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(Hammer Creek Press) Burke, Jackson and Eugene M. Ettenberg JOHN S. FASS & THE HAMMER CREEK PRESS.
(Rochester, NY) Rochester Institute of Technology 1998 small 8vo. quarter cloth with marbled paper boards 36, (4) pages
Limited to 100 copies, printed from Fournier and Perpetua types at The Stinehour Press. Binding by Judi Conant. Typography by Jerry Kelly. John De Pol's original Hammer Creek woodcuts printed by David Pankow at the Cary Library Press. Foreword by Aveve Cohen. John Fass was a gifted printer, freelance book designer, and typographer who began the Hammer Creek Press in 1950 in his off-hours at home, printing on a small iron Hughes & Kimber press and a wood press that he himself constructed. "John Fass avowedly prints for pleasure. There are mighty few who, upon seeing his books, booklets, bookplates, and other printed pieces, do not in turn get a sense of pleasure from his work." The book includes a checklist of the Hammer Creek Press from 1950-61, as well as tipped-in reprints of Fass's work. Special cord-tied booklet of color illustrations inserted at back. With the bookplate of John DePol.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 73487

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(Har-Ma Press) Smith, Harold and Alma MESSAGES IN WOOD
N.P. Har-Ma Press (1979) 8vo. cloth 54 pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 103 numbered copies, this being a presentation copy to an unidentified printer with the ink signature of Harold and Alma Smith. Text includes wood engravings by Harold Smith that are accompanied by prose descriptions of the origin of each piece. Ephemera loosely inserted.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 75910

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(Harsimus Press) Henry, Barbara WALT WHITMAN'S FACES: A TYPOGRAPHIC READING.
Jersey City, NJ Harsimus Press 2012 4to. stiff paper wrappers 17, (23) pages
Limited, numbered edition on 80, signed by the author on the colophon page. Introductory essay by Karen Karbeiner. Frontispiece linoleum-cut illustration of Whitman. Set by hand in foundry type and illustrated with images of the poet cut in linoleum. Fifty copies hand-bound stiff paper wrappers and thirty in quarter-leather and printed paper-over-boards, with additional prints. Includes an 1865 photograph of Lower Hudson Street from the collections of the New-York Historical Society and a contemporarty photograph of Bleeker Street by the author. Samples of type sizes.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 110012

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(Harsimus Press) Ward, Lynd LYND WARD'S LAST UNFINISHED WORDLESS NOVEL.
N.P. New Jersey Book Arts Syposium, Rutgers University Libraries 2001 8vo. cloth (x) pages, 44 leaves of plates, (8) pages.
Printed in an edition of 100 numbered copies (this being #5) by Barbara Henry of the Harsimus Press of Jersey City, New Jersey. Introduction by Michael McCurdy and a description of the unfinished blocks by Michael Joseph. Illustrations printed from the original blocks. Prospectus loosely inserted as is a T.L.s. from Barbara Henry to Michael McCurdy thanking him for his introduction and meant to accompany this copy of the book. She comments on her dislike of lettering and numbering copies.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 72619

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(Haybarn Editions) VOICES TO SHARE
2011 small 4to cloth portfolio binding, loose sheets 32 pages
First edition and limited to 100 copies. In a companion piece, following Gathering, the 50th anniversary edition with poetry in 2010, Voices to Share is a portfolio of works of nine texts from French, Spanish, German, Italian, Korean, Yiddish, and Native American poets. Works by Char, Celan, Gaspar, Jabes, Neruda, Pane, Hyon-Jong, Sutzkever, and Wintu. This piece is offered as an expression of esteem and appreciation for the international poets and the artist's writer friends who have inspired the journey of a half-century. Four loose illustrations inserted.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 106755

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Henry, Barbara WALT WHITMAN'S FACES A TYPOGRAPHIC READING.
Jersey City Harsimus Press 2012 4to. quarter leather, paper-over-boards; top edge cut, other edges uncut 17, (23) pages
Limited, numbered edition of 80, signed by the author on the colophon page. This is one of the 30 bound thus with additioinal prints, including a signed print of the Whitman frontispiece portrait, laid in. Introductory essay by Karen Karbeiner. Frontispiece linoleum-cut illustration of Whitman. Set by hand in foundry type and illustrated with images of the poet cut in linoleum. Fifty copies hand-bound stiff paper wrappers and thrity in quarter-leather and printed paper-over-boards, Includes an 1865 photograph of Lower Hudson Street from the collections of the New-York Historical Society and a contemporary photograph of Bleeker Street by the author. Samples of type faces, some in color.
Price: $ 600.00 other currencies Order nr. 110191

