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Hebel, Johann Peter. Francisca and other Stories. Anvil Press, Lexington, 1957.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: xii, [2], 106p. Duna paper over boards. dj. 16cm. Loosely bound with gaps visible between some pages. Small booksellers label (Philip C. Duschnes) on rear pastedown. Jacket has a couple of minor chips and some small inkspots on backstrip panel. Copy No. 5 of an edition limited to 175 numbered copies. Translated by Clavia Goodman and Bayard Quincy Morgan, with an appreciation by Emil Strauss.
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Tan paper-covered boards printed in black, DW, thick square 12mo., xii, (1), 106, (1) pages. One of 175 numbered copies planned by Victor Hammer and printed in red and black from Rudolf Koch's Jessen type by Jacob Hammer on Japanese Hosho handmade paper. Printed slip laid in. Bound by Lucy Crump with Duna (Val de Laga) paper over boards, with the Boxwood Binders ticket affixed. A clean, near fine copy in a very near fine printed DW with a Victor Hammer woodcut after Leo Delitz, in archival mylar.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$468.75 + shipping
Description: First edition in English limited to 175 copies (this is copy no. 7) on Japanese Hosho paper, sm. sq. 12mo, pp. [2], 106, [2]; printed in red and black; orig. paper-covered boards, orig. printed dust-jacket with a hand-colored woodcut by Victor Hammer (apparently only the early copies were hand-colored); generally a fine copy. This copy with the printed slip laid in (as issued) reading "Only a very sharp knife will cut there pages neatly." The second book of the Anvil Press, designed by Victor Hammer and printed by Jacob Hammer. Holbrook, p. 182.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.