Plunging by Danticat, Edwidge - 2009

London: Chapman and Hall, 1863. Rebacked with original spine. New endpapers. Title-page and Preface are cancels. Previous owner's name at top of title-page dated 1866. Frontispiece illustration of the Fezziwigs dancing. One of the so-called "Cheap Editions". Contains the five Christmas stories, first published as a collected edition in 1852. The cover is lightly rubbed, some of the paper is a bit browned in quires. One page of advertisements at the end. 266pp.. Later Edition. Blind-stamped Green Cloth. Minor Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.

Hatje Cantz Publishers. vg/vg dj. 4to, 361 pp. Hardcover. Dust jacket. 160 color illustrations. A massive work.

[Tokyo]: Treville, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Kenna, Michael. 4to., unpaged, 130 full-page b&w photos. A fine, as new copy in the photo-illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED by the photographer. Essay by Peter Bunnell and foreword by Ruth Bernhard; in English and Japanese. Stunning landscapes in the classical tradition.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1980. First edition. Hard Cover. nf/vg. A couple of small tears to dust jacket otherwise a very nice copy.

Hartford, Conn.: Clark & Smith, 1883. 1st edtion. Octavo, rebound in brown buckram, top edge gilt, uncut, 144 pp. Plates, fold-out map. Very Good.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1863. Rebacked with original spine. New endpapers. Title-page and Preface are cancels. Previous owner's name at top of title-page dated 1866. Frontispiece illustration of the Fezziwigs dancing. One of the so-called "Cheap Editions". Contains the five Christmas stories, first published as a collected edition in 1852. The cover is lightly rubbed, some of the paper is a bit browned in quires. One page of advertisements at the end. 266pp.. Later Edition. Blind-stamped Green Cloth. Minor Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.

Hatje Cantz Publishers. vg/vg dj. 4to, 361 pp. Hardcover. Dust jacket. 160 color illustrations. A massive work.

[Tokyo]: Treville, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Kenna, Michael. 4to., unpaged, 130 full-page b&w photos. A fine, as new copy in the photo-illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED by the photographer. Essay by Peter Bunnell and foreword by Ruth Bernhard; in English and Japanese. Stunning landscapes in the classical tradition.

Stamford: The New Overbrook Press, 1984. This copy in a unique binding by Jack & Emma Craib: full black morocco with mother-of-pearl onlays forming design of characters from the play climbing out of the cylinder tube in which Beckett has set the play. The design reveals itself as a pictorial image only with the use of an anamorphoscope which is a 6 inch silver tube sitting on top of one of the marble onlays. Limited to 250 copies on Rives, each copy signed by Samuel Beckett. Each of the seven etchings is hand-numbered and signed by the artist, Charles Klabunde. Charles Klabunde, master engraver, was born in Nebraska where he spent the first two formative decades of his life. He received his MFA at the University of Iowa where his unusual talents were discovered by master print-maker Mauricio Lazansky who invited Klabunde to join his Print Workshop. Following his one-man exhibition at The Minneapolis Institute of Art, the artist moved to New York where he established his own printmaking studio and… Read More

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1980. First edition. Hard Cover. nf/vg. A couple of small tears to dust jacket otherwise a very nice copy.