Thornwillow Press (12 results)

Thornwillow Press (illustrator). small 8vo. quarter brown leather over paste-paper-covered boards, leather tips, leather spine label, five raised bands, paste paper endsheets, cloth clamshell box with leather spine label, bound by the Thornwillow Press. 43, (10) pages. Privately printed in an edition of 784 copies, of which this is one of only 8 copies printed on pearl white cotton paper and bound thus. Signed by Tim O'Brien on the half-title page and Luke Ives Pontifell on the colophon. The type was set in Caslon, designed in the eighteenth century by William Caslon, and printed letterpress. This is the one hundred and twenty-first imprint of the Press. From the Artist's website: A project in collaboration with our Thornwillow-West Point Fellows: The first fine press edition of Tim O'Brien's iconic "How to Tell a True War Story". The piece, which first appeared in Esquire in 1987 and later in O'Brien's bestselling short story collection "The Things They Carried", examines the role truth plays in communicating soldiers experiences during the Vietnam War. quarter brown leather over paste-paper-covered boards, leather tips, leather spine label, five raised bands, paste paper endsheets, cloth clamshell box with leather spine label, bound by the Thornwillow Press.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Thick creme wrappers printed in red over card, large 8vo., 132, (7) pages, 4 mounted plates and 5 illustrations. Contributions by Anne Anninger, Marcus A. McCorison, W. H. Bond, Andre Jammes and others, and with a chronology and checklist of Stoddards writings and list of subscribers. One of 300 numbered copies printed at the Thornwillow Press on specially made Czech paper. A near fine copy with very minor signs of use to the DW, in archival mylar.

Printed in New York by Thornwillow Press, Ltd., at 57 West 58th Street, 2000. Printed in black letterpress on laid paper and bound in stiff card covers. A Fine copy. Privately printed eight-page prospectus issued by Thornwillow Press in advance of the festschrift Roger Eliot Stoddard at Sixty-Five: A Celebration, honoring the distinguished Harvard curator and bibliographer. From the library of Robert D. Graff, novelist, filmmaker, collector, and former Grolier Club president. Laid in is a letter from foreword author Anne Anninger regarding the book's publication. With a planned limitation of 300 copies, the forthcoming work intended to highlight Stoddard's contributions to rare book curation at Harvard's Houghton Library and his influence as a teacher of bibliography.

cloth, slipcase. Thornwillow Press (illustrator). 8vo. cloth, slipcase. 39, (3) pages. Limited to 1500 numbered copies. Gift inscription in ink on front free endpaper. A fine copy in fine slipcase. The text, the commencement address to the 354th graduating class at Harvard, is in both German and English. This also has an introduction written by the Chancellor on the eve of unification as well a tritone photograph of the Brandenburg Gate. Beautiful production. Set in Monotype Dante by Michael and Winifred Bixler in Skaneateles, NY. Dante was designed by the printer and typographer, Giovanni Mardersteig, and cut for Monotype by Charles Malin of Paris in 1953. Printed letterpress on one hundred percent rag, acid-free paper from the Arches paper mills in France. Printed by Larry Welch on a Heidelberg flatbed press. Bound by Karl Foulkes at the Spectrum Bindery in Florida, NY. Designed by Luke Ives Pontifell.

Leather bound. Condition: Fine. The deluxe limited edition of The Presidency from The Thornwillow Press, signed by the author, Hugh Sidey. (illustrator). Deluxe Limited Edition. Octavo, 135pp, [9]. Full black goatskin, title stamped in gilt on the spine and front cover. Bound by The Harcourt Bindery. Housed in black cloth clamshell, title in gilt on the spine, silk bookmark. Light wear to gilt title on the spine, sunning and shelf wear to all boards. From a limited edition of 400 copies bound in Oasis Moroccan goatskin, numbered I-CD. This copy is numbered XLV and signed by the published, Luke Ives Pontifell. Signed on the title page by the author, Hugh Sidey. This work is a collection of articles by Hugh Sidey, reprinted as they originally appeared in Life and Time Magazine, beginning in 1951. Signed.

