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(Adagio Press) Bahr, Leonard F. THE ADAGIO PRESS.
N.P. Adagio Press n.d. 4to unbound 131 broadside specimen sheets enclosed by heavy paper covers
Ornaments and type faces offered by the Adagio Press. Includes designs by Will Bradley (American Type Founders), D. Stempel, Imre Reiner and Jose Mendoza y Almeida (Typefoundry Amsterdam), Alessandro Butti and Aldo Novarese, G.C. Lange (H. Berthold), American Type Founders, Monotype, Georg Trump, Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum, designers for Bauersche Giesserei, Hermann Zapf, Jan van Krimpen and others. Illustrations of all type faces and ornaments.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 109160

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AUTHOR'S PRINTING AND PUBLISHING ASSISTANT
London Saunders and Otley n.d. 12mo. original cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on cover, edges gilt (vi), 67, (36) pages plus 2 fold-out plates
Fifth edition (Bigmore & Wyman I,24). Subtitle continues, "Comprising Explanations of the Process of Printing, Preparation & Calculation of Manuscripts, Punctuation, Choice of Paper, Type, Binding, Illustrations, Publishing, Advertising, &c, with an Exemplification and Description of the Typographical Marks unused in the Correction of the Press." One fold-out displays specimens and names of the different sizes of type, the other shows a page properly annotated with corrections and the revised version. Section at the back listing works published by Messrs. Saunders and Otley. Covers blind stamped with border design. Front cover blind stamped with the words Mercantile Library Company with so much force that the indentation is visible through the cover and the endpapers. Library marks throughout. Spine missing, pages are loose, covers detached. Paper catalogue label on lower left corner of front cover. Mercantile Library Company stamp less forceful on the rear cover. Corners rubbed. Pages darkened. Front endpapers missing.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 79400

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(Bird & Bull Press) de Nova Villa, Henricus SO LONG, HOT-METAL MEN
The Comprehensive Bird & Bull Type Specimen Book Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2007 small folio quarter morocco, slipcase (x), 117, (3) pages
Limited to an edition of 140 numbered copies. This book represents a full year of daily work creating a type specimen book that not only shows type faces ranging from the very rare to the common but also contains wonderful Henry Morris quotes composed in type. While there are serious entries, many, if not most, exhibit Morris's finely-tuned humor. How often does one get immense reading pleasure, to say nothing of a good laugh, from an exquisitely executed type specimen book? The alphabets shown range from the gargantuan 84-pt. to a miniscule 4-pt. There is ornamental material from the last days of the great German type founders, which is rarely seen in American private presses, much of which was designed by Hermann Zapf and others of equal ability. "I've seen many of the type specimen books of the twentieth century and I believe I have come up with a novel way of doing this. I predict the idea will be copied, but this is the original and no serious collection should be without it." (from the prospectus). Set in numerous types printed on Frankfurt paper.
Price: $ 550.00 other currencies Order nr. 93138

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(Bird & Bull Press) Hopkins, Richard L. (editor) PRIVATE TYPECASTERS, PRESERVING THE CRAFT OF HOT-METAL TYPE INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2008 small 4to. quarter morocco with Japanese cloth sides, leather spine label. 194 pages.
First edition, limited to 150 numbered copies. The private press has been with us in one form or another for 200 years or more. The equipment for a small private press was inexpensive, required little space and almost anyone could learn to do basic printing in a short time. Private typecasting is entirely different. A single machine weighs almost a ton and a lot of practice and experience is required in order to decently produce the most basic work. This once-costly equipment came into the hands of printing enthusiasts when hot-metal typesetting was forced into decline by the computer. The members of this hot-metal fraternity comprise a network of small shops using the machines and matrices which once supported the hot-metal letterpress era. They are, in effect, a group of small, working museums. The work of fifteen of these typecasters has been gathered into the pages of this book. Here you will see unknown, newly-created types, ancient types cast from 200-year-old matrices, proprietary types and a beautiful Civilité face designed by Hermann Zapf, which was never released to the commercial market. There are five fold-out pages, two of which open together to make a 32-inch spread. One of the fold-outs is a recreated page from the 36-line Gutenberg Bible with rubrication. It took six months to turn the printed images on the original page into a complete font of hand-fitted metal types. Printed on dampened handmade paper, this leaf required a week's work, and handling it is as close as most of us will get to experiencing the genuine page.
A biographical sketch of each contributor precedes his alphabets and the specimen pages which show the alphabets in use. Produced over a 14-month period, the labor and expense lavished on this work exceeds any previous book from Bird & Bull Press.
The Private Typecasters, a 194-page small folio printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, is beautifully bound in quarter morocco with Japanese cloth sides and leather spine label. The same cloth and spine label are used on the clamshell case which houses the book.
Price: $ 900.00 other currencies Order nr. 100094

