Buy this book on-line MELVILLE, HERMAN: : THREE STORIESLONDON.THE FOLIO SOCIETY,1967. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+slipcase,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn.Blue cloth with dark blue ink stamped and printed pictorial wrap- around design boards with stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain slate-grey endpapers and no sign of shelf- wear to edges or corners.One tiny coloured spot to upper board - production fault? Top edge coloured,fore-edge bright and clean with ageing and no foxing.Contents bright,tight and pristine.Blue paper-covered card slipcase with little or no shelf-wear or rubbing to edges apart from both head+foot of front facing edges having a small split.Set in 11 point Monotype Bulmer Leaded 2 points.UK,8vo HB+ s/case,1st thus,1-210pp includes intro,8 full-page b/w wood-engravings by Garrick Palmer,all called for.Three stories include: Bartleby,Benito Cereno and Billy Budd.The text of Billy Budd is reprinted from that edited by Frederick Barron Freeman and corrected by Elizabeth Freeman,published by the Harvard University Press,1948,1956 by permission of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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Garrick S.Palmer,b.1913 Portsmouth, Hampshire.Studied at Portsmouth College of Art and Design (1951-5) and at the Royal Academy Schools (1955-9); awarded David Murray landscape scholarships (1955-7), Leverhulme scholarship (1957),Royal Academy gold medal and the Edward Scott travelling scholarship (1958).Head of the Foundation department at Winchester School of Art since 1964.
Painter,lithographer,wood engraver and photographer.For book illustrations he uses wood engravings,sometimes with a second colour (as in The Destruction of the Jews,1971) to create rich,dramatic effects.He later illustrated another edition of Benito Cereno,in 1972.
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