[Rarebooks] FS: THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: A COLLECTION OF SPELLS, 1/2 price today including postage

[Charles Agvent]

Today only:  $100 postpaid in the U.S.

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: A COLLECTION OF SPELLS. New York: Limited Editions 
Club, 1972. Two quarto (8-1/4" x 12-1/4") volumes bound in black and red 
buckram, respectively, with identical Egyptian decorations stamped in 
pigment and metallic leaf in a slipcase covered with genuine cedar 
veneer. Edited and translated from the Egyptian hieroglyphics by Raymond 
O. Faulkner. One of 1500 numbered copies designed by John Dreyfus and 
printed at the Curwen Press. The text is accompanied by a separate 
volume in which are reproduced scenes painted in the original Papyrus of 
Ani at the British Museum, photographed for this edition by Peter 
Parkinson. The 24 panels have been mounted in the form of a concertina 
which unfolds to a length of 16-1/2 feet. Issued unsigned.  Near Fine in 
glassine and a Near Fine slipcase. (#015897)        $200.00

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