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2005 · CNAP072 — San Francisco: The Arion Press 2005. Hardcover. New. Diana Michener. Large quarto 13 by 10 inches 168 pages plus twelve foldouts for the photographs the equivalent of four pages each. They are revealed as three panels of differing widths. The outside of the illustration signatures is covered with the image of the Chinese vase in and out of focus the mysterious cranes inviting the reader to open the gate-fold. Inside a varying number of photographs are arranged on the three panels. The types are Century Bold and Century Expanded in Monotype and hand composition. The text was printed by letterpress. The photographs were printed by offset lithography. The paper is Mohawk Superfine. The books are bound entirely by hand sewn with linen thread over linen tapes in an iridescent tan-gold cloth cover with printed paper panels on front and back of the same proportions as the gate folds. The photograph of the cranes reappears on the cover and on the slipcase in changing views. The title is stamped in white on the front cover and spine as well as on the spine of the slipcase. The edition is limited to four hundred numbered copies for sale. "Orlando" has an unrivaled place in the history of English fiction. The last and most light-hearted of Woolf's three major novels it was begun in 1927 at the peak of her career and published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press in 1928. <br /> <br /> "Orlando" is perhaps the most imaginative some would say fantastical creation of this legendarily individualistic writer taking its reader on a journey across four centuries with a hero who comes of age as a titled country gentleman in Elizabethan times and ends as a prize-winning woman author in the nineteen-twenties. <br /> <br /> Diana Michener is a photographer known for images that are powerfully suggestive of narrative. Her photographs offer a new visual experience for readers of Orlando using friends relatives and found portraits of unknowns as models and costumes objects and landscapes to suggest historic periods and the passage of time. The photographer herself appears in several images in various guises and disguises. The photographs are informed by the story or run parallel independent but indebted to it for inspiration.<br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; 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 hardcover