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CROSBY, Caresse. Graven Images. Boston and New York: The Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. 8° (189 x 130mm). Original blue boards, dustwrapper (front free endpaper a little browned, dustwrapper slightly faded on spine). Provenance: The Old Corner Book Store, Inc., Boston MA (bookseller's ticket on front free endpaper)--Charles J. Connick (presentation inscription on front free endpaper 'To Charles J. Connick , "While up above our heads there glowed , A petalled window like a rose" , Caresse Crosby , à Paris ce 1er Septembre 1926' and autograph note signed on Caresse's card, addressed to Connick). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY CARESSE.
C. CROSBY and François QUELVÉE (artist). Painted Shores. Paris: Roger Lescaret for Éditions Narcisse, 1927. 2° (300 x 220mm). Title and text printed in red and black. 3 colour-printed plates after Quelvée. (Light offsetting from one plate onto text.) Original printed wrappers, glassine dustwrapper (a few light spots, extremities lightly rubbed, dustwrapper browned). Provenance: Bradford Morrow Books (loosely-inserted bookseller's invoice dated 20 February 1984). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 246 COPIES, THIS NO. 218 OF 220 ON VéLIN D'ARCHES, the copy number pencilled in. Loosely-inserted is a broadsheet, 4° prospectus for the work, printed in red and black. Minkoff A5; Published in Paris p.407. (2)
C. CROSBY and François QUELVÉE (artist). Painted Shores. Paris: Roger Lescaret for Éditions Narcisse, 1927. 2° (300 x 220mm). Title and text printed in red and black. 3 colour-printed plates after Quelvée. (Light offsetting from one plate onto text.) Original printed wrappers, glassine dustwrapper (a few light spots, extremities lightly rubbed, dustwrapper browned). Provenance: Bradford Morrow Books (loosely-inserted bookseller's invoice dated 20 February 1984). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 246 COPIES, THIS NO. 218 OF 220 ON VéLIN D'ARCHES, the copy number pencilled in. Loosely-inserted is a broadsheet, 4° prospectus for the work, printed in red and black. Minkoff A5; Published in Paris p.407. (2)
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