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Wharton, Edith.. Quartet: Four Stories.. Allen Press, 1975.
Price: US$423.48 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. One of 140 copies printed on hand-made paper, illustrations in the text, advertisement slip loosely inserted, publisher's cream cloth over red decorated cloth, acetate jacket, folio, 1975. A Fine copy. Mint
Seller: Finecopy, Westbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: ÒThe Allen Press, a husband-and-wife enterprise for some thirty-six years, is one of the very few presses in the world producing books regularly and professionally entirely by hand, performing ourselves all facets of production: typography, hand-setting of types, using hand-made paper printed damp on a handpress, binding and publishing. There is a remarkable difference between such books and those provued with machine-set types, motor-driven presses, machine-made papers, and commercial bindings,Ó (prospectus). Folio. 126 pp. Full-page, three-color illustration (designed by Lewis and Dorothy Allen) at the beginning of each story. Printed with German ink on all-rag paper made specially for the Allen Press at St. Cuthberts Mill in England. The typeface is Romane, designed by Jan Van Krimpen for Joh. Ensched en Zonen. Printed damp on an 1846 Columbian handpress. Bound by the Allens in vermilion and beige Fortuny print cloth, hand-blocked in Venice. Minor toning to edges. Otherwise a fine copy with the original prospectus and in the original acetate dust jacket. One of 140 copies produced by Lewis and Dorothy Allen. ÒThe four stories in the present edition were selected on the basis of most favorable reviews by literary critics, plus an inclination toward textual and geographical variety Ñ Rome, New York, Paris, and EnglandÉ "{ Allen Press Bibliography, 41.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.