Vliet Clair (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Vliet, Claire Van (illustrator). Limited Edition. Folio. Includes slipcase. Limited Edition of 2000 signed and numbered copies. This is copy no.543. Signed by the illustrator, Claire Van Vliet. Bound in cotton cloth with a Thebes pattern designed by Susan Thatcher for Lee/Jofa. Claire Van Vliet's illustrations printed from her original relief etchings. Shelfwear: light scuffing along cover edges. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Very Good-plus condition. Some scratch marks on slipcase and light fraying along edges. Slipcase is in Very Good-minus condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. A limited Edition of 200 Copies. Demy table, [9 by 11inches], full pictorial cloth w/ slipcase, pp. 77. Fully illustrated with pen and ink sketches, &ct. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . Claire Van Vliet (born 1933 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a fine artist, illustrator and typographer who founded Janus Press in San Diego, California in 1955. Van Vliet received the Bachelor of Arts in 1952 from San Diego State College, and the Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate School in 1954. In 1955 she moved to Europe, shortly after her first publications, then returned to the United States in 1957. She worked for John Anderson of Lanston Monotype Company in Philadelphia before moving to Madison, Wisconsin. She made several trips back to Europe and continued her education in hand typesetting and compositing. She taught drawing and printmaking classes at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art and Philadelphia Museum College of Art from 1965-1966. In 1967 she established a typographic workshop in Madison, Wisconsin. The Janus Press has been based in Newark, Vermont since Van Vliet settled there in 1966. . The Janus Press was named by Van Vliet for "the ancient Roman god (Janus) for the rising and setting sun, stood for balance in the Renaissance because of his ability to look both forward and backwardthe book as a balanced and unified statement with all of its parts integral and serving to illuminate one another, is the ideal for which the press seeks." The press publishes collaborative works by contemporary writers, papermakers, printmakers and artists. The following is a list of some authors/creators: (authors) Raymond Carver, Tess Gallagher, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, W. R. Johnson, Galway Kinnell, John le Carré, Denise Levertov, Sandra McPherson, W. D. Snodgrass; (artists) Ruth Fine, Lois K. Johnson, Susan Johanknecht, Jerome Kaplan, Ray Metzker, Peter Schumann, Helen Siegl; (papermakers) Kathryn Clark (Twinrocker), Amanda Degener, Mary Lyn Nutting, Katie MacGregor, Bernie Vinzani; (historians) Maureen Green (Hayle Mill) In exceptionally good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Signed by artist. Limited edition of 2000 copies, this being copy #869. Cloth cover is flawless. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and pristine. Publisher's notes laid-in. Slipcase has very modest sunning and one tiny barely visible spot and is in near fine condition. ; Signed by Artist.