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William Shakespeare | [Victor Hammer]. [SPECIAL PRESS] SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS. Printed by Jacob Hammer for the Anvil PRess, Lexington, Ky, 1956.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: Large 8vo.; in tan paper-covered boards, with a printed paper label to the spine; 78 pages; from the colophon: "Printed after the Praetorious facsimile edition from the proof copy of the First Quarto -- 1609 -- in the British Museum. -- Layout by Victor Hammer. Printed by Jacob Hammer for the Anvil Press, Lexington Kentucky 1956. Publication V: two hundred and forty copies. [no; 96]." Printed in black and red.~~There is a tan"smudge" on a couple of leaves, and some toning to the endsheets from the binder's glue; there is also some darkening near the joint at the rear board.~~~~. Near Fine binding.

Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.

William Shakespeare | [Victor Hammer]. [SPECIAL PRESS] SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS. Printed by Jacob Hammer for the Anvil PRess, Lexington, Ky, 1956.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Description: Large 8vo.; in blue paper-covered boards, backed in tan linen with a printed paper label to the spine; 78 pages; from the colophon: "Printed after the Praetorious facsimile edition from the proof copy of the First Quarto -- 1609 -- in the British Museum. -- Layout by Victor Hammer. Printed by Jacob Hammer for the Anvil Press, Lexington Kentucky 1956. Publication V: two hundred and forty copies. [no; 96]." there is the faintest amount of foxing to the spine; printed in black and red; with the printer's blue dustjacket, also with a paper title label to the spine.~~Altogether a splendid copy of this production by Victor Hammer's Anvil Press.~~~~~. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.

Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.

William Shakespeare. Shake-speares Sonnets // Shakespeare's Sonnets. Anvil Press, Lexington, Kentucky, 1956.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Lovely near fine copy, very minor wear/toning to the fragile paper board, contents fresh and clean. Paper label on the spine is bright and clear. In the original binding by Boxwood Binders with their tag. About as nice a copy of the lovely Victor Hammer production as one could hope to find. One of 240 copies.

Seller: Blue Sky Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.