William Wiley, Signed (10 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. PAPER CATALOG WITH 20 ILLS. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED IN INK. VG+ COPY. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing, trade paperback, exhibition catalogue inscribed by Wiley, the book has bumps with creasing and minor peels to the spine ends and corners, shallow bowing to the book block, sunning to the spine, and rubbing with mild scuffing and a few small spots to the exterior. Overall, this is a solid, tight and bright, Very Good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. AS NEW is inscribed and dated on the fep. Its 226 pages are profusrly illustrated, mostly in full color. Book is tight, bright, and clean. No dust jacket. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 4to. 31 pp. Stapled wraps. Near Fine. Essay by Albert Stewart, exhibition organized by Wanda Hansen. With card signed by the artist laid in.

Spiral Bound. Condition: Fine. Original exhibition catalog. SIGNED. Slim octavo [25.5 cm] White plastic spiral binding with black wraps. A catalog accompanying the exhibition "William T. Wiley." Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, August 25 - September 26, 1982. Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS, October 8 - November 6, 1982. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, November 16 - December 8, 1982. Signed by Wiley in pencil, with "Best Wishes," on the title page.

Paperback. Condition: Very good +. Original exhibition catalogue. Very slim oblong quarto [21 cm x 27 cm] Saddle-stitched illustrated wrappers, with mild age-toning to the wrappers. Signed by William T. Wiley in pencil on the title page. The artist writes, "Best wishes, Wm. T. Wiley, 1983.".

Soft cover. Condition: Good. WILLIAM T. WILEY (illustrator). 1st Edition. FIVE WILLIAM T. WILEY ART EXHIBITION CATALOGS, plus a Memorial Tribute pamphlet. TWO of the ART EXHIBITION CATALOGS are SIGNED & INSCRIBED by WILEY to his good friends MICHAEL and SANDRA GOOD. (The items come from the estate of MICHAEL and SANDRA GOOD. Sandra Good, a noted bookbinder, was a past President of the Hand Bookbinders of California. Michael Good was an antiquarian bookseller and a one time President of the ABAA.) The catalogs are in GOOD to VERY GOOD condition, the Robert Hudson / William Wiley catalog is scraped and worn at the spine, otherwise the items just show light signs of handling and age. The exhibition catalogs are: STRUCK! SURE? SOUND / UNSOUND. Wm. T. Wiley. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1991. Softcovers, 7x11 inches, 44 pages. Illustrated. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by WILEY on the half-title page: "For Mike and Sandy / Love / Wiley / 91". ROBERT HUDSON: SCULPTURE / WILLIAM T. WILEY: PAINTING. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1991. Softcovers, 10x11 inches, 50 pages. Illustrated. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by WILEY on the front endpaper: "For the GOODS / With Love / Wiley / 91". WILLIAM T. WILEY - AFTERBURNER. Rena Branstein Gallery, San Francisco, 1994. Softcovers, 8.5x11 inches. Illustrated. 32 pages. STEAL THE WITNESS FOR THE TIME BEING. William T. Wiley. Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, 1984. 8.5x11 inches. Illustrated. 31 pages. WILLIAM T. WILEY - SELECTIONS FROM TWO EXHIBITIONS. John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco; Charles Cowles Gallery, New York. 2007. 10x10 inches. Illustrated. 72 pages. PLUS: A Celebration of the Life of William T. Wiley - San Geronimo Valley Community Center, July 17, 2021. Small, single fold pamphlet (4 pages), 5.5x8.5 inches. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Condition: Good. 4to. Original wraps . 4to - 12 color plates; 8" wide x 10.75" tall; approx. 23 pages. One of 1500 copies of this catalogue. Saddle stitched. Presentation copy signed by Wiley.Tiny nicks at top.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hardcover. Number 286 of 300 numbered copies for sale with 26 lettered copies for complimentary distribution. Signed by William T. Wiley on the colophon. This exuberant and mordantly witty edition of this book was published on the hundredth anniversary of Beckett's most famous work. William T. Wiley (1937 - 2021) was an influential artist and educator who helped found the funk art movement and establish the San Francisco Bay Area art scene as an unfiltered alternative to what he saw as the flagrant commercialism of New York, The funk art movement took its name from "Funk," a seminal exhibition organized by the curator Peter Selz in Berkeley in 1967. It included, among others, Mr. Wiley, the painter Joan Brown, the sculptor Robert Hudson and the ceramist Robert Arneson. None, it seemed, could ever fully agree on what funk art was, only on what it was not [from the NYT obituary of Wiley] For this Arion Press publication, Wiley made fifty-two cartoon-like drawings. In his program note, Hoyem writes that the audience should remember that this is not the play Godot. It is a book about the play with a critic's appreciation and an artist's comments. It is an artist's book by Wiley inspired by Waiting for Godot. The synopsis is only a guide. This book was designed by Andrew Hoyem, who provided the program note that appears before the curtain rises, and a synopsis that runs in five-line segments beneath the Wiley illustrations. The binding of the book and its slipcase have yellow paper sides and blue cloth spines and labels, imprinted with the titling and images by Wiley. Printed on mouldmade Hahnemüle paper using Century Expanded type. The wordplay on the slipcase includes the palindrome "To Dog Godot" and is surrounded by a field of Irish potatoes. [from the accompanying prospectus] This Arion Press edition was provided for free to purchasers of the bilingual Grove Press edition of Waiting for Godot. It is present here. In fine condition. Measures 10 x 15 inches. 68 pages. PRI/112524. Signed.

ARION PRESS; WILEY, William T. (illustrator). One of 300 Numbered Copies, Signed by the Artist [ARION PRESS]. WILEY, William T.,[artist]. Godot. An Imaginary Staging by William T. Wiley of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2006. Limited to 300 numbered copies, this being number 168. Signed by the artist on the colophon. Folio (15 x 10 inches; 381 x 255 mm). 68 pp. With fifty color illustrations by Wiley in black, blue and yellow, and two black and while illustrations including a frontispiece portrait and a tailpiece. Publisher's quarter blue cloth over printed pictorial yellow paper boards. Yellow paper spine label, lettered in black. Housed in a cloth and paper pictorial slipcase. Mint. With prospectus laid in. "This book is published in 2006 in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Samuel Beckett. It is not the play Waiting for Godot. It is a book about the play: a critic's appreciation, a synopsis of the drama, and artist's comments, and fifty color prints inspired by the play. There are two other prints, in black only: a frontispiece portrait of the playwright and an explosive tailpiece." (From the Prospectus). HBS 65447. $850. Signed.