Thornwillow Press (illustrator). oblong 8vo. quarter crushed tan morocco over paste-paper covered boards, leather tips, title in gilt on spine, marbled endsheets, cloth clamshell box with title in gilt on spine. (34) pages. Monotypes by Wendy Mark. Limited to 1000 copies, of which this is one of 50 copies bound thus. Signed by Mark Strand and Wendy Mark on the title page, as well as with the signature of the printer, Luke Ives Pontifell, on the colophon. Fine in fine clamshell box. This facsimile edition of Candy: a Poem by Mark Strand, 2004, is letterpress printed from the hand-written manuscript. Printed by Luke Ives Pontifell at his Thornwillow Press on handmade paper, and bound at the press. From the artist: "This whimsical and beautiful poem by former U.S. Poet Laureate Mark Strand celebrates the many virtues, joys, and challenges of candy. The monotypes by Wendy Mark were made especially for this edition and were reproduced from her originals using offset lithography." quarter crushed tan morocco over paste-paper covered boards, leather tips, title in gilt on spine, marbled endsheets, cloth clamshell box with title in gilt on spine.

Thornwillow Press (illustrator). tall 8vo. quarter brown leather over pastepaper-covered boards, five raised bands, leather tips, top edge gilt, cloth clamshell box with leather spine label. 37, (2) pages. Illustrations by Tania Lee. Privately printed in an edition of 250 numbered copies signed by John Updike on the half-title page and the illustrator and printer on the colophon pages. Fine in fine clamshell box. These four essays on golf were set in Hoefler's Requiem, a typeface based on the sixteenth-century alphates of Ludovico degli Arrighi. Printed letterpress by Luke Ives Pontifell. quarter brown leather over pastepaper-covered boards, five raised bands, leather tips, top edge gilt, cloth clamshell box with leather spine label.

Thornwillow Press (illustrator). tall 8vo. full crushed black morocco, double borders stamped in blind, gilt lettering on spine, five raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endsheets by Ann Muir. 56, (3) pages. Photographs by Mariana Cook. Privately printed in an edition of 250 copies, of which this is one of 206 copies bound thus and signed by John Updike, Mariana Cook, and the printer, Luke Ives Pontifell (De Bellis, A188a). Fine in fine clamshell box. Set in Monotype Baskerville by Michael & Winifred Bixler and printed on handmade paper at Bohemia Paper, Birkenhof. From the artist's website: It has been said of Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike that he was one of, if not the most important novelist of the late 20th century. He was also a Harvard graduate, and deposited the vast archives of his manuscripts, books, photographs, correspondence and artwork at Harvard's Houghton Library. On one of his visits, Rodney Dennis, Curator of Manuscripts at Houghton, introduced Updike to Luke Pontifell, and a great collaboration was born. Updike proposed three "wonderful, beautiful" stories that appeared in the New Yorker: "Personal Archaeology," "Free" and "The Guardian"." "Illustrated with photographs by Mariana Cook, and with stunning custom endpapers made by internationally renowned artist Ann Muir, Three Stories was one of the most beautiful and lavishly produced Thornwillow editions to date." full crushed black morocco, double borders stamped in blind, gilt lettering on spine, five raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endsheets by Ann Muir.

