The books and portfolios are printed in limited single editions; though some are out of print and others nearly out of stock, most of titles are available directly from the publisher.

H O M E - S I T E   M A P - O R D E R   F O R M - M A I L I N G   L I S T

Leaves of Grass, 1855
Walt Whitman
Eakins Edition, New York, 1966, 96 pp., 11 1/4 x 8 in.
$150.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-020-6

Complete and faithful facsimile of the first edition, with type set in part by Whitman, including unsigned reviews by Whitman himself; elaborate green pebbled cloth, gold stamped. “Magnificent... far surpasses the two previous attempts....”
—Gay Wilson Allen

Message from the Interior
Walker Evans
1966, 12 plates, 14 x 14 in.
cloth is out of print
paper in cloth case is out of print

Twelve masterworks of photography scrupulously reproduced in sheet-fed gravure, large prints in a volume on fine Bristol card, interleaved and bound in buckram. A unique presentation. Out of print, much sought. Limited copies available in paper with protective cloth case.

“A work of art—brilliantly conceived; surely sets a new standard against which serious photographic books will be measured.”
—John Szarkowski, Museum of Modern Art

The Animal Hotel
Jean Garrigue
1966, 94 pp., 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.
$30.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-006-0

A beastly fantasy, unfolding the dazzling career, public and private, of a much-adored bear, proprietress of an establishment famed among retired animals for its cuisine and bonhomie. “Fabulous prose...restoring the magic...a book of charms.”
—Denis Donahue, New York Review of Books

Ready for the Ha Ha & Other Satires
Jane Mayhall
1966, 102 pp., 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.
$30.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-014-1

Oh dog, oh doggy mind! the cosmic hordes are rising,
oh cur, self-righteous seer of an age.
Let speech be passed away, and whines our only song,
beyond, oh blazing panels of the atom.
Oh cult of ignorance, be borne of what we know;
ironic as the dawn of Judgement Day.
—from Period Piece, a play

“Stories, plays and poems indicting opportunists and touts,...simple, concise...wastes not a word...utter delight....”
—Long Beach Register

The Odd Tales of Irene Orgel
Irene Orgel
1966, 114 pp., 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.
$30.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-015-X

“Very few people are capable of being independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever tries it, however justified, without having to, proves that he is probably not only strong but bold to the point of complete recklessness. For he walks into a labyrinth, he increases a thousandfold the dangers which are inherent in life anyway.” This quotation from Nietzsche is the theme of eleven original stories by Irene Orgel. No schmaltz. Wit and authority. The real thing.

“Irony...Mystery.”
—Publishers Weekly

The Lively Anatomy of God
Nancy Willard
1968, 95 pp., 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.
$30.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-021-4

The stories in Nancy Willard’s first book are about how the life of the imagination dwells in and shapes reality. “Faith takes root in the insignificant,” says one of her narrators. And further: “...the faith we have gathered from generations of Sundays was no match for this greater faith in the reality of darkness.” This author’s first book proved to be the beginning of a distinguished career.

Thomas Jefferson’s Human Jesus
1968, 152 pp., 5 x 4 1/8 in.
$26.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-010-9

The narrative President Jefferson extracted from the four Gospels for his private use, showing Jesus as a philosopher and human being. “Enter you in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth into life, and few there be that find it....A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.” Selected by Jefferson from the very words only of Jesus. He called it “the most sublime and benevolent code of morals...ever offered to man.”

Classic Black African Poems
translated by Willard Trask
1971, 58 pp., 7 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.
$20.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-024-9
$15.00 paper, ISBN 0-87130-025-7

Classic lyric poems from all over Africa, the worthy counterpart of African sculpture and the spirituals.

