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(Shakespeare Head Press) Shakespeare, William THE TRAGEDIE OF JULIUS CAESAR, NEWLY PRINTED FROM THE FIRST FOLIO OF 1623.
London (Ernest Benn Ltd.) 1925 4to. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. lxxvii,(iii), 89, (3) pages, 6 leaves of black and white plates, 5 leaves of color plates with descriptive letterpress, (2) pages
Published in a limited edition of 450 numbered copies on pure rag paper; this copy is out of series. (Thomkinson p. 230). Part of the Players Shakespeare Series from Shakespeare Head Press. Edition based on the First Folio of 1623 with modernized typography. Edited with an introduction by Harley Granville-Barker. Illustrations by Ernst Stern, line blocks by Emery Walker. Name and date at top of free endpaper.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 93490

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(Shanty Bay Press) Virgil GEORGICS.
Translated by Robert Wells, Illustrated by Walter Bachinski. (Shanty Bay, Ontario) Shanty Bay Press (2007) folio quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards, cloth slipcase
Limited to 67 copies of which 60 are for sale. Numbered and signed on the colophon by Walter Bachinski and Janis Butler, the designers, illustrators, and printers of the book. This is the fourth publication of the press. The type is Bembo, printed on Arches Covers. The woodcuts were printed on Kuotani 5. The woodcuts and pochoir illustrations are by Walter Bachinski who also did the stenciling and printing of the illustrations. Janis Butler did the hand composition, text and color printing. Each section of the book has its own pochoir-illustrated title page and initial letters in pochoir. Each of these sections are paginated separately. There are many full-page woodcuts throughout which enliven the text as well.
Price: $ 2,750.00 other currencies Order nr. 100262

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Spender, Stephen THE GENEROUS DAYS.
Boston David R. Godine 1969 small 8vo. quarter leather over marbled paper-covered boards (vi), 20, (2) pages
First edition, limited to 250 copies of which this is one of 50 lettered copies signed by the author and bound by hand.
Price: $ 170.00 other currencies Order nr. 78488

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One of 50 Special Copies

(Stols, A.A.M.) Vondel, I.V. GYSBRECHT VAN AEMSTEL D'ONDERGANG VAN ZIJN STAD EN ZIJN BALLINGSCHAP TREVRSPEL.
Maastricht A.A.M. Stols 1927 8vo. limp vellum with fore-edge and bottom edge uncut 79, (3) pages
Text in Dutch. Limited, numbered (in Roman numerals) edition of 50 printed on Dutch paper. 435 copies, numbered in Arabic numerals, were also printed on English paper. This copy is one of the 50 on Dutch laid paper. No. 25 in the series "Trajectum ad Mosam." Frontispiece woodcut portrait by J. Franken Pzn. Initials by Alphonse Stols. Play by Ioost van den Vondel about a siege of Amsterdam in 1304, first produced in 1638. Two page prospectus and bookseller's description laid in. Coat of arms stamped on front wrapper, partly gilt. Wrappers warped and lightly soiled.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 109636

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(Stone House Press) Bertin, Charles. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.
Roslyn, NY The John Carter Brown Library 1992 8vo. quarter leather, cloth, inserted in a clamshell case with separate porfolio containing six woodcuts on individual plates. 85 pages.
Limited to 200 numbered copies signed by the the artist, the binder and the printer, this being one of twenty of the deluxe edition. The prize winning play translated into English by William Jay Smith. Preface by Norman Fiering. Designed, bound and signed by Deborah M. Evetts in quarter leather with Thai silk sides. Portfolio contains six wood engravings printed and signed by John De Pol, and prospectus. Text illustrated with the engravings by John Depol and six engravings from works in the John Carter Brown Library. This copy comes from the library of Deborah Evetts, the binder, and contains a pen and ink drawing of the design used on the front cover, a sample stamped in green leather of this design, and various photographs of the covers.
Price: $ 850.00 other currencies Order nr. 106495

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(Stone House Press) Digby, Joan and John. JOHN DEPOL, FROM DARK TO LIGHT, WOOD ENGRAVINGS FOR THE STONE HOUSE PRESS.
With an introduction by M. A. Gelfand. New York The Stone House Press 1988 8vo. quarter cloth with patterned paper over boards. (viii), 127 pages.
Limited to 200 signed and numbered copies, of which this is one of the 155 copies for sale. This copy is signed by the Digbys, DePol and Gelfand. Contains sixty wood engravings executed by De Pol since 1982 for the books, broadsides, keepsakes and other ephemera produced by the Stone House Press. The text provides an interesting insight into De Pol's life and work, as well as a descriptive analysis of his engravings. A delightful tribute to this fine engraver. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 325.00 other currencies Order nr. 23770

