Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Gardner, John. Vlemk the Box-Painter. Lord John Press, 1979.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Copy #283 of 300 numbered copies signed by the author. Slight fading to jacket spine. [6],138,[1]pp Illustrated by Catherine Kanner. Designed and printed by Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press.7 brown/white Illustrations.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. Vlemk the Box-Painter. Lord John Press, Northridge, California, 1979.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Cloth and decorated boards. #283/300, signed by Gardner. An excellent copy, nearly fine. The dust jacket is also nearly fine or better. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: Scott Emerson Books, ABAA, El Cajon, CA, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. Vlemk the Box Painter [SIGNED, 1st printing]. Lord John Press, 1979.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: SIGNED BY GARDNER. First edition (so stated), 1st printing. FINE (no names, bookplates, remainder marks, or writing of any kind, etc.), with FINE dust jacket which has $15.00 price intact. As new.
Seller: Agathon Books, Spokane, WA, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. Vlemk the Box-Painter. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1979. First Edition, 1979.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNEDand INSCRIBED by illustrator, Catherine Kanner. Octavo, fine in near fine dj. First edition. Brown linen boards with gilt signature on cover. An unusual, complex, adult fairy tale from the American John Gardner (there's a British one too). Six full page illustrations, plus frontispiece, printed in brown, by the designer and illustrator (and Design Director of the Los Angeles Ballet) Catherine Kanner (also the author/illustrator of "The Book of the Bath", 1985).
Seller: Virginia Martin, aka bookwitch, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
GARDNER, John. Vlemk: The Box Painter. Lord John Press, Northridge, 1979.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 138 p. 24 cm. Illustrated by Catherine Kanner. Signed on the title page by both author and illustrator. Brown cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Thin chips in edge of back cover.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Gardner, John. Vlemk, The Box-Painter. Lord John Press, Northridge, 1979.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. Signed/Limited Edition. Number 201 of 300 signed copies. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.
Seller: Cahill Rare Books, Mission Viejo, CA, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. Vlemk the Box-Painter. Lord John Press, Northridge, 1979.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by author on limitation page. Limited edition, #264/300. Book with slight foxing to endpages. Dust jacket mildly soiled. Spine slightly faded.
Seller: Eel River Books, McKinleyville, CA, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. VLEMK THE BOX-PAINTER. Lord John Press, Northridge, 1979.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first prnt. Illustrated by Catherine Kanner. Designed and printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press. The unnumbered/unsigbned issue. This copy has been signed by Gardner on the front free endpaper. Ffaint beginning foxing on the topedge (not immediately apparent); dustjacket corners just touched. Unread copy in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover.
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.
GARDNER, JOHN. VLEMK THE BOX PAINTER [SIGNED]. Lord John Press, Northridge, CA, 1979.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Number 4 of only 300 numbered copies printed. Signed by John Gardner on the colophon page. Quarter brown cloth titled in gilt with brown patterned paper covered boards. Pictorial dust jacket with some minor edge wear, now protected in an archival mylar cover.
Seller: RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA, CARLSBAD, CA, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. Vlemk the Box-Painter. Lord John Press, Northridge, CA, 1979.
Price: US$47.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 138 pages. First edition. Illustrated by Catherine Kanner. Designed and printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press. The story of the greatest box painter in the world and his love for a princess. Number 184 of 300 limited copies signed by Gardner on a special sheet at the beginning of the book. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Gardner, John; Catherine Kanner [Illustrator]. Vlemk the Box-Painter. Lord John Press, 1979.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Lord John Press, 1979; #208 of 300 First Editions signed by John Gardner on limitation page; brown patterned paper over brown cloth boards, gilt titling on spine; 138pp., illustrations by Catherine Kanner. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards very good, gilt titling remains bold and bright; illustrations and text also very good; light foxing to top edge of page block. Dust jacket spine lightly sunned, else DJ very good; inner flaps are blank, as issued with limited first edition. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. Vlemk the Box-Painter. Lord John Press, Northridge, CA, 1979.
Price: US$62.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 138 pages. First edition. Illustrated by Catherine Kanner. Designed and printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press. The story of the greatest box painter in the world and his love for a princess. One of 300 limited copies signed by Gardner on a special sheet at the beginning of the book. This one is not numbered but is designated as the Printer's copy. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy! .
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. Vlemk, the Box-Painter. Lord John Press, 1979.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: This is copy #247 of 300 issued. It is beautiful and in mint, unread condition.
