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Si Lewen's Parade : An Artist's Odyssey

Si Lewen, Art Spiegelman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

1 volume (unpaged), 71 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color). Opened one way, the accordion-fold book is unpaged and is comprised of Si Lewen's Parade with a short introduction by Art Spiegelman and a short excerpt of an interview with Si Lewen by Steve Grieger and Laura Mirsky from 2007. Opened the other way, the book contains a 71 page commentary by Art Spiegelman about Lewen and his work. "Si Lewen's Parade is a timeless story told in a language that knows no country--a wordless epic that, despite its muteness, is more powerful than the written or the spoken word. First published in 1957, The Parade is a lost classic, newly discovered, remastered, and presented by Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus. Reproduced in a unique two-sided accordion-fold format with an extensive overview of the artist's career on the verso, The Parade is a celebration of art and the story of recurring war as Si Lewen experienced it over the past 90 years, watching the joyful parades that marked the end of World War I lead into the death marches of World War II and the Korean War. As The Parade unfolds, the reader is taken on an unforgettable journey of sequential images"-- Provided by publisher. Editing and design: Art Spiegelman. In paper slipcase.
2nd Hand Reading

William Kentridge, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

1 volume (various pagings) : color illustrations. Reproduction of an altered book created by drawing and painting in a copy of The shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles, Second Edition, volume I, A-M, 1936. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.
Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays!

Winsor McCay, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[150] p. : chiefly col. ill. "Splendid Sundays, 1905-1910". Includes bibliographical references. Gift of Tim Finn.
The Jackson Pollock Sketchbooks in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

4 v. in boxed set, [80] p. of plates : ill. (some col.). Portfolio box (61 x 43 cm.) includes 3 sketchbook facsimiles and 1 volume of text (88 p. : ill. ; 21 x 28 cm.) "This first edition is limited to 525 copies, of which 500 are for sale": inside cover of box. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Oct. 22, 1997-Feb. 8, 1998. Library has copy no. 489. Sally Hume Lincoln Memorial Fund. Includes bibliographical references.
The Passover Haggadah

Heinz Seelig, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

80 pages : color illustrations, 25 cm. Text in Hebrew and English. Issued in slipcase. Gold illuminations. Signed by the illustrator. Gift of Lisa Schachner.
The Sea People

Jörg Müller, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[36] pages : chiefly color illustrations. Translation of: Die Menschen im Meer. German edition published in 1981. Summary: The superiority of the differing ways of life on two neighboring islands is put to the test when gold is discovered on one of them. Illustrated title page. Case binding
The Changing City

Jörg Müller, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

8 folded leaves in portfolio : all color illustrations ; 33 cm. First American edition. Oversize. Translation of Hier Fällt ein Haus, dort steht ein Kran und ewig droht der Baggerzahn oder Die Veränderung der Stadt. "Here, in eight, full-color, fold-out pictures ... Müller has created an accurate portrait of urban decay and change that is equally true of the city scene in the United States."--inside front cover. SUMMARY The sequence of eight illustrations, which are based on documents in Swiss and German municipal archives, shows how one section of a city changes at three-year intervals between 1953 and 1976. The companion volume to Müller's The Changing Countryside. Cover title. "A Margaret K. McFlderry book."
The Changing Countryside

Jörg Müller, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

7 folded leaves in portfolio : all color illustrations. Translation of: Alle Jahre wieder saust der Presslufthammer nieder oder Die Veränderung der Landschaft. Originally published in Switzerland, 1973. "A Margaret K. McElderry book." Seven large, foldout pictures in full color depict the decline of a Swiss countryside from 1953 to 1972. "Third American printing"
The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves

Gwendolyn Brooks, Timothy Jones, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[36] pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 26 cm. All the tiger's fierce qualities do not satisfy him; he wants to be stylish and wear white gloves. "First Edition, Second Printing" Stapled binding. In clear plastic cover. Walter Lorraine Fund. Formerly in the collection of Tidewater Community College.
Peaches

