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A Wedding Morn.

Kaye- Smith, Sheila.

London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928. One of 530 numbered and signed copies. Bound by Terry Rutherford in a three piece case with goat spine, goat onlays and paste paper covered boards. Graphite head. Paste paper covered slipcase. ... more info

Price: $675.00

Bindings.

Tarlau, Jill Oriane.

Privately printed: 2011. Cloth, new in dust jacket. 564 pp. Handsomely designed (by Sarah Fey) and printed. Master bookbinder Jill Oriane Tarlau turned to writing fiction. This novel surveys the fascinating art of French bookbinding. Six characters are described through the eyes of an American whose narration is distorted by severe cultural bias: Agnès Quesnel struggles to save an obscure Parisian library; Jacques de Vignet is an artist, a genius. Carl Cranach is a ruthlessly competitive and acquisitive collector. Claude Gervais is a middling bookbinder from whom the American takes classes. Alain Couvray creates livres d'artiste which deserve elaborate binding. Gérald Meyer specialized... more info

Price: $125.00

Elegy.

West, Rebecca.

New York: Phoenix Book Shop, 1930. One of 250 numbered and signed copies. Bound by Terry Rutherford in paste paper covered boards, goatskin spine and corners, paper label, decorated paper slipcase. Fine. ... more info

Price: $650.00

Entropion.: 35 eaux-fortes de Abdallah Benanteur

[Benanteur, Abdallah]. Boucher, Monique.

Paris: Collection Charef, 1975. One of 20 copies, signed by author and artist; with a long inscription from the author. 5 x 5 3/4 in. (127 x 140 cm). 58 decorated text pages and 35 etchings. Bound by Jill Oriane Tarlau in dark olive morocco, with onlays built of board, leather, and decorated paper. Spine lettered in red. Suede lined chemise and slipcase. Perfect condition. ... more info

Price: $1,500.00

Kickshaws' Tutti Frutti.: Concocted by John Crombie. Designed and Printed by Sheila Crombie

Crombie, John.

Paris: Kickshaws, 1987. One of 65 copies, numbered and signed, printed on Arches paper, in various colored inks. A selection of tasty fruit mixtures, brightly illustrated. Bound by Jill Oriane Tarlau in purple box calf, with onlays and inlays of various colored box, mosaic lettering. Traycase with matching leather edges and decorated paper. ... more info

Price: $1,500.00

Le Lit La Table.

Eluard, Paul.

Geneva: Editions des Trois Collines, (1944). First edition, a numbered copy on vergé paper. Bound by Joanne Sonnichsen, a coptic-style binding, utilizing the most ancient structure as an experimental modern binding, with her own paste-paper boards, the bottom edges strengthened with leather strips, onlays of dyed vellum, top edge sprinkled, decorated paper endsheets, clamshell box. The binding was made for an exhibition at the Museé de la Reliure in Granville (France) in 1997. The binder's article about her experiments with the coptic structure, "Playing with Structure: A 4th-Century Form for a 20th-Century Binding,"appears in Bookways: A Quarterly for the Book Arts, Nos. 13 & 14, October... more info

Price: $2,000.00