Victor Hugo's Alphabet Character & Symbol
- Used
- near fine
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Toronto: The Aliquando Press, 1972. Limited Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Limited Edition, One of 100 copies, "This extract from Hugo's' Voyage de 1839' newly translated by Jean Wilson, was designed and printed by William Rueter at The Aliquando Press, Toronto, using a variety of Weyerhaeuser and Strathmore papers. Many of the Wood types were kindly loaned by Ellen Hutchison and Douglas Lochhead". One hundred copies were produced in October 1972, of which forty are reserved for the Typocrafters". Book is a collection of individually printed alphabet cards with the character and brief text description, Text and illustrations are Fine, original tan paper folding envelope is 4.25 inches in height by 4.25 inches in width, shows a tad bit of wear, cards are Fine, as usual the letter W is missing from the cards, their ar 2 X's so probably a collation issue at printer, printed on quality stock, No previous owner bookplate or writing. Very clean and most presentable edition. Scarce. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002562
- Title
- Victor Hugo's Alphabet Character & Symbol
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- The Aliquando Press
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- Private Printing, Small Press, Alpahbet
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
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