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ATWOOD, Margaret and Billy Sullivan. Birds. Glenn Horowitz, New York, 2012.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Softcover. 27 pages. One only 350 copies in wrappers. Published in conjunction an exhibition that ran November 5 through December 31, 2012. Features text by Atwood. Includes 10 black and white illustrations, checklist and a black and white photograph of Sullivan. A very fine copy in French style wrappers and with acetate jacket. An attractive production designed by Jerry Kelly.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
ATWOOD, Margaret and Billy Sullivan. Birds (Signed Limited Edition). Glenn Horowitz, New York, 2012.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. 27 pages. One only 100 copies in blue cloth boards from a total edition of 450. Published in conjunction an exhibition that ran November 5 through December 31, 2012. Features text by Atwood. Includes 10 black and white illustrations, checklist and a black and white photograph of Sullivan. A very fine copy in blue cloth boards. Signed by both Atwood and Sullivan. An attractive production designed by Jerry Kelly.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Atwood, Margaret. BIRDS. Glenn Horowitz, New York, 2012.
Price: US$302.50 + shipping
Description: Blue cloth, embossed black design with silver spine lettering; in mylar covers as issued. 8vo. 27 pp. One of 100 copies handbound and signed by Sullivan and Atwood: Deluxe Issue (there were 350 additional copies in wrappers). Essays by Margaret Atwood, drawings of birds by Billy Sullivan. As New.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Margaret Atwood, Billy Sullivan. BIRDS. Signed Limited Edition. Glenn Horowitz, New York, 2012.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Billy Sullivan. First Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). Margaret Atwood, Billy Sullivan. BIRDS. Signed. New York: Glenn Horowitz, 2012. 8vo., 27pp. Publisher's blue cloth stamped bird in black on the upper cover, silver stamped black title piece. The deluxe edition of only 100 cloth-bound copies, signed by artist & author, featuring bird drawings by Billy Sullivan & an essay by Margaret Atwood, who is also a highly regarded birder & conservationist. Artist Billy Sullivan lives and works in New York City & East Hampton, NY. He has exhibited extensively since the early 1970s, and is in the collections of New York's Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. Sullivan has been documenting the avian activity in his wooded backyard from his East Hampton dining room table since 1990. In these drawings, Sullivan captures the social goings-on of East End birds in much the same way he has chronicled family and friends in his paintings. Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, & environmental activist. Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards & honorary degrees. She is the author of more than fifty volumes of poetry, children's literature, fiction, & non-fiction, & is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), & The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. An avid birder, Atwood & er partner Graeme Gibson are the joint honorary presidents of the Rare Bird Club within BirdLife International. The entire edition, published in conjunction with the exhibition BILLY SULLIVAN: BIRD DRAWINGS, consists of 450 copies, 350 in wrappers, & 100 deluxe cloth-bound copies signed by both the writer & artist. A very fine copy.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada