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1951000801Editions of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery 1951. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/Fair. About the book: Soft cover. Thread tied wrappers. Inscribed by author on first blank page. Decorative wrappers are in fair to good condition. Some chipping tearing and missing sections. Interior has a few small blemishes. Overall the interior is in very good condition. A slender volume. This copy is un-numbered. Poet's first book is extremely rare and hard to find copy. Even harder to find signed by poet. Additional photos available upon request. We're not satisfied unless you are. <br/> <br/> Editions of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery paperback
195113180N. Y.: Tibor De Nagy Gallery 1951. First edition of O'Hara's first book the birth of the New York School of Poetry. One of 20 copies printed by hand in Bodoni types on Japanese Kochi paper by Ruthven Todd for Editions of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery specially bound with an original drawing by Larry Rivers as a frontispiece; this copy number 8. The drawing in this copy a beautiful drawing of a reclining nude woman is signed by Rivers. According to the colophon A City Winter was published in March-April 1952 in an edition of 150 numbered copies in two forms: a regular issue of 130 copies printed on French Arches paper copies 21-150 and a deluxe issue printed on Japanese Kochi paper with an original drawing by Larry Rivers copies 1-20. However according to Brad Gooch 280 "folded paper" copies were printed in addition to the copies on Kochi paper. The regular issue bound in blue paper wrappers sold for $1.00; the deluxe hardbound issue on Kochi paper with an original drawing by Rivers for $20.00. Gooch City Poet p. 213. Not all of the copies in the regular issue were bound a fact probably explained by the large over-run of 130 copies of the regular issue - twice the number specified in the colophon. These additional copies for which there may not have been enough of the decorative blue paper used for the original wrappers appear to have been distributed as unnumbered "folded paper" copies that is as "folded and gathered sheets". Of the copies that have come on the market in the past twenty-five years the majority of copies have been in the form of unbound sheets. O'Hara gave Rivers full credit for getting the book published: "I doubt very much if John Myers would ever have published my first pamphlet A City Winter if one of his artists Larry Rivers hadn't wanted him to and wanted to do the drawings for it." Rivers was one of the artists represented by the Tibor de Nagy Gallery and its favorite owing to John Bernard Myers' infatuation with him. "No matter how large Myers' stable of artists became Rivers was . . . always the showpiece." - Brad Gooch City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara N. Y.: Alfred A. Knopf 1993 p. 199. Between 1951 and 1961 with the exception of two years Myers devoted the gallery's December show to Rivers' work. Covers a bit faded otherwise a fine copy. RIVERS Larry. Tall 8vo original frontispiece drawing & reproductions of two drawings by Larry Rivers original cloth-backed decorated boards. Covers a bit faded otherwise a fine copy. Tibor De Nagy Gallery unknown books
195113180N. Y.: Tibor De Nagy Gallery 1951. First edition of O'Hara's first book the birth of the New York School of Poetry. One of 20 copies printed by hand in Bodoni types on Japanese Kochi paper by Ruthven Todd for Editions of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery specially bound with an original drawing by Larry Rivers as a frontispiece; this copy number 8. The drawing in this copy a beautiful drawing of a reclining nude woman is signed by Rivers. According to the colophon A City Winter was published in March-April 1952 in an edition of 150 numbered copies in two forms: a regular issue of 130 copies printed on French Arches paper copies 21-150 and a deluxe issue printed on Japanese Kochi paper with an original drawing by Larry Rivers copies 1-20. However according to Brad Gooch 280 "folded paper" copies were printed in addition to the copies on Kochi paper. The regular issue bound in blue paper wrappers sold for $1.00; the deluxe hardbound issue on Kochi paper with an original drawing by Rivers for $20.00. Gooch City Poet p. 213. Not all of the copies in the regular issue were bound a fact probably explained by the large over-run of 130 copies of the regular issue - twice the number specified in the colophon. These additional copies for which there may not have been enough of the decorative blue paper used for the original wrappers appear to have been distributed as unnumbered "folded paper" copies that is as "folded and gathered sheets". Of the copies that have come on the market in the past twenty-five years the majority of copies have been in the form of unbound sheets. O'Hara gave Rivers full credit for getting the book published: "I doubt very much if John Myers would ever have published my first pamphlet A City Winter if one of his artists Larry Rivers hadn't wanted him to and wanted to do the drawings for it." Rivers was one of the artists represented by the Tibor de Nagy Gallery and its favorite owing to John Bernard Myers' infatuation with him. "No matter how large Myers' stable of artists became Rivers was . . . always the showpiece." - Brad Gooch City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara N. Y.: Alfred A. Knopf 1993 p. 199. Between 1951 and 1961 with the exception of two years Myers devoted the gallery's December show to Rivers' work. Covers a bit faded otherwise a fine copy. RIVERS Larry. Tall 8vo original frontispiece drawing & reproductions of two drawings by Larry Rivers original cloth-backed decorated boards. Covers a bit faded otherwise a fine copy. Tibor De Nagy Gallery unknown
CNAP032aSan Francisco: The Arion Press 1990. New. Dine Jim. 22 by 15 inches issued as unbound sheets in portfolio. The poem was set by hand in 22 point Spectrum. Over proofs of the poetry Dine drew inter-weaving images. Between the text pages are leaves with illustrations only. The images were printed by duotone offset lithography and the text overprinted by letterpress. The portfolio box is covered in red cloth. The essay and glossary issued as a booklet 11 by 7-1/2 inches is contained in a recessed pocket of the portfolio. The paper is English mouldmade T. H. Saunders Waterford hot-press finish. The lithographic printing was by Phelps-Schaefer Brisbane California. Numbered and signed by the artist. Edition of 150 copies.<br /> <br /> With an extra suite of eight prints by Jim Dine selected from images in Biotherm printed by gravure on sheets of Waterford 30 by 22 inches and is presented in a separate portfolio. The intaglio printing was done by R. E. Townsend Inc. Georgetown Massachusetts. The prints are numbered and signed by the artist. Edition of 25 suites plus 5 artist's proofs and 5 publisher's proofs sold with the book. Biotherm is the last long poem of Frank O'Hara whose accidental death in 1966 at age forty deprived America of one of its most vital and innovative poets. The poet and critic Bill Berkson to whom the poem is addressed provided an essay and compiled a glossary to explicate the references in the poem and to recount the circumstances of its writing. <br /> <br /> The artist Jim Dine knew O'Hara and admired his work. Challenged by O'Hara's brilliant experimentation in "Biotherm" Dine's prints pay a vibrant homage to the poet and engage themes in the poem. "Biotherm" a true livre d'artiste is the sixth collaboration between Jim Dine and Andrew Hoyem.<br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply; please inquire for details.<br /> <br /> ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Arion Press unknown
1960140940127New York: Tiber Press 1960. First Edition. Fine. Complete in four folio volumes each measuring 17½" x14¼". Each volume with three full-page color silkscreen prints and additional prints at title page and upper cover original cloth-backed illustrated boards. First Edition. No. 47 of 200 copies. Each volume signed by the poet and artist on the limitation page. A Fine set bright and sharp in publisher's thick acetate jackets housed in cloth slipcase with light shelf wear.<br /> <br /> <p>A visionary collaboration between the leading lights of the New York School of poetry and four second generation abstract expressionist artists produced at the height of their creative collective powers. A heady encapsulation of the New York literary and visual avant garde at the dawning of the '60s. Tiber Press unknown books
1960140940127New York: Tiber Press 1960. First Edition. Fine. Complete in four folio volumes each measuring 17½" x14¼". Each volume with three full-page color silkscreen prints and additional prints at title page and upper cover original cloth-backed illustrated boards. First Edition. No. 47 of 200 copies. Each volume signed by the poet and artist on the limitation page. A Fine set bright and sharp in publisher's thick acetate jackets housed in cloth slipcase with light shelf wear.<br /> <br /> <p>A visionary collaboration between the leading lights of the New York School of poetry and four second generation abstract expressionist artists produced at the height of their creative collective powers. A heady encapsulation of the New York literary and visual avant garde at the dawning of the '60s. Tiber Press unknown
1960140946279New York: Tiber Press 1960. First Edition. Fine. First edition. Complete in four folio volumes each measuring 17½" x14¼". Each volume with three full-page color silkscreen prints and additional prints at title page and upper cover original cloth-backed illustrated boards. First Edition. No. 77 of 200 copies. Each volume signed by the poet and artist on the limitation page. A Fine set bright and sharp in publisher's thick acetate jackets housed in cloth slipcase with trivial shelf wear. <p>A visionary collaboration between the leading lights of the New York School of poetry and four second generation abstract expressionist artists produced at the height of their creative collective powers. A heady encapsulation of the New York literary and visual avant garde at the dawning of the '60s. Tiber Press unknown
1960ABSTRACT013461Tiber Press New York. 1960. First editions. Folio. The Poems by John Ashbery illustrated by Joan Mitchell; Odes by Frank O'Hara illustrated by Michael Goldberg; Permanently by Kenneth Koch illustrated by Alfred Leslie; Salute by James Schuyler illustrated by Grace Hartigan. Each volume has four screenprints by the respective artist and is one of 200 copies numbered in the press and signed by both the author and the artist. Cloth-backed illustrated boards. All the poets and artists were based in New York and had known each other for several years. The publisher left the choice of partners to the individuals themselves.A fine set in the original acetate dustwrappers and cloth slipcase. Tiber Press, New York. hardcover
