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Edinburgh. Adam and Charles Black. 1876. Richly bound in full royal blue calf skin. Ornate gilt tooled ruling to covers. Gilt tooled fleural motifs inlaid to edges. Ornate gilt tooled fleural motifs to spine compartments. Gilt tooled raised bands. Gilt titled morocco labels. Marbled edges and endsheets. Thick 8vo (5.5" x 9"). The Library Edition. Profusely illustrated with full page plate engravings throughout. Some hinges and edges mildly rubbed. Some corners gently bumped. Several head and/or tailpieces gently rubbed. Occasional usual rub or two to covers. A Fine, regally bound set.
Collection of 18 comedies, 4 signed in manuscript by the author, and with an unique 21-line manuscript poem by the author dedicated to 'Sire', possibly Napoleon Bonaparte. by Desfontaines (Fr.-G. Fouques Deshayes). [From the library of Princess Sophie of Bavaria] - 1767-1809
by Desfontaines (Fr.-G. Fouques Deshayes). [From the library of Princess Sophie of Bavaria]
![Collection of 18 comedies, 4 signed in manuscript by the author, and with an unique 21-line manuscript poem by the author dedicated to 'Sire', possibly Napoleon Bonaparte. by Desfontaines (Fr.-G. Fouques Deshayes). [From the library of Princess Sophie of Bavaria] - 1767-1809](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/355/065/1452065355.0.m.0.jpg)
Collection of 18 comedies, 4 signed in manuscript by the author, and with an unique 21-line manuscript poem by the author dedicated to 'Sire', possibly Napoleon Bonaparte.
by Desfontaines (Fr.-G. Fouques Deshayes). [From the library of Princess Sophie of Bavaria]
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A beautifully bound 2 volume set, containing an unique collection of 18 theatrical plays by the author Desfontaines, all with their original title-pages, dating from 1776 to 1809, from the library of Princess Sophie of Bavaria (1805-1872), stamped with her crowned initials in both volumes. Paris, P. Robert-Christophe Ballard 'par exprès Commandement de Sa Majesté', a.o., 1767-1809. 2 Vols. with 18 plays, with their original titles. 8vo. ca. 14 x 20.5 cm. The signed manuscript poem by the author on the first blank paper in the first volume. Contemporary tree-marbled calf, covers with fine gilt fillet, backs gilt decorated, sides gilt, red and green title-labels, small paper labels on bottom of spine, with Princess Sophie of Bavaria's crowned initials in both volumes stamped on verso of the first title.
The author François-Georges Fouques Deshayes (1733-1824), known as 'Desfontaines', was a French playwright, novelist, and librettist. Whilst working as a librarian and a royal censor, he wrote a vast number of works for stage. The at one time owner of this set, Sophie of Bavaria, was the mother of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico. She was known to be very close to Napoleon II (1811-1832), who lived in exile at the Austrian Court as 'Franz', Duke of Reichstadt. His mother Marie Louise of Austria (1791-1847), 2nd wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, and for 4 years Empress of the French and Queen of Italy, was a sister in law of Sophie. Since the last play is dated 1809, the date of the Napoleon Marie Louise's marriage in 1810, Napoleon's abdication in 1814 and his wife and sons subsequent exile to a then (again) French hostile Austrian court, makes a dedication to 'Sire', being Napoleon Bonaparte, plausible.
Present are: L'Aveugle de Palmyre. (1767); L'Amour et la Folie. (1782); Le Droit du Seigneur. (1784); L'Amant statue. (1785); La dot. (1785); Le divorce. (1793); Arlequin afficheur. (1794); Cendrillon, ou l'école des mères. (1802); Chapelain, ou la Ligue des auteurs contre Boileau. (1804); Duguay-Trouin, prisonnier à Plymouth. (1804); La Tapisserie de la reine Mathilde. (1804); Sophie Arnould. (1805); Le Rêve, ou la Colonne de Rosback. (1806); L'Ile de la Mégalantropogénésie, ou les Savants de naissance. (1807); M. Guillaume, ou le voyageur inconnu. (1808); Lantara, ou le Peintre au cabaret. (1809); Le procès du Fandango, ou la fandangomanie. (1809); Le marriage de Scarron (1809).
