Recent arrivals and highlights

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Listed below are some of our recent arrivals and featured books. Check back regularly for updates.

If you do not find what you are looking for, please inquire: gerald@gwcbooks.com

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Philippe Grandjean’s Romain du Roi typeface, from the original plates

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184 entries of celebrated figures, a description of Giovio’s famous Museo with 60 woodcut portraits

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My Way I

Author:

Didier Mutel

Book Artist:

Atelier Mutel

“My Way is the generic title given to the first Acide Brut Action.” -the artist.

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Two Influential Legal texts of the late 16th century (1595-1600), bound in one volume

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A sammelband (1807-26) of exceedingly rare and ephemeral titles honoring: François Joseph Talma (1763-1826): France’s leading dramatic actor of the early 19th cen.:

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The Birds of Acid, part 3

Author:

Didier Mutel

Book Artist:

Atelier Mutel

Didier Mutel's homage to John J. Audubon’s extraordinary Birds of America

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One of Mutel's most delicate works, illustrated with abstract anthropomorphic figures reminiscent of the surrealists so admired by Ponge.

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R217A reproduces the text of the United Nations Resolution 217A, the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man, made December 10, 1948, which was ratified by the UN General Assembly in Paris by 58 member states.

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Mutel's defense and celebration of etching