CHANT
In the time when Dendid created all things,
He created the sun,
And the sun is born, and dies, and comes again;
He created the moon,
And the moon is born, and dies, and comes again;
He created the stars,
And the stars are born, and die, and come again;
He created man,
And the man is born, and dies, and never comes again.
—Dinka Nilotic Sudan

The Bagatelles from Passy
Benjamin Franklin
1967, 188 pp., 6 3/4 x 4 1/8 in.
$46.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-005-2

The private miniatures printed in English and French on his own press and written for his lady friends in Paris while he was America’s first ambassador. Translated by Willard Trask, notes by Claude-Anne Lopez.

“A book that is perfect in every way, an admirable tribute to one of the finest and wisest of our writers.”
—Monroe Wheeler, The Museum of Modern Art

Adventures, Rhymes and Designs
Vachel Lindsay
1968, 287 pp., 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.
$40.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-011-7
$30.00 paper, ISBN 0-87130-012-5

Rhymes to be traded for bread. Verses printed as a substitute for money, used by Lindsay on a tramp journey. A full anthology of writings and drawings.

THE LEADEN EYED.
Let not young souls be smothered out before
They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride.
It is the world’s one crime its babes grow dull,
Its poor are ox-like, limp and leaden eyed.
Not that they starve, but starve so dreamlessly,
Not that they sow, but that they seldom reap,
Not that they serve, but have no gods to serve,
Not that they die, but that they die like sheep.

 

 

Chartres and Prose Poems
Jean Garrigue
1970, 59 pp., 7 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.
$20.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-007-9
$12.50 paper, ISBN 0-87130-008-7

“Now all is mystery and forest and fortress, too, and shelter. A forest, a fortress, a shelter, a city, this city of love, this symbol of faith in what is not visible made visible...and by the stone angel that at the corner of the south belltower holds a sundial like a shield against its breast. ” This book reaffirms that the cultural past is now more, not less essential to us. With seven photographs by Henri le Secq from the 1850s.

Louis Armstrong: A Self-Portrait
Richard Meryman
1971, 59 pp., 15 plates, 7 x 7 in.
cloth is out of print, ISBN 0-87130-026-5 (see special edition below)
$25.00 paper, ISBN 0-87130-027-3

In his own words, raw, sensitive, and eloquent, Louis Armstrong speaks his soul in this book. The great man behind the music emerges.

“The Best.”
—Whitney Balliett

Louis Armstrong: A Self-Portrait, Special Edition
1996
special edition with removable hand-pulled gravure
$250.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-026-5

This edition is limited to 100 copies and contains a first edition clothbound book with a stamped, numbered, removable hand-pulled gravure of the great Anton Bruehl photograph of Louis Armstrong.

Givers and Takers I
Jane Mayhall
1968, 47 pp., 5 1/2 x 4 1/8 in.
$9.50 paper, ISBN 0-87130-013-3

CHANSON MALAISE
The old-heads are drinking;
the new-heads are junking;
quick, quick, quack, quack,
who is thinking?
The cash is consistent,
the cliché rewarding;
we live in good times
of honest retarding.
What’s left to blame
if murderers seem cute?
When everybody laughs
it must be a joke.

“Speaks volumes about the wrongs of our time. Ironic humor. Delightful.”
—Harold Witt, Poetry

“A bolt from the blue. Dynamite!”
—Ned O’Gorman

Women
nine authors
1972, 148 pp., 7 x 5 1/2 in.
$20.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-030-3
$12.50 paper, ISBN 0-87130-031-1

Feminist stories by nine authors, Mildred Barker, Sylvia Berkman, Elizabeth Fisher, Susan Griffin, Margaret Lamb, Helen Neville, Irini Nova, Mary Rouse, and May Swenson, with a photographic essay on gypsy women by Mariette Ollier.

“Varied stories...: women struggling...in a world of men....These are not tracts but works of art.”
—Houston Post

A System of Architectural Ornament
1967, 80 pp., 11 x 8 1/2 in.
$50 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-018-4
$40 paper, ISBN 0-87130-019-2

This book is the great American architect's final, definitive statement of his philosophy and faith. Intricate, detailed designs and text, with previously unpublished drawings for the Farmers' and Merchants' Union Bank, and a Note by Ada Louise Huxtable. Bound in brick red bolton linen.

