Genesis
by Alter, Robert (translator)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine copy in cloth chemise and slipcase
- Seller
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Pittsford, New York, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Arion Press. Fine copy in cloth chemise and slipcase. 1996. 1st. softcover. Folio, Limited to 2000 numbered copies, signed by the translator, English text facing Hebrew text from Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (1967).Both texts printed by letterpress from photopolymer plates, in two colors, black and purple. The paper is handmade Prague, from the Velké Losiny mill in the Czech Republic. The intaglio printing for the frontispiece was done by the R. E. Townsend Studio, Georgetown, Massachusetts. The binding is non-adhesive, the sections hand sewn with linen thread into a heavy paper cover, purple Colombe, handmade at the Larroque et Pombié mill in France. The volume is presented in a chemise and slipcase covered in purple cloth. .
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- Bookseller
- Abacus Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS058861I
- Title
- Genesis
- Author
- Alter, Robert (translator)
- Illustrator
- Illus. by Michael Mazur
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy in cloth chemise and slipcase
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Arion Press
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1996
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- Illustrated Books;
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Pittsford, New York
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