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A beautifully bound 2 volume set, containing an unique collection of 18 theatrical plays by the author Desfontaines, all with their original title-pages, dating from 1776 to 1809, from the library of Princess Sophie of Bavaria (1805-1872), stamped with her crowned initials in both volumes. Paris, P. Robert-Christophe Ballard 'par exprès Commandement de Sa Majesté', a.o., 1767-1809. 2 Vols. with 18 plays, with their original titles. 8vo. ca. 14 x 20.5 cm. The signed manuscript poem by the author on the first blank paper in the first volume. Contemporary tree-marbled calf, covers with fine gilt fillet, backs gilt decorated, sides gilt, red and green title-labels, small paper labels on bottom of spine, with Princess Sophie of Bavaria's crowned initials in both volumes stamped on verso of the first title.
The author François-Georges Fouques Deshayes (1733-1824), known as 'Desfontaines', was a French playwright, novelist, and librettist. Whilst working as a librarian and a royal censor, he wrote a vast number of works for stage. The at one time owner of this set, Sophie of Bavaria, was the mother of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico. She was known to be very close to Napoleon II (1811-1832), who lived in exile at the Austrian Court as 'Franz', Duke of Reichstadt. His mother Marie Louise of Austria (1791-1847), 2nd wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, and for 4 years Empress of the French and Queen of Italy, was a sister in law of Sophie. Since the last play is dated 1809, the date of the Napoleon Marie Louise's marriage in 1810, Napoleon's abdication in 1814 and his wife and sons subsequent exile to a then (again) French hostile Austrian court, makes a dedication to 'Sire', being Napoleon Bonaparte, plausible.
Present are: L'Aveugle de Palmyre. (1767); L'Amour et la Folie. (1782); Le Droit du Seigneur. (1784); L'Amant statue. (1785); La dot. (1785); Le divorce. (1793); Arlequin afficheur. (1794); Cendrillon, ou l'école des mères. (1802); Chapelain, ou la Ligue des auteurs contre Boileau. (1804); Duguay-Trouin, prisonnier à Plymouth. (1804); La Tapisserie de la reine Mathilde. (1804); Sophie Arnould. (1805); Le Rêve, ou la Colonne de Rosback. (1806); L'Ile de la Mégalantropogénésie, ou les Savants de naissance. (1807); M. Guillaume, ou le voyageur inconnu. (1808); Lantara, ou le Peintre au cabaret. (1809); Le procès du Fandango, ou la fandangomanie. (1809); Le marriage de Scarron (1809).
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- Publisher P. Robert-Christophe Ballard 'par exprès Commandement de Sa Majesté', a.o
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- Date Published 1767-1809
- Size ca. 14 x 20.5 cm.
- Keywords Royal binding, Napoleon theatre, first editions, signed, manuscript poem by author
- Size ca. 14 x 20.5 cm.
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London: The Aquilla Press, 1930 Original typed Manuscript, Signed by Nancy Cunard, with 5 corrections. First appeared in print under the title, "Poems (Two) 1925"; published 1930 by The Aquilla Press. Three loose 8vo sheets, previously stapled. Three of the corrections are minor but one alters the original 40th line from "Cools at the still, yeasts raise his auburn flour" to Yeast raising auburn flour." In line 47 Cunard corrects the spelling of the word, "orgu[e]illeux" by adding the e, but it never made it into the published work. Signed in pencil, "Nancy Cunard 1925'" at the bottom of the poem. Age toning, paper-clip ghost, minimal wear, else in fine condition.
