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Abbott, Edwin Abbott. Prospectus for FLATLAND. Arion Press, (San Francisco, 1980.
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Description: small 8vo. accordion fold. Introduction by Ray Bradbury. Art by Andrew Hoyem. NOTE: THIS IS FOR THE PROSPECTUS ONLY. A fine copy. Limited to 275 numbered copies signed by Hoyem with the introduction signed by Bradbury. The seventh production of the press, this volume is illustrated with fourteen line drawings and ten diecuts by Andrew Hoyem with watercolors added by hand. The press's description calls this "A satire about a two-dimensional world vexed by single- and multi-dimensionality that has been continuously in print since first published in 1884, enjoyed by young students of geometry and sophisticated physicists alike, and hailed as a precursor of science fiction. Andrew Hoyem's radical design and illustrations realize many implications of the book, such as: the "volume" can be opened out flat to form a thirty-foot plane; the plane-geometrical citizens of Flatland are infinitely thin (holes in paper); they cast shadows; their edges glow." Printed on T.H. Saunders mouldmade paper.
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
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Description: LETTERS are both on half-sheet Arion Press stationery: the first is dated 16 May 1988 and reads in part, "Congratulations on your retirement! Now you will have more time for your bookish pursuits. My own set of summer whites was retired in 1960 when I was released as a [Lieutenant Sergeant]. Nevertheless I'll salute you ."; the second is dated 9 February 1992 and reads in part, "Though I admire Robinson Jeffers' poetry and have mulled over what we could do for it, the treatments he has received from the Grabhorn Press and Wm. Everson seem to preclude Arion from taking him up." CHRISTMAS GREETINGS are for 1985, 1987, 1991, as well as a more lavish "Season's Greetings" for 1985 introducing plans for BIRDS OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE by Andrew Jackson Grayson. CATALOGS or "Publishing Programs": there are 2 circa 1982; one for 1984; Fall 1985, circa 1987 "Literature and art in deluxe editions" which includes a checklist of the first 25 books from the press; and the "Catalogue of Publications 1990-91" which includes "Checklist 1975-90." PROSPECTUSES are listed below using the Press's numbering sequence (with the exception of THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, which was never published). No mailing envelopes but, for the most part, all inserts present (including ordering envelopes). Fine condition overall with only the occasional mild crease, with the exception of SHAPED POETRY which shows a few coffee splashes: [#7]: FLATLAND: a Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott; with an introduction by Ray Bradbury, illustrated by Andrew Hoyem (1980). [#8]: SHAPED POETRY; poems edited by Glenn Todd, companion volume by Glenn Todd and Andrew Hoyem (1981). [Not published]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, To be published for the Episcopal Church (planned publication circa 1982). [#9]: THE TYPEFOUNDRY IN SILHOUETTE by Rudolf Koch; translated by Alexander Nesbitt, with a note by Andrew Hoyem (1982). [#10]: THE APOCALYPSE; The Revelation of Saint John the Divine from the King James version of the Bible, with woodblock prints by Jim Dine (1982). [#11]: THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett; illustrated with period photographs of sites in the novel (1983). [#14]: THE TEMPLE OF FLORA; edited by Glenn Todd and Nancy Dine, with botanical notes compiled by Glenn Todd. Poetry by various poets; dry-point engravings by Jim Dine (1984). [#15]: THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald; with drawings by the architect Michael Graves (1984). [#17]: POEMS BY WALLACE STEVENS; selected and with an introduction by Helen Vendler, with a frontispiece etching by Jasper Johns (1985). [#19]: THE BIG SLEEP by Raymond Chandler; introductory essay by Lawrence Clark Powell, illustrated with photographs by Lou Stoumen (1986). [#24]: CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE OF HANNAH DUSTON; related by Cotton Mather, John Greenleaf Whittier, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau; introduction by Glenn Todd, with woodblock prints by Richard Bosman (1987). [#25]: A MORAL FABLE-TALK by Arnold Freitag; an emblem book from 1586, translated by Arthur Golding, edited by R. G. Barnes, reproducing etchings by Marcus Gheeraerts (1987). [#27]: ULYSSES by James Joyce; with etchings by Robert Motherwell (1988). [#28]: HOW I CAME TO BE GOVERNOR OF THE ISLAND OF CACONA by Francis Thistleton; introduction by Robertson Davies and drawings by Andrew Hoyem (1989). [#30]: LE DÉSERT DE RETZ: Le Jardin Pitoresque de Monsieur de Monville; A Late Eighteenth-Century French Folly Garden by Diana Ketcham; photographs by Michael Kenna (1990). [#31]: POEMS OF W. B. YEATS; selected and introduced by Helen Vendler, with etchings by Richard Diebenkorn (1990). [#32]: BIOTHERM by Frank O'Hara; essay and glossary by Bill Berkson with lithographs by Jim Dine (1990). [#33]: GO YOUR STATIONS, GIRL by Carl R. Martin; poems, with an