triple rule frame in gilt to boards, edges ruled in gilt, turn- ins elaborately tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Original blue vertical rib cloth (binding A, no priority) bound in at end. Frontispiece and illustrated title vignette by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Illuminated bookplate of fine binding collector Christine Alexander Graham (1888–1959) on the front pastedown. Spine and board edges darkened, a near-fine copy, contents fresh. ¶ Ives A3.1. £2,500 [155063] 155 RUSCHA, Ed. They Called Her Styrene, Etc. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2000 A UNIQUE WORD SCULPTURE First edition, signed by the artist and dated 2001 on the first image: this is a unique copy of Ruscha’s book They Called Her Styrene. Etc, which he has turned into a “word sculpture”. Ruscha began making prints and drawings consisting of one word with monochromatic and abstract backgrounds in the 1950s. Since then he has made hundreds of “word” paintings, drawings, prints, and book-sculptures. Ruscha has had exhibitions of “letter” and “word” book/sculptures at James Kelly Contemporary, Santa
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Fe, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, Texas Gallery, Houston, and Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London, among others. Oblong octavo. Original red boards airbrush painted by Ruscha in black to the front cover, spine, lower edge, fore edge and front pastedown, with the word “Says” stencilled in white to the front cover and “You” stencilled in black to the fore edge. Housed in a black cloth flat-back box lettered in silver by the Chelsea Bindery. Illustrated with 575 photographic images of “word” works arranged by Ruscha. Light rubbing to corners, else fine. £17,500 [153790]
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pictorial wrappers and binder’s preparatory sketches bound in. With red half morocco and red marbled paper-covered wraparound chemise. Housed in red marbled paper leather entry slipcase. Original plain dust wrapper panels loosely inserted. With 40 plates after 20 illustrations by Auguste Rodin (signed in the plate), each in two states and including 18 in colour; first state plates with illustrated and captioned tissue guard. A beautiful copy in fine condition, chemise spine lightly sunned, slight rubbing to extremities of near- fine slipcase, a couple of nicks at entry point. ¶ Gordon Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 1700 to 1914 , 1987. £15,000 [154005] 154 ROSSETTI, Christina. Goblin Market and Other Poems. London & Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1862 A BEAUTIFUL COPY First edition, in a handsome binding. The Goblin Market , a fantastical narrative poem with illustrations by Christina’s brother Dante Gabriel, has been interpreted variously as a feminist tract, a capitalist critique, an allegory for drug addiction, and a children’s story. This copy has the second state of signature C, with “anguish” corrected to “aguish” at l. 17 on p. 26, of no significance for issue (Ives A3.1). Octavo (168 × 105 mm). Contemporary blue morocco by Riviere & Son, spine in compartments, each tooled with floral design or lettered in gilt, raised bands ruled in gilt,
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