Condition: Very Good. limited to 350 numbered copies, signed by Sobota, 9 pp., illustrated paper wrappers, very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Oprawa wydawnicza kartonowa. Projekt okladki Bozena Sobota (illustrator). @ Cover design and illustrations / Projekt okladki i ilustracje: Projekt okladki Bozena Sobota; @ Blurb / Notka wydawnicza: Wroclaw: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego, 1995; @ Size of the book block / Wymiar bloku: 24 cm; @ Series / Seria: (Seria: Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis; 1637/ Bibliothecalia Wratislaviensia ; 1); @ Circulation / Naklad: -; @ Weight / Waga: 320; @ Pages / Strony: 186, [2]s.; @ Thematic categories / Kategorie tematyczne: historia Polski miejscowosci i regiony - h. Polski, varia bibliotekoznawstwo, regiony silesiana - wroclawiana / history of Poland, general librarianship / library science, regions / Geschichte Polens, Allgemein Bibliothekswissenschaft, Regionen; Oprawa nieznacznie uszkodzona, blok czysty i bez wad. Pozycja w dosc ladnym stanie.

Condition: Good. Micro-Miniature Book. 64mo. [ca. 48 pp.] Marbled Boards with Paper Label, Decorative End Papers. Hand-colored Illustrations. Near Fine. Number 16 of 90. Signed on rear flyleaf by Pruschnicki. Bradbury, p. 40, #13.21 fine limited edition miniatures from the press of Suzanne Granzow Pruschnicki and Elmira Smith Wilkey. Illustrated by the publishers, often hand-colored. All by Pruschnicki or Wilkey except where noted.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. A 3 ½ in. x 6 in. souvenir in the form of the hard covers of a book. The stiff boards are covered in marbled paper. The item contains no pages; when opened it reveals a pocket into which small notes may be inserted. A small pencil (a bit over 3 inches in length) is attached to the "book" on a golden string. Saturday's Book Arts Gallery was the site of the Sobota's bookbinding work in northeastern Ohio. ("Sobota" is Czech for "Saturday.") The souvenir comes in a clear plastic bag with a small address label attached.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine in Fine Pouch. Limited Edition. Limited Edition. Hardcover. The Ten Commandments are printed in ten languages: Latin, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Slovak (they were unable to obtain in the Czech Republic a Hebrew font for the computer). Tight, bright, and unmarred. Full leather binding (various colors), onlays and gold tooling, printed in gold on handmade paper in the shape of a cross, enclosed in a "medieval psalm pouch". 5x7cm. np. Numbered limited edition, this being 80 of 100.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 8 3/4 inches x 7 1/2; textured brown cloth and marbled paper covered, hardcover folder with yellow binding cord; this folder contains a copy of "British Book Arts Today", with a foreword by Philip Smith & Preface by Tom Phillips, and short biographies of bookbinders represented in the October, 1988 exhibition; illustrated with monochrome photos of bindings. The folder contains a specially printed folded sheet with a winged horses & books illustration, designed and signed by Jan Sobota (1939-2012), and numbered by him; and the printed: "Opening Address" given by Philip Smith, on October 8, 1988 in Geneva, Ohio; the address is signed by Philip Smith at the end; also present, is a color photo postcard of Philip Smith's binding for the 1931 Golden Cockerel Press "Four Gospels", created in 1987-88, this card is also signed by Philip Smith. Bookbinders represented in the exhibtion catalogue: Philip Smith, Trevor Jones, Sarah Firmin, Dee Odell-Foster, Angela James, David Sellars, Jenni Grey, Romilly Saumarez Smith, Nikki Bell & Ben Langlands. Very scarce item. Signed by Author(s).

Number 53 of 900 signed copies. Beautiful design binding for this book of carols with woodcuts by the Philadelphia artist, Helen Siegl (1924-2009). Originally issued as loose signatures, this set vividly enhanced by the work of talented Czech binder, Jarmila Sobotova, student of Jan Sobota. Sobotova's stamp adorns the rear pastedown. This unique binding is accompanied by an exhibition catalogue of both binders' works from the Mildred Hawn Exhibition Gallery at SMU in Dallas, March 24-April 16, 1995, which is signed by Sobotova and Sobota. 8vo, 23x15cm, unpaginated. Text printed in red throughout with black and white woodcuts by Helen Siegl, and signed by her at the colophon. Three piece Bradel binding, gold morocco spine, red and gold marbled paper over boards, beveled edges and matching endpapers. All edges painted green, red and green head and tailbands. Gilt edged, die-cut bell design on upper board with green morocco inlay bearing pine needles tooled and painted in gilt with a bright red morocco cardinal onlay. Small scuff along upper joint, minor wear at corners in matching marbled slipcase which shows some rubbing to extremities. Nearly fine.