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NY: Harper & Brothers, 1933. Signed first edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published NY: Harper & Brothers, 1933, first printing. Presentation to American journalist and historian Mark Sullivan (1874 - 1952), author of the six volume "Our Times". "For Mark Sullivan from Thomas W. Lamont, June 1933." Mark Sullivan was a titan of twentieth century journalism. Born on a farm in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1874, he was only in his late teens when he bought an interest in a local newspaper, the Phoenixville Republican, for $300. The profits from this investment funded his education at Harvard, where he earned bachelor's and law degrees. In the first decade of the century he was a muckraker in the mold of Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens. His 1904 exposé on patent medicine quacks for Ladies' Home Journal helped stoke the public outrage that resulted in the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act two years later. He was a close friend of Herbert Hoover and…
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Collections for the history of Worcestershire.
by Nash, Treadway Russell
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London: London: Printed by John Nichols. Sold by T. Payne and Son, J. Robson, B. White, Leigh and Sotheby, in London: Fletcher at Oxford, and Lewis at Worcester, 1781. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. First edition; very large folio; two volumes; Vol.1: [4], xcii, [610]pp; Vol.2: [4], 484, clxviii, [13], 32, [11]pp. In full 19th century crimson leather (rubbed at extremities, spines a little faded, light stain to centre of front board to vol.1), five raised bands to spines, gilt lettering direct to spines in second and third compartments, remaining compartments with gilt tooled panels, gilt date to foot of spines, gilt panelled boards, board edges and inner dentelles gilt, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Collated complete: Volume I with folding engraved map as frontispiece, 33 engraved plates and 17 pedigrees, many folding. Volume II with 42 Plates and pedigrees. Includes supplement, Domesday facsimile, and with additional plate opposite p.276 of vol.2. Internally a superb clean copy.…
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Paris: K éditeur, 1948. Fine. K éditeur, Paris 1948, 16,5x22,5cm, broché. - Edition originale, un des exemplaires numérotés sur alfa du Marais, le nôtre non justifié. Précieux envoi autographe daté et signé de Aimé Césaire à Raymond Queneau : ""... très sympathique hommage de ces bucoliques de sang et de soleil..."" Dos et plats légèrement et marginalement insolés sans gravité. [ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] Soleil cou coupé [Solar Throat Slashed] K éditeur | Paris 1948 | 16.5 x 22.5 cm | original wrappers First edition, a numbered copy on alfa du Marais paper, this one not included in the justification. Handsome autograph inscription signed and dated by Aimé Césaire to Raymond Queneau: ""Très sympathique hommage de ces bucoliques de sang et de soleil... [a very affectionate homage of these bucolics of blood and sunshine...]"" Covers and spine slightly sunned at edges (but not seriously).
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Three pages, 1949. A sprawling, witty and provocative letter written by Pound early on during his extended stay at St. Elizabeth's hospital (12 years, from 1948-1859) to Helen Rossetti Angeli, the daughter of famed Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood co-founder William Michael Rossetti. Written in pencil on the full opened face, with two notes perhaps by HAR, and then on both flaps on the verso, with two wrap-around portions also possibly by HA Rossetti. A lengthy and fascinating letter. "Dear Mrs. Angeli, Thanks v. much for yo/ volume. but must protest no jacket yr/sister Olivia being certainly more alive than anyone in Italy definite purf, not jacket vs not all brit/publrs/ are of the line of Barabbas & born to be damned- perhaps the very printing machinery in England [side flap] Yeats' definition of yr island 'The only country where a man will lie WITHOUT being paid for it' endemic [side flap] lie DOWN not being able to bear the Truth. cordially Ezra Pound." Pound has also placed in the body of the letter,…
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by CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de
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Paris, Delongchamps, 1825.En 8vo, 6 vol.: I: 425p. + retrato de autor; II: 451p. + 1 lámina; III: 443p. + 1 lámina; IV: 460p. + 1 lámina; V: 455p. + 1 lámina; y VI: 458p.+ 1 lámina. Encuadernados en piel de época, con ciertas reparaciones. Textos con algunas manchas de oxido, pero en general limpio en buen estado de conservación.Bonitas láminas de Deveria. Ex-libris de Bibliothèque de Chateau Valencay y de Joaquín García Pimentel.
