[Montclair, NJ]: Caliban Press, 1989. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This is an out-of-series copy (not numbered) signed by both Berrigan and Ely on the colophon at the time of publication. It has been in Ely’s possession, in unbound sheets, until being offered here. In 1989, Mark McMurray wrote to Berrigan, who.....
Price: $9,800.00
![Item #9756 5 [Unique Book and Binding by Timothy C. Ely]. Timothy Ely](/pictures/medium/9756-0.jpeg?v=1642958346)
Colfax, WA: Timothy C. Ely, 2017. Unique. Hardcover. 8 spreads of original art by Ely using watercolor, dyes, gum arabic, and other pigments. "I am fond of the simple numbers and the shapes they generate. Within them are properties and unless they are known, they appear to be secret. The.....
Price: $20,000.00
Portland, OR: Timothy Ely, 1984. Unique. Hardcover. This work, from early in Ely's career, has been in his ex-wife's private collection until now. As with much of Ely's work, it is comprised of various techniques (print, mss, paint, etc). and exquisitely bound. This binding, with strap closures, has built up.....
Price: $12,000.00
![Item #9757 Approach to the Site [Unique Binding]. Timothy Ely](/pictures/medium/9757-0.jpeg?v=1642958281)
Brooklyn, NY: Waterstreet Press, 1986. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Ten folios, offset printed on Arches cover buff. This copy bound in 1998 in a unique binding by the author/illustrator Timothy C. Ely. "'Approach to the Site' is one of the very few editioned books I have made. In itself it is.....
Price: $4,000.00
Portland, OR: Timothy Ely, 1984. Unique. Hardcover. This work, from early in Ely's career, has been in his ex-wife's private collection until now. Printed and mss elements, nearly all in tones of black (the only color is a clot of red over the title on the title page). Overall, a......
Price: $6,500.00
Colfax, WA: Timothy Ely, 1990-[2015]. Unique. Hardcover. Bones of the Book is the second in a three-book series that differs significantly from most of Ely’s other work. These books are both biographical and autobiographical. Each honors the important influence of family members in Ely’s life, and combines it with an.....
Price: $100,000.00
Portland, OR: Timothy Ely, 1992. Unique. Hardcover. This work, from rather early in Ely's career, has been in his ex-wife's private collection until now. As with much of Ely's work, it is comprised of various techniques (print, mss, paint, collage, etc.) and exquisitely bound. Smaller in hand than much of.....
Price: $9,500.00
![Item #9760 Obelisk Stare [Unique Book and Binding]. Timothy Ely](/pictures/medium/9760-0.jpeg?v=1642958221)
Colfax, WA: Timothy Ely, 2016. Unique. Hardcover. 42 spreads of original art plus title page and elaborately decorated endpapers by Timothy Ely, exquisitely hand bound by him. "I lived in London and New York for a time. Both cities have an Aegyptian Obelisk purloined from the mother country. A story.....
Price: $80,000.00
Colfax, WA: Timothy Ely, 2015 [-2016]. Unique. Hardcover. 25 spreads of original art and unique binding by Tim Ely. Signed by the artist. "Phial is an excursion into the transformation of surface and thought. It is an alembic, an alchemical vessel which is used for distillation. In Cockerell’s famous book.....
Price: $17,000.00
Portland, OR: Paperworks, nd [circa 1981]. Unique. Loose mounts. Paperworks was the name of Ely's d/b/a before he moved to NYC. This set of photos, from rather early in Ely's career, has been in his ex-wife's private collection until now. Timothy C. Ely is a renowned and enigmatic figure in.....
Price: $4,500.00
Colfax, WA: Timothy Ely, 2014. Unique. Hardcover. Tools and dies for the gold work made by the artist. Timothy C. Ely is a renowned and enigmatic figure in the book world. His one-of-a-kind manuscript books combine elaborate and often mysterious painted and drawn folios contained within finely crafted bindings, most.....
Price: $17,500.00
Colfax, WA: Timothy C. Ely, 2011-12. Unique. Hardcover. A unique set of 4 books, a variant of Ely's famous (and enormous) single volume book Binding the Book:The Flight Into Egypt (1985). This specially commissioned grouping, collectively titled The Flight into Egypt, comprises four volumes: Atum, Fulcrum, River, and Thoth, with.....
Price: $50,000.00