Ruth Leavitt (7 results)

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: VG-. No Jacket as Issued. First Edition. The book is a small stapled soft cover with black title and a black and white illustration by Kenneth Wyatt. Only defect to note is a small light smudge on the lower front. A history of religious retreats in the area of Des Moines, New Mexico with a history of how these meetings stated by A Presbyterian missionary developed. Black and white photos. Kenneth Wyatt (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Softcover. First (And Only) Printing. Fine. B/W Plates (illustrator).

Condition: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 90 pages. Fiction: The Fugitives; He Loves Me; Take Care When You Say Hello; The Long Denial (part 3 of 4); When the Lilacs Bloomed; Mr. Digney Has a Dream. Articles: The Deadliest War - Germ Warfare; Judy Holliday - star of 'Born Yesterday'; Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon criticizes abuse of power in Congress; How to Run a Prize Fight - the Louis-Conn brawl; Scranton Buys its Own Jobs; Lessons in cooking fish on the beach in the Nassau, Bahamas manner; George Vogel is staff Organist at the Freeport Bank of Freeport, Long Island; Miracle Bark of the California Redwood; and more. Ads include: Color GE Radio ad featuring Frank Sinatra; Great color photo ad for International trucks featuresWillers Truck Service of Sioux Falls, SD, plus the Herman Oil Transport Company of Fremont, NB; Lucky Strike cigarette ad; Borden's ad featuring Elsie the Cow; Martin Aircraft; Nice color-photo ad for Oldsmobile and its new Hydra-matic transmission; Bendix Aviation; Hickok belts; Little Lulu is featured prominently in a Keenex ad; Santa Fe Railroad; Union Pacific Railroad; Douglas DC-4 aircraft; Piper aircraft; Mercury cars; Acushnet golf balls; Very attractive ad for Jantzen swim suits and sun clothes; Blatz Beer - sailing scene; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover features bride. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's Magazine, June 15.1946 - Germ Warfare W. Stuart Symington The Fugitives; He Loves Me; Take Care When You Say Hello; The Long Denial (part 3 of 4); When the Lilacs Bloomed; Mr. Digney Has a Dream. Articles: The Deadliest War - Germ Warfare; Judy. Illustrated by Whitcomb, Jon (cover); Pachner, Wiliam; Dawes, Edwin;Blossom, Earl; Karger-Pix, George; Hurst, Oliver; Leavitt, Bob; Kling,Wendell; Holmgren, John; Stephenson, Marian; Hawes, Charles (illustrator). …

Softcover. Condition: g+ to vg. First edition. Folio (12 1/4 x 10"). [10]pp (Text), 90pp (Plates), 4pp (Text), [8] leaves (Color plates); [105-132]pp (Text and advertisement). Original spiral bound decorative soft cloth by Pierre Boucher. "Photographie" was an annual special issue of the magazine "Arts et Métiers Graphiques" entirely dedicated to modern photography, and which published the work of the leading photographers and photographic agencies of the period. This 1939 edition contains 8 color plates as well as 90 striking photographs reproduced in heliogravure, and taken by the following photographers: Ylla; Stephen Deutch; Pierre Boucher; Edward Weston; Brassai; Hein Gorny; Willy Maywald; Hisao Okamoto; Marie & Borel; George Hurrell; Marcel Bovis; Herbert List; Bill Brandt; Nora Dumas; Heinrich Heidersberger; Bob Leavitt; George Platt Lynes; Laure Albin-Guillot; Erwin Blumenfeld; Clarence John Laughlin; Ruth Bernhard; Louise Dahl-Wolfe; Berenice Abbott, and many others. Moderate rubbing along edges of soft cloth covers. Text and captions in French. Wrappers in overall good+, interior in very good condition.…

wrapper. Condition: good. First Edition, no. 6 of 100. Tomato Press, 1992, 5.5" x 8.75", - blank front and back endpaper, - one irregular cut and folded page with title page, introduction and poem 'Knowing'. With 2 small folds with author's signature and printed dedication 'To Linda", - one fold-out page with color illustration, title. With small fold with printers signature and limitation info (9.5"x10"), (8.75"x8.75", - sewn into wrapper with title and illustration on the front. There were 100 copies printed by Walter Tisdale in 1992, but only about 70 or so made it through the folding process. This is no. 6 of 100. Painted, printed and drawn on Twinrocker Gastaldi paper. Poetry and markmaking Nancy Leavitt. Foxing on the two text/illustration pages and the back endpaper. Wrapper and front endpaper clean, back endpaper also with foxing. --- --- ABOUT: Nancy Ruth Leavitt is a calligrapher specializing in the creation of one-of-a-kind hand lettered, painted, and bound manuscript books.She uses this blog to write about and post current work and activities. Nancy Ruth Leavitt's interest in the hand lettered book developed as a result of her studies in lettering and bookbinding in the United States and Great Britain. Since 1985 she has created over one hundred and five contemporary illuminated manuscript books filled with lettering, poetry, and colorful painting. Her work is represented in public and private collections including the Houghton Library at Harvard, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Poetry Collection at the University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, and the Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. Nancy received the 2002 Stephen Harvard Award for book design from the Baxter Society. She has received several Good Idea Grants from the Maine Arts Commission for research into her craft including a project entitled "Cutting a Thousand Quills." She holds degrees in both biology and art. In her spare time she gardens and sings.…