Plain Wrapper Press Gill Brendan (4 results)
More imagesPublished by Plain Wrapper Press, Verona, 1980
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerpaper-covered boards. 4to. paper-covered boards. 7+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 155 numbered and signed copies. (Plain Wrappers Press 29). Foot of spine bumped, else a fine copy with errata sheet inserted apologizing for the error on the colophon page. Five poems in English by Brendan Gill. Two of the poems, "Ferr…agosto" and "Norfolk," were written especially for this edition. "Easter" was previously published in Harper's magazine, and "In Wicklow" and "Voices" previously appeared in The New Yorker. Toned parchment substitute wove paper printed damp on a Washington handpress in black and light brown. Covers are glued boards covered with matching Ingres paper screenprinted in black and yellow with a leaf-and-berry pattern. Plain Wrapper Press (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by Plain Wrapper Press, Verona, 1980
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerpaper-covered boards. 4to. paper-covered boards. 7+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 155 numbered and signed copies. (Plain Wrappers Press 29). Neat private bookplate of John Carroll Collins on front pastedown. A fine copy with errata sheet inserted apologizing for the error on the colophon page. Five poems in English…by Brendan Gill. Two of the poems, "Ferragosto" and "Norfolk," were written especially for this edition. "Easter" was previously published in Harper's magazine, and "In Wicklow" and "Voices" previously appeared in The New Yorker. Toned parchment substitute wove paper printed damp on a Washington handpress in black and light brown. Covers are glued boards covered with matching Ingres paper screenprinted in black and yellow with a leaf-and-berry pattern. Plain Wrapper Press (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by Plain Wrapper Press, Verona, 1980
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerpaper-covered boards. 4to. paper-covered boards. 7+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 155 numbered and signed copies. (Plain Wrappers Press 29). A fine copy with errata sheet inserted apologizing for the error on the colophon page. Five poems in English by Brendan Gill. Two of the poems, "Ferragosto" and "Norfolk," were… written especially for this edition. "Easter" was previously published in Harper's magazine, and "In Wicklow" and "Voices" previously appeared in The New Yorker. Toned parchment substitute wove paper printed damp on a Washington handpress in black and light brown. Covers are glued boards covered with matching Ingres paper screenprinted in black and yellow with a leaf-and-berry pattern. Plain Wrapper Press (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by Plain Wrapper Press, 1980
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United KingdomBlackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used
£ 210.00
£ 25.00 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketFIRST EDITION, 118/155 COPIES signed by the author, printed on handmade paper, title-page vignette and the title to each poem printed in brown, errata leaf laid in at colophon (wherein the unidentified erratum), pp. 7, 4to, original sewn boards of brown and ochre patterned paper, inset label to upper board, edges untrimmed, fine… condition. Poems collected for the first time here; Gill was a US journalist, known for his work - particularly as a critic of film and architecture - at the New Yorker.
