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Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Large Prospectus before publication. 12 1//4 x 9 1/2 inches. 8 pages with woodcut illustration. 4 page "Making of the book" with photos and book pricing information laid in. FINE. All corners fairly pointed. Binding firm, without stress creasing and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked and clean and bright. All items carefully packaged and sent boxed.
Seller: Tree Frog Fine Books and Graphic Arts, Beaverton, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Prospectus for a then-upcoming limited edition of "The Man Who Died" by D. H. Lawrence published by The Yolla Bolly Press. Includes an article about the making of the book and a woodcut by Leonard Baskin.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: From a total edition of 135, this copy one of 85 copies that were bound in a cover of Japanese cotton over boards and housed in a linen slipcase; of these copies numbered 31-90 were offered for sale; this copy not numbered but reserved for the press and lettered K, signed by Baskin and Fowles on the colophon. 101 pp.; folio; both the Lawrence text and the Fowles commentary are composed in the Bembo types and printed, with the nine Baskin blocks, by letterpress on mould-formed English Somerset paper. Includes prospectus, also The Making of the Book, with photographs of printer Aaron Johnson, binder Rene Menge, Baskin, Fowles, and Michael Gidron working on the box. In his final novel, published less than a year before his death, Lawrence takes up the theme of Christ's resurrection and his final days on earth. The origins of this last novel had no fewer than eight versions of the manuscript in existence, some incomplete. A portion of the text was originally published in story form, later revised, then revised again in its several volume additions. The Yolla Bolly Press made use of the valuable commentary and list of variants by Gerald Lacy in the Black Sparrow Press edition of The Escaped Cock, in order to correct some errors in the Knopf version, forming the basis of this limited edition.; Signed by Author(s)
Seller: G.F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA, GRASS VALLEY, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2502.37 + shipping
Description: ONE OF 20 COPIES ('S') reserved for the contributors (from an overall edition of 135), signed by Baskin and Fowles, the nine woodcut plates and title-page printed in black and pale tan, text in Bembo type, printed on mould-formed Somerset paper, front pastedown with Fowles' engraved bookplate - his name framed by foliage, magpies and an owl, pp. [iv], 104, folio, publisher's cream Japanese cloth, upper board with blind-stamped cross, fore-edge untrimmed, backstrip with a few pale spots, linen slipcase, backstrip with printed label edged with silver, very good. A handsome edition, Baskin's highly expressionistic images equal to Lawrence's text - his final novel, originally published by Black Sun Press in Paris in 1929 as The Escaped Cock, which describes with unflinching realism Christ's resurrection and painful final days on earth. The commentary by Fowles, who had long cited Lawrence as a major influence ([I have] discovered a deep recrudescence of sympathy for his almost metaphysical attitude to the now' - Vipond 1999:201) acknowledges the writer's political and stylistic shortcomings, but defends his ability to directly convey a true awareness of being, describing the work as symbolic fiction or parable which should be read 'by someone fully aware of the despairing, almost hectic seriousness with which Lawrence say mankind's deep-rooted psychological and emotional problems.' (Commentary) [with:] FOWLES (John) Commentary on The Man Who Died, [Covelo, California: The Yolla Bolly Press, 1992], ONE OF 50 COPIES for private distribution, a few passages marked in margin in red, presumably by Fowles, [ii], 14, folio, publisher's grey wrappers, cover with printed label edged with gold, very good. A separately issued version of the text included in the work above.
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom