Lenore Thomas Straus (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Artist Book by Sculptor Lenore Thomas Straus. Poem on the creative process & spirituality of a sculptor. Limited Edition, Number 507 of 600 copies signed by Straus and with her personal stamp on the limitation page. Illustrated with color prints and black & white photos. Cover, binding, and inside pages are Near Fine. Paper dust jacket has scuffing and a tear at spine as shown. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. illustrated (illustrator). Limited Edition. Unclipped pictorial dust jacket lightly soiled in mylar cover. Additionally, there is a second dust jacket made from brown craft paper that is inscribed, "For Scott, With gratitude and affection, Lenore". Tight binding, solid gray boards with black lettering and two hands, bright black lettering to spine strip, decorative end papers, clean, unmarked pages throughout. #4 of 650 copies.

Blue cloth lettered in white. Pictorial end papers. This book, except for the binding, was made entirely by the artist, including two copper-plate engravings, fifteen engravings reproduced as half-tones overprinted with color woodblocks, and a tipped-in half-tone plate of a sculpture which she erected in the Lofoten Islands of Norway in 1967. This is number 346 of 600 copies, signed by the author on the front half-title leaf. (There was a linen-bound deluxe issue of 60 copies issued as well). Small ownership stamp on the inner front cover, a very nice clean copy in a very good dust jacket, with some short tears to hinges and at edges. Unfortunately, one page of text has a tear halfway across the page. See photographs.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 27.5 x 22.5 cm. [62 pp.] unpaginated. 19/600 limited. Unclipped jacket has small loss (as per picture). Blue cloth with white lettering: entirely clean without fault. A beautiful amalgam of poetry and image and emblematic of its time of production. Flat signed by author to title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Lenore Thomas Straus (illustrator). First Edition. Poem on the creative process & spirituality of a sculptor. Born in Chicago in 1909, Lenore Thomas, though she studied at the Chicago Art Institute, was a largely self-taught sculptor, creating large-scale public works for New Deal programs. Living in Maryland in the 1940s, she married Robert Ware Straus; both were involved in social justice issues and Lenore was investigated by HUAC in the 1950s. Later she moved to Maine, where she taught, continued to sculpt, and became active with a zen community until her death in 1988. This, her second book, was made entirely by the artist (except the binding), including two copper-plate engravings printed with hand-set type, fifteen engravings reproduced as half-tones overprinted with color woodblocks and a tipped-in half-tone plate of a sculpture she erected in the Lofoten Islands of Norway in 1967. This is number 541 of 600 printed (there was a smaller edition with a more elaborate binding, better paper, and original engravings), SIGNED by the artist on the half-title (with her stamped seal in red) and additionally INSCRIBED on the endsheet to a Wisconsin social psychologist, child welfare advocate, and activist. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book; jacket shows light edgewear & minor creasing, but most of the front panel is cockled & lightly waterstained, the rear panel shows a faint waterstain, small smudge, tear to the flap hinge. Text clean; [64] pages, color & b/w illustrations, photo endsheets. Size: Quarto.

Large Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Limited Edition. Limited edition, #490 of 600 copies. Three closed tears to jacket along top corner, jacket lightly rubbed and toned. 1969 Large Hardcover. [62 pp.] An attractive multimedia production mixing the author's experience as a sculptor with poetry, photography, illustration, and letter press bookmaking. The book was printed on Kilmory Text laid paper, the tipped in photos were made by Straus, and the printing and copper-plate engravings (some of which are overstruck in color with wood blocks) were produced at the author/artist's private press. Straus was somewhat of a controversial figure. A self-proclaimed communist, she was vocal about immigrants' rights and the working poor, and much of her art was made possible by New Deal programs encouraging the independence of women artists in ways that had up to that point not been possible. Signed by author. Signed by illustrator.

Hardcover book. Condition: Overall very good condition. First printing, Limited edition. SIGNED by the author. A book by Straus [1909 - 1988] who was an American sculptor and author. The premise of the book is her journey to Norway, the place of her father's birth, as part of her introspection of her own life. Illustrated by her with sketches, photographs of sculpture and her own words. Sm 4to, (10), 100pp, illustrations throughout. Grey cloth with title in black on front cover and spine. With original dj black on cream in protective mylar. This copy is signed and numbered 212 in a limited edition of 650 copies. Very good condition with a vg dust jacket that has some browning on the spine and a small perforation. OCLC: 4143403.

Condition: Very Good. SIGNED! Washington D.C.: Galaxy, Inc. 1964. 1st edition. Sm 4to Hardcover. Grey cloth with black lettering on front cover and spine. 100pp. B/W illustrations. Limited edition No. 84 of 650 copies. Signed by author in black ink on half title page. Very Good book and Good dust jacket. Dust jacket has a few stains on the front and back cover. Autograph letter signed by author, laid in. In polypropylene bag. 25 copies OCLC. No auction records. (sculptors, united states, biography, oclc ) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition, signed issue. Quarto. [78]pp. Illustrated with sixteen full-page copper-plate engravings, printed intaglio on a Meeker and McFee etching press, each numbered, signed and dated by Straus and inserted with hinges, plus two engravings on copper relief-printed with the type on the same pages. Also reproduces black-and-white photographs by the author. Publisher's linen with morocco spine label gilt. Nicely printed from hand set type on J. Perrigot Arches Special MBM, France paper. A fine copy issued without dust jacket. Deluxe issue on Arches paper limited to 50 numbered copies of a total edition of 60 including "about ten" marked "artist proof and not for sale.Signed by Lenore Thomas Straus.

Hardcover. Loosely printed sheets gathered into folds, photographically illustrated wrap-around cover to contain the whole, with ample tissue guards around everything, contained in a blue cloth prtfolio cover with printed title in gold, author's name, all housed in a printed and illustrated cardboard slipcase. Contains 16 copper plate engravings, each signed "Lenore" and marked "Artist's Proof" with tissue guards, two other hand-printed illustrations within the text (hand-set type by the artist/author and one more handprinted illustration on the paper cover which is also signed-in-full by the artist. A spectacular publication of this sculptress' etched work and poetry. The entire run of this edition (which precedes the 1970 edition, which was limited to 600 copies) was hand-printed on a 12x18 Chandler and Price platen press, treadle and power. Printed on J. Perrigot Arches Special MBM Paper, the entire production crafted by the sculptress, with the exception of the box. Exquisitely done. "Issued in a portfolio in a case./ "Sixteen copper-plate engravings were printed intaglio."/ "This edition is limited to fifty copies, numbered and signed, plus about ten signed copies marked Artist's Proof, which are not for sale." What is unique about this offering is that there is an additional, slightly different, Artist's Proof (with all the etchings marked as such), as well as a third printing variant and then a fourth mock-up copy. A rare opportunity to see the creative process of an Artist's Book through to it's final edition. More information available upon request. Soiling to cardboard case, some very faint spotting to front and rear cover of portfolio; contents are Fine 1 of appx. 10 (in addition to 50 signed and numbered).

First Edition. Limited to 600 copies of which this is no. 428. Small quarto (27.75cm.); original cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; unpaged; photographic endpapers, full-paged color-blocked copper-plate engravings throughout. Jacket a hint shelf-worn and rather dust-soiled with small soil stain to upper panel, else Fine in About Very Good jacket. Signed on half title and inscribed and signed on front free endpaper: "For Bernarda [Shahn] with love and happy memories. Lenne." From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label tipped to front pastedown. Artist book that is part poem, part personal essay, on the creation of one of the author's stone carvings. Straus is best known for her relief stone monuments created for the New Deal-era Resettlement Administration's planned community of Greenbelt, Maryland.