Buy this book on-line KATHERINE ANNE PORTER : French Song-Book. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, INSCRIBED)Harrison of Paris, 1933
First edition, limited to 595 numbered copies printed on Van Gelder pure-rag paper and signed by the author, this being #286 and with an additional presentation inscription from the book's publisher and designer Monroe Wheeler to the noted Britain art historian Edgar Wind and his wife: "To Margaret and Edgar [Wind] with love and a happy Christman from Monroe [Wheeler], 1948". (In 1942 Wheeler, then Exhibition Director of the Museum of Modern Art, invited Wind to deliver a series of pioneering and occasionally somewhat controversial lectures at the museum). 4to. 78pp. Buckram-backed paper-covered boards with vellum tips, lettered in gold at the spine. The buckram at the backstrip very lightly faded, and with some light surface marking to the rear board. A number of leaves uncut at the fore edge margin. Very good indeed. No dust wrapper. Seventeen French songs, each with an introduction by the author who also provides an English-language translation alongside the original French lyrics, accompanied with music drawn by Paul Koch. Four-page folding pre-publication prospectus laid-in. A super association copy of the twelfth and penultimate book published by Harrison of Paris, the publishing house founded in 1930 by Monroe Wheeler and Barbara Harrison Wescott.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: No Jacket Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of KATHERINE ANNE PORTER : French Song-Book. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, INSCRIBED). Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including collectables, libri rari, out of print books, livres d'occasion and incunabula. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |