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Lunenburg, Vermont: The Stinehour Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1963. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Letters written from France and England in 1960, these describe John R. Nash's encounters and visits with engravers, book printers, and job printers in their own establishments. They form an engaging essay with sufficient detail to interest those who appreciate private press work and the personalities behind that. Nash was the former graphic arts Professor and long-time mentor of Rocky Stinehour. Has Nash's 6 ink line drawings of the people and equipment in their shops. This book is a 1963 Christmas keepsake for friends of the Press. Bound in stiff, orange, laid paper wraps. Printed fully justified in an unspecified Monotype face. This is a clean, crisp Fine copy. ; Ink line drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 27 [1] pages .

Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1984. Softcover. Spine is sunned, typical of this edition, and the edges of wraps a bit less so.; A concise, well-written history of the life and career of Thomas R. Reding (1807-1852), a stonecutter of gravestones in Indiana. Initially a cabinetmaker, then a saddle maker, he found his calling as a stonecutter, essentially a folk artist, cutting gravestones in several Indiana counties. Includes 39 monochrome photographs that illustrate the evolution of his style. In four sections: I, Thomas Reding: Beginnings; II, The Carvings; III, Epilogue; IV, Finding Thomas Reding. Line drawn map with a table of the locations of cemeteries with Reding's stonework. Includes a 12 pages directional guide to the cemeteries. Bibliography of primary and secondary sources for this book. Acknowledgements. In pale green wraps with illustrated front cover. Includes ephemera: c.1985-1990 Indianapolis Star (IN) newspaper clippings… Read More

London: Fulcrum Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1969. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Three short stories in Jeff Nuttall's 'cut up' style, written as if he had three piles of jagged, unrelated sentences that were put together with a sense of order. Reading like free verse compressed into prose, sometimes described as 'prose music,' assembling these piles resulted in the stories The Rain, The Train, and The Coast. Example: "George Gland, ritually, in deference to his being in the light, his weight against the water, his mounting inner density of indigestion and bladderpressure, soaped the minnow and smiled thin silibant against the doorstep -- water afternoon and tidal wattage." Copy 52 of a limited edition of 75. Numbered "52/75" and signed by the author, both on the limitation page. Preface by William S. Burroughs who appreciated Nuttall's avant-garde approach to poetry. An artistic polymath, Jeffrey Addison… Read More