FOUR PORTRAIT BUSTS BY...
by [Gehenna Press]: Laurana, Francesco [artist]
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- Hardcover
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- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
[Northampton]: The Gehenna Press, 1962.. Small quarto. Parchment and boards. Photographs. Trace of sunning at edges, else fine in glassine wrapper. First edition. Introductory essay by Ruth W. Kennedy. Photographs by Clarence Kennedy. One of 450 numbered copies, printed on Amalfi and Tovil handmade papers, with the plates executed by Meriden Gravure, from a total edition of five hundred copies. BASKIN 29.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCLIT31416
- Title
- FOUR PORTRAIT BUSTS BY...
- Author
- [Gehenna Press]: Laurana, Francesco [artist]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Gehenna Press
- Place of Publication
- [Northampton]
- Date Published
- 1962.
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William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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About William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Glassine Wrapper
- A thin, partially transparent or translucent paper covering often used ...
- Parchment
- Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is a...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gravure
- ...