Yours Truly
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Seller: Fold the Corner Books, Milford, Surrey, United KingdomFold the Corner Books
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VAN SANDWYK, Charles Yours Truly Vancouver: The Fairy Press, [2021]Small 8vo., yellowy-green sewn card wraps with onlaid paper label showing an illustration of a nest with sails and paintbrushes; decorative borders in copper and brown; [unpaginated], bound gatefold at the centre portion, with three pages of calligraphic text, frontis self portrait and a further four full-colour illustrations, two within a smaller tipped-in booklet entitled ‘The Child Within’; fine, as issued. First edition, signed by van Sandwyk to the inside front cover. The book was issued in four variant colours. A wonderful, concise biography of Charles van Sandwyk, compiled by Kenneth Budd and Elaine Jones using the author’s own papers. It describes stories of van Sandwyk’s early life creating clay animals on the banks of African Rivers, his education in Canada, his experiences in a remote abode in Fiji, and what he has learned from his inner child. Many of his friends and colleagues are depicted in animalistic form in a charming illustration to the gatefold. “Life is very short; life is fleeting; but life is grand”.…
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- Yours Truly
Fold the Corner Books
Milford, Surrey, United Kingdom
Shipping rates from United Kingdom to U.S.A.
| Item | 14 to 45 business days | 5 to 10 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 4.10 | £ 8.85 |
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Store description
Founded in January 2023, Fold the Corner specialises in rare, beautiful, and eclectic books, letters and manuscripts from the 18th to 21st centuries. Areas of interest include Philosophy, Literature, Counterculture and Modern First Editions (from 1900 to the present day). I also work closely with the Canadian writer and illustrator Charles van Sandwyk, and carry a constant supply of his books, artworks and etchings, and am one of the few dealers in the UK to do so.
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Fold the Corner Books
Binghams, Culmer Lane
Wormley, Godalming, United Kingdom GU8 5SP
Terms of sale
Our registered address is:
31 Milford House
Portsmouth Road
Milford
Surrey
GU8 5HJ
UK, and we can be contacted at:
books@foldthecornerbooks.co.uk
and on:
07984338983
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