Early American Stone Sculpture Found by Neal Avon Ann Parker (8 results)

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Slipcase: Brown cloth solander box with paper title label to lid. Foxing to cloth. Overall case condition is Good Plus. Book: Signed limited edition No. 390/475 with expected signed original rubbing plus an additional inscription to book and an additional two photographs, one is signed, the other mounted. Quarter brown leather with illustrated paper covered boards. Light marking to front cover, small bubble to rear cover. A few light spots of foxing to text, the author inscriptions have offset onto the facing pages. The original rubbing has some spots of foxing to the mount. Creasing to corners of signed photo. Mounted photo has some notes to the rear. Comes with a prospectus for the volume and a couple of flyers. A high quality and beautifully illustrated work on the historic gravestones of New England. Overall book condition is Very Good. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: Europe £25.85; USA £48.40; Oceania £49.30; Rest of World £40.35. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 12 x 17 inches (30 x 42 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 114 + 42 plates. Signed by Author.

Leather Spine with Slipcase. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated (illustrator). Limited. Bright and attractive hardcover with signed and limited edition etching and clam shell box. Leather spine with hardcover oblong book. Near fine condition. No dust jacket--as issued. Limited edition #266 of 475 copies. Signed by both authors on both the etching and with colophon in book. Etching is Near fine as well. The clam shell box is Very Good-. Quite sound but lightly bowed on edges and has a small tear on the paper label. Very nice collection. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. first edition. New York: Sweetwater Editions, 1981. Fine/fine. 1/4 LEATHER BINDING. Extra illustrated edition limited to 300 copies, includes a matted, signed rubbing. Beautifully designed, this work displays examples of early new england grave marker rubbings printed on laid paper along with photographic images of the stone and a textual description of each. The book includes a glossary, bibliography and maps of the places visited. The entire production is housed in a custom cloth tray case. Book, print, and case (trivial shelwear) are all in very near fine condition. No foxing or soiling. Lovely and very interesting, large scale reproductions, with the signed rubbing. STOCK NOTE: OVERSIZE.

Hardcover. Condition: Orig. brown cloth. First edition. 114 pages. Oblong quarto, 30 x 42 cm. Limited edition, copy 288 of 475 signed by Neal and Parker, with an original rubbing, "Pompey Brenton, 1772, Rockport, Rhode Island," also signed by Neal and Parker laid-in. Forty-two plates with the names of the deceased. Glossary of Symbols Illustrated in the Book. Bibliography. Quality printing on glossy stock, plates and text bright and clean, an as new copy in the publisher shipping box.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Limited Edition. An amazing and beautiful work. This copy is 1 of 175 bound in dark brown full mottled calf. The front cover displays a sculpted image of a gravestone rubbing recessed into the leather. Included is one original gravestone rubbings taken directly from the Pompey Breton marker, Newport, Rhode Island, along with two selenium-toned silver prints processed signed and numbered by Ann Parker. All enclosed in the original box. The prints and book are in near perfect condition, the book showing just a touch of foxing at the edges and a bit foxing just to the mats around the photos, not the images themselves. The box shows some fraying, rubbing and wear and a bit of sun fading in spots. This is an astonishingly beautiful work. The book contains forty-two rubbings taken directly from the stones by the authors, reproduced on Ticonderoga text paper, along with photos of the stones and text detailing the history. Interesting as bookbinding, as artwork, and as history. Scarce. ; Folio 13" - 23" tal; 114 pages; RBGLASS.

Hardcover. Limited Edition. NF in VG- box. This is a Limited Edition; #220 of 300, bound in half calf, and includes 1 signed & dated, matted original gravestone rubbing (out of a total edition of 475). Signed by both authors. There are 21 pages of text. The balance of the book has a photograph of gravestone on one page and the associated gravestone rubbing on the facing page. Large, oblong format. There are a couple of small, very light smudged spots on the rear board. Else the binding is very clean. Pages clean. There is mottling to the cloth on the top of the box. Fairly light, but certainly noticeable. A bit of light rubbing to the bottom of the box. Else box clean. Label on box top is clean. ; RTH15C; 11 x 16"; 114 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: vg. Limited edition. 1/75. 4to. Oblong. 115pp. Original leather with sculpted image on front cover in brown cloth clamshell box. Cover plate on box. Minor rubbing to box. Title-plate in green leather with gold lettering. Raised bands. Minor scuffing and scratching to leather. Decorated endpapers. Illustrated with 42 b/w reproductions of photographs and gravestone rubbings. Includes 3 loose mounted plates of which one is an original gravestone rubbing in duo tone taken directly from the Pompey Benton marker as well as 2 selenium-toned photographs. All 3 plates are signed by Neal and Parker. Also signed by them on colophon page. "This book is based on our original portfolios; substitutions have been made to balance and enrich the selection. The newly added descriptive texts include, wherever possible, the results of research into the lives and working methods of the carvers represented. Each rubbing is complemented by a photograph taken on the site, so that the individual sculpture is presented in detail and in full. In preparing this volume, the rubbings have been a collaboration between the two authors; the photographs were the work of Ann Parker; the text was written by Avon Neal." Clamshell box in very good, book in near fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. The limited edition of this handsome book of photographs by Ann Parker, and gravestone rubbings, with text by Avon Neal. One of 175 numbered copies bound in full mottled calf, blind stamped and with raised bands and green leather spine label, and signed by Neal and Parker. In addition, there are two selenium-toned silver prints by Ann Parker laid in, matted, numbered and signed by Parker and an original gravestone rubbing, also matted, numbered, and signed by both authors. The book is fine. Enclosed with the prints in a clamshell box, which is also fine. A handsome and important production, many copies of which were destroyed when the publisher was bought and the new owner discarded existing inventory. This copy from the library of the authors, with a letter of provenance available. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.