Martin, Fred. Prospectus for A TRAVEL BOOK. The Arion Press, San Francisco, 1976.

Price: US$24.00 + shipping

Description: oblong 4to. paper wrapper. two sheets folded. Prospectus only. Limited to 200 copies signed by the author. Colored illustrations that are reminiscent of the Nuremburg Chronicle executed by the author with linoleum blocks and in many different colors. Offsetting of engraving.

Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.

Martin, Fred. A TRAVEL BOOK. The Arion Press, San Francisco, 1976.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Limited to 200 copies signed by Fred Martin and printer Andrew Hoyem. An accomplished California artist, and one-time director of the San Francisco Art Institute, Martin (1927-2022) collaborated with Hoyem on this first livre d'artiste to be published by the Arion Press. Entries from a diary kept by Martin during a trip to Asia along with his selections of travel writings from various sources are combined on every letterpress-printed page with Martin's multicolored drawings to create a kaleidoscopic Jungian travel narrative. This is the fourth publication from the Arion Press. Prospectus laid in. Oblong quarto. Full silkscreened cloth-covered boards, housed in the publisher's amber plexiglas slipcase. The spine is sun faded; otherwise very good.

Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.