Item #34138 Earth-Visitors. Kenneth Slessor.

Earth-Visitors

London: Fanfrolico Press, 1926. Norman Lindsay. Limited edition. Hardcover. 75pp. Quarto [26.5 cm] Brown paper covered boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover, and a gilt stamped vignette and decorative border on the front cover. Fore and bottom edges deckled. Very good. The covers are mildly warped, and the spine ends and corners of the covers are bumped. Extremities lightly rubbed. The spine is darkened. Light soiling on the covers. There are several small stains on the covers as well. There is a small white stain, along with three tiny moisture stains, near the title on the spine. The endsheets are foxed, and the pages are occasionally lightly foxed. There is a bookseller's very small bookplate on the rear pastedown. Item #34138

Number 168 of 425 copies. From the colophon- "...decorated by three collotype reproductions of woodcuts by Norman Lindsay, and two copperplate engravings made from designs by the same artist. Printed in Monotype Baskerville on Perusia handmade paper at the Chiswick Press."

Price: $350.00

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