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John O'Connor. Twins. Whittington Press, 1991.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: [14] pp., illustrated, 8vo, decorated paper over boards, paper spine label. Illustrated with 11 woodcut engravings by O'Connor. One of 350 copies (of which 105 copies were reserved for the special version of Matrix 11) printed on Zerkall cream smooth wove paper (although Butcher states that a "considerable" number were lost due to issues with printing the three-color engravings). Signed by O'Connor on the colophon page. Laid in is a manuscript note on Whittington Press notepaper from publisher-printer John Randle to an unidentified recipient. In it, mention is made of the death of "Alan," and plans for a "memorial volume with contributions from the poets he encouraged." This presumably refers to Cheltenham bookseller Alan Hancox and the volume "Poems for Alan Hancox" that Whittington published in 1993. Butcher, Whittington Press Bibliography 1982-93, 111. Fine copy.
Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Printed stiff paper wrappers in mylar protected dust-jacket. 248 pages; illustrated with 48 color plates, tip-ins which include marbling, hand-printed wallpaper, and a rare piece of Fijian Tapa paper, 12 pages of wood-engravings (including 6, 3-colour engravings). SIGNED by John and Rosalind Randle on copyright page. This edition of 955 copies is set in 12-point Caslon, Fournier and Romulus and 11-point Bell, and printed at Whittington on Sommerville, Zerkall and Tosa Butten papers. The plates are printed at CTD printers, and the line blocks made by Blinford Graphics. Contributions include, Drefus on the Reconstruction of the Lecture Given by Emery Walker on 15 November, 1888; Stephenson on Setting up a Monotype Workshop; Krimpen on Preparing Designs for Monotype; Stone on Compton Marbling and many others. A clean tight copy of arguably the finest periodical of the book arts of the twentieth century Size: Small Quarto
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$335.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback, quarter bound in morocco with marbled boards, with slipcase. 166pp. Illustrated with plates, samples and illustrations to text. First edition, printed in a limited edition of 955 copies, one copy number 47 of 105 specially bound copies. The wrapper for the softcover edition inserted in pocket to rear board. With it a separately bound copy with engravings of John O'Connor's Twins, signed by the artist. However lacking three of the tipped in items (p. 56, 57 & 60)
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom