From the fable cyle The Book of the Unknown, this edition was writtten, illustrated and designed by Jonathon Keats, and published by Modernism Inc, San Francisco, for the juday L. Magnes Museum, in a singed edition of 1,000 copies. First paragraph: When the scholar Meir lost his wife of twenty years, he did not hire the town matchmaker to find him another. Instead he collected mud from the bed of a river, hauled it home, and sculpted it into a girl on the floor of his cellar.
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Seller: Henry Hollander, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo in dust jacket, 36 pp., b/w line drawings Copy 628 of 1000, initialed by the author. Seller Inventory # 52628
Seller: Miki Store, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is good. Binding is tight/good. Seller Inventory # wa-pa37
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Hard cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Jacket has some faint stains and spots but mostly looks nice. Cover has a spot and a small dent that broke through to the board. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. Seller Inventory # 1129709
Seller: Munster & Company LLC, ABAA/ILAB, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited, Numbered. San Francisco: Modernism Inc. for the Judah L. Magnes Museum, 2006. Unpaginated. 21 x 16 cm. Pink paper covered boards with black and red titling to cover and spine, in a dustjacket printed pink with black and red titling to cover and spine; printed in an edition of 1,000 copies and signed by the author, this is copy 571. Some faint rubbing and light soil to panels of jacket, with a few small nicks to the head and tail of the jacket's panels. Jacket is now protected in a mylar cover. Very light rubbing to spine ends of book. Book has been signed and numbered on limitation page by Keats, and is otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding firm. . Signed by Author. Limited, Numbered. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Seller Inventory # 627188
Seller: Fox & Hedgehog, Moraga, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. B&W illustrations by the author (illustrator). Signed & numbered limited edition. Paper-covered boards, in dustjacket. [40] p. Number 886 of an edition of 1000. Numbered, and signed by Keats on the colophon page; pencil marks corner front flyleaf, else no other marks. A beautiful copy, nearly as new. Just a little wear at spine ends; no other defects. Tight binding, intact hinges, spine a little off square in what looks like a binder's defect (i.e. not from use). Unclipped dustjacket practically perfect, with slightest creasing at top edge. Seller Inventory # 1901