The Sculpture of Gaston Lachaise
1967, 138 pp., 86 plates, 11 x 8 in.
$85.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-016-8
paper is out of print

The first book on the life work. Eighty pages of plates, an essay by Hilton Kramer, and appreciations by Hart Crane, e. e. cummings, Marsden Hartley, Lincoln Kirstein, A. Hyatt Mayor, and Henry McBride.

“An ideal presentation worthy of the artist.”
—Meyer Shapiro, Columbia University

Standing Still While Traffic Moved About Me
Robert Hutchinson
1971, 78 pp., 7 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.
$20.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-028-1
$12.50 paper, ISBN 0-87130-029-X

STANDING STILL WHILE TRAFFIC MOVED ABOUT ME
Where Homer sat wandless and Moses brought
No homeward Ithacan wheel,
I stayed, as was right, on my personal island
(The plum’s invasions—
October’s massed grays—)
And found a poem others had missed
Flopping wildly on the cement.

“When poetry can get as close to a reader as love does—secret love—forbidden love—then it has succeeded. And this poetry does.” —May Swenson

“...bewitching and bewitched....I truly love it....”
—Mark Van Doren

Payne Hollow, Life on the Fringe of Society
Harlan Hubbard
1974, 168 pp., 7 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.
$25.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-040-0
paper is out of print

The story of Harlan and Anna Hubbard, who started as shanty-boaters on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers: how they searched and years ago found a place on shore to settle. Designed by Freeman Keith.

“...curiously in tune with the ideals of our young environmentalists, yet practical and competent....As pretty a little book as I have seen in years....”
—Barry Bingham, Sr., Louisville Courier Journal

The Bitch-Goddess Success
Edited by Leslie George Katz
1968, 105 pp., 6 x 4 1/8 in.
$26.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-000-1
$12.50 paper, ISBN 0-87130-001-X

Variations on an American theme by Alexis de Tocqueville, Washington Allston, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, William James, Louis H. Sullivan, Charles Ives, Vachel Lindsay, Maxwell E. Perkins, W. H. Auden, John F. Kennedy, and George F. Kennan. This small volume indicates the continuity of “our national disease” today, especially as it infects cultural values and the arts. Acutely aware of the failures of American society, the authors defend personal sensibility against destructive forces, conformist and non-conformist.

Fairy Tales for Computers
Edited by Leslie George Katz
1969, 163 pp., 5 3/8 x 4 1/8 in.
$20.00 paper, ISBN 0-87130-004-4

Fairy Tales for Computers is a selection of stories, statements, and prophecies.... The book contains “The Machine Stops” by E. M. Forster; “The Nature Theatre of Oklahoma” from Amerika by Franz Kafka; “Notes On A Dream” from the early diaries of Theodor Herzl; “The Book of the Machines” from Erewhon by Samuel Butler; passages entitled “On Intelligence” from the essays of Paul Valéry; and “The Nightingale” by Hans Christian Andersen.

The Clerk’s Journal
Conrad Aiken
1971, 47 pp., 11 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.
$40.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-022-2
$75.00 slip-cased special edition, ISBN 0-87130-023-0

I lunched today at a certain spa,
A justly far-famed eating-joint
Whose management has made a point
That every waitress be a star.
Revolving on a shiny stool
I sat and ate my plate of beans—
And felt ineffably a fool
Among that galaxy of queens.

The long poem of 1911, written while Aiken was at Harvard. Here, Conrad Aiken finds his subject and vocation—at the same time as his friend T. S. Eliot. Designed by David R. Godine.

