Barry moser designer (12 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap.

Zustand: New. In English.

Wraps. First edition. 24 pages. 25x 14 cm. A selection from business letters of Philip E. Lilienthal, designed by Moser, printed by Harold McGrath in an edition of 1000 at the Pennroyal Press in Northampton. Title page engraving of Lilienthal by Moser. Orig. cream wrappers lettered in red and black. Fine. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Anzahl Seiten 146, sehr guter Zustand, Winner The American Book Award. Barry Moser (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Format is approximately 8.75 inches by 12 inches. [16], 994, [12] pages. Two column format. Illustrations. DJ has some wear and soiling. The acclaimed illustrator brings the King James Bible to life with luminous, often haunting images that capture the ordinary human qualities of the book's well-known characters. The Holy Bible, designed and illustrated by Barry Moser, is as thrilling an experience as you'll ever find inside a dust jacket. Moser, the foremost fine press illustrator of our time, spent four years crafting the 232 relief engravings that illustrate this Bible. Moser's Bible is also available in a Viking Studio edition on acid-free paper, with a satin ribbon marker, specially-sewn binding, and cloth case. These details give the book, as a physical object, a weight and presence that dignifies its reader. It is no overstatement to say that when you begin turning the pages revelation occurs. Even from the first illustration--Adam and Eve, with unapologetically adult bodies, breathtakingly chunky and imperfect, making their way along a stream in the Garden of Eden--it's clear that Moser has a vision of God and humanity whose humility will change the way you see the world. There are so many surprises here: Abram is jaunty; Balaam's Ass stretches his mouth wide, teeth bared, conveying the comic terror of the idea that God would speak through his creatures; Moser's first illustration of the Savior, depicts Jesus as such a goofy, joyful, solid man that your heart will leap, wanting to be with him. And in some measure, Moser's Bible will bring everyone who touches it a little closer to that rabbi. --Michael Joseph Gross. In 1967 Barry Moser moved from Tennessee to New England and was teaching at The Williston Academy in Easthampton, Massachusetts. He was soon befriended by Louis Smith, a glazer, framer, and print collector who introduced him to Leonard Baskin with whom he studied at Baskin's Gehenna Press. Walking into the pressroom of Gehenna Press was like walking into another age, to a former life. The effect was such that Moser convinced Williston's administration that the school needed a printing press. They acquired a 12 x 18 Chandler Price clamshell press, that came with a run of Goudy Oldstyle. A corner room of the old Easthampton railroad station was given over to set up Williston's Castalia Press and there Moser printed his first letterpress, limited edition book, The Red Rag in 1969. In the spring of 1969 Moser was commissioned to illustrate a trade book, The Flowering Plants of Massachusetts (Vernon Ahmadjian, University of Massachusetts Press, that was not published until 1979). He became fascinated with plants and plant lore and as a result named his press Pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium), and under that imprint he published The Death of the Narcissus, a portfolio of "botanico-erotic" etchings. It comprised a half-title page, a title page, a haiku poem by the seventeenth century Edo poet Uejima Onitsura, and a colophon. That same year Moser began graduate studies in printmaking at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he studied with Jack Coughlin and Fred Becker. On the verge of giving up his quest to master that famously difficult medium of wood engraving, Becker, a master wood engraver himself, encouraged Moser to persist. Under his tutelage Moser produced a group of engravings to accompany Greek epigrams from the Greek Anthology. It was called Bacchanalia, and was the first Pennyroyal book to use wood engravings as illustrations. Pennyroyal continued to produce a few small books over the next nine years. The most ambitious was Twelve American Writers, a collection of quotations about writing by authors from James Fenimore Cooper to Ernest Hemingway, each paired with corresponding portraits of the authors. It was bound by David Bourbeau. In 1977 Moser met Andrew Hoyem, who asked if Moser would be interested in illustrating Arion Press's forthcoming Moby-Dick. He was, he did, and it was published to great fanfare. This had profound ramifications for Pennyroyal Press because, as Moser reasoned in retrospect, he could certainly design a book as well as Hoyem, and Harold McGrath, who was widely considered as the finest letterpress printer in America at the time, was certainly as good a pressman as any of Hoyem's. And so Moser, McGrath, and Jeff Dwyer, their business manager and partner, determined to produce something that was much grander than any of the previous Pennyroyal books. In 1982 the Pennyroyal Press edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland appeared and subsequently won the 1983 American Book Award for the trade edition published by the University of California Press in Berkeley, California. Following Alice's success, Pennyroyal published four more large-scale volumes in quick succession: Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There in 1982; Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus in 1983; Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1985; and L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, also in 1985. By 1985, Pennyroyal Press was back printing smaller, less ambitious volumes, and did so for the next ten years until the publication of its magnum opus, the Pennyroyal Caxton edition of the King James Bible. First Trade Edition of The Viking Studio Edition of the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible First Printing stated. Barry Moser (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Univ of California Pr October 1982 Binding: Hardcover 1982, Deluxe edition, in near fine condition, includes signed print in second volume. $NRP.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Barry Moser (illustrator). 1st edition. 1st printing. Holy Bible--King James Version. Designed and illustrated by Barry Moser. Viking Studio, New York, 1999. 994pp. 12 x 8.75 inches. Oatmeal cloth over boards with gilt design on front and spine. NEW. Dust jacket and book both in very fine condition. This is the Viking trade edition from the limited letterpress edition of the Holy Bible published by Pennyroyal Caxton Press. Moser spent four years handcrafting 232 engravings in all. First printing, with full number line. SIGNED by Barry Moser on the colophon page in pencil. He refused to sign any copies in ink. Sewn-in ribbon bookmark. Barry Moser (illustrator). Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Zustand: Near Fine. Limited Edition. A rare matching numbered set of the highly regarded publication; both volumes signed by Barry Moser at the rear colophon and both copy #270. Trade issue bindings in three-quarter morocco stamped in gilt, housed in publisher's clamshell boxes with separate suites of loose signed etchings in chemises: Adventures in Wonderland has 72 full page plates and 3 folding plates as issued, with scarce prospectus laid-in. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There has 93 plates. Complete. Near Fine. Slipcases with light staining, toning and light wear, slight fraying to joints and light sunning to spines. Barry Moser's most popular productions for his Pennyroyal Press, both major achievements in 20th century fine press book design.…