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Bodoni, Giambattista MANUALE TIPOGRAFICO DEL CAVALIERE GIAMBATTISTA BODONI
2 volumes. London The Holland Press 1960 4to. decorated paper cover boards, paper spine labels, slipcase. lxxii,267; (iv),279 pages.
One of 500 copies. An exact facsimile of the famous Bodoni specimen book - manual originally printed in Parma by the Presso la Vedova in 1818. Slipcase with top and bottom partially detached. Spines of books show some foxing.
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 700

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Bossange, Hector CATALOGUE DE LIVRES FRANÇAIS, ANGLAIS, ALLEMANDS, ESPAGNOLS, GRECS ET LATINS, ITALIENS, PORTUGAIS, ORIENTAUX, ETC. ... SUIVI DE PRIX COURANTS.
Paris Hector Bossange, Maison de Commission 1845 thick 8vo. contemporary half morocco, top edge gilt (xvi), 984 pages
A massive catalogue of 984 pages, the vast bulk of which (pp.1-802) is devoted to books as noted in the title. Some of this is very interesting, especially the section on the arts and architecture, which includes some rare and expensive books. The second part is of even more interest as it contains sections on maps, globes and spheres, astronomical instruments, and "machines typographiques" (with lithographic illustrations of the Stanhope Press, the Columbian Press, the Presse Française and the Machine à Glacier). This is followed by eight leaves of type specimens and "Les Articles pour la Reliure" which includes four folding plates of shiny glazed black paper printed in gold showing 'Fers a Doreur.' The two final plates are more fers a doreur and include two fully blocked spines, a fully blocked cover and other stamps, rolls and lines. These are in perfect condition and have great appeal as well as obvious documentary value for historians of 1840s binding. The letterpress lists also include skins for binding with prices. The final leaf of this section is Daguerreotypes, both full apparatus and plates. Contemporary bookplates of the Franklin Library of Boston and the later 19th century bookplate of the Lawrence Public Library. Rubbed, hinges rubbed but sound.
Price: $ 950.00 other currencies Order nr. 81799

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(Caine, Michael) CONCATÉNATION DE CARACTÈRES TYPOGRAPHIQUES.
(Paris) Atelier de la Cerisaie 2001) thin folio stiff paper wrappers, slipcase. (20) pages.
Limited to 25 numbered copies signed by Michael Caine who was a co-printer wtih Jon von in handseting and printing this magnificent specimen book. With showings of type from the following founderies: Amsterdam, Bauer, Beaudoire, Deberny & Peignot, Doublet, Enschedè, Nebiolo, P. Ribaudeau & Dumas, Stempel, Stephenson Blake, Tipografica Cooperativa, Typographique Francaise, Wagner (Weber).
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 105414

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(Calligraphy) Valpey, F.B. THE ART OF LETTERING FOR THE USE OF ARCHITECTS, CIVIL ENGINEERS, DRAUGHTSMEN, DESIGNERS, ILLUMINATORS, MARBLE WORKERS AND THE DECORATIVE ARTIST.
Lynn, MA F.B. Valpey n.d., circa. 1890 oblong small 8vo. original quarter cloth, paper-covered boards Unpaginated
A collection of specimens including letters, numerals, scenery vignettes and punctuation. Designed for advertising and show-card work, as well as sign and decorative painters. Rear cover is stamped "Press of Thos. P. Nichols, Lynn, Mass." Includes one page of advertising before, and one page after, text. Printed recto only. OCLC lists three North American copies. A Fred B. Valpey is listed on the 1913 tax assessment list of Lynn, living in Ward Six at 15 Anoka Place, occupation designer (www.lynnhistory.com/Taxlists/1913JuryList.html). A March 14, 1893, account from the Worcester Daily Spy described the destruction of Valpey's office by fire. Boards soiled and worn at edges. Free endpapers detached. Hinges cracked. Facsimile of newspaper account cited above laid in.
Price: $ 295.00 other currencies Order nr. 109405

