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Crow, Barbara. AN ACROBATIC ALPHABET. The Whittington Press, (Gloucestershire), 1986.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Scarce and beautiful limited edition artist's ABC, with Crow's wood engravings of human figures twining in and around each letter. 7.25'' x 6.25''. Original sewn greige wrappers. In original salmon paper box backed in brown cloth, with printed paper spine label. Edition of 335 copies, this copy no. 126. Illustrated with 26 wood engravings. Printed on Zerkall Ingres and mould-made papers, bound by Smith Settle. 29 French fold leaves. Bright, sharp. and clean overall.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Crow, Barbara. An Acrobatic Alphabet. Whittington Press, UK, 1986.
Price: US$579.72 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED limited edition of 335 copies set in 18-point Caslon and printed on Zerkall Ingres and mould-made papers. This is one of 35 copies ( number xviii ) with hand-coloured engravings by Sylvia Stokeld. Bound in silk with a proof of the engravings in an envelope at the rear. Fine in matching paper covered slipcase. Unfaded, no inscriptions, tight and bright. SIGNED to the limitation page by Barbara Crow. A lovely copy. Paypal accepted.
Seller: Cheltenham Rare Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$611.92 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 26 wood-engravings and a line-block reproduction of title lettering by Barbara Crow. Set in 18-point Caslon and printed in black (title and engravings) and red (text) on Zerkall Ingress & mould-made papers. Number xiv of xxxv (335) copies hand-coloured by Sylvia Stokeld, bound in silk, signed by the artist upon the colophon and with a separate set of proofs on Hosho paper signed by the artist in a pocket at the rear. Bound Japanese-style with orange Indian silk boards laced at the spine. Printed label inset on upper cover. Fine in slipcase. Prospectus loosely inserted. The first book of wood-engravings by Barbara Crow. The engravings each show a figure twisting itself around or through a letter of the alphabet. Each is accompanied by a single word or phrase on the verso opposite. The single sheet of engravings on Hosho paper was printed in an edition of fifty copies, the balance of which was issued as posters.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom