de Maupassant Guy and Carlo Gliozzo Aldo Turiano Fabio Nicola Grasso with Notes by Silvano NigroABAA
La Sicile
1993163829Catania Italy: Orizzonti bibliofilia italiana 1993. 54/90 LiV/XC. Hardcover. VG. The whole contained in a portfolio of loose signatures. The whole is contained in a green gilt embossed cloth portfolio with three cloth ties. Within there are loose signatures. The first contains the Title-page The there is a folded signature containing three hand-printed signed original color prints by Fabio Nicola Grasso numbered and signed in pencil. These are followed by a series of signatures beginning with page 11 and moving forward through the end at page 66 followed by a colophon sheet. Contains 38 colored serigraphs within the text by Aldo Turiano as well as the works by Grasso. A translation of part of the printers statement is: ".In the construction of this book Mario Grosso has used the most sought after and effective silk-screen effects to best represent the expressiveness of the artists. In the course of so much work Elsa Sormani Marie Luce de Vautibault Michèle Campagne Concetta Centamore Claudia Di Giacomo and in the concrete and essential form Mario and Lina Garraffo were close to us without whom this book would have seen no light. Hand-rolled by Mario Grosso Emma Cacciola and Fabio Nicola Grosso this book was entirely made at the OBI office in Catania and finished printing on 23 November 1993. This book has 68 numbered pages and three original off-text compositions Fabio Nicola Grosso signed by the author. At the end of the run all the plates have been destroyed so that this edition will no longer be available as justified below: n. 90 specimens with Arabic numeration; n. 90 specimens with Roman numeration; 7 specimens marked in alphabetical letters as mandatory copies; n.13 specimens in proof of printing out of trade reserved for collaborators." Orizzonti bibliofilia italiana hardcover books
