Nykamp William (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Copy #A.P. (Advance Printing) of limited edition of 60 copies, SIGNED on limitation page in pencil by Norman Earl Tanis. Original card in envelope laid in announcing this edition. First edition designed, printed, and bound by D'Ambrosio on Johannot paper with a Vandercook proof press, under the direction of Norman E. Tanis, Director of Libraries, California State University, Northridge. Near Fine, French marbled paper and "hinged" black skiver leather over plastic rods and archival boards with oval shaped diecut center front with 23K gilt cast paper flame or sun design, one "arm" of the flame design is cracked but lays neatly in place whether case is closed or open, same marbled paper endpapers, title page also has gilt cutout design.printed in two colors with three signed (each is signed in pencil "D'Ambrosio '87 A.P.) wood block prints; one of Thomas Jefferson as he appeared in 1800, another of Thomas Paine, and the third is a church with a red "seeing eye" sunset over it. A unique binding on a book concerning Thomas Paine's Age of Reason Enlightenment philosophy and the heated conflict with the New England Congregational clery, and the political repercussions evolved into the separation of church and state endorsed by Jefferson. Signed by Author(s).

(D'AMBROSIO) NYKAMP, William. THE TWILIGHT OF ORTHODOXY IN NEW ENGLAND. Northbridge, California: Santa Susana Press, 1987. 8vo. Quarter-leather (v), pages. No. 3 of 60 copies. A most unusual experimental binding with a gilt inset of flames set in tradit marbled boards. The flame device is repeated as a die-cut on the title page. The book is illustrated with full-page woodcut portraits of Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine (two New Englanders?) and other woodcut illustrations. It is a most curious production for a text devoted to the birth of American religious traditionalism, designed by one of our most iconoclastic contemporary book artists. Fine.