THE ELEGIES OF A GLASS ADONIS
by Trypanis, C. A.; with a Typographical Note By Will Carter
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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FERNDALE, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Chilmark Press, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good. Dark green Fabriano paper-covered boards gilt, DW, 4to., (iii), 31, (1) pages. One of 450 numbered copies designed and printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press on Saunders Wookey Hole hand-made paper and bound by Mansell. Printed from a rare cutting of Frederic Warde's Vicenza type, his version of Arrighi italic, the subject of the nine-page note by Will Carter. The second of the "Clover Hill Editions". Four-page prospectus laid in. Bookplate of Arthur Goldsmith Jr., minor edgewear, still an attractive very good copy in the original mildly scuffed clear DW which is chipped at the spine ends.
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- Bookseller
- Entropy Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004907
- Title
- THE ELEGIES OF A GLASS ADONIS
- Author
- Trypanis, C. A.; with a Typographical Note By Will Carter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chilmark Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- RAMPANT LIONS PRESS
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