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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Arranged in Systematic Order. (18 volumes complete.)
by Robert Kerr (1757-1813); W. Stevenson
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Complete 18 volume set, half leather with original boards and modern matching spines. 1824. Overall condition is very good. Recent fine binding using original boards. Old blanks are gone, this has new blanks. Only interior markings are pencilled numbers on back of title page. Some foxing in text, heavier in maps. Many pages uncut. 17 unpaginated maps and one plate of vocabulary. Set is a compilation of journals and texts from every major European voyage of discovery from antiquity to 1800. Kerr is not so much an author as an editor. Wherever possible he reproduced the original texts and journals. He edited them to reduce redundancy but maintain fidelity to the original text. His first volume shows the trouble he went to. He has rendered into English 9th century Icelandic texts then proceeds on to 9th and 10th century Anglo-Saxon texts. Where meaning is obscure he annotates generously. This was a major effort by a true scholar. The maps show a commensurate effort to create the best maps from the…
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Theophrasti, Eresi Characteres ethici, siue morum descriptiones. Graecè & Latinè. Cum notis & Monitis Ioannis Angelii Werdenhagen I.C.C., Lugduni Batauorum, Ex Officinâ Ioannis Maire, 1632. 90 mm x 47 mm, in-32, 2 pt, three parts in one volume : Greek text printed in Greek, followed by the Latin translation by the Calvinist theologian Isaac Casaubon. The third part is the commentary of Johann Angelius von Werdenhagen. [Initial blank(s) missing; 71 pages (verso blank); 98 pages; 3 blanks; 237 pages, errata of 2 pages; 2 concluding blanks]. Title page signed by I. J. Brownlee and Peter Wilson. Original vellum over paper boards, darkened and worn from use. The numeral "19" is inked on the back at the head. Notation on the verso of the final blank: "VP. 1746".Peter Wilson (1746–1825) was born in Ordiquhill, Banffshire, Scotland, and studied at the University of Aberdeen. After moving to New York City in 1763, he worked as a teacher and then as principal of the Hackensack Academy before becoming… Read More
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A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath
by Allen, James Lane
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1900. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Fenn, Harry; Earl, J.C. First thus. Spine faded. 1900 Hard Cover. xxxii, 276, [4] pp. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt titles and elaborate gilt decorations similar to those used in the Cranford Series, which began in 1891 and gave us the famous Peacock on Sundial cover design now coveted by collectors. Revised from the 1894 and 1895 originals, this edition includes the full text of A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath, with a new preface by the author, and 100 illustrations by Hugh Thomson. A novel by an important Kentucky author known for incorporating local vernacular into his works, making his books useful sources for contemporary culture and dialect.
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The King of the Golden River, A Legend of Stiria (Roycrofters)
by Ruskin, John
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5956Ruskin The King of the Golden River, A Legend of Stiria. Publisher: Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1900.RARE. Original copyright 1841. BOUND IN SUEDE LEATHER. Used . Good- condition./ None Issued. A couple of top edges show bite-size area of loss. Does not effect text. Frontispiece black and white portrait of John Ruskin. Decorated title page and decorated initial letters by Samuel Warner. Colophon reads, printed in red, as follows: SO HERE ENDETH THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER, AS / WRITTEN BY JOHN RUSKIN: THE TITLE PAGE AND INITIALS / BEING DESIGNED BY SAMUEL WARNER, AND THE WHOLE / DONE INTO A BOOK BY THE ROYCROFTERS, AT THEIR SHOP, / IN EAST AURORA, NEW YORK, U.S.A., IN THE YEAR MCM. Roycroft logo with Elbert Hubbard printed in. handwritten gift inscription and signature on front free endpaper dates this item to the year 1900. Leather is in clean condition.
