Victor Hugo ; Judith Rothchild [artist]. Aux Etats-Unis D'Amerique. Verdigris Press, 2007.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Signed. First Edition. Extremely scarce. Number 4 of only 45 copies. SIGNED by Judith Rothchild with a gravure en maniere noire in separate binding. Contents NF, minor wear to slipcase ONLY. Concertina binding- two short accordion folds on each board, French on the left and English on the right. Brown marbled paper boards with blind-stamped title on front. Black cloth spine and fore-edges, paper spine label. Engraving protected in its own marbled folder boards (not bound in). Housed in a black clamshell case w/ paper label on spine and front. Minor bumping at edges of slipcase, one faint scuff on front. Otherwise VG.

Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.

Hugo, Victor. AUX ETATS-UNIS D'AMERIQUE. Verdigris, (Octon, France), 2007.

Price: US$840.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo. Brown marbled paper boards with the title blind-embossed on the front, black cloth spine and fore-edges, paper spine label, lighter brown marbled paper slipcase lined with black paper. (12) pages. Mezzotintes gravure by Judith Rothchild. One of 45 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. A fine copy in near fine slipcase. A scarce Artists' Book. Based on an open letter written by Victor Hugo on December 2, 1859, that was published by the press on both sides of the Atlantic, with a plea to the citizens of the American republic not to put to death the abolitionist John Brown. Judith Rothchild has taken the text of the letter, bound it leporello (concertina) style, with two short accordion folds on each board with the French language on the left and English on the right; in the middle is a masterful maniere noire (a form of aquatint) depicting the shackled feet of a hanged man. Printed on Rives BFK paper, the gravure on Hahnemuhle paper. There are six leaves on each side of the book, with the double-page gravure in the middle. Brown marbled paper boards with the title blind-embossed on the front, black cloth spine and fore-edges, paper spine label, lighter brown marbled paper slipcase lined with black paper

Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.