Fingers
by BLAKESTON, Oswell (text) and JONES, Herbert (illustrations)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
-
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1964. Stiff card wrappers. Good+. FIRST EDITION. Slim paperback, incl. b/w line illustrations by Herbert Jones. Black, white and red wrappers. Edgewear, spine rubbed, foxed, with a gentle wave. First and last pages faintly foxed, final page separating, else, clean. A typically experimental offering from Blakeston and Jones. Good+ Founded in 1948, the Gaberbocchus Press was led by the artist-spouses Stefan and Franciszka Themerson. The press had previously published Blakeston's crime novel The Night's Moves to some success. With printed dedication "To Max Chapman," the British artist and Blakeston's partner and oft-collaborator. Herbert Jones (1888�1957), another frequent collaborator of Blakeston's, was a British-based American artist. Jones and Blakeston also co-edited the short-lived modernist little magazine, Seed (see our copy of the first issue ref. 2691).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quair Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2485
- Title
- Fingers
- Author
- BLAKESTON, Oswell (text) and JONES, Herbert (illustrations)
- Format/Binding
- Stiff card wrappers
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Gaberbocchus Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1964
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts;
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About the Seller
Quair Books
Biblio member since 2019
Leeds, West Yorkshire
About Quair Books
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- Little Magazine
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...