21st editions steven albahari (20 results)

Condition: Fine. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, June 10 (weekend sale item)* limited to 1000 copies; 158, [3] pp., hardcover, NEW!! - 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Quarto, 13 color reproductions advertising the collection. Enclosed in black cloth portfolio, Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by publisher and contributor Steven Albahari to previous owner, "with fond memories" and dated 5-9-03 to half-title. First edition of 4500 copies. Sponsors booklet laid in. 13" X 11 1/2". 216pp. Slate gray cloth over boards, with pictorial label of horses in black and white to upper board and title in very faint blind to spine. Mild dust soiling to cloth. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. This first volume of the Journal of Contemporary Photography "focuses on the 'transcendent vision' of 15 major contemporary photographers, illustrated here in richly printed hand-pulled photogravure. Volume I also contains a woodcut by the late Leonard Baskin. Writers include Pulitzer Prize winning poet Richard Wilbur; prize-winning novelists Ann Beattie and Robert Olen Butler; poet and critic Dana Gioia; Harvard professors and award winning historians John Stilgoe and John Stauffer; and Wales' great poet, the late R. S. Thomas, among many others" (Publisher). Design by Paul McMenamin, tri-tones and letterpress text by The Stinehour Press on Mohawk Superfine paper. Binding by Acme Bookbinding.

Condition: All quite fine. No. 22 of 60 copies signed by the artist, poet, editor & publisher (only 40 copies for sale). Large format (14 3/8" x 11 1/2"). Edited and with an introduction by John Wood. Photographs by Vincent Serbin, typography and presswork by Michael Russem of Kat Ran Press. Text composed in Monotype Baskerville by Michael & Winifred Bixler. The paper made by Kathryn Clark Twinrocker. The binding by Peter Geraty at his Praxis Bindery. There are 10 full-page avant-garde photographs, each titled and signed in ink by the artist, along with another separate photograph laid in, also signed and not featured in the text. Bound with a copper-titled white vellum spine with very heavy copper 'boards' with a design on the upper cover. Housed in a clamshell box of off-white linen with cover title in copper and an embossed design. No. 22 of 60 copies signed by the artist, poet, editor & publisher (only 40 copies for sale).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Limited Edition. Book condition is new, purchased directly from the publisher when it was published. Opened once for inspection. Still in publisher original shipping box. Beautifully hand crafted book. Cante Jondo Photographs by Josephine Sacabo. Poems by Ana Cristina Rudholm y Balmaceda. Introduction by John Wood. Edition: 60 numbered copies.10 bound, plus 1 free-standing, fully signed silver gelatin prints. 20 x 16 inches. Handcrafted in New England. From the publisher: "I have heard more people than I can recall describe their first experience of seeing a Josephine Sacabo image. They say things like "I loved it" or "I just had to have it." I remember my own experience on first seeing one of her works; it was like an electrical charge rising out of the image and directly striking me. I thought, "I want to be able to look at this image every day for the rest of my life." ." ."Our inarticulate attempts to describe the effect of her work is the result of having confronted Sacabo's duende, having been brought close to the precipice, and having felt, in the words of Spain's great poet Lorca, that "jet of blood worthy of her pain and her sincerity that the duende inspired." -John Wood. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Limited Edition. Book condition is new, purchased directly from the publisher when it was published. Opened once for inspection. Still in publisher original shipping box. Beautifully hand crafted book The Duino Elegies. Photographs by Josephine Sacabo. Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke. Translated by Leslie Norris & Alan Keele. Introduction by John Wood.Edition: 60 numbered copies, this one is number 26. 10 bound, plus 1 free-standing suitable for framing, fully signed silver gelatin prints 16 x 13 1/2 inches. Handcrafted in New England. From the publisher: ".I have heard more people than I can recall describe their first experience of seeing a Josephine Sacabo image. They say things like "I loved it" or "I just had to have it." I remember my own experience on first seeing one of her works; it was like an electrical charge rising out of the image and directly striking me. I thought, "I want to be able to look at this image every day for the rest of my life." Our inarticulate attempts to describe the effect of her work is the result of having confronted Sacabo's duende, having been brought close to the precipice, and having felt, in the words of Spain's great poet Lorca, that "jet of blood worthy of her pain and her sincerity".that the duende inspired. -John Wood". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. As new deluxe limited edition of 110 copies (of which 100 were for sale), this being copy number 89. Signed in black ink on the limitation page by Cy DeCosse, John Wood, Sheila Metzner, John Stevenson, Susan Ludvigson, Scott Ely, Morri Creech and Carol Wood. Hardcover. Fine green Italian cloth-covered boards with green quarter Moroccan goatskin binding and title stamped in black on spine, no dust jacket as issued. The book is contained in a handmade green Italian cloth-covered basswood clamshell box. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Price is net to all; promotional discounts do not apply. First edition, first printing. Deluxe limited edition of 110 copies (of which 100 were for sale), this being copy number 47. Signed in black ink on the limitation page by Cy DeCosse, John Wood, Sheila Metzner, John Stevenson, Susan Ludvigson, Scott Ely, Morri Creech and Carol Wood. Hardcover. Fine green Italian cloth-covered boards with green quarter Moroccan goatskin binding and title stamped in black on spine, no dust jacket as issued. The book is contained in a handmade green Italian cloth-covered basswood clamshell box. Photographs by Cy DeCosse. Essays by John Wood, Sheila Metzner, John Stevenson, Susan Ludvigson, Scott Ely, Morri Creech and Carol Wood. Includes notes on the contributors. Designed by Carolyn Eckert. 176 pp., with seven hand-pulled photogravures by Jon Goodman Photogravure and 43 tritone plates exquisitely printed by Trifolio, Verona, Italy from separations by Robert J. Hennessey. Book measures 15-3/4 x 13-3/4 inches, clamshell box is 17 x 14-7/8 inches. New. A Mint flawless copy. From the essay by John Wood: "There is a long tradition of flower painters, and from the beginning of photography there have been photographers of vegetables and flowers, but no other artist has ever looked at either quite the way DeCosse does or arranged them with such baroque flamboyance. DeCosse is a master at making some frozen moment ambered in photography's fixing gaze seem to be alive and vital with movement. Even his single, simple Onion is balletic in the grace of its gestures. Has anyone ever seen so elegant a piece of dried onion skin! The very idea of such an onion surprises us with the freshness of DeCosse's eye and approach. Or look at his Onion Flowers bending and undulating like dancers. His Radicchio Trevisano seems to be completing a gesture-just as a dancer might with her arms gracefully curved in front of her, one twisting over the other; the Fritillaria bends into a bow; his Sweet Peas are popping open; Fireworks are going off; the Rose Bouquet looks like an exploding star; and those masterpieces, the Queen of the Night and the King of the Night have burst not just into bloom but into booming, wondrous activity." Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. A stunning hard-bound edition, limited to just 65 hand-numbered copies, signed in pencil on the colophon page by photographer Eikoh Hosoe, translator John Wood and publisher Steven Albahari. Ten tipped-in platinum prints, each signed on the reverse. Afterword, by Hosoe. French translations and introduction by John Wood. Bound at Praxis Bindery in matte black anodized aluminum boards with Japanese title printed in glossy black on the cover, with a black leather spine. With an additional, signed platinum print, 'Man and Woman No. 24', signed in kanji in pencil on the lower right margin by Hosoe, and placed in a separate protective folder. The book and print are in a red silk-covered clamshell box (18-1/4 x 15-1/4 inches) with a magnetized hinged clasp and title stamped in black on the cover, lined with red velvet and with Japanese title blind-stamped inside the lid. Fine condition in fine clamshell box. This title is easily among the most striking and pleasing from a publisher that produced many impressive photo illustrated books in the early 21st century. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. As new; fine in all aspects. One of 65 copies. A fine copy of the book, a fine example of the signed and numbered platinum print. in clamshell as issued. No flaws. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Flor Garduno Photographs (illustrator). Limited Edition. Fine; slight rubbing to corners of clamshell case, else As New. Limited/Numbered/Signed Edition: this is number 49 of 65 copies, signed on the limitation page by the Flor Garduno, John Wood, and Steven Albahari. Publisher's clamshell case contains a leather-spined book with paper-covered boards, with an introduction by John Wood, and the sonnets interspersed with ten tipped-in platinum prints with Garduno's initials on the back of each, and faced by sheets of Apollo Light Impressions Buffered paper. A separate folder contains an unbound platinum print mounted for framing, with the artist's signature below. Folio, unpaginated, about 100 leaves. