Garcia Street Books - Artists' Books from Spain and the New World Exhibition/Sale

Artists' Books from Spain and the New World Exhibition/Sale. Page 1

	The Exhibition / Sale begins Saturday July 15 and runs through September 10, 2006. Our annual exhibition contains original graphic works by Picasso, Miro, Tapies, Tamayo, Matta, Lam, the Taller Lenateros from Chiapas, Willard Clark, James Havard, and Beej Nierengarten-Smith. In addition the Elias Rivera Deluxe Limited Edition containing an original oil painting. Also, HISTORY OF THE INDIAN TRIBES IN NORTH AMERICA, by McKenney and Hall. Page 2
	CLARK, Willard. Recuerdos de Santa Fe 1928 - 1943 By Willard F Clark, Clark's studio, Santa Fe, 1990, limited edition of 100 copies. Printed on a Potter Proof Press (1910), Set in Centaur and Arrighi; 46 signed maple wood engravings; Paper Basingwerk and Rives; Ink: hand ground; signed color print frontis piece, "Galisteo," with four cuts in Pernambuco Wood; hand bound posthumously by Kevin Ryan. $6,000.
	DALI, Salvador. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. By Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by Salvador Dali with 12 original full-page woodcuts and one original coloured etching. Folio. Loose as issued in the publisher's leather-backed folding box, with ivory clasps. New York: Maecenas Press, Random House, 1969. $7500.00 A mint copy of this sought-after edition of Carroll's immortal tale. Dali supplied an original etching as frontispiece, which is signed in the plate, and twelve full-page colour-woodcuts. Dali also signed the title-page. Limited edition of 2500 copies.
	HAVARD, James. James Havard by Clare Henry. 240 pages, 12" x 12.5" trim size, more than 120 full-color plates, Complete illustrated chronology of the artist’s life, Hardcover, jacketed. This publication, the first extensive monograph of Havard’s work, focuses on the past two decades of his oeuvre, including painting, sculpture, and prints. It includes more than 120 color plates and illuminating texts that describe his process and artistic development, and that situate this body of work in the context of the artist’s career as well as his art historical influences. A full, illustrated chronology and documentation of his career complete this comprehensive tome.
	LAM, Wifredo. Le Rempart de Brindilles. By Rene Char. With 5 original coloured etchings by Lam, including cover. 8vo., bound loose as issued in the original illustrated wrappers and cardboard slipcase. Paris: Louis Broder, 1953. $6500.00 An immaculate copy of this splendid little book by this important Cuban-born surrealist. The book contains four colour etchings plus the fully-etched illustrated covers. All five etchings were heightened in colour by hand by Lam, who signed the cover and the collophon together with Rene Char. One of 120 copies on velin des Rives. Slipcase with slight wear.
	MATTA, Sébastian. Les Voix. By Michel Fardoulis-Lagrange. 4to., loose as issued in original paper wrappers, with a Matta etching on front cover, in cloth chemise and slipcase. Paris: Georges Visat & Le Point Cardinal, 1964. $10,000.00 An important work, here in the deluxe version with the ten colored etchings present twice, the extra set being on Auvergne paper, each one signed. This is one of the 12 copies thus, of a total edition of 110. Signed by both the artist and the author. Slipcase with slight wear. Sabatier, L'Oeuvre Gravé de Matta 113-123.
	MATTA, Sébastian. Come Detta Dentro Vo Significando. Folio, loose as issued, in cloth chemise and slipcase. Lusanne: Éditions Meyer, 1962. $17,500.00 This is part of the original maquette (comprising 1 double-page, 11 full-page and four small etchings) with drawings, proofs and a number of notes by Matta to the printer directing him to alter colours or strengthen bite, etc. There are a number of compositional differences between the proofs in this maquette and the final version in the published work. One of the artist's most important books, this series of colored etchings prove Matta to be the true heir of the first generation of surrealists. Sabatier, L'Oeuvre Gravé de Matta 72-83.
	- SOLD - MERIDA, Carlos. Trajes Regionales Mexicanos. Illustrated with 25 plates of costumes by Merida, accompanied by a 15 page text pamphlet with introduction and explanations of the plates by Salvador Echeverria. Folio, loose as issued in cloth portfolio. Mexico: Editorial Atlante, 1945. $2500.00 This is one of several portfolios Merida produced which interpret various aspects of Mexican folk culture in his own distinctive idiom. Most of these portfolios have long ago been taken apart and used as loose prints for framing, so it is now quite difficult to find complete copies in fine condition as here, despite the large limitation. One of an edition of 1000 copies, with the colophon signed by Merida.
	- SOLD - MIRO, Joan. Parler Seul. By Tristan Tzara. Illustrated with 72 lithographs by Miro. Folio, loose as issued in original publisher's wrappers and illustrated cover and slipcase. [Paris]: Maeght, 1948-1950. A Special Copy with an original watercolour drawing inserted. The drawing has a warm inscription to Natasha Gelman, signed and dated: "Miro/ Paris, 14 Febrero 1954." Plus a long inscription on the half-title to Madame Gelman signed by Tristan Tzara and dated same as above. This is one of the outstanding examples of modern book illustration and is unreservedly accepted as a supreme success in terms of collaboration between artist and author. Miro's familiar colours and abstract images combine with an imaginative mise-en-page to produce a triumph of design that few modern books can match. One of 253 copies signed by both Miro and Tzara on the colophon. "Miro's brilliantly spontaneous and amorphous images, drawn directly on the stone with very few preparatory sketches, have the inventive verve of Tzara's random verses" (Garvey). This copy has all the tissue guards present, which is important, otherwise there is often considerable offsetting which detracts significantly from the book's original beauty. Some minor soiling and/or wear to outer protective box. The Artist and the Book 206. Cramer, Miro Illustrated Books 17. Rauch 165.
	NIERENGARTEN-SMITH, Beej. Narcissus by Beej (Barbara Jean) Nierengarten-Smith. A handmade book with five original color prints and text of the Narcissus myth. Traditional lithography by Master Printer Jeff Sipple with the assistance of Linda Bangert. Only one unique book copy signed by the artist. Print/page size: 22 ½” X 15”. Vanitas Press.
	- SOLD - PICASSO, Pablo. Les Mamelles de Tiresias, Drame Surréaliste. By Guillaume Apollinaire. 88 pp. With 6 unpublished illustrations by Picasso and an original drawing. 8vo., bound in original wrappers in a new half-morocco box. Paris: Editions du Bellier, 1948. $15,000.00 A marvellous copy of this edition of the landmark play, which contained the first appearance in print of the word "surrealist," and the literary source of Poulenc's opera of 1947. "Buffoonery as a response to life has had a vogue in the twentieth century, perhaps in reaction to nineteenth century seriousness. In opera it is delightfully represented by Poulenc's Les Mamelle de Tirésias or The Breasts of Tiresias... Apollinaire's play is still widely known as the first surrealist work. Drawing heavily on the buffoonery and vulgarity of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi (1896), it was received with violent demonstrations at its premiere in 1917. With its ridiculously didactic theme, it flouted the formal traditions of the stage in a kind of farcical improvisation" (Grolier Club, pp. 40-41). Apollinaire presents the story of Thérèse, a housewife, who tires of feminine subjection and is determined to become a male. She releases her breasts (red and blue balloons that float over the audience) and becomes Tiresias, a name taken from the Greek seer who had been both man and woman. In the confusion of roles her husband produces 40,049 babies in one day. Picasso has drawn a four-breasted women on the half title, and inscribed it to Elsa. Presumably the writer Elsa Triolet, Aragon's wife.
	PICASSO, Pablo. Chronique des temps heroiques. By Max Jacob. With 3 lithographs and 3 drypoints by Picasso. 4to., loose as issued in the original illustrated wrappers and illustrated slipcase (slightly soiled). Paris: Louis Broder, 1956. $5000.00 A tribute to Picasso's close friend Max Jacob, published to commemorate the 80th anniversary of his birth. In addition to three portraits of Jacob and a picture of him with his back turned, the book also contains 24 wood-engravings by Georges Aubert after drawings by Picasso. One of an edition of 120 copies on Montval of an edition of 170 copies. The colophon is signed by Picasso. The Artist and the Book, No. 238. Bloch, 743-745, 802-804. Goeppert, Picasso Illustrated Books 78.
	RIVERA, Elias. Elias Rivera by Edward Lucie-Smith. A Deluxe Limited Edition of 50 copies, with an original signed Elias Rivera oil painting, 10 x 12 inches, suitable for framing. Both the book and the painting are housed in a specially designed clamshell box with a tip-on image and foil stamping. The box is covered with Brillianta calandre cloth. $4,200.
	TALLER LENATEROS A wide selection of artists' books, journals, paper products, and works of art, made by the Woodlanders' Workshop in Chiapas, Mexico, exclusively available in New Mexico from Garcia Street Books. These works include limited editions of Incantations by Mayan Women, an artist's book containing original silk screen prints in two editions; trade $195.00 and limited first edition of 200 for collectors, $450.00.
	TAMAYO, Rufino. Apocalypse de Saint Jean. With 15 color lithographs by Rufino Tamayo. Folio, loose as issued in the original wrappers and publisher's folding cardboard slipcase. Monaco: Club International de Bibliophilie, 1959. $8500.00 One of the most important of Tamayo's illustrated books. Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991) Mexican painter and graphic artist from Oaxaca, was influenced by modernist movements in Paris and in native Indian imagery from Mexico. Tamayo's brightly coloured lithographs for this work are filled with Mexican Indian imagery folded into the classical themes of the Biblical acocalypse of Saint John. One of 255 on Rives of a total edition of 270 copies.
	- SOLD - TAMAYO, Rufino. Air Mexicain. By Benjamin Péret. With 4 original lithographs and numerous woodcut patterns by Rufino Tamayo throughout the text. 4to., 246 x 190 mm, loose as issued in original cardboard slipcase and new cloth box. Paris: Arrault and Desjobert, 1952. $1750.00 Beautiful book by this renowned Mexican painter. The brightly colored lithographs are typical of his sensuous and austere imagery. Péret's text, in French, is printed over pink lithographs of Mexican iconography. One of 229 copies on Rives from an edition limited to 274 copies. This copy with an extra suite of the lithographs which is not called for. A fine and unopened copy.
	- SOLD - TAPIES, Antoni. 16 poems. By Shuzo Takiguchi . Illustrated with 12 hors-texte original color lithographs by Antoni Tapies. Nine of the lithographs are single-page (44 x 32 cm) and 3 are double-page (44 x 64 cm). Folio, loose as issued in wrappers, housed in a sturdy solander case (both wrappers and case designed by the artist.). Barcelona, Edicions Poligrafa, 1975. $5000.00 One of a total edition of 425 copies, this is One of only 125 copies printed on papel de Estraza, a thick laid paper with a wonderful rough texture, signed by Tapies. Text includes the poems in the original Japanese, and in Catalan, English, and French translation. A perfect copy, with no defects. Galfetti 539-550.