Zustand: Fine. Limited Edition. One of 350 numbered copies signed by the artist, Joseph Goldyne and book designer, Barry Moser. Two volumes. Illustrated with 10 color etchings each signed by the artist, Joseph Goldyne, with tissue guards. Second volume has an extra suite of plates also signed by the artist. Folio, volume I is full gray blind stamped morocco and Volume II is 1/2 gray morocco, with slipcase. Small abrasion to bottom of slipcase. A clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. Joseph Goldyne (illustrator).…

Limited edition. Limited edition. Signed by artist and book designer Barry Moser after the colophon; copy #33 of 400. Complete in two folio volumes, each measuring 16" x 11". Bound in publisher's full vellum over boards, gilt-lettered; housed in linen clam shell cases with printed paper labels. With over 230 engraved illustrations by Moser. The text follows the classic King James, or "Authorized" version of The Bible, first published in 1611. The type is Mathew Carter's Galliard and the composition is by Bradley Hutchinson of Texas. Titles and initials are set in Carter's Mantinia, based on inscriptional forms used by Italian Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna. Three display words were specially commissioned from John Benson. The paper is Zerkall Bible with the watermark of the Pennyroyal Caxton Press. Fine volumes, with typical slight uneveness to vellum color; cases show minor wear. Provenance: from the collection of actor and comedian Robin Williams. The Pennyroyal Caxton Bible is a magnificent production designed by Barry Moser with his own vivid illustrations in mind. This book ranks among the greatest achievements of twentieth-century fine bookmaking because of its attention to detail, artwork and typography. It is the only Bible of the twentieth century in which both the Old and New Testaments are illustrated by a single artist. Poet John Ashbery wrote of the artist, "Moser's artwork is never less than dazzling, and has an enigmatic profundity that sets it apart." The magnum opus for Moser and Pennyroyal, this surely ranks as one the of the highest points of private press work of the 20th century. Signed.…

Zustand: Very Good. OCLC Number: 24830171 Location: One of 350 numbered copies signed by the artist, Joseph Goldyne and book designer, Barry Moser. 2 volumes. Illustrated with 10 color etchings each signed by the artist, Joseph Goldyne, tissue guards. Second volume has an extra suite of plates also signed by the artist. Folio, volume One is full gray blind stamped morocco and Volume II is 1/2 gray morocco, slipcase. Magnificent limited edition.…