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1927. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Corners a bit rubbed, boards faintly soiled, ink date and owner bookplate of Robert N. Cherry on front flyleaf. 1927 Half-Leather. iv, 325 pp. 8vo. No binder's ticket, but appears to be a contemporary custom rebinding: blue leather spine and corners over blue cloth, gilt titles and rules, top edge gilt, new end sheets. "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. Franklin's account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods at which he wrote them.
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Tan, Amy | Opposite of Fate, The | Signed & Numbered Limited Edition Book
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Norwood Press, 2011. Hardcover. New. Limited Edition Hardcover Book. 2011 OR: Norwood Press Limited Numbered edition, first printing, mint, new/unread in a black leather binding with gold stamping and dust cover, signed by the author. Limited to one of 200.
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Ikebana Arranging Images; Kamata, Soseke, 1950's. A nice publication given to Julia Jane Jeffers Dodge while here husband was helping Japan recover after the war. Her husband Joseph Morrell Dodge had a long and distinguished career and tried to help reform Europe but later wound up as financial advisor to Douglas MacArthur in the economic revitalization of Japan. This edition is in very good condition internally. Photos of Ikebana arrangements by the famous Japan Ikebana master. A gift given to Julia Jeffers Dodge and placed in her library. 38 single sided (double page but other side blank) on high quality Japan paper with photo examples of Ikebana, black and white. A rare publication.
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Brown leather boards with gold writing and images and raised bands on spine; embossed image of planet, sky, and tree in gold on front and back board. Novel not issued with dust jacket. Top corner of back board shows slight wear; top edges of pages show some spotting (see pic). This is a special Collector's Edition Easton Press printing (with white bookmark) bound in leather, illustrated by Bob Eggleton with an introduction by Charles Sheffield. Niven and Pournelle's classic science-fiction tale in a Very Fine copy. Hardcover, but no dust jacket, so novel cannot be protected by archival Mylar cover.
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NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1911. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/As New. Richardson , Rome K (decorative covers). Brown, Ethel Pennewill (text decorations and illust). Remarkably well-conserved, as new copy still in publisher'sgift box. Elaborate mixed element floral cover design by Richardson K. Rome on green cloth. Text illustrtaions and decorations by Ethel Pennewill Brown. 8vo, gte, sides untrimmed, 76p. Unused, pages uncut, in orignal glassine wrapper all in as new condition housed in publisher's gift box, white paper with satin finish over cardboard, edged in gilt, top cover decorated with elements of Richardson's cover design, stated "Presenation Edition" An exemplar of the "gift book" at the commercial maturity of the decorative cover in American bindings. THE collector's copy.
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by Edwards, George Wharton
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New York: The Century Co., 1894. Original full calf stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled end papers. 140 pages, with many drawings and decorations by the author. Very Good, front hinge cracked yet holding nicelt, contemporary name and date front end page. Gilt bright, a handsome little book in a unique and lovely 1890s American binding, 5" x 3". . First Edition. Calf. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.
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Just Folks
by Guest, Edgar A
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., 1917. RARE in Arts & Crafts tooled leather binding. Top edge gilt. Marbled end pages. Near Fine, slight toning. . First Edition. Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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A Garland for Jake Zeitlin on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday & the Anniversary of His 40th Year in the Book Trade
by Edited by J. M. Edelstein
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Used - Fine
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- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
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- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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$100.00
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Los Angeles: Grant Dahlstrom & Saul Marks, 1967. Presentation and Association Copy, SIGNED by Jake Zeitlin at the half-title page -" To Gary, With all my great hopes for his future as a bookman Jake July 12, 1975". From the collection of Gary Steigerwald, at the time a young bookseller working for Zeitlin. One of 800 copies. Fine. Typography by Saul & Lillian Marks, The Plantin Pressm printed by Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press. Binding by the Earle Gray Bookbinding Company. . SIGNED. Limited Edition. Quarter Buckram. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Small 4to. Presentation Copy.
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$100.00