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(Hesterberg Press) FINDING ONE'S WAY 1975 - 2001.
Evanston, IL Hesterberg Press 4to stiff paper wrappers, broadsides laid in, cloth-covered clamshell box unpaginated
One of ten copies. This is an important collection of early works from the Hesterberg Press. Each clamshell box contains twenty-three original works in seven folders along with a sewn booklet printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, which gives a history of the Hesterberg Press and a full descirption of each work. Eleven Thomas Bewick engravings, printed from wood, are featured in typocrafters' keepsakes, broadsides and sewn booklets. Also are several folio signatures from three of the early books.

The works are presented in secure folders in chronological order and represent the major works of the press during this period. The clamshell box is covered in cloth with a blind stamped cover and gold stamped label by the Campbell-Logan Bindery, Minneapolis.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 114200

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(Hesterberg Press) THOMAS BEWICK: THE BLOCKS REVISITED & REDISCOVERED
Evanston, IL Hesterberg Press 2008 large 8vo cloth (i), 69 pages, ii, (iii)
The Blocks Revisited & Rediscovered documents the fascinating story of Thomas Bewick's personal blocks and their historic journey to Chicago in 1942. Many of these blocks found new homes quickly in the Midwest and across America, while others became well-travelled, eventually making their way back to England. The whereabouts of these blocks and their movements over the years have raised questions and a desire to document them for their safe keeping. It is hoped this five-year investigation will begin to provide answers, as over 700 of the 1,350 blocks that came to Chicago are documented here in 35 collections.

The Blocks Revisited & Rediscovered measures 6.5 x 10 inches and contains eighty pages which include fourteen original blocks printed on dampened Rives Heavy-weight paper using a Washington Hand Press. The remaining thirty-five Bewick illustrations were printed using a Vandercook Press from metal engravings reproduced from the Memorial Edition. The text, set in a digital version of Bulmer, was also printed from metal engravings. Color photographs of Bewick's portrait and his toolbox are included as tip-ins, along with a photograph of a group of blocks at the Hesterberg Press.

A numbered edition of ninety copies was bound by Campbell-Logan Bindery, Minneapolis, in a dark green cloth with contrasting green end papers. The spine is gold stamped and the front cover features an inset of a vignette printed from one of Bewick's blocks at the press.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 101433

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(Heyeck Press) Rich, Adrienne SOURCES
Woodside, CA The Heyeck Press 1983 8vo. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards. 35, (5) pages.
One of an edition of 300 copies, numbered and signed by the author. A fine first edition of an important work by a major American author, in which she discusses, for the first time, her Jewish heritage and her husband's suicide. Designed and printed by Robin Heyeck, using handmade Fabriano paper with fore and foot edges uncut, and Centaur and Arrighi type. The frontispiece was created by Carole Romans, the book bound by The Schuberth Bookbindery, with quarter cloth in navy blue, and paper hand marbled by Robin Heyeck in cream and navy blue on a background of dark tan.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 45856

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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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Hirschman, Jack YOD
London Trigram Press (1966) small 4to. cloth-backed gold foil paper-covered boards covers with original stiff paper wrappered book (in glassine wrapper) loosely inserted in cardboard slipcase Not paginated
First edition, limited to 200 copies of which this is one of the first 60 copies that were also signed by Hirschman. Printed silk-screen and letterpress on Evensyde white offset paper. Ink calligraphy and drawings throughout.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 78045

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(Hoffman, Richard J.) Petko, Edward AT SEVENTY: RICHARD J. HOFFMAN
Los Angeles Columbian Press 1982 oblong 8vo. linen, paper spine and cover label (ii), 35, (3) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 50 copies. Issued to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Richard J. Hoffman, printer, and author of " A Gathering of Types" and its sequel "A Decorative Divertissement." On Urabec-Hoffman all-rag handmade paper, from the Brooks. Bros. Shirts and old linens of his friend, Dr. John Urabec. Designed and printed by Ethan B. Lipton, typesetting by Jack M. Conway, and signed by them. Illustrated with tipped-in photographs of Hoffman at work in his shop. With laid-in invitations to Hoffman's seventieth birthday in 1982.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 62215