“The first printing of Aiken’s first successful poem.”
—Virginia Quarterly Review

Thirty-one Sonnets
Richard Eberhart
1967, 35 pp., 6 1/4 x 5 in.
$20.00 cloth, LCC 67-14530

A sequence of early love poems previously unpublished by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Those familiar with Eberhart’s poetry will find in the sonnets the wild strengths and controlled lyricism of his later poems.

“...strikingly passionate. The book is a fine example of good design and printing.”
—Publishers Weekly

Nature and Love Poems
Ruth Herschberger
1969, 55 pp., 4 3/4 x 6 in.
$15.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-009-5

The hiding virtues, they do not
Come out to be counted, one and one
But the vices stand in regular gear
To invite inspection and despair.

Sensual perception and precise animality. “...a voice baroque and yet naive, curious and yet appealingly plain,...a charming book.”
—Richard Wilbur

How To Put Out a Fire
Ned O’Gorman
1984, 43 pp., 11 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.
out of print

Remove from the field all tinder: nettles, the straw clown, the paper fan, the old man’s yawn, the kit, the mauve dalliance in the shadow. For the shade will not be pierced with runnels from the sun, no matter how the clay strums for potter’s fire. The hedge will not trip the brimstone in the dirt.
—Ned O’Gorman

LINES, FROM A SPLIT CONNECTION
In times of stress, we have
the amplified obvious, like
watered-down Bach, and the switch-
on flak. I’ll vote for it; but don’t
want to have to listen to it......

OH! WASHINGTON IRVING!
Oh! Washington Irving!
You never dreamed of advertising,
and the headless whoresman,
whoring.

“Indictments, diatribes, satires,” they are also art.
—Hudson Review

“I have felt their courage and passion.”
—Neville Coghill

'O Write My Name'
Carl Van Vechten, Richard Benson
1983, 22 x 14 in. $7,500* portfolio of 50 hand-pulled
gravures limited to 100 copies
(*This publication is for sale solely to institutions or individuals
who will eventually gift the portfolio to an institution.)

Carl Van Vechten's magnificent photographs of his Harlem friends have, at long last, for the first time, received their due, gloriously reproduced in hand-pulled gravure from the original negatives by Richard Benson and Thomas Palmer. Fifty 9 x 6-inch gravures printed on the finest paper each with a letterpress caption providing biographical information, dates and a brief excerpt from a related work.

"Marvelous!"
—The New York Times

The Sculpture of Mary Frank
photographs by Jerry Thompson
1977, 18 x 15 1/2 in.
album of palladium prints is out of print
$5.00 pamphlet (6 x 9 in.)

The Eakins Press Foundation commissioned Jerry L. Thompson to create an album of photographs showing her work as she displays it, in the midst of nature rather than in the abstract environment and spotlights of an art gallery. Mr. Thompson’s sensitive studies were printed in the palladium process by Richard Benson.

Mary Frank is a magnificent anomaly among contemporary sculptors. While so many others expend their energy on making sculpture a language of cerebration, securely quarantined against direct expressions of feeling, she insists on making it a language of passion....It is certainly unusual these days—not only in the art of sculpture but also in virtually every corner of our culture—to find the imagery of eroticism so candidly depicted without recourse to the least trace of violence or vulgarity....The hand of the artistic process is communicated with the directness of a song.
—Hilton Kramer

The Sculpture of Raoul Hague
photographs by Robert Frank and Lee Friedlander
1978, 15 1/2 x 18 in.
Not for sale

Robert Frank and Lee Friedlander discovered that they had independently photographed the sculpture of Raoul Hague—Frank in 1955, Friedlander in 1976. As a gesture of admiration for the sculptor and his work, the two photographers collaborated with the Eakins Press Foundation to produce six sets of photographs in six albums. None are for sale.

Fourteen American Monuments
Lee Friedlander
1976, 13 pp., 6 x 9 in.
$7.50, ISBN 0-87130-044-3

A selection of images from The American Monument, finely reproduced and bound in pamplet form.

