bentley wilder (8 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Single Sheet, Folded. Fine. One Of 150 Copies.

Zustand: Good. BROADSIDE. Folio. 11" x 17" Very Good with minor creasing.

Zustand: Good. BROADSIDE. Folio. 11" x 17" Very Good with minor creasing.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Large broadside folded as issued in printed brown sleeve. Small tear in one margin and at the bottom of the spine, else very near fine. No. 1 in the Acorn Broadside Series. One of 121 copies printed on Worthy handmade paper. Uncommon.

Zustand: Good. French-Folded Leaf, 6.5 x 9 cm. 4 pp. Letterpress on Watermarked Laid Paper with Deckled Edges, Black & Red Ink. Very Good+. Scarce.Keepsake for the members of the Roxburghe-Zamorano Club joint meeting in San Francisco in 1976.

Zustand: Good. Broadside. Unfolded: 19" x 12.5"; folded: 6.25" x 5". Letterpress on Off-White Deckled Laid Paper with Watermark (Very Good), mounted to Letterpress Deckled Grey Paper French-Folded (Good with marginal tear, faint toning).

No Binding. Zustand: Near Fine. Dave Rike was a local San Francisco printer, union activist and SciFi fanzine writer/artist who befriended Wilder Bentley in the late 1950's in Berkeley. These four letters (three handwritten, one typed) and postcard chronicle Bentley's travels, and observations, as he traveled around California and Colorado seeking both employment and spiritual enrichment in the 1959/60 time period. Quite a charming batch, especially since Bentley had such a calligraphic turn to his writing! Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. 1949. Four original ink wash paintings, signed and dated in red and stamped with red chop, on separate sheets each approximately 5 x 7.25 inches, each matted to 10 x 13 inches, captioned in the mat by the artist in black and red ink. Hint of foxing to the margins, mats a little toned, over all very good. § Four paintings inspired by Muriel Rukeyser's poem "Orpheus." The four titles are: I. Cossack Fury II. Semina Scandali III. Treading out the Grapes of Wrath IV. Opera Belle Each plate additionally hand-titled "Fury from Rukeyser's Orpheus." It is possible the four abstract "Furies" were prepared as potential illustrations for the first edition of the poem, which was published by San Francisco's Centaur Press in December 1949. If so, then the publisher must have changed tack, as the book ultimately appeared with a single etching by Picasso. Harvey Wilder Bentley was born in San Francisco, worked from 1930 through 1933 at Porter Garnett's Laboratory Press at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and later settled in Berkeley where he established the Archetype Press, producing limited editions of finely printed books, broadsides, and scrolls. Highlights of the press included William Saroyan's A Native American (San Francisco: George Fields, 1938) and Ansel Adams' Sierra Nevada: the John Muir Trail (1938). In addition to his printing activities, Wilder Bentley was a prolific poet, calligrapher, and brush artist. An exhibition of his brush drawings was held at the De Young Museum in San Francisco in May 1943. Signed.