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(Hogarth Press) Woolf, Virginia KEW GARDENS
(London) Hogarth Press (1927) 4to rebacked in matching brown cloth, illustrated paper covered boards, top edge cut, others uncut unpaginated
Third English edition, limited to 500 numbered copies (Woolmer 155; Kirkpatrick A3c). Published November 1927; the British Museum copy is dated 17 November 1927 (Kirkpatrick). Illustrated by Vanessa Bell. Brief novel set in the luxuriant flora of Kew Gardens. Front board decorated azure blue, lime-green and milk-chocolate brown. Title page also milk-chocolate brown. Text, on recto of leaf only, is surrounded by black and white illustrations by Bell. Printed and engraved by Herbert Reiach, Limited. Spine rebacked. Boards soiled and stained, slightly worn at edges. Pencil notations on back pastedown. Slight tanning.
Price: $ 850.00 other currencies Order nr. 107075

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Homer (as translated by Alexander Pope) THE ILIAD AND ODYSSEY OF HOMER AS TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER POPE, IN GREEK AND ENGLISH. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STEVEN SHANKMAN AND 52 ORIGINAL COLOR DRAWINGS BY AVERY LAWRENCE .
2 volumes. Chestertown Chester River Press 2009 12.5 x 14.5 inches cloth, dust jackets, slipcase 550; 434 pages
Acclaimed by Samuel Johnson as "a performance which no age or nation could hope to equal," Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad and Odyssey stands as one of the glories of English Literature.

The Chester River Press edition of the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer has been designed and printed to reflect the epic proportions of this famous translation and offers both the Greek and English translations for the general reader and scholar alike. More than 50 color drawings in Greek vase styles by Avery Lawrence were commissioned by the Press. Each drawing portrays a specific scene from each of the 48 books making up the Iliad and Odyssey with smaller medallions adorning pages throughout.

An original two-part Introduction by the esteemed Pope scholar, Steven Shankman, reflects on and investigates Pope's majestic poems through a scholarly lens focused on the timless Homeric themes of war and peace. Professor Shankman also elaborates on "How To Read Homer," an aid to understanding the philosophical and historical context of the Homeric epics.

The Iliad and Odyssey are presented as a companion, slipcased set and bound in black Dutch cloth with dust jackets.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 104249

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(Imprimerie Zollikofer) APHORISMES DU PROFESSEUR.
Saint Gall, (Switzerland) Zollikofer & Co. 1948 8vo. half vellum, with printed paper-covered boards. (12) pages.
Printed in a limited edition of numbered copies, this copy is out of series. A collection of twenty aphorisms set in "Civilité," an extremely elaborate calligraphic type, followed by type specimens. Bookplate on front pastedown. Dealer label of Philip C. Duschnes on back pastedown. An unusual book with magnificent type.
Price: $ 165.00 other currencies Order nr. 42669

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(Incline Press) Cinamon, Gerald E.R. WEISS: THE TYPOGRAPHY OF AN ARTIST
Oldham Incline Press 2011 4to slipcase
First edition and one of 300 numbered copies. Lovers of beautiful books, elegant design, and clear typography will be thrilled with this new volume about the book artist, Emil Rudolf Weiss.

Weiss stands high in the pantheon of great book artists that includes William Morris, Bruce Rogers and Francis Meynell, among others, but because his work was mostly in Germany, he tends to be less well known in the English speaking world; certainly not much has been written about him or his work in English since the 1930s. Yet he was sufficiently regarded by Stanley Morison to be a guest designer for an issue of The Fleuron; another issue of which included an essay by Morison about Weiss ornaments. His Weiss-Antiqua typeface was particularly popular in the USA, mainly due to the availability for slug casting through Intertype matrices, and the publicity work of the Bauer Type Foundry office in New York. Today, most of us have, perhaps unknowingly, seen the digital version of Weiss roman, if not the original metal version. It remains a popular typeface, particularly in book work where one of its recent outings was on the dust-jacket of the US edition of The Da Vinci Code, and the UK edition of Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen.

