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Lac des Pleurs. Report from Lake Pepin
by Schanilec, Gaylord
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
[Stockholm, WI]: Midnight Paper Sales, 2015. Edition limited to 119 copies, this being one of 100 bound in quarter leather over marbled paper-covered boards (19 copies remain in sheets); folio (approx. 15½" x 10¼"), pp. [6], 9-11, [1], 15-25, [1], 29-31, [1], 35-37, [1], 41-43, [1], 47-66, [5]; large folding wood-engraved map and 8 multi-color wood engravings on 7 sheets (5 folding, depicting pelicans, fish, and river scenes) inserted; 31 other zinc engravings of fish in the text; introduction by Patrick Coleman; title page and box label printed from specially made wood type based on tracings by Russell Maret from Aldus Manutius's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili; the binding is by Craig Jensen, Book Lab II, using hand-made marbled paper by Jemma Lewis based on photographs of wet stones along the shores of Lake Pepin. As new, at the published price, in the original leather-backed clamshell box with pelican label on the spine. Seven years in the making, this homage to Schanilec's second home, Lake Pepin - that great widening of the Mississippi River between St. Paul, Minnesota and La Crosse, Wisconsin - was his most ambitious project to date.
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- Bookseller
- Rulon-Miller Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46592
- Title
- Lac des Pleurs. Report from Lake Pepin
- Author
- Schanilec, Gaylord
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Midnight Paper Sales
- Place of Publication
- [Stockholm, WI]
- Date Published
- 2015
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Lake Pepin , Wisconsin , Fine Printing , Midnight Paper Sales
- Bookseller catalogs
- Minnesota;
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- Clamshell Box
- A protective box designed for storing and preserving a bound book or loose sheets. A clamshell box is hinged on one side, with...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- New
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- Folio
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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