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(Stone House Press) Digby, Joan and John. JOHN DEPOL, FROM DARK TO LIGHT, WOOD ENGRAVINGS FOR THE STONE HOUSE PRESS.
With an introduction by M. A. Gelfand. New York The Stone House Press 1988 8vo. quarter cloth with patterned paper over boards. (viii), 127 pages.
Limited to 200 signed and numbered copies, of which this is one of the 155 copies for sale. This copy is signed by the Digbys, DePol and Gelfand. Contains sixty wood engravings executed by De Pol since 1982 for the books, broadsides, keepsakes and other ephemera produced by the Stone House Press. The text provides an interesting insight into De Pol's life and work, as well as a descriptive analysis of his engravings. A delightful tribute to this fine engraver. Prospectus loosely inserted. This copy has been inscribed on second blank page "For Carl Schlesinger with Best Wishes, John DePol, 3.15.89."
Price: $ 425.00 other currencies Order nr. 109541

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(Strike Three Press) CIARDIELLO, JOE BLACK WHITE & BLUES
Brooklyn, NY Strike Three Press 2011 4to cloth, gilt lettering on spine, paper label on cover
One of 64 numbered and signed copies. Hand-bound, limited edition of legendary musicians containing portraits of blues artists by Joe Ciardiello. Over his 35 year career, Joe Ciardiello has created illustrations for most major magazines, newspapers & book publishers. His portraits of writers appear regularly in the The New York Times Book Review. In the mid 1990s he was commissioned by Capitol Records to create artwork for the critically acclaimed CD series, The Capitol Blues Collection.

"Ciardiellos portraits not only capture the spirit and echo with the eternal song of these musical giants, theres something more - each one is like a force of nature."
-John Kruth
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 114201

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(St. Teresa's Press) PSALMS OF PRAISE
(Flemington, NJ St. Teresa's Press 1967) 4to quarter Oasis Niger Goatskin, decorated Japanese Kinho paper-covered boards. (v), 30 pages
Limited edition of 100. Twelve selections from the Book of Psalms. Hand painted initials throughout the text and a hand-painted initial page showing a dove in flight. Handset Cancelleresca Bastarda type printed on Strathmore Alexandra Japan. Spine, and edges of boards at spine, show minor sunning. Tiny spot on front paper board. Small tape marks on pastedowns.
Price: $ 600.00 other currencies Order nr. 107137

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(Swan Press) Andersen, Hans Christian. NOVA QUADRI PRESI DA CIO CHE VIDE LA LUNA
Chelsea, England Swan Press 1927 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. (20) pages
Published in a limited edition of 100 numbered copies. The 8th production of this private Press (Ransom). Tranlated by Penelope Eyre. Illustrations by Joyce Garrick. Baskerville type on Hand-made paper. Typeset by L.D.O'Walters and H.M.P. Eyre. Presswork by H. Gage-Cole. Foxing along top edge of front and back covers.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 76426

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(Tern Press) Carr, J.L. DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH QUEENS, KING'S WIVES, CELEBRATED PARAMOURS, HANDFAST SPOUSES & ROYAL CHANGELINGS.
(Market Drayton) Tern Press 2003 8vo. cloth, paper spine label, cloth slipcase (40) pages
Printed in an edition of 25 copies in Delphil types and illustrated with original lithographs by Nicholas Parry. The text was first published in 1977.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 75315

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(Tern Press) Clare, John VERSES FOR HIS CHILDREN, TALES & OTHER TRIFLES IN VERSE FOR THE AMUSEMENT OF YOUNG MINDS CHIEFLY WRITTEN FOR & RELATED TO THE AUTHOR'S OWN CHILDREN WHEN UNDER TEN YEARS OLD.
(Market Drayton) Tern Press (1993) small 4to. flowered cloth, paper cover label (48) pages
Limited to an edition of 150 numbered copies signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry, the artist and printers. Printed to celebrate Clare's bicentenary, the poems, which were selected by Eric Robinson, are delightful verses dealing with the travails and joys of such creatures as ladybugs, moths, frogs, grasshoppers, birds and fairies. Illustrated with delicate hand colored relief printed etchings created by Nicholas Parry.
Price: $ 295.00 other currencies Order nr. 64832

