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Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: "With nine poems not published in earlier editions." Unbound. 124 pp. in 8 signatures, with front and back papers covers and two extra sheets. In addition there is a single sheet with two strips colored in the same green as the covers, one plain, the other printed with the title. There is an acetate envelope with two title labels and five strips in the same color as the covers. The entire package is wrapped in an acetate wrapper. Copy No. 441 of 500 copies, signed by Joyce L. Wilson, the illustrator.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Adrian Wilson (1924 Ð 1988) was encouraged to print the present work by Norman Strouse, founder of the Silverado Museum (now part of the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum), and Ellen Shaffer, the museumÕs curator. Shaffer also encouraged Wilson to contact the Beinecke Library, which housed a set of galley proofs of nine Stevenson poems that had not yet been published. Marjorie Wynne, a Beinecke research librarian, sent photocopies of the poems to Wilson so they could be included in the present work. In addition, Wynne suggested that Janet Adam Smith, a noted English scholar of Stevenson, write the introduction. In The Work and Play of Adrian Wilson, Wilson notes that the press mark, Òthe white painted wrought iron gate to our garden,Ó appears for the first time in the present work, printed on a green background above the colophon. Octavo. 114 pp. With nine full-page illustrations (including frontispiece), two tailpieces, and thirty-eight decorative initials, all printed in color. Adrian Wilson at the Press in Tuscany Alley with the assistance of Maria Poythress Epes, Jerry Reddan, Adriane Bosworth, and Myra Levy. Typeset by the Mackenzie-Harris Corporation in Centaur and Arrighi types and printed on a ColtÕs Armory press on Arches Laid Text. Bound by the Schuberth Bookbindery in green silk. A fine copy. One of five hundred copies, three hundred of which were bound by the Schuberth Bookbindery. The remaining two hundred copies were issued in folded gatherings for hand bookbinders. Signed on the colophon by Joyce Lancaster Wilson and Adrian Wilson. Adrian Wilson and Joyce Lancaster Wilson (1914 Ð 1996) were co-proprietors of the Press in Tuscany Alley. The couple printed books by Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and many others on presses including a ColtÕs Armory, a Vandercook, and a Kelly B. Adrian Wilson and Joyce Lancaster Wilson (1914 Ð 1996) were co-proprietors of the Press in Tuscany Alley. The couple printed books by Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and many others on presses including a ColtÕs Armory, a Vandercook, and a Kelly B. The Work and Play of Adrian Wilson, 182. Burgess, Charles. ÒJoyce Lancaster WilsonÓ (obituary). SF Gate (April 17, 1996).
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Stevenson, R.L.; JOYCE LANCASTER WILSON. A Child's Garden of Verses.. , 1978.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: STEVENSON, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses. 114, [4] pp. Illustrated throughout by Joyce Lancaster Wilson with 9 full-page woodcuts, 36 woodcut initials, and several woodcut vignettes of various sizes. 8vo., bound in recent half morocco. San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley, 1978. One of 500 copies, signed by the illustrator. Several poems by Stevenson are published here for the first time. Joyce Lancaster Wilson is responsible for creating this delightful book of vivid colours and felicitous images that work on a child's level but also appeal to adult readers. The book is a combination of colourful initials, vignettes and full-page plates, designed and printed by Joyce Lancaster Wilson and a skillfully printed text by her husband, the renowned San Franciscan scholar-printer Adrian Wilson, in Centaur and Arrighi types. Very fine condition.
Seller: Ursus Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.