Seller: Northmont Books and Stamps, Farmington Hills., MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, Original boards, fine in near fine dust jacket with the original price intact on the front flap. Warmly inscribed to his publisher: "To Herb (Yellin) with best wishes + thanks! John Gardner."
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
GARDNER, John.. Vlemk the Box Painter.. Northridge: Lord John Press,, 1979.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 138 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Illustrated with drawings by Catherine Kanner. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Gardner.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
GARDNER, John.. Vlemk the Box - Painter.. Lord John Press, Northridge, 1979.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 138 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed boards in dust jacket. First edition; No. 11 of 300 copies signed by Gardner. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. Vlemk the Box-Painter. Lord John Press, Northridge, CA, 1979.
Price: US$77.50 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 138 pages. First edition. Illustrated by Catherine Kanner. Designed and printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press. The story of the greatest box painter in the world and his love for a princess. Signed by Gardner & Kanner on the title page. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
John Gardner. Vlemk the Box-Painter (signed). Lord John Press, 1979.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, presentation copy. Signed by John Gardner. Gardner has also done an original sketch of Vlemk on the flyleaf following the FFEP and signed it JG. Quarter cloth with patterned boards. The book is fine but the DJ has very light wear on the bottom and a tear at the top of the spine. This copy comes from the publisher of Lord John Press, Herb Yellin. See photos. All books are in my possession and ship in securely packed cardboard boxes.
Seller: Nightshade Booksellers, IOBA member, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
gardner, john. vlemk the box-painter. Lord John Press, Northridge, 1979.
Price: US$89.95 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: This is an As New copy of the Signed and Limited(#285 0f 300cc)First Edition. Signed on the Limitation Page by John Gardner.
Seller: Nilbog Books, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. Vlemk The Box-Painter. Lord John Press, Northridge, CA, 1979.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Catherine Kanner. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed on first free end paper. Stated First Edition.
Seller: Lyons Fine Books, Neenah, WI, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. Vlemk: The Box-Painter (Signed and Limited). Lord John Press, Northridge, 1979.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: Fine in dust jacket showing slight wear to corners and top and bottom spine, protected by mylar jacket. Limited and signed by Gardner (#41/300). Brown cloth quarter binding with decorative papers in two shades of brown.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. Vlemk the Box-Painter. Lord John Press, Northridge, California, 1979.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: INSCRIBED COPY First edition. Tall, thin octavo. Illustrations, printed in brown, by Catherine Kanner. Gilt stamped brown cloth, dark brown endpapers. Dust jacket (unclipped). Fine. 138 pages. Signed and inscribed by Gardner on leaf before halftone: "For Hugh Mullins with regards and best wishes - Los Angeles, March 14, 1981."
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. Vlemk The Box Painter. Lord John Press, Northridge, 1979.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first edition, one of three hundred signed and limited copies. This is copy number 149, signed by John Gardner. Published by Lord John Press in 1979. ( also printed in a leather bound issue of 100 copies. ) A fine example of the book. The dust jacket is near fine with a one half inch tear to upper rear panel and faint rubbing to the extremities. Vlemk, in this cataloger's view, represents the most wondrous display of Gardner's inestimable skills.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
John Gardner. Vlemk The Box-Painter. Lord John Press, Northridge, 1979.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in Near Fine DJ. Signed Limited Edition. Limitation page reads: Of the first edition of VLEMK, THE BOX-PAINTER three hundred copies have been printed on special paper and specially bound.and one hundred copies, each with an original drawing by John Gardner, have been bound in leather. All copies have been signed by the author and numbered. This is the presentation copy (as stated on the limitation page. It is signed by Gardner and includes the original drawing, but is bound in the regular binding and not in the leather.
Seller: Courtside Books, Medford, NJ, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. VLEMK THE BOX-PAINTER. Lord John Press, Northridge, CA, 1979.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Edgewear. ; 138 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Gibson's Books, New Hope, AL, U.S.A.
GARDNER, John. Vlemk: The Box Painter (Signed). Lord John Press, Northridge, CA, 1979.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Softcover. Advance proof. A book from the author of the classic "Grendel." Illustrations by Catherine Kanner. A very near fine copy in brown printed wrappers. Signed by Gardner and Kanner on the title page.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. Original boards, fine, in very good plus dust jacket lacking any printed on the flaps. Publisher's copy. SIGNED by John Gardner on the colophon page. On the second free endpaper, Gardner has drawn a picture of an old man holding a book and he has signed it "JG." Very scarce thus.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. Original full red leather, fine. One of 100 copies bound thus, this is copy number "1." The publisher's retained copy number 1 for himself. SIGNED with a drawing by John Gardner. Illlustrations by Catherine Kanner. Unique.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Gardner, John.. VLEMK THE BOX MAKER.. LORD JOHN PRESS., NORTHRIDGE, 1979.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of an overrun of the limited edition of 300, which is SIGNED by John Gardner on the colophon, but is unnumbered. Fine in a fine dj. (Couple of slight hints of shelfwear at edges of dj.)
