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John Rothenstein. Victor Hammer Artist & Craftsman. David R. Godine, 1978.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: #81 of edition of 500. Slightest of bumps to upper front cover, some bowing to boards, else fine in near fine publisher's slipcase.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.96 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 500 copies designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega in Dante type.Colour plates at rear. Brown silk cloth with gilt spine titling, card slipcase. A fine copy.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Golden-rod silk cloth, slipcase, 4to., 57, (1) + 19 color plates. One of 500 numbered copies designed and printed by Martino Mardersteig from Dante type at the Stamperia Valdonega. Slightly bowed, else a near fine copy in a tight-fitting card slipcase with one tear.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Rothenstein, John. Victor Hammer, Artist and Craftsman. David R. Godine [1978], Boston, 1978.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 57 pp., incl. text & list of plates followed by 26 color plates divided into 3 sections: Portraits, Biblical and Mythological Paintings, and The Kolbsheim Chapel; 4to; gold cloth, in slipcase. Fine condition in like slipcase. First Edition, no. 258 of 500 copies.
Seller: G.F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA, GRASS VALLEY, CA, U.S.A.
Rothenstein, John. Victor Hammer Artist and Craftsman. Boston David R. Godine [1978]., 1978.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: Front board a little bowed. Otherwise fine. 1st edition. Binding is Cloth.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, number 242 of 450. 57 pp., 26 plates, [1, printer's imprint]. 1 vols. 4to. Important and abundantly illustrated study of the life and work of Austrian-born artist and typographer Victor Hammer (1882-1968), whose works include the Kolbsheim Chapel in Alsace, France; numerous portraits; and designs for private press imprints over four decades. Hammer's portrait of his friend Thomas Merton (destroyed by fire) is reproduced. These two volumes are limited editions designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Original gold cloth. Fine in slipcase 57 pp., 26 plates, [1, printer's imprint]. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
ROTHENSTEIN, John.. Victor Hammer Artist and Craftsman.. Boston: David R. Godine, (1978)., 1978.
Price: US$123.52 + shipping
Description: First edition. Sm.4to., orig. cloth, (58), followed by 29 plates in colour. About fine.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Rothenstein, John. Victor Hammer: Artist & Craftsman. David R. Godine, Boston, 1978.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: A tribute to one of the masters of the 20th century, Austrian-born artist & craftsman Victor Hammer (1882-1968). An appraisal of Hammer's private commissions & ecclesiastical works, plus biograpical information. #177/500. 26 color plates. Original golden-rod silk cloth. Book is very fine, with no edge or corner wear, no scuffing, soiling or marks of any kind inside or out. Slipcase is equally fine. "Victor Hammer: Artist & Printer" also available in near mint condition, without slipcase, at $225.00.
Seller: Coalesce Bookstore, Morro Bay, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Two volumes. Publishers cloth title black title to spine. Both finely printed at the Stamperia Voldonega by Martino Mandersteig. The first volume is limited to 500 copies this copy unnumbered. The second volume is limited to 550 copies our copy numbered 458. Volume two with minor bump at top corner, else fine. Volume one is fine. Both volumes fully illustrated with color plates. Both books in original slipcase, near fine. Victor Karl Hammer (1882-1967), painter, sculptor, printer and typographer. Engravings. ?Hammer was an artist of remarkable talents and skills: although his primary metier was painting, usually in tempera on gesso panels, and chirfly portraiture, he was also a master of the wood-cut, the mezzotint, and the metal engraving. Victor was master of the book arts: printing, bookbinding, calligraphy, and typography, cutting the punches for five type-faces during his long life.? [-Wellsbook Arts Center].
Seller: Dark Parks Books & Collectibles, Fallon, NV, U.S.A.
Rothenstein, John. Victor Hammer: artist and craftsman. David S. Godine, Boston, 1978.
Price: US$343.75 + shipping
Description: First edition limited to 500 copies (this, no. 423) designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy; 4to, pp. 57, [3], [30]; 26 color plates; sienna cloth, spine stamped in black; matching sienna cloth slipcase; fine. An appraisal of the private commissions and ecclesiastical works of the cosmopolitan artist/craftsman, as well as biographical information. Laid in is a short typed note, signed, from Carolyn Hammer to Greg Campbell thanking him for the order and asking if he could rebind two books. Together with: Hammer, Carolyn. Victor Hammer: artist and printer, Lexington: Anvil Press, 1981. Edition limited to 550 press-numbered copies (this, no. 491), small folio, pp. [14], 5-213, [3]; illustrated throughout; original sienna cloth, publisher's slipcase; fine. Together with: Hammer, Victor. Victor Hammer: an artist's testament. With a foreword by Carolyn R. Hammer, 1988. Lexington: Anvil Press, 1988. Edition limited to 200 copies designed by Martino Mardersteig, small folio, pp. 304, [4]; portrait of Hammer tipped in, original sienna cloth, publisher's slipcase; fine.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.