Jerry Cinamon studied graphic design at the Yale School of Art & Architecture, and first came across Weiss Initials while working in New York in the early 1960s. He had a long and successful career working at Penguin books, learning German after his retirement to produce his excellent biography of Rudolf Koch (Oak Knoll, 2000). Included are numerious pieces of ephemera and the prospectus.
Price: $ 500.00 other currencies Order nr. 106295

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(Incline Press) Forsberg, Lennart BURIN BOX AND BOARD.
Oldham Incline Press 2006 square 8vo. book is quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, six signed and numbered prints contained in a folder, and an exhibition catalogue all housed in a drop-back box (iv), 55, (3)
This special edition is limited to forty copies of the 150 total. There are 39 original wood-engravings printed in the book. The special folder contains six signed and numbered prints (five of which are multi-colored) auditioned for this book by Forsberg and printed in his Stockholm studio. The texts include an introduction by Professor Nils G. Stenqvist from the catalogue of Forsberg's 2005 Stockholm Retrospective, a detailed memoir by Forsberg for this book, and a tale of a studio visit made by translator, Thorsten Sjolin, when collecting the blocks. The books are printed in Gill Sans type, the 14pt. using the rarely seen alternative letterforms cut in the 1930s. In Swedish and English. Prospectus laid in. An amazing and exciting book.
Price: $ 485.00 other currencies Order nr. 93006

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(Incline Press) Kim, Suyeon A LINE.
(Oldham) Incline Press 2009 8vo. cloth, slipcase Accordion style unpaginated paper
A Line is a continuing illustration made of sixteen prints. Almost seventeen feet long, it is accordion folded in a hard cover and slip-case, 10 by 7 inches (25 1/2 by 18 cm). It is printed on Velin Cuve BFK Rives paper, which is internally sized, 180 gsm weight, acid-free and buffered with calcium carbonat and comes from John Purcell Paper in London.
The images were first seen at the Fine Press Book Fair in November 2007 and the book took almost two years to complete. Graham Moss and Mike Tregear printed, hand coloured and bound the book. The case uses blue book cloth and handmade Korean paper, captured rather than glued so that the surface ripples on the boards.
Suyeon Kim came from Edinburgh to mix the inks and give advice; when printing was done she signed the colophons in Edinburgh before returning to Korea with fifty advance copies. Christ Hicks constructed the slip-cases and Kathy Whalen returned from her two-year sojourn at Oxford in time to hand set this prospectus in Eric Gill's Joanna types.
Limited to 200 copies.
Price: $ 234.00 other currencies Order nr. 104136

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(Inky Parrot Press) Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de CANDIDE
Oxford The Inky Parrot Press 1985 small 4to. patterned paper-covered boards, slipcase (x), 141+(1) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 360 numbered copies. Translated by Richard Aldington. Signed by the illustrator, Wilton Priestner. Profusely illustrated with slightly disturbing, almost surreal line drawings that push the satirical tone of the story itself to a new level. The modern, edgy drawings are evidence of the relevancy and adaptability of the work of the eighteenth-century French writer, Voltaire. The imagery does not exactly match up with the moment of the story it illustrates, but rather offers a highly interpretive version of the events as told by Voltaire. For example, whereas the text reads "...she observed Doctor Pangloss in the bushes, giving a lesson in experimental physics to her mother's waiting maid, a ver pretty and docile brunette," the illustration shows a couple copulating in the garden. Paper covered boards and the slipcase also with drawings by Priestner. With shoulder notes.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 79477

