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Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: Gray paper boards with burgundy cloth spine, gilt spine lettering; 27 unnumbered pages, 1 wood engraving. The correspondence between American poet Marianne Moore and marketing executive David Wallace concerning an appropriate name for a new line of automobiles being designed by the Ford Motor Company. Despite the appeal of Miss Moore's final submission "Utopian Turtletop," the line was ultimately branded, as it turns out, under the unfortunate name--Edsel. "The edition of this book consists of five hundred fifty copies. Four hundred copies have been reserved for the Fellows of The Pierpont Morgan Library and one hundred fifty copies are offered for sale. They have been printed at The Spiral Press in New York. The wood engraving by Leonard Baskin has been printed from the original block"--Colophon. VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps inside front and rear covers with date stamp on foreword page. Binding is tight. Pages are otherwise clean.)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Wood engraved plate by Leonard Baskin. Original gilt-lettered cloth-backed boards; original slipcase. FIRST EDITION, one of 550 copies. Abbott A16.
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. Printed in an edition of 550 copies at the Spiral Press. A collection of letters from Moore in regards to the naming of an automobile. Includes a wood engraving by Leonard Baskin. A very near fine copy in a very near fine slipcase and without dust jacket as issued. A very nice copy of this lovely book.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: First edition limited to 550 copies, slim 8vo, unpaged; wood engraving plate printed in green by Leonard Baskin; original maroon cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine, matching slipcase; fine. Printed at the Spiral Press.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.