1957140946273New York: Grove Press 1957. Limited First Edition. Near Fine. First edition limited hardcover issue. Number 15 of a limited 75 copies signed by Frank O'Hara. An association copy additionally inscribed on the front free endpapaer by poet Ann Waldman and presented to her then husband poet Lewis Warsh "For you Lewis - far but near Love Ann Dec. 1969" Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in black lacking the slipcase. Near Fine with slight lean to binding; minor fading to spine and light soiling to cloth. Foxing to endsheets. <p>An interesting association copy between three major poets of the 60's. Ann Waldman and Lewis Warsh both New York natives met at the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965. Together they founded the short-lived small press and magazine Angel Hair. This is Frank O'Hara's third collection of poems. In 1989 Anne wrote "A Phonecall from Frank O'Hara" - a testament to their friendship on his sudden passing. Grove Press unknown
1934332704New York: Harcourt Brace 1934. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 8vo black cloth d.w. . New York: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1934. First Edition. Fine.<br/> <br/> Very light erosion at the extremes of the dust wrapper spine & corners; light dust soiling on back panel but a stunning example of a desirable book. Bound in is the publisher's slip attributing the quotation on the title page.<br/> <br/> Harcourt Brace unknown
1957115298New York: Grove Press 1957. Number 25 of the rare first edition O'Hara's classic work of poetry published in an edition of 75 hardbound copies. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For Mike- Happy Birthday and I hope the Houses and Odes go on and on into 1262- Frank." Near fine in the rare original slipcase. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Exceptionally rare especially signed. Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov Allen Ginsberg Robert Creeley and Gary Snyder a crucial contributor to what Donald Allen termed the New American Poetry "which by its vitality alone became the dominant force in the American poetic tradition." Frank O'Hara was born in Baltimore in 1926 and grew up in New England; from 1951 he lived and worked in New York both for Art News and for the Museum of Modern Art where he was an associate curator. O'Hara's untimely death in 1966 at the age of forty was in the words of fellow poet John Ashbery "the biggest secret loss to American poetry since John Wheelwright was killed." "Moving in the way that only simple communication can be moving. . . . His poems always manage a fresh start free from the dreadful posturings of the conventional verse of his generation" Kenneth Rexroth The New York Times Book Review. Grove Press hardcover books
1957115298New York: Grove Press 1957. Number 25 of the rare first edition O'Hara's classic work of poetry published in an edition of 75 hardbound copies. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For Mike- Happy Birthday and I hope the Houses and Odes go on and on into 1262- Frank." Near fine in the rare original slipcase. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Exceptionally rare especially signed. Frank O’Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov Allen Ginsberg Robert Creeley and Gary Snyder a crucial contributor to what Donald Allen termed the New American Poetry “which by its vitality alone became the dominant force in the American poetic tradition.†Frank O’Hara was born in Baltimore in 1926 and grew up in New England; from 1951 he lived and worked in New York both for Art News and for the Museum of Modern Art where he was an associate curator. O’Hara’s untimely death in 1966 at the age of forty was in the words of fellow poet John Ashbery “the biggest secret loss to American poetry since John Wheelwright was killed.†“Moving in the way that only simple communication can be moving. . . . His poems always manage a fresh start free from the dreadful posturings of the conventional verse of his generation" Kenneth Rexroth The New York Times Book Review. Grove Press hardcover
19345829New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1934. First edition of the author's first book. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket with a few small closed tears contemporary bookplate to the front pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise box. A very nice example. One of the great novels of small-town American life Appointment in Samarra is John O’Hara’s crowning achievement. In December 1930 just before Christmas the Gibbsville Pennsylvania social circuit is electrified with parties and dances. At the center of the social elite stand Julian and Caroline English. But in one rash moment born inside a highball glass Julian breaks with polite society and begins a rapid descent toward self-destruction. Brimming with wealth and privilege jealousy and infidelity O’Hara’s iconic first novel is an unflinching look at the dark side of the American dream—and a lasting testament to the keen social intelligence if a major American writer. “O'Hara is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James or France to Proust" Lionel Trilling The New York Times. Chosen by Modern Library as one of 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century and was placed by Time Magazine's list of top 100 novels written in English since 1923. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover
