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First Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author. Faludy, Kinsella, Smart, McWhirter, et al. TANKS ARE A MIGHTY FINE THING. The Subscriber's Edition. Vancouver: William Hoffer/Tanks, 1987, limited edition. [4to, Seven various coloured stiff wrappers] A fine complete set in the original custom blue linen slipcase with TANKS at the crown. Five books & Two handprinted portfolios. Variously paginated & Illustrated. The edition number 75 of 150 stated [although probably fewer than 85 copies were completed] each part & each original lithograph with the same number. Tanks 1.1 - Marius Kociejowski "The Machine Minders"; Tanks 1.2 - W.P. Kinsella "Five Stories" (Numbered & Signed), Tanks 1.3 - Norm Sibum "Eight Poems" (Numbered & Signed); Tanks 1.4 - Gyorgy Faludy "Corpses, Brats and Cricket Music" (Signed & Numbered with a signed handcoloured lithograph by Herbert Siebner); Tanks 1.5 - Elizabeth Smart "Autobiographies" (Numbered); Tanks 1.6 - Glenn Golouska's elegant typographic 'essay': El Lissitzky, "The Topography of Typography", handprinted at the Nightshade Press, and Tanks 1.7 - George McWhirter "The Voyeur and the Countess Wielopolska" (Signed) with two signed lithographs by Dianne Ostoich also handprinted at the Nightshade Press. Hoffer's most tenacious publishing venture. Woodsworth A51. Seller Inventory # 32092
Title: TANKS ARE A MIGHTY FINE THING. The ...
Publisher: William Hoffer/Tanks, Vancouver
Publication Date: 1987
Binding: Soft cover
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First Edition.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author. Faludy, Kinsella, Smart, McWhirter, et al. TANKS ARE A MIGHTY FINE THING. The Subscriber's Edition. Vancouver: William Hoffer/Tanks, 1987, Limited edition. [4to, Seven various coloured stiff wrappers] A fine complete set in the original custom blue linen slipcase with TANKS at the crown. Five books & Two handprinted portfolios. Variously paginated & Illustrated. The edition number 75 of 150 stated [although probably fewer than 85 copies were completed] each part & each original lithograph with the same number. Tanks 1.1 - Marius Kociejowski "The Machine Minders"; Tanks 1.2 - W.P. Kinsella "Five Stories" (Numbered & Signed), Tanks 1.3 - Norm Sibum "Eight Poems" (Numbered & Signed); Tanks 1.4 - Gyorgy Faludy "Corpses, Brats and Cricket Music" (Signed & Numbered with a signed handcoloured lithograph by Herbert Siebner); Tanks 1.5 - Elizabeth Smart "Autobiographies" (Numbered); Tanks 1.6 - Glenn Golouska's elegant typographic 'essay': El Lissitzky, "The Topography of Typography", handprinted at the Nightshade Press, and Tanks 1.7 - George McWhirter "The Voyeur and the Countess Wielopolska" (Signed) with two signed lithographs by Dianne Ostoich also handprinted at the Nightshade Press. Hoffer's most tenacious publishing venture. Woodsworth A51. Seller Inventory # 34035
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