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Mother Goose Eggs: sunnyside up by Jim Westergard. Published by The Porcupine’s Quill in 2005. Cover illustration by the author. Features 24 wood-engravings by Westergard

Mother Goose Eggs: sunnyside up by Jim Westergard. Published by The Porcupine’s Quill in 2005.

Cover illustration by the author. Features 24 wood-engravings by Westergard

The Ballets Russes and Its World. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. First American Edition. Jacket illustration - Leon Bakst costume design for Nijinsky for his appearance in L’Apres Midi d’un Faune

The Ballets Russes and Its World. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. First American Edition.

Jacket illustration - Leon Bakst costume design for Nijinsky for his appearance in L’Apres Midi d’un Faune

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Emigre 5: Edizione Italo-Francese. Berkeley, CA: Emigre Graphics, 1986. First Edition. Folio. Staple pictorial wraps. Slightest fading to spine else Fine. Early issue of this seminal design magazine.

Emigre 5: Edizione Italo-Francese. Berkeley, CA: Emigre Graphics, 1986. First Edition. Folio. Staple pictorial wraps. Slightest fading to spine else Fine. Early issue of this seminal design magazine.

The Giants of Jazz by Studs Terkel. Revised and Updated Edition published by The New Press in 2002. Jacket illustration by Robert Glaster

The Giants of Jazz by Studs Terkel. Revised and Updated Edition published by The New Press in 2002. Jacket illustration by Robert Glaster

Les Fleurs du Mal. Pieces Condamnees. by Charles Baudelaire. With illustrations by Charles Mayrs. Vancouver, BC: Black Stone Press, 2010. A new fine press edition featuring six illustrations by Mayrs, each  opposite a poem (presented in the original French.) Designed and printed by David Clifford; the text was set in Arepo and printed letterpress from polymer plates on Rives BFK. Each copy was hand-bound by Yasmine Franchi. Edition of forty numbered copies, signed by the artist. “Six of one hundred poems were banned by the French Government three months after ‘Les Fleur du Mal’ was published in 1857. The reason given was outrage against religious and public morals, and Baudelaire was fined 300 francs. Despite, or perhaps because of the controversy, the original edition became an instant sensation. The ban was not revoked in France until 1949…”

Les Fleurs du Mal. Pieces Condamnees. by Charles Baudelaire. With illustrations by Charles Mayrs. Vancouver, BC: Black Stone Press, 2010.

A new fine press edition featuring six illustrations by Mayrs, each  opposite a poem (presented in the original French.) Designed and printed by David Clifford; the text was set in Arepo and printed letterpress from polymer plates on Rives BFK. Each copy was hand-bound by Yasmine Franchi.

Edition of forty numbered copies, signed by the artist.

“Six of one hundred poems were banned by the French Government three months after ‘Les Fleur du Mal’ was published in 1857. The reason given was outrage against religious and public morals, and Baudelaire was fined 300 francs. Despite, or perhaps because of the controversy, the original edition became an instant sensation. The ban was not revoked in France until 1949…”