Thornwillow Press (illustrator). small oblong 8vo. full crushed light brown moroccan goatskin, eight inlaid gems (Opals, Citrines, and Carnelians) in a circular pattern with the title in gilt on the front board, marbled endsheets, cloth clamshell box with leather spine, title in gilt on spine. (34) pages. Monotypes by Wendy Mark. Limited to 1000 copies, of which this is one of 4 unique manuscript copies bound thus. Signed by Mark Strand and Wendy Mark on the half-title and title pages, as well as the publisher, Luke Ives Pontifell, on the colophon. Fine in fine clamshell box. Produced under the direction of Luke Ives Pontifell at his Thornwillow Press on handmade paper. From the artist: "This whimsical and beautiful poem by former U.S. Poet Laureate Mark Strand celebrates the many virtues, joys, and challenges of candy. The monotypes by Wendy Mark were made especially for this edition and were reproduced from her originals using offset lithography." Having received her Masters of Fine Arts from Columbia University, Wendy Mark has been producing wonderfully illustrative art primarily to coincide with poetical works. Not only has she worked with Mark Strand on this project, but she has worked with other authors such as Charles Simic and Paul Muldoon, among others. full crushed light brown moroccan goatskin, eight inlaid gems (Opals, Citrines, and Carnelians) in a circular pattern with the title in gilt on the front board, marbled endsheets, cloth clamshell box with leather spine, title in gilt on spine.

Thornwillow Press (illustrator). 4to. black linen-covered clamshell box lined with black velvet, gilt on spine. Photographs by Mariana Cook. Privately compiled in an edition of 10 numbered copies signed by the photographer, Mariana Cook, on the rear of each matted photograph (De Bellis, A188b). A fine copy in fine clamshell box. Loosely inserted is a card, in an envelope, with a presentation by the photographer for Michael Broomfield, dated 2004. The photographs, each mounted between 11 x 14 in. sheets of off-white mat board, and in a plastic sleeve, captioned by photographer in black ink on mat backs as follows: 1) Pond Reflection | New Hartford, CT | November 1980 2) Sheep Shed Through Tree | Chilmark, MA | 30 October 2000 3) Oak Bluffs Door | Oak Bluffs, MA | 2 September 2001 | 10 A.M. 4) Central Park Trees | New York City | 17 January 1999, 12:00 P.M. From the artist's website: It has been said of Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike that he was one of, if not the most important novelist of the late 20th century. He was also a Harvard graduate, and deposited the vast archives of his manuscripts, books, photographs, correspondence and artwork at Harvards Houghton Library. On one of his visits, Rodney Dennis, Curator of Manuscripts at Houghton, introduced Updike to Luke Pontifell, and a great collaboration was born. Updike proposed three "wonderful, beautiful" stories that appeared in the New Yorker: "Personal Archaeology," "Free" and "The Guardian"." "Illustrated with photographs by Mariana Cook, Three Stories was one of the most beautiful and lavishly produced Thornwillow editions to date." black linen-covered clamshell box lined with black velvet, gilt on spine.

Thornwillow Press (illustrator). tall 8vo. quarter brown leather over pastepaper-covered boards, five raised bands, leather tips, top edge gilt, cloth clamshell box. 37, (2) pages. Illustrations by Tania Lee. Privately printed in an edition of 250 numbered copies signed by John Updike on the half-title page and the illustrator and printer on the colophon pages. Fine in fine clamshell box. These four essays on golf were set in Hoefler's Requiem, a typeface based on the sixteenth-century alphates of Ludovico degli Arrighi. Printed letterpress by Luke Ives Pontifell. quarter brown leather over pastepaper-covered boards, five raised bands, leather tips, top edge gilt, cloth clamshell box.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. From the Thornwillow Press, W.A. Mozart: Portfolio of a Genius, by Neal Zaslaw of the Lincoln Center Mozart Bicentennial. (illustrator). Limited Edition. Folio, [1 leaf, 24 folded leaves]. The 24 folded leaves are divided into 23 chapters and an introduction. Housed in the publisher's green cloth clamshell, lined in silk, Mozart's initials in gilt on spine, measures 18" x 14". Light wear to cloth panels, solid binding. Internally fine. Laid-in list of subscribers. From a limited edition of 550 copies produced by Thornwillow Press, this being number 11, signed by Neal Zaslaw below his introduction. A fine example. This unique archive includes facsimiles of letters, artistic works, documents, ephemera and musical compositions related to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the composer's death in 1791. This work was designed by Luke Ives Pontifell and printed at the Stinehour Press in Vermont. The collection was assembled and annotated by Neal Zaslaw with the Mozart Bicentennial at Lincoln Center. Signed.