Black Leda (5 results)

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine/NO DUSTJACKET. Black & White Illustrations, Graphs (illustrator). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Near Fine/NO DUSTJACKET. 1995. . Paperback. 8vo., 666p, Very light shelf wear, otherwise does not appear to have been read. Pages clean and unmarked. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Author (illustrator). Limited Edition. Short, tight split to the wrap at the tail of the spine.; One woman's journey in letterpress and graphic design, from unloading machinery in her driveway, to the tedious business of book and job printing, to the "Swan Song" of her Black Swan press years later. More than storytelling, it's rendered as an artist's book with text printed over illustrated leaves. Some pages have two story lines interspaced together in different text colors. One of a limited edition of 500. No place of publication stated, but likely Providence, RI where Black resided at the time of publication. 12 pages, but unpaginated. Black says of her two presses: "It might take me several hours to get the make-ready just right. The thing about C&P's (sic) is that the first impression always looks like shit. Even after three years I have to steel myself for that first sink-of-heart. The Windmill, though, the Windmill is a completely different animal. And I know it my very first impression, it's just there, right from the start." She has a 'press injury:' "I can feel my hand start to swell instantly. I go into a panic. "Help, somebody help me!" I shout. Mark's voice in the hall, "Who is it, where are you?" He sees me and goes into a worse panic than mine." . "I realize no one knows how to save me. A clarity settles across my mind. I've read somewhere in my manual about how to run the press backward, but that's too hard. I look down & see my salvation will be the roller height adjustment. "Get the wrench!" Charlie picks up the roller height gauge which doesn't remotely resemble a wrench. I need the 13/17 spanner but it's not where it should be. With focused clarity I spot it under a pile of proof sheets on the stone, out of my reach. With it I release my hand." . "After my nausea passes, I wash up the press. Stupid mistake, dumb luck. I keep that wrench in my pocket now when I print: my escape wrench. I have a tiny scar where the skin was tucked & pinched. I could have crushed my hand flat. Machines don't know from flesh." In polychrome illustrated paper over cardstock covers with title in black, outlined, block font. Brown pastedowns. Endpapers with various, colorful, embedded fibers. This is a tiny book that says much and is a fearless first-person account of letterpress. It's clean, conservatively Very Good+, and appears Near Fine. Scarce in the trade, despite its print run.; Color Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 12 pages.

Half-Cloth. Condition: Collectible-Fine. No Jacket. Leda Black (illustrator). First Limited Edition. Unnumbered; HB. Hand-made book. The colophon reads: "This book was written, designed, hand-set, printed & bound by Leda Black in the spring of 1988. The illustrations are etchings-aquatints, the paper is Rives BFK, and the type is spectrum. This work was executed at Mills College in Oakland, California, 'Cityspace' was conceived while driving across west Texas & staring out the window. Soon I will go to South America & stare at things there for a while." It is then signed in pencil by Black and identified as No. 4 of an extremely limited edition of only 10. Pages: clean, bright, tight, one heavy-weight multi-folded page, several glassine page protectors. Cover: heavy kraft paper over boards, inlaid and embossed cityscape front, black cloth backstrip, no titles; no shelfwear. Faint 3/4-inch pen mark front board. A unique book and early work of a well-regarded book artist. Signed by Author(s).

Accordian fold. Condition: As new. Dust Jacket Condition: as new. First Edition. as in queen (the abcdedarium of a typophiliac) Number 2/100 an artist's book by Leda Black. It is an alphabet book of the letter Q. The text is a series of praise poems to this letter. The words form mesostichs (similar to acrostics) in which a word is created by the verticle alignment of other words in the middle of the text block. The words formed are the names of the typeface of that Q in alphabetical order. The first is Anna, the last is Zapf Book. Letterpress printed from hand-set type and polymer plates in four colors on Somerset Satin 100% rag paper. Accordian structure with removable jacket. 4 1/2" x 6 1/4" x 1". As new condition.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine in Wraps. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Limited Edition. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. "Leda Black, originally from New Mexico, moved to the DC area from Upstate New York in 2010. She studied philosophy as an undergraduate and was trained in the book arts in graduate school. She operated a letterpress printing and graphic design studio after graduation and has since worked as a print and web designer. She has been working with computer graphics and photographic imagery since the 1980's. Since 2014 she has been producing digital original prints and has lately been working with collage and assemblage. Black makes art to highlight and mediate the distractions and conflicts that arise from the limitations of human perception and understanding. Human minds and societies new to create differences in order to organize and structure experience - to create meaning - but these difference are subject to mental and physical limitations and are open to perversion by the exigencies of power and the forces of history. In much of her work she tires to attract attention to the particular thing outside of mental expectations and categories. Black has been creating a multi-faceted series of objects and writings called the "Female Power Project" since late 2015. Since the beginning of 2017 she has been making protest graphics." [artist website]. Minor shelf/edge wear to wrapper, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Lilac printed wrappers, cut-paper flap closure, shaped paper textblock(s) (house-shaped) each in 4 printed leaves, double gate folded. 12mo. Illus. Numbered limited edition, this being 47 of 100.