TAURNREISE
by [Hammer, Victor]: Reicher, Otto
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
[Florence: Stamperia del Santuccio, 1931/2].. [30]pp. Small quarto. Drab boards, printed spine label. Boards and label a trifle tanned and worn, light but persistent foxing, but a very good copy of a fragile book. OPUS II of Victor Hammer's first press, inscribed and signed by him in Kolbsheim, Alsace, in 1936. He had reestablished the press there in 1935 on the estate of his friend, Alexandre de Grunelius, who had commissioned him to build and paint a private chapel. The edition consisted of only 69 copies printed in black and red in Hammer's beautiful Samson Uncial type, five of them on Japanese paper, and the remainder on Magnani paper. This is one of fourteen paper copies reserved as unnumbered 'seconds.' Fritz Arnold assisted Hammer in the printing of this edition. Hammer returned to this text in 1938 and with Jacob Hammer's assistance, printed another edition consisting of 12 copies. Holbrook notes that there was not an edition binding but the spine label is formally set for that purpose. HOLBROOK, 143.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCLIT88098
- Title
- TAURNREISE
- Author
- [Hammer, Victor]: Reicher, Otto
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Stamperia del Santuccio
- Place of Publication
- [Florence
- Date Published
- 1931/2].
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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.
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