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johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since October 4, 2003
The Cork Edition, limited to 1,399 copies bound with a distinctive cork front flyleaf. "Written in 1937-38 in Paris, this book was penned without carbon & gifted as a long intimate book letter to the painter Hans Reichel," a founding member of the little group which grew up around Henry Miller, Anais Nin, and Alfred Perles in the Villa Seurat of Hollowed Memory. This award-winning small-press production is printed on handmade linweave spectra paper of various colors and bound in woven tissue-covered boards. Includes a tipped-in photograph of Miller by Ina Paulandre, a self portrait by Hans Reichel, and textual drawings and reproductions. The printed limitation sheet and a printed letter from the editors are laid in, along with a prospectus for Crucifix in a Deathhand by Charles Bukowski. Square octavo. Original stiff white cardstock boards, printed in blue on the front panel. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, with the publisher's green paper seal still in place and housed in the publisher's slipcase. Shifreen & Jackson A157c. Seller Inventory # 74008
Title: ORDER AND CHAOS CHEZ HANS REICHEL: ...
Publisher: Loujon Press, Tucson, Arizona
Publication Date: 1966
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Edition limited to 1524 copies, this being one of 1399 copies of the "Cork Edition," issue; 4to, original decorated paper boards, printed on multicolored hand-made paper, with the colophon printed on cork and the original dust-jacket and slipcase; fine copy. Illustrated throughout and with an original photo of Miller on the front pastedown by Ina Paulandre, a self portrait by Reichel, etc. "Written in 1937-38 in Paris, this book was penned without carbon & gifted as a long intimate book letter to the painter Hans Reichel who died in 1958". Seller Inventory # 21095