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(Arion Press); Andrew Hoyem. (Prospectus for) PICTURE/POEMS. The Arion Press, San Francisco, 1975.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Single sheet, 17 by 11 inches, folded twice. Broadside announcement for the first Arion book. A fine copy.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
(Arion Press); Andrew Hoyem. (Prospectus for) PICTURE/POEMS. The Arion Press, San Francisco, 1975.
Price: US$12.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Single sheet, 17 by 11 inches, folded twice. Broadside announcement for the first Arion book. A fine copy, with the order form, and in the original, lightly used mailing envelope.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Hoyem, Andrew. The First Poet Travels to the Moon. Arion Press, San Francisco, 1975.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Finely Printed booklet that opens into a broadside. Arion Broadsides Number One. Printed by Andrew Hoyem at the Arion Press. Limited to 500 copies.
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Hoyem, Andrew. The First Poet Travels to the Moon. Arion Press, San Francisco, 1975.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is Arion Press Broadsides/Number One. An illustrated poem titled "The First Poet Travels to the Moon" in five paragraph-long installments forms the text. The edges are very slightly sun-faded and scuffed. There is one miniscule stain on the front cover and a tiny pencil marking on the back cover.; 22" Folded Sheet.
Seller: Chequamegon Books, Washburn, WI, U.S.A.
Hoyem, Andrew.. The First Poet Travels to the Moon.. San Francisco, Calif.: Arion Press., 1975.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Broadside. 4to. One folded sheet in red cover. Arion Press Broadside Number One.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Printed broadside, 22 x 11 inches folded in thirds and mounted in red paper folder. Title page is printed on the back of the first section. Edition of 500 copies. This accompanied by an autograph letter dated 6 December, 1975 from the author to "Ed" on "Andrew Hoyem, Printer" stationery. The letter apologizes for not being able to supply "Bentley 75" and offers the enclosed (presumably the broadside at hand" as a "consolation prize." light scuffing and creasing but about very good
Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.
Andrew Hoyem. Picture / Poems [Cloth Covers]. The Arion Press San Francisco, CA, 1975.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: [unpaginated]; 29.2 x 29.2 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white & color; edition size 500; signed and unnumbered; lithography Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, January 18 - March 16, 1975."An illustrated catalogue of drawings and related writings: 1961 - 1974, prepared by the artist and poet." -- Title page. Introduction by Andrew Hoyem. This title was the first book published by the Arion Press, which was founded by Hoyem. Very Good / Fine. Light rubbing to recto and light dusting to covers. Contents clean and unmarked. Includes slipped in copy of "The Arion Press Announcement 1980." Due to large size and weight of this publication additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.
Seller: Specific Object / David Platzker, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Collection of four original issues of Fine Print: A Newsletter for the Arts of the Book. Printed by Andrew Hoyem. Comprises Volume 1, Number 1, January 1975; Vol. 1, No. 2, April 1975; Vol. 1, No. 3, July 1975; and Vol. 1, No. 4, October 1975. Each issues measures 8" x 11." All pages of each issue, complete. No. 1: Pages 1-8. No. 2: Pages 9-20. No. 3: Pages 21-32. No. 4: Pages 33-44. Pamphlets are pristine and intact except for slight bumping to corners and some of the edges. As New copies. A collection of the first four issues of the Fine Print Newsletter and all of the issues for Fine Print's first year of publication. Most of the features in each issue range in length from one paragraph to one page. Two ephemera laid in No. 4: a business reply envelope and a printed, one-page letter from the editors concluding the 1975 publication year and promoting Fine Print for its upcoming year. No. 1 focuses on California books and printers. The following is a list of some of the topics and features of each issue. No. 1: introduction from the editors, various announcements including one about Valenti Angelo, recent press books, works in progress, type design copyrights, hand bookbinders, Jackson Burke Collection, Strauss Collection at auction, obituaries, and Calendar of Events. No. 2: The 1975 Western Books Exhibit, American Printing History Association, Plantin Press Retrospective, Selected Press Books (book list; among the printers and presses represented are The Angelica Press, Harold Berliner, Harry Duncan, Andrew Hoyem, Janus Press, and Plantin Press), relief etching, Dorothy Abbe, William A. Dwiggins, and obituary for H. Mallette Dean. No. 3: "William Everson as Printer," Caslon Old Style typeface, Selected Press Books (from Arion Press, Bird & Bull Press, Janus Press, King Library Press, Oliphant Press, Oracle Press, The Penmaen Press, The Printery, and the Windhover Press), and Fifty Books of the Year exhibition. No. 4: "Wilder Bentley remembers Porter Garnett, "Rediscoveries" [book review of Ancient Spanish Ballads (1841)], Selected Press Books (from The Compulsive Printer, Elmore Mundell; Press in Tuscany Alley, Adrian Wilson; Allen Press; King Library Press; and Rebis Press), Recent Press Books, and obituaries for Francis Meynell and Carroll T. Harris.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
HOYEM, Andrew.. Picture/Poems.. San Francisco: Arion Press,, 1975.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 68 pp. Very near fine in full cloth with printed cover and spine labels. One of 500 copies. SIGNED by Hoyem. "An illustrated catalogue of drawings and related writings: 1961-1974, prepared by the artist and poet, published on the occasion of an exhibition. at the California Palace of the Legion on Honor."