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Enschedé, Charles TYPEFOUNDRIES IN THE NETHERLANDS, FROM THE FIFTEENTH TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
Haarlem Stichting Museum Enschedé 1978 folio quarter leather, printed paper over boards. xxvii, 477 pages.
An English translation of the original edition of 1908 in Dutch with revisions and notes by Harry Carter with the assistance of Netty Hoeflake. Edited by Lotte Hellinga. Intended as a history of the Enschedé firm, it is also a wonderful contribution to typography in general. Not only is this book an extensive history of typefoundries in the Netherlands, but it also contains various alphabets from five centuries and hundreds of ornaments, type specimens and woodcuts. Also contains a bibliography of related items. Beautifully printed.
Price: $ 425.00 other currencies Order nr. 34977

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Goudy, Frederic W. TYPOLOGIA, STUDIES IN TYPE DESIGN & TYPE MAKING With Comments on the Invention of Typography, the First Types, Legibility and Fine Printing.
Berkeley University of California Press 1940 small 4to. quarter leather over parchment covered boards, slipcase. xix, 170, (2) pages.
First edition, one of the 300 numbered and autographed copies. A landmark book in the history of typography. With ink inscription on free endpaper. Rubbed along hinges and at top of spine.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 54290

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(Hill & Dale) Mahr, Karl PRINTING TYPES, THEIR BIRTH IN THE TYPEFOUNDRY DEPICTED IN WOODCUT AND VERSE
N.P. Privately Printed 2000 folio stiff paper wrappers, mailing envelope. (ii), 10, (4) pages
Limited to an edition of 130 (from another copy sold by Oak Knoll). The text for this edition was translated and set by hand at the Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing in Athens GA. All the press and production work was performed by Richard Hopkins' Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry in Terra Alta, WV. The English text is set on the first ten pages and is accompanied by eight illustrations. The German text is on last three of the final unnumbered pages. In original mailing envelope addressed to a customer in India.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 104929

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(Hill & Dale) Mahr, Karl PRINTING TYPES, THEIR BIRTH IN THE TYPEFOUNDRY DEPICTED IN WOODCUT AND VERSE
N.P. Privately Printed 2000 folio stiff paper wrappers, plain paper envelope. (ii), 10, (4) pages
Limited to an edition of 130 (from another copy sold by Oak Knoll). The text for this edition was translated and set by hand at the Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing in Athens GA. All the press and production work was performed by Richard Hopkins' Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry in Terra Alta, WV. The English text is set on the first ten pages and is accompanied by eight illustrations. The German text is on last three of the final unnumbered pages.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 105320

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Hupp, Otto EIN MISSALE SPECIALE VORLÄUFER DES PSALTERIUMS VON 1457.
Munich Nationale Verlagsanstalt 1898 4to. quarter leather with paste paper-covered boards and leather spine label, original stiff paper wrappers bound-in 30; 98; 142 pages
Three volumes bound together. The second and third volumes are entitled Gutenbergs ersten Drucke and Zum Streit um das Missale speciale Constantiense, respectively. Three monographs of Hupp's analysis of the Missale Speciale, which he discovered in 1880. Each subsequent volume corrects the conjectures set forth in earlier issues and offers new interpretations. The third volume even includes extensive quotes from a number of other scholars. Text samples as well as entire pages of the Missale are reproduced in red, blue, and black-and-white. Though primarily known as a heraldist and ceramicist, this type of study fits naturally into Otto Hupp's concurrent interests as a typeface designer, engraver and artist. Memorial bookplate on front pastedown indicates that this copy came from the H.P. Kraus reference library and stock. Edges of cover rubbed.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 77014

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Janssen, Frans A. TECHNIQUE & DESIGN IN THE HISTORY OF PRINTING.
`t Goy-Houten HES & DE GRAAF 2004 7 x 9.75 inches hardcover, dust jacket 380 pages
Containing 26 selected and thoroughly rewritten essays and articles (all written by Janssen and published previously between 1976 and 2002 in yearbooks and periodicals) all dedicated to the history of printing and book production, this work draws systematically attention to the typographical design of the book. The articles are mainly divided into two fields of attention: the analytical bibliography of the printed book (book production, studies of the technical aspects of type-setting and printing, type founding, printing presses, paper etc.) and the typographical design of books (its functions and its influence on how texts are read). With illustrations. Cover design, typography, and lay-out by Bram de Does.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 220.00 other currencies Order nr. 103672

