Brussel Smith Bernard (20 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good++. First American Edition. Limited to 360 Copies. 57pp, [3], bound in original stiff paper covers, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Covers show edge wear. In a protective mylar sleeve. Wood Engravings By Bernard Brussel-Smith (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Good++. First American Edition. Limited to 360 Copies. 57pp, [3], bound in original stiff paper covers, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Covers show edge wear/darkening. In a protective mylar sleeve. Wood Engravings By Bernard Brussel-Smith (illustrator).…

[6], 50 pages. Hardcover; H 24cm x L 15.75cm. Lacks dust jacket. Black spine with illustrated boards, negligible wear at spine ends. A very good+ copy. A review of the historical treatments for gout published by pharmaceutical giant Merck so as to promote their drug Benemid (probenecid or p-benzoic acid).…

Soft cover. Condition: VERY GOOD +. First American Edition. Limited to 360 Copies. 57pp, [3], bound in original stiff paper covers, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. In a protective mylar sleeve. Wood Engravings By Bernard Brussel-Smith (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. 1st printig; pictorial stapled wraps w/small stai on front; 58 clean, unmarked, bright pages. Bernard Brussel-smith (illustrator). SIGNED & Insc By Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Large format pamphlet (33 x 41 cm), (7 pages), full page wood engraving in 3 colours by Bernard Brussel-Smith (with loose protective tisssue sheet, edges creased), pamphlet in fine condition in stapled paper covers. Bernard Brussel-Smith (illustrator).

First Edition. 12mo, pp. 58. Illustrated by Bernard Brussel-Smith. One of 360 copies of the first edition set aside as Typophile monograph No. 77. Paper wraps. Cover very slightly chipped, or rubbed at edges, o/w a nice copy. Bernard Brussel-Smith (illustrator).

stiff paper wrappers. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 18, (2) pages. Limited to 500 copies. Designed by John Anderson of the Pickering Press. Contains 5 full page illustrations and a bibliography of the work of Brussel-Smith. Covers lightly foxed, else a fine copy. This copy is inscribed by Renee Weber to Jeff Rigby on the front free endpaper. Brussel-Smith, Bernard (illustrator).…

Softcover, staple-bound, 24 pages; very good condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Price list laid in.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. Reproduction of a woodblock print of well-known German type designer and calligrapher Rudolf Koch (1876-1934), by New York City artist Bernard Brussel-Smith (1914-1989). Measuring 4.25" x 6" on a 7.5" x 9" piece of glossy paper. Light foxing on front, verso toned, with four pieces of tape where it was once taped into a matte, very good. Most likely a plate from a book or a keepsake. Facsimile signature and title beneath. Perfect inspirational portrait to pin on the typographer's studio wall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Inscribed to former owner by illustrator title page. Dust jacket has chips, tears, and shelfwear, and has been price-clipped. Endpapers are browned and some of pages have light toning to edges, but otherwise a clean and sound copy of this book; no writing, highlighting, odors, stains, tears or folds. Proceeds from this sale benefit the Multnomah County Library in Portland, Oregon. This is not an ex-library book. …

First edition (not stated but with matching 1964 dates upon title and copyright pages). xviii, 121, [2] pages. Hardcover: H 24cm x L 16.25cm. Dust jacket well rubbed; some chips and abrasions to panels particularly along front panel's folds; edge nicks/scuffs, short tears, and some creasing too; front flap retains publisher's printed price ($3.95) at top right. Black cloth boards with blue stamping to spine and front board. Mild foxing/toning to text block's top edge; faint foxing to fore-edge and bottom edge. Two ink check marks found in fore-edge margins of pages 4, 7, and 40 - no others readily apparent but might be found upon a more careful perusal; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Else a very good- copy in a good+ dust jacket. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Small V corner chip on dust jacket. Ownership signature. Signature removed on request. Mylar cover over dust jacket. Folio size; beautiful wood engravings. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.

Small 4to. Heavy card stock folder housing 2 loose leaves. Near fine. Probable sole printing. Front wrapper notes, "On the occasion of the Civil War Centennial we are proud to offer these two prints of Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee. reproduced from original wood engravings by the eminent American artist, Bernard Brussel-Smith." Inside facing pages contain striking two-tone (black and tan, giving a sepia appearance) engraved portraits, Lincoln at left and Lee at right. Two laid in leaves (rectos only) feature facsimiles of the original Hartford Fire Insurance Company policies issued to Abraham Lincoln (1861) and Robert E. Lee (1859). Brussel-Smith (1914-89) was a New York artist who in his heyday of the 1940s and '50s was considered America's foremost wood engraver. From the library of noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar Arnold Gates (1914-93).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 74 pages. Features: I Stole a Million (part 1 of 2 - Insurance Fraudster David Schiffer; Hell on Ice - Ice boating; It's Smart to be Stupid; The Greatest Drug Since Penicillin - Chloromycetin; A Murder a Minute; Peak of a Skyline - The Empire State Building; Nightmare in Santo Tomas - Robert Robb was kept prisoner by the Japanese in Manila; Penny and Me - number 6 in a series devoted to America's top comic strips; Tulsa, Oklahoma - Great Aerial color photo; Red Hysteria Pleases Moscow - back page editorial. Short Stories: The Girl Who Wasn't For Sale; Tiger, Tiger; A Time to Mourn; The Three-Cornered Heart; Mrs. O'Brien Cures The Seven-Year Itch; Ringside Maiden (part 6 of 8); Ads for: Philco televisions, Heinz Soups - super two-page ad, 1949 Ford cars, Chesterfield cigarettes back cover color photo ad featuring Joan Fontaine and Van W. Daniel of Ruffin, N.C. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's - The National Weekly Magazine, February 5, 1949 I Stole a Million (part 1 of 2 - Insurance Fraudster David Schiffer; Hell on Ice - Ice boating; It's Smart to be Stupid; The Greatest Drug Since Penicillin - Chloromycetin; A Murder a Minute; Pea. Illustrated by Milroy, Karl; Fleischmann, Glen; Irvin, Fred; Dwyer, James;Jones, Casey; Snyder, Wesley; Cunette, Lou; Brussel-Smith, Bernard (illustrator).…

Broadside. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Brussel-Smith, Bernard. First Edition. Signed. #8 of 126 copies. 10 x 17 inches, bottom edge deckled. Prited on a light grey paper with dark blue lettering. Limitation states 100 offered for sale and 26 lettered copies reserved for the author and publisher. Engraving of an eye in the upper right hand corner by Bernard Brussel-Smith. Broadside. A Midsummer Night's Press was founded in New Haven CT in 1991 Hand-printing on a letterpress, it published broadsides of poems by Nancy Willard, Joe Halderman, and Jane Yolen, among others, in signed, limited editions of 126 copies, numbered 1-100 and lettered A-Z. In 1993, the publisher moved to NY and the press went into hiatus. Given it's short life time we have been unable to determine how many copies of this broadside made it into circulation. Brussel-Smith, Bernard (illustrator). …

One of America's leading wood engravers, known for his scenes of the urban working classes in the 1940s and '50s. Signed First Day Cover, 6½" X 3½", cancelled in Buffalo, New York on 1977 August 4 and with "First Day of Issue" boldly stamped. Single 13-cent "United States & Canada Peace Bridge 1927-77" stamp at upper right and handsome ArtCraft engraved cachet at left. Near the center, in blck ballpoint, Brussel-Smith signs. A classy example of this artist's virtuoso wood engraving technique -- and an uncommon autograph.…

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. Broadside. 25" x 18 1/2". Framed and matted. Fine. Printed with Sistina and Bulmer types in brown and black. One of 100 copies, Advertises an exhibition held at the Fairleigh Dickinson University Library on the Florham-Madison Campus in Madison, New Jersey, celebrating the American wood engraver Bernard Brussel-Smith, widely known for his posters of the New York Auto Shows of the 1950's and 1960's. The broadside features a large portrait print of Brussel-Smith which is typical of his direct style through the use of heavy black lines. Very attractive.…

Unbound. Condition: Fine. Wood engraving. 4.5" x 6.25", image size approximately 2.5" x 5". Tipped onto a matte, else just about fine. Signed in pencil in the lower right. Brussel-Smith, who was born in Greenwich Village in 1914, became one of America's foremost wood engravers. His work is held in numerous permanent international collections and museums.…

Brussel-Smith, Bernard. MATTHATIAS II. Woodcut in colors, 1965. Edition of 120, numbered titled and signed in pencil. 17 x 8 inches, 435 x 205 mm. In excellent condition. Brussel-Smith, Bernard (illustrator).