Lincoln Kirstein: A Bibliography of Published Writings
Edited by Peter Kayafas
196pp., 9 1/4 x 6 in.
11 duotone photographs.
$45.00 cloth, ISBN-13: 978-0-87130-065-2

Released on May 4th, 2007, Lincoln Kirstein’s centennial birthday, Lincoln Kirstein: A Bibliography of Published Writings is a comprehensive listing of Kirstein’s huge literary output. It is thoroughly annotated, indexed and separated into categories: Fiction; Poetry; Drama and Ballet Libretti; On Dance; On Drawing, Painting, Sculpture and Architecture; On Photography; On Film; On Literature, History, Politics and other Subjects; and Memoir. There are 575 entries, selected excerpts and a chronology of Kirstein’s life. Of the First Bibliography (1978), Hilton Kramer wrote in the New York Times: “This preliminary record of his writings on many subjects is an indispensable guide to his remarkably versatile career – one of the careers, it is well to remember, that has helped to shape some of the most valuable parts of our culture.”

Lincoln Kirstein, a First Bibliography
compiled by Harvey Simmonds, Louis Silverstein and Nancy Lassalle
Limited edition, 1978, 160 pp., 9 1/8 x 5 1/2 in.
$75.00 cloth, ISBN 0-81130-048-6

This unusual publication includes a chronology, photographs, excerpts from the author’s writings, and full index. Four hundred and seventy-three books, articles, and literary works are listed and described in nine subject divisions. Designed and supervised by Howard I. Gralla.

The pieces collected in Lincoln Kirstein: The Program Notes are all short essays in persuasion, to an extent rarely encountered in the obscure literary form of the program note. Never missing a chance to make his case, Kirstein used the program note not only to provide useful information but also to beat a drum for the value of the classical idiom, the intimacy achieved by the greatest choreographers and their living or historical musical collaborators, and the importance of the form itself.

The early program notes are experimental. Kirstein is himself learning about ballet and passing this knowledge on to his readers. But he is also publishing a manifesto, just as many other artists of his time were doing. As a classically educated young American, he freely embraced the canonical art forms of Europe, but he also espoused a New Deal faith in the power of American culture to transform traditional modes into populist expressions with a native resonance.

Those who understand his project of uplifting the culture of this land know why he called it the School of American Ballet. The development of this idea over decades, from the founding of SAB to his last years in charge of City Ballet, are subtly revealed through these notes. In them, one passes from the effrontery of early declarations of Balanchine’s breaks with tradition, to his later explanations of how deeply imbedded in the classical line Balanchine’s art actually was. In the same evolution, one hears the unmistakable change of voice from the assertive adolescent to the established authority.

But there is another way to see these notes, one which gives them much of their charm. Kirstein invested his wide-ranging knowledge and enthusiasm in them, so that more than almost any other mere program note they contain interesting facts about the composers or artists who collaborated with Balanchine and the other choreographers at the City Ballet, or about history in general.

The compilers of this volume offer it as a modest but irrepressible complement to Lincoln Kirstein’s other published work. He published these little pieces every season and they speak with the same voice as his best work, including his unique and sometimes awkward usages of English. It is fitting to bring them together for the first time in the centennial year of his birth.

The Poems of Lincoln Kirstein
1987, 320 pp., 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.
out of print

A one-volume edition of Lincoln Kirstein’s poems. In addition to the whole text of “Rhymes of a PFC” it includes an entirely new book, “Poems of a Patriot 1955-1985,” and “Ballads Urban and Suburban.” Designed and supervised by Howard I. Gralla. Jacket designed by Harry Ford.

Elie Nadelman
Lincoln Kirstein
1973, 359 pp., 215 plates, 12 x 9 in.
$250.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-034-6
slip-cased edition is out of print

Catalogue raisonné, writings by Nadelman...a masterpiece of design and printing, by Martino Mardersteig.

