A CALENDAR OF SAINTS FOR UNBELIEVERS
by WESCOTT, Glenway. Pavel Tchelitchew
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- very good, embossed cloth
- Seller
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About This Item
Paris: Harrison of Paris, (1932). First, Limited Edition. Hardcover. very good, embossed cloth. Pavel TCHELITCHEW. Octavo, 239 pages, black cloth, bevelled edges, extra-gilt spine, untrimmed. Ex libris Prof. Harrison Hayford, the editor for the definitive edition of Herman Melville's writings. Lacking the glassine dj and publisher's slipcase. It is curious that this copy is not signed by Wesctott.
Copy number 1 of the ordinary issue: it was gifted at "Xmas to Agnes [ Mongan?, the art historian] by Lincoln Kirstein in 1932. "Tenth -and possibly the costliest -book from the press. "...although the saints are enamored of God, their affections, in Wescott's opinion, are drastically restricted -confined to God and the Church -and therefore separated from most of humanity. Love, whether directed outwardly or inwardly, toward God or self, may lead one away from the truths of human existence -Hugh Ford, PUBLISHED IN PARIS, p. 341." Illustrated by Pavel TCHELITCHEW. Designed by Monroe Wheeler, this is the first book printed using Jan van Krimpen's twelve-point Romanee type; printed on watermarked Harrison of Paris pannekoek paper.
Copy number 1 of the ordinary issue: it was gifted at "Xmas to Agnes [ Mongan?, the art historian] by Lincoln Kirstein in 1932. "Tenth -and possibly the costliest -book from the press. "...although the saints are enamored of God, their affections, in Wescott's opinion, are drastically restricted -confined to God and the Church -and therefore separated from most of humanity. Love, whether directed outwardly or inwardly, toward God or self, may lead one away from the truths of human existence -Hugh Ford, PUBLISHED IN PARIS, p. 341." Illustrated by Pavel TCHELITCHEW. Designed by Monroe Wheeler, this is the first book printed using Jan van Krimpen's twelve-point Romanee type; printed on watermarked Harrison of Paris pannekoek paper.
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2020074
- Title
- A CALENDAR OF SAINTS FOR UNBELIEVERS
- Author
- WESCOTT, Glenway. Pavel Tchelitchew
- Illustrator
- Pavel TCHELITCHEW
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good, embossed cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First, Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Harrison of Paris
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- (1932)
- Keywords
- presses, zodiac, Pavel TCHELITCHEW, glenway wescott paris france Pavel Tchelitchev monroe wheeler
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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