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Levertoff [Levertov], Denise. The Double Image.. Waldron Island WA, Brooding Heron Press., 1991.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition of this 1991 limited printing of 300 copies; SIGNED by Denise Levertov (on title page) and also signed by the two publishers Sally Green and Sam Green (but not lettered, and lacking the supplement). -- Hardcover. Conditon: fine.
Seller: Bucks County Bookshop IOBA, Doylestown, PA, U.S.A.
Levertoff [i.e. Levertov], Denise. The double image. Brooding Heron Press, Waldron Island, 1991.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 300 copies, signed by Levertov on the title page; 8vo, pp. [8], 45, [1]; mounted frontispiece portrait, title page printed in red and black; fine copy in original black cloth-backed handmade paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine. From the library of Kim Merker. Originally published in London by the Cresset Press, 1946. "Three hundred copies of this edition were printed . Twenty-six copies, lettered A-Z, as well as a small number of hors de commerce presentation copies . were additionally provided with hard Japanese-style wraparound covers and supplemented with [The token] . a previously unpublished poem [not present with this issue]" (colophon).
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$895.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover volume: 7 in. x 10 ¼ in., frontispiece is a mounted reproduction of an early photograph of Levertov (The frontispiece photograph of the author is from her private album, and is contemporary with the book's first publication. [1946]), loose, tan, specially textured paper tissue guard; title-page printed in red and black, signed by Denise Levertov in lower margin; contents; half-title pages. [8] pp., pp. [1]-5-[46]; p. 45 is A note on the edition, and the reverse, p. [46] is the colophon, signed by the binder & printer (Sam & Sally Green). Textured paper wrappers volume: 6 ½ in. x 10 ¼ in., half-title; title-page printed in red and black, signed by Denise Levertov, under the printed author's name; editor's note with printed poem on the reverse; tipped-in reproduction of the handwritten poem; lettered colophon page. The Double Image volume is bound with a black cloth spine and back cover, and with a tan and pink textured paper title label with the titling printed in black, with matching textured paper on the front cover with DL DI monogram on the front cover. The Token is in wrappers of the same type of handmade paper, with title printed on the front cover. In a specially crafted, sturdy Japanese-style, wraparound case, that continues the black cloth and tan & pink paper binding, with a printed title label on the spine and a strip of the paper mounted on the front cover; and with oriental-style closures. In fine condition. A very scarce item, with the signed Token booklet. The prospectus and a signed postcard with a hand-written note from the publisher to a former owner are included. Weight: 2 lbs.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.