ISBN: 9780692364048 - Fantasies & Hard Knocks: My Life as a Printer (7 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Later printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Clean content pages. Spine lean. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by the author on the half-title page, using only his first name. The binding is clean and tight with negligible shelf wear, a small shelf scuff to bottom of text block. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. xviii + 796 pp, embellished with over 450 images & 65 recipes. Recipes Index, General Index. 6.4" x 9.4" gray cloth boards, gilt spine letters, in unclipped illustrated DJ - acetate protected. 2.8" thick. Size: Large Thick Octavo. Signed by Author(s). Book.…

cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 795+(1) pages. Signed by the author on half title. Table of contents, preface, afterword, two appendices, acknowledgments, credits and permissions, recipes index, general index. Biographical sketch of the author on dust jacket. A memoir by one of the most noted handpress printers of the 20th century. Chronicles the author's work with his Plain Wrappers Press and the Ex Ophidia imprint. The work also includes many personal reflections and recollections. Frontispiece, and over 450 illustrations in text, as well as 65 recipes. Rummonds has worked closely with many of the most-admired and renowned authors and artists in the world, including authors Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Burgess, Italo Calvino, C.P. Cavafy, John Cheever, Brendan Gill, Dana Gioia, Luigi Santucci, Vittorio Sereni, Jack Spicer, Laure Vernière, and Paul Zweig, and artists Antonio Frasconi, Mirek, Ariel Parkinson, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Ruggero Savinio, Roger Seldon, Fulvio Testa, Joe Tilson, and Ger van Dijck. His memoir offers rare insights about their personal lives and his struggles when dealing with them. Between 1977 and 1982, Rummonds was joined at the press by Alessandro Zanella, a talented printer in his own right. Rummonds, the first openly gay handpress printer, is not bashful when talking about his personal life or his tempestuous relationships with his writers and artists, as well as his many lovers, which at times were happy and funny, risqué and absurd, sad and melancholy.…