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(INSEL-VERLAG) Brinks, John Dieter VOM ORNAMENT ZUR LINIE, DER FRÜHE INSEL-VERLAG 1899 BIS 1924.
2 volumes. Berlin Triton 2000 4to. linen-covered boards, both volumes enclosed in a linen slipcase. 391,(3) pages; 20 inserts in portfolio.
Printed in an edition of 2000 copies. Volume I of a series of three installments, not yet completed. Praised as "a masterpiece of book production" and "a product of enthusiasts" by critic Wilfried F. Schoeller, the book traces the early 20th-century history of the Insel publishing house. Insel earned its renown by turning book production into an art form as it printed the works of classic authors and gave a new generation of writers, such as Rainer Maria Rilke, their start. The editor, Brinks, reveals Insel's high aesthetic standards through sumptuous illustrations of its work. In all, there are 240 illustrations, seven of which are foldouts, many polychrome with three and four colors, and many with stunning gold print. One splendid example of the high-quality illustrations is the foldout of a series of classics, The Thousand and One Nights and the Decameron, the bindings designed by Marcus Behmer. The colors are so rich and the detail so striking that the reader almost feels he can touch and leaf through the deckled pages of the books shown. Another example depicted is that of Henry van de Velde's designs for the covers of Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra, as well as sample pages from the edition, both finely detailed with gold print. Text edited by Brinks with seventeen essays contributed by him and twelve other specialists such as Juergen Suess, Marcus Haucke, and Suzanne Buchinger. Essays beautifully printed with wide margins and double-spaced on Gardapat paper in cursive Borgis White Antiqua. Outstanding documentation for the essays at the back of the book, as well as detailed indices for artwork and literary sources. Accompanying the book is a slim briefcase volume containing twelve facsimile resolution papers and eight folder reproductions in their original format. Distributed for Triton in North America by Oak Knoll Press. In German.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 63454

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(Janus Press) Finney, Charles G. THE CIRCUS OF DOCTOR LAO.
(Newark, VT) Janus Press 1984 4to. cloth, clamshell box stencil printed. 130 pages.
One of 150 copies signed by the author and by the printer/illustrator, Claire Van Vliet (Ruth Fine, p.39; A Century for a Century 93). From book - "Forty relief prints, mainly etchings, many combined with stencil; geometric typographic ornaments throughout." Printed on Barcham Green De Wint. The interesting binding for this book was "bound in Johanna Western natural buckram covers, Johanna Western rust Kennet cloth sides, and lined in pale gre-violet Japanese twill." Prospectus loosely inserted. Well preserved copy.
Price: $ 5,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 107192

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(Janus Press) GUEST, AUTHOR UNKNOWN, 17TH CENTURY CHRIST CHURCH MANUSCRIPT WITH WOOD CUTS BY HELEN SIEGL.
West Burke, VT The Janus Press Christmas 1976 8vo. cloth-backed decorated paper covered boards, paper spine label; stiff paper wrappers, both enclosed in a slipcase (16) pages.
Limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Siegl of which this is one of 50 copies bound thus and accompanied by an extra suite of the plates contained in a paper portfolio. (Fine p.36). Printed on French-folded Hosho Special with woodcut illustrations printed in blue with decorations in gold. Spine of paper portfolio is faded.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 107028

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(Janus Press) Heaney, Seamus HEDGE SCHOOL SONNETS FROM GLANMORE
Newark, VT Charles Seluzicki/Janus Press 1979 4to. stiff paper wrappers not paginated (16 unnumbered pages)
First Edition. Seven woodcut illustrations by Claire Van Vliet. Book was designed, set, and printed by CVV; bound by Kaja McGowan and Ursula Hofer. Printed for Charles Seluzicki Fine Books. Number 260 of 285 numbered copies signed by the author and the artist. The text is handset in 18 and 30 pt. Monotype Spectrum and printed on Barcham Green DeWint. Title, dedication and colophon pages printed in brown with title and name of dedicatee (Ann Saddlemeyer) in black; text printed in black with numerals in brown. There is a card laid-in with current information on the title. The title is blind stamped on the front.
Price: $ 1,700.00 other currencies Order nr. 91649

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THE CLAIRE VAN VLIET KING LEAR

(Janus Press) Shakespeare, William THE TRAGEDIE OF KING LEAR
Bangor Theodore Press 1986 small folio quarter leather with birch boards in a non-adhesive binding with exposed sewing, chemise and slipcase. 136, (2) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 160 signed and numbered copies. Printed with hand-set type at the Theodore Press on light grey paper hand-made especially for this book by Kate MacGregor and Bernie Vinzani. Claire van Vliet's woodcuts were printed by her at the Janus Press. She also individually decorated the stained birch boards. A superb edition of Lear, with engravings that eloquently convey the pain of the play, in a binding that suits the book perfectly.
Price: $ 2,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 48131

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