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26 Etchings by Shelly Fink
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Alford, MA, 1962. Fink, Sheldon. Small quarto. 28ff. One of forty copies. Etched title page and twenty-six fine etchings by Fink, ranging thematically from portraits to botany to insects. Many of Fink's etchings have a decidedly Baskinesque aesthetic, but Fink's circle centered primarily in New York, where he was friendly with Jack Levine and Raphael Soyer. For this collection, Fink commissioned Royall Moore to create paper with a high linen count, and this was the subject of a Popular Mechanics article in 1965. Moore, who was described in the article as an "inventive Yankee," was a carpenter by trade, and made all the equipment himself. The binding for this edition was executed by Arno Werner, who bound it in full orange-toned deerskin with a hubbed spine and decorations printed in black on the upper cover and spine. Werner also presumably made the marbled endpapers, which also decorate the deerskin-backed folding case. Book is fine and bright; light rubbing to edges of box.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bromer Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27385
- Title
- 26 Etchings by Shelly Fink
- Illustrator
- Fink, Sheldon
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- Alford, MA
- Date Published
- 1962
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books; Fine Printing; Fine Bindings;
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About the Seller
Bromer Booksellers
Biblio member since 2008
Boston, Massachusetts
About Bromer Booksellers
Bromer Booksellers specializes in rare and beautiful books. Owned and operated by Anne Bromer, who has been in the business of fine books for over fifty years, our shop carries a range of important private press books, designer bookbindings, illustrated books, children's books, and miniature books.
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- Quarto
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- Title Page
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- Fine
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