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THE LIFE AND WORK OF FREDSON BOWERS.
Tanselle, G. Thomas
Checklist and Chronology by Martin C. Battestin. Foreword by David L. Vander Meulen.

   

- Charlottesville, VA : Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 2003
- 6.25 x 9.5 inches
- cloth.
- viii, 210 pages.
- ISBN 1883631106 / Order Nr. 53830
- Price: $ 50.00

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First edition, second printing. Widely acclaimed account of the remarkable career of Fredson Bowers, whose life (1905-1991) spanned the twentieth century and who came to symbolize the fields of analytical and descriptive bibliography, textual criticism, and scholarly editing.

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FOR WHISPERS & CHANTS.
by Zeitlin, Jake

First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. The book was printed at the Grabhorn Press (Heller & Magee no.96) and has a colored frontispiece drawn by Valenti Angelo as was the design on the front cover (Angelo Biblio. p.40). Zeitlin's first book. Also contains a short foreword by Carl Sandburg. Chosen as one of the 50 Best Books of the year by the AIGA. Presentation on free endpaper "To Henry Viets, with grateful remembrances of a day in Boston full of warmth & exciting encounters with books & men. Jake. 7/20/52." With Viet's bookplate. Page 4 has a number of lines added to the poem in ink in Zeitlin's hand.




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