Utrecht; Antwerpen: Het Spectrum BV, 1973. First Dutch edition of Lavater's interpretation. Hardcover. Sextodecimo [16 cm]. Charming accordion-folding artist's book composed of red cloth boards with printed paper label and folding color lithographic interior. Top board just a little concave. In the lucite slipcase. A bright and colorful visual symbolic..... More
Utrecht; Antwerpen: Het Spectrum BV, 1973. First Dutch edition of Lavater's interpretation. Hardcover. Sextodecimo [16 cm]. Charming accordion-folding artist's book composed of red cloth boards with printed paper label and folding color lithographic interior. Top board just a little concave. In the lucite slipcase, with light wear. A bright and..... More
Abrams Comicarts, 2016. Hardcover. 148pp. Quarto [28.5cm]; accordion-fold format book in illustrated slipcase. [shrinkwrapped]. This book contains two works, with Si Lewen's wordless novel, Parade, on one side of the accordion-fold and a monograph edited by Art Spiegelman with accompanying essay on the other. Parade depicts the horrors of endless..... More
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Abrams Comicarts, 2016. Hardcover. 148pp. Quarto [28.5cm]; accordion-fold format book, bound in grey pebbled boards, enclosed in a dark maroon cloth slipcase with an image from the novel onlaid on the front. An archival envelope within contains a folded print, with art by Lewen on one side, and signed and..... More
München (Munich): Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1920. Limited Edition (German). Leather bound. Sextodecimo [16 cm] 3/4 red leather with marbled paper over boards. Hubbed spine. Top edge gilt. In the thin card slipcase with a paper title label on the side panel (lightly rubbed, and with several short splits in the..... More
Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 2009. Frans Mesereel. First edition thus. Paperback. 224pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Paperback. NEW. From the publisher: "Three wordless novels by a master, told in 206 Expressionistic woodcuts: The Sun, a struggle with destiny; The Idea, the triumph of an artistic concept over suppression; and Story Without..... More
München (Munich): Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1920. First German edition. Hardcover. 208pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] 1/4 tan cloth with tan paper over boards. Publisher's black topstain. The spine is slanted. Mit zwanzig Holzschnitten von Frans Masereel. Ubersetzt von Camill Hoffmann. More
München (Munich): Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1923. First German edition. Hardcover. 271pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] 1/4 beige cloth with tan paper over boards. Publisher's black topstain. The boards are mildly toned and just a little bit warped. The front endpaper has a darkened patch. Mit zwolf Holzschnitten von Frans Masereel. Ubersetzt..... More
New York: Turtle Point Press, 2001. Reprint. Paperback. 65pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. More
München (Munich): Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1927. Early German printing. Hardcover. 218pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] Natural beige cloth over boards, stamped in black. Black topstain. The front cover has a very minor stain to the fore-edge, there is a previous owner's name along the top edge of the front free endpaper..... More
Hamburg: Johannes Asmus Verlag, 1961. Limited Edition. Quarto [30 cm] Paper vellum spine with moss green paper over boards, and a gilt stamped title on the spine. With only minor rubbing to the boards. In the light gray paper covered slipcase, with several short splits to the fore-edges. With an..... More
Zurich: Verlag Oprecht, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Slender quarto [28 cm] Tan and black pictorial paper over boards, with toning to boards. In a dust jacket, which is split in half. Text in German. With 22 full-page woodcut illustrations by Frans Masereel. More
Berlin: Axel Juncker Verlag, 1923. First edition. Leather bound. 177pp. Large octavo [26 cm] Bound in full red Morocco with raised bands and the title gilt on the backstrip, boards embossed in blind. Top edge gilt. Marbled endsheets and pastedowns. Moderate rubbing to raised bands of spine. Small bookplate on..... More
Berlin: Axel Juncker Verlag, 1923. First edition, not numbered, not signed. Hardcover. 177pp. Large octavo [25 cm] Green cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the backstrip and front board. With tipped-in photographic representation of Masereel on the verso of the title page. The spine and the edges of the..... More
Budapest: Egyetemi Nyomda, 1948. Third, expanded edition. Hardcover. 227pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] in quarter large-grained blue morocco over beige boards. Gilt spine title. Light rubbing to extremities, front board lower corner bumped and lightly stained, else very light wear; worm holes to endpapers at hinges, else interior is sound and..... More
![Signed Linocut]. Giacomo Patri](/pictures/thumb/50779.jpg?v=1506990020)
SIGNED. Untitled linocut print on lightly textured paper measuring 29 cm x 33.5 cm. Signed and inscribed by Patri below image: "To friend Ernie King. Patri." A warmly-dressed rifleman approaches the edge of a snow-covered cliff in an arctic landscape. Wordless novelist Giacomo Patri is best known for his 1940s book..... More
Dover, 2016. New Edition. Hardcover. 144pp. Quarto [28.5 cm]; black, cloth covered boards with illustrated wraps. This Dover edition marks the first time in decades that this classic worldless novel has been in print, and the first time ever in hardcover. Originally deemed too controversial for print, the author/illustrator had..... More
Dover, 2016. New Edition. Hardcover. 144pp. Quarto [28.5 cm]; black, cloth covered boards with illustrated wraps. This Dover edition marks the first time in decades that this classic wordless novel has been in print, and the first time ever in hardcover. Originally deemed too controversial for print, the author/illustrator had..... More
San Francisco, CA: Pisani Printing & Publishing Co., [c.1940]. Third Edition. Paperback. Quarto [27.5 cm] in stiff black card wrappers with spine title and cover illustration printed in grey. Black and orange illustrations. Includes the afterword by John L. Lewis. The wraps are pulled away from the staple binding at..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 black cloth with paper covered boards, with a wing design on the front board. With seventy-one rich wood engraved plates by a master of the Brandywine School. Spine sunned. Previous owner's ink stamp on the front pastedown..... More
Chico, California: AK Press, 2020. First edition. Paperback. Unpaginated. Octavo [19.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Using the time-honored technique of the wordless graphic novel as developed by Frans Masereel and Lynd Ward, this book is an allegorical take on our current age strongman politics, a worldwide nightmare in which thugs like Trump..... More
Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1966. First World Printing. Hardcover. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a blind stamped title on the front cover. Very good. The edges of the covers are lightly rubbed. There are multiple extremely tiny stains on..... More
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. First trade edition. Hardcover. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 black cloth over illustrated boards with a paper label on the backstrip. Publisher's black top stain. Black endpapers. The covers are cocked, the spine and boards are toned, and the cloth at the head..... More
New York: Peter Smith, 1933. Sixth printing. Hardcover. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth over boards with black and white printed labels on the backstrip and front board. Publisher's black top stain. Black endpapers. The spine is lightly rolled, the cloth of the boards and backstrip is mildly sunned, the front..... More
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, October, 1930. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 black cloth over illustrated boards with a paper label on the backstrip. Publisher's black top stain. Black endpapers. Spine subtly rolled. Age toning and light rubbing to boards. The first of Ward's six wordless..... More