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PLANTE David.. MY MOTHER'S PEARL NECKLACE.. Albondocani Press, New York, 1987.
Price: US$44.20 + shipping
Description: Prima edizione. Testo inglese. Cm.20,5x15,5. Pg.(24). Elegante brossura editoriale in carta marmorizzata. Tiratura limitata di 150 esemplari su carta Arches Text, firmate dall'autore. Di queste copie 26 sono riservate ad uso personale dell'Autore. Il nostro esemplare è uno di questi, contrassegnato dalla lettera "R". All'occhiello dedica autografa dell'autore a John Fleming e Hugh Honour. Edizione originale di un racconto del letterato David Plante (Providence, 1940). 100 gr.
Seller: studio bibliografico pera s.a.s., LUCCA, Italy
Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited edition, SIGNED. Slim volume in purple patterned wrappers. Thus is Lettered 'L', one of the 26 copies for use of publisher and author only. There were additionally 150 numbered copies. Near fine sewn wrappers.
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Price: US$70.54 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Short memoir by American novelist and diarist David Plante, published here by Albondocani Press, a private press producing small runs of fine books founded in 1968 by George Bixby; No 60 of 150 numbered signed copies (26 copies lettered A-Z for use of author and publisher not for sale); Baskerville on Arches Text, French marbled self wraps over black card with title label to front; Signed by Plante to colophon; from the estate of Consuelo Joerns as per The Gotham Gorey auction (Round 2 June 2021), which included extensive Gorey items, as well as ephemera and a selection of (non-Gorey) limited editions; a Fine copy. self-wraps. unpaginated. 8vo. Fine
Seller: Gotcha By The Books, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
PLANTE, David.. My Mother's Pearl Necklace.. NY: Albondocani Press,, 1987.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and integral marbled-paper dust jacket with a printed cover label. Printed at the Nadja Press. One of 150 numbered copies on Arches Text paper SIGNED by Plante. Original publication announcement laid in.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Plante, David. MY MOTHER'S PEARL NECKLACE. Albondocani Press, NY, 1987.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, limited to 150 numbered and 26 lettered copies, all signed by Plante on the limitation page. Copy #55. Sewn warps in marbled paper with printed label. Publisher's announcemnt card laid-in. Contained in the previous owner's manuscript archive binder. Binder with lamonated boards and quarter-cloth backstrip. Previous pwner's plate with his printed name and holograph author's name and title in ink. Book and binder in Fine condition.
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. 12mo. Prospectus laid in. Fine in stringbound, marbled paper wrappers. Autograph Letter Signed laid in from Plante to Albondaocani Press publisher George Bixby thanking him for the book and commenting on the signed copy by saying: "I feel a messy signature does deface the clear, clean, pure book!" Number 1 of 150 copies Signed by the author. Also Inscribed by the author on the front fly to Bixby: "To George Bixby '. the clasp.' from David Plante May, 1987." A nice association.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.