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one of 30 copies

(Tern Press) Griffiths, Bill HISTORIES
N.P. Tern Press 2004 small 4to. quarter cloth with patterned paper-covered boards and paper title label on spine (30) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 30 numbered copies. The poem by Griffiths explores timeless ideas of what the world was like through time, before art and before difference. His poem is lyric, expressive and dense. Fairly abstract color illustrations punctuate the sparce text. Front board with multicolored patterned paper and the title printed in red. Half title page printed in red. Signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry. Some uncut edges.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 78653

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(Tern Press) Griffiths, Bill. THE PHOENIX.
Market Drayton, Shropshire Tern Press 1998 4to. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards, paper spine and front cover label. (74) pages.
In a limited edition of 95 numbered copies, signed on colophon by the illustrators. The anonymous Anglo-Saxon author of the Old English poem "Phoenix," possibly a monk acquainted with a 4th-century Christian Latin poem on this ancient myth, emphasized the themes of death and resurrection. This modern translation by Bill Griffiths employs "a loose alliterative chaining...to give some idea of the sound structure that unites the Old English poetic form." Well-illustrated with 20 lithographic plates by Mary and Nicholas Parry of the Tern Press. Some two-color text printing.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 53499

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(Thomas, Peter & Donna) NOT PAPER
Santa Cruz, CA Thomas, Peter & Donna 4to. full leather, clamshell box unpaginated
One of 48 numbered copies. This book describes paper-like materials that are not paper including Amate, Birch Bark, Parchment, Papyrus, Tapa, Tyvec and Wasp Nest and there are eight samples tipped in. Letterpress printed with multiple color runs using antique wood type, with Centaur and Neuland for text and title.
Price: $ 645.00 other currencies Order nr. 107371

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(Thomas, Peter & Donna) Thomas, Peter & Donna. THE. RENAISSANCE FAIRE BROADSIDE SERIES
Santa Cruz, CA Thomas, Peter & Donna 2011 4to oak box with sheets bound in 12
One of 10 copies, of which 8 are for sale. In the 1970s and 80s we worked at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire, an event that recreated an English Elizabethian country market fair. Dressed like Robin Hood and Maid Marion, we taught papermaking and bookbinding from ramshackle booths we built out of recycled lumber and swathed in burlap. As we reenacted the roles of papermaker and printer we made and sold blank books and illustrated broadsides. We would print the broadsides in batches of 10-20 at a time, reprinting them when they were nearly sold out. We stopped participating in the Faire in the early 1990s and tucked the left over broadsides away in a trunk.

Ten of those broadsides have now been collected together in this portfolio. They are accompanied by a broadside we printed this year that acts as a " title page." In addition to the broadsides we have also included a 22 page color photographic history of the Faire. We designed and had this printed in 1987 to celebrate the Faires twentieth birthday, and had set aside 10 copies in the trunk. The broadsides and photo book are housed in a unique "pivoting page" box binding we designed especially for the project. This clamshell box-like structure is made from reclaimed old redwood like we used to build our faire booths. The truly unique features of the binding are the translucent vellum-like paper "pocket pages" that are pinned with wooden dowels into a slotted pivoting page holder, and the use of magnets to hold the broadsides in place.
Price: $ 875.00 other currencies Order nr. 107373

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(Thomas, Peter & Donna) Thomas, Peter & Donna THE. WANDERING BOOK ARTISTS' COLLABORATIVE BROADSIDES
Santa Cruz, CA Thomas, Peter & Donna 2011 4to loose sheets, folder, clamshell box 14 pages
One of 50 copies of which 35 are for sale. In April through October of 2010 Peter and Donna Thomas traveled around the country in their homebuilt gypsy wagon visiting libraries, book arts centers and other book artists. This book is the collection of the broadsides made on that trip.

Twelve broadsides were made at the following places: the International Printing Museum in California, with Karla Elling and Catherine Nash in Arizona, the Tryst Press in Provo, the Hamilton Wood Type Museum and the UW, Madison's Silver Buckle Press in Wisconsin, with Andrea Peterson in Indiana, Don Rash in Pennsylvania, The Bread and Puppet Theatre in Vermont, UK's King Library Press and Gray Zeitz's Larkspur Press in Kentucky and IU Bloomington's Graphic Design Press in Indiana.

Accompanying the broadsides is a 12 page pamphlet-bound introduction with a description of the trip and of each collaboration. This is printed on paper Peter made for the project from cotton rag colored ochre with dark teeshirt fiber inclusions. It was printed using polymer plates with Playbill and Century Schoolbook types. In that pamphlet we write about the idea behind making this collection of broadsides, "We wanted to document the adventure artistically, and decided we could do that by making prints and broadsides in the art studios, libraries, and book arts centers we visited. Envisioning that the broadsides would be collected together as a series, we set a few simple guidelines: they would have a common size and edition number; each print would have imagery or text that related to our gypsy wagon or our trip; and would also reflect something unique about the collaborators, their skills, or the place they lived. We are clearly indebted to the many artists that contributed to this project. We want to thank all the people who squeezed our gypsy wagon into their front yards, let us loose in their studios, housed, hosted, and helped us on our journey. We appreciate and thank them for their part in the creation of the Wandering Book Artists Collaborative Broadsides."

The broadsides, pamphlet and a title page (printed on paper made during the trip using antique metal Playbill type) are all held in a translucent"folder binding," a simple structure developed especially for this project by the Thomas. The folder binding and an 8x10 photo of the gypsy wagon are housed in a colorful clamshell box. On the front there is a paper label printed with an image of the gypsy wagon.
Price: $ 875.00 other currencies Order nr. 107374

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(Thomas, Peter & Donna) Thomas, Peter THE. PENCIL
Santa Cruz, CA Thomas, Peter & Donna 2010 8vo leather, decorated covered boards, clamshell box 12 pages
One of 30 numbered copies. This book is a celebration of the pencil. The text a short history of the pencil and there are vintage advertising pencils displayed in the book. The text was hand written and illustrated, and colored with pencil by Donna. The original was then color laser printed on Peter's handmade paper for the edition. The six vintage pencils are mounted in the center of the book, held in a wooden holder that we made using pencil cedar, construct with a hand carved dovetail joint. The binding has a unique tri-fold cover, the text hidden behind the inner cover and the pencil holder. Donna executed the binding, using oasis goat leather spines and Peter's handmade paper that he printed using antique wood type, with multiple press runs in multiple colors.
Price: $ 545.00 other currencies Order nr. 107372

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(Thomas, Peter & Donna) WHERE THE CROSSING HAPPENS.
Santa Cruz, CA Peter & Donna Thomas 2008 8vo decorated cloth folder unpaginated
Limited to 38 numbered copies. Where the Crossing Happens. Compiled and edited by Peter and Donna Thomas. A portfolio of 13 broadsides with words or poems from poets in residence at the fourth session of Naropa Universitys Summer Writers Workshop in 2008, printed by Peter and Donna Thomas and their students at the Universitys Press during the Thomass class The Word Made Flesh (well actually paper).

The dowel spine portfolio binding (developed by the Thomases and described in their book More Making Books by Hand) is decorated with a unique acrylic print (made indirectly from metal type) measures 6.75 tall by 5.25 wide. The binding has two pockets holding 15 letterpress printed broadsides (13 signed by poets, one title page, one colophon signed by all printers). 32 letterpress printed in different type faces on a differently colored sheets of Canson Mi Tientes Paper. Six copies on Peter Thomas's handmade paper.

Poets included in collection: Sawako Nakayasu, Ilya Kaminsky, Rikki Ducornet, Forrest Gander, Anna Moschovakis, Bob Holman, Anne Tardos, Dodie Belllamy, Steven Taylor, Brian Evenson, Kevin Killian, Raymond Federman, Pierre Joris.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 107370

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(Thomas, Peter and Donna) Everson, William. THE TARANTELLA ROSE, SIX POEMS BY WILLIAM EVERSON.
(Santa Cruz, CA) Peter and Donna Thomas 1995 large 4to. stiff paper wrapper, cloth clamshell portfolio box. Unpaginated.
Limited to 75 numbered copies. Six poems, previously unpublished, written on the occasion of the death of Robinson Jeffers. Letterpress printed on flax paper, handmade by Peter Thomas, and illustrated with seven linoleum cuts by Donna Thomas. Bound in a modified limp vellum technique with the printed pages sewn onto dark rose colored paper laces which are then threaded into the cover, with the sewing left exposed on the spine. The cover paper was hand made from muslin rag, and replicates the supple durability of turn-of-the-century English vellum. Housed in a custom clamshell portfolio box made by Book Lab, covers of cream cloth, spine label and inner box of dark rose paper, edged in cloth of a darker rose shade.
Price: $ 395.00 other currencies Order nr. 45853

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(Thomas, Peter and Donna) Field, Dorothy. MEDITATIONS AT THE EDGE: PAPER AND SPIRIT.
Santa Cruz Peter and Donna Thomas 1996 tall narrow 8vo. cloth. Unpaginated.
Limited to 100 numbered copies. A ground breaking look at the way paper has been used throughout history as a means to connect the spiritual and physical worlds. The author has traveled extensively in Asia, collecting the information and ideas which she has worked into the text. The binding resembles the traditional oriental binding, with the pages folded and stab sewn, and the Thomas' have devised a new way of attaching the cloth covered boards (red for good luck) to the text block so that they open completely flat. The pages are exposed on the spine, with the corners wrapped in gold paper. A raised panel on the front cover is decorated with a Bhutanese paper, embellished with small gold squares, which also are used throughout the text. The book is printed letterpress in red and black from handset type on handmade paper, of hemp fibers for the text, and kozo fiber for the illustrations. These are reproduced from pencil sketches by the artist, and printed so the image also appears in reverse on the back of the paper. A unique and beautiful work of art.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 45852

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(Thomas, Peter and Donna) Graham, Rigby YOU CAN'T MAKE PAPER FROM A LOOFA.
Santa Cruz Peter & Donna Thomas 1991 8vo. stiff handmade paper wrappers, cord-tied. (ii), 27, (3) pages.
Second edition, corrected. Limited to 50 numbered copies. The illustrations in this book were taken from Mason's 12 x 8 PAPERS, a book produced in 1958. Designed, printed and bound by the Thomas's. Rigby Graham's reminiscences of the papermaker, John Mason.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 41483

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Thomas, Peter and Donna PAPERMAKING IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND.
Santa Cruz, CA Peter & Donna Thomas 1990 12mo. full leather, four raised bands, slipcase. (42) pages.
First edition, limited to 200 numbered copies. Reproduces diary entries written by John Evelyn and Celia Fiennes which record their visit to an English paper mill. These accounts are the only known records of how paper was being made in England in the 1600s. Contains an original sample of seventeenth century paper and a reproduction of brown paper. Printed by letterpress on handmade paper and illustrated with five linocuts by Donna Thomas.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 31793

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(Thomas, Peter and Donna) Thomas, Peter THE HISTORY OF PAPERMAKING IN THE PHILIPPINES.
With Illustrations by Donna Thomas Santa Cruz Peter and Donna Thomas 2005 oblong 4to quarter red Moroccan leather (blind stamped with the title) with T'nalak handcloth-covered boards, red cloth-covered slipcase (50 pages)
This book, limited to 75 copies, was designed, handset, letterpress printed and hand bound by Peter and Donna Thomas using paper that they made and featuring eleven samples of paper handmade by Filipinos from indigenous plants. The text, written by Peter, based on nearly twenty years of research, offers the first comprehensive history of the subject. It includes discussions of Philippine precursors to paper (including wooden scrolls and bark cloth), a survey of the first printed books made in the Philippines and the paper they were printed on, descriptions of a number of indigenous papermaking fibers (especially abaca), and a chronological history of both commercial and hand papermaking in the Philippines up to the year 2000. Donna cut the block print illustrations. The Thomases printed the book in three colors on a Vandercrook Universal One press, using 18 point Goudy Modern (and Neuland types for titles). Notes and appendices were set monotype by Rich Hopkins using Pat Taylor's unique English monotype mats. The binding structure was developed by Peter and Donna to accomodate the special requirements of this book: the short and long pages create space for the paper samples, which are sewn in place so that they can move with changes in humidity. Each book is quarter bound with a red leather spine and boards covered with T'nalak (a Philippine ikat dyed fabric, made with spun abaca fiber, woven on a backstrap loom) and is housed in a red cloth-covered slipcase with the title and an inscription on the front.
Price: $ 950.00 other currencies Order nr. 89143

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Thomas, Peter BIKUPAN, THE STORY OF A TRIP TO VISIT A HAND PAPER MILL IN SWEDEN, WITH A BIT OF HISTORY ADDED IN FOR GOOD MEASURE.
Santa Cruz Peter & Donna Thomas 1992 small 4to. quarter blue leather over marbled paper-covered boards, slipcase. (viii), 13, (3) pages.
Limited to 119 numbered copies printed by hand by Peter and Donna Thomas on paper handmade by Peter using white and black rags with blue pigment. Thomas visited the Lessebo mill in Sweden, a mill which had first started manufacturing paper in 1693. In addition to describing what he found there, Thomas gives a history of papermaking in Sweden. Tipped-in are six samples of paper from Lessebo, one made in 1990 and the rest during various times in the 20th century.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 36707

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