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Limited Edition. The book is new! Opened only for inspection. Purchased directly from the publisher. This edition is long sold out. Limited to 65 numbered and five letter pressed copies. This book is number 14 of 65 It comes with 11 original platinum prints (ten bound and one free standing print suit for framing). The bound prints are initialed by the artist and the free standing print is signed. The book is hand-bound and printed in on hand-made paper. Measuring 15 3/4X15 3/4 inches, this beautiful volume is bound in handmade paper with a leather spine. The book is in new/pristine condition. From the publisher.".I spoke of Shakespeare as a great psychologist, but so is Flor Garduño. She understands woman more universally, it appears to me, than any other visual artist. She sees woman in all her dimensions¿as Siren, Eve, Medusa,Venus¿sees her in the sweep of all her varied powers and attractions. Her work is finally a deeply moving tribute to woman, to all women, because, as I suggested earlier, her Venus is Everywoman. Shakespeare¿s genius, like Garduño¿s, comes from his deep understanding of human nature. In play after play we see ourselves strutting about in all the cruelty, jealousy, meanness, bad temper, good humor, compassion, honor, and love we are capable of. He shows us our burden and our glory. -John Wood" The Sonnets of Shakespeare Photographs by Flor Garduño Introduction by John Wood Edition: 65 numbered and 5 lettered copies 10 bound, plus 1 fully signed and free-standing, platinum prints 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches Handcrafted in New England. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. As new, first edition, first and only printing. Stunning Limited Edition Platinum Series of 65 hand-numbered copies (this being number 49), signed in pencil on the colophon page by Hosoe, John Wood and Steven Albahari. Includes a freestanding, signed platinum print, 'Man and Woman No. 24' (5-5/8 x 9 inches), signed in kanji in pencil on the lower right margin by Hosoe, and contained in a separate protective folder. Hardcover. Matt black anodized aluminum boards with Japanese title printed in glossy black on the cover, with a black leather spine, no dust jacket as issued. The book and print are contained in a deep purple-red raw silk-covered clamshell box (18-1/4 x 15-1/4 inches) with magnetized hinged clasp and title stamped in black on the cover, lined with red velvet and with Japanese title blind-stamped inside the lid. Then in a wood box with handle. Photographs and afterword by Eikoh Hosoe. French translations and introduction by John Wood oversized and overweight Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Photogravures by Tom Baril. Short story by Ann Beattie. Introduction by John Wood. Edition: 75 portfolios. This portfolio is number 64. It includes 12 unbound signed photogravures, 24 x 20. Handcrafted in New England. From the publisher: ."No American writer better captures the spirit of our times than Ann Beattie does, and no American photographer has better captured the look of our principal city than Tom Baril has.What is most striking about Baril¿s photographs is his sense of the complex drama at work, which is also what always marks Beattie¿s work and gives it its striking and characteristic tone of uneasiness. Theirs is not an instantaneous art, not a matter of merely recognizing the decisive or dramatic moment and recording it. Baril¿s art involves the drama of soliloquy, of waiting¿even for hours or on different days¿for the camera¿s full image to form and speak: for the clouds or the light or the dark in concert with the shapes themselves to call out with a single voice. Similarly, the Beattie moment comes following what might have seemed a random accumulation of meaningless details, but they are the details that create the texture of her characters¿ lives, so that at the decisive moment she can reveal the humanity of the ordinary. - John Wood". Extremely RARE. This is probably the only available copy, online and out. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. This is a Platinum Limited Edition of 100 signed and numbered copies and 10 lettered copies.The copy for sale is number 39/100. It includes a signed freestanding platinum print that measures 9 7/8 x 7 3/8 inches. The paper is 13 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches. The print is signed in pencil on lower right margin by Mann and is accompanied by a poem The book is buff paper covered boards with title stamped in silver on cover. No dust jacket as issued. It comes in a buff raw silk cloth-covered clamshell box. Photographs, introduction and poetry by Sally Mann. Edited by John Wood. Unpaginated, with ten bound platinum prints monogrammed in pencil in the margin by Mann. Overall dimensions 14-5/8 x 12-5/8 inches. This book is new. Opened only once for inspection. From the publisher: "Sally Mann brings together many of the most graceful and sensuous early figure and drapery studies created by this internationally acclaimed artist. This precious 14 x12" Platinum Series volume is a true livre d'artiste, as the introduction and all of the accompanying poems were written by the artist herself. Each signed and numbered copy of Sally Mann is hand-bound, printed in letterpress on handmade cotton rag paper, and delivered in a unique case created to complement the exquisite binding. Hand coated platinum prints by Stan Klimek. Paper by Twinrocker. Hand binding by Sarah Creighton. Letterpress printing by Michael Russem."21st received the 3rd Annual Lucie Award for Photographic Book Publisher of the Year for this publication. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. This is a Platinum Limited Edition of 100 signed and numbered copies and 10 lettered copies.The copy for sale is number 39/100. It includes a signed freestanding platinum print that measures 9 7/8 x 7 3/8 inches. The paper is 13 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches. The print is signed in pencil on lower right margin by Mann and is accompanied by a poem The book is buff paper covered boards with title stamped in silver on cover. No dust jacket as issued. It comes in a buff raw silk cloth-covered clamshell box. Photographs, introduction and poetry by Sally Mann. Edited by John Wood. Unpaginated, with ten bound platinum prints monogrammed in pencil in the margin by Mann. Overall dimensions 14-5/8 x 12-5/8 inches. This book is new. Opened only once for inspection. From the publisher: "Sally Mann brings together many of the most graceful and sensuous early figure and drapery studies created by this internationally acclaimed artist. This precious 14 x12" Platinum Series volume is a true livre d'artiste, as the introduction and all of the accompanying poems were written by the artist herself. Each signed and numbered copy of Sally Mann is hand-bound, printed in letterpress on handmade cotton rag paper, and delivered in a unique case created to complement the exquisite binding. Hand coated platinum prints by Stan Klimek. Paper by Twinrocker. Hand binding by Sarah Creighton. Letterpress printing by Michael Russem."21st received the 3rd Annual Lucie Award for Photographic Book Publisher of the Year for this publication. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Please inquire about pricing. First edition, first and only printing. Magnificent Platinum Limited Edition of 100 signed and numbered copies (this being copy number 72) and 10 lettered copies. Includes a signed freestanding platinum print (image measures 9-7/8 x 7-3/8 inches; paper is 13-7/8 x 11-7/8 inches), signed in pencil on lower right margin by Mann and accompanied by a poem. Hardcover. Buff paper-covered boards with title stamped in silver on cover, no dust jacket as issued; contained in a buff raw silk cloth-covered clamshell box. Photographs, introduction and poetry by Sally Mann. Edited by John Wood. Unpaginated, with ten bound platinum prints monogrammed in pencil in the margin by Mann. Overall dimensions 14-5/8 x 12-5/8 inches. New (a flawless New copy direct from the publisher, opened only for inspection). From the publisher: "Sally Mann brings together many of the most graceful and sensuous early figure and drapery studies created by this internationally acclaimed artist. This precious 14 x12" Platinum Series volume is a true livre d'artiste, as the introduction and all of the accompanying poems were written by the artist herself. Each signed and numbered copy of Sally Mann is hand-bound, printed in letterpress on handmade cotton rag paper, and delivered in a unique case created to complement the exquisite binding. Hand coated platinum prints by Stan Klimek. Paper by Twinrocker. Hand binding by Sarah Creighton. Letterpress printing by Michael Russem." 21st received the 3rd Annual Lucie Award for Photographic Book Publisher of the Year for this publication. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Book Condition:New; opened once for inspection. Probably, the lowest price available on the market.1st Edition. 18 x 15 inches, full Moroccan goatskin, Two volumes comprising the complete publication paring Witkin's images with poetry by William Blake. Both volumes housed in cloth covered clamshell boxes. Each volume contains 10 bound-in hand-initialed platinum prints by Witkin plus an unbound signed and numbered print in a separate folding sheet with letterpress title. Limited to an edition of 65 copies of which this is number 14. Signed in pencil on the colophon leaf by Witkin, editor John Wood and publisher Stephen Albahari. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Limited Edition. "Crowd" and "Shadows of the Dream" come as two separate books, Crowd is one, Shadow of the Dream is the other. Each book is housed in a clamshell box, which is housed in a wooden custom made case. Each book includes 15 bound and signed, plus 1 free-standing signed silver gelatin prints; all together, 32 signed prints.All the prints were made by Misha Gordin on Agfa papers.The books measures 14 x 16 3/4 inches. The set was opened once, for inspection only. Handcrafted in New England by 21st Editions. Silver gelatin photographs and poems (Crowd) by Misha Gordin. Selected text edited by John Wood. Edition: 47 numbered sets. 33 are numbered (1-33), and 14 are with roman letters (I-XIV). This is set number 26 of 33. All the sets with roman letters were given to the artist, Misha Gordin. This set is signed by the artist, the publisher and the editor. Handcrafted in New England. From the publisher: "21st Editions brings together two distinct bodies of work from one of the most fascinating photographers we have ever published. In Crowd, Misha Gordin¿s variations on the theme are at once subtle and yet universally appealing. Quietly powerful, graphically dynamic, Gordin¿s silent figures compel the mind to explore not only the viewer¿s own meanings, but those of humanity writ large. Gordin¿s Shadows of the Dream photographs open onto new worlds of depth and meaning. Enigmatic, highly charged landscapes provide doors and windows into the psyche, welcoming endless opportunities for personal interpretation through these meticulously crafted original silver gelatin photographs.". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. PRICING & AVAILABILITY: Please inquire for availability and current price (promotional discounts do not apply). First edition, first and only printing. Platinum Series limited edition of 65 signed and numbered copies (these each being #42/65). Photographs by Joel-Peter Witkin. Text by John Wood and poetry by William Blake, printed in monotype letterpress on rare hand-made papers. Design by Carolyn Eckert. Each book is individually hand-sewn and bound in hand-crafted and tooled full Moroccan goatskin, and is enclosed in an embossed basswood clamshell box. Each oversized book measures 18 x 15 inches and weighs over 14 pounds. Hand-coated platinum prints by John Marcy; Handmade paper by TwinRocker; Handbinding and decorated papers by Sarah Creighton; Letterpress printing by Michael Russem; Text composition by Michael Bixler. Each edition includes 10 bound-in hand-initialed platinum prints, and an additional free-standing, signed and numbered platinum print, each among Witkin's most sought-after images (Songs of Experience includes "Harvest" and Songs of Innocence includes "Still Life, Mexico"). Each edition is numbered and signed by the artist, the editor and the publisher. Both editions are As New (books, prints and clamshell boxes all in pristine, flawless condition). From John Wood: "No visual artist since Blake himself is better suited to illustrate the Songs of Experience than Joel-Peter Witkin, for Witkin is the most profoundly religious photographer in the history of the medium and probably the most god-haunted American artist of the twentieth century. His imagery, like Blake's, is a direct outgrowth of his spirituality. Witkin understands that art and religion are made of the same things: sex, death, and God. In Blake's own time few people could perceive the prophetic nature and spirituality of his work. Two centuries later we see him far more clearly, but in his day his visionary claims coupled with an art like no one had ever before seen or read made him an outsider. When artists see beyond what others insist on calling the 'real' world, when they shape new realities, such as Cézanne and Picasso did, or shape new mythologies from the very flesh of the ones we know, and then insist that the deity they reveal is historical, orthodox, and authentic, those artists begin to disturb us deeply. They undermine our security. They demand we look again at what we thought we had seen, that we look through their eyes, and that we look more deeply than we ever before had looked." From the artist (Songs of Innocence): "If our first book was glorious, this one will be mystical. There is a Buddhist saying -- To everyman is given the key to the Gates of Heaven -- but the same key also opens the Gates of Hell. That is the difference between innocence and experience. It is what compels our desire to live. It is why, for those who can see it, Blake is God's jester. Blake was so wise that he could see 'nature as the work of the Devil.' He stated that 'The Devil is in us as far as we are in nature.' It is only when we are disengaged from mortality -- at death -- that evil leaves us. Then, after Judgment, either our chains are broken or we are 'his' Evermore. Logic, the rational - these are options, the Soap Operas of Divine Belief. Philosophy is a soiled diaper. Darwin playing in guano some where in a Bosch landscape. The subjects of my work are not freaks, degenerates, or the grotesque. They are ourselves. In this violent and visually wallpapered age, I have chosen to evoke the darkness rather than the light: as Goya, Blake and Redon have. Because we argue for Divine Madness as an honorable choice in a society devoid of human honor. The themes of my work are the things which constitute human existence, history, beauty. The work has at its very core the evidence of conscience presented as photographic metaphor. I strive to create experiences no one has seen or felt before." Signed by Author.