[Rarebooks] FS: Richard Wagener's Wood Engravings in Loom, with design binding by Coleen Curry

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Buy it whilst you may:

Richard Wagener, illustrator

Alan Loney, poetry

Coleen Curry, binder

Loom.

Gig Harbor, WA: Nawakum Press; Petaluma, CA: Mixolydian Editions, 2014.

Folio. 13 7/16 x 8 15/16 inches. Unpaginated. [40] pp. 16 two-color wood 
engravings printed by Richard Wagener on his Vandercook proof press with 
poetic text on facing pages; text clean, unmarked. Unique design binding 
by Coleen Curry in hand-dyed calf leather with flexible covers, the text 
sewn “montage sur onglets” (i.e. on guards), fabric onlays on the 
covers, embossed suede doublers, leather end bands, natural edges, 
blind-stamped spine label, housed in a blue-cloth covered clamshell box 
with leather spine label as on the binding; binding square and tight. 
 From a private collection. With the original prospectus. ON1022-001 
Fine.

$ 5,000, plus $70 USPS Media Mail, insured.

LIMITED EDITION, of 46 copies, this is one of 10 reserved hors de 
commerce, out of series, with a special design binding by Coleen Curry.

A link to the item on my website is here:
https://www.johnhowellforbooks.com/quicksearch/all/Loom

A PDF with the description and a few images is here:
https://www.johnhowellforbooks.com/media/Looma.pdf

Subject to prior sale.

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Thank you for looking.

John Howell
310 367-9720