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The Love Poems of Irving Layton; With Five Original Lithographs by Graham Coughtry
by Layton, Irving
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- Condition
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- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Canadian Fine Editions, 1978. Leather Bound. lithographs. p. 101. Large 4to. Bound in full brown suede, with the title stamped in gilt to the front board, over and under a smaller reproduction of one of the artist's lithographs, which has been tabbed to the board. All edges gilt. Each page of the text printed on an uncut quarto sheet. Each of the five tipped-in lithographs are hand-numbered and signed by the artist. Spine shows a bit of sunning. Small (one inch) 'ghost' of tape (?) to lower left of rear board, causing darkening to the suede. Pastedown to front board shows a touch of soiling. Binding otherwise tight and in very good condition. Contents pristine. A magnificent copy. Printed in 1978 in three editions: an unremarkable trade edition, a limited edition of two hundred copies, signed by author and artist, and bound in quarter suede and brown cloth, and this extraordinary - very special - edition, limited to thirty copies of which this is copy number 23, signed by both Layton and Coughtry at the colophon.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9900040767
- Title
- The Love Poems of Irving Layton; With Five Original Lithographs by Graham Coughtry
- Author
- Layton, Irving
- Illustrator
- lithographs
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Canadian Fine Editions
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Bindings; CanLit
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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- Edges
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- Tight
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Colophon
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- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
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