“Extraordinary...the scope and grandeur of Nadelman’s artistic achievement fully and eloquently documented.”
—Hilton Kramer, front page, New York Times Book Review

“Definitive....author and artist illuminate each other....”
—Art in America

Lay This Laurel
essay by Lincoln Kirstein
photographs by Richard Benson
1973, 80 pp., 20 plates, 9 x 8 3/4 in.
$80.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-036-2

An album on the Saint-Gaudens Memorial on Boston Common honoring black and white men together who served the Union cause with Robert Gould Shaw and died with him on July 18, 1863. With a forty-eight-page essay/story on the history of the Regiment, the monument, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens by Lincoln Kirstein; poems by Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and pre-Civil War black poets; a listing of Regiment members; and a selected bibliography. The book that inspired the movie “Glory.”

Lay This Laurel, Special Edition
1997, 80 pp., 20 plates, 9 x 8 3/4 in.
special edition, limited to 100 copies, with removable hand-pulled gravure
out of print

A first edition clothbound book with cased hand-pulled gravure. This edition released in commoration of the centenial celebration of the monument's unveiling.

Nijinsky: Afternoon of a Faun
Baron Adolf de Meyer
1978, 18 x 15 1/2 in.
$3,500 exhibition album


Thirty-three photographs by Baron Adolf de Meyer reproduced in the palladium process by Richard Benson. Benson worked directly from one of four surviving original albums to recreate this historic collaboration of Nijinsky and de Meyer. In addition to the thirty original photographs, the album contains three newly discovered de Meyer photographs. Includes comments by Diaghilev, Rodin, Jacques-Émile Blanche.

Choreography by George Balanchine: A Catalogue of Works
1983, 407 pp., 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.
$125.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-050-8

“...One of the most significant dance books of the twentieth century” makes available the complete, authoritative record of the more than four hundred works choreographed and directed by George Balanchine. The product of four years of research by leading international dance scholars. Deluxe edition printed by Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona.

“A little masterpiece.”
—A. Hyatt Mayor

The Stravinsky Festival
Nancy Goldner
photographs by Martha Swope
1973, 302 pp., 124 plates, 5 1/2 x 7 in.
$22.50 cloth, 0-87130-037-0

“This thoroughly novel, urbane, and entertaining text is a fitting memorial to the historic, week-long, 1972 Stravinsky Festival, celebrated by the New York City Ballet on the 90th anniversary of the composer’s birth. In seven evenings, thirty-one ballets (twenty-one made for the occasion) were presented—an incredible feat, well worth chronicling. Goldner does that superbly and clearly” —Choice

“Enchanting...the best possible record of what it was like.” —Dancing Times

(London) “Miss Goldner is superb...a real memento.”
—The New York Times

Union Jack
New York City Ballet
edited by Lincoln Kirstein
photographs by Richard Benson and Martha Swope
1977, 107 pp., 70 plates, 6 x 9 in.
$15.00 paper, ISBN 0-87130-047-8

To celebrate the two-hundredth birthday of the United States, George Balanchine created a ballet based on British music and dances, military, popular and folk. In Union Jack historic folk dances and marching steps of Great Britain, choreographed by Balanchine for the New York City Ballet, become perpetuated as a rediscovery of national character and dance forms we inherit like language.

Four new pocket albums available

EAKINS FOLD-OUT POCKET ALBUMS
Each has sixteen leaves, printed by sheet-fed gravure. Highest quality images. Accordion folded, each opens to be self-standing.
Worthy reproductions of classic originals. 6 x 4 inches when folded.

Rembrandt
The Hundred Guilder Print
$9.95, ISBN 0-87130-051-6, 1975

The artist’s masterpiece of etching; Christ preaching and healing, with thirty-nine portraits in detail. The central portion is in the full size of the original. With notes by A. Hyatt Mayor.

New York City
Views of Lower Manhattan
$9.95, ISBN 0-87130-052-4, 1975

Photographs by Berenice Abbott, Alvin Langdon Colburn, Alfred Stieglitz, Andreas Feininger, Lewis Hine, Richard Benson with text by Whitman and others.

Lincoln, An Album of Photographs and Words
$9.95, ISBN 0-87130-053-2, 1976

Magnificent portrait photographs that span Lincoln’s career. Each is accompanied by Lincoln’s own words from the period in which the photograph was made.

Discovering Yosemite
$9.95, ISBN 0-87130-054-0, 1976

Yosemite Valley; historic photographs by pioneer photographers C. E. Watkins, George Fiske, Charles Bierstadt, E. J. Muybridge, and C. L. Weed; with descriptions by John Muir.

Historic Photographs of Washington, D.C.
$9.95, ISBN 0-87130-055-9, 1976

Photographs from the Civil War to the present, including the Grand Victory Review of the Union Armies 1865, and the 1963 Civil Rights March at the Lincoln Memorial, with quotations from Walt Whitman, Martin Luther King, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others.

JUMBOMAINA
Essay by Deborah Walk, Curator of the Circus Museum at the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art
ISBN 0-87130-063-X, 2004
PA9 $9.95

The amazing story of Jumbo, the greatest circus elephant, told by Deborah Walk and illustrated with circus memorabilia of the time—trade cards, posters, child’s toys, etc.

“Despite its featherweight, printed paper from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art exerted enough power back in the 1880s to ignite and sustain enthusiastic public interest in a beloved 13,000 pound curiosity named Jumbo. Circus paper encompasses a wide range of material such as tickets, letterhead, route cards, programs, lithographs, window cards, heralds and couriers that promote the upcoming season and highlight the star attraction. From 1882 to 1885, Jumbo was the attraction that captivated America not only in the realm of the circus but also in advertising.” –Deborah Walk

The Big Top
Essay by Deborah Walk, Curator of the Circus Museum at the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art
ISBN 0-87130-064-8, 2004
PA10 $9.95

“Along with the 4th of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas, the circus coming to town was one of the most important community events of the year at the beginning of the twentieth century. Shops closed and schools cancelled classes. The circus magically transformed a town for a day before heading off to the next stand. Colossal canvas cities crisscrossed the country and brought the diversity of the world to America’s doorstep. Using the camera, Frederick Whitman Glasier captured this golden age of the American circus.” –Deborah Walk

Love Poems
Selected poems by Catullus, Ronsard, Shakespeare, Johnson, Campion, Blake, Whitman, Dickinson, Valéry, Villa, W. C. Williams, Garrigue, and anonymous
illustrated from lithographs by Matisse made for the Florilége Des Amours of Ronsard.
$7.95, ISBN 0-87130-056-7, 1976

More closely than the clinging vine
About the wedded tree,
Clasp thou thine arms, ah, mistress mine!
About the heart of me.
Or seem to sleep, and stoop your face
Soft on my sleeping eyes,
Breathe in your life, your heart, your grace,
Through me in, kissing wise.
Bow down, bow down your face, I pray,
To me, that swoon to death,
Breathe back the life you kissed away,
Breathe back your kissing breath....
—Pierre de Ronsard, translated by Andrew Lang

 

 

The Story of the Prophet Jonas
Translated by William Tyndale
With a facsimile of the 1531 printing
1999, 32 pp., 7 illustrations, 7 x 4 1/2 in.
$15.00, card-bound with dust jacket, ISBN 0-87130-059-1

This letterpress new edition of the great Biblical story contains a facsimile of the only known printing of the first translation of the Story of the Prophet Jonas by William Tyndale in 1531.