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Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and .. Johnson THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF TYPE FACES.
New York Barnes & Noble (1970) 4to. cloth, dust jacket xvi, 420 pages.
Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Best edition to this excellent guide to the subject. Light jacket wear.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 76761

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(Johnson, A.F.) Muir, Percy H. (editor) A.F. JOHNSON, SELECTED ESSAYS ON BOOKS AND PRINTING
Amsterdam Van Gendt & Co. 1970 thick 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xi, 489 pages.
First edition. Contains 40 articles on printing, type specimens and book illustration. Numerous facsimiles and two folding maps. Four page prospectus loosely inserted. Few small tears in dust jacket, light sunning on spine. Book fine
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 11995

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Johnson, A.F. SELECTED ESSAYS ON BOOKS AND PRINTING. EDITED BY PERCY H. MUIR.
Amsterdam HES & DE GRAAF 1970 small folio cloth xi, 489 pages.
Forty extensive essays on the history of printing, publishing, typefounding, type design, etc. Emphasis is on the sixteenth century. A very beautifully produced book: Designed by Giovanni Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona. With numerous plates and illustrations.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 340.00 other currencies Order nr. 103257

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(Juniper Press) Harmsen, Tyrus G. JOSEPH ARNOLD FOSTER, PRINTER
Pasadena, CA Juniper Press 1998 12mo. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label vii, 13 pages with 23 pages of type specimens and miscellany, and (2) pages
Limited to 60 copies printed by the author on Barcham Green Georgian paper and 20 on Mohawk, this being one of the 20 on Mohawk. With an introduction and bibliography. Contains 25 type specimens, six pages of different borders, and five pages of miscellany (florets and mignonettes). Laid-in is a sheet by a book shop with a description of this book by the owner.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 101285

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(Leaf Book) Wallis, Lawrence GEORGE W. JONES : PRINTER LAUREATE
(Nottingham/New York) Plough Press / Mark Batty (2004) 8vo. with 4to. portfolio half-leather, marbled paper boards, stiff paper portfolio, all in slipcase (vi), 128 pages
Limited to 45 copies, hand-bound by The Fine Bindery of Wellingborough and containing original samples of George W. Jones' printing. The samples, loosely contained in the separate portfolio, are four leaves from The Canterbury Tales, two leaves from The Georgics of Vergil, two leaves from Two Centuries of Typefounding, one leaf from Pearl, and one leaf from A Calendar for the Year 1923. Also, two copies of the dust jacket for this book are in the portfolio. This book provides the first extensive study of the life and work of George W. Jones and fills a gap in the literature of printing. (Not in Leaf Book - Chalmers). With a printed label mounted on the front pastedown giving the information about this special edition. This label is hand-numbered and signed by the author.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 86854

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Legros, Lucien Alphonse and John Cameron Grant TYPOGRAPHICAL PRINTING-SURFACES THE TECHNOLOGY AND MECHANISM OF THEIR PRODUCTION.
New York Garland 1980 8vo. cloth. xxiv, 732, (5) pages.
Reprint of the 1916 edition. Berry & Poole in Annals of Printing have described this book as "the most important treatise on type designing, cutting, and casting since Fournier's manual of 1864, with valuable chapters on machine setting." Essential book.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 2527

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(Morison, Stanley) Bridges, Robert. THE INFLUENCE OF THE AUDIENCE. CONSIDERATIONS PRELIMINARY TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF SHAKESPEARE'S CHARACTERS.
New York Doubleday, Page & Co. 1926 8vo. printed paper-covered boards, slipcase 23 pages.
With the following as part of the title page "One hundred copies printed for Stanley Morison at the press of Doubleday, Page & Co." "Morison spent a month and a half in America. He got the 'The Influence of the Audience' printed, a neat plain little book set in Caslon, with capitals two sizes smaller than the lower-case letters" - (Barker, Morison, p. 201). A scarce Morison title. Booklabel of the Borough of Maidstone Reference Library with accession number on verso of title, slipcase a little damaged, else a very good copy.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 80064

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Jackson Burke's Copy

Moxon, Joseph REGULAE TRIUM ORDINUM LITERARUM TYPOGRAPHICORUM OR THE RULES OF THE THREE ORDERS OF THE PRINT LETTERS: VIZ. {THE ROMAN ITALICK, ENGLISH} CAPITALS AND SMALL.
London for James Moxon 1693 small 4to. later stiff wrappers, half brown morocco slipcase and chemise. 52 pages
First separate appearance. (Bigmore & Wyman, Vol. II, p. 62; Burke no.810; Wing M3020). This edition of the work gives every appearance of having been made from leftover sheets. The text appears to be from the same setting of type as the first edition of 1676. The plates are printed on thin paper, with the exception of Plate I, which looks like new work for this edition. They correspond exactly with the like-numbered plates from the section on letter-cutting in Moxon's Mechanick Exercises of 1683. . ." (Burke catalogue). This last work, subtitled The Doctrine of Handyworks, was the first published manual describing printer's tools and the various processes of printing. In this present Regulae Trium Ordinum, as in the 1676 original, Moxon models his types on Elzevir's, but modifies them with his mathematician's sense of rigid geometrical proportion (Bigmore & Wyman). Lacking title and dedication leaves and one of the seven plates. Title, dedication to Christopher Wrenn, and plate thirteen supplied in photo facsimile. From the Library of Jackson Burke.
Price: $ 2,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 65218

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Müller, Sándor (editor) GRAFIKUS MÜVEZETOK EVKONYVE (YEARBOOK OF GRAPHIC TYPESETTERS).
3 Volumes. Budepest Magyarországi Magántisztviselök Országos Szövetsége Grafikus Muvezetök Szakosztályanak 1931-1933 8vo. cloth, decorated pastedowns and free endpapers 160; 144; 160
Text in Hungarian. Complete set of the yearbook of the Hungarian Association of Graphic Typesetters. Each volume set in Art Deco style with pages ornamentally ruled. First two volumes with label on front board; third with gilt-stamped title and decoration. Each volume contains a calendar, articles about Hungarian graphic design and numerous color advertisements throughout. Listing of officers and members of the Association at end of each volume. Black and white illustrations accompany some articles. One color plate advertisement, 2 printed cards of commendation (one signed by editor) and an inset four-color print ad laid in first (1931) volume. 3 plates (with three inset advertisements and 1 printed card of commendation laid in second (1932) volume. 1 engraved plate of advertisement and 2 printed cards of commendation laid in third (1933) volume. Boards of third volume lightly faded near edges and bottom front fore-edge corner dented. Light foxing in parts of text. Very scarce with only one set located by Worldcat (Library of Congress) and an odd volume at the Newberry Library.
Price: $ 1,250.00 other currencies Order nr. 109575

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(Officina Bodoni) PASTONCHI, A SPECIMEN OF A NEW LETTER FOR USE ON THE "MONOTYPE."
London The Lanston Monotype Corporation (1928) small 4to. half vellum with marbled paper-covered boards, remnants of slipcase. 65, (5) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 200 copies on special Fabriono paper by Mardersteig at his Officina Bodoni. (Officina Bodoni 25). A trade edition was also issued but was not bound in quarter vellum and printed on special paper. An English specimen of a new type-face is designed by Eduardo Cotti under the direction of Francesco Pastonchi. Various specimen booklets of various sizes bound in. Introduction by Giovanni Mardersteig. Light foxing (as typical).
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 57642

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(Old School Press) Thomas, Martyn, John A. Lane and Anne Rogers HARRY CARTER, TYPOGRAPHER
Bath The Old School Press 2004 small 4to. cloth, dust jacket 120 pages
Printed in an edition limited to 240 copies. The bibliography lists over 200 written works by Harry Carter. He wrote primarily about the history of typography, publishing and associated crafts. He began his career as a lawyer but is remembered as "one of the least-known best-known men in the world of books." The voice of this leading typographer and typefounder is a highly respected in his field. This invaluable resource make his authoritative and concise writings available to a new generation of scholars, with location details for rarer items. This deluxe copy includes a volume of hitherto unpublished writings by Carter, including sections he drafted for the putative second volume of his history of Oxford University Press. Includes 11 tipped-in photographs of Carter, a sample of the original Curwen paper that he designed, a self-portrait when aged 13, a triple wood-engraving portrait of him by George Buday and a setting using his 'Emerald' Bible typeface. Dust jacket made of green Huhnemühle Bugra Bütten carrying a line-drawing portrait of Carter by John Watts. To be publisged Spring 2005.
Price: $ 165.00 other currencies Order nr. 78577

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