Loeber Nancy (4 results)

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Prospectus designed by Russell Maret and printed on Mohawk papers in and edition of 500 by Artale Graphics. 8 unnumbered pages in printed, stapled wrappers; 8vo; 3 tipped-in sheets showing letter forms; one full page reproduction of letter forms, with additional examples reproduced in margins. About two lines of text on rear cover, apparently an address for the publisher, crossed out. Laid in is a printed announcment for Book Art Object, published as a record of the first biennial CODEX Book Fair and Symposium, and a circular for Alphabet Festival, by Circle Press. Prospectus for manuscript calligraphic alphabet, for which the artist drew his inspiration from letter forms of the past 1700 years. Drawings were intended to portray the spirit of each letter at a particular historical moment of its life.

paper-covered boards. Loeber, Nancy (illustrator). 4to. paper-covered boards. (20) French-fold pages. Illustrated by Nancy Loeber. Privately printed in an edition of 20 numbered copies signed by the artist / printer, Nancy Loeber, of which this is one of 17 standard copies. Half A Day is an allegorical tale, published in 1989, in which the narrator begins the day as a young boy entering school for the first time, but leaves the schoolyard an old man whose life has passed in what seems like half a day. Reprinted from The Time and the Place and Other Stories, translated by Denys Johnson-Davies. Text is set in Athelas and Galvji and printed on Kozo natural Morisa Haijiro Paper. Images are woodcut and collaged gampi. Naguib Mahfouz was the first Egyptian writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988. Mahfouz is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers in Arabic literature to explore themes of existentialism.

With 26 linocuts in black and white. Copy XIV of XX special copies with an additional 70 ordinary copies, bound in quarter white leather over white paper boards by Craig Jensen at Book Lab II, with black linocut on upper board, and with an additional suite of prints housed in a black cloth portfolio, all within a matching black cloth clamshell box. Signed by the printer on the colophon. Fine. [New York], Russell Maret. 'Last autumn I found myself daydreaming about lines.  There was no color involved in my fantasies, all of my dreamed lines were black and white. Specifically I was thinking about letterforms composed of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines.' The resulting letterforms represented by the 26 linocuts in the finished work 'are not intended to be immediately recognizable as the A, B, Cs we commonly use, but as forms and shapes that evoke the twenty-six Roman capitals. They are meant to be A, B, Cs that can also be something else entirely.'.

4/17 COPIES signed by the artist, title-page printed in black and pink, 7 collaged colour-printed woodcuts by Loeber, pp. [23], 4to, original quarter blue cloth, cream boards, upper board lettered in blue, fine. Loeber's book uses Craigslist as a source of found-text to create concrete poetry in which a particular form of hope is encapsulated; the accompanying illustrations all have a pensive quality. The book's title is drawn from a Neil Young song, whilst its epigraph comes from J Mascis: 'I feel the pain of everyone, then I feel nothing'.