“This new edition . . . is intended to honor William Tyndale, literary genius and martyred hero, who permanently influenced the English language through the inspired accuracy of his translations, which were largely incorporated phrase by phrase and word for word in the celebrated Authorized and Revised versions of the Bible. . . . Documentary artist, obdurately objective, Tyndale performed the ideals of Luther and Erasmus. Exiled and reviled, hunted, he outwitted the enemies of freedom of speech (as Solzhenitsyn and others in our time), while he translated, wrote, printed, distributed and revised. In 1536 he was betrayed and imprisoned, tried and burned at the stake. The life he gave his work lives on in it; through his fidelity to his craft his example serves us now and forever.”
—Leslie George Katz (from the Introduction)

Walker Evans Incognito
Interview by Leslie George Katz
1995, 42 pp., 8 tri-tone illustrations, 16 x 11 1/2 in.
$125.00 cloth, ISBN 0-87130-057-5

Winner of the 1995 American Institute of Graphic Arts “Fifty Books, Fifty Covers”

Aware of the immortal power of words, Walker Evans chose to leave a last will and testament, unmistakable in its clarity, in the form of an interview. He made sure that none of his intended clarity would be lost. This he achieved by choosing a close and trusted friend to collaborate in conducting several recorded conversations and editing them into a carefully articulated credo.

Walker Evans: the Brooklyn Bridge
1994, 9 hand-pulled gravures, 17 x 14 in., edition of 100
$3,200

With an introduction by Leslie George Katz and the poem “To Brooklyn Bridge” by Hart Crane.

The portfolio comes in a handmade cloth box and includes nine hand-pulled gravures of images made during 1928 and 1929. Text pages are letterpress.

A Tribute to Leslie George Katz
Various authors
Edited by Peter Kayafas and Jane Mayhall Katz
1997, 133 pp.,
photograph by Berenice Abbott
$12.50, ISBN 0-87130-058-3

Leslie George Katz, founder and president of the Eakins Press Foundation, is the subject of this series of tribute essays by his friends and colleagues. The contributors include: Aileen Ward, Edith McKeon Abbott, Robert Sunley, Freeman Keith, Oscar Shoenfeld, Sally Fisher, Harvey Simmonds, Richard Benson, John Szarkowski, Jerry Thompson, James R. Mellow, Dan Wakefield, Nora Sayre, Thomas Schoff, Edward Bigelow, Nancy Reynolds, Nancy Goldner, Robert Garis, Nancy Lassalle, Nancy Sullivan, Virginia Zabriskie, Sylvan Schendler, Pauline Hanson, Ned O’Gorman and Arthur Gregor.

Message from the Interior
Catalogue of the Eakins Press Foundation
1995, 48pp., 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
$5.00 paper

This catalogue/anthology tells the story of the Eakins Press and represents each of its publications with pictures and words from the books themselves as well as comments and praise from relevant critical sources. Beautifully produced, it adopts the name of the first Eakins Press publication, Message from the Interior, bringing the philosophy behind the Press into clear focus. This book is a history of the Eakins Press as told through the words of its founder Leslie George Katz, and by the books themselves.

Walker Evans: A Gallery of Postcards
Catalogue of the Eakins Press Foundation
2000, 8 postcards 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.
$25.00 cards in aluminum box/display

Consisting of scrupulous, tritone, dry-trap reproductions of eight original works by Walker Evans from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Also included is an elucidating essay by Jeff L. Rosenheim, curator of the grand exhibition WALKER EVANS, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2000.

The eight postcards that make up A Gallery of Postcards were originally produced by Walker Evans in 1936 by contact printing sections of his 8 x 10 inch negatives onto the smaller Kodak gelatin silver postcard stock. “Like a poet refining an idea word by word, Evans often clarified and intensified the meanings of his pictures by trimming his prints just slightly to present the leanest possible image. With the postcards he took that impulse to another level. Evans was a master of the edge and one of the mediums greatest precisionists.” Jeff L. Rosenheim, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Postcards, contained in the aluminum box/display are available directly from the Eakins Press Foundation.