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Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 4pp., a single leaf once folded. This prospectus prints a description of the edition and its various limited impressions. Iconic crow pressmark illustration by Leonard Baskin on the final page. An attractive type layout on the inner page. Faint edge wear, about fine.
Seller: William Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop, Sidney, BC, Canada
Leonard Baskin. Zapf's Civilité Disclosed. The Gehenna Press, 1995.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Gehenna Press, 1995. "Hermann Zapf has a designed a new civilité typeface following Granjon's general lineaments, but its twisting and turning permutations are redolent of Zapf's genius." 175 copies printed at the Gehenna Press during the summer of 1995. Type cast by Harold Berlinner. Composition of the type forms hand set and printed letterpress in multiple colors by Art Larson. Bound by Claudia Cohen. This is copy number 143 of the standard edition (25 deluxe copies were issued with an additional print). SIGNED by Baskin, the fomrer of all the designs within the book. Book measures 9" x 12". A Fine copy in Near Fine slipcase. Laid in is a sample sheet which functioned at the prospectus for the publication. A scarce volume.
Seller: Bendowa Books, Holyoke, MA, U.S.A.
Baskin, Leonard. Zapf's Civilité Disclosed. Gehenna Press, Leeds, MA, 1995.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Herman Zapf, the celebrated type designer and typographer has designed a new Civilite typeface following Granjon's general lineaments, but its twisting and turning permutations are redolent of Zapf's genius." (prospectus) Pastepaper and binding by Claudia Cohen. One of 100 copies printed upon various handmade Czech and Italian papers in an issue of 125 (25 deluxe copies with an second suite of prints was also issues). [One of the last few fresh from the Press]. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Hand-made pastepaper boards, red leather spine label, gilt lettering; matching slipcase. 4to. np. Illus.
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.