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. Vlemk The Box-Painter. Lord John Press, Northridge, 1979.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 138 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Illustrated by Catherine Kanner, and signed by her on the title page. Also signed by John Gardner on free endpaper with a portrait of the main character. Book in Aldus type by Hermann Zapf. As new copy. Orig. brown cloth with author signature in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Gardner, John (1933-1982). Vlemk the Box-Painter. Lord John Press, Northridge, 1979.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Catherine Kanner. First trade edition. Illustrations by Catherine Kanner throughout. 138, [2] pp. Designed and printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press. 8vo. INSCRIBED. Inscribed "To Dennis Tynell Best, John Gardner." Brown cloth, inscribed by the author. Fine in a near-fine dust jacket Illustrations by Catherine Kanner throughout. 138, [2] pp. Designed and printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. Vlemk the Box-Painter. Lord John Press, Northridge, CA, 1979.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 138 pages. First limited edition, one (76) of 100 copies signed by Gardner on the limitation page with his ink sketch and his initials on flyleaf. Illustrated by Catherine Kanner. Designed and printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press. The story of the greatest box painter in the world and his love for a princess. Signed by Gardner & Kanner on the title page. As new book in in full red leather binding in a fine clear acetate dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
GARDNER, JOHN.. VLEMK THE BOX-PAINTER. Lord John Press, Northridge, 1979.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is #92/100 limited edition, SIGNED AND WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING by the author. This is a clean and crisp copy. Front cover and spine lettered in gilt. 138pp. Size: Octavo
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. Vlemk the Box-Painter - Signed Limited Edition. Lord John Press, 1979.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: The special edition bound in leather and limited to 100 copies, each signed by the author and bearing a sketch by Gardner at flyleaf. #88 of 100 signed, limited, numbered copies. 138 pages in red leather. No jacket, as issued. Clean and bright, like new/fine. Beautifully illustrated throughout by Catherine Kanner.
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
GARDNER, John. VLEMK THE BOX PAINTER. Lord John Press, Northridge, CA, 1979.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 100 signed copies with a sketch by John Gardner bound in after the colored fly leaf. Slightly rubbed leather-bound cover, else fine.
Seller: Euclid Books, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. Copy 44 from the deluxe limited edition of 100 numbered copies. Includes an original drawing by Gardner. A fine copy in full leather binding. Signed by Gardner on the limitation page. An attractive edition from the author of the classic "Grendel."
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. VLEMK THE BOX PAINTER. Signed. Lord John Press, 1979, Northridge, 1979.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition Signed by Gardner. Number 262 of 300 numbered copies. A fine copy in the publisher's 1/4 brown cloth over brown patterned paper covered boards, gilt titles to the spine in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. Superb illustratrations by Catherine Kanner. 8vo. 138 pp. An "almost" fairytale imbued with Gardner's aesthetics and humour about a Jewish artist and non-Jewish princess.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
GARDNER, John. Vlemk, The Box Painter [Signed, Limited]. Lord John Press, Northridge, 1979.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: Number 58 of 100 numbered, signed copies with an original full-page drawing by Gardner. Octavo (24cm); red morocco boards, stamped in gilt on spine; acetate jacket; 138 pp. Fine in a Near Fine jacket.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Leatherbound Signed Edition with Drawing, #47 of 100; Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 138 pages; Limited 1st edition, one of the first 100 signed and numbered copies with an original full-page drawing by Gardner. Bound in full leather with gilt to cover and title in blind to spine. Superb copy; bright tight and fresh. Numer 47 of 100. Fine. Letterpress printed on Curtis rag Whitewove. Plates made and printed by Grant Dahlstrom, The Castle Press. Binding designed by Grant Dahlstrom. ; Signed by Author
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. VLEMK: The Box-Painter. Lord John Press, Northridge, 1979.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. There were 300 SIGNED, numbered copies and 100 which also included an original drawing by the author. This copy states, "This is a presentation copy," is signed by Gardner and has a drawing of Vlemk on blank before colophon page drawn and initialled by Gardner. Fine in dust jacket with slight edge wear, one tiny closed tear and minor chipping on corners.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.