introduction by Andrew Hoyem (1991). [#34]: ON CERTAINTY by Ludwig Wittgenstein; edited by G.E.M. Anscombe and G.H. von Wright; translated by Anscombe and Denis Paul; introduction by Arthur Danto; with relief prints by Mel Bochner (1991). [#35]: EUREKA: An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe by Edgar Allan Poe; with introduction by Glenn Todd and relief prints by Shusaku Arakawa (1991). [#36]: THIRTY-THREE SONNETS OF GUIDO CAVALCANTI; translated by Ezra Pound, with introductory essays by Hugh Kenner and Lowry Nelson, and with an etching by Joseph Goldyne (1991). [#37]: AMERICAN BUFFALO by David Mamet; with wood engravings by Michael McCurdy; accompanied by The Cabin, essay by Mamet (1992). [#38]: KADDISH, with White Shroud and Black Shroud by Allen Ginsberg; introduction by Helen Vendler with lithograph by R. B. Kitaj (1992). [#41]: THE CASE OF THE WOLF-MAN by Sigmund Freud; introduction by Richard Wollheim, with etchings and woodcuts by Jim Dine (1993). [#42]: A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens; introduction by Paul Davis, with relief prints in colors by Ida Applebroog (1993). [#43]: PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov; with a separate volume for the poem "Pale Fire" and a frontispiece portrait by Andrew Hoyem (1994). [#48]: THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS by Robert Louis Stevenson; introduction by Oscar Lewis and notes by James D. Hart, with photographs by Michael Kenna (1996) [#49]: CHRISTIAN SYMBOLS by Rudolf Koch and Fritz Kredel; 158 emblems from the history of Christianity, translated by Kevin Ahern (1996). [#50]: GENESIS; translated from the Hebrew by Robert Alter, facing Hebrew and English texts, with by Michael Mazur (1996). [#51]: WILLIWAW by Gore Vidal; with plans for the ship that is the setting of the story, and photographs of the author; 1996. [#68]: TARTUFFE by Molière; translated and with an introduction by Richard Wilbur, with drawings by William Hamilton (2004). [#75]: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN; published in honor of the 300th anniversary of his birth (2006). ALSO INCLUDES: Reps, Paul. GOLD/FISH SIGNATURES: Poems. San Francisco: The Auerhahn Press, 1962. First edition. The book that brought Andrew Hoyem of Arion Press into publishing. A most
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: One of the imaginative wonders of 20th Century Fine Press bookmaking. This elaborate 1980 rendering by the Arion Press of a late-19th century science fiction novel by English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott (who published pseudonymously under the name: "Square") relates the story of a square living in a two-dimensional world who visits a world of lines, another comprised of just a single dot, and is in turn visited by a three-dimensional sphere. The book is a two-sided accordion-style binding encased in aluminum boards that unfold as one 33-foot long text, then recoil to slide back into an elegantly configured latched aluminum-tooled frame. It is illustrated with hand-colored die-cutouts by Arion Press founder Andrew Hoyem and contains a signed Introductory Essay by science fiction titan Ray Bradbury. Number 240 in a limited edition of 275 copies, in virtually mint condition. First Thus (Number 240 in a limited edition of 275 copies).
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
Abbott, Edwin Abbott; ANDREW HOYEM. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.. , 1980.
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Description: ABBOTT, Edwin Abbott. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. With an introduction by Ray Bradbury. [56] ff. Illustrated with 14 line drawings and 10 die-cuts by Andrew Hoyem, with watercolour added by hand. Folio, 354 x 180 mm., bound accordion-style in original decorated aluminum covers, in a hinged and locking aluminum frame. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1980. One of 275 copies printed Monotype Univers on T.H. Saunders hot-press mould-made paper. Andrew Hoyem's radical design and illustrations realize many implications of this satire about a two-dimensional world. Signed by Ray Bradbury. Scarce. Arion Press Checklist 7. Reed and Phillips Artists and their Books p.102
Seller: Ursus Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
A Square (Edwin Abbott Abbott). Flatland. Arion Press, San Francisco, 1980.
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: First published in the late 19th century, Flatland is a novel about a square living in a two dimensional world who is visited by a three-dimensional sphere, as well as visiting a world of lines and another which is just a single dot, written by English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott (pseudonymously a Square). It is also a brilliant satire of the class systems present in late Victorian society. This amazing edition was published in 1980 by Arion Publishers, San Francisco, and reproduces Abbotts text in one very long panorama, which can be opened concertina-style, and which is housed in a lockable aluminium case. The edition includes illustrations by Andrew Hoyem and an introduction by Ray Bradbury. One of an edition of 275, in an excellent state.
Seller: CASSIUS&Co., London, United Kingdom