Marquand Editions (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Black titles on red cloth, 500 pages including discussion questions and scene fro the movie with Henry Fonda plus 10 pages of introductory material. Some stamps and labels on front free end-paper Abridged.

hardback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. All ten volumes in the "spines" series, also called "a series of essays on aspects of books and publishing." Ed Marquand is a book artist based in Seattle and Tieton, Washington, who makes editions of books for artists and museums and, from time to time, produces his own work as Marquand Editions. The contributors to this series are mostly writers and artists working with museums and museum presses. Each author contributes a short essay on some aspect of their practice (number 7 in the series is a sequence of images, rather than words-a visual essay). The books are printed letterpress and are handbound in decorated paper over boards. The series, referred to as "Spines" in the introductory notes accompanying most of the books, takes its name from the first volume in the series, written by Marquand, "On Spines and Memories." In that essay he ruminates on the spines of books, which receive little attention from designers although they are the part of the book that people look at every day. The design conceit of this series is that, except for the titles, the design of each book cover is the same, except for the spine. The series was published in an edition of 500 copies for each book, some of which were for sale, but most copies were mailed to friends of the press or otherwise distributed outside of normal commercial venues. Only two libraries, Stanford University and the Amon Carter Museum library, own all ten volumes. The series consists of: 1. On Spines and Memories by Ed Marquand 2. Genetic Code by Thomas Frick 3. Disordering My Library by Mark Polizzotti 4. Getting My Hands Dirty by Jacky Colliss Harvey 5. When This Book Is Found by Will Gillham 6. What Is Reading by James Leggio 7. A Pictured Text, for E. M. by Trevor Fairbrother 8. Gloss* by Eve Sinaiko 9. Peas and Queues: On Letter-Press Printing by Rick Brettell 10. And Finally, I'd Like to Thank My Editor by Nancy Grubb (with the folded broadside "The (Redacted) Acknowledgments" laid in) This set also includes printed notes that Marquand sent with eight of the ten volumes (all except 1 and 5). It seems likely that those volumes were accompanied by notes as well, but your humble cataloguer cannot be sure of that fact. A hard-to-assemble set from a Washington book artist. All volumes fine.

Condition: Fine. One of 20 copies plus 5 artists proofs. This complicated and fascinating artist's book was described and exclaimed over by a number of reviewers and critics at its publication. Most simply, it is a magician's case of graphic story books, but in reality it is much more than that. Chris Byrne's obsessional graphic novel took a decade to realize and another two years to produce. He and designer Scott Newton worked with Paper Hammer Studios in Seattle to construct an audaciously ambitious bit of publishing magic. The Magician is an epic graphic novel, a bookmaking tour de force, a mesmerizing art object, and the completion of over a decade-long obsession of author Chris Byrne. This enigmatic box of wonders houses a dozen separate publications, printed and hand bound using a variety of techniques. Although individual works, they are considered parts of the whole. The twelve books include Theogony, Handmade, Down the Head, Mountain Man/She-Wolf, Letterpress Flipbook, 4-Ply Toilet Paper, Moleskine, The Magician Manual, M'Phase, Unfinished Versions, Colophon, and Curtains [From Marquand Editions website]. The magician's large case measuring a foot long and foot wide is custom-built with plywood and metal and sits atop casters. It is painted black and decorated by a white rope pattern that crisscrosses its width. Wrote art curator and critic Dan Nadel in 2013 about this production: "There is no single apt reference point for Chris Byrne's ingenious The Magician. It is a wunderkammer, a Cornell-ian box, a visual novel, a conjurer's tool kit. Above all it's a moving, multi-faceted graphic narrative. There's never been anything quite like it." From writer and editor Christina Geyer's review in FDLuxe in 2014: " [Chris Byrne] is indeed the author. In this case, though, author is a loaded word - and means much more than one who writes a story. For The Magician, which Byrne began working on as an undergrad student in 1987, it refers to conceptualizing, illustrating, designing and storytelling. The novel - actually 12 stylistically different books in one box - sprang from Byrne's longtime fascination with semiotics and the language of signs. Thus began the idea of creating an alternative comic strip of sorts. It is, in short, a story about a hermaphroditic magician who was conceived in a public bathroom and who eventually creates the universe. 'It's an exploration of the realms of the unreal,; Byrne says. 'It may even be a goof on the creation myth.' The books and their many visuals, illustration and symbols are meant to be read. interacted with and interpreted deeply by the reader.The result is a high-design book and a collectible art object." In fine condition. Extra shipping costs will apply. ARTB/120821.