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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Cosindas, Marie (photogravures) (illustrator). Limited Edition. No. 303 of a limited edition of 650 copies. Signed on the colophon page by the illustrator and the author. Bound in natural linen boards with a Nigerian Oasis goatskin spine with gilt title. The spine is very lightly and evenly sunned. Housed in a near fine, black cloth slipcase. The Limited Editions Club newsletter laid in.
Verlag: Limited Editions Club, New York, 1989
Anbieter: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, USA
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First edition thus. Large hardcover. 41 pages. Number 6 from an edition of 650 copies. The text has been set in Monotype Walbaum and printed at Heritage Printers. Durrenmatt's adaptation of this the classic Greek story. Translated by Leila Vennewitz and with a foreword by Durrenmatt. Features photogravures by Marie Cosindas. A fine copy in cloth covered boards and with a leather spine that has some very faint sunning and in a near fine cloth slipcase with some slight sunning to the edges and with laid in Limited Editions Club newsletter. Signed by both Durrenmatt and Cosindas on the colophon page.
Verlag: Limited Editions Club (1989), [New York], 1989
Anbieter: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, USA
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Hardcover. Marie Cosindas (illustrator). First English Edition. Folio (10-3/4" by 14-1/2") handsewn and quarter-bound by hand with burgundy Nigerian Oasis Goatskin on the spine and natural linen boards; xv, 41 pages. This First English-language edition of Durrenmatt's version of the Oedipus myth has been translated by Leila Vennewitz and includes a foreword by the author. Illustrated with two fine photogravures by Marie Cosindas. Copy #588 of 650 numbered copies SIGNED by the photographer and the author on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Spine mildly sunned. Fine in a close to Fine, mildly sunned cloth slipcase with suede lining.
Verlag: The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1989
Anbieter: Rare Books Honolulu, Honolulu, HI, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Photo engravings by Marie Cosindas (illustrator). No. 191 of an edition limited to 650. The Limited Editions Club, 1989. Hardcover Folio in slipcase. Hardcover. quarter-bound with burgundy Nigerian Oasis goatskin, natural linen boards, gilt lettering, 42 pp, fine in Fine black cloth felt-lined slipcase with paper label taped at spine, numbered 191 of 650, photo engravings by Marie Cosindas, signed by the author and the photographer at the limitations page, LEC newsletter laid in. Hardcover Very Good A brilliant twentieth-century adaptation of Oedipus that unfolds in response to the author's conviction that "Even transposing Oedipus into a sequence of 'coincidences' gives us trouble What bothers us is the oracle, an authority that is capable of predicting A predictable plot does not permit coincidence; Oedipus as a fable seems indissolubly linked to the idea of fate Hence the only feasible way for us to snatch Oedipus from fate is the escape from the plot to the characters, to the protagonists of the plot This means that it is no longer the oracle that is important but the person uttering the oracle, the priestess of Apollo, the Pythia Oedipus might for instance, fall victim to a disgruntled Pythia" (The Author) Hardcover in slipcase Light scuffing to slipcase, shadow on spine of case where a sicker once was; volume fine Photogravure plates by Marie Casindas, plates made by Jon Goodman at the Renaissance Press and Wingate Studio (Folio) maroon morocco-backed beige linen, spine lettered in gilt, slipcase No 25 of 650 copies Signed by the author and artist in the colophon, as issued Prospectus laid in.
Cosindas, Marie (illustrator). (Cosindas, Marie)illus. OEDIPUS by Friedrich Durrenmatt. Edition of 650 copies signed by Durrenmatt and Cosindas. Folio, leather-backed cloth, cloth slip case, 41pp., 2 photogravures. F/F.