Dindga McCannon, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

126 pages : illustrations; 22 cm. A young black girl growing up in Harlem tells about her life with her family and her ambition to be an artist. Paper dust jacket with color illustration. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Children of Night

Edgar White, Dindga McCannon, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

38 pages : illustrations; 24 cm. Chronicles some of the pleasures, dreams, and experiences of a young black boy living in the South Bronx. Paper dust jacket with color illustration. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Sati the Rastifarian

Edgar White, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[31] pages : illustrations (some color); 26cm. Illustration on title page, type in black and brown. Five-year-old Sati misses his home when he leaves the West Indies to come to New York for an education. Illustration on dust jacket. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Aloneness

Gwendolyn Brooks, Leroy Foster, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Cover printed in blue and black and with illustration. Photo portrait of the author on back cover. Photograph by Howard Simmons. Stapled binding. Library has second printing January 1983. Inscribed to Martha Drake and signed by the author.
Willy

Helen H. King, Carole Byard, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

47 pages : color illustrations; 21 x 27 cm. 1st edition. "Library edition" Dust jacket with color illustration. Catching the troublesome rat besieging the kitchen challenges a ghetto youth's cleverness and establishes him as the family protector. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Notes and Projects for the Large Glass

Marcel Duchamp, Arturo Schwartz, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

217 pages : illus. (some color). Text in English and French. Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even.
The Rabbits' Wedding

Garth Williams, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm. Double, illustrated title page. "Printed in the United States of America"--Title page verso. Two little rabbits, one white and one black, decide they want to remain friends forever, so they marry each other in a forest wedding. Illustrated book jacket, some tears and paper wear, loss. Case binding. Walter Lorraine Fund.
Bronzeville Boys and Girls

Gwendolyn Brooks, Ronni Solbert, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

40 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. A collection of poems for and about children, particularly those living in big cities. Contents: Mexie and Bridie -- Val -- Timmy and Tawanda -- Narcissa -- Andre -- Keziah -- Charles -- Cynthia in the snow -- John, who is poor -- Paulette -- Rudolph is tired of the city -- Eppie -- Ella -- Dave -- Luther and Breck -- Michael is afraid of the storm -- Eldora, who is rich -- Beulah at church -- Skipper -- Robert, who is often a stranger to himself -- Lyle -- Nora -- Mirthine at the party -- Maurice -- De Koven -- Gertrude -- Marie Lucille -- Cheryl's Mootsie -- Jim -- Eunice in the evening -- Vern -- Otto -- Tommy -- Admiration of Willy. Illustration on title page. Case binding. Walter Lorraine Fund.
Around the World in a Flash: how messages are sent via telephone, telegraph, radio, and television

Marie Neurath, Isotype Institute, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

36 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm. The How and why series. "A Chanticleer edition". "Printed in Great Britain by Graphic Reproductions Ltd. London". Color illustrated, double title page. Case binding with paper color dust jacket. Jacket has tears at top of spine and back cover bottom left corner.
Mother Goose Riddle Rhymes

Joseph Low, Ruth Low, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[44] pages : color illus. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Color illustrated title-page and dust jacket. Book jacket design by Joseph Low, printed offset. Book seller's label, inside back cover: Museum Books, Inc., 48 East 43rd Street, New York 17, N.Y. Gift of Christine Jones (RISD IA '52).
The first great inventions

Lancelot Thomas Hogben, Marie Neurath, Joseph Albert Lauwerys, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

36 pages color illustrations 23 cm. Chanticleer wonder-story books. "Designed by the Isotype Institute and printed in six-color offset lithography by Waldheim-Eberle, Vienna, Austria" Color illustrated, double title page. Case binding with original color paper dust jacket.
Holiday Cards

Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliot and Huger Elliot

9 cards : black and white illustrations. Illustrations signed E.S.G.E. Most cards are approximately 12 x 17 cm, with some slightly smaller. All printed one side only, some with written messages on the verso. All but three cards have dates, 1918-1947. Wood-engraved and photomechanical illustrations, most with text and printed Christmas greetings. Elizabeth Shippen Green (September 1, 1871, Philadelphia- May 29, 1954, Philadelphia); American magazine and book illustrator; illustrated children's books and worked for publications such as the Ladies' home journal, the Saturday evening post and Harper's magazine. Green enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1887 and studied with the painters Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Thomas Eakins, and Robert Vonnoh; afterwards studied with Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute where she met Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith; "Green became close and lifelong friends with Oakley and Smith. They lived together first at the Red Rose Inn [Villanova, Pa.] (they were called 'the Red Rose girls' by Pyle) and later at Cogslea, their home in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia"; in 1911, married Huger Elliott, an architecture professor, and moved away from Cogslea; in 1903, became one of the first 2 women to be elected associate members of the Society of Illustrators even though women were not allowed to be full members; in 1994, elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame") Huger Elliott was RISD President, 1908-1912. Transferred to the RISD Library from the RISD Museum, Prints, Drawings and Photographs department by Jan Howard. The museum acquired the collection as a gift from N. David Scotti (1941?-2008), Providence appraiser and auctioneer, in 1990. Includes printed contents sheet. Housed in plastic three-ring binder/box.
Noa Noa: Voyage á Tahiti

Paul Gauguin, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[4] p., [2] leaves of plates : illus. (some color), facsim. Facsimile of Gauguin's handwritten notations, color reproductions. Donated by Bess P. Kaufman in memory of Sol. P. Kaufman.
Office Daze

Dorothy A. Bond, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

64 pages : illustrations, 14 x 22 cm. Cover title. "A Dorothy Bond Cartoon Book" "... only an office girl (with the soul of a jerk) could draw the humorous back-of-the-scenes in an office ... and now it's been done by one ... it is dedicated with my love and best wishes to my co-worker ... that really grand, hard-working person ... the office girl"-- page 1. "Copyright 1945 by Dorothy A. Bond"--page 1. Illustrated cover, printed in red and black. Stapled. On cover: Fifty cents. Satirizes the harried lives of women working in offices during World War II. Written in ink on page 1" Annie C. Weir, WD, FMR 1945 (War Department, Financial Management Regulation?). Also written in pencil on the same page: Marie [illegible], Auditor's Office.
Government Gertie by One

Dorothy A. Bond, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

36 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations, 14 x 22 cm. Cover title. "Dedicated with sincere admiration to that perfectly swell girl --the government clerk"--Page 1 "Copyright 1944 by Dorothy A. Bond"--Page 1 "These cartoons good-naturedly satirize the harried life of the World War II-era government clerk. The women portrayed by Bond ... are overworked, bothered by their bosses, rushing to catch the train, stressed by their friendships and their relationships with their mothers, and stumbling in to work in the morning after a long night out. Bond's irreverent humor is obvious in every page, especially in her parody profiles of the types of women one finds working in clerk positions ..." --Michael .R. Thompson Rare Books info sheet. First printed Sept. 1944; Library has 3rd printing, Nov. 1944. Signed by the artist on page [1]. Stapled. Illustrated cover printed in orange-red and black.
Red Light, Green Light

Golden MacDonald, Leonard Weisgard, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Series: A Zephyr book. "Junior books." Summary: All day and night the traffic signal blinks its messages of stop and go. "This book is complete and unabridged, manufactured under wartime conditions in conformity with all government regulations controlling the use of paper and other materials. Printed by Michaelson Lithograph Corporation."-- page preceding title page. Golden MacDonald was a pseudonym used by Margaret Wise Brown. Title page printed in red, green and black. Limited color palette lithography, mainly red, green, grey, brown and black. Case binding. Original color illustrated dust jacket, missing small part of spine header and back cover, and portion of bottom of front cover. Lining papers in red and green. Purchase from Cellar Stories.