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Bookplate.

by Atwood (Margaret)

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About This Item

A printed bookplate, 3X4 inches, illustration printed in red and text in black. The illustration, with 'Margaret Atwood' printed beneath, is of a peacock with a human female torso, topless. Lettering is, above: EX LIBRIS and below: Ars Longa, Vita Brevis. Condition is fine. We have several copies available. The Latin epigram, translated by Seneca from a phrase by Hippocrates, means: Life is Short, Art is Forever. The Art referred to by Hippocrates was that of medicine. The quote is often misattributed to Horace. It is used in Atwood's novel ORYX AND CRAKE, with which this bookplate is surely somehow associated; perhaps a promotional item?

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Bookseller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
54008
Title
Bookplate.
Author
Atwood (Margaret)
Book Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
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Canlit;

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William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop

Prices are in US Dollars. Books are guaranteed to be as described. Books may be returned within a reasonable length of time. Paypal Payments are made to: bill@rainbownorth.com

About the Seller

William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop

Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Biblio member since 2004
Sidney, British Columbia

About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop

Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.

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Bookplate
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