Harrer, Heinrich

1993. One of 300 signed by Harrer. Blind stamped design on full silk binding, wrapped in a cotton sleeve known as a "pi-chu" and two teakwood boards ("lepshing") with a Tibetan good luck charm carved into the upper board. With both original cotton and painted metal straps, includes original prospectus in envelope. Illustrated with 6 photogravures by Harrer. A map of Harrer's journey is laid-in. Fine copy!

$1,700

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad; Sean Scully

1992. Number 17 of 300 copies with 8 original color prints by Sean Scully; book numbered and signed by the artist on the colophon. 13 x 11.5 inches, 125 pages on Lana Royale stock. Handbound by Kim O'Donnell and Carol Joyce in black Nigerian goatskin; fit in black linen folding box which was produced by John von Isakovics. Fine in a a fine velvet lined slipcase, with prospectus laid in.

1989. 362/550 signed by Beckett and Ryman. Fine copy. Full black straight grained leather 4to, in suede-lined black linen slipcase. With beautiful, subtle etchings by Robert Ryman. Typeset in English Monotype Bodoni at Golgonooza Letterfoundry ... Printed at the Shagbark Press ... The etchings were printed at Wingate Studio and Renaissance Press. The design is by Benjamin Shiff. With prospectus laid in.

Arthur Rimbaud; Robert Mapplethorpe

1986. 362/1000 signed by Mapplethorpe and Schmidt. . Quarto. Full plum-red oasis morocco by the Jovonis Bindery. A fine, unfaded copy in suede-lined slipcase, with prospectus laid in. With eight dust-grain photogravures after photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, printed by Jon Goodman on handmade etching paper. The translation is a revised version of Paul Schmidt's translation, printed parallel with the original French text, printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress on mouldmade paper.

$700

Cathay

Ezra Pound; Li Po; Francesco Clemente

1992. One of 300 copies signed by Clemente. Illustrated with 7 colour woodcuts by Clemente. 4to., bound in light blue linen with matching slipcase. Designed by David Carr and printed by Arthur Larson at the Horton Tank Graphics on handmade Japanese Ogawashi paper. Fine in a near fine slipcase that has an even band of discoloration to lower edge of one of its panels.

$850

HIROSHIMA

John Hersey, Robert Penn Warren, Jacob Lawrence

Number 362 of 500 copies, signed by the author (JOHN HERSEY), by the contributor of the introductory poem (ROBERT PENN WARREN), and the illustrator (JACOB LAWRENCE). Large quarto, unpaginated, beautifully illustrated with 8 original silk screens that were executed in 11 colors, each full page and with a tissue guard laid in. Bound in full black aniline leather, with blind embossed title on the front cover, black endpapers, black page edges, housed in a black linen slip case.The 12-page introductory poem by Robert Penn Warren ("New Dawn: Hiroshima") was written especially for this book, and the illustrations by Jacob Lawrence were commissioned expressly for this edition.

$800