Title: Tortoises: Six Poems Author: Lawrence, D.H. and Alan James Robinson Place: [Williamsburg, MA] Publisher: Cheloniidae Press Date: 1983 Description: With eight wood-engravings and an etched signed frontispiece portrait of the author by Alan James Robinson (4to) full burgundy morocco molded in shape of a tortoise shell, with green and brown three-dimensional image of a tortoise shell on top board, decorative endpapers, housed in Folio sized cloth custom clamshell box. One of five special copies not mentioned in the colophon, this one labeled D, with a special binding by Daniel Kelm and an additional signed suite in a cloth chemise that slides into the larger box. signed by artist and binder, at the colophon. Two copies of the prospectus, one with a signed wood engraving, are laid in with the additional suite. A rare and amazing production. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to outer box with bumps to top corners and a small dent to top edge; else fine. Item number: 282582
Title: Tortoises: Six Poems Author: Lawrence, D.H. and Alan James Robinson Place: [Williamsburg, MA] Publisher: Cheloniidae Press Date: 1983 Description: With eight wood-engravings and an etched signed frontispiece portrait of the author by Alan James Robinson (4to) full burgundy morocco molded in shape of a tortoise shell, with green and brown three-dimensional image of a tortoise shell on top board, decorative endpapers, housed in Folio sized cloth custom clamshell box. One of five special copies not mentioned in the colophon, this one labeled D, with a special binding by Daniel Kelm and an additional signed suite in a cloth chemise that slides into the larger box. signed by artist and binder, at the colophon. Two copies of the prospectus, one with a signed wood engraving, are laid in with the additional suite. A rare and amazing production. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to outer box with bumps to top corners and a small dent to top edge; else fine. Item number: 282582
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