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Item Details
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| Author: |
Ciardi, John |
| Title: |
A Genesis |
| Place: |
New York |
| Publisher: |
Touchstone Publishers, Ltd. |
| Date: |
[1967] |
| Item # : |
114995 |
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| Sale Number |
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257 |
| Lot Number |
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14 |
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| Fine & Rare Books |
| Sale Date |
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02/10/2003 |
| Sale Time |
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1pm PST |
| Low Estimate |
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$ 500 |
| High Estimate |
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$ 800 |
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| Description: |
| Illustrated with 15 original etchings in color by Gabor Peterdi (Hungarian, born in 1915). (Folio) 20½x15, loose sheets (as issued), portfolio paper cover, housed in the publisher's gilt-lettered green cloth clamshell box. One of 100 copies printed on Arches paper by Leblanc and Fequet et Baudier. |
| Inscribed by the poet "For Gil [Gallagher] - in old friendship, though sometimes you go too far -- to Bimidji, for instance, John, Nov. 17, 1982" and signed by John Ciardi on title-page. Each of the 15 poems signed by the poet John Ciardi in ink and each of the original etchings signed by the artist Gabor Peterdi in pencil. A fine collaboration of original art and with the poetry of John Ciardi, the acclaimed translator of Dante's "Divine Comedy." Portfolio designed by Gabor Peterdi. |
| Condition: |
| Slight sunning to cloth box edges, light soiling; dark rubbing marks to rear paper portfolio; 1" darkening spot to the top of the rear sheet, else about fine in like box. |
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