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Kazantzakis, Nikos. Prospectus for CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. Allen Press, Kentfield, CA, 1972.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Description: tall 8vo. signatures loosely inserted in wrappers as issued, enclosed in a hinged box. (iv), 79, (v) pages. NOTE: THIS IS FOR THE PROSPECTUS ONLY. A fine copy. One of 140 copies with type hand-set and hand-printed on handmade rag paper with the watermark of the Allen Press. (Allen no.37). Decorative letters printed in orange at the beginning of each act are from a late fifteenth century Italian book. Running title is printed in gray, and text at the beginning of each act is printed in yellow. The play was published posthumously. signatures loosely inserted in wrappers as issued, enclosed in a hinged box
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 4to (8.5 x 13 inches). Pp. 79. Loose leaves in a bright yellow Fabriano wrapper, title printed in orange. Colophon features a woodcut world map, 1472, presented here 500 years later. In the robin's-egg blue silk clamshell box, printed title label on the front panel, interior lined with bright orange silk. Designed and published by Lewis and Dorothy Allen. One of 140 copies. In pop culture, Kazantzakis is perhaps best known for his novel Zorba the Greek, which was successfully adapted to stage and screen. Christopher Columbus was published posthumously, in 1969, being one of a couple plays brought to print by the author's widow, Helen. Columbus is partially set at the court of Queen Isabella and involves Captain Alonso and Captain Juan, among the dramatis personae. Kazantzakis was born on Crete and is buried there, above Heraklion. An impressive fine press production. Statement on title page: "This Book Produced Entirely by Hand." . Loose Leaves in Fabriano-paper Folio within a Silk-Covered Clamshell Box
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Specifics from the colophon: Type hand set in Goudy Thirty, display type: Solemnis; all-rag handmade paper made at the Wookey Hole mill in England, with the Allen Press watermark, printed damp on an 1846 Columbian hand press. Cover paper is all-rag Fabriano from Italy, cloth for the hinged box was made in France. 8 1/2 inches x 13 1/8 in., titlepage in orange and black, colophon page with woodcut of 1472 world map. Preface by Nikos Kazantzakis. Heading letters for the Acts in orange, from an Italian book of 1475. Headlines in light gray; 79 pp., loose printed folios in an yellow-tan Fabriano paper wrapper, with title in orange on the outer front cover; in a light blue, cloth-covered, drop-back box with a printed title label on the front, interior lined with orange paper. Loosely inserted is the prospectus. Weight: 2 lbs.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
(Allen Press) Kazantzakis, Nikos. Christopher Columbus. The Allen Press, Kentfield, Calif, 1972.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: One of 140 copies designed, printed, and published by Lewis and Dorothy Allen. 1 vols. 13 x 8 1/2 inches. Printed on all rag paper, bound in yellow all rag Fabriano from Italy. Fine copy in the original blue clamshell box with printed paper label on upper cover One of 140 copies designed, printed, and published by Lewis and Dorothy Allen.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.