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: unpaginated [68] pp. illustrated; quarto, red cloth with paper title labels on spine and front board. Limited to 500 copies, signed in the colophon by Andrew Hoyem.
Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Large quarto. [58]pp. Yellow pictorial wrappers. Illustrated reproducing drawings by Andrew Hoyem. Top edge is lightly foxed, and a few light brown soil spots at top edge of wrappers, else a near fine copy, with the text fresh and clean. Publisher's review slip laid into book. Limited to 500 copies Signed by Andrew Hoyem.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Grabhorn, Robert. A Commonplace Book of Cookery. Arion Press, San Francisco, 1975.
Price: US$480.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The second book from Arion Press, printed excerpts from Robert Grabhorn's (of the Grabhorn Press) collection of short texts on cooking, that is to say, a "commonplace book." With an introduction by M. F. K. Fisher. Printed by Andrew Hoyem, whose Arion Press continues to set the American standard for fine printing, in an edition of 425 copies, as an homage to the man who taught him printing. Printed in three colors on English Inveresk cream mould-made paper. 175 pages. 6 by 9-1/2 inches. First edition. A near fine copy bound in blue cloth and printed paper-covered boards. Small nick to spine label, edges slightly grubby; slightly fusty.
Seller: Downtown Brown Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 425 copies, unnumbered, octavo size, 175 pp., inscribed by Andrew Hoyem, with prospectus. The second book of the Arion Press, a self-proclaimed "commonplace book by commonplace people", full of familiar lines relating to the most essential of pastimes - eating and drinking. Compiled by the inimitable Robert Grabhorn who began collecting stray snippets of gastronomical wisdom at the age of thirty, beginning while on a visit to Europe to study bookbinding. With a delightful introduction by M.F.K. Fisher (who better?), opening with "For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books, which are rarely compiled by commonplace people, of course, finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence of malaria, with fever, fits of shaking, strange dreams. Unlike a truly paludismic ordeal, however, the symptoms felt while savoring a collection of one man's pet quotations are voluptuously enjoyable, as I have found lately with Robert Grabhorn's deep and tantalizing book". Issued unsigned, this volume signed by Andrew Hoyem, below is printed name at the colophon, and inscribed "to / Chef Stickel / 27 April, 1979". ___DESCRIPTION: Original quarter blue cloth with patterned paper boards, paper label printed in blue and orange affixed to backstrip, fore-edge uncut and bottom edge rought-cut, blue Fournier borders, vignettes from wood engravings in Ecole des Cuisinieres, Paris, c.1870, inscribed by publisher Andrew Hoyem at the colophon as set forth above; types Goudy Monotype Garamont, Narciss, and Typo Upright, English Inveresk cream mould-made paper, octavo size (9.5" by 6"), 175 pp., limited edition of 425 copies, unnumbered. This copy without the tissue dust wrapper, however, with the incredibly scarce prospectus; one sheet folded to four pages, the first page mirrors the title page of the book, the second through fourth pages are partly an essay by Andrew Hoyem on how the book came about and partly an announcement with publication details, including the original purchase price of $37.50; octavo size (approximately 9 1/8" by 5 3/4"), on cream paper, two illustrations in sienna, decorative blue Fournier borders on all four pages. ___CONDITION: A near fine copy, with straight corners which are unrubbed, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, text block edges clean, bright crisp leaves, and entirely free of prior owner markings; the spine label lightly toned, a hint of sunning to the edges of the paper boards, and a light spot or two of soil to the cloth spine; otherwise a beautiful copy. The prospectus also near fine, clean and without any marks, with a bit of light edgewear only. ___CITATION: Arion Press Bibliography, no. 2. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply; we are happy to ship at cost to both domestic and international addresses, please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
Seller: Swan's Fine Books, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Walnut Creek, CA, U.S.A.