Condition: Very good plus. First Edition. Signed limited first edition in English of these short prose vignettes about masturbation, illustrated with lithographs by Clemente. These intimate and playful vignettes were originally published in Marie Chaix's French translation, PLAISIRS SINGULIERS (1983). 9.5'' x 7''. Original black cloth with red and gilt spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. Patterned taupe endpapers. Red ribbon marker. Illustrated in black and white. Handbound by Claudia Cohen. Signed by Mathews and Clemente on limitation page. Limited to an edition of 350 copies; this copy no. 17. Unpaginated. Trace edgewear, spine sunned. Text clean and bright. Signed.
Published by grenfell press, New York, 1988
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
hardcover. Condition: fine. Limited Edition. 62 original lithographs by Clemente printed on double fold sheets of Gampi and Kozo papers. 8vo, black cloth with red spine label, bound by hand by Cynthia Cohen. New York: Grenfell Press, (1988). First edition in English. Prose vignettes concerning masturbation. Number 74 of 324 copies signed by both Mathews and Clemente. Fine.
Published by The Grenfell Press, 1988
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Clemente, Francesco (illustrator). First edition. One of 26 specially bound copies containing a signed original watercolor. From an edition of 350 copies, signed by author and artist, 152 pages, 67 duotone lithographs by Clemente accompanying Mathews's text. Printed on Kozo/Gampi. The lithographs were printed by Joe Petruzzelli and Maurice Sanchez, the type cast and set by Michael Bixler. Full leather binding by Claudia Cohen.