19345829New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1934. First edition of the author's first book. Octavo original cloth. Fine with a contemporary bookplate to the inner gutter in the first issue dust jacket with a few small closed tears and general wear. A very nice example. One of the great novels of small-town American life Appointment in Samarra is John O'Hara's crowning achievement. In December 1930 just before Christmas the Gibbsville Pennsylvania social circuit is electrified with parties and dances. At the center of the social elite stand Julian and Caroline English. But in one rash moment born inside a highball glass Julian breaks with polite society and begins a rapid descent toward self-destruction. Brimming with wealth and privilege jealousy and infidelity O'Hara's iconic first novel is an unflinching look at the dark side of the American dream--and a lasting testament to the keen social intelligence if a major American writer. "O'Hara is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James or France to Proust" Lionel Trilling The New York Times. Chosen by Modern Library as one of 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century and was placed by Time Magazine's list of top 100 novels written in English since 1923. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
1990403910San Francisco: The Arion Press 1990. Essay and glossary by Bill Berkson. Broadsheets 22 x 15 inches. 42 lithographs by Jim Dine. With 8vo 11 x 7 1/2 inches text volume in pocket of box; sewn in original printed wrappers. Contents loose as issued in red cloth portfolio box. LIMITED EDITION number 74 of 150 copies signed by Dine from a total edition of 180. Biotherm is the last long poem by O'Hara written shortly before his accidental death in 1966 at age 40. The poet and critic Bill Berkson who died in June of this year and to whom the poem is addressed provided the essay and compiled a glossary to explicate the references in the poem and to recount the circumstances of its writing. The text was printed on English mouldmade paper on a hot-press finish and the lithographic work was done by Phelps-Schaefer Brisbane California. Offered directly from the personal archives of Jim Dine. <br/><br/> The Arion Press hardcover books
19517902N. Y.: Tibor De Nagy Gallery 1951. First edition of O'Hara's first book the birth of the New York School of Poetry. One of 130 copies printed on French Arches paper out of a total edition of 150 copies there were 20 copies on Japanese Kochi; this copy number 38. According to the colophon A City Winter was published in March-April 1952 in an edition of 150 numbered copies in two forms: a regular issue of 130 copies printed on French Arches paper copies 21-150 and a deluxe issue printed on Japanese Kochi paper with an original drawing by Larry Rivers copies 1-20. However according to Brad Gooch 280 "folded paper" copies were printed in addition to the copies on Kochi paper. The regular issue bound in blue paper wrappers sold for $1.00; the deluxe hardbound issue on Kochi paper with an original drawing by Rivers for $20.00. Brad Gooch City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara N. Y.: Alfred A. Knopf 1993 p. 213. Not all of the copies in the regular issue were bound a fact probably explained by the large over-run of 130 copies of the regular issue - twice the number specified in the colophon. These additional copies for which there may not have been enough of the decorative blue paper used for the original wrappers appear to have been distributed as unnumbered "folded paper" copies that is as "folded and gathered sheets". Of the copies that have come on the market in the past twenty-five years the majority of copies have been in the form of unbound sheets. In the present copy the cover label has come detached and is laid into this copy; there is light marginal wear to the blue wrappers; otherwise a very good copy. Although all copies of A City Winter are rare we have seen three times as many copies of the deluxe hardbound issue as we have copies of the regular issue in its original blue wrappers            . 8vo original decorated wrappers with printed paper label on front cover. In the present copy the cover label has come detached and is laid into this copy; there is light marginal wear to the blue wrappers; otherwise a very good copy. Although all copies of A City Winter are rare we have seen three times as many copies of the deluxe hardbound issue as we have copies of the regular issue in its original blue wrappers            . Tibor De Nagy Gallery unknown books
1934109228New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1934. First edition of the author's first book. Octavo original cloth. Fine with a contemporary bookplate to the inner gutter in the first issue dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. A very nice example. One of the great novels of small-town American life Appointment in Samarra is John O'Hara's crowning achievement. In December 1930 just before Christmas the Gibbsville Pennsylvania social circuit is electrified with parties and dances. At the center of the social elite stand Julian and Caroline English. But in one rash moment born inside a highball glass Julian breaks with polite society and begins a rapid descent toward self-destruction. Brimming with wealth and privilege jealousy and infidelity O'Hara's iconic first novel is an unflinching look at the dark side of the American dream--and a lasting testament to the keen social intelligence if a major American writer. "O'Hara is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James or France to Proust" Lionel Trilling The New York Times. "If you want to read a book by a man who knows exactly what he is writing about and has written it marvelously well read Appointment in Samarra" Ernest Hemingway. Chosen by Modern Library as one of 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century and was placed by Time Magazine's list of top 100 novels written in English since 1923. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
19517902N. Y.: Tibor De Nagy Gallery 1951. First edition of O'Hara's first book the birth of the New York School of Poetry. One of 130 copies printed on French Arches paper out of a total edition of 150 copies there were 20 copies on Japanese Kochi; this copy number 38. According to the colophon A City Winter was published in March-April 1952 in an edition of 150 numbered copies in two forms: a regular issue of 130 copies printed on French Arches paper copies 21-150 and a deluxe issue printed on Japanese Kochi paper with an original drawing by Larry Rivers copies 1-20. However according to Brad Gooch 280 "folded paper" copies were printed in addition to the copies on Kochi paper. The regular issue bound in blue paper wrappers sold for $1.00; the deluxe hardbound issue on Kochi paper with an original drawing by Rivers for $20.00. Brad Gooch City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara N. Y.: Alfred A. Knopf 1993 p. 213. Not all of the copies in the regular issue were bound a fact probably explained by the large over-run of 130 copies of the regular issue - twice the number specified in the colophon. These additional copies for which there may not have been enough of the decorative blue paper used for the original wrappers appear to have been distributed as unnumbered "folded paper" copies that is as "folded and gathered sheets". Of the copies that have come on the market in the past twenty-five years the majority of copies have been in the form of unbound sheets. In the present copy the cover label has come detached and is laid into this copy; there is light marginal wear and tear to the fragile blue wrappers; otherwise a very good copy. Although all copies of A City Winter are rare the regular issue in its original blue wrappers is far and away the rarest as compared to the same in unbound sheets . 8vo original decorated wrappers with printed paper label on front cover. In the present copy the cover label has come detached and is laid into this copy; there is light marginal wear and tear to the fragile blue wrappers; otherwise a very good copy. Although all copies of A City Winter are rare the regular issue in its original blue wrappers is far and away the rarest as compared to the same in unbound sheets . Tibor De Nagy Gallery unknown
1934109228New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1934. First edition of the author's first book. Octavo original cloth. Fine with a contemporary bookplate to the inner gutter in the first issue dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. A very nice example. One of the great novels of small-town American life Appointment in Samarra is John O’Hara’s crowning achievement. In December 1930 just before Christmas the Gibbsville Pennsylvania social circuit is electrified with parties and dances. At the center of the social elite stand Julian and Caroline English. But in one rash moment born inside a highball glass Julian breaks with polite society and begins a rapid descent toward self-destruction. Brimming with wealth and privilege jealousy and infidelity O’Hara’s iconic first novel is an unflinching look at the dark side of the American dream—and a lasting testament to the keen social intelligence if a major American writer. “O'Hara is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James or France to Proust" Lionel Trilling The New York Times. "If you want to read a book by a man who knows exactly what he is writing about and has written it marvelously well read Appointment in Samarra" Ernest Hemingway. Chosen by Modern Library as one of 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century and was placed by Time Magazine's list of top 100 novels written in English since 1923. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover
193471388New York:: Harcourt Brace and Company 1934. First edition. publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Tiny ms. ink date 10/25/34 on the upper corner of the front free endpaper; a few of the usual light marks to the black cloth; else very good or better. The dust jacket has a few tiny chips and some light overall tanning. . 8vo. Harcourt Brace and Company, hardcover
194024366New York:: Duell Sloan and Pearce 1940. First edition. publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Tiny bookseller's ticket to rear endpaper; else a very good copy in a very good jacket with some light fading to the spine some chipping to its extremities and some light soiling. 8vo. With a full-page inscription on the front free endpaper by O'Hara 1945. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, hardcover
