Thomas cornell illustrator (2 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Softcover. Scarce. One of 100 copies inscribed by the printer to the illustrator. This third work from the Tragos Press purports to be a May, 1961 letter from Benjamin F. Kersey, a private in the Maine Volunteers during the Civil War who died of diphtheria later that year. It is addressed to Aaron Tarr of Alna, Maine, recounting his experiences as a member of the Maine Volunteers. Handset by John Welwood and with three striking black and brown text illustrations by Maine artist, Thomas Cornell. In gray paper covers with black and white title label to front cover. There are 10 pages on folded double leaves. Slight wrinkling and small bumps to covers with a small light brown stain at the bottom of the rear cover. Very good condition. Measures 4.5 x 6 inches. PRI/013124. Signed.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Edited & translated with an essay on Babeuf by John Anthony Scott, with 21 etched portraits by Thomas Cornell. Loose as issued in unbound and uncut signatures, in full leather portfolio, limited to 300 copies, with and additional suite of etchings signed and numbered, in cloth portfolio, limited to an edition of 50. Sets 1 through 50 have the additional suite of prints all signed, titled and dated in pencil. This is set 34 identified on the colophon page and the additional suite of prints all numbered 34/50. Colophon page woodcut by Leonard Baskin. Quarto loose uncut signatures in a leather cover housed in a beige portfolio. The etchings in the text are printed on blue Fabriano laid paper, and laid into the text. The additional suite of prints is quarto in a separate matching beige portfolio. Housed overall in a beige cloth clam shell box with a leather spine. Overall excellent condition, minor wear on the outer clam shell box. Inventory #4937-1. This book requires special handling in shipping. From the colophon: "Three hundred copies of this book were printed at the Gehenna Press in Northhampton, Mass., the work finished during March 1964. The type throughout is Baskerville, The paper is Nideggen made in Germany. Harold McGrath was the pressman. The suite of etchings were printed by Emiliano Sorini in New York. . .".…