Kafka's famous novella from the Limited Editions Club with interpretive illustrations from Mexican artist, José Luis Cuevas (1934-2017). This copy in a unique design binding from Czech artist, Jarmila Jelena Sobotova, former student of Jan Sobota (1939-2012). A copy of Sobotova's own description of this project is included and sheds some light on her process of creating this tremendous volume: "The top and back covers decorations are based on Cuevas interpretation of the story - metamorphosis of a man. There are two mirror images that appears skewed in abstract way. This design was created by cutting out the shapes in the leather after the book was covered. The depressions were filled with leather dust and painted with (insect like) acrylic colors." Accompanying the book is an exhibit catalogue featuring the works of both Jan and Jarmila, from the Mildred Hawn Exhibition Gallery at SMU in Dallas, 1995, which both artists have signed. Quarto, 28x21cm, 61pp. Illustrations by José Luis Cuevas, and signed by him at the colophon. Design binding by Jarmila Jelena Sobotova. French structure, full black goatskin with mirror image, green cutout designs on upper and lower boards. Green morocco spine label in the shape of a pedestal with an apple balancing on top, lettered in gilt. Top edge painted green, hand sewn head and tailbands in black and green silk. Green and black marbled endpapers by Sobotova. Fine condition in matching Solander box Limited to 1500 signed copies, this being #858.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Facsimile/Art Binding. Facsimile/Art Binding. Hardcover. Facsimile of the original book published by the Leadenhall Press in 1891 in London. 200 illustrations. Hand "hammered" iron face of a sailor on the front wooden cover made by blacksmith artist Petr Baloun. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Leather spine, wooden boards, iron sculptural onlay. 4to. 98pp; xi. Illus. (b/w plates).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fascimile/Binding. Fascimile/Binding. Hardcover. Limited edition of 799 copies. Jan Sobota was commissioned to bind 10 copies in 'period' style. Soboto passed away, however, after completeing only two of them. One remains with his wife/archive, this is the only copy publically available. It is also the final binding he worked on prior to his death. The bible has 376 pages and nearly eight hundred paintings. It is the largest illustrated medieval manuscript in central Europe. Sobota's binding is a facsimile of the original binding. "Most comprehensive illustrated medieval manuscript in central Europe was created around the mid 14th century thanks to the initiative of Velislav, who is portrayed on fol. 188r as kneeling before a statue of St. Catherine, the patron saint of theologians and philosophers. This seems to be evidence that he was a member of the clergy, although he is not wearing a tonsure and his clothing is rather secular. He can be most probably identified with a Prague capitulary of the same name, who was a notary to Jan of Luxembourg, later a notary and a diplomat of Charles IV. The book was created in a secular, laic book-workshop with signs of stable and standardized operation. Velislav's Bible is neither a biblia pauperum (a Bible of the poor) - this type was introduced only later and typically had around thirty to forty recurring paintings - nor it is a fully illustrated Bible comprising the whole biblical text. It includes the following books: Genesis (1r-52v), Exodus (53r-88v), Daniel (89r-108r), Judges (108v-115r), Judith (115v-130r), Antichrist cycle (130v-135v), Christological cycle (136r-149r), Apocalypses (153r-168v), Apostles' deeds (169r-179v) and above that a cycle about Czech patrons saints Wenceslas and Ludmila (180r-188r). Different other individual images appear in the second half of the book. Given the fact that vast majority of images is accompanied by comments and that occasionally written names of the characters occur, the manuscript can be regarded as a medieval comics. The brushwork shows some romantic elements, with some elements of the later so-called "beautiful style." Tight, bright, and unmarred. Full leather binding, metal fixtures; full color facsimile of the textblock. 4to. np. Illus. (color plates). Limited Edition of 10 [N.B. Only two completed before Sobota's death].

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. A translation by Jiri Pober into Czech of the 1937 Kenneth Roberts novel "Northwest Passage." Size of the binding: 5 ½ in. x 8 1/8 in. x 2 1/8 in., 498+ pp. (publisher's colophon page); 2 fold-out maps with Czech titling, showing (1) Rogers' 1759 St. Francois route, & (2) North America (but not Mexico), 1765. In a striking carved leather binding by Jan Sobota, with his stamp on the back paste-down endpaper. The full, brown leather binding features a standing figure of a Colonial Ranger with a long rifle, on the front and back covers; the details are carved into the leather, on a hand-tooled, stippled, darker brown background; the spine features two carved leather long-rifles in darker brown, with stamped titling in dark brown, top-edge stained brown, sewn headbands, dark brown, suede-covered endpapers; in a dark brown, leather-textured cloth wrap-around chemise, with a lighter brown, leather title label, and a brown suede lining. In a matching, dark brown, leather-textured cloth-covered slipcase, with lighter brown leather edging to the front ends. The novel, about Major Robert Rogers' (1731-95) expedition, was a source for the 1940 King Vidor film, based on the first part of this book. The color of leather and the designs, chosen by inventive Czech bookbinder Jan Sobota, are meant to evoke a Colonial American bookbinding, the dress and arms of the period of the French & Indian War, and that of Rogers' Rangers, who figure in the story. Weight 3 lbs.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. In a handcrafted bookbinding: "The Little Block of Wood", 1939. Size of the binding: 8 ½ inches x 11 ½ in x 4 ¾ in. thick (at the fore-edge). (290 x 220 mm). Half-title; decorative title-page in red and black; introduction by Dr. Emanuel Svoboda. xx, pp. [1]-306, including alphabetical title listings; reproduces black & white Ales drawings (1874-1909), with decorative texts in Czech. The entire text is in Czech. In a handcrafted, sculptural design bookbinding, entitled: "The Little Block of Wood", created by Czech born bookbinder, Jan Sobota in 1982, and exhibited at Frantiskovy Lazne, Czechoslovakia, in 1982, and at the Guild of Bookworkers Exhibition in 1987. The book is shaped like a wedge of wood cut from a round of tree trunk, with the wood-grained leather on the edges, and leather to resemble bark on the covers, with the author's initials: MA, carved in the front cover. Japanese paper flyleaves, suede doublures; a wedge-shaped box-binding sculpture, covered with tan and brown reverse sheepskin over relief abstract shapes. Calf edges blind-tooled to resemble wood grain. In a gray, textured, cloth-covered slipcase, with inner, felt lined partitions, angled to hold the wedge-shaped book. The top and bottom edges of the right side of the slipcase show splitting to the top edge, and partial splitting to the bottom edge. The book is in fine condition. Weight: 8 lbs. Postage is extra on this item.