20330Limited Editions Club. Near Fine. 1988. Hardcover. Signed by illustrator facsimile approved by De Kooning. Limited edition of 550 copies this being copy #83. Full black morocco leather bound cover has four 1/8" scuffs to front cover else fine. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Publisher's notes with light soiling to covers laid-in. Pages are clean and pristine. Cloth clamshell case is sunned but clean and in very good condition. ; 0 pages; Signed by Artist . Limited Editions Club hardcover
lec-0026The Museum of Modern Art honored Frank O'Hara with a memorial edition of his poetry illustrated by artists who knew and loved him—foremost among them William de Kooning. De Kooning made his drawings on mylar which he then presented to the Museum.<br /><br />A quarter of a century later the mylar drawings were transferred to lithographic plates and printed under the supervision of the artist and the Museum of Modern Art solely in order to illustrate the Club's edition of those O'Hara poems that had so moved de Kooning.<br /><br />Seventeen of de Kooning's eighteen charcoal drawings are reproduced here for the first time as originally intended-with their subtle strokes and wide tonal range. The thirteen poems begin with O'Hara's "Ode to Willem de Kooning."<br /><br />Seventeen lithographs by Willem de Kooning.<br /><br />Edition limited to 550 numbered copies.<br /><br />Facsimile signature by Willem de Kooning from the bon à tirer proof signed by the artist.<br /><br />De Kooning's drawings were transferred from their original mylar sheets to lithographic plates and printed on hand-made ochre-tinted Kitakata paper. Each print was torn by hand and pressed into the book's pages by the intaglio method. Bound in black Nigerian goatskin the book is set in a black fabric covered and lined case. <br /><br />One Volume 17-3/4″ x 22″.<br /><br />As the publisher we unconditionally guarantee that all books are authentic and the condition is As New NOS.<br /> Limited Editions Club hardcover
186216679London: Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed. Henry Hansard printer. 28 March 1862. 335 by 210mm. 13.25 by 8.25 inches. Maps""Map of the Eastern Part of Australia. """"the glorious race across the continent"""" Sir Henry Barkly One large folding and one full-page lithographed map with contemporary hand-colour in outline 502 by 320; 280 by 170mm; bound into """"Hansard"""" paper 'Australian Exploring Expedition. Burke and Wills. Copy of all Despatches from Sir Henry Barkly and the other Colonial Governors on the subject of the Australian Exploring Expedition' folio; stabbed and sewn as issued preserved in archival buckram-backed portfolio. The censorious official report issued as part of the royal commission into the disappearance of legendary Australian explorers Burke and Wills: a tragic tale of hubris and mischance of epic proportions emblazoned into the heart of every Australian. The signal intent of the expedition commissioned by the state of Victoria's worthies on a whim in the spirit of sporting endeavor rather than scientific exploration was to compete with the ambitions of South Australian explorer John McDouall Stuart to be the first to traverse the Australian continent from South to North. The choice of local policeman Robert O'Hara Burke 1821-1861 as totally inexperienced leader was: """"inexplicable if exploration were the real object but excellent if it were exploit. Burke was a death or glory man and he achieved both"""" Fitzpatrick. Burke and Wills did technically achieve their goal but at a terrible cost: with an expenditure of more than £60000 the lives of seven explorers and an unknown number of indigenous people. Outfitted with """"over two dozen camels both riding and pack animals imported complete with cameleers. There were horses and wagons abundant food for two years and lavish equipment including 6 tons of firewood 57 buckets and 45 yards of green gossamer for veils. The party consisted of three officers: Burke Landells the camel-master and William John Wills surveyor and meteorologist; two German scientific officers Ludwig Becker naturalist and Herman Beckler medical officer and botanist; a foreman and nine assistants and the camel-drivers. The expedition left Melbourne on 20 August 1860 and made a stately progress through the settled districts to Swan Hill and Balranald and reached Menindee on the Darling at the beginning of October. The march to the gulf was made in extraordinarily favourable conditions after a season of heavy rain. Charles Sturt's Stony Desert was like a garden full of lily ponds and Burke's expedition in this also unique was never short of water and was able to travel in an almost straight line to its objective without losing time searching for water. Even so it took four months to do the 1500 miles. They walked from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. with only a single day of rest in the whole period and were half-starving in the fourth month"""" Kathleen Fitzpatrick. The real hero of the hour was John McKinlay who led the relief mission. Unlike Burke and Wills he mapped his route and made useful discoveries. His party was the second to cross the continent from south to north and like Stuart he never lost any of his men. Provenance: British Foreign Office Library Fitzpatrick 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' online; Maria 36; McLaren 5558. Ordered by the House of Commons, to be printed,... Henry Hansard, printer. hardcover
SF 9/28-42KNOPF Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrators. FIRST. A NEAR FINE FIRST EDITION IN FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET. SIGNED BY LARRY RIVERS IN CUSTOM CLAMSHELL BOX. KNOPF Hardcover