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NY The Guild of Book Workers, 1981. 1st ed., 1st ptg. 1500 copies. Softcover. VG. 8vo. Obl. 96pp. Illus. endpp. A beautiful collection of color and b/w photographs along w/ mini-biographies of the featured artists and descriptions of their books. Slight wear to extremeties; fading to spine, light scuffing to wraps.

New York: Random House, 1930. First edition thus, limited. Hardcover. Very Good+. Vojtéch Preissig. Folio (15.5"x12"). 25pp. Typographic paper-covered boards. Cold pressed paper, deckle edges. Soiled, foxed, lightly scuffed covers. Sun-darkened left margin of upper cover. Soiled topedge of textblock. Corners rubbed with boards exposed. Foxed endpapers & last blank leaves, pages toned. 3-color linoleum cuts, with tissue. Designed & illustrated by Vojtéch Preissig. Signed by Preissig & numbered 109 of 390 copies to colophon. Number 1 from the New Fine Book Series.

Tokyo, Japan: Toshi Yoshida, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. 8vo (9"x8"). Yamato binding with enclosed spine; decorative paper-covered boards with hand-printed pastedown title. Three corners bumped. Interior pages slightly bumped at top corner, small dent to foredge of textbock. Light wear to spine extremes. Foxing to title page, lightly toned plates. Cardboard slipcase with hand-printed pastedown title: toned, spotted, dented; 1" tear to top right corner. 20 hand-printed blocks interspersed with plates that list the paper, block, pigment, carving and printing process of each print along with a schematic for the print. Text in English. Signed by Yoshida in Japanese and English.