New in the Design Observer Store

The Design Observer 10th Anniversary Store is open for just one more week — closing December 15th at midnight. We’ve added some very exciting rare book offers, we still have a the Bantjes, Scher and Niemann “Sustainability” posters, and a few more t-shirts.

For you type fans we have a Letterpress Sampler! One copy each of: Mark Jarman / Unholy Sonnets (Aralia Press 1994); Thomas Bernhardt / Beautiful View (WDNY 1994); Sharon Olds / My Son The Man (Aralia Press 1996)

We have a small selection of Jessica Helfand’s original hardbound chapbook Six Essays on Design and New Media.

Paul Celan was one of the major German-language poets of the post-World War II era. His poem “Wolfs-Bohne” (Wolf’s-Bean) was published in 1997 and we have 5 of the 50 limited edition hardcover copies signed by the translator Michael Hanburger. Quarter bound in buckram over marbled paper-covered boards. Designed and set in Monotype Helvetica and printed letterpress.

In 1996, Richard Wilbur won the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America. This book, a limited run of 100 copies, commemorates the event and is signed by both Richard Wilbur and Stanley Kunitz.

The Voice Impersonator is a collection of 104 stories by Thomas Bernhard: eighteen suicides; six painful deaths; twenty-six murders; thirteen instances of lunacy; twenty surprises; four disappearances & more!

And don’t forget about the baseball signed by 21 designers at 2013’s Head Heart Hand.