Perishable Press Olson Toby (6 results)

Condition: Good. Prospectus. 8vo. Single Folded Sheet (4 pp.), Deckled Edge, Very Good. Illustrated.This is the Prospectus for a book, not the book itself.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine binding. Octavo. [32] pp. Limited edition, number 36 of 200 copies, only 140 of which were for sale. Signed by Olson under the dedication. As issued in navy blue cloth over flexible boards; illustrated vignette by Jack Beal stamped in gold on the front cover. Spine is trivially sunned, barely perceptible, otherwise, a very clean, fresh copy. Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 28. The second of several collaborations between Hamady and the poet and novelist, Toby Olson who would go on to win the PEN/Faulkner for Fiction for his novel Seaview.…

Original Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine binding. 16mo. [16] pp., illus. Limited edition, one of 145 copies. Printer's graphically fantastic inscription on the front free endpaper. As issued, sewn into marbled paper wrappers; two remarkably intricate illustrations by Laird that have limited hand-tinting by Walter Hamady with colored pencil. Quite a lovely issue from the Perishable Press. Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 76.…

8vo. stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 140 copies (Hamady 96). A fine copy. Illustrations by John Digby. A collection of poetry. stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut. Perishable Press (illustrator).

Condition: Very fine copy. 4to, cloth & paper wrappers with original print on verso, real fishing fly on front cover. Very fine copy. First edition. One of only 50 copies printed on Shadwell and signed by the artist. "The cover is six vertical scraps of variegated Shadwell randomly zig-zagged together with the text block sewed to one end of the blank side. The cover is then folded under and around the text block with a real fishing fly affixed to the cover. . . . Needless to say this is/was a bibliographer's nightmare about which many letters were received." Hamady 63. Printers' Choice, 68. In our experience, the rarest publication of the Perishable Press.…

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo, unpag., wrappers. One of of 144 press-numbered copies (#109), the entire edition signed by Olson. A couple of scarcely detectable marks; near fine.